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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - A Mirror and A Model

January 26, 2025 | S25:E14

T.D. Jakes - A Mirror and A Model
The Potter's Touch program, featuring the ministry of Bishop T.D. Jakes, tackles today's topics and issues by offering practical and spiritual solutions to life's toughest questions.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - A Mirror and A Model | January 26, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Sarah jakes roberts: and if you give up when you fail, then
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  • You'll never be made into who god has called you to be.
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  • So you got to have enough humility to stay in the making
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  • Even when it looks like you're failing, to stay in the making,
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  • Even when it means you got to apologize.
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  • You got to stay in the making even when it feels like,
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  • "i don't know what i'm doing.
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  • I got to stay in the making 'cause he called me to this.
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  • And i believe that he's calling me to make me; not to make me
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  • Look good, not to build my ego, not to make other
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  • People jealous of me."
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  • You see, you can't have the culture of the world and the
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  • Culture of the kingdom when god is making you into something
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  • Because you want to be made into an ego, you want to be made
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  • Into an idol and god's trying to make you into a disciple.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Sarah: most of us are walking through life like this, picking
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  • Up whatever feelings and emotions are presented
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  • In front of us.
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  • You tell me how to speak and i'll speak that way.
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  • We're on social media.
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  • We go through the comments.
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  • You tell me what to think and i'll just mirror your outrage.
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  • We go home and, in order to survive in our
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  • Homes, we have to match the energy.
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  • "i guess we're not speaking today."
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  • There--most of us are walking around and having a mirror where
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  • Our face is supposed to be, where we're supposed to think on
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  • Our own and speak on our own.
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  • Instead, we've just become mirrors.
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  • This is why nobody really has authenticity anymore because
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  • They would rather have a--be a mirror so that they can have a
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  • Sense of belonging than dare to be authentic and stand out even
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  • If i don't look like anybody else who was in the room.
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  • When scripture tells us that we're made in the image of
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  • God--in genesis 1 and 27 it says--
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  • Can you put it on the screen for me?
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  • "so god created man in his own image; in the image of god he
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  • Created him; male and female he created them."
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  • Keep that on the screen for me.
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  • That means that when god made you, he said, "i'm going to make
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  • A mirror of who i am."
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  • Okay.
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  • God, help me.
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  • Okay.
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  • He's not talking about your skin color, your height.
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  • He's talking about your spirit.
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  • "i want your spirit to look like my spirit."
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  • Ooh, god.
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  • Ooh, i feel like he going to help me today.
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  • Okay.
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  • Says, "i'm going to make you in my image on a spirit level."
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  • And then in genesis 1:28 he tells them to do some things
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  • That you can only do if you're made in his image.
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  • Genesis 1:28 says, "then god blessed them and god said to
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  • Them, 'be fruitful and multiply.
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  • Fill the earth and subdue it.
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  • Have dominion,'" dominion is the kind of word that can only
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  • Come if you have an image that looks like god.
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  • God gave them a spirit for the mission.
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  • Oh, god.
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  • Some of us just ask god to give us a mission.
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  • What we should be asking god is to give me a spirit for
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  • The mission.
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  • God says, "i got a mission for you, but the mission only works
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  • If you have my image in your spirit."
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  • So where somebody looks at this message, this scripture and they
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  • Think to themselves, "that's a lot of responsibility.
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  • I don't know if i can do that.
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  • I don't know if i have the spirit for it."
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  • God says, "no, i gave them the spirit so that when i gave them
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  • The command, the command would be within reach."
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  • "for god has not given you the spirit of fear--" why does paul
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  • Tell timothy this?
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  • Because he's about to transition into a space of leadership, and
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  • Timothy is nervous and timid and he when--what should have just
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  • Been a feeling, an emotion has the potential to actually become
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  • His spirit, but paul reminds him that, "god did not give you the
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  • Spirit of fear, but he gave you the spirit of power, love, and a
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  • Sound mind."
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  • And sometimes you got to rebuke those spirits that are trying to
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  • Get into the cracks of the image that you have been created in.
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  • I know it's a little old school and i know we don't always
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  • Rebuke things the way that we should, but when the devil
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  • Starts rolling up on you, if you give him space instead of
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  • Rebuking him, you will allow the power of god to be diluted.
