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The Power of Being Fully Committed to God · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on the potter's touch it's.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong for you to think that you're gonna give an
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  Speaker 2: offering and god's gonna bless a business you ain't committed
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  Speaker 2: to bless a marriage you ain't committed to bless you
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  Speaker 2: in school and you won't study bless you as a
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  Speaker 2: saint of god and you won't walk like a saint
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  Speaker 2: of god who do you think god is somebody playing
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  Speaker 2: in vegas god is not hitting a slot machine God
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  Speaker 2: is a guaranteed, definite, I am the mighty God. Oh, sure,
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  Speaker 2: bless you. He told Abraham, I swear I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: bless you. Hello, everybody. I'm so glad to have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to be blessed to be in your home and
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of your life and to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you just very practically today out of the word
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  Speaker 2: of God. I believe it's going to bless you. We
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  Speaker 2: all want changes. We want changes. We want changes over
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  Speaker 2: here and over there. In some area of our lives,
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  Speaker 2: we want God to do something. But without commitment, nothing
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  Speaker 2: really happens. So today, we're going to talk about commitment.
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  Speaker 2: Buckle your seatbelts. You're in for a ride. Commitment. Levi
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  Speaker 2: means to be joined, to be connected, to be focused,
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  Speaker 2: to be committed. That is something we don't see anymore. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we have the ceremonies. We still have weddings, but people
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  Speaker 2: don't get married anymore. I mean, even the people in
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  Speaker 2: the wedding, the bride and the groom, we throw rice
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  Speaker 2: at them. We give them a certificate, but they don't
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  Speaker 2: get married. They move in together, they get the tax deduction,
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  Speaker 2: but they're not married. They're not joined together because the
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  Speaker 2: first little wind, the first little storm, the first little problem,
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  Speaker 2: the first little weakness, the first little test, they are
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  Speaker 2: out of there. They have no root. They have no connectivity.
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  Speaker 2: They are not joined. They are not committed. They don't
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  Speaker 2: have it in their character to withstand anything. They are
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  Speaker 2: only there for convenience. And when they don't see the
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  Speaker 2: convenience of the connection, they forsake the responsibility and walk
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  Speaker 2: away from their commitment. We seldom see real church members.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen people come. If everybody who joined this church
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  Speaker 2: came one Sunday, it would kill us. They come down here.
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  Speaker 2: They sashay down here. They walk over there. They get
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  Speaker 2: all of the stuff. They go through the little orientation,
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  Speaker 2: shake the hand. And some of them people, you never
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  Speaker 2: see them again. We go through the actions of commitment,
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  Speaker 2: but we're not really committed. We're not really connected. We're
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  Speaker 2: not really joined. Because we have no understanding, check this,
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  Speaker 2: of our responsibility to any relationship. Write this down. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot have relationship without reciprocity. You cannot have true relationship
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  Speaker 2: without reciprocity. You cannot get into a relationship to get...
