T.D. Jakes - I Have Permission

January 6, 2025 | S25:E3

You have full permission to encourage yourself, pursue your dreams, and take back what is yours!

Closed captions

Show Timecode
The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - I Have Permission | January 6, 2025
  • ...
  • 00:00:00.633 --> 00:00:01.316
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:00:01.784 --> 00:00:08.257
  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
  • 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:13.362
  • Bishop t.d. jakes: look yourself in the mirror with tears in your
  • 00:00:13.362 --> 00:00:16.231
  • Eyes and say, "you're still gonna make it, you're still
  • 00:00:16.231 --> 00:00:19.701
  • Gonna make it.
  • 00:00:19.701 --> 00:00:21.036
  • I don't know when, i don't know where, i don't know how, but i
  • 00:00:21.036 --> 00:00:24.873
  • Know you're gonna make it, i know you're gonna make it, i
  • 00:00:24.873 --> 00:00:27.876
  • Know you're gonna make it, i know you're gonna make it.
  • 00:00:27.876 --> 00:00:30.712
  • You're hurting but you're gonna make it, you're lonely but
  • 00:00:30.712 --> 00:00:33.882
  • You're gonna make it, you're broke but you're gonna make it,
  • 00:00:33.882 --> 00:00:36.952
  • You're disturbed but you're gonna make it."
  • 00:00:36.952 --> 00:00:39.188
  • If you know what i'm talking about, take 30 seconds and
  • 00:00:39.188 --> 00:00:43.559
  • Praise god like you lost your mind.
  • 00:00:43.559 --> 00:00:48.397
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:00:48.397 --> 00:00:50.232
  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
  • 00:00:50.232 --> 00:00:54.937
  • Bishop jakes: reaction creates response.
  • 00:00:54.937 --> 00:00:57.606
  • So the men are coming home from battle unexpectedly and they're
  • 00:00:57.606 --> 00:01:02.711
  • Expecting the little boy to run out to meet them, and maybe the
  • 00:01:02.711 --> 00:01:06.515
  • Women will dance and sing, and maybe they'll smell the smell of
  • 00:01:06.515 --> 00:01:11.520
  • Fresh bread or venison being cooked in the backyard in a pot.
  • 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:17.860
  • But the closer they got to ziklag, they heard no sounds of
  • 00:01:17.860 --> 00:01:24.032
  • Music, they saw no children running.
  • 00:01:24.032 --> 00:01:30.739
  • In the past, the women had sung.
  • 00:01:30.739 --> 00:01:32.774
  • David has kill--saul has killed his thousands, but david
  • 00:01:32.774 --> 00:01:36.411
  • Has killed his tens of thousands.
  • 00:01:36.411 --> 00:01:37.846
  • Where's the music?
  • 00:01:37.846 --> 00:01:39.181
  • Strike up the band, we're back.
  • 00:01:39.181 --> 00:01:42.584
  • But there was no sound of music when they came to ziklag, and
  • 00:01:42.584 --> 00:01:50.025
  • They smelled smoke.
  • 00:01:50.025 --> 00:01:54.229
  • They smelled smoke in the air.
  • 00:01:54.229 --> 00:01:56.498
  • But it was not the smoke that smells like food,
  • 00:01:56.498 --> 00:02:03.505
  • It was the smoke of devastation.
  • 00:02:07.176 --> 00:02:14.149
  • It didn't even look like home.
  • 00:02:14.149 --> 00:02:17.753
  • What happened to the village?
  • 00:02:17.753 --> 00:02:24.293
  • That's what i think sometimes about america.
  • 00:02:24.293 --> 00:02:33.068
  • What happened to my country?
  • 00:02:33.068 --> 00:02:42.177
  • It's on fire, the smoke is burning, the ashes are where the
  • 00:02:42.177 --> 00:02:48.250
  • Houses used to be.
  • 00:02:48.250 --> 00:02:50.652
  • And it is in this atmosphere that david returns.
  • 00:02:50.652 --> 00:02:56.992
  • Now, you have to feel this.
  • 00:02:56.992 --> 00:03:00.662
  • This is not just an ugly picture.
  • 00:03:00.662 --> 00:03:05.334
  • Where is my wife?
  • 00:03:05.334 --> 00:03:10.706
  • Where is ahinoam?
  • 00:03:10.706 --> 00:03:13.909
  • Has anybody seen abigail?
  • 00:03:13.909 --> 00:03:16.511
  • Abigail? abigail?
