Sarah Jakes Roberts - Backed By Power

April 1, 2025 | S25:E52

As you are obedient to God, you will see His power!

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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | Sarah Jakes Roberts - Backed By Power | April 1, 2025

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♪♪♪
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Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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Sarah jakes roberts: it is time for you to turn the volume down
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On the enemy and start turning the volume up on the god who
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Called you, on the god who sees you, on the god who knows you.
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♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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Sarah: somebody needs to understand that you can't give
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Up on god now.
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I know things aren't turning out the way that you anticipated,
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But i hear god saying, "don't give up now because i got a way
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Out of this.
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You just gotta wait and see i'm not finished.
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You just gotta wait and see i'm not done working.
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You just gotta wait and see."
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Because he never leaves things unfinished.
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Undone is not what he does.
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There's this reality that each of us must face.
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And that is that in a silent transition of power, the worst
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Thing we can do is try to create our own sense of safety because
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That's what we do.
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When we no longer feel like we have power, we settle
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For control.
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And control is a cheap imitation of power because it makes you
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God and it makes you believe that i can create a sense of
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Safety that is better than the vulnerability required to stay
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Connected with god in a season where my power is in transition.
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Isn't that what we see the hebrew children doing after all
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In this text?
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They are trying to create their own sense of safety.
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God's so good to me.
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He's trying to--they're trying to create their own sense of
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Safety because what god started in them, it doesn't look like
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He's gonna be able to finish it.
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And they have been oppressed for so long that all they can
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Imagine is further oppression, not more deliverance.
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Man, the effects of trauma, the effects of constant
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Disappointment rewires our brain and our expectation to lean more
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Towards what could go wrong than what could go right.
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And these hebrew children are in this predicament when we find
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Them in the text.
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When we find them in the text, they are trying to create their
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Own sense of safety instead of dwelling in the presence of
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The lord.
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And i'm not saying it's you, it's probably people watching
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Online who have tried to create their own sense of safety by
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Saying things like, trust no one.
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Leave them before they leave you.
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Never allow yourself to need someone or if i get more money,
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If i get more wealth, if i get more education, then i'll
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Finally feel safe.
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And then you finally get those things and you realize i
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Actually don't feel any more safe.
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I just feel isolated and alone because that is what happens
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When we settle for control instead of trusting god's power.
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And these hebrew children are trying to create their own sense
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Of safety because their experience with god's safety has
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Left them feeling like they're gonna lose.
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I marvel at this because the hebrew children felt safe enough
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To start with god, but the reality of how hard it was gonna
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Be made them get stuck in the middle.
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When it gets hard, that's where the silent transition of power
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Starts taking place.
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Most of the time when a couple goes through a divorce, when the
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Papers are actually filed it's not actually when the
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Divorce occurred.
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When things started getting hard, they started pulling back
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Their power because they no longer trusted the person who
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They'd given the power to love them, the power to create a life
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For them.
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There's a silent transition of power.
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The wedding was beautiful, but it's that middle part where
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Things start getting rough, that middle part is where you start
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Taking your trust back because when you don't feel like you're
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Safe anymore, all you can do is try and be in control and that's
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What we see the hebrew children doing.
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That's what we start doing when god calls us to do something
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That is harder than we anticipated.
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What we do is we start taking our trust back.
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"god, i'm not actually sure that you said what you said.
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I know i believed it when i started it, but if it would have
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Been this hard, i don't think you would have signed me up for
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This much struggle.
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So, i'm gonna start taking my trust back."
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I came to preach to somebody who has started taking their trust
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Back in the middle.
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"god, if i'd have known it was gonna be this hard, i don't
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Think i would have said yes because i don't think i'm cut
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Out for this."
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And they start taking their trust back, not recognizing that
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God knew it was gonna be hard when he called you.
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He just trusted that you would have access to his power.
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So, when you start taking your power back in the middle of it
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Getting hard, you're cutting off your own lifeline.
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But i came here to let somebody know that your lifeline is still
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Flowing in your direction.
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It is on you to get back in position with god.
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I gotta allow the vulnerability connected with this moment to
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Teach me, to groom me, to show me who you are.
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When i was studying this text, it got so good to me because it
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Made me realize that the egyptians were so--knew--they
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Were so educated in their oppressors ways and methods.
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They knew how well they could beat them.
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They knew how well they could kill them.
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They knew how well they could chain them.
