Praise | January 29, 2018
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Praise | January 29, 2018
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- - FEMALE ANNOUNCER:
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- TONIGHT FROM NEW YORK CITY, THE
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- QUEEN OF DISCO, GLORIA GAYNOR.
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- - GLORIA GAYNOR: "I WANNA KNOW
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- WHO THIS JESUS IS.
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- I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT FROM
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- ANYBODY ELSE.
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- IF YOU CAN TALK TO A PREACHER, A
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- PRIEST, A RABBI, YOU COULD TALK
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- TO ME.
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- I'M HERE.
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- I'M LISTENING.
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- TALK."
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- AND GUESS WHAT?
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- - CLIFTON: HE TALKED.
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- - GLORIA: HE TALKED.
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- - ANNOUNCER: AND ACTOR AND
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- MINISTER, CLIFTON DAVIS, NEXT ON
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- - CLIFTON: HA-HA, HA-HA-HA!
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- HELLO, HELLO, HELLO, HELLO.
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- HA-HA-HA.
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- HI, WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU.
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- I LOVE A GREAT NEW YORK
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- AUDIENCE.
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- IT FEELS GOOD TO BE HERE.
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- GOD BLESS YOU.
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- ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR BLESSING?
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- - CLIFTON: I PROMISE YOU, GOD
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- NEVER FAILS.
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- HE ALWAYS DELIVERS ON THE
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- BLESSING.
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- HAVE A SEAT.
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- WE'VE GOT A WONDERFUL PROGRAM
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- PLANNED FOR YOU TONIGHT.
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- I WAS JUST AT THE THEATER WHERE
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- WE DO DISNEY'S "ALADDIN," AND I
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- WITNESS OVER THERE WHILE I'M
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- ALSO WORKING AS THE SULTAN, AND
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- ONE OF OUR STAGE MANAGERS RUNS
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- IN THE NEW YORK CITY MARATHON
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- AND RAN RECENTLY LAST YEAR IN
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- THE MARATHON AND IS RUNNING IN
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- MARATHONS ALL THE TIME,
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- AND IT'S A LADY, AND SHE
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- FINISHES THE MARATHON AND COMES
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- TO WORK ON A TWO-SHOW DAY AND
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- DOES TWO SHOWS AFTER RUNNING
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- 26.2 MILES, AND I'M ALWAYS
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- AMAZED.
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- I SAID, "HOW CAN YOU EVEN STAND
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- UP?"
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- MY GOODNESS!
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- BUT SHE SOMEHOW ENDURES, AND THE
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- SPIRIT OF GOD TELLS US THAT WE
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- NEED TO ENDURE IN ORDER TO BE
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- SAVED.
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- IT SAID, "HE THAT ENDURETH TO
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- THE END WILL BE SAVED."
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- GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE
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- TO SURVIVE.
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- GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO
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- CAN ENDURE.
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- CAN YOU ENDURE?
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- - AUDIENCE: YEAH!
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- - CLIFTON: I KNOW I'M
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- DETERMINED.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- I'M DETERMINED TO ENDURE.
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- IN FACT, I WILL SURVIVE.
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- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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- ALL RIGHT, I SET YOU UP.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- TAKE A LOOK AT THIS
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- [MUSIC]
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- FIRST, I WAS AFRAID.
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- I WAS PETRIFIED,
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- KEPT THINKIN' I COULD NEVER
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- LIVE WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE
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- - FEMALE NARRATOR: GLORIA
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- GAYNOR'S LEGENDARY CAREER SPANS
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- THE PAST 40 YEARS, WITH NO END
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- IN SIGHT.
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- THE GRAMMY AWARD WINNER HAS
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- REACHED GLOBAL STARDOM WITH MANY
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- NUMBER ONE HITS AND HAS BEEN
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- DUBBED "THE QUEEN OF DISCO."
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- GLORIA CONTINUES TO PERFORM
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- AROUND THE WORLD AND HELPS
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- SPREAD INSPIRATION TO THOSE WHO
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- NEED IT.
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- WITH HER HIT SONG, "I WILL
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- SURVIVE," GLORIA GAYNOR HAS USED
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- IT AS A MANTRA, NOT ONLY FOR
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- HER, BUT FOR MILLIONS OF OTHER
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- PEOPLE.
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- IT BIRTHED THE CHARITABLE
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- ORGANIZATION SHE USES TO SUPPORT
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- SURVIVORS OF ALL KINDS.
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- GLORIA IS ALSO AN AUTHOR, AND
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- HER SECOND BOOK, "WE WILL
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- SURVIVE: TRUE STORIES OF
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- ENCOURAGEMENT, INSPIRATION, AND
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- THE POWER OF SONG," SHARES
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- REMARKABLE STORIES OF
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- INDIVIDUALS TRIUMPHING OVER
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- ILLNESS, SUFFERING, AND HOW IT
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- HELPED PIECE THEIR LIVES BACK
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- TOGETHER.
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- TODAY ON "PRAISE," GLORIA WILL
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- SHARE HER LIFE STORY AND FAITH
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- WHILE TALKING ABOUT THE
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- IMPORTANCE OF SURVIVING WITH THE
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- HELP OF GOD.
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- PLEASE WELCOME GLORIA GAYNOR.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - GLORIA: YEAH, KEEP YOUR HANDS
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- TOGETHER RIGHT THERE.
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- [MUSIC]
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- I HEAR 'EM TALKIN'
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- ABOUT THE SAME OLE THINGS,
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- TALKIN' ABOUT MONEY, HONEY,
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- STATUS, POWER, AND FAME
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- BUT I'M HERE TO TELL YOU ABOT
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- AND IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD IT
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- YET,
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- THEN YOUR WHOLE WORLD 'BOUT O
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT LOVE,
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- TALKIN' ABOUT FREEDOM,
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- TALKIN' ABOUT THE ONE YOU CAN
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- DEPEND ON WHEN YOU NEED HIM
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT MERCY,
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- GRACE, AND FORGIVENESS,
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- TALKIN' ABOUT,
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- MM, GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY, YOU
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- NEED TO HEAR THIS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT,
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- BUT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT,
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- BUT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- STOP, YOU CAN'T DO IT ALONE
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- AND IF YOU THINK THAT YOUR
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- LIFE IS HOPELESS,
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- YOU'RE PLAIN, DEAD WRONG,
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- 'CAUSE I KNOW SOMEBODY
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- WHO CAME TO SAVE YOUR LIFE,
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- AND WITHOUT HIS HAND LEADING
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- EVERY STEP OF THE WAY,
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- YOU WON'T SURVIVE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT LOVE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT FREEDOM
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT THE ONE YOU
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- CAN DEPEND ON WHEN YOU NEED HIM
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT MERCY,
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- GRACE, AND FORGIVENESS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT,
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- MM, GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY,
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- YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT, BUT I'M
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- TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT,
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- BUT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT
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- JESUS
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- NOW, LET ME HEAR YA SAY,
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- J-E-S-U-S, UH-HUH,
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- J-E-S-U-S,
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- HEY-HEY
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- AH, YEAH, J-E-S-U-S,
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- OOH-HOO,
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- UH-HUH, J-E-S-U-S,
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- HEY-HEY,
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- YEAH, YEAH
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- HEY, I'M TALKIN' ABOUT LOVE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT FREEDOM
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- TALKIN' ABOUT THE ONE YOU CAN
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- DEPEND ON WHEN YOU NEED HIM
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT MERCY,
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- GRACE, AND FORGIVENESS
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- TALKIN' ABOUT, MM, GOOD GOD
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- ALMIGHTY, YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS
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- I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS, JESS
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- JESUS, JESUS, TALKIN' ABOUT
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- MY, MY JESUS
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- JESUS, I'M TALKIN' ABOUT JESS
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- TALKIN' ABOUT MY JESUS
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- TALKIN' ABOUT MY JESUS, MY
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- JESUS.
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- JESUS, YEAH, YEAH
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- TALKIN' ABOUT THE ONE WHO GOT
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- ME
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- J-E-S-U-S, MADE ME FREE
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- TALKIN' ABOUT JESUS
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- SAVED MY LIFE, SET ME FREE
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- OH, YEAH, TALKIN' ABOUT MY
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- JESUS
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- MY JESUS, MY JESUS
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- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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- - GLORIA: THANK YOU.
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- THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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- - CLIFTON: WHAT A WONDERFUL,
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- WONDERFUL RENDITION, MY
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- GOODNESS.
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- GLORIA, YOU'RE JUST AMAZING, AND
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- YOU HOLD YOUR OWN AFTER ALL
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- THESE YEARS.
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- I'VE KNOWN YOU FOR MANY YEARS.
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- IT'S REALLY A BLESSING.
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- YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES WE SAY
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- IN CHRISTIANITY THAT WE KNOW THE
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- LORD, AND THAT MAY NOT BE A
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- PHRASE THAT EVERYBODY
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- UNDERSTANDS, SO FOR THOSE OF YOU
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- WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WE
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- MEAN WHEN WE SAY WE'VE COME TO
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- KNOW THE LORD, LET ME SHARE WITH
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- YOU THAT BY FAITH, BY TRUSTING
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- IN HIS WORD, AND BY BELIEVING
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- THAT HE IS ACTIVE IN OUR LIVES,
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- WE GET TO KNOW HIM, AND IT
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- BECOMES A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.
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- - GLORIA: OH, AND WHAT AN
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- AWESOME PRIVILEGE THAT IS.
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- - CLIFTON: YES, AND HOW LONG
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- HAVE YOU KNOWN THE LORD?
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- - GLORIA: WELL, I'VE KNOWN THE
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- LORD FOR, PHOOF, WELL, LET ME
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- SINCE 1982.
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- I CAME TO A POINT IN MY LIFE
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- WHERE I FELT THAT, YOU KNOW, GOD
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- HAS BEEN SO GOOD TO ME, AND I
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- THINK I NEED TO GIVE HIM SOME
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- AS IF IT'S NOT ALL HIS.
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- - CLIFTON: YEAH.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- - GLORIA: SO I WAS GONNA
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- GIVE HIM SOME TIME.
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- SO I DECIDED TO GO TO CHURCH,
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- AND MY MOTHER WAS BROUGHT UP IN
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- CHURCH.
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- SHE WAS INUNDATED WITH CHURCH,
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- AND SHE MADE A SOLID VOW THAT,
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- WHEN SHE HAD CHILDREN, SHE
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- WOULDN'T MAKE THEM GO TO CHURCH,
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- SO SHE DIDN'T MAKE US GO TO
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- CHURCH, AND LAZY CHILDREN, WE
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- DIDN'T GO.
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- BUT I DECIDED, AT THIS POINT IN
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- MY LIFE, I WAS GONNA GO TO
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- CHURCH, AND SO I WENT TO THE
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- CHURCH THAT MY MOTHER AND MY
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- GRANDMOTHER HAD GONE TO.
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- IT WAS STILL THERE, AND SO THE
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- DAY THAT I WENT, SOMEBODY WAS
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- BEING ACCEPTED AS A MEMBER OF
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- THAT CHURCH.
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- THEY WERE FROM ANOTHER CHURCH,
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- AND THEY HAD MOVED INTO THE
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- CITY, AND THEY WANTED TO BE A
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- MEMBER OF THAT CHURCH, AND THEY
- 00:09:36.020 --> 00:09:39.020
- SAID THEM-- WELL, THEY BROUGHT
- 00:09:39.020 --> 00:09:40.110
- THEM UP FRONT AND ASKED THEM,
- 00:09:40.110 --> 00:09:42.040
- "DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE DEATH,
- 00:09:42.040 --> 00:09:42.260
- BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION OF
- 00:09:42.260 --> 00:09:43.160
- CHRIST?"
- 00:09:43.160 --> 00:09:44.220
- AND THEY SAID, "YES," AND THEN A
- 00:09:44.220 --> 00:09:47.110
- FEW MORE THINGS THEY SAID, AND
- 00:09:47.110 --> 00:09:48.290
- THEN THEY GAVE THEM WHAT THEY
- 00:09:48.290 --> 00:09:50.100
- CALLED "THE RIGHT HAND OF
- 00:09:50.100 --> 00:09:50.290
- FELLOWSHIP," AND I WENT HOME
- 00:09:50.290 --> 00:09:52.090
- THINKING, "OH, I CAN'T SAY THAT
- 00:09:52.090 --> 00:09:55.080
- BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT
- 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:56.070
- MEANS."
- 00:09:56.070 --> 00:09:58.220
- AND I DO HAVE TOO MUCH
- 00:09:58.220 --> 00:09:59.200
- RESPECT FOR GOD TO STAND UP IN
- 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:02.160
- CHURCH AND LIE.
- 00:10:02.160 --> 00:10:04.150
- BUT I WENT HOME AND I SAT DOWN
- 00:10:04.150 --> 00:10:06.100
- AT MY DINING ROOM TABLE, AND I
- 00:10:06.170 --> 00:10:09.170
- PULLED OUT A BIBLE THAT SOMEONE
- 00:10:09.170 --> 00:10:11.120
- HAD GIVEN ME SOME YEARS BEFORE,
- 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:12.100
- AND-- [BLOWING] -- BLEW THE DUST
- 00:10:12.100 --> 00:10:13.020
- OFF IT 'CAUSE I'VE NEVER READ
- 00:10:13.020 --> 00:10:13.230
- IT.
- 00:10:13.230 --> 00:10:15.080
- AND I SAID, "OKAY, LORD,
- 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.050
- SHOWDOWN."
- 00:10:17.110 --> 00:10:20.110
- YOU KNOW, I LOOK BACK
- 00:10:20.110 --> 00:10:21.100
- ON THAT AND REALIZE I'M SASSIN'
- 00:10:21.100 --> 00:10:22.020
- THE LORD.
- 00:10:22.020 --> 00:10:22.270
- SO I SAID, "SHOWDOWN.
- 00:10:22.270 --> 00:10:24.270
- I WANNA KNOW WHO THIS JESUS IS.
- 00:10:24.270 --> 00:10:27.180
- WHO IS JESUS?
- 00:10:27.180 --> 00:10:29.180
- AND I DON'T WANNA HEAR THIS FROM
- 00:10:30.020 --> 00:10:33.020
- THE LADY UPSTAIRS AND THE MAN
- 00:10:33.020 --> 00:10:33.230
- DOWN THE HALL.
- 00:10:33.230 --> 00:10:34.180
- I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT FROM
- 00:10:34.180 --> 00:10:35.070
- ANYBODY ELSE.
- 00:10:35.070 --> 00:10:36.080
- IF YOU CAN TALK TO A PREACHER, A
- 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:37.160
- PRIEST, A RABBI, YOU COULD TALK
- 00:10:37.160 --> 00:10:38.220
- TO ME.
- 00:10:38.220 --> 00:10:39.200
- I'M HERE.
- 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:40.060
- I'M LISTENING.
- 00:10:40.060 --> 00:10:41.000
- TALK."
- 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:41.280
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:10:41.280 --> 00:10:43.200
- - CLIFTON: I LOVE IT!
- 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:44.070
- - GLORIA: AND GUESS WHAT?
- 00:10:44.070 --> 00:10:45.030
- - CLIFTON: HE TALKED.
- 00:10:45.030 --> 00:10:45.200
- - GLORIA: HE TALKED.
- 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.000
- HE TALKED.
- 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:48.170
- HE TOLD ME TO OPEN THAT BIBLE TO
- 00:10:48.170 --> 00:10:49.090
- THE CENTER.
- 00:10:49.090 --> 00:10:50.120
- I'VE NEVER OPENED IT.
- 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.250
- I OPENED IT IN THE CENTER, AND
- 00:10:52.250 --> 00:10:53.270
- IN THE CENTER OF THE BIBLE WAS
- 00:10:55.040 --> 00:10:58.040
- WHAT WAS CALLED "THE HARMONIES
- 00:10:58.040 --> 00:10:58.250
- OF THE GOSPELS."
- 00:10:58.250 --> 00:11:00.210
- ON ONE SIDE OF THE PAGE,
- 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.000
- A LIST OF PROPHECIES OF THE
- 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.090
- FORTHCOMING MESSIAH, AND THEN
- 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:06.250
- ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
- 00:11:06.250 --> 00:11:08.120
- PAGE, A LIST OF SCRIPTURES
- 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.060
- WHEREIN CHRIST HAD FULFILLED
- 00:11:10.060 --> 00:11:11.210
- THOSE PROPHECIES, AND ONE OF
- 00:11:11.210 --> 00:11:13.290
- THEM WAS ISAIAH 7:14,
- 00:11:13.290 --> 00:11:15.160
- "FOR BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL
- 00:11:15.160 --> 00:11:17.150
- CONCEIVE,
- 00:11:17.150 --> 00:11:18.070
- AND BEAR A SON, AND SHALL CALL
- 00:11:18.070 --> 00:11:19.180
- AND THAT BIBLE TOLD ME THAT
- 00:11:22.070 --> 00:11:24.190
- "IMMANUEL" MEANT "GOD WITH US."
