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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - World Full of Walls

January 20, 2025 | S25:E11

T.D. Jakes - World Full of Walls
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - World Full of Walls | January 20, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: i need about 10,000 people in this room who
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  • Are ready to get a hammer and a pick and a shovel and a nail,
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  • And even scratch your way out of this situation because you
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  • Refuse to spend the second half of your life locked up behind
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  • Some wall that somebody built around you that said, "you can't
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  • Be this and you can't do that and you can't do that."
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  • Who said that?
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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  • Bishop jakes: and the hardest place to learn is to learn while
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  • People are looking, because if you make any mistakes, you have
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  • Armed them with weapons to throw at you.
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  • And how can you not make any mistakes because you have never
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  • Done this before?
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  • By the way, it is possible to be good at that and not be good
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  • At this.
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  • Some of you are in transitions in your life right now, where
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  • You were accomplished on the level you were at, but now
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  • You're stepping into a new level, and now you're trying to
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  • Lead and learn at the same time.
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  • You're trying to comfort and be comforted at the same time.
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  • You're trying to study and teach at the same time.
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  • You're trying to give directions and trying to hear directions at
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  • The same time.
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  • And anytime you make a misstep or a mistake, they are quick to
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  • Draw attention to the mistake, and they never say anything
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  • About the things you did right.
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  • They reserve their comments for the things you did wrong, and
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  • All of a sudden, you don't know your friends from your enemies
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  • Because they're all just looking at you.
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  • If i'm talking to the right people, make some noise for me,
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  • Let me know that i'm talking to the right people at the
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  • Right place.
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  • Joshua didn't understand what was going on in his life.
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  • "how do i measure up to moses, sea-splitting moses,
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  • Whale-calling moses, manna-praying moses?
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  • How do i compete with moses, tabernacle-building moses, moses
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  • Who saw the glory of god in the cleft of the rock?"
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  • There's nothing worse than coming behind somebody who was
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  • Mighty and fervent and revered and respected, and had already
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  • Gone through the early phases of being rejected.
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  • And now you gotta come in and try to fill those shoes?
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  • Have you ever been a little kid and got loose in your mama's
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  • Closet or your daddy's closet, and you were wearing their
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  • Shoes, and you were clumping around in those shoes because
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  • They were too big for your feet?
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  • God will put you in places that are too big for your feet and
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  • Let you grow into it while they criticize you.
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  • Such is the status of joshua, because as joshua assumes this
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  • Position--you remember that part of the text where joshua runs up
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  • On the angel and pulls out his sword?
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  • It's because he's always been a fighter.
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  • But there's a difference between being a fighter and a leader,
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  • And in order to lead, he has to learn how to use new weapons.
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  • See, some of you are in a new place, but you're still using
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  • Old weapons.
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  • Oh, i'm talking to somebody, i don't know who it is.
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  • Let me show you something: you can take somebody out of the
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  • Hood and put them in college and put them in corporate, but if
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  • You make them mad, all of those mbas go out of the window.
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  • All of those degrees go out of the window, and they will get
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  • Whiplashed and, "i will set it off up in here."
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  • I know y'all gotta act like you don't know what i'm talking
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  • About, cause you still got some "set-it-off" in you.
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  • You can take somebody out of the street and put them in the
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  • Church, and if you get them in traffic and you cut them off at
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  • The wrong time, they will manifest stuff that they said
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  • Was under the blood.
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  • But it wasn't under the blood, it was under the rug, and if
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  • They need it, they will snatch it out.
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  • And some of you brag on the fact that you have duality.
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  • Joshua pulls his sword on an angel because all his life--"all
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  • My life, i had to fight."
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  • But there's a difference between being a leader and a fighter.
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  • And the weapons that he needs now puts him in a challenging
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  • Situation because god does not need joshua's sword to fight
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  • This battle, he needs his leadership.
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  • And joshua is learning how to lead
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  • While he is leading.
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  • And he is learning how to lead people who didn't pick him.
