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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - The Pregnant Pause

March 3, 2025 | S25:E35

T.D. Jakes - The Pregnant Pause
A pause could actually help create the momentum you need to walk into your destiny
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - The Pregnant Pause | March 3, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: have you ever had a problem in the most
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  • Unlikely place?
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  • Everything you thought you'd have to go through, you never
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  • Had to go through it.
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  • But in the very place that you knew you had it tight, all hell
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  • Broke loose.
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  • Your faith isn't talent and tools and techniques.
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  • Where is your god?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: and so, he goes to the house of abinadab, and he
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  • Gets the ark of the covenant where it has rested for over
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  • 20 years.
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  • For over 20 years, god, in the minds of israel,
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  • Has been homeless.
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  • And israel has been godless.
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  • So, this is a blessed reunion.
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  • This is a blessed reunion.
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  • This is romeo and juliet.
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  • This is a coming together of lovers lost, and david
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  • Is leading the way.
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  • And he brings the ark of the covenant up on a new cart.
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  • He employs the help of abinadab's sons, ahio and uzzah,
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  • And he brings back the glory.
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  • And what you have to see is he has at least 30,000, that's just
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  • Men, with him.
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  • So let's just guesstimate, 60,000 people are following him
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  • Down a 7 mile road, a 7 mile biblical road, palestinian road.
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  • Can you imagine what it is like to have 60,000 people on a road
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  • You couldn't drive a truck through?
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  • No interstates, no highways, 60,000 people.
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  • Every village along the way is standing aghast.
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  • "what is that, girl, look, look."
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  • Back down the road for miles of people following david.
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  • And this is his moment to show how he is different from
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  • Other people.
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  • And his cause is good.
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  • He wants to bring back the glory.
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  • Nothing wrong with his cause.
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  • He got a new cart.
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  • He got ahio and uzzah.
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  • He got a band.
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  • They started playing music, people are waving banners.
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  • Here he comes, the new president, the new king,
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  • The new pastor.
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  • There's nothing worse than having a problem when you new.
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  • When you're old and you're established and you've been
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  • Around for a while, an established church can withstand
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  • The blow.
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  • Nobody wants a blow, but if you've been around a long time,
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  • You've established yourself enough, there are some folks
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  • That'll stand by you, but when you're new and you run into a
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  • Crisis, it could be fatal.
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  • And everybody's looking at him.
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  • And all of a sudden, he stumbles.
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  • Well, let me be fair.
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  • He didn't really stumble.
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  • The ox stumbled.
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  • The ox stumbled, and the ark slid.
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  • And uzzah reached out to grab it.
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  • And god got mad and killed uzzah.
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  • And david got mad because god killed uzzah.
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  • And he was frustrated because he started good, and he stumbled.
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  • The stumble is inevitable.
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  • The stumble happens for correction.
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  • You cannot lead without having a stumble.
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  • I know all the prophets have prophesied to you.
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  • The blessing of the lord, it's gonna overshadow you, and it's
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  • Gonna get you, and it's gonna knock you out, and your church
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  • Is gonna explode in 20 minutes, and this is gonna happen.
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  • Let me adjust this prophecy just a little bit.
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  • In between you and the fulfillment of that prophecy,
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  • It's gonna be a stumble.
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  • I want all the senior statesmen who have lived through a stumble
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  • To just holler at you boy.
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  • Who would have thought that the ox would stumble?
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  • If anybody ought to be used to walking on dirt roads, it ought
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  • To be oxes.
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  • Have you ever had a problem in the most unlikely place?
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  • Everything you thought you'd have to go through, you've never
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  • Had to go through it.
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  • But in the very place that you knew you had it tight, all hell
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  • Broke loose.
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  • The stumble occurs and the bible just notates that it occurs at
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  • The threshing floor.
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  • This is no accident.
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  • The threshing floor is the place where the harvesters would bring
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  • The wheat to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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  • What makes it and what doesn't, what's bread and what isn't.