- 00:11:24.190 --> 00:11:25.290
- WELL, WHEN I READ THOSE WORDS,
- 00:11:25.290 --> 00:11:28.040
- "GOD WITH US," IT SHOOK ME TO MY
- 00:11:28.040 --> 00:11:28.260
- CORE.
- 00:11:28.260 --> 00:11:30.230
- I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOD, OH, MY
- 00:11:30.230 --> 00:11:32.070
- AND I SAT THERE WITH THAT BIBLE
- 00:11:35.270 --> 00:11:38.070
- FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND HALF.
- 00:11:38.070 --> 00:11:40.120
- I, REALIZING IN RETROSPECT, IT
- 00:11:40.250 --> 00:11:43.250
- WAS ME AND THE HOLY SPIRIT,
- 00:11:43.250 --> 00:11:45.120
- TAKING ME THROUGH THAT BIBLE,
- 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.160
- LESSONS AND THE HARMONIES AND
- 00:11:47.270 --> 00:11:50.270
- THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE FAITH,
- 00:11:50.270 --> 00:11:53.050
- AND THAT'S WHEN AND HOW I CAME
- 00:11:53.050 --> 00:11:55.030
- TO KNOW THE LORD, ALL BY MYSELF,
- 00:11:55.030 --> 00:11:56.110
- JUST ME AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.
- 00:11:56.110 --> 00:11:58.120
- I CANNOT TELL YOU WHAT AN
- 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:00.040
- AWESOME PRIVILEGE THAT WAS, AND
- 00:12:00.140 --> 00:12:03.140
- SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST ME AND
- 00:12:03.140 --> 00:12:06.030
- THE LORD.
- 00:12:06.030 --> 00:12:08.210
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:12:08.210 --> 00:12:09.240
- THE WORLD DIDN'T GIVE IT,
- 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:10.180
- AND THE WORLD CAN'T TAKE
- 00:12:10.180 --> 00:12:11.060
- IT AWAY.
- 00:12:11.060 --> 00:12:11.270
- - CLIFTON: THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:12:13.180 --> 00:12:16.180
- YOUR MOTHER WAS IN THE CHURCH,
- 00:12:16.180 --> 00:12:18.200
- BUT AS A CHILD, YOU DIDN'T GO TO
- 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.210
- CHURCH, SO IT WAS THAT
- 00:12:20.210 --> 00:12:23.000
- EXPERIENCE.
- 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:24.280
- YOU HAD TO COME THROUGH.
- 00:12:24.280 --> 00:12:27.280
- YOUR CAREER HAD ALREADY STARTED.
- 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:29.120
- YOU HAD BECOME FAMOUS.
- 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.100
- YOU HAD GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD,
- 00:12:30.100 --> 00:12:32.190
- AND IT WASN'T UNTIL THEN THAT
- 00:12:32.190 --> 00:12:35.000
- SOMETHING TOUCHED YOU TO SAY,
- 00:12:35.250 --> 00:12:38.250
- "TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT GOD HAS IN
- 00:12:38.250 --> 00:12:41.040
- STORE FOR YOU."
- 00:12:41.040 --> 00:12:43.040
- - GLORIA: YEAH.
- 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:45.090
- - CLIFTON: DID YOU FEEL LOVED
- 00:12:45.090 --> 00:12:46.030
- AS A CHILD?
- 00:12:46.030 --> 00:12:47.180
- DID YOU FEEL EMBRACED BY YOUR
- 00:12:47.180 --> 00:12:49.050
- PARENTS AND--
- 00:12:49.050 --> 00:12:50.130
- - GLORIA: BY MY MOTHER.
- 00:12:50.130 --> 00:12:51.110
- MY MOTHER WAS A SINGLE PARENT,
- 00:12:51.110 --> 00:12:53.010
- SIX CHILDREN-- SEVEN CHILDREN--
- 00:12:53.010 --> 00:12:55.220
- SIX SIBLINGS, IN A ONE-BEDROOM
- 00:12:55.220 --> 00:12:58.100
- APARTMENT.
- 00:12:58.100 --> 00:12:59.260
- - CLIFTON: MM.
- 00:12:59.260 --> 00:13:01.150
- - GLORIA: YEAH, WE DIDN'T HAVE
- 00:13:01.150 --> 00:13:02.070
- MUCH.
- 00:13:02.070 --> 00:13:03.220
- I REMEMBER MY MOTHER SENDIN' ME
- 00:13:03.220 --> 00:13:04.140
- TO THE STORE TO BUY DINNER WITH
- 00:13:04.140 --> 00:13:05.100
- 25 CENTS.
- 00:13:05.190 --> 00:13:08.190
- - CLIFTON: LORD, HAVE MERCY.
- 00:13:08.190 --> 00:13:09.260
- - GLORIA: TEN CENTS, FIFTEEN
- 00:13:09.260 --> 00:13:10.230
- CENTS WORTH OF BACON SKINS AND
- 00:13:10.230 --> 00:13:11.220
- 10 CENTS WORTH OF BEANS.
- 00:13:11.220 --> 00:13:13.180
- BUT SHE WORKED THOSE SPICES, AND
- 00:13:13.180 --> 00:13:16.150
- WE HAD COMPANY FOR DINNER.
- 00:13:16.150 --> 00:13:18.170
- MY MOTHER WAS AN AWESOME COOK,
- 00:13:18.170 --> 00:13:19.290
- AND PEOPLE WOULD COME AND LEAVE
- 00:13:19.290 --> 00:13:21.200
- THEIR CHOPS AND THEIR STEAKS AND
- 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.210
- WHATEVER, AND COME AND EAT BEANS
- 00:13:23.210 --> 00:13:26.190
- WITH US AND BREAD, FLAT BREAD,
- 00:13:26.190 --> 00:13:29.020
- WHERE SHE MADE IT IN AN ANIMAL
- 00:13:29.020 --> 00:13:30.120
- SHAPE, OH, YEAH.
- 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:31.200
- - CLIFTON: I WAS WORKIN' ON
- 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.000
- "MADAM SECRETARY" THE OTHER DAY,
- 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:36.210
- AND THEY WERE OFFERING ME SOME
- 00:13:36.210 --> 00:13:39.010
- FOOD FROM WHAT THEY CALL CRAFTY
- 00:13:39.010 --> 00:13:39.280
- CRAFT SERVICES.
- 00:13:39.280 --> 00:13:41.270
- I SAID, "WELL, WHAT DO THEY
- 00:13:41.270 --> 00:13:43.020
- GOT?"
- 00:13:43.020 --> 00:13:43.210
- THEY SAID, "THEY'VE GOT SOME
- 00:13:43.210 --> 00:13:46.010
- GNOCCI, AND THEY HAVE A LITTLE
- 00:13:46.010 --> 00:13:49.000
- BROCCOLI RAVIOLI."
- 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:49.220
- I SAID, "NO,
- 00:13:49.220 --> 00:13:50.070
- THAT'S OKAY.
- 00:13:50.070 --> 00:13:51.200
- I'M A GO HOME AND HAVE SOME
- 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:52.110
- BEANS AND FRANKS."
- 00:13:52.110 --> 00:13:52.280
- - GLORIA: I HEAR THAT.
- 00:13:52.280 --> 00:13:54.120
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.210
- OH, YES.
- 00:13:56.210 --> 00:13:57.200
- - CLIFTON: I NEEDED A LITTLE
- 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:58.110
- COMFORT FOOD, YOU KNOW, THE
- 00:13:58.110 --> 00:13:59.130
- STUFF THAT I REMEMBER BACK IN
- 00:13:59.130 --> 00:14:01.120
- THE DAY, AND IT WASN'T ALWAYS
- 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:02.250
- FRANKS, AND SOMETIMES THERE
- 00:14:02.250 --> 00:14:04.060
- WASN'T ALWAYS BEANS.
- 00:14:04.060 --> 00:14:06.270
- - GLORIA: EXACTLY.
- 00:14:06.270 --> 00:14:07.140
- - CLIFTON: BUT GOD HAS BEEN
- 00:14:07.140 --> 00:14:08.060
- GOOD, AND HE BROUGHT US ALL
- 00:14:08.060 --> 00:14:09.020
- THROUGH ON THAT JOURNEY.
- 00:14:09.020 --> 00:14:09.220
- HOW 'BOUT THAT?
- 00:14:09.220 --> 00:14:10.150
- - GLORIA: YES, YES.
- 00:14:10.150 --> 00:14:12.040
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:15.080
- - CLIFTON: SO YOU DIDN'T
- 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:16.190
- GO TO CHURCH AS A CHILD,
- 00:14:16.190 --> 00:14:17.280
- BUT HOW DID THE DECISION TO
- 00:14:17.290 --> 00:14:20.290
- BECOME A CHRISTIAN AND TO COME
- 00:14:20.290 --> 00:14:22.180
- TO KNOW GOD AFFECT YOUR CAREER?
- 00:14:22.180 --> 00:14:25.110
- BECAUSE YOU WERE ALREADY A
- 00:14:25.110 --> 00:14:26.220
- DISCO DIVA.
- 00:14:26.220 --> 00:14:28.280
- - GLORIA: I WAS ALREADY A
- 00:14:28.280 --> 00:14:29.170
- DISCO DIVA.
- 00:14:29.170 --> 00:14:30.010
- - CLIFTON: AS I REMEMBER YOU
- 00:14:30.010 --> 00:14:30.290
- COMING BACKSTAGE ON MY FIRST
- 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.120
- TELEVISION SHOW, "THAT'S MY
- 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.140
- MAMA," AND YOU HAD JUST
- 00:14:36.140 --> 00:14:38.260
- RECORDED--
- 00:14:38.260 --> 00:14:40.020
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:14:40.160 --> 00:14:43.160
- SOME OF YOU MAY OR
- 00:14:43.160 --> 00:14:44.130
- MAY NOT KNOW THAT I WROTE
- 00:14:44.130 --> 00:14:45.280
- A SONG CALLED "NEVER CAN
- 00:14:45.280 --> 00:14:47.140
- SAY GOODBYE," AND PROBABLY--
- 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.120
- MICHAEL JACKSON DID A GREAT JOB,
- 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:52.130
- BUT I GOTTA TELL YOU, GLORIA
- 00:14:52.130 --> 00:14:54.120
- GAYNOR WORE THAT SONG OUT AND
- 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.000
- SOLD A BUNCH OF 'EM, AND SHE
- 00:14:57.030 --> 00:15:00.050
- CAME BACKSTAGE, JUST AFTER SHE
- 00:15:00.050 --> 00:15:02.240
- RECORDED IT, ONTO THE SET AT
- 00:15:02.290 --> 00:15:05.290
- ABC TELEVISION, AND WE TOOK SOME
- 00:15:05.290 --> 00:15:08.130
- PHOTOS, AND IT WAS GREAT TO MEET
- 00:15:08.130 --> 00:15:11.070
- HER AT THAT TIME, AND THE
- 00:15:11.070 --> 00:15:13.040
- TRANSITION FOR HER FROM A NEWBIE
- 00:15:14.170 --> 00:15:17.170
- TO A STAR WAS LIKE "WHOOSH."
- 00:15:17.250 --> 00:15:20.250
- SUDDENLY IT WAS JUST ALL THERE
- 00:15:20.250 --> 00:15:22.100
- FOR YOU.
- 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:23.250
- SO DID BECOMING A CHRISTIAN IN
- 00:15:25.010 --> 00:15:28.010
- 1982 HAVE ANY IMPACT ON THAT
- 00:15:28.010 --> 00:15:29.030
- JOURNEY?
- 00:15:29.030 --> 00:15:30.290
- - GLORIA: YES, IT DID,
- 00:15:30.290 --> 00:15:32.180
- ESPECIALLY SINCE MY HUSBAND WAS
- 00:15:32.180 --> 00:15:34.170
- A NOMINAL CATHOLIC AND WASN'T
- 00:15:34.170 --> 00:15:36.250
- PRACTICING CATHOLICISM, WASN'T
- 00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:42.280
- PRACTICING HIS RELIGION AT ALL
- 00:15:42.280 --> 00:15:44.070
- AND WAS LIVING A TOTALLY SECULAR
- 00:15:44.160 --> 00:15:47.160
- LIFE AND LOVED IT, WANTED IT
- 00:15:47.160 --> 00:15:49.010
- THAT WAY, AND WHEN I CAME TO HIM
- 00:15:49.010 --> 00:15:51.200
- AND TOLD HIM THAT I DIDN'T WANNA
- 00:15:51.280 --> 00:15:54.280
- RECORD DISCO MUSIC ANYMORE, HE
- 00:15:54.280 --> 00:15:56.050
- WAS LIKE, "UH, REALLY?"
- 00:15:56.050 --> 00:15:58.150
- "NO, THAT' AIN'T GONNA WORK."
- 00:15:58.150 --> 00:15:59.230
- AND SO WE WENT THROUGH SOME
- 00:15:59.230 --> 00:16:01.060
- CHANGES, AND SO IT WAS REALLY,
- 00:16:01.070 --> 00:16:04.070
- REALLY DIFFICULT.
- 00:16:04.070 --> 00:16:06.030
- IT WAS A REAL TUG-OF-WAR BETWEEN
- 00:16:06.070 --> 00:16:09.070
- HIM AND ME, WHAT I WAS GOING TO
- 00:16:09.070 --> 00:16:10.160
- DO.
- 00:16:10.160 --> 00:16:12.100
- - CLIFTON: WAS HE INVOLVED IN
- 00:16:12.100 --> 00:16:13.020
- YOUR CAREER?
- 00:16:13.020 --> 00:16:14.080
- - GLORIA: HE WAS MY MANAGER.
- 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:15.080
- - CLIFTON: OH, HE WAS YOUR
- 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:15.280
- MANAGER.
- 00:16:15.280 --> 00:16:16.120
- - GLORIA: HE WAS MY MANAGER,
- 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:17.030
- YES.
- 00:16:17.030 --> 00:16:17.160
- - CLIFTON: OKAY.
- 00:16:17.160 --> 00:16:18.040
- - GLORIA: YES, HE WAS MY
- 00:16:18.040 --> 00:16:18.230
- MANAGER SO--
- 00:16:18.230 --> 00:16:19.160
- - CLIFTON: AND YOUR HUSBAND.
- 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:20.110
- - GLORIA: AND MY HUSBAND, SO HE
- 00:16:20.110 --> 00:16:22.160
- HAD A LOT OF SAY-SO IN WHATEVER
- 00:16:22.160 --> 00:16:24.120
- I DID, OF COURSE, AND SO THAT
- 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.130
- WAS A REAL TUG-OF-WAR BETWEEN
- 00:16:26.130 --> 00:16:27.090
- THE TWO OF US.
- 00:16:27.090 --> 00:16:29.100
- - CLIFTON: HOW LONG DID YOU
- 00:16:29.100 --> 00:16:32.020
- HAVE TO FIGHT THAT BATTLE BEFORE
- 00:16:32.020 --> 00:16:33.270
- YOU WERE ABLE TO BREAK OUT?
- 00:16:34.010 --> 00:16:37.010
- - GLORIA: WELL, WHAT HAPPENED
- 00:16:37.010 --> 00:16:39.230
- WAS I FOUGHT THE BATTLE FOR--
- 00:16:39.230 --> 00:16:40.210
- LET ME SEE.
- 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.240
- IT WAS IN 1982 THAT I GOT SAVED.
- 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.020
- IT WAS 1989 THAT MY HUSBAND AND
- 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:48.040
- I FIRST SEPARATED, AND I SPENT A
- 00:16:49.050 --> 00:16:52.050
- LITTLE OVER A YEAR, ABOUT A YEAR
- 00:16:52.050 --> 00:16:53.250
- AND 2 MONTHS WITH VIRTUALLY
- 00:16:53.250 --> 00:16:55.220
- NOTHING.
- 00:16:56.140 --> 00:16:59.140
- BECAUSE HE WAS MY MANAGER, I HAD
- 00:16:59.140 --> 00:17:00.150
- NO WORK.
