- [Terri] What did God say?
- He said he'll renew my youth as the eagle.
- [Terri] That's exactly--
- He said, "Don't forget my benefits."
(Terri laughs)
- [Terri] He said it!
- He said it!
And he's not a God that he lie.
- [Terri] That's right.
(bright music)
Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams.
Well, this week was a lot of fun.
I sat down with my 91-year-old grandma
on her front porch in Arkansas,
and just asked her for some tips to live a successful life.
Now, you can't ask someone for tips about success
unless they've demonstrated success, right?
Well, you would never believe this woman is in her 90s.
Her mind is sharp,
her memory is incredible.
She still drives three hours to visit us.
She recently went to Hawaii on vacation
with the whole family.
She reads like a book a week or more,
and she can work a puzzle faster than you can imagine.
She's full of vision.
That's the thing.
She has plans to build a bunch of houses,
and then rent them out, at 91.
So let's hear from grandma Creech,
and let it inspire you to never look
at the years you've lost
let's look at the years you've got left,
and live your dreams.
So let's get right into her first tip for a successful life.
How do you feel about the power of giving?
- Oh, I think it's awesome.
It's seed.
When you're a farmer, nothing comes up without seed.
Now I can have a garden back there,
big as his house,
big as this yard,
- Yeah.
- but if I don't go out there
and cultivate it and plant it
and put seed in the ground,
there ain't nothing gonna come up.
- Right.
- And if you put it in the ground
and you don't ever till it,
or you don't ever fertilize,
it'll come up and weeds will come,
and its the corn the ground.
If it's real good ground, you might get 60 fold.
But if it's poor ground, you may not even get 30 fold.
You have to fully fertilize it, till it, tend to it
and that's what the words of mouth.
- Yes.
- Your words, your words, is everything and giving
how are you going to get money
if you don't give seed?
- Right, and you and grandpa are the biggest givers
you always have been.
You've always blessed--
- We loved it.
- I mean, you truly lived again.
- That's one of the keys too
a lot of people get the word in churches,
but they don't have the heart of giving it without grudging.
And he said, "give it without being it being necessary.
If you didn't want to give it."
You didn't wanna give it,
you're giving it because you feel like you have to,
because they might think you're terrible if you don't give,
then you might as well keep your money in your pocket
'cause you're not going to get a reward in heaven.
- Right, right.
So you and grandpa--
- We loved it we love doing for people even now.
- Well you started giving when you didn't have much.
- I went over yesterday and mowed her front yard.
- Really.
- She's gone.
- 91 going to mow in the neighbor's lawn.
So tip number one is giving sets you up to be blessed.
You know, the people who succeed
at reaching their highest dreams
are those who have tapped into this hidden key
known as the power of giving, right?
You know, many people who have a dream,
especially a financial dream,
they think it's best to hold tight to what they have.
But in reality, it's wise to release it,
to give it to sow it, you know,
when you give your finances to help someone else,
you're opening the door for God to give you back more.
It's a law, you know,
it's called the law of sowing and reaping.
And your scripture even says
it's possible to give and yet become richer.
So let's go back to my grandma to hear her second tip
for a successful life.
Everybody wants to know this question.
What is your secret to the fountain of youth?
How do you look so young and act so young?
And you're still so sharp and you wear skinny jeans.
(laughs)
- That's because I have got that scripture.
Then he already knew 103 psalms,
He said, "forget not your benefit."
And it's real in my heart.
For me not to forget what God has prepared for all of us.
- Yeah.
- You can have your youth renewed.
If you will confess God's word.
- Yes, now let me just say
I was declaring that God renews my youth,
and my face broke out in pimples, like a teenager.
Tip number two, confess God's word.
You know, if you've heard me before, you know,
I'm passionate about speaking to your dreams.
Why?
Because your words are so powerful.
Your words are a tool to help you achieve your dreams.
You know, throughout God's word.
We see this powerful principle,
that if you wanna know where your life is headed,
listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.
And here's the thing.
Nobody can do this for you.
So you must give yourself a pep talk to achieve your dreams.
You know I always say, when you change what you're saying,
you'll change what you're seeing, right?
You know I have done this to see my books in bookstores
to share the stage with some of my heroes,
to pay off debts, to lose weight,
and to even see my marriage restored.
And you can too.
And you know, I think so many times
we know that making positive declarations is important,
and speaking God's word is vital,
but we don't know where to start,
and we're not real sure what to declare.
So we just don't do it.
So this week, I wanna give you a cheat sheet.
I put together my family declarations,
and scriptures from my book, 'Pep Talk'
as a free download for you to help you get started today.
So you're not overwhelmed, you have a cheat sheet?
Now, all you have to do
is click the link in the description
to get that free list of declarations
and scriptures from God's word
to begin speaking them out right now.
Now I hope it's a blessing to you today.
