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T.D. Jakes - Believe

November 26, 2024 | S

T.D. Jakes - Believe
What you believe matters to God.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Believe | November 26, 2024
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: you need to stop running and face whatever
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  • You gotta face and deal with whatever you gotta deal with.
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  • 'cause if you run from pharaoh, you're gonna run from the
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  • Serpent, you're gonna run from love, you're gonna run from
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  • Life, you're gonna run from responsibility.
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  • You're gonna run, run, run, run, run.
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  • When are you gonna stop running?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: exodus 4:1 through 6.
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  • And it says: "and moses answered and said, but, behold, they will
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  • Not believe me, nor hearken to my voice: for they will say, the
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  • Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
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  • And the lord said unto him, what is in your hand?
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  • And he said, a rod.
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  • And he said, cast it on the ground.
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  • And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent;" and
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  • Moses start running.
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  • See, when you start running from one thing, you're gonna keep
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  • Running from everything.
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  • That's why you need to stop running and face whatever you
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  • Gotta face and deal with whatever you gotta deal with.
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  • 'cause if you run from pharaoh, you're gonna run from the
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  • Serpent, you're gonna run from love, you're gonna run from
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  • Life, you're gonna run from responsibility.
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  • You're gonna run, run, run, run, run.
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  • When are you gonna stop running?
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  • Moses, you'll never be moses if you keep running from stuff that
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  • Scares you.
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  • Moses, you'll never be great if you keep running from things
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  • That scare you.
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  • You're running from something that god gave you.
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  • Hmm.
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  • "and the lord said unto moses, put forth thine hand, and take
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  • It by the tail."
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  • Put forth my--i was so scared, i'm running, and you want me
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  • To grab?
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  • Now, now, visualize this, how many of you wanna grab a snake
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  • By the tail?
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  • God can call you to grab stuff you're scared of.
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  • Tell somebody, say, take it by the tail.
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  • Oh my god.
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  • "and he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod
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  • In his hand: that they may believe that the lord god of
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  • Their fathers, the god of abraham, the god of isaac, and
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  • The god of jacob, has appeared unto thee."
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  • I wanna go back for a minute and process what we heard.
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  • God, i would do it, but they will not believe me.
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  • Was it really that they would not believe, or is he imposing
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  • On them something that's really coming from him?
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  • Whatever you've been saying about "they" might really
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  • Be you.
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  • They won't accept me. they won't love me.
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  • They won't accept me. they can't use me.
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  • They'll never embrace me.
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  • You'll never get anybody to embrace you till you
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  • Embrace yourself.
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  • You'll never get anybody to believe in you till you believe
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  • In yourself.
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  • You'll never get anybody to love you till you love yourself.
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  • Your they might be you in disguise.
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  • Ooh, y'all got quiet on that, i must have hit something.
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  • He said--now, god says to him, "i want you to go speak for me,"
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  • And he says, "they will not believe in me."
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  • God doesn't even respond to what he says.
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  • He says, "what is in your hand?"
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  • Why didn't he address what he believed about they?
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  • Because what he believed about they was just a reflection of
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  • What he believed about himself.
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  • So god says let's do inventory of what you got, what is in
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  • Your hand?
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  • This sunday morning, if i don't get anything else accomplished,
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  • I want to ask you what is in your hand?
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  • Before you assign your destiny to something externally, have
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  • You assessed what is in your hand?
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  • Because somebody could take what is in your hand and win.
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  • While you keep crying about what's not in your hand, god
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  • Said i don't need anything that's not in your hand to
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  • Bless you.
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  • I'm gonna use something that is already--i feel like i'm talking
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  • To somebody, i don't know who it is.
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  • "what is that in thine hand?"
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  • If you don't do anything else today, i want you to do a
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  • Self-assessment of what is in thine hand.
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  • All the other voices that have been talking to you have been
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  • Telling you what is not in your hand, god does not need anything
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  • That is not in your hand to bless you.
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  • Your blessing is hidden in what is in your hand.
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  • The problem is you have a limited perception of what is in
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  • Your hand.
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  • You think it's just a rod.
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  • You think it's just a stick.
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  • God says, i want to show you the potential of what is in your
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  • Hand, throw it down.
