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00:05 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:15 ♪ I want to spend my life removing pain ♪ 00:26 ♪ Lord let my words heal a heart that hurts ♪ 00:36 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:57 ♪ ♪ 01:07 Hello, welcome to 3ABN Today. My name is John Dinzey and I'm 01:11 with my wife Idalia and we send you greetings and a hug from 01:16 your 3ABN family. 01:17 That's right. Greetings and it's a privilege for us to sit with 01:21 you this next hour. I am ready to receive a blessing the Lord 01:24 has in store for me and for you at home. We have a very special 01:30 guest and the Lord is doing great and mighty things in her 01:34 life and it's wonderful to see how He has blessed us. 01:38 Amen, amen. Well this is a program that will last about an 01:42 hour, close, and we hope that you will join and be attentive 01:46 because we're going to share some wonderful information with 01:49 you and we have a special guest that is joining us. I think I 01:52 would like to have Idalia introduce her because you have 01:57 met her in the past and have also participated with her in a 02:01 program here on 3ABN. 02:04 That's right. Well the Lord blessed us to be able to work 02:07 together about 15 years ago but this name is no stranger to you 02:12 at home. This name she's the director and owner of Something 02:15 Better Today and her name is Marlene McKinney. Welcome to the 02:20 program. (Welcome) 02:22 Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you both of 02:27 you and 3ABN for this opportunity. 02:30 Amen. You know time flies. It's been about 15 years and you know 02:35 this program is one hour long but one hour is not going to be 02:38 sufficient, right, to cover everything. 02:42 (Skip) in fellowship that long. 02:45 So we met in the kitchen, please do you remember how that was? 02:51 Yes, I do. My daughter's telling me she was about 16 so she said 02:57 Mommy, it's been about 13, 14 years ago. But I remember that 03:01 like yesterday. And I had a incident happen to me just about 03:04 four weeks ago. I have a compilation of all my CDs and 03:09 DVDs in a little black case in my car and one Sabbath as I was 03:12 driving to church I was actually the speaker at this presentation 03:16 I was going to. I said I want to hear something different 03:18 today. I don't want to hear none of the music I was listening to 03:21 so I just popped in this little CD, I thought it was a CD, and on 03:25 there I had compiled all of the programs from Let's Cook 03:30 Together. (Oh wow) Let me tell you something. I was in tears 03:36 you were the first one, I just pressed play, literally it was 03:41 impressive. It was so beautiful and I burst out crying as I was 03:43 driving. I took the video and I said to my children, Look what I 03:46 just popped into my DVD player (skips) I said what was, I'm 03:52 just crying and I'm crying, this was before I even knew I was 03:54 going to be a guest today and I'm just hollering on my way, 03:58 hollering. I've got to clean up before I speak. You know that 04:04 was a beautiful time for me and my family. I think 15 of us 04:08 traveled to 3ABN to come and to share and I was just excited. I 04:13 was so happy to meet you in person and I felt there was a 04:17 bond between us and of course all the others that I met. 04:23 Praise God. 04:24 Well it seems like the Lord was trying to tell her something 04:25 before she agreed to be on the program today. 04:29 That's right. Well... 04:31 Well tell us where you are joining us from because you're 04:33 not physically here but you are from where? 04:37 I live where you vacation. I am in sunny National Palm. That's 04:45 my greeting on my YouTube channel. I say listen this is 04:46 Marlene McKinney and I live where you vacation. So if you 04:50 have (skips) come on by and visit our beautiful island. I 04:54 tend to get lots of sun, sand and sea. Okay. But unfortunately 05:00 I can't be there. I'll tell you a portion of the story as to why 05:04 I can't be there. But it would be beautiful to be there. But 05:07 hey I believe, I live by, a phrase I live by the same. I 05:12 believe that I can do virtually anything. (Laughter) 05:17 Amen. Well we are so excited and we're looking forward to 05:22 learning more about what the Lord has done. I know he has 05:26 used you as He does all our guests as we share the platform 05:30 of Three Angels Broadcasting Network around the world. So 05:35 cooking is one thing, that is our hobby, that is our passion 05:39 that's our therapy. We love to cook and we love to make others 05:44 happy and enjoy them enjoying you know healthy meals but you 05:48 know you have more than just recipes. You have your testimony 05:52 and the Lord has moved your ministry to what it is today. So 05:56 we're going to get into that really soon but right now I 06:00 believe we're going to have a word of prayer and invite our 06:03 viewers to contemplate a message in scripture. 06:08 Yes. We need to go to the Lord in prayer. How about if you pray 06:10 for us this time. 06:11 Okay. Let's pray. 06:14 Father God, we are so thankful for your goodness and your mercy 06:16 Thank you, Lord, that we are your family, your children, and as we 06:22 contemplate how you orchestrate situations in our lives we see 06:27 that you have in store great and big blessings. Help us to not be 06:31 the stumbling block to receive it. Help us to receive it and 06:35 give you all the praise and honor and glory. Right now Lord 06:38 we're going to talk about a topic that hits home in every 06:42 home. So we ask you to go before us. Anoint our hearts and our 06:47 ears. May the testimony that Marlene will share inspire 06:53 others and see the greatness of your provision. We thank you 06:59 and we praise you, in Jesus' name, Amen. 07:00 Amen, amen, thank you very much. Well our Bible reading for today 07:05 is found in the book of Philippians chapter 1 and verse 07:09 6. I will go ahead and read that Notice the wonderful words that 07:13 are here: Being confident of this very thing that He who has 07:20 begun a good word in you will complete it until the day of 07:27 Jesus Christ. (Amen) Excellent. What a scripture this is. And 07:34 it's a comforting scripture as well, encouraging and inspiring. 