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- 0:01Speaker 1: Coming up on the Potter's Tech.
- 0:03Speaker 2: I cannot sow into something that is more limited than
- 0:08Speaker 2: I am because I cannot get a harvest.
- 0:12Speaker 3: From poor soil.
- 0:33Speaker 4: For every problem that is in your life, God has
- 0:37Speaker 4: a plan. Whatever famine you are in has not taken
- 0:41Speaker 4: God by surprise. The enemy doesn't want you to be
- 0:44Speaker 4: strategically placed in position where you can affect godly change.
- 0:49Speaker 4: He's trying to run you out.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Hang in there.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Hold on.
- 0:54Speaker 4: Help is on the way.
- 1:02Speaker 2: I remember when old Robert the Evangelist was going in
- 1:05Speaker 2: his tent meetings and I was a boy and he
- 1:08Speaker 2: was teaching on seed time and harvest. And it swept
- 1:11Speaker 2: the country. Sowing and reaping. If you sow, you're gonna reap.
- 1:18Speaker 2: And people started sowing seeds with intentionality. And all that
- 1:23Speaker 2: didn't step into it criticized it because they thought we
- 1:27Speaker 2: ought to give. just because we're giving, not expecting to receive.
- 1:33Speaker 2: But the problem with giving without expecting to receive is
- 1:38Speaker 2: if I sow without harvest, then my giving is just
- 1:44Speaker 2: philanthropy and eventually I will give out.
- 1:50Speaker 3: No matter how rich I am.
- 1:52Speaker 2: If I give without any expectation of return, I will
- 1:55Speaker 2: eventually give out because I am a limited resource. So
- 1:58Speaker 2: forgive me, I do want something back. At some point,
- 2:05Speaker 2: not all the time, not from everybody, but at some point,
- 2:09Speaker 2: I want something back. I give people what I value
- 2:14Speaker 2: and it's a sign that what I give you is
- 2:16Speaker 2: what I value and yes, I want it back. If
- 2:20Speaker 2: I hug you, hug me back. If I love you,
- 2:27Speaker 2: love me back. If I encourage you, encourage me back.
- 2:36Speaker 2: If I stood by you when I'm in trouble, stand
- 2:40Speaker 2: by me too.
- 2:43Speaker 3: Can I get a witness in here?
- 2:46Speaker 2: I do want something back. I don't go to work
- 2:51Speaker 2: because I like to work. I go to work because
- 2:54Speaker 2: I want to get paid.
- 2:55Speaker 3: I want something back.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Somebody holler, I want it back. Whatever I have to do,
- 3:11Speaker 2: to be in the kind of soil, the kind of country,
- 3:16Speaker 2: the kind of community that will give me something back,
- 3:21Speaker 2: I want it back. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
- 3:29Speaker 2: I am afraid that too many times we have put
- 3:35Speaker 2: so much focus on teaching you to be good seed
- 3:40Speaker 2: that we haven't taught you the power of good soil.
- 3:46Speaker 2: And so when we come to soilish issues, the seed
- 3:50Speaker 2: ignores the soil.
- 3:53Speaker 3: We flick the channel. That has nothing to do with me.
- 3:57Speaker 2: We close our eyes because we have been taught to
- 4:00Speaker 2: be good seed. but we have not been taught to
- 4:04Speaker 2: pay attention to soil.
- 4:06Speaker 3: And yet the Bible is clear.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Jesus says the soil went forth sowing seed and some
- 4:13Speaker 2: fell by the wayside. Some fell amongst rocks, some fell
- 4:16Speaker 2: amongst stones. The whole text is about environment. Look at
- 4:26Speaker 2: you and look at your environment. Have you been positioned.
- 4:37Speaker 3: To flourish?
