Having a deep, loving relationship with Christ is foundational for spiritual growth and navigating life's challenges. In this special real talk episode, DJ Focus and Dice Gamble discuss the importance of having Jesus Christ as one's first love. They also address the role of community and Christian hip-hop artists in faith, celebrating their contributions to the culture.
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[00:00:00] Real conversations from real, imperfect people in pursuit of a perfect God. Let's jump into today's Real Talk topic.
[00:00:09] Time to get real in these streets, Dice. And I'm excited because we get a chance to have these conversations about God and, you know, God's your first love.
[00:00:19] And when you threw this one in the chat, I was like, oh yeah, this is going to be good.
[00:00:24] I was thinking about all type of stories and everything I can put into this conversation and get people back to the cross.
[00:00:32] So, yeah, come on, let's get into it. This is going to be good.
[00:00:35] Our Real Talk conversation today, we're going to talk about it. Is Christ your first love?
[00:00:40] Is Christ your first love?
[00:00:43] So I was joking with you off air. I was like, you know, when you put this in there, the first thing I thought about was the old Slick Rick song, Teenage Love.
[00:00:50] Teenage Love.
[00:00:51] Don't hurt me again.
[00:00:52] Don't hurt me again.
[00:00:54] It's true. No, no. I mean, I love this topic for so many reasons. One, I love the Lord, period.
[00:01:01] So when I'm talking to people about how I feel about God or how fast I respond to God, how fast I forgive, and the people are like, yeah, no, I don't really work like that.
[00:01:13] It confuses me because I'm like, you know, the definition of first love is it's a feeling typically of romance, you know, just where this person is an object of your affection.
[00:01:24] You know, you're looking to them like they're the number one thing, number one place you go to for all your information, your confirmation.
[00:01:32] You know, like you just never forget them.
[00:01:36] They're always a part of your life.
[00:01:37] You know, like it don't matter if the first love leaves you like you always know and remember that first love.
[00:01:44] So it's typically a person you see who you can be with forever or you want to be with forever, but it just it affects you in a way you never forget.
[00:01:53] And so that's why I was like, this is a subject we need to talk about, because I truly believe the only way you fall back in sin is you forget who your first love is.
[00:02:05] Thanks.
[00:02:06] Oh, we know that's good.
[00:02:08] Yeah.
[00:02:09] Listen, you didn't open it up now.
[00:02:11] Come on.
[00:02:12] Let's talk about it because that is good when you when you talk about.
[00:02:15] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:02:16] If you forget who your first love is, you fall right into sin.
[00:02:19] I love that.
[00:02:21] And I think that a lot of people, you know, they don't they don't approach God as their first love to the level that I think they should.
[00:02:31] Like we say it, you know, Christ is the head of my life.
[00:02:33] And come on.
[00:02:34] Everybody know the Christianese, you know, Christ is the head of my life.
[00:02:36] He's the end of my life.
[00:02:38] But do you really show that?
[00:02:40] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:02:41] Do you show that?
[00:02:42] Do you wake up in the morning when you start your day?
[00:02:44] You brought this up last week when you were talking about a prayer.
[00:02:47] How you like you say, when you're soon as you, you know, roll out to bed for your feet in the ground.
[00:02:52] No, no, you're already starting to pray.
[00:02:53] You're already starting to make sure you talk to God saying, listen, thank you for waking me up another day.
[00:02:58] Without you waking me up another day, I can't make nothing happen.
[00:03:02] So that is real.
[00:03:04] People are not taking prayer seriously.
[00:03:06] That's why we talk about it all the time on the show, because, again, that gets you in direct relationship with your Lord and Savior.
[00:03:13] For him to talk to you, for him to speak to you, for him to do the things he needs to do.
[00:03:18] Do you think that people, you know, and I'm sorry, forgive me.
[00:03:22] I ain't gonna say people.
[00:03:23] Do you think believers?
[00:03:24] Do you think believers are?
