T.D. Jakes - Unlock Your Limitations

January 7, 2025 | S25:E4

Is your limited belief system keeping you in the same place?

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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Unlock Your Limitations | January 7, 2025

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Female: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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Bishop t.d. jakes: jesus is confronting fishermen who are
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Washing their nets, which is a sign, "i have given up."
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And i wanna know, is there anybody in here who's washing
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Your nets?
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Who has decided it's too late, i'm too old, i'm too fat, i'm
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Too this, i'm too that, i'm too thin, i'm too short, i'm too--
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Whatever it is that made you wash your nets, i want to
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Challenge you today because jesus is about bringing simon
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Into the awareness that his belief system is wrong.
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♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪♪
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Bishop jakes: when jesus was preaching in gennesaret, and he
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Comes down to simon--simon is not yet called peter, he's not
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Even a disciple, he doesn't even know that much about who jesus
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Is and what's going on.
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Simon is just a fisherman.
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When jesus encounters simon, the bible said that simon was
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Washing his nets.
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His belief system said it's over.
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They had toiled all night and caught nothing, and his belief
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System had taught him that, if you can't catch at night, you
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Can't catch at all.
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His limited belief system has left him in a place of giving up
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On what he needed to make his business work.
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And, when jesus came along-- that's right, he gave up.
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When jesus came along, jesus is confronting fishermen who were
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Washing their nets, which is a sign, "i have given up."
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And i wanna know, is there anybody in here who's washing
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Your nets?
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Who has decided it's too late, i'm too old, i'm too fat, i'm
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Too this, i'm too that, i'm too thin, i'm too short, i'm too--
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Whatever it is that made you wash your nets, i want to
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Challenge you today because jesus is about bringing simon
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Into the awareness that his belief system is wrong.
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Washing your nets means you have given up hope that you can go
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Any further, and you have settled to be on the sidelines
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Of life rather than to be in the game--made yourself comfortable
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With an empty boat, no fish-- which means no business--and
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You have decided this is as far as you can go.
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And some of you even justify it by saying, "if the lord would
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Have meant for me to catch fish,
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He would have blessed me to catch fish.
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So it must not be god's will for me to catch any fish."
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Well, here comes god, walking in jesus, down to the seashore, and
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Simon is washing his nets.
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Washing your nets means deciding that nobody will ever love you.
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Washing your nets means deciding that you can't go any higher or
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Any further than where you've gone.
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Washing your nets is giving up on your dream and deciding that
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All of your effort was for naught.
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Because it didn't work like he thought it was going to work,
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He quit.
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He's alive, but he quit.
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He's breathing, but he quit.
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He's functioning, but he quit.
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You'd be surprised at the people in here that are breathing
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And dead.
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They're breathing, but they quit.
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They got their makeup on, but they quit.
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They got the dress on, but they quit.
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They got the suit on, but they quit.
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They came to church, but they quit.
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They quit a long time ago.
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Let me tell you something, divorces don't happen when the
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Papers come.
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People can quit and still be fixing breakfast.
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Do you hear what i'm saying to you?
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People can quit and still be giving roses.
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Quitting isn't just a removal of the body from the situation,
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It's a removal of the spirit from the situation.
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And peter's spirit has been broken, and he's washing
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His nets.
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And jesus comes down there and disrupts everything that
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Peter believes.
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Jesus--whenever jesus comes, let me warn you, he will
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Disrupt everything.
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I know you want a nice neat little jesus that fits
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Comfortable inside your belief system, that won't shake up
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Anything, that won't get you out of your comfort zone, that won't
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Make you have to go for yourself, that won't make you
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Have to stand for yourself.
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I know you want a nice little neat little jesus that you can
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Fit into a package of what you've been taught about jesus.
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But jesus was a rabble-rouser.
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Jesus was radical.
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Jesus was a yoke breaker.
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Wherever jesus went, he terrorized the city.
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He turned it upside down.
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If jesus got in a city, all bets were off on how things were
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Going to go.
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And everything was going according to plan until
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Jesus come.
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Now, somebody tell them, jesus is coming.
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Jesus is coming. jesus is coming.
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He's coming into your house.
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He's coming into your finances.
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He's coming into your business.
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He's coming into your life.
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He's coming into your plan.
