The Reason For Spiritual Warfare!

Hey, hey, Tony Gins here. Got me a little while. Had to go pick up my wife. Truck. That's where I'm in right at now. And so had to get me a haircut in a little bit. So I got 45 minutes till my haircut. So show get me some talking in. But might have to plug my phone in cuz I only got 30% battery left. And shout out to everybody who's seen the the young brother did the parody. The brother don't even make videos. I guess he just felt inspiration. Felt he'll just come out and do a little video, a little parody of me. And uh he had me a couple haters in the comment that don't really watch my channel and don't don't really know me. And you know how it is. People people be so miserable in their life and just unhappy with where they at that when you speak your truth they think you bragging and it's like I just be I just be talking just be talking about what I live like that's my life. Like lady was talking about oh he's so arrogant and full of himself. It's like if I arrogant full of myself I wouldn't be on here every day. I wouldn't be doing one-on-one sessions. I wouldn't even I go and make some real money. I go do y'all day trade and doing courses on how to flip real estate and how to start a trucking company and you know I go out here really run up me a bike. So it's like you know some folk they just be so insecure and just so downtrodden. But I come from that, you know. I come from people like that who they can't stand to see you happy. They can't stand to see you successful. They can't stand to see you confident. They can't stand to see you happy about what God did for you. And and the thing about it is they only be knowing what you be going through. They don't even know how dark it be in your life. They don't be knowing how many bills you got, how much debt you got, how many debt collectors. But just because you put a smile on your face and you happy about what the Lord has done, they upset by it. They hate it. They can't stand it. They want you to be hurt, broken, tow up from the floor up. I mean, look at all these graves I got by Daddy Boys now. about to die e boys. Y'all the toilet got younger. Yeah. Die them grave. Yeah. But wanted to get on here and talk to you, you know, about this. U I I did an interview. It's on the community page if you missed it with Big Bank of ATL. A real cool dude. I'm not from Atlanta, so I don't know the the legend of Big Bank the way the ATL people do. So I just I got to meet I was able to meet him of who he is today and his energy, his spirit and and I could just tell and feel that you know he on the right path like he trying to be a better person, trying to grow, trying to step into a new season of life and seem like a real good dude. But we all on a on our path and that's why on his episode, you know, I was very transparent. Put myself out there. And you know how they, you know, when when the editors and stuff when they have to clip something up, they put the part in there where we was talking about divorce and and that was a good clip to put in there cuz that's going to make people watch the interview cuz they'll think like, "Oh, is it is it uh trouble in paradise? Is it smoke in the city?" But we we was talking overall like throughout my whole 20 year marriage and not right now, but you might not know that if you see the clip, but whatever. Get the folks over there to watch it. You know, go on get your eyes on it. Go on, watch it. So, if you missed it, look on my community page or search perspectives with Bank Tony Gins and it'll come up. Watch it. different side of me talked about different things, different different little stories, you know, all real, nothing fake or fiction. I don't I don't believe in lying and I don't believe in glossing over stuff and nothing like that. But spiritual warfare is real and I talked about that on there and a lot of people don't talk about that and a lot of people assume that if you have spiritual warfare then it must be something wrong with you. it must be something you doing wrong. You must be depressed and you know stuff like that and that's not the case. And you know they feel you must be depressed and all of this and that. But what what a lot of people don't understand about spiritual warfare is when you doing something good, you're going to be combed with evil. When you're going to be tested, you're going to be tried. And the purpose of that in the spiritual realm is to slow you down, to stop you from doing what you're doing, to stop you from moving forward. A lot of people have given up on God. A lot of people have given up on their belief system or religion or whatever they would call it. A lot of people have given up on it because of just the darkness that they've seen, the the hurt, the pain, the brokenness, the lies, the trauma, the drama. It's a lot that happens, a lot that goes on. And a lot of people, they'll check out. And so for me, when you trying to touch the world, when you trying to help people get on the right path, and you trying to help people change their life and live for the better, do the right thing, overcome. When you doing that, you're going to be tested. You're going to be