- 00:17:00.150 --> 00:17:01.180
- I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO FIND-- TO
- 00:17:01.180 --> 00:17:03.050
- GET WORK.
- 00:17:03.050 --> 00:17:04.100
- I WENT TO DIFFERENT MANAGERS,
- 00:17:04.100 --> 00:17:07.070
- AND THEY WEREN'T INTERESTED.
- 00:17:07.120 --> 00:17:10.120
- THE RECORD COMPANY WAS DOING
- 00:17:10.120 --> 00:17:11.190
- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH ME OR
- 00:17:11.190 --> 00:17:13.030
- FOR ME, AND IT WAS REALLY,
- 00:17:13.030 --> 00:17:15.000
- REALLY HARD, BUT WITH NO WORK,
- 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.240
- NO INCOME, LITERALLY DID NOT
- 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:21.080
- KNOW WHERE MY NEXT MEAL WAS
- 00:17:21.080 --> 00:17:22.220
- COMING FROM, BUT "FROM THE
- 00:17:22.220 --> 00:17:25.210
- HILLS, WHENCE COMETH MY HELP."
- 00:17:26.210 --> 00:17:29.210
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:17:29.210 --> 00:17:31.120
- THAT WAS THE WORST AND
- 00:17:31.120 --> 00:17:33.080
- THE BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE.
- 00:17:33.150 --> 00:17:36.150
- THE WORST AND THE BEST YEAR OF
- 00:17:36.150 --> 00:17:37.190
- MY LIFE.
- 00:17:37.190 --> 00:17:38.220
- - CLIFTON: AND WHY THE BEST?
- 00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:40.140
- 'CAUSE WE COULD HEAR HOW IT WAS
- 00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:41.060
- THE WORST.
- 00:17:41.060 --> 00:17:42.000
- - GLORIA: RIGHT, THE BEST
- 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.260
- BECAUSE THE LORD WAS THERE EVERY
- 00:17:44.260 --> 00:17:45.180
- STEP OF THE WAY.
- 00:17:45.180 --> 00:17:47.030
- EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, HE WAS
- 00:17:47.030 --> 00:17:47.290
- WITH ME.
- 00:17:47.290 --> 00:17:49.150
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:17:51.120 --> 00:17:54.120
- I'LL NEVER FORGET I WENT
- 00:17:54.120 --> 00:17:55.140
- TO SCRAPE SOME MONEY TOGETHER
- 00:17:55.140 --> 00:17:56.180
- TO GO AND VISIT A FRIEND
- 00:17:56.180 --> 00:17:57.270
- WHO WAS VISITING FROM ENGLAND,
- 00:17:57.270 --> 00:17:58.180
- COME TO NEW YORK FROM ENGLAND,
- 00:17:58.180 --> 00:17:59.220
- AND I WENT OVER TO SEE HIM.
- 00:17:59.220 --> 00:18:00.230
- I JUST HAD BUS FARE THERE AND
- 00:18:00.230 --> 00:18:01.140
- BUS FARE BACK, AND ON THE WAY
- 00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:03.200
- BACK, I ASKED HIM, I SAID,
- 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.200
- "MALCOLM, I HATE TO ASK YOU
- 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:08.140
- THIS, BUT CAN YOU LOAN ME, YOU
- 00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:10.010
- KNOW, A FEW DOLLARS?"
- 00:18:10.010 --> 00:18:12.000
- AND HE PEELED $300 OFF A ROLL HE
- 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.110
- HAD AND GAVE IT TO ME, AND I
- 00:18:13.110 --> 00:18:14.140
- SAID, "THANK YOU.
- 00:18:14.140 --> 00:18:16.160
- I DON'T KNOW WHEN I'LL BE ABLE
- 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:17.080
- TO PAY YOU BACK."
- 00:18:17.080 --> 00:18:18.040
- HE SAID, "PAY ME BACK WHEN
- 00:18:18.040 --> 00:18:18.230
- YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN."
- 00:18:18.230 --> 00:18:19.240
- I WENT HOME AND WAS
- 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.250
- SITTING DOWN.
- 00:18:21.250 --> 00:18:22.290
- I HAD MADE DINNER FOR-- I WAS
- 00:18:22.290 --> 00:18:23.280
- STAYING WITH MY NIECE, AND I HAD
- 00:18:23.280 --> 00:18:25.290
- AND SHE SAID SHE WAS GONNA GO
- 00:18:28.080 --> 00:18:29.090
- DOWN AND PAY THE RENT.
- 00:18:29.090 --> 00:18:29.290
- THE RENT WAS $300.
- 00:18:29.290 --> 00:18:31.240
- SHE WENT DOWN, AND SHE PAID THE
- 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:32.160
- RENT.
- 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:33.110
- SHE CAME BACK CRYING BECAUSE,
- 00:18:33.110 --> 00:18:35.030
- LONG STORY SHORT, HER
- 00:18:35.030 --> 00:18:36.140
- SUPERINTENDENT HAD TAKEN THE
- 00:18:36.140 --> 00:18:38.160
- MONEY FROM HER IN LIEU OF A DEBT
- 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.020
- AND SO THE RENT WASN'T PAID.
- 00:18:43.220 --> 00:18:44.240
- SO I SAID, "NO, DON'T WORRY
- 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:45.290
- ABOUT IT."
- 00:18:48.220 --> 00:18:51.220
- I GAVE HER THE $300 THAT I HAD.
- 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:52.140
- SHE SAID, "WELL, WHAT ARE YOU
- 00:18:52.140 --> 00:18:53.050
- GONNA DO?
- 00:18:53.050 --> 00:18:54.040
- THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE."
- 00:18:54.040 --> 00:18:54.210
- I SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 00:18:54.210 --> 00:18:55.100
- THE LORD PROVIDED THAT.
- 00:18:55.100 --> 00:18:56.030
- HE'LL PROVIDE MORE."
- 00:18:56.030 --> 00:18:56.250
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:18:56.250 --> 00:18:57.260
- SO WE FINISHED OUR DINNER, AND
- 00:18:57.260 --> 00:18:59.100
- SHE SAID, "OH, AUNT GLO, I
- 00:18:59.100 --> 00:19:01.100
- FORGOT TO GIVE YOU YOUR MAIL."
- 00:19:01.100 --> 00:19:02.150
- SHE GIVES ME MY MAIL.
- 00:19:02.150 --> 00:19:03.030
- THERE'S A CHECK FOR $300.
- 00:19:03.030 --> 00:19:05.000
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:05.220
- TO THIS DAY, I DON'T KNOW
- 00:19:06.050 --> 00:19:09.050
- WHERE THAT CHECK CAME FROM.
- 00:19:09.050 --> 00:19:11.120
- I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM
- 00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:12.040
- EXCEPT GOD.
- 00:19:12.040 --> 00:19:13.180
- - CLIFTON: I GOTTA TELL OUR
- 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:14.150
- VIEWING AUDIENCE, THIS ISN'T
- 00:19:14.150 --> 00:19:15.210
- PLANNED.
- 00:19:15.230 --> 00:19:18.230
- WE DIDN'T PLAN TO TELL YOU THAT
- 00:19:18.230 --> 00:19:20.070
- STORY.
- 00:19:20.070 --> 00:19:22.020
- THIS IS HOW GOD WORKS FROM TIME
- 00:19:22.090 --> 00:19:25.090
- TO TIME, OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
- 00:19:25.090 --> 00:19:27.090
- IT'S HAPPENED TO ME MORE TIMES
- 00:19:27.090 --> 00:19:29.190
- THAN I CAN REMEMBER, BUT HOW
- 00:19:29.190 --> 00:19:31.290
- WONDERFUL TO HEAR THE STORY OF
- 00:19:31.290 --> 00:19:34.120
- HOW HE DELIVERED YOU IN THAT
- 00:19:34.120 --> 00:19:36.170
- MOMENT.
- 00:19:36.170 --> 00:19:38.040
- - GLORIA: OH, YEAH.
- 00:19:38.040 --> 00:19:38.220
- - CLIFTON: WHAT A GREAT
- 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:39.100
- EXPERIENCE, AND THAT'S NO WONDER
- 00:19:39.100 --> 00:19:40.030
- IF WAS A GREAT YEAR, AND IT
- 00:19:40.030 --> 00:19:41.090
- SEEMS AS THOUGH WE HAVE TO GO
- 00:19:41.270 --> 00:19:44.270
- THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT STUFF IN
- 00:19:44.270 --> 00:19:47.010
- ORDER TO FIND OUT HOW GREAT OUR
- 00:19:47.010 --> 00:19:49.040
- GOD IS.
- 00:19:49.040 --> 00:19:50.010
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:19:50.010 --> 00:19:51.170
- - GLORIA: OH, YES, OH, YES.
- 00:19:55.100 --> 00:19:58.100
- - CLIFTON: WHAT ARE THE
- 00:19:58.180 --> 00:20:01.180
- CHALLENGES YOU FIND IN TRYING TO
- 00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:02.100
- WALK WITH THE LORD AND STILL
- 00:20:02.100 --> 00:20:03.100
- MAINTAIN WHAT IS YOUR HISTORY,
- 00:20:03.100 --> 00:20:05.140
- YOUR CAREER, YOUR LEGACY IN
- 00:20:05.140 --> 00:20:07.010
- MUSIC?
- 00:20:07.010 --> 00:20:09.120
- - GLORIA: WELL, YOU GET PULLED.
- 00:20:11.070 --> 00:20:14.070
- YOU KNOW, YOU GET PULLED.
- 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.200
- THERE IS A PULL ON YOU TO DRESS
- 00:20:17.280 --> 00:20:20.280
- A CERTAIN WAY, TO LIVE A CERTAIN
- 00:20:22.100 --> 00:20:25.100
- WAY, TO DRINK, TO SMOKE, TO, YOU
- 00:20:25.100 --> 00:20:26.100
- KNOW, EVEN DO DRUGS.
- 00:20:26.110 --> 00:20:29.110
- I'VE HAD PEOPLE BRING ME DRUGS.
- 00:20:31.180 --> 00:20:34.180
- I'M LIKE, "UH, NO.
- 00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:35.210
- THAT'S NOT MY THING."
- 00:20:35.210 --> 00:20:38.070
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:20:38.290 --> 00:20:41.290
- BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS
- 00:20:41.290 --> 00:20:42.210
- BUSINESS HAS COME TO BE ABOUT,
- 00:20:43.210 --> 00:20:46.210
- IT SEEMS.
- 00:20:48.060 --> 00:20:51.060
- WE KNOW, AS CHRISTIANS, IF YOU
- 00:20:51.060 --> 00:20:53.200
- READ AND YOU STUDY THE WORD, YOU
- 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:54.250
- COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT MUSIC
- 00:20:55.130 --> 00:20:58.130
- WAS THE ENEMY'S--
- 00:20:58.130 --> 00:20:59.100
- THAT WAS HIS THING.
- 00:20:59.100 --> 00:21:00.180
- THAT'S A GIFT, AND GOD'S GIFTS
- 00:21:00.180 --> 00:21:01.090
- ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE.
- 00:21:01.090 --> 00:21:02.240
- SO HE STILL WANTS TO BE IN
- 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.090
- CONTROL OF THAT BUSINESS, SO HE
- 00:21:05.190 --> 00:21:08.190
- WANTS TO BE IN CONTROL OF THE
- 00:21:08.190 --> 00:21:10.100
- PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THAT
- 00:21:10.100 --> 00:21:11.130
- BUSINESS, AND HE WILL SEND YOU
- 00:21:11.130 --> 00:21:12.250
- ALL KINDS OF TEMPTATIONS, AND
- 00:21:12.250 --> 00:21:14.270
- SOMETIMES HE A LITTLE BIT STUPID
- 00:21:16.080 --> 00:21:19.080
- 'CAUSE HE DON'T REALIZE THAT'S
- 00:21:19.080 --> 00:21:20.060
- NOT TEMPTATION FOR ME ANYMORE.
- 00:21:20.060 --> 00:21:21.090
- - CLIFTON: PRAISE THE LORD.
- 00:21:21.090 --> 00:21:22.290
- - GLORIA: OH, HE WILL STILL
- 00:21:22.290 --> 00:21:24.160
- SEND THOSE THINGS, SO AT THIS
- 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:25.280
- POINT IN MY LIFE, IT'S JUST A
- 00:21:25.280 --> 00:21:27.290
- NUISANCE.
- 00:21:27.290 --> 00:21:30.180
- YEAH, IT'S KIND OF A NUISANCE.
- 00:21:30.180 --> 00:21:32.070
- - CLIFTON: SO THE CONFLICT THAT
- 00:21:32.070 --> 00:21:34.000
- YOU FEEL FROM TIME TO TIME IS
- 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:36.180
- NOT THE SAME ONE THAT SO MANY
- 00:21:36.180 --> 00:21:38.270
- OTHER ARTISTS HAVE BECAUSE
- 00:21:38.270 --> 00:21:41.250
- YOU'RE NOT TEMPTED IN THE WAY
- 00:21:41.250 --> 00:21:42.160
- THEY ARE.
- 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:42.290
- - GLORIA: NO.
- 00:21:42.290 --> 00:21:44.080
- - CLIFTON: BUT THE CONFLICT IS
- 00:21:44.080 --> 00:21:45.100
- HAVING TO DO WHAT PERHAPS WHAT
- 00:21:45.100 --> 00:21:47.060
- YOU WOULD RATHER NOT DO, IN
- 00:21:47.060 --> 00:21:49.090
- TERMS OF RECALLING THE SONGS,
- 00:21:49.090 --> 00:21:50.240
- AND THEN BRINGING YOUR NEW
- 00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:52.220
- MATERIAL INTO BEING?
- 00:21:52.250 --> 00:21:55.250
- - GLORIA: YES, BUT YOU KNOW
- 00:21:55.250 --> 00:21:56.190
- WHAT?
- 00:21:56.190 --> 00:21:57.180
- DURING THAT YEAR, I SPENT SO
- 00:21:58.100 --> 00:22:01.120
- MUCH TIME WITH THE LORD, AND
- 00:22:01.120 --> 00:22:02.160
- WHEN I WANTED TO DO-- I TRIED TO
- 00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:06.180
- BARGAIN WITH HIM.
- 00:22:06.180 --> 00:22:07.200
- YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE, "OKAY, SO,
- 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:08.230
- LORD, SO I THINK THAT YOU DIDN'T
- 00:22:08.230 --> 00:22:10.010
- WANT ME TO DO ANYTHING.
- 00:22:10.010 --> 00:22:12.130
- YOU WANT ME TO SPEND THIS TIME
- 00:22:12.130 --> 00:22:13.270
- WITH YOU, AND I'M SPENDING THIS
- 00:22:13.270 --> 00:22:15.000
- TIME WITH YOU, SO WHEN I GO
- 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:17.070
- BACK, I'M GONNA DO A GOSPEL SONG
- 00:22:20.030 --> 00:22:23.030
- ON EVERY ONE OF MY ALBUMS," AND
- 00:22:23.030 --> 00:22:24.180
- HE SAID, "NO."
- 00:22:24.280 --> 00:22:27.280
- I SAID, "OKAY,
- 00:22:27.280 --> 00:22:30.130
- I'LL DO TWO."
- 00:22:30.130 --> 00:22:31.240
- HE SAID, "NO."
- 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:33.290
- I SAID, "OKAY,
- 00:22:33.290 --> 00:22:36.000
- I'LL DO HALF GOSPEL AND HALF--"
- 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.240
- I DON'T KNOW WHAT RECORD COMPANY
- 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:39.230
- I THOUGHT WAS GONNA LET ME
- 00:22:39.230 --> 00:22:40.210
- DO THAT, BUT I FIGURED,
- 00:22:40.210 --> 00:22:43.120
- YOU KNOW, HE'S IN CONTROL.
- 00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:45.030
- MAYBE HE'LL MAKE 'EM LET ME.
- 00:22:45.030 --> 00:22:47.030
- AND HE'S LIKE,
- 00:22:47.030 --> 00:22:47.240
- I WAS LIKE, "OH, WOW, SO YOU
- 00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:53.200
- WANT ME TO-- OKAY.
- 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.120
- I'LL DO ALL GOSPEL.
