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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

Toure Roberts - Standing on Power

March 18, 2025 | S25:E44

Toure Roberts - Standing on Power
God is very intentional when He orders your steps. He wants you to make the right moves, with confidence.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | Toure Roberts - Standing on Power | March 18, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Touré roberts: every place that the sole of your foot shall
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  • Tread upon i have given you,
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  • Which means that there's power, watch this, in every step.
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  • ♪ oh, "the potter's touch," "the potter's touch." ♪♪
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  • Touré: it's very interesting.
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  • This is an interesting thing that i picked up when i was
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  • Reading it.
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  • The second chapter closes out with the story of rahab the
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  • Harlot and the children, the spies, you know, joshua sent out
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  • Spies and they came back, two spies, and they came back, and
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  • They were boastful in the congregation.
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  • And they were saying, "wow, god has truly delivered the nations
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  • In our hands," like, they're afraid of us.
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  • So they came back and said, he said, "all the the inhabitants
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  • Of jericho, they're afraid of us," right?
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  • They come back to the camp and they say that joshua--and then
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  • The next thing you know it says, "and joshua rose early in the
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  • Morning," almost, watched this, it can be argued, "seemingly
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  • Unbothered by their enthusiasm."
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  • It reminds me of jesus.
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  • You know, when jesus was out doing his miracles, and he was
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  • Healing people and all that kind of stuff?
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  • And then the disciples came to him all excited, saying,
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  • "master, master, all men look for you."
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  • And jesus ignored that.
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  • He said, "let us go onto the next town."
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  • There's some wisdom in that.
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  • He was not moved by the enthusiasm and the excitement of
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  • The people because sometimes the people will make you miss god.
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  • See, they're excited over carnal things, but we must remain
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  • Excited over kingdom things.
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  • I'll be honest with you, and i think that every preacher, you
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  • Know, can fall into this, but you preach your word, and then
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  • Maybe you post something on social.
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  • And then you go back, and you wanna see the comments.
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  • I've gotten to a place that once i release that word, once i open
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  • My mouth and say that word, i don't need the validation of man
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  • Nor the criticism of man.
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  • I just obeyed what god said.
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  • I'm--let us go into the next town.
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  • I've got work to do.
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  • Once that moment is over, that moment is over.
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  • And the only question that you should have, the only concern
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  • That you should have is, did i say what god told me to say?
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  • Did i do what god told me to do?
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  • I don't need the applause of man because i know what's in man.
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  • Come on, somebody.
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  • The same one saying, "oh, you sure fly," the same one saying,
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  • "oh, you sure blessed me," will be the same one saying,
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  • "crucify him. crucify him.
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  • Crucify him."
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  • If you're gonna be everything that god has created you to be,
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  • You have got to get delivered from the praise of man.
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  • Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  • Where are my people?
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  • And you are living for an audience of one.
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  • As long as god is pleased with your life, that is good enough.
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  • If that's you, give god a shout at this house.
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  • Uh-huh, uh-huh, naw.
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  • They came back again, "oh, god has delivered them into our
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  • Hands, joshua.
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  • Everybody's afraid of us."
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  • And next thing you know, you see joshua, watch this, getting up
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  • Early in the morning.
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  • One could presume that this was either for his consecration time
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  • Or after his consecration time.
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  • And then it says, "he moves to a new juncture and stops for
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  • Three days."
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  • I love this, look at how methodical he is.
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  • He's not just moving, let's look at it again, "and joshua rose
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  • Early in the morning: and they set out from acacia grove and
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  • Came to the jordan, he and all the children of israel," watch
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  • This, "came to the jordan."
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  • Now they told him, he was told, that they were gonna cross
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  • The jordan.
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  • So one would think that he would have a right to take his power
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  • And his ability and cross the jordan, but it says he didn't
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  • Do that.
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  • He goes there and he lodges--he goes to the jordan, "he and all
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  • The children of israel," so he's got people following him, and
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  • Caveat side note, you always have somebody following you.
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  • Someone right now is paying attention to you, particularly
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  • If you call on the name of god and profess of god, somebody's
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  • Watching you right now.
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  • You think that you're in a silo, but you are not.
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  • Somebody can smell god on you.
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  • And they're following you.
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  • But you would think that joshua would just go ahead and move in
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  • There, but it says that "and they lodged there before they
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  • Crossed over."
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  • They waited.
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  • Look at the thought and the patience and the carefulness
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  • That's taken place.
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  • Joshua's teaching us something.
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  • And then it says, "so it was, after three days, that the
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  • Officers went through the camp."
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  • Now the officers can't do anything without joshua
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  • Commanding them.
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  • I just want you to know that.
