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T.D. Jakes - Treasures in Darkness

December 4, 2024 | S | 27:29

T.D. Jakes - Treasures in Darkness
Bishop T.D. Jakes delivers a powerful message on the "treasures of darkness." Drawing inspiration from the story of Saul's conversion on the road to Damascus, Bishop Jakes emphasizes the importance of having insight rather than eyesight. He encourages listeners to see the value in the dark places of their lives, as it is often in those moments that God's glory shines the brightest. Through powerful storytelling and passionate preaching, Bishop Jakes reminds listeners that even in their darkest times, there are treasures waiting to be discovered.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Treasures in Darkness | December 4, 2024
  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: i'm gonna talk to you about the treasures
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  • Of darkness.
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  • God said, "i will give you the treasures of darkness."
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  • This is gonna bless your socks right off in the floor.
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  • Glory to god, are you ready for this?
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  • Holy spirit, take over this room as we share the word of the lord
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  • With your people today.
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  • I thank you for doing great exploits in the midst of
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  • Your people.
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  • I believe you for greatness to move in this house.
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  • Great god that you are, have your way.
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  • You are omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, and i believe
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  • You to manifest your glory here with us this morning.
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  • Early in the morning will i seek thee in jesus's name.
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  • Somebody shout "amen."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch the potter's touch ♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: on the road to damascus and the bible said that
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  • Saul saw a great light, a great light that knocked him off of
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  • His beast.
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  • God is terminating the agenda of your enemies that are coming
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  • Against you to destroy you.
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  • I speak to every anxiety that has kept you up at night,
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  • Worrying about what's coming.
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  • Don't worry about what's coming.
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  • God's getting ready to knock it off its beast.
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  • He's getting ready to shut it completely down.
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  • He wanted you to be here this morning to get this word so that
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  • You could be at peace that god can stop it and knock it off of
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  • Its beast.
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  • My god, i feel like running.
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  • Of course, i'm not gonna do it, but i feel like running.
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  • When i was young, i used to shout and dance, and they'd have
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  • To put me in the car, and i'd still be dancing.
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  • And now that i'm older, i act like i'm gonna shout.
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  • I say, "oh!"
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  • And then i think about my back, and i think about my ankles, and
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  • I think about.
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  • And then i say, "yes, lord."
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  • I know i got a witness at the house.
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  • I know i got somebody in here who knows.
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  • Saul, saul of the tribe of benjamin, hebrew of hebrews, a
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  • Pharisee, is on his way to do what he thinks is god's service.
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  • People will destroy you and think they're working for god.
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  • Watch out for anybody's ministry that is based on what they're
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  • Against rather than what they're for.
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  • 'cause religion will divide the body.
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  • It will split hairs about doctrine.
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  • It will lock people out.
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  • But relationship will open its arms wide and say, "whosoever
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  • Will, let him come."
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  • That's what i love about lakewood!
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  • You open your arms and say, "whosoever will, let him come,"
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  • Without judgment, without condemnation.
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  • It's god's business who he draws to the cross,
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  • Hallelujah!
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  • And then it occurred to me that saul saw a great light in the
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  • Middle of the day.
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  • Now, that's a great light.
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  • That's a great light that it shines in daylight.
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  • It has to be a great light.
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  • For the greatest light we have on earth is the sun, but there
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  • Is a light that will outshine the sun.
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  • There is a light that is more glorious than any glory you have
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  • Ever seen before, and it was such a bright light that even
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  • The beast didn't know what to do.
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  • It had never seen such a light.
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  • The beast stumbled in the light of the glory of god, and saul
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  • Fell off his beast and on to the floor.
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  • And there on the floor, he has a conversation with god, "who is
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  • It, lord?"
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  • And the answer came back, "it is jesus, who thou persecuted."
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  • Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait
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  • A minute.
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  • Saul never persecuted jesus.
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  • He never persecuted jesus.
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  • Nowhere in the bible will you find where he persecuted jesus.
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  • He just persecuted the people who worshipped jesus.
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  • But jesus said, "when you fight my children, you fight me too."
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  • I want to warn every one of your enemies, when they fight you,
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  • They fight jesus too.
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  • Oh, i want to warn every hater in here, when you hate on us,
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  • You hate on jesus too.
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  • In fact, the battle is not mine.
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  • It belongs to god!
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  • I need three seconds of crazy praising!
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: oh, yes!
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  • Oh, yes!
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  • Touch three people and say, "it's not my battle."
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  • It's not my battle.
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  • Yeah, yeah, it's not my battle.
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  • It's not my battle.
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  • It's god's battle.
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  • Cancer is not my battle.
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  • It's god's battle.
