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This is the Place - Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever got tired of being polite? Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever got tired of being understanding? Have you ever got
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  Speaker 1: tired of being faithful? Have you ever got tired of
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  Speaker 1: turning the other cheek? Have you ever got tired of
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  Speaker 1: moving your kinfolks out? Have you ever got tired of
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  Speaker 1: loaning folk money? Have you ever got tired of explaining
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  Speaker 1: your own kids? Have you ever got tired of listening
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  Speaker 1: to folks lie? Have you ever, ever, ever?
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  Speaker 2: This is the Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 3: Greetings, brothers and sisters. I greet you in the name
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  Speaker 3: of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: to continue our conversation from the series Open Doors. God
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  Speaker 3: is absolutely opening doors. And I want you to go
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  Speaker 3: into a place where God has opened a door for me.
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  Speaker 3: That is the Potter's House up Fort Worth. I tell
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  Speaker 3: you what I did. I split my own church because
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  Speaker 3: I began to understand that God is using other people
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  Speaker 3: and other areas. And there were areas that God had
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  Speaker 3: laid on my heart. And I'm going to show you
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  Speaker 3: one of them right in Fort Worth, where the stats
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  Speaker 3: were really appalling. And Pastor Winfield has gone there to
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  Speaker 3: do a work for God. I preached a message there
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  Speaker 3: that I want to share with you. I sent some
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  Speaker 3: of our saints down there to the Fort Worth campus.
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  Speaker 3: I sent others up to the North Dallas campus. And
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  Speaker 3: we're spreading out so that we can be more effective
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  Speaker 3: and develop a net through which we can win our
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  Speaker 3: city for Jesus Christ. So I want you to go
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  Speaker 3: to our campus location in Fort Worth and join me
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  Speaker 3: and Pastor Patrick Winfield, who is the new pastor of
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  Speaker 3: the Potter's House of Fort Worth. The message is called,
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  Speaker 3: This is the Place. How do you discern when you're
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  Speaker 3: in the right place at the right time with the
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  Speaker 3: right people to experience a level of God that you
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  Speaker 3: have never experienced before? Be careful before you walk out
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  Speaker 3: of it because it may be the place where eternity
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  Speaker 3: and time meet. It's almost as if this text occurs
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  Speaker 3: at a major intersection in the crowded city of life experiences.
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  Speaker 3: And yet it is in actuality in a barren place.
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  Speaker 3: So why do you make the comparison between a crowded
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  Speaker 3: city and intersection when it is in fact in a
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  Speaker 3: barren desert rough terrain?
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  Speaker 2: It is this principle.
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  Speaker 3: You've got one of the worst possible people, Jacob, at
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  Speaker 3: the worst possible time, at night, in the worst possible situation,
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  Speaker 3: no place to rest.
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  Speaker 2: In the worst condition, he's tired.
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  Speaker 3: And in the midst of this canvas situation, of destruction
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  Speaker 3: and degradation and humiliation, God does something. I used to think,
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  Speaker 3: I've been in church almost all my life, and when
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  Speaker 3: the service was really high and really good and we
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  Speaker 3: were sitting beside my mother, old people were the only
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  Speaker 3: people that shouted when I was a child. But when
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  Speaker 3: Miss Nellie would shout and Sister Strickland would join her, We.
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  Speaker 2: Said God was in the place that day. We would
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  Speaker 2: walk back home around the road.
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  Speaker 3: And pass a corner and pass the water towers over
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  Speaker 3: to the house just talking about how God was there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, child, you missed it.
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  Speaker 3: We'd holler at Miss Dean as we passed by her house.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Dean, you.
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  Speaker 2: Missed it this morning. God was in the place.
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  Speaker 3: When Sister Shirley would hit one of her high notes
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  Speaker 3: and chill bumps would go down our spine, we would.
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  Speaker 2: Declare God was in the place.
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  Speaker 3: And as a little boy, I measured the presence of
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  Speaker 3: God by the sensations I felt. But I ask you
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  Speaker 3: something this morning. If that be true, then where is
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  Speaker 3: God when you feel nothing? If the manifestation of God
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  Speaker 3: is proven by the movement of flesh.
