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Praise | January 29, 2018

Praise

January 29, 2018

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Clifton Davis hosts Gloria Gaynor.

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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
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SAID THEM-- WELL, THEY BROUGHT
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THEM UP FRONT AND ASKED THEM,
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"DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE DEATH,
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BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION OF
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CHRIST?"
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AND THEY SAID, "YES," AND THEN A
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FEW MORE THINGS THEY SAID, AND
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THEN THEY GAVE THEM WHAT THEY
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CALLED "THE RIGHT HAND OF
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FELLOWSHIP," AND I WENT HOME
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THINKING, "OH, I CAN'T SAY THAT
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BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT
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MEANS."
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AND I DO HAVE TOO MUCH
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RESPECT FOR GOD TO STAND UP IN
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CHURCH AND LIE.
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BUT I WENT HOME AND I SAT DOWN
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AT MY DINING ROOM TABLE, AND I
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PULLED OUT A BIBLE THAT SOMEONE
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HAD GIVEN ME SOME YEARS BEFORE,
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AND-- [BLOWING] -- BLEW THE DUST
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OFF IT 'CAUSE I'VE NEVER READ
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IT.
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AND I SAID, "OKAY, LORD,
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SHOWDOWN."
00:10:17.110 --> 00:10:20.110
YOU KNOW, I LOOK BACK
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ON THAT AND REALIZE I'M SASSIN'
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THE LORD.
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SO I SAID, "SHOWDOWN.
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I WANNA KNOW WHO THIS JESUS IS.
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WHO IS JESUS?
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AND I DON'T WANNA HEAR THIS FROM
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THE LADY UPSTAIRS AND THE MAN
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DOWN THE HALL.
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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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[LAUGHTER]
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- CLIFTON: I LOVE IT!
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- GLORIA: AND GUESS WHAT?
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- CLIFTON: HE TALKED.
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- GLORIA: HE TALKED.
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HE TALKED.
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HE TOLD ME TO OPEN THAT BIBLE TO
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THE CENTER.
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I'VE NEVER OPENED IT.
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I OPENED IT IN THE CENTER, AND
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IN THE CENTER OF THE BIBLE WAS
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WHAT WAS CALLED "THE HARMONIES
00:10:58.040 --> 00:10:58.250
OF THE GOSPELS."
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ON ONE SIDE OF THE PAGE,
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A LIST OF PROPHECIES OF THE
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FORTHCOMING MESSIAH, AND THEN
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ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
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PAGE, A LIST OF SCRIPTURES
00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.060
WHEREIN CHRIST HAD FULFILLED
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THOSE PROPHECIES, AND ONE OF
00:11:11.210 --> 00:11:13.290
THEM WAS ISAIAH 7:14,
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"FOR BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL
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CONCEIVE,
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AND BEAR A SON, AND SHALL CALL
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AND THAT BIBLE TOLD ME THAT
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"IMMANUEL" MEANT "GOD WITH US."
00:11:24.190 --> 00:11:25.290
WELL, WHEN I READ THOSE WORDS,
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"GOD WITH US," IT SHOOK ME TO MY
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CORE.
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I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOD, OH, MY
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AND I SAT THERE WITH THAT BIBLE
00:11:35.270 --> 00:11:38.070
FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND HALF.
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I, REALIZING IN RETROSPECT, IT
00:11:40.250 --> 00:11:43.250
WAS ME AND THE HOLY SPIRIT,
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TAKING ME THROUGH THAT BIBLE,
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LESSONS AND THE HARMONIES AND
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE FAITH,
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AND THAT'S WHEN AND HOW I CAME
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TO KNOW THE LORD, ALL BY MYSELF,
00:11:55.030 --> 00:11:56.110
JUST ME AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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I CANNOT TELL YOU WHAT AN
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AWESOME PRIVILEGE THAT WAS, AND
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SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST ME AND
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THE LORD.
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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THE WORLD DIDN'T GIVE IT,
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AND THE WORLD CAN'T TAKE
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IT AWAY.
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- CLIFTON: THAT'S RIGHT.
00:12:13.180 --> 00:12:16.180
YOUR MOTHER WAS IN THE CHURCH,
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BUT AS A CHILD, YOU DIDN'T GO TO
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CHURCH, SO IT WAS THAT
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EXPERIENCE.
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YOU HAD TO COME THROUGH.
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YOUR CAREER HAD ALREADY STARTED.
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YOU HAD BECOME FAMOUS.
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YOU HAD GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD,
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AND IT WASN'T UNTIL THEN THAT
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SOMETHING TOUCHED YOU TO SAY,
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"TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT GOD HAS IN
00:12:38.250 --> 00:12:41.040
STORE FOR YOU."
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- GLORIA: YEAH.
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- CLIFTON: DID YOU FEEL LOVED
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AS A CHILD?
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DID YOU FEEL EMBRACED BY YOUR
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PARENTS AND--
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- GLORIA: BY MY MOTHER.
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MY MOTHER WAS A SINGLE PARENT,
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SIX CHILDREN-- SEVEN CHILDREN--
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SIX SIBLINGS, IN A ONE-BEDROOM
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APARTMENT.
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- CLIFTON: MM.
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- GLORIA: YEAH, WE DIDN'T HAVE
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MUCH.
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I REMEMBER MY MOTHER SENDIN' ME
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TO THE STORE TO BUY DINNER WITH
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25 CENTS.
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- CLIFTON: LORD, HAVE MERCY.
00:13:08.190 --> 00:13:09.260
- GLORIA: TEN CENTS, FIFTEEN
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CENTS WORTH OF BACON SKINS AND
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10 CENTS WORTH OF BEANS.
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BUT SHE WORKED THOSE SPICES, AND
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WE HAD COMPANY FOR DINNER.
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MY MOTHER WAS AN AWESOME COOK,
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AND PEOPLE WOULD COME AND LEAVE
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THEIR CHOPS AND THEIR STEAKS AND
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WHATEVER, AND COME AND EAT BEANS
