The Potter's Touch program; featuring the ministry of Bishop T.D. Jakes; tackles today's topics and issues by offering practical and spiritual solutions to life's toughest questions.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | It's In The Bag | May 30, 2022
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- female announcer: Coming up on "The Potter's Touch."
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- Bishop T.D. Jakes: God sent me here to tell somebody he's going
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- to use something that you already got.
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- But because you don't perceive it correctly, you cannot use it
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- to its ultimate power.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ The Potter's Touch The Potter's Touch ♪
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- Bishop Jakes: The Bible says that Jesus was moved with
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- compassion because he saw them being scattered as sheep
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- having no shepherd.
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- Now, there's one other thing that I think is important
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- for you to understand.
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- The disciples were hungry.
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- They were already hungry.
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- The boat has landed and they're tryin' to get away
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- from the people, and here come these people.
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- Have you ever been tired and they still want more?
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- It is only frustrating when people make a demand
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- where you don't have a supply.
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- They were frustrated because the people made a demand
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- and they didn't have a supply.
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- Jesus was moved because what the people demanded, he was able
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- to supply.
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- Isn't that good?
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- Now here's the thing, if you don't understand the journey,
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- you won't understand what happened.
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- You have to realize that they have come to a place right now
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- where they are in a crisis position because the people
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- are--the disciples are already tired.
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- They didn't just start ministering, they'd been
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- ministering a long time and now Jesus is having to teach these
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- new masses of people, and he's teaching a long time,
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- and he's goin' through a lot of principles, and so his boys come
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- to him and say, "It's late."
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- Isn't that something?
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- Who are you to tell me it's late.
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- Look at this presumptuous attitude.
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- You're going to the creator of time telling him--
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- I would rebuke him if I hadn't done it myself.
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- Oh, I'm the only one who's gone to God and said it's late.
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- I thought I'd be further than this by this age.
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- I thought I would own more than this by this age.
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- I thought my ministry would have exploded by now.
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- Who are you to tell God it's late?
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- It's late, can I go a little bit deeper with this?
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- I want to go deeper with it, because Jesus asked them
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- a question.
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- First he makes a statement.
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- He says you give them something to eat.
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- Now, it's important that you backtrack and understand that
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- he is asking hungry men to feed hungry people.
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- If you don't understand that, you'll never be able
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- to minister, that we are called as hungry men to feed
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- hungry people.
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- You're goin' through the same mess that they're going through,
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- and yet God calls you to look over what you're going through
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- and feed them anyway.
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- What he's tryin' to do is stretch them.
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- He's trying to teach them discipline.
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- He's trying to teach him that you don't get to act
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- in your feelings.
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- That if you're going to be a disciple, you have
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- to have discipline.
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- Overlook your hunger and feed them anyway.
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- Oh, that's profound, because the truth of the matter is,
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- the same things that we are trying to preach you out of,
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- we're wrestling with.
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- See, y'all can't take it just raw like that.
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- Have you ever tried to encourage people, got anointed
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- to encourage them, broke the yoke that was encouraging them,
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- and got in the car and was discouraged?
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- Jesus says get them, them, I'm tired, I'm hungry,
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- and you want me to keep on feeding these people?
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- My daughter's in trouble, you want me to help her?
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- He is trying to stretch their capacity, because if you always
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- operate in your convenience, you will never increase
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- your capacity.
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- Let me try them.
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- If you always operate in your convenience, you will never
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- increase your capacity.
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- You'll never know what you can do until you do it hungry,
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- until you do it broke, until you do it frustrated,
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- until you do it tired.
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- 'Til you say, "Though he slay me, yet."
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- Run over and slap somebody and tell them,
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- "I'm gonna do it anyway."
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- I'm gonna do it when I feel like it.
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- I'm gonna do it when I don't feel like it.
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- I'm going to do it when all hell is breaking loose.
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- I'm gonna do it anyway.
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- And then they say--look at the two dimensions.
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- They say should we go spend 100 denarii and go to the store?
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- Let me show you this question.
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- I want to unpack this question.
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- In other words, what this situation requires,
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- we don't have.
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- So that guy over there has it, should I take my money
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- and give it to him to get it?
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- Let me unpack this question.
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- You must realize that the only thing that they saw that
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- they had was stuff.
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- And there are no stores close by, we're gonna have to travel
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- to get what we need if we do it in the natural.
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- It's going to take too long if you do it in the natural.
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- The reason you're off schedule right now is that you're trying
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- to do it in the natural.
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- The reason you're behind right now is that you listened
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- at flesh and blood.
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- The reason you're behind right now is because you're traveling
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- by land and God's traveling by sea.
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- He's talkin' Spirit, you're talkin' flesh.