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  Speaker 3: Where is God when you can't move and you can't
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  Speaker 3: feel and you can't see?
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  Speaker 2: I had to grow in my faith.
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  Speaker 3: I love what Pastor sang when he said, I'm wiser.
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  Speaker 3: I learned not to measure the presence of God by
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  Speaker 3: the circumstances of men. Amen. I learned to realize that
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't any more anointed when I had money than
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  Speaker 3: I was when I didn't have money. Y'all don't hear
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I learned that I was just as
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  Speaker 3: anointed with no job as I was with a job.
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  Speaker 2: That I could be anointed when people didn't like me.
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  Speaker 3: That it didn't take public consensus in order to give
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  Speaker 3: me the approval and the validation of the moment. I
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  Speaker 3: learned not to measure God by goose pimples, chill bumps.
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  Speaker 2: Checks written, circumstances granted.
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  Speaker 3: Lights on, belly full of food. I learned how to
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  Speaker 3: walk with God. You have to learn this.
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  Speaker 2: You don't come here knowing this.
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  Speaker 3: Even the apostle Paul said, I have learned how to
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  Speaker 3: be clothed, how to be naked, how to base and about.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get saved and know this. It takes a
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  Speaker 2: few classes for you to figure this out.
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  Speaker 1: You have to stumble upon some hard times and feel
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  Speaker 1: like everybody has forsaken you. And you're living in the
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  Speaker 1: convergence of all hell breaking loose from all directions.
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  Speaker 2: And yet God.
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  Speaker 3: Shows up. I know he'll show up in church. Where
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  Speaker 3: two or three are gathered together in his name. I
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  Speaker 3: know he'll show up in church. I know he'll show
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  Speaker 3: up when singers sing like they sang today. My God,
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  Speaker 3: the choir singing the glory. Fallen Marvin Simon. Now you
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  Speaker 3: know God will show up when you got that kind
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  Speaker 3: of talent.
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  Speaker 1: But the test does not come in the.
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  Speaker 2: Display of talent.
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  Speaker 3: The test does not come when the lights are on
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  Speaker 3: and the saints are gathered.
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  Speaker 2: And the ushers are ushering in the choir. It's singing now.
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  Speaker 2: The test.
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  Speaker 3: Comes when all hell runs into all crisis.
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  Speaker 2: And all dilemmas converge on you. And you are tired.
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  Speaker 3: Now I know we are Christians and we're not supposed
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  Speaker 3: to admit that we're tired. But since it's just us.
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  Speaker 3: Can we talk? Have you ever been tired? I don't
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  Speaker 3: mean where you need a nap. That's not what I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about. That's a biological situation. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 3: where you need a rest or where you didn't sleep
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  Speaker 3: good that night. That's not the kind of tired I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about where you.
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  Speaker 3: Have traveled so far and gone through so much and
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  Speaker 3: faced so many issues and had to swallow so much
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  Speaker 3: pain that you're tired.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about nighttime tired. I'm talking about early
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  Speaker 1: morning tired. Three o'clock in the afternoon tired. Is there
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  Speaker 1: anybody in here tired? That's just gotten tired.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob was tired. He was tired. He was weary. Weary
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  Speaker 2: of people. I didn't want to say it loud.
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  Speaker 3: When I was young, I didn't think I would ever
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  Speaker 3: get tired of people. My wife would tell you, I'd
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  Speaker 3: keep her waiting in the car, talking to people. She
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  Speaker 3: was pregnant, waiting in the car, talking to people. Couldn't
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  Speaker 3: put them all in the car, take them all to
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  Speaker 3: the house. They were sleeping all up against, all up
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  Speaker 3: for them in the room, all in the bed, on
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  Speaker 3: the floor.
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  Speaker 2: People, people, people. I couldn't believe that I would ever
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  Speaker 2: get tired of people. I love people. She would tell
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  Speaker 2: the children, you know how your daddy is. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: love people. I couldn't believe the day.
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  Speaker 1: Would come that I would duck them. I confess, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I run from them. If I see them coming down
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  Speaker 1: F Street, I go up G. Because there are some times.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, y'all not going to talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: There are some times you look at the phone and
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  Speaker 1: it's ringing and it's in your hand and you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to answer it.