tried. Tomorrow I got to fly to LA, do a podcast interview, then hop back on the plane, fly to Dallas, do a podcast interview, hop back on the plane, be back for my son soccer game. But just getting out there, sharing a message. And the thing about it is a lot of people can't believe what you on. They can't believe what you talking about. They can't believe that you live it because we've never really seen a whole lot of it. Like if you live with your daddy, you saw his flaws, you saw his darkness, you saw his his worst moments. And so that'll make you think, oh, if the man I love the most, the man who I come out of before going into my mama, you know, but the man who I got his flesh and blood, if he flawed, if he this, if he that, then every man is this and that. No man could be better than my daddy. And you'll have that mindset. You'll have that approach to it. Y'all have to give me some skin in my face. And so you'll have that approach and you'll take that and it's just hard. So it's like even with spiritual warfare, it's it's a lot of people waiting on me to be exposed. lot of people waiting on me to be to fail and of course that make me work harder but I just deal with different stuff you know it's like today I had a I had a loaner from the dealership turned it in it's a little little tiny scuff on the bumper like something ran ran into it like like a a little cart at the a cart at the soccer field or a a cart at Costco when my wife went to Costco like B I don't know what hit it. I ain't hit nothing, but they want me to pay for it after I just paid $1,000 to get this right here to get my wife truck fixed. Then my son got hit in the parking lot. So him exchanging numbers and whatever. He thinking he going to be in trouble. So he let the lady go. That cost me $1,000 when she the one hit him. And so that cost me a,000. Then got to pay his tuition this month. 14,000. Younger son tuition, 1300 a month, every month. So, it's like I'm bombarded. Mama need 3,000. Mother-in-laws cost mother-in-law cost 3 4,000 a month every month. So, if you have a slow month in business, mobile bills 35,000 minimum a month. So, that mean to be comfortable I need to be trying to earn 70,000 100,000. So, but imagine this. If you take and you earn $35,000 in a month, that's a lot of money. But that's what my life have gone to. So, that also increased spiritual warfare. And a lot of people don't understand what they've never seen and what they've never experienced. So, think about this. If you make $100,000 a month for 12 months straight and right now you live in a apartment complex that doesn't have a gate. If you make $100,000 a month for 12 months straight, are you going to stay in that apartment complex that doesn't have a gate? Now, and I'm not talking now, you ain't got no name like Ro where everybody know him and respect him so he could stay there. But you make a h 100,000 a month. Are you going to stay in that that apartment? Absolutely not. You moving out that apartment maybe after the first no longer than the third month that you' done made 100,000 cuz you think, "Hey, I got the formula now. I got the formula. My business doing good." like I ain't going back down. I refuse to go back down. I ain't going back down. So what you going to do? You going to go rent your house or you going to go buy your house and you going to move on up. Now let's say you make 100,000 a month the next 24 months. What you going to do? You you definitely might move up again cuz you like, well if I'm making 100 grand a month, I done did this 24 months in a row. I can afford a mortgage that's 10 grand, five grand. That's a tenth of my income. You see what I'm saying? So, you're going to elevate because your your income elevated, but then guess what? Income can change. How hard is it going to be for you to leave that gated neighborhood with that house that you done bought or rented to go back to that ungated apartment complex? got to go back to the ungated unsafe apartment complex and and then everybody there got to be like, "Oh, where where you at? Why where you back? I saw I saw you had a house with a pool. Saw you had saw you had a uh I saw you had a a Lamborghini Urus truck. Why? Why you in a Toyota Camry? What you just got tired of? You just said, "Man, bump bump that rich and successful life. You just you just want to be back here with us. Think about that. How hard that'll be. So guess what you going to go through? Spiritual warfare. You're going to be confronted with spiritual warfare because you thought your life hadn't changed. You thought your life hadn't elevated. But then now life come ask you go back go back to square one and start all over and rebuild it again. And then I'm going to snatch it from you again. And then you going to have to start over again. And so yeah, you got to start over. Now your kids grown. So I'm going to knock you all the way back down and start over in square one and then rebuild it again. Do it better next time. And then next time I'm going to snatch it back from you and make you start over when you when your grandkids grown. And if I let you live, then I'm going to make you start over again when your when your great