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  Speaker 2: and not give. And I want you to ask yourself,
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  Speaker 2: do you give as good as you get? Add up
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  Speaker 2: what you're getting and weigh it against what you're giving
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  Speaker 2: and then you will know whether you're really joined to anything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: people are coming to work. They take a job. They're
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  Speaker 2: not committed to the job. They want the check. They
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  Speaker 2: want the check. Well, everybody wants some money, baby. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to say it again. Everybody wants some money, baby.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just here for the check. That's why it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to work for you. You don't understand the reciprocity.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody wants some money. But if you're not willing to
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  Speaker 2: give at least as good as you get, it will
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  Speaker 2: not last. And that's why you can't stay anywhere or
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  Speaker 2: work for anybody because you've never had Levi. You may
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  Speaker 2: have had Reuben. You might have had Simeon, but you've
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  Speaker 2: never been joined to anything. So you've had, you collect anniversaries.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a lot of birthdays. You've got some plaques
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  Speaker 2: on the wall, but you've never been the person that
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  Speaker 2: you could be because the could be is locked up
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  Speaker 2: behind commitment. And until you're committed, you'll never get the
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  Speaker 2: could be. I'm glad the choir sung you're happy. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to worry about preaching you're happy. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I thought to myself? I thought I would hate
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  Speaker 2: to live and die and never know what would happen
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  Speaker 2: if I ever committed myself to anything. Some people have
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  Speaker 2: never thrown their whole self at nothing, not at school,
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  Speaker 2: not at work, not at marriage, not at church. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, you've had one foot in and one foot
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  Speaker 2: out of every dream all of your life, and you've
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  Speaker 2: never seen what you could be if you ever really
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  Speaker 2: connected and threw everything. And that's what's going to make
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  Speaker 2: your death so sad That's what's going to make it
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  Speaker 2: so sad is that you never live first. You never
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  Speaker 2: fully engage. You never fully studied. You never fully invested
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  Speaker 2: in anything or anybody. You want to get something that
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  Speaker 2: you are not willing to give. You have never been joined.
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  Speaker 2: You just wore the dress, got the plaque. They threw
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  Speaker 2: the rice. You joined the church. You took the job.
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  Speaker 2: But you've never seen what you could be if you
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  Speaker 2: threw your whole self at your dream. You go to
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  Speaker 2: this church, but you're not joined. If you don't have reciprocity,
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  Speaker 2: you're not joined. If you're not really bought into it,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't really feel like it's my church, well,
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  Speaker 2: I come here because I get a word, reciprocity. What
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  Speaker 2: do you give back for what you get? Without reciprocity,
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  Speaker 2: no relationship will ever reach its apex because you're not
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  Speaker 2: fully invested in anything you do. So you catch some
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  Speaker 2: crumbs that fall from the master's table, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: get the children's bread. You get the puppy dog blessing
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  Speaker 2: that comes from being in the right place at the
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  Speaker 2: right time because you are not joined into the connectivity
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  Speaker 2: that produces the real blessing of God in your life.
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  Speaker 2: And you're getting older. and you're running out of time,
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  Speaker 2: and running out of excuses, and running out of people
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  Speaker 2: to blame, wonder what would have happened in school if
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  Speaker 2: you'd been committed. Wonder what would have happened in your
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  Speaker 2: marriage if you'd been committed. Wonder what would have happened
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  Speaker 2: in your church if you'd have really thrown your whole self.
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  Speaker 2: You've always been casual and never been committed. And some
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  Speaker 2: of the most casual people are talented people. Because talented
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  Speaker 2: people will lay on their talent and use their talent
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  Speaker 2: as a camouflage to cover up their lack of commitment.
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  Speaker 2: And because you're talented enough to be able to float
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  Speaker 2: by on broken pieces, you will fool an indiscriminate eye
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  Speaker 2: into thinking that you are committed. You're not committed, you're
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  Speaker 2: just talented. You'll never know what you could have been
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  Speaker 2: if you would have really committed yourself. You're just talented
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  Speaker 2: enough to get over. And you faked them out. And
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  Speaker 2: you've been at 30 or 60 fold when you were
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  Speaker 2: created to be a hundred fold person. I just think
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  Speaker 2: it would be terrible. I can't be committed to everything.
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  Speaker 2: I can't join everything. I can't be married to a
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  Speaker 2: thousand women. I can't work a thousand jobs. I can't
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  Speaker 2: join five churches because I take my commitment too seriously
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  Speaker 2: to spread it around loosely. Your life is a false advertisement.
