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

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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're aching.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're aching.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're crying.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're lonely.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what God is making while you're suffering.
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  Speaker 1: But I declare unto you, he is making something. You
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  Speaker 1: can't always see what the master is doing. Only when
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  Speaker 1: we look back, then we see that God had a
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  Speaker 1: plan when all we had was pain. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: funniest thing to me is that poor people think that
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  Speaker 1: rich people don't get crushed. They think that if they
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  Speaker 1: had money, they'd have everything. But crushing is the one
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  Speaker 1: thing in the world that you can count on to
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  Speaker 1: be totally unbiased. It is not one bit prejudice. If
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  Speaker 1: you're white, you get crushed. If you're black, you get crushed.
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  Speaker 1: If you're young, you get crushed. If you're old, you
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  Speaker 1: get crushed. If you're female, you get crushed. If you're male,
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  Speaker 1: you get crushed. If you make a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: you get crushed. If you can't find a job, you
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  Speaker 1: get crushing. It's not prejudice. It comes to every person's life.
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  Speaker 1: We all experience seasons of death and desperation. Dreams dashed.
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  Speaker 1: Relationships crumble. Businesses fall. And it seems like you're going
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  Speaker 1: to die. Whether that business is a big corporate office
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  Speaker 1: bringing in billions of dollars, reporting to its shareholders, or
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a mom and pop shop, a dry cleaning service,
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  Speaker 1: or a cupcake shop, you go through changes. It is
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  Speaker 1: the crushing that gives you wisdom. You cannot buy wisdom
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  Speaker 1: in a store. You cannot get it in a jar.
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  Speaker 1: It is the crushing that gives you wisdom. It is
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  Speaker 1: Nelson Mandela. wrongfully in prison, shut up in a prison
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of an island for years, never knowing
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  Speaker 1: that while he was an inmate, having food shoved to
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  Speaker 1: him like a dog to eat off the ground, that
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  Speaker 1: he would be the president of South Africa. And if
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  Speaker 1: he had not endured the prison, he wouldn't make the presidency.
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  Speaker 1: It is the prison that created the presidency. That is
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  Speaker 1: what crushing is. It is the ability to endure the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of the vintner, for the vintner knows.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly where to crush you.
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  Speaker 1: I know Nelson Mandela would not have picked such an
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  Speaker 1: unsavory place to be president. Most presidents don't go to
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  Speaker 1: jail to be president. They go to Yale to be president.
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  Speaker 1: But Nelson Nelson went to jail and he still got there.
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  Speaker 1: You must believe that in spite of the suffering, you
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  Speaker 1: will still get there. That God has a watch and
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  Speaker 1: it never loses time. And he knows exactly when to
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  Speaker 1: raise you and exactly when to bring you out. And
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  Speaker 1: when the stage is set and the time is right,
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  Speaker 1: nobody can hold you down when God gets ready to
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  Speaker 1: raise you up. But the problem with a seed is
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  Speaker 1: that it can't think. So it doesn't understand the suffering
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  Speaker 1: and it doesn't understand the pain.
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  Speaker 2: And it can't hear me.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes the hardest part about being a preacher is
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  Speaker 1: that you want so much for the people to get it.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes the people who need it the most, they
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  Speaker 1: really don't really hear you. That you're on course when
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  Speaker 1: you're off course. That you're planted when you thought you
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  Speaker 1: were buried. That the only way up is to go down.
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  Speaker 1: That everything in the kingdom is backwards. That if you
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  Speaker 1: exalt yourself, he'll abase you. If you abase yourself, he'll
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  Speaker 1: exalt you. Death is necessary to create life. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I come that you might have life.
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  Speaker 2: And then dies. Because the cost of life was death.
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  Speaker 1: Death. Do you understand the words that are coming out
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  Speaker 1: of my mouth? That right now, those of you that
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  Speaker 1: are watching and those of you that are listening at
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  Speaker 1: me may be going through something that seems unbearable and
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  Speaker 1: painful and personal and difficult to articulate to anybody else
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  Speaker 1: because pain is always personal.
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  Speaker 2: How wrong, it's not right. It's not right.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't right for my daughter to be pregnant. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a bishop seen all over the country. It's not right
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  Speaker 1: for us to have a private moment in a public place.
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  Speaker 1: It's not right that my mother, who was the smartest
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  Speaker 1: person I have ever seen in my life, would gradually
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  Speaker 1: have her mind peeled back like an onion until she
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell a banana from an orange.
