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So when Jonathan prayed for me, he specifically called out the blood. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder a couple of months ago and I've had a lot of issues with that. When I came tonight, I wasn't expecting this at all. But he called it out and I know it was the Lord and I just. I know that it's healed. It's gone, it's done, it's over with. In the name of Jesus. He is my healer, my God, my Father. I love Him. Thank you so much for doing this.
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We are raising up a family in this church. We're raising up a family in Pittsburgh. We're raising up a family in Texas that don't just know about God. They know God. They've handled his power. They've Seen his power flow through them. You're coming out of here today carrying fresh fire, fresh anointing, never to take another backward step. There's nothing God asks you to do in the Bible that doesn't have a reward attached to it. When I told Matthew Ashemaloa that I was going to send $200,000 for that crusade from our church, do you think I was doing that to help them or help me? Help me. Because I know what the Bible says about those that refuse to close their eyes to poverty, but help. And we were getting close to the time to send the 200,000. We didn't have it. Plus, we're building a church and really building four churches. And you know what? We get a letter in the mail from a lady. I've been watching you. I got saved watching Billy Graham. This is a week before I went to Nigeria when I told him I'm going to help with those surgeries. I got saved watching Billy Graham. I got healed watching Kathryn Kuhlman. I'm in my 80s, and it delights me to see you carrying on their work. Here's a check. First time that person's ever given $1.26 million. Do you know what that is? That means if you know math, that's 200,000 for them and 1.06 for me. So that church in Pittsburgh, phase one is done. Phase two is half done. Because as long as you. When you see where the blessing comes from, you're not hoping for a blessing, wishing for a blessing, asking somebody to pray for you for a blessing. You know how to access the blessing of God. Can you say Amen number four? The church is where you receive revelation and understanding. Psalm 73, 16, 17. So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper, but what a difficult task it is. Then I went to your sanctuary, O Lord, and I finally understood the destiny of the wicked. You receive understanding Isaiah 2, 3. There he will teach us his ways and will walk in his paths. As much as I preach every day, I received revelation. I got it all written down on my phone. I was thinking about stealing Matthew Ashemaloah's iPad and offering it for a ransom. His notes are awesome. He did a sermon to the ministers about the four spirits from hell that you have to watch. Don't creep into your church. It was great. 120 points for making generational impact. You never get to a point. Iron sharpens iron. Watch any Christian that thinks they don't need a pastor, and I don't need that. I got my own Bible. The Holy Spirit can be my teacher. Watch them. They all go the same place down. I didn't know the Holy Spirit teach me. Where do you work? I'm looking for a job. How's your car? It's in the shop. Yeah, Holy Spirit's doing a great job teaching you. He told you in the Bible, go get a pastor. Anybody that knew me before I started this church, I always had a pastor. Had one in Maine, had one in Virginia beach, had one in Pennsylvania. When I came off the road, I was in church. I'm a planted. I had a guy tell me he doesn't talk like this anymore because now he knows me. But when he first met me, and nobody's watching in Texas right now, Texas is service number two. But I never was in a place like Texas where everybody's a Christian and nobody has a church. Sometimes we go to Gateway, and then sometimes we go. There's a guy that has like a prophetic ministry. We'll go there sometimes. Where do you go to church? If somebody asks you where you work, Jay, where do you work? Here? Not. Well, sometimes I come here. Sometimes I'll go to sheets, just help out with the fryer. No, you should be able to answer that question simply. Can you say amen? And so the guy I was telling this guy, that's a born again Christian who helps us in the ministry now, I said, you know, you should. Where do you go to church? Well, I said, you should have a church. Well, you. You say that because you're a pastor. I said, well, no, I don't. When I wasn't a pastor, I had a church. I'm in church all the time. My church isn't in Nigeria. There's nothing I did over there that in the natural helps me. In the natural. I should be down $200,000 plus airplane ticket, plus hotel. I'm in church because I found out what David found out. The harder I plant myself in church, the harder the blessings of God pursue me because God has a blessing in his house. Can you say amen number five? The church is a place where you experience abundance, delight and satisfaction. Psalm 36, 7, 8. How precious is your unfailing love, O God. All humanity finds shelter. Sounds so, like, terribly translated humanity. I bet it doesn't say that in the original language. That sounds like, like Yale Theological School. What's King James? How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God. Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. Keep going. They shall be. Now let me see, six again. How excellent. Six. That's a seven. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains. Thy judgments are a great deep, O Lord. Thou preservest man and beast. How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God. Therefore, the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings. And when they do, they shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. You know, when it talks about fat in the Old Testament, it's a sign of prosperity. Because in most places in the world, to get fat, you have to have money. In America, you have to have money to be skinny. It's true, you have to have a gym membership, you have to buy expensive food. But overseas, to have plenty of food, you have to be fat. Thou shalt be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. And thou shalt make them drink the rivers of thy pleasures. Thou shalt make them drink the river of thy pleasures. Go ahead with nine. For with thee is the fountain of life. And in thy light shall we see. Number five. The church is where you experience abundance, delight and satisfaction. Number six. The church is a place of answered prayer. Psalm 66. 19, 20, 13, 14. But God did listen. He paid attention to my prayer. Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer or withdraw his unfailing love for me. Now I come to your temple with burnt offerings to fulfill the vow. How many? See that there? I come to your temple. This is thousands of years old. I come to the temple with offerings as I pray. These pastors have made it that you have to come to. Like we made up offerings. The Bible says no man will appear before me without a gift. Now I come to your temple with burnt offerings to fulfill the vows I made to you. Yes, the sacred vows that I made when I was in deep trouble. Isaiah 55, 7. I will bring them to my holy mountain of Zion and will fill them with joy in my house of prayer. I will fill them with joy in my house of prayer. How many of you have gotten happy being at church here before? Yeah, the church is a place of joy. You come in happy and you leave happy. I enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart. Enter his courts with praise. And I'm not even touching on this. That there's a reason it's the first hours of the first day of a new week. You are setting your course for the week when you started on Sunday. You're saying, I'm not deciding. I'm not going to see how my week's going to go. I'm going to be in God's house. I'm going to get full of his work. How many of you have ever been sitting here on Sunday and God started giving you instruction for that week? Do this, do that, did it, and your business prospered. Some of you are building a second house. Some of you are buying a new house. Some of you have started businesses. That's not going to decrease. I will cause you to drink of the rivers of my pleasure. Get ready to have the best 13 months that you've ever had in Jesus name Stay with me the church is a place of answered prayer. Number seven the church is where help, healing and deliverance are released. Psalm 21:2 in times of trouble, may the Lord answer your cry. May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm. May he send you help from his sanctuary and strengthen you from Zion. Obadiah 1:17 but upon Mount Zion, what's Zion again? Oh, we got eight more people that caught it. Can you save me from reading Hebrews 12 again? What's Zion? The church. