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T.D. Jakes - Faith That Crosses The Line

April 15, 2025 | S25:E60

T.D. Jakes - Faith That Crosses The Line
It’s time to move forward with radical faith!
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Faith That Crosses The Line | April 15, 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: if you got religion, you can sit still, but
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  • If you got faith, you gotta move because faith is a verb, it
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  • Requires action, it requires movement.
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  • It requires that you do something,
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  • Take up your bed and walk.
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  • Give me your two fish and five loaves of bread.
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  • Go borrow some vessel, faith requires that you take action.
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: he's on his way out.
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  • He's walking away and one woman who was in the midst of all of
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  • This idolatry and this chaos, she makes the decision to go
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  • After jesus.
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  • Now you have to understand, you think the miracle is in the
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  • Healing of the daughter, but the miracle starts in the fact that
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  • This woman had to cross so many lines to come to jesus.
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  • She had to travel such a distance to come to jesus.
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  • The distance was not just geographical distance, it was
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  • Also theological distance.
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  • She comes from a polytheistic society that has not even heard
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  • Of jehovah, and here this woman comes across all of her
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  • Theological upbringing, she being a canaanite woman, having
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  • Lived in a phoenician city, she is alienated from the
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  • Commonwealth of israel.
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  • She is not raised in the traditions of the hebrews.
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  • She is not taught in judaism.
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  • She is not exposed to the torah.
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  • I don't know, i don't know, i don't know, i don't know how she
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  • Heard about jesus, but while he was knocking on the door in tyre
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  • And sidon,
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  • She must have got whiff of his glory and a whiff of his grace.
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  • The bible said, "o taste and see that the lord is good."
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  • And she must have got a little taste of something.
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  • A taste of jesus was stronger than a belly full of her
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  • Idle gods.
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  • A taste of jesus was stronger than all the traditions that
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  • Wrapped around.
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  • One taste of jesus was strong enough to make her leave her
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  • Sick, deranged daughter at home and travel for miles to a
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  • Stranger, and she's a gentile woman, and she's a polytheistic
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  • Woman, and she is a woman of ill repute as it relates to
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  • Understanding the sanctity of god, and yet she traveled to
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  • Where he was.
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  • Most of the time we see jesus, he is coming to us, but some of
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  • The greatest miracles in the bible occur when we come to him.
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  • Think about the woman at the well, jesus was not headed in
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  • Her direction, but she came where he was.
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  • And i wanna say to you tonight that are watching online and you
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  • That are studying with me, come a little closer.
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  • That god is not promising that he's always going to knock on
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  • Your door, that in order to get the kind of breakthrough that
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  • You need, you may have to move to get it.
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  • You may have to travel to get it.
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  • You may have to walk to get it.
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  • You may have to be alone to get it.
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  • You may have to walk away from trouble to get it.
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  • The woman looks a little irresponsible because her
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  • Daughter is grievously vexed with the devil and as far as we
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  • Know she left her home alone, but she knew if she got to jesus
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  • It would be worth it.
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  • And sometimes you have to look a little irresponsible to get what
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  • You have to get from god, but she traveled the distance just
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  • To get to jesus.
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  • Oh, i don't know who i'm talking to, but i'm talking to somebody
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  • That sometimes you gotta put some work in it.
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  • Sometimes you have to travel to get it.
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  • Sometimes you have to go out of your way to get it.
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  • Sometimes you have to cross the line to get it.
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  • Step over your traditions, step over what you heard, step over
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  • What you've been taught because faith will cross the line.
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  • Now don't ask god for faith if you're not gonna move.
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  • Faith will make a man with a withered hand stretch forth
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  • His hand.
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  • Faith will make a woman with the issue of blood crawl across
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  • The floor.
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  • Faith will make a woman who has been with five men and now she's
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  • Sleeping with somebody drop her water pots and say, "come see
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  • A man."
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  • Faith is radical.
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  • It's an action word, it's not a noun, it's a verb.
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  • If you got faith you gotta move.
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  • If you got religion you can sit still, but if you got faith, you
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  • Gotta move.
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  • 'cause faith is a verb it requires action, it requires
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  • Movement, it requires that you do so.
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  • Take up your bed and walk.
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  • Give me your two fish and five loaves of bread.
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  • Go borrow some vessel, faith requires that you take action.
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  • I wish i was talking to somebody tonight that was radical enough
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  • To take action and make up in your mind if i have to go out of
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  • My way, i'm going out of my way.
