EPISODE · Jun 21, 2024 · 54 MIN
✨Friendship is a gift do not abuse it!✨
from God's Gift Through His Word · host T.Drake
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Please like share and subscribe. 00:00:02.411 --> 00:00:03.032 All right. 00:00:03.072 --> 00:00:03.373 Hello. 00:00:03.412 --> 00:00:04.113 Hello everyone. 00:00:04.192 --> 00:00:05.134 How are you guys doing? 00:00:05.174 --> 00:00:07.936 Hope you guys are having a fabulous day. 00:00:07.976 --> 00:00:09.276 Hope you had a fabulous day 00:00:09.297 --> 00:00:11.557 I know I did my arm is 00:00:11.618 --> 00:00:13.298 still a little bit messed up. 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:15.480 I went in yesterday I think 00:00:15.521 --> 00:00:17.341 I guys told you guys that I 00:00:17.402 --> 00:00:19.303 went to the va got my shot 00:00:19.422 --> 00:00:20.824 and my arm was banging 00:00:20.884 --> 00:00:23.425 yesterday It is still yet banging now 00:00:24.263 --> 00:00:25.664 But it's okay because that's 00:00:25.704 --> 00:00:26.864 not going to stop me My arm 00:00:27.405 --> 00:00:28.405 is just going to do what it 00:00:28.446 --> 00:00:30.486 does and it will eventually 00:00:30.646 --> 00:00:32.106 of course come around to 00:00:32.167 --> 00:00:34.188 being back to normal so for now, 00:00:34.228 --> 00:00:35.088 it's just a little bit sore, 00:00:35.209 --> 00:00:37.389 but Before we get into all 00:00:37.450 --> 00:00:38.649 the good stuff and juicy 00:00:38.689 --> 00:00:40.310 stuff about what we're 00:00:40.350 --> 00:00:41.811 talking about Which is 00:00:41.831 --> 00:00:42.752 talking about friendship 00:00:42.951 --> 00:00:45.273 and I love talking about friendship Uh, 00:00:45.353 --> 00:00:46.713 but before we do that, 00:00:46.832 --> 00:00:47.814 we are going to do what 00:00:48.173 --> 00:00:49.475 what we always do So I'm 00:00:49.494 --> 00:00:50.414 not even going to tell you guys 00:00:50.969 --> 00:00:52.375 because I'm just going to do 00:00:52.435 --> 00:00:53.899 my Q and I'll be back. 00:01:27.424 --> 00:01:29.906 All right, so I am back. 00:01:30.445 --> 00:01:30.745 Hello. 00:01:30.805 --> 00:01:32.287 Hello Okay, 00:01:32.307 --> 00:01:33.867 so we are going to talk about 00:01:33.968 --> 00:01:35.748 friendship and friendship 00:01:36.230 --> 00:01:38.450 is a gift It's a gift and I 00:01:38.510 --> 00:01:40.191 said friendship is a gift 00:01:40.331 --> 00:01:44.174 do not abuse it and I've been uh, 00:01:44.194 --> 00:01:45.736 I guess this has been a 00:01:45.775 --> 00:01:48.957 thing For me and I have 00:01:49.117 --> 00:01:51.920 always really Enjoyed 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.021 having good friends solid friends 00:01:54.772 --> 00:01:56.034 But it's when you have those 00:01:56.114 --> 00:01:57.114 friends that you thought 00:01:57.155 --> 00:01:57.954 were friends and they 00:01:57.974 --> 00:01:59.736 really turned out to not be friends. 00:01:59.757 --> 00:02:01.317 Oh, my. 00:02:01.578 --> 00:02:03.700 It turns out to be something else. 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:05.960 So I was just watching a 00:02:06.021 --> 00:02:08.103 couple of clips that were on Instagram. 00:02:08.242 --> 00:02:12.126 One was one of these actresses was saying, 00:02:12.145 --> 00:02:13.486 if you want to if you want 00:02:13.507 --> 00:02:14.587 to have a friendship, 00:02:14.668 --> 00:02:16.649 if you want to have friends, guess what? 00:02:16.789 --> 00:02:17.569 The great verse. 