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T.D. Jakes Sermons Reposition Yourself Part 1 · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: This ordinariness doesn't become you. And I had to say
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  Speaker 1: something today. It is beneath you and what you were
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  Speaker 1: created to be.
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  Speaker 2: Your answers, your power is in your dreams. This is
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  Speaker 2: the power's touch.
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  Speaker 1: Greetings, brothers and sisters, in the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite messages, one of my greatest teachings,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, is repositioning yourself. So many people get stuck
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  Speaker 1: in one stage and they think that all they can
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  Speaker 1: ever be is all that they ever were. Well, we
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  Speaker 1: are in the business of redemption and restoration and renewal.
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  Speaker 1: You know what all of those words have in common?
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  Speaker 1: The re- prefix in front of it. You can reposition yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You can rise from the ashes of disparity. You can
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  Speaker 1: recreate your career. You can change your credit report. You
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  Speaker 1: can change your relationship. You can change what you don't like.
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  Speaker 1: Reposition yourself. It's a tool you need to reposture yourself
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  Speaker 1: so that you can have a positive end. Now get
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  Speaker 1: this material. Get it in your heart. Get it in
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  Speaker 1: your head. And get ready to go in your phone
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  Speaker 1: booth and come out Superman as you reposition yourself. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says that love is stronger than death. And if
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  Speaker 1: it's stronger than death, it's also stronger than debt. It's
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  Speaker 1: stronger than divorce. It's stronger than depression or any other
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  Speaker 1: obstacle that.
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  Speaker 2: Sets us back.
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  Speaker 1: You can just find somebody who loves you enough to
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  Speaker 1: tell you the truth. For the purpose of this intervention,
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  Speaker 1: we will not be using the normal group of tearful-eyed,
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  Speaker 1: emotionally charged individuals whose loving relationships have been bruised by
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  Speaker 1: this destructive cycle in the life of the proposed individual. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's too traditional for me. Instead, let's imagine, just imagine
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  Speaker 1: that the individual is you. You're likely not on drugs
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  Speaker 1: per se or not, not being overtly destructive, but subversively.
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  Speaker 1: They're the perpetual erosion that has jeopardized and limited the
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  Speaker 1: growth of a wholesome, abundant life for you. So today,
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  Speaker 1: you and I are staging an intervention to get you
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  Speaker 1: out of the rut.
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  Speaker 2: What rut, you ask?
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  Speaker 1: Who are the individuals that are confronting me and about what?
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  Speaker 1: I can almost hear your indignation, but before you reach
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  Speaker 1: for that bulging, multi-caliber pistol in your shorts and blow
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  Speaker 1: me away, turning my office into a blazing inferno, please
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  Speaker 1: follow me down this path and let's see.
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  Speaker 2: What is about to happen. Who is joining us?
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  Speaker 1: We can certainly have maybe your spouse or your partner testifying.
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  Speaker 1: on the reality they have witnessed and the consequences they
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  Speaker 1: have experienced. Because of your reliance on apathy, because of
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  Speaker 1: your indifference, your sleep, maybe your kids could speak up
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  Speaker 1: as well, perhaps a best friend or sibling, your parents, co-worker, pastor.
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  Speaker 1: When you're apathetical, your apathy has affected each of them,
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  Speaker 1: dulling the edges of your talent and ambition and withholding
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  Speaker 1: the best parts of yourself from them. Just listen at
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  Speaker 1: me today. However, there is another group of eyewitnesses that
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  Speaker 1: I want to speak to you right here and right
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  Speaker 1: now about what they see you doing in your present
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  Speaker 1: condition and with your life. And I believe you will
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  Speaker 1: recognize each of them and find what they have to
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  Speaker 1: say bearing some measure of truth about where you are
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  Speaker 1: in your life right now. And I'll let them speak.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let them speak for themselves. Are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 1: I need your imagination. How many of you have imagination?
