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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Don’t Miss the Moment

January 1, 2025 | S25:E1

T.D. Jakes - Don’t Miss the Moment
Don’t hold back! Step boldly into the amazing future that the Lord has prepared for you.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Don’t Miss the Moment | January 1, 2025
  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ oh, oh, the potter's touch the potter's touch. ♪
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: i wanna take this time to wish you the
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  • Happiest new year you have ever had in your life--not just
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  • Today, but the entire year--that god may bless it and use
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  • Everything that you went through in the past year to empower you
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  • For the year to come.
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  • Happy new year to you.
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  • May god strengthen you and bless you, and not only give you a new
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  • Year with a new month and a new day and a new calendar, perhaps
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  • Approaching a new birthday, but may god give you a new you for
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  • The new year.
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  • And may that new you be more like jesus than anything you
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  • Have ever seen before.
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  • Sarah jakes roberts: some of us fall for this belief that: "if i
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  • Am anointed, i am anointed anywhere."
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  • Oh god, this one even in my notes, but your anointing is
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  • Assigned to a dimension.
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  • I'll give you an example.
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  • There are some people, not people you know, not people in
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  • This room, who justify what they do by saying, "well, jesus sat
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  • With sinners and drunks and everybody else."
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  • Yeah, but you have a drinking problem, and he was anointed to
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  • Be in that dimension, and you are not.
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  • Baby, you are not anointed for that dimension, and don't fool
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  • With the anointing and dilute it by making the anointing fit your
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  • Lifestyle instead of changing your lifestyle to fit
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  • The anointing.
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  • You don't work everywhere.
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  • Jesus told the disciples that if you go into a house and release
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  • Your anointing, if they don't receive it, go into the
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  • Other house.
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  • Because your anointing--you can't force your anointing into
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  • Spaces where you were not called.
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  • If there is not capacity for your anointing,
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  • Then move
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  • Into a dimension
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  • Where your anointing can align with the mission that
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  • God has assigned on your life.
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  • "don't cast your pearls amongst swines."
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  • You got the right pearls, but the wrong audience.
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  • When we recognize that we have found ourselves functioning in
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  • Dimensions that take us backwards, that shrink our
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  • Anointings, that dilute our power, we are not without help.
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  • Because the truth is, though we can try and protect it as much
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  • As we desire, we're all gonna find ourselves--whether we
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  • Realize it in the moment or not--sucked into dimensions
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  • Where we lose focus on our anointing.
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  • Sucked into dimensions where the only thing we see is
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  • The depression.
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  • Sucked into dimensions where the only thing we see are our
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  • Failures, our shame, our insecurity, our abandonment
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  • Issues, our inadequacies.
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  • And most of the time, if we trace our steps back, we see
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  • That that wasn't just one rejection.
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  • It was a rejection that unearthed all the other
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  • Directions, and now i spiraled into a dimension that i cannot
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  • Get out of.
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  • Yeah, i know, i know, yeah.
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  • You can't always get yourself out of these dimensions.
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  • I love affirmations--we have our children say affirmations every
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  • Morning--but there are some affirmations that don't help us
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  • Get out of the dimensions.
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  • There are some moments where that dimension is so heavy and
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  • So dark that we cannot get out of it.
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  • And so, as believers--if you are a believer, and if you are not a
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  • Believer, i highly encourage you to tap into this truth that is
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  • Helping us--it is not that we don't spiral into dark
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  • Dimensions, it's that we understand the power of prayer
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  • Is not just the place where we go and ask god to "bless me,
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  • Bless me, bless me."
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  • Prayer is transportation, prayer is a portal out of this
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  • Dimension and into the dimension i'm supposed to be in.
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  • Sometimes i start praying because i recognize i'm not in
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  • Position, and sometimes i'm already out of position when i
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  • Start praying, but god is so good that he tells me, "if you
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  • Humble yourself and pray and seek my face and turn from your
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  • Wicked ways, i'll send an uber for you out of the place
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  • Of destruction.
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  • I'll send an uber"--oh jesus, i feel there's some oil on
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  • That--that your prayer is sending up a gps notification
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  • That says, "god here, i am, and i got sucked into some mess that
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  • I cannot get out of, but help me, lord.
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  • Lord, i understand that i don't have to live this way.
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  • I didn't have to be stuck in this dimension, but i humble
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  • Myself and i begin to pray."
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  • That verse in 2 chronicles, and it's very powerful.
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  • When you understand the dynamic of israel and their relationship
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  • With god, you recognize that they kept finding themselves out
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  • Of position over and over again.
