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T_D_Jakes_Trust_That_This_Setback_Is_a_Setup_for_BREAKTHROUGH · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: God is preparing you for something bigger than yourself and
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  Speaker 1: greater than yourself and stronger than yourself. And it may
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  Speaker 1: be years before your questions are answered and you begin
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  Speaker 1: to understand why you had to go through what you
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  Speaker 1: had to go through to get to where you had
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  Speaker 1: to get. And in the meantime, that's where faith operates.
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  Speaker 1: It is a misnomer to think that if you walk
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  Speaker 1: with God and serve God and do His will and work,
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  Speaker 1: that you won't have any troubles. The reality is they
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  Speaker 1: that live godly shall suffer persecution. And you don't get
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  Speaker 1: to pick when or how or what the suffering is,
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  Speaker 1: but it still happens. I'm building my church. My church
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  Speaker 1: is exploding. It's some 20 years ago. Everything is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reaching around the world for Jesus. Souls are being saved.
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  Speaker 1: And then the bottom dropped out. It started dropping when
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  Speaker 1: my mother-in-law died. And they kept dropping when my mother
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  Speaker 1: developed Alzheimer's and she died. And there I was preaching
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  Speaker 1: and ministering and helping and even healing. The gifts of
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  Speaker 1: healing operating in my life couldn't help my own mother.
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  Speaker 1: And she died. And just when I thought I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: take anymore, my 13-year-old daughter walks in the room and
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  Speaker 1: tells my wife and I that she's pregnant. My wife
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  Speaker 1: collapsed on the floor. And all the air goes out
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  Speaker 1: the room. And suddenly I begin to understand that there
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  Speaker 1: are times that crush the human soul. That try your emotions.
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  Speaker 1: That are not judgment or penalty or God being angry
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  Speaker 1: or God hating you, but God developing you. That you
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  Speaker 1: don't get everything just because you go to a class
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  Speaker 1: or hear a sermon. You have to live these sermons
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  Speaker 1: out in your life. Both the hearer and the speaker.
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  Speaker 1: What gives you the integrity of the message is the
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  Speaker 1: things you suffer behind the scenes to have the conviction
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  Speaker 1: to be able to declare them. To know that God
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  Speaker 1: has been proven in you. I find myself asking questions
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  Speaker 1: that I've never asked myself. Where is God? Why aren't
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  Speaker 1: you moving like you moved in the Bible? Move for
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  Speaker 1: me like you moved for Moses and Joshua and Jacob
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  Speaker 1: and Israel. Move for me. And I had to seek him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. I had to search for him.
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  Speaker 1: I had to search my heart to understand what level
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  Speaker 1: of faith do you have? You don't need to search
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  Speaker 1: your heart when everything's going right. You need to search
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  Speaker 1: your heart when all hell is breaking loose and trouble
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  Speaker 1: is everywhere. And you feel deep down inside like you
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  Speaker 1: want to die. And you're asking questions that you dare
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  Speaker 1: not utter aloud lest the church judge you. But in
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  Speaker 1: your secrecy, in your private times, along with God. You say,
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  Speaker 1: where are you? When are you coming? When is the
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  Speaker 1: happy ending? And I didn't understand that tribulation is a
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  Speaker 1: part of training, that crushing and suffering is a part
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  Speaker 1: of how God develops us to become what he wants
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  Speaker 1: us to be. I didn't understand how to recognize him
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, but I kept preaching. And I kept serving
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  Speaker 1: and I kept going on. And I didn't realize that
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  Speaker 1: I was earning my stripes by my battles. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get stripes as a soldier if you don't get in
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  Speaker 1: a fight. They don't give them to you for longevity
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  Speaker 1: or how many years of seniority. They give you the
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  Speaker 1: stripes because of the battles you've endured and the things
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  Speaker 1: you've been through and the crushing you've gone through. And
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  Speaker 1: you find yourself in an emotional quicksand and you wonder
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  Speaker 1: if you can get out. Will this be the big
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  Speaker 1: one that takes me out? Will this be the big
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  Speaker 1: one that brings me down to my knees? Will I
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  Speaker 1: be able to stand it emotionally, mentally, spiritually? Do I
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  Speaker 1: really have what it takes? Or have I been selling
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  Speaker 1: wolf tickets, we would say, wolfing, talking at the big gate,
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  Speaker 1: saying all this wonderful stuff, and then when it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to trial, Does it really work in your own life?