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  • But there is something to be said about somebody who doesn't
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  • Mind saying, "satan, i rebuke you.
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  • In the name of jesus, i rebuke you.
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  • You cannot have my house.
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  • You cannot have my family.
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  • I'm going to the therapist because depression shall not be
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  • My portion.
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  • I rebuke you in the name of jesus."
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  • 'cause you don't have to just rebuke, you can start getting
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  • Active with that thing too.
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  • "not only do i rebuke you, but faith without works is dead.
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  • I've got faith that when i rebuked you, i put you under
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  • My feet.
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  • So i'm going to start moving like the rebuking has positioned
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  • Me to have my steps ordered again."
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  • So the mirror, you can't even see yourself anymore.
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  • You had these visions.
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  • You had these hopes.
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  • You wanted to break generational curses.
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  • You wanted to write a book that would help someone who had gone
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  • Through what you've been through.
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  • You wanted to introduce wholeness into your family.
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  • You wanted to take care of your body.
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  • But we can't just keep taking blow after blow after blow until
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  • It starts to affect our spirit, and you'll know that it broke
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  • Your spirit when it changes what you believe.
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  • When i hear, "follow me and i will make you fishers of men,"
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  • For some reason i've always heard that as a question.
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  • Like he gave them an option, but it was a command.
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  • He commanded them to move in a lane that they were
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  • Unfamiliar with.
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  • And when he commanded them to move into that lane, he doesn't
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  • Say, "follow me and you will be a fisher of men."
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  • He says, "follow me and i will make you.
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  • I'm going to make you into what i'm calling you for.
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  • I'm going to make you into--you're not--you're right
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  • You're not there.
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  • You're right, you may not have the spirit for it.
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  • You're right, you may not have the technique, you may not have
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  • The skills, but when i get finished making you, you'll be
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  • Everything that you need to be.
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  • When i get finished making you, you're going to know how to cast
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  • Out the devils.
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  • When i get finished making you, you're going to know how to
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  • Balance the books.
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  • When i get finished, you got to make a marriage."
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  • We get married, but then you got to build a marriage.
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  • You don't just raise kids, you got to make these children.
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  • You don't just start the business, you got to make
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  • A business.
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  • And guess what?
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  • When god makes you into something, sometimes he uses
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  • Failure to make you.
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  • The disciples, he told them to cast out a devil.
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  • It wouldn't come out.
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  • He said, "why couldn't it come out?"
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  • He says, "this time--kind only comes out by fasting
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  • And praying."
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  • And it seemed like they failed, but in reality he was making
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  • Them by allowing them to fail.
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  • Is it failure or are they the tools that god is using to make
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  • You into who god has called you to be?
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  • And if you give up when you fail, then you'll never be made
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  • Into who god has called you to be.
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  • So you got to have enough humility to stay in the making
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  • Even when it looks like you're failing, to stay in the making
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  • Even when it means you got to apologize.
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  • You got to stay in the making even when it feels like, "i
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  • Don't know what i'm doing.
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  • I got to stay in the making 'cause he called me to this and
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  • I believe that he's calling me to make me; not to make me look
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  • Good, not to build my ego, not to make other
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  • People jealous of me."
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  • You see, you can't have the culture of the world and the
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  • Culture of the kingdom when god is making you into something
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  • Because you want to be made into an ego, you want to be made
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  • Into an idol and god's trying to make you into a disciple.
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  • And when god makes you into a disciple, you got to humble
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  • Yourself and you got to be willing to look a little crazy
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  • And you got to be willing to look like you don't have it all
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  • Together and you got to be willing to look
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  • Like your kids are crazy.
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  • "and how could i be saving everyone else and my kids
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  • Aren't together?"
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  • You got to be willing to look like a fool because he uses the
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  • Foolish things of the world so you can look good or you can
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  • Mess around and get foolish with this thing and allow that
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  • Failure to make you into a better husband, into
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  • A better parent.
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  • "give me the spirit, the spirit for this thing."
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  • Bishop jakes: never have we needed your support more vitally
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  • Than we do right now, because we are on the move for god.
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  • And if you have not been on the move for god, i want to
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  • Challenge you to get busy and get on the move doing what god
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  • Created you to do.
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  • In whatever field you're in, god planted you there for a reason,
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  • To be the salt of the earth.
