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

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on The Potter's Touch. You don't call nobody
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  Speaker 1: you don't want. Now, somebody might wonder to you that
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  Speaker 1: you don't want, but you don't call nobody that you
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  Speaker 1: don't want. You don't call anybody you don't have a
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  Speaker 1: plan for. You don't call anybody without a purpose. You
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  Speaker 1: don't call anybody and then say, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I want with you if you got good sense. If
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  Speaker 1: you got good sense, you had the purpose before you
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  Speaker 1: called the person. This is the Father's touch. Greetings in
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  Speaker 1: the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Bishop T.D. Jakes, a pastor of the Potter's House here
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas, and I am called to serve you.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to serve you by sharing with you
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  Speaker 1: a message that I share with our congregation. It has
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  Speaker 1: strong impact on our church, and I believe it will
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  Speaker 1: bless your life. We are called to serve the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. We have to believe that we are
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  Speaker 1: called for an important purpose. People who seek after the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's calling don't always fit in with other people The
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  Speaker 1: message today is appropriately called, called. And if you are called,
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  Speaker 1: you'll understand what I mean as we go into Romans 8,
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  Speaker 1: 29 through 31. Hear ye the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: God's call will disrupt your life. You had everything planned.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you? And I'm going out on Tuesday and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to see Fred on Thursday. I'll call Bobby on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see Jimmy on Sunday for brunch.
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  Speaker 2: I had it all worked out.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm 25, I'm going to do such and such.
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  Speaker 1: And by the time I'm 32, I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: such and such. And then God says, Helen. Messes up everything.
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  Speaker 1: What made you come anyway? What made you give up
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  Speaker 1: a man you could see for a man you couldn't see?
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  Speaker 1: What made you give.
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  Speaker 2: Up high for joy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Is that your spirit knew His voice. Because he
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  Speaker 1: knew you. Before. Them. He called. He called what was his.
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  Speaker 1: He called what was his. I only bother. What's mine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anything that ain't mine if you're mine
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  Speaker 1: come here if you're really not mine leave me alone
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  Speaker 1: go on about your business I only want what's mine
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't hear what I'm saying that was worth you
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  Speaker 1: getting up out of the bed this morning yeah Only
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  Speaker 1: call to you what's yours. Those he did foreknow, he
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  Speaker 1: did predestinate. Them he also called. Not those, not they,
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  Speaker 1: just them. Those he did foreknow. And little by little,
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  Speaker 1: as you become more and more spiritual, you're coming into
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  Speaker 1: an awareness of who you really are. And the more
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  Speaker 1: you recognize who you really are, the less you are
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  Speaker 1: willing to be who you were. Those he did foreknow,
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  Speaker 1: he did... Let me, one more thing I want to
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  Speaker 1: pull out of that foreknow. Because I want you to
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  Speaker 1: understand the debate between this predestined... And for knowledge, theological debate,
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  Speaker 1: I want for those of you who can eat on
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  Speaker 1: this level to have this. There's a big argument because
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  Speaker 1: they think that when God predestined you, he makes you
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  Speaker 1: be saved. And that wouldn't be fair because he makes
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  Speaker 1: some people be saved and then other people he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make them be saved.
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  Speaker 2: And they have a big argument about all of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's as silly as saying that the weatherman who forecasts
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  Speaker 1: the rain made it wet. Even though he forecasted, he
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  Speaker 1: foreknew it. He doesn't make it rain because he knows
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna. And Thursday, the temperature will be 170 degrees.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. We'll get some relief on Friday morning.
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  Speaker 1: The rain will break out at 8.15 in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Did he make it rain? No, but he foreknew it would.
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  Speaker 1: He foreknew you. He foreknew you. And out of the
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  Speaker 1: basis of that foreknowledge, not only knowing you before, he
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  Speaker 1: predestined you.
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  Speaker 2: Pre, pre, in advance, before, destined, ending.
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So before ended you. He predestined. He carried the
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  Speaker 1: umbrella because he knew it would rain. He didn't make
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  Speaker 1: it rain. But on the basis of his foreknowledge, he
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  Speaker 1: set things in motion to accommodate what he foreknew. Because
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  Speaker 1: he foreknew you, he predestined an environment that would cause
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  Speaker 1: you to be rejected out of several places so that
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  Speaker 1: you would not rest beneath your destiny. He disrupted your circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: He moved your life around. He ordered your steps. He
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  Speaker 1: determined who you hooked up with. He determined the level
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  Speaker 1: of your rejection. He prescribed the level and intensity.