  • 00:03:16.511 --> 00:03:21.516
  • Abigail?
  • 00:03:21.516 --> 00:03:27.589
  • There was no sign of ahinoam or abigail, and all the men are
  • 00:03:27.589 --> 00:03:35.897
  • Running through the debris looking for their children,
  • 00:03:35.897 --> 00:03:41.703
  • Lifting up burning embers trying to find their sons
  • 00:03:41.703 --> 00:03:46.208
  • And daughters.
  • 00:03:46.208 --> 00:03:53.215
  • And they had stepped into pain, the kind of pain that paralyzes
  • 00:03:53.215 --> 00:03:59.688
  • You, the kind of pain that shuts you down.
  • 00:03:59.688 --> 00:04:06.261
  • The women and the children were taken captive, their homes
  • 00:04:06.261 --> 00:04:10.232
  • Were destroyed.
  • 00:04:10.232 --> 00:04:14.870
  • Now the men he trained, the men that he had trained himself and
  • 00:04:14.870 --> 00:04:24.713
  • Invested in and poured into and brought from nothing to
  • 00:04:24.713 --> 00:04:28.483
  • Something were so filled with pain and anger that they
  • 00:04:28.483 --> 00:04:36.858
  • Thought, "let's stone him."
  • 00:04:36.858 --> 00:04:43.465
  • Now, look at the setup.
  • 00:04:43.465 --> 00:04:45.267
  • David as a leader cannot go to saul 'cause saul wants to
  • 00:04:45.267 --> 00:04:51.006
  • Kill him.
  • 00:04:51.006 --> 00:04:52.874
  • He can't go to the philistines 'cause the philistines just
  • 00:04:52.874 --> 00:04:56.144
  • Rejected him.
  • 00:04:56.144 --> 00:05:00.082
  • He can't turn to abigail 'cause she's gone and i can't
  • 00:05:00.082 --> 00:05:09.057
  • Find ahinoam.
  • 00:05:09.057 --> 00:05:11.827
  • And he turns to the men that he has put so much into and they're
  • 00:05:11.827 --> 00:05:17.399
  • Looking at him and their eyes are red and tears are running
  • 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.035
  • Down their face, and then he sees hatred in their face, and
  • 00:05:20.035 --> 00:05:24.172
  • There's nothing like seeing hatred in the face of the people
  • 00:05:24.172 --> 00:05:28.777
  • You raised.
  • 00:05:28.777 --> 00:05:33.715
  • I know you can't act like you know what i'm talking about, but
  • 00:05:33.715 --> 00:05:36.618
  • Somebody in here knows what i'm talking about, to pour a lot
  • 00:05:36.618 --> 00:05:40.555
  • Into a person who goes into attack mode.
  • 00:05:40.555 --> 00:05:49.898
  • You gonna stone me?
  • 00:05:49.898 --> 00:05:53.101
  • You gonna stone me at my weakest, most vulnerable moment?
  • 00:05:53.101 --> 00:06:02.244
  • This is the paralysis of pain.
  • 00:06:02.244 --> 00:06:05.347
  • I want to speak to somebody right now who has been through
  • 00:06:05.347 --> 00:06:10.018
  • The kind of pain that has created paralysis.
  • 00:06:10.018 --> 00:06:14.956
  • It has shut down your senses, it has limited your ability to
  • 00:06:14.956 --> 00:06:21.596
  • Respond or retaliate, it has brought you down to your knees,
  • 00:06:21.596 --> 00:06:29.004
  • It has so upset you on the inside that you don't even have
  • 00:06:29.004 --> 00:06:33.208
  • Words to articulate the magnitude of the trauma you're
  • 00:06:33.208 --> 00:06:37.446
  • Experiencing, and all you do is sigh or cry or groan within
  • 00:06:37.446 --> 00:06:46.488
  • Yourself, because it looks like everywhere you turn there is
  • 00:06:46.488 --> 00:06:54.396
  • Pain and rejection and suffering.
  • 00:06:54.396 --> 00:07:00.569
  • And you might be a leader, but you are alone.
  • 00:07:00.569 --> 00:07:08.176
  • I'm not talking about being lonely, that's a feeling.
  • 00:07:12.214 --> 00:07:14.549
  • I'm talking about alone, that's a fact.
  • 00:07:14.549 --> 00:07:19.187
  • Lonely, you can get over in a day or two, alone is alone.
  • 00:07:19.187 --> 00:07:25.260
  • And you can't turn in either direction and find nobody,
  • 00:07:25.260 --> 00:07:33.401
  • Nothing, no one, not an encouraging word.
