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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Stay In The Gap

January 15, 2025 | S25:E9

T.D. Jakes - Stay In The Gap
You are right where you need to be. God wants to use you for His purpose. Stay in place.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Stay In The Gap | January 15, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Touré roberts: he saying, "i don't want you to be
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  • Tolerant anymore."
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  • Build a wall, build something.
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  • Watch this: everything you build
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  • Ought to be an act of resistance.
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  • Your business ought to be an act of resistance against poverty
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  • Or whatever it is against.
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  • It needs to be an act of resistance.
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  • Build a wall, build a wall, build a wall, build something
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  • In your life.
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  • Everything about you ought to be defiant.
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  • ♪ woo-oh, the potter's touch, ♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • Touré: i'm telling you, god is looking for someone--watch
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  • This--to make a wall, to make a wall.
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  • Now, let's talk about that for a second.
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  • What does he mean by make a wall?
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  • So, if you study this in its context, there is great
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  • Depravity taking place in the land, great depravity.
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  • And he says, "i'm looking for someone to first make a wall,
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  • To make a--" watch this--" a decision about what's happening,
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  • And to separate his or herself, his or her family, his or her
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  • Business, everything that pertains to that individual,
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  • To make a declaration and a separation.
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  • I'm building a wall, i'm raising a standard up against all
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  • Of that."
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  • There is this wall--i was thinking about this wall, and
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  • Ultimately what this was, aunt jackie, was it was a wall of
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  • Resistance--oh, feel the holy spirit.
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  • There's a wall of resistance.
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  • See, we take stuff that we're not supposed to take.
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  • We acquiesce to things like we are not a royal priesthood and a
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  • Holy nation, like we haven't been given the keys to the
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  • Kingdom with binding and losing power, power to open doors that
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  • No one can shut, and to shut doors that no man can open.
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  • Listen to those words: "i've given you the keys to the
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  • Kingdom of heaven, so you can bind and loose--" watch
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  • This--" and you can open doors--" watch this--" that no
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  • One can shut, and shut doors that no man can open."
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  • What he's saying is, "i've given you an anointing to do only that
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  • Which you can do."
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  • Oh, i--mhm, you gotta get it.
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  • He's saying, "i don't want you to be tolerant anymore.
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  • Build a wall, build something."
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  • Watch this: everything you build ought to be an act
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  • Of resistance.
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  • Your business ought to be an act of resistance against poverty or
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  • Whatever it is against.
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  • It needs to be an act of resistance.
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  • Build a wall, build a wall, build a wall, build something
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  • In your life.
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  • Everything about you ought to be defiant.
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  • The kingdom of god, was not passive.
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  • Jesus only preached one message, one message, and it
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  • Was the kingdom.
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  • And the kingdom was not passive, it was very aggressive--oh,
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  • I feel the holy ghost.
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  • The kingdom shows up to push back another kingdom that was
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  • In place.
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  • I told you, god doesn't mind starting a fight when he knows
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  • We're gonna win the war.
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  • Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  • The kingdom coming was a move of resistance:
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  • "repent, for the kingdom of god is here."
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  • I know that there are systems that seem like they wouldn't
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  • Have changed--i feel the holy ghost.
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  • I know that there are things in place that are in direct
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  • Contradiction to your promise, but i hear god saying, "i'm
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  • Looking for you.
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  • I'm seeking somebody, somebody that's bold enough and brave
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  • Enough to raise up a wall, to raise up...
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  • A gesture of defiance."
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  • Oh, i feel it.
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  • What do you need to build a wall up against right now?
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  • What is threatening you?
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  • Is cancer threatening you--oh, i feel the lord.
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  • Is poverty threatening you?
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  • Is disease threatening you?
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  • What's threatening you right now?
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  • God is seeking you.
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  • Uh-huh, he's seeking you, he's seeking you.
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  • That's his burden.
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  • Look at it, he does--" i sought somebody, just one."
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  • He didn't say, "i sought ten," he said, "just sought one
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  • Among them."
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  • One--watch this--right there in the midst of oppression, right
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  • There in the midst of depravity, that one person would have
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  • A different spirit like joshua and caleb.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • That would have a different spirit, that would not acquiesce
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  • To what is less than what god promised because it was gonna be
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  • A fight.
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  • "i just need one that's crazy enough to erect the wall."
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  • Oh, i feel the holy ghost--just turn to your neighbor and say,
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  • "build something, build something, build something,
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  • Build something, build something, build it, build it,
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  • Build it, build it, build it, build it, build it, build it."
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  • Oh, god's gonna do a thing in here today, i feel it already,
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  • I feel it already.
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  • He's gonna do a thing in here, he's gonna do a thing in here,
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  • He's gonna do a thing in here.
