Coming up on the Potter's touch.

You have been hearing me preach. Coming up on the Potter's Touch.

You have been hearing me preach for years,

but it doesn't mean anything

if you don't learn how to make it work for you, it won't work because you listen to it.

It won't work because you listen to it. It won't work because you took notes on it. It won't work because you shouted about it. It won't work because you

shouted about it. It won't work because you're smoking tongues. It will only work if you work it

The two texts I have chosen are dealing with how these two men met an appointment with destiny.

It is about the passing of the baton. See them as bookends.

The first story is one part of it,

and the last text is the end of it.

The first story shows how it started.

The next text shows how it ended.

Elijah is outside working in the field. He is oblivious. He is oblivious to the fact that his

entire life is about to change.

He has no idea that today would disrupt all of his family and change the trajectory of the

rest of his life.

It's just another day of getting up early in the

morning and perhaps having the breakfast at four o'clock in the morning. My

grandmother would get up before a day morning was dark and you ate breakfast in the dark because work in

the field starts in the dark before it gets hot and Elijah is just working in

the field working in the field, working in his parents' field,

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