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- So, I want to unpack this question.
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- Touch somebody and say, "Unpack it, unpack it, unpack it."
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- Jesus asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"
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- And they must have been standing there with their teeth in their
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- mouth like people do when you ask 'em something that
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- they haven't thought about, and Jesus must have got ticked
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- 'cause he said, "Go look."
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- In other words, don't look out, you've been lookin' out for what
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- you need, but the Lord sent me here to tell you what you need,
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- you've already got.
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- I need 30 seconds of praise from anybody who got it.
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- Go look, touch ten people and say, "Go look."
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- Go look, go look, go look, go look, go look.
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- Go look, go look, go look, go look, go look, go look, go.
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- Tell them go look, go look, go look, go look.
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- Go look in, don't go look out.
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- Go look in. Go look in, in.
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- You've been walking all around it.
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- Every miracle that I name came from something that the person
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- who needed was walking past.
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- The prophet didn't bring the handful of meal,
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- it was already there.
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- He didn't give her a pot full of oil, it was already there.
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- God sent me here to tell somebody he's going to use
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- something that you already got.
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- But because you don't perceive it correctly, you cannot use it
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- to its ultimate power when you've been stepping over it
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- like it ain't nothin'.
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- So, now he's put you in a desert place where you can't get it
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- from nobody else.
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- Nobody stood by you.
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- Nobody you can trust.
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- Nobody you can talk to.
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- Nobody you can lean on.
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- Nobody you can open up to.
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- Maybe now you'll stop shopping at other folk's stores and
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- you'll sweep your own house.
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- Go look, slap somebody and say, "Go look."
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- Bishop Jakes: You've got to unpack this boy.
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- I got to unpack this boy.
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- Because they looked amongst the men, and the men didn't have it.
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- Looked among the seniors, statesmen, and they didn't
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- have it.
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- Looked amongst the women, and they didn't have it.
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- They were looking over the next generation.
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- God had hid the bag in the boy.
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- But because they were young, the older ones were stepping
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- all around them.
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- God has always hid his treasure in kids.
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- It's always been a little boy that would lead 'em.
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- It's always been a little boy that he made king.
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- It's always been somebody that they looked over.
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- This is a generational issue, because one generation,
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- the adults, are looking amongst themselves for a lunch
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- they don't have.
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- The bag is in the boy.
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- Oh, it got quiet in here now, Jesus.
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- He don't have no titles.
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- He doesn't have no position.
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- He don't have no office.
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- He might be dancing around on the mountaintops acting a fool,
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- but the power--that's why when God got ready to come, he didn't
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- come as a man, he came as a--
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- Somebody holler, "Go look."
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- Now here's the conundrum.
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- The older generation knew what to do with the lunch,
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- but they didn't have it.
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- The younger generation had the lunch, but they don't know
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- what to do with it.
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- God has now put them in a situation that until the
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- two generations come together, everybody's gonna starve.
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- That's why when the devil gets ready to really attack you,
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- he always attacks your child.
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- 'Cause if he attacks your child, it will always shut you down.
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- That's why you got to go and snatch your child out of
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- the hands of the enemy, and say, "Give me my boy back."
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- So, Jesus says to the men, "Go look, just try."
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- He didn't say go find, he just said go look.
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- One other thing I want to show you, I want to unpack this bag.
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- I unpacked the journey, I unpacked the question,
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- I unpacked the boy, I got to unpack the bag.
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- I think it is so strange that the condition of the crowd is
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- predicated on the bag.
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- If we don't find the bag, the crowd not only goes hungry,
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- the gospel doesn't spread.
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- 'Cause I need this five, ten, or perhaps 15.000 people, 'cause we
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- only counted men, not women or children, to spread the word,
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- and what it's going to cause, watch this, this big thing
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- to happen is going to come from a small place.
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- Big, small, big, small, big, small.
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- I've been praying for a big thing, but it's going to come
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- from a small place.
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- God always hides his greatest power in a small place.
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- Peter, I don't have to give you the kingdom, I'm gonna give you
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- the key.
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- How big is a key?
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- It's a small thing.
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- This bag, somebody say, "This bag," this bag, this bag,
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- this bag, everything I need is in the bag.
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- That's why the devil doesn't want me to see it.
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- It's in the bag.
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- He doesn't wanna see it, he doesn't want me to see the value
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- of me, 'cause I'm a small thing with a big dream.
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- And until I see that everything I dreamed is in the bag, until I
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- see that the oak tree is in the acorn, the reason God doesn't
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- want you to despise the day of small beginnings is because
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- he's gonna unlock the kingdom, not through the crowd,
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- it's going to come through the bag.
