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Donnie McClurkin: Finding Your God-Given Purpose | Praise

October 2, 2025 | 57:0

Gospel legend Donnie McClurkin debuts his final album, "Finally," featuring a powerful lineup of songs that resonate with the heart and soul. With a focus on bringing Gospel back to its roots, Donnie collaborates with iconic artists, culminating in a show-stopping performance of "Place in This World" with CCM star Michael W. Smith. As the journey unfolds, listeners are taken on a transformative, emotional ride through the power of music and faith, showcasing the enduring impact of standing strong in the face of adversity.

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Praise | Donnie McClurkin: Finding Your God-Given Purpose | Praise | October 2, 2025

Coming up tonight on praise...
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You don't understand what destiny can happen in
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One moment's time.
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Thank you lord.
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If you're in the right place, following god at the right
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Time, your destiny can be in a moment.
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Had we not gone to that concert,
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It's a wonder in my soul.
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Had we not gone to that concert,
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I would have missed a moment.
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♪♪
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Tonight on praise from nashville, multi award winning
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Gospel singer and pastor, donnie mcclurkin.
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And now your hosts, matt and laurie crouch.
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Welcome to nashville, tennessee.
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We are going to spend one hour
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With gospel music legend donnie mcclurkin.
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And in addition, we're going to spend it right here in the
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Middle of what it takes to actually create music.
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We're right here.
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I see all these different instruments.
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Yeah. um, donnie, you play piano?
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Yeah.
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Yes, i do. okay.
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You play-- do you play the drums?
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Uh, no, i play the congas.
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Play congas.
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Do you play the organ? i-- no.
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Okay. you play guitar?
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Not at all. bass?
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Not at all.
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Okay. violin, flute? none of those things.
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No trombone.
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Spoons? yeah, i can do spoons.
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Okay, so you are basically keyboardist?
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Yeah. yes.
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Do you write your music on keyboard?
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Yes. okay.
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Yeah, i sit down.
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I'll be asleep and a song will come in my dream.
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Oh. 2 or 3:00 in the morning,
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I'll run downstairs and play it and send it to the producers.
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And they make it come alive.
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Do you record it on your phone?
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Yes. if you looked at my phone right now, there's like 170
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Some odd different half of songs that were written.
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Explain to the audience why i'm looking at you and saying this.
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Finally! what do i mean by that?
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What you mean by that, brother, is this project that we're
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Working on is my last recording. mhm.
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I've done about maybe seven recordings so far and there
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Comes a time every good thing must come to an end.
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And so this is going to be my final recording.
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I'm going to still do concerts
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And i'll still sing a little bit.
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But as far as the industry is concerned, this is where i hang
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Up my hat.
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Or like pop said, this hat gettin' time.
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You get your hat
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And you go and it's it's, it's sentimental.
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It's very sentimental to me because i've, i've run the
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Gambit in the music industry, and there's nothing to do now
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But to compete with yourself.
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And when you get to that point where you're just competing
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With yourself, it's time to go on to the next thing that god
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Calls you to do. got it.
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And sit back and look at the history of what you've
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Already accomplished.
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Your new album, finally-- yes.
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Has a subtitle that you're going to need to explain.
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Yeah.
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So the subtitle is bringing gospel back to gospel music.
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Yes.
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Okay. what do you mean by that?
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All right. you ready? yep.
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You know, gospel music had
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Its foundation as a christ-centered music.
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It is all about jesus.
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It's all about the relationship with him.
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God with man, man with god, and the man with each other through
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Christ's example.
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And we lost it somewhere along the way.
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We've kind of muddied it up, and we've made it an
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Entertainment form.
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We've made it inspirational.
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And there's nothing wrong with inspirational music, but we've
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Kind of veered to the left and it's positive music with a
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Little spiritual backdrop.
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And we've forgotten in many different ways the christ-
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Centeredness that's needed in order for this music to carry
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The power of salvation, you know.
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And so this is just my attempt at bringing us back to the
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Center and bringing an eclectic array of gospel music that
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Represents true gospel.
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And if i be lifted up, i will draw
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All men unto myself. and that's what we've got to do.
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We've got to take the attention off of us as the artists and
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Put it on christ as the foundation of all that we do.
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You know, what's interesting
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About what you're explaining is concerts
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Over the years have taken a few bad p.r. hits.
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You know, i remember having a conversation in this
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Very spot with bill and gloria gaither.
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And, you know, a lot of people in the 70s thought they had
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Gone the way of the world when they started charging ticket
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Prices and all this kind of stuff.
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And they just had a way that they wanted to do it.
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It's kind of worked out okay for bill and gloria gaither.
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They're doing okay. i'd say so.
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They're going to be okay, donnie, in case you're worried.
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And so it feels, though, that you've explained something
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That if you lift him up in a
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Song, he will draw all men unto himself.
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It's not even our responsibility.
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We have the same calling at tbn that you've been a part of now
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For 30 years.
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Uh, good lord, donnie, we were the kids.
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We all of a sudden we, you know, we turned around and
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We're the old guys, you know, gray hair and no hair
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All of a sudden. look at that.
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Wow. wow. he said he
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Didn't have hair because he's never been married.
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Yes.
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And i'm thinking maybe that would be the opposite.
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So donnie "finally" is, you know, odd, bittersweet kind of
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To us listeners, you know, but here we are, the calling of tbn
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To lift jesus up, the calling of donnie to go into music,
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Lift him up inside of song.
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We're coming together.
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That's what this program is about.
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This entire special that we're creating.
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We want to get to know a little bit about what this music is.
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If you give me an example of a song you wrote, one that you
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Really like, one that you're going to perform, right here.
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I want to know how you picked the music
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For this album?
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It's really, um, without sounding mystical,
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It picks you. okay.
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It really picks you.
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I was singing one of the songs.
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I was sitting in the service and the preacher was preaching.
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Okay.
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And i zoned out.
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I don't know what that message was to this day.
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No offense, pastor winans.
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I don't know what that message was to this day.
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And i just heard, [singing] you said
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You'd never leave, and i believe...
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That you would stay...
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You said you'd never leave...
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And i believe you won't go away...
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I believe,
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I believe, yes, i believe...
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You never walk away...
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You never will...
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When i went astray,
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You loved me still...
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You won't forsake me...
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You'll never leave me all alone...
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That was the whole song.
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I sat there and i cried.
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And i guess the preacher thought i was really touched
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By his message. glory to god.
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And that's how the song came about.
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And then i heard all the harmonies in my head.
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I heard four part harmonies in my head, and i had to get to my
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Piano when i got home and put it all together and didn't know
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What i was going to do with it, because it didn't sound
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Like it was gospel.
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It didn't sound gospel.
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And then the lord had to show me.
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There is a romantic side to the gospel where god romances us
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And god gives us the assurance, i'm not leaving you.
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I'm never going to leave you alone by yourself.
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I'm with you through the good times, the bad times, the hard
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Times, the happy times.
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I watch you while you sleep.
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I'll watch you and i touch you in the morning to wake you up.
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I'm never going to leave you.
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And that's where that song birthed from.
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So that song's got a real
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Special meaning to me, you know?
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Then there's another song that i wrote,
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And i drove my producers crazy just about four days ago
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Because we got all the songs.
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And then i called trent and said, i got another song.
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And he's like, nah, man.
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Nah, man. come on.
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And it was just [sings] he is the mighty god...
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He is the mighty god...
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Dum da dum...
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Bless his name...
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He is the mighty god...
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Boom boom boom...