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And they had been studying their enemy for so long that they
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Didn't even give god's new path a chance.
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They didn't even take the time to wonder, "i know what my enemy
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Can do, but i don't know yet what all god can do in
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My situation."
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And some of us give up because we know the plans of the enemy
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Better than we know the plans of god and we let the enemy move us
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Out of our position.
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When god says, "if you limit me based off of what you think the
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Enemy can do, you will never see the full potential of what your
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God can do.
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Don't limit me."
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The enemy, let me tell you something, the enemy only has
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One or two tricks.
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He is not the creator.
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He's gonna keep hitting you in the same soft spot.
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"yes, i'm inadequate.
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No, i don't have what it takes.
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No, i don't have everything that i need, but god still called
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Me anyway.
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And because god still called me anyway, i'm gonna get curious
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About why god called me and i'm gonna be suspicious about why
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You keep trying to knock me off my square.
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Every time i get enough courage to step up and do what god has
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Called me to do, here comes the enemy with the same old tricks."
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He ain't got nothing new to say.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but i want you to
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Understand that everything the devil could possibly say to you,
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He has already said.
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It is time for you to turn the volume down on the enemy and
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Start turning the volume up on the god who called you, on the
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God who sees you, on the god who knows you.
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You can't say nothing else to me.
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You can't put my past in front of my face.
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I lived through it and i came out on the other side.
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You can't say nothing new to me.
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I didn't have the right background, but i'm standing
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Here anyway because he that began to work in me shall
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Complete it until the days of jesus christ.
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I know you heard what the enemy said, but did you hear what
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God said?
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God said, "it ain't over."
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God said, "i didn't leave you here to just leave you here."
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God said, "i still got work to do in you."
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God said, "it ain't time for you to retire.
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It's time for you to turn it up another notch."
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No limits, no boundaries, breakthrough all around you.
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I know you feel like your back is against the wall.
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You may feel like you are surrounded, but god says, "i got
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Another way out of this thing for you.
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I got another way of escape.
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I'm still surrounding you."
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Okay, i'll be honest with you.
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I know why the hebrew children don't think that god can show up
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In this situation because god came through so hard when they
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Were in egypt that they don't trust that the same god who
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Showed up that hard back then.
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Some kind of way they think he ran out of grace, some kind of
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Way they think he ran out of power.
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Have you ever had god do something so powerful in your
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Past that you doubt he could do it again?
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Have you ever been afraid to even ask him to show up in your
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Situation because you already been better to me than
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I deserve?
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And because someone else gave up on you and someone ran out of
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Love and someone ran out of energy, you think that god could
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Run out too.
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And you got more faith in the enemy's consistency
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Then god's faithfulness.
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I get it.
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Studying the enemy, rehearsing his thoughts, letting it torment
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You, letting it keep you up at night over and over again
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Telling you how you gonna fail, telling you how you ain't gonna
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Make it.
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You studied that devil.
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And at a certain point we have to make a decision to turn our
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Face towards god because the more i hear from the enemy, the
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More i believe what he says.
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But when i press my way into the presence of the lord, he gives
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Me a new song, he gives me a new word, he gives me a
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New revelation.
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God, i prophesy in this room right now that you would behold
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Fresh vision.
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I prophesy in this room right now, that there would be a new
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Sound in their ears, that there would be a new worship released
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In their ear.
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God i prophesy right now that the enemy would go on you and
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That your voice would arise.
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I decree and declare that the enemy would be scattered so that
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You can hear the voice of the lord again, so that you can hear
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Him calling your name.
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Male announcer: uncharted territory is the birthplace for
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Every great leader.
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Male: two, one.
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Announcer: because we are called not only to face our
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Fear of the unknown, but to master it.
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Bishop t.d. jakes: you're planted in that position so that
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You can have influence to change your generation.
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Male announcer: navigate your next defining moment at the
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International leadership summit 2025.
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Bishop jakes: there's a change coming.
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Bishop jakes: in genesis, is where we first are introduced to
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Our god.
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He was a potter.
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And we were the first pot.
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If there's anything good in me, it's got to be god because i
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Know that the vessel is earthen, but the treasure is divine.
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♪♪♪
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Sarah: you got a word for everybody else, but god hears
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The cry you never released.
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You can encourage everybody else and you're right about what you
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Say to them.
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They do need to stand still and see the salvation of the lord,
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But is that what god wants you to do?
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The lord says, "why do you cry to me?"