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness. And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. So you have things God's given you. They belong to you, but you don't possess them unless you gather in Zion. And then Zion gives you power to go out and take what belongs to you. Number seven the churches where help, healing and deliverance are released, but upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance. Number eight the church is the place of supernatural joy and gladness. Psalm 84:4 what joy for those who can live in your house, always singing Blessed are they that dwell in your house they shall still be praising you. What joy. New Living Translation what joy for those who can live in your house, always singing your praises. Isaiah 51:11 those who have been ransomed by the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Everybody say, everlasting joy. Let me tell you something. According to the Bible, good luck staying depressed at this church. You cannot, according to the Bible, you cannot stay plugged in to a Holy Ghost church and have depression mastering you. Because there's a release of joy into your spirit, supplementing you every week. Every Sunday that you come to church, crowned with everlasting joy, sorrow and mourn. I don't think you can say that, Jonathan. Sorrow and mourning will what? Yeah, that's what the Bible says. And they'll be filled with joy. Everybody say, filled with joy. Everybody say, filled with gladness. Yeah, that's what belongs to you. That's what you get every Sunday that you come. You think you'd get it? If you stayed home and said, I need to take Sunday off, find those people. They all need prayer. But the people that are planted in God's house, there is a release of joy and gladness that fills your life. Receive that today. In the name of Jesus. Number eight. Attaching yourself to God's house brings blessing on your entire family. 1st Chronicles 26:4 8. Obed Edom's sons lists off all the sons God had blessed. Obed Edom, Shemiah's sons were all leaders who were highly respected. Their descendants as far as the eighth generation were all outstanding in the service of the temple of God. The total number of men capable in the strength and service of the Lord from the descendants of obed Edom was 62. The Bible goes out of its way to make a note that when Obed Edom served in the house of God, God blessed his family. Psalm 102. 28. The children of your people will live in security. Their descendants will prosper in your presence. Let me see King James. Remember I do nlt you do kjv. The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established. Everybody say established. When the Bible talks about establishments, you can't be moved. God established us in Pittsburgh. Everybody and their brothers tried to move us out of here. They can't do it because when the Lord establishes you, nobody can knock you out. I prophesy in the name of Jesus. Every enemy trying to uproot you shall fall for your sake in Jesus name. Number 10. The church is where God commands the blessing and releases the anointing. The church is where God commands his blessing, releases the anointing. You think I'm just up here shouting a pastor. A minister. If you read the Old Testament, he told Moses, when the people leave the assembly, command this blessing on them. Even if you went to like a dead church. That's part of like one of the only enjoyable parts. Even if they say it dead. And the Lord shall bless thee and keep thee and make his face shine upon. Hey, that's good for that. That even they'll pronounce a blessing. Because the Bible says the heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he's given to. Who? Who? Men. So a man has to speak it. Son of man, can these bones live again? Thou knowest say to the bones God didn't say, now watch me speak to the bones. You speak so part of a minister's job when I say like and you're going to be blessed this week in Jesus name. I'm not like that it's not to make an exciting end to the, to the sentence that God is having. You say it, and as you say it, he'll confirm it. Can you say amen? So number 10. The church is where God commands the blessing and releases the anointing. Psalm 133, 1:3. How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony. For harmony, let me see King James. I don't like harmony. It's like a precious ointment upon the head that's talking about the anointing that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts of his garment as the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore. Everybody say, commanded the blessing. And you know what amen means? You know why everybody shouts Amen? We're not just like mimicking Lifetime movies of what people do in church. Amen means so be it unto me. So when I say, like, this is going to be the best week you've ever had and somebody says amen, they're saying, I take that from me, that's mine. You're going to have the best 12 months. When you say amen, I don't care if anybody else in this church, I'm latching onto this thing. God speaks the blessing. You receive the blessing and you take the blessing. Psalm 50, verse 2. From Mount Zion, out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
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I live in South Dakota and my son goes to Rhema. And I got a call from the emergency room because my son was unresponsive and he was not breathing. He went into some sort of diabetic ketoacidosis. His triglycerides were over 3500, his sugars were over 800. He was hallucinating. He was vomiting all night. His kidneys, his liver and his pancreas weren't working. They were asking me for permission to save his life. I said, yes, do what you got to do. And I yelled to my, my husband, we gotta go right now. My husband knew he was on his way to urgent care because he was sick. And I was like, we gotta go right now. But the Lord told me, don't say anything. Don't let fear in. And this message was just in my spirit. And so we get in the car and we start driving. We have a nine hour drive. Then while in the middle of driving, I started to get consumed with fear because I was the only one that knew that my son was not alive and he was unresponsive. And so I told my daughter, put that message on again that we were listening to. So we're in the car and we were listening to Power of the Devil. And then the next one was stepping into the divine nature of Jesus Christ. And so we listened to that all the way down from South Dakota to Tulsa, and we're praying. And so we walk into the hospital room and I see my son. He's in the icu and he has tubes, he's swollen. He has a machine breathing for him. He's ice cold. He has no color. And we walk into the room and I say, in the name of Jesus Christ, you're going to get up and you will declare the works of the Lord in the land of the living. God is not done with you. You will wake up in Jesus name. I went into the other room and I started crying, but I was jumping and I wouldn't let fear come out of my mouth because the message had just been so planted in me. So I just started crying and declaring that I will not fear the devil and he will let my son go. The next day, the next morning, my son woke up. The doctors to this day don't know what they said. It was some type of diabetic thing. They don't know what caused it because everything. He's alive, he's out of the hospital, he's walking. He shouldn't be. The way his numbers were. They said he should be dead. They've never seen anything like this. But he's alive.