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  • He says--so he says--let's move through this--so he says, "i
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  • Sought somebody, just one among them that would make a wall.
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  • I'm not gonna make this wall for you."
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  • Bishop said it a minute ago, "i don't--i'm
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  • Not gonna-- faith in work.
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  • I'm not gonna make this wall for you.
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  • The only thing that i'm gonna do is i'm gonna let you see
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  • What's wrong.
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  • That's the only thing i'm gonna do."
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  • See, some of you are grieved by what you see, and there are two
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  • Responses to you being grieved by what you see.
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  • One response is to complain about it: "i just don't know why
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  • Things like that, and it's just crazy, and i'll--jesus
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  • Come back."
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  • Not before you do, what you're called to do.
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  • There's a reason why you see it.
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  • Always pay attention to what you see, because if you're seeing
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  • It, that is a blessing.
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  • That means that that's your giant.
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  • Make a wall, make a wall, that's your assignment.
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  • "have given you the ability," but god talks about in
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  • Deuteronomy 8:18, how god gives us the ability.
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  • The translation: the ability to create wealth.
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  • But that word wealth is the hebrew word "chayil," and it's
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  • Not just money, it's men, resources, and means--i feel
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  • The holy ghost.
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  • So i have been given an innate ability that if i step into it
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  • And i'm determined to make a wall, there is a grace on
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  • My life to produce--watch this--men--that's relationships,
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  • That's people--resources--come on somebody--that's money.
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  • Means could be anything.
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  • In other words, whatever you need to do, i've already put
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  • That potential in you, but until you make a decision to make a
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  • Wall, until you make a decision that you are the answer that
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  • You're looking for--watch this--then all of those
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  • Resources lie latent and dormant on the inside of you.
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  • But i believe i'm talking to some people right now, and god
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  • Is beginning to stir up the gift that's on the inside of you.
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  • And i feel like there's an activation that's getting ready
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  • To take place, and out of your belly, something's gonna
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  • Flow--uh-huh, uh-huh--it's gonna break right here in this room,
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  • I feel it, it's gonna break right here in this room.
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  • See, you have been distracted by your issues.
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  • That's what the enemy does: he makes you focus on your issue
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  • And not on his burden.
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  • But i hear god saying, he will seek first the kingdom and his
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  • Righteousness--all other things are gonna be added.
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  • You're greater than you think.
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  • You've got more to work with than you think.
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  • I feel the holy ghost.
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  • I see walls, i see buildings, i see businesses,
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  • I see ministries, i see defiance rising up,
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  • I see a standard being raised, right here in this house.
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
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  • Bishop jakes: you are the change makers.
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  • We don't have to be monolithic in order to be united.
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  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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  • Vusi: 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: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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  • Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
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  • John: 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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  • Touré: so, he said, "i'm looking for somebody that's gonna make
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  • A decision that's gonna draw a line in the sand, that's willing
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  • To partner with me to build something in the earth."
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  • And then he says, "but not only that, but i'm looking for
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  • Somebody to stand in the gap, stand in the gap."
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  • Look at that, hear what god said, "i'm looking for somebody
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  • To stand in the gap," and it says, "to stand in the gap
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  • Before me."
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  • So you're not standing here
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • Oh god, help me.
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  • You're not just standing in the gap, trying to
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  • Hold everything together.
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  • Just as much as you are standing in the gap--and i'll talk about
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  • What the gap is in a minute--but just as much as you are standing
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  • In the gap, you are also standing in the presence of god.
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  • Oh, god's not gonna call you to build something that will
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  • Require you to stand in the--to stand in the gap for a land, or
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  • A people, or a nation, or a world, and leave you there
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  • By yourself.
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  • You know why the angel gabriel was so confident when he came
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  • Down and he gave messages to mary?
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  • Do you know why he's confident?
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  • Because he says, "i am gabriel."
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  • Watch this, while he's there on earth, he says, "i am gabriel
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  • Who stands in the presence of the lord."
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  • Hey, are you hearing what i'm saying?
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  • I might be here, but i'm also there.
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  • Oh, come on somebody.
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  • But what does it mean to stand in the gap?
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  • I'm gonna give you a thought about standing in the gap.
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  • Standing in the gap, when you move to build something,
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  • Something of resistance, that says, "you know what?
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  • I don't care that it's like this.
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  • As for me and my house, as for me and my company, as for me and
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  • Whatever sphere of influence god has given to me, i'm believing
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  • For bigger and brighter and better days."
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  • And when you do that, the gap, the gap--watch this--is
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  • The space between the current crisis and the move of god
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • The gap.
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  • So, god's going to move some of you.
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  • He's said, "this is confirmation for many of you.
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  • Some of you are gonna be moved to action, you have to be, it's
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  • Who you are, it's who you are.