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  Speaker 2: Because you are.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I wish I had a witness. Somebody, somebody somewhere
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  Speaker 3: in this house.
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  Speaker 1: That just got tired. Have your jaws ever got tired
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  Speaker 1: of smiling? Have you ever got tired of being polite?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever got tired of being understanding? Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever got tired.
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  Speaker 2: Of being faithful? Have you ever got tired? turning the
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  Speaker 2: other cheek. Have you ever got tired of moving.
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  Speaker 1: Your kinfolks out? Have you ever got tired of loaning
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  Speaker 1: folk money? Have you ever got tired.
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  Speaker 2: Of explaining your own kids? Have you ever got tired
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  Speaker 2: of listening to folks lie? Have you ever, ever, ever?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody who understands me just touch your name.
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  Speaker 2: And say, I get tired. I get tired.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean to be moody, but I get tired.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean to be cranky, but I get tired.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean to be short with nobody. I get tired.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to act like I'm sitting down on you.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't sitting down on you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just tired. Have you ever?
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  Speaker 3: My God, Shandukeshe. Jacob got tired. And Jacob was not really.
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  Speaker 2: Sure who he was. He was a grown man. And
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  Speaker 2: not sure who he was.
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  Speaker 3: Brother. Brother. Brother Marvin was talking about having adolescent children
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  Speaker 3: and my spirit groaned when he said it because anybody
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  Speaker 3: who ever raised adolescent children know that's not something you enjoy,
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  Speaker 3: it's something you survive. They don't know who you are.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know who they are. They can't figure anything out.
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  Speaker 3: But you do expect that from adolescents. But have you
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  Speaker 3: ever seen grown people who still... 40 years old and
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  Speaker 3: you're still a mystery. 52 and you still shock yourself. Jacob.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Jacob. Shut down, Jacob. Was a grown man and
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  Speaker 2: still not sure of himself. His daddy knew who he was.
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  Speaker 3: His grandfather knew who he was. But Jacob, he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: quite sure he had to fight all his life. Come
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  Speaker 3: here fighting. Fighting in his mama's belly. Been fighting all
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  Speaker 3: of his life. Been at war all of his life.
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  Speaker 2: Everything he ever.
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  Speaker 3: Got in life, he had to fight for it and
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  Speaker 3: sleep for it and pull for it and coalesce every
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  Speaker 3: kind of idea and favor he could get.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob was slick. He was slick.
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  Speaker 3: He was not slick because he was a bad person.
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  Speaker 3: He was just slick because if he wasn't slick, it
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  Speaker 3: didn't happen. Slickness was all he knew.
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  Speaker 1: It's all his mama knew. It's all his uncle knew.
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  Speaker 1: It run through the family.
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  Speaker 2: He was just slick. He was slick.
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  Speaker 3: Don't act like you don't understand because there is a
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  Speaker 3: thing called church slick. Don't you sit there with your
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  Speaker 3: little bonnet on and act like you're so holy that
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  Speaker 3: you don't understand slick folk. Borrow money they never intend
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  Speaker 3: to pay back.
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  Speaker 2: Slick folk.
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  Speaker 3: Tell your husband they need prayer. You know that girl
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  Speaker 3: don't want no prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Slick.
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  Speaker 4: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about the God. Not the God
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  Speaker 3: of the choir stand. Not the God of the pulpit.
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  Speaker 3: Not the God of the revival. Not the God of
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  Speaker 3: the crusade. But the God of a hard place. The
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  Speaker 3: God who shows up when all the conditions are wrong.
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  Speaker 3: And all hell is breaking loose. The kind of visitation
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  Speaker 3: that comes. And you can't brag about your faith. Your
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  Speaker 3: Bible study.
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  Speaker 2: Your commitment.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't fast him up. You didn't pray him up.
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  Speaker 3: You weren't consecrated. And frankly you weren't even living holy.
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  Speaker 2: And yet.
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  Speaker 3: See masses of people jumping in cars filling up tanks
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  Speaker 3: full of gas trying to get away from what they
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  Speaker 3: perceive as an opposition you will see a few people
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  Speaker 3: running toward what everybody else is running away from because
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  Speaker 3: what is other people's opposition it's.