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Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty God has shined. New Living Translation from Mount Zion the perfection of beauty God shines in glorious radiance. Number 10. The church is where God commands the blessing and releases his anointing. Then I close with this, the 10 blessings for building and advancing God's house. Now that you see the importance of God's house, do you want Pittsburgh to turn into Dearborn, Michigan? Do you want us to have a Christmas gathering down in downtown Pittsburgh? And we can't have it because the Muslim Brotherhood and Free Palestine is there harassing and shoving people. Do you want to know how to stop it? Do you want to all go down with signs? Do you want to burn a Koran? That's not how you do it. The brighter the light of God's house shines, no darkness can move into that city and revival today. Church is here because three years ago on New Year's Eve, the Lord said to me, no, four years ago, build me a strong church. In this city. And, brother, the devil's done everything to keep that from happening. But we're a thousand strong, getting ready to go 2000 strong because Islam's not going to have Pittsburgh. False religion's not going to have Pittsburgh. Communism's not going to have Pittsburgh. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ shall prevail. If you believe it, shout Amen Number blessings for building God's house and advancing God's house. Number one, when you build God's house, God builds your house. Literally did that for my dad and literally did it for me. Haggai 18 to 9 now go up into the hills, bring down timber and rebuild my house. How many know church isn't about a building? Oh, it kind of is. It wasn't like elf timber or Legend of Zelda timber. It was actual wood to build a building. Can you say Amen? How many know you don't need a church, you just need God. Guess where. Guess where he dwells. I mean, when you hear people talk like that, you're listening to probably somebody that can't afford a building. How many know it's not about buildings. It kind of is. I don't know about you. I'm kind of happy we're in a building today instead of freezing our nether regions off outside. Then in the summer getting baked mosquitoes. There's a reason that we invented buildings like in 4000 BC. Let's not try to ruin it in one generation. Can you say Amen? When you build God's house, God builds your house. Now go up into the hills, bring down timber and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord. You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, it blew away. Why? Why? Why was nothing working out? Because my house lies in ruins, says the Lord of hosts, while all of you are busy building your own fine homes. Number one, when you build God's house, he builds your house. When they listen to him and they went up and got the timber and built the house, everything started to flow again. That's been my secret. Abraham, how much money did you send to that guy from Ghana that you found that was building the church? Your friend? 10,000 that he had saved up for his own down payment on a house. He heard his friend in Ghana was building a church and it only cost 10,000 US to finish it. And he sent it. And I've been with that guy since he sent that check and God knew it. I've never seen this in all my life. And I've been around church my whole life. A pastor called up to me. Is your assistant Abraham here? I have a seed I want to give him. That's supposed to go to me? No, because I didn't send 10,000 to build the church. He did. God doesn't care. See, that's the great thing about the blessings of God. You can be a plumber. You can be nobody. You can be an assistant to the preacher. You can be the preacher and not give and you get nothing. You can be the assistant to the preacher and give and the blessing flows to you. God takes note of who builds his house. And when you build his house, God builds your house. Number two. God releases supernatural financial provision to temple builders. First Chronicles 29, 3, 5, 12. And now, because of my devotion to the temple of my God, I am giving all my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction of the temple. These gifts are in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy temple. Now then, who will follow my example and give offerings to the Lord? Today, wealth and honor have come from you alone. Verse 12. You rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand. And at your discretion. People are made great and given strength. If you will get it in your heart, God will get it in your hand. You know what David said at the beginning there? Basically, I realized that all this that God has given me was to prepare a temple for him. And so he gave $6 billion US 112 tons of gold and 200,000,000,000 tons of silver. So you can add it up, it's like six something billion. Might be seven billion now that gold's gone up. So he said, God's not going to let me build the temple. My son's going to do it, but I'm going to fund it. And he said, this is in addition to what I've collected. So it would be the equivalent of me saying, I got all of you to give to the church. Other people are sending gifts, like that lady from California. But I'm going to give more than everybody else did. That's what he did. And that's why I've tried to mimic David. I'm at about 400,000 US that I've given personally myself, which I might, you know, I might do it because I'm close. Anyway, I might this year end up giving more than what my salary is. And I'm sure that'll trigger an IRS audit. If you gave 120% of what your income is, that's Like John Gotti stuff. That's how they think. You must have something on the side. But it doesn't matter to me. They can audit away. One preacher, they told him, you've given so much, we're going to have to audit you. And he told them, if you think this is a lot, then you should open up an IRS office next to my pastor's office, because this is going to be the least that I'm ever going to give. It's one of my pet peeves. Is that not you? But people think anytime a pastor talks about offerings, oh, giving must be down. They must need money. And it's not people's fault that they think that, because most of the pastors will say that outright. Now we're getting ready to go into a building program. So I want to teach you about giving. It's all to get from you, to do something. But when you understand that giving is to release a blessing on you, that he that sows sparingly will reap sparingly. But he that sows abundantly shall reap an abundant harvest, then it becomes a delight to give. Can you say amen? 3. Jesus performed a miracle for a Gentile because he built God's house. This is a very interesting story. Luke 7:1 5. When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum. At that time, the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death. When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his slave. So they earnestly begged Jesus to help the man. This is how they appealed to Jesus. If anyone deserves your help, he does, they said, for he loves the Jewish people. And he built a synagogue for us. And Jesus went with them. He was Roman. He had no reason to help that guy. When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, I haven't seen faith like this in all of Israel. And when the officer's friends returned home, home, they found the slave completely healed. So number three, Jesus performed a miracle. Look how they appealed to him. This guy built a temple for us. And when Jesus heard that the guy built in that era, a church, he didn't do like he did for the Syrophoenician woman. Should I take bread from the table and throw it to the dogs? Oh, he built a temple. He loves God's people, built a house for them. I'm on the way to his house. Number four. God personally honors those who honor his house. First Samuel 2, 30. Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel says, I will honor those that honor me and I will despise those that think lightly of me. Now that's in the same chapter of Hophni and Phinehas that work at the temple and are taking the people's offerings and helping themselves to the young women at the church. The devil has no new tricks. So you got that same spirit in the church. Now corrupt ministers take money, take offering money. Who did I hand that money to recently? It wasn't you, because you weren't with me who gave me a bunch of money. It was my brother in law up in Canada. Somebody waited after and gave me a cart. They said, I wanted to give this to you. You know, we took an offering. This is for you. The card said, for Jonathan. Well, in the cart there was a few thousand dollars in there, but the card said, I want to help with your ministry. I want to help with what's going on in Nigeria. Well, there's no way to read that and think, well, they must have just been drunk. It's obviously for me. So I passed it to my brother in law. I said, read that and tell me who you think the money would be for. He said, for the ministry. I said, that's what I thought and handed him the money. Not one penny of God's money has found its way into my possession. You've been coming here for three years, most of you. There's never been one pastor appreciation offering taken. Because how could I be any more appreciated outside of kdk? You could ask Jess back there who I've been paying to handle my own personal money. Because that's how much has come into me with making no effort to wait around, nothing. I gave that three hundred and some thousand in July. It's almost all back before December with making no effort for it because I don't have to try to get the, I don't have to try to shear the sheep, get the sheep to feed me. If I now I teach you to do it. But I'm already doing it. I'm building churches. I started doing it in 2011, 2012, where I could afford it. I didn't have enough money to build a church in America, so I built one in Congo, then India. 10,000 in Congo, 20,000 in India. And brother, when it came time for mine, boom. What you make happen for others, God makes happen for you. I tell you a second time, on the authority of God's word, get ready for the best year you've ever had. If you believe it, shout. I receive it. Number five God supplies all your needs to those who support the building of churches. Philippians 4, 15, 19 and my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches and glory was written not to Christians. It was written to one church, the Philippian Church, that Paul said, you were the only church that cared about what I was doing. And Paul was an addicted church planter. Number six When God builds Zion or the church, the children of the builders thrive and prosperity. When you build the church, the children of the builders thrive and prosper. That's something you don't care about when you're in your teenage years, in your 20s, maybe even your early 30s. But when you start to get my age, in your 40s and up, you start caring more about that. I spend zero time thinking about my future and a lot of time thinking about Camila's future and buying her house and her not paying for her wedding and her having a home. Right off the bat, everything's geared that way. So these scriptures matter to me. Psalm 102 Some of you had awful childhoods, some of you started with nothing and had declata where you're at right now. But I'm telling you, there's a way that every battle you had to fight in life, your children will never know one of those battles. Because it only takes one person to say, I'm going to put God first. And God said, not only will I bless you, I will bless your children.
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Reggie Dabbs
Hank.
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Reggie Dabbs
We haven't worked a case in years.
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Reggie Dabbs
Too easy. Think something's up? You tell me.
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Reggie Dabbs
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Interviewer/Moderator
Well, abundant hope is our inheritance in Christ. Yet many of us still carry the baggage of past pain. Well, today's guest is going to share how he discovered God's unfailing, unconditional love growing up in the foster care system. But before we get to that, join me around the table is April Simons. We have a real man of God on fire today.
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I love it.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Talking about hope. Because everybody needs hope. Yep. And we always say it. Hope has a name and it's Jesus Christ. That's right. I love the story. It's going to be great. Anna Kendall, how are you doing?
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I'm doing just great.
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Interviewer/Moderator
And I love this story, too. I love the way that he reaches.
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Reggie Dabbs
So many young people.
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Host/Announcer
Because when a young people's life is.
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Reggie Dabbs
Saved, that's a lifetime that's saved.
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Interviewer/Moderator
And so that's going to be great. Rachel Lamb Brown, we love testimonies. Yes. And this is one of my favorite guests. His story, it's so impactful just to see where he came from. He didn't let that limit him. And God has done so much through his life.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
And it's incredible to see the power.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Of a transformed life. And he's right here in our area. But the last time we saw him, we were in Australia together. I know. And he was preaching in Australia. One of my favorite preachers. Yeah, for sure. Dorothy Newton, are you ready for a good word today? I am so, so, so ready. Because you know what? It's God's proof that, you know, no matter what has happened in our past, you don't have to take it to the future because he has great plans for us. And it is evident that the story today is going to be phenomenal. I posted a picture of me and you on Instagram, and everybody's like, I just love them. I love Dorothy. Dorothy is a woman of God. I loved it. I loved it. Cindy Johnson. How are you? Hey. I'm doing great today. Happy to be here. I know you know our guest, I heard preach, yes, for many years. Actually, probably 30 years or more. But the impact that he's had. He was only 2 years old when he started Massachusetts. Well, I was 2. But the impact that he is having today and that he had many years back on our community was huge. That was the Fort Worth area. Yes. Well, he was abandoned as a baby, embraced by his loving foster parents, redeemed by God. Reggie Dabbs is living proof that your past doesn't define your future. That's a good word for you today. No matter what you've been through, no matter where you are right now, your past does not have to define what God wants to do in your life. So I want you to stay right there. So you're like, you don't even know. Listen, good story coming up. Well, today he's going to share how God is opening doors for him to bring this message of hope to schools nationwide. It is amazing what God is doing. He's just written a book with John Driver. Just keep breathing. And it's a shocking expose of letters you never imagined a generation would write. We'll get into that later. But these are actually the cries of young people that you have ministered to throughout the years, right?
