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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Reflection

November 27, 2024 | S

T.D. Jakes - Reflection
As you look back over your life, you will see that God always had you in the palm of His hand.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Reflection | November 27, 2024
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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: you could reflect on it and say
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  • It's uncomfortable that you've been hidden
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  • Or you could recognize that when he hid you, he protected you.
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  • I wanna talk to people who're thanking god for what you didn't
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  • Get, for what didn't work out right, for who rejected you
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  • And walked out on you.
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  • I want to talk to people who understand that the steps
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  • Of a good man are ordered by the lord.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ woo-oh, the potter's touch, the potter's touch ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: what do you do when you're gifted
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  • And you're goodly and you're still hidden?
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  • Do you know that god's hands hide you?
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  • They hide you.
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  • It's uncomfortable for the mother, uncomfortable
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  • For the baby.
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  • The stage of being hidden is uncomfortable but necessary.
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  • It depends, let me show you something.
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  • It depends on how you reflect on it.
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  • You could reflect on it and say it's uncomfortable that you've
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  • Been hidden or you could recognize that when he hid you,
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  • He protected you.
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  • That he didn't let you get in the circle.
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  • He didn't let them people like you.
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  • He let you be rejected.
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  • He let you lose that job over there.
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  • He let that person walk out of your life over here that god
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  • Hid you because he was protecting you.
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  • It's only in reflection that you say, "you know what,
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  • It was good for me."
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  • It was good for me that i was afflicted.
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  • Pastor winfield, my wife and i applied when we were
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  • In west virginia for at least five different buildings
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  • And loans to build churches.
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  • And i was turned down every time.
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  • I remember sitting in the driveway crying saying,
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  • "where are you?
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  • I'm trying to do something for you.
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  • This is no club?
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  • I'm trying to do your work.
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  • How come you're not helping me with your work?"
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  • I didn't understand that there are some things that god didn't
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  • Mean for them to work because they would have kept you
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  • From something far greater.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Tell somebody say, "he hid me."
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  • He hid me.
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  • He hid me.
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  • He hid me.
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  • He hid me.
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  • He hid me.
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  • He let you walk past me.
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  • He let you ignore me.
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  • He let you close doors and not invite me.
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  • He let you step over me.
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  • He let you reject me.
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  • He let you divorce me.
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  • He let you walk out on me for somebody else.
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  • You didn't even see my value until i got with somebody else.
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  • He hid me.
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  • Now, you want to talk to me.
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  • I'm the same guy you said worth nothing.
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  • You couldn't see it.
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  • God hid me.
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  • Thank you lord for hiding me.
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  • Thank you lord for the doors you closed.
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  • Thank you lord for the people that walked away.
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  • Thank you lord for the things that did not work out.
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  • See everybody else in here is thanking god for what they got.
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  • But i wanna talk to people who are thanking god for what you
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  • Didn't get, for what didn't work out right, for who rejected you
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  • And walked out on you.
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  • I want to talk to people who understand that the steps
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  • Of a good man are ordered by the lord.
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  • My god, he delighteth in his way.
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  • So i want you to sit, sit, sit, i'm just talking to you.
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  • It's thanksgiving.
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  • About the hands.
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  • But he hid me.
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  • Have you ever thought maybe they're not supposed to see,
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  • Maybe they're not supposed to see you that god hiding you is
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  • God protecting you for something that is less than your destiny.
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  • I would have missed my destiny, but he hid me.
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  • I wanna talk to people who don't feel thankful because you're
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  • Hidden up under a board in a slave's hut and it's dark and
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  • It's cold and it's uncomfortable and you got splinters in your
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  • Arms and your shoulders because you're in a tight place.
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  • And you keep saying, "i'm better than this."
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  • And you're right.
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  • You're a godly child.
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  • I want you to understand that he hid you, that he hid you
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  • To protect you.
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  • That his protection means that you don't get credit that you
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  • Don't get recognized that you don't get appreciated that you
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  • Don't get validated, that you don't get acknowledged that you
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  • Don't get referred and you don't get the business, and you don't
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  • Get the deal because he hid you.
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  • And god says to you, "humble yourself."