- 00:22:56.020 --> 00:22:59.020
- I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE A FIGHT
- 00:22:59.020 --> 00:22:59.220
- WITH MY HUSBAND/MANAGER, BUT IF
- 00:22:59.220 --> 00:23:02.070
- YOU WANT ME TO DO ALL GOSPEL
- 00:23:02.070 --> 00:23:03.090
- MUSIC, THAT'S WHAT I--" AND HE
- 00:23:03.090 --> 00:23:04.160
- AND NOW I'M REALLY PUZZLED.
- 00:23:08.180 --> 00:23:10.100
- - CLIFTON: YES.
- 00:23:10.100 --> 00:23:11.210
- - GLORIA: HE SAID, "MY WORD IS
- 00:23:12.280 --> 00:23:15.280
- ABOUT ALL THE ISSUES OF LIFE.
- 00:23:16.030 --> 00:23:19.030
- WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES YOU THINK
- 00:23:19.030 --> 00:23:20.050
- I WOULDN'T WANT YOU TO SING
- 00:23:20.050 --> 00:23:21.060
- ABOUT ALL THE ISSUES OF LIFE
- 00:23:21.060 --> 00:23:22.210
- FROM MY POINT OF VIEW?"
- 00:23:23.130 --> 00:23:26.130
- HE SAID, "I WANT YOU TO TAKE
- 00:23:26.130 --> 00:23:27.230
- WHATEVER YOU SING, I WANT IT TO
- 00:23:27.230 --> 00:23:30.230
- BE IN KEEPING WITH MY WILL, MY
- 00:23:30.230 --> 00:23:32.260
- WORD, AND MY WAYS, AND I WANT
- 00:23:32.260 --> 00:23:35.050
- YOU TO TAKE IT RIGHT BACK TO
- 00:23:35.050 --> 00:23:36.070
- THOSE PEOPLE YOU'VE BEEN SINGIN'
- 00:23:36.070 --> 00:23:37.010
- TO ALL ALONG."
- 00:23:37.010 --> 00:23:38.020
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:23:39.140 --> 00:23:42.140
- SO THAT'S WHAT I DO.
- 00:23:42.140 --> 00:23:43.270
- I, IN EVERY ONE OF MY SHOWS, I
- 00:23:43.270 --> 00:23:45.190
- DO A FEW CHRISTIAN SONGS, BUT I
- 00:23:45.190 --> 00:23:48.150
- SING THE SONGS THAT I'VE BEEN
- 00:23:48.150 --> 00:23:50.170
- SINGING.
- 00:23:50.170 --> 00:23:51.110
- I SING "NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE."
- 00:23:51.110 --> 00:23:52.100
- I SING "I WILL SURVIVE."
- 00:23:52.100 --> 00:23:53.110
- I SING "I AM WHAT I AM,"
- 00:23:53.110 --> 00:23:55.020
- AND I CHANGE SOME OF THE
- 00:23:55.020 --> 00:23:57.110
- LYRICS TO BE IN KEEPING
- 00:23:57.110 --> 00:23:58.000
- WITH HIS WILL, HIS WORD,
- 00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:59.130
- AND HIS WAYS.
- 00:23:59.130 --> 00:24:00.160
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:02.040
- - CLIFTON: HALLELUJAH!
- 00:24:03.130 --> 00:24:06.130
- HOW ABOUT THAT?
- 00:24:06.130 --> 00:24:08.170
- I FOUND THAT IN MY EXPERIENCE AS
- 00:24:08.170 --> 00:24:09.210
- WELL.
- 00:24:09.210 --> 00:24:10.260
- I HAD TO COME INTO THE
- 00:24:10.260 --> 00:24:13.080
- RESOLUTION TO RESOLVE, YOU KNOW,
- 00:24:13.080 --> 00:24:14.280
- HAVING WRITTEN SECULAR MUSIC FOR
- 00:24:14.280 --> 00:24:17.120
- MOTOWN FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND
- 00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:19.130
- WHETHER OR NOT I SHOULD DO IT AT
- 00:24:19.130 --> 00:24:21.060
- ALL, AND, OF COURSE, GOD SAID,
- 00:24:21.060 --> 00:24:22.130
- "I WROTE THAT WITH YOU, HUH?
- 00:24:22.130 --> 00:24:23.240
- WHO YOU THINK GAVE YOU THAT
- 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:24.190
- SONG?"
- 00:24:26.040 --> 00:24:29.040
- I SAID, "OH, THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:24:29.040 --> 00:24:29.260
- YOU DID IT, LORD."
- 00:24:29.260 --> 00:24:31.200
- AND SO, I HONOR HIM WITH
- 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:32.270
- MY GIFTS.
- 00:24:32.270 --> 00:24:34.080
- YOU KNOW, LIKE "THE LITTLE
- 00:24:34.080 --> 00:24:36.060
- DRUMMER BOY" IN THE CHRISTMAS
- 00:24:36.060 --> 00:24:36.280
- SONG, YOU KNOW?
- 00:24:36.280 --> 00:24:38.280
- "SO I HONOR YOU WITH MY DRUM."
- 00:24:39.020 --> 00:24:42.020
- - GLORIA: EXACTLY.
- 00:24:42.020 --> 00:24:43.060
- - CLIFTON: SO BRING YOUR DRUM
- 00:24:43.060 --> 00:24:43.270
- AND HONOR THE LORD.
- 00:24:43.270 --> 00:24:44.200
- I LOVE THAT.
- 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:45.270
- WHAT'S BEEN YOUR GREATEST
- 00:24:45.270 --> 00:24:47.060
- CHALLENGE SINCE BECOMING A
- 00:24:47.090 --> 00:24:50.090
- CHRISTIAN?
- 00:24:50.090 --> 00:24:51.210
- - GLORIA: WHAT'S BEEN MY
- 00:24:51.210 --> 00:24:53.210
- GREATEST CHALLENGE?
- 00:24:53.210 --> 00:24:55.040
- IT'S NOT PREACHING.
- 00:24:55.040 --> 00:24:56.240
- LEARNING TO SHARE, TO SHARE MY
- 00:24:56.250 --> 00:24:59.250
- FAITH, AND SO I'M A VERY
- 00:24:59.250 --> 00:25:02.190
- ANALYTICAL AND VERY PRACTICAL
- 00:25:02.190 --> 00:25:05.000
- PERSON, ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, AND SO
- 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:06.270
- I DECIDED THAT WHAT I HAD TO DO,
- 00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:10.180
- I RECOGNIZE.
- 00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:12.000
- WE CAN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THAT.
- 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.280
- WHAT I HAD TO DO WAS SHARE MY
- 00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:14.270
- FAITH LIKE I WOULD SHARE A
- 00:25:14.270 --> 00:25:17.000
- WONDERFUL, DELICIOUS PIECE OF
- 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:18.050
- CHOCOLATE CAKE, YOU KNOW?
- 00:25:18.050 --> 00:25:19.110
- "THIS IS WONDERFUL.
- 00:25:19.110 --> 00:25:21.210
- THIS IS GREAT.
- 00:25:21.210 --> 00:25:22.150
- THIS IS AWESOME.
- 00:25:22.150 --> 00:25:23.100
- I LOVE IT.
- 00:25:23.100 --> 00:25:24.210
- DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA
- 00:25:24.210 --> 00:25:25.290
- LIKE IT OR NOT, BUT I LOVE IT.
- 00:25:25.290 --> 00:25:27.020
- TRY, TRY THIS.
- 00:25:27.020 --> 00:25:29.170
- TASTE THIS, TRY."
- 00:25:29.170 --> 00:25:30.270
- AND THIS IS WHAT I DO,
- 00:25:30.270 --> 00:25:31.260
- AND I JUST KIND OF MINISTER TO
- 00:25:31.260 --> 00:25:34.190
- THEM, WHEREVER THEY ARE, ABOUT
- 00:25:34.190 --> 00:25:36.160
- WHATEVER THEIR CONCERNS ARE.
- 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.140
- I WILL PRAY FOR PEOPLE IN A
- 00:25:38.140 --> 00:25:40.030
- HEARTBEAT AND JUST SHARE, JUST
- 00:25:40.070 --> 00:25:43.070
- REALLY JUST SHARE, NOT TO SHOVE
- 00:25:43.070 --> 00:25:45.240
- ANYTHING DOWN ANYBODY'S THROAT,
- 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:47.080
- BUT JUST SHARE, AND ONE OF THE
- 00:25:48.170 --> 00:25:51.170
- THINGS I DO IN SHARING IS JUST
- 00:25:51.170 --> 00:25:52.180
- EXPLAIN TO THEM AND SHOW THEM,
- 00:25:52.180 --> 00:25:53.200
- TELL THEM WHAT GOD DID FOR ME.
- 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:54.250
- I CAME UP, AS I SAID, IN A
- 00:25:55.010 --> 00:25:58.010
- ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENT WITH SIX
- 00:25:58.010 --> 00:26:00.140
- SIBLINGS, YEAH.
- 00:26:00.140 --> 00:26:01.190
- AND WHEN MY MOTHER PASSED AWAY
- 00:26:01.190 --> 00:26:04.160
- AND WE HAD TO MOVE, I ASKED GOD
- 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:07.000
- FOR A HOUSE THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY
- 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:09.130
- HOLES IN THE WALLS, OKAY?
- 00:26:09.130 --> 00:26:11.100
- I NOW LIVE IN A 5.500-SQUARE
- 00:26:12.220 --> 00:26:15.220
- FOOT HOME.
- 00:26:15.220 --> 00:26:17.080
- - CLIFTON: PRAISE THE LORD.
- 00:26:17.080 --> 00:26:18.250
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:26:18.250 --> 00:26:20.210
- - GLORIA: I TELL MY
- 00:26:20.210 --> 00:26:21.110
- FRIENDS, "I ASKED HIM FOR AN
- 00:26:21.110 --> 00:26:23.230
- APARTMENT THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY
- 00:26:23.230 --> 00:26:24.140
- HOLES IN THE WALLS.
- 00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:25.090
- HE'S AN OVERACHIEVER."
- 00:26:25.090 --> 00:26:27.210
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:26:27.210 --> 00:26:29.200
- - CLIFTON: GOD HAS A WAY OF
- 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:30.100
- DOING THAT, DOESN'T HE?
- 00:26:30.100 --> 00:26:31.040
- UH-HUH, NOW THE ONLY HOLES IN
- 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:33.040
- YOUR WALLS ARE FOR DOORS.
- 00:26:33.040 --> 00:26:35.020
- - GLORIA: YES, EXACTLY.
- 00:26:35.020 --> 00:26:35.280
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:26:35.280 --> 00:26:36.280
- AND WINDOWS, YEAH.
- 00:26:36.280 --> 00:26:39.230
- - CLIFTON: WELL, ARE MOST OF
- 00:26:39.230 --> 00:26:40.160
- YOUR FRIENDS CHRISTIANS?
- 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:41.070
- - GLORIA: NO, THEY'RE NOT.
- 00:26:41.070 --> 00:26:41.270
- NO, THEY'RE NOT.
- 00:26:41.270 --> 00:26:42.230
- - CLIFTON: SEEMS INTERESTING.
- 00:26:42.230 --> 00:26:43.280
- - GLORIA: 'CAUSE I GOTTA
- 00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:45.070
- MINISTER TO SOMEBODY.
- 00:26:45.070 --> 00:26:45.250
- - CLIFTON: THERE YOU GO.
- 00:26:45.250 --> 00:26:46.290
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:26:46.290 --> 00:26:48.010
- - GLORIA: BUT, I MEAN, MY
- 00:26:48.010 --> 00:26:50.290
- FRIENDS COME OUT OF MY WORK,
- 00:26:50.290 --> 00:26:52.250
- AND SO, YOU KNOW, SO MANY
- 00:26:52.250 --> 00:26:55.100
- DIFFERENT AREAS.
- 00:26:55.100 --> 00:26:57.230
- THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT
- 00:26:57.230 --> 00:26:59.080
- BUSINESSES INTERTWINE WITH THE
- 00:26:59.080 --> 00:27:01.140
- MUSIC BUSINESS THAT I HAVE
- 00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:03.040
- FRIENDS FROM JUST ABOUT EVERY
- 00:27:03.040 --> 00:27:05.010
- WALK OF LIFE, AND THEY KNOW WHO
- 00:27:05.010 --> 00:27:05.230
- I AM.
- 00:27:05.230 --> 00:27:07.280
- THEY KNOW THAT I'M A CHRISTIAN
- 00:27:07.280 --> 00:27:10.000
- TO THE BONE, AND IT'S FUNNY.
- 00:27:10.260 --> 00:27:13.260
- THEY COME TO YOU FOR PRAYER--
- 00:27:13.260 --> 00:27:15.240
- - CLIFTON: ISN'T THAT
- 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:16.150
- SOMETHING?
- 00:27:16.150 --> 00:27:17.050
- - GLORIA: -- WHEN THEY HAVE A
- 00:27:17.050 --> 00:27:18.150
- PROBLEM, SOMETHIN' ISN'T GOING
- 00:27:18.150 --> 00:27:20.080
- RIGHT FOR THEM, SO I MINISTER TO
- 00:27:20.080 --> 00:27:21.000
- THEM WITH MY LIFE, AND WHEN I
- 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:23.130
- CAN, I MINISTER TO THEM IN SONG,
- 00:27:23.130 --> 00:27:25.260
- AND I MINISTER TO THEM FROM THE
- 00:27:25.260 --> 00:27:28.200
- WORD WHENEVER IT'S NOT GOING TO
- 00:27:28.270 --> 00:27:31.270
- BE INTRUSIVE, AND WHENEVER IT'S
- 00:27:31.270 --> 00:27:33.200
- NOT GOING TO BE OPPRESSIVE.
- 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:35.270
- - CLIFTON: I WANT YOU TO
- 00:27:35.270 --> 00:27:36.230
- MINISTER TO US IN SONG AGAIN.
- 00:27:36.230 --> 00:27:39.000
- - GLORIA: OKAY.
- 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:39.260
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:27:39.260 --> 00:27:40.270
- - CLIFTON: AND WITH YOUR
- 00:27:40.270 --> 00:27:43.250
- PERMISSION, I'LL GET OUT OF THE
- 00:27:43.250 --> 00:27:45.010
- WAY WHILE GLORIA GAYNOR
- 00:27:45.010 --> 00:27:47.120
- SINGS "DAY ONE."