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  • You've got to, you have to, you must do it, it's not a game."
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  • You must--that's why you're hearing this, because god is
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  • Saying, "i'm looking."
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  • That's why you're watching, because god is saying, "i'm
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  • Looking, and i'm looking throughout the whole earth."
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  • So when you start something, when you start it, there is
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  • Gonna be a space, a gap between the current situation, the
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  • Current crisis, and the move of god, and you have to fill it.
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  • You gotta stand there, and that is the place--i'm gonna be
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  • Honest with you--that's the place that the enemy hits.
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  • Can i talk to you for real?
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  • See, because some of you have many foundations but
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  • Few buildings.
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  • A few chapters of a book but never finish it.
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  • You bought the web domain, and you own the domain, but there's
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  • No content there, and you've had the domain for 2 or 3 years.
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  • Not you, but somebody you know.
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  • Many foundations--you know how to start, but you struggle
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  • With finishing.
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  • It's because you don't know how to navigate the gap.
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  • Stand in the gap.
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  • This is where the enemy hits.
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  • This is the area that he targets.
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  • It's vulnerable because he's--watch this--because he's
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  • Hoping that he can run you out of the gap in the space between
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  • The crisis and the move of god.
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  • The eyes of the lord go about throughout the whole earth to
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  • Show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are loyal
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  • Toward him, loyalty has to be tested.
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  • I need you to do more than just make the wall because making the
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  • Wall does not say that you're loyal to the vision--feel the
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  • Holy ghost right here.
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  • Making the wall might mean that you just got inspired.
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  • You left church, [speaking in tongues]
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  • Start speaking in tongues, grabbed your shovel, and
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  • Got started.
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  • But then, come on, like the story of the parables--but then
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  • The enemy comes, the peril of the kingdom.
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  • The enemy comes, and he starts--watch this--working
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  • On you.
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  • It doesn't say anything about the enemy working on them until
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  • They started, till they got in the gap.
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  • And so the lord says, "i need you to stand in the gap--" watch
  • 00:17:48.817 --> 00:17:57.159
  • This--" and not only stand in the gap, but i need you to
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  • Stay in the gap."
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  • I need you, i need you, i need you to stay there, and i
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  • Believe--hear me--some of you were in a gap and you were
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  • Getting ready to leave the gap.
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  • You're getting ready to leave it because it wasn't happening in
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  • Your timing, or the battle got real fierce.
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  • And i have learned, and you've heard it said before, that the
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  • Darkest hour is right before day.
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  • If i was your enemy, i would not fight you going in.
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  • I would fight you right at the moment that you were getting
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  • Ready to come out of that thing and never be the same again--
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  • Ooh.
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  • Are we tracking?
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  • You gotta stay in the gap, you gotta stay in the gap, you gotta
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  • Stay in the gap.
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  • Now, i'm gonna move to something that is prophetic, and we're
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  • Gonna pray, and we're gonna be done.
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  • The sentiment is: i'm looking for somebody.
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  • I'm looking for leaders.
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  • See, we're not short of bosses.
  • 00:19:09.865 --> 00:19:14.870
  • So god is just giving me scriptures, and i was wrestling
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  • Spiritually with a friend last night, and this scripture
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  • Came up.
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  • He brought the scripture up, and it resonated so strongly.
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  • And it's the john scripture, and it says: "do not say, 'there are
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  • Still four months and then comes the harvest.'"
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  • This is about urgency.
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  • Now, it's not just the disciples, now there are these
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  • People--watch this--who were written off, and there was
  • 00:19:46.335 --> 00:19:51.640
  • Animosity between the two groups.
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  • But now, they're all sitting at the table, sitting around and
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  • Jesus says, "you say it's four months to harvest.
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  • I just showed you," come on, "i just showed you in my
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  • Interaction with the samaritan and her," [speaking in tongues]
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  • "and her whole community, that there's an anointing to take
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  • The city right now."
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  • You're talking about four more months, you're talking about
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  • When when this gets into place, or when this gets into order, or
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  • When i get this, or when i feel like that, or when i get my
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  • Money, or when i get my maid, or when i get this.
  • 00:20:34.416 --> 00:20:37.352
  • And jesus is saying, "you don't need any of that."
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  • I'm telling you right now, the harvest is plenteous the issue
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  • Is the laborers.
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  • He says, "you think it's four months?"
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  • Oh, it's getting sweeter, i'm almost done, it gets sweeter.
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  • He says, "you're saying that there's still four months, and
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  • Then comes the harvest."
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  • He says, "behold!"
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  • What is he saying "behold" to?
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  • He's saying "behold" because of the people.
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  • He said, "look, look, look."
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  • Maybe that's how we're supposed to be when we see everything
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  • That's broken in our world: "behold, the opportunity!"
