T.D. Jakes - The Power of Agreement

February 25, 2025 | S25:E32

Look at your circumstances and agree that God is still going to work things out for your Good!

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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - The Power of Agreement | February 25, 2025
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: ninety-nine years old
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  • Is not a good time to have a child.
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  • Even if you're able to have a child, who wants to be running
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  • In behind a 2 year old at 101?
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  • This is not a good time in the eyes of men to have a child, but
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  • It was just right for god.
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  • I'm trying to tell you that what you started out snickering at
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  • Didn't mean that you didn't want it.
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  • It didn't mean that sara didn't want a child.
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  • It was just that at this particular time, it was harder
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  • Than ever to believe god.
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  • In the middle of covid-19 and an economic breakdown and the
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  • Country divided by politics, this is the worst time to do
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  • Anything, and yet god has a way of picking the worst time to do
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  • The best stuff.
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  • Do you not know that more people became millionaires during the
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  • Great depression than any other time in the history of
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  • This country?
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  • While other people were talking about the bread lines and
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  • Talking about how things were going down and how things were
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  • Impossible, other people were buying up property, buying up
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  • Businesses, buying up companies, because they were on sale for
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  • Little or nothing.
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  • Because they recognized that the time didn't have anything to do
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  • With the promise.
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  • I want to talk to you today because the enemy is trying to
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  • Distract you with the bad news to the point that you don't see
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  • The good news.
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  • Let me tell you something, everybody's not worried about
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  • The bad news.
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  • Everybody's not worried about the headline.
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  • Everybody's not upset about the things that common people are
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  • Upset about.
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  • Other people are looking for the opportunity, in spite of
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  • The age.
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  • I'm 99, but god said it's gonna happen, and covid is everywhere.
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  • We're spiking in the city, but god said he's gonna bless me.
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  • Things are getting worse than ever, but i believe god's gonna
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  • Bless me.
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  • The country looks like it's falling apart, but god said, i'm
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  • Not looking at none of that stuff.
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  • I swear i'm gonna bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch the potter's touch ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: god has decreed
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  • For us to come into agreement.
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  • You don't need to make an agreement with somebody where
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  • You think just alike.
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  • You need an agreement where there is a possibility
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  • Of contention.
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  • You don't need a contract if you don't have the possibility
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  • Of contention.
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  • The possibility of contention is you may stray, i may stray, but
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  • An agreement means, we agree about this.
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  • We may not agree about--you may want a stucco house, i may want
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  • A brick house, but if we agree to what's in the covenant, we
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  • Have an agreement, which today is called a contract, and when
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  • You have a contract, you have deliverables, whereas for the
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  • Which cause this person should deliver this by this day or that
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  • Day, does not mean that we both like meatloaf.
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  • All right, so we can have our distinctions, we can have our
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  • Differences, but the agreement is those areas in our lives that
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  • We have an understanding, that we are in agreement about a mou,
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  • A memorandum of understanding, we have come into covenant.
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  • Abraham and sara are able to defy all odds based
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  • On agreement.
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  • Agreeing with each other about what god has spoken in their
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  • Life, but what i want to share over the next few minutes is
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  • That agreement doesn't come easy.
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  • Agreement doesn't come easy.
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  • We can come over here.
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  • You can bring a man and a woman and bring them to us and we can
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  • Pronounce them man and wife.
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  • Average wedding ceremony actually a matter of about 30
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  • Or 40 minutes, but they may spend the next 10 years coming
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  • Into agreement.
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  • The service and the wedding is easier than the marriage and the
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  • Ever after.
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  • Coming into agreement is a process.
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  • So you start out bickering about little things.
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  • You didn't put down the toilet seat, you leave the tube
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  • Out--tube of toothpaste open, you did this, you did that, you
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  • Don't clean up after yourself, you don't cook, ta da da, you
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  • Come into agreement.
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  • See, the problem is we want everything right now, but we
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  • Don't want to go through the process that it takes to come
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  • Into agreement.
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  • It is a process, it is arduous, it is difficult, it is a
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  • Journey, it develops over time, it enriches itself through
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  • Experiences, and eventually we come in agreement.
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  • Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
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  • Together in unity.
