Karness delivers an unforgettable and enjoyable poem at Lyricist Lounge 4. Check out www.P4CM.com for more poems and the date of the next Lyricist Lounge.
I'm down 60 pounds! I'm glad I typed this in again. I'm kinda stuck where I am right now but I'm NOT done, so yeah, really glad I saw this again. Motivation! Thank you God
Wow God is AMAZINg i just walked in the door from a gospel concert. i wanted some brownies and ice cream but this voice in my head"Holy Spirit" told me to get a yogurt with almonds so i did then i sat down logged on youtube and BAM!! this was uploaded. Funny how God works at times when the Spirit speaks LISTEN.
Man...I needed to hear this. I'm small but I know I need to check my eating habits because diabetes runs on both sides of my family, especially my dad's--type 1 & 2. But every time I get the gumption to do it I find myself caving & saying, "Well, maybe next week." God bless this brother man!
ALLLLLLLLLLLLL OF THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS! I lost 65 pounds at one point but back to where I started and EVERYTHING he says is everything I feel. ALLLL OF THIS! Including listening to the enemy louder. I WOULD TRULY appreciate some prayer
One of the most profound poems I've heard in a while. Even skinny people want to lose weight. But truly what is more important is the spiritual condition of the heart. Yah Bless
sir Karness you spoke my heart. This...battle is no different from all the others we wage during this walk. I needed this piece. I too have been struggling but with God's grace it stops today, these chains need to go, the excuses need to stop, my temple needs to be treated as such, the weight needs to be lost. Thanks for your courage to speak up about what we would much rather ignore.
Prayer will get us through.....and then just do what God is giving us the grace to do. LOL Joseph Prince said that our Spiritual hunger can affect us physically. It's true...after I have privet prayer in the morning or when I want to eat just thanking Him for everything and meditating on how blessed I am to still be alive and what not when all this tragedy I see on the news is mind blowing. I think that could be me. And thank God He kept me. I pray for them too.
This one made me CRY!!! I've had a weight problem like my whole life. I'm doing weight watchers and have lost 15 lbs but I've forgotten that my body is God's temple. And then when he said "The only thing our fast food habits and saying our grace has in common is that their processed" I TOTALLY LOST IT!!!!!!
YESSSSSS!!!! Say that!!!! Praise be to god for giving you this word and for it to be heard by those who are going through similar situations.Thank you and be blessed
I've been on a weight loss mission for 4 years.. i've lost 90lbs.. had a bad today & decided to get some jack in the box.. not even thinkin twice, 3 bites into my cheeseburger i came across this video ..through it away & started crying. #beautiful
Shessh. This poem is powerful and convicting. It has been my challenge and encouragement on my weight loss journey! Karness, thank you for allowing God to use you in just a mighty way! A harvest awaits you!!
I love the comments in Christian videos! No one mentions about how people look or put them down or fights about misspells or anything! It's all basically encouraging.
i like this poem it hit home, I'm not overweight but I am spiritually i know my change is going to come and it is today, because i have been holding myself back, I need to let go and let God. Keep doing what your doing and do give up
I've been watching these spoken word vids, and I love the variety of topics! There's truly one for everyone! *ok back to work* (someone should do one on procrastination smh)
I loving the T-shirts..that's so honest and humble and brave and sacrificial...your putting your former achilles heel out there for everyone to see is allowing another to not feel alone but to understand that we can overcome....
Rocking dude..... keep preaching that word!!!!! mmmm So Good!!! Thank you P4CM for fostering a culture or conviction and not condemnation. Condemnation says you can't make and never will, conviction is just enough pinch to make the encouragement sink in... :) Thank you.
Great message, especially because in the church we tend to ignore food addiction as a "sin" issue and downgrade it to a "heart struggle" or something like that. As if gluttony or laziness don't fall on the same scale as murder and sexual immorality. It's something I needed to be reminded of. Sin is sin, concern for humanity starts with the plank in my own eye, and my desire to carry His message well should be bigger than my pant size.
Thank you so much! This is my week 3 of eating healthy and i was just about to the breaking point, thinking I couldn't do it any longer.... So thank you for reminding me that my body is a temple, and I need to prove that to God if i believe it! :D
I'm on my 4th week of my weight loss journey (many, many more to go) and this gave me the encouragement just as I was believing the lie 'I have always been fat, so I will always be fat' Every day I pray that God will help me make the right choices when it comes to what I eat, and that I only take it what my body needs this day. This video put a lot of stuff into perspective for me. Thanks again p4cm x
loooool notice there is not as many comments on this one as the last BUT it is so true, I came to that realization a couple of months ago, your body is the temple of the Lord it doesnt just mean sex, it means the whole nine yards and an extra yard just because. Come on people we got to get it together, i took this one to heart keep em coming! watch, watch, pass it on
How many people will watch this, and pretend that it didn't affect how they feel? Don't fool yourself, Get in shape, and treat your one and only body God has given you.