  • 00:07:33.401 --> 00:07:38.006
  • Everybody in your life needs you but nobody in your life
  • 00:07:38.006 --> 00:07:44.513
  • Feeds you.
  • 00:07:44.513 --> 00:07:47.015
  • What do you do when people only want you when you have
  • 00:07:47.015 --> 00:07:53.154
  • The answer?
  • 00:07:53.154 --> 00:07:56.658
  • They only want you when you fix stuff, and then when you're
  • 00:07:56.658 --> 00:08:00.896
  • Backed up against a wall and you can't fix it, they forsake you
  • 00:08:00.896 --> 00:08:07.068
  • And you are there alone.
  • 00:08:07.068 --> 00:08:11.139
  • It was against the backdrop of this kind of atrocity that david
  • 00:08:11.139 --> 00:08:17.546
  • Has to grapple with.
  • 00:08:17.546 --> 00:08:20.682
  • Maybe it's over.
  • 00:08:20.682 --> 00:08:23.618
  • I can't go to israel.
  • 00:08:23.618 --> 00:08:25.820
  • Saul has shut the door.
  • 00:08:25.820 --> 00:08:28.290
  • His godless behavior and his loss of anointing has made
  • 00:08:28.290 --> 00:08:32.761
  • Him mad.
  • 00:08:32.761 --> 00:08:36.097
  • And i can't go to achish because achish has listened and his
  • 00:08:36.097 --> 00:08:39.734
  • Princes have rejected me from being amongst the philistines.
  • 00:08:39.734 --> 00:08:46.541
  • And the worst part about it is i can't go home.
  • 00:08:46.541 --> 00:08:53.315
  • What do you do when you can't go home?
  • 00:08:53.315 --> 00:08:57.652
  • You ought to always be able to go home.
  • 00:08:57.652 --> 00:09:01.423
  • David can't go home.
  • 00:09:01.423 --> 00:09:04.292
  • My god, i need marcus.
  • 00:09:04.292 --> 00:09:05.961
  • David can't go home.
  • 00:09:05.961 --> 00:09:11.967
  • My mama told me you can go home when you can't go nowhere else.
  • 00:09:11.967 --> 00:09:21.910
  • And he is paralyzed by pain.
  • 00:09:21.910 --> 00:09:26.381
  • And it was at this point that he made the most profound decision.
  • 00:09:26.381 --> 00:09:33.855
  • If abigail doesn't encourage me, if ahinoam doesn't encourage me,
  • 00:09:33.855 --> 00:09:40.095
  • If the philistines don't encourage me, if the israelites
  • 00:09:40.095 --> 00:09:44.099
  • Don't encourage me, and i don't have nobody to count on but
  • 00:09:44.099 --> 00:09:47.569
  • Me, then before i lay down and die in this spot, then i will
  • 00:09:47.569 --> 00:09:55.210
  • Encourage myself, i will encourage myself.
  • 00:09:55.210 --> 00:10:04.386
  • I wonder if there's anybody on the line or in the room or in
  • 00:10:04.386 --> 00:10:07.889
  • The church or in a family or in a marriage or in a business or
  • 00:10:07.889 --> 00:10:11.926
  • In a situation where you couldn't get what you needed,
  • 00:10:11.926 --> 00:10:14.896
  • Where you thought you'd be able to find it, and you had to
  • 00:10:14.896 --> 00:10:17.866
  • Encourage yourself.
  • 00:10:17.866 --> 00:10:19.334
  • Because if you didn't encourage yourself, you were going to die,
  • 00:10:19.334 --> 00:10:23.104
  • If you didn't encourage yourself, you were going
  • 00:10:23.104 --> 00:10:25.607
  • To backslide,
  • 00:10:25.607 --> 00:10:26.941
  • If you didn't encourage yourself, you were going
  • 00:10:26.941 --> 00:10:29.444
  • To quit,
  • 00:10:29.444 --> 00:10:30.812
  • If you didn't encourage yourself, you were going
  • 00:10:30.812 --> 00:10:32.480
  • To faint.
  • 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:33.848
  • I'm wondering, "am i talking to anybody that's had to go look
  • 00:10:33.848 --> 00:10:37.285
  • Yourself in the mirror with tears in your eyes and say
  • 00:10:37.285 --> 00:10:40.855
  • You're still gonna make it, you're still gonna make it, i
  • 00:10:40.855 --> 00:10:44.159
  • Don't know when, i don't know where, i don't know how, i know
  • 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:48.730
  • You're gonna make it.