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  • It removes the stalk and the inedible portions of the plant
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  • So that the only thing left is that which matters.
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  • Now the ox did good 'til it got to the threshing floor.
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  • He's walking real good.
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  • They were singing real good.
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  • They were waving banners real good till they get to the
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  • Threshing floor.
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  • You don't know what you got as a leader till you get to the
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  • Threshing floor.
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  • See, now when i look at people, i'm looking at them, not to see
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  • Are you're doing good now, but are you tough enough to make it
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  • Through the threshing floor?
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  • Could you make it if all your followers left you, and and they
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  • Start cussing you on facebook and twitter and instagram?
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  • Could you make it if you couldn't wear your suits and
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  • Your little cute jeans and stuff?
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  • Could you make it if all hell broke loose?
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  • Could you make it if your child got pregnant?
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  • Could you make it?
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  • If your name was in the paper?
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  • Could you make it if things went wrong?
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  • Could you make it through the threshing floor?
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  • Somebody in here has been through the threshing floor.
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  • See, the stumble is necessary because the stumble will let you
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  • Know what you got wrong.
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  • The start doesn't tell you what you got wrong.
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  • The stumble tells you what you got wrong.
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  • Now, the ox stumbled,
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  • The ark slid,
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  • Uzzah snatched it,
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  • And he died.
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  • This is perplexing because why does god kill a man for trying
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  • To help?
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  • When you come to the stumbling place, you have to adjust the
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  • Strategy to survival.
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  • I had a young man to go through a death of a loved one.
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  • And he was asking me, explain to me why this happened.
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  • Explain to me why it happened.
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  • I told him it's not important why it happened.
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  • Right now you just gotta survive it.
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  • See, when you go into crisis mode, you have to adjust your
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  • Expectation to, you know, if i could just survive it, if i
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  • Could just put one foot in front of another, if i got one day at
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  • A time, sweet jesus.
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  • I don't know who i'm talking to right now, but you came here in
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  • The middle of a crisis.
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  • And god said, all you gotta do is steady yourself and
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  • Survive it.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: 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 a minority
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  • Business is.
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  • John hope bryant: the world shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs.
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  • Right now is the moment.
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  • This is just the beginning.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: the stumbling place makes you assess
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  • The damage.
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  • Before stumbling, you're assessing the destiny.
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  • But when you stumble, you stop assessing destiny and you start
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  • Assessing the damages.
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  • And when you start assessing the damages, inevitably, you want to
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  • Understand what caused this.
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  • The reason you want to know what caused it is so you can avoid
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  • That from ever happening again.
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  • So, the first thing that begins to untangle the mystery is
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  • This cart.
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  • It says, you're going about the right thing, but you're using
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  • The wrong tools.
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  • Every time you wanna get a breakthrough, you figure who you
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  • Can call never realizing that you were enough.
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  • Your stumble occurs when you start thinking you need what you
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  • Don't need.
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  • Your faith isn't talent and tools and techniques.
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  • Where is your god?
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  • Where is your god, pastor?
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  • John the baptist didn't have none of that.
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  • You think your ministry is held up because you don't have the
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  • Right building.
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  • You don't have the right worship team.
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  • You don't have the right musician.
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  • You didn't graduate from college or you didn't graduate from the
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  • Right college.
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  • So, you keep building carts.
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  • The reason that i'm frustrated with david is because david
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  • Should know better than to think he needed these tools.
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  • God had already designed a way to be carried.
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  • He had meant for staves to be in the ark of the covenant because,
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  • If you put staves in the ark of the covenant, and you've got the
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  • Priests carrying the staves on their shoulders, there's
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  • Something with which the weight is distributed in such a way
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  • That just because one person stumbles, you don't lose
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  • The cart.
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  • So i'm not sure that god was as mad at uzzah as he was with
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  • David, but sometimes god has to kill your uzzah to get
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  • Your attention.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Bishop jakes: you wouldn't listen at me as long as you had
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  • Uzzah, which bring me to the next point.