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  • Now, this is a powerful thing, because if moses does not learn
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  • This in private, it will mess him up in public.
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  • Because when he gets down to the red sea, he's gonna have to use
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  • That same stick to part the red sea.
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  • And if he doesn't have any confidence in private, he won't
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  • Have any power in public.
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  • You gon' need what you got.
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  • Oh god, help me.
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  • Oh my god, i feel that thing.
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  • I feel that thing. i feel that thing.
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  • Shove your neighbor and say you got more than you think
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  • You do.
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  • You can do more than you think you can do.
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  • You can have more than you think you can have.
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  • The problem is not coming from what they believe, it's coming
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  • From what you believe.
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  • Oh god, i'm talking to somebody.
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  • Stop blaming people for the years you wasted, it's not
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  • Coming from them, moses.
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  • You was a failure in front of them, now you're a failure
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  • In private.
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  • It can't be coming from them, they're not even there.
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  • The voice is in the house.
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  • I was gonna say, who am i talking to?
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  • But i know you don't want to say nothing.
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  • And he says, "the lord said unto him, put forth thine hand, and
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  • Take it by the tail.
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  • And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod
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  • In his hand."
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  • It became a rod in his hand.
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  • He caught it as a snake,
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  • It became a rod.
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  • Sometimes you will not see till you snatch.
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  • The problem with most people is you want to see your way clear
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  • Before you pick it up, but god said you gotta pick it up
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  • Scared, nervous, worried, intimidated, not sure
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  • Of yourself.
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  • It will only turn into a rod when it's--oh my god!
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  • You don't even know what you got till you pick it up.
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  • Who am i preaching to?
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  • It's gonna turn in your hand, not in your eye, in your hand.
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  • When you grab it, it'll change when you touch it 'cause you're
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  • Gonna touch it by faith.
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  • God is asking him to grab what he just got through running
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  • From.
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  • That's great preaching, but that's scary living.
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  • If i was scared enough to run from it, now you're asking me to
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  • Pick up--just imagine it.
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  • I can't teach it, just imagine it.
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  • You're in the house, it's a 7-foot copperhead
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  • [making rattling sounds]
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  • And the voice of the lord says--
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: "take it by the tail."
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  • Now, i could snatch it up if i thought i could handle it, but
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  • If i thought i could handle it, i would have never run from it.
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  • Now you want me to grab something that i don't think i
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  • Can handle 'cause you're trying to show me that if i step over
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  • My fear and grab it by faith, it'll change in my hand.
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  • I feel--
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: now, the snake you might be grabbing might not be a
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  • Copperhead or a rattlesnake, it might be raising a child or
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  • Getting married or giving love.
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  • It depends on what have you been running from.
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  • God is calling you to snatch what you've been running from.
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  • When god called me to preach, respectfully i thought, you got
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  • Your wires crossed, i am scared to death.
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  • When i first started preaching, i couldn't even hold
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  • A microphone.
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  • They had to put it on a stand and i had to put my hands behind
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  • My back and lean forward because if i took it by the hand, the
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  • Crowd would see that my hands were shaking.
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  • But god will often bless you the greatest through the thing you
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  • Are the most afraid of, take it by the hand.
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  • Slap somebody and say take it by the hand.
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  • You're not gonna see it till you grab it, it's gonna change
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  • In your hand.
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  • One day, i just snatched the mic and forgot to be scared.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: you cannot overcome
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  • What you will not confront.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: leaders, visionaries, and change-makers
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  • Female announcer: "i will give thanks to the lord
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  • Because of his righteousness.
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  • I will sing the praises of the name of the lord most high."
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  • Bishop jakes: you know, i have learned down through the years
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  • That attitude determines altitude, and that the thing
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  • That the enemy wants to steal from us is our peace and
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  • Our joy, and, most of all, our gratitude,
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  • To be grateful, to be thankful.
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  • We may not have what others have.
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  • Comparisons are a very unhealthy thing to adopt, but we can be
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  • Grateful for what the lord has given us.
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  • If you have a heart of gratitude, no matter what
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  • Challenges we face, we find a way to prevail, to survive, and
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  • To overcome.
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  • Be grateful.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: the reason he asked moses a question, what is
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  • In your hand?