- 00:27:47.120 --> 00:27:49.040
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.000
- [MUSIC]
- 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.120
- - GLORIA: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
- 00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:59.130
- I'VE GOT SO MANY BURDENS ON
- 00:28:26.220 --> 00:28:27.210
- MY HEART,
- 00:28:27.210 --> 00:28:30.080
- QUESTIONS WEIGHIN' ON MY MIND
- 00:28:30.270 --> 00:28:33.270
- I'VE GROWN SO TIRED OF ALL
- 00:28:33.270 --> 00:28:34.240
- THIS MADNESS,
- 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:36.260
- WISHIN' I COULD LEAVE
- 00:28:36.260 --> 00:28:37.210
- AND EVEN NOW, FEAR AND DOUBT
- 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:42.240
- KEEP TRYIN' TO DRAG ME DOWN,
- 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:44.000
- TAKE ME OUT
- 00:28:44.130 --> 00:28:47.130
- SO HARD TO HEAR YOUR VOICE IN
- 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.160
- TAKE ME BACK TO DAY ONE
- 00:28:55.220 --> 00:28:58.220
- WHEN YOU DRENCHED MY
- 00:28:58.220 --> 00:29:00.290
- HEART IN THE WATER,
- 00:29:00.290 --> 00:29:02.210
- AND I FELT LOVE FOR THE FIRST
- 00:29:02.210 --> 00:29:04.040
- TIME
- 00:29:04.040 --> 00:29:07.020
- BREATHE LIFE INTO THESE WEARY
- 00:29:07.290 --> 00:29:10.290
- LUNGS, AND TAKE ME BACK, OH,
- 00:29:13.020 --> 00:29:16.020
- ALL MY HOPE SHOULD BE FOUND N
- 00:29:37.130 --> 00:29:40.130
- YOU,
- 00:29:40.130 --> 00:29:41.090
- NOT THE SOCIALS OR THE
- 00:29:41.090 --> 00:29:41.290
- DAILY NEWS
- 00:29:41.290 --> 00:29:42.220
- THEY DON'T HAVE THE TRUTH I
- 00:29:42.220 --> 00:29:44.090
- NEED
- 00:29:44.090 --> 00:29:46.230
- ONLY YOU CAN SET ME FREE
- 00:29:46.230 --> 00:29:48.210
- SO TAKE ME BACK TO DAY ONE
- 00:29:52.010 --> 00:29:55.010
- WHEN YOU DRENCHED MY HEART
- 00:29:55.010 --> 00:29:57.150
- IN THE WATER,
- 00:29:57.150 --> 00:29:59.010
- AND I FELT LOVE FOR THE
- 00:29:59.010 --> 00:30:00.230
- FIRST TIME
- 00:30:00.230 --> 00:30:03.120
- BREATHE LIFE INTO THESE WEARY
- 00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:05.290
- LUNGS,
- 00:30:07.090 --> 00:30:10.090
- AND TAKE ME BACK, LORD,
- 00:30:11.090 --> 00:30:14.090
- TAKE ME BACK TO DAY ONE
- 00:30:17.210 --> 00:30:20.210
- BACK TO LOVE, JOY, PEACE, AND
- 00:30:20.210 --> 00:30:23.110
- HAPPINESS,
- 00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:27.080
- WHERE YOU GAVE THIS
- 00:30:27.280 --> 00:30:30.280
- WAYWARD CHILD A SECOND CHANCE
- 00:30:32.060 --> 00:30:35.060
- 'CAUSE WHERE MY SOUL FINDS
- 00:30:35.060 --> 00:30:37.250
- COMFORT, I FIND REST,
- 00:30:40.010 --> 00:30:43.010
- OH, MM-MM, MM-MM-MM
- 00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:56.230
- TAKE ME BACK TO DAY ONE
- 00:30:59.040 --> 00:31:02.060
- WHERE YOU DRENCHED MY HEART N
- 00:31:02.060 --> 00:31:03.220
- THE WATER,
- 00:31:03.220 --> 00:31:06.020
- AND I FELT LOVE FOR THE
- 00:31:06.020 --> 00:31:07.170
- FIRST TIME
- 00:31:07.170 --> 00:31:10.110
- BREATHE LIFE INTO THESE WEARY
- 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.200
- LUNGS,
- 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:16.160
- AND TAKE ME BACK, LORD,
- 00:31:18.020 --> 00:31:21.020
- TAKE ME BACK, TAKE ME BACK,
- 00:31:23.260 --> 00:31:26.260
- OH, TAKE ME BACK TO DAY ONE
- 00:31:31.060 --> 00:31:34.060
- TO DAY ONE
- 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:47.000
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:31:47.130 --> 00:31:50.130
- - GLORIA: THANK YOU.
- 00:31:50.130 --> 00:31:52.280
- THANK YOU SO MUCH.
- 00:31:52.280 --> 00:31:54.000
- - CLIFTON: GLORIA GAYNOR.
- 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:54.270
- GOOD LORD, WHAT A GIFTED WOMAN
- 00:31:54.270 --> 00:31:56.070
- YOU ARE.
- 00:31:56.070 --> 00:31:58.250
- - GLORIA: THANK YOU.
- 00:31:58.250 --> 00:32:00.220
- - CLIFTON: WHAT A BLESSING TO
- 00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:02.160
- KNOW YOU AND TO-- YEAH!
- 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:04.230
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:06.160
- AND TO EXPERIENCE WHAT IS
- 00:32:08.030 --> 00:32:11.030
- NOW MINISTRY AS WELL.
- 00:32:11.030 --> 00:32:12.030
- DO YOU GO TO CHURCH REGULARLY?
- 00:32:12.030 --> 00:32:14.070
- - GLORIA: REGULARLY, YES.
- 00:32:14.070 --> 00:32:14.260
- - CLIFTON: YOU KNOW, I GET
- 00:32:14.260 --> 00:32:17.230
- CHALLENGED SOMETIMES.
- 00:32:17.230 --> 00:32:18.240
- I HAVE TO FIND A CHURCH-- I
- 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:19.250
- FOUND A CHURCH AT ST. LUKE
- 00:32:19.250 --> 00:32:21.290
- BAPTIST CHURCH--
- 00:32:21.290 --> 00:32:23.070
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:27.160
- A COUPLE OF FOLKS FROM THERE
- 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.250
- ARE HERE TONIGHT, I THINK.
- 00:32:30.030 --> 00:32:33.030
- ANYWAY, I'M LICENSED THERE, AND
- 00:32:33.060 --> 00:32:36.060
- IT'S A PLACE WHERE I CAN GO AND
- 00:32:36.060 --> 00:32:37.060
- JUST WORSHIP.
- 00:32:37.060 --> 00:32:38.050
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:32:38.130 --> 00:32:41.130
- SOMETIMES FAMOUS PEOPLE HAVE
- 00:32:42.250 --> 00:32:45.250
- A DIFFICULT TIME IN CHURCH
- 00:32:45.250 --> 00:32:48.130
- BECAUSE SO MANY OF THE
- 00:32:48.130 --> 00:32:50.170
- PARISHIONERS WILL SEE YOU
- 00:32:50.170 --> 00:32:52.280
- COME IN, AND THEY'LL RECOGNIZE
- 00:32:52.280 --> 00:32:54.140
- YOU, AND THEN SUDDENLY THEY'RE
- 00:32:54.140 --> 00:32:55.160
- NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE
- 00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:56.060
- SERMON.
- 00:32:56.060 --> 00:32:57.260
- THEY'RE TRYIN' TO GET YOUR
- 00:32:57.260 --> 00:32:59.230
- ATTENTION, AND THEY WANT-- YOU
- 00:32:59.230 --> 00:33:00.290
- KNOW, AND THEY'RE LOSING A
- 00:33:00.290 --> 00:33:03.130
- BLESSING, SO SOMETIMES IT FEELS
- 00:33:03.130 --> 00:33:06.020
- FUNNY TO JUST GO UNTIL YOU CAN
- 00:33:06.020 --> 00:33:08.090
- GO THERE AT LEAST ENOUGH TIMES
- 00:33:08.090 --> 00:33:10.220
- SO EVERYBODY GOES, "OH, THAT'S
- 00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:12.210
- JUST CLIF."
- 00:33:12.210 --> 00:33:14.040
- - GLORIA: RIGHT.
- 00:33:14.040 --> 00:33:14.260
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:33:14.260 --> 00:33:17.200
- - CLIFTON: AND WE CAN ALL
- 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:19.000
- HOLD HANDS AND WORSHIP
- 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:20.020
- THE LORD, YOU KNOW, IN THE
- 00:33:20.020 --> 00:33:20.220
- BEAUTY OF HOLINESS.
- 00:33:20.220 --> 00:33:22.210
- SO DO YOU FIND THAT TO BE A
- 00:33:22.210 --> 00:33:25.000
- CHALLENGE WHEN YOU GO TO CHURCH?
- 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:27.200
- - GLORIA: NO, BECAUSE MY PASTOR
- 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:28.160
- MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT JESUS
- 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:29.240
- DOESN'T HAVE ANY COSTARS.
- 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.050
- - CLIFTON: ALL RIGHT.
- 00:33:32.050 --> 00:33:32.220
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:33:32.220 --> 00:33:35.120
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:36.190
- - GLORIA: NO, WE GET A LOT OF
- 00:33:36.190 --> 00:33:37.110
- CELEBRITIES AT OUR CHURCH, AND
- 00:33:37.110 --> 00:33:39.160
- NOBODY MAKES A FUSS OVER
- 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:40.100
- ANYBODY.
- 00:33:40.100 --> 00:33:42.220
- YEAH, WE GET DENZEL WASHINGTON,
- 00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:44.120
- WE GET BEBE WINANS, WE GET
- 00:33:44.120 --> 00:33:45.190
- ANGELA BASSETT AND-- YEAH.
- 00:33:45.190 --> 00:33:47.000
- - CLIFTON: PRAISE THE LORD.
- 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:48.240
- - GLORIA: BUT, NO, NOBODY--
- 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:50.090
- IT'S ALL ABOUT THE LORD.
- 00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:54.120
- - CLIFTON: THAT SOUNDS LIKE
- 00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:56.270
- WEST ANGELES.
- 00:33:56.270 --> 00:33:57.160
- - GLORIA: NO, I GO TO
- 00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:58.140
- CHRISTIAN CULTURAL CENTER IN
- 00:33:58.140 --> 00:33:59.100
- BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
- 00:34:01.130 --> 00:34:04.130
- - CLIFTON: OH, I KNOW, ALL
- 00:34:04.130 --> 00:34:05.120
- RIGHT, I'M FAMILIAR WITH HIM.
- 00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:06.130
- HE'S BEEN MY GUEST.
- 00:34:06.130 --> 00:34:07.020
- THE FORMER PASTOR WAS MY-- THE
- 00:34:07.020 --> 00:34:08.060
- PASTOR EMERITUS WAS A GUEST OF
- 00:34:08.060 --> 00:34:09.220
- MINE, 15 YEARS AGO, ON TBN IN
- 00:34:09.220 --> 00:34:11.100
- L.A., SO WHAT A BLESSING.
- 00:34:11.100 --> 00:34:12.260
- AND YOU HAVE DEVELOPED A HEART
- 00:34:14.110 --> 00:34:17.110
- FOR HELPING THOSE IN NEED, AND
- 00:34:17.110 --> 00:34:19.100
- THAT'S A WONDERFUL THING.
- 00:34:19.100 --> 00:34:21.120
- WOULD YOU TALK TO US FOR A BIT
- 00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:23.000
- ABOUT HOW THAT HAPPENED?
- 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:25.030
- YOU KNOW, FOR SOMEONE WHO MADE
- 00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:28.170
- IT THROUGH A CHALLENGING TIME
- 00:34:28.170 --> 00:34:31.080
- WHERE YOU HAD GREAT NEEDS, HOW
- 00:34:31.080 --> 00:34:33.140
- DOES IT EMERGE THAT YOU CAN HELP
- 00:34:33.140 --> 00:34:35.250
- SOMEBODY ELSE?
- 00:34:35.250 --> 00:34:37.020
- - GLORIA: WELL, GOD HAS BLESSED
- 00:34:37.020 --> 00:34:38.180
- ME TREMENDOUSLY, AND I THINK
- 00:34:38.180 --> 00:34:39.180
- IT'S MY BELIEF THAT THE ONLY
- 00:34:43.290 --> 00:34:44.190
- REASON HE-- WELL, ONE OF THE
- 00:34:44.190 --> 00:34:45.130
- REASONS WHY HE DOES THAT IS SO
- 00:34:45.130 --> 00:34:46.290
- THAT YOU CAN BLESS OTHERS.
- 00:34:46.290 --> 00:34:47.230
- I GET ALL KINDS OF MAIL.
- 00:34:52.100 --> 00:34:53.190
- I GET A STACK OF MAIL LIKE THAT.
- 00:34:53.190 --> 00:34:55.000
- THREE OF THEM ARE MAIL FOR ME,
- 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:56.170
- OTHERS ARE CHARITIES.
- 00:34:56.170 --> 00:34:59.120
- SO THERE'S MANY, MANY CHARITIES,
- 00:34:59.120 --> 00:35:00.130
- AND I DECIDED THAT I NEED TO
- 00:35:00.130 --> 00:35:02.020
- REALLY BRING IT DOWN TO--
- 00:35:02.020 --> 00:35:04.200
- INSTEAD OF SENDIN', YOU KNOW,
- 00:35:04.200 --> 00:35:07.060
- $5 TO THIS ONE AND $10 TO THAT
- 00:35:07.060 --> 00:35:08.190
- ONE, I NEED TO BRING IN THE--
- 00:35:08.250 --> 00:35:11.250
- CHOOSE THE CHARITIES THAT I
- 00:35:11.250 --> 00:35:14.060
- REALLY WANT TO SUPPORT, AND SO
- 00:35:14.110 --> 00:35:17.110
- I'VE DEVELOPED THIS-- CREATED
- 00:35:17.110 --> 00:35:18.140
- THIS WEBSITE CALLED
- 00:35:18.140 --> 00:35:20.220
- AND I LOVE THE FACT THAT IT'S
- 00:35:25.090 --> 00:35:27.050
- BECOME AN "I WILL SURVIVE"
- 00:35:27.050 --> 00:35:27.260
- COMMUNITY BECAUSE PEOPLE COME
- 00:35:28.040 --> 00:35:31.040
- ONTO THE SITE, AND THEY WRITE
- 00:35:31.040 --> 00:35:33.080
- THEIR SURVIVAL STORIES, AND SO
- 00:35:33.080 --> 00:35:34.270
- THEY SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER, AND
- 00:35:34.270 --> 00:35:36.100
- THEY ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER
- 00:35:36.100 --> 00:35:37.230
- THROUGH THAT, AND AT THE SAME
- 00:35:37.230 --> 00:35:39.060
- AND 10% OF EVERY PURCHASE GOES
- 00:35:42.050 --> 00:35:43.010
- TO A CHARITY OF THE BUYER'S
- 00:35:43.010 --> 00:35:44.290
- CHOICE.
- 00:35:44.290 --> 00:35:46.200
- WE HAVE EIGHT CHARITIES.
- 00:35:46.200 --> 00:35:48.220
- WE SUPPORT FISHER HOUSE, AND I
- 00:35:49.150 --> 00:35:52.150
- KNEW THAT I WASN'T GONNA
- 00:35:52.150 --> 00:35:55.120
- REMEMBER THESE TEN, BUT WE
- 00:35:55.120 --> 00:35:56.130
- SUPPORT A NUMBER OF CHARITIES
- 00:35:56.190 --> 00:35:59.190
- FOR THE SOLDIERS, FOR ANIMAL
- 00:35:59.190 --> 00:36:01.140
- RESCUE, FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING,
- 00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:04.260
- FOR DISPLACED-- OR CHILDREN
- 00:36:05.150 --> 00:36:08.150
- HAVING DIFFICULTY IN THEIR
- 00:36:08.150 --> 00:36:09.210
- LIVES, HELPING THEM WITH SCHOOL
- 00:36:09.210 --> 00:36:11.230
- AND ALL OF THAT, GET AN
- 00:36:11.230 --> 00:36:13.170
- EDUCATION, AND SO YOU CAN GO
- 00:36:15.140 --> 00:36:18.140
- ONTO THE SITE, MAKE A PURCHASE
- 00:36:18.140 --> 00:36:19.190
- AND DONATE TO THE CHARITY OF
- 00:36:19.190 --> 00:36:21.280
- YOUR CHOICE, AND IT'S JUST MY
- 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:24.110
- WAY OF GIVING BACK AND SOME OF
- 00:36:24.120 --> 00:36:27.120
- THE BLESSING THAT THE LORD HAS
- 00:36:27.120 --> 00:36:28.050
- BESTOWED UPON ME.
- 00:36:28.050 --> 00:36:29.190
- I THINK IT'S KIND OF THE LEAST I
- 00:36:29.190 --> 00:36:31.090
- CAN DO.
- 00:36:31.090 --> 00:36:32.090
- - CLIFTON: WELL, THAT'S A
- 00:36:32.090 --> 00:36:32.280
- WONDERFUL THING, YEAH.
- 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:33.190
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:36:35.160 --> 00:36:38.160
- AND WHEN YOU BEGAN THIS
- 00:36:38.160 --> 00:36:39.150
- CHARITY, DID YOU FIND THAT
- 00:36:39.150 --> 00:36:40.130
- THOSE PRODUCTS THAT CAN BE
- 00:36:40.130 --> 00:36:43.110
- AVAILABLE FOR SALE, DID ANY OF
- 00:36:43.110 --> 00:36:45.150
- THOSE COMPANIES START DONATING
- 00:36:45.150 --> 00:36:47.030
- SO THAT THEY COULD BE A PART OF
- 00:36:47.030 --> 00:36:48.130
- THE CHARITABLE CIRCLE?
- 00:36:48.130 --> 00:36:51.060
- - GLORIA: NO.
- 00:36:53.130 --> 00:36:56.130
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:36:56.130 --> 00:36:58.000
- NO, WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS
- 00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:59.030
- THAT, YOU KNOW, I'VE GOTTEN,
- 00:36:59.030 --> 00:37:00.170
- LIKE I SAID, A LOT OF PEOPLE
- 00:37:00.170 --> 00:37:01.150
- TO COME ON AND JUST MAKE
- 00:37:01.150 --> 00:37:02.030
- THOSE PURCHASES AND GIVE THAT
- 00:37:02.030 --> 00:37:03.290
- MONEY, AND WHAT THESE COMPANIES
- 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.000
- HAVE DONE IS PUT MY SITE ONTO
- 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.000
- THEIR WEBSITES, AND THEN PEOPLE
- 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.200
- COME TO MY WEBSITE, NOT ONLY TO
- 00:37:16.200 --> 00:37:18.180
- MAKE PURCHASES, BUT TO DONATE TO
- 00:37:18.180 --> 00:37:20.030
- THEM THROUGH THAT WEBSITE AS
- 00:37:20.030 --> 00:37:21.130
- WELL.