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  • Humble yourself while doors close in your face,
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  • Humble yourself while loans don't come through
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  • And humble yourself while people walk out of your life
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  • And tell you you ain't nothing and you're just like your daddy
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  • And you ain't gonna never be nothing,
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  • And you know they're lying but don't fight back
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  • Because he don't mean for them to see you.
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  • When the right one comes along, they'll see you.
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  • Oh god, i wanna shout right there.
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  • I said when the right one comes along, they'll see you.
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  • When the child could no longer be hidden, the bible says
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  • She took the baby and placed him down and the bulrushes
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  • In the nile.
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  • Number two, the hands that placed me.
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  • From the hands that hid me to the hands that placed me.
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  • The hands, they said you're too big to be in this place.
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  • The hands that said you have outgrown where you are.
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  • The hands that said change is imminent in your life.
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  • The hands that mislocated you because you were allocated
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  • To another place.
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  • The hands that placed him in the bulrushes in the marshy places
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  • In the nile.
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  • The hands that placed me.
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  • Yeah, i get happy about it.
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  • The thing i'm happy about the hands didn't place him
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  • Into his destiny, but it placed him into the stream.
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  • Said, "you will never reach your destiny hidden in this house.
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  • You have now grown and gotten everything out of that situation
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  • That you can get in that situation.
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  • I'm gonna place you in the stream.
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  • I'm gonna put you in the flow."
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Oh my god, my god, my god, my...
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  • I'm trying not to preach it, but i feel it down in my soul
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  • Because i know somebody in here understands that you just
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  • Finally got in the flow.
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  • After all these years, you finally got in the flow and
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  • You might not see it yet and it might not yet appear yet.
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  • I'm not in the palace yet, but i'm in the flow.
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  • I'm in the vein where things happen.
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  • I'm in the movements, i'm in the place,
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  • I'm in the right direction.
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  • I'm in the flow.
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  • If there's anybody in here who feels like you're finally in the
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  • Flow, give him three seconds of the craziest praise you got.
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  • I'm in the flow.
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  • I'm in the flow.
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  • I'm in the flow.
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  • I'm finally not being wasted.
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  • I'm finally not being overlooked.
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  • I'm in the flow, i'm in the flow, i'm in the flow.
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  • I can tell i'm in the flow.
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  • It does not yet appear what i shall be, but i'm in the flow.
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  • Watch this, i'm a naked baby placed in a flow.
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  • Wait, i'm a naked slave baby placed in the flow
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  • Where queens bathed.
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  • You know you're in the flow when you feel out of your elements.
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  • I'm in the flow. i'm in the flow.
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  • I'm exposed to things that i would have never been exposed to
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  • While i was hidden in the house.
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  • I'm in the flow.
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  • My god, i got to stop it because if i get to preach of it,
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  • I'm gonna mess up your turkey.
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  • But tell somebody say, "i'm in the flow."
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  • I want to thank god for the hands that placed me.
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  • The hands that placed me in the flow.
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  • It's the one that invited me to the dinner party.
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  • It's the one who met me down at starbucks.
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  • It's the one that invited me to a church i've never been
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  • To before.
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  • It's the ones that invited me to a meeting i've never--
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  • It's the ones that--
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  • Have you ever been in a meeting and said, "what in the world
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  • Am i doing in here?"
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  • It's because god's hands will place you.
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  • I created you for a purpose that was not revealed by where you
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  • Started, but i'm gonna place you in the flow, the placement.
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  • I never will forget preaching at the national pastor's conference
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  • And lawrence and i have been going up there.
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  • Excuse me for calling you, lawrence.
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  • But we've been going up here for years trying to get notes,
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  • Trying to figure out how to build our church.
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  • Never in my life thought that i'd end up speaking.
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  • Not where fred price and dr. miles monroe
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  • Was new on the circuit.
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  • Then, you remember we were sitting in the back of
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  • The conference watching taking notes trying to get something,
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  • Staying at the cheapest hotel possible, trying to take notes
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  • To get some--?
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  • Never did in my life think that i'd end up speaking at a place
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  • Where i was sitting in the back watching everybody else speak
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  • And we couldn't even afford to be at the conference.
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  • Never knowing that in my sacrifice to go that the hands
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  • Were placing me a year later.
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  • Give me some.
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  • The next year.
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  • Tell somebody say, "by this time next year."
