From Double Lung Transplant to Dancing Again

What's up? What's up? What's up? Welcome to the When All Hail Breaks News podcast. I'm your boy, Chris King, and I'm here with a live audience. I'm really excited. Once again, I have my sister as guest, miss Adrienne Rose. Now we're gonna switch it up this time. We're gonna talk about something dear to me, and y'all are gonna probably see me at a different in a different vein. Right?

See, you asked me that before right before we came on, you asked me that. And I I don't. Not because we had so many conversations. So

I'll tell you.

I know you're finna tell me, though.

You told me the summer before my mother passed away, you were praying and god has shown you that I was gonna go through a major transition that year. I

don't remember that.

It was in the summer. I was home from school, and and you started praying for me because you were worried about me, that it was gonna be a major transition. Come September 6th, my mother passed away. I am a man. And you were there Yeah. To pick me up from the airport Yeah. And to tell me. And I I didn't see her. I didn't meet my mother. Oh, I didn't see her before she passed.

I was diagnosed with the initial diagnosis was scleroderma, and they believed that the scleroderma had touched my lung. And the final diagnosis was pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung disease.

So I bring that up because y'all don't we're talking about miracles. A year ago, you had a double lung transplant.

Yeah.

And, Yeah. A double lung transplant. And I remember coming to Houston in the hospital, and they wanted me to interview you on video because they didn't know if you would make it.

I knew that's why you was at it. You didn't tell me. Hey. But I knew it. I knew it because you start asking. I'm like, find out y'all trying to do it before she die, Dyer. So

and that was triggering for me. I had to get out of my own because I'm seeing your hair had fallen out. So I'm I'm like, I'm reliving my mother.

Oh, I never thought about that

long ago. Sitting there. I'm like, oh, no. I can't do this. I can't do this. No. And then to interview somebody you love, and the camera is sitting right there, and you're asking questions about what you wish, what you want. Yeah. And at that time, we didn't know you were on the lung transplant list.

Mm-mm.

And there were all kinds of different options. Right? Tell about the options, right, in being on the lung transplant list and what that looked like.

So when they'd offered me they'd asked me several times, my doctors, to be on the to get on the lung transplant list because it takes a long time to get on the list. And then when you're on the list, you don't control. You know, we ain't making lungs in a factory. Like, you you literally have to wait for someone to expire. And so I really had a hard time with that.

Yeah.

And, they said if we don't get you some lungs, you won't make it till the end of the year. We don't know if you'll even make it the next few months. We don't know. And I just looked at that good old doctor. I said, well, I trust God. He made me. He can fix me. I understand you're limited, but God's not limited.

Now this wasn't, this wasn't a reply where, you know, people get a report and they'd be like, oh, well, I don't receive that. The devil is no. No. No. No. Because you were doing what the doctors told you to do. Mhmm. Right? Sometimes we get in situations and we say, well, now that ain't that's a lie. The devil is a lie.

Absolutely.

We're looking at miracles. And I want people to see walking, living, breathing miracles because you don't you don't just have one new lung.

No. I got 2.

Right? You got 2 brand new lungs. And then on top of that, you started traveling before they thought you could travel.

Right?

Go there. And and there's even more. So we're looking at a miracle. And when my when different situations and my just all hell was breaking loose in my life. You know what I said? It's like, I've seen miracles.

Yes.

I've seen miracles. So since I've seen miracles, I know that God is still doing miracles.

Yeah.

And so, therefore, I can lean on the faith that says I have witnessed. Yeah. I have talked. Yeah. I can call up miracles right now. Yeah. And and so I can continue. A lot of times, we don't have nobody to pull on, nobody to look at, nothing to no no reference, but you are a reference point. If y'all ain't never seen a miracle, here's what meet a meet miracle.

Thank you, god.

Alright? So whatever you're going through, there's miracles. So I I I want, though, that wasn't the powerful thing, though. The powerful thing is our conversation in the hospital. Yeah. When I was interviewing you Yeah. And we have conversations all the time. That was probably the most difficult conversation I have ever had.