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  Speaker 2: An opportunity i see an open door.
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  Speaker 5: Opportunity lies before me i've changed my view The gifts
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  Speaker 5: he laid within before time began gives me the goods
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  Speaker 5: to win.
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  Speaker 2: I see an open door.
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  Speaker 3: If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: the least I could do is to work that thing.
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  Speaker 6: Others may run from what I run to. aligning my
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  Speaker 6: purpose to his will I attack like a warrior scale
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  Speaker 6: walls like a soldier marching in line never diverting the
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  Speaker 6: path I've done the math God is greater.
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  Speaker 3: Because you handled the opportunity correctly you were able to
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  Speaker 3: move into the next dimension.
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  Speaker 6: I have the ability right permission to enter in.
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  Speaker 5: So look to the hills from which cometh your help
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  Speaker 5: can you see can you see your open doors.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's a conference, but my God, it's so much more.
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  Speaker 2: It's entertainment. It's festivity. It's fun. It's restaurants. It's shopping.
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  Speaker 3: It's People of God, relaxing. It's time to celebrate. Throwing
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  Speaker 3: a party in Texas. You know what?
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  Speaker 2: We do it big in Texas. Megafest 2013. Get your
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  Speaker 1: You cannot rise to greatness until you can master dealing
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  Speaker 1: with slip.
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  Speaker 2: You got to do it. It's somewhere on the road
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  Speaker 2: to greatness.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to come to the intersection and find yourself
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  Speaker 3: dealing with slick people. Jacob was a slick person. People
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  Speaker 3: are not wicked because they want to be. They're wicked
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  Speaker 3: because they're desperate. They're wicked because that's all they were
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  Speaker 3: exposed to. Because those are the only tools that have
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  Speaker 3: been vested into their hands and they only know how
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  Speaker 3: to manipulate in order to survive.
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  Speaker 2: And it's one thing to.
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  Speaker 3: Do that when you're 15 and it's another thing to
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  Speaker 3: be 40 and still desperate. I'm afraid of desperate people.
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  Speaker 3: Desperate people do desperate things. Desperate people will fight in
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  Speaker 3: ways you had not expected because they don't know how
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  Speaker 3: to get up. Jacob was desperate. He should have been
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  Speaker 3: farther at his age. Have you ever thought to yourself,
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  Speaker 3: I should have been further for my age? I didn't
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  Speaker 3: expect to be in this condition at this stage. I
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  Speaker 3: thought I would be further in a more comfortable place.
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  Speaker 3: And to make matters worse.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 3: Tired of fighting.
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  Speaker 3: And in the
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  Speaker 3: tiredness and in the confusion and in the instability of
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  Speaker 3: his circumstance, it was night.
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  Speaker 2: And he could not see his way clear. When night comes,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot see your way clear.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you can see your way clear, you
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  Speaker 3: can deal with about anything. But when it's dark, And
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  Speaker 3: you can't see any brightness ahead of you.
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  Speaker 8: And you're tired. And you're confused. And you're going through
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  Speaker 8: a blackout period. That is the environment from which this
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  Speaker 8: text is extrapolated.
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  Speaker 2: It's dark. He's confused. He's tired. It's nighttime. He is
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  Speaker 2: kind of desperate, tired. I don't get this kind of
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  Speaker 2: tired often. Because most of the time I get that
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  Speaker 2: kind of tired where you can't sleep.
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  Speaker 3: But that kind of tired where you can sleep on anything.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep standing up. Go to sleep and don't even know
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  Speaker 3: you sleep. Does anybody know what it is to go
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  Speaker 3: to sleep and you didn't even know you went to sleep?
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  Speaker 1: You were nodding your head one minute and the next
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  Speaker 1: minute you sleep. You were watching the TV and now
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  Speaker 1: the TV is watching you.
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  Speaker 3: Tired. The kind of Todd that makes you so weary
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  Speaker 3: that he has taken a rock for a pillow. Shuffling
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  Speaker 3: the rocks. He makes a bed in a hard place.
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  Speaker 3: Making the best of a bad situation.
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  Speaker 2: Says this is.
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  Speaker 3: Not the kind of bed I desired for myself. But
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  Speaker 3: as my mother said, if you make your bed, son.
