T.D. Jakes - Bigger Thank You Think

February 4, 2025 | S25:E20

You may see mediocrity, but God sees a miracle that He’s going to work within you!

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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Bigger Thank You Think | February 4, 2025

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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: and when you see the giant, don't run from
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The giant.
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'cause if you run from the giant, you will run from
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Your destiny.
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While everybody else was running away from it, david was running
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Toward it because he knew that the giant was the key to the
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Next dimension in his life.
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Now hear me, i feel a prophetic influence coming over me
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Right now.
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That goliath that you see right now is proof positive that he's
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Guarding your treasure.
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When you take him out, god is going to open up something
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Amazing for you.
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♪♪♪
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♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
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Bishop jakes: excellence doesn't start when the crowd gathers.
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Excellence doesn't come when everybody's watching.
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Excellence is nurtured in mediocrity, in ordinary days
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When you begin to appreciate the power of the words before.
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Nothing about this story forewarns us of the significance
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Of this day.
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There's no warning, there's no warning label.
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God puts no warning label on greatness.
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He does not tell you that when you meet this person it is going
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To change your life.
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He does not tell you that when you walk through this door
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You'll never be the same again.
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He does not tell you that this little job, this little
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Assignment that you're going on is going to be the catalyst
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Through which your destiny is released.
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He doesn't tell you anything like that.
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David is the baby of his family.
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He has a little chore to do.
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It's just an ordinary chore.
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He has a little assignment to take care of.
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He has to manage his normal, and yet perform a little assignment.
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God has given him practice with managing responsibility because
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He is grooming him for greatness.
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I don't know who i'm talking to out there, but god is grooming
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You for greatness.
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I know it doesn't look great right now.
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Your wallet doesn't look great right now.
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Your house doesn't look great right now.
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Your car doesn't look great right now.
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Your situation doesn't look great right now.
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People push past you trying to get to great people, but god is
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Grooming you for greatness.
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If you cannot manage the little things, you'll never be able to
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Manage the big things.
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If the little things overwhelm you, if you complain and
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Collapse about little things, you'll never be ready for the
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Greater things that god is about to do in your life.
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But the lord told me to get somebody ready.
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I don't know who it is, but god told me to get you ready.
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If it's you, you ought to give him a praise.
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God told me to get you ready.
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In spite of how small it looks right now, it's bigger than
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You think.
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In spite of how small you look right now, it's bigger than
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You think.
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David does not know who he is yet.
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He's yet to realize the full strength and power of what he is
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About to be.
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David has not been recognized as being a king.
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He doesn't really understand the magnitude of his position.
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He thinks he's just an errand boy.
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He thinks he's just going down there to carry lunch.
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He has no idea he is going to be in the fight of his life.
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He would have prepared differently if he would have
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Known he was going into the battle, but he came down there
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To do a little thing, oh, but it was bigger than you think.
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David didn't know that he was walking into a battle and david
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Didn't even know who goliath was.
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Many of you have not yet met your goliath, but your goliath
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Is coming.
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Your goliath is coming, and that's why i got
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Get you ready for it.
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You don't even know that your goliath is coming and he's
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Coming without warning and he's coming without an invitation and
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He's coming without you having preparation.
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It is just that everything that you have been through in your
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Past has been getting you ready.
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The little things have been getting you ready.
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The small task has been getting you ready.
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The lion that attacked the cub is getting you ready.
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The bear that came down after your sheep is getting you ready.
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They don't come with a sign on their neck that says, "i'm
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Getting you ready for goliath," but these light afflictions,
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Which are but for a moment, are getting you ready for the fight
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Of your life, so that when you get in the fight of your life,
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It will not feel like the fight of your life because all of the
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Fights that preceded it will cause you to deal with this
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Fight with another level of confidence and strength.
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That's why you gotta rejoice when you've been afflicted,
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Rejoice when you've been up under attack, rejoice when all
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Hell has broken loose in your life, because god's got you in
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Training camp.
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I want to talk to somebody today that's in the boot camp
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Of greatness.
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Oh, you're in the boot camp of greatness because you're bigger
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Than you think and you don't even know it, and god is about
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To blow your mind.
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Somebody logged on this broadcast today because god is
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Telling you, "i'm getting ready to blow your mind.
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Shatter the way you think, shatter your perspectives and
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Your attitude, shatter how you define greatness, shatter how
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You define responsibility, shatter what you call pressure.
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I'm exposing you to pressure because i'm building up
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Your tolerance.
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Because where i'm getting ready to take you, what was
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Precious something is gonna become your normal, and i gotta
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Recalibrate you and train the way you think."
