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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Don’t Be Afraid to Make Changes

March 19, 2025 | S25:E45

T.D. Jakes - Don’t Be Afraid to Make Changes
As you allow the Lord to guide you, some changes may be required. Those changes will work for your good.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Don’t Be Afraid to Make Changes | March 19, 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: god is getting ready to blow your mind,
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  • And all of those counterfeit substitute
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  • Johnny-come-lately solutions that you put into place,
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  • You ain't gonna need none of them
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  • Because through your own body, through your own gift--it's not
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  • Gonna come through the evangelists you bring in
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  • To preach.
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  • It's not gonna come in through the revival.
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  • It's not gonna come through all the conferences y'all having and
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  • You can't get nobody to come to.
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  • That's not going to do it.
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  • It's going to come through your own mouth.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: and the only thing we know about hagar is that
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  • She's fertile.
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  • We don't know whether she's foolish or not.
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  • But the criteria for the job is, are you fertile?
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  • Well she was fertile as myrtle.
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  • But abraham, the progenitor of faith, the father of all the
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  • Major religions, three of the top largest religions in the
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  • World, route back to the loins of abraham.
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  • No, let me go deeper, route back to the dead loins.
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  • That god started three major religions out of the dead loins
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  • Of an old man that he handpicked and waited till his body was
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  • Dead and made sure his wife was barren, and god said, "i
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  • Want you."
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  • You've been trying to see what god saw in you.
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  • Nothing.
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  • You had nothing.
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  • God didn't choose you because you had something.
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  • God chose you because you had nothing.
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  • God chose you because your stuff don't work.
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  • God chose you because your wife is barren.
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  • God chose you because of what you don't know.
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  • God chose you because of what you don't have.
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  • God will confound the wise with the foolishness of this world.
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  • It makes no sense that you and i would be in this colosseum
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  • Today, but to god.
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  • Be the glory for the faith.
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  • Can i go deeper?
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  • You say that through my seed all nations of the earth should
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  • Be blessed.
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  • I ain't got no seeds.
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  • I stopped having seeds ten years ago.
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  • And if all the nations of the earth are gonna be blessed
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  • Through my seed, why don't you pick somebody young?
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  • Why him?
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  • Why did you wait till i was 80-some years old and decide to
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  • Start a family with an impotent woman who has
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  • To go borrow me a girlfriend?
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  • And hagar was pregnant.
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  • Can you imagine how bad that got on sarah's nerves to feel little
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  • Abe junior kicking around in her belly.
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  • And hagar was talking about, "put your hand right here, put
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  • Your hand.
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  • Can you feel it?
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  • He just kicked me.
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  • Come on, put your hand right here."
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  • "no, i don't wanna put my hand right there.
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  • I wanna put my hand right there.
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  • I don't wanna touch you.
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  • Even if you are doing it for me, i am conflicted in my own tent.
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  • Because my natural inclination is to resist this, but my
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  • Desperation suggested it."
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  • Have you ever suggested something you regretted?
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  • Have you ever suggested something for your daughter, for
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  • Your son?
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  • You regretted it.
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  • Have you ever tried to make a hook-up that you wish you
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  • Could unhook?
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  • Come on, talk to me, come on.
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  • Have you ever moved to a city and wish you hadn't come?
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  • Have you ever started a ministry and wish you hadn't done it?
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  • Have you ever got yourself in over your head and you didn't
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  • Know how to get yourself out.
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  • And you keep taking notes and getting all kinds of
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  • Information, but you don't need more information if you're not
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  • Gonna make changes.
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  • So, she has the boy, you know the story, let me hear it,
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  • She has a boy.
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  • Hagar has the boy and then--
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  • Wonder of wonders.
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  • Miracles and miracles.
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  • The very thing i thought that i would never happen to me.
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  • All of this is stuff i never thought would happen to me.
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  • You don't understand.
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  • There are guys aiming for it.
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  • There are guys fighting for it.
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  • There are guys shooting for it, there are guys willing to cut
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  • Your throat for it.
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  • I never ever expected this to happen to me.
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  • I was the most shocked person in the whole wide world.
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  • I was as shocked as sarah was when she was pregnant.
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  • "pregnant?
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  • Me?
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  • Now?
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  • Pregnant, really?
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  • Are you serious?"
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  • God is getting ready to blow your mind.
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  • He's getting ready to do something that you thought it
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  • Was too late for, that you gave up on, that you thought was
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  • Impossible, that you are so aware of your vulnerabilities
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  • That you think it can't happen to you.