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  • They would start dabbling with other religions, having sex with
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  • People they shouldn't be having sex with, worshiping other
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  • Idols--they didn't even realize that they were worshiping
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  • Other idols.
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  • And i just want you to know: just because you don't have
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  • Stones, and just because you don't have sage, it doesn't mean
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  • You're not worshiping other idols.
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  • If you are worshiping that worry, if you are worshiping
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  • That insecurity, if you are worshiping the idea of marriage,
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  • If you are worshiping the idea of being single--baby, you got
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  • An idol too.
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  • I know you think you're better than the other people because
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  • You don't have their idols, but everybody in here came in here
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  • Dragging an idol.
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  • If you're worshiping success, if you're worshiping achievement,
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  • If you think you're only as good as your bank account--baby, you
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  • Got an idol.
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  • But 2 chronicles 7 tells us that "if my people, who are called by
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  • My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face"--why
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  • Am i seeking god's face?
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  • Because i'm in a dimension where i don't see god.
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  • But god says, "if you start searching for me, i don't care
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  • How dark the dimension is.
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  • I don't care how long you've been in the dimension.
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  • I don't care how many friends you've got in the dimension.
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  • If you start seeking my faith," god says, "i'll show up."
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  • "if you turn from your wicked ways, you'll hear from heaven
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  • And i will forgive their sins."
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  • I hear god saying, "come out of the sunken place."
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  • I hear god saying that somebody got turned upside down.
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  • I don't know who--what the portal was that sent you into a
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  • Dimension of darkness.
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  • I don't know what the portal was that sent you into a dimension
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  • Of ego.
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  • I don't know what the portal was that sent you into a dimension
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  • Of bitterness.
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  • But i hear god saying, "there is no dimension dark enough to keep
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  • Me from finding you.
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  • There is no dimension wide enough to keep me from coming
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  • To you."
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  • But god says, "i won't come unless you call.
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  • I won't betray our covenant.
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  • But if you call me, i'll answer.
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  • If you seek for me, i'll show up."
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  • I feel like preaching in this place because i understand what
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  • Happens when we begin to call on the name of god.
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  • God says, "when you can't get out of the atmosphere, you can
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  • Shift the atmosphere.
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  • When you begin to shift the atmosphere--"god, i can't break
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  • The addiction on my own."
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  • Have you ever seen somebody drunk but calling on the name
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  • Of god?
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  • You can discredit them if you want to, but they recognize,
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  • "i'm in a dimension i can't get out of.
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  • God, if i could put it down, i would.
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  • But since i can't put it down, i'm asking you to meet me right
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  • Where i am in this dimension, right where i am in this
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  • Brokenness, right where i am in this pain.
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  • God, i need something stronger than the dimension i got
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  • Sucked in."
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  • Prayer is my transportation.
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  • I'm thinking about paul and silas, locked up in a
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  • Prison cell.
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  • In one dimension, i'm restricted.
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  • But when i start worshiping--when i start
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  • Worshiping, i invite heaven's dimension into my dimension.
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  • That's why that worship was so good this morning, because i
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  • Wasn't in my dimension on my own anymore.
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  • I invited heaven's dimension into my dimension.
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  • And when paul and silas said, "i may not be able to get out of
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  • This cell, i may not be able to get out of these cups, but i
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  • Could let worship meet me in the place of restriction," then all
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  • Of a sudden the ground started shaking.
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  • You couldn't see it earlier, but every time you lifted your
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  • Hands, i saw the ground started shaking.
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  • You didn't see it earlier, but every time you lifted your
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  • Hands, i saw demons backing up off of you.
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  • You didn't know it yet because you've been carrying that weight
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  • For so long, but when you started worshiping, i saw chains
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  • Being broken off of you.
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  • You didn't realize it, but you shook up the ground.
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  • When you walk out of here, you may have to walk a little
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  • Differently because i hear god saying, "i shook up the ground
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  • That you're walking on.
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  • I ordered your steps because when i shook up the ground, it's
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  • Not the same way that you used to walk anymore, i"--
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: throughout the ages,
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  • History reveals a timeless truth:
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  • That the torch of leadership not only blazes
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  • Trails 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, with 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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  • Sarah: don't miss the moment where you can transition from
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  • Discouragement, fear, insecurity, sin,
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  • Lust, addiction.
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  • It's not just a problem, it's another dimension you're in.
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  • That's okay, god says, "i can invade that dimension, but you
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  • Gotta be willing to want to come out of that dimension," because
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  • He's too holy.
