Les Brown: I want you today or this morning or wherever you are I want you to to share
it to like this page and to share this with as many people as possible and I
have a very serious conversation that we'll have with you and serious does not
mean is gonna be a sad conversation just means a conversation that will be
focused on some things that people might think about I put out a video about the
fact that I am hospitalized and today today is major day this is a day that I
have my procedure now I want to just just starting out one I want you to pray
for my two sons Calvin my oldest son he's in Jacksonville he's facing a
health challenge pray that he would have a full recovery my son John Wesley he's
in LA pray that he will have a full recovery and be able to commit himself
to getting all the help that he can come in for himself so that he can live a
normal life being bipolar and I want you to also pray did you need me oh you just
come here thank you I want you to pray that today until o'clock Eastern
Standard Time that you thank you so much you know I love your little head Monica
Monica grieve a very good friend here my little spiritual daughter here that
cleavage just whop it's a little ear flop from a fog I want you to pray that
the doctors hands are I directed by God and and that their level of wisdom and
knowledge beyond their university degrees and all of their training will
come into play as they perform the procedure on me and I wanted to I want
you to like this page into to share it with as many piece of people
as possible something came to me this morning they'd like to share with you
and the title of this conversation is what do you do when your prayers that
are answered what do you do how do you deal with that have you ever prayed for
something and it did not happen well you know I have been a 21 year cancer
Conqueror so I said because seven is my lucky
number anybody who knows we know that I'm one of seven children I was born
February 17th seven is my lucky number and 3 times 7 is 21 so my prayer has
been this is the year every year I would pray this is the year that I will be
free of cancer and so something happened not only did that not happen in 2017
which I felt that it was going to happen but in addition to that not happening
and at that time when I started the prayer of the prayer by my doctor said
the oncologist said that camps had metastasized to my t1 vertebrae and 67
different areas and that it had eroded 40% of my t1 vertebrae so my prayer was
law restore my tea one vertebrae and and allow me to be free of cancer well and
last week I saw a star right before the end of the year sought experiencing deep
pain in my body and I said well that was in and out of the hospital I said what's
going on it so I was misdiagnosed they thought it was SATA capade but it
was not the pain from static ah pain from the cancer not only did it it not
it got not removed the cancer from my t1 vertebrae but it spread to the
doctor said they'd before yes a it's a it's that number one number two number
three vertebrae is spread to those and in addition to at 7c now first of all I
got excited number one number two number three the cancer spread to those and to
the 7c well now seven is my lucky number it's gift four and five seven if our
lucky number now what does the C stand for commitment commitment what do you do
when your prayers aren't answered maintain your commitment of faith
maintain your commitment to come to continue to work to believe to hold the
vision of what it is you want to achieve and it's that what a lot of people do is
they give up because it doesn't happen and I had to say to myself wait a minute
I wanted this to happen but come on God you know what that was a whoosh out of
you or remove this cancer for my team what vertebrae hello and would you think
that I would want it to be moved to my second or third in case I wasn't exactly
clear and my seventh of seventh area of my back okay
yellow but seriously what I pray for just the opposite
happened now I think that people who are religious they give up because you know
religious people afraid of going to hell with spiritual people we've been there
so they took me down yesterday you can't see this and they they map my body and
this is this area where they mapped it with this permanent dye to get ready for
the procedure today so they go in today and I will at two o'clock Eastern
Standard Time now I believe in the power of collective prayer so I'm asking you
that you pray that my primary concern was coming out with my voice is that I
say will I still be able to speak did you say probably life you know so said
what your throat to be sore for a few days so they want me here and and they
did something what's called mapping and there are so at two o'clock in stats and
a time I go in for the procedure and it's in the spinal area where they said
cancers metastasized and you know anytime you're dealing with the spine
you could you could be a quadriplegic you could lose your voice you could lose
your life anything could happen but I said just in case that this might
be my last day I'm not going to take it for granted said well I'll talk to them
after the the the procedure but it there said wait a minute I haven't gotten any
special notice that I will still be here after that I'm not taking for granted I
say I'm going to take care of this opportunity in the event that this is
the last time you hear my voice alive or if this this is the last time that I am
to speak to you and connect with you I want to speak now and so
my prayer is that my two sons have a full recovery
and be able to live a normal life and my prayer is that today that I'm able to
