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I ALMOST QUIT ft TD Jakes Motivational Speech 2020 · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: I almost quit. I'm a country boy. I'm from West Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know nothing about this big time stuff. I just,
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  Speaker 2: I never even asked to be big. I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be effective, not famous. Famous is the consequences of being effective.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know nothing about being famous and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: like it. And so there I was. And when you
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  Speaker 2: first knew Everybody attacks you first and figures you out later.
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  Speaker 2: And the first time I was in the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 2: the article was so vicious it made me nauseous. I
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  Speaker 2: was so shocked that you could say that stuff about
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  Speaker 2: somebody you didn't even know based on assumptions and a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of this and a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 2: They piece it all together and you don't get the
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  Speaker 2: same thing back. So I decided I don't want this.
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  Speaker 2: I was preaching for Pastor Bishop Donnie Mears, and nobody
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  Speaker 2: knew it because preachers can override their feelings and function.
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  Speaker 2: I preached places on fire, but inside I wanted to quit.
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  Speaker 2: I told God, I'm through with this. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: through this. I don't need this. See, I don't need that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a guy who likes to go get his own
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  Speaker 2: chicken wings. I don't have to have all of that
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  Speaker 2: stuff to be happy. So I thought, I'm not doing
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  Speaker 2: this no more. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing this because I don't need this and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't ask for this. I'm only doing this because
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  Speaker 2: of what happened in my life, of the circumstances that
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  Speaker 2: happened in my life. He put me on stage. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't ask for it. And when I saw how much
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  Speaker 2: it cost, I thought, you can have that right back here.
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  Speaker 2: You can have that right back up in here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need it. So I was mad inside and
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  Speaker 1: I was hurt.
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  Speaker 2: And I stayed up in the fellowship with the pastors
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  Speaker 2: because I didn't want to go back to my room
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  Speaker 2: and sulk in my own sorrows. And they said, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lady down the stairs waiting to see you. The
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  Speaker 2: service was over and the fellowship was over. The pastor
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  Speaker 2: was starting to leave. I was trying to outweigh her.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she'd give up and leave. And when I
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  Speaker 2: finally came down the steps, she was there. And she
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  Speaker 2: was just a willowy bit of a woman. And.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Bishop Jakes.
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  Speaker 3: She said, I've been in the hospital. She said, I
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  Speaker 3: was pregnant in my fallopian tubes. And the baby died
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  Speaker 3: in my tubes. And I was carrying around a dead baby.
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  Speaker 3: And the toxicity from the baby almost killed me. And
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  Speaker 3: she said, the only thing that kept me alive.
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  Speaker 1: Was hearing you preach.
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  Speaker 2: She said, if you hadn't have been preaching to me
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  Speaker 2: every day, I swear I would have died. And then
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  Speaker 2: she looked at me and she said, it's for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's for us. It hit me so hard. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even get her name. I got in the car and
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  Speaker 2: cried all the way back to my room. Because she
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  Speaker 2: reminded me.
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  Speaker 1: Why I was there.
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  Speaker 2: Last week when I texted you, I was up in
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore in D.C. And I was doing a book signing.
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  Speaker 2: And this woman came up to the table to buy
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  Speaker 2: a sword. She said, you don't remember me, do you?
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  Speaker 1: I said, no.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't even look like the same person. She's all
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  Speaker 2: dressed up and gained weight. She said, I met you
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  Speaker 2: in the bottom of.
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  Speaker 1: Donnie Mears' church years ago. And I burst into tears.
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  Speaker 1: I lost it.
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  Speaker 2: I stopped signing. And I jumped up and hugged her.
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  Speaker 2: If it were not for that woman,