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In the book of ephesians chapter 3, verse 20, it reads, "now unto
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Him that is able to do exceeding and abundantly above all that we
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May ask or think," that god is able to do more than all that we
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May ask or think, "according to the power that worketh in us."
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In other words, god will not live in the jail cell of
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Your mentality.
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He will not limit himself to be incarcerated by your ideas.
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In other words, god is about to blow your mind.
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He said, "i'm bigger than what you think.
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This day is bigger than what you think it is.
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This moment is bigger than what you think it is.
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Go ahead and get your little ten loaves and get on your little
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Camel and saddle up.
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And go ahead and put your little quilt on the back of the camel
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And ride on down to the camp because you think this is
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Ordinary, but it's bigger than you think, because i'm able to
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Do exceedingly, abundantly above all that ye may ask or think.
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My thoughts are above your thoughts, my ways are above
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Your ways.
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As high as heaven is above the earth, so are my thoughts above
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Your thoughts and my ways above your ways."
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And just because it starts out small does not mean that it ends
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Up small.
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That's why the bible said, "despise not the day of small
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Beginnings," because whenever god's getting ready to do great
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Things in your life, he tests you on small things.
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I said, he tests you on small things.
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Until you are faithful over a few, you can't be faithful
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Over many.
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Until you can be trusted with lunch, you cannot be trusted
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With giants.
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Oh, i wanna talk to somebody that can't be trusted with lunch
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Because you're holding out for the big thing.
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And when the big thing comes, you're gonna be amazing.
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Until then, you're just lazy and slothful and laid back and
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Taking it easy and you don't understand it is how you handle
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The little things that determines what's coming next in
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Your life.
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Get your head right.
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Today, today, today, today is an opportunity for you to get your
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Head right.
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Today, people ignore the performance of little things,
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Waiting on the next big thing, but the next big thing is a
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Little thing.
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I'm gonna say that again.
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The next big thing is a little thing.
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If david had overslept, he would have got there too late.
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And if he would have got there too late, he would have missed
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The greatest moment of his life.
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Five minutes later and none of it would have happened.
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Twenty minutes later and he would have missed this
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Earth-shattering experience that was to come on his life.
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Suppose david was late with lunch.
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That's why you're not ready to be great until you think
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Everything is important, until everything matters to you.
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If david had gotten there late, he would have missed it.
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Had david showed up early, he would have been premature.
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The timing has got to be right.
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Ticktock, ticktock, ticktock, ticktock, ticktock.
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With god, everything is about timing.
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There is a time to mourn, and there's a time to laugh, and
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There's a time to cry, and there's time to plant, and
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There's a time to harvest, and there's a time that god wants
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You to be there with lunch.
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And he does not tell you that the lunch is a trip switch that
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Is gonna connect you with your destiny.
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He just tells you that it's lunch and sees will you be there
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On time.
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Look at your neighbor and say, "show up on time."
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Oh my god, show up on time.
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David showed up as the fight was starting.
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He was exactly where he was supposed to be when he was
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Supposed to be there.
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That is absolutely amazing.
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The cataclysmic explosion of destiny and time collides when
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David jumps off of his camel and shows up just as the battle has
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Gone into array and the philistines have begin to march
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Out to attack israel.
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David shows up in that exact moment because it
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Was predestined.
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It was predestined. it was predestined.
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For generations through generations through generation,
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God has been setting things up.
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I don't know who i'm talking to, but you're about to walk into
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Something that god has been setting up for a long time.
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So when david comes walking down to the battlefield carrying
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Lunch, he thinks it's about the lunch.
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It's not about his lunch.
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It's about his legacy.
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It's not about the bread.
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It's not about the food.
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It's not about the cheese.
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That was just what god used to get you in the field of
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Your destiny.
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"like your great great grandmother was gleaning in the
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Corners of the field, i orchestrated her to be over in
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The corner of the field so that boaz would look out there and
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See her and she would catch his eye."
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Had she been late, she would have never met him.
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God will put you in the right place at the right time because
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He's working all things after the counsel of his own will, and
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He'll cause you to love who you love and like who you like and
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Meet who you meet and be drawn to who you're drawn to because
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What god is doing is bigger than you think.
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Now david is down here carrying lunch into legacy.
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And he gets down just in time that he can hear the hoofprints.
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Can't you hear the hoofprints, the hoofprints of the
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Philistines coming?
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And they're coming out against the armies of israel, and david
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Is coming with his lunch and he hurries up and checks his camel
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In for somebody to take care of his stuff and runs down to the
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Battlefield to talk to the men to see how his brothers are,
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Carrying his lunch.
