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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - I Have Permission | January 6, 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: look yourself in the mirror with tears in your
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- Eyes and say, "you're still gonna make it, you're still
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- Gonna make it.
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- I don't know when, i don't know where, i don't know how, but i
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- Know you're gonna make it, i know you're gonna make it, i
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- Know you're gonna make it, i know you're gonna make it.
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- You're hurting but you're gonna make it, you're lonely but
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- You're gonna make it, you're broke but you're gonna make it,
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- You're disturbed but you're gonna make it."
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- If you know what i'm talking about, take 30 seconds and
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- Praise god like you lost your mind.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
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- Bishop jakes: reaction creates response.
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- So the men are coming home from battle unexpectedly and they're
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- Expecting the little boy to run out to meet them, and maybe the
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- Women will dance and sing, and maybe they'll smell the smell of
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- Fresh bread or venison being cooked in the backyard in a pot.
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- But the closer they got to ziklag, they heard no sounds of
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- Music, they saw no children running.
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- In the past, the women had sung.
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- David has kill--saul has killed his thousands, but david
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- Has killed his tens of thousands.
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- Where's the music?
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- Strike up the band, we're back.
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- But there was no sound of music when they came to ziklag, and
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- They smelled smoke.
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- They smelled smoke in the air.
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- But it was not the smoke that smells like food,
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- It was the smoke of devastation.
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- It didn't even look like home.
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- What happened to the village?
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- That's what i think sometimes about america.
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- What happened to my country?
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- It's on fire, the smoke is burning, the ashes are where the
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- Houses used to be.
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- And it is in this atmosphere that david returns.
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- Now, you have to feel this.
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- This is not just an ugly picture.
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- Where is my wife?
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- Where is ahinoam?
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- Has anybody seen abigail?
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- Abigail? abigail?
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- Abigail?
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- There was no sign of ahinoam or abigail, and all the men are
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- Running through the debris looking for their children,
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- Lifting up burning embers trying to find their sons
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- And daughters.
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- And they had stepped into pain, the kind of pain that paralyzes
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- You, the kind of pain that shuts you down.
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- The women and the children were taken captive, their homes
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- Were destroyed.
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- Now the men he trained, the men that he had trained himself and
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- Invested in and poured into and brought from nothing to
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- Something were so filled with pain and anger that they
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- Thought, "let's stone him."
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- Now, look at the setup.
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- David as a leader cannot go to saul 'cause saul wants to
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- Kill him.
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- He can't go to the philistines 'cause the philistines just
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- Rejected him.
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- He can't turn to abigail 'cause she's gone and i can't
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- Find ahinoam.
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- And he turns to the men that he has put so much into and they're
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- Looking at him and their eyes are red and tears are running
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- Down their face, and then he sees hatred in their face, and
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- There's nothing like seeing hatred in the face of the people
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- You raised.
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- I know you can't act like you know what i'm talking about, but
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- Somebody in here knows what i'm talking about, to pour a lot
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- Into a person who goes into attack mode.
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- You gonna stone me?
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- You gonna stone me at my weakest, most vulnerable moment?
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- This is the paralysis of pain.
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- I want to speak to somebody right now who has been through
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- The kind of pain that has created paralysis.
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- It has shut down your senses, it has limited your ability to
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- Respond or retaliate, it has brought you down to your knees,
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- It has so upset you on the inside that you don't even have
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- Words to articulate the magnitude of the trauma you're
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- Experiencing, and all you do is sigh or cry or groan within
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- Yourself, because it looks like everywhere you turn there is
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- Pain and rejection and suffering.
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- And you might be a leader, but you are alone.
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- I'm not talking about being lonely, that's a feeling.
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- I'm talking about alone, that's a fact.
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- Lonely, you can get over in a day or two, alone is alone.
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- And you can't turn in either direction and find nobody,
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- Nothing, no one, not an encouraging word.
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- Everybody in your life needs you but nobody in your life
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- Feeds you.
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- What do you do when people only want you when you have
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- The answer?
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- They only want you when you fix stuff, and then when you're
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- Backed up against a wall and you can't fix it, they forsake you
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- And you are there alone.
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- It was against the backdrop of this kind of atrocity that david
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- Has to grapple with.
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- Maybe it's over.
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- I can't go to israel.
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- Saul has shut the door.
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- His godless behavior and his loss of anointing has made
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- Him mad.
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- And i can't go to achish because achish has listened and his
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- Princes have rejected me from being amongst the philistines.
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- And the worst part about it is i can't go home.
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- What do you do when you can't go home?
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- You ought to always be able to go home.
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- David can't go home.
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- My god, i need marcus.
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- David can't go home.
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- My mama told me you can go home when you can't go nowhere else.
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- And he is paralyzed by pain.
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- And it was at this point that he made the most profound decision.
