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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Nothing Just Happens

July 29, 2025 | S E | 28:30

T.D. Jakes - Nothing Just Happens
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Nothing Just Happens | July 29, 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: i need to know that all hell has not
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  • Broken loose in my life, that satan hasn't snatched the
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  • Steering wheel from god and is driving my life to hell.
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  • I need to know that the demonic influences of my enemies have
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  • Not taken over my life even though i feel like my life has
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  • Become a prey to satanism, wickedness, and carnality.
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  • I need to know that god is not through working it out and that
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  • Sooner or later he's going to do something in my life that
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  • Makes sense.
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  • I need to know that nothing
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  • Just happen.
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  • ♪ oh-oh, the potter's touch ♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: a famine has arose in this text in a family who is
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  • Headed by elimelech, and they leave bethlehem, the house of
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  • Bread, because of the severity of the famine
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  • And they go to moab.
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  • Everybody's running for their lives, running for their lives.
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  • They go into moab for survival's sake, thinking that they were
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  • Going to be there a short time.
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  • End up being there ten years.
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  • Elimelech is strong enough to get naomi out of there with
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  • Their two sons and get them out of bethlehem to moab, but he
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  • Dies in moab.
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  • He dies in moab, and now naomi is widowed, surviving a famine,
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  • Raising two sons in a foreign country, unable to get back home
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  • Because of the famine, trying to survive against adversity, and
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  • Then she loses her two sons.
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  • Two sons.
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  • Now the woman has had a dead husband and now lost two sons.
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  • The husband you might could tolerate, you might say, well,
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  • He was up in years, he was up in age, it makes sense, but to lose
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  • Two sons in the space of ten years, she has lost every man
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  • She has ever loved.
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  • Exasperated and frustrated, she makes up in her mind, this is
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  • Enough for me, we're coming to the end of the famine,
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  • I want to go back home there is nothing left for me.
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  • She makes a statement she says, "i went out full and i came
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  • Back empty."
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  • In other words, there was a famine, but i was still blessed.
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  • It's amazing because sometimes you cannot know you're blessed
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  • Because you're going through a famine,
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  • Only to find out that the thing that you were worried about is
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  • Not nearly as significant as the thing that you had.
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  • In the midst of her famine, she still had her husband and
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  • Her children.
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  • Sometimes you can have something and not appreciate it until you
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  • Lose it.
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  • After that she lost her husband and her children, the famine
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  • Seemed insignificant by comparison.
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  • I say that because sometimes you're whining about things that
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  • Really don't matter.
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  • You're upset about things that really don't make any difference
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  • In your life, and if you were smart, you would learn how to
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  • Count your blessings and to thank god for what he's done in
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  • Your life.
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  • It looked like all hell had broken loose in her life.
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  • The famine, who would have thought that a famine would come
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  • And disrupt this relatively wealthy family and cause them to
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  • Flee like vagrants and move into moab and uproot all of their
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  • Heritage and leave their home and their surroundings and their
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  • Friends and find themselves in moab?
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  • Who would have thought that having gone to moab that she
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  • Would lose the husband she was relying on to be her sustenance,
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  • Her source, her friend, and her support?
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  • He died and left her there.
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  • Who would have thought that having lost her husband, she
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  • Goes to rely on her sons, and both, not one but both sons die?
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  • Who would have thought that this woman would end up in a female
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  • Feminine trinity of three women whose only thing that they now
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  • Share in common is that all of them have gone through death?
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  • Three women, naomi, who is the older woman, and ruth, who was
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  • Her daughter-in-law, and orpah, who was her other
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  • Daughter-in-law, three women whose common--commonality
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  • Was pain.
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  • Pain is a strange company keeper.
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  • It brings the oddest people together.
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  • There's a secret fraternity that exists amongst those who have
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  • Been in pain that is mind-boggling.
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  • It transcends the color of your skin.
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  • It transcends your background when you've been through certain
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  • Things, you feel for other people who have been through
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  • Those things because you relate to them.
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  • I personally don't like to have a whole lot to do with people
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  • Who have not been through pain.
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  • It's nothing against them, i'm not jealous of them.
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  • I just can't relate to them.
