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T.D. Jakes - Crazy Like a Fox

January 5, 2025 | S25:E2

T.D. Jakes - Crazy Like a Fox
What God is about to do in your life may seem strange, but it is will cause you to stand out from the rest.
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Crazy Like a Fox | January 5, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: you running around trying to get somebody to
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  • Understand you, but the reality is, they can't understand you
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  • Because there's a method to your madness.
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  • And you do look crazy, but you are not crazy and you know what
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  • You got to do in a particular situation to survive
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  • The circumstances.
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  • You're crazy like a fox--touch somebody and say, "i'm crazy
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  • Like a fox."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪
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  • Bishop jakes: the reason i step into this text is because david
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  • Is in a quandary again over how to fight what he has to fight.
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  • This is the story of his life: when he gets ready to fight
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  • Goliath, saul wants to put him in his armor, and david has to
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  • Choose weapons.
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  • "how do i fight this?"
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  • I know how to fight financially, but i don't know how to
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  • Fight cancer.
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  • I know how to fight as a single mother, but i don't know how to
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  • Fight lupus.
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  • Sooner or later, you're gonna find something that you don't
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  • Have a weapon for.
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  • "give, give me something to--god, give me something to
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  • Kill it with.
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  • Give me something, put something in my hand."
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  • And so the man comes to him, and eli says to him, "there's a
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  • Sword in here that was goliath's sword, and goliath's sword is
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  • Gonna be able to handle it."
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  • And david says, "give it to me," because sometimes, when a threat
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  • Is approaching you, you'll snatch--oh, y'all don't know.
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  • I'm still not quite far south enough.
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  • I need to be down in mississippi and alabama where somebody would
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  • Throw an iron or hot grits.
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  • It wasn't a classy weapon, it--they didn't have a glock,
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  • They didn't have a ak-47.
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  • But our grandmothers would boil grits and put lye in it and open
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  • Up and say--yeah, i'm too far up north.
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  • You're south but you're north of where i'm preaching.
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  • I'm down south where anything i got in my hands is a weapon.
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  • It could be the jawbone of an ass, but it's a weapon.
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  • And you can't count on me not to throw anything at you because
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  • Because i'll snatch it--"give it to me."
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  • I guess i should take a moment and explain the title of the
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  • Text, "crazy like a fox."
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  • It's an old saying, young people won't know what it means.
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  • How many people have heard it before?
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  • "crazy like a fox."
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  • It's the kind of thing when somebody says, "johnny is acting
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  • Crazy," and somebody who knows johnny real good said, "crazy
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  • Like a fox."
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  • It means there's a method to the madness.
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  • You running around trying to get somebody to understand you, but
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  • The reality is, they can't understand you because there's
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  • A method to your madness.
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  • And you do look crazy, but you are not crazy and you know what
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  • You got to do in a particular situation to survive
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  • The circumstances.
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  • You're crazy like a fox--touch somebody and say, "i'm crazy
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  • Like a fox."
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  • The intellectual capacity of the fox, who is part of the canine
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  • Family, is at the height of canine intellectualism.
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  • It exceeds even the most well-trained animal
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  • Amongst canines.
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  • Foxes are naturally smarter by nature than dogs are
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  • By training.
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  • They are instinctively endowed with an ability to protect their
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  • Young, to protect their territory, and to protect
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  • Themselves from predators, that when a predator that may be
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  • Bigger or stronger, the fox knows his teeth can't compete
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  • With the lion, but his brain can.
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  • The fox is smart--his brain is larger, physically larger, it is
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  • Heavier in weight than that of a dog because he has the capacity
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  • To protect himself by his mind.
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  • You have been asking god to strengthen your wallet, but what
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  • You need to ask god to do is tripping your mind, because if
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  • Your mind is strong--oh, y'all don't hear what i'm saying.
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  • If your mind is strong and you ever get in a corner, and you
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  • Don't have no other weapon, the weapon in you is always stronger
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  • Than the weapon on you.
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  • I'm gonna say it for the people in the back: the weapon in you
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  • Is always stronger than the weapon on--you can't grab
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  • Nothing any stronger than what god gave you between your
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  • Two ears.