07:39 But I would like to know if Marlene, sister Marlene, do you 07:42 have anything that you would like to share about this verse 07:44 How does this verse impact you? 07:47 It's a power-packed verse. You know when you think of the fact 07:51 that God's not finished with us yet. You know every day I do a 07:56 reading that came to me like... God's not finished with me yet. 07:59 You know He has work to do in me and He has work to do through 08:03 us and I'm just, yeah that's powerful that He who has 08:09 begun it will complete it until it's the end. Like I said to my 08:13 group this morning, live as though this is the last day that 08:16 we have on this earth. You know we don't know so we need to make 08:19 sure that the work that He started when it's complete that 08:22 we are sealed and ready for eternity. That's the most (skip) 08:27 Amen. Amen, wonderful. And so we want to encourage you to 08:34 consider this scripture as well. The Lord has begun a work and 08:38 He wants to complete it. But the way He can complete it is as we 08:42 cooperate with Him. So every day we encourage you to say, Lord 08:48 here I am. Continue that marvelous work in me and as we 08:54 cooperate with Him it will be a lot better for us. Yes, it will 08:58 be a lot better for us. 09:00 I just want to remind people, Psalm 34:8 to taste and see that 09:04 the Lord is good. 09:06 Amen that's a wonderful scripture. 09:08 Well we have some music that we'd like to share with you. 09:12 It's a, I call it a musical offering, and today is going to 09:18 be Brother Ben Lingle. What do we have? 09:22 Well we have This Is My Father's World. 09:25 ♪ ♪ 12:07 Amen, praise the Lord! We praise the Lord. Ben Lingle works here 12:12 at 3ABN and is a wonderful worker for the Lord. He does 12:17 music and also audio and talented but by God's grace 12:26 his music I hope has ministered to you. I would like to read to you 12:27 some of the words since this was an instrumental. This is my 12:30 Father's world. And to my listening ears all nature sings 12:35 and round me rings the music of the spheres. This is my 12:41 Father's world. I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees, of 12:46 skies and seas, His hands the wonders wrought. This is my 12:51 Father's world. The birds their carols raise. The morning light 12:55 the lily white, declare their makers praise. This is my 13:00 Father's world. He shines in all that's fair, in the rustling grass 13:04 I hear Him pass. He speaks to me everywhere. There's more and 13:09 we encourage you to look it up and see this is a wonderful, 13:15 wonderful hymn. We are blessed to have Sister Marlene McKinney 13:20 with us and we are going to get to know her a little better for 13:24 those of you who have not seen her for a while. She's going to 13:26 bring us up to date. 13:28 That's right, that's right. Well for our new viewers, please 13:31 Marlene tell us who is Marlene McKinney? 13:36 Well, first of all, I'm a mom of three. No, if I were to 13:42 come on here and I'd say I got three beautiful children, my 13:45 children would say, Mommy you didn't even say anything 13:48 about us. 13:49 But I'm a (skip) I have two beautiful grandchildren like 13:52 Daniella said to come first. I have beautiful in-laws, you know a 13:57 son-in-law and a daughter-in-law beautiful children. But first of 14:01 all you know most importantly I love the Lord and I have 14:04 recommitted my life over and over, every day, daily, and I 14:08 just love ministry. I've been in ministry now for 24 years, I 14:14 can't believe it. Honestly I don't know where the years went 14:17 by. I know that my parents who are now sleeping who actually 14:21 came with me when we came to 3ABN. My mom was my designer of 14:27 my dishes. People would call and say wow. I'd say listen. It 14:31 wasn't me at all. I tasted, my mom decorated. And today I 14:35 I really miss her as I rely on her to my circumstances. _ 14:39 half as good as my mom did. I hope and pray that my parents 14:41 you know would pray for us as children. And their prayers and 14:46 desire would have been that their children would grow up 14:48 to serve the Lord and I can 14:50 safely say that all of us are in ministry today doing what God 14:54 would have us to do and so I look forward to them, you know, 14:58 I'm going to cry, I'm a cry, baby. 14:59 I look forward to seeing them again you know. 15:01 and yeah so that's who Marlene is right now. I'm just going 15:08 wherever God asks me to go you know the beautiful song says I 15:10 will go and we don't know where. Sometimes people call us pastor 15:15 and sometimes they call and say I want to be like you. I want to 15:16 be a missionary. Are you sure? Be sure what you're talking 15:20 about because you don't know (Skip) you're going to be taking 15:22 It's a beautiful journey, it's a beautiful journey. 15:26 Well what I love and I praise God for it is Jesus in you, your 15:31 passion for humanity, your dedication throughout all these 15:35 years and of course you made your parents proud when you were 15:40 here and they worked with you. And you know that's a lot of 15:43 knees to the floor, a lot of prayer. So that's encouraging to 15:49 all the parents that are watching during this hour. Keep 15:52 praying for your children because the Lord will work in 15:56 our lives. You may not see the completed work but He is 15:59 faithful and will complete it you know. But... 16:03 The Lord listens to those prayers I mean and He sets His 16:06 angels to work, His Holy Spirit. And you know God has so much 16:10 that He wants to do for us and we neglect to pray. We need to 16:17 pray and so you're a living testimony of answered prayer. 