Bishop TD Jakes - Grasping The Moment - Potter's Touch

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
You know what I'm going to do.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I normally receive the offering right now, but I'm going
to put it on hold and I'm going to go
right into the Word of God because I'm kind of
excited about what the Lord gave me and I'm just
going to jump into it. And so us as and
deacons just just chill for a minute. You don't have
to go into the offering right now. I'm going to
go into the Word of God and then we'll receive

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the offering after the Word.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is that all right?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Today, we're going to look at a couple of passages scripture.
I want to go first to Genesis twenty five nineteen
through thirty four in the NIV, and I'm going to
be reading out of the NIV, and i want you
to put to stand on your feet for just a
moment so that I can let you ease drop on

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this conversation that the Lord and I are having about
grasping the moment. Yeah, about grasping the moment again. It's
Genesis chapter twenty five, nineteen through thirty four. If you're
watching online, get your Bible, join in and be a

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part of this experiences. Because there's a reason that God
has you online this morning, streaming to hear the word
of God, because there is a moment that you have
to grasp. If you don't grasp it, it won't happen.
Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? Now? It

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begins on this wise. This is the account of the
family line of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father
of Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he
married Rebecca, daughter of Bethew Well the Aramean from Paddam
Aram and sister of Laban, their Aramean. Isaac prayed to

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the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless.
The Lord answered his prayer and his wife, Rebecca, became pregnant.
The babies jostled each other within her. They fought, they wrestled,

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they rolled around, they kicked within her, and she said,
why is this happening to me? So she went to
inquire the Lord, and the Lord said to her, two
nations are in your womb. Two nations are in your womb,

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and two people from within you will be separated. One
people will be stronger than the other, and the older
will serve the younger. Now that's important. The older will
serve the younger. When the time came for her to

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give birth, there were twin boys in her womb, two
of them, twin boys, two boys in her womb. The
first to come out was redd and his whole body
was like a hairy garment. So they named him Esau.
Can you imagine maybe come out all harry, And they

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named him so. After this, his brother came out with
his hand grasping Esau's hell. Now that's what got me,
when his brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's hill.

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So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old
when Rebecca gave birth to them. Honey, that ought to
make you nervous. High they Liuljah, glory to God without CVS.

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And the boys grew up. You'll get it later, don't
worry about it. The boys grew up, All the men
got in. The boys grew up, and Esau became a
skillful hunter. The boys grew up, and Esau became a
skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob

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was content to stay at home among the tents.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Isaac, who had a taste for.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Wild game, loved Esau, but Rebecca loved Jacob. Once when
Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the
open country famish. He said to Jacob, quick, let me
have some of that red stew. I'm famish, that is

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why he was called eatam. Jacob replied, first, sell me
your birthright. Look, I'm about to die. Esau said, what
good is the birthright to me? But Jacob swear to
me first. But Jacob said, swear to me first. So

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he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lental stew.
He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright. Go back to verse twenty

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says after this, his brother came out with his hand
grasping Esau's heal. I want to talk to you about
grasping the moment. Father, in the name of Jesus, I
pray that the word would be made flesh while it
is being preached. Allow me to flow freely in the

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gift that you've given me and share openly the conversation
that you've shared in me through me to them. Allow,
Oh God, the Holy Spirit, to take the message that
has germinated inside of me, and let it be meet
and sustenance to the souls of the people, both here

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and online. Give birth this morning, Give birth in this
place in the name of Jesus, we pray. Somebody shout
a man, you may be seated in the presidence of
God on your way down to say grasp a moment.

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You know, there's so much to be said here because
this particular chapter deals with the lineage and the order
that first came out of Abraham. It mentions what came
out of Abraham. Three major three of the biggest, most

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pronounced religions in this world claim to have come out
of Abraham. Whether you're talking about Islam, or whether you're
talking about Christianity, or whether you're talking about Judaism, they
all trace back to Abraham. I was standing at the
whaling wall, and I was thinking about the commonality and

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the centricity of our faith intersects at Abraham. From that
point forward, it divides into a lot of different dispersed
ideologies and concepts, but we agree on Abraham. So I
want you to understand that whenever God ever ever gets

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ready to do anything, he does it with the power
of one. So I want to talk about the power
of one, because you are one. And everything starts not
with the board, not with the committee, not with the vote.
Everything starts with one. The power of change begins with one.

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Whether it is one Nelson Mandela, or whether it is
one woman who decides to sit down on a bus,
or whether it is one person that decides we should
be able to fly, or whether it is one person
that invents the telephone, it starts with one.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
One person.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
You have to decide, first of all this morning, if
you're going to be the one or are you going
to be the person who's always waiting on some one.
God creates all men from one man. It starts with one,

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the power of one. Somebody shout, one, behold the Lord God,
God is one, and beside him there is no other.
God goes to bring it. He says, there's never been
a God before me, and there'll never be a God
after me.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
I alone, I alone, I alone, I all one alone,
all one, I.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
All one am God. So when God got ready to
make something in his image, he created one man. And
out of that one man, though he has three parts,
like God, out of that one man, all of the
creation came out of one. And the destinies of those

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creations begin with one. Somebody say, I'm the one. You
don't sound like you the one.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'm the one.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
That's what's wrong Now's if I'm tired of being the one.
I'm the one that has to work, and I'm the
one that has to go get the groceries, and I'm
the one that got to pay the bills, and I'm
the one has got to cook, and I'm the one
who's got to wash dishes, and I'm the.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
One who got to take the kids to school.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm the one. It's tough when you're the one somebody
say I'm the one. You got to understand that you're
the one, so that you will stop being intimidated by
other people and their gifts and their talents and their destiny.
You have to understand I'm the one. If you don't
understand you're the one, you won't understand why you're being

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attacked like you're being attacked. Whenever the enemy knows that
the one is coming, he always sets traps to stop
them from succeeding. Because they're the one. He always sends
out somebody to destroy them. They are always on the
hit list because hell knows that he is the one.