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  • You had the wrong tools.
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  • Number two, you had the wrong people.
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  • Why do you have uzzah anyway?
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  • What does uzzah know about glory?
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  • Uzzah was abinadab's boy.
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  • Abinadab was a heathen.
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  • You got ahio and uzzah up front.
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  • So when you're stumbling, you need to check yourself out
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  • Because sometimes we stumble because we put the wrong people
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  • Up front.
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  • I'm talking to somebody, i don't know who it is.
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  • In corporate america, they say you should be slow to hire and
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  • Quick to fire.
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  • And we're just opposite in church.
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  • We're quick to hire and slow the fire.
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  • Have you put the wrong people up front?
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  • And now you think you're supposed to convert what god
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  • Wants to correct?
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  • Because don't forget, you got 60,000 people behind you while
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  • You're trying to convert what god wants to correct.
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  • And when you have the wrong people up front, it bottlenecks
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  • The entire organization.
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  • If you keep having a lot of problems out a particular
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  • Department is a sign something is out of place.
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  • My whole foot was throbbing like 9,000 demons had jumped on my
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  • Foot, and it was a little tiny spur out of place.
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  • A little thing out of place will cause big pain.
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  • I know it's not there now because the pain stopped.
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  • Anywhere you're having pain in your organization, something is
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  • Out of place.
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  • You'll know when you get it right because when you get it
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  • Right, the swelling will go down and the pain will cease.
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  • The pain is a blessing.
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  • It is your body warning you, you got a uzzah.
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  • So, we're talking about wrong tools, we're talking about
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  • Wrong people.
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  • And they had come to the wrong place.
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  • See, i couldn't understand, if the cart is a problem and the
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  • People are the problem, why did it make it this long?
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  • And this is the problem with any tradition.
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  • Any tradition that last a while, we think that because it has
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  • Survived, it is right.
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  • And it worked till you got to the threshing place.
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  • When you get to this place, it will show up what needs to
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  • Be corrected.
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  • Can i go deeper?
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  • God got mad.
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  • David got mad.
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  • David is angry because he thinks it's about uzzah.
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  • It was never about uzzah.
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  • It was about his leadership, the competency of his leadership.
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  • And the threshing floor was just before you got back
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  • To jerusalem.
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  • And god said, "if i don't fix it now, you're not gonna be ready
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  • For what i'm about to do in your life.
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  • I had to stop you right here and correct it because you are so
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  • Close to your destiny that if i let you go in with those
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  • Heathens up front, it would assassinate and contaminate
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  • Every promise that i was gonna do in your life.
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  • And i had to stop you right here and correct it before you go a
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  • Step further."
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  • So, we dealt with the start, we dealt with the stumble,
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  • And then came the silence.
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  • Uzzah is dead.
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  • God is angry.
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  • David is angry, too.
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  • It's funny because in the silence, his anger turns.
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  • At first the bible says he's angry,
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  • And then it says he's afraid.
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  • Isn't it funny how men camouflage every emotion
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  • With anger.
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  • God started moving in the silence of david's anger,
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  • Unmasked the fact that beneath his anger, he is afraid.
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  • He is afraid of the lord.
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  • He reverences him, but he is also afraid of him.
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  • I don't blame him for being afraid.
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  • He just killed the guy standing next to me.
  • 00:20:18.133 --> 00:20:19.801
  • That would make you a little nervous, okay.
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  • God starts dealing with what is at the core of him that is
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  • Stopping him from making the shift.
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  • He's got to get to the root of the problem, so david leaves the
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  • Ark of the covenant in the house of obed-edom, and god
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  • Says, "good."
  • 00:20:37.586 --> 00:20:38.987
  • He gets in the house of obed-edom and he starts blessing
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  • The house of obed-edom because one of god's greatest ministries
  • 00:20:42.724 --> 00:20:47.129
  • Is jealousy.
