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From Trailer to Throne
00:04:39
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| You were with the president. | |
| You were in the White House. | |
| You've watched all this happening. | |
| It's been amazing. | |
| You're like in a history book. | |
| And I came from such, I mean, think about it. | |
| So people go, I was born into a wealthy family, and I was going to go, and I came from a trailer. | |
| I was born into a wealthy family. | |
| When my dad dies, we get totally cut off. | |
| So there's like nothing. | |
| We struggle. | |
| My life was authentically like this. | |
| But when I get saved, my mom, who now has two masters or doctorate, my stepdad, who's the chief medical service corps over all Navy Medicine, said, if you come into our house and name the name of Jesus, you can't come in. | |
| So my parents totally cut me off, rejected me. | |
| So that's where the trailer comes in. | |
| So for the cause of Christ, I live in poverty, but I dressed up my trailer. | |
| I'm telling you. | |
| I put some pretty curtains on my trailer. | |
| And they thought I was crazy, Jim. | |
| So it is like it's not me, it's God through me. | |
| And that's why I want you to recognize how big God can do something through you, whether it's in your family, in your community, in the country, in your nation, that God's not looking at your situation and circumstance. | |
| I lived in that trailer and got an equity line against it, borrowed $10,000. | |
| Now, we didn't have, you know, I use PC Bible say I know most people use logos and stuff on everything else. | |
| I'm still, I trained on that. | |
| We didn't have all that. | |
| We just had books come here. | |
| So I wanted to know the word of God so well and study. | |
| I took $10,000 and I bought books and commentaries. | |
| Listen to nothing. | |
| Wow. | |
| And it's all in the book. | |
| Yes. | |
| And then I'm trying to get you all to get your library. | |
| And you need a library. | |
| When the lights go out, you need a library. | |
| It's so vital. | |
| And so people thought I was crazy. | |
| They're like, you're crazy. | |
| You're living in this trailer. | |
| And if I had $10,000, girl, I'm like, they said, I'd never do that. | |
| I said, because you're not going where I'm going. | |
| Yes. | |
| And I went, I'm not limited by this trailer. | |
| How did you know where you were going? | |
| Because it's right here, Jim. | |
| It's in the very beginning. | |
| It's the whole premises of something greater. | |
| You ready? | |
| Yep. | |
| It's the very first. | |
| Laurie and I love this, right? | |
| Yes, Ecclesiastes 3:11. | |
| He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. | |
| He has also planted eternity, a sense of divine purpose in the human heart, a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy except God. | |
| Yet man cannot find out, comprehend, grasp what God has done, his overall plan from the beginning to the end, unless you have a relationship with Jesus. | |
| So there was this longing, even after my dad killed himself. | |
| I'm standing out. | |
| He would always bring me a ballerina cake, a little jewelry box with a ballerina in it. | |
| I'm standing out. | |
| I didn't even know it's heaven. | |
| I'm looking to heaven, talking to this being that I don't know is God. | |
| And I'm five years old, and it's like I'm devastated. | |
| I mean, my world is shattered because my daddy was my hero. | |
| And I go into all that and understand, but I take on the victim mentality for a while, but I now understand through the lens of sovereignty that I had to have that father, that mother, that I had to be formed that way, that God knew exactly what DNA, that everything I needed I received from my father those first few five years, which is vitally important. | |
| How did I know in that trailer? | |
| Because there's this tugging in you, there's this pull in you when you just shut the noise down. | |
| And that is eternity in you. | |
| And it's what God says is a divine sense of purpose. | |
| So I say, your spirit has a memory of your future that your mind struggles to comprehend. | |
| Why, that's so good. | |
| So when your spirit is pulling you into God's purpose, though I'm living in a trailer, I'm investing. | |
| And you go, how did I know? | |
| Because I just knew I needed to get the word of God in me. | |
| And I was so hungry for his word and hungry and hungry and hungry. | |
| And I did nothing for years of my life. | |
| And of course, we had the strongs and you know all the commentaries. | |
| I'm marking up everybody. | |
| And I don't know anything about theology. | |
| I'm learning the difference between now what I know, what Reformed theology, Calvinism, Wesley. | |
| I'm going from the Orthodox early church Catholic. | |
| I mean, I get into everything. | |
| But more than anything, I'm not reading other people's stuff. | |
| I'm just in here asking revelation by the Holy Spirit. | |
| And I'm just in His word to know, okay, God, what do you have to say? | |
| And I think because there was such a strong foundation, the lies and labels people wanted to place on me, I never bought into it. | |