Keith Battle - Verified - Part 5

My name is Keith, and I bring you greetings from Zion Church this morning, afternoon, and evening, whatever time it may be. I preach to you that it may be late in the midnight hour, but God’s gonna turn it around. I’m so grateful to have this moment to come before you this evening, this morning, and this afternoon to bring you to a close. I’m coming to the conclusion of the Verified series. Yes, you know, «verified» in the world of social media, out there on Facebook and Instagram, you get a blue check because you’re popular. That’s how they do it in the cosmos, but in the kingdom, I said in the kingdom, huh, you’re verified by the blood. It’s by His blood—somebody say «blood.» It’s the blood, it’s the blood! Thank you for helping me preach it. The blood is what verifies us; the blood is what stamps us. Somebody say «amen.» Amen! Say «amen» again one more time for the Holy Ghost.

My beloveds, I won’t be before you very long today. Today I’d like to talk to my single brothers and my single sisters, and I want to give you some love advice and some life advice. How you like to meld some love and some life, and some life and some love, some love and some life? Yeah! All of my single brothers and my single sisters, I want to commence our time together by sharing Reverend Keith’s love advice to my brothers. Yes, you fellas, I want to tell you something: don’t waste your time. There are some single women out here that are playing games, so make sure you stay woke, brothers. I’m not trying to waste my time. If you ain’t got time to play this year, let me hear you say something. I don’t care what you say, don’t waste your time. That’s a song—don’t waste your time! He’s my friend, and I tell you, he ain’t no good. He don’t love you! Y’all know that time is a precious commodity; it’s unlike anything else. If I go somewhere and waste my money, I might be frustrated, but I can get some more money. But if you waste my time, I can never get it back. Even if it was a second, it’s gone. I can never get back time. That’s why I refuse to let you waste my time. If I waste my own time, that’s one thing—this is my time—but I tell you, somebody needs to make a decision in this new season that you will not waste my time. Some of y’all are too daggone old to be in relationships that are playing games, and you’re still doing that. Ain’t nobody got time for that! Let me tell you, let me tell you, the operative word when you’re in a relationship is «wasting your time.» The operative word is «foolishness.»

Let me help the brothers out first. Let me tell you when you’re dealing with a woman that’s wasting your time—and you can’t say that when you’re sitting right next to her. Man, you gotta watch the brothers in here; they’re quiet and don’t say nothing when it’s about the woman. They just sit there and take it. When a woman is wasting your time, let me tell you, you’ll know it! When you get her number—if you ask for her number, and she gives you a number, and every time you call her, she answers the phone saying, «Who is this?» or «Can I call you back?» and she never calls you back—let me tell you two things about that. First of all, the fact that that’s happened more than once is an indication she is NOT interested in you, because if she was interested in you, she would save your number and name. The first time you call, she would never ask «Who is this?» When she sees your number, your name and your number should be the same to her. She shouldn’t have to keep asking, «Who is this? Can I call you back?» Slim, how many cold shoulders you gotta get before you understand this person is not interested in you? She’s wasting your time!

Let me tell you another way, fellas, you can tell when a woman is wasting your time: by the time you go out with a woman who is serious about you. By the time you go on your second date with her, if she’s serious about you, she would know things about you you haven’t even told her. She will do investigative work on you—not to stalk you, but because women go all in. She isn’t going to go all in with you until she realizes and discovers whether or not you’re worth going all in with. She wants to know what you said, what you meant, and what you didn’t say. If on a second date, it’s like you’re reintroducing yourself to this woman, she doesn’t care about you! Because any woman that’s the right one would know more about you than you’ve already told her. She will check her sources. I’m telling you right now, if she’s disinterested, she’s not going to investigate you! You’re wasting your time! You’ve still got to tell her you’ve got a dog and where you work and stuff—that’s it! Make this the last day! Make her pay for having to—am I right about it? I’m telling you the truth! I know that’s right!

Well, ladies, I ain’t forgotten about you! Alright, because you know how there are fellas out here playing games too. It ain’t just the ladies; the fellas out here playing games too. And I stopped by here today to let you know—woo! —let you know that even though two can play that game, don’t waste your time.