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  • Matthew ashimolowo: it's time to shift.
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  • Tell your neighbor to shift.
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  • This shifting has to be through personal shifting, and
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  • The personal shifting must start with training.
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  • This training will be by observation, 2 timothy chapter
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  • 2, verse 2: "and the things you've seen and heard of me, the
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  • Same commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others."
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  • Observation.
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  • And that's the reason for coming to a conference like this.
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  • You don't just come and listen to the message.
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  • You need to look at the ambience of the conference.
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  • Why do they have this kind of screen?
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  • Why is it put together like this?
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  • You mean this is possible?
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  • Can i be able to do this?
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  • We need church unusual, not usual church.
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  • Observe, watch the man, look at what he's doing.
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  • Why does he have so many managers managing the event?
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  • Why are those people there?
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  • Why do they do that?
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  • And you can see the synchronization, the
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  • Orderliness, the excellence as a result of what has been put
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  • In place.
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  • Observe!
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  • And then we move from our observation to our assimilation.
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  • Assimilate!
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  • Take it in, study, copy.
  • 00:22:45.881 --> 00:22:51.353
  • The prophet told a woman: "borrow vessels, and borrow not
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  • A few."
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  • Borrow this, if you can afford it, of course.
  • 00:22:57.793 --> 00:23:05.700
  • Borrow vessels, borrow concepts, the message is not enough.
  • 00:23:05.700 --> 00:23:11.673
  • Don't just go and reprint the message alone, borrow the
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  • Concept you saw, the ambience, the ability, the skills with
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  • Which it was put together--assimilate!
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  • Third way to be trained is through imitation.
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  • Imitation, 1 corinthians 11:1, "imitate good things."
  • 00:23:33.895 --> 00:23:37.732
  • That's what the scripture says: imitate!
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  • And it doesn't have to even be a big conference.
  • 00:23:42.637 --> 00:23:45.207
  • Sometimes it may just be somebody else's church who went
  • 00:23:45.207 --> 00:23:47.309
  • To preach, and you found that their their hospitality team is
  • 00:23:47.309 --> 00:23:52.547
  • A star.
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  • Imitate!
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  • Joseph retrained himself.
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  • That's why his brothers could not recognize him, because they
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  • Still stayed in the same language they spoke, told the
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  • Same jokes, hung with the same friends.
  • 00:24:08.163 --> 00:24:11.299
  • Who you see determines who sees you.
  • 00:24:11.299 --> 00:24:15.437
  • Who you hear determines who hears you.
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  • Bishop jakes: one of the hardest parts of leadership, both in my
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  • Faith walk and in my business walk, is making great decisions.
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  • And it is almost impossible to make great decisions if you have
  • 00:24:31.419 --> 00:24:35.924
  • Poor information.
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  • Poor information is predicated on the prompting ability to ask
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  • The kinds of questions that elicits from the people around
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  • You the responsibility of garnering the kind of
  • 00:24:46.268 --> 00:24:50.238
  • Information that equips you to make optimum decisions that
  • 00:24:50.238 --> 00:24:54.809
  • Don't have the consequences that lead to regret.
  • 00:24:54.809 --> 00:24:58.547
  • So effective decision-making is very important as a leader, as a
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  • Pastor, as a business person, as a thinker, as a person who wants
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  • To raise the barometer on the economic impact for generations
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  • To generations.
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  • As a father, as a leader, as a woman in power, you are no
  • 00:25:14.963 --> 00:25:19.034
  • Greater than the decisions you make.
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  • But you can't make great decisions if you don't surround
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  • Yourself with good people and good information.
  • 00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:27.876
  • Effective decision-making is definitely a part of
  • 00:25:27.876 --> 00:25:31.780
  • Great leadership.
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  • You can be greatly anointed, you can be greatly gifted, you can
  • 00:25:33.114 --> 00:25:36.518
  • Sing the paint off the wall, but if you cannot make the right
  • 00:25:36.518 --> 00:25:39.821
  • Decisions, sign the right contracts, hire the right
  • 00:25:39.821 --> 00:25:42.891
  • People, negotiate the right terms, do the right deals, your
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  • Gift is not enough, your anointing is not enough, your
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  • Degree is not enough.
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  • Your degree is no better than the decisions you make with it.
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  • Effective decision-making is a part of great leadership.
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  • Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals a timeless
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  • Truth: that the torch of leadership not only blazes
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  • Trails but lights the path for those who follow.
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  • Every era has its torchbearers who inspire, innovate, and
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  • Take risks.
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  • And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
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  • Dawn rises, and the flame multiplies.
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  • This is the international leadership summit: a place where
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  • Leaders from all walks are equipped to shape the future.
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  • Will your legacy light the way?
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  • 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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  • On "the potter's touch."
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