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Toure Roberts - Heaven’s Resource for Earth’s Dilemmas

December 18, 2024 | S

Toure Roberts - Heaven’s Resource for Earth’s Dilemmas
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | Toure Roberts - Heaven’s Resource for Earth’s Dilemmas | December 18, 2024
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Touré roberts: i want you to understand, there is only one
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  • Gift, and the spirit itself is the gift.
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  • When god put his spirit in you, in one injection, he gave
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  • You everything.
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  • He gave you the source of it all.
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  • Your whole shape, your whole wiring, everything about you
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  • Has specificity.
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  • God is getting ready to do a work in your life.
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  • He is getting ready to allow you to walk in the spirit on a whole
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  • New level.
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  • I believe that we're gonna emerge knowing what we have,
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  • Walking in what we have, walking in power and victory
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  • And clarity.
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch ♪
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  • Touré: i love paul.
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  • I don't understand how you can be that prolific, that profound
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  • And yet that humble.
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  • I don't get it.
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  • And one of the things that you will notice about paul in his
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  • Writings is that paul despised ignorance.
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  • There's a saying in the world, ignorance is bliss; no, it
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  • Is not.
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  • That's not the bible, the bible says that my people actually are
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  • Destroyed for a lack of knowledge.
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  • And when you study paul's ministry, paul is trying to get
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  • Those that had come to christ to realize what they had, because a
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  • Lot of people get christ, but don't know what they got when
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  • They got christ.
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  • Hey, can i talk to you tonight?
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  • Yeah, yeah, i got christ, watch this, but i have to grow up in
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  • My understanding of what i got when i got christ, because i got
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  • More than what i thought i had.
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  • This is one of the reasons why we commune.
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  • The purpose of communion is to stare at the cross afresh, do
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  • This in remembrance of me.
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  • As often as you do this, you do show forth the lord's death.
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  • Why would the lord want us to stare at his death often?
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  • Because if you look at his death, you will see what died.
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  • Feel the holy ghost.
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  • In other words, we can have, watch this, ghosts living in our
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  • Lives, disrupting our lives, stealing from us, rob, steal and
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  • Kill from us, not because we're not saved, we just don't know
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  • What we got when we got saved.
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  • So paul is passionate because he realizes that if you don't know
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  • What you got, then you're already being stolen from.
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  • Because one of the things that i've learned about the enemy is
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  • He thrives and feeds off of ignorance.
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  • And that's why paul, in rebellion, would often say, we
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  • Are not ignorant to your devices.
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  • In other words, i'm on to you devil, and you know what, i'm
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  • Not afraid of you devil because greater, come on, is he who is
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  • In me than he who is in the world.
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  • I messed around and read my bible, when he says that god has
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  • Given to us power over all the power of the enemy and nothing
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  • But no means shall hurt me.
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  • So it is important, oh god, to not just know you're saved, but
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  • Know what you got when you got saved.
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  • And that's why paul is level-setting early in this text
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  • By saying, now, listen, you can't even say jesus is lord
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  • Unless you got something.
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  • So the very fact that you are able to say that jesus is lord
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  • Means that you are doing so by a resource that will change
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  • Your life.
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  • When god saved you, he gave everything to you that you will
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  • Need; everything, as peter says, that pertains to life
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  • And godliness.
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  • I feel the holy ghost, somebody shout, i got something.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • God did not short change you.
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  • Sometimes in life we can feel like we got short changed.
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  • When god put his spirit in you, in one injection, he gave
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  • You everything.
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  • He gave you the source of it all.
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  • Oh god, i feel it.
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  • And so paul is saying, looky here, look here, if you're gonna
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  • Walk this thing out, i need you to know what you've got, but i
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  • Gotta break it down for you.
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  • Because the church of corinth was a church that maybe knew a
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  • Little bit of what they have, but didn't know why.
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  • And there was carnality as well in the works.
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  • So let's talk about, let's talk about it.
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  • So he starts off--i'm gonna go verse by verse.
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  • So he starts off saying, first of all, he says: "now
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  • Concerning spiritual."
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  • Now, why did i disrupt the text or disrupt the new king james
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  • Translation by pointing out that that word "gifts" is not
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  • In there?
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  • I did it because when you read, in this particular text, he
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  • Points out nine, what we call, gifts of the spirit.
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  • The reason why i point out that that word in--right there when
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  • It says spiritual, and then we put gifts, is not in there is
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  • Because i want you to understand that there are not nine gifts of
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  • The spirit, there is only one gift, and the spirit itself is
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  • The gift that expresses itself
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  • Anyway he chooses.