  • 00:10:48.730 --> 00:10:50.098
  • I know you're gonna make it, i know you're gonna make it, i
  • 00:10:50.098 --> 00:10:52.967
  • Know you're gonna make it.
  • 00:10:52.967 --> 00:10:54.335
  • You're hurting but you're gonna make it, you're lonely but
  • 00:10:54.335 --> 00:10:57.472
  • You're gonna make it, you're broke but you're gonna make it,
  • 00:10:57.472 --> 00:11:00.542
  • You're disturbed but you're gonna make it."
  • 00:11:00.542 --> 00:11:02.711
  • If you know what i'm talking about, take 30 seconds and
  • 00:11:02.711 --> 00:11:07.115
  • Praise god like you lost your mind.
  • 00:11:07.115 --> 00:11:12.087
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:11:12.087 --> 00:11:25.934
  • Bishop jakes: yeah, yeah, yeah,
  • 00:11:22.097 --> 00:11:30.972
  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
  • 00:11:30.972 --> 00:11:38.012
  • The courage you need to survive must come from within you.
  • 00:11:42.150 --> 00:11:48.022
  • When it doesn't come from around you, it must come from
  • 00:11:48.022 --> 00:11:51.426
  • Within you.
  • 00:11:51.426 --> 00:11:52.794
  • Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water, out of
  • 00:11:52.794 --> 00:11:56.030
  • Your soul, out of your spirit, there has to come something that
  • 00:11:56.030 --> 00:12:00.635
  • Says, "though he slay me, yet shall i trust him?"
  • 00:12:00.635 --> 00:12:04.806
  • There has to come a fight back that says, "it was good for me
  • 00:12:04.806 --> 00:12:08.977
  • That i had been afflicted.
  • 00:12:08.977 --> 00:12:10.478
  • If i weren't afflicted, i'd never see the glory of god."
  • 00:12:10.478 --> 00:12:13.715
  • There has to be something that rises up and say, "cancer, you
  • 00:12:13.715 --> 00:12:17.685
  • Ain't gonna whip me.
  • 00:12:17.685 --> 00:12:19.053
  • Covid, you ain't gonna whip me."
  • 00:12:19.053 --> 00:12:21.289
  • There has to be something in you that makes you fight back.
  • 00:12:21.289 --> 00:12:28.062
  • Disrupt somebody and tell them, "i'm encouraged."
  • 00:12:28.062 --> 00:12:31.266
  • The devil thought he was gonna kill me with all this smoke.
  • 00:12:31.266 --> 00:12:34.602
  • He thought he was gonna destroy me with all of this fire.
  • 00:12:34.602 --> 00:12:37.705
  • He thought he was gonna take me out.
  • 00:12:37.705 --> 00:12:39.574
  • I lost my job, but i didn't lose my courage.
  • 00:12:39.574 --> 00:12:42.544
  • I lost my house, but i didn't lose my courage.
  • 00:12:42.544 --> 00:12:45.380
  • I lost my friend, but i didn't lose my courage.
  • 00:12:45.380 --> 00:12:48.883
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:12:48.883 --> 00:12:53.288
  • Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals a
  • 00:12:55.390 --> 00:12:59.060
  • Timeless truth.
  • 00:12:59.060 --> 00:13:04.132
  • That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails, it lights
  • 00:13:04.132 --> 00:13:13.374
  • The path for those who follow.
  • 00:13:13.374 --> 00:13:20.315
  • Every era has its torchbearers who inspire, innovate, and
  • 00:13:20.315 --> 00:13:24.819
  • Take risks.
  • 00:13:24.819 --> 00:13:27.689
  • And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
  • 00:13:27.689 --> 00:13:31.993
  • Dawn rises and the flame multiplies.
  • 00:13:31.993 --> 00:13:38.833
  • This is the international leadership summit.
  • 00:13:38.833 --> 00:13:42.470
  • A place where leaders from all walks are equipped to shape
  • 00:13:42.470 --> 00:13:46.174
  • The future.
  • 00:13:46.174 --> 00:13:49.644
  • Will your legacy light the way?
  • 00:13:49.644 --> 00:13:51.713
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:13:54.215 --> 00:13:59.153
  • Bishop jakes: you see what you need, but you need to stop the
  • 00:13:59.153 --> 00:14:04.959
  • Paralysis of pain.
  • 00:14:04.959 --> 00:14:07.428
  • It's the tenacity to believe it will not stop right here.