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  Speaker 3: you gotta lay in it and sometimes you make the
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  Speaker 3: bed and you just gotta lay in it you pick
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  Speaker 3: that man you took that job you bought that second
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  Speaker 3: hand car sometimes have you ever had.
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  Speaker 2: To lay in the bed you made.
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  Speaker 3: Jacob moved the rocks around made the best of a
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  Speaker 3: bad situation lay his head.
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  Speaker 2: On a rock.
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  Speaker 3: And fell asleep in a hard place. Laying in a
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  Speaker 3: hard place, he goes to sleep. And God appeared I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about the God Not the God of
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  Speaker 3: the choir stand Not the God of the pulpit Not
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  Speaker 3: the God of the revival Not the God of the
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  Speaker 3: crusade But the God of a hard place The God
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  Speaker 3: who shows up when all the conditions are wrong and
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  Speaker 3: all hell is breaking loose. The kind of visitation that
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  Speaker 3: comes and you can't brag about your faith, your Bible study,
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  Speaker 3: your commitment.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't fast him up. You didn't pray him up.
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  Speaker 3: You weren't consecrated and frankly you wasn't even living holy
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  Speaker 3: and yet. People don't like me because I tell it
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  Speaker 3: like it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of the saints bragging about what your righteousness did.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the time that you can
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  Speaker 1: rule out. It wasn't my holiness. It wasn't my righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't my prayer life. It wasn't my commitment.
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  Speaker 3: I was tired.
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  Speaker 2: I was sick. And yet God showed up.
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  Speaker 1: I need a God that can show up at a
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  Speaker 1: place that I can't take the credit for. I need
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  Speaker 1: a God who can show up in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a blackout experience. I need a God who can show
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  Speaker 1: up when all hell is breaking loose in my life
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  Speaker 1: and frankly my faith has gone to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: And here he comes. Oh, here comes Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Right in the middle of your storm he shows up.
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  Speaker 3: He says, I am the God of Abraham. I'm the
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  Speaker 3: God of your grandfather. I'm the God of your father.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't say he's Jacob's God. That's yet to be determined.
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  Speaker 3: That intimate relationship has not been established yet. but on
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  Speaker 3: the pedigree of your background, on the prayers of your ancestry,
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  Speaker 3: on the dedication of where you came from. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to show up in your life and I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: speak to you, but it's not because of you, but
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  Speaker 3: because your mama prayed and because your grandmama prayed.
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  Speaker 2: And because somebody prayed for you.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in here right now knows that you wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: where you are if somebody else hadn't prayed for you.
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  Speaker 2: Can I get a witness? Witness, witness, witness, witness, witness.
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  Speaker 3: And he says, he says to him, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: bless your seed. I bless your daddy. I bless your granddaddy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to bless your children. Do I see all
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  Speaker 3: the families of the earth shall be blessed. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to set it off. I'm going to.
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  Speaker 2: Set it off. You can't stop me from doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to set it off.
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  Speaker 3: You're sneaky, but I'm still going to bless you. You're tired,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm still going to bless you. Oh, I'm about
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  Speaker 3: to feel like preaching now.
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  Speaker 2: I better stop.
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  Speaker 3: You're confused, but I'm still going to bless you. You
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  Speaker 3: made a mistake, but I'm still going to bless you.
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  Speaker 3: You had a baby out of wedlock, but I'm still
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  Speaker 3: going to bless you.
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  Speaker 2: You've been straight out on drugs, but I'm still going.
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  Speaker 3: To bless.
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  Speaker 5: You.
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  Speaker 2: And Jacob says, I shunned the book of Shia.
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  Speaker 1: As he lay his head on the rock, the heavens
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  Speaker 1: opened up.
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  Speaker 2: When it said the heavens opened up.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I realized this is not just a rock.
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  Speaker 3: This rock is Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you see a rock and the heavens open up,
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  Speaker 1: then you.
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  Speaker 2: Know the rock is not a rock. The rock has
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  Speaker 2: got to be Jesus. This is the place. This is
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  Speaker 2: the place. This is the place. This is the place.
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  Speaker 2: This is the place. This is the place. You don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: This rock.