Me too.

But help me understand. Help everybody else understand. Well, because I know because we've talked about it a lot now. What was going through your mind when the doctor said you probably won't be here.

So I remember saying to god, I don't think that it's my time to die. But if it is, then help me to understand that and help me to be okay with that because I'm not okay. And I told God, I said, God I need you to give me peace with this truth if it's my truth. But if it's not my truth then give me the strength to walk this out because this is a hard place. I got a son.

Yeah.

Where do you do that? So part of me was like, God, I'm so angry because I don't understand why you're allowing this to happen when I can just repent and we'd be done with it. See what I'm saying? But then the other side of me was like, you built for this.

Mhmm.

You coach this. This is what you do, Adrian. You built for this. And I'm a tell you, Chris, I didn't shift my perspective until I heard God say, why not you?

Yeah. You know, you're bringing up a good point. One of the revelations I had a few weeks ago about all the hell that I've been through throughout my entire life is the story of Job. Oh. And so a lot of people will use Job and be like, well, God gave him double for his trouble, but hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on. Job was going through hell.

I'm telling you.

Right? He was going through hell. He lost everything. Everything. And there's a process, and there's a mindset. There's some questions. And, no, he was human, and he he lost everything. Everything. And he didn't know God was gonna bless him with devil for us, trouble. Stop relying on that. But one thing that I I I understood, there was a conversation.

Yes.

There was a conversation, not between God and Job, but there was a conversation between God and Satan. Yes. And he said, have you considered

That part.

What hit me recently you just said God was like, well, why not you? God said he he he he he he he told me about the conversation, and I stuck on that have you considered. Have you considered my servant, Chris?

Mhmm. Come on now.

Have you considered my servant, Adrian? Mhmm. See, that's a whole different level of living. Mhmm. When God says, have you considered Have you

considered?

I'm a let him touch you, but you you can't touch her life. You can't take a life. You can't take his life. I'm a let him touch you. Have you considered? That that now trans forms my thinking from struggle to it is a freaking honor.

It's an honor. You can trust me with this trouble.

It's an honor to go through what I'm going through. It's an honor. It ain't easy. Don't let the smooth taste fool you, but it is a freaking honor It is. For God to say, have you considered if God hadn't said, have you considered my servant, whatever your name is, we need to check what's going on in your life. Yeah. Check your commitment. Check your purpose. Check what you're doing. Because now I'm seeing God said, have you considered my servant, Chris?

Your purpose.

That's what that when you were facing you were knocking on death's door because real talk, you were going through the stages of transition.

I know it. I know it now. You were going

now there are different if if you've ever met anyone that serves in hospice or any particular types of, you know, medical field, they will tell you there are certain stages of transition that they start seeing. She was going through stages of transition as I'm sitting there talking to her. Yeah. But as I'm talking to you, the only thing you could talk about was fulfillment of your purpose.

That's the thing. Like, that's why when I coach, I coach the way I do about purpose. Y'all true story. I coded.

Yes. More than once.

One particular time, when I tell you there is no in between. Do not let people make you believe that you get a period of time where you in between. You think about it, talk about it, then we uh-uh. Uh-uh. If you really can see your eyes as windows and imagine that my eyes are my spirit.

Yeah.

I ain't think about none of

y'all. Mhmm.

I didn't say I want to live for none of my family. Not my son. No. Nobody. You hear me? And I love him with every fiber of my being. The only thing that came to mind in that state was I have not fulfilled purpose, which confirmed what I know as a life coach. You are here to fulfill purpose. This other stuff is a added extra.

Check it. I told you when my mom when my mom died, you remember some of the stuff that went on, but I was so upset with God that I was praying for God to take me. There were times I I took pills

I to

try to end my life.

I was praying for you to stay.

And, you know, I just was like I I started daring I started sleeping on my back like this because I wanted God to take me. There was one night where I could see I I began to I could see myself. It's like spiritually I could see my physical body Mhmm. Lying in the bed and I could see everything going on out there. And I heard God say, do you want to live?

It's true.

