Sarah Jakes Roberts - The Shadow of Greatness

December 3, 2024 | S

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 | Sarah Jakes Roberts - The Shadow of Greatness | December 3, 2024

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♪♪♪
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Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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Sarah jakes roberts: i came to god because of who he is.
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And, in order for me to see who he is, it made me feel little,
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And it made me feel small.
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And god says, "that's how i can work with you.
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Because in order for you to become small, you got down on
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Bended knees, and when you got down on bended knees, i said,
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'now you recognize who the great i am is.
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Now you understand who the god you serve is.'"
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I am but a little child, look at my grown broken self--and yet,
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Yet you've called me to greatness.
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♪ oh, "the potter's touch," "the potter's touch." ♪♪
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Sarah: when we find solomon in our text, he's been trying to
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Make payments on greatness.
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You really have to read chapters 1 and 2 to get full context on
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Where he is in this moment.
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But he becomes king after one of his brothers and he has a
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Disagreement about who should receive the crown.
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His mother intervenes and reminds david that he said that
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Solomon would become king.
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And now he's placed in a position that he didn't
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Necessarily fight for, someone else fought for him to be in the
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Position, and someone else wanted it.
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But just because someone else wants it doesn't mean that they
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Can have it when it's already assigned to your name.
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I wish i could say that somebody thought they were gonna hustle
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Their way into the position, but they can't hustle their way into
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What god has already assigned to your name.
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And god will make someone else your advocate, to where you
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Don't even have to fight for the position because god's gonna let
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Someone else advocate for where you're supposed to be.
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I know you're not in the room, but they're talking about you in
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The room because somebody's already advocating for your
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Right to be in the room.
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All right, all right, that should have broke something off
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Of somebody who's been hating the fact that they're not in the
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Room because god says, "you don't have to be in the room to
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Be in the room."
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Oh god, oh god.
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They don't tell us what solomon is doing when bathsheba is
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Trying to make sure that he gets what's rightfully his.
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I know somebody in this room has never had someone fight for you,
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But i hear god saying that, "you don't have to have someone
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Fighting for you to trust that i will fight on your behalf."
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God says, "there's something happening in the shadows."
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That wasn't even supposed to be my message, but imagine being
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Solomon, minding his business, and all of a sudden bathsheba
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Is in the shadows, working things out, and he doesn't even
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Understand what's happening.
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I hear god saying that, "you can't see the shadows in which
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I'm preparing the way for you to step into the moment."
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You don't see what's happening behind the scenes.
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That's the only problem about being front and center is that
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You have no idea what's happening behind the scenes.
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Oh, solomon had some work happening behind the scenes.
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Let me tell you what i'm not gonna do, what i'm not gonna do
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Is lose my voice.
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Because i got something to do today.
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Solomon has come to this phase
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In his life in which he has the
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Luxury of no longer knowing what to do.
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In chapters 1 and 2 we see how solomon becomes king.
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And the first thing that he does is everything that he can do to
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Get rid of his father's enemies so that he can make sure there
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Is no threat for when he is properly positioned.
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And i call it the luxury of no longer knowing what to do
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Because when you no longer know what to do, it means you've done
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Everything that you can.
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And, when you've done everything you can, then you make a demand
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On god and say, "god, i don't have anything left to do."
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It's a powerful thing to know what to do with a dilemma.
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Oh, if i get a flat tire, it's a nightmare because i don't know
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How to change a tire.
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But if someone else gets a flat tire, it's just an inconvenience
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Because they know what to do.
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And sometimes we're asking god to step into a situation that we
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Haven't even stepped into.
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And god says, "if you would do everything that you can, then i
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Can do everything that i can."
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But what if god has only given according to the level in which
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You give?
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You want god to give everything, while you sit on the sidelines.
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And god says, "if i do everything and you do nothing,
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Then this is not partnership," but partnership is when you say,
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"god, i'm gonna do everything that i can do.
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I'm gonna make sure that every enemy i can put under my foot is
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Under my foot.
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God, i'm gonna clean house."