[00:03:26] Yeah, because, yeah, well, listen, we talk about Christ.
[00:03:28] So if you don't love Christ, this conversation ain't for you today.
[00:03:31] We ain't gonna hold you.
[00:03:32] We talking about people who love Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
[00:03:36] Do you think we have gotten comfortable with just thinking we do things in our own doing?
[00:03:44] I just think you don't know love.
[00:03:47] You know, you're married focused.
[00:03:48] You've been married for like 25 years.
[00:03:50] I don't even know how long you've been married.
[00:03:51] I'm just guessing.
[00:03:51] 24, 24.
[00:03:53] Yeah, you're right.
[00:03:53] Right, right.
[00:03:54] But see, love is different from a spiritual, godly perspective than a worldly perspective.
[00:04:02] In the world, you can love a thing and walk away.
[00:04:05] You know, you can tell somebody, oh, girl, I love that dress.
[00:04:08] I mean, it's just thrown around.
[00:04:10] It's just a word that's thrown around.
[00:04:12] But godly love, and Jesus was very clear when he said it in Matthew 22, 37 through 38.
[00:04:19] Jesus had answered the question about the greatest commandment.
[00:04:22] What did he say?
[00:04:23] You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind.
[00:04:29] And this is the greatest and first commandment.
[00:04:33] Hang everything else, you know what I'm saying, on this right here.
[00:04:36] It's love.
[00:04:37] So it's like if you want to know Christ, you have to love God.
[00:04:42] Like that's number one.
[00:04:43] So, and I liken it to, it's so funny because my husband and I were talking about kids the other day.
[00:04:48] We were doing the Jada Jackson.
[00:04:50] What have you done for me lately?
[00:04:52] You know, he was like, no, girl, you ain't done nothing lately.
[00:04:55] He's like, well, you did just buy that car for Jada.
[00:04:57] I'm like, yeah, yeah.
[00:04:58] But it was funny.
[00:04:58] We were going back and forth about doing things.
[00:05:01] But we have a way of reminding each other, what did God say do?
[00:05:07] You know, and that's what love is.
[00:05:08] Because love is what?
[00:05:09] It's a commandment.
[00:05:11] Yes, it is.
[00:05:12] We do what God said to do first.
[00:05:14] So even with your relationship with your wife or your husband, your business, your job, your boss, your coworkers.
[00:05:21] When you're in front of them, it's like you put Jesus in the middle and then they're on the other side.
[00:05:27] And you're literally asking Christ, how do I love this person?
[00:05:30] What did you say?
[00:05:31] Like, that's it.
[00:05:32] And so when you learn to filter all of your emotions, all of your wants, actions, desires through Christ, that's when you become a lover.
[00:05:41] That's when you love Christ.
[00:05:43] That's when Jesus is your first love.
[00:05:45] Because Jesus is standing in front of you as the first thing.
[00:05:47] God, I see the business on the other side of you.
[00:05:49] How do I go about it?
[00:05:50] You know, and you go through Christ.
[00:05:52] God, I see the person I kind of I'm lusting after I feel attached to.
[00:05:55] How do I go about it?
[00:05:57] And you run everything through Christ.
[00:05:58] And so I'm like, if Jesus is your first love, you will not fall into sin.
[00:06:03] You just won't.
[00:06:04] But it's only when we put Christ to the side and we say, oh, I just want that.
[00:06:09] Oh, OK, just sit on over there.
[00:06:11] I'm going over here.
[00:06:12] That's that's when you fall into sin.
[00:06:15] So when we act like Jesus ain't save us or God, how did I get here?
[00:06:21] Or what is this, Lord?
[00:06:22] You need to ask yourself, did I did I ask God first?
[00:06:24] Did I ask God first before I bought the house?
[00:06:27] Did I ask God first before I started marrying the person?
[00:06:30] Did I ask God first before I got into business with my high school, you know, homeboy?
[00:06:34] Like, you got to ask yourself, like, did God really fail you?
[00:06:38] Or did you really love God before you took that thing?