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Reggie Dabbs
Absolutely, yeah. Kids who have heard me in programs, and then they went to their computers and wrote me a letter.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Well, welcome, Reggie Dabbs.
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Reggie Dabbs
Good to be here. So good to be here.
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Interviewer/Moderator
So good to have you. And I do love your story, and I love the story of your parents who are now both with the Lord. But tell us a little bit. Start at the beginning of your birth and what happened.
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Reggie Dabbs
Yeah. I have a brother, two sisters, my mom.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Do you know them, by the way?
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Reggie Dabbs
I have met them.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Okay.
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Reggie Dabbs
My mom kept my brother, kept my sisters, but she said I was a mistake, and she gave me away to her favorite teacher at school, which is the greatest blessing of all.
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Interviewer/Moderator
But we know you weren't a mistake. No. By the way, you're not a mistake.
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Reggie Dabbs
No.
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Interviewer/Moderator
No one is a mistake. No one.
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Reggie Dabbs
The world will label you, though. The world will make you want to carry. And I like at the beginning when you says baggage, we carry baggage. I'm going to call this hope. You got to drop that bag. You got to let it go. You got to drop it because you wasn't meant to carry it. And that's so good.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Why do you think she said you were a mistake?
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Reggie Dabbs
Well, there's circumstances around my birth. She actually slept with a man to get food for my brother and sisters and got pregnant. So that's why she says that was a mistake. But you got to. And I just. I look at people all the time and I say, I'm here.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Yeah.
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Reggie Dabbs
It doesn't matter how you're here and what you do while you're here matters. It matters the most. So yesterday. It's a memory. And you know what? It can be. There's a reason why the front windshield is so much bigger than the rearview mirror. Because if you spend your time looking back, you're going to run into something. So you got to look ahead you to got. You can't look.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Well. And, yeah, I mean, something has to be said to the fact that, you know, your mom, your birth mom, rather had a story of, I'm sure, brokenness and pain and going through different things. And when you look at her and you look at her through the eyes of God, you kind of have a different perspective, don't you, Nick?
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Reggie Dabbs
Absolutely. And when you look now. Yeah. I met her a few years back. I met her and we have a relationship. And now she'll call me five times a day.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Really?
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Reggie Dabbs
And she doesn't remember.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Wow.
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Reggie Dabbs
And so my other siblings would go, why is she only calling you? And I said, I'm her biggest mistake. And so I literally will pretend like it's her first time calling. Just have a good conversation, hang up, and if I'm available, I do.
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Interviewer/Moderator
I know. She's so proud of you.
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Reggie Dabbs
Yeah.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Okay. So she gave you up to her favorite teacher.
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Reggie Dabbs
Her teacher.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Well, she gave you to her favorite English teacher, who I guess couldn't have a baby, right?
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Reggie Dabbs
No.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Okay, so what happened? When's your earliest memory of your.
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Reggie Dabbs
Well, I just. I've always thought that was my family.
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Interviewer/Moderator
How old were you? You were a baby.
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Reggie Dabbs
They took me when I was a baby.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Okay.
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Reggie Dabbs
And I thought that was it until first grade, when everybody had a first and last name, when teacher took attendance and I only had Reggie. And when I asked, she goes, you don't have a last name. And I remember asking my parents, it was parent teacher conference. I hate parent Teacher conferen. But I remember asking them, all my friends parents were young and they were older. So when we got in the car going home, I'm in the backseat, like, why y' all old? But when you're six, you can get away with that. You don't try that when you're older. And they literally sit me down and told me my story, which was good.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Well, they had already raised six kids before you came along. And so that says something to their character and their integrity.
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Reggie Dabbs
Oh, it. It was unbelievable. And I see and I'm glad it taught me. Like, people look at, like, cleaning people, like janitors, and I'm like, y' all don't understand. I think the janitor is the most popular guy in the school. And I always want. When I do assembly programs, I look at janitor, I go, you my hero. And I go, are you going to be in the room?
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Interviewer/Moderator
Because your dad was the teacher. Yeah, he was a janitor and your mother was the teacher. Okay, so talk about when did you kind of come to a knowledge of God and really invite him into your heart?
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Reggie Dabbs
When I was 13. And I think one, I couldn't sleep. I'm awake at 3 o' clock in the morning. I had one of those clocks with red numbers. You know what I'm talking about?
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Interviewer/Moderator
Why do you think that was happening?
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Reggie Dabbs
Well, this happens every day. Because now in schools, I go, anybody wake up at three o' clock staring at the ceiling? 80% of the room raised their hands. And those are middle schoolers. So it's like. It's just that in the middle of the night, you start thinking stuff you don't normally think during the day because you're preoccupied.
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Interviewer/Moderator
But as a Christian, you just start praying at that time. Because the lord uses the three o', clock, too. Yeah, for sure.
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Reggie Dabbs
Absolutely. But at 13, I was like, dude, my mom gave me away. I don't have nobody. I should give up. I started crying one morning.
