Latest / THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER / This is the Place - Part 2 - The Potter’s House of Dallas
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- 0:01Speaker 1: I'm tired of seeing stuff I can't have. I'm tired
- 0:05Speaker 1: of watching advertisements and stuff I can't buy. I'm tired
- 0:09Speaker 1: of the drunken sporting stuff I can't get into. I
- 0:12Speaker 1: don't want to see it if there's not a way
- 0:14Speaker 1: to reach it. God said, I wouldn't show it to
- 0:17Speaker 1: you and not drop a ladder down.
- 0:22Speaker 2: This is the part of.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Time Blessings and honor in the name of the Lamb
- 0:29Speaker 1: who was slain on the cross and risen from the dead.
- 0:31Speaker 1: I am Bishop T.B. Jackson, Senior Pastor of the Potter's House,
- 0:34Speaker 1: and it affords me a great pleasure to have this
- 0:36Speaker 1: opportunity to share the Word of the Lord with you
- 0:39Speaker 1: up close and personal in your house, in your residence,
- 0:42Speaker 1: in the place that you work, that you might be
- 0:44Speaker 1: infused with the electrifying power of God's Word. Our series
- 0:48Speaker 1: is called Open Doors. And this particular message I want
- 0:51Speaker 1: to open up before you, it is called This is
- 0:54Speaker 1: the Place. And it takes place on our campus in
- 0:57Speaker 1: Fort Worth. We have a potter's house now in Fort Worth.
- 1:00Speaker 1: We're spreading our wings and our Fort Worth people go
- 1:02Speaker 1: down there. And as we begin to share the word
- 1:06Speaker 1: in this newly consecrated place that the Lord has given
- 1:09Speaker 1: us to worship him in Fort Worth, I want you
- 1:11Speaker 1: to come into this dedicatorial service and experience not only
- 1:15Speaker 1: the greatness of God opening a door for us so
- 1:18Speaker 1: that we could spread out to multiple locations. But I
- 1:20Speaker 1: believe that same God is going to open a door
- 1:23Speaker 1: for you as you perceive, as you sense, as you
- 1:26Speaker 1: get the nudging and the prompting of the Holy Spirit
- 1:28Speaker 1: to understand when you are in the right place. Take
- 1:33Speaker 1: a look at this. You're going to be blessed. You
- 1:35Speaker 1: can't stop me from doing it. I'm going to set
- 1:38Speaker 1: it off. You're sneaky, but I'm still going to bless you.
- 1:42Speaker 1: You're tired, but I'm still going to bless you. Oh,
- 1:45Speaker 1: I'm about to feel like preaching now. I better stop.
- 1:48Speaker 1: You're confused, but I'm still going to bless you. You
- 1:51Speaker 1: made a mistake, but I'm still going to bless you.
- 1:53Speaker 1: You had a baby out of wedlock, but I'm still
- 1:56Speaker 1: going to bless you.
- 1:57Speaker 2: You've been straight out on drugs, but I'm still.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Going to bless you. And Jacob says, I shunned the
- 2:09Speaker 1: book of Shia. As he lay his head on the rock,
- 2:15Speaker 1: the heavens opened up.
- 2:18Speaker 2: When it said the heavens opened up.
- 2:20Speaker 1: That's when I realized this is not just a rock.
- 2:25Speaker 1: This rock is Jesus. Whenever you see a rock and
- 2:31Speaker 1: the heavens open up, then you know the rock is
- 2:35Speaker 1: not a rock. The rock has got to be Jesus.
- 2:45Speaker 1: You
- 2:48Speaker 1: don't understand. This rock, this rock is not just a rock.
- 2:51Speaker 2: This rock is Jesus.
- 2:54Speaker 1: This pillow will become the pillar. of your experience in God.
- 3:02Speaker 1: When you see it correctly, you can be it correctly, but.
- 3:07Speaker 2: You cannot be it if you just see it.