[00:06:41] You know what I'm saying?
[00:06:42] And so that's why I'm like, I just think we have to fall in love with you.
[00:06:45] Shout out to all the singles.
[00:06:47] And I and I said this to my sisters and I still say this to all my sisters.
[00:06:52] If you single, I'm excited.
[00:06:55] It's so much easier to love God single.
[00:06:58] Oh, my.
[00:06:58] It's so much easier.
[00:07:00] It's just it's just easier because when you're with somebody, there is a distraction because you want to please them.
[00:07:06] That's just a natural thing.
[00:07:07] You know, when you get married, you're like you don't want to you don't want no beef in your house.
[00:07:11] You want it to be easy.
[00:07:12] You got kids.
[00:07:13] You want them to be happy.
[00:07:14] And these are all distractions.
[00:07:17] Let's be honest.
[00:07:17] They're blessings, but they're distractions in the same breath.
[00:07:20] So it's like when you're single, if I was single right now, focus.
[00:07:25] I swear.
[00:07:26] And I put this on my grandmother's grave.
[00:07:28] I would be in Cabos.
[00:07:30] I'd be on an island.
[00:07:31] I'd be in Fiji.
[00:07:32] It'd be me and Jesus.
[00:07:33] Me, my Bible, a nice little virgin daiquiri, a margarita.
[00:07:38] I'm out here praying for people, witnessing.
[00:07:41] I'm traveling.
[00:07:42] I'm on the plane.
[00:07:42] Like every time before I get on the plane, you know how you're coming down a little tunnel.
[00:07:45] I always put my hand on a plane on the right side and say a prayer.
[00:07:48] I always put myself in a position to insert faith, to insert God wherever I am.
[00:07:54] Like even those who know me, I have a whole nother job when I'm at work and I'm doing what I'm doing and I'm putting packages together.
[00:07:59] I pray.
[00:07:59] I pray over the package.
[00:08:01] I pray for the household and whatever I just put in the box.
[00:08:03] Like use your life to love, you know, and I'm trying to tell you, it always comes back.
[00:08:10] So when people don't have a prosperous life or they're not growing or they're like, God, I don't feel you love me.
[00:08:15] I don't feel like I'm getting blessed.
[00:08:16] I think it's because you're not loving God enough and you're totally forgetting that God is your first love.
[00:08:21] Jesus should be your first love.
[00:08:23] So if you're doing the thing that God asked you to do, that Christ commanded of us, you know, to go and to love on some folk, you would never feel alone.
[00:08:33] You'll never be depressed.
[00:08:34] You'll never have anxiety.
[00:08:36] You'll always be full of faith, full of power, full of confidence because you're like, no, I'm out here loving people.
[00:08:43] Are you crazy?
[00:08:44] You know, I'm for real.
[00:08:46] I'm serious.
[00:08:47] No, I'm for real.
[00:08:48] Like I met my husband and, you know, I travel and do music and things like that.
[00:08:53] And like people just give me the keys or the code to their garage or let me know what the house thing is.
[00:08:58] You know what I'm saying?
[00:08:59] And my husband asked me one time, why is that?
[00:09:02] And I said, I just been out here loving people, bro.
[00:09:04] Since I was 17 years old, loving on folk.
[00:09:07] And so now when I need anything, they just give without a price tag.
[00:09:12] You know what I'm saying?
[00:09:13] And that's how love works.
[00:09:15] And God knew that.
[00:09:16] That's why John 3, 16 says what?
[00:09:18] For God so loved the world that he gave.
[00:09:25] That's what we are called to do.
[00:09:27] We're called to love and to give.
[00:09:30] And that's why blessed are those who give because those who give, that thing come back.
[00:09:36] So it's like if we just follow the basics, we, hey, remember your first love.
[00:09:42] That's what I'm saying.
[00:09:43] Like this, this thing gets easy.
[00:09:46] So yeah, it'll get easy.
[00:09:47] But listen, listen, that's real good.