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  • Leukemia is not my battle.
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  • It's god's battle.
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  • Divorce is not my battle.
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  • It's god's battle.
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  • Oh my god, i feel the power of the holy ghost.
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  • And the bible says that they knocked saul off his beast, and
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  • He had an encounter with god.
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  • Now, interestingly enough, until this encounter occurred, saul
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  • Was leading a band of men on the road to damascus.
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  • But after his encounter with jesus, the men he was leading
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  • Are now leading him because the light left him blind.
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  • There is a light so bright that it will take away your sight.
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  • There are certain lights that are so all encompassing that the
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  • Eye was not designed to embrace and receive that level of light.
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  • It is blinding light.
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  • That is the light of the glory of god.
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  • Can you imagine the kind of light that is so bright that it
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  • Left saul blind?
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  • But he was blind for a purpose.
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  • Because god said in isaiah, "i will give you the treasures of
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  • Darkness." you wondered how i was gonna tie that up,
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  • Didn't you?
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  • I got it, i got it.
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  • Gotta stay with me.
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  • I got it, i got it.
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  • God said, "i will give you the treasures of darkness."
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  • In other words, i can show you some things blind that i
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  • Couldn't show you with your eyes wide open.
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  • What i'm trying to teach this morning is that sometimes our
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  • Sight is a disadvantage.
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  • "for we walk by faith and not by."
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  • Oh, you're awake this morning.
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  • I'm checking that you're awake this morning.
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  • You had at least two cups of coffee.
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  • You're good to go, you're good to go.
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  • If you'd had one more cup of coffee, you'd have shouted off
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  • Of that.
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  • Thank you, jesus.
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  • Think about the times in your life that you couldn't
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  • See no way out and god made a way out of no way.
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  • Think about the times that you had no plan and you just
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  • Stumbled into a blessing.
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  • Is there anybody in here that's ever stumbled?
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  • You can't even take credit for it.
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  • But while you were groping in the dark, you stumbled into
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  • Something that changed your life.
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  • To god be the glory!
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  • The reason that our sight can be a problem is because our sight
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  • Teaches us to assess what we see, and sometimes what we see
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  • Is arbitrary to what we believe.
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  • Sometimes when we look at our circumstances, our circumstances
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  • Do not reflect what we believe, and if you're not careful, you
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  • Will make decisions based on eyesight.
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  • So god took away his eyesight so that he might attain insight.
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  • Oh, you didn't hear that.
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  • God took away his eyesight so that he might attain insight.
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  • Insight is stronger than eyesight.
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  • Insights creates innovation.
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  • Insight creates productivity.
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  • Insight produces wisdom.
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  • Insight tells you when to hold your peace.
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  • Insight tells you who's your friend and who's your enemy.
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  • Insight tells you don't go in that room, there's something
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  • About it, you don't need to go in there.
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  • I would rather have insight than eyesight.
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  • They asked the woman.
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  • They said, "oh, it's such a shame, such a shame, such a
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  • Shame that you've been born blind and you've never been able
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  • To see."
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  • And she said, "oh."
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  • She said, "being blind is not so bad."
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  • She said, "there are things worse than being blind.
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  • I could have been born with sight and have no vision."
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  • The woman was helen keller.
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  • Helen keller said, "it is better to be blind and have vision than
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  • To have sight and have no vision."
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  • The thing i would never want to do is have no vision.
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  • I don't even like to be around people who have no vision.
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  • I don't want to be led by anybody who has no vision.
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  • The reason you are in this building right now is because
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  • You are following somebody.
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  • Oh, you didn't get that.
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  • You're following somebody who had a vision.
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  • The reason that seat is right where it is is because somebody
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  • Had a vision.
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  • The reason there is a lakewood church is because somebody.
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  • You're sitting in vision.
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  • You're wearing vision.
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  • You're driving vision.
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  • You're living in vision.
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  • Without a vision, the people.
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  • So, when the moment was over, he had lost his sight for three
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  • Days, but he had gained his insight, and insight is better
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  • Than eyesight.
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  • We should take just a moment and pray that god increase
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  • Your insight.
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  • There's some decisions that you need to make that you're gonna
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  • Need a deeper insight in order to make the right decision.
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  • We should take just a moment and ask god to increase your
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  • Insight, because your emotions are responding to your eyesight,
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  • But your spirit is moved by your insight.
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  • We should take just a moment and ask god to give you insight
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  • About every predicament that you're dealing with in your life
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  • Right now.
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  • There is an insight that will turn that thing around.
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  • Father, open up our insight.
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  • Let us see more clearly than we've ever seen before.
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  • Let us see on the inside in spite of what we see on
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  • The outside.