grandchildren get grown. So that's life. That's spiritual warfare. Now, I used a very big example when I say 100,000 a month, but it's no different if you go get a job and they paying you 50,000, 60,000, 70,000 and you used to make 20 or 30,000. You're not going to stay in the same neighborhood where you made 20 or 30,000 when you start making 60,000 a year, 70,000 a year. You're going to go up. Even if it's just a little bit, you're going to go up. to a little safer neighborhood a little bit because you can afford a little more. Now, let's say you go up off your 60 or 70,000. You go up to where you can afford and you want the max of what you can afford. Nobody want to live. Everybody say live beneath your means. Nobody want to live beneath their means. You want to meet your means. You want to be at your means. That's why that's why nobody have any money because everybody want to live at the max of what they money can afford. And it's easy to say live beneath your means when you just talking. But who actually fixing to live in the hood when they paycheck can afford gated neighborhood, gated house? Who going to live like that? That's what a lot of people don't understand. But this is where spiritual warfare comes and goes in life because imagine you have a child and you love your child. Your life has changed. This your pride and joy and then your child dies. You got used to having a child and your heart was set on having that child and seeing your child every day and you and you had all these visions and dreams for your child and now your child dies. That's spiritual warfare. Because in that moment, you ready to crash out. You ready to take your own life. You ready to hurt somebody. You You ready to get angry with God because you cuz you feel like God is doing everything to you and God is cursing you and God don't love you. Your friend dies, your mama die, your dad die, your your spouse die, your child die, you lose your job, your car repossessed, you get an eviction notice. Like everything that happened to you, you could easily say this God doing this to me. God doing this to me. God hurt me. God did this. God did that. Why did this happen? You could easily say that. You could easily say that. You could easily feel that way. And that's why a lot of people turn away from God, not realizing that was spiritual warfare. And you got to remember the story of Job. Go read the story of Job and then realize when you read the story of Job, you realize you ain't been through 1%. You have not experienced, none of us have experienced 1% of what Job experienced. None of us. And we don't realize that. Like we be really really ready. We be ready to cancel God. We be ready to give up on God. We be ready to give up on religion. We be ready to give up on everything. When we go through a little bit, lose a job, lose a loved one, lose a relationship, we be ready to we be ready to just throw in the towel. God, you hate me. You don't love me. How could you do this? How could you let this happen? Not realizing that all of that is a part of life. Death is a part of life. Loss is a part of life. Hate is a part of life. Love is a part of life. Jealousy is a part of life. Crime is a part of life. Like all of that is a part of life. Like we we fail to realize that. And we'll get mad with God and then we'll we'll be ready to check out. And that's why I shoot these videos because that's how I turn pain into purpose. As we learn, we should teach. That's why I started the purpose pushers community to help other people. The link is in the bio to help other people turn their pain into purpose. That's why I did that because it's like if I just go through what I'm going through and I don't extract a lesson from it and try to help somebody else, it'll kill me. Like, I get hit with so many things at one time. to where I could be ready and be considering taking my own life. And so, knowing that I don't want to do that, knowing that I won't do that, I take that pain and I turn it into purpose. And that's why I show up on here every day that I can and share a message. And and you might not realize this, but that's why I'm also give you a little something to laugh at. You know, I be serious, but I know the topic or just how it coming out. If you need a laugh, you going to be able to find that laugh. You might be laughing about stuff you ain't supposed to laugh about, but guess what? Your life needed that. You need that's that's medicine for your soul. So, you like, man, I'm going to get this laugh off, man. I I'm sad that Yoda hit her in the eye, but just the way Tony said that right there, man, that I couldn't help but laugh. I ain't laughing at a eye now. I ain't laughing at a eye. Lord, forgive me. I ain't laughing at a eye. And you just go through that because your heart needed that. You get it. You know your You know yourself. You know your heart. You know what you was laughing at and what you weren't laughing at. Like, you know, you're not a bad person, but you just needed that little chuckle even in a serious moment. And we can't judge nobody for that. And that's one of the things. It's just it come to a place. to come to a time to where we all going to