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  • If you steady yourself and think yourself clear and recognize
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  • That your mind is a weapon--you can't run like the cheetah, you
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  • Can't roar like the lion, you can't gallop like the giraffe,
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  • You have no weight like the elephant.
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  • Your weapon is your mind.
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  • It is with the mind that we serve the lord as a man thinketh
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  • In his heart, so is he.
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  • And yet we spend all of our time in the gym working on muscles
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  • That are gonna collapse, and no time reading?
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  • The fox is so smart that it will act shy.
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  • It will run by itself, not in packs, compared to other canines
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  • That run in packs.
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  • I live kind of in the woods, and we got--what do you call them
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  • Things, those dogs?
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  • Coyotes.
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  • I can hear them in the night, and it'll be a pack of them.
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  • And they sound like a choir, doesn't sound like justin is
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  • Directing them.
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  • I think they'd be howling in harmony, justin.
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  • And they run in packs, they run in--but foxes don't run
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  • In packs.
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  • They act a little coy, and they act a little shy, but don't let
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  • The shyness fool you.
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  • Though their high intelligence causes them to be curious,
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  • Nonetheless, they study, they study.
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  • We--the bible says that we are a peculiar people, and our lives
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  • Are complicated.
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  • David's life wasn't a nice, neat line of love, laughter, and
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  • Laugh--it was mixed with love, laughter, and lamentations
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  • Because it's complicated.
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  • Now, i don't want you to tell your business, but just touch
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  • Three people and tell them, "it's complicated."
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  • And when your life is complicated, you have to be able
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  • To be flexible enough to use your mind against your mess.
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  • Come on, stay with me.
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  • You use your mind against your mess.
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  • If as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, that means i
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  • Gotta think myself clear.
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  • That means--i love that song where it says, "lord, clear all
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  • The noise, i need to hear from you."
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  • I love that song.
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  • Y'all can just sing that line over and over and over again
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  • Because satan sends noise so that you can't get clear to
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  • Your thought.
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  • Because if you could get clear to your thought, you could get
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  • Out of prison by midnight, the doors will open and god will
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  • Release you.
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  • If you can get clarity of thought, you can lay down with
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  • Lions and not be eaten.
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  • If you can get clarity of thought, you can take two fish
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  • And five loaves of bread and feed 5,000 people.
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  • I know it doesn't make sense, but if i could cut the noise so
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  • I can hear what the spirit is saying to the church.
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  • And david is crazy like a fox.
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  • Now watch this, because i want you to see this.
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  • The last time we see david picking weapons, he is wrestling
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  • Between using what he had and using what saul gave him.
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  • In the text, he is wrestling between using goliath's
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  • Sword--"give it to me"-- but he never used it.
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  • Because what was a weapon for your last fight may not give you
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  • The victory for this fight.
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: let's lift our gifts up before the lord,
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  • And this time when we lift our gifts up before the lord,
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  • Let us consider that it might not be demons.
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  • It might not be warlocks and witches that's stopping
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  • Us from abundance.
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  • It might not even be bigotry
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  • That's stopping us from abundance.
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  • The enemy might be inner me.
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  • So, as i lift my tithe and my offering up before you,
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  • Search my heart and know my ways,
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  • And if you find any wicked way, any in-productive way,
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  • Any toxicity in the way that i am living my life,
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  • I wanna be safe enough for you to bless.
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  • I wanna be a safe place for you to pour abundance into.
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  • Bishop jakes: which weapon do i use for what fight?
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  • Should i use saul's sword and shield, which i have not proven,
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  • Or shall i go with what i already got?
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  • And here he is again with a choice between a sword and
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  • I thought.
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  • And when the pressure comes against him, he says, "the sword
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  • That won my last battle will not win this battle.
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  • I have to use a thought."
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  • You're one thought away from your next breakthrough.
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  • The holy ghost told me to be sure that i tell you: you're one
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  • Thought away from the door swinging open.
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  • You're one thought away from your next million dollars.
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  • You're one thought away from raising your children.
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  • You're one thought away of building an empire, just
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  • One thought.
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  • "quiet, the noise in my head, lord.
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  • I need to hear you."
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  • And for this fight, you need another kind of weapon, so he
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  • Feigned himself to be mad.
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  • Now, in order to do this, you can't have ego.