come out of this alive and have our voice and continue to be
able to work even if I'm a quadriplegic I have my voice I can still speak and
even if I can't speak I can still write and even if I can't write I can still
see and I can still hear so there's something I can do there's a way in
which I can still be used and and so my prayer is that father I know that you're
with me and that whatever happens today I'm okay with that I'm okay with that
life does not owe me anything when I think about my life born an abandoned
building on a floor in Liberty City at Miami being adopted by the incredible
Mamie Brown God took me out of our biological mother's womb and placed in
the heart of my adopted mother I'm talking to you because with two women
one gave me life the other one gave me to love all that I am and all that ever
hope to be I owe to my mother but I think about the sacrifices and the tough
times that she faced raising seven children she didn't give birth to by
herself except for the help of God and some people who said Mamie what can I do
to help you out for those seven kids and there were many and to be blessed with a
man who spoke and interrupted the vision that I had of myself when I was on the
wrong track in life mr. Leroy Washington and when I was labeled educable mentally
retarded in the fifth grade and put back in the fourth grade and fell again in
the eighth grade and my junior year in high school who God made it fit that I
would meet this man and he challenged me to work out a problem I said I'm not
here I'm not one of your students I'm here to see my
the Stevens is they do what I'm asking you to do any time and the kids start
laughing he's Leslie that's when brother Wesley Wesley smart he is DT what's T
T's that dumb twins and I said I am sir and looking down he said look at me
don't ever say that again someone's opinion of you does not have to become
your reality it was a defining moment in my life we all have defining moments
defining moments a moment that something happened in who you were before that
moment after that moment because of what you experienced because of what was said
to you after that moment because of what you have grown through your life was
never the same again and my wife was never the same again I became convicted
in my spirit that I wanted to be to people what mr. Washington was to me he
interrupted my story I believed about myself that had been given to me by the
world and we're taught be not conformed to this world don't be like everybody
else be transformed by the renewing of your mind what do you do last when your
prayers aren't answered keep the faith and keep on working keep the faith and
keep on working anyway in spite of in spite of here's the thing that as you
look at your stuff and look at your goals the things happen many times when
they happen so be it the don't lose faith I remember Adam
Clayton Powell out of out of New York he is a congressman he was a bad boy yet at
the classic speech call keep the faith baby keep the faith and and that's real
I remember Jesse used to say if you keep on hoping you can keep on office I'll be
hop it down to the operating room today the other thing is that it is very
important that you saturate your mind with positive things I got up this
morning I was listening to myself like I was a perfect stranger because I was a
different person then and when I was speaking then two things that I was
going through was nothing compared to what I'm facing
now and so I spoke from a different place of energy I was in good health I
was I had my six-pack kid which I got a one pack covered up by six pack right
now retired leaders that come into the sticks epitomize level so beetles about
stuff I said this used to be but six packs are covered up temporarily right
down can you feel the brother up in here up in here they got all these different
instruments and things connected to me and and so what things happen to you
somebody wanna God where are you are you here give me a side and I was asking for
science and get that for me and I I didn't I didn't get the side that I want
instead of instead of cancer being eliminated it spread and so I was
talking to a friend of mine names then Grayson and I said Grayson he called me
Jacksonville he's one of my spiritual sons and I said I'm I'm in the hospital
in Cleveland and and I'm having the procedure today you know they're going
my spinal area I'm concerned about my voice and and I want you a prayer to be
that that I maintain my voice and I'll be able to to walk out of here and to be
able to continue to do my work and I said my prayer was for God to eliminate
the year to 2017 because 2017 and 7 is my lucky number 3 times 7 is 21 that's
my 21st year dealing with cancer to eliminate the the cancer and and I said
instead it moved from my t 1 vertebrae to my a 2 vertebrae 2 3 and then to the
7c and he said less the cancer spread so he can get out I said come on down flesh
and blood did reveal that to you but my Heavenly Father which art in heaven now
y'all know sub-series I'm going to get some kind of procedure
I'm ready y'all see this little grey rider you know home it'll be playing
that I I couldn't find my mascara this water he
met some crazy oh my god the grand say come on let's cut my down he's doing the
Facebook so seriously as you as you look at yourself
sometimes the prayers can be answered but in a different way and and to me
this is an opportunity a defining moment it's a defining moment if that that
sometimes life will test you you know it's easy to have faith when you get the
prognosis you want from a doctor it's easy to have faith when your bills are
paid I remember when when my the home that I
purchased for my mother went into foreclosure because I didn't do a title