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  Speaker 1: Hold your hand up if you got real good imagination. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to need it this morning. Watch this. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: you just got home from work, tired and ready to relax,
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  Speaker 1: and then unexpectedly as you walk in the house, you
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  Speaker 1: find they're sitting around the table, all the folks who
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  Speaker 1: normally are in your life supposedly supporting you. But as
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  Speaker 1: we're about to see, silently enabling you is probably more accurate,
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  Speaker 1: but But no more. Today they're confronting you. They're really
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  Speaker 1: not talking about you. They're talking to you. Believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, this is an intervention to get your life
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  Speaker 1: out of the dismal realm of ordinary and into the
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  Speaker 1: spectacular realm of extraordinary possibility thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Let's meet all of your friends around the table who
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  Speaker 1: cared enough to come to this, your coming out party.
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  Speaker 1: The first one is D, the distant dreamer. Beads of
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  Speaker 1: unfamed perspiration appear on the forehead of D as she
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  Speaker 1: opens her mouth to speak.
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  Speaker 2: You know D.
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  Speaker 1: She's a dreamer who always stayed near you in the
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  Speaker 1: early years. She is like the voice in your car's
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  Speaker 1: navigational system. She used to be the one who navigated
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  Speaker 1: your decisions lately. She's been lonely and quiet silently as
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  Speaker 1: you make wrong turn after wrong turn, delaying your arrivals
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  Speaker 1: and hindering your progress.
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  Speaker 2: You know Dee.
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  Speaker 1: But now with a certain nervous edge, hating that she's
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  Speaker 1: been selected to be the icebreaker with a parched throat
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  Speaker 1: and a crack in her voice, she begins to process.
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  Speaker 1: Dee Dreamer says, it's been so painful to watch you
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  Speaker 1: settle for less and less in your life. Working a
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  Speaker 1: job beneath your talents and capabilities. Accepting the roles that
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  Speaker 1: others assign to you. Giving up creative pursuits that once
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  Speaker 1: fueled your ambition. You see, I'm the part of you
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  Speaker 1: that longs to be all that you were created to be.
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  Speaker 1: The dreamer inside of you who loves to look ahead
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  Speaker 1: and aim for the top. I remember so many big
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  Speaker 1: plans we had back in the beginning. We knew there
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  Speaker 1: would be obstacles, but we were young and set our
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  Speaker 1: eyes on the stars. We were going to go beyond
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  Speaker 1: what you had growing up to have a fuller, richer,
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  Speaker 1: more liberating experience. You had so much imagination and such
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  Speaker 1: a vision for where you were going and how you
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  Speaker 1: were going to get there. You could see yourself in
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  Speaker 1: your mind's eye growing, reaching, and attaining a life of satisfaction, contentment,
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  Speaker 1: and just joy. It's obvious to the others waiting to
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  Speaker 1: speak that your walls of defense are as high and
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  Speaker 1: formidable as the walls of Jericho.
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  Speaker 2: Dino's in too.
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  Speaker 1: But with the strength that only comes when we finally
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  Speaker 1: share the truth, she is gaining force as she releases
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  Speaker 1: her concerns. She now realizes that she would have said
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  Speaker 1: this to you years ago instead of silently letting things
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  Speaker 1: go this far. Of course, should have said it a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. She says, do you know how hard
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  Speaker 1: it has been for me?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I love you. And to watch your life
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  Speaker 2: get harder and.
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  Speaker 1: Your ability to see the pinnacle that was once your
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  Speaker 1: destination and motivation seemed to disappear into the daily fog
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  Speaker 1: of working and living and then working some more and
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  Speaker 1: looking you in the eye for the first time. Dreams
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  Speaker 1: continue to speak to you. I watched as your circumstance
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  Speaker 1: got tighter and and choke the wind out of your lungs.
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  Speaker 1: Disappointment set in, followed by losses and reality that threatened
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  Speaker 1: your hopes forever, experiencing a different, better life, a life
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  Speaker 1: that would allow you to be who you really are
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  Speaker 1: and live out your God-given purpose. Those around you did
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  Speaker 1: not encourage you the way you needed to be nurtured
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  Speaker 1: and supported.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to come around you, but you pushed me away.