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  • If i have to be ridiculed, if i have to be gossiped about, if my
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  • Neighbors are talking about me because i left my daughter at
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  • Home, i know what i'm doing because i said something in this
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  • Jesus that i can't let him get away until i've had a personal
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  • Experience with him.
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  • He brushed by my neighborhood, but i'm not satisfied to get
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  • Close to him and not have an encounter with him and i'm going
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  • Where he is, even though the law says that i shouldn't come
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  • Near him.
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  • So not only did she step over her religion, she stepped over
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  • His because according to the torah, she shouldn't have had no
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  • Dealings with jesus being a jew.
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  • The samaritan woman teaches you that.
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  • "your people and my people have no dealings."
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  • Even the torah said that she was exempt from being a part of the
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  • Commonwealth of israel.
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  • And when she comes to where jesus is, he told her.
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  • "i don't have no dealing with you.
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  • I had no dealings with you going back."
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  • See, if you are easily discouraged, you will never get
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  • What you want from god.
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  • Because anybody else would have take jesus's word for it and
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  • Left and say, "well, he insulted me i'm not going."
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  • He said, "i am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house
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  • Of israel.
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  • In other words, you are exempt from being eligible to receive
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  • What you asked me for, it's not that i'm exempt from being able,
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  • I'm able but you're not eligible."
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  • That's what jesus was saying.
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  • "i am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of israel."
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  • And then she calls him lord.
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  • She called him lord, but he hadn't been to her.
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  • But the fact that she called him lord stands up in the face of
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  • All the traditions of her background.
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  • The fact that she called him lord meant that she had a
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  • Revelation that he was more than a good man, that he was more
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  • Than a prophet.
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  • That he was adonai.
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  • She called him lord.
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  • And when she said, "lord," that is acknowledging who he is.
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  • When she said, "help me," that is acknowledging who she is.
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  • She has put him in his proper perspective.
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  • "i know you got the power, and i know i got the problem."
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  • See, some people have trouble admitting that god has
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  • The power.
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  • And then there's another group of people that have trouble
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  • Admitting that they have a problem, but this woman was
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  • Not neither.
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  • She was not too arrogant to admit that she needed some help.
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  • You have to be humble enough to say, "help me," and you have to
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  • Be discerning enough to call him lord.
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  • She knew who he was, and she knew who she was
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  • In front of all of these spectators who didn't even want
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  • Her around.
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  • But the bible says that the disciples said, "she crieth
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  • After us, send her away."
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  • She never said nothing to them.
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  • These minions that surrounded jesus were just in the way.
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  • They were just in the way of what god was about to do.
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  • And most of the people that surround the man of god are just
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  • In the way.
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  • There's so much protocol and routine and ritual they're just
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  • In the way, and little men always like to exercise big
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  • Power so they can feel important.
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  • The reality is they didn't have nothing to do with it.
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  • The reality is she didn't walk that far to see them.
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  • The reality is even if she did come to see them, they probably
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  • Couldn't help her.
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  • But she says she crieth out to us because when you hang around
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  • Power, it is elusive enough to make you think that it's yours
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  • When it's not.
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  • It's like standing beside somebody who can sing can make
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  • You think you can sing when you can't.
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  • See, she was never crying out to them, she was crying out to him.
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  • "lord, help me."
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  • That don't have nothing to do with your disciples, your
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  • Trustee board, your board of elders, your deacon board, none
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  • Of that.
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  • That has nothing to do with any of them.
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  • They were just minions surrounding jesus, standing in
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  • The way of a--oh, let me stop a minute and pray.
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  • Lord, don't let me ever stand in the way of somebody's miracle.
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  • Don't let my arrogance stand in the way of your divine purpose.
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  • Don't let my need to be acknowledged stand in the way of
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  • Somebody getting a breakthrough.
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  • Somebody's got a sick little girl that needs a breakthrough,
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  • And don't let my pride become so puffed up that i can easily send
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  • Away what i couldn't heal anyway.
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  • It's easy to send away what you can't work with no way.
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  • "send her away," they said.
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  • "she crieth after us."
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  • But she crossed over top of all of that.
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  • Everything they threw at her, she crossed over top of that.
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  • "i'm not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of israel."
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  • And she crossed over there.
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  • What are you willing to cross over to get what you want from
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  • The lord?
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  • We live in a world today, or the world in the world.