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  Speaker 2: Four color big glossy ad. promising product you don't carry
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  Speaker 2: in your inventory. You'd be shocked how many people sitting
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  Speaker 2: out there who can really sing, but they're unwilling to
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  Speaker 2: make the commitment to make the rehearsals and do what
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  Speaker 2: it takes to be up front. And so they sit
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  Speaker 2: there on their talent and they won't do for God
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  Speaker 2: what they are asking God to do for them. And
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  Speaker 2: they wonder why their plans are not answered. Amen. Just
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  Speaker 2: three people say commitment, commitment, commitment. You take a half-committed
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  Speaker 2: man and a half-committed trifling woman and put them together
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  Speaker 2: and they'll have some half-committed trifling kids and the whole
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  Speaker 2: house will be half-committed because children will be what they see.
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  Speaker 2: Stop fussing at your kids. They're a reflection of you.
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  Speaker 2: Your whole life is a facade. The whole thing is
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  Speaker 2: a fake. The whole thing is a front. Your whole
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  Speaker 2: life is a camouflage suit. And now you're getting older
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  Speaker 2: and you'll never get to see what you could have
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  Speaker 2: been because the cost of getting to see it is
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  Speaker 2: a commitment that you've never been willing to pay. You're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get somebody to fall in love with a
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  Speaker 2: you that you've never discovered yourself. You come to the
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  Speaker 2: altar and you raise your hand and you say, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I give myself to you, but you don't. You walk
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  Speaker 2: down here and join the church and you say, now
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  Speaker 2: I'm a member of the church, but you're not. You
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  Speaker 2: marry somebody and say, you can count on me. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be there through the thick and the thin for better,
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  Speaker 2: for worse, for richer and poorer and sickness and health.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't mean it. Half studied, half worked. Half labored
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  Speaker 2: and then wonder why I thought I'd be further than
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  Speaker 2: I am at the age. Let me tell you why
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  Speaker 2: you are not further. It is not the devil. It
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  Speaker 2: is not witches. It is not demons. And it's sure
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  Speaker 2: God ain't haters. You are not any further than where
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  Speaker 2: you are right now because you have never thrown your
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  Speaker 2: whole self at anything in your life. And you think
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  Speaker 2: greatness goes on sale. But true quality never goes unsaid.
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  Speaker 2: Greatness costs what it costs. Oh my God, help me
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  Speaker 2: in here today. I feel something about to take over
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  Speaker 2: this place. Somebody in this church is ready to receive
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  Speaker 2: this word. You're ready to get your breakthrough. My God,
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  Speaker 2: I feel a miracle coming in this place today. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had a hundred people that would give God
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  Speaker 2: a praise. He told Abraham, I swear I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: bless you. Ain't no chance, ain't no doubt, ain't no
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  Speaker 2: joke about it. If I told you I was going
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  Speaker 2: to bless you, I will open up the windows of.
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  Speaker 3: Hell and heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Still to come on The Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 2: I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in
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  Speaker 2: any area of their life until they had suffered and
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  Speaker 2: sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through
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  Speaker 2: tears and trials and tests. And if you have a
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  Speaker 2: dream and you commit to it, it will come to pass.
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  Speaker 2: Go the vision, Terry. Wait for it.
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  Speaker 1: A harvest starts with a small seed.
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  Speaker 2: If he showed the orchard, everybody would snatch it. So
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  Speaker 2: he'll hide it in a seed. If you be faithful
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  Speaker 2: over a few things.
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  Speaker 1: For your gift of any size, you will receive this
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  Speaker 1: stirring message. These are they on CD from the series
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  Speaker 1: Seeds of Greatness.
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  Speaker 2: There's a king in you. There's a victor in you.
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  Speaker 2: 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 Series Seeds of Greatness on four DVDs.
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  Speaker 2: If you take good seed and you plant it in
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  Speaker 2: good ground, it's only a matter of time before harvest
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  Speaker 2: breaks out.
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  Speaker 1: However, for your gift of $ 120 or more, we'll.
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  Speaker 3: Also include Seeds for Good Soil, encouraging words from Bishop's
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  Speaker 3: heart to yours, as well as Bishop's timeless book, 64
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  Speaker 3: lessons for life without limits. Plant the seeds of God's
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  Speaker 3: word today and your harvest will be on its way.