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I want to talk to some people that have been
up under crazy attack, attack that makes no sense, attack
that blindsided you, attack that came out of nowhere, attack
on another level that doesn't even line up with your situation.
I want you to understand what the enemy understands about

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you is that you are the one, and to him
whom much is given, much is required. And so the
text starts out talking about Abraham because Abraham is the one.
And Abraham had to move out from his country and
away from his kindred because he was the one. So

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he was a misfit because he was the one. So
he didn't get to stay with his kinfolks because he
was the one. So he had to live in isolation
and separation because he was the one. So he probably
was lonely because he was the one, and it took
a long time for it to materialize his significance because
he was the one, And so he was traveling nomadically

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as a misfit from place to place, never fitting in
with any group. No group would take him because he
was the one. And so I'm talking to some people
who have always been a little isolated, never been accepted,
never been a part of the crowd. It always happens
because you are I'm the one. You're probably not gonna

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like me because I'm the one. I'm a little strange.
I'm the one. I don't fit in. I don't say
that's what I mean. No, I don't say no what
I mean Yes. I don't scratch where I'm not itching.
I don't roll over without a fight. Because I am
the one. I understand that I am the one, and
I am willing to becometroversial because I am the one.

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When you are the one, you are supposed to me.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Tention.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Lem Me say I'm gonna change the world. I'm gonna
change the world. I want you to know I'm gonna
change the world. I'm gonna change the world. I'm gonna
change the world, gonna I'm not gonna leave it like
I found it. I'm gonna change the world. I refuse
to be born and die and leave no sign that
I was here.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I am the one.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I will not just breathe air and drink water and
eat food and change anything.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
I'm gonna change.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Something somebody, somewhere, somehow, some kind of way. I'm gonna
make a debt, a mark, a scratch, a scrape because
I am the one. So your hand them to say,
give me the power because I'm the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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glorify me with the glory that I had with you
before the foundations of the world. Give me the power
to do what you had in mind when you created
me because I am the one. Don't let me get
distracted in pettiness and small mindedness and fighting things that
make no difference because I don't recognize my own significance.

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I am the one, so I don't have to win
you because I am the one. And you don't have
to like me because I am the and you don't
have to support me because I am the one. And
I already understand that I got to leave in my
country and my kindred and walk by myself.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Because I am the one.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
So I want to talk about the power of one.
So you'll stop begging for people to come into agreement
with you, So you'll stop doing polls and census and
trying to get everybody to come into consensus with your vision,

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so that you won't need nobody to save men when
you preach, because you already know that you got heaven
saying hey, man, you'll power one, one person starts a company.
One person starts in ministry. One person opens up a

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home for unw mother. One person has a vision to
decrease domestic baluth. One woman decides I should have the
right to vote.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
One one.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I am the one. You are one thought away from
all your needs being met.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
You are one.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
One person with one thought can turn the world upside down.
One person with one thought. One one person thought, one
person thought.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
One person thought, I'm.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Gonna make this phone. I'm gonna make this phone so
small it'll fit in his pocket, and I'm gonna make
him able to communicate with all.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Kinds of people all over the world.

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And one person decide, well, let's put an absident. And
one person said, we'll put it out on the world
Wide Web. And one person said, we're gonna call We're
gonna measure their gigabytes to one person on one, one
one one. That's why the devil wants to keep your
mind on all kinds of things that don't make any sense,

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because one person has one factory that has one idea
that could change the world. In fact, I got to
get off this point. I'm spend too much time on it.
But let me tell you some God didn't promise you
but one. He said, if you bring the times and
offerings in the storehouse, that there might be meet in
my house. He said, proud me, now here with If
I will not open up the windows of heaven and

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pour you out a blessing, one blessing will do you
the rest of your life. God said, I can granted
you one time, and you'll spend the rest of your
life trying to harvest what I did at one moment
in your life.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
I can make you pregnant with everything.

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At one time, I will pull you out a blessing
that you will not have rule enough to receive. He said, Now,
come get with me. I'm going to give you more
than you expected. So the one Abraham has one son, Isaac,

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and Isaac Mary's one woman named Rebecca, and Isaac Mary's
Rebecca and Rebecca cannot conceive children. And I thought to myself,
didn't that funny because his mama couldn't either. And isn't
it funny how they say you end up marrying your mama,

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some version of your mother. I don't know what that
means to you. You pray about it, it's up to you.
But I can see all the men thinking about it. Well, Lord,
but it makes sense because your mother is your first

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introduction to femininity. She defines to you, good or bad,
what a woman is, rightly or wrongly. She affects your choices.
And out of the baron womb of Sarah came Isaac
and he ends up married to a baron whomb because

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he came from a.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Baron whomb.

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And he has experience with this problem because now he's
got to fight his daddy's devil. So he's married to
this one woman who cannot produce a child, and he
prays and they pray together, and she is with child.