16:22 So we just praise the Lord for that. And so you have been at 16:27 3ABN we were talking about somewhere 13, 14 years ago, 16:31 cooking programs but it didn't stop there. The Lord has 16:35 continued to use you. Now bring us up to, at least a little bit 16:40 up to date. What have you been doing since then? 16:42 You know I was then living in New York and we came home, I 16:48 came home to the Bahamas where I'm from and I tell people I'm 16:52 lock down in Paradise. Laughter. A great place to be 16:57 locked down. We have an island called Paradise Island so I'm on 17:04 lock down Paradise and it's a beautiful journey because 17:06 as I got home, I'll quickly share this part of it. 17:09 I didn't plan to but the 17:11 Lord put some to share. I got home 11 years ago almost 12 17:16 years and my daughter is now married to the gentleman that 17:21 approached me first and he's now deceased Tony Rose. 17:24 He approached me. He said Marlene will you cook soups for 17:26 me. I am sick with cancer. And I was like yeah I don't know. 17:30 And then another lady approached me, another friend. She said 17:32 Marlene. I am sick with cancer could you please prepare soups 17:36 for me? And then people just kept coming and asking for soups 17:38 I'm like okay maybe I should open up a vegetarian kitchen 17:41 called Just Soups. And so my niece and I very shortly after 17:44 went to the Lord and said, Lord you have power to do it. 17:47 And I will be honest, I started without a license (Laughter) 17:53 since then I'm selling to the persons who I would get to 17:58 advertise on the radio and through Facebook, or whatever 18:01 and then I went to the government, then I went to the 18:04 government and I said listen I'm coming to you because I have 18:07 people who need this soup because they are trying to 18:10 recover from various illnesses. At that time we were serving 18:14 more than just cancer patients. And so the gentleman that came 18:18 to my home to approve it because I had a storefront. I should 18:22 have a picture there, oh _ I said a little later I should 18:25 have a picture there. I added the storefront to my home 18:31 because was like very serious and committed and I knew that 18:33 overhead killed the business. I already knew that but I built 18:39 this little kitchen and then I built to baking bread. 18:41 These fingers 18:42 were in soft dough just baking bread, just baking bread. And I 18:46 never once asked, I'm like mother, I just believe that we 18:49 should not ask for money. We should just go before God and we 18:52 should ask Him. I don't believe in begging. I just never did. 18:55 And so you're a proud person, God's going to humble us. But 19:00 I want to build this little cubby hole that's called my 19:04 store and that shop would have served my Bahamian people for 19:09 nine years. I prepared many meals from there. We had number 19:15 one on Google if there was a search, Something Better 19:16 Vegetarian Deli. Google has ranked number one in the Bahamas 19:20 for vegan meals and people are still calling even today, 19:22 I'm still 19:24 getting calls as I work now from home the Lord helped me but one 19:28 day I was really tired. I was physically drained, challenges 19:32 of finance, everything was just going haywire and I kept going 19:36 before God. I said God if you want me to keep this open you 19:39 got to talk to me, speak to me, tell me, shout at me. I don't 19:42 what you got to do but do something. But the last day I 19:45 went into my store you know what happened? Um I have three ovens 19:50 I had three ovens, none would come on. (Oh Boy, Oh) and I was 19:58 like our ovens are not working. And my little niece she said no 20:01 Auntie Marlene, nothing's coming on. My cousin who was right with 20:04 me she said, what are we going to do? I said I don't know, I 20:07 said I don't know what to do. And I didn't want to be 20:10 flustered I just said let's pray We always pause for prayer and I 20:13 prayed. I said we have so much to do today because we have to 20:16 prepare our meals. But customers are going to come whether this 20:17 food is finished or not, you know. So I already have the 20:21 meals advertised and just made our sign, there's no kitchen 20:25 today. So I called my brother who lived right around the 20:28 corner I said Cy you should come we need you to put this stuff in 20:31 your oven. And he came and he collected the meals and went 20:34 home with it, put it in the oven for us and then I went 20:38 and collected it 20:39 and that was the day that God shouted, That's enough. You have 20:42 had enough, have you not had enough. And not only did my 20:46 ovens break down that day the day before my cooler stopped 20:50 working. Okay you know it wasn't like we weren't servicing our 20:56 equipment. Everything's been serviced. We have a gentleman 20:58 that would come. But that day my cousin said what are you going 21:01 to do? I said, I'm in prayer. I'm in prayer. I need God just 21:07 to tell me and I felt very strongly this was something He 21:11 was like enough. You've been crying out for help, You've been 21:13 crying out to Me asking for an answer, here's your answer. Shut 21:17 it down. It's time you know. It was tough because customers 21:22 loved coming to Something Better Something Better was on a rocky 21:26 road, a dead-end rocky road. But our slogan was on the road, on 21:35 the rocky road, no, on the rocky road ahead you find that you 21:41 feel you won't find what you're looking for but something better 21:42 lies ahead. You know customers would come from all over to be 21:47 with us and everyday phones still ring and you're not 21:52 going to reopen? 