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  Speaker 2: Your first commitment is to God. Your second commitment is
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  Speaker 2: to family. Your second commitment is to family. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a very important commitment. It's a very important commitment. You
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  Speaker 2: better be committed or you ain't going to make it.
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  Speaker 2: If you can only love me when you like me,
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  Speaker 2: we ain't going to make it. Because sooner or later,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to pluck your last nerve. Then say, how
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  Speaker 2: you like me now? It's to your family. Crazy as
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  Speaker 2: they are. If you're not committed, you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: make it. Even the ones with the personalities you don't like.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be committed. Through the storm and the
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  Speaker 2: rain and the heartache and the pain and the disappointment,
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  Speaker 2: you have to believe in the we and the us
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  Speaker 2: and not the me and the you. Or you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to make it. It's a commitment. It's not a feeling.
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  Speaker 2: You got to come home when you're in love and
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  Speaker 2: you got to come home when you're not in love
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  Speaker 2: or you're not going to make it and stay there
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  Speaker 2: until the love comes back. It's a commitment. Y'all don't
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  Speaker 2: want to hear real truth. You want to hear fairytale
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood shake and bake stuff. But in reality, it's a commitment.
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  Speaker 2: You're my son in my house. You're my son when
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  Speaker 2: you took the money. You're my son in the hog pen.
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  Speaker 2: You're my son in the whorehouse. You're my son on
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  Speaker 2: the road back home. It's a commitment. And if you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to be committed, you don't need no kids.
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  Speaker 2: Commitment to God. Number two, commitment to family. Number three,
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  Speaker 2: commitment to your church. I've never seen anything like this
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  Speaker 2: generation today. They don't commit to anything at all. You're
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  Speaker 2: lucky if you see them again after they join. And
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  Speaker 2: if you do see them, it's only going to be
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  Speaker 2: on Sundays. And don't talk too long because they got
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  Speaker 2: to go. Forget Sunday night. Wednesday night's out of the question.
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  Speaker 2: We'll hear about the revival next Sunday. We sacrifice nothing
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  Speaker 2: for our church. We will serve nowhere. And yet, is
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  Speaker 2: Bishop preaching? Yeah, it's bishop preaching because it's all about
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  Speaker 2: what I can get and nothing about what I can give.
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  Speaker 2: And if I think I'm not going to get what
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  Speaker 2: I expect to get, I won't even show up because
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  Speaker 2: I have a give me mentality. I never came to give. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I lost y'all on that. I lost the whole house
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  Speaker 2: on that. Because you consider with great contemplation where you
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  Speaker 2: can go to be fed, that's good. But where's the reciprocity?
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  Speaker 2: What do you give for all that you got? Any
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  Speaker 2: relationship that does not have reciprocity will not last. If
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  Speaker 2: I'm always the one giving and always the one sacrificing,
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  Speaker 2: always the one pushing myself over the limit to be
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  Speaker 2: there for you. And I don't see that in return.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually my patience will wither. My hope will die and
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  Speaker 2: I will give up. Any relationship that has no real
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  Speaker 2: reciprocity will die. Strong people will keep giving to you
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  Speaker 2: a long time. Eventually, when they don't see it coming
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  Speaker 2: back in similar capacity, they will eventually become convinced that
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  Speaker 2: the investment does not warrant a return. I tell you
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  Speaker 2: before you lose again, if you don't learn to give
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  Speaker 2: like you learn to get, Every area that there is
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  Speaker 2: not reciprocity, it will die. If I had time, I'd
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  Speaker 2: take you all through the ecological system. It's not just biblical.