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  • In the world today that people are so easily discouraged that
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  • If the miracle is not convenient, they don't come.
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  • If the parking is not convenient, they don't come.
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  • If somebody sits in their seat at church, they don't come.
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  • If they don't like the rules, they don't come.
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  • Some of--if they have to wear a mask, they don't come.
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  • If they have to stand in line, they don't come.
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  • These are the same people who stand in line for hours for a
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  • Ticket to a football game, but won't stand in line 15 minutes
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  • To get a healing.
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  • This woman had traveled all the way up the coast with her sick
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  • Daughter at home to see a jesus who told her no.
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  • At first, he answered her not a word.
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  • I don't know what's worse: the rejection or the silence.
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  • Have you ever had to live with god's silence?
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  • When you're in a crisis and the only one who can fix it
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  • Says nothing.
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  • I know you heard me.
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  • I used to say something to my children, they act like they
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  • Were deaf.
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  • I'd tell 'em, i know you heard me.
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  • Finally they say, "yes, sir."
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  • They were trying to act like they didn't hear me.
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  • You know, have you ever gone through a time that it seemed
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  • Like god didn't hear you?
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  • He does hear you.
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  • He said, "my ear is not heavy that i cannot hear and my arm is
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  • Not short that i cannot save."
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  • Just because i didn't say anything that mean that i didn't
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  • Hear you.
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Male: it's about integration, not competition.
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  • 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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  • Male: 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's shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs.
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  • Right now, it's the moment. this is just the beginning.
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  • Bishop jakes: i was driving up to north dallas the other day
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  • And i don't live up in north dallas.
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  • I get confused sometimes going up and i was on the right road,
  • 00:13:50.446 --> 00:13:54.016
  • But i wasn't sure and i got mad at my gps system because it was
  • 00:13:54.016 --> 00:13:58.120
  • Saying nothing at all.
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  • And i had to keep on driving in the silence.
  • 00:14:02.057 --> 00:14:05.561
  • I wanted some reassurance, i wanted her to say, "you're on
  • 00:14:05.561 --> 00:14:08.564
  • The right road.
  • 00:14:08.564 --> 00:14:09.932
  • You're getting close to your destination."
  • 00:14:09.932 --> 00:14:12.301
  • I wanted her to tell me that i was on the right track but she
  • 00:14:12.301 --> 00:14:15.504
  • Said nothing at all.
  • 00:14:15.504 --> 00:14:17.239
  • She didn't speak again till it was time to make a turn.
  • 00:14:17.239 --> 00:14:21.377
  • Sometimes god doesn't say anything until it's time to make
  • 00:14:21.377 --> 00:14:25.214
  • A turn and you have to keep on walking by faith in the silence
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  • Of god.
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  • I don't know who i'm talking to tonight, but if god ain't saying
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  • Nothing, keep on driving.
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  • If god ain't saying nothing, keep on walking.
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  • If god ain't saying nothing, keep on preaching.
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  • If god ain't saying nothing, keep on building.
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  • If god ain't saying nothing, keep on teaching.
  • 00:14:48.170 --> 00:14:51.807
  • If god ain't saying nothing, keep on reaching.
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  • If god ain't saying nothing, keep on doing what you were
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  • Doing before, because when you get to the turn, he'll tell you,
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  • "in 3 more miles you'll make a right hand turn."
  • 00:15:02.985 --> 00:15:07.189
  • Don't mistake his silence for not caring.
  • 00:15:07.189 --> 00:15:12.695
  • In essence, jesus was trying to tell her, "my hands are tied."
  • 00:15:12.695 --> 00:15:19.201
  • He says, "i tried not to answer you, but you crossed over
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  • The line.
  • 00:15:25.374 --> 00:15:28.544
  • And then i explained to you that i have not come but to the lost
  • 00:15:28.544 --> 00:15:31.947
  • Sheep of the house of israel, but you crossed over the line.
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  • What kind of faith is this you got, woman, that you keep
  • 00:15:38.988 --> 00:15:42.791
  • Crossing over the line?"
  • 00:15:42.791 --> 00:15:44.960
  • You see, we serve a radical jesus and he respects a
  • 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:49.631
  • Radical people, and this was a radical woman.
  • 00:15:49.631 --> 00:15:53.969
  • She wasn't even a spiritual woman.
  • 00:15:53.969 --> 00:15:55.504
  • She wasn't even a holy woman.