- 00:37:21.130 --> 00:37:22.070
- - CLIFTON: OH, THAT'S GOOD.
- 00:37:22.070 --> 00:37:22.270
- THAT'S EXCELLENT.
- 00:37:22.270 --> 00:37:23.220
- VERY GOOD.
- 00:37:23.220 --> 00:37:25.270
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:37:25.270 --> 00:37:28.110
- WELL, NOW, THAT'S ONLINE, BUT
- 00:37:28.110 --> 00:37:29.110
- HOW DO YOU USE YOUR TALENTS
- 00:37:29.110 --> 00:37:30.120
- TO HELP AS WELL?
- 00:37:30.120 --> 00:37:32.280
- - GLORIA: OH, I SING FOR
- 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:34.060
- DIFFERENT-- YOU KNOW, I'M SURE
- 00:37:34.060 --> 00:37:36.050
- YOU GET THE SAME THING--
- 00:37:36.050 --> 00:37:38.160
- DIFFERENT CHARITIES COMIN' TO
- 00:37:38.160 --> 00:37:40.120
- YOU, ASKING YOU TO SING AT THEIR
- 00:37:40.120 --> 00:37:42.030
- FUNDRAISERS LIKE MIAMI
- 00:37:42.030 --> 00:37:44.100
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, DOWN IN
- 00:37:44.100 --> 00:37:45.250
- FLORIDA, WHICH IS A CANCER
- 00:37:45.250 --> 00:37:47.000
- HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, I HAVE
- 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:48.170
- GONE THERE AND SUNG FOR THEM
- 00:37:48.170 --> 00:37:51.120
- DURING THEIR FUNDRAISERS, AND I
- 00:37:52.060 --> 00:37:55.060
- REWROTE THE WORDS TO "I WILL
- 00:37:55.060 --> 00:37:57.040
- SURVIVE," TO DO A CAMPAIGN FOR
- 00:37:57.040 --> 00:37:58.280
- THEM, AND DIFFERENT
- 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:01.080
- ORGANIZATIONS HAVE COME TO ME,
- 00:38:02.160 --> 00:38:05.160
- CANCER FUNDS, AND A DIABETES
- 00:38:05.160 --> 00:38:08.090
- FUND, AND DIFFERENT KINDS.
- 00:38:08.090 --> 00:38:09.080
- SO I DO IT THAT WAY.
- 00:38:09.080 --> 00:38:11.080
- I LEND MY TALENT TO THEIR
- 00:38:11.080 --> 00:38:13.010
- FUNDRAISERS.
- 00:38:13.010 --> 00:38:14.250
- - CLIFTON: WELL, THERE'S SOME
- 00:38:14.250 --> 00:38:17.250
- FOOTAGE THAT WE HAVE THAT I'D
- 00:38:20.120 --> 00:38:23.120
- LIKE TO SHARE OUR AUDIENCE IF WE
- 00:38:23.230 --> 00:38:26.230
- CAN DO THAT NOW.
- 00:38:26.230 --> 00:38:27.180
- LET'S ROLL THAT PIECE OF TAPE.
- 00:38:27.180 --> 00:38:29.210
- [MUSIC]
- 00:38:34.290 --> 00:38:37.290
- AT FIRST, I WAS AFRAID,
- 00:38:37.290 --> 00:38:39.250
- I WAS PETRIFIED,
- 00:38:39.250 --> 00:38:41.130
- KEPT THINKIN' I COULD NEVER
- 00:38:41.130 --> 00:38:42.200
- LIVE WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE,
- 00:38:42.200 --> 00:38:45.140
- BUT THEN I SPENT SO MANY
- 00:38:45.140 --> 00:38:47.050
- NIGHTS THINKIN' HOW YOU DID
- 00:38:47.050 --> 00:38:48.090
- ME WRONG,
- 00:38:48.090 --> 00:38:49.020
- AND I GREW STRONG AND
- 00:38:49.020 --> 00:38:50.090
- I LEARNED HOW TO GET ALONG
- 00:38:50.090 --> 00:38:52.290
- SO NOW YOU'RE BACK FROM OUTER
- 00:38:52.290 --> 00:38:54.040
- SPACE
- 00:38:54.040 --> 00:38:56.200
- I JUST WALKED IN TO FIND YOU
- 00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:57.280
- HERE
- 00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:59.150
- WITH THAT SAD LOOK UPON
- 00:38:59.150 --> 00:39:00.090
- YOUR FACE
- 00:39:00.090 --> 00:39:01.020
- I SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THAT
- 00:39:01.020 --> 00:39:02.010
- STUPID LOCK
- 00:39:02.010 --> 00:39:02.270
- I SHOULD HAVE MADE YOU LEAVE
- 00:39:02.270 --> 00:39:03.210
- YOUR KEY
- 00:39:03.210 --> 00:39:04.190
- IF I'D KNOWN FOR JUST
- 00:39:04.190 --> 00:39:06.000
- ONE SECOND YOU'D BE BACK TO
- 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:06.200
- BOTHER ME
- 00:39:06.200 --> 00:39:08.090
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:39:08.090 --> 00:39:08.290
- - CLIFTON: THAT'S WONDERFUL.
- 00:39:08.290 --> 00:39:09.230
- - GLORIA: OH, YEAH, THAT WAS SO
- 00:39:09.230 --> 00:39:10.150
- MUCH FUN.
- 00:39:10.150 --> 00:39:11.050
- - CLIFTON: THOSE KINDS OF
- 00:39:11.050 --> 00:39:11.270
- THINGS ARE SO EXCITING, AREN'T
- 00:39:11.270 --> 00:39:12.180
- THEY?
- 00:39:12.180 --> 00:39:12.270
- - GLORIA: OH, YEAH, IT WAS.
- 00:39:12.270 --> 00:39:13.170
- - CLIFTON: OH, I KNOW THAT MUST
- 00:39:13.170 --> 00:39:14.090
- BE FUN FOR YOU THOUGH.
- 00:39:14.090 --> 00:39:14.260
- - GLORIA: IT WAS.
- 00:39:14.260 --> 00:39:15.110
- - CLIFTON: OH, ASIDE FROM THE
- 00:39:15.110 --> 00:39:16.040
- FACT THAT YOU GET TO SING, IT'S
- 00:39:16.040 --> 00:39:17.180
- JUST GREAT TO SEE SO MANY
- 00:39:17.180 --> 00:39:19.090
- SURVIVORS AND SUPPORTERS FOR
- 00:39:19.090 --> 00:39:21.050
- SURVIVORS OF CANCER, AND THERE'S
- 00:39:21.050 --> 00:39:23.160
- SO MUCH THAT WE HAVE TO SURVIVE
- 00:39:23.160 --> 00:39:26.150
- IN THIS WORLD TODAY.
- 00:39:26.150 --> 00:39:28.110
- - GLORIA: YES.
- 00:39:28.110 --> 00:39:29.260
- - CLIFTON: THE NEWS IS JUST
- 00:39:29.260 --> 00:39:32.180
- RIFE WITH ALL KINDS OF
- 00:39:32.180 --> 00:39:34.290
- CHALLENGES, AND, WELL, WE WERE
- 00:39:36.200 --> 00:39:39.200
- GRATEFUL FOR OPRAH'S WORDS, AND
- 00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:40.140
- WE'RE--
- 00:39:40.140 --> 00:39:43.000
- - GLORIA: AND I DIDN'T
- 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:44.100
- GET TO HEAR THEM BECAUSE I WAS
- 00:39:44.100 --> 00:39:46.070
- BUSY CRAFTING A MESSAGE TO--
- 00:39:46.070 --> 00:39:48.240
- - CLIFTON: WELL, GO TO YOUTUBE,
- 00:39:48.240 --> 00:39:49.250
- HONEY.
- 00:39:49.250 --> 00:39:52.090
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:39:52.090 --> 00:39:52.230
- - GLORIA: YEAH, I WILL.
- 00:39:52.230 --> 00:39:53.220
- - CLIFTON: MM, MM, MM, THAT'S
- 00:39:53.220 --> 00:39:54.260
- ALL I CAN SAY.
- 00:39:54.260 --> 00:39:56.290
- - GLORIA: UH-HUH.
- 00:39:56.290 --> 00:39:57.260
- - CLIFTON: JUST AMAZING.
- 00:39:57.260 --> 00:39:58.150
- - GLORIA: WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL.
- 00:39:59.050 --> 00:40:02.050
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:40:02.050 --> 00:40:04.090
- - CLIFTON: I WOULD IMAGINE,
- 00:40:04.090 --> 00:40:05.250
- WITH ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO,
- 00:40:05.250 --> 00:40:07.170
- NOT JUST ENTERTAINING,
- 00:40:07.170 --> 00:40:08.270
- BUT MINISTERING AND WORKING WITH
- 00:40:09.010 --> 00:40:12.010
- YOUR ONLINE CHARITY AND THINGS
- 00:40:12.010 --> 00:40:13.160
- LIKE THAT, THAT THERE ARE LIVES
- 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:18.000
- THAT HAVE BEEN TOUCHED,
- 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.280
- TRANSFORMED, CHANGED BY SOME OF
- 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.200
- THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE, AND
- 00:40:23.200 --> 00:40:25.190
- YOU MIGHT HAVE A STORY OR TWO OF
- 00:40:25.190 --> 00:40:27.140
- ONE OR TWO OF THOSE.
- 00:40:27.140 --> 00:40:29.140
- WOULD YOU MIND SHARING THAT WITH
- 00:40:29.140 --> 00:40:31.020
- US?
- 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.000
- - GLORIA: WELL, MY, I THINK,
- 00:40:35.150 --> 00:40:38.150
- MOST FAVORITE, MOST POIGNANT
- 00:40:38.150 --> 00:40:40.250
- STORY IS ABOUT I WAS OVER IN
- 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:44.000
- AND I HAD JUST CHANGED THE
- 00:40:47.110 --> 00:40:49.010
- LYRICS OF "I WILL SURVIVE" TO BE
- 00:40:49.010 --> 00:40:51.070
- IN KEEPING WITH MY FAITH, AND
- 00:40:51.070 --> 00:40:53.180
- WHERE IT ORIGINALLY SAID, "IT
- 00:40:53.180 --> 00:40:55.290
- TOOK ALL THE STRENGTH I HAD NOT
- 00:40:55.290 --> 00:40:56.290
- I CHANGED IT TO SAY, "ONLY THE
- 00:40:59.090 --> 00:41:01.140
- LORD COULD GIVE ME STRENGTH NOT
- 00:41:01.140 --> 00:41:02.150
- TO FALL APART," SIMPLY 'CAUSE
- 00:41:02.150 --> 00:41:03.200
- THAT'S TRUE.
- 00:41:03.200 --> 00:41:04.240
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:41:04.240 --> 00:41:07.060
- AND SO I SANG THOSE WORDS
- 00:41:07.060 --> 00:41:09.030
- FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THIS
- 00:41:09.030 --> 00:41:10.210
- CONCERT IN ITALY, AND A YOUNG
- 00:41:10.210 --> 00:41:11.280
- LADY CAME TO ME AFTER THE SHOW,
- 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:13.120
- AND SHE SAID, "I'M SO GLAD I
- 00:41:13.180 --> 00:41:16.180
- CAME TO SEE YOUR SHOW," AND I
- 00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:19.260
- SAID, "THANK YOU."
- 00:41:19.260 --> 00:41:21.130
- SHE SAID, "I WAS SUPPOSED
- 00:41:21.230 --> 00:41:24.230
- TO GO HOME TODAY,
- 00:41:24.230 --> 00:41:26.030
- BUT I MISSED MY FLIGHT."
- 00:41:26.030 --> 00:41:28.020
- I SAID, "OH, I'M SORRY."
- 00:41:28.020 --> 00:41:28.210
- SHE SAID, "NO,
- 00:41:28.210 --> 00:41:29.150
- YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
- 00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:30.020
- I'VE BEEN HAVING A LOT OF
- 00:41:30.020 --> 00:41:32.290
- DIFFICULTY HERE IN MY LIFE," SHE
- 00:41:35.010 --> 00:41:38.010
- SAID, "AND WHERE I'M STAYING
- 00:41:38.010 --> 00:41:39.140
- HERE, I DON'T HAVE ANY PRIVACY,
- 00:41:39.140 --> 00:41:41.080
- BUT I WAS SO DEPRESSED THAT I
- 00:41:41.080 --> 00:41:44.070
- WAS GOING HOME TO COMMIT
- 00:41:44.070 --> 00:41:45.160
- SUICIDE."
- 00:41:45.160 --> 00:41:48.020
- SHE SAID, "BUT NOW THAT
- 00:41:48.020 --> 00:41:49.200
- I'VE HEARD THE WORDS TO
- 00:41:49.200 --> 00:41:51.060
- YOUR SONG, I KNOW WHERE MY
- 00:41:51.060 --> 00:41:53.040
- STRENGTH CAN COME FROM, AND I
- 00:41:53.040 --> 00:41:54.240
- DON'T HAVE TO DIE."
- 00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:55.150
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:41:55.150 --> 00:41:58.060
- SO, OF COURSE, WE WERE BOTH
- 00:41:58.060 --> 00:42:00.100
- STANDIN' THERE, A PUDDLE, YOU
- 00:42:00.100 --> 00:42:01.260
- KNOW.
- 00:42:01.260 --> 00:42:02.130
- YEAH, YEAH, "I KNOW WHERE MY
- 00:42:02.130 --> 00:42:03.100
- STRENGTH CAN COME FROM, AND I
- 00:42:03.100 --> 00:42:04.120
- DON'T HAVE TO DIE."
- 00:42:04.120 --> 00:42:05.010
- - CLIFTON: HALLELUJAH.
- 00:42:05.010 --> 00:42:06.060
- I AM SO ALWAYS SO GLAD TO HEAR
- 00:42:06.060 --> 00:42:09.060
- THAT, YOU KNOW.
- 00:42:09.260 --> 00:42:12.260
- IT'S HAPPENED TO ME A COUPLE OF
- 00:42:12.260 --> 00:42:14.290
- TIMES IN MY LIFE WHERE SOME
- 00:42:14.290 --> 00:42:16.250
- TESTIMONY I GAVE OR SOME MESSAGE
- 00:42:17.020 --> 00:42:20.020
- I GAVE CAUSED SOMEONE TO CHANGE
- 00:42:20.090 --> 00:42:23.090
- THEIR MIND AND TO TRY TO
- 00:42:23.090 --> 00:42:25.010
- SURVIVE.
- 00:42:25.010 --> 00:42:27.190
- BUT HOW WONDERFUL THAT SOON AS
- 00:42:27.190 --> 00:42:28.280
- YOU GAVE IT TO THE LORD, HE GAVE
- 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:30.170
- YOU A WITNESS.
- 00:42:30.170 --> 00:42:31.150
- HE GAVE YOU A TESTIMONY AND
- 00:42:31.150 --> 00:42:33.280
- SOMEBODY WHOSE LIFE WAS
- 00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:35.190
- POSITIVELY IMPACTED BY THAT
- 00:42:35.190 --> 00:42:37.180
- LITTLE CHANGE IN THE LYRIC.
- 00:42:37.180 --> 00:42:38.210
- YOUR SONGS THAT YOU'VE BEEN
- 00:42:42.060 --> 00:42:45.060
- SINGING TODAY ARE A PART OF A
- 00:42:45.060 --> 00:42:46.050
- NEW PROJECT.
- 00:42:46.050 --> 00:42:46.250
- TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
- 00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:50.150
- THE BIRTH OF THE PROJECT, WHERE
- 00:42:50.180 --> 00:42:53.180
- THE IDEA CAME FROM, AND WHAT'S
- 00:42:53.180 --> 00:42:55.200
- IT CALLED, AND WHEN CAN WE LOOK
- 00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:57.040
- FOR IT?
- 00:42:57.040 --> 00:42:58.190
- - GLORIA: WELL, WE HAVE, FIRST
- 00:42:58.190 --> 00:42:59.210
- OF ALL, THE PRODUCER
- 00:42:59.210 --> 00:43:01.190
- CHRIS STEVENS, WHO IS A
- 00:43:01.190 --> 00:43:03.190
- MULTI-AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER,
- 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.280
- MANY DOVE AWARDS AND GRAMMY
- 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.130
- AWARDS FOR HIS MUSIC.