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  • It is like the oil that fell onto the head of aaron, onto his
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  • Beards and onto his skirts, for there god commanded a blessing,
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  • Even life forevermore.
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  • Where is there?
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  • At the point of our agreement.
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  • Wherever we walked, however long it took, whatever we went
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  • Through, at the point we came into agreement, that's when the
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  • Blessing began to occur in our lives.
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  • While we are coming into process, we can't be fruitful
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  • Because we haven't come into full agreement.
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  • We need agreement.
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  • If we're gonna build a church, we need agreement.
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  • If we're gonna build a business, we need agreement.
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  • If we're gonna have a great ministry, we need agreement.
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  • If we're gonna raise great children, we need agreement.
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  • If we're gonna have a great marriage, we need agreement.
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  • We don't need to be the same, but we need to have agreement.
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  • My wife and i are as different as day and night about
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  • Some things.
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  • She has one personality type, i have another, but we come into
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  • Agreement about certain things.
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  • I didn't have to morph into being her.
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  • She doesn't have to morph into becoming me.
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  • We learned that over the years that it's better to let her be
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  • Her and let me be me so that we can be comfortable in the
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  • Relationship, but we come into agreement about certain things
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  • And those areas are the places of being fruitful.
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  • Agreements aren't easy.
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  • Agreements require negotiation.
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  • Agreements require maturity.
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  • Agreements require process.
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  • Agreements require commitment.
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  • Agreements require focus, and agreements take time.
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  • I tell my wife all the time, when it comes to the bigger the
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  • Business deal, the longer the time it takes.
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  • I've never seen anybody do a big deal in a short time.
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  • Anything that comes together too quick scares me, because when
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  • Something is big it's complicated and when it's
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  • Complicated it takes time, and you wanna have the forethought
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  • To think about all the details so that if you do all the grunt
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  • Work up front, when you deliver the thing you're trying to
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  • Deliver, you are less likely to have problems if you do the
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  • Grunt work up front.
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  • Today, we get married fast and then after we get married, we
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  • Start dating each other.
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  • We need to do that the other way around.
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  • Before i walk up the aisle and say i do, i need to know who i'm
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  • Saying i do to.
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  • I need to know something about you.
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  • I need to know something about your parents.
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  • I need to know something about your family.
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  • I need to know something about your background.
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  • I need to know something about your childhood.
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  • It may not all be good, it may not all be nice, but i need to
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  • Know what i'm coming into agreement with, and then i need
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  • To know what we are agreeing about.
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  • What do you mean when you say i love you?
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  • What do you mean when you say let's get married?
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  • What do you mean when you say happily ever after?
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  • To make sure that we have the same vision, because if we don't
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  • Have the same vision, write this down, if we don't have the same
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  • Vision, we're gonna have division.
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  • Division isn't that we're enemies, it's just that we got
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  • Two different visions as to what we're trying to get done, and
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  • For the first couple to be listed in the hallmark of faith,
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  • They went through a process to come into agreement.
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  • Pastor, pastor, pastor, don't be discouraged if your whole church
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  • Is not in agreement with you.
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  • You've been there a few years.
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  • It's gonna take some time to develop agreement.
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  • You may not ever have the whole church buy in to get done what
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  • You're trying to get done, but to develop enough around you, a
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  • Disciples, a quorum, a group that brings about agreement
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  • Takes time and investment.
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  • Just because you appoint people doesn't bring them into
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  • Agreement with the vision.
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  • Just because they got degrees doesn't bring them into
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  • Agreement with the vision.
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  • Just because they got talent doesn't mean they have agreement
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  • With the vision.
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  • Everything good doesn't go together with each other.
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  • It takes a while to find that harmonious zone whereby you can
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  • Play your note, i can play my note, and we can still have a
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  • Harmonious sound and not a cacophony of noise that hinders
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  • And breaks down our ability to have agreement.
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  • A chord is notes that come into agreement to produce a sound.
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  • A cacophony is when you add a note that doesn't fit in that
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  • Chord structure, it creates noise, but not music, and a lot
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  • Of us are not making music, we're making noise because we've
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  • Got the wrong notes in the chord that stops us from getting the
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  • Promises that are based on our ability to come on one accord.