  • 00:15:55.504 --> 00:15:57.006
  • She wasn't even a godly woman, but by god, she was a
  • 00:15:57.006 --> 00:16:00.542
  • Radical woman.
  • 00:16:00.542 --> 00:16:02.244
  • I know she was radical because she kept stepping over the line.
  • 00:16:02.244 --> 00:16:07.149
  • And you must understand that faith will always cross the
  • 00:16:07.149 --> 00:16:10.886
  • Line, it will cross the line.
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  • I know i am not a part of the lost sheep of israel, but i'm
  • 00:16:13.922 --> 00:16:18.227
  • Gonna cross that line.
  • 00:16:18.227 --> 00:16:21.497
  • I know you're not speaking to me, but i ain't going nowhere,
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  • I'm gonna cross that line.
  • 00:16:27.202 --> 00:16:30.005
  • And finally he broke it down real blunt.
  • 00:16:30.005 --> 00:16:32.975
  • Have you ever had people you tried to tell them to go on?
  • 00:16:32.975 --> 00:16:36.412
  • As my old folks would say, "go on now."
  • 00:16:36.412 --> 00:16:39.314
  • You tried to tell them go, but they won't go away.
  • 00:16:39.314 --> 00:16:41.283
  • Finally he spoke to a real play and he said, "it is not meet,
  • 00:16:41.283 --> 00:16:44.420
  • It's not proper for me to give the children's bread to
  • 00:16:44.420 --> 00:16:51.493
  • The dogs."
  • 00:16:51.493 --> 00:16:54.430
  • My god, he called a desperate mama a dog.
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  • "it is not meet to give the children's bre--"let me stop a
  • 00:17:05.307 --> 00:17:10.045
  • Minute and talk about the children's bread.
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  • The children's bread takes me all the way back to the
  • 00:17:14.483 --> 00:17:17.319
  • Wilderness when god sent manna down from heaven.
  • 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:21.223
  • The children's bread reminds me that god will feed me no matter
  • 00:17:21.223 --> 00:17:24.660
  • Where i'm at.
  • 00:17:24.660 --> 00:17:26.595
  • The children's bread reminds me that i might be hungry right
  • 00:17:26.595 --> 00:17:29.998
  • Now, but god is baking up something that's got my name
  • 00:17:29.998 --> 00:17:32.534
  • On it.
  • 00:17:32.534 --> 00:17:34.169
  • The children's bread lets me know that just because i'm his
  • 00:17:34.169 --> 00:17:37.005
  • Child, there's bread for my problem.
  • 00:17:37.005 --> 00:17:40.776
  • The children's bread reminds me that what god has for me is
  • 00:17:40.776 --> 00:17:44.046
  • For me.
  • 00:17:44.046 --> 00:17:45.414
  • And jesus said, "it's not that i don't have some bread, but
  • 00:17:45.414 --> 00:17:48.083
  • It's reserved."
  • 00:17:48.083 --> 00:17:49.451
  • Have you ever gone in a restaurant and you walked up to
  • 00:17:49.451 --> 00:17:51.186
  • A table and there was a little sign said reserved on it?
  • 00:17:51.186 --> 00:17:54.089
  • I wanna tell somebody that's watching me right now that god
  • 00:17:54.089 --> 00:17:57.459
  • Has a blessing that's reserved for you.
  • 00:17:57.459 --> 00:17:59.995
  • It's got your name on it, it's reserved for you.
  • 00:17:59.995 --> 00:18:02.731
  • It's the children's bread.
  • 00:18:02.731 --> 00:18:04.700
  • Healing is the children's bread, deliverance is the children's
  • 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:09.838
  • Bread, power is the children's bread, favor is the children's
  • 00:18:09.838 --> 00:18:15.878
  • Bread, deliverance is the children, hope is the children--
  • 00:18:15.878 --> 00:18:20.649
  • Oh, do you hear what i'm saying?
  • 00:18:20.649 --> 00:18:22.451
  • Are you a child of the king?
  • 00:18:22.451 --> 00:18:25.754
  • Oh, i love those old songs.
  • 00:18:25.754 --> 00:18:27.389
  • I'm a child of the king!
  • 00:18:27.389 --> 00:18:30.859
  • Comes with rights and comes with privileges, comes with bread,
  • 00:18:30.859 --> 00:18:36.765
  • Comes with bread.
  • 00:18:36.765 --> 00:18:39.201
  • Like barbecued ribs, there's a hole in the wall that
  • 00:18:39.201 --> 00:18:43.839
  • Comes with bread.