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  • So after three days, joshua--and three is a number of--it's a
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  • Divine number.
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  • There's all sorts of things in the scripture that speak to the
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  • Fact that three bear witness to god.
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  • Too much to get into at this moment, but three is a
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  • Divine number.
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  • And i think that that helps us to understand that he didn't
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  • Move without god instructing him to move.
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  • So the three days was significant.
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  • So, anyway, and, "so it was, after three days, that the
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  • Officers went through the camp, and they commanded the people,"
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  • Now watch this, this is getting good now, "and they commanded
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  • The people, saying, 'when you see the ark of the covenant of
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  • The lord your god, and the priests, the levites, bearing
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  • It," woo, "'then you shall set out from your place and go
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  • After it.'"
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  • I gotta stop right there. i gotta start right there.
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  • Stop right there.
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  • Now joshua is beginning to deeply enlighten his people.
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  • He says, "when you see the ark of the covenant," that's a
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  • Series all in and of itself, but we know that the ark was
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  • Symbolic of the presence of god, okay?
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  • It says, "when you see the ark of the covenant," that's the
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  • Presence, that's the glory, right, the spirit of god, the
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  • Glory of god, the presence of god, when you see that, "and you
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  • See the priests and the levites carrying it," that's heavy,
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  • That's heavy.
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  • So the ark represents the presence and the glory, right?
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  • He says, "but i don't want you to just see the ark," stay with
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  • Me, "i don't want you to just see the ark.
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  • The glory and the presence needs to be qualified by order.
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  • Because we're moving into a time," hear me, "where it's
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  • Gonna be very difficult to discern the fake from the real."
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  • Come on somebody, come on, come on, go with me, "it's gonna
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  • Be difficult.
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  • People are gonna be saying, 'jesus,' and, 'yeah jesus,' and
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  • All that kind of stuff, 'jesus' and 'jesus,' 'jesus,' and it's
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  • Gonna look right and it's gonna sound right, but there's gonna
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  • Need to be some additional level of confirmation and validation
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  • Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses.
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  • Let every word be--," you understand?
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  • So he's saying that i don't want you to just look for the ark.
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  • I also want you to see the priests and the levites
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  • Bearing it.
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  • In other words--and he didn't just say just the priest.
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  • He said, "i want you to look for the ark," that's the presence
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  • Of glory.
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  • "i want you to look for the priests.
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  • And just in case it gets by the priests, i want you to look for
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  • The levites.
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  • And then when you see that order in that formation, then you can
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  • Go after it."
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  • Oh, i feel the holy ghost.
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  • In other words, this season is gonna necessitate a level of
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  • Discernment and confirmation unlike any other season of
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  • Your--i feel this, everything has to be in place.
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  • If there is one thing out of place, wait on god.
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  • Can i talk to you like that?
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  • But then it says, he does say though, when all that lines up,
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  • When you see the ark of the covenant and you have qualified
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  • The presence, the glory, and you've qualified the presence
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  • And the glory by those confirmations, levites, priests,
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  • He says, "then you go after it."
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  • That's when you can speed up.
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  • That's when your voltage can be turned up again.
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  • Oh god, i feel it.
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  • Can we go deeper?
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  • Now, that's not all he says.
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  • He also says, "now, i want you
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  • To see the ark of the covenant,
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  • Presence of god, glory of god.
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  • And i want you to see and to look out for the priests
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  • And levites."
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  • He says, "and once all that lines up, i want you to go
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  • After it."
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  • He says, "but i need you to keep even in that case, 2,000 cubits
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  • Between you and it."
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  • If you do the math on that, that's a little over 1/2
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  • A mile.
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  • Don't make me.
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  • So he says, "i want you to look for the presence, to look for
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  • The glory.
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  • When you look for the presence, look for the glory, go after it,
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  • But i need you to keep a space in between it."
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  • And i was wondering, i said, why would you--wouldn't
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  • You--shouldn't they be close to it?
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  • Isn't it the closer, the better?
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  • Doesn't that make more sense? stay close to the glory.
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  • But that's not the instruction.
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  • The instruction is 2,000 cubits.
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  • It's about 18 inches, equivalent to the length between your elbow
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  • And the tip of your middle finger, 2,000 of those.
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  • That equates to just over 1/2 mile.
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  • Why?
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  • And i believe, there are a number of reasons, but i believe
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  • The most important one, potentially, is because he's
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  • Trying to develop your focus.
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  • Think about all that you have to look past
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  • In order to focus on the glory that's down there.
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  • I believe that god wants to fine tune your eyeballs, and he wants
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  • To develop you in such a way that you're not moved by the
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  • Thing that's right in front of you.
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  • Oh, i feel the holy ghost.