  • 00:14:07.428 --> 00:14:14.636
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:14:14.636 --> 00:14:20.475
  • Bishop jakes: you're watching online, there's a reason god's
  • 00:14:20.475 --> 00:14:22.343
  • Got you online right now, so that you could get this word.
  • 00:14:22.343 --> 00:14:25.380
  • You desperately need this word.
  • 00:14:25.380 --> 00:14:27.315
  • You've been in a state of disappointment.
  • 00:14:27.315 --> 00:14:29.450
  • Some of you have been in a disappointment for years.
  • 00:14:29.450 --> 00:14:32.053
  • You have gone over and over how much right you have to get
  • 00:14:32.053 --> 00:14:35.690
  • Support from people that are no longer there and no longer
  • 00:14:35.690 --> 00:14:38.960
  • With you.
  • 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.295
  • You cannot spend another day complaining about the past.
  • 00:14:40.295 --> 00:14:43.298
  • You have to come into the present if you're going to
  • 00:14:43.298 --> 00:14:46.100
  • Change the future, forgetting those things which are behind
  • 00:14:46.100 --> 00:14:49.804
  • And reaching to those things which are before.
  • 00:14:49.804 --> 00:14:52.206
  • You have to make up in your mind, if you don't encourage me,
  • 00:14:52.206 --> 00:14:55.443
  • I'll encourage myself.
  • 00:14:55.443 --> 00:14:57.111
  • I'll hug myself in the bed, i'll lay in the bed and wrap my arms
  • 00:14:57.111 --> 00:15:01.282
  • Around myself and tell myself i love you.
  • 00:15:01.282 --> 00:15:04.585
  • I will encourage myself.
  • 00:15:04.585 --> 00:15:06.754
  • I'll take myself out to dinner.
  • 00:15:06.754 --> 00:15:09.023
  • I'll buy myself a valentine's gift.
  • 00:15:09.023 --> 00:15:11.759
  • I'll lift up my own head.
  • 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.195
  • I'll put on songs that make me feel happy.
  • 00:15:14.195 --> 00:15:17.498
  • I will encourage myself.
  • 00:15:17.498 --> 00:15:20.001
  • And if anybody ever does come, welcome to the party, but the
  • 00:15:20.001 --> 00:15:24.238
  • Party's already started.
  • 00:15:24.238 --> 00:15:25.974
  • Set it off in here, set it off in here, set it off in here, set
  • 00:15:25.974 --> 00:15:33.614
  • It off in here until demons turn you loose, until hell breaks
  • 00:15:33.614 --> 00:15:39.320
  • Loose, until trouble breaks loose.
  • 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:42.223
  • Set it off in here.
  • 00:15:42.223 --> 00:15:45.960
  • The lord said, "this is to be your turning point.
  • 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:49.764
  • This is to be your resurrection moment.
  • 00:15:49.764 --> 00:15:52.266
  • This is to be the moment that you come to yourself.
  • 00:15:52.266 --> 00:15:55.336
  • This is to the moment that you say 'i'm better than this.'"
  • 00:15:55.336 --> 00:16:05.113
  • Some of you heard me tell you about the time i walked in my
  • 00:16:05.113 --> 00:16:08.249
  • House and my lights was off and my water was off and they
  • 00:16:08.249 --> 00:16:11.652
  • Repossessed my car, and i walked in the house and nobody was in
  • 00:16:11.652 --> 00:16:15.723
  • The house with me and i started talking to the house, anita.
  • 00:16:15.723 --> 00:16:19.160
  • I told the house, i told the house, and now you wanna treat
  • 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:22.830
  • Me, don't you?
  • 00:16:22.830 --> 00:16:24.198
  • But i told the house, i talked to the house like it was a
  • 00:16:24.198 --> 00:16:26.134
  • Person and i said, "you're a liar."
  • 00:16:26.134 --> 00:16:30.972
  • The paint was coming off the walls, the gas didn't work, the
  • 00:16:30.972 --> 00:16:35.643
  • Water was off, the phone was off.
  • 00:16:35.643 --> 00:16:37.612
  • I said, "you're lying on me.
  • 00:16:37.612 --> 00:16:40.748
  • I do not accept this.
  • 00:16:40.748 --> 00:16:43.184
  • I'm better than this."
  • 00:16:43.184 --> 00:16:45.853
  • I told my sister, "i'm getting up."