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  • Watch this, watch this, watch it.
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  • When god wants to shift you and humble you, he'll let you hear
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  • About somebody else that he's blessing.
  • 00:21:01.943 --> 00:21:06.348
  • Somebody say, oh, you can't prove that.
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  • You can't prove that.
  • 00:21:08.550 --> 00:21:09.885
  • When god wanted hannah to know that her barrenness was not the
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  • End, he started blessing peninnah to have baby after baby
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  • After baby.
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  • And the more god blessed peninnah, the more hannah
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  • Got frustrated.
  • 00:21:22.931 --> 00:21:24.366
  • Finally, hannah comes into church and says, i'm not leaving
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  • Out of here till i get a word from god.
  • 00:21:27.536 --> 00:21:30.739
  • I hope you are jealous.
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  • I hope you came here upset.
  • 00:21:32.641 --> 00:21:34.609
  • I hope it gets on your nerves to see the church down the street
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  • And the people down the road and the marriage over here and the
  • 00:21:37.312 --> 00:21:40.515
  • Kids over there doing well because maybe it'll make you
  • 00:21:40.515 --> 00:21:43.518
  • Fall down on your knees and lay before god and say,
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  • "god, give me a child lest i die."
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  • Somebody holler, "i want it now."
  • 00:21:52.027 --> 00:21:57.366
  • He did it with jacob and esau.
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  • He did it with the elder brother and the younger brother.
  • 00:21:59.601 --> 00:22:02.037
  • When the elder brother heard of the party that was going on
  • 00:22:02.037 --> 00:22:04.406
  • Inside of the father's house, he got upset.
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  • How come you didn't do it for me?
  • 00:22:07.209 --> 00:22:10.645
  • God said, the father said, "you could have had it all the time,
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  • But you didn't make the shifts."
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  • You didn't make the shifts.
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  • You have to speak up.
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  • You have to open up.
  • 00:22:19.554 --> 00:22:21.022
  • You have to open up, sir.
  • 00:22:21.022 --> 00:22:23.425
  • You have to open up.
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  • You have to give the part of yourself that men don't like
  • 00:22:24.793 --> 00:22:27.262
  • To give.
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  • You have to do this from your heart and not from your head.
  • 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:35.971
  • And so god many times has to crush you to open up your heart
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  • So that he can get the glory out of your life.
  • 00:22:41.042 --> 00:22:44.413
  • Can i get an amen?
  • 00:22:44.413 --> 00:22:46.448
  • He did it with israel and the church.
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  • The only reason the church exists is to get on
  • 00:22:48.049 --> 00:22:50.519
  • Israel's nerves.
  • 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:53.121
  • Read the book of romans, you'll see how god uses the church to
  • 00:22:53.121 --> 00:22:56.858
  • Provoke israel to jealousy.
  • 00:22:56.858 --> 00:23:01.663
  • Does he want the jealousy?
  • 00:23:01.663 --> 00:23:02.998
  • No, he's trying to stir you up to say, there's more for you.
  • 00:23:02.998 --> 00:23:07.302
  • There's more for you.
  • 00:23:07.302 --> 00:23:08.637
  • Don't believe what the doctor said.
  • 00:23:08.637 --> 00:23:10.305
  • You're not as barren as you think you are.
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  • Let me get this out, yes, lord, yes, lord.
  • 00:23:13.575 --> 00:23:16.178
  • He said, "tell them this.
  • 00:23:16.178 --> 00:23:17.946
  • There is a narrative over your city that says that no great
  • 00:23:17.946 --> 00:23:22.818
  • Works can be done in that city."
  • 00:23:22.818 --> 00:23:25.954
  • And whenever you hear ministries going forward, you say it may
  • 00:23:25.954 --> 00:23:29.224
  • Work in dallas, it may work in chicago, but it'll never work in
  • 00:23:29.224 --> 00:23:32.461
  • Fill in the blank.