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  • But he wants you to keep your eyes on the prize and be
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  • Disciplined enough to navigate dangers, seen and unseen, to
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  • Navigate treacherous things.
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  • Focus on me.
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  • I hear god saying, "look at me.
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  • I need you to get better at looking through your stuff and
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  • Seeing me.
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  • I need you to be a people who aren't tossed to and fro.
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  • Can't you hear him telling joshua, "don't turn to the left
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  • Nor to the right that you might make your way prosperous and
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  • Have good success."
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  • God is trying to calibrate your focus.
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  • This thing is about the long haul.
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  • I'm learning about how the enemy works.
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  • And his number one attack against you is distraction.
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  • That's his number one attack.
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  • But if you can lock in on the glory, oh god, if you can lock
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  • In on the presence, if you can lock in on the promise, it's so
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  • Bright, it could be five miles away, and you will see it.
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  • God is trying to develop your eyeballs so you won't
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  • Miss glory.
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  • Male announcer: uncharted territory is the birthplace for
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  • Every great leader.
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  • Announcer: two, one.
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  • Announcer: because we are called, not only to face our
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  • Fear of the unknown, but to master it.
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: you're planted in that position so that
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  • You can have the influence to change your generation.
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  • Announcer: navigate your next defining moment at the
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  • International leadership summit 2025.
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  • Bishop jakes: there's a change coming.
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  • Bishop jakes: in genesis, it's where we first are introduced to
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  • Our god.
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  • He was the potter, and we were the first pot.
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  • Bishop jakes: if there's anything good in me, it's got to
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  • Be god because i know that the vessel is earthen, but the
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  • Treasure is divine.
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  • Touré: there will be power
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  • In every step of instruction.
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  • Power in every step of instruction.
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  • That's why you can't run off, and that's why you can't be
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  • Random because every step is power.
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  • Every step is power. every step is power.
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  • Every step is power.
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  • Every step is power. every step is power.
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  • Every step is power. every step is power.
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  • Every place that the sole of your foot,
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  • [speaking in tongues],
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  • Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread
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  • Upon, i have given you,
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  • Which means that there's power,
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  • Watch this, in every step.
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  • There was something in the text that accosted me.
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  • There's something in the text that accosted me.
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  • And it was when they put their
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  • Feet in the water, when they put
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  • Their feet in the water, it says, "the waters parted."
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  • They literally were cut off, like this, and--let's read it
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  • Real quick.
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  • In verse 13, it says, "and it shall come to pass, as soon as
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  • The soles of the feet of the priests, as soon as the soles of
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  • The feet of the priests who bear the ark of the lord, the lord of
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  • All the earth, shall rest in the waters of the jordan, that the
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  • Waters of the jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come
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  • Down from upstream, and they shall stand as as a heap."
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  • If you keep reading, it happened.
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  • As soon as they put their foot--and i couldn't, family, i
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  • Couldn't shake that.
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  • I know that god said that it's going to happen when you put
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  • Your feet down, but i couldn't take my mind off of the feet.
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  • I couldn't--and i'm, like, there's something in
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  • This--something in this, the dynamic of this, the
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  • Putting--something in the feet, and it bothered me.
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  • And i started seeking god, like, god i'm trying to--'cause i know
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  • That joshua was teaching us about discipline.
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  • I know he's teaching us about being circumspect.
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  • I know he's teaching us about being very scrupulous in these
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  • Times of transition of people in power, and i understand that,
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  • But there's something about these feet.
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  • What is it?
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  • And so i let it go because i'm not, you know, sometimes
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  • Preachers will make up stuff, and i don't wanna make up
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  • Nothing and, you know, i don't wanna do that, "what had
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  • Happened was--" no, i don't wanna do that to you.
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  • I love you too much.
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  • So i said, "god, i'm gonna just--i'm just gonna put a
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  • Little comma there, put a little bookmark there, and you're gonna
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  • Teach me about this dynamic with the feet and the power."
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  • So i'm at the place that i trained at, it's called built
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  • For it, and they train athletes there.
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  • And i think they forget that i'm not really an athlete.
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  • I'm, like, "i am not dak prescott.
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  • Don't--why are you putting all that weight on me?"
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  • But i train there, and my coach, my performance
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  • Coach--he's actually here today.
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  • Chico's here today, chico morales and kevon
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  • Frazier, here.
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  • Stand up while you're here. they came, they came, they came.
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  • Just stand up real quick. i see will--stand up, stand up,
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  • Okay, all right, that's good, they came, they came.
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  • They helped me to be better.
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  • I'm gonna live longer because of them.
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  • Come on, somebody.
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  • But, chico, i was doing an exercise, and he starts
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  • Correcting my form.