- 4:43Speaker 2: Positioning has a lot to do with flourishing. To be
- 4:47Speaker 2: in an environment, in a family that supports you. My
- 4:50Speaker 2: sister and I were talking the other day. I was
- 4:52Speaker 2: telling her what an amazing person she is. That all
- 4:55Speaker 2: of our lives together and all the things that God
- 4:58Speaker 2: did in my life, not once in all of the
- 5:00Speaker 2: years that I've known her and she was there when
- 5:02Speaker 2: mama had me. Have I ever known her to be
- 5:06Speaker 2: jealous of me? Not once, not ever. She has always
- 5:11Speaker 2: been my cheerleader and my greatest fan. And she said,
- 5:15Speaker 2: how could I be jealous of you?
- 5:17Speaker 3: You're my brother. I said, a lot of people.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Have siblings that hate them, that are jealous of them,
- 5:23Speaker 2: that hope they choke. And some of my development has
- 5:31Speaker 2: to be that God planted me in an environment of
- 5:34Speaker 2: people that supported me. My brother, my sister, my mother,
- 5:40Speaker 2: my father, they all supported me.
- 5:43Speaker 3: You can have good seed, but if you've been in.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Bad soil, people who hated you, environments that denied you,
- 5:56Speaker 2: education that underserved you, communities that limited you, mentalities that
- 6:02Speaker 2: poisoned you. Oh, do you hear what I'm saying? If
- 6:09Speaker 2: your soil wasn't right, It doesn't mean that you're not right,
- 6:15Speaker 2: but if your soil wasn't right, it's going to affect
- 6:18Speaker 2: how you root and how you grow. And you might
- 6:21Speaker 2: grow a little bit. The Bible says you can grow
- 6:24Speaker 2: for a while, but then the thorns will choke you
- 6:27Speaker 2: out or the rocks will not have enough soil for your.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Roots to grow. Are you blaming.
- 6:34Speaker 2: God for something you ought to be blaming the soil for?
- 6:43Speaker 2: Jacob told his sons, go where they have the corn.
- 6:50Speaker 2: I want to tell you, just three people say, go
- 6:53Speaker 2: get the corn, go get the corn. Go get the corn.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Go get the corn. I want to be planted in something. Listen,
- 7:04Speaker 2: I want to be planted in something that is bigger
- 7:08Speaker 2: than me. You cannot.
- 7:11Speaker 3: You cannot.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Take a peach seed and plant it in a teaspoon
- 7:18Speaker 2: of dirt.
- 7:19Speaker 3: And expect it to grow.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Though the teaspoon of the dirt is the same size
- 7:24Speaker 2: as the peach seed, it will not grow. The seed
- 7:27Speaker 2: will only grow when it is planted in something bigger
- 7:31Speaker 2: than itself. And I want to know where are you
- 7:34Speaker 2: planted this morning? Are you planted in something bigger than you?
- 7:38Speaker 2: Or have you always been planted in teacups? surrounded by
- 7:45Speaker 2: little dirt, little resources, small-minded people, narrow, limited places that
- 7:50Speaker 2: never let you stretch to reach your capacity. Sometimes you
- 7:55Speaker 2: gotta go where the corn is, where the table is
- 7:59Speaker 2: spreaded and the feast of the Lord. Oh yes, oh yes,
- 8:11Speaker 2: somebody gets what I'm saying this morning. Tell your neighbor, say,
- 8:15Speaker 2: I need something bigger than me. You cannot feed me.
- 8:22Speaker 2: You cannot feed me if you're not bigger than me.
- 8:27Speaker 2: You cannot feed me if you are not bigger than me.
- 8:32Speaker 2: I need something from the soil. I want to tell
- 8:38Speaker 2: you that's your problem. You have invested into little people,
- 8:46Speaker 2: little ideas, little companies, little communities.
- 8:52Speaker 3: You have planted in.
- 8:53Speaker 2: The dry places that have restricted you. You got some roots,
- 8:59Speaker 2: but when the sun came, you withered and died. But
- 9:03Speaker 2: I prophesy, God is about to transplant you into a place.
- 9:19Speaker 3: I feel something in this place.