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  • You haven't been a leader until you're leading people who didn't
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  • Pick you, and there's people back in the back saying, "see,
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  • She don't know what she doing.
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  • I told you she didn't know what she doing.
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  • They should've got paul to do it.
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  • And why in the world have they got her up there?
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  • Look at--look at that.
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  • Look at him over there, he does not know what he's doing."
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  • That's why you needed to be at the leadership conference, just
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  • To get a break, just to get a breather, just to come up for
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  • Air, just a whoosah--just for a minute.
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  • Because it's hard to lead and remain professional and remain
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  • Articulate and intelligent, and know that you are under attack,
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  • Not by what's in front of you, but by the troops behind you.
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  • Is there anybody in here that's been attacked by the people you
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  • Were trying to help?
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  • While you were fighting against the people in front of you, you
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  • Had to hold off the people behind you, and you are going
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  • Through midlife crisis.
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  • That's what i call midlife crisis, when you're stuck
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  • Between enemies.
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  • The enemy you thought was the enemy, and the enemy that is
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  • A frenemy.
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  • That is the case, and they have survived the desert and
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  • The amalekites.
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  • They have survived the deserts and its perils, and the
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  • Cockatrices and the serpents and the times, the turbulence in
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  • Fluctuating weathers of freezing cold at night and scorching heat
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  • During the day.
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  • They've survived all of that, and now they have come to a
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  • Place that he has visited, but not taken.
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  • He has visited jericho.
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  • He has been part of the spies up under moses's regime and
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  • Leadership that visited across the wall.
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  • But it's one thing to visit a place, and it's another thing to
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  • Take it.
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  • See, you are having a completely different experience from
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  • My staff.
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  • See, it was hard for you to get here by nine, but they were here
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  • At five, and they didn't leave till three.
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  • It is different when you visit something and when you
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  • Create something.
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  • Joshua has visited the promised land, he has visited canaan, he
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  • Has visited jericho.
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  • He has been a spy in the city, but it was just for a
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  • Short duration.
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  • Now hear this: i want to talk to visionaries.
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  • You will always have a glimpse of it, before you get to it.
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  • It's almost like god works for gmc
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  • Or fox or mgm or somebody
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  • Because he gives you previews of coming attractions--no details,
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  • I call them glimpses.
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  • And you can't explain how you're gonna get there, and you're not
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  • Even sure if you're gonna get there, and you're not sure what
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  • To do if you get there, but you've caught a glimpse of
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  • Something in front of you that is stronger than what is
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  • Behind you.
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  • And that's what gets you out of the bed every morning, it's
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  • Because you have a foretaste of an abstract, indescript,
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  • Nebulous, untouchable, intangible thing called vision,
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  • That it begins to drive you crazy because the more you catch
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  • The vision, the more you wanna know when, the more you wanna
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  • Know how, the more you wanna get--see, people who are not
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  • Hungry in a room like this have no vision.
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  • Because if you have no vision, i have--i don't have anything to
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  • Feed you with.
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  • But if you have a vision and you're tormented because you
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  • Want to know the building blocks, how to get you from
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  • Point a to point b, then you are really listening.
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  • You're not distracted, you're not trying to figure out where
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  • You're going to lunch when this is over.
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  • The people who are doing that, i don't have anything to feed
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  • Because they don't have any mouth.
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  • The people who have their mouth open are the birds that are
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  • About to take flight.
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  • And they've been in the nest long enough, and they're about
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  • To exude into a new dimension, and they got wings that they
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  • Don't know how to flap, and they've never been this
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  • Airborne, and they've never been this high before.
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  • And now, all of a sudden, they find themselves in a situation
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  • Where if they don't flap, they're gonna fall, and if they
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  • Don't flap, they're gonna die, and if they don't flap, they're
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  • Gonna go under.
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  • And they are listening at every word that is coming out of my
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  • Mouth because they're trying to understand.
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  • I've visited, i've seen, i've glimpsed, i've got a foretaste,
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  • I've got a preview, but i really don't have details of how to get
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  • There, and i'm not sure i'm armed for this level
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  • Of leadership.