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  • I can't relate to them and i am sure that they will not be able
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  • To relate to me.
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  • The parts of me that i need to have known, that i need to have
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  • Touched, that i need to have fellowship are tied up not in
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  • The successes of my life, but in the struggles of my life,
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  • For god has done more through my struggles.
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  • He's done more through my struggles than he's ever done
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  • Through my successes, and if you look carefully at my successes,
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  • My successes are made out of the ingredients of my struggles.
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  • And you can never know my successes until you understand
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  • My struggles because my struggles are the pathway that
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  • Led me into my success.
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  • Are you hearing what i'm saying?
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  • And so if you're gonna have fellowship with somebody, you
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  • Have to choose your friends and make sure that they've had
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  • Something to die in their life.
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  • If you've never had anything to die in your life, you have the
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  • Kind of optimism that is annoying.
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  • If you've never had anything to go wrong in your life, i don't
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  • Like to hear you preach it.
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  • It aggravates me.
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  • It gets on my nerves because your preaching has not been
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  • Balanced by failure.
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  • If you've never had anything to die in your life, don't counsel
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  • Me, because you really don't understand me.
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  • 'cause you don't know why i am like i am until you've been
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  • Where i've been.
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  • If you've never had anything to die in your life, don't sit
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  • There and tell me, "be a man, take it, don't cry."
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  • You don't know what i'm taking.
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  • You don't know what i'm enduring.
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  • You don't understand.
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  • Just because you read some books and took a psych class doesn't
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  • Mean that you're ready to deal with the issues of my life.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • There's something about going through death and loss and pain
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  • And misfortune and adversity.
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  • There's something about going through things that don't seem
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  • Fair to you, that once you go through them you need to make
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  • Sense of the madness in your life since you can't change what
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  • Happened and you can't alter what you've been through.
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  • At least you need to be able to think that there's some greater
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  • Good that's going to come out of it.
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  • It's what they call bringing closure.
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  • To bring closure to it, to justify that i didn't go through
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  • This kind of pain for nothing.
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  • I need to be able to feel like something good is going to come
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  • Out of this.
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  • If i can't do that, then i feel like i'm a victim and i feel
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  • Like i've been victimized and i forever feel sorry for myself
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  • And i'm not free to go on with my life and i'm not safe to
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  • Remarry again and i'm not safe to get another job again and i'm
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  • Not safe in another church again because i have unresolved issues
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  • Out of my past and i'm not ready to go forward with my life
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  • Because i'm still tied up with where i came from.
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  • I need to know if i'm going to continue to worship god, i need
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  • To know that some demon didn't get loose in my life and wrecked
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  • My life.
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  • I need to know that all hell has not broken loose in my life,
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  • That satan hasn't snatched the steering wheel from god and is
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  • Driving my life to hell.
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  • I need to know that the demonic influences of my enemies have
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  • Not taken over my life even though i feel like my life has
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  • Become a prey to satanism, wickedness, and carnality.
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  • I need to know that god is not through working it out and that
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  • Sooner or later he's going to do something in my life that
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  • Makes sense.
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  • I need to know that nothing just happens.
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  • And so the women shared a tear together.
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  • They wept together. they cried together.
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  • They shared pain together, they shared burial together.
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  • They shared their losses together, they shared their
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  • Emptiness together.
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  • And naomi decided, "this is it, gotta split.
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  • I'm gonna quit.
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  • I'm going back home where i came from, gotta go.
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  • Can't take anymore.
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  • I'm going back home.
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  • I'm bitter, but i'm going back home bitter.
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  • I'm frustrated, but i'm going back home."
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  • And they fell on naomi and begin to weep because naomi had left a
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  • Significant impression on them.
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  • And all of a sudden in the midst of this pain, naomi starts
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  • Reasoning with them, "stop crying, stop crying.
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  • I have no options.
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  • I--what am i going to do?"
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  • She said, "if i married today and had more children, what are
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  • You going to do?
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  • Wait for the children to become grown that they might be your
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  • Husbands again?"
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  • She says, "i'm out of the game.
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  • The clock is against me."
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  • Oh, i wish, i wish i had time.
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  • I wish i had time to talk about time.