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Jesus is his name...
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♪ you're a mighty god we serve ♪
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♪ nobody like jesus ♪
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♪ what a mighty god we serve ♪
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♪ angels bow before him ♪
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♪ heaven and earth adore him ♪
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♪ what a mighty god we serve ♪
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And we go on to different, different forms of that.
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And i told him, just put a brazilian kind of beat to it.
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Afro, afrocentric, brazilian kind of beat to it.
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And they make the songs come alive.
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And i sit back and i'm like, this is how i heard it.
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And it's amazing how they can take the idea and, and put
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Horns to it and put strings to it and put the whole rhythm
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Section to it.
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We've got tré corley and trent phillips as the producers, and
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I am more excited about this than i've ever been about any
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Project that i wrote, because the songs are coming alive.
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If you just tuned in, we are in nashville.
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Welcome to nashville, tennessee. we're in
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Hendersonville and this entire studio is rockin.
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And we are finally, right?
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Finally, finally.
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We're finally bringing gospel back to gospel music.
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Okay, that's a pretty, uh,
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Straightforward statement, donnie.
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Not you're not mincing any words here.
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It's kind of indicting.
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Okay. it's kind of indicting.
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Um, and this is not throwing
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Any shade on any of the gospel artists.
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I'm just who i am.
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I am an old codger. i am--
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Now we're getting somewhere.
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Oh, yeah. man, listen-- here we go.
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I'm sitting here right now saying, is there a pillow i can
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Put under me?
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Um, i'm an old guy.
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I was born and raised in church.
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I've been saved since 1969 at nine years old.
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Uh, this is all i know is the christ centeredness that goes
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Along with singing about jesus.
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The hymns, the congregational songs that you couldn't find in
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The hymn books, the way that we presented jesus that
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Made people that were drunk come off the streets, that made
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Addicts come in.
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They could hear the music through the windows, and they
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Would come in and they're intoxicated or drunk state or
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High state, come up and give their lives to jesus christ.
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And before you know it,
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They're conversion converted other people.
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The music drew them.
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We would go outside and do street services.
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We would go to in amityville, new york-- amityville horror.
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I was born and raised in amityville, and in amityville
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There was an intersection,
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Great neck road and albany avenue.
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That's where all the druggies and all the drunks and all the
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Derelicts hung out.
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And we, i was 18 years old, and we
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Would borrow money to get a
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P.a. system as small as it was, run an extension cord and pay
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Somebody $50 to run an extension cord into the house
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To plug up all the equipment
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And do street services on the corner with all the druggies
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And the drunks and the derelicts.
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Stop traffic.
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We would stop--
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I wasn't preaching nothing.
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You know, my thing is, god so loved the world.
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Amen in jesus. it was--
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I was a nerd and it was how we all started.
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But that gospel drew people in
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By the hundreds on a street corner.
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And we would do this every summer.
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Beautiful. this music has been a part of your life for
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All these years.
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Give us the origin story of donnie mcclurkin and music.
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So you, you know,
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You know, some kids want to be a fireman or spaceman or, you
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Know, police officer or something like that.
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And then something happens somewhere along the line.
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When did you turn into donnie mcclurkin, the music guy?
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The multiple grammy award winner,
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The multiple dove,
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Multiple, multiple everything.
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It's pretty impressive when you're 65 and you've been in
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The music business for 62 years.
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That's what's impressive to me, you know?
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And it started with my mother. okay.
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My mother was a piano player,
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And she was very, very religious.
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And she taught us how to sing.
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Me and my two older sisters,
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Uh, before there were ten.
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My mom had ten pregnancies, and eight of us lived.
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And i'm the top three.
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And me and my two older sisters, we were always
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In the living room.
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She taught us harmony.
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And i was three years old, and they put me on a table at
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Church, on the communion table and stood me up, and we sang,
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♪ i had a talk with god last night ♪
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I love it.
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♪ he told me that everything is all right ♪
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That was my first solo, three years old and
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Nothing much happened after that.
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She taught us harmonies.
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She taught us little things to play on the piano.
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But then in 1969,
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I was saved.
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A little small storefront church,
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Amityville gospel tabernacle.
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And my mother introduced me to an album called andre crouch
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And the disciples.
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Heyo. yep.
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Andre crouch and the disciples.
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Um, i think the album was called through it all.
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Yep. and when i heard it,
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We had, you know, hi-fi.
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We had the big little tower speakers.
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I would put the tower speakers facing each other, and i would
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Lay back on the floor with my head in between the two of
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Them, and be in a full concert.
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Did you do the eight tracks? that's before--
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I can tell you when those eight tracks skip to
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The next song right in the middle of the song.
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I can tell you when.
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But see, remember i was before eight tracks. i was, i was at
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33.5 and 45, and i was laying there at nine years old and
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Just listen, and a song came on called i'm coming home.
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It was the last song on the second side, and there was a
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Young girl by the name of tramaine davis at the time.
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Yeah.
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Tramaine davis, and she was 17
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And she's saying, i'm coming home, dear lord, i'm coming
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Home, dear lord...
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And tramaine said, i'm sorry we ain't stayed away so long...
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Sorry i stayed away so long...
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And i would just cry.
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I'm nine years old. just laying there crying.
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And my mother would come see that
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I totally reconfigured
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The speakers and before she would fuss, she
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Would see me crying and leave me laying there.
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She wouldn't disturb me.
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And that's how my music thing started happening.
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I would hear the harmonies.
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I'm laying on my back, listening, hearing the
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Harmonies, not knowing what to do with it because i was nine,
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But it just started taking over. that was nine.
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Two years later, october of 1971--
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I can't do this. god, i can't do this.
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I'm 11 years old and my mother
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Takes us to church in jamaica, queens.
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Andre crouch is there.
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He's driven in a van across country doing different states
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Across country,
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And he's at the church.
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So i'm going to andre's concert.
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I sit on the front row at bethel gospel tabernacle.
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I sit on the front row and this lady sits next to me.
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It's sandra. i don't know sandra.
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All i know is andre.
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Well, they looked identical.
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So identical twins.
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And i looked at her
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And she had on a wig.
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Well, i don't know if it's a wig, but her hair was done.
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She had a makeup and i looked at her and said,
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You're not saved.
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That's the first thing i said to her.
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She said, oh yeah, i'm saved.
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I said, no because you got on makeup and pants,
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Because that's where we come from.
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Sure.
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And they sang and i sang every song.
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And all of my friends are wondering about the change...
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I'm just singing everything.
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And then the concert ended.
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He went into the pastor's office, and i said, mommy, he
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Went into the pastor's office. can i just say something?
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She said, no, you got to go to school tomorrow.
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You have to go to school tomorrow.
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And i said, oh, no, i promise
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I'm going to go, like i had a choice.
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I promise i'm going to go.
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And she saw something and she said, okay, but just a few
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Minutes and they turn all the lights off in the church except
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For the one light over the pulpit.
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And i'm sitting at the pastor's door.
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The door opens and andre comes out with the pastor's son.
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And he says-- i'm going to try not to cry.
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He says, hey, little guy, uh, what are you doing here?
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I said, i'm waiting for you.
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He said, what's your name? said donnie.
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He said, my name is andre. i said, i know.
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And he does not go into the music.
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He goes straight into evangelism.
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Are you born again? he's talking to an 11 year old.
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Are you? i said yes.
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He said i was born again at nine years old.
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I said, me too.
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He said, well, do you sing? do you play?
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I said, no.
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He said, i didn't sing a play until i was 11.
