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T.D. Jakes Prepare for God to Turn Your Disappointment Into a Divine Promise TBN · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're aching.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're aching.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're crying.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're lonely.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're suffering.
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  Speaker 1: But I declare unto you, he is making something. You
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  Speaker 1: can't always see what the master is doing. Only when
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  Speaker 1: we look back, then we see that God had a
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  Speaker 1: plan when all we had was pain. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: funniest thing to me is that poor people think that
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  Speaker 1: rich people don't get crushed. They think that if they
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  Speaker 1: had money, they'd have everything. But crushing is the one
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  Speaker 1: thing in the world that you can count on to
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  Speaker 1: be totally unbiased. It is not one bit prejudice. If
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  Speaker 1: you're white, you get crushed. If you're black, you get crushed.
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  Speaker 1: If you're young, you get crushed. If you're old, you
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  Speaker 1: get crushed. If you're female, you get crushed. If you're male,
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  Speaker 1: you get crushed. If you make a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: you get crushed. If you can't find a job, you
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  Speaker 1: get crushing. It's not prejudice. It comes to every person's life.
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  Speaker 1: We all experience seasons of death and desperation. Dreams dashed.
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  Speaker 1: Relationships crumble. Businesses fall. And it seems like you're going
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  Speaker 1: to die. whether that business is a big corporate office
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  Speaker 1: bringing in billions of dollars, reporting to its shareholders, or
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a mom and pop shop, a dry cleaning service,
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  Speaker 1: or a cupcake shop, you go through changes. It is
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  Speaker 1: the crushing that gives you wisdom. You cannot buy wisdom
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  Speaker 1: in a store. You cannot get it in a jar.
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  Speaker 1: It is the crushing that gives you wisdom. It is
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  Speaker 1: Nelson Mandela wrongfully in prison, shut up in a prison
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of an island for years, never knowing
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  Speaker 1: that while he was an inmate, having food shoved to
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  Speaker 1: him like a dog to eat off the ground, that
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  Speaker 1: he would be the president of South Africa. And if
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  Speaker 1: he had not endured the prison, he wouldn't make the presidency.
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  Speaker 1: It is the prison that created the presidency. That is
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  Speaker 1: what crushing is. It is the ability to endure the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of the vintner, for the vintner knows.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly where to crush you.
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  Speaker 1: I know Nelson Mandela would not have picked such an
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  Speaker 1: unsavory place to be president. Most presidents don't go to
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  Speaker 1: jail to be president. They go to Yale to be president.
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  Speaker 1: But Nelson Nelson went to jail and he still got there.
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  Speaker 1: You must believe that in spite of the suffering, you
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  Speaker 1: will still get there. That God has a watch and
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  Speaker 1: it never loses time. And he knows exactly when to
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  Speaker 1: raise you and exactly when to bring you out. And
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  Speaker 1: when the stage is set and the time is right,
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  Speaker 1: nobody can hold you down when God gets ready to
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  Speaker 1: raise you up. But the problem with a seed is
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  Speaker 1: that it can't think. So it doesn't understand the suffering
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't understand the pain.
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  Speaker 2: And it can't hear me.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes the hardest part about being a preacher is
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  Speaker 1: that you want so much for the people to get it.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes the people who need it the most, they
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  Speaker 1: really don't really hear you. That you're on course when
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  Speaker 1: you're off course. That you're planted when you thought you
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  Speaker 1: were buried. That the only way up is to go down.
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  Speaker 1: That everything in the kingdom is backwards. That if you
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  Speaker 1: exalt yourself, he'll abase you. If you abase yourself, he'll
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  Speaker 1: exalt you. Death is necessary to create life. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I come that you might have life and then dies.
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  Speaker 1: Because the cost of life was death. Death. Do you
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  Speaker 1: understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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  Speaker 1: That right now, those of you that are watching and
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  Speaker 1: those of you that are listening at me may be
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  Speaker 1: going through something that seems unbearable and painful and personal
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  Speaker 1: and difficult to articulate to anybody else because pain is
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  Speaker 1: always personal.
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  Speaker 2: How wrong. It's not right. It's not right.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't right for my daughter to be pregnant. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a bishop seen all over the country. It's not right
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  Speaker 1: for us to have a private moment in a public place.
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  Speaker 1: It's not right that my mother, who was the smartest
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  Speaker 1: person I have ever seen in my life, would gradually
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  Speaker 1: have her mind peeled back like an onion until she
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell a banana.