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  • "i can move you, but you gotta be willing to move, because
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  • You're asking me to change in my holiness to come into
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  • That dimension.
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  • And you are worth it--i'll leave the 99 to come after the one,
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  • But it's not so that you can stay the same.
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  • This dimension transition requires change,
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  • It requires obedience."
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  • And there is a dimension where you are not ashamed or afraid.
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  • There is a dimension where you truly believe that no weapon
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  • Formed against you will prosper.
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  • There is a dimension whether righteous or not forsaken.
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  • There is a dimension where miracles happen.
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  • There is a dimension--so maybe you're right, there is something
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  • Wrong with your environment.
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  • Maybe you're right, you needed a change.
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  • You needed release from the dimension that makes you shrink.
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  • Because i heard god tell me that there are people who were
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  • Coming, people who were watching, who were standing at a
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  • Portal and didn't know it.
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  • And because you are so stuck in your rhythm and your routine,
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  • Because you had to be, in order to survive, that it is possible
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  • That you will miss the moment where the opportunity, the
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  • Relationship is actually the portal for the next dimension.
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  • So i ask god, "how do we know?
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  • How do we know which--how do we know to be sensitive to it?
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  • How do we know to lean into this portal that allows us access to
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  • The next dimension?
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  • How do we know when we see it?"
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  • And god took me to this text, and i wrestled with it all day,
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  • And i was wrestling with it even this morning.
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  • When god got ready to bring redemption to the earth, he used
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  • The portal of a woman named mary.
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  • And through mary, jesus left one dimension and entered into
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  • Another dimension.
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  • And in this dimension, he is 100% god and 100% man.
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  • He is man enough to weep when lazarus dies, but god enough to
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  • Say, "lazarus, come forth," and he came out of that grave.
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  • Yes, this jesus, who was man enough to be asleep on the boat,
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  • But god enough to speak to the wind and the waves and say,
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  • "peace, be still."
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  • He is 100% man and 100% god.
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  • And we find him at this moment in the text, and it doesn't look
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  • Like it, but he's standing at a crossroad between portals.
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  • -- god.
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  • He's got the reality of his divinity on display in
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  • The temple.
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  • The temple and the priest are asking him questions, and he's
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  • Answering, and they are marveling at his wisdom because
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  • That is a different tone than they've heard before.
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  • He's 100% god, they've never heard it quite like this before.
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  • But he is a boy, jesus.
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  • He's a boy with divinity, and he's trying to get to this stage
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  • Where he is fully developed in his humanity so that he can
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  • Fulfill the assignment of his divinity.
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  • And when he's at this moment, if he were like some of us, he
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  • Would have stuck to what he was good at, to what he was being
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  • Applauded for, and stayed in the temple even though he was
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  • Underdeveloped as a boy.
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  • Because our tendency--ours, not his--our tendency is to lean
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  • Into the areas where we feel strength and confidence and shy
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  • Away from the places that will require us to be accountable for
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  • Where we are underdeveloped.
  • 00:17:47.782 --> 00:17:52.053
  • That's why relationships are hard, because they see where
  • 00:17:52.053 --> 00:17:56.991
  • You're underdeveloped and they want to hold you accountable
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  • For that.
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  • And you don't like to be held accountable for where you're
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  • Underdeveloped because you think your worth is connected to
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  • Your underdevelopment.
  • 00:18:07.068 --> 00:18:11.706
  • And yet, jesus models for us that when you have the
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  • Opportunity to avoid accountability, when you have
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  • The opportunity to shine instead of being developed, that those
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  • Are portals.
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  • And if you are really going to fulfill the assignment connected
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  • To your life, and you find yourself at a crossroad where
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  • You must choose between the portals that allow you to exist
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  • In a dimension where you're not questioned or trained or
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  • Grounded or rooted in anything other than what you're good at,
  • 00:18:45.606 --> 00:18:50.545
  • God says the true sign of someone he can use is the person
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  • Who chooses the place where you must be developed.
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  • God, i wish i could say that better.
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  • Mary and joseph could not help jesus be god, they weren't
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  • Anointed for that.
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  • But just because they were not anointed for that, it didn't
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  • Mean that they were not anointed to be his parents.
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  • That means that you can receive training and tools and guidance
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  • From someone who is not necessarily anointed for your
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  • Anointing, they are anointed for the place where you
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  • Are underdeveloped.