  • 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.074
  • Like hot baloney in a cast iron skillet, it comes with bread.
  • 00:18:46.074 --> 00:18:52.080
  • The salvation that we have comes with bread, and jesus calls it
  • 00:18:52.080 --> 00:18:58.954
  • The children's bread.
  • 00:18:58.954 --> 00:19:02.057
  • He said, "it is not meet to give the children's bread to
  • 00:19:02.057 --> 00:19:08.096
  • The dogs."
  • 00:19:08.096 --> 00:19:09.464
  • She didn't say she was hungry.
  • 00:19:09.464 --> 00:19:13.936
  • She didn't say she wanted something to eat.
  • 00:19:13.936 --> 00:19:17.806
  • But jesus calls healing bread.
  • 00:19:17.806 --> 00:19:26.215
  • Oh my god, do you hear what i'm saying?
  • 00:19:26.215 --> 00:19:29.651
  • Jesus calls healing bread.
  • 00:19:29.651 --> 00:19:32.187
  • Have some bread?
  • 00:19:32.187 --> 00:19:35.090
  • "our father, which out in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
  • 00:19:35.090 --> 00:19:37.259
  • Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in
  • 00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:40.162
  • Heaven, give us this day, give us this day."
  • 00:19:40.162 --> 00:19:45.801
  • That's what i'm looking for, "give us this day our
  • 00:19:45.801 --> 00:19:49.037
  • Daily bread."
  • 00:19:49.037 --> 00:19:50.372
  • Have some bread.
  • 00:19:50.372 --> 00:19:52.541
  • Are you going through something and and you call it--you need a
  • 00:19:52.541 --> 00:19:56.178
  • Healing and god calls it bread.
  • 00:19:56.178 --> 00:19:59.748
  • You need a financial breakthrough and god calls
  • 00:19:59.748 --> 00:20:01.883
  • It bread.
  • 00:20:01.883 --> 00:20:03.819
  • You need a word of direction and god calls it bread.
  • 00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:07.756
  • Would you have some bread?
  • 00:20:07.756 --> 00:20:09.424
  • Have you ever been sitting down at the table and the bread was
  • 00:20:09.424 --> 00:20:11.893
  • On the table but it wasn't near you?
  • 00:20:11.893 --> 00:20:15.397
  • And you had to say to somebody, "pass the bread"?
  • 00:20:15.397 --> 00:20:20.636
  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
  • 00:20:20.636 --> 00:20:21.970
  • When i see you getting blessed, it makes me wanna say, "pass
  • 00:20:21.970 --> 00:20:26.675
  • The bread."
  • 00:20:26.675 --> 00:20:28.210
  • Because i know if he's god enough to give you bread, he's
  • 00:20:28.210 --> 00:20:31.213
  • God enough to give me bread and i'm not gonna hate on you
  • 00:20:31.213 --> 00:20:34.216
  • Because you got some bread, because it's on my table too, i
  • 00:20:34.216 --> 00:20:37.286
  • Just need you to pass the bread.
  • 00:20:37.286 --> 00:20:41.657
  • God calls healing the children's bread.
  • 00:20:41.657 --> 00:20:44.226
  • That's why you gotta be careful who you hang around because you
  • 00:20:44.226 --> 00:20:48.096
  • Can't be hanging around a table full of folk that have no bread.
  • 00:20:48.096 --> 00:20:53.802
  • I don't care how rich they are, i don't care how influential
  • 00:20:53.802 --> 00:20:57.639
  • They are.
  • 00:20:57.639 --> 00:20:58.974
  • Just because they got money don't mean they got bread.
  • 00:20:58.974 --> 00:21:03.211
  • You gotta surround yourself with people that have what you need
  • 00:21:03.211 --> 00:21:07.716
  • Because what you need when you need it is bread.
  • 00:21:07.716 --> 00:21:12.888
  • What you need when you need it is bread.
  • 00:21:12.888 --> 00:21:17.693
  • Whatever it is you've been praying about is bread.
  • 00:21:17.693 --> 00:21:22.597
  • And the lord wanted you to know, "i got the bread.
  • 00:21:22.597 --> 00:21:27.536
  • The question is, are you eligible for the bread?"
  • 00:21:27.536 --> 00:21:33.241
  • And the law stood up in his face and said, "no, this woman is not
  • 00:21:33.241 --> 00:21:38.814
  • Eligible for the bread.