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And my father laid his hands on me and prayed.
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I said, i'm 11.
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I said, but my father can't pray for me because he's not
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Born again.
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And andre said, do you mind if i pray for you?
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He's talking to an 11 year old.
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And he laid his hand on my head, and he prayed this prayer
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And said, god, give him what you gave to me. patted my face
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And walked away.
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And that's where the music was infused in me.
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On that october day in 1971.
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And then i would watch television and the music
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Would come to me.
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I'd be watching mary tyler moore and sit down and play
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The theme song.
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I would watch the sitcoms and play the theme song.
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It would just come to me.
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And god just started to grow this thing in me.
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Based on that one encounter with andre. and pastor winans
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Always taught this,
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He said, if the anointing is genuine, it's two things.
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It's tangible and transferrable.
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If it's genuine, it's tangible and it's transferable.
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He transferred what god gave to
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Him, just like elijah did with elisha.
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Just like elijah did with elisha.
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He transferred that in one moment.
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You don't understand what destiny can happen in one
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Moment's time. thank you lord.
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If you're in the right place, following god at the right
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Time, your destiny can be in a moment.
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Hmm. and my destiny was in that.
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Had we not gone to that concert,
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It's a wonder in my soul.
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Had we not gone to that concert,
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I would have missed the moment.
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I would have missed an opportunity.
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But because of that, i've circled the globe
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Because of my encounter with andre.
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And what was, um, iconic at first became a
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Friendship, and then it became family until the point of him
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Going to heaven.
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I was one of the last ones he saw going to heaven.
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Hmm.
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What if this moment is a transferable moment?
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What if you, andre, had to do it one on one?
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What if you're capable of doing
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One to many that are viewing tonight?
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Donnie, you're of the age, that transferable--
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Look into the camera and tell them anybody anything that's on
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Your heart right now.
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Well, even before i do that,
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This whole thing that we're doing, this whole recording,
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There are 28 people from different cities and states
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That are coming in to be a part of the choir.
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Most of them have never met before.
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Oh my goodness. never met them.
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I put out an apb and said, you know, this is my last thing.
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And i prayed over the ones to
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Choose that sent in their videos.
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I prayed over them and chose them based on the holy spirit,
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Because there's an impartation that they're going to receive
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From this.
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There is a passing on of the baton.
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There is that transference.
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And these people i really prayed over, and god gave them
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To be a part of this as a finality.
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And then they're going to have to take it from there and go
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Into their destiny with it.
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But to anyone that's watching, you know, literally as i sit
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Here, i am a byproduct of an anointing that was on
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Somebody for me.
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The anointing was on andre, but it wasn't for andre.
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The anointing was on him to transfer it to me.
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If you are anointed at all, it's not for you.
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It's for someone else.
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For that, anointing destroys yokes.
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It literally empowers you
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And gives you preparation for your destiny.
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And i speak to every one of you tonight, every one of you that
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Are watching, no matter what time of day it is, this
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Anointing that is on your life is for somebody else,
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Just like what's on me right now is for those of you that
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Will attach it.
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We used to say in our church, put a demand on the anointing.
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When you're sitting with someone who's carrying the
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Anointing, make a demand just like elisha did with elijah.
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And elijah said, stay here while i go to gilgal.
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And elisha said, as god lives and as my soul lives, i will
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Not leave you, because you've got what i need.
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And that's what this anointing is all about.
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And i pray that the transfer would be true and genuine, and
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That you would walk under the power of the anointing of god
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For somebody else that you're
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Going to encounter in jesus' name.
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Beautiful. what do you believe can
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Happen while people are watching this special
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During this music?
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What kind of things can god do in the lives of people during
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This broadcast?
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The same thing that he did for me.
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But this in this era, he uses all of the technology that you
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All have gained and amassed.
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He uses the technology and the
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Power of god is so sweet and so beautiful.
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It goes through the airwaves and the same potency as it
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Would be in face to face and in person,
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It is the same power and potency that they can
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Receive and do receive by turning on their television,
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Turning on their device and watching it.
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That is the greatness of our god.
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The greatness of god is
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He is not bound by distance and he's not bound because of
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Technological, technological situations.
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He rides the airwaves, he rides on the airwaves, and he meets
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You right where you are.
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And that's the reason why everybody turns the television
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On so that they can receive this thing.
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So when they see this and hear the music and the power of god
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Moves, they will be impacted to the same degree as everyone
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That sits and hears it in person.
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What is it about music that just moves us so much?
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I mean, i was raised
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Not much differently than you were. my dad,
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Tramaine hawkins-- was a music guy.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And andre, i mean, we went every time the disciples, andre
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And the disciples would come to tucson or phoenix,
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My dad, we would go and we had every every cassette, every
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Eight track, everything.
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And my dad loved that music, you know, and he was
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Such a bridge, you know, and it was just so beautiful.
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But god has always used music for me personally.
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It moves me like hardly anything.
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She's a beautiful piano player, by the way.
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No one knows that.
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But she literally is a beautiful piano player.
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All this time knowing you
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And this is the first time i'm hearing.
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Beautiful piano player. he's my husband.
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He loves everything i do. honestly.
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But, um--
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Well, you play the piano. you don't even cook, so--
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I mean, you don't cook at all,
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So it's not like you don't cook good.
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You don't. you literally
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Don't cook.
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But it's such a beautiful-- and, you know, just to sit and
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Listen to music and listen to worship takes my my soul and my
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Heart and my thoughts, renews my mind.
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It's healing.
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It's all of that.
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It's such a beautiful gift from god.
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There's a quote from a poet, said music soothes
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The savage breast.
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Music has a way of
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Breaching every barrier.
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Music has a way of sinking deep into the heart of the most
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Hardened heart.
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Music causes arguments to cease.
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Music causes disputes to end.
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Music is so divine.
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I heard from god one year and the lord gave me a revelation.
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He said, if jesus sat down at a piano, he would play better
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Than any musician that ever played.
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If he stood behind a microphone
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And sang, he would outsing cc winans
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And i said that cece. i meant what i said.
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And and-- and that's good.
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And that is, that is the power of music.
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That's the reason why the enemy tries to utilize music to
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Corrupt the people, because music sinks into the heart of
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People, and the music that we have is not soul music,
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It's spirit music.
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It deals with the spirit of a
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Man and gives him god consciousness.
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When i can go to an award show, a secular award show, and be
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The only gospel artist on the award show, and every artist
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Gets up with all of their flailings and with all their
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Different ideologies, ideologies in their music
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Without being vulgar.
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And i can stand there in the middle of all of this and sing
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A song and see them break down, because music can break through
00:27:50.247 --> 00:27:56.386
All of that satanic
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Stuff that's put up.
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I told you once before, i was at an award show and i was
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Singing a song, stand.
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And, well, it was me and patti labelle.
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That's another story altogether.
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But-- and snoop was-- well, destiny's child was here.
00:28:15.072 --> 00:28:21.612
Beyoncé, michelle, kelly and snoop
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Was right behind them.
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And i started singing and all you heard was--
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And he buckled down and he started weeping.
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Cameras tried to get over to him, and his fellows wouldn't
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Let-- his guys wouldn't let the cameras get to him.
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And at the end, he came and backstage and said, you know,
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My grandmother always told me that if i wasn't doing this, i
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Was called to be a preacher.
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And you've got situations like that. music does that.
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I would never have been able to reach them in any other way
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Other than music.
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The reason that that happens, though, donnie, let's be
00:28:58.649 --> 00:29:02.419
Honest, is because, you know, this this album that you're
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Doing and the music that you gave your life to all these
00:29:05.656 --> 00:29:10.227
Years is called gospel music.