Now, before I cut to grandma
giving her third tip,
let me tell you what it is.
And then I wanna share her bonus tip at the end.
So hang on because I want you to hear her bonus tip,
but grandma creature's third tip
for living a successful life is this,
never stop dreaming, ain't that awesome?
You know, I couldn't even get grandma
to just say her tip without explaining her dreams.
So she started out telling me
all these building projects she has, you know,
in her mind and how she just bought six acres of land
to start pursuing her dream.
So just listen to this and let it inspire you.
- And I thought about him today.
And I said,
"Lord am I putting them apartments
and just have extra money?
Or am I putting them in to help people?"
And I said, no,
"I'm putting them in to help people"
because people out here around the Lake,
want to come to the Lake,
and they can't afford a place on the Lake.
I can put on housing that I have ideas of how to build it.
And it can get there.
The mum and daddy, like retired,
- Yeah.
- Can live in it comfortable?
- Right.
- And then they have two bedrooms upstairs
and a bath that the kids,
when they come to see them,
'cause they can come here and fishing.
- Yeah.
- And then get a place that they can afford
and pay off.
- Right?
- And not owe everybody.
- Yeah.
- And that's the idea of my little houses.
Then I have,
I have a picture in my mind,
like God pictured me putting in apartments here.
- She has apartments.
But grandma,
do you realize the Bible says where there is no vision,
the people perish.
- That's right,
- But the opposite is true,
with vision you come alive.
And the fact that you have visions,
that's what's keeping you alive too.
You've probably heard me say before
that everything begins in your imagination first
that you have to see your dreams on the inside
before they ever show up on the outside.
Right?
Well, you could see how grandma
was imagining those houses.
She sees every detail.
You know, she took riding me outside
to show us where she envisioned those houses,
and she was drawing a picture of every room.
Well, you need to imagine yourself,
living your dreams.
Imagine weighing your ideal body weight.
Like truly imagine stepping on the scales,
and loving the number you see,
imagine yourself behind the wheel of your dream car.
Can you smell the leather?
Is the sun revolving.
Imagine pulling up to your dream house,
imagine pushing the garage opener,
and driving into your parking spot.
Imagine walking down the aisle
in your gorgeous wedding gown,
marrying the person God has handpicked for you.
Can you imagine it?
Now here's the opposite.
If you can't imagine it,
you'll never have it.
See, everything begins in here
before it ever shows up out here.
So we've got three tips from grandma Creech.
Number one, get seed in the ground,
give towards your dreams.
What you make happen for others.
God will make happen for you.
Number two, confess God's word,
speak to your dreams,
change what you're saying,
and you'll change what you're seeing.
And number three,
never stop dreaming.
See your dreams on the inside.
You know i love what Steve Harvey says,
if you can see it in your mind,
you'll eventually hold it in your hand.
So here's her fourth bonus tip,
which is the most important.
And wait until the end.
When I ask her about her social media skills.
(laughs)
It's decades from now,
let's imagine it's 60 years from now.
You have great, great, great, great, great grandchildren.
I don't know how many times?
And they hear stories about grandma Creech.
How do you want them to remember you?
- That I was a person that loved the Lord,
and believed in God.
And he blessed me.
- Yes.
- If they don't just seek him first,
you can't seek him and say, you seek him,
and then you go from money,
only money,
to do everything that the lust of the flesh
you go for money for God to get souls saved,
and then God will give you the last...
anything you want he said you can have,
but you got to put him first.
- Right, that's the difference in seeking his face,
and not his hands.
- Yeah.
- Right? - Yep.
- And the fourth tip seek God first.
So let's close out
by checking on grandma creech's social media skills.
How are your social media skills?
Are you on Facebook?
- No, they're bad.
(laughs)
- Are you on Instagram?
- No
- Twitter?
- No.
- Do you use YouTube?
- No.
(laughs)
- (mumbles) phones.
- Let me see your phone.
- I can't even do this.
- Okay, have you ever taken a selfie?
- A what?
- Do you know what a selfie is?
(laughs)
- where you hold the phone up,
and you take a picture of yourself.
- Oh I did the other day,
(laughs)
thinking I was trying to cut the dial off,
and I couldn't get it out.
And I went down and you know,
I looked like an old sack
- And you took a picture?
- Its on there, its on there
- Okay, so it's good
you're not on Facebook
'cause you could have loaded that on Facebook,
and then everybody would have seen it.
(laughs)
Okay, well we'll take a selfie in just a minute,
just so we can have your first selfie. Okay?
I tried to close out the interview,
and she still wants to talk vision.
I Just love that about you grandma.
- Well I have plans on putting some houses in here,
and even maybe we need some,
these little houses down her leg country.
- Yeah.
See I love it.
She's still talking vision.
This is where I got it.
(laughs)
Grandma.
- I can get you to--
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