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T.D. Jakes Sermons It's Not What It Looks Like · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on the Potter's Tech.
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  Speaker 2: He sat down by the well and he waited on you.
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  Speaker 2: You might not be important to anybody else, but you
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  Speaker 2: must be important to God. He stopped the gun from
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  Speaker 2: killing you. He stopped the car wreck from destroying you.
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  Speaker 2: He stopped the disease from attacking you. He said, leave
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  Speaker 2: that girl alone.
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  Speaker 3: I got a plan.
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  Speaker 2: For her and I'm waiting on her. Everybody who's ever
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  Speaker 2: had God Wait on you. Take just a moment and give.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord a praise.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings, friends, in the name of Jesus Christ, our King.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited to have this opportunity to share the
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  Speaker 2: word of the Lord with you. I've got an exciting
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  Speaker 2: word for you. It's not what it looks like. You'll
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  Speaker 2: understand it better in a moment. I believe the word
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  Speaker 2: is going to bless your life. Get ready, get ready,
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  Speaker 2: get ready.
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  Speaker 3: Here it comes. It's not what it looks like. Take
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  Speaker 3: a look.
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  Speaker 2: The fourth chapter of St. John, the 25th verse is
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  Speaker 2: at the end of a narrative where the gospel of St.
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  Speaker 2: John points to a unique story about Jesus coming to
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  Speaker 2: the Samaritan woman down at the well. And the conversation
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  Speaker 2: has ensued between them. And we will begin at the
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  Speaker 2: ending or near the conclusion of the conversation between the
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  Speaker 2: woman at the well and Jesus. Verse number 25. The
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  Speaker 2: woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah is coming,
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  Speaker 2: which is called Christ. When he is come, he will
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  Speaker 2: tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that
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  Speaker 2: speak unto thee am he. And upon this came his disciples,
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  Speaker 2: and marveled that he talked with the woman. Yet no
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  Speaker 2: man said, What seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her?
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  Speaker 2: The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way
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  Speaker 2: into the city, and saith to the men, Come see
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  Speaker 2: a man, which told me all things that ever I did,
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  Speaker 2: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of
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  Speaker 2: the city and came unto him. Now, the normal direction
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  Speaker 2: of reading such a text would lead us to this
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  Speaker 2: evangelistic endeavor of this woman who goes down into the
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  Speaker 2: city of Samaria to say, Come see a man which
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  Speaker 2: told me all things that I have ever done.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm going to avoid that and instead.
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  Speaker 2: Go to verse 27. And upon this came his disciples.
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  Speaker 3: Upon what?
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  Speaker 2: Upon the conversation between him and the woman. And upon
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  Speaker 2: this came his disciples and marveled that he talked with
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  Speaker 2: the woman. Yet no man said what seeketh thou or
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  Speaker 2: why talkest thou with her. That's where I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: focus my thoughts this morning. The 27th verse and my
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  Speaker 2: subject is It's not what it looks like. Look at
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  Speaker 2: your neighbor and say, it's not what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: It is odd that John takes us in the fourth
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  Speaker 2: chapter to a rest stop, if you will. where Jesus
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  Speaker 2: sets down to rest at the well and sends his
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  Speaker 2: disciples after meat and sends them out to get meat
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  Speaker 2: so that they might return to the well. And when
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  Speaker 2: they return to the well, the oddity of the situation
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  Speaker 2: is the Lord who sent them to get meat and bread,
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  Speaker 2: when they return with the.
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  Speaker 3: Meat and bread, says, I'm not hungry.
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  Speaker 2: Now you must understand that they traveled by foot and
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  Speaker 2: it took a while to go on such an errand.
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  Speaker 2: It took quite a while to go on an errand
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  Speaker 2: and you would think that if you sent your disciples, 12,
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  Speaker 2: to go get lunch and all of them walked off
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  Speaker 2: and left you by yourself, 12 men going to get
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  Speaker 2: lunch for one man, he should have been pretty hungry.