21:53 And I said no, I'm doing something better now. I found 21:54 something better. I needed something better. I was offering 21:57 something better to the world but deep down inside I was not 22:00 happy because I was regaining my weight, my diabetes, 22:03 everything was kind of going whack. Pushing a kitchen is hard 22:07 and when you're financially strained, it's difficult to 22:10 be able to 22:12 bring in all the help that you need and so you know I just 22:15 had to make some decisions. It was a tough one for my customers 22:18 but it was the best one for me at that time. 22:20 Yes, that's like a footprint of the beginning of the journey 22:26 where the Lord has led you now through this great journey. 22:29 So you mentioned that you yourself were helping the sick 22:34 but yet you were struggling with some illnesses. So you came to 22:40 the conclusion you know this is the Lord's doing. 22:42 And you did not... 22:43 ..Sometimes we tend to blame God and not accept it but you 22:50 came to terms and you said okay Lord, I accept this as your will 22:54 for my life today. Because with the Lord. There's always 22:58 something better. 23:01 Now it's interesting what you're saying because some people may 23:07 be going through the same thing at this point in their lives but 23:08 you understood the Lord was leading you to do this but then 23:12 you had to understand the Lord was telling you that's enough 23:15 now. There's something else for you to do. 23:18 Okay, we want to know the challenges you face and what 23:20 motivates you to continue. You didn't give up. 23:26 You know it's a lot because you know when you think about 23:29 challenges everyone's going through something, everyone's 23:33 going through. My brother told me yesterday he said Marnie I 23:36 saw a slogan that says Everyone's going through 23:38 something so be kind you know. Smile. You know I've gone 23:41 through divorce since I've seen you guys. I've gone through the 23:44 loss of my parents, everything changed. I'm now living single 23:49 you know. So it's different but I (skips) financial challenges 23:53 the support of having a spouse there with you. That can really 23:57 be very challenging because many nights you're lying in bed 24:00 saying Lord I need you to really be real with me and I'm right 24:03 there talking to Him for real. I'm like listen I need to be 24:06 real with me because I just real pressed going through 24:08 challenges and so as we would have gone through 24:12 those challenges with the shop. 24:14 Just about eight months or nine months before I shut down I had 24:23 lost the weight again, praise God and I had everything 24:27 under control and everybody kept asking how are you going to lose 24:32 weight? I said the same way I lost it 20 years ago, 23 years 24:35 ago but they wanted a physical and I had this opportunity to do 24:40 the news for one of my friends and on the news that night it 24:44 said the Bahamas where I live and that's the Bahamas, the 24:47 Bahamas as a whole, we are number six in the world for 24:51 obesity and number one in the Caribbean. It hit me, it hit me 24:56 like a ton of bricks. I said what not impossible. So I went on 25:00 Google and Hey Google who's number one in the Caribbean for 25:05 the fattest in the Caribbean. He said, the Bahamas. So I did 25:09 a whole TikTok on it and it went viral all over my island and 25:13 people were calling and saying are you for real? That is not 25:16 true. And I said Yes it is. (That's amazing) Yes, it's sad. 25:20 It's sad. You know we brag about a lot of things here in 25:23 the Bahamas. We brag about best water. I know you guys may have 25:30 the best water. We brag about a whole lot of stuff and that 25:33 gives me the opportunity to share, I let people know we've 25:38 got a lot to brag about but we are not bragging about. We can 25:42 brag about being the best this and that, I said, but we should 25:45 be ashamed to be number one in the Caribbean as the fattest 25:49 nation. That's a shame That's nothing to brag about. 25:52 So I use that as my 25:54 thrust. Usually, people say why are we number one? We're number 25:59 one because we eat bad, we eat poorly you know. And so that led 26:03 me to where I am today in this new program I'm now operating. 26:08 You know I admired the fact that the Lord is working with you and 26:13 in your life and you have the strength because you've gone 26:17 through so many losses and emotionally 26:20 you feel almost beat down and many people 26:26 have struggles just like you in those areas. You know losing the 26:32 business because of the pandemic and all these things that have 26:34 happened. Life is no longer as it used to be. It's like you 26:40 have to guess as to what's going to happen next. But the loss of 26:46 your marriage, your trying to restart yourself, get your 26:50 health back. And there are many people that we want to claim our 26:57 health again and a lot of times we don't have the courage or the 27:00 support or maybe we just don't have the self-esteem to do it. 27:07 So how did you find the self esteem to value yourself so much 27:14 and give the attention that you were giving to your clients 27:18 because they were sick and you did everything for them? Like 27:22 the song says you were spending your life mending broken people 27:25 but yet a broken person was serving broken people. So tell 27:30 us how did that mending come around. 27:32 I love that song by the way. (me too) I actually bought the 27:35 soundtrack for that song, it's in my car. I bought it from... 27:40 You know as a prayer line, when I was going through all the 27:47 that, all the challenges I was going through at one point I 27:51 shut my shop down, I didn't go to church for two years I'm 27:54 embarrassed to say but I was still worshipping the Lord. It 27:57 just that I was not ready for the condemnation of the people 28:01 looking on and condemning, whatever you felt like they were 28:05 going on in their minds and their thoughts. You know, you 28:07 felt like you could just hear those thoughts. 