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  • I feel the holy ghost.
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  • And this is important because there's some people in here and
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  • You're like, well, they got the gift of working miracles; oh,
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  • They got, you know, they got the gift of prophecy, i don't have
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  • That gift.
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  • They got the gift of prophecy, i don't have that.
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  • They got the gift of discerning of spirits, right?
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  • Discernment, i don't have it.
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  • Because if you don't understand this passage and what it is
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  • Saying, you would think that when he says, and i give one
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  • This, you will think he's saying, i give one person this
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  • And i give another person this and i give another person that
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  • And i give another person that.
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  • Well, let me ask you a question, why would god not want you to be
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  • Able to discern spirits?
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  • Why would god only want you to be able to do that, but you
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  • Can't do that?
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  • Or, why would god want you to be able to speak in tongues and
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  • Consequently edify yourself, but not want you to speak in
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  • Tongues, and you can't, so now i can't be edified because somehow
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  • I wasn't--i didn't get the raffle for tongues?
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  • Can i talk to you?
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  • So what i'm doing is i am attempting to demystify
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  • And to tear apart the framework, watch this, of ignorance that
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  • Keeps us from recognizing that if i've got the holy ghost, i've
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  • Got it all.
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  • Now, you might say, well, pt, you know, i hear you, but, man,
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  • That person over there be flowing in it, you know, i can't
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  • Do that.
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  • They flow in it, i don't.
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  • Usually, it's because they believe they can.
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  • Ain't no difference between you, god is not like that.
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  • They just have a belief maybe because they do it often,
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  • Because they experience it.
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  • No, no, no, no, we're gonna come out of here tonight knowing what
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  • We got.
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  • Oh, i feel the lord, and we're gonna start trying some stuff.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Matthew ashimolowo: it's time to shift.
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  • Tell your neighbor to shift.
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  • This shifting has to be through personal shifting, and the
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  • Personal shifting must start with training.
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  • This training will be by observation, 2 timothy chapter
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  • 2 verse 2: "and the things you've seen and heard of me, the
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  • Same commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others."
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  • Observation, and that's the reason for coming to a
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  • Conference like this.
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  • You don't just come and listen to the message, you need to look
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  • At the ambience of the conference.
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  • Why do they have this kind of screens?
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  • Why is it put together like this?
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  • You mean this is possible?
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  • Can i be able to do this?
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  • We need church unusual, not usual church.
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  • Observe, watch the man, look at what he's doing.
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  • Why does he have so many managers managing the event?
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  • Why are those people there?
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  • Why do they do that?
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  • And you can see the synchronization, the
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  • Orderliness, the excellence, as a result of what has been put
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  • In place.
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  • Observe, and then we move from observation to assimilation.
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  • Assimilate, take it in, study, copy.
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  • The prophet told the woman, borrow vessels and borrow not
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  • A few.
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  • Borrow this, if you can afford it, of course.
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  • Borrow vessels, borrow concepts.
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  • The message is not enough, don't just go and re-preach the
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  • Message alone, borrow the concept you saw: the ambience,
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  • The ability, the skills with which it was put
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  • Together, assimilate.
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  • Third way to be trained is through imitation, imitation, 1
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  • Corinthians 11:1, imitate good things.
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  • That's what the scripture says, imitate.
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  • And it doesn't have to even be a big conference, sometimes it may
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  • Just be somebody else's church you went to preach and you found
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  • That their hospitality team is a star, imitate.
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  • Joseph retrained himself, that's why his brothers could not
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  • Recognize him because they still stayed in the same language they
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  • Spoke, told the same jokes, hung with the same friends.
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  • Who you see determines who sees you.
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  • Who you hear determines who hears you.
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: one of the hardest parts of leadership,
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  • Both in my faith walk and in my business walk, is making great
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  • Decisions, and it is almost impossible to make great
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  • Decisions if you have poor information.
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  • Poor information is predicated on the prompting ability to ask
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  • The kinds of questions that elicits from the people around
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  • You the responsibility of garnering the kind of
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  • Information that equips you to make optimum decisions that
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  • Don't have the consequences that lead to regret.
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  • So, effective decision-making is very important as a leader, as a
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  • Pastor, as a business person, as a thinker, as a person who wants
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  • To raise the barometer on the economic impact for generations
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  • To generations.
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  • As a father, as a leader, as a woman in power, you are no
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  • Greater than the decisions you make, but you can't make great
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  • Decisions if you don't surround yourself with good people and
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  • Good information.