  • 00:16:45.853 --> 00:16:48.356
  • When you make up your mind to get up, no devil in hell can
  • 00:16:48.356 --> 00:16:52.493
  • Hold you down.
  • 00:16:52.493 --> 00:16:54.062
  • I don't care if it's racism, sexism, governmentism, i don't
  • 00:16:54.062 --> 00:16:58.699
  • Care what's going on, and when you make up in your mind, "i'm
  • 00:16:58.699 --> 00:17:02.003
  • Going to get up," i don't know, i feel like i'm talking to
  • 00:17:02.003 --> 00:17:05.306
  • Somebody in this room.
  • 00:17:05.306 --> 00:17:06.674
  • Encourage yourself, encourage yourself, encourage yourself,
  • 00:17:06.674 --> 00:17:11.546
  • Stop blaming everybody who didn't and encourage you--you
  • 00:17:11.546 --> 00:17:15.483
  • Ain't got time to be bitter, you gotta make it to better.
  • 00:17:15.483 --> 00:17:19.053
  • You gotta get to better if you got to crawl on your belly.
  • 00:17:19.053 --> 00:17:22.890
  • I got to encourage--
  • 00:17:22.890 --> 00:17:30.932
  • Myself.
  • 00:17:30.932 --> 00:17:33.434
  • Notice that it was only when he encouraged himself that he got
  • 00:17:33.434 --> 00:17:37.705
  • High enough to hear from god.
  • 00:17:37.705 --> 00:17:42.176
  • Oh, oh.
  • 00:17:42.176 --> 00:17:45.513
  • You can get so low that you cannot hear from god.
  • 00:17:45.513 --> 00:17:55.056
  • He does not seek thummim and urim before he encourages
  • 00:17:55.056 --> 00:18:01.195
  • Himself, because he has to encourage himself to get high
  • 00:18:01.195 --> 00:18:06.300
  • Enough to receive a good word.
  • 00:18:06.300 --> 00:18:15.042
  • And once he got through encouraging himself, you got to
  • 00:18:15.042 --> 00:18:20.014
  • Do this.
  • 00:18:20.014 --> 00:18:22.216
  • I found out it's too much weight to put on your mate, to expect
  • 00:18:22.216 --> 00:18:28.356
  • The person you married to lift you.
  • 00:18:28.356 --> 00:18:31.826
  • You're too heavy.
  • 00:18:31.826 --> 00:18:35.663
  • God, i feel like i'm talking to somebody.
  • 00:18:35.663 --> 00:18:38.699
  • God wouldn't have me preaching like this if something wasn't
  • 00:18:38.699 --> 00:18:41.502
  • About to happen in your life.
  • 00:18:41.502 --> 00:18:43.304
  • Something that you lost is about to come back.
  • 00:18:43.304 --> 00:18:46.107
  • Something that got out from under your foot, you're about to
  • 00:18:46.107 --> 00:18:49.177
  • Get it back again.
  • 00:18:49.177 --> 00:18:50.545
  • And this is your boot camp that's giving you step by step
  • 00:18:50.545 --> 00:18:54.015
  • By step by step by step how to get back what the devil stole
  • 00:18:54.015 --> 00:18:58.719
  • From you.
  • 00:18:58.719 --> 00:19:00.087
  • If i'm talking to you, give god 30 seconds of crazy holy
  • 00:19:00.087 --> 00:19:04.992
  • Ghost praise.
  • 00:19:04.992 --> 00:19:06.327
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:19:06.327 --> 00:19:26.914
  • Bishop jakes: you got ten seconds, you got five seconds,
  • 00:19:16.337 --> 00:19:33.321
  • You got three seconds, you got one second.
  • 00:19:33.321 --> 00:19:41.796
  • If the kids don't bring you no roses, get yourself some roses.
  • 00:19:41.796 --> 00:19:45.600
  • If they don't send you no card, get yourself a card.
  • 00:19:45.600 --> 00:19:48.669
  • Encourage yourself, you can't spend another year talking
  • 00:19:48.669 --> 00:19:52.740
  • About, "what did i do wrong?
  • 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:54.508
  • Why don't they love me?
  • 00:19:54.508 --> 00:19:56.177
  • Why don't they respect me?"
  • 00:19:56.177 --> 00:19:57.878
  • You are losing life.
  • 00:19:57.878 --> 00:19:59.814
  • You can't spend another year trying to--you can't make
  • 00:19:59.814 --> 00:20:03.651
  • Nobody love you, you can't make nobody respect you.
  • 00:20:03.651 --> 00:20:07.855
  • You got to encourage yourself.