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  • All ministry is not about pulpits, all ministry is not
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  • About singing in the choir, all ministry is not about clapping
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  • Your hands in church.
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  • Whatever you're doing to help, lift, change, fortify,
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  • Strengthen people, you are in the ministry.
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  • Everybody who's got a ministry stand up on your feet.
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  • That ought to get everybody, yeah, "we are laborers together
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  • With god in christ jesus."
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  • How many of you are believing god to bless your ministry,
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  • Whatever it is?
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  • If it's doing hair, if it's putting on makeup,
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  • It's still a ministry.
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  • Sarah: the disciples, jesus, are being
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  • Made back into the image of god.
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  • They're like the beta group of who will first experience what
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  • It means to be in relationship with jesus.
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  • These 12 are the test group who will have the benefit of being
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  • Cross--closely connected with a model.
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  • Oh, gosh.
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  • 'cause they have a mirror, but the mirror's been distorted.
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  • And when your mirror has been distorted, sometimes you need
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  • More than a mirror, you need a model.
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  • Jesus is going to be their model until they're in a position
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  • Where the mirror can be seen properly, their image that
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  • They've been made of--made in by god.
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  • Sometimes you need a mirror.
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  • Sometimes you need a model.
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  • And in the time that they are following jesus, it's almost as
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  • If they have forgotten that original prompting of "follow me
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  • And i will make you fishers of men."
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  • I say that because when we find them in acts, they think that
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  • They've come to the end of the journey.
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  • There are moments where we can become so consumed--i want to
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  • Say this right--by serving the model
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  • That we forget that we're supposed to become a model.
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  • I wish i could say that.
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  • The first thing that he says to them suggest that eventually
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  • I'm going to put you on the front line.
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  • And when i put you on the front line, you're going to do what
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  • You see me modeling.
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  • But sometimes we can become so comfortable taking a backseat to
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  • What's happening in front of us that we forget that there was
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  • Always supposed to be a transition in which we would
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  • Take over.
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  • I'm going to go to my notes.
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  • Yeah.
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  • They're standing at a threshold.
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  • I'mma take my time.
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  • They're at a threshold.
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  • I believe god gave me this message because we're standing
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  • At a threshold where those of us who have been modeling are
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  • Having to turn over what we have modeled to people who feel
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  • Ill-prepared to handle it.
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  • We're an intergenerational church, which means that there
  • 00:13:45.808 --> 00:13:50.045
  • Are some people here who have modeled for us what it means to
  • 00:13:50.045 --> 00:13:54.717
  • Serve, what it means to be in ministry.
  • 00:13:54.717 --> 00:13:57.152
  • But then there's a generation coming up behind that has become
  • 00:13:57.152 --> 00:14:01.657
  • So comfortable with them taking the lead and like, "if i did it,
  • 00:14:01.657 --> 00:14:11.533
  • I would do it differently, so i'm just not
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  • Going to do it at all."
  • 00:14:12.868 --> 00:14:15.604
  • And so we're relying on them to continue carrying batons that
  • 00:14:15.604 --> 00:14:20.276
  • Have our names on them, not realizing that they're looking
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  • For somebody who can carry out what has been
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  • Placed on the inside of them.
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  • I wish i could say this better.
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  • And maybe i'm just preaching my own message.
  • 00:14:37.459 --> 00:14:42.898
  • They're in a threshold.
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  • A threshold is when you transition.
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  • Oh, i wrote down the definition.
  • 00:14:46.135 --> 00:14:47.503
  • I want to read it to you.
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  • Oh, where is it?
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  • It's not in here. that's all right.
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  • Say something saved right quick while i try and scroll through
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  • And find it.
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  • Boom, got it.
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  • Okay, this is what we're gonna do.
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  • It is time for them to start working the glory they have been
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  • Exposed to.
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  • They're at a threshold where they're going from being
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  • Observers of glory, the occasional partakers, but for
  • 00:15:17.266 --> 00:15:21.236
  • The most part they've been observers, and to move into the
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  • Glory that they have been exposed to.
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  • I believe that god gave me this message because there are people
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  • In this room who are moving into another realm of glory.
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  • And because you're moving into another realm of glory, you are
  • 00:15:34.783 --> 00:15:38.354
  • Not exactly sure, "how do i proceed from here?"