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- Now, we already know that God can make it rain down bread
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- from heaven, so he was not at the mercy of the bag.
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- He could've let it rain bread down from heaven,
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- but he's trying to teach us the power of a little bit.
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- That's why I ask you, "Do you have anything left?"
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- 'Cause all you need is a little bit.
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- And so they came back to Jesus, and said, "Well, we did find
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- a little something, but it's not hardly enough."
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- [speaking in tongues]
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- It's not hardly enough.
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- When I looked at what I got against what I need,
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- it's not hardly enough.
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- We got a little money in the savings account, but when I look
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- at what we're tryin' to buy, it's not hardly enough.
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- I got a few gifted people in my church, but when I look at
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- what other people are doing, it's not hardly enough.
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- He says I'm not gonna give you enough.
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- I am not going to give you enough, because feeding them is
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- never the problem.
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- What I need is the shock value of so much comin' outta
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- so little.
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- If you had enough, it wouldn't be noised abroad.
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- But the miracle is that I'm going to take little ol' you.
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- Moses, If you spoke good, I wouldn't use you.
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- But the miracle is that I'm gonna use your stuttering lips.
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- Touch somebody and say, "It's in the bag."
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- It's in the bag. It's in the bag.
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- I'm gonna show you one more thing and I'm gonna get out
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- of here.
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- So, they brought him this bag and they said,
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- "We did inventory.
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- What is so little against so much?"
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- Let me see.
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- Wait a minute, I started to count, now I forgot.
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- He said wait a minute, no, no, no, no, no, no, the first thing
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- you gotta do before you count the bag, you've got to count
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- the people.
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- Now Lord, I'm already hungry, now I got to count.
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- Let me see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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- eight, nine, ten, eleven,
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- 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
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- 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41,
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- 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.
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- Man, y'all sit down.
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- One, two, three, four five, look at that, look at that,
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- look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that,
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- look at that.
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- Look at how long it takes to get things in order.
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- Look at how long it takes.
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- Slap your neighbor and say, "You gave up too soon."
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- You gotta be willing to go through the process and do it
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- over, and do it over, and do it over, and do it over, and do it
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- over, and do it over, and do it over, and do it over.
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- And all the while they're doing it, they're doing it hungry.
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- They're doing it weak, they're doing it tired, they're doing it
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- frustrated, they're doing it not knowing how it's going to
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- end up, but they're still counting, one, two, three,
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- four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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- Tell your neighbor, "I'm still counting."
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- It don't look like it's working, but I'm still counting.
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- I'm hungry and I'm tired, but I'm still doing it,
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- I'm still doing it.
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- I'm still doing it.
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- They had to do it, 50 groups 100 times, to get them in order.
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- It took a while, and then they come to Jesus and they say,
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- "We counted the people, we're not guessing at the crowd,
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- we put them in the groups you said.
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- It's a whole bunch of them people, and all that's in
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- the bag, wait a minute, Jesus, Jesus, it ain't but two fish.
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- Let me count this, one, two, three, four,
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- and five loaves of bread.
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- Two fish, five loaves of bread."
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- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, complete.
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- Seven God's number of completion.
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- It's in the bag.
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- But see, that ain't what got me.
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- Let me show you what got me.
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- I wondered why they didn't have leeks, or onions,
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- or something else in the bag.
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- Why two fish and five loaves of bread?
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- And then I remembered that the fish came through the water, and
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- the bread came from the ground, 'cause the bread came from the
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- wheat that grew in the ground.
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- And then I realized Jesus came by the water, and they came by
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- the land, and now I realized that the whole journey is
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- in the bag.
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- Everything you've been through is in the bag.
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- Every step you took is in the bag.
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- Every need you got, it's in the bag.
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- Weather is spiritual or natural, it's in the bag,
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- whatever you need, it's in the bag.
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- Bishop Jakes: "How did I go from dry to drenched?"
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- And he said, "Because I am the rainmaker."
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- announcer: God is the rainmaker, and your drought is over.
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- For your gift of any amount, be inspired to see the rain
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- of God's blessings with Bishop T.D. Jakes's
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- healing message, "The Rainmaker," as well as
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- the 30 Days of Rain Devotional.
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- Bishop Jakes: In my spirit I can hear the sound
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- of an abundance of rain.
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- announcer: For your gift of $100 or more, be reminded
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- of the good things heaven has in store for you this season
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- with a custom Showered with Blessings umbrella
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- and a set of eight inspirational note cards.
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- Bishop Jakes: I know the grass has turned brown, I know
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- that the ground is cracking up, but in spite of everything I see
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- with my eye, in my spirit I hear the sound of an abundance
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- of rain.
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- announcer: Hear the sound of the abundance of rain.
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