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  Speaker 2: It's not right.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it is necessary in order to cultivate in the vineyard,
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  Speaker 1: you have to disrupt the soil. You have to turn
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  Speaker 1: it over. You have to disrupt everything around it. You
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  Speaker 1: have to pull some weeds sometimes. You got to uproot
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  Speaker 1: some plants. You have to cause this evil in order
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  Speaker 1: to get where you want to go. And it's messy
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  Speaker 1: and it's dirty and it's not right. But it's necessary.
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  Speaker 1: And we feel pain. And sometimes it's pain we don't
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  Speaker 1: even have anybody to talk to about. Private secret pain,
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  Speaker 1: pain locked up behind your lips, pain behind your makeup,
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  Speaker 1: pain behind your nice clothes. Sometimes you dress up to
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  Speaker 1: hide so nobody can see how deep down inside you're hurting.
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  Speaker 1: Intimacy is intimacy, and yet nobody sees intimacy. And so
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  Speaker 1: I paint this face of who you think I am
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  Speaker 1: and smile the way you want me to smile, and
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  Speaker 1: I perform for you, and that's the only reason I
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  Speaker 1: get tired of you. Because I yearn to take the
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  Speaker 1: mask off and be who I really am and say
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  Speaker 1: I am confused and I am hurting and I am suffering.
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  Speaker 1: And this crushing feels like death. The death of my
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  Speaker 1: ideas is a birthing place of his purpose. God works
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  Speaker 1: in crushing. And it pleased him to bruise him. It
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  Speaker 1: pleased God. to bruise us, not because he is sadistic,
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  Speaker 1: not because we are masochistic. It pleases him to bruise
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  Speaker 1: us because he knows that the end result will put
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  Speaker 1: us in a state where we can no longer ferment,
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  Speaker 1: where we can handle a setback, a disappointment, where we
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  Speaker 1: can handle a hurt. See, wine doesn't spoil. It'll last
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  Speaker 1: for years and years and years in the dark, in
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  Speaker 1: the basement, in the cellar, because it's been through enough
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  Speaker 1: crushing to endure time. And you can tell when a
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  Speaker 1: person has been crushed because they are survivors. People who
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  Speaker 1: have been crushed are survivors. When my church emptied out
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  Speaker 1: and we were going through COVID and I had to
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  Speaker 1: preach in an empty building by myself, it was no
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  Speaker 1: problem because I started preaching in an empty building. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't need people in order to do what God
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  Speaker 1: called me to do. I don't need plots. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need clapping. I don't need shouting. I don't need dancing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need an organ. All I need is what's
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  Speaker 1: in me. If God is inside of you, all crushing
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  Speaker 1: will do is push him out. And might I had
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  Speaker 1: this final remark, if Satan were smart, he would never push.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you never pushed me, I wouldn't secrete the glory.
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  Speaker 1: If you never pushed me, I would have never found
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  Speaker 1: out who I was. If you never pushed me, I
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  Speaker 1: would have never found out what I could do. If
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  Speaker 1: you never pushed me, I would have never found out
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  Speaker 1: what I could be. But the more we are afflicted,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, the more we grow. So if you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're being afflicted and if you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you're dying and if you feel like he's pushing on you,
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  Speaker 1: hang in there. The best is yet to come. Now
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  Speaker 1: unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above
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  Speaker 1: all that we may ask or think according to the
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  Speaker 1: power that works in us simply means that the seed
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know what it's becoming. If he's able to do
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  Speaker 1: exceedingly abundantly above all that we may ask or think,
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  Speaker 1: that means we have no idea what he's making when
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  Speaker 1: he's making us. And the seed doesn't know what the
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  Speaker 1: vintner is doing He just has to trust him. Constricted
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  Speaker 1: to his methods. Imprisoned by his purpose. Locked up in
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  Speaker 1: a situation where you just have to trust him. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't wake up the person you see today. Not by
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  Speaker 1: a long shot. Nowhere close. If you would have met
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  Speaker 1: me at 18 and told me that I would end
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  Speaker 1: up being this, I would have laughed in your face.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd have told me at 16 that I would
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  Speaker 1: end up here, all of my neighbors would have laughed
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  Speaker 1: at you. My classmates would have laughed in your face.
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  Speaker 1: I was a ratchet little boy, but I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what God was making. I thought I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a musician, but I didn't know what God was making.