- 9:23Speaker 2: The very reason you're in this church this morning is
- 9:28Speaker 2: God wanted you to be a part of something bigger
- 9:31Speaker 2: than yourself. Some of you came from places where you
- 9:45Speaker 2: had titles. and positions and you directed the choir and
- 9:51Speaker 2: you were the chairman of the deacon board and you
- 9:52Speaker 2: were the this and the that and the other and
- 9:55Speaker 2: they still don't understand why you would give up all
- 9:58Speaker 2: of those titles and come over here and just sit
- 10:01Speaker 2: in the pew. I'll tell you why. I want to
- 10:05Speaker 2: be planted in something that's bigger than myself. Jacob said,
- 10:17Speaker 2: ten sons. to go get the corn. He said 10
- 10:22Speaker 2: and to increase. Touch 10 people and holler increase. Increase, increase.
- 10:38Speaker 2: Get out of that little pot. Get out of that
- 10:41Speaker 2: little teacup. Get out of that small-minded mentality. I prophesy increase.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Only your life, I declare, there will be increase.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Still to come on the Potter's Touch.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Don't you give up on your dream because God has
- 11:08Speaker 2: a plan. Don't you fall in a rut because God
- 11:11Speaker 2: has a plan. You don't have to sell your body
- 11:14Speaker 2: because God has a plan. You don't have to compromise
- 11:18Speaker 2: your values because God has a plan.
- 11:22Speaker 1: When the rain falls, we rise up.
- 11:25Speaker 5: Mobilizing leaders to all corners of the globe, MegaCare recently
- 11:28Speaker 5: made its way to Guyana, South America. In a place
- 11:30Speaker 5: where poverty, unemployment, alcoholism, and drugs rob people of basic
- 11:35Speaker 5: physical needs, MegaCare established a medical camp providing screenings, counseling,
- 11:40Speaker 5: and much-needed medical supplies. We thank you for your support
- 11:43Speaker 5: of MegaCare and TDJ's ministries.
- 11:45Speaker 4: You are inspiring to me and my family.
- 11:48Speaker 3: And I thank you.
- 11:49Speaker 5: You are truly reaching across the globe.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Tell the devil I went through too much to let
- 11:55Speaker 2: you steal my joy and steal my peace and steal
- 11:59Speaker 2: my power.
- 11:59Speaker 6: We got to stop waiting for somebody else to do
- 12:03Speaker 6: it for us. And we got to realize that Jesus
- 12:08Speaker 6: has already set us free.
- 12:10Speaker 2: The faith without works is dead. Be it alone. Look
- 12:16Speaker 2: at your sister and say, work that thing. I need
- 12:21Speaker 2: some women who are ready to get their fight back
- 12:24Speaker 2: to slip up your hands and let the Holy Ghost
- 12:28Speaker 2: pray for you right now. You're raising your hands over depression.
- 12:33Speaker 2: You're raising your hands over fear. Your hands are raised.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Your heart is raised. Now lift your voice and take
- 12:43Speaker 2: the roof off of this place. God has a plan.
- 13:00Speaker 2: That means that the famine that you're in, whether it's
- 13:04Speaker 2: a famine for finances, a famine for love, a famine
- 13:07Speaker 2: for opportunities, a famine for recognition, whatever famine you're in
- 13:12Speaker 2: has not taken God by surprise. The famine may have
- 13:21Speaker 2: shocked you, but it has not shocked God. God has
- 13:26Speaker 2: a plan. for every starving prince that shall die. Starving, starving,
- 13:36Speaker 2: not just money. Some of you are starving for love.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Starving for companionship. Starving for understanding it's not just money.
- 13:50Speaker 2: Starving for direction in ministry. Starving to be around people
- 13:55Speaker 2: who are not jealous of you. Starving.
- 13:58Speaker 3: Oh, Shaddai. Let me preach.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Until I find somebody. Are there any starving princes in
- 14:04Speaker 2: this place? You've been in a famine for years, but
- 14:08Speaker 2: God is about to break you out of your famine.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Don't be weary in well doing, God has a plan.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Don't you sit there and die, because God has a plan.
