Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Kerry Laframboise
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000050C
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00:13 Welcome back!
00:14 You know what, I'm so proud of God in the fact 00:16 that He does not want us to be someone else. 00:19 He doesn't want us to be something else. 00:21 He doesn't want us to be anything except what we are. 00:24 And I see that my own life. 00:26 I seen that Max when he gave his testimony. 00:29 When Kerry talks about who he is. 00:31 And we can't try to figure out God which is 00:34 incredible to me. 00:35 I can't figure out when I came off the street, 00:38 I was just so glad to be on solid ground and I'm 00:41 thinking look at me, I'm like standing here and 00:44 I'm not high. 00:45 I'm thinking I'm not lying to anybody, well maybe. 00:48 And I really for 10 years tried to be someone else, 00:52 that was the only thing that kind of freaked me out. 00:55 I wore somebody else's clothes, I sat like someone 00:58 else, I try to eat brown rice every meal. 01:00 It was just like I tried to do all these different 01:02 things and God said, you know Cheri I miss you. 01:05 I miss you, I want you to be yourself, and now it is 01:09 like I am loud and obnoxious and love life. 01:13 Well I mean I love life and I love God, I love who 01:16 I am now as a woman of God in Christ. 01:18 I love all that stuff, I love the fact that every 01:22 day He stands us up in a different way. 01:25 Every day He works with us in a different way. 01:26 Every day His plans unfold. 01:29 If you would have asked Kerry, she think at the end 01:33 of your, not at the end of your life hopefully, 01:37 but as you walk through your life that you are 01:40 going to work in the Police Department? 01:41 You are going to work for police officers and try to 01:44 get them to just stand up with their first initial draw 01:47 to this kind of service field and stand up as men and 01:51 women of God, with integrity, loving on the community. 01:54 Do you think you would have seen yourself in that? 01:56 He would have said absolutely not, I wouldn't have 02:00 guessed it and yet all of heaven said, oh man, Kerry 02:03 this is what you are gifted for, this is what 02:05 I created you for. 02:06 And even Max, Max was this kid that just was almost 02:10 destroyed, and now I'm doing stuff that would make us 02:13 cringe if he totally was honest about his testimony. 02:16 I'm not saying he's not honest, I'm saying probably 02:19 with God and him, the only time he fully discloses who he was 02:23 he has done, and all of a sudden He said I'm going to have you 02:27 standing in front of judges, and mayors, and people in law 02:31 enforcement so that you can teach them how to have a 02:34 heart for the very child you were. 02:36 And if you would've said to him at one point this is 02:39 who you are, this is the man of God I'm going to raise 02:42 you up to be, he would have laughed at you, 02:45 but all of heaven knew. 02:47 When I came off the street, I'm only 23 years old, I had 02:50 teeth missing, I'm illiterate, I'm strung out on heroine. 02:54 I don't know if I knew anything about anything. 02:57 I don't know if I knew anything about relationships, 03:00 anything about how to survive, how to be honest, 03:04 how to get from one thing to another when people say, 03:07 when I went to church and they invited me to potluck 03:10 I did know how to eat with somebody. 03:11 My palm's would sweat, I did know how to socialize. 03:14 I didn't know how to do anything, my husband almost 03:16 didn't marry me. 03:17 For one He said, you know what Cheri, you don't 03:19 even know how to talk in front of people and I work 03:22 at the University, I work at the Philharmonic. 03:25 The fact that you can't even get so anxious that you 03:28 can't speak, and now he's wishing I would shut up. 03:31 I'm kidding, but you know it's like who would've 03:34 guessed God would open up where I get to talk to 03:37 addicts all over the world. 03:39 I am hoping that I'm talking to you, I hope you're 03:42 hearing me say that God has a plan, an individual 03:45 plan for your life. 03:47 Not for conformity that He want you to be like everybody 03:51 else in the body of Christ because you are you. 03:54 You were created so incredibly uniquely for Him and 03:57 for purpose that He said please wake up to that. 04:01 And as you wake up, He is not waking you up just to 04:04 behave, behaving is good so I'm not saying don't behave. 04:08 Behave is good but He saying I have a bigger plan than 04:12 that, I actually want to give you a life. 04:15 I want to transform everything about you so 04:17 that the people around you will actually 04:20 blessed by who you are. 04:21 Will actually step in and say man, I am so glad 04:25 you're in my life, when someone says that to me 04:28 I want to cry because that is not what most people 04:32 said to me most of my life. 04:33 So God says I have a plan to turn all that around 04:36 for you and it is just a matter of saying, 04:39 I'm done, I'm done. 04:41 And when somebody says what does that mean exactly? 04:44 I'm done, it's like a surrender. 04:45 If you see somebody that is in war and they surrender, 04:49 they throw out the white flag, I surrender. 04:51 I don't know what else to do, or how else 04:54 to do this on my own. 04:55 I need to come under authority to someone. 04:58 And Kerry did that with a lot men that came around 05:01 him, and people that came around him and loved on him. 05:04 So just throw up your white flag, find someone that 05:07 you can trust, and that is really tough for a lot 05:10 of us to find somebody that you can trust. 05:11 Hopefully a man or woman of God, if you are a man 05:14 find a man and if your woman find a woman just because 05:17 that is a huge issue, but find somebody you can trust 05:20 and step under authority and tell them I don't even 05:22 know how to speak right now. 05:24 So I'm going to ask you to start teaching me. 05:26 Start mentoring me, start walking me through that. 05:29 And as soon as you get some kind of spiritual legs 05:32 your older than 4 months old you can start doing some of 05:35 that kind of stuff. 05:36 God will step in an open up your life for you, 05:39 you have a destiny and God wants to reveal that 05:42 to you and He can't right now because you've got 05:45 all these addictions in your hand. 05:46 Surrender them, put you white flag out and trust Him. 05:49 Until I see you next time always remember that God is 05:52 crazy about you and we are too, absolutely beyond what 05:55 you can think of, God has a plan and trust that plan. 05:58 See you next time, God bless! |
Revised 2014-12-17