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  Speaker 1: Not understanding that God is with you in the pain
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  Speaker 1: and in the suffering and in the trauma and the
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  Speaker 1: childhood trauma. When the medical report comes back bad and
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  Speaker 1: the business comes back bad and you lose a loved
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  Speaker 1: one or you go through a painful moment in your life,
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  Speaker 1: that does not mean that God has abandoned you. We
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  Speaker 1: can sometimes feel aimless and lost and confused and uncertain
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  Speaker 1: and still love God. We can feel like God has
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  Speaker 1: abandoned us. It's okay. Even Jesus cried out on the cross, Eli, Eli,
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  Speaker 1: lama sabaphani, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?
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  Speaker 1: And if Jesus had a moment like that, then we
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  Speaker 1: can expect to have moments like that. I found out
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  Speaker 1: that the way God rewards you for passing the last
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  Speaker 1: test is giving you the next test. That's promotion. Graduation.
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  Speaker 1: You kill the lion, let me see what you do
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  Speaker 1: with the bear. You kill the bear, let me introduce
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  Speaker 1: you to Goliath. That the way into your destiny is
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  Speaker 1: riddled with bloody battles and scars and bruises and hurts
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  Speaker 1: and pains so that when you get there, you will
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  Speaker 1: stand there and you will endure because you have been
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  Speaker 1: through something. It was painful. It was tough. It was
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  Speaker 1: crushing and there were no demons to rebuke and no
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  Speaker 1: witches to rebuke and no Satan to come up against.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the hands of the potter and he
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  Speaker 1: was pressing in on the clay and to God be
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  Speaker 1: the glory even when it hurts. To God be the
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  Speaker 1: glory with tears in my eyes. To God be the
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  Speaker 1: glory with my heart filled with pain. To God be
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  Speaker 1: the glory even when I need him to help me
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  Speaker 1: with my unbelief while I hold on to my belief.
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  Speaker 1: To God be the glory for the things he has done.
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  Speaker 1: I have come to realize that in life there are
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  Speaker 1: seeds and there are weeds. And the seeds and the
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  Speaker 1: weeds come up at the same time. Like the weed
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  Speaker 1: and the tear. That you can have good moments and
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  Speaker 1: bad moments simultaneously to the point that you don't really
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  Speaker 1: know how to enjoy the good moments because you feel
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  Speaker 1: the bad. And I don't know what it is about
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  Speaker 1: the human experience, but our attention seems to be distracted
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  Speaker 1: by the pain we go through to the point that
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  Speaker 1: we ignore the powerful blessings of God in our life.
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  Speaker 1: You'll scroll past all the good comments on your social
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  Speaker 1: media and find that one bad comment and focus in
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  Speaker 1: on that. I'm a pastor, I'm an author, I'm an evangelist.
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  Speaker 1: I've inspired millions of people around the world. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: just as susceptible as anybody else to life's suffering. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: gets a pass, nobody gets an exemption. I've discovered that
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  Speaker 1: my authentic experience requires that I have more than theology
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  Speaker 1: and more than commentary and more than rhetoric and more
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  Speaker 1: than analogies and more than artistry. That it has to
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  Speaker 1: come from a deeper place. That it has to come
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  Speaker 1: from a bleeding place. Jesus gives a parable about the
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  Speaker 1: wheat and the tare. And the most amazing thing about
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  Speaker 1: the wheat and the tare is that they both grew
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  Speaker 1: up together simultaneously. And there's not a person in this
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  Speaker 1: room that can't see wheat and tare coexisting at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. And if you remember the parable, they said,
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  Speaker 1: let us go in there and remove the tare. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, leave them alone. Leave them alone. The weeds
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  Speaker 1: have just as much purpose as the seeds do. Let
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  Speaker 1: it all grow up together because Jesus knew that there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing in the weeds that could kill the seeds.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to know that there's nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: weeds that will kill the seeds. Even though they're threatening
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  Speaker 1: and even though they're overwhelming and sometimes the weeds get
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  Speaker 1: so high you can't even see your own garden. You
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  Speaker 1: must understand that joy coexists with suffering. That that is
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  Speaker 1: what the anointing is made out of. that it's made
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  Speaker 1: out of crushing and myrrh and bitterness and sweetness and
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  Speaker 1: calamus all mixed together. That if you took away the suffering,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't be annoying it. You have to understand that
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  Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. Joseph told his brothers about
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  Speaker 1: his dream. You intended to harm me, but God intended
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  Speaker 1: for my good. He allowed you to betray me for
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  Speaker 1: my good. I am stronger because of your weakness. I
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  Speaker 1: am stronger because of your wickedness. I am stronger because
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  Speaker 1: of your strife. You taught me that I didn't need
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  Speaker 1: you to be able to stand. You taught me that
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  Speaker 1: you can't vote on my favor. You taught me that
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  Speaker 1: my glory is not in my coat of many colors.