- 14:22Speaker 2: Don't you give up on your dream, because God has
- 14:25Speaker 2: a plan. Don't you fall in a rut, because God
- 14:28Speaker 2: has a plan. You don't have to sell your body,
- 14:31Speaker 2: because God has a plan. You don't have to compromise
- 14:35Speaker 2: your values, because God.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Has a plan.
- 14:38Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm preaching to. The book said
- 14:48Speaker 2: the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our.
- 14:52Speaker 3: God and of his Christ.
- 14:55Speaker 2: God planted Joseph in the kingdom for such a time
- 14:59Speaker 2: as this. I'm telling you the trouble that you're going
- 15:03Speaker 2: through right now is a setup for a shift. God
- 15:07Speaker 2: is getting you out of your comfort zone so he
- 15:10Speaker 2: can shift the way you think because God is about
- 15:13Speaker 2: to plant you in a big thing. Your eyes have
- 15:16Speaker 2: not seen. Your ears have not heard. Neither has entered
- 15:21Speaker 2: into your heart what God has in store for you.
- 15:30Speaker 2: And Joseph says, the Bible says that when the 10
- 15:34Speaker 2: brothers came to Egypt, now Egypt has always represented the world.
- 15:44Speaker 2: It has always represented the world. When God brings the
- 15:48Speaker 2: children of Israel out of Egypt, it is fleeing worldliness
- 15:51Speaker 2: that is typified. Pharaoh is a type of a leader
- 15:56Speaker 2: of worldliness. chasing down the righteous, trying to enslave them.
- 16:01Speaker 2: God delivers the righteous through the Red Sea and away
- 16:04Speaker 2: from Egypt.
- 16:05Speaker 3: Egypt is always a type of the world.
- 16:08Speaker 2: And yet God called Joseph to be a leader in
- 16:14Speaker 2: the world so that when the righteous seed came, there
- 16:21Speaker 2: would be somebody on the inside who could facilitate the shift.
- 16:28Speaker 3: I'm telling you that God will.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Put certain people in certain places so that when you
- 16:35Speaker 2: get there, they will recognize you.
- 16:39Speaker 3: You don't hear me?
- 16:45Speaker 2: They will recognize you. The Bible says that the 10
- 16:51Speaker 2: brothers did not recognize Joseph. but Joseph recognized them. And
- 16:59Speaker 2: I'm trying to tell you that God will put some
- 17:01Speaker 2: people in positions that you don't recognize, but they will
- 17:07Speaker 2: recognize you.
- 17:09Speaker 3: God, hold on, hold on.
- 17:10Speaker 2: I feel something in this place. It's a prophetic word
- 17:13Speaker 2: in this place. God will make people shift into a
- 17:20Speaker 2: position to recognize you. even when you don't recognize that
- 17:27Speaker 2: they are placed there for you. And so to every
- 17:40Speaker 2: starving prince, there is a plan. There is a plan
- 17:45Speaker 2: that there be a Joseph in strategic places to bring
- 17:51Speaker 2: in divine alignment for things to change. You, hear me,
- 17:58Speaker 2: have been fighting a system. You are saved, but you're
- 18:04Speaker 2: fighting a system that has been.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Skewed against you. You are fighting systems.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Systemic issues are designed to decrease your opportunity, your values,
- 18:20Speaker 2: and how you see yourself. And the purpose of God
- 18:24Speaker 2: saved you to shift your thinking because the first thing
- 18:30Speaker 2: that escapes in anybody's life is always their mind. Your
- 18:37Speaker 2: mind will always come out ahead of everything else. And
- 18:42Speaker 2: God is putting you into a place where he's going
- 18:47Speaker 2: to turn the systems that were meant against you You're
- 19:03Speaker 2: in a fight against systems. I was teaching somewhere and
- 19:07Speaker 2: I was teaching about the industrial age and how the
- 19:10Speaker 2: country went from the industrial age to the information age
- 19:14Speaker 2: and we lost most of our middle class and I've
- 19:16Speaker 2: been teaching on it for a while. I didn't even
- 19:19Speaker 2: realize that what I was teaching in the class was
- 19:22Speaker 2: also evidenced in my life because I worked for an
- 19:24Speaker 2: industrial place. And the shutting down of the industrial place
- 19:28Speaker 2: threw me into gross poverty. And if it had not
- 19:32Speaker 2: been for God's grace, I would have been stuck in
- 19:35Speaker 2: a ghetto I couldn't get out of. But God shifted
- 19:41Speaker 2: some things. I'm telling you. Can y'all handle this this morning?
