Magnify the Lord with me
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Magnify the Lord
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Jesus alone He is worthy
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Magnify Him
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Hello, and
welcome to "Magnify Him."
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My name is Yvonne Lewis.
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Thank you so much for tuning in.
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Today we have two anointed
young women with unique styles
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and they're going to
minister to you in song.
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That's the
operative word, minister.
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So kick back as we
magnify Him together.
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Magnify the Lord with me
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Magnify Him
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I'd like to
welcome Petula Beckles
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to "Magnify Him."
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Welcome. Thank you so much.
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It's so great to have you.
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I was listening to you earlier
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and your voice is just
so mellow and it just flows,
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have you always been a singer?
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I have. I was born into
a, you know, singing family.
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We were Seventh-day Adventist
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from back in
Trinidad and Tobago.
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I have six older
brothers. Oh, wow.
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My mother's side of the
family, they were just--
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I would say life for
experiential singers,
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they will sing whenever
they're happy, sad, angry,
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whatever it is, you
know, how they're feeling
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based on the energy
that was in their vocals.
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My father's side of
the family, you know,
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they're all musicians, teachers
and, you know, vocalists
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and, you know,
organists and such so,
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you know, we grew up singing.
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So music's in
your DNA. Absolutely.
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Oh, that's incredible.
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So at what point did you realize
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that you wanted
to sing for Jesus?
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Well, I always
wanted to sing for Jesus,
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I think I was always a bit shy,
I think because my brothers,
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they had enough vocals for
me so, you know what I mean?
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And I was kind of--
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Did they pick on you?
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No, actually they
didn't, they didn't.
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Okay.
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We got along for the most part.
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But I think it was
in my teenage years,
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in the high school,
straight out of the high school
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my first job was a
karaoke singer on the island
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so that was just
like, oh, wow, you know,
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I can actually sing
and they appreciate it,
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and I go, why not, you
know, do it for Christ?
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I mean, it's all about Christ,
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you know, His
love, He died for us
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and this is our purpose here.
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So I came to the US, I
went to school in Texas
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and I got a full scholarship
for the chamber in Corral,
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a chamber choir in
Corral in the college.
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Wow.
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And so straight out of school,
you know, I moved to Florida
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and it was a lot of
journey but the first song
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that I wrote pretty much set--
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good friend of
mine, Mark Prentice,
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who I think has been your guest.
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Yes, he's been here, yes.
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Yes, he and I would
worship together on Fridays
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and one Friday he said to
me, "I'm coming next Sabbath
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and when I come back I
want to see your finished song"
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and that was that.
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Wow. What was the finished song?
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"Today I will shout," that
was my first song ever written.
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Oh, wow and how old
were you when you wrote it?
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Um, I was about 26 or 27.
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Wow, you don't
look older than that now
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so I'm not even
going to go there.
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Thank you.
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That's wonderful so when he
went back, you had a song...
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Finished song, I had
just purchased a guitar
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and I didn't know how to play it
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but I would pick
things out of the guitar
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and we'd just, from
there I wrote the song.
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Oh, wow, that's incredible.
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So now what are
you doing musically?
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What's your ministry now?
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Um, I'm just, I'm
writing and I'm singing a lot.
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I am a street musician,
Music Under New York Program,
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I'm-- Oh, tell us about that.
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Well, in-- when I
initially came to the US,
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I would go through New York City
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and, you know,
through the subway system,
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you'll see these
musicians playing on the side
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but everybody will do their,
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you know,
whatever their genre was
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but I'm like, oh, this is
a great way to do ministry,
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why not get into this?
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And so I, uh, straight
out of my tour last year,
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I went and auditioned,
they sent me an invitation
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that I'd been accepted
for the audition and I went.
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I think that
morning we drove in,
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and that same morning I had
to rush to Grand Central Station
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to do the audition and
I did and two weeks later,
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they're like, you're accepted
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and I'm like, oh, this is like
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out of a list of like
600 and something musicians
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and I was able to,
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you know, God
really did His thing.
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That's tremendous. Amen.