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He's coming into your future.
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And everything you thought you were through with, god is
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Getting ready to do a new thing.
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God is getting ready to do something radical.
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God is ready to start an uprising.
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[congregation cheering]
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Bishop jakes: and jesus walks over--he don't even know whose
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Boat it is, he just gets on the boat, and then says to simon,
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"thrust out a little from land."
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Listen to this, and all of a sudden, you see simon have to
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Put down his nets and get back on the boat.
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That alone is revival.
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To stop feeling sorry for yourself and talk about what
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Didn't work, and how you worked so hard, and how you put so much
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Into it, and how you toiled all night and nothing came through.
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You ain't got time to rehearse all that stuff, that's over,
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That's over, that's over.
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You can't do nothing about that, that's over.
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You can't fix that, that's over.
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You can change that, that's over.
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That's over, that's over, that's over, that's over.
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You are spending up your today rehearsing your yesterday.
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Don't let your yesterday steal your today.
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That's over, that's over, that's over, that's over, that's over,
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That's over.
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Maybe there's a higher purpose for the boat than what you know.
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Jesus says, "thrust out a little from land--" and jesus turns
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Peter's business into a platform.
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This is the only time in scripture that i can--that i
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Know of where jesus turns a boat into a podium.
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And jesus gets on the boat and sits down, and the crowd is all
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On the beach, and he thrusts out from the land and turned the
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Boat into a pulpit, and he sits in the pulpit and he teaches.
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I do not know what he taught, but it must have been
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Mesmerizing enough that he could sit on a boat without a mic that
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Was thrust out from the land and not lose a crowd.
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Good god, can't nobody preach like jesus.
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If jesus gets into a place, he'll turn it upside down.
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Do you not know that jesus never had a pa system, never had a
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Microphone, never had a camera, never had a flyer, never had a
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Business card?
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And yet he preached to thousands of people--5,000 men, not to
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Mention women and children.
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And people would rather faint than miss hearing him preach.
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He didn't even have to jump.
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He didn't have to hoot.
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He didn't holler.
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Jesus sat down, and the crowd didn't leave.
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Jesus sat when he preached.
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He sat on the mount of olives and preached the beatitudes.
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Sit on me, jesus. sit on me, jesus.
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Sit on me, jesus.
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What i'm doing ain't working; sit on me, jesus.
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Jesus sat down on the boat, and he began to minister.
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And as he began to minister, the bible said, "when he had
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Finished preaching--"
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Now, notice this; this is interesting.
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It never tells us what he preached.
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It tells us that he preached.
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It brings us all the way up to the boat.
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The boat thrust out from land, jesus sits down and starts
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To preach.
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They never tell us what he preached.
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They just say, "when he had finished."
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Come on, keep up with me, jamail.
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They say, "when he had finished."
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There are some things that god has kept a mystery because the
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Real power here isn't just in what he said, but what he did.
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And when he began to speak these words and had ended
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Speaking, he now says to simon-- and wait a minute, maybe this
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Is not about the sermon.
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Maybe this is about simon.
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Maybe the sermon is just the vehicle that jesus traveled to
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Capture simon's attention.
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Maybe a simon that jesus is after.
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Maybe a simon that jesus wants to get to and make him
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Understand what's going on.
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And he says to simon, he says to simon what he told me to
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Tell you, "launch out into the deep."
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Launch out--they don't hear me, lord.
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I wish i had a group or a choir, somebody--is anybody ready
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For this?
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Launch out into the deep!
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Get out of the shallow water.
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Go out into the deep.
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Launch out into the deep.
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God's got something for you, but it's in the deep.
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Look at somebody and say, "you ain't deep enough."
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The reason it's not happening for you, the reason you're not
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Getting it, the reason you don't get the breakthrough, the reason
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It's not materializing in your life is that you haven't gone
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Deep enough.
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And peter says that--simon says, "i can't go, lord; i've
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Been toiling all night, and i haven't--" i didn't ask you
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About last night.
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Nudge somebody and say, "i'm going out there.
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I'm going all the way out there."
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Male: throughout the ages, history reveals
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A timeless truth:
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That the torch of leadership not only blazes trails,
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But lights the path for those who follow.
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Every era has its torch bearers 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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Bishop jakes: i am tired of living within limitations.