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- If abigail doesn't encourage me, if ahinoam doesn't encourage me,
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- If the philistines don't encourage me, if the israelites
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- Don't encourage me, and i don't have nobody to count on but
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- Me, then before i lay down and die in this spot, then i will
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- Encourage myself, i will encourage myself.
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- I wonder if there's anybody on the line or in the room or in
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- The church or in a family or in a marriage or in a business or
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- In a situation where you couldn't get what you needed,
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- Where you thought you'd be able to find it, and you had to
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- Encourage yourself.
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- Because if you didn't encourage yourself, you were going to die,
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- If you didn't encourage yourself, you were going
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- To backslide,
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- If you didn't encourage yourself, you were going
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- To quit,
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- If you didn't encourage yourself, you were going
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- To faint.
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- I'm wondering, "am i talking to anybody that's had to go look
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- Yourself in the mirror with tears in your eyes and say
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- You're still gonna make it, you're still gonna make it, i
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- Don't know when, i don't know where, i don't know how, i know
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- You're gonna make it.
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- I know you're gonna make it, i know you're gonna make it, i
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- Know you're gonna make it.
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- You're hurting but you're gonna make it, you're lonely but
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- You're gonna make it, you're broke but you're gonna make it,
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- You're disturbed but you're gonna make it."
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- If you know what i'm talking about, take 30 seconds and
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- Praise god like you lost your mind.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: yeah, yeah, yeah,
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- The courage you need to survive must come from within you.
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- When it doesn't come from around you, it must come from
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- Within you.
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- Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water, out of
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- Your soul, out of your spirit, there has to come something that
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- Says, "though he slay me, yet shall i trust him?"
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- There has to come a fight back that says, "it was good for me
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- That i had been afflicted.
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- If i weren't afflicted, i'd never see the glory of god."
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- There has to be something that rises up and say, "cancer, you
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- Ain't gonna whip me.
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- Covid, you ain't gonna whip me."
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- There has to be something in you that makes you fight back.
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- Disrupt somebody and tell them, "i'm encouraged."
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- The devil thought he was gonna kill me with all this smoke.
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- He thought he was gonna destroy me with all of this fire.
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- He thought he was gonna take me out.
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- I lost my job, but i didn't lose my courage.
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- I lost my house, but i didn't lose my courage.
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- I lost my friend, but i didn't lose my courage.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals a
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- Timeless truth.
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- That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails, it lights
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- The path for those who follow.
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- Every era has its torchbearers who inspire, innovate, and
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- Take risks.
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- And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
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- Dawn rises and the flame multiplies.
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- This is the international leadership summit.
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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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- ♪♪♪
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- Bishop jakes: you see what you need, but you need to stop the
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- Paralysis of pain.
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- It's the tenacity to believe it will not stop right here.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Bishop jakes: you're watching online, there's a reason god's
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- Got you online right now, so that you could get this word.
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- You desperately need this word.
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- You've been in a state of disappointment.
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- Some of you have been in a disappointment for years.
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- You have gone over and over how much right you have to get
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- Support from people that are no longer there and no longer
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- With you.
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- You cannot spend another day complaining about the past.
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- You have to come into the present if you're going to
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- Change the future, forgetting those things which are behind
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- And reaching to those things which are before.
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- You have to make up in your mind, if you don't encourage me,
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- I'll encourage myself.
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- I'll hug myself in the bed, i'll lay in the bed and wrap my arms
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- Around myself and tell myself i love you.
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- I will encourage myself.
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- I'll take myself out to dinner.
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- I'll buy myself a valentine's gift.
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- I'll lift up my own head.
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- I'll put on songs that make me feel happy.
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- I will encourage myself.
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- And if anybody ever does come, welcome to the party, but the
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- Party's already started.
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- Set it off in here, set it off in here, set it off in here, set
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- It off in here until demons turn you loose, until hell breaks
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- Loose, until trouble breaks loose.
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- Set it off in here.
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- The lord said, "this is to be your turning point.
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- This is to be your resurrection moment.
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- This is to be the moment that you come to yourself.
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- This is to the moment that you say 'i'm better than this.'"
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- Some of you heard me tell you about the time i walked in my
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- House and my lights was off and my water was off and they
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- Repossessed my car, and i walked in the house and nobody was in
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- The house with me and i started talking to the house, anita.
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- I told the house, i told the house, and now you wanna treat
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- Me, don't you?
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- But i told the house, i talked to the house like it was a
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- Person and i said, "you're a liar."
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- The paint was coming off the walls, the gas didn't work, the
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- Water was off, the phone was off.
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- I said, "you're lying on me.
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- I do not accept this.
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- I'm better than this."
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- I told my sister, "i'm getting up."
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- When you make up your mind to get up, no devil in hell can
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- Hold you down.
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- I don't care if it's racism, sexism, governmentism, i don't
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- Care what's going on, and when you make up in your mind, "i'm
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- Going to get up," i don't know, i feel like i'm talking to
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- Somebody in this room.