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  • Effective decision making is definitely a part of
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  • Great leadership.
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  • You can be greatly anointed, you can be greatly gifted, you can
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  • Sing the paint off the wall, but if you cannot make the right
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  • Decisions, sign the right contracts, hire the right
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  • People, negotiate the right terms, do the right deals, your
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  • Gift is not enough, your anointing is not enough, your
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  • Degree is not enough.
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  • Your degree is no better than the decisions you make with it.
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  • Effective decision making is a part of great leadership.
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  • ♪♪♪
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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 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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  • Touré: there are some interesting things in the text.
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  • It says: "there are diversities of gifts," that's graces.
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  • "there are variety of graces, but same spirit.
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  • There are varieties of ministries, but the same lord."
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  • And it says: "and there are varieties or diversities of
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  • Activities, but the same god who works all in all."
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  • Isn't it interesting that paul injects the trinity right there
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  • In those verses?
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  • Because what paul is describing, watch this, is the fullness
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  • Of god.
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  • He is beginning to paint a picture of fullness because some
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  • People are more inclined, watch this, because of your
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  • Relationship, you're more inclined to jesus.
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  • So when you pray, you don't necessarily pray, our
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  • Father, right?
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  • You pray--because they're all one, but you pray, you know,
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  • Jesus, i just come to you right now in the name of jesus, i just
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  • Come to you right now in the name of jesus.
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  • And some of you be like, holy spirit, come.
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  • Come on, somebody.
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  • Because of your comfort and your familiarity, we oftentimes have
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  • More of an affinity to one or the other.
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  • And so what the lord is doing is he is doing a sweep and he is
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  • Getting everybody.
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  • And he is saying that this resource that i am describing
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  • However you roll, however you flow, i'm covering everybody
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  • Because this is about fullness and i need for you to know what
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  • You got.
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  • I feel the holy ghost, nothing lacking, nothing lacking, i feel
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  • That, nothing, nothing lacking.
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  • So then he says in verse 7, after he says: "there are
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  • Diversities of activities, but it is the same god who works all
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  • In all," then he says, "but the manifestation," in fact that
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  • Word "but" can be also.
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  • It actually makes more sense because, but, you know--and
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  • That's why you gotta study because everything, you gotta
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  • Look at it deeply and see with understanding because this
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  • Particular word is a greek word and it can mean but, but it can
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  • Also mean also, or, and.
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  • So if you see it in this context--because but would
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  • Somehow negate what was said, there's nothing to--there's no
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  • Argument in this text, it is all aligned.
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  • So i believe it says or better reads "and also," let's further
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  • This conversation.
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  • "the manifestation of the spirit is given," watch this, "to each
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  • One for the profit of all," is given, so we can't--let's get
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  • Out of this gift business.
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  • Now, you may have the gift of singing, right?
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  • The gift of communication, that's cool, but when it comes
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  • To spiritual things, there is only one gift and it is the
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  • Spirit, and the spirit manifests or expresses itself, watch this,
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  • Intelligently according to the will of god.
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  • I don't need to express myself in tongues in your life in this
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  • Moment if what you need is a healing.
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  • I need to say that better.
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  • I'm not going to express myself, watch this, in a word of
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  • Knowledge if you need a word of wisdom.
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  • So there is a highly intelligent process that is taking place
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  • That is controlling, watch this, the distribution of the
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  • Manifestations of the spirit that you have in you, and we
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  • Can't manipulate it or control--can i teach tonight?
  • 00:19:22.444 --> 00:19:26.315
  • We can't manipulate it or control it.
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  • That word "ignorance," when paul says, "i would that you--i
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  • Don't want you to be ignorant," it's a greek word "agnoeo."
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  • Agnoeo, ag or ah, which is not, and noeo, which is to perceive
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  • And to understand.
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  • So he's saying, i don't want you to not perceive or to
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  • Not understand.
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  • The word "also" has the idea of to exercise the mind, to
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  • Exercise the mind, meaning that when we are awaken to the holy
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  • Spirit and that we have access to the holy spirit, we are
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  • Awakened in a particular way that our mind begins to work.
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  • That there's a working in our mind, god divinely working and
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  • Moving in our mind.
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  • And also, when i was reading that, that word "ignorant," it
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  • Also has this idea of--and this is--this really caught me, it
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  • Also has this idea of to ignore through, this is an interesting
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  • Word, disinclination.