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  • And when the day of pentecost was fully come and they were in
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  • One place, with what, one accord, suddenly there came a
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  • Sound from heaven.
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  • The moment they got with one accord, there came a suddenly in
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  • Their life.
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  • They sat there ten days to get with one accord.
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  • Jesus left on the 40th day, the holy ghost didn't fall 'til the
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  • 50th day, it took them 10 days to get with one accord.
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  • People who have been together for three years still took ten
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  • Days when they were in one place with one accord, suddenly there
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  • Came a sound from heaven.
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  • We didn't wait ten days for the sound to come.
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  • We're waiting ten days for us to get with one accord.
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  • How much have you put into one accord?
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  • How much have you put into an agreement?
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  • How much effort and work and talk and communication has gone
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  • Into agreement?
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  • Is it agreement you want or control?
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  • Is it agreement you want or domination?
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  • An agreement means we got to negotiate.
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  • It means i may have to give up some things, you may have to
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  • Give up some things, we have to believe in something higher than
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  • Our own selfish ambitions in order to come into agreement, so
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  • That we can accomplish the things of god.
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  • Are you with me?
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  • I don't know who i'm talking to, i don't know why i'm talking
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  • This way, but god's getting ready to bring you into
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  • Agreement that's gonna unlock some things in your life like
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  • You have never seen before, and the reasons you've been hindered
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  • Before is that you have hooked up with people that weren't in
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  • Agreement with you and ultimately everything fell apart
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  • For the lack of cohesiveness 'cause you didn't
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  • Have agreement.
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  • Jesus spent more time with the 12 than he did with the 5,000.
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  • You can't get 5,000 people to agree about what color carpet
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  • We're gonna have, but he worked with the 12 to bring them
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  • To agreement.
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  • Agreement is a powerful thing.
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  • If you get agreement it'll change your life.
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  • If you get agreement it will open up doors.
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  • Agreement is a powerful thing, but it takes time to come into
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  • Agreement because not only do we need to come into agreement
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  • About principles that require some negotiation and some
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  • Sacrifice of my selfishness and my narcissistic attitude, i may
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  • Have to give up some of that, for the benefit of agreement i
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  • Have to give up some of me for there to be a us.
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  • Are you hearing what i'm saying to you?
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  • But i also want you to understand that agreement is
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  • Difficult because we have to grow into agreement with god
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  • Because there's not as much difference between abraham and
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  • Sara as there is difference between abraham, sara, and god.
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  • God is eternal.
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  • God is everlasting.
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  • God is holy.
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  • God is perfect in all his ways.
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  • God is omnipresent.
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  • God is omnipotent.
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  • God is omniscient.
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  • They are none of that.
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  • They are temporal.
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  • They are finite.
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  • They are human.
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  • They are fallen.
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  • They are chaotic.
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  • They are sinful.
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  • They make mistakes.
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  • They--look at what it took for them to come into alignment with
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  • A god who is even more different than they are from each other.
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  • So when your prayer partner and you come together into
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  • Agreement, that's a job.
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  • The next job is to come into agreement with god, who sees the
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  • End from the beginning, who has an expected end for your life,
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  • Who is perfect in all his ways, coming into agreement with god
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  • Is a process.
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  • How do i come into agreement with god?
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  • Spending time, spending prayer, being honest with yourself,
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  • Being honest with him.
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  • Stop being religious and pretending to be something that
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  • You're not.
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  • Open up your heart to the holy spirit, allow the holy spirit to
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  • Begin to walk into your life, and little by little, the word
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  • Is made flesh in your life and when the word is made flesh in
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  • Your life, you're coming into agreement.
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  • When the word is made flesh in your life, when you stop being a
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  • Hearer and become a doer of the word, you come into agreement.
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  • Just because you're exposed to the word doesn't mean you're in
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  • Agreement to it.
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  • Just because you heard the sermon doesn't mean that you're
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  • In agreement to it.
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  • Just because you go to a great church doesn't mean you're in
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  • Agreement to it.
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  • It takes a while for the word to penetrate your cold, stony,
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  • Fleshly heart and to get down to that soft place where you can
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  • Germinate and bring forth the character of god in your life,
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  • It's a proc--it's a process for abraham and sara.