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  Speaker 2: It's ecological. It's science. It's everything. Anything that takes more
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  Speaker 2: than it gives will eventually destroy the soil. I will
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  Speaker 2: show you how God commanded the farmer to let the
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  Speaker 2: ground rest because you have to put something back in,
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  Speaker 2: something that you're taking, something out of. See, somebody has
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  Speaker 2: never taught you how to give. They teach you how
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  Speaker 2: to take. Are you demanding more of your God or
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  Speaker 2: of your family or of your church than you give.
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  Speaker 2: Because any area that you expect more than you invest,
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  Speaker 2: you will live in a perpetual state of disappointment. You're
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  Speaker 2: committed to God. Number two, you're committed to your family.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get through this. that should be the
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  Speaker 2: language you approach your family with we will get through
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  Speaker 2: this we may have to bunk up we may have
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  Speaker 2: to move in together we may have to put our
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  Speaker 2: backs up against each other we may have to both
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  Speaker 2: get part time jobs we may have to come out
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  Speaker 2: sideways but we will get through this When you get me,
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  Speaker 2: you get help. If I walk in the room, help
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  Speaker 2: came in the room. I'm going to add something to you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to add something to you. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: add something to you. I will not take something from
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  Speaker 2: you unless I add something to you. I will be
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  Speaker 2: an asset and not a liability. If I stay in
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  Speaker 2: your house, you're going to miss me when I leave.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to add something to you. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to take something from you. If I join your church,
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  Speaker 2: you will feel the impact that something has been added
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  Speaker 2: to you. The only number that doesn't add to the
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  Speaker 2: sum total of the equation is a zero. What do
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  Speaker 2: people get when they get you? If you can describe it,
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  Speaker 2: define it, and deliver on it, you'll never be without it.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wants an asset. Liabilities get left behind. Number four,
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  Speaker 2: commitment to your dream. You cannot get people to believe
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  Speaker 2: in your dream until you believe in it yourself. Stop
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  Speaker 2: asking people to invest in things where you have no investments.
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  Speaker 2: Stop asking people to deliver something to you where you're
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  Speaker 2: not willing to go to the wire for yourself. Nobody's
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  Speaker 2: going to put into your dream before you put in.
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  Speaker 2: You have to invest in what you dream for. Hallelujah
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  Speaker 2: to God. A golf club is just a golf club.
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  Speaker 2: You can pay $ 500 or $ 5, 000 for it. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a golf club until you put it into the hands
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  Speaker 2: of Tiger Woods. Yes. When you put it into the
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  Speaker 2: hands of Tiger Woods, the value shoots up. It's the
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  Speaker 2: same set of clubs. All you added was commitment. When
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  Speaker 2: you get it in the hands of somebody who is
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  Speaker 2: committed to a dream, who's been working when they were
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  Speaker 2: five and swinging when they were six and swinging when
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  Speaker 2: they were nine and swinging when they were 12, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get a great return because there is
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  Speaker 2: a great investment. Do you have anything that you're dreaming
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  Speaker 2: that you're willing to be committed to? enough to see
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  Speaker 2: it happen? Or are you throwing pennies in the wishing
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  Speaker 2: well of life, wanting to receive on credit something that
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  Speaker 2: you're not willing to pay for? You must be committed
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  Speaker 2: to your dream. Oh, hallelujah. I'm scared to talk about
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  Speaker 2: it because I believe it so bad. You ought to
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  Speaker 2: see my toes are dancing in my shoes. Glory to God.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have no hair on my head, but my
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  Speaker 2: hair on my chin is jerking over this right now.
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  Speaker 2: I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in
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  Speaker 2: any area of their life until they had suffered and
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  Speaker 2: sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through
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  Speaker 2: tears and trials and tests. And if you have a
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  Speaker 2: dream and you commit to it, it will come to pass.
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  Speaker 2: Though the vision tarry, wait for it. He's not just
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. He's also the end. If God started it,
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  Speaker 2: he will finish it. Shout yes. Committed to your dream. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Committed to your dream. Anybody can dream it, but you'll
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  Speaker 2: never see it until you're willing to be committed to it.