[00:09:49] We're going to pick up on that giving part when we come back.
[00:09:52] Listen, don't touch that dial.
[00:09:53] We're going to a break.
[00:09:54] No, no, no.
[00:09:54] Because you said something right there.
[00:09:55] Because that's a whole thing.
[00:09:57] Like you say, love and give.
[00:09:59] They don't want to give.
[00:10:00] No, no.
[00:10:00] They don't want to give.
[00:10:01] Let's talk about that giving part because that's a sacrifice.
[00:10:04] Listen, we in the middle of this Real Talk conversation.
[00:10:05] And we're just talking about it today.
[00:10:07] Is Christ your first love?
[00:10:08] Is he for real?
[00:10:09] You know, y'all sure?
[00:10:10] I don't know.
[00:10:11] Some of y'all might not be, you know, really sure if he's your first love.
[00:10:14] And before we went to break, Dice, you were bringing up the point of giving, the importance
[00:10:20] of giving, understanding how to sacrifice.
[00:10:23] And giving is a sacrifice.
[00:10:25] And it's a way that you show God that you love him.
[00:10:30] We talk about the giving to the church in the storehouse or giving to, you know, nonprofits
[00:10:36] or, you know, organizations and just sowing into them.
[00:10:40] The importance of that is not only to be blessed by God.
[00:10:44] We know it's a system.
[00:10:45] You know what I'm saying?
[00:10:46] You sow.
[00:10:46] And of course, you know, when you sow, it multiplies.
[00:10:49] But also, I really believe it shows God that you love him and you trust in him and you want
[00:10:54] to show him off.
[00:10:55] I know I was looking at, I pulled up the scripture, John 15, 13, where it just talks about, you
[00:11:01] know, there's no greater love than, of course, the love that Christ laid down for us on the
[00:11:08] cross.
[00:11:08] So just think about it.
[00:11:09] We have a Lord and Savior who sacrificed his life, a perfect, perfect king.
[00:11:15] Let's be very clear.
[00:11:16] Who was sitting up in heaven, who came down here, walked the earth to show us how to navigate,
[00:11:21] be able to walk through this world.
[00:11:24] And literally, he didn't have to go through this, but he loved us that much.
[00:11:27] But we don't want to show that same love back because we're selfish.
[00:11:32] At times, I even had to check myself sometimes, Dice.
[00:11:34] I'd be like, no, that's more my ambition than it is Christ's ambition.
[00:11:39] I don't really think God want me to move that way.
[00:11:41] I don't really think I should do that.
[00:11:42] And then sometimes I miss the mark.
[00:11:44] And listen, I ain't going to act like I'm perfect.
[00:11:46] And when I do, though, I'm wanting to go back and I apologize to God first.
[00:11:50] I say, yeah, I miss the mark on that God.
[00:11:52] Forgive me.
[00:11:53] Continue to get me better.
[00:11:55] No, no, we got to be real.
[00:11:56] That's the other thing.
[00:11:57] When you talk about people not understanding God love and how to love God properly, it's because
[00:12:02] they're not being in tune with themselves.
[00:12:04] They're not being honest with themselves.
[00:12:05] This transformation process or the sanctification process is a day-to-day process, walking in
[00:12:11] God's love, being transformed by God.
[00:12:13] But again, you can't do these things if you don't sacrifice.
[00:12:17] So sacrifice, understanding giving, whether it be your time, your treasure, giving is very
[00:12:24] much high on understanding how to love God and keep God as your first love.
[00:12:29] I'll say this.
[00:12:31] Those are all very good points.
[00:12:33] And I absolutely agree with all of them.
[00:12:35] When you realize whatever you have got to give you back.
[00:12:40] This is how you know a mature Christian versus an immature Christian.
[00:12:44] Seriously.
[00:12:45] That's good.
[00:12:45] Because that's good.
[00:12:46] Everything we have on the planet comes from God.