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  • They had just called him a king three verses ago, and then they
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  • Called him crazy.
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  • You got to live in between people who think you're a king
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  • And people who think you're crazy, and never lose sight of
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  • Who you are, because both of them are a little bit right.
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  • I'm a king, though i don't have a kingdom.
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  • I'm crazy because you put me in a crazy situation.
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  • And if you put me in a crazy situation, i'm gonna have to
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  • Flip out on you.
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  • Not because i don't know how to act, but in order to get through
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  • This battle, you got to go crazy.
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  • I don't know who i'm preaching to.
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  • I don't know who this word is for.
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  • I don't know whether you just came in the balcony, but the
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  • Holy ghost said in order to get a breakthrough now, you all have
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  • To be a little bit crazy.
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  • Warn your neighbor and tell him, "i'm about to go crazy.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • I'm about to go crazy, i'm about to flip out.
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  • I'm about to turn into somebody you don't recognize.
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  • Don't let the hair fool you, don't let the degrees fool you,
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  • Don't let the suit fool you.
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  • I do know how to flip out if i gotta flip out."
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  • Come on, talk to me, somebody.
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  • Come on, talk to me, somebody.
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  • You wouldn't like me if i went crazy.
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  • You can't handle this kind of crazy.
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  • And they came down to get him, and he feigned himself to be
  • 00:15:11.694 --> 00:15:16.699
  • Crazy, but he was crazy, like a--oh, sometimes you got to be
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  • Crazy like a fox.
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  • I don't know who this is for, but it feels prophetic: you
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  • Cannot fight this battle that way.
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  • So the king had to live with being called crazy because them
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  • Calling him crazy was necessary for him to escape.
  • 00:15:57.606 --> 00:16:05.948
  • He is already right outside the philistines' camp and just a few
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  • Miles from jerusalem.
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  • And in order to move into a place of safety, he has to be
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  • A little crazy.
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  • You know who does great exploits?
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  • People who can go crazy.
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  • You know who gets written about in books of history?
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  • People who could go crazy.
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  • You--people never come to see normal, they never come to see
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  • Ordinary, they come to see extraordinary.
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  • And in order to be extraordinary, you got to give
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  • Up on trying to fit in with these philistines you've been
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  • Hanging out with and go out and stand out by yourself and say,
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  • "whatever it takes to get to where i'm trying to go."
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  • This is your season to go--if you don't go crazy, they're
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  • Gonna take all your stuff.
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  • If you don't go crazy, you're gonna be left without nothing.
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  • If you don't go crazy, and sometimes, you gotta act like
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  • You don't know what you do know.
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  • You so busy trying to impress them with how much you know, but
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  • Sometimes you gotta act like you don't know.
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  • I was talking to a friend of mine.
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  • He said, "i came in as a student."
  • 00:17:28.464 --> 00:17:32.101
  • He's really the teacher, but he has feigned himself as a student
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  • Because he recognizes how to handle the ego.
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  • And sometimes, when you're dealing with somebody who's
  • 00:17:40.442 --> 00:17:42.811
  • Egotistical, the best thing for you to do is go stupid.
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  • "what do you mean by that?
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  • Now, explain that to me again, i wanna be sure i got that right."
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  • It's not that you're not able to comprehend, it was a choice.
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  • You're crazy like a fox, you're crazy like a fox.
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  • The bible is full of crazy ideas--i'm almost done.
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  • It's crazy to believe a man made an ark that could protect
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  • Animals, birds, and humans from a global flood, that's crazy.
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  • It's crazy that god would use a maid to save naamon, the captain
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  • Of the host, that's crazy.
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  • It's crazy to think that a drought could be ended by a
  • 00:18:32.294 --> 00:18:36.431
  • Praying prophet who prayed up a storm, that's crazy.
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  • It's crazy that job could lose everything and still finish with
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  • Double for his trouble, that's crazy.
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  • It's crazy that peter could step off a boat and start walking on
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  • Water, that's crazy.
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  • It's crazy that an idolatrous would birth the greatest
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  • Grand--the great-grandfather of the greatest, famous king of
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  • Israel would come from an idolatrous great-grandmother.
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  • It's crazy that a woman who was about to sell her sons could pay
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  • Off all her debt with something she already had, that's crazy.