00:02:17.610 --> 00:02:18.730 And I'm going to quote the 00:02:18.751 --> 00:02:19.572 verse that she said and 00:02:19.592 --> 00:02:20.532 read the whole thing. 00:02:21.133 --> 00:02:22.514 KJV, it says a man. 00:02:23.014 --> 00:02:26.176 that hath friends, show himself friendly. 00:02:27.056 --> 00:02:28.337 And there is a friend that 00:02:28.377 --> 00:02:30.620 sticketh closer than a brother. 00:02:31.259 --> 00:02:32.461 So basically you got to be 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:34.181 friendly in order to have friends. 00:02:34.762 --> 00:02:36.902 And sometimes people are not friendly, 00:02:37.743 --> 00:02:38.745 but they want friends, 00:02:39.205 --> 00:02:40.746 but then they don't act accordingly, 00:02:41.366 --> 00:02:42.766 which is strange to me. 00:02:43.908 --> 00:02:46.229 And I have always loved to 00:02:46.289 --> 00:02:47.370 show myself friendly. 00:02:47.389 --> 00:02:49.991 I do that and I kind of give 00:02:50.070 --> 00:02:51.491 that off wherever I go. 00:02:51.891 --> 00:02:53.171 So if people randomly talk 00:02:53.211 --> 00:02:55.092 to me in the store and they 00:02:55.112 --> 00:02:56.514 just start a conversation with me, 00:02:56.554 --> 00:02:57.253 it doesn't matter. 00:02:57.274 --> 00:02:59.514 I can try to avoid them all I want, 00:02:59.794 --> 00:03:02.115 but I really just, 00:03:03.175 --> 00:03:04.496 it comes out of me like, hey, 00:03:04.955 --> 00:03:06.417 she looks like a nice person to talk to. 00:03:06.796 --> 00:03:07.957 Let me talk to her about my life, 00:03:08.038 --> 00:03:08.997 even though I don't even know her. 00:03:10.987 --> 00:03:12.549 Hashtag like what? 00:03:13.229 --> 00:03:16.432 But before I used to really uh years ago, 00:03:16.473 --> 00:03:17.212 I think I've shared this 00:03:17.252 --> 00:03:19.294 before I used to really not 00:03:19.395 --> 00:03:21.236 like that I would not like 00:03:21.296 --> 00:03:22.318 people coming up and 00:03:22.358 --> 00:03:23.558 telling me their business. 00:03:24.139 --> 00:03:25.700 I don't know them They don't know me, 00:03:26.121 --> 00:03:27.361 but they felt comfortable 00:03:27.421 --> 00:03:29.223 enough to share really 00:03:29.304 --> 00:03:30.905 really important and very 00:03:31.526 --> 00:03:33.127 Detailed personal things of 00:03:33.187 --> 00:03:35.468 their life to me this random person 00:03:36.211 --> 00:03:37.032 And it always happened in 00:03:37.051 --> 00:03:37.752 the grocery store. 00:03:38.152 --> 00:03:39.332 Now it could have happened other places, 00:03:39.413 --> 00:03:40.854 but the grocery store is 00:03:40.873 --> 00:03:42.153 the place where I get it the most. 00:03:42.313 --> 00:03:42.913 I don't know. 00:03:42.933 --> 00:03:44.175 It's the grocery store. 00:03:44.194 --> 00:03:45.414 I could go to other stores too. 00:03:45.495 --> 00:03:48.015 And I might get a couple of conversations, 00:03:48.075 --> 00:03:51.418 but the grocery store says, there she is. 00:03:51.798 --> 00:03:52.578 She needs to talk to you. 00:03:52.617 --> 00:03:53.758 This is her counseling place. 00:03:54.179 --> 00:03:54.878 It wouldn't matter what 00:03:54.938 --> 00:03:55.838 grocery store I'm in. 00:03:55.899 --> 00:03:57.280 It happens everywhere I go. 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:02.062 So, um, not as much as at Sprouts, but, uh, 00:04:02.122 --> 00:04:03.342 other, other grocery stores. 