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Interviewer/Moderator
That sends the enemy into your ear, right?
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Reggie Dabbs
Like, everybody. And you know what? When I do this as my testimony, people go, wait a minute. He's like me. The more we can identify with the younger generation, the more they're going to listen to us.
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Interviewer/Moderator
That's right.
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Reggie Dabbs
But we have to be willing to share. And it's the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony. It's where you came from. And I do that. And I tell them, at 13, I wanted to give up. And my bedroom door opened and I told him, I said, I don't like scary movies because Black people die first in scary movies. Come on. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying. I'm just saying. But it wasn't an it clown. It was my foster care dad. And he literally slept at my door for two nights because he knew I was sad. And the second morning, he heard me cry and he came in and told me he loved me. And then he opened the Bible and He read John 3:16. He says, I love you, but somebody loves you more. And that's when everything changed.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Wow.
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Reggie Dabbs
All I needed was one person.
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Interviewer/Moderator
That's right.
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Reggie Dabbs
All people need is one. And you know, for some people, this is table talk. You're their one person that's going to get them through this. You're the one person speaking to them.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Rich, you.
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Reggie Dabbs
Right now, they literally are looking. You're looking for hope. You're looking for how do I make it? How do I get through this? But you have found it. Not in a television show, but in the reason behind the show. I know every time they don't talk about Jesus a lot, but just for a moment, let me tell you, if it wasn't for the Lord, where would I be? And you just need to. The Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is real. Try him. See what happens. Give him an opportunity in your life. Because we all broke. We're all broke, but Jesus, would you.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Just lead us in a salvation prayer and we'll repeat after you. I feel like there's someone watching that you just kind of came across this and you stopped to listen, but your heart has been opening more towards the things of God, but you don't really know which way to go. And so it's no accident that you're watching right now because the Lord has your number. I mean, the one who created you, loves you so much and wants to have relationship with you. Reggie.
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Reggie Dabbs
Romans 10:9 says, if you declare with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Not. You can not. You might. You will be saved. This is the most important moment. So we're just going to ask. We're doing it. I'm going to help you with that prayer is asking Jesus to be lord of your life. So just say Jesus. Jesus, right now. Right now, I ask you. I ask you to be Lord of my life. I cannot change my past, but I can give you my future. Thank you, Jesus, for carrying my bags. My pain, my shame. Thank you, Jesus, for this moment. For me to say yes to Jesus, be my Lord, show me how to live this life for you. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Amen. I love that. You know, if you prayed that prayer, there's a number on the screen I want you to call and tell us and let us send you the Gospel of John for free. And it's just a great place to start in the Bible, but this is a new day. You know, I love the story of how your mother wanted you to play an instrument. And which instrument was that?
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Reggie Dabbs
Saxophone.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Okay.
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Reggie Dabbs
Yeah, she loved a saxophone.
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Interviewer/Moderator
And so when did she start saying okay? What did she say? Like, how'd she say?
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Reggie Dabbs
Well, to be honest, I'm a little add. Okay. And so she came in one day, and I was throwing the cat across the room, trying to catch him before he hit the couch. And she says, okay, there's something wrong with him. And so literally, she read up on it and found out that music and rhythm can calm guys like me down, can keep me focused. And so she got a. She went to the pawn shop, got an alto saxophone, and had me play with the radio.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Oh, my goodness.
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Reggie Dabbs
I got fidgety, and it literally worked.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Would you play a few notes?
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Public Investing Platform Sponsor
This is good.
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Reggie Dabbs
It's a soprano saxophone.
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Interviewer/Moderator
You can stand.
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Reggie Dabbs
It looks like a clarinet. Oh, no, I can do it from here. Yeah, I'm good. But it just. It's just.
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Interviewer/Moderator
This is for all those people that just made that prayer.
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Host/Announcer
Sam.
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Reggie Dabbs
All right, man.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Love that. And for those of you that don't know, that was Amazing Grace.
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Host/Announcer
Yes.
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Interviewer/Moderator
That is Jesus. So I know now that you are going into schools. I mean, God supernaturally has opened doors. You are what they call a what Speaker.
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Reggie Dabbs
It's a motivational speaker.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Motivational speaker in public school. And so you can't get so much into talking about.
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Reggie Dabbs
You can't say his name, but you.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Can show his language, show his love, like you're talking about. And kids can go and look at Reggie Dabbs and find all these youtubes of you preaching. And I know that's happened, but I think we have some stories to share. Can we share some of the.
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Reggie Dabbs
Absolutely.
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Interviewer/Moderator
These are some of the letters and that you've gotten from.
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Reggie Dabbs
From kids. Actual students who've heard me in public school.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Now, they used actors in this.
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Reggie Dabbs
Yeah, but the letters are.
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Interviewer/Moderator
But the letters are from. Are from them. They're their words. Because, you know, today we're surrounded by a generation of kids who are literally dying to be heard. And Reggie, his ministry is a safe place to ask some of the hardest questions. Take a look at this.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
I don't really like to talk about it, but I feel like I can tell you. It started off with me getting sexually harassed by my grandfather for my entire life. And then after my parents found out, they confronted him. And a week or two later, he killed himself.
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Reggie Dabbs
When I was 12 years old, I.
- [46:57]
Host/Announcer
Was initiated into a gang looking for me. Right now they want to kill me.
- [47:02]
Reggie Dabbs
But guess what I deserve, right?
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
My boyfriend and his little brother and.
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Host/Announcer
Their friend killed themselves.
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Interviewer/Moderator
It'll be two years ago tomorrow.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
I get abused and hurt all the time.
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Interviewer/Moderator
No one cares.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
I want to die.
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Public Investing Platform Sponsor
I don't know what to do, but it's hard.
- [47:26]
Host/Announcer
When my own dad tells me to drop dead. There's something inside of me that tells.