go through. We all going to experience things. We all going to have to face some things. We all going to have some times to where it's a struggle. It's real. And that's part of it. That's part of it. And so, you got to understand that you're going to be tested every day whenever you make up your mind. Y'all, I got 23 minutes to my haircut. Whenever you make up your mind and you say, "You know what? I'm about I'm about to teach my child how to be successful, how to be an amazing person. I'm about to teach my child the lessons that he or she can change the world with. The one I'm about to teach my child to give. We got a white man walking through the neighborhood. Ain't never seen no white person in this neighborhood now. What he doing now? Cuz that ain't no bus stop. Got all black on. But it down bad. You You white in the hood. You might be undercover. Yeah, cuz them pants look a little too nice. That a tattoo expensive. Headphone cost a few dollars, too. What he got on Chuck Taylor? He must be the landlord cuz he live in this neighborhood. Ain't no white person that going to randomly choose to live over here with all the black people. Doing something with his hand like he trying to walk like he hard. Try not to get ran up on like surf twilling them fingers ain't going to make nobody scared of you. Having that tank top on with that tattoo ain't going to save you either. Y'all forgive me. I just have to be watching my surrounding cuz sometimes they be breaking in the cars and stuff and they might not even know I'm in here and just boom come smash the back window. I'm sitting right here and they coming to do them a smash and grab. So I just be watching my but one time I came out lady car had to got broke into they had to broke into a bike window stole up her. I'm like this insurance fraud like did you tell him cuz who does that like at the barber shop like this first time ever seeing that happen up here. Now you trying to do some insurance fraud talking about, oh yeah, I had $10,000 in that purge. No, you didn't. Spiritual warfare. That's spiritual warfare. So this is the thing what you got to realize. You going to go through like back to what I was saying, you could take and tell yourself, you could say, I'm f to raise my child. I'm f to be amazing parent for my child. And my child f to be the next such and such. They going to be the first themselves, but they going to be on the same level or greater as this person right here that I see that I look up to by the by the intangibles that I'm about to instill into my child. Right after you say that, you get hit with everything. Get laid off at your job. your mama die or your daddy die, your other child get killed from gun violence or die in a car crash or something like that and you and now you give up. You broken, you you crying, you curse God, which Job never did. God allowed Satan. I think I need to go read the book of Job again, but I think all the man cattle was killed, all his sheep, I think all his kids was killed, maybe maybe his wife. I I can't I think he lost all his kids. Like, he lost everything. And the man never cursed God. And and Satan went to God and said, "Man, that man ain't cursing. Like, that ain't enough. Let me touch his body." The Lord say, "You could touch him, just don't kill him." See, what you got to realize is that your purpose still has to be activated. If you could do this, even if you could just do this, you might not even be able to breathe out your mouth. Even if you can't breathe out your nose, the Lord might let the devil take your nose. So, you just mouth breathing. He letting you mouth breathe to live your purpose. That's what Job understood. He understood for some reason the Lord let me go through this. But see the thing about it is back then no TV, no internet. Job knew the Lord. Job had to experience the Lord. Like Job knew the Lord was real. See, we don't know that the Lord is real. We be guessing. We be hoping. We wondering, "Oh, should I believe this? Should I believe that? Should I believe in this? Should I believe in that? What should I believe in? Is it real? See me, that's why you can't go back and forth with me. That's why I don't go back and forth with nobody cuz I know God real. I can't talk about the stuff I done did. I can't tell everything that I done been through, everything I done seen, everything I done did. But that's how that's why you hear me talk the way you hear me talk. I'm not supposed to be here. I'm not supposed to be in the free world. I'm not supposed to be above ground. I'm not supposed to be married and faithful with kids. That's not supposed to be my life. So that's why I believe in God because God showed me his face. God showed me that he's real. I don't mean literal face, but I mean he showed me that he's real. He showed me that he can do what nobody else can do. He showed me. So when I go when I'm going through like right now, hit with every million bills, hit with all kind of stuff, hit with so much. When I'm going through like that right there, I say, "Okay, Lord, what what is this about? Okay, Lord, what is this right here about? Got low power mode on my phone, y'all. I don't know if I plug it