  • 00:15:38.354 --> 00:15:41.890
  • When we find them in acts 1, they're moving into another
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  • Realm of glory but they don't know it yet; but god has
  • 00:15:45.427 --> 00:15:48.831
  • Prepared them and jesus is telling them that, "i'm going to
  • 00:15:48.831 --> 00:15:51.967
  • Give you something to help you move into this next dimension
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  • Of glory."
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  • God, help me to say this.
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  • I guess you could say this.
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  • Jesus is about to send them out to fulfill a mission.
  • 00:16:03.779 --> 00:16:09.685
  • And up until this point, they didn't have to worry about
  • 00:16:09.685 --> 00:16:13.022
  • Having cracks in their mirrors because whenever they had cracks
  • 00:16:13.022 --> 00:16:17.192
  • In their mirror, they had access to jesus, and jesus could help
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  • Them in the moment.
  • 00:16:22.131 --> 00:16:24.533
  • He could help them in the moment when they say, "this comes
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  • Out by fasting and praying."
  • 00:16:26.802 --> 00:16:28.137
  • They had direct access to jesus, and it's a shame that we know
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  • How this story ends.
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  • Because if we could for a moment just take a second and imagine
  • 00:16:33.509 --> 00:16:36.912
  • What it's like to lose your model,
  • 00:16:36.912 --> 00:16:46.722
  • To not have an example anymore,
  • 00:16:46.722 --> 00:16:51.493
  • To have a call but no one who's gone ahead of you, for
  • 00:16:51.493 --> 00:16:58.233
  • God to put something in your spirit and then for it to look
  • 00:16:58.233 --> 00:17:02.404
  • Like he's left you with no one to help you fulfill the mission
  • 00:17:02.404 --> 00:17:07.042
  • Assigned to your life.
  • 00:17:07.042 --> 00:17:10.012
  • "and not only do i not have a model, now you're asking me to
  • 00:17:10.012 --> 00:17:14.550
  • Step into a position where i'm supposed to model something
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  • Without having a model myself."
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  • Come on, generational curse breakers.
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  • What you trying to model?
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  • "you gave me something, but i don't have anywhere to
  • 00:17:29.531 --> 00:17:34.002
  • Look anymore."
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  • When we read this text, they said they just looked at
  • 00:17:36.071 --> 00:17:38.373
  • The sky.
  • 00:17:38.373 --> 00:17:39.741
  • He was gone.
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  • "how do i move from here?
  • 00:17:43.245 --> 00:17:50.652
  • How do i raise these kids?
  • 00:17:50.652 --> 00:17:53.889
  • How do i build this business?
  • 00:17:53.889 --> 00:17:56.358
  • How do i go for this doctorate?
  • 00:17:56.358 --> 00:17:57.960
  • I don't have a model."
  • 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.063
  • Is there anybody in this room in uncharted territory and you
  • 00:18:01.063 --> 00:18:04.366
  • Don't even have a model for what it looks like to go through
  • 00:18:04.366 --> 00:18:07.302
  • Retirement, a model for what it looks like to be a widower?
  • 00:18:07.302 --> 00:18:10.973
  • Is anybody in uncharted territory in this room?
  • 00:18:10.973 --> 00:18:14.143
  • "i don't have a model for the way that i want
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  • To raise my children.
  • 00:18:15.811 --> 00:18:17.146
  • I don't have a model for the way that i want to
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  • Handle my finances."
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  • God sometimes puts us in positions where we don't have
  • 00:18:20.115 --> 00:18:25.354
  • A model.
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  • 2 corinthians 3:17, it's where this journey all began
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  • For me.
  • 00:18:36.131 --> 00:18:38.800
  • Because when most of us start talking about going from glory
  • 00:18:38.800 --> 00:18:41.803
  • To glory to glory, we get excited, but the disciples are
  • 00:18:41.803 --> 00:18:47.576
  • Going from glory to glory in this text and they
  • 00:18:47.576 --> 00:18:50.812
  • Looked stressed.
  • 00:18:50.812 --> 00:18:54.049
  • Nobody tells you that when you go from glory to glory to glory,
  • 00:18:54.049 --> 00:18:56.818
  • That there's isolation connected to it.