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  • God is getting ready to blow your mind, and all of those
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  • Counterfeit substitute johnny-come-lately solutions
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  • That you put into place, you ain't gonna need none of them
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  • Because through your own body, through your own gift--it's not
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  • Gonna come through the evangelists you bring in
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  • To preach.
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  • It's not gonna come in through the revival.
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  • It's not gonna come through all the conferences y'all have, and
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  • You can't get nobody to come to.
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  • That's not going to do it.
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  • It's going to come through your own mouth.
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  • Stop giving hagar the job of having your baby.
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  • Nobody can have your baby, but you.
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  • God said, "out of your body."
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Oh, somebody come get me, sarah, i feel the holy ghost.
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  • God said, "out of your own body you gonna push this baby out.
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  • You gonna push it for yourself."
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  • I don't know who i'm talking to, but slap anybody you can reach
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  • And say, "push.
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  • It's coming out of you.
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  • It's coming out of your belly.
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  • It's coming out of your spirit.
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  • It's coming out of your bowels.
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  • It's coming out of your guts.
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  • It's coming out of your anointing.
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  • It's coming out of your power."
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  • If you stop being trifling and push--you ain't gonna be able
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  • To have this baby while you drinking a milkshake.
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  • You gonna have to push.
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  • Slap your neighbor and say, "push!"
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  • Wait a minute!
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  • We got four people in this tent.
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  • And this is the challenge of growth.
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  • The challenge of growth is when you designed it at one stage.
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  • And now you're in another stage.
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  • And now you're in a stage that you don't need when you started
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  • In your first stage, but you can't let go of what you started
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  • In your first stage because you're committed to it and the
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  • Challenge is sarah never thought that abraham would become bonded
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  • To the barren woman.
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  • She never thought they'd be giggling over dinner.
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  • She never thought that they'd be winking at each other.
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  • She never understood soul ties.
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  • She never understood that there's no way that you can keep
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  • Laying with somebody and not become bond to them.
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  • That you can't hear their dreams and their hopes and what would
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  • You have been had you not been in egypt and what would you have
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  • Been if you had not been a maid, and he listened at her dreams
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  • And he listened at her tears and he listened at her fears and he
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  • Was bond.
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  • He was bond to the bondwoman.
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  • And she didn't see that in the plan, she only saw that she
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  • Could have a baby, but she could not see that she could have
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  • Her husband.
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  • And now abraham is bond to the bond woman.
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  • And by the time hagar--by the time sarah realizes that this
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  • Tent is a mess--and let me talk to you a minute.
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  • I ain't worried about your church being great.
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  • I'm not too worried about your business being great.
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  • I'm worried about your tent being great.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
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  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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  • Be united.
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  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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  • Vusi: think scale.
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  • John: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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  • Bishop jakes: all of us have
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  • Seeds of potential in us.
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  • John: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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  • Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
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  • John: the world shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs, right now is the moment.
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  • This is just the beginning.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: but it's the tent.
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  • I gotta sleep in it.
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  • I gotta eat in it.
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  • I gotta carry it around in the hot desert.
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  • I gotta put it up and take it down and put it up and take it
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  • Down and put it up and take it down.
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  • And abraham's problem is that the tent is getting crowded.
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  • And i just wanted to ask you.
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  • How crowded?
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  • How crowded is your tent?
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  • Have you got too many people
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  • With conflicting agendas living in your tent?
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  • And god says to him, "hearken unto the voice of thy wife."
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  • And he takes one bottle of water.
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  • Now abraham is rich.
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  • And ishmael is his son.
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  • And hagar is his concubine.
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  • And he gives her one bottle of water and a few loaves of bread.
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  • And turns her over to god.
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  • And the problem with you, god player, is that you are
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  • Responsible for everybody.
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  • Everybody who was in your life, everybody who is in your life,
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  • Everybody who's ever gonna be in your life, and you wonder why
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  • You're exhausted.
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  • You have got 50 people in your tent right now that are
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  • Sufficient, that could take care of themselves, that you think
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  • You're helping, but you're really hurting because the more
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  • You take care of them, the more crippled they become, and
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  • They'll never stand up and be who they were created to be, as
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  • Long as you solve every problem and fix every door.
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  • Y'all ain't shouting as good as i'm preaching, but i'm gonna
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  • Preach anyway.
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  • Who am i helping in this place today?
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  • He gave her one bottle of water and a couple of biscuits and
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  • Said, "see you," not because he wasn't compassionate but because
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  • He knows that you cannot raise god's child.
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  • God has to raise his own children.
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  • God has to make a way for his own children.
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  • God has to show himself strong in his own children.
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  • Suppose he'd had given her too much bread and too much water.