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WITH US AND BREAD, FLAT BREAD,
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WHERE SHE MADE IT IN AN ANIMAL
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SHAPE, OH, YEAH.
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- CLIFTON: I WAS WORKIN' ON
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"MADAM SECRETARY" THE OTHER DAY,
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AND THEY WERE OFFERING ME SOME
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FOOD FROM WHAT THEY CALL CRAFTY
00:13:39.010 --> 00:13:39.280
CRAFT SERVICES.
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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."
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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
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BEANS AND FRANKS."
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- GLORIA: I HEAR THAT.
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[LAUGHTER]
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OH, YES.
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- CLIFTON: I NEEDED A LITTLE
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COMFORT FOOD, YOU KNOW, THE
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STUFF THAT I REMEMBER BACK IN
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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.
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- 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--
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[LAUGHTER]
00:14:40.160 --> 00:14:43.160
SOME OF YOU MAY OR
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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
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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
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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?
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THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE."
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I SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:18:54.210 --> 00:18:55.100
THE LORD PROVIDED THAT.
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HE'LL PROVIDE MORE."
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[APPLAUSE]
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SO WE FINISHED OUR DINNER, AND
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SHE SAID, "OH, AUNT GLO, I
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FORGOT TO GIVE YOU YOUR MAIL."
00:19:01.100 --> 00:19:02.150
SHE GIVES ME MY MAIL.
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THERE'S A CHECK FOR $300.
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[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.
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I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM
00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:12.040
EXCEPT GOD.
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- CLIFTON: I GOTTA TELL OUR
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VIEWING AUDIENCE, THIS ISN'T
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PLANNED.
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WE DIDN'T PLAN TO TELL YOU THAT
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STORY.
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THIS IS HOW GOD WORKS FROM TIME
00:19:22.090 --> 00:19:25.090
TO TIME, OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
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IT'S HAPPENED TO ME MORE TIMES
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THAN I CAN REMEMBER, BUT HOW
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WONDERFUL TO HEAR THE STORY OF
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HOW HE DELIVERED YOU IN THAT
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MOMENT.
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- GLORIA: OH, YEAH.
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- CLIFTON: WHAT A GREAT
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EXPERIENCE, AND THAT'S NO WONDER
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IF WAS A GREAT YEAR, AND IT
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SEEMS AS THOUGH WE HAVE TO GO
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THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT STUFF IN
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ORDER TO FIND OUT HOW GREAT OUR
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GOD IS.
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[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
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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
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A CERTAIN WAY, TO LIVE A CERTAIN
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WAY, TO DRINK, TO SMOKE, TO, YOU
00:20:25.100 --> 00:20:26.100
KNOW, EVEN DO DRUGS.
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I'VE HAD PEOPLE BRING ME DRUGS.
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I'M LIKE, "UH, NO.
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THAT'S NOT MY THING."
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[APPLAUSE]
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BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS
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BUSINESS HAS COME TO BE ABOUT,
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IT SEEMS.
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WE KNOW, AS CHRISTIANS, IF YOU
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READ AND YOU STUDY THE WORD, YOU
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COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT MUSIC
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WAS THE ENEMY'S--
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THAT WAS HIS THING.
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THAT'S A GIFT, AND GOD'S GIFTS
00:21:00.180 --> 00:21:01.090
ARE WITHOUT REPENTANCE.
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SO HE STILL WANTS TO BE IN
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CONTROL OF THAT BUSINESS, SO HE
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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
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ALL KINDS OF TEMPTATIONS, AND
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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
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YOU'RE NOT TEMPTED IN THE WAY
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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--
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- CLIFTON: WELL, GO TO YOUTUBE,
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HONEY.
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[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.
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- 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]
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- 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.
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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
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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.
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[APPLAUSE]
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AND SO I SANG THOSE WORDS
00:41:07.060 --> 00:41:09.030
FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THIS
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CONCERT IN ITALY, AND A YOUNG
00:41:10.210 --> 00:41:11.280
LADY CAME TO ME AFTER THE SHOW,
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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
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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."
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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
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DON'T HAVE TO DIE."
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[APPLAUSE]
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SO, OF COURSE, WE WERE BOTH
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STANDIN' THERE, A PUDDLE, YOU
00:42:00.100 --> 00:42:01.260
KNOW.
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YEAH, YEAH, "I KNOW WHERE MY
00:42:02.130 --> 00:42:03.100
STRENGTH CAN COME FROM, AND I
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DON'T HAVE TO DIE."
00:42:04.120 --> 00:42:05.010
- CLIFTON: HALLELUJAH.
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I AM SO ALWAYS SO GLAD TO HEAR
00:42:06.060 --> 00:42:09.060
THAT, YOU KNOW.
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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.
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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.
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HE GAVE YOU A TESTIMONY AND
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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.
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TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
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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
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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]
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I THINK--
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- 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

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