Sarah Jakes Roberts - An Invitation to Mastery

December 17, 2024 | S

You must be steadfast in the training process. The masterful God is inviting you to mastery.

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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | Sarah Jakes Roberts - An Invitation to Mastery | December 17, 2024

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♪♪♪
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Announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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Sarah jakes roberts: it's because it needed
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To be destroyed so that i could rebuild the right thing.
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See, that's a different kind of peace that most people
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Don't have.
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You want a kind of peace that says, "don't slay me at all."
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I want the kind of peace that says, "though he slay me,
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Yet shall i trust in him," because if he's slaying me there
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Was something in me that wasn't going to serve me.
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And yes, he had to beat it out of me because i loved it,
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But once he got it out of me, i had enough victory
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To pull somebody else out of it.
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A master.
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♪♪♪
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♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch ♪
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Sarah: masterful, full of the master.
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So when jesus says to them, "follow me and
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I will make you fishers of men," it is an invitation to mastery.
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It is an opportunity for disciples.
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This isn't for churchy people, this isn't for churchgoers
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And people who just wanna come to church.
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These are for people who wanna be disciples.
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I wanna be like jesus, i wanna be masterful.
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And so, jesus first has them observe what it means to be
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Masterful, what it means to come under attack and still
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Be effective.
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What it means to literally cast out a devil.
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I wanna show you what it means to be masterful.
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Why, why, why does jesus say, "i have to show you before
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I can activate you"?
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Proverbs 30 tells us that "the eyes are the windows
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To the soul."
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So if i show you how a master works, it can invade your soul.
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Oh god, most of us struggle at being masterful
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Because we're already full from what's in our soul.
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Fearful, so i can't be masterful.
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Shameful, so i can't be masterful.
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Painful, so i can't be masterful.
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Jesus says, "in order for me to really make the disciples
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Masterful, i gotta show them mastery.
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And if i show the mastery, then it'll change what's
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In their soul.
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I felt like this was important to say because some of you all
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Have been exposed to mastery, mastery in marriage,
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Mastery in ministry.
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And if you're honest, there are moments where you're wondering,
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"am i exposed so that i can be reminded of how much
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I don't have?"
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But looking at the text in this concept reveals to me
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That you're being exposed so that you can become masterful
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At the thing that you see.
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If i really say this right, it'll help you to reconcile that
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Every time you take note of someone being masterful, that it
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Is god trying to reveal to you what is possible for within you.
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You will no longer be jealous of someone else being masterful
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At what they do.
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You'll stop comparing yourself and you'll start making sure
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That you're in position to see someone be masterful.
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I'll be in the back of the room if i have to, i just wanna
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See it, because if i can see it, i can make room for it,
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And if i can make room for it, then i can become it.
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You gotta watch what god allows you to be exposed to.
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Ooh, i don't know who this is for, but i hear god saying,
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"you've been thinking that you would be disqualified because
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You didn't hear from someone, because you didn't hear it from
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An educator, because you didn't hear it from a parent,
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Because you didn't hear it from a mentor.
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And i hear god saying that you're worried about your ears.
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But i want you to recognize what i have allowed you to see.
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The very fact that you want it, the very fact that you have been
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Exposed to it is a sign that you can become masterful at it.
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I wanna talk to somebody who was on a journey of becoming whole,
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I wanna talk to someone who was on a journey of gaining
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Their confidence back after trauma, and i want you to know
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That the very reason why the taste is in your mouth is
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Because the appetite is gonna be coming from your belly.
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And i hear god saying that if you open your mouth wide,
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I'm gonna fill it, but i had to put you in a position where
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You would hunger for the right thing, where you would hunger.
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I'm listening instead of talking because i wanna be masterful.
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I don't wanna just be in your world, i wanna be masterful
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At serving you.
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I wanna be masterful at saying yes, i wanna be masterful, god,
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With everything you give me.
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Make me more full of the master than i am of my past.
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And there is a perspective for the moment that will keep you in
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The game when you get afraid.
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There's a perspective on this moment that will keep your head
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In it even when your heart becomes afraid.
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There's a perspective that i found in this text that i wanna
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Share with you.
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In order for this new perspective to be effective,
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I wanna let you know that you have to relocate the way that
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You have positioned your goals, your ideas of success
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And achievement.
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They have to be repositioned to not be just about arriving
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To a destination.