  • 00:20:07.855 --> 00:20:11.158
  • I release you.
  • 00:20:11.158 --> 00:20:13.494
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:20:13.494 --> 00:20:22.503
  • Bishop jakes: you can only apologize so long.
  • 00:20:22.503 --> 00:20:24.739
  • "if i said anything, if i did anything, whatever i did,
  • 00:20:24.739 --> 00:20:27.908
  • I'm sorry.
  • 00:20:27.908 --> 00:20:29.243
  • I went by--i want you to understand i was going
  • 00:20:29.243 --> 00:20:31.579
  • Through something."
  • 00:20:31.579 --> 00:20:32.913
  • You can only explain so long.
  • 00:20:32.913 --> 00:20:34.282
  • Sooner or later you got to make up in your mind, maybe their no
  • 00:20:34.282 --> 00:20:38.886
  • Is no to them, but it's still yes to me.
  • 00:20:38.886 --> 00:20:42.490
  • And if you don't want me, i still want me.
  • 00:20:42.490 --> 00:20:46.861
  • Say it, "i still want me."
  • 00:20:46.861 --> 00:20:50.231
  • House on fire, smoke everywhere, everything is
  • 00:20:50.231 --> 00:20:54.168
  • Burning up but i still--
  • 00:20:54.168 --> 00:20:56.904
  • Congregation: want me.
  • 00:20:56.904 --> 00:20:58.673
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:20:58.673 --> 00:21:12.219
  • Bishop jakes: when he got through encouraging himself,
  • 00:21:08.616 --> 00:21:14.555
  • Pastor michael, then he asked god, "what say ye?"
  • 00:21:14.555 --> 00:21:20.494
  • Go get thummim and urim, and let's see what the lord
  • 00:21:20.494 --> 00:21:24.165
  • Is saying.
  • 00:21:24.165 --> 00:21:25.499
  • Shall i go up?
  • 00:21:25.499 --> 00:21:29.737
  • Should i overtake them?
  • 00:21:29.737 --> 00:21:31.639
  • I'm not going up if i'm not gonna win.
  • 00:21:31.639 --> 00:21:39.847
  • Hey! ooh, i feel the holy ghost.
  • 00:21:39.847 --> 00:21:42.483
  • I didn't come this far to lose.
  • 00:21:42.483 --> 00:21:45.086
  • I'm too old to lose.
  • 00:21:45.086 --> 00:21:47.088
  • I can't take another loss.
  • 00:21:47.088 --> 00:21:49.423
  • Should i overtake them?
  • 00:21:49.423 --> 00:21:51.992
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:21:51.992 --> 00:22:01.502
  • Bishop jakes: and the lord said,
  • 00:22:01.502 --> 00:22:09.977
  • The lord said, "pursue."
  • 00:22:09.977 --> 00:22:13.147
  • Somebody shout, "pursue!"
  • 00:22:13.147 --> 00:22:16.450
  • Type it on the line, pursue.
  • 00:22:16.450 --> 00:22:19.687
  • In the middle of covid, pursue.
  • 00:22:19.687 --> 00:22:22.723
  • In the middle of crisis, pursue.
  • 00:22:22.723 --> 00:22:25.593
  • Up under attack, pursue.
  • 00:22:25.593 --> 00:22:28.462
  • Going through a divorce, pursue.
  • 00:22:28.462 --> 00:22:31.665
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:22:31.665 --> 00:22:40.508
  • Bishop jakes: "for thou shall surely overtake them."
  • 00:22:40.508 --> 00:22:47.014
  • God said, "thou shalt surely," not maybe, "surely overtake them
  • 00:22:47.014 --> 00:22:54.422
  • And without fail recover all."
  • 00:22:54.422 --> 00:22:58.893
  • I don't know why you ain't dancing.
  • 00:22:58.893 --> 00:23:04.765
  • I don't know why you ain't praising.
  • 00:23:04.765 --> 00:23:08.235
  • I don't know why you're not rejoicing.
  • 00:23:08.235 --> 00:23:11.439
  • I don't know why your belly ain't leaping up and down.
  • 00:23:11.439 --> 00:23:14.708
  • Because when god said it, now i got permission.
  • 00:23:14.708 --> 00:23:19.814
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:23:19.814 --> 00:23:37.431
  • Bishop jakes: hey, up until then all i had was encouragement.
  • 00:23:29.824 --> 00:23:45.506
  • You can get encouragement from a motivational speaker, but you
  • 00:23:45.506 --> 00:23:50.578
  • Can only get permission from god.