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  • Because god is challenging what moses believes.
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  • I'm not talking about what you say, you know how to say the
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  • Right stuff.
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  • I'm talking about what you believe about yourself.
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  • You say the right things, you've been taught how to
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  • Imitate faith.
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  • You talk--as my grandmother said, you talk at the big gate,
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  • But you go home and live out your belief.
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  • If you believe you are unlovable, you will always be
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  • Unloved.
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  • You can dress up, you can smell good, you can work out, you can
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  • Say all the right things, you can walk around, you can be
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  • Debonair, you can be cool, you can be hip, but none of that
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  • Will overcome that belief that
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  • You have in your heart that your
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  • Life is over, that you made too many mistakes, that you're too
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  • Old to get anything done in the kingdom.
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  • These things that you believe have become your vision
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  • Statement.
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  • It is your purpose, and unknowingly, it has become
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  • Your goal to live out the damnation of the words you
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  • Rehearse to yourself.
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  • So you're busy trying to get everybody else to like something
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  • That you don't like.
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  • You're trying to convince everybody else that you are
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  • Something that you don't believe.
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  • And this morning, the lord sent me here to challenge
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  • Your belief.
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  • So i said to god, how can i challenge their belief?
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  • And he says to me, faith of any
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  • Kind always comes by hearing.
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  • You didn't believe you were dumb till you heard you were dumb.
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  • You didn't believe you couldn't learn till you heard somebody
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  • Say you couldn't learn.
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  • You didn't believe you were unattractive till you heard
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  • Somebody say--
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  • Your unbelief is a result of something you heard about
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  • Yourself, that you believed about yourself, and your life
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  • Has fulfilled the prophecy you heard about yourself.
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  • You're crazy like your daddy.
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  • You're just like your mommy.
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  • All of these are curses.
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  • They may not be cussing, but they're curses that were
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  • Pronounced over you, that said you couldn't do this or that or
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  • The other.
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  • And the more you heard it and rehearsed it and even argued
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  • About it and said you didn't believe it, every time you face
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  • A challenge, tell me the truth, don't those voices come back up?
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  • Every time you hit a low place, don't those voices come back
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  • Up again?
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  • Every time things go wrong, don't those voices come back?
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  • You have never changed your belief.
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  • You and your body is reacting to
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  • Those words, and you will never
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  • Completely be healed or whole until you change the voice
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  • Inside of your own head.
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  • And nobody, nobody can do this but you.
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  • New friends can't do it.
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  • New clothes can't do it.
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  • More money can't do it.
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  • More women can't do it.
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  • More sex can't do it.
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  • They can camouflage it, but they can't cure it because you are
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  • Snared by the words of your own mouth.
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  • You can't get enough people to tell you you're pretty when you
  • 00:19:49.838 --> 00:19:53.775
  • Think you're ugly, that's why you keep needing some more.
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  • Until you change the words that are in your head, your
  • 00:19:59.781 --> 00:20:09.524
  • Opportunities will continue to hemorrhage.
  • 00:20:09.524 --> 00:20:14.630
  • Like the woman with the issue of blood, her issues were
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  • Killing her.
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  • Twelve years, her issues were killing her.
  • 00:20:24.673 --> 00:20:30.112
  • Twelve years, the life's blood was hemorrhaging out of her.
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  • It was coming out of her lower extremities, but it was coming
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  • From her mouth.
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  • Oh y'all didn't catch that.
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  • It is coming out of her lower extremities, but it is coming
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  • From her mouth.
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  • Can you prove it?
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  • Yes, i can.
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  • What healed her did not come from her lower extremities.
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  • What healed her came out of
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  • Her mouth when she said to
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  • Herself--
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: see, until she met jesus, all she believed about
  • 00:21:19.895 --> 00:21:24.533
  • Herself was that i'm dying, i'm dying, i'm dying, i'm dying.
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  • And so her money died 'cause she was dying.
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  • Her relationships died 'cause she was dying.
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  • Her heart was broken 'cause she was dying.
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  • She couldn't have relationships, she was dying.
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  • She had spent all of her money because she was dying until she
  • 00:21:43.785 --> 00:21:48.790
  • Met jesus.