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This album is entitled finally, but the subtitle is bringing
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The gospel back to gospel music.
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The gospel is good news. yes.
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When you lift up the name of jesus and the good news of the
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Redemption that we have back to god through jesus,
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That's what does it.
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So thank you for bringing the gospel back to gospel music,
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And hit us with another one of the songs you wrote.
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What's another song that we're going to be kind of
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Experiencing here?
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Something you wrote?
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Where were you when you when you experienced it?
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Well, the song that i wrote for tramaine--
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Now, this is my first time getting to write a song on
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For tramaine hawkins. got it.
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Now she, her and her husband walter,
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We were really close.
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And her brother in law, edwin
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Hawkins, who wrote oh, happy day.
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He wrote oh, happy day.
00:30:08.819 --> 00:30:09.786
It feels like i've heard that song before.
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Yeah, maybe 1 or 2 times.
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It's a little ditty somewhere. yeah.
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And, um, this is my first time writing a song for her.
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I've sung with her throughout the years, and i wrote a song
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That said [sings] lord, i'm lifting up my hands to you,
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♪ but this time it's not to ♪
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♪ receive, but to give you all my love ♪
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♪ because i love you ♪
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♪ you're the one i trust and believe ♪
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♪ others have tried to help me ♪
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♪ but their help couldn't do what you do ♪
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♪ so i surrender my life to you ♪
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♪ you're the one who brought me through lord ♪
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♪ and says, lord, you, ♪
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♪ you you're all that i need ♪
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♪ lord, you are all that i need ♪
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♪ oh, lord, oh, lord ♪
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♪ you are, you are ♪
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♪ you're all that i need ♪
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♪ lord, you ♪
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And to hear her sing this,
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I'm gonna probably be laid out on the floor.
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That's right.
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Just make sure the cameras don't hit me, because i'm gonna
00:31:18.789 --> 00:31:20.924
Be screaming, laying out on the floor.
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And tremaine's voice after all these years has not changed.
00:31:23.193 --> 00:31:28.732
Mhm. now she is, um,
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She's elder.
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She's older than she was before without saying how old
00:31:34.304 --> 00:31:37.474
She is, but her beauty hasn't
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Faded and her voice has not changed.
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Mhm.
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And the anointing on her life is amazing.
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So it's going to be, this is going to be really, um
00:31:47.851 --> 00:31:52.689
A landmark project for me.
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♪ so i surrender my life to you ♪
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♪ jesus, you brought me through, lord ♪
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♪ lord, you, ♪
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♪ you're all that i need, lord ♪
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♪ you are all that i need, lord ♪
00:32:14.811 --> 00:32:22.285
♪ you are ♪
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♪ you're all that i need ♪
00:32:24.021 --> 00:32:27.290
♪ you are all that i need ♪
00:32:27.290 --> 00:32:31.928
♪ you're a friend ♪
00:32:31.928 --> 00:32:35.399
♪ that sticks closer than a brother ♪
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♪ you are ♪
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♪ all i need ♪
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And it's called finally.
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We're here in nashville, tennessee.
00:32:45.409 --> 00:32:47.177
Donnie mcclurkin.
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We wanted to kind of
00:32:48.311 --> 00:32:52.549
Make it a little bit, you know, not quite as loud in here so
00:32:52.549 --> 00:32:56.953
That we could get to know the heart of this music,
00:32:56.953 --> 00:33:01.324
This album specifically.
00:33:01.324 --> 00:33:04.061
What a beautiful atmosphere that you're creating in this
00:33:04.061 --> 00:33:08.899
Location that has been saturated over all these years
00:33:08.899 --> 00:33:13.470
With so many services.
00:33:13.470 --> 00:33:15.739
I think of kim clement now in
00:33:15.739 --> 00:33:18.909
Heaven, doing many, many, many services.
00:33:18.909 --> 00:33:22.546
You know, there's a-- it feels like you you get in your social
00:33:22.546 --> 00:33:27.017
Media feed more about kim clement today than when he was
00:33:27.017 --> 00:33:30.754
Alive, you know, and there's a clip circulating that, you
00:33:30.754 --> 00:33:34.925
Know, trinity will have different expressions,
00:33:34.925 --> 00:33:37.360
Different networks.
00:33:37.360 --> 00:33:39.029
Uh, we'll have a, a channel for the youth and, and it'll have a
00:33:39.029 --> 00:33:43.200
Different name.
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:44.134
And, you know, all of,
00:33:44.134 --> 00:33:45.669
You know, it feels like we've been hearing--
00:33:45.669 --> 00:33:47.671
And that all happened-- yeah.
00:33:47.671 --> 00:33:49.673
15 feet from where we're sitting right here in this building.
00:33:49.673 --> 00:33:52.576
This building has been saturated with the prophetic
00:33:52.576 --> 00:33:56.213
Word of the lord, with ministry, with anointing that--
00:33:56.213 --> 00:34:00.317
It exists here.
00:34:00.317 --> 00:34:01.585
You're adding to that legacy with this amazing project that
00:34:01.585 --> 00:34:06.356
You're doing.
00:34:06.356 --> 00:34:07.624
And what an interesting title,
00:34:07.624 --> 00:34:10.160
Finally, uh, donnie mcclurkin, and bringing gospel back
00:34:10.160 --> 00:34:14.231
To gospel music.
00:34:14.231 --> 00:34:15.532
So give us kind of your thoughts on what you're doing
00:34:15.532 --> 00:34:19.736
Here, what this means.
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If somebody just tuned in, you know, you're feeling like this
00:34:21.271 --> 00:34:24.608
Might be your final recording.
00:34:24.608 --> 00:34:26.810
It's not the end of his singing.
00:34:26.810 --> 00:34:29.179
Let me just say that. final recording.
00:34:29.179 --> 00:34:30.914
That's a-- he explained.
00:34:30.914 --> 00:34:32.549
Yeah, i know, i know, but it kind of hurts my heart when
00:34:32.549 --> 00:34:35.752
He says, this is the last.
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So i just--
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Said it a little fatalistically. you could say it a little
00:34:39.456 --> 00:34:41.825
Happier when you say it
00:34:41.825 --> 00:34:42.993
This time. he's not finishing.
00:34:42.993 --> 00:34:44.761
Before i go to the
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Upper room. he's not--
00:34:46.096 --> 00:34:48.932
You're not stopping singing.
00:34:48.932 --> 00:34:50.834
Then give us one of your --
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Give us, give us a little bit of one or more of your songs,
00:34:52.502 --> 00:34:55.105
But give us kind of-- just set the stage a little bit--
00:34:55.105 --> 00:34:57.674
Somebody coming. in case somebody tuned in, you know,
00:34:57.674 --> 00:35:00.377
A little bit late.
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You're there, you know, thinking we're at your
00:35:01.411 --> 00:35:03.880
Funeral or something. come on now.
00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:05.382
No, no, no, no, i'm not going to have a funeral.
00:35:05.382 --> 00:35:07.150
Um, i've decided i'm going to live forever.
00:35:07.150 --> 00:35:09.886
Got it. but this is, um--
00:35:09.886 --> 00:35:13.723
You know, i never thought that
00:35:13.723 --> 00:35:14.991
I would come to a point of closure,
00:35:14.991 --> 00:35:19.095
Um, because, you know, gospel music, you sing until you die.
00:35:19.095 --> 00:35:22.966
You just, gone.