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  Speaker 2: And then when they come back with the lunch, there
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  Speaker 2: he is sitting by the well talking to this woman
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  Speaker 2: and though they had too much respect for him, To
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  Speaker 2: question him, the gospel of St. John reads, their mind says,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute. I thought you were hungry. Now you
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  Speaker 2: say you have meat that we know not of. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were tired. And we come back and
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  Speaker 2: you're engrossed in this conversation with this woman.
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  Speaker 3: And he says, it is not me. What it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: You must realize, my brothers and sisters, for Jesus to
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  Speaker 2: say that he must need go through Samaria, that was
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  Speaker 2: startling alone. If we could excuse the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: has become engrossed with this conversation with this woman of
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  Speaker 2: a questionable past, we still have the glaring reality that
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  Speaker 2: what is this Jewish teacher doing in Samaria? Any self-respecting
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  Speaker 2: Jewish theologian would have never come into Samaria in the
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  Speaker 2: first place. There was a war between the Samaritans And
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  Speaker 2: the Jews, as it related to the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: Jews rightly resisted the fellowship with the Samaritans because the
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  Speaker 2: Samaritans had a form of godliness denying the power thereof.
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  Speaker 2: And they would not allow them to pass themselves off
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  Speaker 2: as if they were the same thing when they were
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  Speaker 2: not at all the same thing. There was a war
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  Speaker 2: between them. The Samaritans were considered unclean. They had no
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  Speaker 2: dealings with them. They had no plan for them. They
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  Speaker 2: had no future for them because they knew things about
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  Speaker 2: the Samaritans that would have exempted them from being eligible
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  Speaker 2: to have a legitimate relationship with God. Now, it's one
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  Speaker 2: thing when people say things about you that are not true.
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  Speaker 2: But it's another thing when they have legitimate reasons to
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  Speaker 2: alienate you and attack you on the basis of past mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: It is not that Jesus is not aware of what
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  Speaker 2: is being said about the Samaritans. He is pointedly and
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  Speaker 2: poignantly aware of the Samaritans, about their idolatrous ways, about
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  Speaker 2: their mistakes, about their failures. And yet he says, I
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  Speaker 2: must need go to Samaria.
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  Speaker 3: Why would you be bothered with Samaria anyway?
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  Speaker 2: They're heathens. Their past is ruined. Their mistakes are bad.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't help us in the rebuilding of the temple.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they were thorns in our flesh. They are
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  Speaker 2: a mixed multitude, an amalgamation of a lot of different ideas.
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  Speaker 3: These people are confused. And what church.
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  Speaker 2: People have a tendency to do when they think that
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  Speaker 2: you are confused and they don't agree with you, they
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  Speaker 2: either attack you. or alienate you. But I'm so glad
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is not like church people. He said, I
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  Speaker 2: must need go through Samaria. In other words, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: out of my way to go after a group of
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  Speaker 2: people that everybody else has rejected because just because you
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  Speaker 2: have not included them does not mean that I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a strategy for their lives. And not only are
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  Speaker 2: they important enough that I have added them to my agenda,
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  Speaker 2: included them on my itinerary, but I am willing to
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  Speaker 2: sit by the well all day to find one person
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  Speaker 2: who can help me break down the wall and get
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  Speaker 2: into Samaria.
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  Speaker 3: One person.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I would have thought Jesus being the son of God,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus being of the tribe of Judah, Jesus being the
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  Speaker 2: seed of Abraham, Jesus being the root of Jesse, that
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  Speaker 2: if he was going to infiltrate the Samaritans and break
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  Speaker 2: into their world, he might have talked to their magistrates,
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  Speaker 2: their kings, their leadership, their authority. I would have thought
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  Speaker 2: that he would have made an appointment at least with
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  Speaker 2: one of their priests in their ruined temple and battled
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  Speaker 2: their scripture against scripture to bring them into a reformation
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  Speaker 2: of truth. I would have thought that Jesus would have
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  Speaker 2: written a blog site and said they're in error and
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  Speaker 2: they're in heresy and attacked their integrity. I would have
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  Speaker 2: thought that Jesus would have put them on blast in
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  Speaker 2: some sort of way dealing with their leadership to break
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  Speaker 2: into the city. But no, Jesus doesn't pick the aristocracy
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  Speaker 2: of Samaria. He doesn't pick the religious scribes of Samaria.