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  • When she met jesus, he changed
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  • The story she told herself and
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  • She said, "if i may but touch the hem of his garment,
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  • I know."
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: "if i may but touch the hem of his garment."
  • 00:22:19.688 --> 00:22:23.992
  • She didn't even say it to anybody, it was what she said
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  • To herself.
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  • Now, if you read it in the original language, when it says
  • 00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:35.771
  • She said to herself, it says she said repeatedly to herself over
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  • And over and over again.
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  • Because when you're trying to drive out stinking thinking,
  • 00:22:46.548 --> 00:22:51.186
  • You have to say it over and over and over, "if i may but."
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: am i helping anybody?
  • 00:23:05.600 --> 00:23:07.769
  • So she says, "if i may but touch the hem of his garment, i'll be
  • 00:23:07.769 --> 00:23:14.543
  • Made whole."
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  • She took another step, "if i may but touch the hem of his
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  • Garment, i'll be made whole."
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  • She took-- "if i may but touch the hem of his garment,
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  • I'll be made whole.
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  • If i may but touch the hem of his garment, i'll be.
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  • If i may but touch the hem of his garment, i will.
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  • If i may but touch the hem of his garment, i will be.
  • 00:23:35.363 --> 00:23:38.967
  • If i may but touch the hem of his garment.
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  • If i may but touch."
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  • Hallelujah, slap your neighbor and say talk to yourself.
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  • Talk to your mind, talk to your childhood, talk to your dilemma,
  • 00:23:49.478 --> 00:23:55.417
  • Talk to your crisis, change your story.
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  • They say that it takes about 21, if i'm not mistaken, 21 days.
  • 00:24:04.326 --> 00:24:10.966
  • Is that right?
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  • Twenty-one days of repetitive confession to change an
  • 00:24:12.334 --> 00:24:19.007
  • Inner narrative.
  • 00:24:19.007 --> 00:24:21.176
  • Your old story, neurologists tell us, has so affected your
  • 00:24:21.176 --> 00:24:27.215
  • Frontal lobe that your brain swells with stress, taking away
  • 00:24:27.215 --> 00:24:34.556
  • Memory and functionality because your fight or flight instincts
  • 00:24:34.556 --> 00:24:41.363
  • Are activated by the negativity of the words that have been told
  • 00:24:41.363 --> 00:24:47.736
  • To you.
  • 00:24:47.736 --> 00:24:49.070
  • That's why even when you lay down at night, you can't rest
  • 00:24:49.070 --> 00:24:53.408
  • 'cause your body is still playing repeat of a narrative of
  • 00:24:53.408 --> 00:24:57.979
  • Things that aren't even there anymore, but your body is
  • 00:24:57.979 --> 00:25:01.182
  • Reacting because it's still going on in your head.
  • 00:25:01.182 --> 00:25:05.453
  • But they say if for 21 days you can change your story and say,
  • 00:25:05.453 --> 00:25:12.227
  • If i may but touch.
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  • Twenty-one days saying i'm the head and not the tail.
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  • I'm above and not beneath.
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  • I'm more than a conqueror.
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  • Hallelujah, i'mma be blessed in the city, i'm blessed in
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  • The field.
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  • Wherever i go, i will be blessed.
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  • Twenty-one days of saying it over and over again.
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  • In the morning, you have it for breakfast.
  • 00:25:42.357 --> 00:25:45.694
  • At noon, you have it for lunch.
  • 00:25:45.694 --> 00:25:48.730
  • At night, you have it for a midnight snack.
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  • I am good looking.
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  • I am somebody.
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  • I deserve to be loved.
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  • I belong in a place of blessing.
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  • I'm supposed to be blessed.
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  • So after a while you just say i can do all.
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  • Bishop jakes: faith has to take action to be legitimate.
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  • As long as it remains philosophical, it's just
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  • An ideology.
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  • But when you take it and put it into action, see, faith will
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  • Work if you work it.
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  • Announcer: achieve victory through faith.
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  • Bishop jakes: god says, when you stop justifying yourself, faith
  • 00:26:32.207 --> 00:26:37.278
  • Will justify you.
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  • Yours" devotional.
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  • Bishop jakes: it's not about what happens in here that makes
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  • You a believer, it's what you're doing out there.
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