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  Speaker 2: Of your pain.
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  Speaker 1: So that you would have enough conviction when you got
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  Speaker 1: up to be forceful about this. He'd pull you back
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  Speaker 1: far enough so that you would shoot forward far enough
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  Speaker 1: on the basis.
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  Speaker 2: Of this foreknowledge. So if I'm one of them, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of them, it's all good.
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  Speaker 1: It's all good. You left me, it's all good. I'm
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  Speaker 1: wounded about it, but it's all good. Because God's going
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  Speaker 1: to use the fact that you left me and the
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  Speaker 1: pain I have about it to push me into the
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  Speaker 1: purpose that he has predestined so you couldn't stay. You
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  Speaker 1: had to go because you came in my life because
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  Speaker 1: you had a role to play. Those he did foreknow.
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  Speaker 1: He did also predestinate. And then he also called. Called
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  Speaker 1: is the hinge to the text. He could foreknow me
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  Speaker 1: and me not know it. He could predestine me and
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  Speaker 1: me not know it. This is all stuff that's done
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen before the customer.
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  Speaker 2: Gets the entree.
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  Speaker 1: This is God's divine prep work. It all happened in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit world before you got here. But call cannot
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  Speaker 1: be done independent from me. So called is when he
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  Speaker 1: brings into time what he has done in eternity and
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  Speaker 1: makes me aware of what has.
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  Speaker 2: Already been done.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I cannot see the chef prep the meal,
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  Speaker 1: I am the beneficiary of the preparation. He did it
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  Speaker 1: where I couldn't see it. He's been marinating it all night.
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  Speaker 1: When he brings it to me, I benefit from what
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  Speaker 1: was pre-marinated already. back in the kitchen from a preheated
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  Speaker 1: oven in a predetermined place.
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  Speaker 2: When he brings it to me, I am.
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  Speaker 1: Presented what he has prepared before. At the point he
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  Speaker 1: called you, he presents to you what he has prepared.
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  Speaker 1: The side benefit of the text, the invisible information of
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  Speaker 1: the text is The transcendental ideology of the text, the
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  Speaker 1: implication of the text is your significance. Because you don't
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  Speaker 1: put that much prep into something that is insignificant. The
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  Speaker 1: calling is when he makes you aware of not only
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  Speaker 1: did I prep for you, But also the side effects
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  Speaker 1: of this information is that I am significant. Wow. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that. That's why I got these tracks in my arm.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't know that. That's why I snorted all the hair
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  Speaker 1: out of my nose. I didn't know that. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I gave myself to anybody who wanted me. fascinated that
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  Speaker 1: they liked me because I didn't know I was significant.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't know it's significant, you'll give it
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  Speaker 1: to anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Look at somebody say, he called me. Come here, Anton.
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  Speaker 1: You know why he walked across here? Because I called him.
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  Speaker 1: You know why he came and nobody else came? Because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't call them.
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  Speaker 2: I called who I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: He heard my voice. He responded to the call. What
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know is that I planned to call him
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  Speaker 1: before I called him for I foreknew I would use
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  Speaker 1: him in this illustration and I predestined to be this
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  Speaker 1: far from him so he would have to walk this
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  Speaker 1: far so you would get to see it so I
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  Speaker 1: could use it and I did all of it without
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  Speaker 1: telling him and he didn't know he would be here
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  Speaker 1: today until I called him but I predestined and predetermined
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  Speaker 1: for him to stand in this spot before we ever
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  Speaker 1: even got to church and you never knew a thing.
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  Speaker 2: About it until I Touch your neighbor and say, something
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  Speaker 2: happened to me. I was just happy.
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  Speaker 1: I was just chilling. I was just drunk. I was
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  Speaker 1: just high. I was just having a good time. I
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  Speaker 1: was building my business. I was going on with my friends.
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  Speaker 1: I was hanging out with all my cup buddies, my
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  Speaker 1: running dogs, my constituents, my contemporaries, my intellects, and my friends.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, he messed up everything because.
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  Speaker 2: He You get it?
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  Speaker 1: You don't call nobody you don't want. Now, somebody might
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  Speaker 1: wander to you that you don't want, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: call nobody.