- [47:30]
Interviewer/Moderator
Me it would just be better if I killed myself.
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Host/Announcer
But I don't want to do that.
- [47:35]
Interviewer/Moderator
But it seems like that's the only thing I can't do.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
Throughout my entire life, I've been beaten by my foster parents, by families, boyfriends.
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Interviewer/Moderator
By people I don't even know.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
I grew up in pure hell and torture. I lost my mom for five years.
- [47:53]
Interviewer/Moderator
Due to her love of alcohol and.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
Not her own kids. I've been sexually harassed and bullied.
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Interviewer/Moderator
I've been kidnapped and raped.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
I've even harmed myself.
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Reggie Dabbs
Some days you're going downhill so fast.
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Host/Announcer
You want to quit. Listen to my brother.
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Reggie Dabbs
Never get off the ride of life.
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Host/Announcer
Cause they'll fix the ride.
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Reggie Dabbs
The only question is, my sister is, will you be on the ride?
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Host/Announcer
Will they fix it?
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Reggie Dabbs
So the phrase of the day is never give up. Everybody say, never give up. Look at them and say, I got to your back.
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Host/Announcer
Say I got your back.
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Public Investing Platform Sponsor
People in crisis don't need to just be fixed. They need to be listened to with valued.
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Reggie Dabbs
Has anybody in this gym ever hurt.
- [48:54]
Host/Announcer
So bad it was just hard to breathe?
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Public Investing Platform Sponsor
Even if all else is taken away.
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Reggie Dabbs
From you, no one can rob you of your choice.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Well, those are just really heartbreaking, some of those letters that were written. Here's another one that's especially touching from Jasmine because you know thousands of teens who say that Reggie's story changed their lives. One of those again was a girl named Jasmine. And this is heartbreaking. Let's hear what she had to say.
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
Dear Reggie, Hi, my name is Jasmine. You spoke at my high school last week. I sat close to the back, so you probably didn't really see me. I wore the gray hoodie. If you noticed the three girls and one was crying, that was my friend. I was very close to crying. I thank you for coming to my school. I almost started Crying when you were telling the story about the girl who cut herself. I tell you that to tell my story. About three years ago, I started having problems with my stepdad. I was really stressed out and I picked up the habit of smoking cigarettes. Well, I got caught and got in trouble. I tried to tell them why I started smoking. No one listened. A couple of weeks went by and my birthday was the next Thursday. Well, on my birthday I called my dad and just wanted to talk to him and my stepmother were going out to eat. I asked him if I could go with them since it was my birthday. He told me I didn't deserve anything for my birthday and that I didn't even deserve a birthday. When he got done telling me that, he said he had to go. When he hung up, he didn't even wish me a happy birthday or he loved me. I was crushed. So after that I laid on my bed crying, thinking about all the things going on in my life. It was too much for me. I figured everyone would be happy if I was gone. So I went into the bathroom, busted a razor open and tried to kill myself. If my mother hadn't seen my cut mark, I probably wouldn't be here. I still have problems to this day with my father. I now live with my father. To me, he's not much of a father. I am 16. I was an insecure person back then. I basically raised myself. I love my mother. She's really the only thing I have in my life. Your friend, Jasmine.
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Reggie Dabbs
I know sometimes you get overwhelmed. Sometimes people are forgotten by those who should never forget. But Jasmine, we're not going to forget. You are not overlooked.
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Interviewer/Moderator
And you have so many of the letters in here. And I found you put Jasmine's letter in here and you put your letter that you wrote back to her where you said, dear Jasmine, the first thing I want to say to you in writing so that forever everybody will know I said it. Here it is. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Jasmine. Happy birthday, too. You can hear my beautiful voice singing through the pages. Well, I know many people in the world have had that song sung for them. But Jasmine, we wrote it in the book for you. Why? Because that's how special you are. I know sometimes you get overlooked. Sometimes people are forgotten by those who should never forget. But you know what? We are not going to forget. You are not overlooked. I'm so glad your mom saw your cut before it was too late. We see it every day in someone's life. We catch glimpses of the scars we don't always know their names, but we see them. We see you. And I know we can't call you out by your real name in this book. When I met you that day in your school, I saw you. I did not know then that your name is Jasmine. But I cared then and I care now. You go on and talk about, there are principals and teachers who know you. They are friends to you, even though you may not think of them in that way. You see, they brought me to your school hoping I would be able to help you. And it worked. You did realize, and that's why you wrote us. Your problems may not be gone because you know we care. But knowing it is the first step to breathing another day. Because another day will bring another chance to live and see your circumstances change for good. So listen carefully. You will always be loved. And all those birthdays that everybody forgets, you will remember that your daddy Reggie put it in his book. Happy birthday, Jasmine. Never give up. I got your back. I love that. What did she say when she got that letter from you?
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Reggie Dabbs
She responded and she went, is this really you? I get that a lot.
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Interviewer/Moderator
That happens to me sometimes.
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Reggie Dabbs
I know this is really you answer.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Every email and then we get thousands. But every once in a while I will. And they'll come back. It's just really Joni, real fast.
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Reggie Dabbs
So you know that we about 10 years ago started doing elementary programs. So we go all the way down to pre K4 and we're in New Jersey, pre K4. I'm doing my program. Halfway through it, a little four year old yells, he's my daddy. And I'm like, excuse me. And then we did a family night, and it's for the whole community to hear what we did during the day because everybody needs hope. And she brought her mom and her mom came up and says, she said that you're her daddy. I went, yeah, it was a little offsetting. And she goes, no, her dad isn't alive because he was a bad man. And she's been asking, how do I know who my daddy is? And she said, one day you'll meet the nicest, most kind, most gentle, most loving man. And you need to know, that's your dad.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Oh, my goodness. Wow.