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You know, a lot of
people might not realize
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what a subway musician does,
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but in going, you know,
back and forth in New York,
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I would see
people singing or playing
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or something,
personally, I'm just so--
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I'm shy, I'm too shy to do that,
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I think it takes a certain--
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I don't know, I guess a
certain anointing to do that
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because that's like,
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that's such a blessing to
be able to minister that way.
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It is--
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And they're not
worried about who's walking by
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and thinking
anything or whatever.
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It gets-- sometimes it
gets a little bit tricky.
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Initially when I had--
'cause it's a three hour slot.
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I have to sing for
three hours continuously.
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Wow.
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And so it's a
lot, the first time,
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you know, I went, I was
like, oh, yeah, I can do this
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and I sang, I think after
half hour I was just like...
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I'm done but, you know,
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just kind of
moving on and going along.
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Sometime it feels a
little bit weird when, you know,
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folks are passing and
it's like, they come in
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because they hear,
you know, the vocals
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but then they stand for a second
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and they realize,
wait, no, it's gospel
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and you can see them
fighting themselves like,
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should I stand up?
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Should I walk away?
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Sometimes they'll walk
away and they come back
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and they're like, wait,
this is good but it's gospel.
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And so it reminded me
because one of my aim was--
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is to be that girl to
take the gospel message
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the last heir that needs
to hear it before Christ comes
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and I'm like, well, I
don't really need to go
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to the ends of
the world to do that
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because the ends of
the world are coming
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through the
subway system right here.
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Come on, come on.
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So, you know, I'm like,
God is putting me wherever,
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you know, this is
where He's putting me
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so I'm like, hey, Lord,
do Your thing, just use me.
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That is so wonderful. Amen.
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God has His ways of
using us wherever we are.
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Listen to Petula as she
ministers to you in song.
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When all my labors
and trials are o'er
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And I am safe on
that beautiful shore
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Just to be near
the dear Lord I adore
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Will through the
ages be glory for me
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O that will be glory for me
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Glory for me, glory for me
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When by His grace I
shall look on His face
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That will be
glory, be glory for me
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Friends will be
there, I have loved long ago
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Joy like a river
around me will flow
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And just a smile
from my Savior, I know
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Will through the
ages be glory for me
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O that will be glory for me
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Glory for me, glory for me
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When by His grace I
shall look on His face
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That will be
glory That will be glory
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O that will be glory for me
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Well, this next song
is just a reminder of
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how much I'm
dependent on Jesus Christ.
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Without Him I am nothing.
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And with this song I
just want to invite you
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to have Him come into your heart
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and have Him walk with
you every step of the way.
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I want Jesus to walk with me
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I want Jesus to walk with me
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All along my pilgrim journey
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I want Jesus to walk with me
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In my trials, Lord, walk with me
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In my trials, Lord, walk with me
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When the shades
of life are falling
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I want Jesus to walk with me.
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In my sorrow, Lord, walk with me
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I want You to walk with me
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In my sorrows,
Lord, walk with me
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When the shades
of life are falling
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I want Jesus to walk with me.
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Walk with me,
Lord, please walk with me
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I want You to walk with me
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Walk with me,
Lord, please walk with me
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When my heart within
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When my heart within
is aching, is breaking
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I want Jesus to walk with me
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Magnify the Lord with me
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Magnify Him
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Sabrina Prieur is
a multifaceted woman.
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She's actually
Dr. Sabrina Prieur,
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welcome to "Magnify Him."
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Thank you, very
happy to be here.
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You know, your tone on the
flute is just so beautiful.
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Thank you. It's
so pure and clear.
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Tell us how long
have you been playing.
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Well, I've started just like
probably a thousand musicians,
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in elementary school
when they had a band program
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and going up to those
ranks and then of course
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I don't think I really
got serious about playing
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until I went to Oakwood.
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Ah, Oakwood. Let's
hear it for the Oaks.
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Of course,
that's right, Oakwood.
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And a lot of people,
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they think of
Oakwood as a theology school
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but it's really an undercover
performing arts school
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and so...
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It is so true, you
know, when I went to Oakwood,
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which we won't say
when, but when I went there,
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it's like
everybody does something,
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everybody sings or plays a piano
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or plays an
instrument or something,
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there's so much talent there.
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That's right.