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  • Male announcer: leaders, visionaries, and change makers
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  • From around the globe mark your calendars for the next chapter
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  • In our journey of leadership and innovation.
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  • Registered for
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  • The international leadership summit 2025
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  • Taking place april 10 through 12 at the orange county
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  • Convention center south in vibrant orlando florida,
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  • Surrounded by world class resorts,
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  • Restaurants and theme parks.
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  • Join us for a transformative experience with
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  • T.d. jakes and a host of dynamic leaders
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  • Including steven furtick, dr. cindy trimm, dr. joel tudman
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  • And lambert w. gates.
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  • Together, we'll explore new horizons of leadership
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  • Sharing strategies and visions for a brighter future.
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  • Continue your catalyst for growth and inspiration.
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  • This is your invitation to be part of a movement
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  • Register at thisisils.org.
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  • Female announcer: "praise the lord.
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  • Give thanks to the lord for he is good.
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  • His love endures forever."
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  • Bishop jakes: when i think of things that i am thankful for, i
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  • Am thankful for all the years of "the potter's touch" viewers.
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  • All the things we've been able to accomplish, the people we've
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  • Been able to serve, the people we've been able to help,
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  • The times we've been able to steer the nation,
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  • The world through crisis
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  • Only because of our partners and our friends who support us
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  • Through the "potter's touch" ministry.
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  • I deeply appreciate you.
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  • And i want you to know as i reflect on the things
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  • To which i am grateful to god for one of them is you.
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  • Your continued support is just beyond expression
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  • As it is so important.
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  • If we ever needed the lord before we sure do need him now.
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  • And we need you to help us to be the hands and feet of jesus
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  • In the world.
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  • Thank you.
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  • I appreciate you.
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  • I am grateful for you.
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  • May god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: and even when he placed me, he protected me.
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  • How many mamas would feel comfortable putting your baby
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  • In an atmosphere with alligators and snakes and serpents
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  • And walk away and trust god to protect you?
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  • And i'm telling you that the hands that placed you are also
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  • The hands that protect you.
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  • If you're gonna be, if you're gonna be thankful, don't be
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  • Murmuring about a car and you didn't get a car, and you can't
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  • Move, and you had to downsize, and all this stupid stuff
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  • You crying about.
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  • Thank him for the diseases you didn't catch.
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  • Oh, you ain't go--
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  • Let me go over here and eat this turkey.
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  • Thank him for the diseases you didn't catch.
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  • Thank him for the children you didn't bury.
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  • Thank him for the almost, nearly close calls that broke loose.
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  • And if this is thanksgiving, that's what you ought to be
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  • Thanking him for.
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  • So moses's sister came down there to the bulrushes
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  • To watch him, hid over--
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  • She hid over--just stay right where you are.
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  • She hid over in the bulrushes to see what would happen.
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  • Is he okay?
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  • She was hiding, trying to check her brother out because
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  • He was in a dangerous place.
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  • A larger place is always a dangerous place.
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  • Never underestimate your opportunity.
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  • It's a blessing, but it's also a dangerous place.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • I'm talking to somebody maybe on the internet,
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  • Maybe you're streaming online.
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  • And so, the baby got in the flow.
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  • The baby got in the flow.
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  • It was familiar because the baby was developed in the womb.
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  • Whatever god raises you, it'll be kind of familiar to something
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  • You've experienced before.
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  • So it's familiar, but it's strange and the baby is
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  • Just rocking in the flow.
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  • He's in the flow.
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  • So point three, the baby walked till he found the hands
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  • That raised him.
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  • While he was in the flow.
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  • Had he never been in the flow, he would have never been raised.
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  • God, thank you for positioning me in a place where i can
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  • Be raised.
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  • Thank you for putting me in a place that gives me room
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  • To grow.
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  • I was hidden in a house that didn't give me room to grow.
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  • Now i'm in a place where i got room to grow and i've never been
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  • In a situation like this before and i'm scared of it,
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  • But it is kind of familiar.
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  • Destiny is always like that.
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  • It's frightening and familiar at the same time.
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  • God's destiny will never take you into a place
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  • That's not familiar.
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  • But while it is familiar, it will also be frightening
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  • But rock with it, baby.
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  • Rock with it, baby.
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  • Roll with it, baby.