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  • God would have never spoke to her, but where abraham let up,
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  • That's where god stepped in, and you are standing in the way of
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  • Your people having an encounter with god.
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  • You're such a big mama.
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  • You're so busy taking care of everything.
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  • No wonder your child don't pray.
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  • She don't have to pray.
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  • All she got to do is text you, and you fix everything.
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  • God said, "get out the way, step aside, move over the corner."
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  • God wants to show himself strong, but they gotta be in the
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  • Desert to find god.
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  • They can't find god if all they can find is you.
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  • If you know god's talking to you, give him 30 seconds
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  • Of crazy praise.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • So, this is what caught my attention about the text.
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  • God said to abraham, "don't let it be grievous to you."
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  • And it was the word "grievous."
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  • And then when i focus on the word "grievous," when i think of
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  • Grief, i think somebody has to die.
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  • But there are a lot of us grieving without caskets.
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  • We're grieving over the death of what we had in mind.
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  • We are grieving because our life did not turn out the way we
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  • Expected it to turn out.
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  • We're grieving because who we expected to share it with is no
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  • Longer by our side.
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  • We're grieving because how we imagine things has been
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  • Terminated and we have been stuck in a state of grief, and
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  • As long as you are grieving, you can't be creative.
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  • As long as you are grieving, you cannot be creative.
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  • Let me hurry up and finish.
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  • As long as you are grieving, you cannot hear god.
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  • As long as you are grieving, you cannot discover yourself.
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  • As long as you are grieving, you don't have the courage to stand
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  • In the power of his might, and the lord told me to break the
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  • Spirit of grief off of this room today.
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  • I don't know who you are and i don't know if you got the
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  • Courage to have the spirit of grief broken off of you, but i
  • 00:17:35.070 --> 00:17:38.774
  • Curse the spirit of grief.
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  • Everybody who needs it broken, jump up on your feet.
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  • I curse the spirit of grief.
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  • I curse the spirit of depression.
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  • I curse the spirit of heaviness.
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  • I curse the spirit of loneliness.
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  • I curse the spirit of despair.
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  • I curse the spirit of anguish.
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  • I curse the spirit of trouble that's standing in your way and
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  • Shutting you down.
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  • I curse it right now.
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  • I release the spirit of creativity.
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  • I release the creativity of opportunity.
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  • I release the spirit of passion that's about to burst forth in
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  • Your belly.
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  • I release the power of enthusiasm.
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  • I release fresh ideas, fresh concepts, fresh relationships,
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  • Fresh doors open.
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  • I release prosperity, i release peace, i release power.
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  • I release fortitude, i release staying power.
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  • If you receive it, holler at your boy.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Now you gotta understand this.
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  • The tent is crowded because abraham's mistake and abraham's
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  • Miracle are living in the same place.
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  • And the truth of the matter with you is: your mistakes and your
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  • Miracles are roommates.
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  • And how can i have peace?
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  • Whatever time i expect the miracle to turn the corner, here
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  • Come the mistake looking me in the face.
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  • And this, as i close, it's my favorite part of the text.
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  • That god is so much love.
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  • That he says, "i will not suffer that which is born of the
  • 00:20:06.788 --> 00:20:10.993
  • Flesh--" in galatians it says, "--that which is born of the
  • 00:20:10.993 --> 00:20:14.496
  • Flesh to inherit with the seed of the promise, but i will even
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  • Take your mistakes and make a great nation."
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  • They didn't hear me.
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  • Let me try y'all.
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  • I will take your worst mistake.
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  • And i'll make all things work together for the good of them
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  • That love the lord.
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  • And i will bless you.
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  • And the only thing i'm asking of you is don't be afraid to
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  • Make changes.
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  • Don't think that if you make changes, ishmael and hagar are
  • 00:21:12.054 --> 00:21:16.558
  • Going to die.
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  • I got a well they haven't even seen yet.
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  • But i can't show him the well, if you can't make the changes.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: we got a new devil to fight because we're at a new
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  • Level and we got to change our game plan, and i'm tired of
  • 00:21:50.692 --> 00:21:54.529
  • People feeding me 40-year-old messages.
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  • Where i came from, it's time to go up or get out of the way.
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  • Oh, you don't like me.
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  • So, i wish i could just lay on that right there because i got a
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  • Whole lot to say about that.
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  • I'm telling you, be suspicious.
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  • Somebody may be poisoning your food.
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  • Anybody who's feeding you things that make you feel sorry for
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  • Yourself, anybody who keeps dragging you back into your
  • 00:22:42.310 --> 00:22:45.313
  • Past, anybody who keeps holding you down and telling you you
  • 00:22:45.313 --> 00:22:48.283
  • Can't get up because of somebody else, they're putting poison in
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  • Your food.