- 3:10Speaker 1: As a pillow. It's got to become a pillar of
- 3:13Speaker 1: your faith. This is the place. And the rock is Jesus.
- 3:21Speaker 1: And whenever you put your mind on the rock, the
- 3:26Speaker 1: heavens will always.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Open up.
- 3:31Speaker 2: How did you ever lay your head?
- 3:35Speaker 1: The Bible said, Thou wilt keep him at perfect peace
- 3:38Speaker 1: whose mind is stained on thee. And I dare you
- 3:42Speaker 1: to drag your weary head and lay it on the rock.
- 3:47Speaker 1: You lay it on the rock. The heavens is shocked.
- 3:56Speaker 1: The heavens... My God, I feel the anointing of the
- 3:59Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. The heavens will open up. Touch three people
- 4:03Speaker 1: and say something's about to open up for you, baby.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Something's about to open up. Don't give up.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Don't give in.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Don't give out. Something's about to open up for you.
- 4:15Speaker 2: You're in the right place.
- 4:17Speaker 1: You're at the right time. Ain't no time to give up.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Something is about to open up. If you believe it,
- 4:23Speaker 1: take 30 seconds to give God a crazy praise. I
- 4:28Speaker 1: need a ridiculous praise.
- 4:34Speaker 4: Praise him.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Not in your good place. Praise him in your hard place.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Praise him in your dark place. Praise him in your
- 4:45Speaker 1: confused place. Praise him in your weary place. That's what
- 4:52Speaker 1: God wants. God doesn't want the praise of these tutti
- 4:56Speaker 1: frutti people who have everything going right. God wants a
- 5:01Speaker 1: sacrifice of praise from somebody who spent the night laying
- 5:05Speaker 1: on a rock. Touch your neighbor and say, I got
- 5:16Speaker 1: this praise. You have the other one, but I got
- 5:19Speaker 1: this praise. Because I know what it is to praise
- 5:22Speaker 1: him in trouble. Amen. I know what it is to
- 5:25Speaker 1: praise him with your back up against the wall. I
- 5:27Speaker 1: know what it is to praise him when you can't
- 5:29Speaker 1: see your way clear. I know what it is to
- 5:31Speaker 1: praise him when you're tired and you want to quit
- 5:34Speaker 1: and you.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Say, don't he slay me.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Somebody who's been going through hell, touch your neighbor and
- 5:50Speaker 1: tell him I'm about to set it off in here.
- 5:54Speaker 1: If God wants a praise from a weary man, I'll
- 5:57Speaker 1: set it off in here. If God wants a praise
- 6:00Speaker 1: of somebody who's been to hell and back. Anyway. I
- 6:25Speaker 1: came all the way from Washington, D.C. Been flying all
- 6:31Speaker 1: morning to get here tonight to tell somebody something's about
- 6:35Speaker 1: to open up for you.
- 6:38Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Somebody who's been laying your head on the rock, something
- 6:44Speaker 1: is about to open up for you. Slap your neighbor
- 6:50Speaker 1: and say, this is the place. This is the place
- 6:54Speaker 1: where God shows himself strong. This is the place where
- 6:57Speaker 1: the devil gets off of my hind end. This is
- 7:00Speaker 1: the place where God proves I'm his child. This is
- 7:03Speaker 1: the place where the door opens for me. This is
- 7:06Speaker 1: the place where the yoke is broken. This is the
- 7:09Speaker 1: place where the enemy is destroyed. This is the place
- 7:12Speaker 1: where I get my testimony. This is the place where
- 7:16Speaker 1: the devil's back up.
- 7:17Speaker 5: This is the place.
- 7:20Speaker 1: Ow! Ow! Tell your neighbor, don't move.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Stay where you are.
- 7:34Speaker 5: This is the place.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Give him a wave of praise.