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You have to be repositioned at an intersection of the foreign
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And the familiar.
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Jesus is the master of living at the intersection of the foreign
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And the familiar.
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I'll prove it to you.
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Philippians 2, verse 5 through 11.
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"let this mind," let this perspective, "be in you,
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Which was also in christ jesus."
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That's enough right there because this proves the whole
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Invitation to mastery.
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There's a perspective that you need to have, this mind that you
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Have, it needs to be the same mind that was in christ jesus.
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Let's figure out what that mind did.
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In verse 6 it continues.
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It says, "who, being in the form of god," familiar with god,
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"did not consider it robbery to be equal with god."
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He was familiar with god.
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He came from the holy of holies.
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He knows what it's like to be in heaven and to hear the angels
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Worshiping 24/7.
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That is what he was familiar with, but he made himself of
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No reputation, taking the form of a bond servant and coming
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In the likeness of men.
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Wait a minute, jesus left the familiar and then moved
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Into foreign.
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Why did he do this?
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Because in order for him to be effective at what god needed him
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To do in the earth, he had to get out of the familiar and move
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Into the foreign.
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But he could not forget the familiar when he was
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In the foreign or he would not be effective
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In the foreign element.
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If i preach this right, you're gonna understand that the
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Very thing you are running from is the very thing that is
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Preparing you for the place that god has called you.
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If jesus forgets that he was one with god and moves into
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The earth, then we're gonna miss out on what he came to do.
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If you forget where you come from, you will not make the most
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Of where you are headed because where you are headed only works
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If you remember where you came from.
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And i wanted someone to understand that you've been
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Trying to let go of the past and i hear god saying,
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"no baby, hang on to it.
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I'm going to use it.
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If you hang on to where you came from, i'll show you
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How to throw it at where i'm pointing you.
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I'll show you how to point it in the direction of where you can
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Be most effective once you have embraced
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That this intersection is where you must live."
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This text gives us six strategies.
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I'm going to breeze through them.
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Six strategies for mastery.
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John 14:25 says that jesus was telling the disciples,
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"these things i've spoken to you while being present with you.
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But the helper, the holy spirit, whom the father will
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Send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring
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To your remembrance all the things that i said to you."
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It's foreign now, but it's gonna be familiar
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When you need it.
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I'm gonna bring it back to your remembrance.
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Oh god, one thing a master knows how to do.
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If you're taking notes, write this down.
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A master knows how to tap in when they want to tap out.
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Oh child, tap out.
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Be so close.
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Tapping out, i quit.
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Tapping out, i won't even try.
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Tapping out, i give up.
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A master understands that if you're gonna be effective,
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You gotta know when to tap in instead of tapping out.
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I got this from the text because when jesus says, "the helper,
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The holy spirit, whom the father will send in my name,
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He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
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All the things that i said to you," he says this because
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He then goes on to tell them, "let not your heart be troubled,
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Neither let it be afraid."
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Remember, this is a prophecy preparing them to step
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Into becoming like the master.
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And he tells them in advance, "don't let your heart be
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Troubled nor let it be afraid.
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But if you can remember that the helper is on the way, the helper
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Will bring to your remembrance who you need to be
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In the moments where you feel the most afraid."
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You see, sometimes in church we talk about being full of the
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Holy ghost and being full of the holy spirit, and i believe that
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You ought to be full of the holy ghost and you ought to be full
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Of the holy spirit.
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But we also need to add to that conversation that you also need
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To be spirit-led, because what good is it for you to be able to
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Speak in tongues but you don't know which direction you need
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To take when it comes to raising your children.
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I don't wanna just be full of the holy ghost, i also wanna
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Be spirit-led.
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The helper is gonna come and the helper is gonna show you
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How to be spirit-led.
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So if you tap in, see this is why some people, we lose some
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People in church when we tell them just pray about it and just
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Go to church, because they think that just praying about it means
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That we aren't dealing with it.
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They don't realize that when i pray about it, i'm tapping in
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Instead of tapping out.
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And when i tap in, i receive strategy and god brings back
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To my remembrance the promises are "yes" and "amen."
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God reminds me when i tap in that no weapon formed against me
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Will prosper.
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There are some revelations you cannot get unless you are
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Willing to tap in instead of tapping out.
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♪♪♪
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Announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals
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A timeless truth.
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That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails,
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It lights the path for those who follow.
