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Facebook Twitter Email. Yet he found entrepreneurial success in Atlanta as a fast food mogul—owning and operating several Burger King franchises in addition to his Checkers franchises.
He eventually moved his business operations to Detroit and became the largest Pizza Hut franchisee in Michigan. Hawkins went on to open a high-end, Southern-food restaurant, Sweet Georgia Brown, in downtown Detroit. Hawkins also ran into legal troubles. I was living the life of a multi-millionaire.
I was very, very successful here on earth, but there was no doubt that when I died that I was going to hell, because I was not doing the things that God wanted me to do. So I consider myself to be blessed. God loved me so much that he allowed me to go through a pruning to be able to save my life; for me to be able to be in the kingdom of heaven.
I had nine cars-all of them were Rolls Royces and Bentleys and Lamborghinis. So every day I drove a Rolls Royce or a Bentley. That was my everyday car. So, did I fall from grace? I fell from grace on earth.
What I did is that it was put on a temporary hold until God allowed me to really be able to look at my life. See, life is short. Heaven is eternal. Once you get in there, the deal with them is either they break you or you learn from it. I learned from it.
So I broke myself. One is sufficient. Read the Magazine. Facebook Comments. Jovita Moore: Life, Legacy, Remembrance. Latest Posts.
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