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But it's strange. Pregnancy is strange. She is the first
woman in the Bible that we clearly understand point two
the power of two, because she is pregnant with twins.
And she says, why am i? Thus, I don't look

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like the other pregnant women in the village.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
I have.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Something going on in my stomach. I got two. So
we're talking about the power too. We went from the
power one to the power too. The text goes from
the power one to the power too? God, why am

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I in such inner turmoil? And then God explains to her.
God says two things. He says, there are two people
in you. There are two people in you. There are

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two distinct people in you. Now, there are two types
of twins. There are fraternal twins and identical twins. Fraternal
twins are twins where two different sperm cells touch two

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different eggs and produce two different people that share the
same womb, so they are born simultaneously, but they are
distinctive indually because they grew in the same womb, breathe
the same air. But they don't look like twins, but
they are twins because they were two of them. They

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don't look alike, but they came out with the same birthday.
Because they are fraternal, they have a fraternity, but they
have an individuality. They are fraternal twins. Identical twins are
much different because identical twins are where one sperm cell

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and eggs sell split. So they got the same nose,
and they got the same eyes, and they got the
same chin, and they got the same look because there
really was one person that split. So they talk alike,

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and they often dress alike, and they say the same
things at the same time because they are one identical twins.
Identical twins. Rebecca is not pregnant with identical twins. She

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is not pregnant with identical twins. She is pregnant with
fraternal twins, two distinctly different people sharing the same space.
The power of two, Now, the power of two is
a great thing when they're in agreement. Jesus says, if

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two of you agree as touching anything on earth, it
shall be done. And if she had two people inside
of her that were in agreement, it would be a
peaceful pregnancy. But the problem with Rebecca is the two
distinct individual people that she has inside of her, has

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two completely different and personalities, and they are already fighting
for territory in the war. So there's a war going
on in her belly. And it's funny because God says
to her, you got two people inside of you. And
then God says, and this shows you how far God

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sees she's pregnant. So he sees people while she's pregnant.
So God does count pregnant as people.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
I ain't even gonna go there.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
God does count pregnant as people. He says, you have
two people in you. Why does God count pregnant as people?
Because faith calls things that are not as though they were,
Because God is not bound by time. He doesn't wait
for you to be born to know you. He told Jeremiah,
before I formed THEE in the belly, I knew THEE.

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I ordain THEE. I sanctified THEE. I knew you before
your mama saw you. So while she's pregnant trying to
understand this moment in her life, God is already looking
beyond the moment and saying that in your belly is

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two different people. Okay, though the fraternal twins, they're two
different people. And then he looks down through time and says,
there are two different nations. So God is talking about
nations and people while she is praying about babies. And

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the reason you don't understand God's answers is because you
are praying about your present and God is answering about
your future. Oh my God, oh my God, Oh my God,
Oh my God, Oh my God, oh my God, oh
my God, oh my God. And you are saying, Lord,
get me out of this. And God says, this doesn't matter.

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I had to take you through this to get that
to come out of you. There are nations inside of you.
I'm going somewhere with this glory to God and the

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fighting starts in the womb. And when out started reading
about Jacob and Esaul, which we haven't even gotten to
talk about their names yet, but I'm gonna go ahead
and do a spoiler alert when you start talking about

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Jacob and Esau being at war in the womb, causing
their mother to have disorder in her pregnancy. I went
to the seventh chapter of the Book of Romans and thought, oh,
my god, Paul is pregnant. When he writes when I
would do good, evil is present with me. There's a

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war going on in my members. I'm not in agreement
inside of myself. That which I would do I do, not,
that which I would not do I do. Oh wretched
man that I am. I'm approving. Who shall.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Deliver me? Oh y'all are ready for me? Let me
go on home?

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Said somebody say, I'm going into delivery.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Who shall deliver me.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
From this fraternal twins that exists down inside of me?
They're in one person, but they're two different people. Evil
and good are always fighting inside of me every day.
I hate to mess with you, but there are no
good people and bad people. There are good people that
got bad in them. There are bad people that got

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good in them. There's a war going on. You don't
get to be you without a fight. All my life
I had to fight. I had to fight my brothers.

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I had to fight. I swear for God. Hoko, You've
been fighting all of your life. You've been fighting in
your sleep. You wake up tired in the morning because
there's a war going on in your members. There's a
war going on in your members. And the Bible talks

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about the power of too. Now what you must notice
Esau comes out first. Now it's talking about order, because
when God talks about two, there must be order. When
God talks about two, there must be ordered. When God
talks about two, there has to be order because order
defines agreement. So the Bible says, it's not just enough

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that you know that there are two people and that
there are the two nations coming out of you. It
is important that you understand the order. Esau came out first.
Say that Esau came out first. Yeah, and the Bible
says that he was read and harry. Now, this is

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one of the few times that God describes a baby.
So if God describes a baby, you know how we
do when people bring you that baby and you look
over at the crib, and you say ooh, but I

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can't say nothing else. I say, Lord, have mercy. When
it's real bad, I say, geemne Christmas. I can't give
you all my secrets. Now you're trying to remember what

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I said when I saw your baby. I'll just tease it.
Why does God, why does God describe the baby take
the time to tell us that the baby is born
Harry and read. I almost call this message read alert

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because the significance of the red is important. He is
red and Harry.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
And then.

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The next one comes out, and he hasn't been named yet.
He is named by what he did. The next one
comes out, and as he comes out, he has got
esau by the heel, and he has grasped his heel.
The fight continues. It just changed.

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Territories. Oh God, I wish I had time.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
The fight continues like the fight between good and evil
continues like it started in heaven. It fell to the earth, realm.
It just changes territories. See, you gotta get used to fighting.
You keep waiting for the fight to be over. As

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soon as you finish this fight, you'll know it's finished
by the next fight. The graduation from the first fight is.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
The next fight, so they fop in the womb. Now
they're being born from one world.

