Tyler Perry: When God Has a Dream for Your Life | Praise on TBN

it was a very very difficult time I was a child that was born to two wounded parents and they were wounded children themselves my mother was 17 and my father was about 19 when they got married and I came along when she was 24 years old and there was a lot of pain in the house there were a lot of arguments he would he was very physically abusive and verbally abusive to the both of us it was it was really a difficult and very hard time especially for a man child I don't know it's like for a little girl but I'm sure it's just as painful but for a boy child a man child to watch his mother being beaten in belittled it was really really hard so I went under the house and I built this little put some wood up and in between some of the pillars and built this little safe place for me and I painted it robin egg blue I had found some some paint somewhere painted it blue and I would sit in this room and I would let my imagination take me to other places I would I would just be somewhere running through grass and trees while I'm listening to all of the pain and all the heartache up above me in the floorboards so it was a very difficult time but the beauty in that moment and I say this to people all the time is that I know that all things work together for you good when I when I am writing a script or movie or writing that haven't have not sorry if lovely is wrong writing into these shows or movies in my imagination I go to a place where I'm in that world and that was formed and born inside of all that pain so the little boy's imagination is where the man goes now to to feed his dreams so it's a beautiful thing when you know that all things are gonna work together for you good God was getting you prepared in the back there no and so we'll jump around a little but tell her you know you graduated from high school you had the dream for the play but it wasn't easy and doors didn't necessarily open and I loved the thing about the hurricane in South Carolina can you share someone just some of that yeah it was I started doing this play after watching The Oprah Winfrey Show she said it was cathartic to write things down now I didn't know what cathartic meant so I had to go find a dictionary so I went found a dictionary and I started writing things down in this journal and I was using different characters names because if someone found it I didn't want them to know that I had been through the things that I was talking about I was talking about adult survivors of child abuse at the time so in 1993 or so moved to Atlanta moved in 92 and 93 I decide to put the play up work to save money my tax returns from H&R Block did everything I could to put this show up and I spent all my money there was a 200 seat theater I thought we would do all of these different shows over the weekend and 1200 people would show up and only 30 did so I lost everything I had my car payment everything was tied up in it and it was a very very difficult time because I know I felt led to do this show about adult survivors of child abuse who had forgiven their abusers out of the 30 people and I knew every one of them in the room there was somebody said this really touched me and I want to invest that's how you know when God is doing something for you because you put you on a path and just when you think you're at the end somebody or someone will show up and say hey here's here's another opportunity over here so from about 93 94 95 96 97 we did this play once a year everywhere in these little small towns outside of Atlanta and they never worked they never worked every time I'd go something would happen I don't get a job and I just go you know after I work on the job for a couple of weeks I get a call saying hey Tyler we want to try the place somewhere else and I go to my boss and I say listen I need two weeks off to go do this play he's like man you just been working here two weeks how do you think you can get two weeks off and I go back to my desk and I sit and I pray and I was like okay god I know I just got this job I know I just did the play didn't work I got another opportunity here if this is you telling me make it plain what should I do and I hear this boy say quit now I'm not telling you to go quit your job I'm telling you my story put your job send me you'll be oh say you told me to quit no no it's not out that's not what I'm saying so so there I was stepping out on faith leaving a job that I knew that this money was gonna comment from week to week to go out and do this play because I heard the voice of God so I remember every time I'd go out to do the show it wouldn't work it wasn't successful oh my god I know you told me to do this and when I pray I'd hear nothing that same voice that said quit I heard nothing which was a very difficult time for me very difficult and I remember this kids the times you're talking about it was it Spartanburg South Carolina I had gotten another job because I had more job man I had about 20 jobs during this time I've gotten another job asked the boss he said no I heard the boys quit I go out do the show and I'm driving there and there's a hurricane headed toward Spartanburg hurricane I'm like my god I know you control the wind and the wind the waves but you told me to quit and now nobody's going to show up so I lost everything homeless sleeping in my car fouling god when you follow God sometimes things get tough they get tight but if you keep pushing just on the other side of when you think it's the darkest something a miraculous what happened that will change your life something will open up that will blow your mind so in 1998 and I and I got an opportunity to do the show again and it was at the House of Blues and I was like I don't know I'm done I'm gonna do like my mother said my mother who loved me dearly loved me dearly she I have to we were doing a play at that Spartanburg trip and I couldn't afford to pay the credit card because she had rented a van for us and that bill was $300 and $300 so my mother was like 30 million I'm let me tell you something my mother