Participants: Kevin Hart (Host), Kacey Goodson
Series Code: TAKEF
Program Code: TAKEF000001
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00:01 In the next 15 minutes we'll take you through a story
00:02 of personal pain and crises. 00:04 We'll also show you how a young girl named Kacey 00:06 found real answers to a tough questions. 00:09 Don't go away, Take 15 is next. 00:26 TAKE 15 00:28 I'm Kevin Hart. 00:30 Welcome to Take 15, 00:31 program that takes on real teens 00:33 with real problems, 00:34 and gives them to God who's got the real solution. 00:37 Little later on this program 00:38 you'll see a brand new video from Alisha Williams 00:40 and Gerard Michel entitled "Never Alone". 00:42 But first, a story of a young teen 00:45 who felt abandon by everyone around her 00:47 as she dealt with drug addiction, 00:49 pregnancy, and death. 00:50 She's struggled to keep her sanity. 00:52 Then one night something happened 00:54 that absolutely changed her life. 00:56 Let's go and meet Kacey. 00:58 I really don't have a childhood. 01:00 My mother was too, 01:02 you know, she was too zoned out to take care 01:07 of our responsibilities at the house. 01:10 My mother was addicted to prescription pills. 01:13 And I'm not sure exactly how, how that's started. 01:18 I think she was in an accident when she was 19, 01:21 I had heard this. 01:23 She was in an accident when she was 19 01:25 and she never had been treated, 01:27 you know, she messed up her back. 01:29 We never really had like, 01:31 that mother-daughter relationship. 01:34 She was more worried about, you know, 01:37 her party and I guess. 01:39 That's actually how I got in trouble in eight grade, 01:44 I've taken some of, some of her stuff 01:46 that she had at home. 01:47 I, you know, had some of these pills 01:49 and I took them to school and me and a girlfriend 01:52 got caught in the bathroom with them. 01:55 My mom, now she was just mad. 01:57 She was really upset and we got to a huge fight, 02:02 and I was in a trouble for a while for that. 02:06 And while I was in trouble, I met my first boyfriend, 02:11 but I was an eight grader 02:13 and he was a junior in high school when we met. 02:16 So, pretty big age difference for 02:19 you know, that period of time. 02:20 I guess you know, sex come up, it was something that you know, 02:25 he had asked me about and I really, 02:29 I guess I'm just felt 02:31 like I wanted to be like on his level. 02:34 And I felt I guess maybe if, you know, 02:37 I did this 'cause you know, he was pushing for an, 02:40 maybe if I did this I would be you know, 02:43 up there with him, I guess. 02:46 And then I got pregnant. 02:49 When I found that I was pregnant, 02:51 I was devastated. 02:53 You know, 16, didn't want to be pregnant at 16. 02:58 My mom was just mad, you know. 03:02 She just was ready to, ready to get, you know, 03:07 get rid of the problem, that's what she said. 03:09 "Get rid of the problem," that's how she worded it. 03:12 You know, she wanted me to just go get an abortion 03:14 and be done with it. 03:15 And at 16, I wasn't, you know, 03:21 able to deal with it, the way that I should have. 03:26 You know, you don't think about the responsibility 03:30 that you take whenever you agreed 03:32 to you know have sex, 03:34 you don't think about the responsibility 03:36 and what that my mean. 03:38 And at 16, I still not thought about that. 03:41 So I did what I thought that I had to do. 03:44 But I mean, I was ashamed of it, I was ashamed. 03:47 And then that's, 03:48 when I really started thinking about God, 03:50 I was like, well, I might as well given it up now, 03:53 you know, God's not gonna forgive me for that. 03:55 Innocent, you know, when innocent life... 03:58 God isn't gonna forgive me for that. 04:00 So I was just, 04:01 that was probably the lowest point of my life, 04:05 whenever I did that. 04:06 After I had the abortion 04:08 that we got into just huge fight. 04:11 She just got, she got mean, 04:15 you know, like, she normally did. 04:17 And she you know, 04:18 decided she wanted to hit on me. 04:22 I wasn't gonna let her you know, 04:25 physically hurt me anymore, I was through. 04:28 So you know, I hit her back 04:31 and I've never done that before. 04:32 And you know she fell down and she looked at me 04:36 and just said, you know, "Get out." 04:38 So, I left and I lived with my dad. 04:43 And I was, I was a lot happier there, 04:46 you know, I started over and, 04:48 you know, nobody knew about the abortion, 04:51 which is a big thing. 04:53 So I was a lot happier. 04:55 And then I was in class one day 04:58 and my father, 05:04 I guess had called the school and they called me 05:08 and told me I need to go outside 05:10 that my dad was gonna pick me up. 05:12 So I went, and I got in the car, 05:17 and he told me that my mother had been in an accident. 05:20 She took some medicine 05:22 and you know, had a car accident. 05:30 And she didn't make it. 05:35 And then I got angry with God because you know, I said, 05:38 why are you allowing all this to happen to me? 05:41 You know, I just felt he wasn't there, 05:44 he wasn't paying any attention to me, 05:46 everybody else was, you know, happy and I was just, 05:51 you know, miserable. 05:53 And just when everything started to get good 05:55 it's like he just took it away from me. 05:57 And that's how I felt, I felt like you know, 05:59 God just have forgot about me. 06:15 Lord, I waited for you today 06:23 But you didn't show 06:26 No, no, no 06:30 Lord, I needed you today 06:37 So where did you go? 06:45 You told me to call 06:49 Said, you'd be there 06:53 And, though I haven't seen you 06:56 Are you still there? 