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  • Because i am so used to fighting behind the scenes that i'm not
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  • Used to fighting with the spotlight on me.
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  • Now i got to raise my children while you watch.
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  • And you watch and talk about my children while your children are
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  • Doing twice as much as my children, but your children
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  • Don't get reported on, and your children don't get talked about.
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  • And now you get to watch my marriage--"look like she don't
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  • Like him.
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  • Sister jace didn't smile at him when he came in.
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  • She didn't kiss him this time.
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  • Years ago, i remember when there was something must be going on
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  • In the marriage."
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  • And people are watching my marriage, but they're not
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  • Watching your marriage, cause you and bill fought all the way
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  • From the hotel to the check-in counter, and then you came in
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  • And said, "good morning, welcome to you."
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  • But because the spotlight's not on you--but i came to tell you,
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  • Get ready.
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  • The light's about to hit you in a place it has never hit you
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  • Before, and it's gonna shut your mouth from talking about other
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  • People, because now they're gonna be having you for dinner.
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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
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  • 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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  • Bishop jakes: the year was 1987, i was four years old.
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  • From the time i was four to the time i was 30, there was a wall
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  • That had become a foregone conclusion, it had been there
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  • That long.
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  • A restriction meant to encircle and isolate east berlin from
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  • Western berlin and the rest of the western world.
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  • The official purpose of this berlin wall was to keep
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  • So-called western fascists from entering east germany and
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  • Undermining the socialist state.
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  • But it primarily served the objective of stemming mass
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  • Defections from east to west.
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  • When president reagan came over there, he made a speech.
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  • And only one line in that speech continues to live today, and it
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  • Was in the middle passage of his speech, when he said, "mr.
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  • Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
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  • Reagan called for the general secretary of the communist party
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  • Of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, to open the berlin
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  • Wall, which was encircling west berlin since 1961.
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  • Often, walls are built to protect a way of life or to
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  • Avoid tragedy, or the possibility of intermingling
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  • With other societies, ideas, or danger.
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  • But he said, "this wall has got to come down."
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  • After multiple trips from various leaders, there's nothing
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  • As powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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  • President reagan makes a statement, delivers a speech,
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  • Which resulted in the impervious, impenetrable wall of
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  • Separation to collapse, to come down into a heap of concrete and
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  • Wire, to end up in a massive rubble, a heap torn down.
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  • And every november 9th since then, there's been a worldwide
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  • Celebration of the tearing down of the berlin wall.
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  • East germans began--watch this, this is very important--they
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  • Began picking at the wall with hammers, with picks, and with
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  • Their bare hands until the mammoth structure gave way to
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  • The relentless people who wanted to see what was on the
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  • Other side.
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  • Imagine people clawing down a wall.
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  • With their bare hands and hammers and picks.
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  • Can you imagine what that did to your nails, to your hands, to
  • 00:17:02.838 --> 00:17:08.410
  • Your fingertips?
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  • Can you imagine how much blood, sweat, and tears was on
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  • The wall?
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  • Big walls don't come down easy--oh, y'all don't hear me,
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  • Stay with me.
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  • Big walls don't come down easy.
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  • You're not gonna spin around three times and your walls come
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  • Tumbling down.
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  • There are some walls in this room right now that have
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  • Persisted so long that they have become concretized in your mind,
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  • In your emotions, in your life, and in your will.
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  • And whether it is a physical wall or an invisible wall, that
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  • Wall, god brought you here to this meeting to bring that wall
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  • Absolutely, completely, and totally down.
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  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, stay right where you are, i'm coming.
  • 00:17:53.922 --> 00:17:56.458
  • See, some of you look like you don't have a wall, but you got
  • 00:17:56.458 --> 00:17:58.994
  • Invisible walls of fear, of anger, of insecurity, of crowds,
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  • Of being up front, or connectivity, or intimacy.