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In verse 15.
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He says, "tell the children of israel to go forward."
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But let me continue with what you told them to do.
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Go forward in that direction.
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You told them right, "but you lift up your rod, and stretch
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Out your hands."
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It ain't no standing still season for you.
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I don't know who you are, but god says, "this is the season
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Where you lift up your rod and stretch out your hand over
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The sea."
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Oh, can i break it down for you the way god gave it to me?
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I know this rod.
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This is the same rod when the bush was burning that the lord
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Told him to throw down on the ground and it turned into a
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Serpent and then he picked it back up and it turned into
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A rod.
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He knows that this rod has power because in his secret place with
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The lord, he saw the power of the rod.
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But when they go to egypt and it's time for the nile river to
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Turn the blood, the lord says, "tell aaron to take his rod."
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"but god, my rod?"
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"uh-uh.
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Tell aaron to use his rod in the nile river."
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"now that's confusing for me 'cause god, you showed me
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Something in my secret place about what i have in my hand.
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But when it's time for you to use something that looks like
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What i got, something that you've already showed me was
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Blessed and anointed, you pick somebody else."
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I read it twice 'cause that was confusing to me.
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It was aaron's rod when they were in front of pharaoh that
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Moses--god told moses and aaron and then take aaron's rod and
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Throw it down in front of pharaoh.
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"but my rod does the same thing that his rod does."
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Has god ever given you confirmation about what you
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Carry, but no outlet to release it?
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Have you ever had to sit back and watch god use somebody to do
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The very thing it seemed like he anointed you to do?
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This part of the text was good for me because it speaks to the
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Fluidity of power.
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But it also speaks to moses making a power move.
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It speaks to the reality that god has not forgotten what he
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Gave moses.
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It speaks to the reality that sometimes god shows you
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Something in secret and even though he makes you watch
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Somebody else use the very thing that he gave you, that it
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Doesn't mean he forgot about what he put in your hand.
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And most of us would have thrown our rod away and said, "i guess
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You have no use for my rod.
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I guess my rod has no power."
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But i hear god saying that somebody in this room needs to
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Go back and grab the thing that god said was anointed for this
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Journey because just because god hasn't used it yet, it doesn't
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Mean that you're not gonna come up on the moment where god says,
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"now i need you to pull from what i gave you.
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Now it's your turn to use that rod to do the impossible."
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God uses moses's rod at the red sea at a time when it seemed
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Like they were trapped to remind moses that, "while power is
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Moving, i want you to understand that there's still power in
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Your hand."
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I wish i could say this the way i feel it in my spirit, but i
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Feel like god's been putting somebody's power on reserve.
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"i didn't want you to waste your power until we were in a
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Situation where your power was the only power that would get
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The job done.
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I didn't want you to waste your power--to your enemies.
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I didn't want you to waste your power trying to prove your
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Doubters wrong, trying to prove your insecurity wrong.
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I wanted you to wait to use your power so that nobody could get
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The glory but me, so that no one could understand what happened
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In your life but me."
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And i hear god saying, "don't throw your power away.
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Don't throw your power away.
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Don't throw your power away."
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There is so much that i've studied here, but one of the
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Things that god showed me in this text is that he takes--so
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I'm always searching when i'm reading and studying.
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I'm like, "god, what does this reveal to me about
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Your character?
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What should i know about you as a result of how you showed up
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For them because you are so consistent, you are so faithful?
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If i can take something from then i can apply it to now."
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When he puts the cloud behind them and it's dark for the
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Egyptians but light for the hebrews, it helped me to see
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That god will create a covering so you aren't practicing in
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Front of your enemies.
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Oh, that's really good for me.
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I don't know about you.
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"i'm gonna cover you."
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So, you know, i know everybody wants, "he'll prepare a table
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For you in the presence of your enemy."
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That's what we wanna hear, but sometimes we don't make a move
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Because we're afraid to have to practice in front of
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Our enemies.
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But if they will trust that god is actually covering them, god
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Says, "i'm gonna put your enemies in the dark while you
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Practice your strategy."
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There are some people who should be talking about you.
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We talk about the ones who got something to say, but there are
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Some people that if they really knew how you messed up along the
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Way, they would have so much more to say.
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But because god covered you from the perspective of your enemies,
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You were able to build without division.
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Sometimes god covering you in the presence of your enemies is
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God making some people betray you.