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  Speaker 1: And so I thank you for hurting me. And I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for crushing me. And I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: crushing my heart because you know what? I am broken.
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  Speaker 1: in all the right places all the right places like
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  Speaker 1: a key that unlocks a door I'm broken just right
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  Speaker 1: to unlock my next dimension of grace And you can
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  Speaker 1: only have that kind of faith, that kind of knowing,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of reality when you agree with the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul in Romans 8, 28, when he says that all things,
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  Speaker 1: not just the good things, but all things work together
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  Speaker 1: for the good of them that love the Lord, who
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  Speaker 1: are the called according to his purpose. It's working for
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  Speaker 1: your good when it doesn't feel good. It's working for
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  Speaker 1: your good when tears are running down your face. It's
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  Speaker 1: working for your good when you're up at three o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. You have to believe that it's working
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  Speaker 1: for your good. You have to understand that a bread
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  Speaker 1: maker always needs the dough. And kneading it is what
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  Speaker 1: makes it rise. Pressing it down is what makes it
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  Speaker 1: goes up. Putting it up under pressure is the reality
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  Speaker 1: that proves that I am called according to his purpose
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  Speaker 1: and not my comfort. I am called according to his
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  Speaker 1: purpose and not your opinion. I am called according to
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  Speaker 1: his purpose and not my convenience. That God didn't come
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  Speaker 1: in my life to secure my convenience. That he comes
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  Speaker 1: into our lives and often his will is disruptive. And
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  Speaker 1: when it is disruptive, sometimes it feels destructive. And you
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  Speaker 1: wonder in your own mind, God, are you killing me?
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  Speaker 1: When in fact, God is preparing you for something bigger
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  Speaker 1: than yourself and greater than yourself and stronger than yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And it may be years before your questions are answered
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  Speaker 1: and you begin to understand why you had to go
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  Speaker 1: through what you had to go through to get to
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  Speaker 1: where you had to get. And in the meantime, that's
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  Speaker 1: where faith operates. Faith stands in the gap between you
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  Speaker 1: understanding and you experiencing. You hold on with all your
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  Speaker 1: might and you believe him in the storm and the
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  Speaker 1: hurricane and the tsunamis of life and some on boards
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  Speaker 1: and some on broken pieces. Made it safely to the
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  Speaker 1: other side. The ship doesn't have to stay intact for
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  Speaker 1: you to arrive. I must be transparent with you because
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  Speaker 1: you saw the television and you saw the preaching and
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  Speaker 1: you saw the churches grow and you saw the crusades
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  Speaker 1: and you saw the conferences, but you never saw behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes. It's like going to a restaurant where all
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  Speaker 1: the tablecloths are white and the candles are lit and
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  Speaker 1: everything is beautiful, but you didn't see the kitchen. Behind
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  Speaker 1: every major moment in my life, there were periods of
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  Speaker 1: stress that I thought would kill me. To be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, I enjoy my accomplishments more in retrospect than
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  Speaker 1: I did in real time. Because while people were seeing
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  Speaker 1: the outside, I was dealing with the kitchen while you
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  Speaker 1: were eating in the restaurant. I was dealing with the
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  Speaker 1: employee that didn't show up and the one who ran
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  Speaker 1: off with the money and the person who quit and
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  Speaker 1: the person who betrayed me and the person who sold
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  Speaker 1: me out for 30 pieces of silver and yet I
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  Speaker 1: had to walk out on the stage and remain the
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  Speaker 1: same and so do you. You have to walk out,
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  Speaker 1: you have to welcome the JCPenney's. You have to do
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  Speaker 1: what you have to do. You have to do what
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  Speaker 1: you have to do. You cannot allow how you feel
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  Speaker 1: to dictate how you respond. When you begin to understand,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to understand that your greatest successes are riddled
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  Speaker 1: with periods of stress. They go together. And if the
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  Speaker 1: enemy could, he would break you with the stress. But
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  Speaker 1: endure the stress because it means success is on the
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  Speaker 1: other side. Jesus said that he despised the shame of
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  Speaker 1: the cross, the humiliation, the pain, the degradation, the destruction.