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Into the next world, and even in the next world,
that's still fighting. So Lucifer fell from heaven and the
fight continues in the Earth realm. Watch this Jacob comes
out pulling eassault.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
By the hill.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
He grasped it by the hill. I don't care if
we're coming out or not. I'm still pulling at you.
I'm still pulling at you because evidently you weren't supposed
to come out first. I'm still fighting for my rightful place.

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Through circumstances. You got to drop on me and you
came out first. But I'm still fighting for my rightful
place because I am the one. You might have come
out first, but you are not the What did it
to me? The kingdom suffered violence, and the violence take

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it by foot.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Y'all ain't ready for me this morning.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
There are some things that are yours, but you gotta
fight for it. There are some things that God is
gonna give you, but you gotta fight for it. There
are some things that God told you it is yours,
but you gotta fight for it because that evil twin
you got is trying to sabotage everything God has for you.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
You got to.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Let me tell all of my Latino brothers and sisters,
all my white brothers and sisters. There's a saying in
our community when a black woman takes off her ear rings.
If you are ever arguing with a sister and she
get to fussing and she start pulling off her ear rings,

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some of you in here right now you need to
pull off your ear rings, chick off your cute heels
because you're in a fight. And if you don't brass
this moment, you don't have time to play. You don't
have time to chase down rumors. You don't have time
to worry about who's cute. You got to touch your

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neighbors how.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
I'm about to pull my ear rings off this morning.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
I'm not gonna live and die and not get what
God has for me. I'm gonna yank my ear rings
off and fight till I shit. I fight you in there,
I'll fight you over here. Oh my God. So number three,

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I'm talking about the power of the struggle.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
The power of.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
The struggle always continues. Can I take my time this morning?
I have lived my life all kinds of ways. I
know what it is to have a small church, tiny itchy,
bitchy little church where you got to drive the members
back home. You go by and pick them up when
I blow for you be ready. I know what it

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is to work forty hours a week and put my
whole check in the church to keep it going. I
know what it is to have my lights off and
my water off and my gas off, not all at
the same time, but what they took turns the gas

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would tag the water and say tag you in the water,
would tag the electricity and say it's your month. Take
them on out this month. They need to be in
the dog this month. We're gonna let them have something
to drink, but they a't gonna be able to see
where to go get it. I know the struggle of

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clipping coupons. I know what it is to get to
the grocery counter and have to put stuff back while
people looking at you like you're crazy and say, well,
I don't really need that. I was just teasing, we
don't really need no toilet paper. Put that on back.

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We were just kidding, we don't really have to have that.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Who needs diapers? We got Jesus college.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Do you.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
And I'll talk to myself self. If you ever get
up on your feet, if.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
You ever stand straight up with all your utilities all
at the same time, if you ever get where you
can go to the grocery store without a calculate on,
if you ever get to the point that you ain't
got a pocket full of coupon's self, all your troubles

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will be over. Well, let me tell you something that's wrong.
Because you just go to fighting from this level to
fighting on that level. The fight will always continue. Big church,
little church, lots of money, no money, big cloud, no crowd.
That's always something that fights you back. Because strength is

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developed through resistance. Oh my god, I think I'm gonna
tweet that myself. Strength is developed through resistance and the
reason God allows struggle to come in your life so
you can find out what you're working with, recognize who
you are, stand on your own two feet, get.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Used to stop, fine about what.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
You going through. If it ain't this, it's gonna be back.

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I've been passing here almost twenty three years, and still
sometimes when I come over the hill and I see
the parking lot full and the crowd back up, I
still can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
But that don't mean I don't have struggles.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
It just means I graduated to another level of the
struggle I had.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
So I used the stript from.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
The struggle I had against the struggle I have right now,
That's why the Bible said it was good for me
that I was afflicted. That's why the devil can't chase
me out of town because of no fight. I cut
my teeth on a fight. I fought it the womb.
I fought in the delivery role. You just got to

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make up your mind that fighting is normal.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Oh, ain't nobody the answer?

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Now?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
He grasps Esaul by the heel.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
The position is not lying up right, and the Bible
says to his mama, Rebecca, he says, in the word
of God that the elder.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Shall serve the younger.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Now, let's translate this out of the context of the
texts into the turbulence of you, you, the human you
and the divine you. The human you and the divine

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You are still you. They still wear the same suit.
They got on the same tennis shoes, they wearing the
same shirt. They came out at different times. I was
born June the ninth, nineteen fifty seven. I was born

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again September nineteen seventy two, and the trial of my
life is to make sure that the elder y'all didn't
get that. Y'all ain't ready for me this morn y'all

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can't handle that kind of stuf. Y'all can't handle that.
The Bible said that the elder shall serve the younger,
So I'm trying to make the old me serve the
new me.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
I'm gonna give you.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Thirty minutes to get a good praise up. This is
a moment. This is a moment. This is a moment.
This is a moment. This is a moment. This is

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a moment. This is a moment. This is a moment.
Some of y'all mischief when I told you to praise
the Lord. Some of y'all just looking over around with
your cute self. The subject of the sum of is
less the moment. That's what's wrong with you.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Now.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
When other people are taking action, you are looking around
when I say praise the lawyer, Let everything everything that

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have breath praise Shee the Lord. Slap your neighbor and
tell them I'm getting ready to grasp some moment. I'm
getting ready to grasp some moments. So if you're nervous,
you better get out of the way. I'm getting ready

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to grasp this moment because I'm getting ready to go
after what God has promised me. If you don't like
no noise, you might want to get up and.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Move because I am about to grasp.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
It's unseemly, but I'm gonna grasp it.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
It's weird, but I'm a grasp it.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
I don't understand it, but I'm gonna grasp smith cause
this is my This is your moment. I rebuke every
devil who told you yr yesterday was your best day.