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Sometimes it's letting some people walk away from you
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Because, "i didn't want you to have to step into your destiny
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With an audience that would be cursing you while i am trying to
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Bless you.
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Sometimes i gotta clear the air so that you can breathe clearly
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What i'm doing in your life."
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God will create a darkness over your enemies.
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Their enemy is in the dark.
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They're standing in the light.
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They never know darkness.
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God told me, "i had to keep them in the light because they were
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Already so afraid that i couldn't let them think that
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They were running out of time too."
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Sometimes when you feel the pressure to do something for
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God, you also convince yourself that you're running out of time
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To do it.
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You tell yourself, "the sun is setting and i may have missed
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My window."
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But god says, "i'm gonna keep the light in front of them so
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They know that i'm giving them time to figure out how to be who
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I called them to be."
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We are children of the most high god.
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He is all powerful, all knowing.
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And when he places something in your spirit, you have to
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Remember that even when it gets hard and even when you feel
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Trapped, that you are backed by power.
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And when you recognize that you are backed by power, it gives
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You courage, it gives you strategy.
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It makes you sensitive for sure, but also it dethrones the rule
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And reign of the enemy.
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I need you to stand in your power.
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Culture would have you to believe that power is about
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Who's gonna be the most arrogant, who's gonna be the
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Most popular, who's gonna be the most famous.
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That is not power.
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Power is who's gonna be the most obedient.
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Who's gonna do it with humility and accountability?
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Who's gonna do it?
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And god told me that power is available to everyone, but not
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Everyone is willing to do the work.
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Some people don't even know the work.
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I wrote this book because y'all started saying stuff like,
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"she's a powerhouse, she preached the power--."
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I didn't feel powerful.
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I just felt obedient and i had to backtrack to figure out how
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Did god take the girl who wouldn't say a word, who
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Wouldn't pray out loud, who felt like god was for the good girls,
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For the ones who did everything right.
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How did you take me and rise me up in this generation and now
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They're calling me powerful and i don't feel powerful and god
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Says, "stay focused on me because this was never about you
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Feeling powerful.
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This was about you letting power move."
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You want a feeling, but god wants a movement.
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You want a feeling, but god wants to flow.
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You wanna feel confident, but god wants you to be more than
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A conqueror.
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And if you're gonna be more than a conqueror, you're gonna have
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To tap into courage that you never knew existed.
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And i wanna pray with somebody who's been experiencing the
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Silent transition of power.
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You didn't even know what was going on with you until i
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Started giving language.
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You didn't even realize how you got off and at this point it
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Doesn't even matter.
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All that matters is that you are willing to admit that some kind
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Of way there's been a silent transition of power.
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"before i formed you in your mother's womb, i knew you."
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Says, "i sanctified you.
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I ordained you.
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I set you apart.
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I put power in you before you took your first breath."
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If power has been stripped from you before you even realized you
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Had it, it doesn't change the fact that you once had it.
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And we have an opportunity through our humility to say to
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God, "that power you gave me, i lost it.
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That power that i once felt in this relationship, that power
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That i once felt to walk in righteousness, i lost it.
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I felt strong at first, but now i've lost it.
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Somewhere along the way there was something that happened in
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The middle."
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Let me tell you, this is a moment of true humility.
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Our jesus, our king jesus, the most powerful to ever do it
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Humbled himself.
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You cannot convince me that you can be powerful and arrogant.
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God says that, "if you're really gonna be powerful, you're gonna
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Have to be willing to be humble."
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So, this altar call is a moment for humility.
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If you think you're gonna be embarrassed, foolish on you
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Because this is the space where you really pick up your power.
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Maybe you're watching online and you're not in this room.
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And even now you feel like god orchestrated for you to have a
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Personal encounter right where you are.
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I want you to know that power moves and the same power that's
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In this room is flowing in your direction and i want you to know
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That the same grace, the same anointing that god allowed the
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Hebrew children to experience, that god allowed me to
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Experience, is flowing in your direction.
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Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
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John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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Be united.
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Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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Vusi: think scale.
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John: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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Bishop jakes: all of us have
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Seeds of potential in us.
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John: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
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John: the world shifted.
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Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs, right now is the moment.
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This is just the beginning.
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Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us on social media
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And share your story of how god is impacting your life.
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We look forward to seeing you
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Next time on "the potter's touch."
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♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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♪♪♪
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Sarah Jakes Roberts - Backed By Power

April 1, 2025 | S25:E52

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