Freedom Of Preach (feat. Bishop Eddie Lee Long) [Explicit]

Can the church say amen? (Amen Reverend)

We gon' do another offering right now

We gon' do another one in fifteen minutes

And we gon' do one more, right after that

Yes, women, you looking so very beautiful in here today

Some of you with the same thang on from the club last night

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away

Oh, Lord Jesus, I wish You'd taketh away Sister Mary's wig

Oh, you disrespecting the house of God with that thing

It don't even look real

Oh, it's testimony time, oh, who is that? Young Chris Bridges

Boy, I'm glad you finally grew into them ears, go on and testify

Lord, please forgive me for the mistakes I've made

And thanks for keeping my mama safe when she wrecked my Escalade

See, I could replace a Cadillac, but I can't replace my mama

I'm sorry for the hip-hop beefs, we sorry for the drama

But you gotta understand, us rappers ain't never had nothing

And one's loss is another's gain, so we gotta grab something

Lord, got so many questions I need the answers to

And sorry for the things I put my baby's mama through

I feel that women are really the strongest human beings

But why do You make 'em so emotional and other minor things?

I guess it's Your way of saying we gotta love 'em and gotta praise 'em

'Cause without 'em we'd be nothing, plus our kids, they gotta raise 'em

While we out and about and seeing what life has to offer

But if You offer a new life, then what we need is better fathers

Either I'm smarter 'cause of my daughter or I'm just too dense

I'm 28 years old, it just now started making sense and I've been

Searching so long, I was lost in the clouds

I'm tryna stay strong and make You proud

It took me some time, but now I see

That He resides in me, yeah, yeah

Lord, forgive me for anytime a fan said I was being rude

I'm only human, I'm not always in the best of moods

But thanks for giving the gift of rap to write my feelings down

And sorry for cursing sometimes, but feelings make me shout 'em out

Forgive the people that wanna blame everything on rap music

If they didn't live it, they can't relate or even adapt to it

Forgive those who don't think I'm great and wanna see me go

Forgive Oprah for editing most my comments off her show

Don't get me wrong, I know some people got a image to hold

But those who criticize the youth might just be getting too old

We still traveling through life, finding what's right or wrong

I know some folks may not agree or even like this song

But I'm just speaking my truth 'cause I heard it sets you free

And my conversation's with God, even though He speaks through me

I'm smarter 'cause of my daughter and I'm not too dense

I'm 28 years old, it just now started making sense and I've been

Searching so long, I was lost in the clouds

I'm tryna stay strong and make You proud

It took me some time, but now I see

That He resides in me yeah, yeah

Hallelujah, as the choir sings

Searching so long, lost in the clouds

Trying to stay strong and make You proud

Took me some time, now I see

He resides in me, yeah

Ladies and gentlemen

We have a special guest in the house tonight

Came with some words of encouragement

Bishop Eddie Long

What you just heard is real life

It's real life for you, it's real life for many

It's about where you've been, yet at the same time you

Ay, you find yourself in the midst of conflict and turmoil

Yes, I'm talking to you, in the midst of conflict and turmoil

Because you realize, hey, it's time to change right now

And in the middle of that, I wanna say this

The Bible says that when I was a child, I spoke as a child

I understood as a child, I fought as a child

Hey, but when I became a man, I put away those childish things

Did you not know that your environment has shaped you?

Where you were born, in the projects, in the ghettos

In the upper downtown, wherever it was

The people around you, the things around you

Calls you to do strange things

Because you were seeking to learn

But what you learned was on the streets and not in the Book

God called you a prophet when you open up your mouth

Everything of God comes out and it commands attention

It commands change, I'm talking about the power

That's inside of you and in the midst when you're

Starting to understand that I caught the wrong message

And now it's time, I'm hearing from God

What amazing experience, as you hear from God

He said, "Is there forth any man be in Christ, he is a new creation

Old things are passed away"

Somebody needs to hear that and behold

Everything becomes new

And when everything becomes new in you

It's time to stop the killing, I said it's time to stop the stealing

It's time to stop disrespecting our women

It's time for us to come home and raise our children

It's time for us to really mold our communities

It's time for us not to get hooked up in religion

But to get hooked up in relationship with God

And the amazing thing about it

Is wherever you find yourself right now, you can confess

And you can tell God, "I'm sorry, I had the wrong cue

I was doing the wrong thing

I was going after things that I thought were right, but it wasn't right

And now that I'm getting it right, I'm asking You to forgive me

And I may have done the things that they said I did

But I'm not who they say I am, I am who You made me to be

And I'm changing in that, and it takes a few moments

But every time I fall down, I'll get right back up

And every time I make a wrong turn, I'll get myself back in line

Because I recognize, I have been called for such a time as this"

You can't resist the change

And you're not condemned by your yesterday

If you can grab hold of your now, and move in your destiny

Move, change, and be now

Searching so long, lost in the clouds

Trying to stay strong and make You proud

Took me some time, now I see

He resides in me, yeah