00:35:22.966 --> 00:35:25.101
I was, i was reading about mahalia jackson and how she
00:35:25.101 --> 00:35:29.005
Sang to her very last. you know, james cleveland to
00:35:29.005 --> 00:35:31.741
His very last. andre until his
00:35:31.741 --> 00:35:34.110
Very last, you know, walter edwin, all of them till
00:35:34.110 --> 00:35:37.647
Their very last. cece is one of my go to people.
00:35:37.647 --> 00:35:42.619
And not to mention she fusses at me all the time.
00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:45.555
But you know,
00:35:45.555 --> 00:35:47.257
To see that we have come up listening to the same music
00:35:47.257 --> 00:35:51.494
With the same ideology concerning music and gospel,
00:35:51.494 --> 00:35:55.198
It's kind of surreal. now at this, at this closure, at
00:35:55.198 --> 00:36:00.203
This point of closure,
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It's time for us to realize that there are other people
00:36:02.072 --> 00:36:06.243
That are waiting in the wings.
00:36:06.243 --> 00:36:08.245
There are other people that are right behind us that god has to
00:36:08.245 --> 00:36:12.215
Move some of us in order for
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Them to take it to the next place.
00:36:13.883 --> 00:36:15.518
Got it.
00:36:15.518 --> 00:36:16.720
And at this point, pastoring the church that i pastor.
00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:20.624
Then we started another
00:36:20.624 --> 00:36:21.625
Ministry in my hometown of amityville.
00:36:21.625 --> 00:36:24.694
We've got missions in jamaica.
00:36:24.694 --> 00:36:26.529
We're building houses in jamaica.
00:36:26.529 --> 00:36:28.498
We're building an apartment complex across the
00:36:28.498 --> 00:36:31.368
Street from our church.
00:36:31.368 --> 00:36:32.636
We've got brownstones in harlem that we're renovating to, to
00:36:32.636 --> 00:36:36.539
Refurbish for housing and out of--
00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:39.175
I'm in the next phase of
00:36:39.175 --> 00:36:40.977
Ministry and something's got to give.
00:36:40.977 --> 00:36:45.181
And the recording aspect has been done.
00:36:45.181 --> 00:36:47.751
It's been-- the grammys
00:36:47.751 --> 00:36:50.153
Are, they've already been secured.
00:36:50.153 --> 00:36:52.289
The dove awards,
00:36:52.289 --> 00:36:53.590
The stellar awards, the trumpet awards, the soul train awards,
00:36:53.590 --> 00:36:56.926
The bet awards,
00:36:56.926 --> 00:36:58.728
We've got all of these things under the belt.
00:36:58.728 --> 00:37:01.865
Now, let the next generation take it.
00:37:01.865 --> 00:37:04.868
And let me go into the next phase of ministry that can be
00:37:04.868 --> 00:37:09.072
Beneficial to people that are in need.
00:37:09.072 --> 00:37:11.474
I mean, in jamaica, in riverton city, right outside of kingston
00:37:11.474 --> 00:37:16.513
And spanish town, we're
00:37:16.513 --> 00:37:17.847
Literally, we built three houses.
00:37:17.847 --> 00:37:19.883
We're building two houses a year in the most impoverished
00:37:19.883 --> 00:37:23.420
Community that i've ever seen in jamaica.
00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:27.724
These are the things that god has given me to do now.
00:37:27.724 --> 00:37:30.694
And if i want to hear a donnie mcclurkin cd, i can put it in
00:37:30.694 --> 00:37:36.232
And go on about my business.
00:37:36.232 --> 00:37:38.435
There's no need to make another one.
00:37:38.435 --> 00:37:40.270
And it's just time to move so that god can be glorified and
00:37:40.270 --> 00:37:44.474
People can can see love in action.
00:37:44.474 --> 00:37:48.011
Because charity is not just love.
00:37:48.011 --> 00:37:50.013
It's love in action.
00:37:50.013 --> 00:37:51.381
Tell us about one more song on this new project.
00:37:51.381 --> 00:37:55.652
But before you do, what song have you sung that over the
00:37:55.652 --> 00:38:03.026
Last 30 years of singing and doing what you've been doing
00:38:03.026 --> 00:38:07.497
For 40 years, what's the biggest response you've
00:38:07.497 --> 00:38:11.134
Received over all the years
00:38:11.134 --> 00:38:12.869
Consistently from a donnie mcclurkin song?
00:38:12.869 --> 00:38:16.406
If you had to go to spotify and, and, you know, see which
00:38:16.406 --> 00:38:20.610
One had been listened to the most or what, but from your
00:38:20.610 --> 00:38:23.980
Perspective, what did you get the most response of singing?
00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:29.586
The song entitled stand.
00:38:29.586 --> 00:38:31.755
Okay, give us a little bit of it here.
00:38:31.755 --> 00:38:33.590
Stand is, what do you do when you've done all you can and it
00:38:33.590 --> 00:38:37.994
♪ seems like it's never enough? ♪
00:38:37.994 --> 00:38:40.530
♪ tell me, what do you say ♪
00:38:40.530 --> 00:38:41.798
♪ when your friends turn away ♪
00:38:41.798 --> 00:38:43.600
♪ you're alone ♪
00:38:43.600 --> 00:38:45.368
I can't sing too hard.
00:38:45.368 --> 00:38:46.803
♪ what do you give when you ♪
00:38:46.803 --> 00:38:48.271
Why do i sing it so high?
00:38:48.271 --> 00:38:49.439
Why don't i just come down?
00:38:49.439 --> 00:38:50.607
Could you just come down?
00:38:50.607 --> 00:38:51.241
♪ what do you do ♪
00:38:51.241 --> 00:38:52.075
♪ when you've done all you can ♪
00:38:52.075 --> 00:38:54.177
♪ seems like it's never enough ♪
00:38:54.177 --> 00:38:57.514
♪ oh, tell me, what do you say ♪
00:38:57.514 --> 00:39:00.383
♪ when your friends turn away? ♪
00:39:00.383 --> 00:39:02.652
♪ you're all alone ♪
00:39:02.652 --> 00:39:04.454
Wow.
00:39:04.454 --> 00:39:05.555
♪ what do you do when you've given your all ♪
00:39:05.555 --> 00:39:08.858
♪ and seems like you can't make it through ♪
00:39:08.858 --> 00:39:11.694
♪ well, you just stand, when there's nothing left to do ♪
00:39:11.694 --> 00:39:15.932
♪ you just stand ♪
00:39:15.932 --> 00:39:17.133
♪ watch the lord see you through ♪
00:39:17.133 --> 00:39:19.569
♪ after you've done all you can, you just stand ♪
00:39:19.569 --> 00:39:24.674
I sang that song.
00:39:24.674 --> 00:39:25.708
I wrote the song.
00:39:25.708 --> 00:39:27.076
Bebe heard me sing it.
00:39:27.076 --> 00:39:29.512
Bebe went on a cruise with maya angelou.
00:39:29.512 --> 00:39:33.516
Maya angelou, 70th birthday cruise.
00:39:33.516 --> 00:39:35.985
He took the track and sang it.
00:39:35.985 --> 00:39:38.455
Oprah and maya came to him and said, bebe, that's one of the
00:39:38.455 --> 00:39:42.792
Best songs that we've heard you sing.
00:39:42.792 --> 00:39:45.328
And bebe says, well, i didn't write this.
00:39:45.328 --> 00:39:48.331
And if you really want to hear it sung right, this guy named
00:39:48.331 --> 00:39:51.267
Donnie mckirkland--
00:39:51.267 --> 00:39:52.602
He still can't pronounce my name-- donnie mckirkland.