I did not once think of anything else. I didn't even know my purpose at the time, but god show showed me all of that. And I said, god, I want to fulfill my purpose. I was in college.

Mhmm. Mhmm. And

so it wasn't till we started having these conversations that it started I was like because at first, I thought I was crazy. I wouldn't tell people you know, I told you, and I told people other people. And I thought I was crazy, but I said, god, I wanna fulfill my purpose. I wanna do what you have me to do. Now this was BC before Christ, Chris, so I was still trifling. You and you know all my bodies are buried. I was still trifling. Trifling, y'all. I was yeah. Man, look.

3 of y'all.

I cannot run for office again because they will come for you, but, like, hey. Tell us where they buried. But but no. But I was still I hadn't given my life to him, but I knew I had been in church enough, and and I knew that that was the voice. I knew some I was like, look. This is it felt so calm. Yep. That's it. Like and and I was just like, I wanna fulfill purpose. And my family were close.

You did. I know you did.

I didn't want to. I didn't like y'all.

That could be hard.

Right? I didn't. Yeah. And and I still question sometimes. Right? But but but I I but I did because I knew that god had told me to do it for that season.

Yes.

And now and I'm like, god. Whatever you say do, I'll do. Me and me. Because my life truly depends on it. Too many people play around and say yes, but they don't really mean yes. But when you say yes, it's an honor for God to say have you considered. But that opens you up to experience miracles. Now what people don't know is that you were suffering from that disease for 7 years.

Mhmm.

K? Yep. But you were diagnosed right after you came from what con what country in Africa? I can't remember. Africa. I know it was Africa. Africa's a continent. Uganda. Okay. Alright.

I was in Africa.

Everybody be everybody be like, let's go back to Africa. What part? You know? Egypt is a part of Africa. You know? Uganda. It. Okay. So so after that now in Africa, you told when you came back, you came to preach at our church right after that. Mhmm. And you told me how different the level of faith was

Oh, that's right.

That you experienced. Please help us understand what you experienced in Africa and what was going on.

In Uganda.

In Uganda. Yeah. Because Africa is a continent. Okay.

They have such a reverence, saved or not. In Uganda, every single church I went to, whether it was made out of mud or someone's home, If you were not saved, Chris, they wouldn't even cross the door. When we were in there dancing, preaching, whatever, you would see people and I had to adjust that. People looking in the windows or hanging on the windows because the windows didn't have a window pane. So they would just hang on the window seal and kinda look.

Mhmm.

Pray for him again. He said, I see figures. Bible said, I see men in the light tree.

Mhmm. Mhmm.

And the Holy Spirit said, don't pray again. It's contingent upon his faith. And so I told him, I said, now the rest is between you and God. But they are that's common.

Mhmm.

They see that kind of stuff all the time. I didn't see that in America. And I would never forget the first time I met a black Orthodox Jew at my godparents house. I would never forget what he told me. He said, in America, y'all don't see miracles like we do. Because he wasn't from here. I said, no. He said, you know why? He said, y'all all go to church. I said, you're right. He said, you know why? I said, no. I don't know why. He said, because you don't believe. Because you don't have to.

Wow. Yeah.

And I think that that was the thing. Because in the hospital, I kept going back to the I kept telling God, I know what you can do. I've seen it with my own eyes, my own hands. I've seen it, so I know what you can do. Just heal me.

You know, a lot of people think, we're talking about this. Right? You saw miracles blinded, eyes open, and and I've seen miracles in in different capacities. And I've my life has been a miracle. I've been healed in areas you've been healed.

Yeah.

And so some people think that it has to be this big spectacle. Mm-mm. So one of the things that I wanna encourage people to do is to identify the miracles that have already taken place in their life.

Yes.

Because we're at a place in America where if we don't have anything else, we have to be able to rely on faith in God. We have to because all hell is breaking loose. We have to be able to rely on our faith in God, and we've become these old soft, I can't say what I wanna say, type Christians, you know, to where we don't even expect it any we don't even expect God to move. It's like Yeah. Oh, it'd be nice. You know?