  • 00:22:51.219 --> 00:22:52.587
  • Poison in your food, poison in your mind, poison in
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  • Your thinking.
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  • Nobody has to help you.
  • 00:22:57.259 --> 00:22:58.627
  • Nobody has to give you anything.
  • 00:22:58.627 --> 00:22:59.961
  • Unity will straighten out the whole community.
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  • Come on, it's time to let's go higher and decide who we are.
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  • If god be for us.
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  • If one person overcame crack cocaine, then every other addict
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  • Ought to look at him and say, "if he got out of it, i
  • 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:27.222
  • Can too."
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  • If one person got out of jail and didn't go back to every
  • 00:23:29.291 --> 00:23:31.660
  • Other person to say, "listen, i'm not going back where i
  • 00:23:31.660 --> 00:23:34.696
  • Came from."
  • 00:23:34.696 --> 00:23:36.064
  • If one person opened up a business in an inner city or any
  • 00:23:36.064 --> 00:23:38.333
  • Other part of the city and they made it, what is wrong with you?
  • 00:23:38.333 --> 00:23:42.504
  • God has blessed you with the same skills that he did anybody
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  • Else; you may have to do some digging and dunging, but when we
  • 00:23:46.475 --> 00:23:49.711
  • Get through digging and dunging, you--i expect you to go into
  • 00:23:49.711 --> 00:23:52.948
  • The enemy's camp and take back what he stole from you.
  • 00:23:52.948 --> 00:24:02.657
  • Notice that phrase: "take back what he stole from you," not sit
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  • Back and whine and then with you--"please give me back, uh.
  • 00:24:05.927 --> 00:24:09.898
  • You didn't treat me right."
  • 00:24:09.898 --> 00:24:11.833
  • Take it back.
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  • Somebody holler, "take it back."
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  • I don't have time to wait for somebody to give it back.
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  • If it's mine, i'm going.
  • 00:24:22.777 --> 00:24:29.851
  • Well, i need somebody to help.
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  • That's what i'm talking about: cross pollinating, getting with
  • 00:24:31.219 --> 00:24:33.221
  • People who are going in your direction, letting them teach
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  • You and train you and equip you and motivate you so you can go
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  • To that next level.
  • 00:24:38.527 --> 00:24:39.895
  • Bishop jakes: innovation is to see something that is not there
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  • That could be there, to see the potential to change and alter
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  • And innovate it, so that you can be creative in your own space.
  • 00:24:49.437 --> 00:24:54.276
  • I need innovative people all around me in every aspect of
  • 00:24:54.276 --> 00:24:58.079
  • What i do.
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  • I need innovative people.
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  • Innovative people are not the people who bring you problems.
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  • They are the people who bring you solutions.
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  • They are the people who stare at the problem until an emergence
  • 00:25:05.620 --> 00:25:09.491
  • Of a solution begins to develop out of the problem, even if it
  • 00:25:09.491 --> 00:25:13.461
  • Has not existed before, innovative creativity is
  • 00:25:13.461 --> 00:25:18.266
  • Extremely important for you, to surround yourself with that
  • 00:25:18.266 --> 00:25:22.203
  • Level of innovation, to stay abreast on the latest
  • 00:25:22.203 --> 00:25:25.907
  • Technology, the latest opportunities, the new ways that
  • 00:25:25.907 --> 00:25:29.277
  • They're doing things now.
  • 00:25:29.277 --> 00:25:31.012
  • We don't need the file cabinets we had when i came along.
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  • The world has changed.
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  • Innovation is necessary in order for you to be relevant.
  • 00:25:35.584 --> 00:25:39.321
  • Are you innovative and are the people around you innovative,
  • 00:25:39.321 --> 00:25:42.824
  • And are they prepared to engage this world and be plugged into a
  • 00:25:42.824 --> 00:25:47.562
  • Slot that only innovative people can fill?
  • 00:25:47.562 --> 00:25:51.366
  • If not, you are lagging behind while you are standing still.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals a timeless
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  • Truth that the torch of leadership not only blazes
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  • Trails but lights the path for those who follow.
  • 00:26:20.195 --> 00:26:28.970
  • 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
  • 00:26:40.248 --> 00:26:44.686
  • Dawn rises and the flame multiplies.
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  • This is the international leadership summit.
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  • A place where leaders from all walks are equipped to shape
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  • The future.
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  • Will your legacy light the way?
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  • Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us on social media
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  • And share your story of how god is impacting your life.
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  • We look forward to seeing you next time
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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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  • ♪♪♪
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