  • 00:18:56.818 --> 00:18:59.087
  • Nobody tells you that when you go from glory to glory to glory,
  • 00:18:59.087 --> 00:19:02.758
  • That sometimes you question yourself, that going from glory
  • 00:19:02.758 --> 00:19:05.194
  • To glory is not the flex that people want you to think it is.
  • 00:19:05.194 --> 00:19:08.463
  • Sometimes going to glory to glory means i went by myself.
  • 00:19:08.463 --> 00:19:11.300
  • Sometimes going from glory to glory meant that
  • 00:19:11.300 --> 00:19:13.335
  • People had to walk away from me.
  • 00:19:13.335 --> 00:19:14.670
  • Sometimes going from glory to glory meant i did
  • 00:19:14.670 --> 00:19:16.905
  • It feeling uncovered.
  • 00:19:16.905 --> 00:19:18.240
  • Sometimes going from glory to glory meant i
  • 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.542
  • Had a target on my back.
  • 00:19:20.542 --> 00:19:21.877
  • Because he's asking them to do something that he just got
  • 00:19:21.877 --> 00:19:25.447
  • Crucified for, and you're telling me that this is what
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  • Promotion looks like; that i'm putting myself in a position
  • 00:19:28.383 --> 00:19:32.454
  • Where now i become a target, where now i can go through the
  • 00:19:32.454 --> 00:19:35.724
  • Very pain that you went through?
  • 00:19:35.724 --> 00:19:37.593
  • Glory to glory to glory sometimes means that before you
  • 00:19:37.593 --> 00:19:41.196
  • Get the resurrecting powers, you got to be willing to be nailed
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  • To something.
  • 00:19:44.032 --> 00:19:52.541
  • So jesus says, "don't leave 'cause you still got cracks in
  • 00:19:52.541 --> 00:19:59.615
  • Your spirit.
  • 00:19:59.615 --> 00:20:02.584
  • Don't just take off running with this command 'cause you still
  • 00:20:02.584 --> 00:20:06.154
  • Got cracks in your spirit."
  • 00:20:06.154 --> 00:20:08.023
  • He says, "wait for the promise of the father.
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  • You're going to need the promise of the father.
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  • You're going to need the holy ghost in order to step into this
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  • Next dimension of glory."
  • 00:20:16.031 --> 00:20:18.233
  • Oh god, i'm about to land the plane, but i just wanted to tell
  • 00:20:18.233 --> 00:20:20.469
  • You something.
  • 00:20:20.469 --> 00:20:21.970
  • I thought this was interesting because this is not the first
  • 00:20:21.970 --> 00:20:24.573
  • Time that jesus has given them power and authority.
  • 00:20:24.573 --> 00:20:28.410
  • We see it in luke 9, he gave them power and authority and he
  • 00:20:28.410 --> 00:20:31.446
  • Sent them out and they went from home to home, and i'm wondering
  • 00:20:31.446 --> 00:20:34.449
  • To myself, "god, if you gave them power and authority in luke
  • 00:20:34.449 --> 00:20:37.319
  • 9, why do they have to wait for the holy spirit in acts 1?"
  • 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:41.223
  • Because the type of power that you need for this dimension is
  • 00:20:41.223 --> 00:20:44.593
  • Different than the power you had for the previous dimension.
  • 00:20:44.593 --> 00:20:47.729
  • I came to preach to somebody to let them know you're going from
  • 00:20:47.729 --> 00:20:50.832
  • Glory to glory to glory, but you got to wait because if you go to
  • 00:20:50.832 --> 00:20:54.703
  • Glory to glory without the power you need for this level, that
  • 00:20:54.703 --> 00:20:58.373
  • Cracked mirror is going to crush your spirit.
  • 00:20:58.373 --> 00:21:00.842
  • But god is too kind to send you to the next dimension without
  • 00:21:00.842 --> 00:21:04.713
  • Giving you a spirit for where he is calling you to.
  • 00:21:04.713 --> 00:21:07.916
  • You didn't know, but you came to a baptism service because
  • 00:21:07.916 --> 00:21:11.053
  • Somebody's about to be baptized afresh in the holy ghost for the
  • 00:21:11.053 --> 00:21:15.090
  • Dimension that god is calling them to.
  • 00:21:15.090 --> 00:21:19.828
  • They got to be baptized.
