Closer to GOD

Closer to God.

- In route to the battery suspect.

They went East Third Street.

Pst, hey.

DO you want to hear the story of a man of God

from the land of America?

Straight from the city of Nashville, Tennessee?

By today's standard, I've tried to be upright, just

and one who fears God.

Now, my life has not been perfect.

Sometimes I feel like God is so far away

and it's hard for me to focus and pray.

I know we all want to feel closer to God

and during life's hardest times

when no one is there to hold you,

you can't sleep at night, bills are past due,

that's when we need to try and get closer to God.

So, we pray some during the tough times.

It gives our story, our testimony,

it makes us stronger for those that witness

and those that spread the gospel by deed

and by word of mouth.

Now, this is me, Keenan Robertson.

I grew up fast raised by my parents in a rough neighborhood.

Yeah, I made a few mistakes growing up,

hanging with the wrong crowd,

but I finally got it all together by the grace of God.

And graduated from Tennessee State University.

That's where I met the love of my life.

We soon married and had a son.

This inspired me to live out my dream

and go to law school.

I eventually passed the bar and became a lawyer.

Always trying to atone for the sins of my past,

helping others through my deeds day by day.

This is Quentika King, a childhood friend of mine.

I saved her life once when we were just kids

by accidentally taking the life of another.

Nowadays she helps run a criminal organization

with an iron fist.

We haven't seen each other in many years,

but our paths are destined to cross on this day.

- You know that's my old neighborhood, right?

Yeah, I'm going to take care of it tomorrow.

Sunday, right?

Alright.

Good morning, honey.

Get up, it's time for church.

Okay, mama.

Alright.

Boy you better get up,

you know your daddy going to come in here

and gonna give you that water treatment.

- Okay. - You better get up.

I'm up, I'm up.

Church boy.

Your daddy in there cooking.

Cooking breakfast.

Guess what else he's making?

Pancakes!

Oh.

- Good morning, son. - Morning, dad.

- You look good, you ready to go to church?

Of course.

He said he is.

Fixing the tie all the time.

Because you keep moving around

and it's shifting your tie around or your bow.

Bow?

Bow, right here?

Let me see.

- I don't know why I keep shifting.

- It's okay, I fix it now and you look all good.

Shift, shift, shift.

- We going to shift, shift, shift alright.

We going to get ready to get out this door

and daddy's making pancakes.

Pancakes!

Mm hmm, it's your favorite.

- Pancakes? - Yeah.

- Pancakes? - Mm hmm.

Pancakes!

That's how you feel?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- I like it when dad cooks breakfast.

He's the only one who knows how to make pancakes

just the way I like them.

- Really, well maybe when your daddy get this promotion,

he'll makes us pancakes and cook food all the time.

Mom's gotta wash dishes.

Now, he know I got the dishes.

Absolutely.

I was about to say that.

- You was going to. - Can I help wash them?

You sure can.

- She got the dishes, I got the trash.

That's a deal.

Come pray next to us.

We pray right, amen?

After this coming from the choir.

They thought you were here, Rita Samuel Robinson.

We want you to receive her by the elevation

of your right hand.

Tell her, Pastor. - Pastor.

- I need. - I need.

- A word. - A word.

Amen.

All about an experience.

He's going to let you go through the valley.

So that he can glorify.

He going to put you in the valley,

but he let you go through it,

so you can learn something while you in your season.

See, I thought I knew it all.

I didn't want nobody to tell me what to do.

I thought I was Miss It.

I was grown on my own.

I wanted to have my little cake and eat it too,

so they say.

Lord, there was a time when I had to fall on my knees

and say, Lord come see about me.

- Fine, after 10 minutes, come for them birthdays.

- Ain't no problem, sis, you know I stay heated.

Hey, I'm outside.

What you want me to do?

Okay, good.

- Hey bro, this is Queenie, the one I was telling you about.

- Well, let's have a drink to celebrate our new business.

- No, I'm good, my brother's in the car.

- Well, it's accustomed to everybody that I have

business with that we have a drink.

- One drink. - Just one.

Cheers, to new beginnings.

Grab her feet, take her into the kitchen.

She waking up, bro.

- Ain't nobody coming on counters.

Let me put this plastic down.

- Better come up with that money, honey.

- You think I can't smell a set up from a mile away.

Hell, and I'm going to need them birthdays too.

- I know Alvarez sent you, where the money at?

Where's the money at?

Bro, I think I heard something.

Hold on, I think I heard something.

Happy birthday, homeboy.

I'm getting out of here alive.

I got this, go get the car.

Alright, sis.

Go.

- I'm fixing to get the car, I'm getting the car!

Did Alvarez set me up?

Did Alvarez set me up?

Get on the ground!