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  • They did not start out being worthy of being in the hallmark
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  • Of faith.
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  • They had to grow into it.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: uncharted territory is the birthplace for
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  • Every great leader because we are called not only to face our
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  • Fear of the unknown, but to master it.
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  • Bishop jakes: you're planted in that position so that you can
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  • Have influence to change your generation.
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  • Male announcer: navigate your next defining moment at the
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  • International leadership summit 2025.
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  • Bishop jakes: there's a change coming.
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  • Bishop jakes: in genesis, it's where we first are introduced to
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  • Our god.
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  • He was the potter and we were the first pot.
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  • If there's anything good in me, it's got to be god because i
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  • Know that the vessel is earthen, but the treasure is divine.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: so when you hear the writer of hebrews in the
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  • 11th chapter talking about the power couple, you gotta
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  • Understand they didn't start out the power couple.
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  • They started out the lying couple, the laughing couple, the
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  • Doubting couple, the couple of fear and unbelief, but as they
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  • Kept on walking with god.
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  • You gotta walk with god through the laughing stage, you gotta
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  • Walk with god through the lying stage, you gotta walk with god
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  • Through the fearing stage, you gotta walk with god through the
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  • Worrying stage, and as you continue to walk with god, like
  • 00:15:31.580 --> 00:15:36.018
  • Scales falling off you, little by little by little by little
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  • God begins to mature himself into you, to bring you into the
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  • Power of agreement.
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  • "through faith also sara herself received strength."
  • 00:15:46.495 --> 00:15:52.968
  • You gonna need strength for what god's getting ready to give you.
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  • You gonna need strength for what god's getting ready--that's why
  • 00:15:55.571 --> 00:15:57.906
  • The enemy doesn't want you to have any strength.
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  • That's why he's feeding you all that stuff you shouldn't be
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  • Eating in your mind, in your spirit, in your soul, even in
  • 00:16:01.944 --> 00:16:04.847
  • Your body, because he doesn't want you to have the energy to
  • 00:16:04.847 --> 00:16:07.683
  • Birth, to really get that--labor is hard work.
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  • Having a baby is labor.
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  • I see why they call it labor.
  • 00:16:11.854 --> 00:16:13.288
  • You sweat, you grunt, you groan, you break blood vessels.
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  • Birthing a baby is work.
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  • You're gonna need strength to birth that thing that you have
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  • Started in your life, and you cannot do it tired.
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  • You cannot do it tired.
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  • You cannot do it depressed.
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  • You cannot do it feeling sorry for yourself.
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  • You cannot do it doubting yourself.
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  • You cannot do it walking in unbelief.
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  • You cannot do it walking in fear.
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  • "through faith also sara herself received strength."
  • 00:16:39.014 --> 00:16:46.422
  • Strength, she needed strength, lord?
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  • I thought she needed a cycle.
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  • I thought she needed a virile husband.
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  • I thought she needed to reverse the clock.
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  • God said, the first thing sara needed was strength because sara
  • 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:03.272
  • Was tired.
  • 00:17:03.272 --> 00:17:07.009
  • "through faith also sara herself received strength."
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  • Strength to conceive.
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  • We know she believed because it said, "through faith."
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  • She believed, she didn't start out believing, but she had at
  • 00:17:24.193 --> 00:17:28.063
  • Some point come to the place of believing.
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  • You come to the place of believing.
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  • You don't just automatically believe.
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  • You come to the place of believing.
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  • You grow to the place of believing.
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  • At first you're just making noise and you're just coming to
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  • Church and you're just shouting and you're just clapping, but
  • 00:17:41.944 --> 00:17:44.246
  • You're not really there yet.
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  • You come to the place of believing god.
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  • I know she finally got from behind the door, quit lying, she
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  • Quit laughing.
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  • Look at her, she's a woman of faith.
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  • She was lying, she was laughing.
  • 00:17:56.191 --> 00:17:58.560
  • Look at all the areas she had to grow in, from laughing to lying
  • 00:17:58.560 --> 00:18:02.865
  • To believing.
  • 00:18:02.865 --> 00:18:06.301
  • Just because she was lying doesn't mean she wasn't a woman
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  • Of god.