search when I purchased the home and I remember when we got the letter saying
that the sheriff will be coming out to set our furniture if we had not moved
out and I didn't I didn't lift a finger to move anything I was praying and I
called the the previous owner and say can you give me just three months sir I
was ripped off I didn't know I was naive that would you please would you please
give me a break closed that door that door closed okay would you please give
me time so monthly payments he said no want you out any you need they went to
the sheriff and won a judgment to foreclosure and I remember praying I
remember praying and finally I said how do I tell my mother this home that is
the fulfillment of a dream that that we have to move it's going into foreclosure
and I round to 30 I went downstairs and and I kneel by the bed and I said mama
she said yes I said you wait she said yes she said I cannot sleep I can hear
you walking back and forth upstairs I said well there's something I need to
tell you and you don't have been praying to God to give me a sign that the home
would not be foreclosed on that would not be coming out and I said mama
I said we're gonna have to move the house is going to into foreclosure and
and she said Leslie I said yes but she said I know you bought this house for me
to say thank you for adopting you and your brothers and sisters but you don't
have to do this I said I know mama and you didn't have to adopt us either
and so I said well they're gonna come and I've been praying to God that
somehow this has work out but we're gonna have to move today and she said
fine with me I like this house anyway
she said I loved it because you loved it Leslie she said going up and down these
steps it's bad on my knees and as a result that it hurts my knees not really
condition that I have but I wouldn't tell you and so the thing is that I said
okay yes ma'am she said whip y'all right here so wants you know even if your
prayers are not answered exactly like you want them to be answered take some
wisdom for my mother made me brown you'll be all right you'll be all right
even though I might come out and and not be able to walk or talk but if I got my
life I'll be all right even if you're facing all type of adverse circumstances
financial bankruptcy divorce being laid off from a job being challenged with a
physical illness not having the money and resources that you need right now to
come through this just become convicted in your spirit you'll be all right
in spite of judge not according to appearances for the righteous judge
would call forth those things that be not as though they were here's something
else when we loaded the truck and we driving back to living
sitting we're living in North Miami Beach where I'm about to smoke this off
of my mother and that's a very fascinating story and and the neighbors
came out looking Mamie yes you're back yes what happened to the
home that Leslie bought for you he didn't do a title search and there's a
large bill that had to be paid in order him to keep the house and even have the
money and so we had to get out I remember that day as if it were
yesterday when the chef authorities knocked on the door I was holding the
Bible and he said us brought I said yes to Sarah you your house is under
foreclosure you have to leave today so I said holding the Bible and the Holy
Quran I must admit I said I'm standing on his words and he said no problem just
step outside the door stand out here on the sidewalk I read I know I look like
The Creature from the Black Lagoon I know my breath my breath ever be kicking
like Bruce Lee Asif oh Jesus to Yahweh as Carlo the whole gang
smoochie you becoming diverse you become what you would you a tight situation you
know it's so so they I got my mouth and they sent people into to remove the
furniture and insult to injury neighbors people that I thought would look out for
me it took a lot of our stuff but here's here's the part that I want
you to remember what do you do when your prayers that aren't answered I pray to
God don't let me lose this house that I've bought for my mother who worked on
Miami Beach for wealthy families who cook for them and we ate the food
leftover from her family's that she cooked for she kept their children and
we wore the hammer down clothes of the children that she kept and she adopted
us and she promised our birth mother I never let them go to bed hungry there
will always be food on the table clothes on their back and always a roof over
their head and she kept that commitment and I wanted to do that for her please
God don't let this happen to me it happened and as I was unloading the
truck I remember feeling humiliated stupid and depressed and I remember my
mother coming to the back of the truck and she said board I said yes ma'am she
said oh your era oh you're here I said mom I let you down I'm so sorry this is
the worst there were life I'm so sorry she said oh you're here I take that
fresh off that truck and bring it in the house
she said we still have each other
hold your head up we still have each other she didn't have an ounce of
disappointment in me it wasn't about the house it was about me
she knew my heart I just made a mistake it's the first major purchase that made
I remember doing the negotiations that my attorney asked the guy that was 17
hours do you have any liens against the property he said no so she said well I
think we should do a title search so that's the guy so do you have any liens
against the property he said and he was good he said the only reason I'm selling
you this house it's because I admire your love for your mother no I have no