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  Speaker 2: From an orange. It's not right.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it is necessary in order to cultivate in the vineyard,
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  Speaker 1: you have to disrupt the soil. You have to turn
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  Speaker 1: it over. You have to disrupt everything around it. You
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  Speaker 1: have to pull some weeds sometimes. You got to uproot
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  Speaker 1: some plants. You have to cause this evil in order
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  Speaker 1: to get where you want to go. And it's messy
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  Speaker 1: and it's dirty and it's not right. But it's necessary.
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  Speaker 1: And we feel pain. And sometimes it's pain we don't
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  Speaker 1: even have anybody to talk to about. Private secret pain,
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  Speaker 1: pain locked up behind your lips, pain behind your makeup,
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  Speaker 1: pain behind your nice clothes. Sometimes you dress up to
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  Speaker 1: hide so nobody can see how deep down inside you're hurting.
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  Speaker 1: Intimacy is into me, see? And yet nobody sees into me.
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  Speaker 1: And so I paint this face of who you think
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  Speaker 1: I am and smile the way you want me to
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  Speaker 1: smile and I perform for you and that's the only
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  Speaker 1: reason I get tired of you. Because I yearn to
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  Speaker 1: take the mask off and be who I really am
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  Speaker 1: and say I am confused and I am hurting and
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  Speaker 1: I am suffering. And this crushing feels like death. The
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  Speaker 1: death of my ideas is a birthing place of his purpose.
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  Speaker 1: God works in crushing. And it pleased him to bruise him.
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  Speaker 1: It pleased God. to bruise us, not because he is sadistic,
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  Speaker 1: not because we are masochistic. It pleases him to bruise
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  Speaker 1: us because he knows that the end result will put
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  Speaker 1: us in a state where we can no longer ferment,
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  Speaker 1: where we can handle a setback, a disappointment, where we
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  Speaker 1: can handle a hurt. See, wine doesn't spoil. It'll last
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  Speaker 1: for years and years and years in the dark, in
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  Speaker 1: the basement, in the cellar, because it's been through enough
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  Speaker 1: crushing to endure time. And you can tell when a
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  Speaker 1: person has been crushed because they are survivors. People who
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  Speaker 1: have been crushed are survivors. When my church emptied out
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  Speaker 1: and we were going through COVID and I had to
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  Speaker 1: preach in an empty building by myself, it was no
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  Speaker 1: problem because I started preaching in an empty building. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't need people in order to do what God
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  Speaker 1: called me to do. I don't need plots. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need clapping. I don't need shouting. I don't need dancing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need an organ. All I need is what's
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  Speaker 1: in me. If God is inside of you, all crushing
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  Speaker 1: will do is push him out. And might I had
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  Speaker 1: this final remark, if Satan were smart, he would never push.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you never pushed me, I wouldn't secrete the glory.
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  Speaker 1: If you never pushed me, I would have never found
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  Speaker 1: out who I was. If you never pushed me, I
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  Speaker 1: would have never found out what I could do. If
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  Speaker 1: you never pushed me, I would have never found out.
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  Speaker 2: What I could be.
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  Speaker 1: But the more we are afflicted, the Bible says, the
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  Speaker 1: more we grow. So if you feel like you're being
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  Speaker 1: afflicted and if you feel like you're dying and if
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  Speaker 1: you feel like he's pushing on you, hang in there.
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  Speaker 1: The best is yet to come. Now unto him that
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  Speaker 1: is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we
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  Speaker 1: may ask or think according to the power that works
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  Speaker 1: in us simply means that the seed doesn't know what
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  Speaker 1: it's becoming. If he's able to do exceedingly abundantly above
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  Speaker 1: all that we may ask or think, that means we
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what he's making when he's making us.
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  Speaker 1: And the seed doesn't know what the vintner is doing
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  Speaker 1: He just has to trust him. Constricted to his methods.
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  Speaker 1: Imprisoned by his purpose. Locked up in a situation where
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  Speaker 1: you just have to trust him. I didn't wake up
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  Speaker 1: the person you see today. Not by a long shot.
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  Speaker 1: Nowhere close. If you would have met me at 18
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  Speaker 1: and told me that I would end up being this,
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  Speaker 1: I would have laughed in your face. If you'd have
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  Speaker 1: told me at 16 that I would end up here,
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  Speaker 1: all of my neighbors would have laughed at you. My
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  Speaker 1: classmates would have laughed in your face. I was a
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  Speaker 1: ratchet little boy, but I didn't know what God was making.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be a musician, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what God was making. But little by little,
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  Speaker 1: step by step, day by day, situation by situation, he
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  Speaker 1: was leading me into my purpose and destiny. Not only
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  Speaker 1: by the doors that open, but by the doors that close.