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  • What do you do when the clock is against you and you have enough
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  • Wisdom to do it over, but you don't have
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  • Enough time to do it over?
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  • What do you do when you miss your season and you've missed
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  • Your window of opportunity?
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  • What do you do when you know that you've got the desire to do
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  • It and you've got the passion to do it, but you look in the
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  • Mirror and the wrinkles in your face and the sagging of your
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  • Body indicates you don't have time to do this all over again?
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  • She says, "i don't have time to get pregnant again.
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  • I don't have a second chance at life.
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  • My life is over.
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  • Go away, don't hang around me.
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  • I have nothing left to give."
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  • There are people that when you start running out of time, you
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  • Get bitter, you get desperate, you start pushing people away
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  • From you because they're asking something of you that you don't
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  • Think you can give anymore, and you find yourself in a place of
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  • Depletion and it feels like god has forgotten you, but i remind
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  • You: nothing just happens.
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  • At this age, at this stage, there's a reason why it happened
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  • At this age.
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  • There's a reason why it happened at this level in life.
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  • It's not a mistake.
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  • It's not an accident.
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  • God didn't fall asleep on the job and the devil came in and
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  • Wrecked the car.
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  • No, god never sleeps and he never slumbers.
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  • He's in complete control, and he knows where you are and he knows
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  • How old you are and he knows how much time you spent and he knows
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  • What happened to you and he knows who walked out and left
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  • You and he knows who betrayed you and he knows who molested
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  • You and he knows who raped you and he knows who rejected you
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  • And he knows where you are in life and he knows about your
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  • Bills and he knows about your degree and he knows you dropped
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  • Out of school and he knows about what you didn't get and he knows
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  • About the health of your child and he knows about the condition
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  • Of your neighborhood.
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  • Understand that and tell yourself nothing just happens.
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  • Cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.aberdeen.io
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  • Bishop jakes: i want you to lift up your offering before the
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  • Lord, just lift it up.
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  • Whether you texted or sowed it or wrote it or whatever, just
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  • Lift it up.
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  • You that are home, lift up your hands as we offer.
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  • There's something about lifting it up makes you recognize that
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  • You're offering to god your seed.
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  • Father, we offer this offering up to you that it might go
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  • Before you as a sweet-smelling savor.
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  • There are some things that you and i have been talking about.
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  • There are some things that you and your people have been
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  • Talking about, and this is part of our conversation
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  • That we sow into our request.
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  • We don't just ask for it, but we sow into our request.
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  • We sow into our victory.
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  • We sow into our deliverance.
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  • We sow into the overcoming power of the holy spirit.
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  • Hallelujah, for we know it's not by might nor by power but by,
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  • "my spirit, sayeth the lord."
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  • Announcer: before "the potter's touch" became the signature
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  • Sermon broadcast of bishop t.d. jakes, it actually began as
  • 00:12:51.152 --> 00:12:54.355
  • Something very different.
  • 00:12:54.355 --> 00:12:55.690
  • In its earliest days, the show launched in a talk show format.
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  • Bishop jakes: i wanna welcome you to "the potter's touch."
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  • Announcer: hosted by bishop t.d. jakes himself, it featured live
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  • Audiences, candid discussions, and a wide range of guests
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  • From everyday people to high profile names.
  • 00:13:06.634 --> 00:13:09.771
  • The format was bold and personal, diving into real life
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  • Issues with spiritual insight and compassion, laying the
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  • Groundwork for what would become a trusted voice in
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  • Faith-based media.
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  • As the minister grew, so did the vision.
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  • "the potter's touch" evolved into the
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  • Preaching platform it's known for today.
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  • But its roots, they remind us that from the very beginning, it
  • 00:13:28.056 --> 00:13:31.492
  • Was always about connection, healing, and transformation.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: ruth, on the other hand, coming to the crossroads,
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  • She looks at orpah who left.
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  • Ruth turns to naomi and says, "as the lord liveth, i shall not
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  • Leave thee."
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  • She makes a statement to this woman that sounds somewhat--
  • 00:14:00.154 --> 00:14:04.058
  • Somewhere in between poetry, intimacy, and borders
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  • On lesbianism.
  • 00:14:08.329 --> 00:14:09.697
  • People don't even know how to explain what ruth said to naomi.