- 8:08Speaker 1: The heavens opened. That that was closed just opened up
- 8:15Speaker 1: for me. That that I couldn't see into just opened
- 8:21Speaker 1: up for me. That that exists in another realm Just
- 8:26Speaker 1: open up for me. That that exists in another dimension.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Let me stop, let me stop.
- 8:34Speaker 1: It just.
- 8:40Speaker 2: It just opened. It just opened. I didn't have to
- 8:46Speaker 2: push it. I didn't have to kick it. I didn't
- 8:51Speaker 2: have to trick it.
- 8:54Speaker 1: It just... who am I preaching to your next blessing
- 9:03Speaker 1: you ain't gonna have to work for it it's just
- 9:15Speaker 1: gonna baby when it opened the first thing that showed up.
- 9:22Speaker 3: Was not an angel it was a ladder A ladder
- 9:28Speaker 3: is a way. A ladder is a way.
- 9:37Speaker 1: A ladder is a bridge between where I am and
- 9:41Speaker 1: what I see. God said you can see something that
- 9:47Speaker 1: you can't reach, but if you stay where you are,
- 9:50Speaker 1: I'm going to drop a ladder down. I'm going to
- 9:53Speaker 1: close the gap between you and what you hope for.
- 9:59Speaker 6: Amen.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Once it opened, it's not enough for it to open
- 10:08Speaker 1: if I can't reach it. I'm tired of seeing stuff
- 10:13Speaker 1: I can't have. I'm tired of watching advertisements and stuff
- 10:17Speaker 1: that came back. I'm tired of the drunken sport and
- 10:21Speaker 1: stuff I can't get into. I don't want to see
- 10:23Speaker 1: it if there's not a way to reach it. God said,
- 10:26Speaker 1: I wouldn't show it to you and not drop a
- 10:29Speaker 1: ladder down.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Excuse me, I'm a little Pentecostal.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Oh, God. The reason I got to speaking was I
- 11:03Speaker 1: praise him for being the kind of God that.
- 11:07Speaker 2: When I couldn't reach him, he reached me.
- 11:12Speaker 1: .
- 11:22Speaker 7: Oh!
- 11:25Speaker 1: Oh! Oh-ho!
- 11:28Speaker 5: Oh-ho!
- 11:28Speaker 1: Oh-ho!
- 11:31Speaker 5: Oh-ho!
- 11:35Speaker 1: And the book said that when the ladder dropped down,
- 11:59Speaker 1: here come the messengers. That's what angels are. The messengers
- 12:06Speaker 1: sent from God. God got something to tell you. I
- 12:12Speaker 1: saw you in the dark. I saw you in your confusion.
- 12:24Speaker 1: I saw you in your crisis. I saw you in
- 12:30Speaker 1: your dilemma. I got a message for you. The interesting
- 12:37Speaker 1: thing to me was not just that the angels descended,
- 12:45Speaker 1: but that they also ascended. Here, he introduces to us
- 12:55Speaker 1: that he's going to set in place a cycle.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Come on.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Said this is not going to be a one-time experience.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I'm not just going to touch you and leave you,
- 13:15Speaker 1: but I'm going to set a cycle, a system that
- 13:20Speaker 1: perpetuates itself.
- 13:21Speaker 2: And all you got to do.
- 13:24Speaker 1: Is every time I send you a blessing, send me
- 13:28Speaker 1: back a praise.
- 13:34Speaker 3: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
- 13:37Speaker 1: Jacob says, I have found, listen to this, the gate
- 13:42Speaker 1: of heaven. And this is the place. Watch the demon run. Yeah!
- 14:03Speaker 1: I'm standing here with my friend and brother, Pastor Joel Osteen,
- 14:06Speaker 1: and we are so excited. Two Texans inviting you to Dallas, Texas.
- 14:11Speaker 8: I'm just inviting everybody to come along to Dallas. You know,
- 14:14Speaker 8: you're always looking for an excuse to get together. Why
- 14:16Speaker 8: not get together with other believers and get inspired in
- 14:19Speaker 8: your faith and have fun at the same time? There's
- 14:21Speaker 8: no better people to hang out with than Bishop.