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But it's bigger than you think.
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Just when they see the army of the philistines, out from the
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Behind the ranks of the front lines of the army of the
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Philistines comes this giant named goliath.
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And david happened, he happened, he happened, to be there at the
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Moment that goliath was first presented.
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And the bible says in the 23rd verse, "and he talked with them,
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And behold, there came up the champion, the philistine of
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Gath, goliath by name, out of the army of the philistines, and
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Spake according to the same words: and david heard them."
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When goliath came out there talking smack, david heard them.
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It--now, everybody heard them, but the bible doesn't mention
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Who else heard them because they heard it, but it didn't affect
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Them like it affected david.
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When david heard him say that, david thought, wait a minute
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Now, wait a minute now, wait a minute, who is this
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Uncircumcised philistine that he should insult the armies of the
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Living god?
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And so david starts asking questions.
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"what shall be given to the man," to the man.
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The kid asks the question.
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"what shall be given to the man that killeth goliath?"
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And it seems so crazy because david was so little and goliath
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Was so big.
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And now you have to grapple when you have a great challenge and a
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Small stature.
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The dichotomy between the two that have stepped on the stage
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Is so wide that it seems insurmountable.
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How could something so little go after something so big?
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Somebody has got a great big vision and a little bit
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Of money.
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Somebody's got a great big calling and a little
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Tiny church.
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Somebody's got a great big dream and a little bit of help.
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The dichotomy between the smallness of the boy and the
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Height of the giant is an opportunity for god to show
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Himself strong.
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Male 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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But lights the path for those who follow.
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Every era has its torch bearers who inspire, innovate, and
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Take risks.
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And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
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Dawn rises, and the flame multiplies.
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This is the international leadership summit, a place where
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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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Bishop jakes: there he stood with no training and
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No background.
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He wasn't even enlisted in the army, he wasn't even in the
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Service, but he made up in his mind, i will fight you back, i
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Will fight you back.
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And in spite of his stature, god brought him before the king.
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Your gifts will make room for you and bring you before
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The king.
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Who ever heard of such a thing, that a boy would be brought to
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The king as a solution to a national crisis?
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Over top of the whole army, they brought in this little boy, and
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Said, "this little boy down here is talking smack."
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While the army is running, he's talking smack.
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Now, the army looks big, but david was big on the inside.
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He was little on the outside, but he was big on the inside.
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And if you're big enough on the inside, they'll bring you before
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Kings, they'll set you before princes, they'll move you into
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Positions of power.
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If you know who you are, if you walk in the room like you're
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Supposed to be there, people start paying attention.
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And all of the soldiers that should have been on the field
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Brought david before the king.
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And the lord told me to tell you to get ready for the shift.
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Get ready for the shift. get ready for the shift.
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I know you're scared, but get ready for the shift.
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I know you're nervous, but get ready for the shift.
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I know you feel incompetent, but get ready for the shift.
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I know you have insecurities, but get ready for the shift.
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I know you feel insufficient, but get ready for the shift.
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God is gonna bring you before the king, and he sent me to here
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To tell you that it's bigger than you think.
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And here, david is standing before the king, and he brought
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Him before the king, and the king told him, "what did you
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Come to do?"
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He said, "i came to kill goliath," mm-hmm.
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Now look at this, whoever killed goliath would win
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Saul's daughter.
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Whoever killed goliath would be enriched financially.
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Whoever killed goliath, their family would never have to pay
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Taxes the rest of their life.
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David is fighting for a family that don't even like him.
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You haven't fought until you fought for somebody who don't
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Even appreciate you.
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You haven't fought till you fought for somebody who thinks
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You don't even belong in the place that you're in.
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But the reason david was on the battlefield was if he killed
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Goliath, his daddy, who didn't even like him, would no longer
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Have to pay taxes.
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Sometimes you have to fight even when people don't
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Appreciate you.
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And david walks in the room and he says, "i'll take him on."
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And he said, "i will kill goliath."
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Killing goliath changed david's family's life.
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Killing goliath changed david's life.
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Killing goliath changed how the army saw him.
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Killing goliath set david up to be positioned to be king.
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As i get ready to come to the close of this message, i want to
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Warn you, whenever god is about to elevate you, there's always a
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Goliath in front of you.
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Goliath is always the gatekeeper on the next move of god.
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Who am i talking to?
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Until you find your goliath, you won't find your throne.
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Whenever you're close to your throne--i'm telling you what i
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Know in my personal experience.
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Whenever you're close to your throne, goliath will always
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Stick up his ugly head to fight you.