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  • And the issue was not that i wasn't strong.
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  • The issue was with my feet and the place that i was putting
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  • My feet.
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  • I was supposed to put my foot down, but i was putting it down
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  • The wrong way.
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  • And the way that i was putting my foot down would actually slow
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  • Me down instead of speed me up.
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  • And i said, "shut your mouth and keep on talking."
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  • And he was, like, "yeah."
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  • I said, "wait, are you saying that i can be strong, i can be
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  • Fast, i can have power, but if i don't put my foot down in the
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  • Right place, then it will actually work against me and not
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  • For me?"
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  • He said, "yeah, that's absolutely the case."
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  • And i'm, like, "oh my god, wait, wait, wait.
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  • God, you're talking to me."
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  • So we're having a holy ghost moment in the gym.
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  • I said, "explain it to me more."
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  • And so he says, "no, yeah," he's like, "so when you're running,
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  • You can't put your foot down in front of you because that
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  • Actually start--that actually works like a break."
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  • And that actually makes sense.
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  • Look, i'm stopping.
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  • He said, "you have to put your foot down below your hip because
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  • That allows you to thrust forward."
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  • Look at the difference between--and one it--all same
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  • Power, same vessel, same opportunity.
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  • The mechanics were off.
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  • And i said, "oh, chico, god sent you to me, chico."
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  • So i'm, like, so i'm beginning to put it all together.
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  • It's not just you taking a step.
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  • It's where you put your foot in the step because this is better
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  • Than that.
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  • But to the undiscerning, to the unscrupulous, it all looks
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  • The same.
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  • And then he says, "oh, well, you--i got more for you
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  • Then, pt."
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  • I said, "more?"
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  • He says, "yes, it's not only where you put it down, but how
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  • You put it down."
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  • I said, "what?"
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  • He said, "yes, yes, yes."
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  • He says, "so, we know that you--where not to put it."
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  • He said, "but the way you come down on your foot is
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  • Everything too."
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  • He says, "you can't put your foot down by the heel.
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  • That's not the power source.
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  • You have to put your foot down on the ball of your foot, so
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  • That power goes into the ground and it sets off a chain reaction
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  • And allows you to move forward with velocity."
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  • I said, "oh my god."
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  • So then something told me, bishop, something said, "go over
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  • And look up that hebrew word for sole when it says, 'every place
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  • That the sole of your foot shall tread upon, i have given
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  • To you.'"
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  • Do you know i went and i looked up that word, and i got down to
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  • The root of that word, and that word literally means curve?
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  • Not the sole of your foot, like the bottom of your foot, the
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  • Curve, the ball of your foot.
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  • Right there in the bible is science about how to move.
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  • What does this all mean?
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  • I have to get the mechanics of my walk down.
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  • I can't just be walking.
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  • I can't just be going any old place and doing any old thing.
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  • I have got to have an ear to hear what the spirit of the lord
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  • Is saying.
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  • It is important where i put my foot down, how i put my
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  • Foot down.
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  • Because if i do it right, watch this, the earth is gonna
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  • Help me.
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  • I wish somebody would hear what i'm saying.
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  • So when i put my foot down in the right place, i'm putting
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  • Power in the ground, and that power is giving me velocity to
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  • Move forward.
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  • And it reminded me about the bible in revelation.
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  • You remember?
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  • I believe it was revelation chapter 12 when the woman was
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  • Trying to get away from the serpent, and the bible says,
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  • "the earth helps."
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  • See, if you get your walk right and if you stop being random and
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  • You take every step seriously, it is better to not take a step
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  • Than to put it down in the wrong place.
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  • People talk about standing on business.
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  • I don't know about you, but i wanna stand on power.
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  • I want every place that the sole--
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  • That's the season that we're in.
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  • No more random.
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  • It's not gonna work off your heel.
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  • It's not gonna work off your heel.
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  • The power is in the exact spot.
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  • See, it's actually easier to step down on your heel.
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  • When you step down on the ball of your foot, your calves
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  • Are engaged.
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  • You understand what i'm saying?
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  • What am i saying?
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  • How do i tie this all in together?
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  • It's time to be more circumspect
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  • Than we have ever been before in
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  • Our lives.
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  • And the promise is this.
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  • "i am going to do wonders among you."
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  • But he says, "you have to sanctify yourself.
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  • You gotta sanctify yourself."
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  • He says in the text, he says, "sanctify yourselves," watch
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  • This, "for tomorrow."
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  • The lord will do wonders among you.
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  • You won't be able to hear unless you sanctify yourself.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • Right now is 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 next time on "the
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  • Potter's touch."
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  • ♪ "the potter's touch," "the potter's touch." ♪♪
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