WOW!!!! This poet really spoke to my spirit. Everything he said I have been feeling for a while now. This was just conformation of GOD speaking to me. THE DEVIL IS A LIAR. THIS IS FOR EVERYONE WHO IS STUGGLING WITH WEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
I needed to hear this so bad. I have been praying about the gluttonous spirit I have allowed to live in me for so long. Lately I have been feeling so convicted and praying for a way out. I would joke about trying to quit (overeating because I like the taste of something) but I knew this behavior was wrong. Convicting people of their sins and not taking the speck out of my own eye. I THANK GOD, that I hear this tonight, THANK YOU FATHER. I rebuke this spirit in The Name of Jesus!!!
WOW ..... well I know I will lose this extra weight in a month ...... THANKS KARNESS and P4CM !!!!!!! - You have BLESSED ME GREATLY IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR !!!
Thank you. I'm not over weight, but I need to work on being healthy. I eat pretty healthy most of the time, but I am lack when it comes to exercise. Being the survivor of breast cancer twice I know better. My Dr. constantly tells me to exercise. And as a Christian I know my body is His temple. Thank you for the motivation to get up from in front of the computer, the TV. the video games and get in gear. I'm on my way to building up my temple so Christ will be proud to reside within me.
I needed to hear this... its time to lose weight! I feel bad but I thank Jesus for conviction!!! give me the will power Lord Jesus to say no to over eating!!!!
“.....Fast food is making me feel like a box of Dunkin Donuts every time I HOP in and out of Burger Kingdom because gluttony was a Dairy Queen that gave me a Hardy with a Hooters and I couldn’t Rally to Checkers because Chick Filled a Void of where my Adams Apple Bee until one day God showed me that my body was a Golden Coral not a Pizza Hut but I, was a Church’s Chicken!” -lol
Not to discredit this poem, but I'm hungry after watching/listening to this.& not cuz I'm weak, but because I haven't had anything to eat in like 5-6 hours & I can smell my mother cooking steak. Other than that, I love this piece. "I was Church's Chicken" was a sick line.
I think more than anything this was about gluttony !! Nit just about losing weight! And I'm NOT overweight !! But ! Do eat more than I should ( I stuff my face in food even when I'm already full ) Very powerful and just a reminder that we should take care of our temple!!! XD
"If the weight is too much for your or body or your spirit to carry ... then lose it." So simple yet so profound!
BINGO!!
"If your body is a temple like God says it is and you believe Him, then prove it"
Amen. Thanks, Karness, felt like this was written to me
I'm down 60 pounds! I'm glad I typed this in again. I'm kinda stuck where I am right now but I'm NOT done, so yeah, really glad I saw this again. Motivation! Thank you God
PMcFarland 60lbs is my goal, this video was so inspirational. thank you Lord. Congrats on your weight loss so far.
This blows me away. Thank you, Karness.
OMG, I WISH THEY HAD A LOVE IT BUTTON!!!!! LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!
I'm starting to realize that this might not be the best poem to listen to while I'm fasting. Lol
This was no coincidence that I found this video I am so convicted
HTD4 I found this exactly when I needed it.
me too
Wow God is AMAZINg i just walked in the door from a gospel concert. i wanted some brownies and ice cream but this voice in my head"Holy Spirit" told me to get a yogurt with almonds so i did then i sat down logged on youtube and BAM!! this was uploaded. Funny how God works at times when the Spirit speaks LISTEN.
Man...I needed to hear this. I'm small but I know I need to check my eating habits because diabetes runs on both sides of my family, especially my dad's--type 1 & 2. But every time I get the gumption to do it I find myself caving & saying, "Well, maybe next week." God bless this brother man!
Just what I needed to hear. Thank you Father 🙏
Because of this poem and the conviction that it sent to me...I will keep going!!!
I needed this!! This is just confirmation!!
ALLLLLLLLLLLLL OF THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS! I lost 65 pounds at one point but back to where I started and EVERYTHING he says is everything I feel. ALLLL OF THIS! Including listening to the enemy louder. I WOULD TRULY appreciate some prayer
One of the most profound poems I've heard in a while. Even skinny people want to lose weight. But truly what is more important is the spiritual condition of the heart. Yah Bless
sir Karness you spoke my heart. This...battle is no different from all the others we wage during this walk. I needed this piece. I too have been struggling but with God's grace it stops today, these chains need to go, the excuses need to stop, my temple needs to be treated as such, the weight needs to be lost. Thanks for your courage to speak up about what we would much rather ignore.