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  • Just because she was laughing doesn't mean she wasn't a woman
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  • Of god.
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  • She had to keep on walking.
  • 00:18:14.943 --> 00:18:16.512
  • As she kept on walking, she stopped lying, she stopped
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  • Laughing, and she started believing.
  • 00:18:21.717 --> 00:18:24.987
  • So, i know she was believing because it said,
  • 00:18:24.987 --> 00:18:26.922
  • "through faith."
  • 00:18:26.922 --> 00:18:28.257
  • Also, sara herself.
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  • Now, she had the faith, she's believing, but she needed
  • 00:18:29.992 --> 00:18:34.196
  • Strength to conceive.
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  • I want to talk to people who are in between believing
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  • And conceiving.
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  • You believe it, but you haven't conceived it yet, and the bible
  • 00:18:41.270 --> 00:18:45.274
  • Said you've got enough faith that you're through laughing and
  • 00:18:45.274 --> 00:18:48.010
  • You're through lying and you are believing, but you need strength
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  • To conceive, and you need to lift your hands right where you
  • 00:18:53.248 --> 00:18:58.320
  • Are and ask god to just strengthen you and strengthen
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  • You and build you up and get you ready and get your energy back
  • 00:19:01.023 --> 00:19:04.393
  • And stop allowing the enemy to talk you into not being able to
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  • Do what god has called you to do.
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  • I'm talking right to you.
  • 00:19:11.733 --> 00:19:14.937
  • I'm talking right to your situation.
  • 00:19:13.402 --> 00:19:16.872
  • I'm talking right to your circumstances.
  • 00:19:16.872 --> 00:19:18.941
  • I'm talking right to how you feel in your body.
  • 00:19:18.941 --> 00:19:21.143
  • I'm talking right to how you feel in your head.
  • 00:19:21.143 --> 00:19:23.178
  • I'm talking right to how you feel in your moods.
  • 00:19:23.178 --> 00:19:25.247
  • I'm talking right to how you feel in your situation.
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  • You need to, whoosh, receive
  • 00:19:27.749 --> 00:19:30.018
  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • You need to receive strength.
  • 00:19:31.353 --> 00:19:32.688
  • You need to--right now, coming at you is strength
  • 00:19:32.688 --> 00:19:35.891
  • From the lord.
  • 00:19:35.891 --> 00:19:37.259
  • Coming at you is strength from god.
  • 00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:46.101
  • Coming at you is strength.
  • 00:19:38.594 --> 00:19:49.171
  • Coming at you, coming at you, coming at you, coming at you
  • 00:19:47.736 --> 00:19:52.774
  • Is strength!
  • 00:19:52.774 --> 00:19:55.177
  • Glory to god, strength.
  • 00:19:55.177 --> 00:19:58.847
  • In order to get from believing to conceiving, you have to
  • 00:20:00.515 --> 00:20:05.821
  • Receive strength to conceive seed, strengthen me for what
  • 00:20:05.821 --> 00:20:14.997
  • You're going to do at this season in my life.
  • 00:20:14.997 --> 00:20:18.967
  • There's no way in the world a 99 year old woman is supposed to
  • 00:20:18.967 --> 00:20:22.871
  • Have strength to push like this.
  • 00:20:22.871 --> 00:20:27.442
  • Supernatural strength is coming to you.
  • 00:20:27.442 --> 00:20:30.412
  • Supernatural strength, do you hear me?
  • 00:20:30.412 --> 00:20:32.481
  • Supernatural strength is coming to you in this last mile of
  • 00:20:32.481 --> 00:20:39.054
  • The way.
  • 00:20:39.054 --> 00:20:41.056
  • God has given you strength to conceive seed.
  • 00:20:41.056 --> 00:20:46.862
  • When she was past childbearing age, because--
  • 00:20:46.862 --> 00:20:56.905
  • Not because she went to g&c,
  • 00:20:57.706 --> 00:20:59.441
  • Not because she started taking her vitamins, do
  • 00:20:59.441 --> 00:21:01.376
  • All of that, but not because of any of that, but, "because she
  • 00:21:01.376 --> 00:21:05.380
  • Judged him faithful who had promised her."