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  Speaker 2: That you don't want.
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  Speaker 1: You don't call anybody you don't have a plan for.
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  Speaker 1: You don't call anybody without a purpose. You don't call
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  Speaker 1: anybody and then say, I don't know what I want
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  Speaker 1: with you if you got good sense. If you got
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  Speaker 1: good sense, you had the purpose before you called the person.
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  Speaker 2: Wonder who you are.
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  Speaker 1: That he would put so much labor and work in
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  Speaker 1: setting the stage for you. The details are in the
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  Speaker 1: prep work. The circumstances had to be right. The age
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  Speaker 1: had to be determined. The era had to be determined.
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  Speaker 1: The gender had to be determined. The community had to
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  Speaker 1: be determined. The exterior, your look, your walk, your movement,
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  Speaker 1: your body language, your IQ, your intellect, all of that.
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  Speaker 1: None of it just happened predetermined, preset from before the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of the world. Look at what he told Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: before I formed thee in the belly. I knew thee.
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  Speaker 1: I ordained thee. I sanctified thee. Sanctified means set apart.
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  Speaker 1: I meant for you not to fit. I set you apart.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't like you. They couldn't keep you. They couldn't
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  Speaker 1: raise you. I meant for you to be a misfit.
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  Speaker 1: I meant for you to stand out. I meant for
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  Speaker 1: you to search for love you couldn't find and peace
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't touch and joy you couldn't hold on to.
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  Speaker 2: It was all a set up. Still to come on
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  Speaker 2: The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Your job is an important job when you.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's important.
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  Speaker 1: But some of you are forsaking your calling trying to
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  Speaker 1: find something big and impressive so that people will think
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  Speaker 1: you are important. But let me tell you something. People
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  Speaker 1: thinking you're important will not raise self-esteem. That's why they
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  Speaker 1: call it self-esteem. Until you think highly of yourself, me
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  Speaker 1: thinking highly of you will never be enough. A harvest
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  Speaker 1: starts with a small seed. If he showed the orchard,
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  Speaker 1: everybody would snatch it. So he'll hide it in a seed.
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  Speaker 1: If you be faithful over a few things. For your
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  Speaker 1: gift of any size, you will receive this stirring message.
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  Speaker 1: These are they on CD from the series Seeds of Greatness.
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  Speaker 1: There's a king in you. There's a victor in you.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as you find your cause, you'll unlock your king.
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  Speaker 1: And when your gift is $ 65 or more, you'll receive
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  Speaker 1: Bishop's series, Seeds of Greatness, on four DVDs. If you
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  Speaker 1: take good seed and you plant it in good ground,
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  Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time before harvest breaks out. However,
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  Speaker 1: for your gift of $ 120 or more, we'll also include
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  Speaker 1: Seeds for Good Soil, encouraging words from Bishop's heart to yours,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Bishop's timeless book, 64 Lessons for Life
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  Speaker 1: Without Limits.
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  Speaker 3: Plant the seeds of God's word today and your harvest will.
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  Speaker 1: Be on its way. He called you, blew your spirit
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  Speaker 1: into your body. Let that particular sperm cell out swim
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  Speaker 1: all the rest to overlay the egg, form the body,
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  Speaker 1: blew the spirit into the body, and you are you.
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  Speaker 4: Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Time now
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  Speaker 4: reigns over your body, not your spirit. Your spirit don't
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  Speaker 4: care what day it is. It has no birth date.
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  Speaker 4: It has no death date. It has no beginning or
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  Speaker 4: end of days. It is your spirit that is created
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  Speaker 4: in the likeness of God. Can I go deeper with this?
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  Speaker 4: He called you into a body. Here's the price you
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  Speaker 4: paid for answering that call to be born. You would
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  Speaker 4: forget who you were in the spirit. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So when he called you from eternity into time, you
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  Speaker 1: now got a body, but you can't remember who you
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  Speaker 1: were in the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: So the search is on.
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  Speaker 1: The search through lovers and lust and drugs and alcohol
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  Speaker 1: and sin and sex and money and fame and recognition
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  Speaker 1: and fortune and promiscuity and individuality. And now you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be this and now you're going to be that.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're into this and now you're into other. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to find that thing that's missing. Until you get
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  Speaker 1: that next call where he calls you, Helen, into this
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  Speaker 1: glorious salvation. And all of a sudden, you spin around
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  Speaker 1: on the bar stool and say, it's not that, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not that, and it's not that, and it's not that.