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  Speaker 1: This rock is not just a rock. This rock is Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: This pillow. Will become the pillar. Of your experience. In God.
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  Speaker 1: When you see it correctly. You can be it correctly.
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  Speaker 1: But you cannot be it. If you just see it
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  Speaker 1: as a pillow. It's got to become a pillar.
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  Speaker 3: Of your faith.
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  Speaker 2: This is the place.
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  Speaker 3: And the rock.
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  Speaker 2: Is Jesus. And whenever you put your mind. On the rock.
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  Speaker 2: The heavens will always open up. How did you ever
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  Speaker 2: lay your head?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said, thou will keep him at perfect peace.
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  Speaker 1: Whose mind is stayed on thee? And I dare you
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  Speaker 1: to drag your weary head and lay it on the rock.
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  Speaker 2: You lay it on the rock. The heavens is shocked.
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  Speaker 2: The heavens.
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  Speaker 3: My God, I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 3: The heavens will open up. Touch three people and say
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  Speaker 3: something's about to open up for you, baby. Something's about
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  Speaker 3: to open up. Don't give up. Don't give in.
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  Speaker 2: Don't give out.
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  Speaker 1: Something's about to open up for you. You're in the
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  Speaker 1: right place. You're at the right time. Ain't no time
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  Speaker 1: to give up. Something is about to open up.
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  Speaker 3: If you believe it, take 30 seconds to give God
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  Speaker 3: a praise and praise.
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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: I've seen masses of people jumping in cars, filling up
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  Speaker 3: tanks full of gas, trying to get away from what
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: they perceive as an opposition. You will see a few
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  Speaker 3: people running toward what everybody else is running away from
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: because what is other people's opposition is an opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: I see an open door. Opportunity lies before me. I've
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  Speaker 5: changed my view. The gifts he laid within before time
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  Speaker 5: began gives me the goods to win.
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  Speaker 2: I see an open door.
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  Speaker 3: If he thought enough of me to give me the opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: the least I can do is to work that thing.
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  Speaker 6: Others may run from what I run to. Aligning my
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  Speaker 6: purpose to his will. I attack like a warrior. Scale
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  Speaker 6: walls like a soldier. Marching in line, never diverting the path.
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  Speaker 6: I've done the math. God is greater.
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  Speaker 3: Because you handled the opportunity correctly, you were able to
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  Speaker 3: move into the next dimension.
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  Speaker 5: I have the ability, right, permission to enter in. So
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  Speaker 5: look to the hills from which cometh your help.
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  Speaker 2: Can you see? Can you see your open doors?
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  Speaker 7: It's coming. The biggest family-friendly festival is back. Megafest 2013.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's a conference, but my God, it's so much more.
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  Speaker 2: It's entertainment. It's festivity. It's fun. It's restaurants. It's shopping.
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  Speaker 3: It's People of God, relaxing. It's time to celebrate. Throwing
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  Speaker 3: a party in Texas. You know what? We do it
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  Speaker 3: big in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to stop there, but it has been a
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  Speaker 3: delight and a joy to share the word of the
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  Speaker 3: Lord with you. I want you to put the Potter's
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  Speaker 3: House of Fort Worth on your prayer list and the
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  Speaker 3: group of saints that I sent down there and all
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  Speaker 3: of the many that are joining in from that era.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Great revival is breaking out in the Potter's House of
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  Speaker 3: Fort Worth, so lift it up before God. And I
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  Speaker 3: want you to know that as you pray for us,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: as God opens doors for you, we are also praying
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  Speaker 3: that God's grace and anointing would direct every step, every step,
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  Speaker 3: every centimeter that you would move progressively toward your destiny.
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  Speaker 2: God is in it. Do not Do not, do not
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  Speaker 2: give up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm praying for you. I love you with the love
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  Speaker 3: of the Lord. I hope to see you at Megafest.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I'm hearing from a lot of you. Some of you
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  Speaker 3: are praying, Lord, let me get off work. I'm praying
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  Speaker 3: with you because we're going to have the time. God
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  Speaker 3: bless you now. Take care of yourself. I'll see you.
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  Speaker 3: Same time, same station. I'll be looking for you.
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  Speaker 6: This is the part of suffering.