  • 00:23:32.461 --> 00:23:33.829
  • Whatever that spirit is, that is a lying demon from the pit
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  • Of hell.
  • 00:23:37.365 --> 00:23:38.700
  • God said, "i am the same god in your city.
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  • I'm just as able to bless you as i am anybody else.
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  • All you need to do is make the shift."
  • 00:23:46.341 --> 00:23:48.743
  • Touch somebody and say, "shift."
  • 00:23:48.743 --> 00:23:52.280
  • I prophesy of you there has been a pause in your life.
  • 00:23:52.280 --> 00:23:58.019
  • There has been a silence in your life.
  • 00:23:58.019 --> 00:24:00.355
  • There has been a routine and a ritual that has persisted in
  • 00:24:00.355 --> 00:24:03.825
  • Your life.
  • 00:24:03.825 --> 00:24:05.160
  • The light has gone out in your eyes, the passion has gone out
  • 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:08.129
  • In your heart, and the devil has said, this is it.
  • 00:24:08.129 --> 00:24:11.399
  • But i want you to know that your pause is pregnant.
  • 00:24:11.399 --> 00:24:15.837
  • And god is gonna bring something out of the silence of your life
  • 00:24:15.837 --> 00:24:20.509
  • That's gonna break every yoke, every chain, and every fetter.
  • 00:24:20.509 --> 00:24:24.713
  • Touch your neighbor and say, get ready for a shift.
  • 00:24:24.713 --> 00:24:31.019
  • You will shift in your tools.
  • 00:24:31.019 --> 00:24:33.788
  • You gotta shift in the quality of the people you got.
  • 00:24:33.788 --> 00:24:36.892
  • You gotta shift in your mentality.
  • 00:24:36.892 --> 00:24:39.494
  • You gotta shift in your disposition, but god brought you
  • 00:24:39.494 --> 00:24:42.998
  • Here to stir you up.
  • 00:24:42.998 --> 00:24:45.066
  • You haven't seen the half of what god is about to do in
  • 00:24:45.066 --> 00:24:49.871
  • Your life.
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  • I want 30 seconds of crazy, ridiculous, holy ghost.
  • 00:24:51.339 --> 00:24:57.913
  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: you got ten seconds to open up your--mouth.
  • 00:25:07.055 --> 00:25:15.730
  • You got five seconds to shout unto god!
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop: sit down, give me ten minutes.
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  • Give me ten minutes, ten minutes, ten minutes.
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  • I feel something about the break in this place.
  • 00:25:47.062 --> 00:25:49.264
  • I feel something about the break in this place.
  • 00:25:49.264 --> 00:25:51.466
  • I feel something about the shift in this place.
  • 00:25:51.466 --> 00:25:53.835
  • I feel something about to--i feel something about to--slap
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  • Your neighbor and say, "i came here for this."
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  • Male announcer: uncharted territory is the birthplace for
  • 00:26:06.414 --> 00:26:08.817
  • Every great leader.
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  • Male: two, one.
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  • Announcer: because we are called, not only to face our
  • 00:26:12.220 --> 00:26:14.856
  • Fear of the unknown, but to master it.
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  • Bishop jakes: you're planted in that position so that you can
  • 00:26:18.360 --> 00:26:21.129
  • Have influence to change your generation.
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  • Male announcer: navigate your next defining moment at the
  • 00:26:26.635 --> 00:26:28.670
  • International leadership summit 2025.
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  • Bishop jakes: there's a change coming.
  • 00:26:32.307 --> 00:26:33.808
  • Bishop jakes: in genesis, it's where we first are introduced to
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  • Our god.
  • 00:26:41.750 --> 00:26:43.418
  • 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
  • 00:26:49.724 --> 00:26:53.628
  • Because i know that the vessel is earthen,
  • 00:26:53.628 --> 00:26:56.831
  • But the treasure is divine.
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  • ♪♪♪
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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
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  • 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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