loved me to deaf sweet wonderful woman but she would cuss you out and beat you up and then pray for you as she take you to the hospital that's kind of person she got versed she was so we were sitting in the house and she was saying let's say I'm tired of this entire you doing this place just stop it just stop it and Charlie crying about it and the woman loved me loved me loved me more than anything she said you know what just give it up just go get you a job working at the phone company you're never gonna make it with these plays do you good just go get a job at the phone company I was sitting there in tears when she was saying it to me she turned around and she saw me because I was sitting behind her on the sofa and the blood drained from her face so she said baby I'm so sorry I'm so sorry yeah I didn't know how important this was for you but what I want you to understand is that I don't care how many people love you and encourage you are the ones that try to tear you down or destroy you when God has a dream for you it is your dream your dream your dream and there are people who love you who would think that they're saying the right things to you to try to protect you or there are people that have been been that have been in your lives and watch you grow up and they don't know what God is put down inside of you because they think they're too familiar with you but what you have to understand is when God has something for you you have to go for it fully fully so so that's what I did I did the show we go to we I give this opportunity to do show in 1998 it's at the House of Blues and I walk in and I'm mad and I'm angry because all those years those seven years of me trying to get this play up nothing what's happening God will tell me to quit and he get me out and he'd leave me you leave me out here by myself God where are you you wouldn't even talk to me there in his dark time so I was mad I was done I had went to get my application in South Central Bell like my mother said and go to work at the phone company I wanted some benefits to get my teeth fixed so there I think though there I am there I am 19 1998 get this opportunity to House of Blues and I walk in and they're all just they call it folk art all over the walls I'm from New Orleans I said that's voodoo and they're not performing here get it off the wall so they they told me the next day what House of Blues was pulling out so House of Blues was gone so the name of the place would return to its original name it was a church it was called the tabernacle so I was about to perform in a place called the Tabernacle I go and I do the show and I'm complaining all the way I'm there putting on my makeup getting ready to play the old man Joe and I got attitude I'm just mad I'm upset I'm like I don't want to do this and I hear that voice that one that told me to quit say shut up we take something God tell you shut up you sit around look what happened and he said get up and look out the window I got up and looked out of this little dusty window and there was a line around the corner trying to get in the building and the place sold out over and over and over again and I said God where were you and all those times he said I was proving you to see that you would honor this that she would do the right thing with it sometimes when you're not hearing from God God is trying to see what you're gonna do in this situation that you're in and it turned out to be an incredible moment that has taken me from that sold-out house all the way until every show that we've done it's been incredible it's been miraculous it's been nothing but God and I'm grateful for it that's so awesome that's taller another important part of the story jump back there a little bit because your father didn't treat you right not bitterness anger can you tell about how something broke there when you yeah what what broke in the moment if you wonder what happened like from the time when I started doing these shows at a time when they started to take off what broke in the moment we're here I was with this script about adult survivors of child abuse whose parents had abused him and the characters in the show that I had written from my own line had forgiven their abusers but I hadn't forgiven my father so one day we were on the phone before this show sold out before everything changed we were on the phone and I got a chance to just say everything that was on my mind because I wasn't the little boy anymore I was a six foot six man and I wasn't afraid and I started saying everything that I needed to say to him and the things that came out of my mouth blew my mind but at the end of it what I heard was I forgive you I said I forgive you to him and something shifted in me something shifted let me tell you some forgiveness is so incredibly powerful forgiveness is not for the other person it is for you there are people living their lives we've done you wrong they are happy walking down the street not even thinking about you but there you are holding on to unforgiveness when I forgave this man I found myself trying to I was lost for a second because my entire fuel was based on the negativity of not forgiving him but once I forgave him I had to find a way to find another source of fuel so the negativity and all the darkness that I've been through was the source now I needed a more positive source now I needed a good source of pure source it's like it's like taking a car that runs on diesel and putting regular gasoline in it and then all of a sudden you say drive and something's gonna go wrong so you have to rework all the components inside of your mind to be able to understand how to function in positivity so that shift for me was so incredible forgiveness did all of that for me and the minute I did that the minute I started to function and doing the right thing and being positive I went from nobody coming to the show to not having enough seats for the people to get into the place [Applause]

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Length: 11min 20sec (680 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 10 2020