[00:12:49] So it's like, if you give it, it comes back, especially when he knows you gave it from
[00:12:54] a pure place because that's what God is checking.
[00:12:57] That's why, you know, this is how you know people.
[00:12:59] Honestly, your checkbook, tell me everything about you.
[00:13:02] How fast you will give me money or tell me everything about you.
[00:13:05] How fast you'll sow into a church or community or a cause or tell me everything about you.
[00:13:10] Like what you spend your money on, tell me everything about you.
[00:13:13] Why?
[00:13:13] Because your money is attached to your heart.
[00:13:15] And that's it.
[00:13:16] So that's why the Bible is very clear about, hey, these are some different ways that you
[00:13:21] can give, you know, from giving the tithe, the offering, the first fruit, like going above
[00:13:26] and beyond, giving from your overflow.
[00:13:28] You can tell when a person trusts God and God is active in their life because God continually
[00:13:33] gives back and pours back into them.
[00:13:36] Like it's so they have no fear of giving because they're like, Lord, I can give you this whole
[00:13:41] house if somebody wanted it and you told me to give it because I know you'll just give
[00:13:46] me another house next week.
[00:13:47] That is the power of having a relationship, a prayerful relationship and definitely one
[00:13:52] of trust with God.
[00:13:54] Faith, when you faith build with God and you walk with God, God just gives.
[00:13:59] That's just what he does.
[00:14:00] So that's why I'm like, I can't count how many times in life the Lord has told us to give.
[00:14:06] And as soon as my husband told me, hey, he can confirm it.
[00:14:09] We just give it.
[00:14:09] We don't even think about, ooh, Lord, that was $2,500.
[00:14:12] It's like, no, it don't matter because obviously I'm about to get five G's next week from somewhere
[00:14:17] and like clockwork, it just happens.
[00:14:19] Or more, or more.
[00:14:20] Or more.
[00:14:20] Yeah, it just happens.
[00:14:22] And it's so funny because even now, that's why I'm like, man, God, if we have to give
[00:14:25] this, you know, and I say have to, but if we get to give this certain amount or whatever,
[00:14:31] the Lord always doubles it or triples it like he's saying focus.
[00:14:34] And that's why I'm saying like when you get there, then you're walking in faith, you know,
[00:14:39] because one, it's just the principle, right?
[00:14:42] And we're talking about love, but love is an action word.
[00:14:45] And the whole love is Jesus.
[00:14:46] Your first love means what?
[00:14:48] I am following the commandments.
[00:14:50] I am responding to what you've already asked me to do.
[00:14:53] You asked me to love my neighbor as myself.
[00:14:56] You know what I'm saying?
[00:14:57] Like, so you need me to love me.
[00:14:59] You need me to love my neighbor.
[00:15:00] You need me to give.
[00:15:02] You know, you need me to take care of the homeless and the widows.
[00:15:05] I'm out here doing it.
[00:15:06] You need me to go.
[00:15:07] Okay.
[00:15:07] I'm here.
[00:15:08] That's the way we show our love to Christ.
[00:15:10] Like this is, this is not a, it's not about your emotions.
[00:15:13] Like for those of you who are married, there's no scripture in the Bible that says you'll be
[00:15:16] happy married.
[00:15:17] It doesn't exist.
[00:15:19] It don't exist in the real world and it doesn't exist in the Bible.
[00:15:22] It's like your happiness and your joy will come in there when you guys are having fun and
[00:15:27] living life together and getting those moments, but there's no guarantee.
[00:15:31] You just make 10 people mad.
[00:15:31] You just make 10 people mad.
[00:15:32] Yeah.
[00:15:33] Don't get married to be happy.
[00:15:34] Don't get married to be happy.
[00:15:35] I'll say it again.
[00:15:36] Don't get married to be happy.
[00:15:37] Don't get married to be happy.
[00:15:39] That is not what marriage is about.
[00:15:40] Marriage is about a God thing, whatever God wants to do between you and your boo.
[00:15:45] And it doesn't mean y'all going to be happy.