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I'm tired of coloring inside of the lines.
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I'm tired of being a good little boy and eating my apple and
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Going to bed.
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I'm getting ready to launch out into the deep.
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I'm getting ready to get radical.
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I'm getting ready to go to the next level.
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Somebody's watching me online.
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You don't realize that the only reason god gave you a business
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Is so that it could be his platform, and god has maneuvered
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You into a position so that he could get the glory out of
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Your life.
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And you're frustrated trying to work out the problems in
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The business.
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The problem isn't in the business, the problem is in you.
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When god gets your attention, everything in your business is
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Gonna change.
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Everything in your life is gonna change.
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Everything on the boat is going to change.
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Launch out into the deep!
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Who am i preaching to?
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Look at your neighbor, and tell him, "i'm getting ready
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To launch."
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If you can't launch, you can't go.
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If you ain't with me, you can't go.
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I am no longer willing to stay on the shoreline to keep
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You company.
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I'm going to launch out into the deep if i got to launch
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By myself.
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If my mama don't go, if my daddy don't go, if my sister and my
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Brother don't go, i'm going to launch out into the deep
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Because i have permission, and once i have permission, i can
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Do it.
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I know it's not supposed to work in the daytime.
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The fish are normally biting at night.
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But if jesus says it, it's gonna happen at any time.
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Just when the devil thought it wasn't gonna happen, just when
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You thought you missed your season, just when you thought it
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Was over, god said, "launch out into the deep!"
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And suddenly i realized something: simon owns the boat,
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But jesus own the sea.
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[congregation cheering]
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Bishop jakes: i said, "simon owns the boat, but jesus
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Owns the sea."
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And what you want ain't in the boat, it's in the sea.
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And jesus knows where your fish are.
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Slap somebody and tell them, "he knows where the fish are."
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[speaking in tongues]
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Oh, he knows, he knows, he knows, he knows, he knows, he
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Knows, he knows where the fish are.
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[congregation cheering]
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Bishop jakes; wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,
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Wait a minute, it's the wrong time, ain't nobody fishing, all
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The boats are docked, everybody's quiet, everybody's
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Being passive, everybody's laid back.
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Peter's the only fool out there in the middle of the water in
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The middle of the day at a time when no fishermen would be out
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In the water because, when the sun goes up, the fish go down,
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They eat at night or early in the morning.
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And at a time there's not supposed to be fish.
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Jesus says, "launch into the deep."
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Whoever i'm preaching to, it's not even supposed to work like
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It's gonna work.
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You're getting ready to break a rule.
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You're getting ready to go into another dimension.
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You're get ready to do something out of season.
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It don't even make sense, but god's gonna do it.
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You thought it was too late, but god's going to do it.
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Launch out into the deep!
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Shake yourself like this.
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I break every limitation that's been on you.
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I break every limitation that held you back.
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I break every limitation that stood in between you and what
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God said he's going to do.
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This is about unlocking your limitations.
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This is about kicking the brakes off.
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Have you ever tried to drive with the emergency brake on?
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You can do it, but it's [making revving noises].
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God's getting ready to kick the brakes off.
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He's getting ready to unlock your limitation, that drag
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That's been in your life, that undertow that's been in
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Your life.
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The lord sent me here this morning to tell you he's gonna
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Unlock your limitation.
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You've been frustrated, you've been tied down.
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You already even gave up and started washing your nets.
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But stop washing your nets.
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It's time to launch your boat.
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You own the boat, but he owns the sea.
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And, when they launched out into the deep, they dropped
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Their net.
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Watch this--this is important-- i'm almost finished.
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They dropped the net--net, n-e-t, n-e-t.
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They didn't bring enough, they didn't bring enough.
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They're thinking too small, they're thinking too limited.
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They only had one net with them.
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When i met them, they were washing nets, but they only put
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One net on the boat.
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Any time you see jesus on the boat, you better bring
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Everything you got because whatever god is talking to you
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About is bigger than anything you ever did in your life.
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I came to tell you it's bigger.
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Are you hearing me?
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It's bigger than you think it is.
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Are you hearing me online?
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It's bigger than you think it is.
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That little net you got ain't gonna be enough 'cause god's
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Gonna do exceedingly abundantly above all ye may ask or think.