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  • Slap three people and say, "you got something, you
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  • Got something."
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  • It's crazy, it's crazy, i know.
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  • It's crazy, i know it's crazy, but it's gonna work.
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  • That thing you've been stepping over, god's gonna use it.
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  • That thing you don't pay no attention to, god's gonna
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  • Use it.
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  • That thing that everybody undervalue, devalue, didn't
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  • Wanna sell it at the full price, it's a dollar over here, it's $4
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  • Over there, it's $750 over here, but it's all water.
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  • You got to know your own value, you got to know what you got.
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  • It's crazy that you could throw a dead man on the bones of
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  • Elijah, and he could wake up out of his death and come alive.
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  • It's crazy that jesus's finest hour was being stripped naked,
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  • Nailed to a cross till the sun refused to shine, but early
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  • Sunday morning he got up with all power in his hand.
  • 00:20:12.761 --> 00:20:16.632
  • Look at your neighbor and say, "neighbor, if i told you my real
  • 00:20:16.632 --> 00:20:22.671
  • Testimony, it's crazy how i got here.
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  • It's crazy how i got in this position.
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  • It's crazy how god made a way.
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  • It's crazy how god opened up a door.
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  • It's crazy how i bought this car.
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  • It's crazy how i got this job.
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  • It's crazy how i got this degree.
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  • It's crazy how i got this woman.
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  • It's crazy if you ever knew who i was--"
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • And i'm trying to tell you, as i bring it to a close, that god is
  • 00:21:00.042 --> 00:21:05.514
  • About to do something crazy in your life.
  • 00:21:05.514 --> 00:21:09.918
  • With all hell breaking loose and trouble everywhere and you don't
  • 00:21:09.918 --> 00:21:15.357
  • Know who to trust and you don't know who to talk to, it's only
  • 00:21:15.357 --> 00:21:20.228
  • A sign that god is about to do something crazy in your life.
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  • And the lord told me that if i would preach this word, it would
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  • Bear witness with somebody in this room.
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  • Find your neighbor and ask them, "is it you?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: we got a new devil to fight because we're at a new
  • 00:21:45.387 --> 00:21:47.989
  • Level and we got to change our game plan.
  • 00:21:47.989 --> 00:21:51.059
  • And i'm tired of people feeding me 40-year-old messages to keep
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  • Me back where i came from.
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  • It's time to go up or get out of the way.
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  • Oh, you don't like me. [congregation cheering]
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • I wish i could just lay on that right there because i got a lot
  • 00:22:20.355 --> 00:22:23.792
  • To say about that.
  • 00:22:23.792 --> 00:22:28.630
  • I'm telling you, be suspicious, somebody may be poisoning
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  • Your food.
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  • Anybody who's feeding you things that make you feel sorry for
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  • Yourself, anybody who keeps dragging you back into your
  • 00:22:39.341 --> 00:22:42.511
  • Past, anybody who keeps holding you down and telling you you
  • 00:22:42.511 --> 00:22:45.614
  • Can't get up because of somebody else, they're putting poison in
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  • Your food, poison in your food, poison in your mind, poison in
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  • Your thinking.
  • 00:22:53.221 --> 00:22:54.589
  • Nobody has to help you, nobody has to give you anything.
  • 00:22:54.589 --> 00:22:56.758
  • Unity would straighten out the whole community.
  • 00:22:56.758 --> 00:22:59.127
  • Come on, it's time to let's go higher and decide who we are.
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  • If god be for us-- [congregation cheering]
  • 00:23:02.531 --> 00:23:14.910
  • If one person overcame crack cocaine, then every other addict
  • 00:23:19.080 --> 00:23:22.284
  • Ought to look at him and say, "if he got out of it,
  • 00:23:22.284 --> 00:23:24.419
  • I can too."
  • 00:23:24.419 --> 00:23:26.555
  • If one person got out of jail and didn't go back, then every
  • 00:23:26.555 --> 00:23:28.957
  • Other person ought to say, "listen, i'm not going back
  • 00:23:28.957 --> 00:23:31.493
  • Where i came from."
  • 00:23:31.493 --> 00:23:32.828
  • If one person opened up a business in an inner city, or
  • 00:23:32.828 --> 00:23:35.464
  • Any other part of the city, and they made it, what is wrong
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  • With you?