I'd been searching for the spiritual POV to approach weight loss, and I'm very grateful to God for the message thru this brother...
Prayer will get us through.....and then just do what God is giving us the grace to do. LOL
Joseph Prince said that our Spiritual hunger can affect us physically. It's true...after I have privet prayer in the morning or when I want to eat just thanking Him for everything and meditating on how blessed I am to still be alive and what not when all this tragedy I see on the news is mind blowing. I think that could be me. And thank God He kept me. I pray for them too.
This one made me CRY!!! I've had a weight problem like my whole life. I'm doing weight watchers and have lost 15 lbs but I've forgotten that my body is God's temple. And then when he said "The only thing our fast food habits and saying our grace has in common is that their processed" I TOTALLY LOST IT!!!!!!
YESSSSSS!!!! Say that!!!! Praise be to god for giving you this word and for it to be heard by those who are going through similar situations.Thank you and be blessed
CONVICTED...AND ENCOURAGED..Thank you Lord for using poetry to get through to me!
I've been on a weight loss mission for 4 years.. i've lost 90lbs.. had a bad today & decided to get some jack in the box.. not even thinkin twice, 3 bites into my cheeseburger i came across this video ..through it away & started crying. #beautiful
Shessh. This poem is powerful and convicting. It has been my challenge and encouragement on my weight loss journey! Karness, thank you for allowing God to use you in just a mighty way! A harvest awaits you!!
This is one of the most convicting, yet inspirational poems I've ever heard. I WILL PROVE IT because I believe God!!!!!!
I saw him at John P. Kee's church in Charlotte, NC and he did this!!! It's so awesome and powerful!!!
I love the comments in Christian videos! No one mentions about how people look or put them down or fights about misspells or anything! It's all basically encouraging.
He BETTER SAY IT!!! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. Thank you Jesus!
13 years later, I come to watch this video when I need to get back on my health journey
Man This Poem Is Soooooooooooooooooooo Me !!! Thank You Karness ! I Will Do IT !!!!!!
i like this poem it hit home, I'm not overweight but I am spiritually i know my change is going to come and it is today, because i have been holding myself back, I need to let go and let God. Keep doing what your doing and do give up
I needed to hear this. Really needed to hear this.
4:45 buddy was like "dang, he put me out there"
I've been watching these spoken word vids, and I love the variety of topics! There's truly one for everyone! *ok back to work* (someone should do one on procrastination smh)
thank Jesus for this dude, Karness is talkin' directly to me.
I loving the T-shirts..that's so honest and humble and brave and sacrificial...your putting your former achilles heel out there for everyone to see is allowing another to not feel alone but to understand that we can overcome....
Oh man. I'm in the process of getting healthy and being obedient, and this is exactly what I needed today. Thank you, brother.
Rocking dude..... keep preaching that word!!!!!
mmmm So Good!!!
Thank you P4CM for fostering a culture or conviction and not condemnation.
Condemnation says you can't make and never will, conviction is just enough pinch to make the encouragement sink in... :)
Thank you.
This was beautiful! God Bless.
that had me rollling but to think of how he devized that whole thing.... That was beautiful. I truly wish these guys would come to Wisconsin :(((
Great message, especially because in the church we tend to ignore food addiction as a "sin" issue and downgrade it to a "heart struggle" or something like that. As if gluttony or laziness don't fall on the same scale as murder and sexual immorality. It's something I needed to be reminded of. Sin is sin, concern for humanity starts with the plank in my own eye, and my desire to carry His message well should be bigger than my pant size.
Thank you so much! This is my week 3 of eating healthy and i was just about to the breaking point, thinking I couldn't do it any longer.... So thank you for reminding me that my body is a temple, and I need to prove that to God if i believe it! :D
4:47 this guy feels really convicted haha so doo iii!!
I'm on my 4th week of my weight loss journey (many, many more to go) and this gave me the encouragement just as I was believing the lie 'I have always been fat, so I will always be fat' Every day I pray that God will help me make the right choices when it comes to what I eat, and that I only take it what my body needs this day. This video put a lot of stuff into perspective for me. Thanks again p4cm x
Out of ALL the mental motivational videos of "just do it." This one is 100 times better! Convicts spiritual motivation of, "JUST DO IT."
loooool notice there is not as many comments on this one as the last BUT it is so true, I came to that realization a couple of months ago, your body is the temple of the Lord it doesnt just mean sex, it means the whole nine yards and an extra yard just because. Come on people we got to get it together, i took this one to heart keep em coming! watch, watch, pass it on
Wow.....all I can say is....Powerful!!.....These words are what I needed to hear. Thank you, and may God continue to Bless You hun.