Yeah.

And and then we're just really talking about, oh, god. Enlarge my territory and all this other stuff. You know? It's like so help help us understand how can we start looking at even the smallest moves of god in our life so that we can start something.

Every day that I wake up now, every day before my feet touch the ground, I speak to God, I speak to Jesus, I speak to the holy spirit and I say, thank you God for this day and help me to live it to its fullest. Holy spirit, give me wisdom. Lead me, guide me, connect and direct me. But this day, let me live it to us. Let me tell you something.

It's a miracle.

Every day. Every day. Chris, do you understand? I would sit in the car. I would ask my siblings and my parents. Okay. I just wanna go to the store with you. I'm just gonna sit in the car because I couldn't get out of the car and walk because the oxygen would run out and then I wouldn't be able to breathe. So I would sit there timing my oxygen. Mhmm.

And

I'm like, okay. Y'all go ahead and go in the grocery. I remember thinking, oh, if I could just walk through the grocery store. If I could just pump gas in the car. If I could just walk around the park one time. Not even a whole mile. Just one full lap guy. Just one time. And then when I had to stop dancing, that's what I do. And I'm the director. So I'm still choreographing. I'm still going to rehearsal. I'm still ordering flags. We're still traveling. We're still dancing, but I can't dance.

Yes.

Like, do you know how long I couldn't even cook for myself? Let me tell you something. Laying in a hospital and you gotta depend on a nurse, god, I thank you for nurses because I had some good ones. They come in there and do everything from wipe your face to wipe your bottom. Man, please. Let me tell you something. Glad to go to a restroom. What? For real? For real.

Yep. Yep.

The daily miracle of life. Because see, I think we forget and I had to remind myself everything I've asked God for in the Bible. He says his answer is yes and amen. He just didn't tell you to be. Mhmm.

Let me

tell you the most profound thing to happen those 6 months in the hospital was while I couldn't talk. Then God had some conversations when I couldn't say nothing. One of them conversations. I was like, what is the purpose of this? I know this is happening for a reason, but what is it, God? And I heard clear as day, glory faith. Glory faith. What is glory? I never heard of glory faith. Even though I had to learn to walk again.

So

I could still get my phone. I could still Google. I could still type. Like like this part kept working. I remember I start to research that. What is glory faith? What is glory? What is faith? Then I took my hands off of it and I said, okay. Holy Spirit, teach me what you're trying to get me to know.

Absolutely.

It required that level of surrender for him to be equipped with the manifested presence of the God like person and who he was as Jesus to be able to walk Calvary out, hang up on that cross and decide when he was good and ready, I'll give up the ghost.

Man.

That transition required a surrender. So when you get to the place where God has called you to be and you begin to walk in your true calling, it requires a place of surrender. What that surrender is is determined by what you're called to do, but you will surrender. Absolutely. You will surrender.

Absolutely. Amen.

That's my moment.

Amen. Amen. And as we close, we go through all of that because you talked about dance and that was what you did. And your dream was to dance on stages that you only imagined. After you went through that, had a double lung transplant, I'll just say those things started to come

true. Absolutely.

Briefly just tell us how that came about and what happened. What what stages you've been on now and

God, it's so good. So I'm dancing again with flags. We're traveling. We're touring. But the most amazing thing was God opened a door for my dance company to go to Disney World.

And when I asked you in that hospital room, I said, what do you want most After everything is said and gone, you you told me I want the passion experience to be on a global level to bless so many people and to be able to where people could experience God through the arts Yeah. And to go on that level. And within a year

I know right.

You were on that stage and god was directing it to where all of that is now happening.

I can't wait.

You can't tell me that god is still not performing miracles.

Yeah. Yeah.

God is performing miracles and I'm encouraging everybody, everybody in this audience, everybody that's looking online, take stock in the miracles, the daily miracles that God is performing in your life. Because I know that he has performed miracles in mine. He has performed miracles in yours. And if you don't have any opportunity or don't know any, just look and say, hey. I'm tapping into the miracles that God has performed in Chris' life and Adrianne's life.