  • 00:14:09.697 --> 00:14:13.468
  • It makes them uncomfortable.
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  • They're afraid to talk about it.
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  • They don't wanna teach on it.
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  • The same thing as david and jonathan.
  • 00:14:17.505 --> 00:14:18.873
  • Whenever same-sex relationships get too close, people don't even
  • 00:14:18.873 --> 00:14:22.076
  • Know what to say because people are so carnal, they think that
  • 00:14:22.076 --> 00:14:24.913
  • The only thing that can tie you to somebody is flesh to flesh.
  • 00:14:24.913 --> 00:14:30.585
  • Understand that naomi was an older woman.
  • 00:14:30.585 --> 00:14:33.488
  • She was old enough to be ruth's mama.
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  • She's not attracted to naomi's flesh, something, some kind of
  • 00:14:37.992 --> 00:14:41.963
  • Way naomi's spirit has gotten in her spirit.
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  • There is something that happens to you occasionally where you
  • 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.704
  • Can meet somebody and you sense, you sense, you sense that your
  • 00:14:49.704 --> 00:14:56.110
  • Destiny, oh god.
  • 00:14:56.110 --> 00:15:01.449
  • Oh god, your destiny is tied to that person.
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  • Do you understand?
  • 00:15:07.956 --> 00:15:09.791
  • Do you understand what's happening to us?
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  • Do you understand that we're spending our lives together?
  • 00:15:12.593 --> 00:15:17.966
  • Has it ever crossed your mind that we're spending our
  • 00:15:17.966 --> 00:15:22.203
  • Lives together?
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  • That we will die after this and that we have been joined
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  • Together and we're spending our life together?
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  • Have you ever realized you could spend your life anywhere with
  • 00:15:32.981 --> 00:15:37.185
  • Anybody doing anything, but something happens inside of you
  • 00:15:37.185 --> 00:15:41.322
  • Where you sense that your destiny is tied to a ministry or
  • 00:15:41.322 --> 00:15:45.994
  • To a vision and you decide to spend your life--
  • 00:15:45.994 --> 00:15:49.597
  • People keep talking about spending their money.
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  • That ain't nothing.
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  • I can spend my money and live in chicago, but when i spend my
  • 00:15:53.001 --> 00:15:56.871
  • Life with you, that's all i have.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • I don't think--i don't think that hits you.
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  • We're spending our lives together.
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  • You will not be able to write your story and leave me out.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • We're spending our lives together.
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  • There is no greater bond possible.
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  • Occasionally in scriptures in the whole bible you see it,
  • 00:16:37.612 --> 00:16:39.981
  • You see it happening where people who are not even blood
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  • Related spend their lives together in the most intimate
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  • Connection possible.
  • 00:16:46.054 --> 00:16:47.955
  • And theologians and scholars and preachers stumble about it
  • 00:16:47.955 --> 00:16:51.225
  • Because they don't know how to talk about it because they don't
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  • Understand the power being joined together.
  • 00:16:53.227 --> 00:16:56.464
  • How can we explain what made elisha leave his natural mother
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  • And father and run after elijah to wait on him, to clean his
  • 00:17:00.535 --> 00:17:07.041
  • Clothes, to pour water on his hand, to set up his tent, but
  • 00:17:07.041 --> 00:17:11.546
  • Some kind of way elisha sensed that his destiny was tied
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  • To elijah.
  • 00:17:16.884 --> 00:17:18.252
  • How can we explain timothy, who walks away from everything that
  • 00:17:18.252 --> 00:17:22.690
  • He owns to hang out at the outside window of a jail cell as
  • 00:17:22.690 --> 00:17:27.228
  • An old man prepares to be beheaded?
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  • He peeks in the window, handing him books and blankets,
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  • Ministering to him.
  • 00:17:33.401 --> 00:17:34.769
  • The young man understood, i'll never be who i was meant to be
  • 00:17:34.769 --> 00:17:39.107
  • Without you in my life.
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  • Do you hear what i'm saying?
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  • There's something about the way you talk, it feeds me.
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  • There's something about the way you speak that changes me.