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  Speaker 1: From humble beginnings. I mean, we were Poe. Poe is
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  Speaker 1: when you cannot afford the oar. Laughter My idea of
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  Speaker 1: rich people were people who had grass in their yards.
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  Speaker 1: Rich people were people who had air conditioning and a
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  Speaker 1: doorbell meant you were wealthy.
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  Speaker 2: Just a doorbell. I couldn't imagine having.
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  Speaker 1: A doorbell with the chimes that ring and the little
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  Speaker 1: things that hunt down. It was amazing. I saw them
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  Speaker 1: on TV. What I had was a raggedy screen door
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  Speaker 1: that was cut down at the bottom and a sunken
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  Speaker 1: porch where the concrete had rotted out of the middle
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  Speaker 1: of it. And I had to step over to come
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  Speaker 1: into the house. And if you didn't fasten the screen door,
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  Speaker 1: it'd swing open. And that's where I came from. But
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what God was making. And it was
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  Speaker 1: necessary that I come from there because of the heights
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  Speaker 1: he would take me to. I would never have to
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  Speaker 1: question in myself why I do what I do. Because
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  Speaker 1: I did it broke. And I did it lonely. And
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  Speaker 1: I did it with no money. And I did it
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  Speaker 1: with no car. And I did it with my lights off.
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  Speaker 1: And I did it in the crushing. So that now
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  Speaker 1: as he begins to bring me into my senior years,
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  Speaker 1: I can see God doing things with me that I
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  Speaker 1: never imagined possible. That I would be sitting across from
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  Speaker 1: Oprah Winfrey on her show was something I never asked for.
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  Speaker 1: That I would sit down with the CEO of AT
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  Speaker 1: & T, then Randall Stephenson, and have a discussion about
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  Speaker 1: equity is something that I couldn't imagine. AT & T?
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  Speaker 1: That I would be closing on property right next to
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Perry Studios?
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  Speaker 2: It's got grass. I mean, it's got really grass.
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  Speaker 1: That I would write books that were translated into multiple
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  Speaker 1: languages around the world. Woman That Are Loose has been
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  Speaker 1: translated into 12 different languages. They say it's Japanese, I
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  Speaker 1: can't read it, but I trust that that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mandarin, and in Chinese, I can't read it, but
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  Speaker 1: I trust that that's what it is. That that would
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  Speaker 1: come out of a guy who was just writing short
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  Speaker 1: stories in the eighth grade, I can't understand it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're aching. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're aching. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're crying. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're lonely. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're suffering. But
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  Speaker 1: I declare unto you, he is making something. You may
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  Speaker 1: feel dislocated. You may feel dislodged. You can't always see
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  Speaker 1: what the master is doing. Only when we look back,
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  Speaker 1: Then we see that God had a plan when all
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  Speaker 1: we had was pain. God had a plan. I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea that my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Getting pregnant, I hated it.
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  Speaker 1: It hurt. It's not about embarrassment. It wasn't about image.
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  Speaker 1: It was my baby girl. It was about her future,
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  Speaker 1: about her destiny. And I thought this is a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: This is wrong. This is wrong. This can't happen. This
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  Speaker 1: can't happen to us. And now when she stands up
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  Speaker 1: in the pulpit and preach, I realize that if she
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  Speaker 1: hadn't have gotten pregnant, she wouldn't have been the person
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  Speaker 1: that she became. And that going backwards is what drove
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  Speaker 1: her forward. And that God was smarter than I was.
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  Speaker 1: And he knows exactly what to take to bring you
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  Speaker 1: to the place that he can get out of you,
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  Speaker 1: what he wants out of you. And he doesn't care
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  Speaker 1: whether you're embarrassed or not. And he doesn't care whether
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  Speaker 1: people talk about you or not. He doesn't care what
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  Speaker 1: they think about you. He only cares that he gets
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  Speaker 1: out of you what he put inside of you. he
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  Speaker 1: will take you from seed to bearing fruit and you
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  Speaker 1: don't get to choose the method he uses you don't
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  Speaker 1: get to pick the tool that he cuts you with
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  Speaker 1: it may have been your first relationship it may have
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  Speaker 1: been a rape it may have been childhood abuse but
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  Speaker 1: it shapes something in you as horrific as it was
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  Speaker 1: that made you self-reliant and able to stand. And when
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  Speaker 1: you got through crying about it, you woke up a
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  Speaker 1: tougher woman than you were a girl. Does anybody know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about? The thing I love the most
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  Speaker 1: about him.