- 14:23Speaker 1: TD and First Lady Sarita.
- 14:25Speaker 8: We're just going to bring a lot of our night
- 14:27Speaker 8: of hope there to MegaFest. We want other people to
- 14:30Speaker 8: join us as well, so... I don't know if I
- 14:32Speaker 8: can do it like you, but I can do it
- 14:34Speaker 8: my own way, so we're going to have fun.
- 14:35Speaker 1: It's going to work for you. It's going to work
- 14:37Speaker 1: for you, too. We want to invite you to Megafest
- 14:40Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas. We are taking Dallas over for Jesus.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Be there. If we were in Bible class, I would
- 14:54Speaker 1: really break down this system. It's what I like to
- 14:57Speaker 1: call the social order of heaven. It's when you operate
- 15:01Speaker 1: in another dimension. What one writer calls the general assembly
- 15:04Speaker 1: of the firstborn. Spirits of just men made perfect. It's
- 15:08Speaker 1: another dimension. That opens up to him. From this place.
- 15:15Speaker 1: This place. Was the gate. Into the next dimension. Y'all
- 15:23Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm talking about.
- 15:25Speaker 3: And so.
- 15:26Speaker 1: And I hasten to my close. Angels were ascending and descending.
- 15:40Speaker 1: And Jacob looked up. And he said, oh my God.
- 15:48Speaker 1: This is the place. God was here. And I knew
- 15:57Speaker 1: it not.
- 15:59Speaker 2: I was so busy. Looking at my circumstance.
- 16:06Speaker 1: I was so busy describing how I felt. I was
- 16:11Speaker 1: so caught up in my presence. That I did not
- 16:16Speaker 1: detect his presence. God was here. And I knew it not.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Imagine that. The congressman was here and I knew it.
- 16:30Speaker 1: The pastors were here and I knew it. The elders
- 16:33Speaker 1: and deacons were here and I knew it. My God,
- 16:37Speaker 1: my disciples were here and I knew it. How could
- 16:41Speaker 1: I know the presence of men and not know? The
- 16:47Speaker 1: invisible God. The invisible God. God was here and I
- 17:04Speaker 1: knew it not. Not God is here. He was here
- 17:09Speaker 1: before the heavens opened. He was here before the ladder fell.
- 17:13Speaker 1: He was here before the angels came. I knew it not.
- 17:20Speaker 1: And he says, give me this rock. Hold on to
- 17:29Speaker 1: this rock. This pillow shall be the pillar of my faith.
- 17:44Speaker 1: So he says, I'll call this place Bethel. It had
- 17:49Speaker 1: been called Luz heretofore, but I will call it Bethel,
- 17:52Speaker 1: which means house of God. For I have found that
- 17:56Speaker 1: God lives in hard places. I would say to this congregation.
- 18:06Speaker 2: That this.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Is a hard place. This city is a hard place.
- 18:27Speaker 1: This community is a hard place. And buying this building.
- 18:36Speaker 2: Hard place.
- 18:42Speaker 1: This is the house of God and I know it's
- 18:52Speaker 1: the house of God I know it's the house of
- 18:56Speaker 1: God I know it Marcus I know it I know
- 18:58Speaker 1: it because of how hard it was Jacob says, I
- 19:06Speaker 1: have found, listen to this, the gate of heaven. And
- 19:16Speaker 1: this is the place. Watch the demons run. Watch hell scatter.
- 19:42Speaker 1: Watch Satan scratch his.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Head for the gate of heaven.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Is always revealed in a hard place I came down
- 20:00Speaker 1: here to tell you in case there was any doubt
- 20:03Speaker 1: in your mind don't let the rock fool you this
- 20:10Speaker 1: It's the place. I won't weary you with any more
- 20:23Speaker 1: of my meanderings through the ramblings of my theological entanglements.
