it's okay if you're not everybody's cup of tea you don't have to be
you just have to be true to who it is that god called you to be and that's where the longevity
comes when people go i want to stay the course stay the course by staying true not just to you
but staying true to who he has created you to be god puts gifts in other people
for us yes like he had to show me he's like you know the gift i've put in you is not for
you it's for other people makes me work gives them pleasure and so the gift that god has put in you
is not something that he wants somebody else i can't enjoy you if i'm jealous of you
you know if i i wish i could sing like that i wish i could sing like that i wish i looked
like that then not only can i not enjoy you but to be honest we could never be friends
yeah you're right and you can't even enjoy you no yeah no you can't yeah and i believe that probably
the largest part of people don't like who they are and i think that is the number one problem
that we have because if you don't like and love yourself and i don't mean be in love with yourself
but love yourself you cannot love somebody else because you cannot give away what you don't have
now because maybe you see the flaws in others like you see in yourself right and so that's all you
can see you know we can look in the mirror all of us i tried to be like my pastor's wife and she was
she was sweet and blonde and so submissive and of course she loved to counsel people and she'd say
oh tell me more well you talked to me two minutes i know what's wrong with you here's what you need
to do if you don't do it don't bother coming back and i just tried so hard i even actually
i did this i tried to lower my voice yes and people would say what is wrong with you
and it's so wonderful to finally get through all that nonsense and i do think people kind
of have to go through it you do i think you have to try it to find out it's just not going to work
and you need to accept yourself yeah and if there's things about you that aren't perfect
i just say do the best you can with what you got and stop worrying about what you don't have
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well i think the thing is too like when i listen to you say that it's just a reminder to me that a
lot of people are constantly chasing so yes you have to go through that but then you get to the
place where if you can get to the place where you can accept who god made you to be and walk in it
then i look at you in your not real later years but in your somewhat later years and
you're still here the longevity is there and so i think a lot of people watching even they're
thinking about these things they want to do or dreams they've had or platforms they wish they
could be on or whatever it is and and they don't ever get so they're constantly chasing what this
person and then it didn't work out and they're chasing what this person and if they could only
get to the place where they can accept which i'm preaching to myself
you get to the place where you accept who you are and what god's called you to be i remember a time
and i think we would identify a lot in this being just on a platform in an entertainment sense right
even though it's ministry it's still the pressure of a record company thinking how you have to look
and how you have to sound and how you have to sing and i went through so much insecurity because
my voice is my voice right it's it is what it is it's it's power it's loud it's strong
i don't know how to do it another way and i would look at other people that were like that was the
sound of the moment you know be like well you need to be more like this so then you try to
record something you're like that's not even me and it doesn't work and it doesn't work and
then you're like well i'm trying to be this and try to fit into this and they bring you
a sound from pop music well that's what's working and i remember just going through those first
probably six to seven years of my music career of people telling me all the things i needed to
be because what i was wasn't going to work it was too gospel to be a white girl it was too
loud it was too strong it was too and you know what here i am 22 or 23 years later
um because i made a decision to be true to what god put in me and who i am and how he created me
and it wasn't going to be for everybody and you know what that's okay it's okay if you're not
everybody's cup of tea you don't have to be you just have to be true to who it is that god called
you to be and that's where the longevity comes when people go i want to stay the course stay the
course by staying true not just to you but staying true to who he has created you to be at tbn our
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