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  Speaker 2: Is that God never gives up on you.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't wait till you're in the bad place and
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  Speaker 1: then walk out like people do. Because people are great
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  Speaker 1: when you're up. But when you're down, they'll run out.
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  Speaker 1: When you're weak, they'll run out. When you make mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: they'll run out. And the church is masterful, masterful at
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  Speaker 1: killing its wounded.
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  Speaker 2: It's masterful at that.
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  Speaker 1: We have no real method to really restore our wounded,
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  Speaker 1: especially when they're talented. So we shoot them for being
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  Speaker 1: too much like us. And there is no place to recover.
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  Speaker 1: But just because man is through with you does not
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  Speaker 1: mean that God is through with you. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who I'm talking to today, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. Just because man has turned his
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  Speaker 1: back and found out something about you and said you're
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  Speaker 1: a nobody doesn't mean that God is through with you
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  Speaker 1: because whatever they found out, God already knew. You have
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  Speaker 1: never surprised God. You have never shocked God. You have
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  Speaker 1: never left God scratching his head. So stop being frustrated
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  Speaker 1: because he never, ever gives up on you and that
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  Speaker 1: is crushing. The uniqueness of being a human is the
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  Speaker 1: senses that God has equipped us with to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be in touch with the world. I know I
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  Speaker 1: am alive because I see, I smell, I touch, I
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  Speaker 1: feel my senses. And the very thing that he equipped
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  Speaker 1: me with that is unique that makes me able to
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  Speaker 1: survive even in the jungle of life is also the
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  Speaker 1: thing that gives me discomfort when my situation changes. And
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about dirty places. And we've talked about disruptive places.
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  Speaker 1: And we've talked about discomfort. But we have not talked
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  Speaker 1: about smelly places. I want to talk about the discomfort
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  Speaker 1: of dung. The things that God uses to fertilize you.
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  Speaker 2: Smell.
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  Speaker 1: And they smell bad. The rubbish, the refuse, the dung
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  Speaker 1: is what the vine dresser uses.
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  Speaker 2: To make mulch.
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  Speaker 1: It's what he puts all around you when he really
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  Speaker 1: wants you to grow tall and strong and fruitful. He
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  Speaker 1: puts stink all around you. And you can't buy enough
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  Speaker 1: cologne to cover it up. Because when it stinks, it stinks.
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  Speaker 1: A marriage that stinks, stinks. A bad relationship with your
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  Speaker 1: child stinks. It stinks in public. It stinks with the principal.
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  Speaker 1: It stinks in school. It stinks in prison. It stinks
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  Speaker 1: in jail. It stinks in court.
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  Speaker 2: It stinks.
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  Speaker 1: God uses stinkyy stuff. You must realize that God uses
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  Speaker 1: those things so that we will become what he has
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  Speaker 1: created for us to be. That out of that, the
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  Speaker 1: nutrients that are necessary come from the stink we've been in.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can endure through your senses, the discomfort
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  Speaker 1: of the aroma, eventually God is going to get something
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  Speaker 1: fragrant out of the funk you've been in. Their fragrance
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  Speaker 1: would come from fog. It's hard to explain, but it's true.
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  Speaker 1: It is true, nonetheless, that some kind of way that
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  Speaker 1: stability would come out of being stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Stuck. Stuck.
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  Speaker 1: I love the commercial where the woman falls down on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. She's an old lady and she says, help.
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  Speaker 2: I've fallen.
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  Speaker 1: I've fallen. And I can't get up because somebody watching
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  Speaker 1: me right now, you've fallen and you can't get up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you holler help, God will get some glory
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  Speaker 1: out of the funk you're in, the pain you're in,
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  Speaker 1: the disgrace you're in, the discomfort you're in, the crisis
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  Speaker 1: you're in, the turmoil you're in. You will rise again
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  Speaker 1: In the words of Maya Angelou, and still I rise.
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  Speaker 1: Look back over your life at how many things tried
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  Speaker 1: to crush you, and still I rise. We don't clap
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  Speaker 1: for ourselves. We are so busy complaining about where we
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  Speaker 1: have not gotten to that we don't acknowledge where we
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  Speaker 1: have come from. And every now and then you need
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  Speaker 1: to throw yourself a party and put a hat on
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  Speaker 1: your head and blow a whistle and bake yourself a
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  Speaker 1: cake and put some candles on it and light it
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate the fact that you have survived the funk.