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  Speaker 1: But little by little, step by step, day by day,
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  Speaker 1: situation by situation, he was leading me into my purpose
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  Speaker 1: and destiny. Not only by the doors that open, but
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  Speaker 1: by the doors that close. From humble beginnings. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we were Poe. Poe is when you cannot afford the oar.
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  Speaker 1: Laughter My idea of rich people were people who had
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  Speaker 1: grass in their yards. Rich people were people who had
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  Speaker 1: air conditioning. And a doorbell meant you were wealthy. Just
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  Speaker 1: a doorbell. I couldn't imagine having a doorbell with the
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  Speaker 1: chimes that ring and the little things that hunt down.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. I saw them on TV. What I
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  Speaker 1: had was a raggedy screen door that was cut down
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom and a sunken porch where the concrete
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  Speaker 1: had rotted out of the middle of it. And I
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  Speaker 1: had to step over to come into the house. And
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't fasten the screen door, it'd swing open.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I came from. But I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what God was making. And it was necessary that I
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  Speaker 1: come from there because of the heights he would take
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  Speaker 1: me to. I would never have to question in myself
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  Speaker 1: why I do what I do. Because I did it broke.
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  Speaker 1: And I did it lonely. And I did it with
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  Speaker 1: no money. And I did it with no car. And
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  Speaker 1: I did it with my lights off. And I did
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  Speaker 1: it in the crushing. So that now as he begins
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  Speaker 1: to bring me into my senior years, I can see
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  Speaker 1: God doing things with me that I never imagined possible.
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  Speaker 1: That I would be sitting across from Oprah Winfrey on
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  Speaker 1: her show was something I never asked for. That I
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  Speaker 1: would sit down with the CEO of AT & T,
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  Speaker 1: then Randall Stephenson, and have a discussion about equity is
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  Speaker 1: something that I couldn't imagine. AT & T? That I
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  Speaker 1: would be closing on property right next to Tyler Perry Studios?
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  Speaker 2: It's got grass. I mean, this guy really grasped that.
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  Speaker 1: I would write books that were translated into multiple languages
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  Speaker 1: around the world. Woman That Are Loose has been translated
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  Speaker 1: into 12 different languages. They say it's Japanese, I can't
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  Speaker 1: read it, but I trust that that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mandarin, and in Chinese I can't read it, but
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  Speaker 1: I trust that that's what it is. That that would
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  Speaker 1: come out of a guy who was just writing short
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  Speaker 1: stories in the eighth grade, I can't understand it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're aching. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're aching. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're crying. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're lonely. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know what God is making while you're suffering. But
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  Speaker 1: I declare unto you, he is making something. You may
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  Speaker 1: feel dislocated. You may feel dislodged. You can't always see
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  Speaker 1: what the master is doing. Only when we look back,
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  Speaker 1: Then we see that God had a plan when all
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  Speaker 1: we had was pain. God had a plan. I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea that my daughter getting pregnant, I hated it.
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  Speaker 1: It hurt. It's not about embarrassment. It wasn't about image.
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  Speaker 1: It was my baby girl. It was about her future,
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  Speaker 1: about her destiny. And I thought this is a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: This is wrong. This is wrong. This can't happen. This
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  Speaker 1: can't happen to us. And now when she stands up
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  Speaker 1: in the pulpit and preach, I realize that if she
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  Speaker 1: hadn't have gotten pregnant, she wouldn't have been the person
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  Speaker 1: that she became. And that going backwards is what drove
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  Speaker 1: her forward. And that God was smarter than I was.
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  Speaker 1: And he knows exactly what to take to bring you
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  Speaker 1: to the place that he can get out of you,
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  Speaker 1: what he wants out of you. And he doesn't care
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  Speaker 1: whether you're embarrassed or not. And he doesn't care whether
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  Speaker 1: people talk about you or not. He doesn't care what
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  Speaker 1: they think about you. He only cares that he gets
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  Speaker 1: out of you what he put inside of you. he
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  Speaker 1: will take you from seed to bearing fruit and you
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  Speaker 1: don't get to choose the method he uses you don't
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  Speaker 1: get to pick the tool that he cuts you with
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  Speaker 1: it may have been your first relationship it may have
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  Speaker 1: been a rape it may have been childhood abuse but
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  Speaker 1: it shapes something in you as horrific as it was
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  Speaker 1: that made you self-reliant and able to stand. And when
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  Speaker 1: you got through crying about it, you woke up a
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  Speaker 1: tougher woman than you were a girl. Does anybody know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about? The thing I love the most
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  Speaker 1: about him.