- 00:43:10.130 --> 00:43:11.080
- WE HAVE MIKE FARRIS, WHO IS AN
- 00:43:11.080 --> 00:43:13.000
- AWESOME SINGER.
- 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.120
- WE HAVE BART MILLARD FROM
- 00:43:15.120 --> 00:43:17.250
- MERCYME.
- 00:43:17.250 --> 00:43:20.080
- WE HAVE JASON CRABB, WHO IS A
- 00:43:20.080 --> 00:43:22.140
- WONDERFUL SINGER, COME FROM A
- 00:43:22.140 --> 00:43:23.290
- LONG, LONG LINE OF FAMILY
- 00:43:23.290 --> 00:43:26.180
- MEMBERS THAT SING, AND THE
- 00:43:26.180 --> 00:43:28.100
- INEVITABLE YOLANDA ADAMS, AND SO
- 00:43:28.100 --> 00:43:29.020
- IT'S STAR-FILLED.
- 00:43:29.030 --> 00:43:32.030
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:43:32.030 --> 00:43:34.160
- - CLIFTON: AWESOME.
- 00:43:34.160 --> 00:43:36.060
- WELL, WHAT A BLESSING.
- 00:43:36.060 --> 00:43:36.230
- - GLORIA: IT IS A BLESSING.
- 00:43:36.230 --> 00:43:38.000
- - CLIFTON: AND THE COMPOSITIONS
- 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:38.220
- ARE ALL WRITTEN BY YOU.
- 00:43:38.220 --> 00:43:40.010
- - GLORIA: ALL WRITTEN BY ME AND
- 00:43:40.010 --> 00:43:41.030
- CHRIS 'CAUSE HE'S AN AWESOME
- 00:43:41.250 --> 00:43:44.250
- WRITER AND A LYRICIST AND
- 00:43:45.170 --> 00:43:48.170
- COMPOSER, AND I'M A LYRICIST, SO
- 00:43:48.170 --> 00:43:50.100
- WE WORK TOGETHER ON THESE
- 00:43:50.100 --> 00:43:52.190
- THINGS, AND IT'S CALLED
- 00:43:52.190 --> 00:43:54.230
- "TESTIMONY," BECAUSE IT IS MY
- 00:43:54.230 --> 00:43:56.160
- TESTIMONY OF THE WONDERFUL
- 00:43:56.160 --> 00:43:58.240
- THINGS THAT THE LORD HAS DONE IN
- 00:43:58.240 --> 00:44:00.020
- MY LIFE AND CAN AND WILL DO IN
- 00:44:00.020 --> 00:44:02.100
- ANYBODY ELSE'S LIFE WHO IS
- 00:44:02.100 --> 00:44:03.210
- WILLING TO COME TO HIM AND
- 00:44:03.210 --> 00:44:04.280
- SURRENDER, YOU KNOW.
- 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.270
- - CLIFTON: PRAISE GOD.
- 00:44:07.270 --> 00:44:09.280
- - GLORIA: KIND OF A DIFFICULT
- 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:11.140
- THING TO DO SOMETIMES, BUT, OH,
- 00:44:11.140 --> 00:44:12.170
- MY GOD, IS IT WORTH IT, AND YOU
- 00:44:12.170 --> 00:44:14.030
- REALIZE--
- 00:44:14.030 --> 00:44:15.100
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:44:15.100 --> 00:44:16.040
- YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK BACK AND
- 00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:23.260
- YOU THINK, "WHAT ON GOD'S
- 00:44:23.260 --> 00:44:24.150
- GREEN EARTH WAS I THINKING?"
- 00:44:24.150 --> 00:44:25.280
- - CLIFTON: OH, HON, HON, I'VE
- 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:27.250
- FELT THAT WAY.
- 00:44:27.250 --> 00:44:28.250
- - GLORIA: RIGHT?
- 00:44:28.250 --> 00:44:29.270
- - CLIFTON: I'VE FELT THAT WAY
- 00:44:29.270 --> 00:44:30.250
- SINCE I COME TO KNOWN THE LORD.
- 00:44:30.250 --> 00:44:32.120
- - GLORIA: EXACTLY.
- 00:44:32.120 --> 00:44:32.280
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:33.260
- - CLIFTON: "WHAT WAS I
- 00:44:33.260 --> 00:44:35.000
- THINKING?"
- 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:36.090
- YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE ENEMY WILL
- 00:44:36.090 --> 00:44:37.110
- SLIP IN AND MAKE EVEN GOOD
- 00:44:37.110 --> 00:44:39.190
- PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO DO
- 00:44:39.190 --> 00:44:42.070
- WHAT'S RIGHT-- SOMEHOW, THEY DO
- 00:44:42.070 --> 00:44:44.160
- WRONG.
- 00:44:44.160 --> 00:44:45.160
- IN FACT, PAUL TALKED ABOUT IT IN
- 00:44:45.160 --> 00:44:46.270
- ROMANS, THE SEVENTH CHAPTER:
- 00:44:46.270 --> 00:44:48.000
- "THE GOOD THAT I WOULD DO, I DO
- 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.090
- NOT, AND THAT WHICH I WOULD NOT
- 00:44:50.090 --> 00:44:52.050
- DO, THAT I DO.
- 00:44:52.050 --> 00:44:54.050
- O, WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM.
- 00:44:54.050 --> 00:44:56.100
- WHO WILL DELIVER ME FROM THIS?
- 00:44:56.100 --> 00:44:57.200
- JESUS CHRIST."
- 00:44:57.240 --> 00:45:00.260
- JESUS CHRIST WILL DELIVER ME.
- 00:45:00.260 --> 00:45:03.160
- - GLORIA: AND ONLY
- 00:45:03.160 --> 00:45:04.250
- JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:45:04.250 --> 00:45:05.090
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:45:05.090 --> 00:45:07.020
- - CLIFTON: WHERE DID YOU
- 00:45:07.020 --> 00:45:09.260
- FIND THE SONGS FOR THIS ALBUM?
- 00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:12.070
- - GLORIA: WE WROTE THEM.
- 00:45:12.070 --> 00:45:13.140
- - CLIFTON: WELL, NOW, THAT'S
- 00:45:13.140 --> 00:45:14.130
- WHAT I WAS TRYIN' TO FIND OUT.
- 00:45:14.130 --> 00:45:15.260
- - GLORIA: YES, WE WROTE THEM.
- 00:45:15.260 --> 00:45:16.210
- - CLIFTON: YOU COMPOSED ALL OF
- 00:45:16.210 --> 00:45:17.250
- THESE SONGS?
- 00:45:17.250 --> 00:45:18.230
- SO WHAT WE'VE HEARD ON THE
- 00:45:18.230 --> 00:45:20.060
- BROADCAST TONIGHT ARE YOUR
- 00:45:20.060 --> 00:45:21.040
- ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS?
- 00:45:21.040 --> 00:45:22.120
- - GLORIA: ORIGINAL
- 00:45:22.120 --> 00:45:22.280
- COMPOSITIONS.
- 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:23.170
- - CLIFTON: GIVE IT UP!
- 00:45:23.170 --> 00:45:25.260
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:45:27.040 --> 00:45:30.040
- - GLORIA: CHRIS STEVENS IS A
- 00:45:30.040 --> 00:45:30.250
- WONDERFUL WRITER.
- 00:45:30.250 --> 00:45:31.240
- HE'S A WONDERFUL MUSICIAN, AND
- 00:45:31.260 --> 00:45:34.260
- SO HE'S DONE ALL THE MUSIC, AND
- 00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:37.130
- I'M SIMPLY A LYRICIST, SO HE AND
- 00:45:37.130 --> 00:45:39.240
- I WORKED TOGETHER ON THE LYRICS
- 00:45:39.240 --> 00:45:42.050
- AND CAME UP WITH THESE SONGS
- 00:45:42.050 --> 00:45:44.230
- THAT TELL THE STORY OF MY FAITH
- 00:45:45.130 --> 00:45:48.130
- AND HIS FAITH AS WELL, AND WHAT
- 00:45:48.150 --> 00:45:51.150
- GOD HAS DONE AND CAN AND WILL DO
- 00:45:51.150 --> 00:45:52.290
- IN ANYBODY'S LIFE, AND IT'S JUST
- 00:45:52.290 --> 00:45:55.270
- BEEN A WONDERFUL JOURNEY WITH
- 00:45:55.270 --> 00:45:58.150
- HIM ON THIS ALBUM.
- 00:45:58.150 --> 00:46:00.080
- AND WE HAVE GONE TO A NUMBER OF
- 00:46:01.030 --> 00:46:04.030
- RECORD COMPANIES, AND TODAY THE
- 00:46:05.030 --> 00:46:08.030
- RECORD BUSINESS IS JUST SO
- 00:46:08.050 --> 00:46:11.050
- STRANGE, AS I'M SURE YOU KNOW.
- 00:46:11.050 --> 00:46:13.110
- IT'S, LIKE, REALLY, REALLY
- 00:46:13.110 --> 00:46:15.140
- WEIRD, AND ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN
- 00:46:15.230 --> 00:46:18.230
- WHO HAS WORKED WITH US IN THE
- 00:46:18.230 --> 00:46:20.190
- BUSINESS OF THE BUSINESS, CALLED
- 00:46:20.190 --> 00:46:23.020
- ME LAST WEEK, AND HE SAID, "YOU
- 00:46:23.020 --> 00:46:25.100
- KNOW, GLORIA, LOOKING BACK OVER
- 00:46:25.100 --> 00:46:27.180
- YOUR CAREER AND OVER YOUR
- 00:46:27.180 --> 00:46:29.120
- TESTIMONY," HE SAID, "I SEE THAT
- 00:46:29.170 --> 00:46:32.170
- GOD HAS OFTEN USED UNORTHODOX
- 00:46:32.170 --> 00:46:34.290
- WAYS OF GETTING YOU TO WHERE HE
- 00:46:34.290 --> 00:46:37.290
- WANTS YOU TO BE WITH YOUR MUSIC
- 00:46:37.290 --> 00:46:39.150
- AND YOUR CHRISTIAN LIFE."
- 00:46:39.150 --> 00:46:40.280
- HE SAID, "MAYBE THAT'S
- 00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:41.160
- HIS PLAN NOW,
- 00:46:41.160 --> 00:46:43.200
- SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD PRAY
- 00:46:43.200 --> 00:46:44.240
- ABOUT IT."
- 00:46:44.240 --> 00:46:45.100
- SO LAST SATURDAY, SEVEN PEOPLE
- 00:46:45.200 --> 00:46:48.200
- GOT ON THE PHONE WITH ME,
- 00:46:48.200 --> 00:46:49.220
- SOME IN CALIFORNIA AND
- 00:46:49.220 --> 00:46:51.050
- TEXAS AND--
- 00:46:51.050 --> 00:46:52.210
- - CLIFTON: PRAYER CIRCLE,
- 00:46:52.210 --> 00:46:53.160
- PRAYER CHAIN.
- 00:46:53.160 --> 00:46:54.050
- - GLORIA: YEAH, PRAYER CIRCLE,
- 00:46:54.050 --> 00:46:56.180
- AND PRAYED FOR THE LORD'S
- 00:46:56.180 --> 00:46:58.000
- GUIDANCE IN WHAT HE WOULD HAVE
- 00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:59.150
- ME DO WITH THIS PROJECT SO--
- 00:46:59.150 --> 00:47:01.190
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:47:02.100 --> 00:47:05.100
- YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT THIS
- 00:47:05.100 --> 00:47:07.010
- PROJECT, I JUST WANT THESE
- 00:47:07.010 --> 00:47:09.280
- SONGS, THESE WORDS, TO GET TO
- 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:12.130
- WHEREVER HE WANTS THEM TO GO,
- 00:47:12.130 --> 00:47:13.280
- AND I KNOW THAT HE WOULD DO
- 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.160
- THAT, SO I'M-- YOU KNOW, ONE OF
- 00:47:15.160 --> 00:47:18.010
- THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING ABOUT
- 00:47:18.090 --> 00:47:21.090
- OUR LORD IS THAT HE IS NEVER IN
- 00:47:21.090 --> 00:47:22.080
- A HURRY 'CAUSE HE LITERALLY HAS
- 00:47:22.080 --> 00:47:23.160
- ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD SO--
- 00:47:23.160 --> 00:47:24.290
- - CLIFTON: YES, HE DOES.
- 00:47:24.290 --> 00:47:25.260
- - GLORIA: HE TOLD ME--
- 00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:27.030
- SENT ME TO THESSALONIANS
- 00:47:27.030 --> 00:47:29.260
- AND SAID, YOU KNOW,
- 00:47:29.260 --> 00:47:30.120
- "YOU HAVE NEED OF PATIENCE."
- 00:47:30.120 --> 00:47:32.280
- SO I'M BEING PATIENT
- 00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:34.150
- AND JUST LETTING HIM SET THINGS
- 00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:37.030
- UP BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU LET
- 00:47:37.030 --> 00:47:38.240
- HIM SET THINGS UP AND YOU LET
- 00:47:38.240 --> 00:47:40.080
- HIM DO IT, NOTHING COULD BE
- 00:47:40.080 --> 00:47:41.120
- BETTER.
- 00:47:41.140 --> 00:47:44.140
- NOTHING COULD BE BETTER SO--
- 00:47:44.140 --> 00:47:45.200
- - CLIFTON: WELL, I SAW A
- 00:47:45.200 --> 00:47:48.150
- PICTURE OF YOU AND I,
- 00:47:49.040 --> 00:47:52.040
- TAKEN MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.
- 00:47:52.130 --> 00:47:55.130
- DID THEY HAVE A COPY OF IT?
- 00:47:55.130 --> 00:47:57.020
- DID YOU GUYS-- YES!
- 00:47:57.020 --> 00:47:58.260
- BECAUSE, BACK IN THE DAY, OUR
- 00:47:58.260 --> 00:48:00.110
- CAREERS WERE TAKIN' OFF, YOU
- 00:48:00.110 --> 00:48:02.240
- KNOW.
- 00:48:02.240 --> 00:48:04.180
- I WAS THE HOT YOUNG TELEVISION
- 00:48:04.180 --> 00:48:07.000
- AND BROADWAY STAR, AND YOU WERE
- 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:08.010
- A HOT RECORDING ARTIST, AND
- 00:48:08.010 --> 00:48:09.250
- EVERYTHING WAS LOOKING GREAT,
- 00:48:10.140 --> 00:48:13.140
- AND THEN THE PATHWAYS TURNED,
- 00:48:14.030 --> 00:48:17.030
- AND THE POTHOLES AND THE
- 00:48:17.030 --> 00:48:19.030
- PITFALLS CAME INTO THE PATHWAY,
- 00:48:19.080 --> 00:48:22.080
- AND I STUMBLED IN A BIG WAY, AND
- 00:48:24.050 --> 00:48:27.050
- YOU HAD TO COME TO KNOW THE
- 00:48:27.050 --> 00:48:28.190
- LORD, AND I CAME TO KNOW THE
- 00:48:28.190 --> 00:48:31.160
- LORD IN 1980, '81, AND I HAD--
- 00:48:31.160 --> 00:48:33.000
- THE ONLY WAY FOR ME TO COPE WITH
- 00:48:35.270 --> 00:48:38.270
- ALL THE ADDICTIONS AND MADNESS
- 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:41.280
- THAT I HAD INSIDE OF ME WAS TO
- 00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:44.160
- WALK AWAY FROM EVERYTHING.
- 00:48:45.140 --> 00:48:48.140
- I HAD TO WALK AWAY FROM
- 00:48:48.140 --> 00:48:49.160
- EVERYTHING FOR A MINUTE UNTIL
- 00:48:49.160 --> 00:48:50.160
- THE LORD SAID, "COME BACK," AND
- 00:48:50.160 --> 00:48:52.270
- HE BROUGHT ME BACK, DOING A SHOW
- 00:48:52.270 --> 00:48:54.170
- CALLED "AMEN," WHERE I COULD
- 00:48:54.170 --> 00:48:55.210
- MINISTER.
- 00:48:55.210 --> 00:48:57.240
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:48:57.240 --> 00:48:59.190
- - GLORIA: I REMEMBER WELL.