in if it'll cut it off. So, forgive me. I said, Lord, what is this about? What you want me to learn? Why am I going through this right here? Lord, what do I do? Do I Do I lose it all? Do I let it go? Do I give up? Do I Do I lay down and just take the whooping? Like, Lord, what do I do? Like how do I fight back in this moment? Like what life is giving me this, life is giving me that. Lord, what do I do? What you want me to do? What do what what am I to learn from this? H how are this how is this going to happen? And I and I try to talk to the Lord and I say, "Well, okay, Lord, don't let me do something that's going to hurt hurt me worse. Don't let me do something out of fear, anxiety, frustration, doubt. That's going to hurt me worse. Lord, don't let me hurt me. Lord, if I got to go through it, let me go through it. But give me the strength to get through it. Lord, give me the wisdom to get through it. Lord, help me. Help me. And I cried on high. And I just trust him. And I say, "Lord, I'm going to keep going. I'm going to go. I don't know what. I don't know why. I don't know when. I don't know where. But I'mma just keep going. I'mma keep going. I'mma keep living and doing what you called me to. Lord, I'mma do it. Lord, I'mma do it. And that's what you got to realize and understand. It's not going to be easy. Like, and a lot of people think that purpose and all of that mean you got to have a platform. Your purpose could be bringing your neighbor to the Lord. Your purpose, your purpose could be putting your child on a on a straight narrow. It literally your purpose could be fixing your raggedy car so you don't crash into somebody and set both of y'all on fire and they lose their life because of your car raggedy. Like your purpose could be anything. Literally could be anything. And you got to be okay with that. Don't feel like you need a YouTube channel. Don't feel like you got to write a book. Don't feel like you got to be famous. Don't feel like you got to be a celebrity. Whose life are you supposed to impact? Whose life are you supposed to touch? That's your purpose. That's your purpose. You got to realize that. But here's the thing. You got to have a mindset shift. You got to change your mind. You got to be able to have that shift because you'll get a blessing out of nowhere. And if your head ain't on straight, if your mind ain't right, if you're not prepared, if you hadn't prepared like right now, okay, I'm getting things in order and I'm preparing for the next level. Whatever that next level is, the next level could be more money. It could be more access. It could be more territory. It could be more notoriety, more temptation, more trials, more tribulation. I'm preparing and I'm getting ready right now for the next level. And the reason why I'm getting ready, and what I mean by getting ready is I'm getting my affairs in order, getting my heart in order, getting my mind in order. I'm getting these things in order cuz I don't know what's coming next, but I know something is coming. I don't know what it's going to be, but I know something is coming. I don't know what. I don't know when. I don't know why, but I know it's coming. And see, that's what you got to realize because you could feel insignificant today and be significant tomorrow. You could feel like everything is working against you today. and have a whole purpose tomorrow. You could feel like taking your own life today and be completely rejuvenated tomorrow. Anything is possible. Anything can happen. You got to know that. You got to realize that. You got to understand that. And see the thing about it is it might not look like how you want it to look. It might not be how you want it to be. The test may happen in a way that you weren't expecting. the blessing may happen in a way that you weren't expecting. You got to realize and understand that. You got to be ready for that. You got to be prepared. You got to be willing. The prayer that I pray is, Lord, take me through anything you want to take me through. Just give me the wisdom to get the lesson. Give me the strength to get through it. Give me the peace. Give me the favor. Give me the grace. However far down I got to fall, I got to go, I go. Whatever I got to go through to learn, I go through it. I need the lesson. the lesson is more important. Like that's why if I was a street dude and I got hit with a Rico, I'm doing the time. I would never get on the stand and tell on nobody. I would never get on the stand and blame it on nobody. That's a sign of a man standing even when you dumb. When I was growing up, it's time for me to get a whooping. I'll take the belt to my daddy and I'll stand there and them first few licks, they stain, but I wouldn't shed a tear. And I take that whooping. And guess what? That's what helped me get where I am, where I'm at. I don't run from a lesson. My little sister, she used to scream bloody murder. She would take off through that house. She would dart. She She look like little Sonics the Hedgehog in that house just darting around running from that whooping. She would scream bloody murder. She did not want consequences. Never want consequences. And guess what? It shows up in life