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The devil is a lie. Yes, it's your moment, slap
your day. Gonna say this is my moment right now.
I'm the lastest moment right now. If you don't give it,

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tell me I'm gonna snatch it.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Let me tell you how I always know I'm about
to have a moment with I'm about to have a moment.
I always have an attack, some kind of struggle breaks
out in my life as a sign that I'm about
to give birth. I want everybody that's been in a struggle,

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see the struggle is always a distraction. The struggle is
always a distraction from what God is about to do
in my life. And the enemy wants me to be
so focused on the struggle that I missed the moment.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
But I'm to know.

Speaker 5 (46:01):
Oh, I'll let nothing supperightly lead the height Lord, death, Lord, power, Lord, principality, Lord, things, Father, Lord.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Thanks to crop shit grass that moment.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
That's what the Lord.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Told me to tell you, Grass. I'm getting ready to grassman.
I'm getting ready to grassman. That means I might be unseenly.

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I might get out of order. I might get on
your nurse. I might do something that's unprecedented. We never
hear of this happening again, where two babies are born
and one is snatching at the other one while they're
coming out. Sometimes, in order to get a breakthrough, you
gotta get on off the docks. I'm gonna go deeper

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the elder. The elder shall serve the younger. Esau shall
serve Jacob, Yeah, favor Is shall serve Zei Adam shall

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serve Jesus. Your flesh. You won't get this until you
make your flesh serve your spirit. You gotta bring your

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flesh up under subjection. You gotta bring your lust up
under subjection. You gotta bring your pride up under subjection.
You gotta bring your selfishness up under subjection, because the
elder shall serve or you ain't shouting? Now what happened?

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What happened? I thought you were shouting. Did you really
think you were gonna grasp the moment without struggle? Did
you think you would grasp the moment without sacrifice? Do
you really think you will grasp the moment? Talking about

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I gotta be me. You don't get to be you.
You don't get to do you boo. You got to
do him and not you. You got to make your
elder serve your younger.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
And the natural.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
I'm sixty two in the spiritual, I'm about forty five,
so my sixty two got to serve my forty five.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Y'all can't handle this.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
So they're fighting out here, and they was fighting in there,
and now they're fighting out here, saying that God was
added in heaven. Then they go to the wilderness and
they're added in the earth. Different dimensions, same struggle. You're

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gonna have different dimensions of the same struggle. The strength
you got from your first struggle prepares you.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
For your next struggle.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
What I went through in Charleston got me ready for Dallas.
If I hadn't had a Charleston, I couldn't have handled
a dollars, But I got the dollars a place I
had never been before, armed with the strength that I
learned in dollars. That's what's wrong with sudden success. Sudden

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success doesn't allow you to grow dimensionally, from faith to
faith and from glory to glory. David said, I don't
fool with things that are too high for me. You
don't want nobody to give you anything you didn't learn,

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because strength prepares you for the next level.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Sit down, sit down, sit down.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Now, now watch this because this is important. This is important.
They fought in the belly, They fought in the birth.
They fight in the belly, they fought in the birth,
and the next thing they grew up, and they fight
over the bowl, the belly, the birth, the bowl, the belly,

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the birth, the bowl.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
And all this.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Texas talking about dimensional warfare. In order to bring things
into divine alignment. There will be dimensional warfare, the belly,
the birth, the bowl. So it doesn't talk about them
growing up. It goes from the birth to now they're grown,

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and it describes how different they are grown. They were
different in the belly, they were different in the birth,
they are now different. At the bowl, it says that
that Jacob was kind of a mama's boy. Yeah he
had to be. Is daddy didn't like him if I

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had immensed me not wear that out. And so he's
good at what mama's good at. The annoying you respect
is the annoying you receive. So Jacob can do what

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Rebecca can do. Are you following me? Let me let
let me, let me, let me, let me let me,
let me, let me get into this. Jacob can do
what his mama can do. But Jacob is important because
Jacob is the one that spreads the lineage. It shall

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not come through East Saul. Now Isaac doesn't pay much
attention to Jacob, though Jacob is serving Isaac. According to
the Talmud, the particular meal he prepared is in honor
of his father. Meanie, he's a mama's boy, but he

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got daddy hunger. Esaul has the favor of his father
because he's good at what his father likes. His father
likes venison. He's good at killing at hunting. He has

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his father's favor, but he's not supposed to. Isaac has
picked Esaul.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
But God, God, who.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
God has picked Jacob The reason I got happy there. See,
I know what it's like to not be the one
that everybody was expecting, and yet God has picked you.
When people have stepped over top of you looking for
somebody else. But God is about to do the unexpected

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in your life. I want to talk to some people
that's been picked over, stepped over, cashed aside, and looked over. Baby,
this word is for you, the stone that the builders
would checked it. That's the one God always chooses. Surprise,

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watch this. Esaul comes in the house hungry. We pass
over all of their childhood experiences. We come down to
their hunger. Point four. The power of choice is always

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based on your values. How you choose, the decisions you
make will always tell me what's your value. Esaul comes
in hungry, He comes in hungry, He comes in hungry.