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  • Thank you, because that's a real good word, because often times
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  • We disqualify people who cannot speak to our anointing and
  • 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:49.303
  • Discredit the places where they can speak to us.
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  • And we go on to have some measure of success, but we are
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  • Leaky vessels because we did not allow ourselves to be developed
  • 00:19:55.810 --> 00:19:59.647
  • By the people who were anointed to develop us.
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  • I may not be anointed to show jesus how to get on the cross.
  • 00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:16.864
  • But in luke 2:52, it says that jesus increased in wisdom and
  • 00:20:16.864 --> 00:20:25.573
  • Stature and in favor with god and men.
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  • This is not god jesus, this is not god jesus that increased,
  • 00:20:29.610 --> 00:20:33.714
  • This was boy jesus that increased in wisdom and stature
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  • And in favor with god and men.
  • 00:20:37.018 --> 00:20:38.753
  • Because though he was 100% god, he was not fully 100% man
  • 00:20:38.753 --> 00:20:43.924
  • Because he needed to go through a process of development that
  • 00:20:43.924 --> 00:20:47.194
  • Would make sure that when he entered into the dimension of
  • 00:20:47.194 --> 00:20:49.764
  • His most effective ministry, that he would have enough wisdom
  • 00:20:49.764 --> 00:20:53.034
  • To say, "john, i ask that you baptize me first."
  • 00:20:53.034 --> 00:20:56.103
  • He would have enough wisdom to navigate the pharisees and
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  • The sadducees.
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  • If he would have gone on at 12 years old, he would not be who
  • 00:21:00.341 --> 00:21:03.344
  • We knew he could be.
  • 00:21:03.344 --> 00:21:04.945
  • But because he humbled himself and submitted to somebody and
  • 00:21:04.945 --> 00:21:08.015
  • Said, "i'm gonna be accountable to you, because i recognize that
  • 00:21:08.015 --> 00:21:12.920
  • A portal that does not have accountability connected to it
  • 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:15.890
  • Will allow me to run reckless."
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  • Matthew ashimolowo: it's time to shift.
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  • Tell your neighbor to shift.
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  • This shifting has to be through personal shifting, and the
  • 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:35.276
  • Personal shifting must start with training.
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  • This training will be by observation--2 timothy, chapter
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  • 2, verse 2: "and the things you've seen and heard of me, the
  • 00:21:41.615 --> 00:21:45.653
  • Same commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others."
  • 00:21:45.653 --> 00:21:50.658
  • Observation--and that's the reason for coming to a
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  • Conference like this.
  • 00:21:53.928 --> 00:21:55.262
  • You don't just come and listen to the message.
  • 00:21:55.262 --> 00:21:57.031
  • You need to look at the ambience of the conference.
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  • Why do they have this kind of screen?
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  • Why is it put together like this?
  • 00:22:01.869 --> 00:22:03.704
  • You mean this is possible?
  • 00:22:03.704 --> 00:22:05.439
  • Can i be able to do this?
  • 00:22:05.439 --> 00:22:07.942
  • We need church unusual, not usual church.
  • 00:22:07.942 --> 00:22:14.081
  • Observe, watch the man, look at what he's doing.
  • 00:22:14.148 --> 00:22:18.686
  • Why does he have so many managers managing the event?
  • 00:22:18.686 --> 00:22:21.822
  • Why are those people there?
  • 00:22:21.822 --> 00:22:23.190
  • Why do they do that?
  • 00:22:23.190 --> 00:22:24.525
  • And you can see the synchronization, the
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  • Orderliness, the excellence as a result of what has been put
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  • In place.
  • 00:22:31.532 --> 00:22:34.335
  • Observe, and then we move from observation to our assimilation.
  • 00:22:34.335 --> 00:22:40.541
  • Assimilate, take it in, study, copy--the prophet told the
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  • Woman, "borrow vessels and borrow not a few."
  • 00:22:48.149 --> 00:22:53.788
  • Borrow this if you can afford it, of course.
  • 00:22:53.788 --> 00:23:00.261
  • Borrow vessels, borrow concepts, the message is not enough.
  • 00:23:01.862 --> 00:23:07.668
  • Don't just go and re-preach the message alone.
  • 00:23:07.668 --> 00:23:10.805
  • Borrow the concept you saw, the ambience, the ability, the
  • 00:23:10.805 --> 00:23:15.209
  • Skills with which it was put together.
  • 00:23:15.209 --> 00:23:18.045
  • Assimilate!
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  • Third way to be trained is through imitation.