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  Speaker 1: Becoming more and more distant and detached from my reminders.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of fighting to keep the fire inside you alive,
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  Speaker 1: you let the embers die by becoming addicted to a
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  Speaker 1: life without me, without dreams, without hope, almost venting. She continued,
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  Speaker 1: after all I did for you, I bought you through
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  Speaker 1: the hard times. Don't you remember? I was there for
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  Speaker 1: you when life was bad. Did you forget all of that?
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  Speaker 1: You locked me up in the cellar of your soul
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  Speaker 1: and placed me on a starvation diet and all I
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  Speaker 1: hear from you is complaints about who wasn't there for
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  Speaker 1: you and who didn't treat you right. But I was there,
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  Speaker 1: D the Dreamer blurted out.
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  Speaker 2: I was there or I would have been if you
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  Speaker 2: would have let me be.
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  Speaker 1: Over time, I watch you become cynical and negative, subtly
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  Speaker 1: bitter and internally angry, looking for targets to blame. Your parents,
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  Speaker 1: your lack of opportunities, your family. People don't know it
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  Speaker 1: because you are masterfully covering up your true feeling.
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  Speaker 2: But I know. I know how you feel.
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  Speaker 1: I live inside of you screaming and trying to get
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  Speaker 1: out and speak. I know this is not the life
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  Speaker 1: we dreamed up for you when you were younger. This
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  Speaker 1: is not the love you wanted and the house and
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  Speaker 1: the career you wanted. I know better than anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Sitting at this table.
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  Speaker 1: How you dreamed of more than this. You were meant
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  Speaker 1: to be a high achiever. My God, you're a baller,
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  Speaker 1: shot caller. You have gifts you aren't even touching, much
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  Speaker 1: less using. This ordinariness doesn't become you. And I have
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  Speaker 1: to say something today. It is beneath you and what
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  Speaker 1: you were created to be.
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  Speaker 2: Your answers, your power is in your dreams. Reaching out to.
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  Speaker 1: You with a warm hand and now wet face D
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  Speaker 1: gently touches your shoulder and says, says, I need you.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No. We all need you. The other sitting at the
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  Speaker 1: table give a warm nod. There's a sound of a
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  Speaker 1: few quiet sniffles. Dee the dreamer finishes her appeal with
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  Speaker 1: this final word. Instead of being fully alive to the
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  Speaker 1: possibilities of the future, the pursuit of the dreams that
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  Speaker 1: God has planted like seeds in your heart, you resign
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  Speaker 1: yourself to an existence without dreams, a desert place, parched
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  Speaker 1: indifference where nothing, nothing can grow.
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  Speaker 2: You can't go on this way. It's killing you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't keep silent anymore and beg you, I beg
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  Speaker 1: you to renew our relationship, to fight for the dreams
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  Speaker 1: that once seemed to be such a vital part of
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: Don't give up. Don't give up hope.
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  Speaker 1: Throw off the limits that life and other people and
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  Speaker 1: even organized religion and so many other forces may have
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  Speaker 1: placed on you. Ah, like a butterfly emerging from her cocoon,
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  Speaker 1: you must discard the useless husk that you continue to
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  Speaker 1: cling around your dreams like a winter coat.
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  Speaker 2: I know it is not too late.
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  Speaker 1: You can use all that you have been through as
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  Speaker 1: wind beneath your waist.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to fly.
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  Speaker 2: It's time.
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  Speaker 3: To fly still to come on the potter's touch.
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  Speaker 1: It is that you layered your costume the one you
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  Speaker 1: wear to protect your heart that costume has imprisoned you
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  Speaker 1: take off those silly masks and just be yourself just
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  Speaker 1: just be yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Just be yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I am so excited that my dear friends, Bishop T.D.
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  Speaker 1: Jakes and Oprah Winfrey will be together at Megafest.
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  Speaker 2: August 29th. Y'all don't want to miss this.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest family-friendly festival is back.
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  Speaker 2: Featuring Oprah's Life Class.
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  Speaker 1: August 29th at 9 a.m. Full of faith and inspiration.