- 20:30Speaker 1: I won't bore you with my excessive exegetical view Of
- 20:41Speaker 1: the patriarchs of old. I just came. As a father
- 20:47Speaker 1: to a son. Tell you don't move. Don't run. Don't duck.
- 21:00Speaker 1: Don't hide. And whatever you do don't quit. Because I
- 21:07Speaker 1: declare on you. This right here. This is the place.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Where your destiny unfolds. Where your prophecies.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Come to pass. This is the place. Where the heavens
- 21:26Speaker 2: open up. This is the place. Where the yoke is destroyed.
- 21:32Speaker 1: This is. This is. This is. I I thought I
- 21:49Speaker 1: had poured all over but the last drop the last
- 22:00Speaker 1: drop the last drop is for you thou anointest my
- 22:09Speaker 1: head With oil.
- 22:13Speaker 7: My cup.
- 22:15Speaker 1: Run it over.
- 22:17Speaker 2: Surely. Goodness and mercy.
- 22:22Speaker 5: Shall follow me. All. All.
- 22:30Speaker 1: The days of my life. And I will dwell. In
- 22:36Speaker 1: the house of the Lord forever. Before I take my seat.
- 22:40Speaker 1: I want to ask you, come get this, I want
- 22:43Speaker 1: to ask you, congregation, if there is someone in this
- 22:48Speaker 1: room who's weary and tired of trying to work stuff
- 22:54Speaker 1: out on your own, there's somebody in this room who's
- 23:00Speaker 1: tired of laying in hard places and you need the
- 23:04Speaker 1: heavens to open up. If they're the back side of
- 23:08Speaker 1: the drifted away You need to operate in another dimension.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Don't you think that we came here over a building?
- 23:25Speaker 1: Don't you think we went through all of this trouble
- 23:28Speaker 1: and spent all of this money over real estate? We
- 23:34Speaker 1: came here because this is a gate. And I'm going
- 23:39Speaker 1: to open up this gate and everybody trapped is going
- 23:43Speaker 1: to come through this gate. Trapped by depression. Trapped by fear.
- 23:50Speaker 1: Trapped by pain. Trapped by abuse. Trapped by addictions. Trapped
- 23:56Speaker 1: by rejections. We didn't come here because we needed something
- 24:00Speaker 1: else to do. I got plenty to do up the
- 24:03Speaker 1: street from here. We came here to open up a gate.
- 24:09Speaker 1: This is the place where your life will change. Your
- 24:16Speaker 1: yoke will be destroyed. Your bondage will be removed. And
- 24:20Speaker 1: the captive will be set free. I've got to pause
- 24:25Speaker 1: for a moment, but I'll be back after this. masses
- 24:30Speaker 1: of people jumping in cars, filling up tanks full of gas,
- 24:33Speaker 1: trying to get away from what they perceive as an opposition.
- 24:37Speaker 1: You will see a few people running toward what everybody
- 24:42Speaker 1: else is running away from, because what is other people's
- 24:45Speaker 1: opposition is an opportunity. I see an open door.
- 24:50Speaker 9: Opportunity lies before me.
- 24:52Speaker 1: I've changed my views.
- 24:55Speaker 9: The gifts he laid within before time began gives me
- 24:58Speaker 9: the goods to win.
- 24:59Speaker 1: I see an open door. If he thought enough of
- 25:03Speaker 1: me to give me the opportunity, the least I can
- 25:08Speaker 1: do is to work that thing.
- 25:11Speaker 9: Others may run from what I run to. aligning my
- 25:14Speaker 9: purpose to his will. I attack like a warrior, scale
- 25:18Speaker 9: walls like a soldier, marching in line, never diverting the path.
- 25:21Speaker 1: I've done the math.
- 25:23Speaker 9: God is greater.
- 25:24Speaker 1: Because you handled the opportunity correctly, you were able to
- 25:28Speaker 1: move into the next dimension.
- 25:30Speaker 9: I have the ability, right, permission to enter in.