liens against it and I don't have to sell you this house I got other people
ready to buy it now I sold it to you at a low price and I had it listed on the
market so if you not willing sign the contract down then the deal is off I
looked at my attorney and I said passed in the contract I believe and she just
dropped her head she said I highly recommend you don't do this mr. brown I
said I'm gonna do it on faith and the Bible says watches well I pray and I
should have watched I should not have gone against the legal advice I should
have followed that my attorney told me and and because I
I went through that experience get her back for me please but house went into
foreclosure shortly thereafter but two things that was defining one you're
gonna be alright and that's real you might be alright
take my word for you are going to be alright
and you must know that even though you have no proof to point to that you're
gonna be alright because there never leave you nor forsake you and keep your
head up keep your head up and so as I get ready for this procedure today I'm
keeping my head if I'm believing that when they go in with the radiation to
reduce the tumors and to minimize the impact of the cancer that I'll be out of
pain I'll be able to walk out of here you know I'll continue to hold on to the
words of Willy jolly who said a setback it's a setup for come back and I believe
today is a setup there are speakers who don't want me to fake it yeah
everybody oh what you've a kid you know there's some people don't was that you
to Vegas because that will be war speaking engagements of them speakers
bureaus I stopped calling me because people call them said unless father's
dying well my dying has been overrated we're
all going to go every all of us are dying daily
okay but I've been dying daily to who I was to become Who I am now and I'm still
being reborn so let me see what my daughter get her on the phone please
call oh so I could talk to her yeah on answering phone you leave a message me
to call you and and and you want me to stop so I can talk to you my knucklehead
daughter where the funk adhered look like me without a beard calling me while
I'm talking doing the broadcast so answerphone
Monica's calling you back honor for me so this is a prompt to conversation that
the things going to happen and they say we have not because we ask my know I did
ask over and over and over again for 21 years
Lord I claim to be free of cancer by your grace I'm healed and it hasn't
happened yet what do you do when your prayer is that
answered keep the faith honor your commitment
therefore take unto you the whole armor of God
what is that armor patience persistence in spite of perseverance in spite of
being unstoppable in spite of being true to your values in spite of standing on
principles in spite of that's what you do don't decide to become a wimp
and back off so well I prayed it didn't happen no you're still here you're still
breathing everybody can't say that there-there's something that you are
supposed to do and so when you yes what is she saying it was my daughter you
know children yes oh don't tell your mother because she keeps it real
Margaret and I've done it like this everybody seen me
and my red tie and my white shirt and navy blue pants and suit but hey I want
to I want people to see me roared say they don't like me because of my gray
hair and they won't see it after the day and because I'm you Glee and that's okay
I got a face that only a mother could love
my nephew Alex Sampson jr. he could hook me up and out you know that bring out
the very white in me or the Denzel in me okay but I'm the one point that I'm
making it's easy when you have money in the bank it's easy when you have your
health it's easy when your marriage is work now and your children are acting
like they have good senses and they have not been picked up by aliens and you
look at them and say this can't be my child this is something from outer space
this is not what I brought home from the hospital okay but the but I wanted to
share this time with you then if you can hear me in your heart you don't care
what I look like right now you really don't because what I'm saying
resonates with you what I'm saying has to mean this is not for everybody this
is not for everybody and so I'm not about looking good but I want it before
going down before they sedate me before I go through this procedure if I don't
get out of this procedure if I don't come out it's okay I I
I was asked the question if you if you knew that you're gonna go now and then
you were given an X chest what would you do with your life you know what I would
do if I knew was leaving today they said but we're gonna give you some more time
what would you how would you spend that - I spent that time doing work with my
family enjoying special moments of them and speaking that's what I'll do I'll
speak and talk but I told my kids when they say I'm God do not allow them
to embalm me for three days come down there to the to the morgue and and put a
microphone in my hand and if I don't grab it and set up and say you gotta be
hungry you can look around and say to each other dad's gone now because I was
born to speak I was born to help people I am Who I am because somebody spoke
into my life I am Who I am because of Mike Williams I want you to get his book
the road to your best stuff he led me to my best stuff he's my mentor to this day
Mike Williams I wish you can tell you I did it all myself no he's a strategist
extraordinaire and he saw me at WBAL radio station in Columbus Ohio and he's
a brownie you know you're more than a disc jockey hey brownie you know why you
go see dr. norman vincent peale and Tony Robbins and and Zig Ziglar know what I