  • 00:21:38.814 --> 00:21:43.251
  • She is coming from the coast of tyre and sidon, where you have
  • 00:21:43.251 --> 00:21:47.823
  • Left and turned your back, but she chased you."
  • 00:21:47.823 --> 00:21:56.398
  • Is there anybody out there prepared to chase god?
  • 00:21:56.398 --> 00:22:01.636
  • Is there anybody out there prepared to go where he is?
  • 00:22:01.636 --> 00:22:05.907
  • To get out of your way and say, "i won't let you go till you
  • 00:22:05.907 --> 00:22:09.644
  • Bless my soul.
  • 00:22:09.644 --> 00:22:11.713
  • I don't care if it takes all night, i'm gonna stand right
  • 00:22:11.713 --> 00:22:15.584
  • Here till you do something for me.
  • 00:22:15.584 --> 00:22:18.053
  • I'm gonna stand right here till you restore my joy.
  • 00:22:18.053 --> 00:22:20.889
  • I'm gonna stand right here till you restore my peace.
  • 00:22:20.889 --> 00:22:23.658
  • I'm gonna stand right here until you give me my house back.
  • 00:22:23.658 --> 00:22:26.561
  • I'm gonna stand right here until you give me my daughter back.
  • 00:22:26.561 --> 00:22:29.431
  • I'm gonna stand right here till i get my business back."
  • 00:22:29.431 --> 00:22:32.134
  • I feel a spirit of restoration in this place tonight.
  • 00:22:32.134 --> 00:22:35.370
  • I said, i feel a spirit of restoration tonight.
  • 00:22:35.370 --> 00:22:38.039
  • Whatever trouble is going on in your house, get ready for it to
  • 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:41.109
  • Be restored tonight.
  • 00:22:41.109 --> 00:22:42.477
  • Whatever's been on your heart, get ready for god to restore
  • 00:22:42.477 --> 00:22:45.313
  • It tonight.
  • 00:22:45.313 --> 00:22:46.681
  • Whatever's been on your mind, get ready for god to restore
  • 00:22:46.681 --> 00:22:48.884
  • It tonight.
  • 00:22:48.884 --> 00:22:50.218
  • I smell bread in the room tonight.
  • 00:22:50.218 --> 00:22:52.354
  • My god, somebody pass me some butter because i smell bread in
  • 00:22:52.354 --> 00:22:56.792
  • The house tonight.
  • 00:22:56.792 --> 00:22:58.160
  • Whatever the devil's been starving you from, starving you
  • 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:01.396
  • From love, and starving you from peace, and starving you
  • 00:23:01.396 --> 00:23:04.566
  • From favor, what he's been starving you from,
  • 00:23:04.566 --> 00:23:09.104
  • My god's got the bread tonight,
  • 00:23:09.104 --> 00:23:11.940
  • My god's got the bread tonight if you can step over your
  • 00:23:11.940 --> 00:23:18.313
  • Traditions, over your religion.
  • 00:23:18.313 --> 00:23:22.384
  • Over your region, over your territory.
  • 00:23:22.384 --> 00:23:27.689
  • Over his silence, and, yes, over his objections.
  • 00:23:27.689 --> 00:23:33.762
  • This woman said, "yeah, lord, i'm a dog."
  • 00:23:33.762 --> 00:23:40.902
  • She understood that the dog term meant not something that walks
  • 00:23:40.902 --> 00:23:44.773
  • On all fours, but without a covenant.
  • 00:23:44.773 --> 00:23:48.109
  • "i have no covenant with you, you don't have to do this
  • 00:23:48.109 --> 00:23:52.113
  • For me."
  • 00:23:52.113 --> 00:23:54.316
  • She said, "but even the dogs can eat the crumbs that fall from
  • 00:23:54.316 --> 00:24:02.924
  • Their master's table."
  • 00:24:02.924 --> 00:24:05.760
  • Look at this woman.
  • 00:24:05.760 --> 00:24:08.964
  • She said, "i got so much faith in you that i didn't come out
  • 00:24:08.964 --> 00:24:14.336
  • All this way to get the bread.
  • 00:24:14.336 --> 00:24:19.241
  • I settled for a crumb.
  • 00:24:19.241 --> 00:24:22.844
  • 'cause i know whatever is in the crumb is in the bread."
  • 00:24:22.844 --> 00:24:30.519
  • If there's milk in the bread? there's milk in the crumb.