28:08 Are you saying that we would be judging you (giggles)? 28:14 Sister let me tell you though. Now that I've gone through it 28:16 I have so much more compassion for a person who is going 28:21 through. And you know sometimes God has to carry us through in 28:23 order for us to realize and have the compassion and love for a 28:28 person who is going through and I realize I didn't want to go 28:32 through it but I went through it for a reason. And so I really 28:37 got closer to the Lord. He told me many times, Marlene you've 28:39 got to have faith. You thought you were close to me but you're 28:43 not. And I realized as I went through that, I wasn't as close 28:47 through as I thought I was. I wasn't, uh, my faith was weak. 28:51 you know and so I really learned I tell you when I'm down to my 28:56 last dollar I'm not going to worry about it because that is 28:57 not my problem. That is your problem. That's where I'm at 29:03 right now and you know what else I did and I invite our listeners 29:08 to do that today. I went through every prayer of 29:11 scripture I could find. I went through every promise I could 29:14 find. That's my next book, a book with all of these promises 29:20 that God gave. And I was just reading those promises back to 29:23 him. And I found every book on prayer I could find, ABCs of 29:27 Prayer, Prayer Warrior, every book...Let me tell you something 29:30 ABC, I said listen you have any more books over there? 29:32 isn't it simple... The ABC directors said 29:38 I'll see if I can find some more Every book, every book, every 29:43 sermon. That's all I wanted to know. How can I get my prayers 29:45 answered by God? How can I get into the throne room and really 29:48 have His attention. Because we want His attention. And I read 29:52 something today from the Spirit of Prophecy, beautiful quote. 29:54 She said you know sometime we rush, we're in haste. We don't 29:58 spend time. And so I (skip) those who are going through, 30:02 get on your knees and before you say anything just be quiet and 30:06 just listen. Let Him minister to your soul, let Him speak to 30:09 you and you'll be okay. That's what I would like to say to you. 30:13 You're going to be okay. (skips) you're going to be stronger and 30:19 wiser and you're going to be happy and God will make you 30:22 whole again because that's what He wants. He's coming for whole 30:25 people. Got you, man. You're going to be just fine. 30:30 Amen. Well listening to you I see that and hear that you are 30:36 a woman of prayer and it's a vital part of your life right 30:41 now. Tell us. Even in prayer you have long and short goals for 30:49 your ministry, Something Better. What are those? Can you share 30:52 some of those with us what you are praying about as far as 30:56 goals for your ministry. 30:57 Right now we are really in prayer because our studio here 31:00 I wish I could take a virtual shot so you could see. It's 31:03 small. But I'm using it. I'm never one to worry about, you 31:07 know sometimes we...I'm not going to get started because I 31:09 don't have everything. I_ But I would like to see a bigger 31:14 studio because I can't invite too many guests to cook along 31:16 with me because my table's too small. So that's our short-term 31:20 goal. But my long-term goal pastor is to see a lifestyle 31:23 center here in the Bahamas. I was teaching a class. You know 31:27 I have a virtual lifestyle program. I have a virtual 31:29 lifestyle program that I run now so we have people from all over 31:34 the world who Zoom in, in the morning. My day starts at four 31:36 o'clock. And five o'clock we're in class for three or four hours 31:40 and one day I just said you now I said we need a lifestyle 31:44 center. We really need one and so I'm praying that God will 31:48 grant me the finances and this ministry Something Better that 31:52 we can see that here. Our people are so sick here in the Bahamas 31:55 I mean like I get passionate. And my sister says I want to be 31:58 as passionate as you. I says yes Cathy you're going to be 32:01 as passionate as me. These people are so sick and we have 32:05 no place to facilitate them, we have no place to house them. So 32:08 we need a video facility in the city and we need one in the 32:12 country and our country would be our Family Islands. So that's 32:15 really my long-term goal. I've been visiting the Family Islands 32:17 by way of soap-making contests for the government and giving me 32:20 an opportunity to view and survey where God would have me 32:24 to go with this project. So that's my project. I have my 32:27 plans drawn already. I just need the funding. So (skips) 32:32 Wow! Praise the Lord. Those are wonderful goals and goals with 32:35 ministry in mind to help people improve their health. And be 32:40 careful what you pray for. You are able to look back and see 32:48 how the Lord has led you and is preparing you for this next 32:52 phase of ministry. 32:54 I definitely want to go to her lifestyle center in the Bahamas. 32:57 Sure. I'll go for the water therapy, please. What is your 33:05 antidote for healthier living Miss Marlene McKinney? 