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Flesh is hungry. Flesh is always Flesh is always hungry.
Your flesh, my flesh, his flesh, her flesh, young flesh,
old flesh. Flesh is always hungry. Later in the New Testament,

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it will use Esaul as a type of foreigner case
and luss because flesh always wants something.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
They're not shouting out like they was before I told you.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
They wasn't gonna like this part. When I got down
to this this, he's always so hungry and he values
flesh over spirit. So he says, give me some of

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what you've got in that part and what Jacob was cooking.
Let me tell you something, Jacob, don't despise your gift
because your gift is gonna make room for you. I
know it's not a gift that people want to recognize,

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but it's a gift that God is gonna use to
open up the next dimension. This is a prophetic word
for somebody who wishes you had a gift somewhere else. No,
God's gonna take the gift that he gave you, and
it's gonna make room and bring you before a great man.

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And though it looks like you ain't doing nothing sitting
around in the house cooking.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Who would have.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Thought that God would have took a bowl of soup
and turned it into a moment. But who he was
stirring the pottle, Wow, he was turning apart Esaul busting
the door. He said, hey, Jacob man, I'm hungry. Jacob said,

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you know I can cook. You know it's good. You
smell it, don't you. You smell it, don't you? And
then the Bible tells us something that seems unnecessary. It
tells us that the soup is red.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
The red man Lord's red soup.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
And I had to read it over and over again,
because when when when? When?

Speaker 1 (59:03):
When Esau sawt a soup, the red soup cooking in
the pot. The boy who was born red values what
he is. Flesh always values what it is. I'm coming in.

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Watch this.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
You are no greater than your choices. Your choices are
built off of your values. Whatever you value, it's what
you're gonna choose. Esau chose what he was, the red
man chose the red suit. And he didn't value his birthright.

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He said, what good is my birthright? When I'm hungry
like this? He had something that he didn't value. And
any time you have something that you don't value, you
will always lose it. Somebody who knows the word on

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a shout right there. Any time you will have something
or somebody or some job or someplace or some opportunity
that you do not value, you will always lose what
you do not value. You ought to see the couples

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trying not to nod. I saw one lady put a
neckad embracest, but a toe was jumping up and down.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Says say it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Mitchill said, say you better value that's here, right chev,
you better value that's right here. Don't think I'm gonna
stay away. I'm not values here, but ahead of it,
watch it. Watch whatever your value will come to you.

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Whatever you don't value, you will lose.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
It.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Can be more valuable, but if you don't value it,
you will lose it. I cannot tell you how many
people in this room who know what it is to
grieve over the fact that you lost something that you
now know the value of but didn't appreciate in the moment.
Can I get a witness.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Watch this. So if you want to change your choices,
you have to change what's your value. You have to
change what's your value.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
You have to change what's your value, which means you
gotta have something that we are not good at. Delayed gratification.
I mean he was hungry. Hungry, You ain't gonna die.

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Hunger is temporary discomfort. We are wrestling between temporary discomfort
and long term benefit. Never make a permanent decision over
a temporary condition.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Things shouting over there. I'm gonna try y'all over here.
The problem he had was a temporary problem.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
What he gave up was a permanent, generational blessing that
affected the.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Way the rest of the world would turn even today.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
The hunger wasn't gonna last. You ain't every day you
a hunter. You'll make a living killing animals and cooking them.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
All Vegans don't right me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
That I get to stay right about everything, everything, everything,
I don't answer none of them.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
Uh this boy, And the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Reason this message is important is because you're right on
the cusp for something, and your values are going to
make a difference. Because your values are going to determine
your choices. And if you value the right thing, you
will suffer for it. You will wait for it, you
will endure for it, you will sacrifice for it. You

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will know that the long term benefit outweighs the immediate gratification.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
I will.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
The reason you'll give broke people money and they always
spend it, it's because we go for short term gratification.
I don't want to be rich. I want to look rich.

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I don't want to be smart. I want to act smart.
So I will drive this Bentley right up to the hook,
and I will spend my money on depreciating assets because
they make me look good in the moment. But I

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won't have anything in appreciating assets because I cannot stand
delayed gratification.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
I want to have it now. So I got nothing saved,
but I look fine.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
I got nothing to give to my children. I can't
send my kids to school. I can't start my own business.
But I am the sharpest person on the block. If

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I trade it in these hills, I could pay this mortgage.
I got red bottom shoes on, and I'm three months
behind on my mortgage because red always wants to eat red. Oh,
y'all ain't gonna talk to me. Y'all ain't gonna talk
to me this morning. Y'all ain't gonna talk to me

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this morning. Somebody talked to me this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Slap.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
The neighbor said, I'm getting ready to make better choices,
so I can I can I show you what I'm
talking about. I'm trying to help you with something that's important.
So so so so I bought my house in West Virginia.

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I bought my house in West Virginia. And I was
driving an old Lincoln and it was old, and then
it looked bad, and and and the big preacher came
to town. The preacher said to me, said, you can't
have all of this house. And that rad that rust
bucket up to that house. I said, riding this rust
bucket is.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
What bought it. Touch somebody say wait for it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Yeah, there's something that God is about to do in
your life, but you gotta be willing to wait for it.
There's something that God is about to give you that's
gonna change your destiny, but you gotta be willing to
wait for it. Either you're gonna wear designer clothes or
God's gonna make your name great and they gonna be
wearing your name, But you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Gotta wait for it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Either you're gonna watch move this or you're gonna make
move this, but you gotta be willing over this. Touch
Three people say wait for it, wait for it, save
for him, laybor for him, wait for him, crive for it,
do without fid. God is about to open up the

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When does that happen?

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
And pour you out of blessing? Or am I talking
to the enemy tricks you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
In depicting that bad boy, so that when that good
man came along, you would walk in with.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Dead beating Danny.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Because you wouldn't wait. Sir, you are no better than
your next choice. You are no better that should do
who you are, no better than your next choice. The greatest,
one of the greatest gifts God ever gave men. What's

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the power to choose?