I sincerely needed to hear this today. God Bless
REAL!
I needed this like there was no tomorrow....took a huge bite out of my reality and my struggle with lifestyle change
How many people will watch this, and pretend that it didn't affect how they feel? Don't fool yourself, Get in shape, and treat your one and only body God has given you.
this guy performed this at my church.....he was awesome
man....I was a Church's Chicken. lol Dude is ridiculous with his wordplay. NICE. Big ups Karness. You done did it on this one dog!
well said, "you can do it, so lose it"....god bless. & keep up the blessed work.
I'm in the process of losing weight, as a result of deciding to treat my body better and to live healthily. So glad I came across this. I
yaaaassss!!! That's all i can say right now! He put everything into perspective here! Whoo!
Thank you for sharing! Powerful. You are certainly not alone.
Speak the truth. I need to hear this.
Liked it so much I decided to hit "replay."
wat matters most is if ur audience can realate and if u truly care about what ur rapping about (poetry) and i applaud him cuz he did!
WOW!!!! This poet really spoke to my spirit. Everything he said I have been feeling for a while now. This was just conformation of GOD speaking to me. THE DEVIL IS A LIAR. THIS IS FOR EVERYONE WHO IS STUGGLING WITH WEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
thank you so much for this! very convicting and helpful!!!!!!!!
I needed to hear this so bad. I have been praying about the gluttonous spirit I have allowed to live in me for so long. Lately I have been feeling so convicted and praying for a way out. I would joke about trying to quit (overeating because I like the taste of something) but I knew this behavior was wrong. Convicting people of their sins and not taking the speck out of my own eye. I THANK GOD, that I hear this tonight, THANK YOU FATHER. I rebuke this spirit in The Name of Jesus!!!
Great word.
Truth!
Conviction.
Opened my eyes.
Thanks for being open and honest. =)
WOW ..... well I know I will lose this extra weight in a month ...... THANKS KARNESS and P4CM !!!!!!! - You have BLESSED ME GREATLY IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR !!!
he was in my class room for the last few days to help us with our poems :)
Wooof! That fasting part was so funny! 🤣🤣🤣
God Bless You!! Keep your head up. You're going to reach your goal!
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! I was clapping and I'm looking at a computer screen. Now that's AMAZING!
Thank you. I'm not over weight, but I need to work on being healthy. I eat pretty healthy most of the time, but I am lack when it comes to exercise. Being the survivor of breast cancer twice I know better. My Dr. constantly tells me to exercise. And as a Christian I know my body is His temple. Thank you for the motivation to get up from in front of the computer, the TV. the video games and get in gear. I'm on my way to building up my temple so Christ will be proud to reside within me.
AWWEESSSOOOMMEE!!!Spoke right to me!!
I needed to hear this... its time to lose weight! I feel bad but I thank
Jesus for conviction!!! give me the will power Lord Jesus to say no to over eating!!!!
“.....Fast food is making me feel like a box of Dunkin Donuts every time I HOP in and out of Burger Kingdom because gluttony was a Dairy Queen that gave me a Hardy with a Hooters and I couldn’t Rally to Checkers because Chick Filled a Void of where my Adams Apple Bee until one day God showed me that my body was a Golden Coral not a Pizza Hut but I, was a Church’s Chicken!”
-lol
BARS.
Man i needed to hear this.
Karness Turner, man!!!!
Wow!!! Great piece
they are just so good
During poetry people snap as to not interrupt the speaker with applause
'I CAN DO IT' Amen
Wow! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! WORD IN DUE SEASON.
Love it. Great job!
Very encouraging word!!
He asks some good questions!
Can we say conviction? I thank God for a second chance!
woooW just slapped me all upside my head
WOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yasssssss needed this!!!!!
man i love this video everthing you sai was true wish more ppl spoke like that
Impressive!!!!! Amen mic drop!!!
Dude.....went....IN!!!
Thank you! thank you!
WHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! that is all....
Wow he was speaking to me!!!
ouch :/ ...thanks for the TRUTH! I needed it
Amen!
lol he was soooo talking to me... I WILL LOSE IT
Yes!
Less disruptive to the performing poet than clapping. He wouldn't have to stop as many times as he did if they all followed this unspoken tradition.
Not to discredit this poem, but I'm hungry after watching/listening to this.& not cuz I'm weak, but because I haven't had anything to eat in like 5-6 hours & I can smell my mother cooking steak. Other than that, I love this piece. "I was Church's Chicken" was a sick line.
This is awesome!
I think more than anything this was about gluttony !! Nit just about losing weight!
And I'm NOT overweight !! But ! Do eat more than I should ( I stuff my face in food even when I'm already full )
Very powerful and just a reminder that we should take care of our temple!!!
XD