  • 00:23:50.578 --> 00:23:54.548
  • And the lord said--oh god, i feel like preaching.
  • 00:23:54.548 --> 00:23:59.320
  • The lord said, "i'm giving you permission."
  • 00:23:59.320 --> 00:24:05.626
  • Who am i preaching to?
  • 00:24:05.626 --> 00:24:08.362
  • You better help me praise him.
  • 00:24:08.362 --> 00:24:10.865
  • I got permission.
  • 00:24:10.865 --> 00:24:17.037
  • 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."
  • 00:24:21.408 --> 00:24:27.214
  • He said, "what are you doing doing blockbuster films?"
  • 00:24:27.214 --> 00:24:32.353
  • He said, "you got all these books, 12 books, on the new york
  • 00:24:32.353 --> 00:24:35.890
  • Times best sellers list.
  • 00:24:35.890 --> 00:24:37.691
  • One of them has been on for 16 weeks, but you're a pastor.
  • 00:24:37.691 --> 00:24:42.830
  • You're dabbling in real estate, but you're a pastor."
  • 00:24:42.830 --> 00:24:47.468
  • He said, "why are you doing it?"
  • 00:24:47.468 --> 00:24:49.770
  • I said, "because i can.
  • 00:24:49.770 --> 00:24:52.172
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:24:52.172 --> 00:25:01.749
  • Bishop jakes: if i couldn't do it, i wouldn't do it.
  • 00:25:01.749 --> 00:25:06.053
  • But if god gives you the grace to pursue, then you ought to go
  • 00:25:06.053 --> 00:25:12.593
  • For it.
  • 00:25:12.593 --> 00:25:13.928
  • I release you to go after your dream."
  • 00:25:13.928 --> 00:25:19.166
  • God said, "you have permission."
  • 00:25:19.166 --> 00:25:27.575
  • You don't have to fit in the box that anybody made for you and
  • 00:25:27.575 --> 00:25:33.180
  • Describe you and incarcerate you to their opinion of what you are
  • 00:25:33.180 --> 00:25:38.686
  • To do.
  • 00:25:38.686 --> 00:25:40.054
  • God has given you permission.
  • 00:25:40.054 --> 00:25:42.556
  • Shout it, "i have permission,
  • 00:25:42.556 --> 00:25:48.829
  • I have permission,
  • 00:25:48.829 --> 00:25:52.199
  • I have permission."
  • 00:25:52.967 --> 00:25:57.237
  • Give him 30 seconds of praise.
  • 00:25:57.237 --> 00:26:00.541
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:26:00.541 --> 00:26:04.812
  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
  • 00:26:06.580 --> 00:26:13.020
  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
  • 00:26:13.020 --> 00:26:15.756
  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
  • 00:26:15.756 --> 00:26:18.792
  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
  • 00:26:18.792 --> 00:26:22.429
  • Be united.
  • 00:26:22.429 --> 00:26:23.797
  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
  • 00:26:23.797 --> 00:26:26.200
  • Vusi thembekwayo: think scale.
  • 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:28.202
  • John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
  • 00:26:28.202 --> 00:26:34.375
  • Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
  • 00:26:34.375 --> 00:26:38.912
  • John hope bryant: you got all the dna for success right inside
  • 00:26:38.912 --> 00:26:41.248
  • Of you.
  • 00:26:41.248 --> 00:26:42.616
  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
  • 00:26:42.616 --> 00:26:45.085
  • Mellody hobson: i wanna change the idea of what a minority
  • 00:26:45.085 --> 00:26:47.354
  • Business is.
  • 00:26:47.354 --> 00:26:48.889
  • John hope bryant: the world shifted.
  • 00:26:52.192 --> 00:26:55.529
  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs right now.
  • 00:26:55.529 --> 00:27:00.501
  • It's the moment.
  • 00:27:00.501 --> 00:27:02.302
  • This is just the beginning.
  • 00:27:02.302 --> 00:27:04.071
  • Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us
  • 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:07.574
  • On social media and share your story
  • 00:27:07.574 --> 00:27:09.209
  • Of how god is impacting your life.
  • 00:27:09.209 --> 00:27:11.679
  • We look forward to seeing you next time on
  • 00:27:11.679 --> 00:27:13.547
  • "the potter's touch."
  • 00:27:13.547 --> 00:27:15.582
  • ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
  • 00:27:15.582 --> 00:27:19.520
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:27:21.355 --> 00:27:28.262