The Potter's House Podcast

Episode: Clarity Sunday | Touré Roberts

Date: January 25, 2026
Speaker: Touré Roberts

Episode Overview

This special "Clarity Sunday" episode features Touré Roberts delivering an empowering message about living with clarity in a fast-paced, noisy world. The sermon explores how spiritual clarity distinguishes leaders from followers in accelerated seasons, presents practical exercises and disciplines to cultivate clarity, and challenges listeners to align themselves with God's purpose to navigate life’s opportunities and pressures. This episode is both deeply practical and prophetic, equipping listeners to move from confusion to certainty through spiritual disciplines and divine alignment.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Times We’re Living In: Opportunity and Noise

• Accelerated Possibilities:

  • We live in a unique moment where technology and influence are accessible like never before.
  • "What it would take people, teams, and money and all these expensive tools to do – it is right at your fingertips." (Touré Roberts, 02:15)

• Amplification of Confusion:

  • Increased speed and opportunity also amplify distractions and confusion ("the cray cray").
  • The same technology that accelerates opportunity also multiplies noise.

• Clarity as the Deciding Factor:

  • “The people who are going to win in these times are not the most gifted... the people who are going to win in these times are the people who are clear.” (Touré Roberts, 03:08)

2. Clarity Starts with Awareness

• Exercise: Identifying Acceleration

  • Listeners are asked to "write down one sentence in response to: What feels the most accelerated or demanding in my life right now?" (05:00)
  • The exercise is to help contextualize the need for clarity in the speed of life.

• Clarity Defines Action:

  • "Clarity is what I like to call the definer. In accelerated seasons, you can't keep the season from slowing down... but you want to move accurately in that season.” (Touré Roberts, 06:34)

3. Timing and Seasons

• Biblical Foundation:

  • Cites Ecclesiastes and Daniel:
    • “The people who know their God shall be strong and shall carry out exploits.” (Daniel 11:32)
    • This season requires a grace to know and to act in God's timing.
  • “Knowledge is going to be increasing... movement is accelerating... knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel 12:4, paraphrased, 09:56)

• Speed Without Clarity is Dangerous:

  • "Speed without clarity is dangerous." (Touré Roberts, 10:54)

4. Clarity Begins Internally

• From the Inside Out:

  • Rooting clarity in your identity and purpose; otherwise, the external pace will derail you.
  • “If your purpose is unclear, then opportunity is going to distract you because you can’t decipher between a good thing and a God thing.” (Touré Roberts, 16:00)

• Second Exercise: Honest Self-Knowledge

  • “What do I know about myself in this season that I’ve been ignoring?” (17:20)
  • Listeners are encouraged to write just one honest sentence, not overthink or spiritualize.

• Silencing Internal Noise:

  • “Clarity will begin when you stop talking yourself out of what you already know.” (Touré Roberts, 18:30)

5. God’s Vision Exceeds Ours

• Clarity vs. Ambition:

  • Warns against substituting ambition for divine alignment.
  • “It is possible for you and God to be in disagreement about your vision board.” (20:08)
  • Ephesians 3:20 is cited: God can do exceedingly, abundantly more than we can imagine; our vision is always too small.

• Alignment, Not Force:

  • “Clarity is not about forcing your way forward. It is about getting in alignment so that you can move forward.” (23:10)

• Living in Divine Flow:

  • True clarity is about walking in the pre-ordained purpose God has for your life:
    • “There is something designed to work for you. If your life isn't working, it might be because you're not clear enough.” (24:41)

• Embracing Necessary Tension:

  • Discontent is a signal to seek alignment, not a problem to fix.
  • “God wants that tension. Because that tension will put you in a position to seek alignment, to seek his way to get clear.” (25:21)

6. How God Guides: Unction and Desire

• God Leads by Unction:

  • “The unfolding happens in increments. Right? God gives us impressions, promptings, nudges, subtle inner movements.” (28:10)

• Desire as Direction in Seed Form:

  • Philippians 2:13 – “God works in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure.”
  • “Desire is often direction in seed form.” (31:10)

• Stillness, Perception, and Recognition:

  • “You have to be still enough to perceive it, clear enough to recognize it, consecrated enough to honor it, and consistent enough to follow it.” (34:10)
  • Key disciplines: perception, recognition, honoring, and consistent action.

7. Peace, Pressure, and Neutrality

• Third Exercise: What You're Drawn Toward

  • “Right now I feel drawn toward …” (37:43)

• Evaluating the Signal:

  • Peace = confirmation/settledness;
  • Pressure = urgency without clarity;
  • Neutrality = the answer/timing hasn’t been revealed yet.
  • “Peace doesn’t always mean easy. It just means that it’s settled.” (38:24)

• Clarity Is Attentiveness

  • “Clarity comes when you learn to listen to these signals without letting them rush or rule you.” (39:38)

8. How Clarity Gets Lost & How to Get It Back

• Noise and Busyness:

  • “Most people don’t lose clarity because God stops speaking. It’s that the noise gets louder.” (41:10)
  • Speed, pressure, and motion can all substitute for actual clarity.