- 00:49:00.100 --> 00:49:03.100
- - CLIFTON: AND I JUST THINK
- 00:49:03.100 --> 00:49:04.010
- IT'S A WONDERFUL THING THAT YOU
- 00:49:04.120 --> 00:49:07.120
- ONLY TOOK A YEAR AND A HALF TO
- 00:49:08.090 --> 00:49:11.090
- COME AROUND TO GET TO THE PLACE
- 00:49:11.090 --> 00:49:12.190
- WHERE GOD COULD USE YOU IN THE
- 00:49:12.190 --> 00:49:13.120
- WAY THAT HE COULD USE YOU, DOING
- 00:49:13.120 --> 00:49:14.150
- WHAT YOU HAD BEEN DOING BEFORE,
- 00:49:14.150 --> 00:49:16.150
- BUT WITH HIS PERSPECTIVE.
- 00:49:16.150 --> 00:49:18.130
- - GLORIA: YES, YES.
- 00:49:18.130 --> 00:49:19.180
- - CLIFTON: IT'S WONDERFUL.
- 00:49:19.180 --> 00:49:21.070
- - GLORIA: YOU KNOW, MEN ARE
- 00:49:21.070 --> 00:49:22.140
- MORE DIFFICULT MORE THAN WOMEN,
- 00:49:22.140 --> 00:49:23.170
- AND YOU WANNA KNOW SOMETHING?
- 00:49:23.170 --> 00:49:24.080
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:49:24.080 --> 00:49:24.190
- I THINK--
- 00:49:24.190 --> 00:49:26.040
- - CLIFTON: OH, TELL IT!
- 00:49:26.040 --> 00:49:26.220
- - GLORIA: I KNOW YOU THINK IT'S
- 00:49:26.220 --> 00:49:27.140
- THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
- 00:49:27.140 --> 00:49:28.100
- - CLIFTON: OH, I'M NOT WOUNDED.
- 00:49:28.100 --> 00:49:29.160
- SHE'S TELLIN' THE TRUTH.
- 00:49:29.160 --> 00:49:30.040
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:49:30.040 --> 00:49:31.000
- - GLORIA: BUT I TELL YOU
- 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:32.140
- WHAT, I REALLY BELIEVE--
- 00:49:32.140 --> 00:49:33.160
- AND I HAVE NO BASIS
- 00:49:33.160 --> 00:49:36.090
- FOR THIS BELIEF, OKAY?
- 00:49:36.090 --> 00:49:36.260
- MAYBE INTUITION.
- 00:49:36.260 --> 00:49:39.120
- I BELIEVE THAT IT IS IN
- 00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:41.080
- SOMEWHERE IN THE DNA OF A MAN,
- 00:49:41.080 --> 00:49:43.070
- EVERY MAN, THAT HE KNOWS HE'S
- 00:49:43.070 --> 00:49:46.050
- SUPPOSED TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THE
- 00:49:46.050 --> 00:49:48.100
- FATHER AND HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS
- 00:49:48.100 --> 00:49:49.130
- FIRSTHAND.
- 00:49:49.130 --> 00:49:51.230
- - CLIFTON: MM, HMM.
- 00:49:51.230 --> 00:49:52.240
- - GLORIA: YEAH, I THINK
- 00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:54.000
- THAT'S--
- 00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:54.200
- - CLIFTON: WELL, IT TOOK ME--
- 00:49:54.200 --> 00:49:55.110
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:49:55.110 --> 00:49:55.290
- - GLORIA: NO, I REALLY THINK
- 00:49:55.290 --> 00:49:56.260
- THAT THEY HAVE THAT, AND SO
- 00:49:56.260 --> 00:49:58.090
- THEY, INSTINCTIVELY, THEY KNOW
- 00:49:58.090 --> 00:50:00.260
- THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE
- 00:50:00.260 --> 00:50:02.100
- ANSWERS,
- 00:50:02.100 --> 00:50:03.050
- AND SO THEY ACT LIKE THEY HAVE
- 00:50:03.050 --> 00:50:04.110
- 'EM.
- 00:50:04.110 --> 00:50:05.010
- THEY DON'T.
- 00:50:05.010 --> 00:50:05.230
- - CLIFTON: THEY DON'T.
- 00:50:05.230 --> 00:50:06.200
- - GLORIA: BUT THEY ACT LIKE
- 00:50:06.200 --> 00:50:07.100
- THEY DO BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO
- 00:50:07.100 --> 00:50:08.250
- GET TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY
- 00:50:08.250 --> 00:50:10.100
- KNOW WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED
- 00:50:10.100 --> 00:50:11.210
- TO GET THE ANSWERS FROM.
- 00:50:11.210 --> 00:50:12.280
- - CLIFTON: THERE YOU GO.
- 00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:13.240
- THAT'S WONDERFUL.
- 00:50:13.240 --> 00:50:14.250
- WOULD YOU TAKE A MOMENT AND LOOK
- 00:50:14.250 --> 00:50:16.210
- INTO THAT CAMERA RIGHT THERE AND
- 00:50:16.210 --> 00:50:18.030
- TELL SOMEBODY HOW IMPORTANT IT
- 00:50:18.030 --> 00:50:19.280
- IS TO GET TO KNOW THE LORD AND
- 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:21.180
- TO SURVIVE.
- 00:50:21.180 --> 00:50:23.070
- - GLORIA: "I WILL SURVIVE" IS
- 00:50:23.070 --> 00:50:25.070
- THE NAME OF MY SONG, BUT I KNOW
- 00:50:25.070 --> 00:50:27.230
- NOW THAT THE ONLY WAY THAT THOSE
- 00:50:29.050 --> 00:50:32.050
- WORDS ARE MORE THAN A CATCH
- 00:50:32.250 --> 00:50:35.250
- PHRASE IS IF YOU GET TO KNOW THE
- 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.280
- LORD JESUS CHRIST, IF YOU ALLOW
- 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.000
- HIM INTO YOUR HEART AND ALLOW
- 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:44.260
- HIM TO BRING OUT OF YOU ALL OF
- 00:50:45.260 --> 00:50:48.260
- THE GIFTS, TALENTS, ABILITIES
- 00:50:48.260 --> 00:50:50.220
- THAT HE HAS PLACED WITHIN YOU.
- 00:50:51.120 --> 00:50:54.120
- YOU WILL NEVER REGRET IT.
- 00:50:54.120 --> 00:50:57.070
- YOU WILL NEVER LOOK BACK, AND
- 00:50:57.070 --> 00:50:59.010
- YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A BETTER
- 00:50:59.010 --> 00:51:00.210
- LIFE.
- 00:51:00.210 --> 00:51:02.100
- HE IS AWESOME.
- 00:51:03.190 --> 00:51:06.190
- IF YOU DON'T KNOW JESUS, YOU
- 00:51:06.190 --> 00:51:07.230
- DON'T KNOW AWESOME.
- 00:51:07.230 --> 00:51:10.200
- - CLIFTON: PRAISE GOD.
- 00:51:10.200 --> 00:51:12.100
- THANK YOU, GLORIA GAYNOR.
- 00:51:13.060 --> 00:51:16.060
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:51:16.060 --> 00:51:18.030
- MMWAH!
- 00:51:18.080 --> 00:51:21.080
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:51:21.080 --> 00:51:22.210
- I'M SORRY MY WIFE WASN'T HERE
- 00:51:22.210 --> 00:51:24.020
- TONIGHT TO MEET YOU,
- 00:51:24.080 --> 00:51:27.080
- BUT WE'LL BRING MONICA TO MEET
- 00:51:27.080 --> 00:51:28.040
- YOU AT ANOTHER TIME.
- 00:51:28.040 --> 00:51:29.220
- - GLORIA: THAT'D BE AWESOME.
- 00:51:29.220 --> 00:51:30.130
- - CLIFTON: I'VE GOT TO SAY
- 00:51:31.140 --> 00:51:34.140
- THIS: I'M EXCITED TO JUST BE ON
- 00:51:34.140 --> 00:51:37.060
- THIS STAGE, IN THIS THEATER AT
- 00:51:37.060 --> 00:51:39.160
- TBN, WITH GLORIA GAYNOR.
- 00:51:43.160 --> 00:51:46.160
- IT'S A REAL BLESSING.
- 00:51:46.160 --> 00:51:47.070
- GOD BLESS YOU.
- 00:51:47.070 --> 00:51:47.270
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:51:47.270 --> 00:51:48.280
- - GLORIA: THANK YOU.
- 00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:49.170
- - CLIFTON: MMWAH.
- 00:51:49.170 --> 00:51:50.140
- - GLORIA: BLESS YOU.
- 00:51:50.140 --> 00:51:51.080
- - CLIFTON: AND WE GET THE
- 00:51:51.080 --> 00:51:51.270
- BLESSING OF GETTING TO HEAR HER
- 00:51:51.270 --> 00:51:52.240
- SING AGAIN.
- 00:51:52.240 --> 00:51:55.100
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:51:55.130 --> 00:51:58.130
- PLEASE WELCOME GLORIA GAYNOR
- 00:51:58.130 --> 00:51:59.030
- SINGING,
- 00:51:59.030 --> 00:51:59.180
- "SINGING OVER ME."
- 00:51:59.180 --> 00:52:02.090
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:52:02.090 --> 00:52:03.230
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:20.000
- - GLORIA: SOMETIMES, WE GET A
- 00:52:20.030 --> 00:52:23.030
- LITTLE BIT CONCERNED.
- 00:52:23.220 --> 00:52:26.220
- WE HAVE PROBLEMS.
- 00:52:26.220 --> 00:52:29.060
- WE WONDER IF THERE'S ANYBODY WHO
- 00:52:29.060 --> 00:52:31.000
- KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON.
- 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:31.260
- MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE BIT DOWN
- 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:35.010
- ABOUT IT, BUT GOD IS ALWAYS
- 00:52:35.010 --> 00:52:36.170
- SINGIN' OVER YOU.
- 00:52:36.170 --> 00:52:37.250
- [MUSIC]
- 00:52:37.250 --> 00:52:38.180
- TELL ME THAT YOU FEEL A
- 00:52:38.180 --> 00:52:39.230
- TELL ME THAT YOU'RE ALL USED
- 00:52:41.280 --> 00:52:42.210
- UP
- 00:52:42.210 --> 00:52:43.210
- YOU'RE LOOKIN' FOR A LITTLE
- 00:52:43.210 --> 00:52:45.090
- SALVATION,
- 00:52:45.090 --> 00:52:46.160
- JUST A DROP IN AN EMPTY CUP
- 00:52:46.160 --> 00:52:49.020
- MM, I REMEMBER THAT SONG USED
- 00:52:50.020 --> 00:52:53.020
- TO BE THE SOUNDTRACK
- 00:52:53.020 --> 00:52:54.010
- OF MY LIFE,
- 00:52:54.010 --> 00:52:55.030
- BUT GOD'S GIVEN ME A WHOLE NW
- 00:52:55.030 --> 00:52:57.100
- MELODY, TELLIN' ME IT'S GONNA
- 00:52:57.100 --> 00:52:58.160
- BE ALL RIGHT
- 00:52:58.160 --> 00:53:00.220
- I SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY
- 00:53:00.220 --> 00:53:03.150
- I SING BECAUSE I'M FREE
- 00:53:03.150 --> 00:53:06.130
- WHEN I JUST CAN'T SING AT AL,
- 00:53:06.260 --> 00:53:09.260
- HE'S STILL SINGIN' OVER ME
- 00:53:09.260 --> 00:53:12.250
- I SING 'CAUSE I'M FORGIVEN
- 00:53:12.250 --> 00:53:15.030
- I SING 'CAUSE I'M REDEEMED
- 00:53:15.030 --> 00:53:17.290
- AND WHEN I JUST CAN'T SING AT
- 00:53:17.290 --> 00:53:20.100
- ALL,
- 00:53:20.100 --> 00:53:21.270
- HE'S STILL SINGIN' OVER ME,
- 00:53:21.270 --> 00:53:24.200
- SINGIN' OVER ME, SINGIN' OVER
- 00:53:25.020 --> 00:53:28.020
- ME
- 00:53:28.090 --> 00:53:31.090
- OOH, HOO, OOH-OOH, OOH, HOO
- 00:53:32.170 --> 00:53:35.170
- I USED TO THINK THAT
- 00:53:35.170 --> 00:53:37.010
- EVERYTHING WAS HOPELESS,
- 00:53:37.010 --> 00:53:38.090
- USED TO THINK THAT I WAS
- 00:53:38.090 --> 00:53:39.220
- ON MY OWN,
- 00:53:39.220 --> 00:53:41.110
- TILL THE GOD OF ALL CREATION
- 00:53:41.110 --> 00:53:43.280
- MADE MY HEART HIS HOME,
- 00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:46.180
- AND NOW I SING
- 00:53:46.180 --> 00:53:47.260
- I SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY
- 00:53:47.260 --> 00:53:49.230
- I SING BECAUSE I'M FREE
- 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:52.280
- AND WHEN I JUST CAN'T SING AT
- 00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.190
- ALL,
- 00:53:55.190 --> 00:53:57.030
- HE'S STILL SINGIN' OVER ME
- 00:53:57.030 --> 00:53:59.040
- I SING 'CAUSE I'M FORGIVEN
- 00:53:59.040 --> 00:54:01.120
- I SING 'CAUSE I'M REDEEMED
- 00:54:01.130 --> 00:54:04.130
- AND WHEN I JUST CAN'T SING AT
- 00:54:04.130 --> 00:54:07.020
- ALL,
- 00:54:07.020 --> 00:54:07.210
- HE'S STILL SINGIN' OVER ME
- 00:54:07.210 --> 00:54:10.190
- AIN'T NO SORROW,
- 00:54:10.190 --> 00:54:12.050
- AIN'T NO SIN
- 00:54:12.050 --> 00:54:15.000
- YOU CAN'T CONQUER
- 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.130
- THERE'S NO BROKEN THAT HE
- 00:54:17.130 --> 00:54:18.170
- CAN'T MEND
- 00:54:18.170 --> 00:54:20.240
- I'M TELLIN' YOU, AIN'T NO
- 00:54:20.240 --> 00:54:22.190
- WORRY,
- 00:54:22.190 --> 00:54:24.000
- AIN'T NO SHAME
- 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:26.260
- THERE'S NO CONDEMNATION IN HS
- 00:54:27.050 --> 00:54:30.050
- NAME
- 00:54:30.050 --> 00:54:32.230
- SO I SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY,
- 00:54:34.240 --> 00:54:37.240
- AND I SING BECAUSE I'M FREE
- 00:54:38.230 --> 00:54:41.230
- SO WON'T YOU SING WITH ME?
- 00:54:42.200 --> 00:54:45.200
- I SING BECAUSE I'M HAPPY
- 00:54:45.200 --> 00:54:47.140
- I SING BECAUSE I'M FREE
- 00:54:47.140 --> 00:54:50.120
- AND WHEN I JUST CAN'T SING AT
- 00:54:50.120 --> 00:54:52.260
- ALL,
- 00:54:52.260 --> 00:54:54.110
- HE'S STILL SINGIN' OVER ME
- 00:54:54.110 --> 00:54:56.290
- I SING 'CAUSE I'M FORGIVEN
- 00:54:57.070 --> 00:55:00.090
- I SING 'CAUSE I'M REDEEMED
- 00:55:00.090 --> 00:55:03.000
- AND WHEN I JUST CAN'T SING AT
- 00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:04.050
- ALL,
- 00:55:04.050 --> 00:55:05.250
- HE'S STILL SINGIN' OVER ME,
- 00:55:05.290 --> 00:55:08.290
- SINGIN' OVER ME,
- 00:55:08.290 --> 00:55:11.200
- YEAH-YEAH
- 00:55:11.200 --> 00:55:12.240
- HE'S SINGIN' OVER ME, MY LOR,
- 00:55:13.230 --> 00:55:16.230
- OH, YEAH, HE'S SINGIN' OVER
- 00:55:16.230 --> 00:55:18.210
- ME,
- 00:55:19.110 --> 00:55:22.110
- SINGIN' OVER ME,
- 00:55:22.110 --> 00:55:24.140
- SINGIN' OVER ME,
- 00:55:24.140 --> 00:55:26.230
- YEAH, SINGIN' BLESSINGS OVER
- 00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:30.280
- - GLORIA: THANK YOU.
- 00:55:37.050 --> 00:55:37.240
- THANK YOU SO MUCH.
- 00:55:37.240 --> 00:55:39.140
- GOD BLESS YOU.
- 00:55:40.290 --> 00:55:43.290