  • 00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:10.686
  • Not because she looked at abraham and said, oh, look
  • 00:21:10.686 --> 00:21:13.088
  • At abraham.
  • 00:21:13.088 --> 00:21:14.456
  • No, it wasn't that.
  • 00:21:14.456 --> 00:21:16.858
  • It happened "because she judged him faithful who had
  • 00:21:16.858 --> 00:21:23.065
  • Promised her."
  • 00:21:23.065 --> 00:21:24.800
  • Do you really judge god faithful?
  • 00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:30.372
  • Do you really receive the strength to believe, that even
  • 00:21:30.372 --> 00:21:35.410
  • In this season, even with the ged, even graduating with two
  • 00:21:35.410 --> 00:21:40.482
  • Years from a junior college, even finished trade school, even
  • 00:21:40.482 --> 00:21:44.720
  • Been in prison, do you receive strength to conceive seed, or
  • 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:49.358
  • Are you just gonna lay back on the corner, grab yourself by the
  • 00:21:49.358 --> 00:21:52.594
  • Leg and say, "i can't, i can't, i can't."
  • 00:21:52.594 --> 00:22:01.670
  • The power of agreement is not just agreement between abraham
  • 00:22:01.670 --> 00:22:07.109
  • And sara.
  • 00:22:07.109 --> 00:22:08.610
  • They had that.
  • 00:22:08.610 --> 00:22:09.945
  • They both made it to the hallmark of faith.
  • 00:22:09.945 --> 00:22:12.714
  • Both of the--both of them were laughing, and both of them were
  • 00:22:12.714 --> 00:22:15.917
  • Liars, and they still made it to believing.
  • 00:22:15.917 --> 00:22:19.488
  • Thank you god for patience with us while we develop, and they
  • 00:22:19.488 --> 00:22:23.925
  • Made it to the hallmark of faith and abraham looked for a city
  • 00:22:23.925 --> 00:22:27.596
  • Whose builder and maker was god.
  • 00:22:27.596 --> 00:22:29.698
  • He had the faith to go out looking for something and not
  • 00:22:29.698 --> 00:22:32.934
  • Know exactly what he was looking for.
  • 00:22:32.934 --> 00:22:34.936
  • He had the faith to walk through uncertainty.
  • 00:22:34.936 --> 00:22:41.410
  • Do you have the faith to go through an uncertain period and
  • 00:22:41.410 --> 00:22:44.813
  • Still be searching for something that you cannot describe, but
  • 00:22:44.813 --> 00:22:48.517
  • I'll know it when i see it.
  • 00:22:48.517 --> 00:22:51.753
  • That keen discernment to sense what you cannot describe, and
  • 00:22:51.753 --> 00:22:57.325
  • Can you do it in the middle of a pandemic?
  • 00:22:57.325 --> 00:23:00.762
  • Can you do it in the middle of an economic turndown?
  • 00:23:00.762 --> 00:23:04.199
  • Can you do it in the middle of national, international,
  • 00:23:04.199 --> 00:23:07.769
  • Global turbulence?
  • 00:23:07.769 --> 00:23:09.104
  • Can you do it with all the odds stacked up against you, and you
  • 00:23:09.104 --> 00:23:13.175
  • Still say, i'm looking for something.
  • 00:23:13.175 --> 00:23:18.146
  • I'm looking for something.
  • 00:23:18.146 --> 00:23:19.648
  • I am not looking to die on a ventilator.
  • 00:23:19.648 --> 00:23:23.018
  • I am not looking to be in some refrigerated 18 wheeler.
  • 00:23:23.018 --> 00:23:27.522
  • I am not looking to be homeless.
  • 00:23:27.522 --> 00:23:30.125
  • I am not looking to be in a nervous breakdown.
  • 00:23:30.125 --> 00:23:33.128
  • I'm not looking to be in a nursing home.
  • 00:23:33.128 --> 00:23:35.297
  • I am not looking for that.
  • 00:23:35.297 --> 00:23:36.932
  • I'm looking for something else.
  • 00:23:36.932 --> 00:23:38.266
  • I'm looking, i'm looking, i'm looking.