• Clarity as Discipline:

  • “Clarity is not a one-time revelation. Clarity is a discipline.” (44:30)
  • The people who win are not those who never lose clarity, but those who know how to get it back.

9. Four Disciplines of Clarity

(Put in a practical framework for the listener)

• Stillness
  • “Clarity doesn’t compete with noise… clarity emerges when the noise quiets…” (45:30)
• Recording the Unction
  • “Clarity that is not written is clarity that will eventually be forgotten.” (46:35)
• Discernment Over Impulse
  • “Not every strong feeling is clear direction...” (49:18)
• Re-Clarifying the Rhythms
  • “Clarity is not something you have once. It’s something that you always have to return to.” (50:05)

Practical Mnemonic:

• “Hear, remember, interpret, return.” (51:08)
• “If you can hear and you can remember and you can interpret and you can return, you are going to be... someone who moves in the flow of clarity.”

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The people who are going to win in these times are the people who are clear.” (03:08)
• “Speed without clarity is dangerous.” (10:54)
• “If your purpose is unclear, then opportunity is going to distract you because you’re not going to be able to decipher between a good thing and a God thing.” (16:00)
• “Clarity will begin when you stop talking yourself out of what you already know.” (18:30)
• “It is possible for you and God to be in disagreement about your vision board... God’s dreams are bigger than yours.” (20:08)
• “Clarity is not about forcing your way forward. It is about getting in alignment so that you can move forward.” (23:10)
• “Desire is often direction in seed form.” (31:10)
• “Be still and know—that’s where clarity arises.” (34:22)
• “Clarity is not a one-time revelation. Clarity is a discipline.” (44:30)
• “Clarity that is not written is clarity that will eventually be forgotten.” (46:35)
• “Not every strong feeling is clear direction... sometimes because we feel it strong, we feel like it must be clarity. No, I’m going to sit with it.” (49:07)
• “Hear, remember, interpret, return. If you can do these, you’ll move in the flow of clarity.” (51:08)

Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:08] – Framing the moment: Why clarity matters right now
• [05:00] – Exercise: Identifying what feels accelerated/demanding in your life
• [09:56] – Daniel and Ecclesiastes: The increase of knowledge and acceleration of time
• [16:00] – Internal clarity vs. external momentum
• [17:20] – Exercise: What am I ignoring about myself?
• [23:10] – Clarity as divine alignment, not forced ambition
• [28:10] – How God’s guidance unfolds incrementally (Unction and desire)
• [31:10] – Desire as seed-form guidance
• [34:10] – Four stages: Perceive, recognize, honor, and follow unction
• [37:43] – Exercise: What do you feel drawn toward? (Peace/pressure/neutrality)
• [41:10] – How clarity fades: noise, speed, pressure, and busyness
• [44:30] – Clarity as a sustainable discipline
• [45:30] – The Four Disciplines: Stillness, Recording, Discernment, Re-Clarifying
• [51:08] – Mnemonic: Hear, remember, interpret, return

Practical Tools & Resources Presented

• Touré Roberts’ forthcoming book:
  Knowing: The Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World

  • Written “under the hand of God” to cultivate inner certainty.

• 90-Day Clarity Guide:

  • Daily practices to establish the disciplines outlined in this message.

• Knowing Journal:

  • A physical notebook to capture revelation, unction, and clarity.

• Clarity Cards:

  • 36 prompt cards serving as quick resets when clarity or calm is needed.

• "Undistracted" Merchandise:

  • Apparel to reinforce the clarity mindset in daily life.

Actionable Takeaways

• Embrace regular stillness to quiet external and internal noise.
• Record insights and revelations as soon as they come.
• Sit with your strong feelings before acting impulsively; discern whether it’s peace, pressure, or neutrality.
• Develop a rhythm of returning to clarity—recognizing that it fades and requires deliberate pursuit.
• Align your dreams and ambitions with God’s greater purpose, rather than forcing your own will.
• Pay attention to desires as possible seeds of direction, but always test them through the discipline of discernment.
• Use practical tools—journals, prompts, and reminders—to create supportive environments for sustained clarity.

For Further Study & Reflection

• Scriptures Referenced:

  • Daniel 12:4: “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
  • Daniel 11:32: “The people who know their God shall be strong and shall carry out exploits.”
  • Joel 2:25: “I will restore the years the locusts have eaten.”
  • Philippians 2:13: “God works in us to will and to do...”
  • Ephesians 3:20: “Exceedingly, abundantly above all we ask or think.”
  • Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart… he will direct your paths.”
  • Psalm 46:10: “Be still and know that I am God.”
  • Isaiah 55:8-9

• Reflection Questions:

  • What area in your life feels most accelerated or pressured?
  • What is one thing you know about yourself in this season that you’ve been ignoring?
  • How do the signals of peace, pressure, or neutrality show up in your discernment process?
  • Do you have a regular discipline of stillness and recording unctions from God?
  • In what ways is your ambition aligned with, or misaligned from, God’s greater flow for your life?

Tone of the Episode:
Inspirational, practical, prophetic, and challenging—with a strong call to spiritual self-examination and actionable steps.

Listen to this episode to be inspired and equipped to seek, sustain, and steward clarity in every area of your life—through seasons of acceleration, confusion, and divine opportunity.