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John would say it like this, "sometimes you gotta prepare the
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Way for the lord."
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And you want the lord to move in your life, but i wanna
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Understand, have you prepared the way for the lord?
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Have you done everything that is within your power to make sure
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That when god steps into the room, that there's nothing that
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I could have done instead?
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Solomon, solomon has done everything he can.
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Has anybody in this room done everything they can?
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I've done everything that i can.
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I don't have anything left to give.
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I don't have any other enemy that i can chase down with my
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Own resources.
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I've called every single person i could.
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And now solomon is in the shadows, the shadows of not
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Having anything else i can do, because he's in a position that
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Feels so much bigger than him.
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If we were looking at that ramp, we would see that he's come down
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To the point of what my husband would call diminishing return.
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That, if i give any more right now, i know that i'm not going
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To get anything else back.
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So important that we make sure that we do everything that we
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Can, so that, when we finally begin to pray, that we show
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Ourselves worthy of the prayers that we're praying for.
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God, i forgave, god, i prayed about it, god, i applied
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Everywhere i could apply.
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God, this is not something i can do within my own power.
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I need to tap into a power that is greater than mine.
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But i'm not gonna ask you to spend while i withhold.
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God, i wanna come to you when-- let me tell you something, if
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You wanna borrow something from me, i would highly appreciate if
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You was broke when you asked for it, because i wanna believe that
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You gave everything you could before you begin to call me.
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God says, "have you given anything towards that very thing
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You're praying for?"
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You want that child to be saved, but are you saved yourself?
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You want that marriage to be healed,
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But are you healed yourself?
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You want that career, but what are you doing to train?
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What are you doing to study?
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I want to say that, "god, i did everything that i could," so
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That when exceedingly and abundantly comes, that it's
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Taking off at the end of my capacity, that it's taking off
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From the end of my expansion.
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God, i'm gonna do everything that i can do.
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I'm gonna make sure that i read every book, that i listen to
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Every podcast, because god's gotta have--wants to have a
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Well that he can pull from.
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God, i studied for this message, and i was studying stuff that
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Didn't even have anything to do with this message, because when
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I step into the moment, i wanna make sure that i've done
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Everything i can so that you can pull from whatever you need to
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Pull from.
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God says, "i wanna make a demand on you too.
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But i wanna make sure that when i pull from you, that you're
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Willing to give."
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And god's been pulling on somebody, pulling on you to
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Forgive, pulling on you to go back to school, pulling on you
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To align yourself, pulling on you to shut your mouth and lift
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Up your hands, pulling on you to step into the moment.
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God, i feel you pulling, and i've been resisting because i
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Don't know how you're gonna pull me from where i am to where you
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Took them.
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But i hear god saying, "if you would stop focusing on them and
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Allow me to pull that thing on out of you."
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I don't know who you are, but i hear god saying, "there's more
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In you than you think there is.
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There's more anointing on you than you think it is.
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There's more strength in you than you think it is.
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And this situation is pulling out what i put in you."
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I hear god saying, "i know what i put in you, and i'm trying to
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Pull it out.
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I'm trying to pull it out. you're graced for this.
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You're anointed for this. pull it out."
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Somebody yell, "pull it out." somebody yell, "pull it out."
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Somebody yell, "pull it out."
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I hear heaven pulling it out.
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And then i want you to yell, "pull me up, pull me up."
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Pull me up out of this depression.
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Pull me up out of this second guessing.
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Pull me up out of this fear.
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Pull me up out of this grief.
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Solomon did everything he could.
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Now it was time for god to pull him on up.
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God, i've done everything that i can do.
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Oh, glory, i feel you in this space.
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Somebody is about to get pulled up.
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Somebody's about to experience breakthrough.
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Somebody is about to go out of this place not thinking the way
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That they came in.
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I hear god saying, "when i pull you up, i'm gonna pull up
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Your mind.
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I'm gonna pull up your language.
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I'm gonna pull up the way that you connect.
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I'm gonna pull up your relationships.
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I'm getting ready to pull, i'm getting ready to pull, i'm
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Getting ready to pull."