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  • Matthew ashimolowo: it's time to shift.
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  • Tell your neighbor, "to shift."
  • 00:21:30.172 --> 00:21:33.642
  • This shifting has to be through personal shifting, and the
  • 00:21:33.642 --> 00:21:37.079
  • Personal shifting must start with training.
  • 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:39.848
  • This training will be by observation.
  • 00:21:39.848 --> 00:21:42.284
  • 2 timothy chapter 2, verse 2, "and the things you've seen and
  • 00:21:42.284 --> 00:21:45.754
  • Heard of me, the same commits to faithful men who will be able to
  • 00:21:45.754 --> 00:21:50.959
  • Teach others."
  • 00:21:50.959 --> 00:21:52.794
  • Observation, and that's the reason for coming to a
  • 00:21:52.794 --> 00:21:55.864
  • Conference like this.
  • 00:21:55.864 --> 00:21:57.199
  • You don't just come and listen to the message.
  • 00:21:57.199 --> 00:21:58.900
  • You need to look at the ambience of the conference.
  • 00:21:58.900 --> 00:22:01.603
  • "why do they have this kind of screens?
  • 00:22:01.603 --> 00:22:03.939
  • Why is it put together like this?
  • 00:22:03.939 --> 00:22:05.674
  • You mean this is possible?
  • 00:22:05.674 --> 00:22:07.442
  • Can i be able to do this?"
  • 00:22:07.442 --> 00:22:09.811
  • We need church unusual, not usual church.
  • 00:22:09.811 --> 00:22:16.084
  • Observe.
  • 00:22:16.084 --> 00:22:17.686
  • Watch the man.
  • 00:22:17.686 --> 00:22:19.254
  • Look at what he's doing.
  • 00:22:19.254 --> 00:22:20.722
  • "why does he have so many managers managing the event?
  • 00:22:20.722 --> 00:22:23.692
  • Why are those people there?
  • 00:22:23.692 --> 00:22:25.093
  • Why do they do that?"
  • 00:22:25.093 --> 00:22:26.428
  • And you could see the synchronization, the
  • 00:22:26.428 --> 00:22:28.630
  • Orderliness, the excellence as a result of what has been put
  • 00:22:28.630 --> 00:22:33.568
  • In place.
  • 00:22:33.568 --> 00:22:36.171
  • Observe.
  • 00:22:36.171 --> 00:22:38.840
  • And then we move from observation to assimilation.
  • 00:22:38.840 --> 00:22:42.310
  • Assimilate.
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  • Take it in.
  • 00:22:43.745 --> 00:22:45.113
  • Study. copy.
  • 00:22:45.113 --> 00:22:49.217
  • The prophet told the woman, "borrow vessels and borrow not
  • 00:22:49.217 --> 00:22:53.755
  • A few."
  • 00:22:53.755 --> 00:22:55.657
  • Borrow this if you can afford it, of course.
  • 00:22:55.657 --> 00:23:03.565
  • Borrow vessels.
  • 00:23:03.565 --> 00:23:05.801
  • Borrow concepts.
  • 00:23:05.801 --> 00:23:08.136
  • The message is not enough.
  • 00:23:08.136 --> 00:23:09.538
  • Don't just go and re-preach the message alone.
  • 00:23:09.538 --> 00:23:12.107
  • Borrow the concept you saw, the ambience, the ability, the
  • 00:23:12.107 --> 00:23:16.845
  • Skills with which it was put together.
  • 00:23:16.845 --> 00:23:19.448
  • Assimilate.
  • 00:23:19.448 --> 00:23:24.786
  • Third way to be trained is through imitation, imitation.
  • 00:23:24.786 --> 00:23:32.461
  • 1 corinthians 11:1.
  • 00:23:32.461 --> 00:23:34.196
  • Imitate good things.
  • 00:23:34.196 --> 00:23:35.564
  • That's what the scripture says.
  • 00:23:35.564 --> 00:23:37.766
  • Imitate.
  • 00:23:37.766 --> 00:23:40.502
  • And it doesn't have to even be a big conference.
  • 00:23:40.502 --> 00:23:43.071
  • Sometimes it may just be somebody else's church you went
  • 00:23:43.071 --> 00:23:45.173
  • To preach and you found that their hospitality team is
  • 00:23:45.173 --> 00:23:50.412
  • A star.