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  Speaker 2: Top Billboard artists will be in Dallas. Entertainment. Just church
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  Speaker 2: and comedy show. Ball Up Championship Game. And more.
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  Speaker 1: Register at mega-fest.com or call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today. Each person looks
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  Speaker 1: around the room seeing who would be next to speak.
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  Speaker 1: El Lover spoke up and said, I want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. El Lover had been the loving, optimistic, romantic
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  Speaker 1: part of you. Check this out. The giver, you know
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  Speaker 1: as well as I do, love gives and lust takes.
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  Speaker 1: You have replaced love with lust and you take, but
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  Speaker 1: you stop giving lately.
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  Speaker 2: Lately, my attempts to engage.
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  Speaker 1: Your heart have been dwarfed by regret and sabotaged by
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  Speaker 1: bad memories. These memories are what you use to justify being, listen,
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  Speaker 1: emotionally detached.
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  Speaker 2: And lustfully selfish.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason I agreed to speak today is that
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  Speaker 1: I want to be actively engaged with you again. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be connected with you again. Everybody at the table,
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  Speaker 1: listen as he spoke. You take in these words. That
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  Speaker 1: reflect the true substratum of the issues they all have
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  Speaker 1: had with you. They all knew that true love has
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  Speaker 1: been on a respirator in your life for a while.
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  Speaker 1: They know you were faking the feelings that used to
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  Speaker 1: be genuine. Our lover clears his throat and now bursts
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  Speaker 1: the pregnant pause and speaks to the issues that are
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  Speaker 1: on his heart. Our relationship with each other has become
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  Speaker 1: so strained. I don't even know where to begin. Whether
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  Speaker 1: you think of me as your heart or desire or love.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the part of you that longs to love and
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  Speaker 1: be loved. And to be in a healthy, dynamic relationship
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  Speaker 1: with another caring person like our friend D, the dreamer.
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  Speaker 1: We started out strong and were inseparable. and an inseparable couple.
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  Speaker 1: We shared the fairytale dreams of finding that special someone
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  Speaker 1: who would see us as we really are and love
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  Speaker 1: us unconditionally. And we thought we had that, we thought
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  Speaker 1: we'd found that special someone that soul made a time
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  Speaker 1: or two, didn't we? I stayed with you throughout those
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  Speaker 1: first few tender moments Sweet and painful relationships. When we
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  Speaker 1: thought we were in love. And maybe we were. But
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  Speaker 1: for various reasons the relationship didn't work and you were
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  Speaker 1: alone again. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Then over
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  Speaker 1: time you pushed me further and further away. As you've
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  Speaker 1: gotten older and continued to struggle in your.
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  Speaker 2: Search or love.
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  Speaker 1: Watched a once special relationship stagnate.
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  Speaker 2: I've grown tired.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of seeing what you're really worth, you start
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  Speaker 1: selling yourself off for so much less than you're worth.
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  Speaker 1: Low self-esteem seems to push you away from me and
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  Speaker 1: what I could have fixed myself. You seem determined to hide.
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  Speaker 1: Lust for power and for money and even for sex
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  Speaker 1: has taken away any reality of passion. It wasn't always
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  Speaker 1: about who had the best job or who could get
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  Speaker 1: you where you were trying to go. You used to
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  Speaker 1: be really there, really there in the moment, present in
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. You were open and warm and giving and sincere.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you.
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  Speaker 1: I see you faking your interests, distracted by what you need.
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  Speaker 1: You stopped giving it, so you stopped getting it back. Baby,
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  Speaker 1: you came so indifference and get back affection. This is
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  Speaker 1: not about the relationships that went bad or had issues.
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  Speaker 1: This is about You're losing sight of the loving person
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  Speaker 1: you were meant to be. You stopped loving me. You
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  Speaker 1: stopped loving life. You stopped loving the idea of love.
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  Speaker 1: And you stopped your authentic self for a camouflage self.
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  Speaker 2: That has no feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that living inside of you is like
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  Speaker 1: being trapped inside of a mannequin?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know that?