[00:15:47] That's the facts.
[00:15:48] If you get somebody that you're happy with, praise God.
[00:15:51] But I know a lot of people who are very successful with ministry, very successful in business.
[00:15:57] They're on the God path, but guess what?
[00:15:59] They didn't have the happiest marriage.
[00:16:02] Does it mean that God don't love them?
[00:16:03] No.
[00:16:04] God purposed them.
[00:16:05] That's what I'm saying.
[00:16:06] Like when you get there and you understand God, God gets to do whatever God wants to do
[00:16:10] on this earth.
[00:16:11] When you get there and you start to trust God and trust means, God, I love you so much.
[00:16:16] I'm going to trust what you tell me to do.
[00:16:18] When you get there, you're like, okay, you'll understand how well you're cared for, how well
[00:16:23] you have been given grace, how well you get to, you know, walk in your community and have
[00:16:30] the things you have.
[00:16:31] And it's just, it's just God continues to love you even more and love you in different
[00:16:35] ways.
[00:16:36] Like I'll put it like this for people who have gotten married before, you know, this
[00:16:42] like before you got married, you thought you had it all together.
[00:16:44] You thought maybe you was even helping the person you was about to marry and then you get
[00:16:48] married and you realize, Ooh God, I didn't know I was empty in that area.
[00:16:51] I didn't know I needed this.
[00:16:53] Yeah.
[00:16:53] I didn't know I needed to grow in that area.
[00:16:55] And it's like, God just starts to reveal to you.
[00:16:57] Yeah.
[00:16:57] You thought you was coming up in here with all, you know, it all.
[00:17:00] And you had no idea.
[00:17:01] I was trying to show you who you were and groom you and make you a better person for
[00:17:07] the cause.
[00:17:08] So it's like, yeah, yeah.
[00:17:09] God, God loves us that way that man, he, he will, uh, he'll take care of you, you know,
[00:17:15] but there's this thing called tough love.
[00:17:17] And I know we got to wrap this up.
[00:17:18] You know what I'm saying?
[00:17:19] Like when you're growing up, you're like, man, why didn't I have the perfect life or the
[00:17:23] perfect this?
[00:17:23] Because you have your life the exact way you're supposed to have your life for the exact
[00:17:28] reason.
[00:17:28] God needs you to have that life for the exact purpose you're called to.
[00:17:31] That's it.
[00:17:32] And when you realize God loves you that much, he trusts you that much that you're going to
[00:17:37] use your experience to go love on some other people.
[00:17:40] You will respect your life a lot more.
[00:17:42] You'll go back and be like, God, I thank you.
[00:17:44] I thank you that it wasn't perfect.
[00:17:45] I thank you that it didn't look the way I wanted it to.
[00:17:48] It didn't look like TV life.
[00:17:49] Thank you, God, that I know what would not what eating rice looks like, what sleeping
[00:17:53] on the floor looks like, what having my lights cut off looks like, what having people die
[00:17:57] and get shot and attacked by dogs in my life looks.
[00:18:00] Thank you, God, that I've had loss in my life, you know, that I can now go minister and love
[00:18:06] people differently.
[00:18:08] So that's what I'm saying.
[00:18:09] Your first love needs to be God.
[00:18:11] It needs to be Christ.
[00:18:12] Jesus is who you trust, who you lean into, who you love on and who you hear from.
[00:18:17] And that that should be your first love before anything else, because God, he's not going
[00:18:22] to leave you alone.
[00:18:22] You know what I'm saying?
[00:18:23] He's not going to he's not going to send you the wrong direction.
[00:18:26] So, yeah, we need to remember who our first love is.
[00:18:30] And if we do that, life will be grand.
[00:18:33] I'm trying to tell you life and trust the process, trust the process, the process.
[00:18:38] It is a process, especially through the trials.
[00:18:40] I know that's when usually, you know, we start questioning love when, you know, when we
[00:18:43] go through trying times, listen, be steadfast.