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He is always an alarm system that you're close to
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The treasure.
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Satan always leaves the goliath to guard your treasure.
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When you find your goliath, you have found your treasure.
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Wherever the giant is, that's where destiny is calling you.
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And when you see the giant, don't run from the giant.
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'cause if you run from the giant, you will run from
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Your destiny.
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While everybody else was running away from it, david was running
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Toward it because he knew that the giant was the key to the
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Next dimension in his life.
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Now hear me, i feel a prophetic influence coming over me
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Right now.
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That goliath that you see right now is proof positive that he's
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Guarding your treasure.
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When you take him out, god is gonna open up something amazing
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For you.
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Don't run from the giant.
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Run at him.
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Run straight at him.
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Now, you have to understand, they tried to give david
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Saul's armor.
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David put it on but it didn't fit.
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You can't fight your goliath being somebody else.
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You have to fight your goliath as yourself because it was you
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That god brought to the place.
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Don't show up as a stranger.
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Who am i talking to?
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Don't show up as nobody else.
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It's you that god blessed.
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It's you that god called.
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It's you that god anointed.
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It's you that god set aside.
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It's you that got prepared for such a moment as this.
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Show up as yourself.
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And he shook off saul's armor and he said, "i can't.
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I can't fight in your armor."
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And you know what?
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I always made the mistake, whenever i read this text, i
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Thought that david left home with five smooth stones, but
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He didn't.
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He said, "wait a minute."
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All he had with him was a bag, a shepherd's bag, and he had to go
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Down to the brook and get him some stones.
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Because you have to realize, david didn't even come down
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There to fight.
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So this was an emergency.
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And in an emergency, you got to use what's at your disposal.
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In an emergency, you gotta use what's within your reach.
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In an emergency, you gotta go back to the basics.
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In an emergency, you gotta go back to your roots.
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Somebody said, "how in the world, after 43 years, can you
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Stand to preach in an empty church?"
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I said, "'cause i started in an empty church."
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And in an emergency, i know how to go back--
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[speaking in tongues]
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I know how to go back.
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You messed with the wrong one 'cause i know how--
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I came out of the storefront.
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I know how to stand flat-footed all by myself and preach the
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Unadulterated word of god.
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David knew how to fight with rocks.
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He didn't know nothing about shields.
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He didn't know nothing about swords.
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He didn't know nothing about catapults.
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He didn't know nothing about horses.
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All he knew how to fight with was rocks.
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But whatever you're good at, god will use something you got.
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God will use something that you're used to.
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God will use something that you're familiar with.
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And david, there david was.
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The would-be king of israel is down in the riverbed like a
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Child, looking amongst the crawdads, picking out rocks.
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"i want that one.
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That one's too rough.
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I want that one right here, and that one, that one right there."
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And he made him a weapon.
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He made him a weapon.
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It wasn't even a slingshot.
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It was a shepherd's bag turned into a slingshot.
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It was a bag--it was a rag and a rock.
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And he ran down on that field and said, "what did you say?"
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He ran down on that field, and the dichotomy was so strong that
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Goliath snickered and laughed and said, "that's what thou got
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To send against me today?
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That little boy with that rag and that rock?
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That's what's gonna kill me?
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What am i, a dog,
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That you send this kid down here to kill me?"
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The enemy was insulted that god would send so little after
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So much.
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But what the devil didn't know is that it's bigger than
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You think.
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Oh, the devil didn't know it, oh!
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That's what he don't know about you.
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He don't know you're bigger than he thinks.
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He don't know that you're bigger than he thinks.
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He doesn't know that god's gonna use you in a greater way than
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He thinks.
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In spite of how you grew up, in spite of what happened in your
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Childhood, in spite of your background, in spite of your
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Hardship, in spite of your insecurities, the message that
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God gave me for you is that it's bigger than you think.
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As i close this message today, i want you to understand this.
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Whatever you had in your mind that god was gonna do, get
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It out.
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Whatever you thought was gonna happen, get rid of it.
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Whatever you thought god might do in your life is too small,
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The holy ghost said, "this is bigger than you think."
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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 thembekwayo: think scale.
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John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
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John hope bryant: you got all the dna for success right inside
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Of you.
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Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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Mellody hobson: i wanna change the idea of what a minority
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Business is.
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John hope bryant: the world shifted.
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Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs right now.
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It's the moment.
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This is just the beginning.
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Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us
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On social media and share your story
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Of how god is impacting your life.
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We look forward to seeing you next time on
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"the potter's touch."
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♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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♪♪♪
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T.D. Jakes - Bigger Thank You Think

February 4, 2025 | S25:E20

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