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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
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- 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."
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- 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
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- 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
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- Your body, because he doesn't want you to have the energy to
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- 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.
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- 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.
- 00:16:37.246 --> 00:16:39.014
- "through faith also sara herself received strength."
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- 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
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- Was tired.
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- "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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Look at all the areas she had to grow in, from laughing to lying
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- To believing.
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- 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.
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- As she kept on walking, she stopped lying, she stopped
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- Laughing, and she started believing.
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- So, i know she was believing because it said,
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- "through faith."
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- Also, sara herself.
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- Now, she had the faith, she's believing, but she needed
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- Strength to conceive.
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- I want to talk to people who are in between believing
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- And conceiving.
- 00:18:39.368 --> 00:18:41.270
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- I'm talking right to your situation.
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- I'm talking right to your circumstances.
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- I'm talking right to how you feel in your body.
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- I'm talking right to how you feel in your head.
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- I'm talking right to how you feel in your moods.
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- I'm talking right to how you feel in your situation.
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- You need to, whoosh, receive
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- [speaking in tongues]
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- You need to receive strength.
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- You need to--right now, coming at you is strength
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- From the lord.
- 00:19:35.891 --> 00:19:37.259
- Coming at you is strength from god.
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- 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
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- Is strength!
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- Glory to god, strength.
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- In order to get from believing to conceiving, you have to
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- Receive strength to conceive seed, strengthen me for what
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- You're going to do at this season in my life.
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- There's no way in the world a 99 year old woman is supposed to
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- Have strength to push like this.
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- Supernatural strength is coming to you.
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- 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
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- The way.
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- God has given you strength to conceive seed.
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- When she was past childbearing age, because--
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- Not because she went to g&c,
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- Not because she started taking her vitamins, do
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- All of that, but not because of any of that, but, "because she
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- Judged him faithful who had promised her."
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- Not because she looked at abraham and said, oh, look
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- At abraham.
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- No, it wasn't that.
- 00:21:14.456 --> 00:21:16.858
- It happened "because she judged him faithful who had
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- Promised her."
- 00:21:23.065 --> 00:21:24.800
- Do you really judge god faithful?
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- Do you really receive the strength to believe, that even
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- In this season, even with the ged, even graduating with two
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- 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
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- And sara.
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- They had that.
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- They both made it to the hallmark of faith.
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- 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
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- 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
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- Know exactly what he was looking for.
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- 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?
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- I am looking for the foundation in a wife.
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- I'm looking for the foundation in a husband.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- The city.
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- "through faith also sara herself received strength to conceive
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- 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
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- Manipulated hagar, trying to get hagar to come in.
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- Abraham in the text i just read told god, he said, "what
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- About ishmael?
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- Won't he be enough?"
- 00:25:03.985 --> 00:25:05.320
- God said, "no, it's not gonna come through ishmael.
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- Ishmael's gonna be blessed, but he's not it.
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- He's not the promised seed."
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- Any time you have an ishmael, it's a sign that isaac
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- Is coming.
- 00:25:16.064 --> 00:25:17.999
- Do you hear me?
- 00:25:17.999 --> 00:25:19.367
- Anytime you have an ishmael, he is only a sign that isaac
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- Is coming.
- 00:25:24.539 --> 00:25:25.907
- 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.
- 00:25:35.317 --> 00:25:36.651
- No, that's not all.
- 00:25:36.651 --> 00:25:38.153
- That is a forerunner and a predictor and a prophetic
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- Utterance that isaac is still on his way.
- 00:25:41.790 --> 00:25:48.763
- God, i feel like i'm talking to somebody.
- 00:25:48.763 --> 00:25:52.601
- I don't mean you're gonna need to wait till everything's over.
- 00:25:52.601 --> 00:25:56.404
- 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.
- 00:26:16.725 --> 00:26:19.694
- 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.
- 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:27.369
- Vusi thembekwayo: think scale.
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- John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
- 00:26:29.137 --> 00:26:31.473
- Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
- 00:26:35.343 --> 00:26:39.714
- 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
- 00:26:45.954 --> 00:26:47.756
- 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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