33:09 You know health is a treasure. And I know for a fact that we 33:16 got to make sure that we have an opportunity to reverse these 33:22 little illnesses. So I would first of course say the eight 33:25 laws of health. You know that's definitely part of it. Proper 33:29 nutrition and exercise and water and sunlight and fresh air and 33:32 rest and all of these factors. And having a really good 33:35 personal relationship with the Lord. And then there's another 33:39 antidote. Having great community a great community. We need that 33:44 community social...You know I was following the Harvard study 33:49 It's an 85-year-old Harvard study. The longest study ever. 33:53 Right? And this study shows that we need a community. We need 33:58 social, what's the word, fitness I love it and so that made me... 34:04 Yeah because you know something, unfortunately people don't 34:07 realize that we are dying, we are right now dying because of 34:12 loneliness, because of lack of fellowship and so if I was the 34:18 tell people...you know of course we have to commit to those eight 34:21 laws of health, that's beautiful we have to commit to those 34:24 things but definitely we need social, that community is very 34:28 important. 34:29 That connection is very important and you know I watch 34:34 your programs, not all of them of course, but some of your 34:37 programs I've been able to watch on your Facebook platform and 34:43 you do exercise, you do health seminars, you interview people, 34:49 you laugh, you get so excited. You're just living what's in 34:57 your heart. You're sharing it with the viewers. So... 35:02 I have to say this Idalia. (What do you have to say) I have to 35:04 say this because it is true, it is true. So even this morning 35:09 She went to the washroom, to the restroom and your program was 35:16 on. You were doing some bread and you said the way you know 35:21 that the dough is good is if it comes back at you and then you 35:28 say well you need to know what's in your bread in the store. And 35:31 then you said Hey I like Google and then you say hey Google and 35:35 so the interesting thing is that our son gave us one of those 35:38 little Google things and the little Google thing said, Yes, 35:42 I don't know the answer to that but I can tell you this about 35:44 and it talked about the bromine and emulsifiers, and I said she 35:51 activated our Google all the way from the Bahamas. But I learned 35:56 something. Yes, you did that. You did that! 36:03 We're connected. We're community 36:05 I use it a lot. This thing is at our fingertips. Why aren't we 36:08 using it? Come on. Before this time we had to go to the library 36:12 and get lots of books. You don't need those anymore. 36:19 I have to say, I did learn something because you were 36:21 talking about those dough conditioners, I think it was. 36:26 and so there's danger, the stuff they're putting in there. It 36:29 says it can trigger asthma situations and other health 36:33 problems and so you share helpful information. I mean 36:37 people are learning how to make bread but they are also learning 36:40 the danger of some of the ingredients in the store-bought 36:44 breads. So thank you so much. We appreciate what you're doing. 36:47 As you can see your virtual program is being heard in the 36:53 Dinzey household. So, please share with our viewers what on 36:56 earth are you doing with the virtual program? What do you do? 36:58 Well, we have a beautiful video. We can put it up there because 37:02 our time's going to run ahead of us and it will show you 37:04 basically what my virtual program's like. 37:06 Excellent. Let's go to the video 37:08 What time is it? The right time to look good and feel good. 37:12 It's challenge time. Get on board with certified health 37:16 coach Marlene McKinney. Global Weight Loss Challenge. 37:20 Enjoy vegan meal plans, clean eating, routine exercise with 37:25 awesome active support. Get excited. Don't hesitate register 37:32 forward email address via What's App 242-535-6293 for 37:40 Marlene_McKinney.live.com. Don't forget to add you name as it 37:44 appears on your bank card. What time is it? Life-changing time. 37:48 Join the challenge. Get on board 37:53 All right. Good very good. 37:56 Thank you. So it's a virtual program I started over a year 37:58 ago. We have people as far as Australia. Our lady in Australia 38:02 is our biggest loser. She's lost 80 pounds so far. Life changing 38:07 She's been transformed and we have some photos of persons who 38:10 have done the program and I guess we can put those pictures 38:13 up now. We have a few. That's myself and my sister. I'm on the 38:20 left, my left your right I guess and that would be my sister 38:22 Kathy who would have been here today but she chickened out 38:24 (laughter) So that's at the bottom of the picture. We're 38:31 just showing the _. This is my cousin Paula. She's been 38:33 a part of the program from when we started. She's lost 50-plus 38:38 pounds and just (skips). Now this young lady, Dr. Percefiny 38:44 about two months and so she's just losing and doing so great. 38:50 There are other photos. You can always go on over to Facebook 38:56 YouTube and of course Something Better Today you can find those 39:00 there before and after journeys those who have participated in 39:04 our virtual...But it's not just weight loss. It's weight loss, 39:06 it's diabetes, it's heart disease. Many people have come 39:09 to us with all forms of illnesses, cancer, and all over 39:14 the world. That's the beauty of being virtual...(laughter) 39:20 You know in reference to what you said that we need to be in a 39:25 community you know together. You know the virtual get together's 39:31 are excellent. Of course, we all know that nowadays there's a 39:35 log of isolation, there's a lot of depression and a lot of 39:41 things that the people are going through and yet one of them is 39:43 their health, they need to improve their health or our 39:48 health and we also are interested in losing weight just 39:51 as there are people that are interested in gaining weight 39:54 because there are some folks that write to us and say you are 39:58 always sharing you know how to lose weight, I need to gain 40:01 weight so okay there's something for everyone. 40:04 So it's not just a losing weight program but an overall improving 40:10 your health program. 