00:39:52.602 --> 00:39:56.806
Now, he's my brother and still can't say my name.
00:39:56.806 --> 00:40:01.010
And that's how i knew it was god because bebe didn't take
00:40:01.010 --> 00:40:03.746
Credit for it. praise the lord.
00:40:03.746 --> 00:40:05.114
Yeah, seriously.
00:40:05.114 --> 00:40:06.749
And then i came to nashville for an award show.
00:40:06.749 --> 00:40:10.920
I'm going through the airport to the baggage claim,
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:13.690
And i hear, hey!
00:40:13.690 --> 00:40:17.093
And i know the hey is bebe.
00:40:17.093 --> 00:40:19.562
And i'm looking around and say, who dat say hey?
00:40:19.562 --> 00:40:22.365
And he said, look, you don't know my voice?
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And i looked down and he's sitting on the floor waiting
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For his bag to come back.
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He said, i just got off this cruise, man.
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I need you to send oprah your cd.
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And i'm saying, oh, yeah, sure. he knew--
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He knew i wasn't going to do it.
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So he sent it to oprah.
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And i'm in the marriott hotel in nassau, bahamas, a week
00:40:41.551 --> 00:40:48.224
Later, and the telephone rings in the hotel room and i
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Pick it up and i hear the song blasting.
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♪ what do you do ♪
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And i'm saying, who is this?
00:40:56.699 --> 00:40:58.568
And the song was so loud i had to pull it from my ear.
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And i said, turn it down, stupid.
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I can't hear you.
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Stupid, dumb. and-- stupid dumb.
00:41:04.741 --> 00:41:10.179
And they turned it down, and i heard, donnie mcclurkin.
00:41:10.179 --> 00:41:17.086
And i said, who is this?
00:41:17.086 --> 00:41:19.656
Miss oprah?
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She said, this oprah winfrey.
00:41:20.456 --> 00:41:23.660
And i said, i didn't mean turn it down, stupid.
00:41:23.660 --> 00:41:27.664
I meant turn it down, cutie, because you're so cute.
00:41:27.664 --> 00:41:32.835
And she got behind the song. wow.
00:41:32.835 --> 00:41:36.839
And after we did the opening of the atlantis in 1999,
00:41:36.839 --> 00:41:41.210
The song had been out for two years, and she--
00:41:41.210 --> 00:41:44.280
There was a blizzard that hit the midwest.
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:46.783
I was living in detroit and she called and said, we're going
00:41:46.783 --> 00:41:50.153
Down to back to atlantis.
00:41:50.153 --> 00:41:52.422
I want you to come and i want you to sing stand like you did
00:41:52.422 --> 00:41:56.225
At the opening.
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So we all flew down and we stood on the pyramid
00:41:57.694 --> 00:42:00.330
At the atlantis hotel.
00:42:00.330 --> 00:42:02.732
And she said, this is my most favorite cd.
00:42:02.732 --> 00:42:06.436
Before that happened,
00:42:06.436 --> 00:42:07.870
Before that happened, she drove up on a golf cart and said,
00:42:07.870 --> 00:42:10.640
Donnie, how many of these have you sold?
00:42:10.640 --> 00:42:13.443
I said, oh man, we sold 30,000.
00:42:13.443 --> 00:42:15.545
We're doing good.
00:42:15.545 --> 00:42:17.447
30,000, she said oh that's great.
00:42:17.447 --> 00:42:20.116
And she said, this is my favorite cd with my favorite
00:42:20.116 --> 00:42:23.119
Singer, donnie mcclurkin, and he's going to sing my favorite
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.022
Song, stand with my friend bebe winans.
00:42:26.022 --> 00:42:29.993
So we sang the song.
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Well, maybe about 2 or 3 months later we were at 300,000.
00:42:32.128 --> 00:42:37.367
By the time we finished, it was like over 1.9 million sold.
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We had gone platinum, almost double platinum.
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My goodness.
00:42:44.741 --> 00:42:45.975
Because of that one song and that crossed every boundary
00:42:45.975 --> 00:42:49.145
Line, and that song was the most monumental.
00:42:49.145 --> 00:42:54.317
♪ tell me, what do you say ♪
00:42:54.317 --> 00:42:59.122
♪ after you've given your all, your all ♪
00:42:59.122 --> 00:43:02.792
♪ it seems like you can't make it through ♪
00:43:02.792 --> 00:43:06.696
♪ child, you just stand ♪
00:43:06.696 --> 00:43:10.967
♪ when there's nothing left to do ♪
00:43:10.967 --> 00:43:14.070
♪ come on and stand ♪
00:43:14.070 --> 00:43:17.173
♪ watch the lord see you through ♪
00:43:17.173 --> 00:43:21.544
♪ yes, after you've done all you can ♪
00:43:21.544 --> 00:43:26.816
♪ you just stand ♪
00:43:26.816 --> 00:43:31.721
You realize that song speaks
00:43:31.721 --> 00:43:35.925
Over and over and over to people's mindset,
00:43:35.925 --> 00:43:40.830
That god gave you that. as you were giving some of the words,
00:43:40.830 --> 00:43:44.667
It was speaking to laurie and me
00:43:44.667 --> 00:43:46.469
While we're sitting here right now.
00:43:46.469 --> 00:43:47.937
Yeah. you go through so many things that people don't
00:43:47.937 --> 00:43:50.673
Understand, that you go through times or seasons and all you
00:43:50.673 --> 00:43:56.145
Can do is stand. stand.
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And having done all--
00:44:00.116 --> 00:44:01.784
To stand.
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And that's where the song came from, from that scripture and
00:44:02.852 --> 00:44:07.090
From some harrowing experiences. sure.
00:44:07.090 --> 00:44:09.625
Pray for the audience that they can stand through whatever
00:44:09.625 --> 00:44:12.528
They're going through.
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This is my pleasure.
00:44:14.897 --> 00:44:16.733
As one who've gone through storms after storm and come out
00:44:16.733 --> 00:44:20.503
All right, as one who's weathered many different
00:44:20.503 --> 00:44:23.439
Difficulties and thought at one time that i did not have the
00:44:23.439 --> 00:44:27.910
Stamina or the strength to make it--
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Imagine that. saved
00:44:31.180 --> 00:44:32.548
But don't think that you have the strength to make it through
00:44:32.548 --> 00:44:35.551
Some of the harrowing things that you go through.
00:44:35.551 --> 00:44:37.920
That's not uncommon.
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:39.922
That's a part of the human frailty.
00:44:39.922 --> 00:44:42.458
But know this, in your weakest point,
00:44:42.458 --> 00:44:45.995
God gives you strength.
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He gives you strength in your weakness.
00:44:47.897 --> 00:44:50.733
And you will make it through every situation
00:44:50.733 --> 00:44:54.003
Because god is on your side.
00:44:54.003 --> 00:44:56.105
The bible says this,
00:44:56.105 --> 00:44:57.774
God said to jeremiah, behold, i am the lord god of all flesh.
00:44:57.774 --> 00:45:03.146
Is there anything too hard for me?
00:45:03.146 --> 00:45:06.849
The roughest period of your life,
00:45:06.849 --> 00:45:08.985
God is holding you up in his hand.
00:45:08.985 --> 00:45:10.787
And that period of of total chaos has purpose.
00:45:10.787 --> 00:45:14.957
Thank you, lord.
00:45:14.957 --> 00:45:15.691
And you're going to find that.