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So you started
in elementary school
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but then at Oakwood,
did you kind of blossom or--
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I did, I did and I learnt to--
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I was already a
musician who can play by ear
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which is great
because it doesn't limit you
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to the type of
music you can play
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but when you get to Oakwood,
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there are so
many different people
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who are really masters of their
crafts at such a young age.
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It forces you to really
become more well-rounded
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in what you can do
with your technique,
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with your tone, with the
types of music you can play,
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not just playing in
the standard church keys,
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you know, D-flat, you know,
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you could play in
some of the other ones too
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but just by
listening and being around
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so many awesome musicians.
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I played with eLDee I
played with Sheila Frazier
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then the Stephen
Mackey's and Xavier O'Connor's,
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the Eric Griggs,
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all people now who are
making money doing music.
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Yes.
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Those are the people
who I got to hang around
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and hone my craft around
at their expense of their ears
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and their studio time.
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I'm sure they might
say the same about you,
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you know, that they
got to hang with you
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and kind of hone
their craft as well.
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But that's what
happens at Oakwood.
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I mean, you
have the best singers
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anywhere to me, are there.
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I think part of it is, you know,
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just the place, the
spirituality, you know,
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everybody is coming together
from all over the country
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and actually all over the world.
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That's right.
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And you just get the best,
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you get the cream
with the crops so...
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There's, you know, a
lot of Caribbeans there,
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people from Bermuda.
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And you have all
these cultures mixing in
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so you really get to
play any and everything there
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and it's just, it's a great way
to really develop as a musician
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so now when people go out,
when you go out back home to--
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I'm from California so...
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Okay.
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We go back home, people know
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that if you went to
Oakwood, oh, she's okay.
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Yeah, yeah. Kind of
gives you clearance, right?
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Yeah, it's
almost like a free pass.
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Everybody that
didn't go to Oakwood,
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don't feel badly because
if you go there and visit,
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maybe you can get like
an honorary Oakwood pass
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or something, no,
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but Oakwood really was
a blessing for me as well.
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That's right. As
well it was for me.
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So after you left,
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what did you do in
music after you left college?
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After I left Oakwood, I
went back home to California
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and there I play a
lot in the churches
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down there in the bay
area and northern California
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and I also, later on,
I started choir directing
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which I really enjoy it
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because now I get to
kind of do what I want.
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But I enjoy that because
when I was about 14 or 15,
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we had-- my
foster mother actually,
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she took over the
choir which sounded...
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not very good.
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It's quite painful, and
she took over that choir
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and it really blossomed
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and so that had a
lasting effect on me
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because I'm not a vocalist
but I do very well as a backup.
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Uh-huh?
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Backup, backup,
I'm not a vocalist.
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So now I can
take those same skills
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and help other
people to really--
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who aren't
necessarily going to be up there
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for a 11 o'clock
service but they like to sing
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and I can use those
skills to help them in an area
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where they could be successful
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and sound good and
enjoy their ministry
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so I really
enjoy choir directing.
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That's so good, you know,
it's so amazing what God does
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because even though this
is not what you do for living,
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you could because
you're talented enough
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but it's not
what you do for living
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and yet God has
planted you somewhere
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where you can just
again, blossom and grow
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and help others to
blossom and grow as well.
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So that is really, really great.
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What do you do for living?
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Tell us what you
do with your day job?
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My day job--
because it's very difficult
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to make a living as a musician
but in the daytime I teach--
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I'm actually at a small
HBCU college down in Alabama
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and I teach kinesiology and,
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which is a fancy word
for the study of movement.
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Uh-huh.
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And thesis writing courses,
a couple different classes
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and I also work in
the athletic department
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which is probably more of
my favorite part of the job,
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is working with athletics
because I was a phys-Ed major,
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I was a multi-sport athlete
so I love working with people
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and it actually, is what
I think I was called to do
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because it's the health
ministry with an athletic
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so it's a great
way to promote health
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and well being through
a competitive sport forum.
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That's great.
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Well, we're gonna
listen to Sabrina minister
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to us in music.
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The next I'm going
to be playing is an old
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but favorite song for me
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and it's called
"Speak to My Heart."
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Magnify Him
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Thank you so
much for joining us.
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Tune in next
time and be blessed.
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