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  • I thank you for the treasures of darkness.
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  • The treasure, my treasure is in this dark place.
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  • My treasure is in the place where the enemy is trying to set
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  • Me up, but i will not leave till i get it in jesus's name, amen.
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  • If you receive it, shout the house down.
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: shout the house down!
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: i bought buildings because of insight.
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  • I started businesses because of insight.
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  • I made choices because of insight.
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  • I said "yes" to some things and "no" to some things because
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  • Of insight.
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  • Sometimes i couldn't even explain to somebody why i walked
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  • Away from it, but i just had an insight.
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  • In the eyesight, it didn't make any sense, but in the insight, i
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  • Sensed that this was not a good deal.
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  • Sometimes there was people who tried to befriend me.
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  • My eyesight said they were friends.
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  • My insight said, "be careful."
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  • My insight is my protection.
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  • My insight is my guard.
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  • My insight is my god.
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  • Is there anybody in here that's had supernatural insight in
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  • Your life?
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  • Identify yourself!
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  • And he was led blind to ananias's house.
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  • And he had no eyesight, but he had insight every step of
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  • The way.
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  • And it all happened along the way.
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  • Now, i'm as goal-oriented as the next person.
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  • I admit that, i am.
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  • I set goals for myself.
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  • I have goals in decades, where i wanna be in ten years, and where
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  • I want to be in the next ten years, and where i want to be in
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  • The next ten years, and where i wanna be.
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  • Oh wait, i might not have that many ten years, but take about
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  • Three of 'em.
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  • Then let me be with jesus.
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  • But i have goals as much as anybody, and goals are
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  • Important, and goals are a great thing to have.
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  • But i would rather have the insight of understanding that it
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  • Is not the destination that we ought to be the most
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  • Concerned about.
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  • Because it is not the god that we meet at the end of the
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  • Destination, it's the god that we encounter along the way.
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  • Everything happens along the way.
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  • That's what seems to be leaving us as a people, and as a
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  • Society, and as a generation.
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  • We are so destination-oriented that we don't notice the things
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  • That happen along the way.
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  • We want the promises, but we don't want the process.
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  • We want the results, but we don't want to take the journey,
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  • And it is the journey that makes you able to stand up to
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  • The destination.
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  • If you don't go through the process, you can't handle
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  • The promise.
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  • It is the process that equips you to be able to stand on the
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  • Promises of god.
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  • When you go through a process, you won't let just anybody take
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  • Your promise because you went through too much to get it to
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  • Let anybody take it away from you.
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  • Oh god, hallelujah.
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  • It is the things that happen along the way.
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  • And so, there's saul, who becomes the apostle paul.
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  • When he begins to write to ephesus, he now has an
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  • Appreciation for insight, so he does not go to ephesus and pray
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  • That they would have greater eyesight, keener vision,
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  • Bifocals, eyeglasses, or contacts.
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  • He prays that the eyes of their understanding might be
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  • Enlightened, the eyes of your understanding.
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  • He's praying for your insight, that your insight might be
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  • Enlightened, not outer light, inner lights.
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  • Shine a light on the inside.
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  • If you give me greater understanding and the eyes of my
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  • Understanding are enlightened, a lot of my worries would just
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  • Fall off.
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  • If i would have had the insight to know that god was working on
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  • My daughter through what she went through, i would have had
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  • So much more peace going through it, but because i didn't have
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  • The insight to see the treasures of darkness, i thought god's
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  • Strategy was a demonic attack.
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  • But when i look back at it in retrospect, i say, "it was good
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  • For me that i was afflicted."
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  • If i had not been afflicted, i would have never seen the glory
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  • Of god.
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  • Who am i talking to this morning?
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  • If i'm coming right down your alley, make some noise in
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  • This place.
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  • I can't hear you!
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  • In summary, i'm trying to make you understand that some of the
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  • Toughest places and the darkest places in your life are the
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  • Places where god gives you the greatest glory.
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  • Both in this message and in the book, i'm trying to tell you
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  • That when you feel pressured, and when you feel crushed, and
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  • When you feel at your wits end, and when you feel like, "where
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  • Is god," he is always there, jehovah-shammah.
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  • He is a present help in the midst of trouble.
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  • He is right there in the middle of your problem.
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  • And god wants to give you treasures, treasures in
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  • The darkness.
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  • While all of your friends flee for the comfort, stay right
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  • Where he put you, because there's treasures in the
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  • Darkness that god has for you that will make you stronger,
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  • That will make you wiser, that will make you brighter, that
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  • Will make you fuller, that will make you richer, that will make
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  • You more complete in him.
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  • And when you come out on the other side, you can disciple
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  • Somebody, you can witness to somebody, you can teach
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  • Somebody, you can train somebody.