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Lift your hands if you don't wanna be missing the pull.
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Getting ready.
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Solomon says, "if you're gonna pull up, don't miss me."
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Pull up on me. pull up on me.
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God, i'm ready for you to pull up on me.
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God, i had man pull up on me.
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I saw businesses pull up on me.
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And all of them left me empty, but when you pull up on me,
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You're gonna fill me like i've never been filled before.
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When you pull up on me, i'm gonna have a slingshot.
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When you pull up on me, i'm gonna be different than i've
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Ever been.
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I'm gonna do something you've never seen done before.
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You're gonna become someone you never thought you could become.
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And it's not gonna be because you held back.
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It's gonna be because you poured it all out, and when you've
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Poured it all out, i'm gonna stretch your capacity.
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Sarah: sometimes we can't hear the miracles when they happen
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Because i'm too busy hearing why i shouldn't be here, too busy
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Hearing my own fears, my own shame.
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But there is a great high place that you can go--oh god, and
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I'm gonna tell you how we get there.
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Solomon, the most powerful thing he says in this text is that in
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Order for him to come to god in this moment, he had to be
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Willing to not be king.
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He didn't come to god with his resume.
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He is king, and at this point has established himself as king.
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But when he goes to this great high place, he says, "but i am
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Just a little child."
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But you're king.
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"but i'm a little child."
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But you're grown.
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"but still i'm a little child."
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But you've been in business, but still sometimes i feel like a
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Little child.
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But i'm grown with grown kids, but sometimes i still feel like
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A little child.
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I didn't come to god with my resume.
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I didn't come to god with everything that i've done.
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I came to god because of who he is.
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And, in order for me to see who he is, it made me feel little,
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And it made me feel small.
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And god says, "that's how i can work with you.
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Because in order for you to become small, you got down on
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Bended knees.
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And, when you got down on bended knees, i said, 'now you
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Recognize who the great i am is.
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Now you understand who the god you serve is.'"
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I am but a little child.
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Look at my grown broken self.
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Look at my grown worldly self.
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Look at my grown lustful self.
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God, i'm still a little child.
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God, i'm still a little baby.
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And yet--yet, you've called me to greatness.
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God, how am i gonna have a great family?
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I've never seen it before, god.
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I feel like a little child.
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God, i'm too little for this, 45 years of ministry, god, i'm
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Too little.
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I'm too little for this greatness.
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The shadows--the shadows do you a favor because they make
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You little.
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And, when the shadows make you little, you look a lot like
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Matthew 18, 2 through 4,
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When jesus says to the disciples--
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How do we make it into the kingdom of heaven, they
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Wanna know?
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And jesus tells them that--i'll read it to you it says, "then
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Jesus called a little child to him, and set him in the midst
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Of them."
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And then it says, "assuredly, i say to you, unless you are
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Converted and become as little children."
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The shadows make me little,
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And i used to think that was bad, but now i'm beginning
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To think that now it primes me for the move of god connected to
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My life.
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I gotta get little--oh, god, i feel my help coming.
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Something about being little.
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Not just little.
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Solomon wasn't just little, he was little and hungry.
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It's one thing to be little, but it's another thing to be little
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And hungry.
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Some people give up at the crossroad of little because one
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Path requires me to be hungry, and the other path requires me
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To quit.
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But god says, "if you could master the art of being little
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And hungry, then i could allow you to enter the kingdom
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Of heaven."
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Because when you enter the kingdom of heaven hungry, that's
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When god can really unleash the fullness of who he is.
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I may be little, but i'm hungry.
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I may be little, but i'm gonna get hold of what god has placed
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Down on the inside of me.
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I may be little, but i'm still king.
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I may be little, but i'm still anointed for this.
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I may be little, but there's no one who can do what i'm called
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To do but me.
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So god, i may be little, but i'm hungry.
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I'm hungry for you to place me into a room where you can make a
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Demand on what you put down on the inside of me.
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I won't put my crown down just because i'm little.
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God uses little things.
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If you don't believe me, ask the little boy's lunch that fed
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The multitude.