  • 00:23:23.617 --> 00:23:29.924
  • Imitation--1 corinthians 11:1: "imitate good things."
  • 00:23:29.924 --> 00:23:33.928
  • That's what the scripture says.
  • 00:23:33.928 --> 00:23:35.863
  • Imitate--and it doesn't have to even be a big conference.
  • 00:23:35.863 --> 00:23:41.368
  • Sometimes it may just be somebody else's church you went
  • 00:23:41.368 --> 00:23:44.338
  • To preach, and you found that their hospitality team is
  • 00:23:44.338 --> 00:23:49.109
  • A star.
  • 00:23:49.109 --> 00:23:50.845
  • Imitate!
  • 00:23:50.845 --> 00:23:53.547
  • Joseph retrained himself.
  • 00:23:53.547 --> 00:23:55.416
  • That's why his brothers could not recognize him, because they
  • 00:23:55.416 --> 00:24:01.155
  • Still stayed in the same language, they spoke, told the
  • 00:24:01.155 --> 00:24:04.792
  • Same jokes, hung with the same friends.
  • 00:24:04.792 --> 00:24:07.728
  • Who you see determines who sees you.
  • 00:24:07.728 --> 00:24:14.935
  • Who you hear determines who hears you.
  • 00:24:14.935 --> 00:24:19.840
  • Bishop jakes: one of the hardest parts of leadership, both in my
  • 00:24:19.907 --> 00:24:23.010
  • Faith walk and in my business walk, is making great decisions.
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  • And it is almost impossible to make great decisions
  • 00:24:27.348 --> 00:24:31.118
  • If you have poor information.
  • 00:24:31.118 --> 00:24:33.654
  • Poor information is predicated on the prompting ability to ask
  • 00:24:33.654 --> 00:24:38.092
  • The kinds of questions that elicit from the people around
  • 00:24:38.092 --> 00:24:42.296
  • You the responsibility of garnering the kind of
  • 00:24:42.296 --> 00:24:45.833
  • Information that equips you to make optimum decisions that
  • 00:24:45.833 --> 00:24:50.638
  • Don't have the consequences that lead to regret.
  • 00:24:50.638 --> 00:24:54.542
  • So effective decision-making is very important as a leader, as a
  • 00:24:54.542 --> 00:25:00.214
  • Pastor, as a business person, as a thinker, as a person who wants
  • 00:25:00.214 --> 00:25:05.252
  • To raise the barometer on the economic impact for generations
  • 00:25:05.252 --> 00:25:09.523
  • To generations.
  • 00:25:09.523 --> 00:25:10.891
  • As a father, as a leader, as a woman in power, you are no
  • 00:25:10.891 --> 00:25:15.229
  • Greater than the decisions you make.
  • 00:25:15.229 --> 00:25:17.565
  • But you can't make great decisions if you don't surround
  • 00:25:17.565 --> 00:25:20.701
  • Yourself with good people and good information.
  • 00:25:20.701 --> 00:25:23.771
  • Effective decision-making is definitely a part of
  • 00:25:23.771 --> 00:25:27.608
  • Great leadership.
  • 00:25:27.608 --> 00:25:29.009
  • You can be greatly anointed, you can be greatly gifted, you can
  • 00:25:29.009 --> 00:25:32.413
  • Sing the paint off the wall.
  • 00:25:32.413 --> 00:25:34.114
  • But if you cannot make the right decisions, sign the right
  • 00:25:34.114 --> 00:25:37.217
  • Contracts, hire the right people, negotiate the right
  • 00:25:37.217 --> 00:25:40.654
  • Terms, do the right deals, your gift is not enough.
  • 00:25:40.654 --> 00:25:44.792
  • Your anointing is not enough, your degree is not enough.
  • 00:25:44.792 --> 00:25:49.597
  • Your degree is no better than the decisions you make with it.
  • 00:25:49.597 --> 00:25:53.701
  • Effective decision-making is a part of great leadership.
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  • Bishop jakes: it is not my good times that reveal god the most
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  • In my life.
  • 00:26:08.382 --> 00:26:09.783
  • It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
  • 00:26:09.783 --> 00:26:13.954
  • It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that i
  • 00:26:13.954 --> 00:26:18.459
  • Saw god's glory shine the brightest.
  • 00:26:18.459 --> 00:26:21.862
  • Let there be light!
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  • Bishop jakes: think about the times in your life that you
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  • Couldn't see no way out, and god made a way out of nowhere.
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  • Think about the times that you had no plan, and you just
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  • Stumbled into a blessing.
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