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
The power to choose? I won't make you be saved,
I said before you life and death. You choose.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
That's part of your god like nature, the ability to
make a decision. I'm going to bring all the animals
before you, Adam, you name them, and the power of
your choice.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
I choose to call that a giraffe, I choose to
call that a dear. It will be whatever you say
it is. Your choice.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Determines your change. Your choice determines your change. God is
going to offer it to you. Your values will determine
whether you are worthy of it. Jacob is cooking soup

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Esaul has a birthright that will affect thousands of years
and all of his children, and Jacob is over there
just cooking.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
This is the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
The moment is determined by choice, not who they like
the best, not who came out first, not how they struggled.
This is the moment that all of Heaven is taking
over the balcony to see the choice, because the choice

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determines the change. You are not going to get to
your next destination just by prayer. I hate to mess
with you, I hate to mess with your mind. But

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prayer will not be enough. It will be my choice.
I thought for sure. I thought for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Before I went back and study the text. I thought
for sure that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
East Hall's name changed to eat Them, from which came
the Edomites, which means red. I thought it happened at birth,
But it didn't. They didn't change his name to eat them,
which caused all his descendants to be the Edomites, who
ended up possessing the territory that we now call Jordan,

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and a little bit of what is Israel too was
their dwelling place. It did not happen at birth. It
did not happen at birth. It happened at the bowl
when he looked at the red soup and thought it

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was more valuable than his birthrate, when he looked at
the depreciating asset and didn't value the appreciating asset when
he looked at the gratification of the moment rather than

(01:12:30):
the reality of the process, when he looked at exciting
the crowd as a preacher, but not studying at.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
Home to know the message. See, that's what's wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
But when we got right now, we got a lot
of people who want to look.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Like what they are not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
They don't want to really do the work, so they
wait for somebody else to preach something so they can
take it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
They don't want to study because that takes too much time.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
They don't want to lay out but for God, and say, Lord,
what is your word for my people? Did I know
I go before God for you every Sunday I preach.

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I listen to him argue on social media that was
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
No, child, that was for me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Oh no, you might have thought it was for you,
But I swear they shuld been living in my house.
I haven't been living in your house. But the Holy
Ghost has been living in your house.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
And because I.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Labor for God, God gives me your word. I guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
You're gonna have to make some choices.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
I guarantee you this word is God prepping you for
your next choice. Cannot be based on your biggest pain.
Stop chee the stuff because you hurting.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
To the people. Because you hurt, the heart will go away,
but the person is still there. I am not just
preaching to you. I go before God. God, give me

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what these people need and give it to me in
a way that they can sit.

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
That you always draw.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
What you value, that you're doing it to you. You
end up with the man you deserve. You end up
with what you value. We end up with the president

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we value. Our presidents are not anything.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
But a reflection, none of them.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
I don't care why this democrat a Republicans, I don't
care what.

Speaker 4 (01:15:43):
You call it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Choice is always determined by value.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Or they like their So what you see going on
outwardly is always a reflection of what started going on inwardly,
because it determines what your value. Now, a choice is coming,

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and you have to be strong enough to go long
enough in pain for a greater vision of what God
is about to do.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
In your life.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
This choice changed his name, changed his children. Had he
not made this choice, God would later tell Moses, I
am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Esau. Had he

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not given up his birthright, his children would have been
the heads of the tribes of the children that we
know as is rare.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
But for a ball of soup. The Jewish comment.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Said that Estha spent the rest of his life trying
to get that birthright back, and even in depth that
he was bringing gold and silver trying to get the
right to be buried in the suffulcher of his father's
because by the time his values caught up with his life,
he had lost zero point five the moments, the power

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of the moment. The power of the moment is not retroactive.
There are some moments you will never have again. There
are some things that wants to lose them you will
never get.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
A do over again. The Bible and these all sought
repentance with many tears and found it not.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
What is this that God is saying repentance wouldn't work.
Repentance always works, but not this time, because this time
it is the power of the moment. Doing the right
thing at the right time will determine the right outcome.

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If you missed the moment, all of Heaven is suspended.
The chronicles could not be written until the choice was made.
This choice will determine the rest of the book. But

(01:18:58):
God already knew what he was going to do, and
he chose on the level he was not on the
order of his birth, because he was in a position
he wasn't and he sunk to the level of who

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he really was. He was a soup guy, yeah, in
a princess place, and so he valued low and he
missed his moment. There is a moment. Tend to your feet.

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There is a moment that's sha naya ta kodo bullshit.
Hear me, hear me, good, hear me, hear me, Church,
Please give me, Please give me.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
There is a moment that God will give you that
will determine how your story is.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
There is a moment that God will give you that
if you discern the power of.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
That moment, no devil in hell can stop you. Some
of your destiny in that moment.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Who would have thought that, after all of Jacob's fighting,
he will win the battle with a bowl of soup.
Some of you that have been struggling for years for
what is rightfully yours and all of your fussing and
all of your fighting hadn't got it done. God's gonna
use your gifts. I don't know whether you can receive it.

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May be somebody watching right now, streaming online, that this
is for you. Wronged all your life, You've never had
your rightful portion, You've never been acknowledged in the place
that you should have been. You've always suspected that you're
bigger than your situation. There is a moment coming to
you that is about to shift everything. The first shall

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be last, the lies of me first, The heat shall
be the tail, the tails shall be the head. Who
am I preaching too? Things are about to shift? What's this?