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  • Don't let nobody run you out, just rock steady.
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  • And then, i want to talk about the hands that raised me.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Pharaoh's daughter was down there, naked taking a bath.
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  • Moses was naked, a baby rocking.
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  • She was a princess.
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  • He was a slave baby.
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  • So he thought--he really would become the prince.
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  • See you do belong where you think you don't belong.
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  • Time hadn't caught up with you yet.
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  • So i know your situation looks like a slave but you're really
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  • A prince.
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  • And so he's rocking in the water and the princess looks out
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  • And sees the baby and she's drawn to him.
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  • Why would she be drawn to him? they're killing babies.
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  • They're killing slave babies.
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  • But she saw the prince in him.
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  • I told you somebody was gonna see you.
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  • I told you somebody was gonna see you.
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  • I told you you won't be invisible forever.
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  • I'm gonna show you something.
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  • So she went down there and had him raised up out of the water.
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  • Here's the interesting thing.
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  • The hands that raised him were not the same hands
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  • That placed him.
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  • It wasn't even the hands a baby would have wanted to raise it.
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  • "i want my mama."
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  • But god told me to tell you, that he'll make somebody
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  • Love you.
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  • That you don't always get it from the place you wanted it.
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  • I feel like i'm talking to somebody.
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  • But he'll send somebody who sees your potential and say, "go get
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  • Him out of there, fetch him."
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  • Preach it girl.
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  • Fetch him, fetch him.
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  • The hands that raised him were the hands of god.
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  • Anytime god makes somebody love you and it don't even make sense
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  • That they would, it's always him loving you through them.
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  • And the hands that raised him, lifted him out of the miry clay,
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  • Out of the reach of the snakes and the gators of yesterday.
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  • Raised him from the slime of the process into the satisfaction
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  • And the satiety of the palace.
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  • From slime to satisfaction.
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  • We see him raised and they raised him up and put him in
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  • A place where he would be protected, where there would be
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  • Provisions and where there would be preparation.
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  • He became multilingual in that place.
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  • He learned how to walk with dignity in that place.
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  • He learned how to address princes and kings and pharaohs
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  • In that place.
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  • He learned the protocol of a place that he had never been
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  • Exposed to because god raised him.
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  • As i close today i want you to understand something.
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  • Whether he is raising you or placing you or hiding you,
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  • Whether you are uncomfortable or slimy or satisfied, whether
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  • Things are going well are going badly, whether you're being
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  • Acknowledged or whether you are hidden in your house,
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  • You are always all of your life it is his hands,
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  • Always.
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  • You're always, you're always in his hands, and this thanksgiving
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  • Morning instead of feeling bad about who didn't come and who
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  • Didn't do and who didn't say, instead of being worried about
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  • Whether you got a lot of money or a little bit, whether you're
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  • Eating turkey or peanut butter and jelly, no matter what season
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  • Of your life you are in right now, whether you are being
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  • Celebrated or being ignored, appreciated, validated,
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  • Or overlooked as a born again, baptized believer.
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  • The thing that you should give thanks for
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  • Is that you were always--
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  • Whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure,
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  • Whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue,
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  • If there be any praise at all, if you got any kind of praise
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  • At all, reflect, reflect on these things for these are
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  • The things that you should reflect on because these
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  • Are the things that matter most.
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  • Bishop jakes: faith has to take action to be legitimate.
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  • As long as it remains philosophical,
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  • It's just an ideology.
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  • But when you take it and put it into action--
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  • See faith will work if you work it.
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  • Female announcer: achieve victory through faith.
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  • For your gift of any amount, learn how to live in the victory
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  • God desires for you each day with the "victory is yours"
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  • Perpetual devotional.
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  • Bishop jakes: god says, "when you stop justifying yourself,
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  • Faith will justify you."
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  • Female announcer: for your gift of $110 or more,
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  • You'll receive the gifts of the wise men anointing oil set
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  • A beautiful wood box containing frankincense,
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  • Myrrh and symbolic faux gold.
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  • In addition to the "victory is yours" devotional.
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  • Bishop jakes: it's not about what happens in here
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  • That makes you a believer.
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  • It's what you're doing out there.
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  • Female announcer: may the victory of the lord overflow
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  • In your life.
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  • Call or click today.
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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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