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- Encourage yourself, encourage yourself, encourage yourself,
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- Stop blaming everybody who didn't and encourage you--you
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- Ain't got time to be bitter, you gotta make it to better.
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- You gotta get to better if you got to crawl on your belly.
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- I got to encourage--
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- Myself.
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- Notice that it was only when he encouraged himself that he got
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- High enough to hear from god.
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- Oh, oh.
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- You can get so low that you cannot hear from god.
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- He does not seek thummim and urim before he encourages
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- Himself, because he has to encourage himself to get high
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- Enough to receive a good word.
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- And once he got through encouraging himself, you got to
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- Do this.
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- I found out it's too much weight to put on your mate, to expect
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- The person you married to lift you.
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- You're too heavy.
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- God, i feel like i'm talking to somebody.
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- God wouldn't have me preaching like this if something wasn't
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- About to happen in your life.
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- Something that you lost is about to come back.
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- Something that got out from under your foot, you're about to
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- Get it back again.
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- And this is your boot camp that's giving you step by step
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- By step by step by step how to get back what the devil stole
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- From you.
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- If i'm talking to you, give god 30 seconds of crazy holy
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- Ghost praise.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: you got ten seconds, you got five seconds,
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- You got three seconds, you got one second.
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- If the kids don't bring you no roses, get yourself some roses.
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- If they don't send you no card, get yourself a card.
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- Encourage yourself, you can't spend another year talking
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- About, "what did i do wrong?
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- Why don't they love me?
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- Why don't they respect me?"
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- You are losing life.
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- You can't spend another year trying to--you can't make
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- Nobody love you, you can't make nobody respect you.
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- You got to encourage yourself.
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- I release you.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: you can only apologize so long.
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- "if i said anything, if i did anything, whatever i did,
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- I'm sorry.
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- I went by--i want you to understand i was going
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- Through something."
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- You can only explain so long.
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- Sooner or later you got to make up in your mind, maybe their no
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- Is no to them, but it's still yes to me.
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- And if you don't want me, i still want me.
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- Say it, "i still want me."
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- House on fire, smoke everywhere, everything is
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- Burning up but i still--
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- Congregation: want me.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: when he got through encouraging himself,
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- Pastor michael, then he asked god, "what say ye?"
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- Go get thummim and urim, and let's see what the lord
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- Is saying.
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- Shall i go up?
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- Should i overtake them?
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- I'm not going up if i'm not gonna win.
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- Hey! ooh, i feel the holy ghost.
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- I didn't come this far to lose.
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- I'm too old to lose.
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- I can't take another loss.
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- Should i overtake them?
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: and the lord said,
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- The lord said, "pursue."
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- Somebody shout, "pursue!"
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- Type it on the line, pursue.
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- In the middle of covid, pursue.
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- In the middle of crisis, pursue.
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- Up under attack, pursue.
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- Going through a divorce, pursue.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: "for thou shall surely overtake them."
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- God said, "thou shalt surely," not maybe, "surely overtake them
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- And without fail recover all."
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- I don't know why you ain't dancing.
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- I don't know why you ain't praising.
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- I don't know why you're not rejoicing.
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- I don't know why your belly ain't leaping up and down.
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- Because when god said it, now i got permission.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: hey, up until then all i had was encouragement.
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- You can get encouragement from a motivational speaker, but you
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- Can only get permission from god.
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- And the lord said--oh god, i feel like preaching.
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- The lord said, "i'm giving you permission."
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- Who am i preaching to?
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- You better help me praise him.
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- I got permission.
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- I was in florida in april and a news reporter was
- 00:24:17.037 --> 00:24:21.408
- Interviewing me and he said, "you're a pastor."
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- He said, "what are you doing doing blockbuster films?"
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- He said, "you got all these books, 12 books, on the new york
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- Times best sellers list.
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- One of them has been on for 16 weeks, but you're a pastor.
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- You're dabbling in real estate, but you're a pastor."
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- He said, "why are you doing it?"
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- I said, "because i can.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: if i couldn't do it, i wouldn't do it.
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- But if god gives you the grace to pursue, then you ought to go
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- For it.
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- I release you to go after your dream."
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- God said, "you have permission."
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- You don't have to fit in the box that anybody made for you and
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- Describe you and incarcerate you to their opinion of what you are
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- To do.
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- God has given you permission.
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- Shout it, "i have permission,
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- I have permission,
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- I have permission."
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- Give him 30 seconds of praise.
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- [congregation cheering]
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- Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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- Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
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- John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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- Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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- Be united.
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- Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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- Vusi thembekwayo: think scale.
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- John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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- Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
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- John hope bryant: you got all the dna for success right inside
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- Of you.
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- Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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- Mellody hobson: i wanna change the idea of what a minority
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- Business is.
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- John hope bryant: the world shifted.
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- Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs right now.
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- It's the moment.
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- This is just the beginning.
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- Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us
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- On social media and share your story
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- Of how god is impacting your life.
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- We look forward to seeing you next time on
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- "the potter's touch."
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- ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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