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  Speaker 1: You've accepted the low-grade high of status quo security and
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  Speaker 1: predictability over what you and I both know you long
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  Speaker 1: for deep in your heart. Passion that once seemed to
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  Speaker 1: simmer on the front burner has now been reduced to
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  Speaker 1: a lukewarm leftover in your life. Spontaneity and desire and intimacy?
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  Speaker 1: Don't get me started about when the last time you
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  Speaker 1: were intimate you stopped hoping for intimacy.
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  Speaker 2: All of those have all gone.
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  Speaker 1: By the wayside and I see you now getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to be intimate with someone and it's like it's October
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  Speaker 1: 31st and you're all dressed up for Halloween. You start
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  Speaker 1: the relationship like it's trick or treat night. Neither tricks
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  Speaker 1: nor the treat are what they would have been if
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  Speaker 1: you would have knocked on the door in a come
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  Speaker 1: as you are sort of way. Just plain openness is
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. That is why you keep getting tricked.
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  Speaker 1: It is that you layered your costume, the one you
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  Speaker 1: wear to protect your heart. That costume has imprisoned you.
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  Speaker 1: Take off those silly masks and just be yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Just be yourself. Just be yourself.
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  Speaker 1: A nervous giggle breaks out in the room and again
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  Speaker 1: a somber sobriety sets in again as he continues. The
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  Speaker 1: relationship you do have seems flat and unfulfilling. I know
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  Speaker 1: you can't say amen. Just don't, you don't communicate, you
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  Speaker 1: don't dare. hope for romance. You're jaded and cynical about
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  Speaker 1: everything and everyone's ulterior motives and the way they feel
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  Speaker 1: and what they're up to and who's betraying you.
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  Speaker 2: You're angry, you're angry at me, you're hard.
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  Speaker 1: For longing for something that seems to cost so much
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  Speaker 1: money For something so impermanent, you blame the other gender
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  Speaker 1: for being so different, so fickle, so untrustworthy, so unavailable.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, without me, romance I mean, you'll die. If
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  Speaker 1: you keep pushing me away and settling for less and
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  Speaker 1: settling for less and becoming apathetical in your lifestyle, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never be. who you were meant to be. You become
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  Speaker 1: dismal or single and your dismal attitude begins to flow
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  Speaker 1: through your life. Who could love you? Then you will
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  Speaker 1: never know the intensity or the pleasure of which you
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  Speaker 1: were created. And I'm not even talking about sexual expression.
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  Speaker 1: Although we both know they play a part too. I
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  Speaker 1: won't stand for it anymore. You're worth more. You are
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  Speaker 1: worth more. You deserve.
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  Speaker 2: You deserve love and to be loved and to.
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  Speaker 1: Face the fears and disappointments that haunt you and move on.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to wake up, wake up from that semi-comatose
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  Speaker 1: state in which you try to keep me drugged. It's
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  Speaker 1: time to love boldly and passionately, to bring romance back
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  Speaker 1: into your life, to hope for a good person in your.
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  Speaker 2: Life who can love you for who you are.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to give up the addiction and embrace the
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  Speaker 1: recovery of your restless heart.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to you today. That's when you speak up.
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  Speaker 1: You've had enough of this confrontation, intervention, mumbo-jumbo, annoyed and embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: You blurt out, I am not addicted to anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in control of myself and my circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: I did all right for myself without any of you
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  Speaker 1: and I'm still okay by myself. I am not addicted
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  Speaker 1: to any of you or anything else. L-lover and D-dreamer
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  Speaker 1: speak up simultaneously in unison. They say, you are addicted.
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  Speaker 1: You're addicted to apathy. Our lover continues, that's right, you're
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  Speaker 1: addicted to apathy. We all saw you stop caring. We
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  Speaker 1: watched you stop dreaming and believing. Deep dreamer says, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: you seem like you are hooked on indifference. And I
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  Speaker 1: know for sure that no real passion burns inside of you.
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  Speaker 1: Not like it used to.
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  Speaker 2: Not anymore. Not anymore.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Manny, the manager, speaks up. A new voice enters the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: It has affected everything. Manny couldn't take it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: He explodes.