07:02 I cried out with no reply 07:08 And I can't feel you by my side 07:16 So I'll hold tight to what I know 07:23 You're here 07:27 And I'm never alone 07:46 And, though I can not see you 07:53 And I can't explain why 08:00 Such a deep, deep reassurance 08:08 You've placed in my life 08:15 We cannot separate 08:19 'Cause you're part of me 08:23 And, though you're invisible 08:27 I'll trust the unseen 08:31 I cried out with no reply 08:37 And I can't feel you by my side 08:44 So I'll hold tight to what I know 08:52 You're here 08:56 And I'm never alone 09:15 We cannot separate 09:18 'Cause you're part of me 09:22 And, though you're invisible 09:25 I'll trust the unseen 09:33 I cried out with no reply, Lord 09:41 I can't feel you by my side 09:47 So I'll hold tight to what I know 09:54 You're here 09:59 And I'm never 10:03 Alone 10:10 Lord, I'm never alone 10:16 Never alone. 10:21 If you want to ask me about the night 10:24 that I actually found Christ, 10:26 it was when the night that I was afraid 10:31 and you know, paranoid, 10:33 and just I felt just alone and scared. 10:38 And I prayed you know, to God and I read my Bible, 10:41 and he just lifted that off of me. 10:45 He just made me feel just so much relief that night, 10:51 just relief. 10:53 I always knew you know, that there was a God 10:56 but I never knew that God actually talk back 11:00 until that night. 11:02 You know, I opened my bible and you know, 11:04 the first thing read was just like he was speaking to me, 11:08 just comfort. 11:09 I'd never felt that before, 11:10 I never thought that he would actually listen to me 11:17 and help me on that kind of personal level. 11:20 And you know, I don't feel abandon anymore 11:23 and I don't feel forgotten any more. 11:25 And I know that, I know that even if I stray 11:29 and you know, I do some thing wrong, 11:30 which I still do, I still do. 11:33 I struggle everyday to do the right thing but you know, 11:37 you don't always, you don't always. 11:39 It's a process and you really have to work hard at it. 11:42 You know, its not an easy thing to do. 11:45 But it is in the sense that you know, 11:50 no matter what you do, you can't you know, 11:53 you can't mess up that much to where you know, 11:56 God doesn't love you. 11:57 He will always, always loves you. 11:59 I know that God is with me 12:05 and he's not forgotten me. 12:10 Wow, that was really powerful, Kacey. 12:12 Thanks much for sharing that. 12:14 Guys, it's time to get serious, 12:16 it's time to be honest with ourselves. 12:18 You know, may be you're going to some thing similar 12:20 to what Kacey went through, 12:21 perhaps you're rock bottom right now. 12:24 May be you've been caring around 12:25 so many secrets for so long 12:27 that you got no idea what to do with them. 12:29 You think your problem and your decisions 12:31 that you've made so dirty 12:32 that you couldn't possibly bring them to a Holy God? 12:35 I'm glad you're watching because I'm telling you 12:36 that there is no problem that God can't handle. 12:39 I mean, there is nothing that you can possibly have done 12:41 that will turn God's face from you. 12:42 How do I know? 12:43 Well to be honest with you, 12:45 I've made a lot of dumb decisions in my life. 12:46 But then I read in the Bible, in Isaiah 1:18, it says, 12:49 "Come now, and let us reason together," 12:51 says the Lord, 12:52 "Though your sins are like scarlet, 12:54 they shall be as white as snow. 12:55 And though they are red like crimson, 12:56 they shall be as wool." 12:58 You see, God does not care how far you fallen 13:00 or how dirty you've become. 13:02 All he says is take my hand and live, 13:05 I will give you a new life as clean as snow 13:07 and as white as wool. 13:08 I know that a lot of you are thinking right now, 13:09 yeah, that sounds good for so and so or such and such. 13:12 But you know what, what you are going through, 13:16 a lot of other people have gone through, you know. 13:18 And that's why God did not put a name in the verse 13:20 because he meant it for you. 13:22 King David said in Psalm 94:17, 13:24 "Unless the Lord had been my help, 13:25 my soul would soon have settled in silence." 13:28 So how long are we gonna stay in our condition? 13:31 I mean, how long are we gonna avoid the God that loves us, 13:34 the only one that can really help us? 13:36 So, hey, why not a challenge, 13:37 how about starting right now, 13:39 we stop avoiding the issues by going to the movies, 13:41 we're going to the internet, we're getting involve with sex, 13:44 or picking up the drugs, or the alcohol. 13:46 I mean, lets get real with ourselves 13:47 and lets get real with the God that we serve. 13:49 Why put it off? Why sweep it under the rug? 13:52 What does he say, again? 13:53 He says, "Come now, and let us reason together." 13:56 Jesus also said, "I stand on the door and knock." 13:59 You see, Jesus has already taken the walk to your house 14:01 and He's knocking right now. 14:03 All you got to do is get up and open the door. 14:05 So there you have it. 14:06 I mean, what are you gonna do with it? 14:08 You're gonna hold on to it 14:09 or you gonna give it to the God that loves you, 14:11 the only God that can really do anything about it? 14:14 Don't let it fester, don't let it get bigger, 14:17 give it to God. 14:18 He can handle it and he loves you. 14:20 Give it to him. |
Revised 2016-08-29