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Reggie Dabbs
And I was like, I'll do elementary programs for the rest of my life.
- [54:53]
Interviewer/Moderator
For the rest of my life.
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Reggie Dabbs
Because kids need hope. They just need hope.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Exactly. Has the school seen the. That you made?
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Supporting Speaker/Voice Actor
Have you ever gotten.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Do you have a story from like a school district?
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Reggie Dabbs
Well, what they do now is they're tracking. They're tracking like we do an assembly program and what they'll go back, like, four months later. And what they did this year, this past year, one school district said, we really want to make this work. So they brought us in to do schools, but they had four educators watch the programs and come up with slogans. So after we were gone one week, it was Uncle Reggie said, you can't change your past, but you can change the future. A week later it was, Uncle Reggie says, do your best because you never know who's watching. So they had this for a month, and then a month later, they went back and they tracked attendance, behavior, and test scores. Up, up and up.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Wow, that's amazing. That's amazing. Tell us what's up and for people watching, how they can support you or if they're watching and they would love to see you come to their son or daughter school.
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Reggie Dabbs
If you would love to see us come to schools, note it is secular. We stay within the parameters of education.
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Interviewer/Moderator
And you tell your story.
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Reggie Dabbs
Yeah, I tell my story. It's theyouthalliance.com theyouthalliance.com and you can see the Youth alliance youthalliance.com screen. That's the best way to do public schools. Everyone else, say a prayer for us, because I'm coming to the end of my public school Tour ability. I'm 62.
- [56:20]
Interviewer/Moderator
So you've only just begun.
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Reggie Dabbs
I know when I turn 66. But we got other guys. They're running with it. They're doing it. They're making it happen. Do you do churches as well?
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Interviewer/Moderator
Do you do churches?
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Reggie Dabbs
Oh, absolutely.
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Interviewer/Moderator
So good. That's so good. And what do you see the Lord doing, like, in this season? What do you feel like the Holy Spirit is showing you for the next six months?
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Reggie Dabbs
I think he's showing me it's working because for the past six months in public schools, I have kids. Every week, at least one kid will come up and go, hey, you do a really good job. Have you ever heard of Jesus? You got five minutes? Can I tell you who he is? And can I tell you what he did for me? And these are like sixth graders, bro. They're like little Billy Grahams running around. And the principals are like, yeah, he's our Jesus kid right there. We gotta keep doing it for our church kids. Keep preaching to them because they're getting it.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Yeah.
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Reggie Dabbs
And they're going public.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Do you feel like there's almost like an open window that God's given us for now?
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Reggie Dabbs
Absolutely. Because he's coming.
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Interviewer/Moderator
He's coming.
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Reggie Dabbs
He's coming back.
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Interviewer/Moderator
He is.
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Reggie Dabbs
He's coming back. And we gotta help. We gotta make. The harvest is ripe. So we've got to keep proclaiming he's coming.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Just take a moment, if you will, and just pray generally as you feel led for those that are watching right before we leave the air.
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Reggie Dabbs
Jesus, I pray right now. God, God, you know who we are. You know where we're at. God, you created the heavens and the earth. You created television. You created all this so that we can sit by someone right now who's struggling. We can sit beside someone right now who's trying to figure out the why. But, God, we know that no matter what the why is, you're the answer. So, Jesus, I pray, hope, I pray peace in every circumstance right now. God, I pray that a young man would put a gun down, that a young lady would lay the pills down, that a blade would be put back in the razor because there's hope. God, God, I pray, God, that this would be seen by not the greatest of the great, but the lowest of the low. God, let them know you still care about them, you still love them and you're on their side. So I pray peace in Jesus name, Hope in Jesus name. Let us be youe hand extended. Let us, God, start conversations that end up with but Jesus. So, God, we all need that moment in our life, but Jesus changed it. But Jesus changed my life. But Jesus set me free. And God, we know we don't have to carry those bags. We have to drop those bags and turn to youo in Jesus name. Amen.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Everybody said amen. Amen. Amen. We're out of time. I want you to remember that even though you can't change your past, you can decide today to change your future. And when you say yes to God, you can live a life filled with hope and faith and his unfailing love. And, yeah, you still have issues and problems that you have to walk through. I mean, the Bible tells us, you know, we're going to have to deal with things. I mean, we don't live in a perfect world. This is the difference for people who have a relationship with the Lord, they're not alone. And you don't have to be alone with whatever you're walking through, whatever you're going through. If you're watching today and you need prayer, that's why that prayer line number's on the screen. If you prayed the salvation prayer with Reggie, call us. Let us send you the Gospel of John. If you just need prayer in general, call us. You don't have to give any information. Just say, hey, I want prayer. The lady on TV or Internet or live streaming or whatever said that I could call this number and I need prayer. That's why we do that. You're important to us. Well, I do want to thank Reggie for joining us today. Make sure you order a copy of his book. Just keep breathing. Some great, really insightful letters in there from young people crying out for help. We got to reach out this generation. He's doing that. Of course. For more, you can visit him online@regidabsonline.com but if they want you to come to the school, it's theyouthalliance.com theyouthalliance.com some of you are gonna follow up on that. Get Reggie in the school. You gotta hurry before he thinks he can retire anyway. As always, make sure to follow us on all social media. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for full episodes, exclusive content. Let us know how Table Talk is touching your life. We love hearing from you. Of course, you can also listen to the Joni Tabletop podcast, available now on all the major platforms. But thank you so much for watching. Thank you, Reggie.
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Reggie Dabbs
Thank you, guys.
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Interviewer/Moderator
Good to see you again. I'm glad you're here in the area now. Yes, thank you, ladies. Put your tissues up, Cindy. We're not gonna cry anymore.
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Host/Announcer
All right. We love you.
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Interviewer/Moderator
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