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  Speaker 2: But he sits by the well, not even waiting on
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  Speaker 2: a man. He waits on a woman. A woman of
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  Speaker 2: Sychar to come down to the well. The Bible doesn't
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  Speaker 2: even give us the name of this woman. She is
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  Speaker 2: a nameless woman. And yet Jesus sits down at the
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  Speaker 2: well and waits to meet her. He sends his boys
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  Speaker 2: on an errand because sometimes even the people who are
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  Speaker 2: with you Do not understand your vision. And they will
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  Speaker 2: alienate you from the very people that God sent you
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  Speaker 2: to serve and to save. Because there is nothing, there
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  Speaker 2: is no group of people that act any more important
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  Speaker 2: than the people that are with the man of God
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  Speaker 2: often act more important than the man of God himself.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to work on this a little while. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: knew that he could not get done what he was
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  Speaker 2: trying to do surrounded by his disciples. They had already
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  Speaker 2: tried to shut up blind Bartimaeus who sat by the
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  Speaker 2: highway side begging. He was too loud and he makes
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  Speaker 2: too much noise. And what about the woman who came
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus crying after her daughter? They said, send her
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  Speaker 2: away for she cryeth after us. These disciples would have
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  Speaker 2: messed up the mission. Because they were so indoctrinated with
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  Speaker 2: preconceived ideologies.
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  Speaker 3: That there was no room for.
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  Speaker 2: Revelation to break through their orthodox religion. Some people are
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  Speaker 2: so religious that they miss the revelation that there are
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  Speaker 2: other people who may be theologically wrong, but God still
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  Speaker 2: has a purpose for their life and them also must
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  Speaker 2: I bring. Oh, glory to God. So Jesus sat down
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  Speaker 2: at the well. And he began to wait for this
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  Speaker 2: woman to come down to the well. And when she
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  Speaker 2: comes down to the well, she has an attitude. She
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  Speaker 2: has a kind of attitude that results from people who
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  Speaker 2: are used to being attacked. She does not wait for
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  Speaker 2: him to attack her. She comes down to the well
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  Speaker 2: and attacks him saying, now you know that your people
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  Speaker 2: and my people don't have any dealings. You already know.
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  Speaker 2: So don't come down here trying to be nice to
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  Speaker 2: me because you know we don't have any talk. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people who have been hurt are the hardest people in
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  Speaker 2: the world to help because even when you reach out
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  Speaker 2: to help them, they already have an attitude. You have
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  Speaker 2: never been fought. like you will be fought by somebody
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  Speaker 2: you are trying to save from drowning. Even though your
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  Speaker 2: intentions are good, their desperation is so bad that you
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  Speaker 2: can get killed trying to help somebody who's hurting. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. But Jesus
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  Speaker 2: begins to deal with her until in the next phrase,
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  Speaker 2: she goes from being sarcastic to calling him sir.
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  Speaker 3: She calls him sir.
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  Speaker 2: Because now she begins to understand that he is due
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  Speaker 2: some respect. And then later on, she acknowledges him as
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  Speaker 2: a prophet. And then later on, she brings up the Messiah.
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  Speaker 2: And then later on, he says, I that speak am he.
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  Speaker 2: Look at how God is bringing this woman into gradual revelation.
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  Speaker 2: He goes from being an enemy and an alien. to
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  Speaker 2: a sir, from a sir to a prophet, from a
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  Speaker 2: prophet to the Messiah. Isn't it nice how God will
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  Speaker 2: bring you into truth? Not one step, but several steps
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  Speaker 2: to bring you into the enlightenment of what God would
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  Speaker 2: do in your life. And I want to take a
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  Speaker 2: moment and just thank him for waiting on me. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't always thought what I think now. And I didn't
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  Speaker 2: always know what I know now. And I didn't always
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  Speaker 2: feel the way I feel now. But when I had
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  Speaker 2: the wrong attitude and the wrong spirit and the wrong
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  Speaker 2: aspect of faith, I want to thank you for being
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  Speaker 2: the kind of patient God who could have cut me
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  Speaker 2: out of his schedule but sat down by the well
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  Speaker 2: and waited for me to come into a progressive revelation
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  Speaker 2: of who Christ is in the earth. I that speak
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  Speaker 2: unto thee am he. Touch somebody and say he is.