  • 00:17:47.181 --> 00:17:50.184
  • There's something about your spirit that motivates me and
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  • I'll never be completed without you.
  • 00:17:53.521 --> 00:17:55.890
  • And i didn't meet you by accident.
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  • I didn't stumble up and meet you.
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  • This--[speaking in tongues]
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  • This didn't just happen.
  • 00:18:05.600 --> 00:18:07.635
  • There's a reason that i'm in this place.
  • 00:18:07.635 --> 00:18:10.571
  • I'm so sick of talking to people who think that everything
  • 00:18:10.571 --> 00:18:14.575
  • Just happens.
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  • "i guess i'll go to church.
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  • I guess i'll get saved.
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  • I guess i'll move to chicago.
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  • I guess i'll move to dallas."
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  • That's not how it is.
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  • "the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord."
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  • Your steps were ordered.
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  • If you haven't got the phone call that you got when you got
  • 00:18:31.159 --> 00:18:33.995
  • Like you got it, you wouldn't even be here right now.
  • 00:18:33.995 --> 00:18:37.298
  • If you hadn't made the turn that you made yesterday, you wouldn't
  • 00:18:37.298 --> 00:18:41.002
  • Experience what you're experiencing today.
  • 00:18:41.002 --> 00:18:43.337
  • God has been behind the curtain like a puppet master pulling
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  • Strings in your life.
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  • It's not that you're smart.
  • 00:18:49.277 --> 00:18:51.212
  • It's not that you're great.
  • 00:18:51.212 --> 00:18:52.947
  • It's not that you're holy.
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  • It's not that you're perfect.
  • 00:18:54.715 --> 00:18:56.417
  • It's not that you're good, but god winded you up, pointed you
  • 00:18:56.417 --> 00:19:00.488
  • In the right direction, released you into your destiny, and you
  • 00:19:00.488 --> 00:19:03.891
  • Are here and you can't get away.
  • 00:19:03.891 --> 00:19:06.627
  • Slap somebody and tell them, "nothing just happens."
  • 00:19:06.627 --> 00:19:10.998
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:19:10.998 --> 00:19:26.147
  • Can i talk to you a few more minutes?
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  • This means, this means, this means that i'm up under the
  • 00:19:29.417 --> 00:19:34.155
  • Banner of his will.
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  • I'm up under the banner of his will.
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  • Even in the midst of death, i'm up under the banner of his will.
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  • Even in the midst of pain, i'm up under the banner of his will.
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  • Even in the midst of separation and disappointment, i'm up under
  • 00:19:47.501 --> 00:19:49.804
  • The banner of his will.
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  • Can i take you to the next level?
  • 00:19:52.573 --> 00:19:56.043
  • Jonah was sent to nineveh, went to tarshish.
  • 00:19:56.043 --> 00:20:01.082
  • Headed for tarshish, not obeying god,
  • 00:20:01.082 --> 00:20:05.286
  • Got thrown off the boat into the belly of the fish, swallowed up
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  • For three days.
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  • Even though god told him to go to nineveh and he didn't go, he
  • 00:20:11.392 --> 00:20:14.962
  • Was still in the will.
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  • I'm not sure you can handle this.
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  • He went the wrong way, and he was still in the will.
  • 00:20:25.106 --> 00:20:32.513
  • They threw him off the boat.
  • 00:20:32.513 --> 00:20:35.716
  • He was still in the will.
  • 00:20:35.716 --> 00:20:37.184
  • I'll prove to you he was in the will.
  • 00:20:37.184 --> 00:20:41.489
  • It just happened to be a big fish.
  • 00:20:41.489 --> 00:20:44.558
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:20:44.558 --> 00:20:51.799
  • See, it just happened to be a big fish swimming beside the big
  • 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:57.004
  • Boat so that when men dumped him over, the fish just happened--
  • 00:20:57.004 --> 00:21:02.443
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:21:02.443 --> 00:21:11.385
  • This is too strong.
  • 00:21:11.385 --> 00:21:12.753
  • You can't take this.
  • 00:21:12.753 --> 00:21:15.656
  • The fish carried him down to the bottom of the mountains with
  • 00:21:15.656 --> 00:21:18.859
  • Seaweed wrapped around his neck.