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Every era has its torchbearers who inspire, innovate,
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And take risks.
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And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard,
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A new dawn rises and the flame multiplies.
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This is the international leadership summit, a place
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Where leaders from all walks are equipped to shape the future.
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Will your legacy light the way?
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♪♪♪
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Sarah: so jesus tells the disciples, "the holy spirit is
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Going to teach you and bring back to your remembrance,"
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So don't tap out.
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Number two, a master knows when and how to ask/receive help.
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The holy spirit, the helper, is coming.
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He'll be available to help you.
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But a master cannot be so consumed with their pride
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And their ego that they don't know how to ask for help when
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They're in over their head.
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I just wanna tell you all this for you people who are like me
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And are so independent that you have no problem asking god for
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Help, you just don't want him to use people to be the answer
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For the help.
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God, if you got an angel on layaway, if you could just send
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Them my way.
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Because, lord, if i have to actually open up my mouth and be
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Vulnerable to someone else, then i don't know that i have what
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It takes to do that.
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But i'm letting you know right now that the holy spirit uses
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People to help accomplish his work in the earth.
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So while you're waiting for the sky to crack open, you may miss
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That your help is sitting right next to you.
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You may miss that your help has not come in a package that
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You desire, but it's got all of the resources that you need.
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You're gonna have to be open to becoming a master by asking god,
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"what is the strategy for the people you've placed around me?"
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A master knows when and how to ask and then receive help.
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Number three, a master has peace in trouble.
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Six strategies for mastery.
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Jesus says, "peace i leave with you."
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But to be clear, it's my peace.
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The world offers peace, the world offers opportunities.
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The world offers connection that feels like peace in some
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Moments, but that peace is temporary.
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Jesus says to the disciples that "i'm gonna leave you with my
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Peace because trouble is gonna come, and if you're really gonna
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Be a master you're gonna need my peace in times of trouble."
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You can have the world's peace in times of victory,
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In times of celebration.
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That's cheap peace.
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Anybody can get that.
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But the master's peace, a master's peace only comes
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When you recognize that trouble is working for me
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And not against me.
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I'm not saying i'm not tired, i'm not saying i'm not
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Concerned, but i have peace in the midst of it all because
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I know if that devil is in my life, it is on assignment to
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Bring out what god has put on the inside of me.
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I trust the crushing, so i have peace in the midst of trouble.
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I got to give you the kind of peace, that's what i was
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Wondering, "what kind of peace does jesus have?"
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Jesus has the kind of peace that he could be on the cross and
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Say, "forgive them, father, for they know not what they do."
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That means you can be both hurting and still have peace
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Because i know some of you think you got to choose a struggle.
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We don't have to choose struggles anymore.
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That's so 2000 and late.
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In this day and age, we don't choose struggle.
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We recognize that i could be in struggle and also be in
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Strength, because my struggle is not a reflection of his strength
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And my struggle is not depending on my strategy.
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My struggle is submitted to the master strategist, and if the
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Master strategist has allowed it, then even this trouble
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Is working on my behalf.
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You a bad somebody when you start believing that
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Even trouble is working on your behalf.
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Oh, i wish i could testify for a minute about when the enemy
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Tried to make me think that the trouble was trying to take me
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Out, and i messed around and tapped in instead of tapping
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Out, and god said, "if i allowed this fight into your life, it's
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Because i wanna show you that i can protect you in every season.
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And if i allowed this fight to destroy your family,
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It's because it needed to be destroyed so that i could
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Rebuild the right thing."
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See, that's a different kind of peace that most people
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Don't have.
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You want a kind of peace that says, "don't slay me at all."
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I want the kind of peace that says, "though he slay me, yet
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Shall i trust in him," because if he's slaying me, there was
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Something in me that wasn't going to serve me.
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And yes, he had to beat it out of me because i loved it.
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But once he got it out of me, i had enough victory to pull
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Somebody else out of it.
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A master, a master has peace in trouble.
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Three more.
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A master chooses rejoicing over rejection.
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Jesus says to the disciples, "i'm going back to my father.
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You can be sad if you want to.
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You could feel abandoned if you want to.
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But if you really love me and you really trust me,
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You would rejoice instead of feeling rejected."
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Because when you rejoice instead of feeling rejected, it shows
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That you trust that whatever has left me, whatever walked away
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From me, i must not need any longer.
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And so yes, it sounds crazy, but i'm glad you left me.