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  • And every now and then, that wall stands up in your life, and
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  • You act in extreme ways because you can't stand for anybody to
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  • Get behind your wall.
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  • You know, you want me to know your image, but not who you
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  • Really are.
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  • You wanted me to know your persona but not your personhood.
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  • And so you project your representative for a few
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  • Minutes, but then, when it comes to somebody really touching you
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  • And knowing you, you can't stand it because you live behind
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  • The wall.
  • 00:18:33.395 --> 00:18:34.730
  • And now the wall that you built to protect yourself has become a
  • 00:18:34.730 --> 00:18:38.233
  • Problem, because you built the wall to keep hate out, but now
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  • You can't let love in.
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  • You can't let intimacy in, you can't let peace in.
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  • You can't feel pain, but you can't feel nurtured.
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  • You don't feel supported, you don't feel connected, because
  • 00:18:51.180 --> 00:18:54.116
  • You built it for protection, but now you're becoming imprisoned
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  • By your need to be protected, and you're scared of your
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  • Friends and your enemies.
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  • And you don't talk to anybody, and you cry yourself to sleep
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  • Feeling lonely because you have isolated everybody.
  • 00:19:05.561 --> 00:19:09.097
  • Because we were not made to live behind walls, we were not made
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  • To be locked up in barriers.
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  • We were not made to live beneath our problem, our promise, our
  • 00:19:14.770 --> 00:19:19.374
  • Privilege, our opportunity.
  • 00:19:19.374 --> 00:19:21.243
  • We were not made to be restricted, we were not made to
  • 00:19:21.243 --> 00:19:24.479
  • Be in isolation, we were not made to be incarcerated.
  • 00:19:24.479 --> 00:19:27.783
  • That's why they penalize inmates by putting them in isolation,
  • 00:19:27.783 --> 00:19:33.455
  • Because big men who kill massive amounts of people turn into
  • 00:19:33.455 --> 00:19:37.893
  • Babies if they're left in isolation long enough.
  • 00:19:37.893 --> 00:19:40.896
  • And anytime the enemy wants to destroy you and the possibility
  • 00:19:40.896 --> 00:19:44.833
  • Of your future, he will convince you that you need this wall up.
  • 00:19:44.833 --> 00:19:49.271
  • And after the wall gets up, you know how to build it, but you
  • 00:19:49.271 --> 00:19:52.674
  • Don't know how to bring it down.
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  • You know how to protect yourself, but you don't know how
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  • To present yourself.
  • 00:19:57.145 --> 00:19:58.614
  • And now you need to present yourself, but you're so
  • 00:19:58.614 --> 00:20:01.149
  • Protected that you're isolated, and all your relationships are
  • 00:20:01.149 --> 00:20:04.653
  • Coming down, your opportunities are coming down, your
  • 00:20:04.653 --> 00:20:07.756
  • Engagements are coming down because you really can't connect
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  • With people, because you're living so long behind the wall
  • 00:20:10.993 --> 00:20:15.063
  • That you gotta decide, like bentley and honey, either i'm
  • 00:20:15.063 --> 00:20:18.667
  • Gonna stay within the parameters of what feels good, or i'm gonna
  • 00:20:18.667 --> 00:20:22.638
  • Break through to the next dimension.
  • 00:20:22.638 --> 00:20:24.806
  • Well, everybody who wants to stay where they are, this is not
  • 00:20:24.806 --> 00:20:29.077
  • Your message.
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  • You stay right where you are, maybe they're gonna talk to you
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  • This week.
  • 00:20:33.315 --> 00:20:34.683
  • This is for the radical people who are willing to take hammers
  • 00:20:34.683 --> 00:20:38.186
  • And picks, and even their fingernails to claw their way
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  • Over into the next realm of where they're trying to go.
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  • Hallelujah, let me tell you something.
  • 00:20:46.395 --> 00:20:48.864
  • When them people hit that wall, it was not reagan's speech that
  • 00:20:48.864 --> 00:20:53.001
  • Brought the wall down, it was the relentlessness of
  • 00:20:53.001 --> 00:20:56.104
  • Their activity.