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  • In other words, when i am ignorant, without knowledge, i,
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  • Watch this, ignore things because i'm not inclined to seek
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  • The spirit.
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  • I need to say that better.
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  • That--that's important because i have to do life with precision.
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  • I feel the holy ghost.
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  • You are--if you just look at your body and look at how
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  • Precise you are, you are not random.
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  • Everything in you is calculated and methodical, so everything,
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  • Watch this, on the inside of you says, even the small details are
  • 00:21:18.493 --> 00:21:24.333
  • Important, down to the neuron, even the small--down to the
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  • Atom, even the small--the molecule, the smallest part of
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  • You, down to the details, you are made up, watch this,
  • 00:21:35.277 --> 00:21:39.047
  • Of specificity.
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  • Feel the holy ghost.
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  • Your whole shape, your whole wiring, everything about you has
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  • Specificity to the extent that your fingerprints are yours and
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  • Yours alone.
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  • And if this is the case, if this is indeed our makeup, watch
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  • This, then our movement should have specificity.
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  • I--oh, i forgot, i ought to live technically.
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  • The exercising of the mind, the holy ghost, if you are--and i'm
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  • Gonna get to some things in just a minute, i just--i wanna be
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  • Free--the holy ghost, if you will allow the spirit, will make
  • 00:22:29.398 --> 00:22:34.736
  • You technical.
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  • What does that look like?
  • 00:22:36.071 --> 00:22:37.439
  • Technicality can look like timing, knowing the difference
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  • Between the right thing and the right thing at the wrong time.
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  • Oh, i feel the holy ghost.
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  • Knowing the difference between the wrong thing, and the only
  • 00:22:50.085 --> 00:22:57.159
  • Reason why it's the wrong thing is because it's the wrong time.
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  • But being--having that level of specificity and technicality,
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  • That's what god is trying to bring you to, and it comes
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  • Through you mastering your relationship with the spirit.
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  • Can i talk to you like this tonight?
  • 00:23:12.741 --> 00:23:15.811
  • Because your calling and your anointing is going to put you in
  • 00:23:15.811 --> 00:23:21.216
  • A place where you're gonna have to have a funeral
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  • For randomness.
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  • If it ain't the spirit, it ain't me.
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  • I feel the holy ghost.
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  • There's some people in this room, and god is getting ready
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  • To do a work in your life, and the work in your life is that he
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  • Is getting ready to allow you to walk in the spirit on a whole
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  • New level.
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  • I feel the holy ghost.
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  • There is--[speaking in tongues] --here we go.
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  • There are things that have access to you right now because
  • 00:23:54.483 --> 00:23:59.821
  • You are not walking in the spirit.
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  • Turn me up in this thing, please.
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  • There are some things that have access to you, that have access
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  • To your life, that has access to your mind, that has access to
  • 00:24:09.397 --> 00:24:13.635
  • Your finances because you are living in a realm that is too
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  • Low, and i hear god saying i am getting ready to elevate you, i
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  • Am getting ready to lift you up.
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  • I am getting ready to set you in--seated in high places
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  • In christ.
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  • It is that place where you know who you are.
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  • It is that place where you know who god is.
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  • It is that place where truth is commonplace.
  • 00:24:38.360 --> 00:24:41.663
  • And i wish the devil would--i feel the spirit of god.
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  • Come up here, says god, oh, we gonna get this, we're gonna get
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  • This, we're gonna get this, we're gonna get this.
  • 00:24:51.006 --> 00:24:54.776
  • That's what paul is talking about.
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  • Paul is saying, there's more to you than you think.
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  • Being in the spirit is not just yabba dabba doo, you become a
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  • Bad boy when you're in the spirit.
  • 00:25:06.254 --> 00:25:09.224
  • You become a bad person when you're in the spirit.
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  • If you need a word of wisdom, no problem, baby, i got you.
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  • If you need a word of knowledge, no problem, baby, i got you.
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  • If you need to prophesy and speak to the mountains, i got
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  • You, baby.
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  • If you need gifts of healing, i got you.
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  • You gotta see this, you gotta see this.
  • 00:25:34.950 --> 00:25:38.853
  • So you thought that those things represented a whole bunch
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  • Of people?
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  • Uh-uh, no, no, no, no, no, those are expressions of
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  • One person.
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  • And if you think about jesus, who modeled this,
  • 00:25:54.002 --> 00:25:59.007
  • He flowed in them all.
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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.
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  • It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that i
  • 00:26:13.054 --> 00:26:17.592
  • 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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