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  Speaker 2: Is that God never gives up on you.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't wait till you're in the bad place and
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  Speaker 1: then walk out like people do. Because people are great
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  Speaker 1: when you're up. But when you're down, they'll run out.
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  Speaker 1: When you're weak, they'll run out. When you make mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: they'll run out. And the church is masterful, masterful at
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  Speaker 1: killing its wounded.
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  Speaker 2: It's masterful at that.
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  Speaker 1: We have no real method to really restore our wounded,
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  Speaker 1: especially when they're talented. So we shoot them for being
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  Speaker 1: too much like us. And there is no place to recover.
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  Speaker 1: But just because man is through with you does not
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  Speaker 1: mean that God is through with you. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who I'm talking to today, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody. Just because man has turned his
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  Speaker 1: back and found out something about you and said you're
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  Speaker 1: nobody doesn't mean that God is through with you because
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  Speaker 1: whatever they found out, God already knew. You have never
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  Speaker 1: surprised God. You have never shocked God. You have never
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  Speaker 1: left God scratching his head. So stop being frustrated because
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  Speaker 1: he never, ever gives up on you and that is crushing.
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  Speaker 1: The uniqueness of being a human is the senses that
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  Speaker 1: God has equipped us with to be able to be
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  Speaker 1: in touch with the world. I know I'm alive because
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  Speaker 1: I see, I smell, I touch, I feel my senses.
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  Speaker 1: And the very thing that he equipped me with that
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  Speaker 1: is unique that makes me able to survive even in
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  Speaker 1: the jungle of life is also the thing that gives
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  Speaker 1: me discomfort when my situation changes. And we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: dirty places. And we've talked about disruptive places. And we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about discomfort. But we have not talked about smelly places.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the discomfort of dung. The
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  Speaker 1: things that God uses to fertilize you. Smell. and they
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  Speaker 1: smell bad. The rubbish, the refuse, the dung is what
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  Speaker 1: the vine dresser uses to make mulch. It's what he
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  Speaker 1: puts all around you when he really wants you to
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  Speaker 1: grow tall and strong and fruitful. He puts stink all
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  Speaker 1: around you. And you can't buy enough cologne to cover
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  Speaker 1: it up. Because when it stinks, it stinks. A marriage
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  Speaker 1: that stinks, stinks. A bad relationship with your child stinks.
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  Speaker 1: It stinks in public. It stinks with the principal. It
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  Speaker 1: stinks in school. It stinks in prison. It stinks in jail.
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  Speaker 1: It stinks in court. It stinks. God uses stinkyy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You must realize that God uses those things so that
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  Speaker 1: we will become what he has created for us to be.
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  Speaker 1: That out of that, the nutrients that are necessary come
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  Speaker 1: from the stink we've been in. And if you can
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  Speaker 1: endure through your senses, the discomfort of the aroma, eventually
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  Speaker 1: God is going to get something fragrant out of the
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  Speaker 1: funk you've been in. Their fragrance would come from fog.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to explain, but it's true. It is true, nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: that some kind of way that stability would come out
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  Speaker 1: of being stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Stuck. I love the commercial where the woman falls down
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. She's an old lady and she says, help.
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  Speaker 2: I've fallen.
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  Speaker 1: I've fallen. And I can't get up because somebody watching
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  Speaker 1: me right now, you've fallen and you can't get up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you holler help, God will get some glory
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  Speaker 1: out of the funk you're in, the pain you're in,
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  Speaker 1: the disgrace you're in, the discomfort you're in, the crisis
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  Speaker 1: you're in, the turmoil you're in. You will rise again
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  Speaker 1: In the words of Maya Angelou, and still I rise.
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  Speaker 1: Look back over your life at how many things tried
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  Speaker 1: to crush you, and still I rise. We don't clap
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  Speaker 1: for ourselves. We are so busy complaining about where we
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  Speaker 1: have not gotten to that we don't acknowledge where we
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  Speaker 1: have come from. And every now and then you need
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  Speaker 1: to throw yourself a party and put a hat on
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  Speaker 1: your head and blow a whistle and bake yourself a
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  Speaker 1: cake and put some candles on it and light it
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate the fact that you have survived the funk.