  • 00:21:18.859 --> 00:21:20.695
  • He's thousands of feet below sea level and god sustained him,
  • 00:21:20.695 --> 00:21:25.900
  • Sustained him not one day, not two days, not four days but
  • 00:21:25.900 --> 00:21:31.639
  • Three--three days.
  • 00:21:31.639 --> 00:21:35.343
  • Nothing just happens.
  • 00:21:35.343 --> 00:21:36.811
  • On the third day-- [congregation cheering]
  • 00:21:36.811 --> 00:21:43.084
  • On the third day, the backslidden, rebellious,
  • 00:21:43.084 --> 00:21:49.357
  • Reprobate, disconnected, disjointed preacher comes up out
  • 00:21:49.357 --> 00:21:55.730
  • Of the water and thousands of years later christ says, "even
  • 00:21:55.730 --> 00:22:00.201
  • As jonah was in the belly of the fish, three days, so shall the
  • 00:22:00.201 --> 00:22:05.406
  • Son of man be in the grave."
  • 00:22:05.406 --> 00:22:07.842
  • He had to get up when he got up, and he had to go down when he
  • 00:22:07.842 --> 00:22:12.880
  • Went down because nothing just happens, whoo!
  • 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:20.588
  • Oh god [speaking in tongues]
  • 00:22:20.588 --> 00:22:24.859
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:22:24.859 --> 00:22:31.632
  • Your mistakes were in his will.
  • 00:22:31.632 --> 00:22:34.201
  • Your trouble was in his will.
  • 00:22:34.201 --> 00:22:36.437
  • Your pain was in his will.
  • 00:22:36.437 --> 00:22:38.806
  • I don't care what you went through.
  • 00:22:38.806 --> 00:22:40.674
  • David said, "if i make my bed in hell, thou art there.
  • 00:22:40.674 --> 00:22:44.278
  • If i take the wings of their morning and ascend to the
  • 00:22:44.278 --> 00:22:47.181
  • Uttermost parts of the earth, god is still there."
  • 00:22:47.181 --> 00:22:50.484
  • He was with you in the middle of your trouble.
  • 00:22:50.484 --> 00:22:52.887
  • He was with you in the middle of your pain.
  • 00:22:52.887 --> 00:22:55.156
  • That's why paul said, "i've learned whatever state i'm in
  • 00:22:55.156 --> 00:22:58.859
  • Therewith to be content."
  • 00:22:58.859 --> 00:23:00.561
  • I know how to be rich.
  • 00:23:00.561 --> 00:23:02.096
  • I know how to be poor.
  • 00:23:02.096 --> 00:23:03.631
  • I know how to be free.
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  • I know how to be bound.
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  • You ought to shout, i don't care where you are because nothing
  • 00:23:06.500 --> 00:23:10.604
  • Just happens.
  • 00:23:10.604 --> 00:23:12.339
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:23:12.339 --> 00:23:39.366
  • Touch seven people and tell them, "he's got a plan.
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  • He's got a plan."
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:23:42.436 --> 00:24:12.333
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:23:52.446 --> 00:24:17.972
  • Whatever god has predetermined to happen, whatever god has
  • 00:24:17.972 --> 00:24:24.345
  • Predetermined to happen will come to pass.
  • 00:24:24.345 --> 00:24:28.816
  • And no devil in hell has ever been able to abort the purpose
  • 00:24:28.816 --> 00:24:34.288
  • Of god not once.
  • 00:24:34.288 --> 00:24:37.591
  • And yes, god gave you a human will and you're a free moral
  • 00:24:37.591 --> 00:24:40.794
  • Agent, but if you think that your human will is strong enough
  • 00:24:40.794 --> 00:24:44.632
  • To change his divine will, you are tripping.
  • 00:24:44.632 --> 00:24:48.335
  • You are out of your mind.
  • 00:24:48.335 --> 00:24:50.938
  • God is god.
  • 00:24:50.938 --> 00:24:52.740
  • The reason we worship him as god is because he is the ceo.
  • 00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:57.511
  • He is in charge.
  • 00:24:57.511 --> 00:24:59.213
  • He runs the universe.