40:11 No, it's not just weight loss. We have persons who have joined our 40:15 program for diabetes. We've gotten their numbers under 40:18 control. We have people who have oh my goodness cancer 40:24 unfortunately very important. We have persons with high 40:26 cholesterol, high blood pressure so it's quite a wide range of 40:29 program that we run. It's a virtual lifestyle center. It's 40:32 just that it's virtual and you can do it from the safety of 40:34 your home. 40:36 Mm-hmm, amen. So in the virtual lifestyle center, is it lectures 40:41 or you do some hands-on things that they see. 40:43 She does everything (everything) 40:47 My morning starts really early so I'm in bed with the chickens 40:51 so I start with our exercise at five. We do a full hour and a 40:55 half of first aerobics and then resistance and pushups and all 41:00 that kind of stuff. We try to be healthy and live a little longer 41:02 and have a better quality of life. In addition to that then 41:07 we gave a lecture or a cooking demo. We have an actual schedule 41:11 where the schedule shows them what happens each day and what 41:15 happens each hour. Then we end with chair aerobics for people 41:18 who have mobility issues or persons who just prefer to not 41:22 do the stand-up exercise. And I'm doing all this, I'm doing 41:25 all this, halleluiah Jesus. 41:27 That is in my book. Get a copy of my book. I have several books 41:31 and (skips)at this time. I have a cookbook, the one I started 41:37 with that I came to 3ABN with. Vegetarian Delights by Marlene 41:43 McKinney. Then since then, I have the new book which is 13 Steps to 41:48 A Thinner You. All of these are available on our website and 41:51 of course at amazon.com 41:53 and then of course I have My Journey to Something Better, In 41:57 Search of Something Better Today a compilation of stories. 42:02 and testimonies how God brought us through to something better. 42:05 And how... at this time with Daniel Fast. A lot of people 42:09 don't know how to do it. This is a cookbook that has just a few 42:12 recipes, simple, easy to follow and just enjoyable. 42:16 Oh so there's a lot to see there in your website, this is good 42:19 very good. So you are leaving in the minds of people to...we're 42:24 going to go to the information on how to contact you in a 42:27 moment so we're letting folks at home know that get ready to 42:33 write it down or take a picture of it if you can those of you 42:36 that on TV and those that are on radio you need to record it or 42:39 write it down quickly and if you cannot get it you need to 42:42 contact us at 3ABN and so yes Idalia. You have any more 42:47 questions that you... 42:48 Well I think that the health ministries has a special place 42:52 now in the times that we're living in. I mean Christ's 42:55 return is imminent. 42:57 Jesus Christ is coming soon so how would you say this is 43:01 related or helps people understand the awareness of the 43:05 second coming. Is it important? 43:07 Most definitely. You know I have a beautiful quote from the 43:11 Spirit of Prophecy. I love this quote. It says the mind does not 43:14 wear out nor does it break down So often on account of diligent 43:18 employment and hard study as on account of eating improper food 43:22 at improper times. Really if we pay careful attention to those 43:27 laws of health you know we being definitely reap the ill rewards 43:33 of that and so we really need to be taking better care of 43:36 ourselves. There is definitely a connection between the two. 43:39 The apostle Paul tells us that if you want to be successful in 43:43 reaching a high standard of Godliness we must be temperate 43:46 in all things. And that not just our eating. This is a lifestyle. 43:49 It's everything, it's everything And people say well I already 43:56 did that. It's not about the food, it's about everything what 43:58 we eat, when we sleep everything so we must really keep our lives 44:01 in perspective and do the best we can to be one with God 44:06 because He wants us to be one with Him. He's trying to save us 44:08 Gospel's saving and (skips) even if God don't come through 44:13 for you, you keep on praising Him anyhow. 44:14 Marlene the time is going fast. and there's only a few minutes 44:20 left but you have so much more. What other ministry do you 44:24 operate and how did you get involved with it and how do you 44:27 meet the financial challenges that your ministry faces just 44:32 like any other ministry. I mean what...Tell us. We want to know 44:35 everything. 44:37 As you know we have soap making. I know if they go to our website 44:42 they can see all of our soap making. I've taught thousands of 44:44 persons how to make soap. Thousands. This lady Grace who's 44:49 on the screen 44:50 right here has started a business as a result of the 44:52 classes that I have taught her. And she is still running a 44:56 business years later, many years later. So I teach soap making. I 45:02 do sell soap but not as much as I teach. I love to teach. But 45:05 teaching it is my passion so my largest class just last week 45:11 with one group of Zoom class was 200 persons, 200 persons. And so 45:16 I'm teaching a class almost every Sunday, every other Sunday 45:19 but as my time allows and my energy allows. And I'm always... 45:23 guess what, guess what God wants I'm getting to travel to every 45:28 Family Island throughout the Bahamas teaching soap-making 45:31 for my government. And so that's a free vacation. Whenever I need 45:35 a rest God says (skips)_ because she needs a break. 