said why because I like the message no because it's in you at that time I was
LD Triple P let's broaden your platter plan problem there were not before me
there will be none after me therefore that makes me the one and only young and
single and loved to make oh hey that guy's gone BAM I was bad when I did it
homie was bad let the record show and between records this guy talked to me
that the best of the best of third thing I want to talk to you about the power of
your willingness to listen to a powerful positive word from someone who can see
in you that which you cannot see in yourself someone that has trained eye
and accomplishment and I loved him because I was one of his groupies I
admired the way he spoke admire how he held himself and most importantly he was
the message that he brought and I admired that he's a person of integrity
my queen the only father that I've ever known other than my mother because
father's date came I gave me Brown a Father's Day coz she was my mother and
my father and only two years difference between Mike Williams and I he's still
in Columbus but he saw this last round because I because I was open to listen
to him and to be coachable you can't read the label when you're locked in a
box and he saw this less right he said brownie I
see things and I see you doing more than just editorials on wvk oh I see you
doing more than just spending records in the morning that you can impact people's
lives around the world he and a former state senator ray Miller who took my
place in the Ohio legislature these people having people in your life who
can see another you that you can't see right now and it took him 14 years I'm
embarrassed to say to convince me because I didn't think that this last
bond existed I didn't think I can compete with people with PhDs and MBAs I
didn't think that I could be Who I am now live the life that I've lived
changing millions of people's lives around the world and speaking over 51
different countries I did not think that someone would pay me for anything there
are things that you can do I has not seen ear has not heard doors enter the
heart of mankind what God has in store for you so as I get ready for them to
come and wheel me down for this procedure and then sedate me and and
perform this procedure I see your prayers the two o'clock Eastern Time
that that God gives them the wisdom and the accuracy to do what they need to do
above and beyond what they've been trained in the universities and doctoral
programs that come out with my voice and my ability to continue to speak in to
serve I will give you a call as soon as the anesthesia wears off I will I'd like
for you to spread this out I want you to watch this and and share it with as many
people I think people need to know what do you do when your prayers are not
answered one you keep the faith to you keep on working what do you do when your
prayers are not answered you hold the stand of perseverance of determination
of honoring your commitment to your commitment you hold the
that you're going to be alright keep your head up
yes even if you going through foreclosure as my mother said keep your
head up even if you laid off from your job keep your head up even if your
marriage breaks up keep your head up even if your children disappoint you and
you said this is not who I brought into this world keep your head up even when
it seems overwhelming the adverse circumstances that you're in and you say
God you know I know you know how much I can bear but as mother Teresa said I
wish you didn't have so much confidence in me
keep your head that's my last message on the planet if this is my last day let
the word go out that les Ron said keep your head up keep your commitment to
your commitment and don't touch him for three days
drop the microphone in his casket he doesn't grab it and say you got to be
hungry he's out of here it is going on to his next assignment and I know I have
a sweet potato pie waiting for me on the other end I thank you for listening
don't forget to share this and to do like this page and share it as many
people as possible this is mrs. Mamie Browns baby boy he
got me all mocked up ready for my procedure they call it mapping I'm going
down there and and I'm believing I'm coming back and as Willie jolly said a
setback is a setup for a comeback I've been set up for comeback and I'm coming
back stronger not stronger but stronger than ever before I got a training in
April I have mine in Fort Lauderdale that I'm gonna be with my very good
friend James Diddley in Chicago with inspired to speak I'm going to speak
everywhere that I possibly can until I drop so whatever you hear that I'm
coming to town come because I'm going to be a beast I'm good I'll sway it you
know in fact they better watch out downstairs in the operating room because
I will be swinging coming in coming in there
Cool Hand Luke that's my one of my favorite movies Paul Newman Cool Hand
Luke I'm going out swing it let the record show thank you so much you have
something special you have greatness in you
that's my story that I'm sticking to it I love you as Georgia Wallace would say
my very good friend there's nothing you can do about it so I want you to spread
this word like this page and spread this word would you spread and tell other
people to spread it that somebody needs to know your prayers aren't answered
keep the faith and commit yourself to continue to work and to work into work
keep your commitment to patience and persistence and perseverance and I can
tell you based upon my experience you will snatch victory from the jaws of
defeat take no prisoners and eat the wounded Oh behave whatever take care god
bless
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