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  Speaker 1: But he looked beyond it and said, but for the
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  Speaker 1: joy that was set before him, he endured the shame
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  Speaker 1: of the cross. And you have to begin to realize
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  Speaker 1: that these crushing moments are a sign that God is
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  Speaker 1: about to do something amazing in your life. You have
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  Speaker 1: to understand that the greater, the more intense the labor pain,
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  Speaker 1: the closer the baby is to coming. And you can't
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  Speaker 1: have the baby without the pain. But no mother, once
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  Speaker 1: a baby is born, focuses on the pain. She focuses
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  Speaker 1: on what comes out of it. And I am telling you,
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  Speaker 1: success and stress cannot exist without each other. No more
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  Speaker 1: than babies can come without labor. No more than clouds
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  Speaker 1: can come without rain. Combined, they help us to reach
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  Speaker 1: our full potential, to bring us into our destiny and
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  Speaker 1: into our purpose. The path to progress takes wild detours
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  Speaker 1: and breakdowns and unplanned stops and oil leaks and running
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  Speaker 1: out of gas and trouble everywhere and a fender bender
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  Speaker 1: and a crisis and pulled over to the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road, but that's part of the trip. We feel
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  Speaker 1: the anxiety, we feel afraid, we feel loss, we feel,
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  Speaker 1: we feel, we feel. But we cannot go by how
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  Speaker 1: we feel. We must go by what we know. And
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  Speaker 1: we must go by what we believe. And we believe
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  Speaker 1: that God is with us, even though we can't see Him.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes He doesn't hold our hand like we want
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  Speaker 1: to feel Him holding our hand, but we have to
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  Speaker 1: know that He is there. Is there more to our
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  Speaker 1: suffering than what we can see? Absolutely. Absolutely. The very
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  Speaker 1: emblem of our faith is a suffering savior. We don't
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  Speaker 1: wear crowns around our neck to depict our faith. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have a throne around our neck as an emblem
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  Speaker 1: of our faith. The emblem of the Christian faith is
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  Speaker 1: a bloody savior stretched wide and hung high on a cross,
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  Speaker 1: an old rugged cross. That's a big clue. When Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: follow me, take up your cross and follow me, he's
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  Speaker 1: not joking. That somewhere sooner or later, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: go through something that crushes you. And he knows exactly
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  Speaker 1: where to hit you to get the oil out of you.
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  Speaker 1: He knows exactly what it takes. He knows a specially
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  Speaker 1: designed tool just for you. Something that wouldn't bother anybody else,
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  Speaker 1: but he knows exactly what it takes to bring you
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  Speaker 1: to the point that you begin to secrete the glory
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  Speaker 1: of God and the anointing of God. He knows how
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  Speaker 1: to do it. This is crushing. This is crushing. This
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  Speaker 1: is pain with a purpose. This is understanding that God
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  Speaker 1: has a future for you. And this is how you
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  Speaker 1: begin to understand that he is the master venter. That
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  Speaker 1: as a venter, he controls the pressure to accomplish what
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  Speaker 1: he wants done. That he is sovereign, that he is absolute,
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  Speaker 1: that he is reigning, that he is in full control.
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  Speaker 1: And the only way that you can withstand the crushing
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  Speaker 1: is to trust the hand that does it. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that you like the pain. It's not that you're even
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  Speaker 1: sure you're going to survive until you know that God
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  Speaker 1: loves you too much to kill you in the process.
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  Speaker 1: You can't praise him in the process, but we praise
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  Speaker 1: him in the process because of the hand that is
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  Speaker 1: applying the pressure is not an enemy that's gone wild
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  Speaker 1: in my life, but a God that monitors how much
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  Speaker 1: I can bear. And skillfully, with the skill and the
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  Speaker 1: artistry of a surgeon, his precision is so absolute that
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  Speaker 1: he knows exactly where to cut and exactly where to
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  Speaker 1: push to get what he wants to get out of
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  Speaker 1: your life. And he is a master. He is a
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  Speaker 1: master vintner. He is a master at turning water into wine.
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  Speaker 1: It is no accident that the first miracle in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible is Jesus turned the dismal waters of Cana into
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  Speaker 1: the blissful, delightful wine of celebration. And that's what he's
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  Speaker 1: going to do with you.