45:40 And you know it helps to fund our ministry because it's not 45:42 easy being a ministry. And if you're out there thinking of 45:45 going into ministry you're going to get (skip) I'm baling in. 45:49 Many times I did that. I'd go looking for a job. I can't do 45:52 do this no more. Twenty-four years, I am done. But you know 45:55 God comes through, He comes through and so you can find 45:58 means and ways of doing this. So not just soap. I teach a lot 46:01 of different classes, soap making, lip balm, skincare 46:05 products you know. You've got to take care of in and out both 46:09 in and out you know. So I haven't bought soap in 17 years 46:13 and I got to share a story I know times short but I got to 46:16 share. You know 17 years ago when I started making soap I 46:20 called my mom. I said, Mom I want to learn to make soap. 46:22 She says what? My grandfather made soap. Not my grandfather, 46:29 her grandfather. (skips). She must have gotten it from 46:34 Papa. And I'm no I just woke up and wanted to make soap so I'm 46:40 teaching my granddaughter how to make soap and she just loves it. 46:42 She's going to be nine just a few days from now and she's like 46:45 Nana, I love being here._ You made soap today and 46:49 deodorant tomorrow and lip balm I'm just teaching her everything 46:51 You pass it on. We've got to pass it on. If we don't pass it 46:57 on then what's going to happen. That gift that you have. You're 47:00 passing it on to other people it's going to die with you. 47:04 Let's stop doing that. Our gifts are going to buried in the grave 47:08 with us. God don't like that. That's being selfish. Just open 47:12 those hands and give. (skips) just give it. Happiness will 47:17 come, completeness will come, the finances will come just when 47:21 you need it most. So I hope I inspired someone today with that 47:25 Giving. Give. 47:27 You are an encouraging person. We're going to have to tell you 47:31 that. Give us 30 seconds of why make soap. Is there something 47:35 wrong with the soap that you find in the store? I know there 47:39 is but can you tell us what's the problem with the soap? 47:42 It's not soap. It's detergent. So we're making soap. When we 47:48 make our soaps you know we use oils. We use coconut, olive. 47:53 You're moisturizing and healing your skin. When you get those 47:57 harsh detergents in the food store or the grocery store, 47:59 wherever you're purchasing them from they are harsh. They're not 48:01 good for us and they are stripping the skin of moisture 48:05 and it's not healing. So what's you're bathing in is actually 48:09 detergent, it's not soap. 48:13 Thank you very much. 48:15 That's very interesting. 48:16 I'll get some soap for you guys and we'll put it in the mail. 48:17 Now I have to go take a bath now (laughter) 48:25 We appreciate, send it, we'll be happy to receive it. 48:28 I will, I will _ tomorrow and I'm going to put it in the 48:33 mail. So get me your address and you will get something 48:35 better in the mail. 48:37 Amen, well thank you. 48:39 Let me ask you a quick question here. You're traveling around 48:43 the area for your country but if someone wants to invite you to 48:46 come and do a seminar to teach how to do some cooking or any of 48:52 those things you do. 48:53 I'd be more than happy to. I do speaking engagements, cooking 48:57 classes, soap making, all of the above and I just can't come to 49:02 the U.S. just yet, I'm still on lockdown there but I can travel 49:05 everywhere else and I've done it. I've gone to Europe to teach 49:08 soap making in Switzerland, Germany, and England 49:11 and I had a good time so... 49:14 I wouldn't mind being able to go to the Bahamas and recording the 49:16 program over there, you know. 49:22 My real dream is that 3ABN would come to me. Let's do this, 49:26 I just want to say thank you so much to 3ABN for this 49:32 opportunity. I really believe that we can do virtually 49:35 anything except to virtually get married. But I really believe 49:39 that we can virtually do anything. With God all things 49:42 are possible. All things are possible to them that believe. 49:46 Somebody, I hope you're being encouraged to just keep going 49:51 don't give up. Don't give up. 49:55 Amen. We're all in our journey right? And the Lord is there 49:58 with us in our journey and He will encourage us and He will 50:01 give us everything that we need. He is always available. We 50:06 just need to make time for the Lord and know what our needs are. 50:11 Not necessarily know what our needs are. The Lord will reveal 50:15 to us and He will help us. Well I don't know what journey you're 50:18 in and what struggles you have but I'm sure you also have 50:23 praises at home. God has been good and He's been faithful and 50:27 He's always made provision for our every need. So praise God 50:32 for the ministry of Something Better Today and thank you 50:38 Marlene. We're going to share your contact information so the 50:41 folks at home can you know follow up from this interview. 50:43 Yes and I also would like to say you know go to the website, find 50:46 out the information. We're going to share it in a moment. I hope 50:50 you are ready. And if you cannot get it all you can contact us to 50:54 get it. But you know she does seminars. You can join in. She 50:59 gets up early in the morning for exercise. You can do the whole 51:01 health program virtually. This is fantastic. I don't think I've 51:05 ever heard of that before Idalia A virtual wellness course that 51:10 you can take. Also the books. She has some wonderful books, 51:13 cooking books to get you going on a better journey for health. 51:17 And so we're going to come back in a moment and have some final 51:21 comments by her but we will see you in a moment. 51:24 If you would like more information about Something 51:29 Better Today you can reach them at P.O. Box 8993 Nassau, Bahamas 51:40 You can call 786-588-9550 or through WhatsApp: it's 51:48 242-535-9593. You can email Marlene_Mckinney@live.com or 51:57 check them out online SomethingBetterToday.com |
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