Act of Faith

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(dramatic music)

(rapid pen scratching)

Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

And what he did back then

Yeah

He's still able to do

Yeah

What he's done for others

Yeah

He can do for you too

Yeah

What he did back then

Yeah

He's still able to do

Yeah

What he's done for others,

Yeah

He can do for you too

I believe

I believe

I believe in you

I believe in you

You never change, I believe

I believe

Your promises are sure

I believe in you

I believe in you

I do believe

I believe

Lord, I believe in you

I believe in you

You're a miracle worker

I believe

I believe

I believe in you

I believe in you

Travis sing for me

Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

I'm so glad to know

That Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Jesus is the same

Yesterday, today

and forevermore

And what he did back then

Yeah

He's still able to do

Yeah

What he's done for others

Yeah

He will do for you too

What he did back then

Yeah

He's still able to do

Yeah

What he's done for others,

Yeah

He can do the same for you

I believe

I believe

I believe

I believe in you

I believe too

And I believe

I believe

To heal and fight,

deliver and free

And I believe

I believe

I believe you're the savior

I believe in you

I believe, yes I do

I believe

Believe in you

I believe in you

I will never stop believing

He's been faith

Never stop believing

Never let me down

Never stop believing

Never see righteous forsaken

Never stop believing

Sit back and pray

No

Never stop believing

Never stop

Never stop believing

Trust in

Never stop believing

Believe in him

(soft music)

- Yes, I'm here.

OK, it's paid?

Thank you.

Can I have a

confirmation number?

B301612.

Thank you so much.

OK, you too.

(heavy sighing)

How am I gonna pay

all these bills?

God, God please make a way.

I've been trying to

do the right thing.

Please make a way for us.

(upbeat, cheerful music)

- Good morning.

- Good morning, sir.

Hotcake special.

- Come on now, Shartruce.

I've been coming here every

day since Carter was president.

How come I can't get

my four hotcakes?

- Why do we have to go through

this every single morning?

Now, we have been

through this before

and I gave you ample notice.

It was written on

the blackboard.

Now, as of the

15th of last month,

hot cake special only

comes with three hotcakes,

don't no more come with four.

It's the rules, baby.

- That ain't fair.

Y'all should have

never changed that.

It ain't right.

- Look honey, change

is apart of life.

Now we just live with it,

accept it and move on.

- Oh, I gonna move on.

Move on to IHOP if y'all don't

move on with this foolishness.

- You know what, Mr. Weathers,

I wouldn't blame you if you did.

See, I wouldn't eat none of the

crap come up out of this dump.

Now, catch that

tea with hotcakes.

(mischievous music)

- Don't spend it

all in one place

- Fo, fo, four, four,

four dollars Mr. Weathers?

I save your life and you leave

me a measly four dollars?

You cheap son of a--

- Girl, You can't be

cussing at the customers.

You know you--

- Girl please,

that's Mr. Weathers.

You know darn well

he'll be back here

bright and early, six

am, begging me for

an extra hot cake.

- That's true.

- He loves my smile.

- Girl, bye.

- Besides, don't nobody care

if I get fired from this dump.

- I do, I need my--

- Attention!

Unless I'm mistaken, did I

hear one of you daffodils

refer to my

establishment as a dump?

- No sir, we said that the

dumpling is the best, sir.

- I don't know, they're a

little dry for my taste, now.

- Shartruce!

- Report to my office

immediately, on the double!

The rest of you, as you were.

- Mmhm.

- If you get fired,

can I get your locker?

- Girl please, that old

man ain't firing me.

This place would fall

apart without Shartruce.

(upbeat music)

- Hey Jackie.

You just missed Mr. Brady.

You late again.

- I know, I know.

I was waiting up all night

for Patrick to get home.

He never came home,

he was working late.

- What?

You must be off your

rocker, are you OK?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

I'm just not gonna

worry about it.

- What you mean you're not

going to worry about it?

You have to worry about it.

You can't keep playing

stupid forever Jackie.

That man don't mean you no good.

He was working late.

- Let me tell you

something miss thing,

you need to mind

your own business.

I'm not jumping to any

conclusions because I trust him.

- OK.

Well, my grandmamma used to say,

"If it looks, smell and taste

"like a rat, it's

probably a rat."

- What the hell kinda stuff

y'all got going on in Louisiana?

You eat rat?

Goodness.

- Oh girl, you ain't

never ate nothing

if you ain't had no fried nutria

with some of my grandfather's

homemade mole shine, girl.

Mmm.

- You know what, you

need to get away from me.

Because you're just country

and ain't nothin nobody

could do with you.

- For serious, really Jackie.

You know, I grew up in

a home with a father

who was never there because

he was always working.

Started hanging out with guys

who didn't mean me no good.

You know how that goes.

- Well, whatever happened to you

ain't got nothing to do

with me and my family,

so you need to learn how to keep

your little nose in

your own Kool-Aid.

- Y'all got Kool-Aid?

(laughing)

- Ms. Beatrice.

- Can we make this

quick, Mr. Brady?

Because I need to be out

there collecting my tips.

- You know, the bible says,

"He that tilleth his land

shall be satisfied with bread,

"but he that followeth vanity

"shall be void of

all understanding."

- What the hell-eth do

that have to do with me?

I ain't tilling no more,

nothing else for

no $7.77 an hour.

Which is why I need

to be out there

collecting my tips and not in

here flabbergasting with you.

- You've been working

here since you were what?

18 years old, I remember the day

you walked in here

like it was yesterday.

But pretty soon it's coming

time for you to move on.

You got to get some

ambition about yourself.

I know this place ain't

exactly the Taj Mahal

or Roscoe's for that matter.

But me and Ms. Lilly

built this place

from the ground up and

it's all we ever wanted.

You should want

more for yourself.

- I do.

I got dreams.

What you trying

to say Mr. Brady?

- I ain't trying to say nothing.

But you walk around here

with your mouth poked out,

angry at everybody all day long.

Why, because you know

you could do better.

- I don't quite

understand the direction

this conversation is taking.

- Shartruce, you need

to start thinking

about the next

chapter in your life.

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