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T_D_Jakes_They_laughed_at_the_holes_in_my_shoes,_but_they_didn · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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Speaker 1: I couldn't kneel down and pray because if I knelt
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Speaker 1: down the prey, they would see holes in my shoes.
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Speaker 1: When I didn't have anything, church didn't have any members,
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Speaker 1: I'd get off work working at Carbine and drive up
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Speaker 1: the roads and work on the church till I had
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Speaker 1: to turn around and go back to work. We worked
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Speaker 1: when we didn't have food, We worked when we didn't
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Speaker 1: have lights. I was putting my whole check in the offering,
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Speaker 1: all of it, trying to keep it going. When I
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Speaker 1: finally got some staff, I went on the road preaching,
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Speaker 1: and whatever I made on the road preaching, I brought
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Speaker 1: it home to make the payroll of the staff. And
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Speaker 1: sometimes I got them paid and couldn't pay me commitments.
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Speaker 1: Looked like a fool. Didn't have any clothes. Suits was
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Speaker 1: falling off me, lining wore out in my clothes, couldn't
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Speaker 1: send them to the cleaners, had to walk my suit
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Speaker 1: in the washing machine. They laughed at me. Looked like
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Speaker 1: an old, raggedy country preacher. I had holes in my shoes.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't kneel down who I couldn't kneel down and
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Speaker 1: pray because if I knelt down and pray they would
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Speaker 1: see holes in my shoes. They laughed at me,