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You didn't bring enough for what god is about to drop in
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Your lap.
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Pressed down, shaken together, running over.
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God's gonna take you into overflow--help!
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Somebody holler, "help!"
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You're about to get in a good trouble, you're about to get in
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Good trouble.
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This ain't bad trouble, this is good trouble.
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This is the kind of help you need when you have
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Underestimated what god is about to do in your life, and you
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Realize that what you brought is not enough for where he's
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Taking you.
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[congregation cheering]
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Bishop jakes: it's all about the nets, it's all about the nets,
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It's all about the nets.
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When we start out, we're washing nets, and when we get to the
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Boat, we're breaking net--a net, a net.
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Why didn't you throw everything you had at it?
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Peter, why didn't you throw more at it?
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If jesus says, "drop your nets," you should have dropped
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Everything you had.
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But because of your belief system, your reluctance to even
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Go in the first place, you only threw a net at it.
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[speaking in tongues]
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Jesus ain't no fisherman, no way; he's a carpenter's son.
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What does he know about fish?
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I'm just gonna placate him and throw a net.
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One net--and so many fish that
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Had been waiting on obedience.
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God is waiting on obedience.
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As soon as you stop playing pity pat with god and break down to
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Obedience and do what he said do, god's got the fish
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On reserve.
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They're waiting on you.
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The money is not going be a problem.
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The buildings are not gonna be a problem.
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The employees are not gonna be a problem.
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God's got everything you need waiting on you.
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But, because you keep throwing a little bitty net at it.
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Da da da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
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God said you're gonna break your net
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'cause you're just talking about enough,
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And you're with el shaddai who is more than enough.
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So, here's peter out there-- simon--and he's thrown out his
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Net, and so many fish are in the net that the net that he was
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Washing is now breaking, and he has to, "help!"
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[speaking in tongues]
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Help!
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They're way back on the shoreline--help!--and here
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They come, getting on their boats, and they're coming out to
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Tug it in.
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In order for you to get what god is about to give you, you're
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Gonna need partnerships.
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Whoever's taking this message seriously,
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Let me drop this on you.
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You're gonna need strategic alignments.
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You're gonna have to have backup in place to receive on the level
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That you're going to right now.
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You cannot do this like you normally do it.
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You have got to have a network because you're coming against
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A system.
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You're coming against a system, and, any time you're coming
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Against a system, it takes a system to overcome a system.
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And so, when he hollers for help, he gets backup coming from
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Every direction.
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And even when his boys come in and they start dropping in their
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Nets, they still were about to break.
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How many fish had peter missed?
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All of these fish were in the gennesaret lake he just left.
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God didn't create the fish, they were there.
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Look at how much he missed.
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My father ran a janitorial service, used to make me madder
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Than fire.
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We'd be cleaning up offices, sweeping the office, he'd come
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In behind me and sweep the office i just swept and say,
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"boy, look at what you missed.
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Where was you sweeping?
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Where--what in the world was going on here?
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Look at--look at this, look at this, look at what you missed."
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And i couldn't say nothing 'cause i knew he didn't throw
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The dirt down.
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Do you have any idea what you missed
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While you're washing your nets,
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And you think you're through?
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There are so many fish waiting on you to obey god that, when
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You obey god, your net and neither the net of your partners
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Will be enough.
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But together they pulled it in.
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It's gonna stretch you, it's gonna stretch you.
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It's gonna take you out of your comfort zone.
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It's gonna challenge your belief systems.
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It's gonna come against all the things that have been inbred in
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Your head that define you.
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But it's yours.
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Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
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John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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Be united.
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Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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Vusi thembekwayo: think scale.
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John hope bryant: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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Bishop jakes: all of us have seeds of potential in us.
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John hope bryant: you got all the dna for success right inside
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Of you.
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Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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Mellody hobson: i wanna change the idea of what a minority
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Business is.
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John hope bryant: the world shifted.
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Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs right now.
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It's the moment.
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This is just the beginning.
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Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us
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On social media and share your story
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Of how god is impacting your life.
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We look forward to seeing you next time on
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"the potter's touch."
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♪ the potter's touch. ♪♪
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♪♪♪
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T.D. Jakes - Unlock Your Limitations

January 7, 2025 | S25:E4

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