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  Speaker 1: This is the problem I have with this generation. They
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  Speaker 1: are so quickly inclined to define themselves in the process
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  Speaker 1: of searching. He called you into a body. And then
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  Speaker 1: he called you into the body of Christ. And now
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  Speaker 1: when you're called into the body of Christ, he is
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  Speaker 1: now asking you to forget your experiences in the flesh. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I wish that.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have a thinking church this morning? And he
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  Speaker 2: says now.
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  Speaker 1: He says, forgetting those things which are behind, reaching to
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  Speaker 1: those things which are before, I now call you into
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  Speaker 1: the body of Christ. Okay. And you must be born again.
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  Speaker 1: Born of the water. Born of the spirit. Born again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening again. The whole process is happening again. And
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  Speaker 1: the closer I get into who I am, the more
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  Speaker 1: I must forget who I was so that I can
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  Speaker 1: remember who I am. I am shedding off what I
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  Speaker 1: had before that I might capture what I have right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm now called into the body of Christ. Second call.
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  Speaker 1: Third call.
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  Speaker 2: I am called into my purpose.
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  Speaker 1: My purpose.
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  Speaker 2: My thing. My it. My thing.
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  Speaker 1: That when I do it, I get so much out
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  Speaker 1: of it, I would do it for free. If you
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  Speaker 1: get that third call, that's a mind-boggling thing. Because once
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  Speaker 1: you find your thing, it satisfies your spirit. So you
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  Speaker 1: might make money from it, but the money is not
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  Speaker 1: the goal. It's the byproduct of finding your purpose. Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm called to it. called to be a teacher, called
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  Speaker 1: to be a preacher, called to be a support. Called
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  Speaker 1: to be an encourager. Called to be a promoter. Called
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  Speaker 1: to be a designer. Called to be a builder. Called
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  Speaker 1: to be a father. Called to be a mother. Called
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  Speaker 1: to be a wife. called into it. I'm called into it.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be the president of the United
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  Speaker 1: States for it to be a big thing. What gives
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  Speaker 1: me fulfillment is not how big it is. It's that
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  Speaker 1: it fits my purpose. I'm plugged in. I'm connected to it.
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  Speaker 1: Can I go, can I go a little bit deeper?
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  Speaker 1: This is not a shouty message, but can I go
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  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper with it? they were doing an
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  Speaker 1: interview with me and they said, how could you pastor
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  Speaker 1: back in the hills of West Virginia? I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about where I ended up in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about where I started in West Virginia was
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  Speaker 1: back in a city that only had one red light
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  Speaker 1: in the whole city. In the whole city, they called
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  Speaker 1: it the light. You laughing, I'm telling the truth. Where's
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  Speaker 1: the gold mine at? Right by the light. One light
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  Speaker 1: in the whole town, and I was pastoring there. Seven
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  Speaker 1: people in the congregation. $ 10 meal allowance. $ 10 meal allowance.
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  Speaker 2: Wife and two kids.
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  Speaker 1: Sleeping in the church in between morning to evening service.
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  Speaker 1: Sleeping on benches with my wife pregnant. Sounds miserable, but
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't. It sounds bad now, but it didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: bad then. I'm trying to get you to understand this
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  Speaker 1: is not the race to the biggest seat. The seat
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a big thing to be an
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  Speaker 1: important thing.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this. Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: You are trying to get something big because you draw
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  Speaker 1: importance from the people. But the art of life is
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  Speaker 1: when you think what you do is important. When you
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  Speaker 1: think what you do is important, it is important. If
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  Speaker 1: all you do is a housewife and raise kids, it
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  Speaker 1: is important. Because I am a byproduct of that process.
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  Speaker 1: Your job is an important job when you.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's important.
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  Speaker 1: But some of you are forsaking your calling trying to
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  Speaker 1: find something big and impressive so that people will think
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  Speaker 1: you are important. But let me tell you something. People
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  Speaker 1: think that you're important sometimes. will not raise self-esteem. That's
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  Speaker 1: why they call it self-esteem. Until you think highly of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: me thinking highly of you will never be enough. You
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  Speaker 1: got to believe that what you are called to do
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  Speaker 1: is important. Because let me tell you something. Until you
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  Speaker 1: believe that, you won't do small things with excellence. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't do small things with excellence, you will
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  Speaker 1: never get big things.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it in Bible language. If you be faithful.