  • 00:24:59.213 --> 00:25:02.516
  • And when god gets ready to make you and when god gets ready to
  • 00:25:02.516 --> 00:25:06.854
  • Break you and when god gets ready to take you, he's never
  • 00:25:06.854 --> 00:25:10.524
  • Been without the power to make you yield to his will.
  • 00:25:10.524 --> 00:25:14.628
  • He's never not one moment or time not been able to
  • 00:25:14.628 --> 00:25:18.732
  • Orchestrate your affairs and nothing in your life--
  • 00:25:18.732 --> 00:25:22.736
  • Think about the most damnable thing that ever happened and
  • 00:25:22.736 --> 00:25:25.706
  • Shout, "nothing."
  • 00:25:25.706 --> 00:25:27.041
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:25:27.041 --> 00:25:28.375
  • Bishop jakes: think about the most embarrassing thing that
  • 00:25:28.375 --> 00:25:30.477
  • Ever happened in your life and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:25:30.477 --> 00:25:32.780
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:25:32.780 --> 00:25:34.148
  • Bishop jakes: think about the most impoverished financially
  • 00:25:34.148 --> 00:25:36.317
  • Depleting thing that ever happened in your life and
  • 00:25:36.317 --> 00:25:38.686
  • Shout, "nothing."
  • 00:25:38.686 --> 00:25:40.120
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:25:40.120 --> 00:25:41.488
  • Bishop jakes: think about the worst scandal that you ever went
  • 00:25:41.488 --> 00:25:43.057
  • Through in your life and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:25:43.057 --> 00:25:45.726
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:25:45.726 --> 00:25:47.061
  • Bishop jakes: think about people who loved you and walked out and
  • 00:25:47.061 --> 00:25:48.796
  • Left you and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:25:48.796 --> 00:25:50.664
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:25:50.664 --> 00:25:51.999
  • Bishop jakes: think about betrayal on the highest level of
  • 00:25:51.999 --> 00:25:54.168
  • Your life and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:25:54.168 --> 00:25:56.403
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:25:56.403 --> 00:25:57.738
  • Bishop jakes: think about the struggle going on on your job
  • 00:25:57.738 --> 00:25:59.607
  • Right now and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:25:59.607 --> 00:26:01.742
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:26:01.742 --> 00:26:03.077
  • Bishop jakes: think about the attitude of your kin folks and
  • 00:26:03.077 --> 00:26:04.778
  • Your family members and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:26:04.778 --> 00:26:07.147
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:26:07.147 --> 00:26:08.482
  • Bishop jakes: think about how your boss is treating you on
  • 00:26:08.482 --> 00:26:10.184
  • Your job and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:26:10.184 --> 00:26:12.553
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:26:12.553 --> 00:26:13.887
  • Bishop jakes: think about that disagreement between you and
  • 00:26:13.887 --> 00:26:15.389
  • Your children and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:26:15.389 --> 00:26:17.858
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:26:17.858 --> 00:26:19.193
  • Bishop jakes: think about your past life of sin, your
  • 00:26:19.193 --> 00:26:20.961
  • Whoremongering, your inappropriateness, your
  • 00:26:20.961 --> 00:26:23.430
  • Attitude, your dysfunction, and shout, "nothing."
  • 00:26:23.430 --> 00:26:26.800
  • Congregation: nothing!
  • 00:26:26.800 --> 00:26:28.135
  • Bishop jakes: shout, "nothing." congregation: nothing!
  • 00:26:28.135 --> 00:26:29.603
  • Bishop jakes: let the devil hear you say, "nothing."
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  • Congregation: nothing!
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  • Bishop jakes: that devil will think he won if you don't
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  • Shout, "nothing."
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  • The devil will think he's in charge if you don't
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  • Shout, "nothing."
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  • He don't think he's gonna win, but you gotta shout, "nothing."
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  • In the midst of hell and high water shout, "nothing."
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  • In the midst of pain and despair, shout, "nothing."
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  • When your credit is denied, shout, "nothing."
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  • When you're evicted out of your house, shout, "nothing."
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  • When your boyfriend marry somebody else, shout,
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  • "nothing, nothing."
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  • Announcer: feel free to reach out to us on social media and
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  • Share your story 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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  • ♪ the potter's touch ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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