  • 00:23:38.266 --> 00:23:39.801
  • I'm looking for a city whose builder and maker is god.
  • 00:23:39.801 --> 00:23:42.904
  • I'm looking for something that has the foundations, not
  • 00:23:42.904 --> 00:23:46.274
  • The finish.
  • 00:23:46.274 --> 00:23:47.809
  • Not the finish, i'm not looking for the fini--oh, you didn't
  • 00:23:47.809 --> 00:23:51.112
  • Hear that.
  • 00:23:51.112 --> 00:23:52.481
  • I'm not looking for the finish, i'm looking for the foundation.
  • 00:23:52.481 --> 00:23:54.516
  • If the foundation is there, i can do the finish.
  • 00:23:54.516 --> 00:23:58.687
  • I am looking for the foundation in a wife.
  • 00:23:58.687 --> 00:24:01.189
  • I'm looking for the foundation in a husband.
  • 00:24:01.189 --> 00:24:03.492
  • I'm looking for the foundation in a pastor.
  • 00:24:03.492 --> 00:24:05.827
  • I'm looking for the foundation of a business.
  • 00:24:05.827 --> 00:24:08.330
  • Stop trying to find finished stuff.
  • 00:24:08.330 --> 00:24:10.765
  • You're glitzy and glamorous and trying to find something you can
  • 00:24:14.636 --> 00:24:18.173
  • Post on instagram to impress people that don't even care
  • 00:24:18.173 --> 00:24:23.078
  • About you.
  • 00:24:23.078 --> 00:24:24.846
  • Find something that the foundation is right.
  • 00:24:24.846 --> 00:24:27.849
  • He said, i'm looking for the right foundation and he found
  • 00:24:27.849 --> 00:24:31.853
  • The city.
  • 00:24:31.853 --> 00:24:33.355
  • "through faith also sara herself received strength to conceive
  • 00:24:33.355 --> 00:24:38.260
  • Seed, when she was past childbearing age, because she
  • 00:24:38.260 --> 00:24:44.165
  • Judged him faithful who had promised."
  • 00:24:44.165 --> 00:24:48.303
  • In the meantime, she had laughed, she had lied, she had
  • 00:24:48.303 --> 00:24:54.676
  • Manipulated hagar, trying to get hagar to come in.
  • 00:24:54.676 --> 00:24:59.147
  • Abraham in the text i just read told god, he said, "what
  • 00:24:59.147 --> 00:25:02.617
  • About ishmael?
  • 00:25:02.617 --> 00:25:03.985
  • Won't he be enough?"
  • 00:25:03.985 --> 00:25:05.320
  • God said, "no, it's not gonna come through ishmael.
  • 00:25:05.320 --> 00:25:07.722
  • Ishmael's gonna be blessed, but he's not it.
  • 00:25:07.722 --> 00:25:10.191
  • He's not the promised seed."
  • 00:25:10.191 --> 00:25:11.927
  • Any time you have an ishmael, it's a sign that isaac
  • 00:25:11.927 --> 00:25:16.064
  • Is coming.
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  • Do you hear me?
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  • Anytime you have an ishmael, he is only a sign that isaac
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  • Is coming.
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  • Ishmael is always a forerunner for isaac.
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  • So don't you get to the ishmael situation and say, well
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  • That's all.
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  • I'm just gonna make do with that.
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  • No, that's not all.
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  • That is a forerunner and a predictor and a prophetic
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  • Utterance that isaac is still on his way.
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  • God, i feel like i'm talking to somebody.
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  • I don't mean you're gonna need to wait till everything's over.
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  • I mean right in the middle of this mess we're in right now,
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  • God's gonna do it, receive strength.
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Male announcer: it's about integration, not competition.
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  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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  • Be united.
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  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: think scale.
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  • John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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  • Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
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  • John hope bryant: you got all the dna for success right inside
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  • Of you.
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  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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  • Mellody hobson: i wanna change the idea of what
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  • A minority business is.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • John hope bryant: the world shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs right now.
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  • It's the moment.
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  • This is just the beginning.
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  • Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us on social media
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  • And share your story of how god is impacting your life.
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  • We look forward to seeing you next time on the potter's touch.
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  • ♪ the potter's touch the potter's touch ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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