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
And it's going to shift in a moment. After years of.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Struggle, after years of inequity and injustice and misfortune, after
years of being stepped over and overlooked, after years of
crying itself to sleep and saying why doesn't Daddy like me?
After years of not getting what he knew and inside

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of himself was really his, everything shifted in a moment.
You don't even see it coming, You don't even suspect

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it's gonna happen. You have decided I'm gonna make the
best of how things are.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
You said, it is what it is. No, it ain't. No,
it ain't no, it ain't no, it ain't it ain't.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
What it is it's about the shift. Who am I
preaching to you? For God's sake, let me see who
I'm preaching to, Hattie and shun the Lord will shin.

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I heard the Lord saying, I'm going to give you
a moment, and what you do with that moment is
up to you. Hear you, the word of the Lord.
God is going to give you a moment, and what

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you do with that moment.

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Is up to you. My subject is grasped the moments.

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Jacob was a fighter in his mama's belly. He was
a fighter in the belly. He was a fighter in
the birth. He was a fighter in the bowl. He
was a fighter even when God confronted him. He was

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a fighter all his life. He wrestled with God. He
wrestled with his saw. The shunned up a coach shop.
You have had to fight all of your life, hear
me today, after years of struggle and being tough and

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sucking it up and dealing with what you gotta deal with,
God said, I'm about to give you a moment, and
if you will grasp that moment, I will open up
the windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing.

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If I'm preaching to you.

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Let your hands open your mouth and let nothing but
praise come out of your mouth, nothing but praise.

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Let it out like the fighter. You are, like the water,
for you are like the praiseer you are.

Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
Let it out. Hollow, Loah, honey, up where.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
Hollow.

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I'm getting ready to print for somebody, and something is
going to happen in this place. The stage is set,
The spirit of the Lord is here. The annoying of
the Holy Ghos says, in this place, right here, right now,
right here, right now, right here, right now, God is
about to do something amazing. Quickly listen to this, Sir

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Jordan boss on me at the Maavy Center. I was
up in the balcony listening to at Fred Prank all
the way in the nosebleed section at the very top
of the top of the top.

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She brought me down to the front.

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Row because she knew me, because I had invited her
to sing for Mother's Day at a small meeting in Charleston,
West Virginia. That probably wasn't particularly memorable to her because
we had three hundred people and it was a big
deal for us. But she was Sarah Jordan Powall, and
I was just I wasn't TD Jake, so I was
just Thomas Minister Jake tail to Jake. Soon she brought

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me down to the front row and she said, I
have to service. I'm going to introduce you to Carlton Pierce.
And she walked to the corner of the stage and
Carlton was getting ready to go in the back, and
she said, Carlton, I want you to read a pastor
Jakes from West Virginia. And he said, oh, he said,
I don't know him me put his hand on my chest.

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He said, but he sounds like a preacher. He invited
me in back where the big munkety bucks go in
my little hill billy suit. And I went back here
in the back and I ate some trump and stuff.
It shook hands the message people and got out of there.

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Later on I got an invitation to speak for his
leadership conference at his church, me Brian, Keith Williams and
Mark Hamby Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. He put off we
were so insignificant that they put us all together on
his show and showed clips of each one of us
preaching because none of us had real big names, not

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like old robertson them at the time. And he played
a seven minute clip and the clip that they chose
of my sermon. The sermon was called behind Closed Doors,
but everybody calls it showed Me your Wounds, because that

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was the clip that they showed.

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And they showed this little clip and me talking about
Jesus showing his wounds.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Paul Kraus was writing a book I Had No Father
but God, and was struggling with whether to tell his
whole story or not.

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And he happened to turn on TVN.

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During the seven minute clip that I was preaching about
showing your wounds. He called called in person and said,
there's this big black guy a pair of preaching sweating
all over the place on your TV show right now.

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Who is he? He said, Well, that's that Jake's guy
from West Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
If Paul would have got up to you the ham sandwich,
if he would have had to go to the bathroom,
he would have missed that clip.

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When God gives you.

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A moment, he will put you in the right place
at the right time for him to do everything that
he promised you from the foundations. This is no time

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to be weary and well doing. This is no time
to be discouraged. This is no time to be depressed.
This is no time to decide you're not gonna get it.
This is no time to have a pretty party about
all the stupid things you did. This is no time
for you to worry about who you are in your humanity.

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This is a time to grasp.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Jacob didn't get it because he was holy. He didn't
get it because he was perfect. He was Connell and
Fleshley and his name meant trickster. He got it because
he grasps. God will look overlook everything you did wrong.

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If you will get this thing right, join hands with somebody.
Leave no one untouched. Check out their grip. If they
ain't got no grip, let them go. Because I'm preaching
about grasping the moment, and this is not for anybody

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that will not grasp.

Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
Squeeze in hand. Let him know. That's how.

Speaker 2 (01:32:35):
That's how am grasp this thing. That's how mon grasp
this opportunity. That's how I'm gonna grasp it. That's how
I'm gonna lay hold on it. That's how I'm gonna
grip what God has given me. It might not look
like much, it might only look like soup.

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I might be laughed at.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
They might have said, I'm a mama's boy, but I'm
about to have a moment. Squeeze that had the power
of the Holy Ghost is about to interrupt in your life.
You've been overlooked. They overlooked you like your sister better.
But God is getting ready to do something in your
life that's gonna blow your mind. Squeeze her hand. I'm

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forgetting what's behind me. I'm forgetting what's behind me. I'm
grasping what's in front of me. I'm grasping what's in
front of me.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
I'm grasping what God is about to do.