00:45:15.691 --> 00:45:17.593
So i pray in the name of jesus that you would find strength in
00:45:17.593 --> 00:45:20.363
Your situation,
00:45:20.363 --> 00:45:21.864
That the promise would be greater than the
00:45:21.864 --> 00:45:24.801
Problem, that the promise of god would be greater than
00:45:24.801 --> 00:45:28.137
Your problem.
00:45:28.137 --> 00:45:29.272
And that god would show you his
00:45:29.272 --> 00:45:30.807
Strength in the middle of your struggle.
00:45:30.807 --> 00:45:33.176
That you would see the power of god in action, and that you
00:45:33.176 --> 00:45:36.712
Would be a byproduct of the wonderful work of god.
00:45:36.712 --> 00:45:40.183
In the name of jesus christ,
00:45:40.183 --> 00:45:42.385
Pull up your strength. in the name of jesus christ,
00:45:42.385 --> 00:45:46.088
Be empowered and make your statement known that if god be
00:45:46.088 --> 00:45:52.128
For you, who can be against you?
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Stand, my brother. stand, my sister.
00:45:55.298 --> 00:45:58.201
You've got god on your side.
00:45:58.201 --> 00:45:59.468
He's more than the whole world against you, in jesus' name.
00:45:59.468 --> 00:46:04.073
Now we receive that in jesus' name. we receive it glory and
00:46:04.073 --> 00:46:09.045
I receive it.
00:46:09.045 --> 00:46:10.079
Tbn receives it.
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:11.647
Donnie mcclurkin receives it.
00:46:11.647 --> 00:46:12.849
Yes, sir. pray for yourself at some point.
00:46:12.849 --> 00:46:15.651
You know, we were at a meeting years ago in the 80s, and one
00:46:15.651 --> 00:46:20.089
Minister after the other was falling out under the power and
00:46:20.089 --> 00:46:23.593
And the last guy with the microphone didn't have anybody
00:46:23.593 --> 00:46:26.896
To lay hands on him.
00:46:26.896 --> 00:46:28.531
So he just hit himself on the
00:46:28.531 --> 00:46:29.966
Head through the mic and fell down.
00:46:29.966 --> 00:46:31.734
And i'm, i'm being nice by not
00:46:31.734 --> 00:46:36.172
Giving the name.
00:46:36.172 --> 00:46:37.340
By not giving the name.
00:46:37.340 --> 00:46:41.644
But there was a, there was a slap on his own head, and the
00:46:41.644 --> 00:46:45.915
Mic went one way and landed in the drum and and it was live on
00:46:45.915 --> 00:46:49.919
Tbn and, and when we-- when i was directing, when the
00:46:49.919 --> 00:46:53.723
Camera came back to my mom and dad who were sitting, you know,
00:46:53.723 --> 00:46:58.060
At the convention center,
00:46:58.060 --> 00:46:59.528
My dad's look on his face was like--
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So--
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, god, oh, god, oh, god.
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We've seen some stuff, haven't we?
00:47:16.145 --> 00:47:18.414
Things that we see
00:47:18.414 --> 00:47:19.882
In in our walk with
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Christ. glory to god.
00:47:21.517 --> 00:47:24.253
Okay. put a real ending on this, donnie.
00:47:24.253 --> 00:47:27.056
And whatever song that you want to kind of talk about for
00:47:27.056 --> 00:47:31.994
A minute. uh, you are doing one
00:47:31.994 --> 00:47:34.497
Cover with a good friend of yours.
00:47:34.497 --> 00:47:37.800
Uh, why don't we end with that one?
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:39.468
That'll be a fun one.
00:47:39.468 --> 00:47:40.603
I'm doing a cover song with a good friend of ours.
00:47:40.603 --> 00:47:43.639
Yes. that by the grace of god
00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:46.742
And by the influence of one matt crouch,
00:47:46.742 --> 00:47:50.913
Um, a dream came true.
00:47:50.913 --> 00:47:53.015
Okay, a dream came true.
00:47:53.015 --> 00:47:55.117
Uh, anybody who knows me knows that i have been one of the
00:47:55.117 --> 00:47:59.021
Greatest ccm, uh, listeners.
00:47:59.021 --> 00:48:02.925
And one of the greatest names in ccm is michael w smith.
00:48:02.925 --> 00:48:06.963
Right. from--
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♪ hallelujah ♪
00:48:08.864 --> 00:48:12.468
♪ for the lord god almighty reigns♪
00:48:10.232 --> 00:48:14.570
Or ♪ sing your praise to the lord
00:48:14.570 --> 00:48:18.040
♪ come on, everybody, stand up and sing one more hallelujah ♪
00:48:18.040 --> 00:48:20.609
I have been listening to him since he first
00:48:20.609 --> 00:48:22.979
Hit the scene. wow.
00:48:22.979 --> 00:48:24.580
With songs that he wrote for amy, songs that he wrote for
00:48:24.580 --> 00:48:27.350
Himself, kathy troccoli, the whole nine yards and you know,
00:48:27.350 --> 00:48:31.854
♪ and a friend's a friend forever ♪
00:48:31.854 --> 00:48:33.789
♪ if the lord's the lord of them friend will not say never ♪
00:48:33.789 --> 00:48:38.527
♪ the welcome will not end ♪
00:48:38.527 --> 00:48:40.329
So whenever anybody would, would, would leave our church
00:48:40.329 --> 00:48:43.899
And go to another state, that
00:48:43.899 --> 00:48:45.735
Would be the song i sang to them.
00:48:45.735 --> 00:48:47.636
♪ though it's hard to let you go in the father's hands we know ♪
00:48:47.636 --> 00:48:51.907
♪ that a lifetime's not too long to live as friends ♪
00:48:51.907 --> 00:48:58.381
To have mike w smith to agree to sing on this project, a
00:48:58.381 --> 00:49:04.320
Song that i love because it speaks the very sentiment of
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:10.292
My heart as one who is insecure, as one who is broken.
00:49:10.292 --> 00:49:16.132
I had physical deformities of the hands and feet that made me
00:49:16.132 --> 00:49:19.402
Always reclusive because they would mock me
00:49:19.402 --> 00:49:22.338
As a child.
00:49:22.338 --> 00:49:24.607
In school, they had names for me because of my deformations
00:49:24.607 --> 00:49:29.145
And the like, but when i heard that song, it was me.
00:49:29.145 --> 00:49:35.785
♪ if there are millions down on their knees above the many ♪
00:49:35.785 --> 00:49:40.723
♪ can you still hear me? ♪
00:49:40.723 --> 00:49:42.725
Man, that was it.
00:49:42.725 --> 00:49:44.593
♪ looking for a reason ♪
00:49:44.593 --> 00:49:46.162
♪ roaming through the night to find my place ♪
00:49:46.162 --> 00:49:48.998
♪ in this place in this world ♪
00:49:48.998 --> 00:49:51.467
That-- i would sit and listen and cry to that song
00:49:51.467 --> 00:49:54.737
Because i was trying to find out where i belonged.
00:49:54.737 --> 00:49:57.540
Yeah. and for you all to call and say.
00:49:57.540 --> 00:50:00.743
Mike said he'll do it,
00:50:00.743 --> 00:50:02.611
And i thought we were going to do friends or something like
00:50:02.611 --> 00:50:04.814
That, because they had done place in this world with
00:50:04.814 --> 00:50:07.750
King and country,
00:50:07.750 --> 00:50:10.086
And i thought that they were going to, you know-- i think
00:50:10.086 --> 00:50:12.188
Whatever he wants to do, i'm good.