  • 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:36.358
  • If there's flour in the bread, there's flour in the crumb.
  • 00:24:36.358 --> 00:24:40.996
  • If there's butter in the bread?
  • 00:24:40.996 --> 00:24:43.265
  • There's butter in the crumb.
  • 00:24:43.265 --> 00:24:45.066
  • If there's healing in the bread, there's healing in the crumb.
  • 00:24:45.066 --> 00:24:49.137
  • If there's deliverance in the bread, there's deliverance in
  • 00:24:49.137 --> 00:24:52.407
  • The crumb.
  • 00:24:52.407 --> 00:24:53.775
  • If there's hope in the bread, there's hope in the crumb.
  • 00:24:53.775 --> 00:24:57.178
  • Whatever is in the bread is in the crumb.
  • 00:24:57.178 --> 00:25:00.482
  • Go ahead and give your children the bread, just let me sit in
  • 00:25:00.482 --> 00:25:04.452
  • Your lap.
  • 00:25:04.452 --> 00:25:05.787
  • The bible called them lap dogs.
  • 00:25:05.787 --> 00:25:07.522
  • Lap dogs would climb up in the laps of their master and just
  • 00:25:07.522 --> 00:25:11.426
  • Stay there with their mouth open.
  • 00:25:11.426 --> 00:25:13.128
  • I wonder, is your mouth open tonight?
  • 00:25:13.128 --> 00:25:18.066
  • Lap dogs would lay in the lap of their master with their mouth
  • 00:25:18.066 --> 00:25:21.036
  • Open, waiting for the crumbs that fell
  • 00:25:21.036 --> 00:25:25.574
  • From the master's table.
  • 00:25:25.574 --> 00:25:28.143
  • She said, "i might be a heathen, i might be a phoenician, i might
  • 00:25:28.143 --> 00:25:33.148
  • Be a canaanite woman.
  • 00:25:33.148 --> 00:25:35.083
  • I might have come from an idolatrous background, but i
  • 00:25:35.083 --> 00:25:38.687
  • Know how to open my mouth."
  • 00:25:38.687 --> 00:25:41.756
  • Do you know how to open your mouth?
  • 00:25:41.756 --> 00:25:45.360
  • Most people don't know how to open their mouth to receive what
  • 00:25:45.360 --> 00:25:49.531
  • God has for them.
  • 00:25:49.531 --> 00:25:51.566
  • They know how to shout about it, they know how to talk about it,
  • 00:25:51.566 --> 00:25:53.935
  • But they don't know how to open up and receive.
  • 00:25:53.935 --> 00:25:56.304
  • She said, "i may not know anything else, but i know how to
  • 00:25:56.304 --> 00:26:00.642
  • Open my mouth, and the next crumb that falls, i got it."
  • 00:26:00.642 --> 00:26:07.248
  • Bishop jakes: you can't build no house on sand because sand is
  • 00:26:07.315 --> 00:26:11.686
  • Not stable.
  • 00:26:11.686 --> 00:26:13.054
  • And emotions are not stable and if you build your house on sand,
  • 00:26:13.054 --> 00:26:16.324
  • When the storm comes, it's gonna come down.
  • 00:26:16.324 --> 00:26:18.927
  • Feelings will move.
  • 00:26:18.927 --> 00:26:20.395
  • Today i'm happy, tomorrow i'm not.
  • 00:26:20.395 --> 00:26:22.530
  • You cannot build your faith on feelings and circumstances.
  • 00:26:22.530 --> 00:26:27.335
  • I know there is a god because he gave me a husband.
  • 00:26:27.335 --> 00:26:30.905
  • I know there is a god cause i got the mortgage approved.
  • 00:26:30.905 --> 00:26:34.109
  • No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
  • 00:26:34.109 --> 00:26:35.443
  • I know there is a god if there is no house.
  • 00:26:35.443 --> 00:26:38.179
  • I know there is a god if my spouse leaves me.
  • 00:26:38.179 --> 00:26:41.316
  • I know there is a god if i'm shut up in a hospital, because
  • 00:26:41.316 --> 00:26:45.220
  • My faith is not built on my circumstances.
  • 00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:48.757
  • If your faith is built on your circumstances, all the enemy has
  • 00:26:48.757 --> 00:26:52.727
  • To do to kill your faith is attack your circumstance.
  • 00:26:52.727 --> 00:26:56.665
  • You gotta build your faith on the integrity of god's word.
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