even today. When you don't get the lesson, you go through the same thing over and over and over again. And each time it gets worse. If you not willing for your booty cheeks to hit asphalt, you ain't going to learn and you ain't going to grow. Cuz see if if your booty about to hit asphalt and your mama come and put a mattress right there and you fall and you and that mattress catch you and you just get a little you just get a little taste of that asphalt. But not really cuz the mattress and them springs or that foam done caught you. Guess what? You f to go do the same stupid thing again in a different way. You go commit a crime, your mama bail you out, you going to commit another one. You get out, all you get is probation, you going to do something else stupid. You going to keep being stupider and stupider and stupider until you lose your life because you ain't get the lesson. You got to get that lesson. And so whatever you going through, go through it. Whatever you lose, be willing to lose it. Whatever you got to feel, feel it. It's spiritual warfare. It's necessary. It's needed. It's for your good. It's going to bless you. It is going to bless you. You got to go through it. If you ain't willing to go through it, it's going to keep coming back again and again and again. So right now it's like, Lord, I don't know what I'm going through. Lord, I don't know what this is about. I don't know what it's for. I got an idea and I'mma do the best I can. But Lord, I need you. Lord, I need you. Guess what? You want to better your life. You want more out of life. You want more money, more success. more purpose. You want all of that, but you can't help it right now if you can't afford to help. It take money to make money. If you can't afford to help yourself, there's nothing you could do. All you could do is get everything you could get for free and try to implement it. And when you implement it, anything you get from it, try to correct your mistakes that you made to put you in the place that you in. Meaning you might be out of work because of your mouth and it's somewhere you can go fill out applications for free or with what you got using your phone data or walking to the library, getting on their computer, filling out applications. You mess around and you get you a job that's close enough to walk because you ain't got no car. You walk to that job. Guess what you got to do? You got to shut your mouth. Your mouth got you fired last time. Or let's say you misspent your money. Half cut in four minutes. You misspent your money and so now you behind the eightball. You trying to rob Peter to pay Paul. You can't afford a coaching session. You can't afford a therapy session. You can't afford no help. You can't afford to learn. You can't afford an online course. You can't afford to do what you need to do to get ahead. about to pull up behind me. Oh, okay. That's a Uber. And so you can't afford it. So guess what? With that being the case, then you taking you just sit still. But what you got to do is you got to do what you could do for free. So you can make you some money. And then when you make you some money now out of everything you make, you got to put up 10% of it into a savings. This your self-investment savings. This your hard time saving. This your rainy day. You can't spend every dime you make. You got to take and you got to put you some up. So now that you done put you some up. Okay. Boom. Now it's up. Now you start to rebuild. You did it off the free, but then now you start to get blessed. If you taking you still spend every single dime that you had, you doing the same thing all over again. Same thing going to hit you again. You going to end up in the same predicament. You know, I I caught myself trying to help. I said, "Man, I'm gonna start the purpose pushes community. Help people birth their book, birth their company, their LLC, their nonprofit, have people in the community." But guess what? Nobody could afford $47. As adults, people can't afford $47. We got a few people that can afford the $47. People came to me like, "Tony, I can't afford $47. And that's sad. That's sad, but that's the reality. That's where That's where our life is at. It's sad. It hurts, but that's the reality. We can't afford it. That is the reality. It's where it's at. It's unfortunate. But I learned, okay, that's that's that's real life. That's where that's where folks at. So guess what? I can't lessen it no more cuz then you change the value. You lose the value. So So I can't lessen it anymore. But you know what I could do? Give away as much as I can for free to help people. Try to help people. As much as I can for free so that they could go implement and make something happen. And when they build from where they at, then they able to come back. then they could join at step one and then go from there. And that's life and that's how life works. I got on Oprah for free. I got on Tower Banks for free. Free information off videos, off sound stuff. And then I built from there. And that's what I want you to realize and understand. But keep your head up and we'll talk soon. All the important links in the description. Click on in there. Join us. God. God.