  • 00:20:56.104 --> 00:20:57.606
  • Brick by brick, block by block, piece by piece, stone by stone,
  • 00:20:57.606 --> 00:21:02.911
  • I'm gonna tear this thing down.
  • 00:21:02.911 --> 00:21:05.147
  • And i need about 10,000 people in this room who are ready to
  • 00:21:05.147 --> 00:21:10.952
  • Get a hammer and a pick and a shovel and a nail, and even
  • 00:21:10.952 --> 00:21:15.357
  • Scratch your way out of this situation because you refuse to
  • 00:21:15.357 --> 00:21:19.761
  • Spend the second half of your life locked up behind some wall
  • 00:21:19.761 --> 00:21:24.733
  • That somebody built around you that said, "you can't be this
  • 00:21:24.733 --> 00:21:29.037
  • And you can't do that and you can't do that."
  • 00:21:29.037 --> 00:21:31.773
  • Who said that?
  • 00:21:31.773 --> 00:21:38.580
  • Look at somebody and tell them, "i'm getting ready to tear this
  • 00:21:38.580 --> 00:21:41.183
  • Thing down, i'm getting ready to tear this thing down."
  • 00:21:41.183 --> 00:21:44.920
  • On the first day of the leadership summit, in order for
  • 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:49.224
  • Me to absorb everything that i need to absorb, i got some walls
  • 00:21:49.224 --> 00:21:53.795
  • To tear down.
  • 00:21:53.795 --> 00:21:55.163
  • You might not be able to see them, my wall might be
  • 00:21:55.163 --> 00:21:58.367
  • Invisible, but i'm gonna bring it down.
  • 00:21:58.367 --> 00:22:01.837
  • It may be an invisible wall of low self-esteem, it may be an
  • 00:22:01.837 --> 00:22:07.376
  • Invisible wall of impostor syndrome, but i refuse to spend
  • 00:22:07.376 --> 00:22:12.814
  • The rest of my life incarcerated by my own emotions, locked up by
  • 00:22:12.814 --> 00:22:18.687
  • My own fears.
  • 00:22:18.687 --> 00:22:20.756
  • I don't care what it is, i'm gonna tear it down.
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  • And let all my enemies know assuredly: you can't build a
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  • Wall that will keep me from getting over it.
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  • If i can't get over it, i'll go under it.
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  • If i can't go under it, i will shout till it comes down.
  • 00:22:34.970 --> 00:22:39.674
  • But i'm not going back to a dry place to make you feel
  • 00:22:39.674 --> 00:22:44.045
  • Comfortable, i'm going to break loose and i'm going to break
  • 00:22:44.045 --> 00:22:48.483
  • Loose over the next three days in a crazy way.
  • 00:22:48.483 --> 00:22:53.221
  • I'm going to break through over the next three days into a brand
  • 00:22:53.221 --> 00:22:57.392
  • New dimension.
  • 00:22:57.392 --> 00:22:58.727
  • I'm going to break through in the next three days with
  • 00:22:58.727 --> 00:23:02.631
  • Everything i got.
  • 00:23:02.631 --> 00:23:04.032
  • And if i'm talking to you, holler at your boy
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  • [congregation cheering].
  • 00:23:08.003 --> 00:23:25.954
  • Bishop jakes: it's gotta come down, it's gotta come down,
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  • It's gotta come down.
  • 00:23:27.622 --> 00:23:28.957
  • Touch everybody you can reach and say, "it's gotta come down.
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  • It's gotta come down in my marriage, in my finances, in my
  • 00:23:31.226 --> 00:23:34.696
  • Business, in my company, in--under my administration,
  • 00:23:34.696 --> 00:23:38.433
  • Under my leadership, in my church, in my storefront, in my
  • 00:23:38.433 --> 00:23:41.903
  • City, up under my auspices, it's gotta come down."
