Dwight Howard
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139 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Dwight Howard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But we can't get in unless we're quiet and we're still, we have so many distractions. This is why it's Instagram and social media and the TV and all these things have been created to distract us. Jesus, they call Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth. So Nazarene was a place where anyone who wanted to become basically one with themselves, they had to go to Nazareth.
They had to go to this place to basically get away from everyone, to hear the voice of God. And this is what Jesus did. It was like, why don't we as Christians, followers of Christ, Do exactly what Jesus did. Not saying we got to go to Nazareth, but step away. Get alone. Be away from the crowd.
That's one thing as an NBA player that once I started doing more of it, my life just became a lot more peaceful. Getting alone. Why? Because that is how you can hear the voice of God. There's no other spirits or energies around you While you're in the presence of God. Yeah.
So, you know, that's the, that's one of the things that, you know, really has helped me out in my journey, getting alone, how I can hear when God says I need to do something. Yeah. Okay. This is God's voice. It's not the devil. It's not my own ego telling me to do this. And the way you can hear that is you've got to be alone so you can hear the voice of God. I remember the first time it happened.
People thought I was crazy. I was asking God, what do you want me to do with my life? What is my purpose? And it was a Friday evening, probably around what time? We had a Bible study at 730. This had to be around 435 o'clock. I'm in the house by myself. And I'm like, God, what is it that you do with my life? Like, what purpose? Please tell me. So I heard a voice calling my name.
I just, nobody's in my house. I heard somebody say, Dwight. Loud as day, like I'm talking to you now. I hear Dwight. I don't know. So I hear it again. Dwight. So I go to the bathroom. And I'm like, in the bathroom, but I know I just heard something come out of here. Yeah. So I hear a fight. I want to preach my word. That is your purpose. Cool. So I get to church that night.
And while I'm in church, uh, we, uh, they take us to our little Bible study. So we have team ministry, team ministries for the teens. Yep. Adults stay in the main church. So I'm in the team ministry and, um, uh, the guy starts praying at the end of the whole session. He's praying and he says, anybody who, uh, right now has a bad stomach ache, please come forward.
And this thing, you know, my stomach is bubbling like really bad. I'm like, my stomach ain't hurt this whole time I was in here. Now my stomach is bubbling. I feel like I got to go let one out. It's crazy. And so I'm, and I'm like, man, I can't go up. I cannot go up. My stomach is hurting so bad.
So if anybody got any stomach aches right now, come up. Hmm. Ain't nobody had no stomach in there but me.
How crazy is that? So I get up and I start. He's talking to me. And he says, Dwight, I want you to preach his word. After you had just heard it earlier. Yeah, at my house. Yeah. By myself. Yeah. So I'm like, hold up. Hold up. Let me make this connection. How would he know something that was told to me verbatim at my house on my own time? How would he know this? It had to be something out of me.
that spoke. So I was like, man, this is serious. So that's when my journey was like, after that I was like, okay, I know what I gotta do. And I knew it was gonna be difficult. I first got to the NBA and said I wanted the cross to be on the logo. My target on my back, One, I had a target for being the number one pick.
And from coming from a smaller school in Georgia and all that stuff. But then saying that I am a believer in Christ, the target went from like that to my whole body became a target. It was a target of, we're going to try to destroy his testimony. Every chance we get, we're going to try to destroy his testimony. It was like, that's what I've been having to fight. Come on. And that's a tough fight.
That is a tough fight.
See, that's the thing. People think that if you are a Christian that you have to only preach and be a pastor in church, but there's more people who have gifts of the Spirit. See, God has given all of us different gifts of the Spirit, some to evangelize, some to use for healing, some to use for professing, some to use for teaching. Some people are supposed to be ministers.
Some people are supposed to be pastors. All these different things. A minister does not have to have his ministry in a church. Yep. He can minister anywhere. Why? Because the kingdom of God is within us. So when I speak, I am speaking who? God.
I'm speaking God. So now that means everything I say has to be life or death. Life or death is in the power of the tongue. Correct. So everything I say, I'm going to speak positive. Why? Because I want to speak life into everything.
It wasn't distracted by money. It was distracted by any and everything that come with money.
What did that kind of look like? I was getting both sides of it. You know what I'm saying? I was getting the side of, oh, Dwight, you're doing such an amazing job. But then I'm also getting the side of people seeing me mess up. Every one of my failures or mistakes or anything that I did in life, it just so-called happened to be put on TV. Put on the internet for everybody to see.
So now it's not my mistakes anymore that it just for me to deal with. Everybody in the world has to see my mistakes. So it's like, hey, and now they're thinking, oh, man, Dwight ain't everything he say he is because he did this. And that's what happened with pastors and preachers. If they mess up or do anything, people are now like, oh, man, he's supposed to be a man of God.
He's supposed to be this, that, and the third. How could he do this? And it's like, hey, we are – Our vessels, too, we're trying to become this perfect, spiritually mature man. And I understand because of our Bible and the way people have said, hey, if you are a Christian or if you're a follower of Christ or a man of God... People put these expectations on you. You know what I'm saying?
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