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  Speaker 1: It has affected your business. Your finances are going to hell.
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  Speaker 1: And don't even get me started on your credit. His
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  Speaker 1: anger boils over when he says, you are just letting
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  Speaker 1: things go. You don't handle your business anymore. You won't
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  Speaker 1: face up to issues. And they are not getting any better.
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  Speaker 1: They are getting worse. Manny had clearly held his peace
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  Speaker 1: as long as he could. He seemed annoyed, almost belligerent
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  Speaker 1: when he spoke. Everyone at the table looked at him
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  Speaker 1: almost surprised, but that was how Manny was. D-Dreamer patted
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  Speaker 1: Manny on the knee under the table and tried to
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  Speaker 1: calm him down, but he would not stop. He said, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say something. This has gotten.
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  Speaker 2: Out of hand.
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  Speaker 1: You see, Manny the manager is a part of you
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  Speaker 1: who knows what ought to be done. He is angry
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  Speaker 1: because you won't allow him to confront you about this
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  Speaker 1: apathetical attitude that has ruined your business opportunity. It has
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  Speaker 1: carjacked your credit ratings and murdered many chances you had
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  Speaker 1: to be further along financially. Manny is a number cruncher.
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  Speaker 1: You know the type, a computer geek of a guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a tell it like it is sort of guy.
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  Speaker 1: He is not the tender guy like L Lover, nor
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic like D. Manny is a guy who deals with
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  Speaker 1: the facts and the figures. He cuts to the chase.
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  Speaker 1: He tells it like it T-I-E-S.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we got to stop right there, but we'll be
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  Speaker 2: right back right after this.
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  Speaker 3: Learn to reposition your life with Bishop Jake's latest message.
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  Speaker 1: If you will allow God to do some shifting in
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  Speaker 1: this season in your life. It will not take you
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  Speaker 1: long to come into alignment for what.
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  Speaker 2: God is going to do in your life. But God is.
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  Speaker 1: Going to do a quick work in your life in
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  Speaker 1: spite of the original injury that started this problem in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. God is going to snap some things
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  Speaker 2: It's not in the place, baby. It's on the way.
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  Speaker 1: We're praying about the destination, but God is planning for
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  Speaker 1: the journey.
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  Speaker 3: Be lifted up by the power of expectation.
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  Speaker 1: Where you get in a mundane rut of low expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Ordinariness is the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of crying in this house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to speak to my death and my fear
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• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Would you rather see a mega preacher or a mini preacher?
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  Speaker 2: Mega preacher! Okay, what's a mega preacher sound like? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Yes! Yes!
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  Speaker 2: It's PJs. What do they sound like? Hmm? What do
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• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe you have a financial flu.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because of how bad you and that lover
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  Speaker 1: are getting along. I notice that when your love life
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  Speaker 1: isn't right, you overcompensate by overspending.
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  Speaker 2: We have to stop there. I could go on and
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  Speaker 2: on and on.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you write a book about something, you have all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of material, more than you can comprise within a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: 30-minute segment. But this is just a taste, a sample,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: if you will, of the complexities that we all face
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: as life changes and circumstances change and we find ourselves
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: in a need to reposition ourselves. Many, many times we
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  Speaker 1: do not lend ourselves toward the idea of being flexible.
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  Speaker 1: We have a propensity to become stuck, to to become
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  Speaker 1: a monument, when in fact we ought to be fluid
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  Speaker 1: and become a movement. If you reposition yourself, you can
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  Speaker 1: change your circumstance completely, ratify those areas that are reflecting
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  Speaker 1: failure and turn them into victory. But you've got to
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  Speaker 1: be flexible enough to reposition yourself. I pray you get
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  Speaker 1: this word into your heart and into your spirit and
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: study it. It's very practical information, not deep theology. It's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: down-to-earth and practical, pragmatic ideas that will help to insulate
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  Speaker 1: you from destruction because you've gained the flexibility called change.
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  Speaker 2: What better place to talk about change than church? God
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  Speaker 2: bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good one.