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I know it sounds crazy because i got tears streaming my eyes.
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But baby, these are happy tears because now that you're out
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Of the way, you made room for the real me to emerge.
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These are happy tears.
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I may look sad, but these are happy tears because i recognize
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That though you're no longer here, i can still pull from
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The lessons you left me.
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I'm making a choice, i could feel rejected.
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I'm prophesying over somebody in this room and you got
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Rejection issues.
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And every time someone says no, you think it's a reflection
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Of your worth and your value.
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But i wanna prophesy that the next time you experience
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Rejection, that you will throw yourself a party because you
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Recognize that that rejection is a reason to rejoice.
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It was protection from what god was trying to make sure
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You didn't do so that you could become who he knows you are.
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A master--six strategies, this is number five.
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A master knows what's in him is more dangerous than
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What's outside of him.
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Jesus says in my text that he's "not going to talk much more
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About this because the ruler of this world is coming."
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The enemy is coming, but the enemy will only be effective at
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Ruling this world because jesus says, "he has nothing in me."
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If he had something in me, i'd be afraid because if i don't
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Know what's in me and the ruler of this world comes, then the
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Ruler may pull on what's in me that i didn't know was in me,
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And then my gifts and my talents and my mentality and my spirit
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Will be subjected to the ruler of this world
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And not the ruler of my destiny.
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If you don't take inventory of what's in you, then you're gonna
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Continue to sabotage your destiny, because what's in you--
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It's not about what's outside of you, you're worried
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About an external enemy.
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Bishop said this last night, "this is the inner me."
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But jesus says that i'm not afraid because he doesn't have
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Anything in me, which means that he could tempt me but he can't
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Pull me off track because he doesn't have anything in me.
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I'm so full of the spirit of god.
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Oh god, i should be bitter but i'm so full of the spirit
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Of god.
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I should be angry but i'm so full of faith.
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I should give up but i'm so full of who--i'm so full of mastery.
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I'm so masterful that even when the enemy comes he doesn't
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Govern me because he has nothing in me.
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I see you, devil, i see you trying to come for my family.
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I see you, devil, i see you trying to come for my mind.
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I see you, devil, trying to come for my dream, but you don't have
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Anything in me because i'm so full of who god has called me
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To be.
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I'm so full of the power of god that you can't take
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This thing over.
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The enemy can come but you can't take over.
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You can come but you can't rule.
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You can come but you can't have your way because i'm right in
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The middle of letting god have his way, and because i've made
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A decision to let god have his way, i gotta keep
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My circle tight.
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I gotta know what's in me and who's around me because i don't
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Wanna be the gateway that allows the enemy access
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To someone else.
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You need some people in your life who are diligent about what
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They allow themselves access to, because if it'll access them,
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It can access you.
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I'm sorry, but i need a little distance because i'm trying
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To stay masterful.
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Last point, we're going home.
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Jesus ends this conversation, this portion of the conversation
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With the disciples by saying, "but that the world may know
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That i love the father, and as the father gave me commandment,
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So i do."
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That brings me to my last point.
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You can stand, we're leaving.
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A master doesn't just have a message, a master is a message.
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Jesus says that "the world may know that i love--that my whole
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Mission is to be a message to the world, that i love
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The father."
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I wanted to share with you these six strategies of mastery
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Because i felt like it was challenging for many of us
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To decide what are my goals for this year, what--who am
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I supposed to be, what am i supposed to do?
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I felt god say, "if you only think about what you're gonna do
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This year, you'll miss out on the vision i have
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For your life."
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Your life is an invitation to mastery, and so we must be
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Willing to ask ourselves, family, "how do i become
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A master?"
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Think about all of the things that you do, the people
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You serve, those you are in relationship with, your jobs,
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Your health.
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Don't just make a resolution, ask yourself, "what would
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The message--what would the goal look like if the objective
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Was to become a master, not just a winner?"
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Bishop t.d. jakes: it is not my good times that reveal god
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The most in my life.
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It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
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It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that
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I saw god's glory shine the brightest.
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Let there be light!
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Bishop jakes: think about the times in your life that
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You couldn't see no way out and god made a way out of nowhere.
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Think about the times that you had no plan and you just
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Stumbled into a blessing.
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On "the potter's touch."
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♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch ♪
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Sarah Jakes Roberts - An Invitation to Mastery

December 17, 2024 | S

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