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  Speaker 2: everything you've been looking for. He's everything you need, everything
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  Speaker 2: you want, everything you seek, everything you long for, everything
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  Speaker 2: you've been craving for, and he's been waiting on you
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  Speaker 2: all your life, all while you were drunk, all while
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  Speaker 2: you were high, all while you were in the hotels,
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  Speaker 2: all while you were serving other gods. He sat down
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  Speaker 2: by the well and he waited on you. You might
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  Speaker 2: not be important to anybody else, But you must be
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  Speaker 2: important to God. He stopped the gun from killing you.
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  Speaker 2: He stopped the car wreck from destroying you. He stopped
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  Speaker 2: the disease from attacking you. He said, leave that girl alone.
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  Speaker 2: I got a plan for her, and I'm waiting on her.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody who's ever had God wait on you. Take just
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  Speaker 2: a moment and give.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord a praise.
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  Speaker 1: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor I'm on the verge of something big.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the verge of something big. I know it
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  Speaker 2: looks like I'm not much. I know it looks like
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  Speaker 2: I don't have anything. I know I did some dumb
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  Speaker 2: things in my past, but I'm on the verge of
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  Speaker 2: something big. And I want to tell the devil, you
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  Speaker 2: think I'm a chump? It's not what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: God has a plan for my life. Before I die
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  Speaker 2: in a cage, I want.
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  Speaker 3: To run in the wild.
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  Speaker 2: We can do what it is without limits, without being
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  Speaker 2: boxed in a cage, without being hindered.
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  Speaker 3: I want to run in the wild of my destiny.
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  Speaker 2: I want to run in the wild of my purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Telling us to branch out and it's time to shift
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  Speaker 2: and just about taking it to the next level and
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  Speaker 2: just thinking outside of the four walls.
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  Speaker 3: I got to get out of this cage. God has
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  Speaker 3: given us a place.
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  Speaker 2: Around where we are pastoring, to take over that region
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  Speaker 2: for the kingdom of God. You're frustrated about something that's
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  Speaker 2: just an incubator to take you to the next dimension.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're going to grow and go to global missions.
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  Speaker 1: No more limits, no more boundaries. The cage is open.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have any excuses anymore on why you can't
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  Speaker 1: fulfill your purpose and complete your assignment. To register for
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  Speaker 1: this international gathering, visit pastorsandleaders.org or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
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  Speaker 2: The story of the woman at the well. In order
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  Speaker 2: to infiltrate the indoctrination of their theology, Jesus allows this
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  Speaker 2: woman the benefit of a comparative analysis. He does it
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  Speaker 2: this way. He comes to Jacob's well. It is called
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  Speaker 2: Jacob's well because Jacob dug this well through solid rock.
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  Speaker 2: It is a cistern of water that has now begun
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  Speaker 2: to feed these people whole. who have become indigenous to
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  Speaker 2: this area and are living in Samaria. It is Jacob's well.
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  Speaker 2: It is Jacob's well. Jacob, Jacob's well. Jacob's well. Israel's well.
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  Speaker 2: Israel's well. What the well is in the earth, Christ
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  Speaker 2: is in the spirit. For Christ is of Jacob. He
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  Speaker 2: is born to Israel. He is the well of living water.
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  Speaker 2: So what you have here is a well sitting on
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  Speaker 2: a well. And here comes an empty woman down to
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  Speaker 2: the well that she has already come to all of
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  Speaker 2: her life.
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  Speaker 3: But now there's a well sitting.