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  Speaker 2: I was telling somebody the other day, when I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have anything, church didn't have any members, I'd get off work,
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  Speaker 2: work in a car by, and drive up the roads
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  Speaker 2: and work on the church till I had to turn
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  Speaker 2: around and go back to work. We worked when we
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  Speaker 2: didn't have food. We worked when we didn't have lights.
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  Speaker 2: I was putting my whole check in the offering, all
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  Speaker 2: of it, trying to keep it going. When I finally
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  Speaker 2: got some staff, I went on the road preaching. And
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  Speaker 2: whatever I made on the road preaching, I brought it
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  Speaker 2: home to make the payroll of the staff. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I got them paid and couldn't pay me. Commitments. Looked
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  Speaker 2: like a fool. Didn't have any clothes. Suits was falling
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  Speaker 2: off me. Lying in war out in my clothes. Couldn't
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  Speaker 2: send them to the cleaners. Had to wash my suit
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  Speaker 2: in the washing machine. They laughed at me. Looked like
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  Speaker 2: an old raggedy country preacher. I had holes in my shoes.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't kneel down. Whew. I couldn't kneel down and
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  Speaker 2: pray because if I knelt down to pray, they would
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  Speaker 2: see holes in my shoes. They laughed at me. They
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  Speaker 2: said that boy's lost his mind. He'll never be nothing.
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  Speaker 2: He stutters. He's got a list when he speaks. He'll
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  Speaker 2: never be a preacher. I don't care what you say.
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  Speaker 2: If you are committed to what you believe, you'll never... Never,
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  Speaker 2: never bring down somebody who is committed. Because somebody who
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  Speaker 2: has really been committed has been down before they ever
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  Speaker 2: got up. Yeah. You can't scare me off with trouble.
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  Speaker 2: I started in trouble. I grew up with dirt up
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  Speaker 2: under my fingernails. I'm used to folk not liking me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll fight for myself. Hallelujah. Commitment. I've got to stop.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big subject and many people struggle with it.
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  Speaker 2: They mean well. They have sincere hearts. They promise so
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  Speaker 2: much more than they're able to deliver because they don't
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  Speaker 2: understand commitment. What if you threw your whole self into
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  Speaker 2: the vision that God has given you? Rather than just
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  Speaker 2: hitting at it, what would you achieve? You cannot conquer
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  Speaker 2: what you're not willing to commit to. Take that word
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  Speaker 2: with you today and may God bless you and strengthen you.
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  Speaker 2: That's my prayer for you. Before we leave, get your
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  Speaker 2: hands on this book, Destiny. It's for people who are
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  Speaker 2: going somewhere. It is for people who are trying to
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  Speaker 2: master commitment, who feel that they are drawn of God
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  Speaker 2: into a purpose that you can't quite figure out. So
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  Speaker 2: the book is Destiny. Step into your purpose. You can
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  Speaker 2: do it, and you need to do it right now.
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  Speaker 2: I pray God will bless you. I'll be waiting on Instagram, Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: Facebook to hear your comments as we read together Destiny.
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  Speaker 2: Step into your purpose. God bless you. Take care.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have to let you go. Failure is
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  Speaker 2: not the end. We've had to make step changes. Listen
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  Speaker 2: for destiny's authentic call. Destiny awaits you. Will you take
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  Speaker 2: the first step?
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  Speaker 4: Destiny is written to connect what's in you with the
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  Speaker 4: purpose that awaits you. The first action step requires faith.
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  Speaker 4: Order Destiny today. Everywhere books are sold.
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  Speaker 2: There is more. Ten committed people will trump a thousand spectators.
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  Speaker 2: Ten committed people. Jesus didn't pick but twelve and turn
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  Speaker 2: the world upside down with twelve people who were committed.
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  Speaker 2: Wonder what would happen in your life, in your church,
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  Speaker 2: in your finances. In your marriage. If you are committed.