- 25:33Speaker 4: So look to the hills from which cometh your help.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Can you see?
- 25:36Speaker 9: Can you see your open doors?
- 25:39Speaker 6: Identify and seize your God-given opportunity for increase. For your
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- 25:53Speaker 6: God's Provision. Visit our website or call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today.
- 25:59Speaker 4: It's coming. The biggest family-friendly festival is back. Megafest 2013.
- 26:05Speaker 1: People are asking me, what is Megafest all about? Is
- 26:08Speaker 1: it a conference? Yes, it's a conference. But my God,
- 26:11Speaker 1: it's so much more. And it's festivity. It's fun. It's restaurants.
- 26:15Speaker 1: It's shopping. It's People of God relaxing. We've been through
- 26:18Speaker 1: the fire. We've been through the flood. We made it.
- 26:20Speaker 1: It's time to celebrate.
- 26:21Speaker 4: Bigger, better, grander than before. Three event-packed days for the
- 26:26Speaker 4: whole family.
- 26:26Speaker 1: All types of entertainment for your family, for your kids.
- 26:30Speaker 1: We've got material that men are going to need to
- 26:32Speaker 1: cause you to stand up and be powerful, be the
- 26:34Speaker 1: man that God has called you to be at manpower.
- 26:37Speaker 1: The woman, our Lucy, you already know. It's incredible. I
- 26:40Speaker 1: want you to put your family first. in a spiritual environment,
- 26:44Speaker 1: and show them that it's fun to be a Christian.
- 26:47Speaker 4: Megafest 2013. Get your tickets now. Visit mega-fest.com or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
- 26:54Speaker 1: We're throwing a party in Texas. You know what? We
- 26:57Speaker 1: do it big in Texas. I hate it, but I've
- 27:00Speaker 1: got to stop there. I'm out of time. I've got
- 27:01Speaker 1: to go. But I am excited to have this opportunity
- 27:04Speaker 1: to help direct you a little bit into your destiny,
- 27:07Speaker 1: into your path. I want you to continue to pray
- 27:09Speaker 1: for that great work that has broken out in Fort Worth.
- 27:12Speaker 1: We split our church and spread it out into three
- 27:14Speaker 1: locations and dispatched our members to go and take those
- 27:18Speaker 1: cities for the Lord. And I want you to lift
- 27:20Speaker 1: up the Potter's House in Fort Worth. And while you're praying,
- 27:22Speaker 1: know that we're praying for you and believing God with you.
- 27:24Speaker 1: Because God is not just opening doors for us. He's
- 27:28Speaker 1: opening doors for you. How you respond to that prompting,
- 27:31Speaker 1: that opening of that door determines what the next 10 years,
- 27:34Speaker 1: 20 years of your life is going to look like.
- 27:36Speaker 1: So we're praying for you that God's best may be
- 27:39Speaker 1: allocated and released into your life for such a time
- 27:42Speaker 1: as this. Know that we're praying for you. Know that
- 27:45Speaker 1: we've got your back. Know that we're believing God for you.
- 27:48Speaker 1: And finally, before I go, can I give you a
- 27:51Speaker 1: personal invitation? to join the masses of people that are
- 27:53Speaker 1: coming by plane, they're coming by cars, they're coming by bus.
- 27:57Speaker 1: I don't care if you've got to come on a skateboard.
- 27:58Speaker 1: You will not want to miss Mega Fest. It's going
- 28:01Speaker 1: to be the meeting that everybody's going to be talking
- 28:03Speaker 1: about for the next year. The power of God is
- 28:05Speaker 1: going to be falling like rain, and families are bringing
- 28:08Speaker 1: their family reunions, and we are going to just have
- 28:10Speaker 1: a good time. And Dallas, you will not want to
- 28:14Speaker 1: miss it. Be there. God bless you. Heaven smile upon you.
- 28:18Speaker 1: Check you out.
- 28:22Speaker 9: This is the part of searching.