00:04:03.905 --> 00:04:05.765 But so there was a few 00:04:05.806 --> 00:04:07.306 different occasions and I 00:04:07.347 --> 00:04:08.646 remember them very well 00:04:08.667 --> 00:04:10.467 because I was looking for 00:04:10.508 --> 00:04:11.449 that conversation. 00:04:12.368 --> 00:04:14.950 And there was a woman and 00:04:15.251 --> 00:04:17.132 I'm minding my business, mind y'all. 00:04:17.971 --> 00:04:19.372 I'm going and I'm walking 00:04:19.413 --> 00:04:20.432 and I go in the cracker 00:04:20.593 --> 00:04:22.915 aisle and there was nobody 00:04:22.954 --> 00:04:25.516 there but this older lady. 00:04:26.738 --> 00:04:28.040 And I'm looking at these crackers, 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:30.040 like if I should get red saltines, 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:30.721 I don't know. 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:32.641 And I'm just like debating 00:04:32.682 --> 00:04:33.843 in my head if I should get 00:04:33.903 --> 00:04:34.622 Cheez-Its because I know I 00:04:34.642 --> 00:04:35.382 have a lactose problem. 00:04:35.423 --> 00:04:36.584 I'm like doing all this 00:04:36.603 --> 00:04:37.925 debating in my head about crackers. 00:04:39.285 --> 00:04:43.567 And she comes up to me and says, you know, 00:04:44.007 --> 00:04:45.088 my son passed away. 00:04:45.108 --> 00:04:47.790 I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. 00:04:47.850 --> 00:04:49.490 My condolences. 00:04:49.550 --> 00:04:50.951 And she's like, yeah. 00:04:51.971 --> 00:04:52.951 And I haven't changed his 00:04:53.031 --> 00:04:54.533 room since he's passed. 00:04:55.353 --> 00:04:57.093 And it's been a long time in his room. 00:04:57.153 --> 00:04:59.093 It just it just stays the 00:04:59.153 --> 00:05:02.194 same and I've never Changed 00:05:02.314 --> 00:05:03.694 anything in his room. 00:05:04.194 --> 00:05:06.134 It's still left the same 00:05:06.194 --> 00:05:09.576 exact way Now I'm in the 00:05:09.656 --> 00:05:11.255 cracker aisle this is in 00:05:11.276 --> 00:05:13.516 the grocery store I didn't 00:05:13.617 --> 00:05:14.416 warrant this because I 00:05:14.456 --> 00:05:15.956 wasn't looking at her but 00:05:15.997 --> 00:05:18.038 she came and she talked to 00:05:18.098 --> 00:05:19.817 me about something very 00:05:19.877 --> 00:05:21.538 very personal that's 00:05:21.619 --> 00:05:22.478 personal I don't care what 00:05:22.499 --> 00:05:23.199 people say like 00:05:23.754 --> 00:05:23.915 You know, 00:05:23.935 --> 00:05:24.875 people could talk about death all 00:05:24.894 --> 00:05:25.194 the time. 00:05:26.475 --> 00:05:28.355 Yes and no, right? 00:05:28.797 --> 00:05:30.396 If they don't care, they'll tell you, yeah, 00:05:30.437 --> 00:05:32.677 someone so-and-so hurt and 00:05:32.697 --> 00:05:33.598 then they pass away. 00:05:33.838 --> 00:05:37.259 Okay, but this is someone that they love, 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:38.579 that they know intimately. 00:05:38.598 --> 00:05:39.680 This is their child. 00:05:40.259 --> 00:05:42.040 She does not know me in 00:05:42.081 --> 00:05:43.060 order to open up with 00:05:43.100 --> 00:05:44.841 something so vulnerable and 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:46.521 transparent of something like that, 00:05:47.461 --> 00:05:47.762 right? 00:05:
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