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  Speaker 1: Over a few things, I'll make you ruler over many.
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  Speaker 1: If you think a few things are important, I'll make
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  Speaker 1: you ruler over big things. But until you value the
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  Speaker 1: role you play and the place I put you in,
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  Speaker 1: I can't give you anything else because you've got to
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  Speaker 1: learn excellence on your level. I had to stop and
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  Speaker 1: praise him for preaching big messages in little churches.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: For teaching great classes to crowds of three. Because until
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  Speaker 1: you learn to see what you're doing right now as
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  Speaker 1: a big thing, you can't have nothing else.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm preaching to in.
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  Speaker 1: Here, but God is about to promote you because you
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  Speaker 1: are excellent on your level.
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  Speaker 2: Slap seven people and just say.
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  Speaker 1: Promotion, promotion. Promotion, promotion only comes when you are excellent
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  Speaker 1: on your level. You never promote anybody until.
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  Speaker 2: They are excellent at their level.
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  Speaker 1: And when you get excellent at your level, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Have to fight for promotion.
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  Speaker 1: Promotion will fight for you. Ask your neighbor, say, are
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  Speaker 1: you excellent on your level? No, you stepping all over
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  Speaker 1: top of where you at trying to get to the
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  Speaker 1: next place and God is shutting the door because he's
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  Speaker 1: saying you haven't done everything you could do at the
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  Speaker 1: place you're at. But if you become excellent where you are,
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  Speaker 1: I'll promote you. Touch somebody and say, something's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in here this morning. Somebody's going to get a
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  Speaker 1: breakthrough in here this morning. Love the skin you're in.
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  Speaker 1: Love the child you've got. Love the man you're with.
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  Speaker 1: Love your own house. Love your apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Clean that sucker up. Dress it up where it is.
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  Speaker 2: And God will... Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a praise in the balcony?
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  Speaker 2: Praise Him up there! Praise Him over there!
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  Speaker 3: Praise Him over there!
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  Speaker 2: Let everything that.
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  Speaker 1: Have breath praise the Lord! Say it! I've got to
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  Speaker 1: stop there. This whole notion about being called is a
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  Speaker 1: big thing. Called, pulled, snatched, yanked, tugged into your destiny,
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  Speaker 1: into your eternal purpose. It has all the work to
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  Speaker 1: do with why I wrote this book, Destiny. Because destiny
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  Speaker 1: would not let me stay where my flesh wanted to
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  Speaker 1: keep me. He called me. He called you. He's calling
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  Speaker 1: us to, as the subtitle says, step into your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Get your hands on this book. Let's continue to grow
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  Speaker 1: into our destiny. rather than to give all of our
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  Speaker 1: time to our agony. God bless you. Take care. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to have to let you go.
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  Speaker 3: One of the nation's most sought-after faith leaders and quite
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  Speaker 3: possibly the smartest, Bishop Jakes has done it again. It's
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  Speaker 3: the book we've all been waiting for. New York Times
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  Speaker 3: bestselling author T.D. Jakes gives readers the inspiring push they
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  Speaker 3: need to say yes to destiny.
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  Speaker 1: There is more.
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  Speaker 2: What I needed to hear and what everybody needs to hear.
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  Speaker 4: Although you're being told no, still go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Not to sit and be complacent.
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  Speaker 3: Instinct is what drives you, but destiny is what draws you.
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  Speaker 3: An insightful follow-up to his number one bestseller, Instinct. Destiny
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  Speaker 3: shares secrets to fully engaging your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a whole load lifted off my back because
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  Speaker 1: now I know I'm walking in my purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Your destiny is yours.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Have you been doing what you had to do while
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  Speaker 3: missing what you were created to do? Destiny is written
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  Speaker 3: to connect what's in you with the purpose that awaits you.
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  Speaker 3: The first action step requires faith. Order Destiny today. Everywhere
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  Speaker 3: books are sold. Destiny awaits you. Will you take the
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  Speaker 3: first step?
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  Speaker 2: Promotion only comes when you are excellent on your level.
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  Speaker 1: You never promote anybody until they are excellent at their
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  Speaker 1: level and when you get excellent at your level you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to fight for promotion promotion will fight for
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  Speaker 2: You This is the potter's touch.