  • 00:23:41.903 --> 00:23:44.906
  • I can't just keep pancing around and pacing the floor, and seeing
  • 00:23:44.906 --> 00:23:49.277
  • The same ground year after year, day after day, feeling the
  • 00:23:49.277 --> 00:23:53.081
  • Same feelings.
  • 00:23:53.081 --> 00:23:54.416
  • Day after day, the devil is a liar.
  • 00:23:54.416 --> 00:23:56.384
  • I came to make a pronouncement: "mr. gorbachev,
  • 00:23:56.384 --> 00:23:59.821
  • Tear down this wall."
  • 00:23:59.821 --> 00:24:02.324
  • Everything that's standing in my way has--oh, i gotta quit, i'm
  • 00:24:02.324 --> 00:24:06.461
  • About to feel like preaching, i forgot where i am.
  • 00:24:06.461 --> 00:24:13.502
  • I'm supposed to be a little dignified at a leadership
  • 00:24:13.502 --> 00:24:16.838
  • Conference, but this is spiritual warfare.
  • 00:24:16.838 --> 00:24:20.775
  • I declare, i decree and declare, i decree and declare, i decree
  • 00:24:20.775 --> 00:24:27.449
  • And declare, i declare and decree, that everything that's
  • 00:24:27.449 --> 00:24:32.120
  • Standing in your way, you will see that thing come down.
  • 00:24:32.120 --> 00:24:37.459
  • If you can't shout it down, claw it down.
  • 00:24:37.459 --> 00:24:43.832
  • If you can't claw it down, clap it down.
  • 00:24:43.832 --> 00:24:45.734
  • If you can't clap it down, scratch it down.
  • 00:24:45.734 --> 00:24:50.205
  • But whatever was holding you up when you got here, you came all
  • 00:24:50.205 --> 00:24:54.576
  • The way to orlando to bring that thing--
  • 00:24:54.576 --> 00:24:59.447
  • [congregation cheering].
  • 00:24:59.447 --> 00:25:20.735
  • Bishop jakes: shake hands with your neighbor and tell them,
  • 00:25:09.257 --> 00:25:22.137
  • "i'm gonna tear it down.
  • 00:25:22.137 --> 00:25:24.439
  • You stand there and look cute, but i'm gonna tear this down.
  • 00:25:24.439 --> 00:25:27.576
  • I'm gonna tear this wall down.
  • 00:25:27.576 --> 00:25:30.278
  • I'm gonna bring it to its knees.
  • 00:25:30.278 --> 00:25:32.414
  • I'm gonna see it collapse into a pile of rubble, and then i'm
  • 00:25:32.414 --> 00:25:36.985
  • Gonna climb over top and get back what the enemy stole
  • 00:25:36.985 --> 00:25:41.756
  • From me.
  • 00:25:41.756 --> 00:25:43.091
  • I refuse to lay down and die.
  • 00:25:43.091 --> 00:25:45.060
  • I refuse to give up the good fight of faith.
  • 00:25:45.060 --> 00:25:47.662
  • I refuse to give up on my dream.
  • 00:25:47.662 --> 00:25:50.365
  • I refuse to walk away from my promise.
  • 00:25:50.365 --> 00:25:53.468
  • I refuse to let you have the last word, i refuse!"
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
  • 00:26:11.953 --> 00:26:14.889
  • Bishop jakes: you are the change makers.
  • 00:26:14.889 --> 00:26:17.826
  • We don't have to be monolithic in order to be united.
  • 00:26:17.826 --> 00:26:22.497
  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
  • 00:26:22.497 --> 00:26:25.533
  • Vusi: think scale.
  • 00:26:25.533 --> 00:26:27.268
  • 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.
  • 00:26:33.541 --> 00:26:37.912
  • John: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
  • 00:26:37.912 --> 00:26:41.182
  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
  • 00:26:41.182 --> 00:26:44.152
  • Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
  • 00:26:44.152 --> 00:26:47.656
  • 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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  • Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us on social media
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  • And share your story of how god is impacting your life.
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  • We look forward to seeing you
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  • Next time on "the potter's touch."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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