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The Potter's House North Dallas - 3rd Anniversary - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: I was, let me do this right quick. Come, Mother McCaskey,
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  Speaker 1: just stand with me for just a moment. She and
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  Speaker 1: I were talking. This is my spiritual mother. She is
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  Speaker 1: my sweetheart. And I leaned back and told her because
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  Speaker 1: years and years ago when I was a teenager... I
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  Speaker 1: got saved and got Spirit-filled, and I was in the
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  Speaker 1: church for about 18 months and backslid. And she scarcely
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  Speaker 1: knew me. She was an evangelist traveling all over the country.
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  Speaker 1: I think initially you were in Atlanta at that time,
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  Speaker 1: weren't you? She's now pastoring. She was in Scottsdale. Now
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  Speaker 1: she's pastoring the House of Prayer and Deliverance in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you. And when she came to town to
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  Speaker 1: run the revival, instead of laying up in the hotel
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  Speaker 1: or in somebody's house taking it easy, she heard that
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  Speaker 1: that boy, Jake, sat back slid. And she said, where
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  Speaker 1: is Jake sat? And I was working in a men's
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  Speaker 1: clothing store. She used to preach in these long dresses.
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  Speaker 1: And she'd have on prayer caps and a long white
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  Speaker 1: dress and a big cross on. And she didn't change
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  Speaker 1: clothes when she went downtown. She went downtown looking sanctified
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  Speaker 1: just like she wasn't trying to be contemporary. I looked
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  Speaker 1: up and it looked like an angel was standing in
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  Speaker 1: the door. And I was trying to hurry up and
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  Speaker 1: get over there because I didn't want her to go off,
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  Speaker 1: you know. She's standing in the door where I was
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  Speaker 1: talking about, what is this I hear about you in
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  Speaker 1: back sleeves? She said, the devil is alive. She used
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  Speaker 1: to call everybody sugar love. You know you my sugar love.
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  Speaker 1: She said, you come on out to this church. And
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  Speaker 1: I really didn't want to go, but I wanted her
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 2: So I said, okay. I said, I'm coming, I'm coming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be there for two weeks and I
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  Speaker 1: want to see. I'm going to be there. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be there just to get out the door. I
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  Speaker 1: was smelling like cigarette smoke and everything. And I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to find my Listerine right quick. Oh, I don't
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  Speaker 1: mind telling you. I ain't always been saved. You ain't either.
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  Speaker 1: I dare you to look at me funny. I double
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  Speaker 1: dare you. Much reefer and stuff you didn't smoke. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you look at me funny.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go off.
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  Speaker 1: You know what impressed me? A lot of folks sent
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  Speaker 1: for me. And a lot of folks talked about me.
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  Speaker 1: But she came to get me. And if she hadn't
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  Speaker 1: come and got me... I couldn't have come without you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, God is not a line. Because a lining
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  Speaker 1: has a beginning and an end. God is a circle.
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  Speaker 1: And you've come full circle. I want to welcome you home.
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  Speaker 2: I will throw my arms around. I'll never forget. It was,
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was like on a Tuesday morning. And
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  Speaker 2: I was in this store and it was called JCPenney's.
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  Speaker 2: And I love to go there because my phone didn't
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  Speaker 2: get a signal in the JCPenney's store. So it was like, cool,
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  Speaker 2: I could just walk around and nobody's going to interrupt
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  Speaker 2: me or anything. And so I'm walking around this JCPenney's
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  Speaker 2: store looking for a little boy suit. And my phone rings,
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  Speaker 2: which totally shocked me because it never rings like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm looking at it and it's like blocked call.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm thinking it's my husband or whatever. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: shocked that I didn't even rang. But as I answered it,
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  Speaker 2: I knew I had no signal strength. And when I
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  Speaker 2: answered it, there was a voice on the other line.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, Cheryl? And I'm like, yes. And he goes,
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  Speaker 2: this is Bishop, Bishop Jakes. And I said, hey, Bishop.
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  Speaker 2: At that point, I'm like, I don't even want to move, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Because I know I'm going to get disconnected at any moment.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm like, Hey, he said, you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: been thinking about you. Your ears must be burning because
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  Speaker 2: we've been thinking about you. We've been talking about you.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, I want to ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I just want to ask you if, if
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  Speaker 2: y'all will pray about coming home. And he started just
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  Speaker 2: casting a little bit of vision about what he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see with the Potter's house North. And I just
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  Speaker 2: stood there. I was like frozen, not just because of
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  Speaker 2: my signal, but It was so impactful because I knew
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  Speaker 2: it was a destiny moment. And it proved to me
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  Speaker 2: that you can wake up one morning and think you
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  Speaker 2: know exactly how your life is going to pan out.
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  Speaker 2: But then there comes one phone call, one text message,
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  Speaker 2: one email, just one little contact. And it can totally
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  Speaker 2: set your feet on the path to the next level,
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  Speaker 2: the next season in your life, even when you least
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  Speaker 2: expect it. And that day, I mean, I had been busy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'd been traveling and preaching and pastoring the
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  Speaker 2: church there in North Carolina. But that day, I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: it changed my life forever. A lot of people had
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  Speaker 2: called for me. They had called for me to come
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  Speaker 2: to preach in different places. But Bishop Jakes, he came
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  Speaker 2: after me. And the rest is history. You know, God
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  Speaker 2: is a God of patterns. He does everything in patterns.
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  Speaker 2: This pattern is really no different. Mother McCaskill came after
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  Speaker 2: Bishop Jakes. Bishop Jakes came after me. Watch out North Dallas,
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  Speaker 2: because we are coming after you. Thank you.