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  • God has blessed you with the same skills that he did
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  • Anybody else.
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  • You may have to do some digging and dunging, but when we get
  • 00:23:44.372 --> 00:23:47.209
  • Through digging and dunging you--i expect you to go into the
  • 00:23:47.209 --> 00:23:50.445
  • Enemy's camp and take back what he stole from you.
  • 00:23:50.445 --> 00:23:59.855
  • Notice that phrase, "take back what he stole from you."
  • 00:23:59.855 --> 00:24:02.724
  • Not sit back and whine and, "ah, would you please give it back.
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  • Oh, you didn't treat me right."
  • 00:24:06.261 --> 00:24:08.663
  • Take it back.
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  • Somebody holler, "take it back!"
  • 00:24:10.866 --> 00:24:16.004
  • I don't have time to wait for somebody to give it back.
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  • If it's mine, i'm going--well, i need somebody to help.
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  • That's what i'm talking about: cross-pollinating, getting with
  • 00:24:28.450 --> 00:24:30.552
  • People who are going in your direction, letting them teach
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  • You and train you and quip you and motivate you so you can go
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  • To that next level.
  • 00:24:35.891 --> 00:24:38.894
  • Bishop jakes: innovation is to see something that is not there,
  • 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:41.963
  • That could be there, to see the potential to change and alter
  • 00:24:41.963 --> 00:24:46.835
  • And innovate it so that you can be creative in your own space.
  • 00:24:46.835 --> 00:24:51.540
  • I need innovative people all around me in every aspect of
  • 00:24:51.540 --> 00:24:55.410
  • What i do.
  • 00:24:55.410 --> 00:24:56.745
  • I need innovative people.
  • 00:24:56.745 --> 00:24:58.113
  • Innovative people are not the people who bring you problems,
  • 00:24:58.113 --> 00:25:00.815
  • They are the people who bring you solutions.
  • 00:25:00.815 --> 00:25:02.884
  • They are the people who stare at the problem until an emergence
  • 00:25:02.884 --> 00:25:06.821
  • Of a solution begins to develop out of the problem, even if it
  • 00:25:06.821 --> 00:25:10.759
  • Has not existed before.
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  • Innovative creativity is extremely important for you to
  • 00:25:12.494 --> 00:25:17.599
  • Surround yourself with that level of innovation, to stay
  • 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:21.403
  • Abreast on the latest technology, the latest
  • 00:25:21.403 --> 00:25:24.539
  • Opportunities, the new ways that they're doing things now.
  • 00:25:24.539 --> 00:25:27.542
  • We don't need the file cabinets we had when i came along, the
  • 00:25:27.542 --> 00:25:31.680
  • World has changed.
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  • Innovation is necessary in order for you to be relevant.
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  • Are you innovative?
  • 00:25:36.484 --> 00:25:37.852
  • And are the people around you innovative?
  • 00:25:37.852 --> 00:25:40.121
  • And are they prepared to engage this world and be plugged into
  • 00:25:40.121 --> 00:25:44.826
  • A slot that only innovative people can fill?
  • 00:25:44.826 --> 00:25:48.597
  • If not you are lagging behind while you are standing still.
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  • Male announcer: throughout the ages, history reveals a timeless
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  • Truth: that the torch of leadership not only blazes
  • 00:26:09.551 --> 00:26:17.359
  • Trails but lights the path for those who follow.
  • 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:27.402
  • Every era has its torchbearers, who inspire, innovate, and
  • 00:26:30.138 --> 00:26:34.643
  • Take risks.
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  • And when the moment calls for the changing of the guard, a new
  • 00:26:37.545 --> 00:26:41.816
  • Dawn rises, and the flame multiplies.
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  • This is the international leadership summit, a place where
  • 00:26:48.623 --> 00:26:53.061
  • Leaders from all walks are equipped to shape the future.
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  • Will your legacy light the way?
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  • Female announcer: feel free to reach out to us on social media
  • 00:27:04.939 --> 00:27:06.875
  • And share your story of how god is impacting your life.
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  • We look forward to seeing you next time on
  • 00:27:10.011 --> 00:27:11.780
  • "the potter's touch."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch. the potter's touch. ♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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