- 19:50Speaker 2: I'm telling you that the enemy has set us up.
- 19:54Speaker 2: He meant for you to be born into that family.
- 19:57Speaker 2: He meant for you to have that adversity. He meant
- 19:59Speaker 2: for you to have that low self-esteem. He meant to
- 20:02Speaker 2: lower your expectations of yourself because he knows that God
- 20:07Speaker 2: has put good seed in you. So he lets you
- 20:10Speaker 2: fall amongst thistles and be accepted in groups that choke you.
- 20:17Speaker 2: He allows you to define yourself by people that are
- 20:21Speaker 2: choking you. You're in cliques with people that are choking
- 20:31Speaker 2: out your potentials. Those are not followers.
- 20:36Speaker 3: Those are not friends.
- 20:42Speaker 2: Those are thorns. Those are thorns choking you out. You
- 20:48Speaker 2: run with them, you dress like them, you act like them,
- 20:52Speaker 2: but the Lord told.
- 20:53Speaker 3: Me to tell you this morning, you.
- 20:54Speaker 2: Are not one of them.
- 20:58Speaker 3: You are not one of them.
- 21:02Speaker 2: Do you hear me? You are not one of them.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Stop identifying yourselves by the thorns that surround you. Because
- 21:14Speaker 2: God is getting ready to shift you into a brand
- 21:18Speaker 2: new dimension. I'm almost finished. But I tell you right
- 21:24Speaker 2: now that if you take good seed and you put
- 21:30Speaker 2: it in good soil, you will see a harvest. You
- 21:36Speaker 2: will see a harvest. You know what's killing us? We
- 21:41Speaker 2: have lost our faith.
- 21:45Speaker 3: In God.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Because preachers have preached so much hope and our circumstances
- 21:59Speaker 2: have not yielded the fruit. And hope deferred makes the
- 22:04Speaker 2: heart sick. And we're saying God is not working on
- 22:09Speaker 2: our behalf. Because the preacher is preaching one thing. And
- 22:14Speaker 2: I am seeing another in my life. And that's why
- 22:18Speaker 2: we've lost our faith. I know we've lost our faith.
- 22:20Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you how I know we've lost our faith.
- 22:22Speaker 2: We've stopped giving. We've stopped sowing. It is never hard
- 22:29Speaker 2: to get people to invest when they see return. But
- 22:34Speaker 2: when people don't see return, they lose hope in investment.
- 22:40Speaker 2: especially new investors. In the stock market, new investors get
- 22:46Speaker 2: upset by fluctuations. They panic and seize their investment. But
- 22:52Speaker 2: old investors, they understand that fluctuations will come and they
- 23:00Speaker 2: will go. And if they ride it out, they'll see
- 23:05Speaker 2: it come back up again. The reason we're having trouble,
- 23:09Speaker 2: we got new investors. You paid tax three weeks, and
- 23:15Speaker 2: if you didn't see a harvest, you gave up. But
- 23:19Speaker 2: all investors will say, though he slay me, yet will
- 23:27Speaker 2: I trust him. He may not come when you want him,
- 23:34Speaker 2: but he's right on time. I want you to understand this.
- 23:40Speaker 2: God is storing up.
- 23:42Speaker 3: A blessing for you.
- 23:44Speaker 2: Your eyes have not seen. Your ears have not heard.
- 23:51Speaker 2: But God is storing up a blessing for you. Your
- 23:57Speaker 2: problem is not your God. Your problem is not your seed.
- 24:04Speaker 2: Your problem is your soil. You need to be in
- 24:10Speaker 2: an environment of possibilities. You need to be fed in
- 24:18Speaker 2: the stream of you can do it people. We need
- 24:25Speaker 2: people in leadership that change our country and the direction
- 24:29Speaker 2: that it's on so that everybody has the opportunities that
- 24:34Speaker 2: the founding fathers intended.