  • 00:23:50.412 --> 00:23:52.681
  • Imitate.
  • 00:23:52.681 --> 00:23:55.217
  • Joseph retrained himself.
  • 00:23:55.217 --> 00:23:57.285
  • That's why his brothers could not recognize him 'cause they
  • 00:23:57.285 --> 00:24:02.757
  • Still stayed in the same language they spoke, told the
  • 00:24:02.757 --> 00:24:06.061
  • Same jokes, hung with the same friends.
  • 00:24:06.061 --> 00:24:09.164
  • Who you see determines who sees you.
  • 00:24:09.164 --> 00:24:16.471
  • Who you hear determines who hears you.
  • 00:24:16.471 --> 00:24:19.808
  • Bishop t.d. jakes: one of the hardest parts of leadership both
  • 00:24:21.676 --> 00:24:24.045
  • In my faith walk and in my business walk is making great
  • 00:24:24.045 --> 00:24:28.383
  • Decisions, and it is almost impossible to make great
  • 00:24:28.383 --> 00:24:32.687
  • Decisions if you have poor information.
  • 00:24:32.687 --> 00:24:35.590
  • Poor information is predicated on the prompting ability to ask
  • 00:24:35.590 --> 00:24:39.828
  • The kinds of questions that elicits from the people around
  • 00:24:39.828 --> 00:24:44.132
  • You the responsibility of garnering the kind of
  • 00:24:44.132 --> 00:24:48.103
  • Information that equips you to make optimum decisions that
  • 00:24:48.103 --> 00:24:52.674
  • Don't have the consequences that lead to regret.
  • 00:24:52.674 --> 00:24:56.411
  • So effective decision-making is very important as a leader, as a
  • 00:24:56.411 --> 00:25:02.150
  • Pastor, as a business person, as a thinker, as a person who wants
  • 00:25:02.150 --> 00:25:06.988
  • To raise the barometer on the economic impact for generations
  • 00:25:06.988 --> 00:25:11.459
  • To generations.
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  • As a father, as a leader, as a woman in power, you are no
  • 00:25:12.827 --> 00:25:16.898
  • Greater than the decisions you make, but you can't make great
  • 00:25:16.898 --> 00:25:20.769
  • Decisions if you don't surround yourself with good people and
  • 00:25:20.769 --> 00:25:24.406
  • Good information.
  • 00:25:24.406 --> 00:25:25.740
  • Effective decision-making is definitely a part of
  • 00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:29.644
  • Great leadership.
  • 00:25:29.644 --> 00:25:30.979
  • You can be greatly anointed.
  • 00:25:30.979 --> 00:25:32.347
  • You can be greatly gifted.
  • 00:25:32.347 --> 00:25:33.949
  • You can sing the paint off the wall, but if you cannot make the
  • 00:25:33.949 --> 00:25:37.285
  • Right decisions, sign the right contracts, hire the right
  • 00:25:37.285 --> 00:25:40.722
  • People, negotiate the right terms, do the right deals--your
  • 00:25:40.722 --> 00:25:45.026
  • Gift is not enough.
  • 00:25:45.026 --> 00:25:46.695
  • Your anointing is not enough.
  • 00:25:46.695 --> 00:25:49.230
  • Your degree is not enough.
  • 00:25:49.230 --> 00:25:51.533
  • Your degree is no better than the decisions you make with it.
  • 00:25:51.533 --> 00:25:55.737
  • Effective decision-making is a part of great leadership.
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  • Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals
  • 00:26:07.148 --> 00:26:10.719
  • A timeless truth:
  • 00:26:10.719 --> 00:26:15.957
  • That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails,
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  • But lights the path for those who follow.
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  • Every era has its torch bearers who inspire, innovate, and
  • 00:26:32.007 --> 00:26:36.511
  • Take risks.
  • 00:26:36.511 --> 00:26:39.381
  • And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
  • 00:26:39.381 --> 00:26:43.685
  • Dawn rises, and the flame multiplies.
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  • This is the international leadership summit, a place where
  • 00:26:50.492 --> 00:26:54.929
  • Leaders from all walks are equipped to shape the future.
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  • Will your legacy light the way?
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  • Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us
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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. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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