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  Speaker 2: On a well. He starts the conversation by saying, give
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  Speaker 2: me to drink. Knowing that her pots are empty when
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  Speaker 2: he asks the question. Knowing that her religious dogma would
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  Speaker 2: alienate her from giving him water. Knowing that even his
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  Speaker 2: own disciples would not approve of him asking this woman
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  Speaker 2: for some water, seeing as she is a Samaritan woman.
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  Speaker 2: He knows she cannot give him what he asks for.
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  Speaker 2: God always asks us to give something that we cannot
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  Speaker 2: give without him asking. So that his request will create
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  Speaker 2: a thirst to ask him to give us what he
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  Speaker 2: asked us for so that we can give it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: can I go just a little bit deeper with this?
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  Speaker 2: The whale is sitting on a whale. And he asked
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  Speaker 2: her for water. And she's suspicious.
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  Speaker 3: She said, hmm.
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  Speaker 2: You come down here saying you want something to drink
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  Speaker 2: and you didn't bring nothing to draw with? Sound like
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  Speaker 2: a pickup line to me. She said, you ain't got
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  Speaker 2: nothing to draw with. And he says, if you knew
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  Speaker 2: the gift of God, you would ask me for water.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's switching up on her because he asked her
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  Speaker 2: for water. He said, but if you saw the well
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  Speaker 2: that's sitting on the well, instead of cross-examining me about
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  Speaker 2: that which is temporal, you would bypass your well and
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  Speaker 2: come to my well and ask me for that which
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  Speaker 2: is eternal. She said, oh yeah? What's so good about
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  Speaker 2: your water? He says, if you drink of the water
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  Speaker 2: in here, you will thirst again. But if you drink
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  Speaker 2: of the water in here, you will never thirst again.
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  Speaker 2: Now she's confused. She knows she has a need. She
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  Speaker 2: knows she needs to draw. She doesn't know whether to
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  Speaker 2: draw from the physical or the spiritual. She says, but
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  Speaker 2: this is water and this is a well. And this
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  Speaker 2: is where everybody else goes. And he's saying, it's not
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  Speaker 2: what it looks like. just because everybody goes there doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean that it will satisfy your thirst It may look
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  Speaker 2: like it will satisfy your.
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  Speaker 3: Thirst, but it is not what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm preaching to this morning, but
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm already talking to somebody. The enemy
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  Speaker 2: is showing you how to get your needs met, and
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  Speaker 2: he says he's got a solution to your problem. But
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  Speaker 2: the Lord sent you here this morning so that you
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  Speaker 2: would have a warning.
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  Speaker 3: That that looks good is not good. It is not good.
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  Speaker 2: What it looks like stand still and see the salvation
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord some trust in horses some trust in
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  Speaker 2: chariots but I will remember the name of the Lord
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  Speaker 2: slap your neighbor and tell him it's not what it
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  Speaker 2: looks like All that glitters is not gold. Just because
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  Speaker 2: it winks at you doesn't mean it's a blessing. Just
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  Speaker 2: because it takes advantage of your need doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: God has answered through what you're about to do. You
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  Speaker 2: need to stop and be still. I hear the Lord
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  Speaker 2: saying that the coming of Ishmael is a sign that
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  Speaker 2: Isaac is on his way. The false always comes before
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  Speaker 2: the real. And if you have the power to say
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  Speaker 2: no to this well, you will open up to this well,
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  Speaker 2: and your latter day shall be greater than your former day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm preaching to, but if you
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  Speaker 2: think it might be you, give God a praise on credit.
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  Speaker 2: And she says, well, give me this water that I
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  Speaker 2: thirst not, neither come hither to draw. She says, I
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  Speaker 2: am tired since you brought it up, stranger. I am
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  Speaker 2: tired of going back and forth and back and forth
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  Speaker 2: and back and forth. and back and forth to the
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  Speaker 2: same old stuff that just gets me by for a
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  Speaker 2: little while. And then I got to go back and
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  Speaker 2: do it again and again and again and again. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm old enough now and I'm wise enough now to
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  Speaker 2: value my time. And I don't want to go through
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  Speaker 2: the next year what I went through the past year.