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  • God can use you like he never used you before.
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  • It is not my good times that reveal god the most in my life.
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  • It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
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  • It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that i
  • 00:20:55.870 --> 00:21:00.408
  • Saw god's glory shine the brightest.
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  • "let there be light." he shined it out, and the darkness had
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  • To flee.
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  • My brothers and sisters, i came to lakewood to tell you that
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  • There's more treasure for you.
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  • There's more promises for you.
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  • There's more blessings for you.
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  • There's more of what god has written in his word you're going
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  • To experience in your life.
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  • But when he gets ready to bring the greatest treasure, it may be
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  • Wrapped in the greatest darkness.
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  • No one takes treasure and leaves it in the spotlight.
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  • If you have any valuables, you always lock them up in a
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  • Dark place.
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  • And the level of the treasure that god is going to release in
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  • This season of your light is not in the open places where
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  • Everybody can see.
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  • It's how you go through your dark places.
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  • To anybody in this room who has ever been or is in the middle of
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  • A dark place, don't be so overwhelmed by the darkness that
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  • You forget to get the treasure.
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  • There's treasure in that place for you.
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  • Would you stand?
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  • Reach out to your brother and sister, and leave no
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  • One untouched.
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  • I hate to go to a church and not be touched.
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  • This may be the only place where the person you're touching can
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  • Find other believers to come into agreement with them.
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  • And sometimes it is not you that's in the dark place, it's
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  • Your child, or your husband, or your wife, or
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  • Your grandchildren.
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  • But everybody in here has somebody that you love that's in
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  • A dark place, and you need to realize that there is going to
  • 00:23:02.630 --> 00:23:06.834
  • Be treasure in that place.
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  • You need to understand that you will not have olive oil without
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  • Crushing the olive, that you'll never drink wine until a grape
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  • Is crushed, that you'll never see the treasure that god has
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  • For your life until you withstand what you're going
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  • Through right now.
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  • As simple as unhappiness, discontentment, and
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  • Restlessness, god is going to bring you treasure if you hold
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  • On to what you have.
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  • Squeeze that hand you're holding.
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  • The bible said, "where two or three are gathered together in
  • 00:23:37.665 --> 00:23:39.934
  • My name, there am i in the midst of them."
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  • Father, i thank you for being in the midst of us right now.
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  • I thank you, lord, for what you're working out right now.
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  • I thank you for those who are feeding, and healing, and
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  • Touching, and blessing, and moving right now by your power,
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  • By your spirit.
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  • We receive this word.
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  • We receive this revelation.
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  • We receive this treasure.
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  • We receive this gift.
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  • We receive it now, in the name of jesus.
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  • And every believer gave god the highest praise they've ever
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  • Given him before.
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • Bishop jakes: my god.
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  • While we're yet standing, if there's one amongst us who does
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  • Not know the lord and the free pardon of their sins, if there's
  • 00:24:40.661 --> 00:24:43.764
  • One amongst us who's gotten out of the way, and gotten on the
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  • Wrong path, and gone in the wrong direction, and you wanna
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  • Come to christ, and you need christ in your life, right where
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  • You are, would you just raise your hand up and say, "i need
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  • Christ in my life?"
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  • God bless you.
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  • Put 'em up high.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Right where you are.
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  • If you're sitting near someone who raised their hand, just
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  • Reach out to them.
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  • Right where you are, we're gonna pray.
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  • Lord jesus, i thank you that you've given me this opportunity
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  • To accept you in my life.
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  • Forgive me of my sins.
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  • Wash me in your blood.
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  • I'm going to serve you.
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  • I know i'm not perfect.
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  • I may make mistakes, but i make this commitment.
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  • I'm going to serve you the rest of my life, in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • Now shout with the angels!
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  • Let's shout with the angels!
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  • Lakewood, i love you, hallelujah!
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  • Treasures in the darkness.
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  • Bishop jakes: it is not my good times that reveal god the most
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  • In my life.
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  • It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
  • 00:26:12.219 --> 00:26:16.457
  • It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that i
  • 00:26:16.457 --> 00:26:20.995
  • Saw god's glory shine the brightest.
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  • Let there be light!
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  • Female announcer: reveal the treasures god has hidden in you.
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  • Frankincense, myrrh, and symbolic faux gold in addition
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  • To the flowing in favor calendar.
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  • Bishop jakes: think about the times in your life that you
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  • Couldn't see no way out and god made a way out of no way.
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  • Think about the times that you had no plan and you just
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  • Stumbled into a blessing.
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  • Announcer: let god's light shine in you.
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  • Call or click today.
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  • 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. ♪
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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