00:50:12.188 --> 00:50:14.123
And then trey called and said, mike said he thought that you
00:50:14.123 --> 00:50:16.992
Wanted to do place in this world.
00:50:16.992 --> 00:50:18.994
I'm like, you ain't got to say that twice.
00:50:18.994 --> 00:50:21.630
You ain't got to tempt me with a good thing.
00:50:21.630 --> 00:50:24.133
And that's how this whole thing came about.
00:50:24.133 --> 00:50:26.302
So the crowning and the highlight of this is going to
00:50:26.302 --> 00:50:31.540
Have-- it's going to be to have mike w. smith play, sing
00:50:31.540 --> 00:50:36.679
And for me to sing place in this world with him.
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:41.684
♪ looking for a reason ♪
00:50:41.684 --> 00:50:44.153
♪ i've been roaming through the night ♪
00:50:44.153 --> 00:50:46.755
♪ to find my place in this world ♪
00:50:46.755 --> 00:50:50.526
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:50:50.526 --> 00:50:54.797
♪ not a lot to lean on ♪
00:50:54.797 --> 00:50:57.700
♪ need your light to help me find my place in this world ♪ ♪ my place in this world ♪
00:50:57.700 --> 00:51:03.739
Then i can go to heaven.
00:51:08.277 --> 00:51:10.513
I tell you, i can go see jesus.
00:51:10.513 --> 00:51:13.082
And that's because it was
00:51:13.082 --> 00:51:15.017
Identifying something. that song said
00:51:15.017 --> 00:51:18.888
Something you needed to hear. yes.
00:51:18.888 --> 00:51:21.557
Yes. you needed to find a place in this world.
00:51:21.557 --> 00:51:24.493
You needed to have that.
00:51:24.493 --> 00:51:26.462
And look at the love that god has for you to be able to
00:51:26.462 --> 00:51:30.032
Make that happen.
00:51:30.032 --> 00:51:31.500
All these years later, you get to.
00:51:31.500 --> 00:51:33.669
Finally. you get to.
00:51:33.669 --> 00:51:35.738
Finally.
00:51:35.738 --> 00:51:37.006
But do you do you realize, i mean, out of the people that i
00:51:37.006 --> 00:51:39.275
Work with, out of the people that i pastor
00:51:39.275 --> 00:51:43.045
How that is a common thought?
00:51:43.045 --> 00:51:45.548
Where do i belong? yeah.
00:51:45.548 --> 00:51:47.216
How do i--
00:51:47.216 --> 00:51:48.250
I see what you're doing, but how do i do this?
00:51:48.250 --> 00:51:50.853
And it's so far fetched to so many christians to believe that
00:51:50.853 --> 00:51:55.057
There's a great purpose for them, because they judge
00:51:55.057 --> 00:51:58.027
Themselves by other people's accomplishments, and they don't
00:51:58.027 --> 00:52:00.863
Realize the uniqueness of what god's taken them through to
00:52:00.863 --> 00:52:04.700
Become who they're supposed to be.
00:52:04.700 --> 00:52:06.635
Yeah. everybody's got their journey, and you may not want
00:52:06.635 --> 00:52:10.072
Mine because there's some prices to pay with mine.
00:52:10.072 --> 00:52:13.442
But whatever god has ordained for you, there's a place that's
00:52:13.442 --> 00:52:17.246
Been etched out.
00:52:17.246 --> 00:52:18.380
There's a niche for you,
00:52:18.380 --> 00:52:19.715
And you will find it as you follow god.
00:52:19.715 --> 00:52:22.818
He will lead you into that.
00:52:22.818 --> 00:52:24.620
So that word that's the word in the song, looking for a
00:52:24.620 --> 00:52:28.657
Reason and roaming through the
00:52:28.657 --> 00:52:29.825
Night to find my place in this world.
00:52:29.825 --> 00:52:33.896
My face in this world,
00:52:33.896 --> 00:52:35.631
There's not a lot to lean on.
00:52:35.631 --> 00:52:37.399
So i need your light to help me find that place that's been
00:52:37.399 --> 00:52:40.936
Ordained specifically for my purpose.
00:52:40.936 --> 00:52:43.839
The people that are watching this, it's not uncommon to have
00:52:43.839 --> 00:52:48.210
That question in your mind, where do i fit?
00:52:48.210 --> 00:52:51.313
God will show you.
00:52:51.313 --> 00:52:53.315
We pray often, lord.
00:52:53.315 --> 00:52:55.484
Be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path--
00:52:55.484 --> 00:52:58.320
Yes. as we're doing this.
00:52:58.320 --> 00:52:59.555
And, donnie, um, what hits me really hard is you've been
00:52:59.555 --> 00:53:05.861
Chosen for this time.
00:53:05.861 --> 00:53:08.897
Your voice is strong.
00:53:08.897 --> 00:53:11.533
Your voice is genuine.
00:53:11.533 --> 00:53:14.270
Your voice is authentic.
00:53:14.270 --> 00:53:17.539
Spent the day with you now, a lot of it on camera.
00:53:17.539 --> 00:53:22.611
And i love the tone that is coming out of you.
00:53:22.611 --> 00:53:29.084
This is the right time, donnie.
00:53:29.084 --> 00:53:30.819
This is the right place.
00:53:30.819 --> 00:53:32.354
This is the right season.
00:53:32.354 --> 00:53:34.490
I have a sense inside of me that us being here to get to
00:53:34.490 --> 00:53:40.529
Experience you and to bring this whole thing to our
00:53:40.529 --> 00:53:45.267
Audience is a god ordained, right place, right time
00:53:45.267 --> 00:53:49.672
For the right reason.
00:53:49.672 --> 00:53:51.507
I'm hearing that kind of kim clement voice who did dozens of
00:53:51.507 --> 00:53:57.513
Meetings inside this room that were in here, that you're at
00:53:57.513 --> 00:54:01.050
The right place for the right time, for the right reason, and
00:54:01.050 --> 00:54:05.254
You're even in the right season.
00:54:05.254 --> 00:54:07.456
Your voice is matured to, to to be very important to a global
00:54:07.456 --> 00:54:13.529
Audience that are going to get to see what you're doing.
00:54:13.529 --> 00:54:16.332
Thank you.
00:54:16.332 --> 00:54:18.100
The good, the bad, the ugly all adds up to a tone of a voice
00:54:18.100 --> 00:54:25.474
That is a sweet smelling savor.
00:54:25.474 --> 00:54:28.277
And it is right.
00:54:28.277 --> 00:54:29.478
And we're here at the right place at the right time
00:54:29.478 --> 00:54:32.381
Getting to listen to the right music.
00:54:32.381 --> 00:54:34.116
Thank you, donnie mcclurkin.
00:54:34.116 --> 00:54:35.684
Thank you all.
00:54:35.684 --> 00:54:36.385
Thank you, thank tbn.
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Thank god, thank god for
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Everything that you all have represented.
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Final word is yours.
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I have no final words.
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The only thing that i can tell
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You is that it's been a great journey.
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It has been a great journey indeed.
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And i'm not going to heaven
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Yet, but i'm going there one day.
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But it's been a great experience.
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And for the time that i've got left and, and the
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Musicality and the ministry that i've got left, it's going
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To be to bring christ back into the center and for me to
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Hide behind the cross.
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Less of me. more of him.
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♪♪
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Donnie McClurkin: Finding Your God-Given Purpose | Praise

October 2, 2025 | 57:0

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