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  Speaker 2: going through the same old deadbeat stuff to get a
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  Speaker 2: little water to get me by for the weekend. Give
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  Speaker 2: me this water so I can finally thirst not, settle down,
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  Speaker 2: master what God has called me to be, step into
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  Speaker 2: my destiny, out of my history. I'm ready to get
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  Speaker 2: this water. I'm too old to spend another year going
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  Speaker 2: through the same old stuff over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: I need a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anybody in the house this morning who's ready
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  Speaker 2: for a supernatural breakthrough? Give God 30 seconds of praise.
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  Speaker 2: Touch three people for me and tell them you're getting close.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting close. You're getting close. You're getting close. You're
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  Speaker 2: getting close. You're closer than you've ever been. You're closer
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  Speaker 2: than you've ever been in your life. You're nearer than
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  Speaker 2: you've ever been in your life. You're nearer to the
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  Speaker 2: peace you've been looking for. You're nearer to the power
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  Speaker 2: you've been looking for. You're nearer to the glory than
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  Speaker 2: you've ever been in your life. Ain't no time to
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  Speaker 2: stop now. Press your way. That's why the devil's fighting you.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the enemy's trying to destroy you. That's why
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  Speaker 2: all hell is breaking loose in your life. Because the
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  Speaker 2: enemy knows you have an appointment with destiny. An appointment
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  Speaker 2: that you didn't set. An appointment that you didn't know
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  Speaker 2: you had. You think you're just going down to the
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  Speaker 2: well to get the same old stuff again. But this
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  Speaker 2: is a setup. God is about to change your life.
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  Speaker 2: God is about to give you a breakthrough. God is
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  Speaker 2: about to deliver you. God is about to snatch you out.
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  Speaker 3: God is about.
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  Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, I'm on the verge of something big.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the verge of something big. I know it
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  Speaker 2: looks like I'm not much. I know it looks like
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  Speaker 2: I don't have anything. I know I did some dumb
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  Speaker 2: things in my past, but I'm on the verge of
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  Speaker 2: something big. And I want to tell the devil, you
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: think I'm a chump? It's not what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: God has a plan for my life.
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  Speaker 3: God has a joy for my life.
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  Speaker 2: God has a victory for my life. God has deliverance
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  Speaker 2: for my life. Somebody praise him. Anybody praise him. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: praise him. Let everything that have breath.
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  Speaker 1: Walk over and slap.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody and say, it's not what it looks like. You
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  Speaker 2: think I'm not going to be nothing, but the devil
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  Speaker 2: is alive. You think I'm not going to make a comeback,
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  Speaker 2: but the devil is alive. You think I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to get a breakthrough, but the.
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  Speaker 3: Devil is alive.
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  Speaker 2: Tell everybody who left you, it's not what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: You thought I was a sinking ship, but the devil
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  Speaker 2: is alive.
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  Speaker 3: It is not what.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to close there, but it's been a real
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  Speaker 2: joy to have the opportunity to be a part of
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  Speaker 2: your life and to share the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 2: with you. I pray that the word would sink deeply
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  Speaker 2: into your heart and that it would bring forth real
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  Speaker 2: fruit into your life. May God bless you and heaven
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  Speaker 2: smile upon you until you and I can get together again.
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  Speaker 3: Take care now.
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  Speaker 2: While I was distracted, he waited on me. If he
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  Speaker 2: never gives me anything else, I owe him a praise.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do when you are between miracles?
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  Speaker 2: God says, when I pour you out a blessing, I
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  Speaker 2: am not limited to your capacity. Give me your death.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you my life. Give me your affliction. I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you my resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: If you lose your expectation, you lose your potential for
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Your miracle is on its way today.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: When they started talking about worship, she said, I know
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the Messiah is coming. He said, I that speak unto
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: you and he, God reveals himself in worship. You've been
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: asking God to show up, but you haven't been worshiping him.
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  Speaker 2: You've been worrying. You've been complaining. God doesn't show up
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  Speaker 2: in worry. God shows up in praise. Let everything that
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  Speaker 2: have breath.
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  Speaker 1: This is the potter's touch.