[00:18:47] And trust that God is in control.
[00:18:50] Now, listen, despite everything you're going through, our God is not one who wavers.
[00:18:55] Let's be very clear.
[00:18:56] He's not.
[00:18:57] Let me give him some Bible.
[00:18:59] I mean, oh, my goodness.
[00:19:01] Go ahead.
[00:19:03] Yeah.
[00:19:03] Yeah.
[00:19:03] Forgive me.
[00:19:04] That's my daughter.
[00:19:05] I call you my daughter.
[00:19:06] Lord, have me.
[00:19:07] Yeah.
[00:19:07] I call you my baby.
[00:19:08] Listen, Diamond, if you listen to this word must be for you.
[00:19:11] Yeah.
[00:19:11] This word is for you.
[00:19:12] You are my spirit.
[00:19:13] Yeah.
[00:19:14] I'm over with dice, but Diamond is my daughter.
[00:19:16] So don't y'all get no ideas.
[00:19:18] That's good.
[00:19:19] That's the baby.
[00:19:19] Yeah.
[00:19:20] Go ahead.
[00:19:20] That's my baby.
[00:19:21] So yeah.
[00:19:21] Romans 835.
[00:19:24] Romans 835.
[00:19:25] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
[00:19:27] Shall trouble or hardships or persecutions or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?
[00:19:32] Knowing all these things, we are more than conquerors to him who loved us.
[00:19:36] For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angel nor demons, neither the present
[00:19:42] nor the future nor the powers nor the height nor the depth nor anything else in all creation
[00:19:47] will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[00:19:52] So I just wanted to leave y'all with that because y'all need, we all need to understand
[00:19:57] we're going to go through trials.
[00:19:58] We're going to go through different situations, but trust the process.
[00:20:01] God still loves us through it.
[00:20:03] God is going to get us through it.
[00:20:05] We need to lean on Christ's love.
[00:20:07] There you go.
[00:20:08] To give us the strength to get through it.
[00:20:09] So I just wanted to leave y'all with that.
[00:20:11] Listen, that's that real, real.
[00:20:13] Shouts out to everybody who think Christian hip-hop is dead.
[00:20:15] Every time y'all say that, yeah, you get reminded.
[00:20:18] No big deal.
[00:20:20] There's another artist who remind you.
[00:20:21] No, no.
[00:20:22] We can still preach the gospel, but also still, you know, make it sonically good and talk
[00:20:26] about the culture and be transparent in it and everything and high, high production.
[00:20:30] So I'm excited for Dilly.
[00:20:32] We know he finally got a new project he about to drop real soon.
[00:20:34] Yeah, he's so dope.
[00:20:36] I mean, I'm just proud of him.
[00:20:38] I mean, he's just standard setting, you know, and I love that.
[00:20:41] And he wasn't the only person who submitted their really good tiny desk.
[00:20:47] It was Christina from Bridgewater.
[00:20:51] Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:20:52] He did hers.
[00:20:53] Hers is fire.
[00:20:54] So this is what I'm saying about our space is our artists are starting to take themselves seriously.
[00:21:00] Seriously, I'm going to practice.
[00:21:02] I'm going to get my background singers together.
[00:21:03] I'm going to get my live band together.
[00:21:05] We're going to actually, you know, I'm going to MD, whatever.
[00:21:08] So I'm just, I'm just proud of the genre for doing what they do.
[00:21:11] They just realized ain't nobody better than me.
[00:21:13] You know, like we all the same.
[00:21:15] It's just, it's going to take my effort, you know, to show up and get the opportunity, you know, see if God want to bless myself.
[00:21:22] Anyway, yeah, go, go, go.
[00:21:24] As always, remember to stay focused on turning your negative into a positive.
[00:21:27] Jesus Christ is always the answer.
[00:21:30] Kingdom advancement should always be the goal.
[00:21:32] The fix is in.
[00:21:33] We out.
[00:21:34] Peace, y'all.
[00:21:35] Peace.