- 24:36Speaker 3: For us to have.
- 24:38Speaker 2: And greater still, I might not control, I'm not sure
- 24:43Speaker 2: I'm gonna be involved, but I'm not sure I can
- 24:45Speaker 2: control who's in the White House. But I'm sure gonna
- 24:50Speaker 2: control who's in my house.
- 24:56Speaker 3: I'm gonna control.
- 25:00Speaker 2: Who gets my time, my attention, my energy. I'm gonna
- 25:06Speaker 2: control what I allow to worry me and what I ignore.
- 25:11Speaker 2: because I believe in the seed.
- 25:19Speaker 4: You are a child of God, however you may feel
- 25:23Speaker 4: like a starving prince. Have your circumstances marked your identity?
- 25:28Speaker 4: Get ready for a change. God has a plan and
- 25:32Speaker 4: he is taking you to an environment of possibilities. Do
- 25:36Speaker 4: not let go of your dream. The Bible says, be
- 25:40Speaker 4: not weary in well-doing because if you won't give up,
- 25:43Speaker 4: you will reap great reward. Thank you to the partners
- 25:47Speaker 4: of the TD Jake's global partner system for not giving
- 25:51Speaker 4: up on our divine assignment to spread the message of
- 25:54Speaker 4: hope and healing to the world. Together, we reap the
- 25:58Speaker 4: reward of touching the world with the Father's love. If
- 26:01Speaker 4: you are not a partner with us, we encourage you
- 26:04Speaker 4: to join our GPS family today and make a difference.
- 26:09Speaker 3: Won't you?
- 26:09Speaker 2: I want to thank our partners for helping us make
- 26:13Speaker 2: a difference in the lives of hurting people Your partnership
- 26:16Speaker 2: has provided food, clothing, clean water, medicine distribution, and.
- 26:21Speaker 3: So much more at home and abroad.
- 26:23Speaker 2: In fact, through MegaCare, we are establishing medical camps and
- 26:28Speaker 2: health clinics to increase the rate of survival while giving
- 26:32Speaker 2: hope and healing to a hurting community. If you are
- 26:35Speaker 2: not a partner, I encourage you to become one today.
- 26:43Speaker 2: I think the unique thing about me being on daytime
- 26:46Speaker 2: television is that I'm not an actor. I'm not somebody
- 26:49Speaker 2: who was paid to come in and read some scripts
- 26:51Speaker 2: and lines. I've done this all my life. So it
- 26:54Speaker 2: comes from a very authentic place. I did it when
- 26:57Speaker 2: there were no cameras. I did it when there were
- 26:59Speaker 2: no dollars. I did it when there.
- 27:01Speaker 3: Were no crowds. It's who I am.
- 27:05Speaker 2: I want to expand the turf to which people see
- 27:09Speaker 2: themselves and see what is possible with one human life.
- 27:16Speaker 2: You have polluted your today with your yesterday behavior.
- 27:21Speaker 3: Get rid of it.
- 27:22Speaker 5: Your trial can be the very thing God uses to
- 27:25Speaker 5: take you higher than you've ever thought possible. For your
- 27:28Speaker 5: gift to the ministry of any size, you will receive
- 27:30Speaker 5: I Can Relate on CD from Bishop Jake's liberating series,
- 27:34Speaker 5: Still Blessed.
- 27:35Speaker 2: You gotta go while you're on the seesaw of life.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Sometimes up and sometimes down. Nothing shall be impossible with God.
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- 27:48Speaker 5: receive Still Blessed on three DVDs.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Are you watching for the problem that is in your life?
- 27:55Speaker 2: God has a plan.
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- 28:00Speaker 5: receive the Still Blessed three-message DVD set, the beautiful Joy, Peace,
- 28:04Speaker 5: and Hope wooden display, and a custom abundantly blessed stationery
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- 28:11Speaker 5: in every situation because you are still blessed. Feel free
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