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Little and hungry got together, and miracles broke out.
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Little and hungry got together, and overflow broke out.
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Little and hungry got together, and we moved to dallas and from
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Charleston, west virginia.
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Little and hungry got together, and it brought your hips into
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This room.
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Little and hungry got together, and international ministry broke
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Out from this house.
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Little and hungry got together, and that's how god's gonna do it
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In your life.
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You're gonna be little and hungry.
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You're gonna try to be big, but little is gonna have you because
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Little is the way that god moves miracle.
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Little, little.
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Janell, if i could have my text in matthew one more time.
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I'm almost finished.
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"'assuredly, i say to you, unless you are converted.'"
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I looked this word, converted, up in the greek.
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And what i saw is that it was translated converted, but a
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More accurate word is actually twisted.
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You're gonna have to get twisted to become little.
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You're gonna have to let life twist, twist.
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Oh, somebody's in a twist.
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I'm gonna have to get twisted.
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You're not gonna do this unless you're willing to get twisted
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Into this god, twisted.
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God's been twisting you and turning you, and you're trying
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To figure out which way is up.
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And i hear god saying, "you don't see it from the outside
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Looking in.
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But what i see is how i'm twisting you into
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Proper position.
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I'm twisting you into humility.
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I'm twisting you into who you need to become for the mantle
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That is connected to your life.
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You're gonna have to get twisted for this."
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And i hear god saying, "don't resist the twist."
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I hear god saying, "don't back out of the twist."
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I hear god saying, "you're more flexible than you think."
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Twisted, solomon said, "i'm ready to get twisted.
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I'm in the shadows to get twisted.
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I'm gonna do what no one can see so that i can become who god has
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Called me to be."
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God says, "i'm twisting you in the shadows.
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I'm twisting you for the greatness.
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I'm twisting you for the ministry.
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I'm twisting you for the marriage.
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I'm twisting you for the position.
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I'm twisting, i'm twisting, i'm twisting you.
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I'm gonna twist you till you're little.
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I'm gonna twist you till you lose that pride.
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I'm gonna twist you till you lose that bitterness.
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I'm gonna twist you till you're hungry again.
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I'm gonna twist you until the words come out of your mouth.
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I'm gonna twist you until the strength comes into your back.
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I'm gonna twist you into that room.
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I'm gonna twist you into that business.
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I'm gonna twist you in the breakthrough.
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The generational curse will be broken in the twisting."
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God, i feel you.
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God, you got me twisted. god, you got me twisted.
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Who am i gonna become in this twist?
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I wanna praise god in advance, 15 seconds of praise for who i'm
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Becoming in the twist.
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I don't know what's happening right now--i'm dizzy--but i
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Know i'm becoming in the twist.
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I know i've got breakthrough connected to the twist.
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I hear god saying, "when you get out of this twist, you're gonna
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Have more leverage than you ever had, more thoughts than you
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Ever had.
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I'm gonna twist you in the rooms you don't belong in.
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I'm gonna twist that marriage until it looks like what
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I anointed."
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And it all happened in the shadows.
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In the shadows of greatness, god is twisting you.
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God is twisting you in the shadows.
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God, god, you got me twisted.
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Solomon had come to a point where he'd run out of the
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Breadcrumbs that his dad left for him, and now he's got to
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Come into his own.
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But one thing his father did teach him was about the power
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Of shadows.
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Yes, there will be shadows of death, but there will also be
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The shadow of the almighty.
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Yeah, psalms 91 and 1 says,
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"he who dwells in the secret place
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Of the most high," higher than my circumstance, higher than my
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Doubt, higher than my fear, higher than anxiety, higher than
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My pride, higher than my ego,
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"shall abide under
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The shadow of the almighty."
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Bishop t.d. jakes: it is not my good times that reveal god the
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Most in my life.
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It's not the shouting times that reveal god the most in my life.
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It is the time when all hell was breaking loose in my life that i
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Saw god's glory shine the brightest.
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Let there be light.
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Sarah Jakes Roberts - The Shadow of Greatness

December 3, 2024 | S

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