Bishop TD Jakes - Destiny Has A Stalker

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Mark chapter four verse 18 through 19 when you haven't say amen. This is a rare opportunity we

will move into the intersection of an ongoing discussion of a long text that includes and

incorporates a parable where Jesus begins to talk about through a parabolic metaphorical example

of what the kingdom is like a declaration of a sore went forth sewing seed.

And some fell on good ground. You remember that text and some fell in rocky places.

And he begins to describe these various conditions as circumstances that happen in the kingdom.

I won't exhaust the text. I won't even try but there is an excerpt in the middle of the text.

For which the Holy Spirit drew my attention first as a devotional in my own life. Anybody do devotional?

And you're a long time with God. Don't wait for church on Sunday.

Have your own little devotional. It keeps things from overwhelming you.

And then he directed me to share it with you. Gospel St. Mark chapter four verse 18-19 is in the

middle of an ongoing discussion where Jesus exegies his own story in a very profound way. It's the

only time that I can recall that Jesus gives a story and then explains the story after the story

so important that he doesn't want us to get off track from the true meaning of this text.

And he says in verse 18 and these are they which are shown amongst thorns

such as hear the word and he cares of this and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of

riches and the lust of other things entering in choke the word and it become of unfruitful.

I've been teaching you about destiny. I started the year out teaching about destiny. I wrote a

book on destiny. We're coming to the end of the year and I'm still talking about destiny

because you must understand you can reach no further than what you have been destined to reach.

Your future is now controlled by your ego, your neighbors, your ambition, you want to be living your

life on purpose. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I church is well taught on destiny so you

already get it. If you haven't gotten the material, you should get the material and start living

on purpose. You'd be surprised what you can cut off out of your busy schedule. If you focus only

on the things that are relative to your destiny, stay out of my business, your destiny and your

purpose. The reason I bring this destiny into this text, no soar soles a seed without hope of a

harvest. I listen to this brother Oliver and then we're singing about the rain and how the rain

is coming down and they say we sowed and now Lord sit in the rain. The rain is coming to water

what has been sold to the intent that we might have a harvest but in this particular case the seed is

sold. The blade springs up but because of the thorns and thistles the harvest is aborted and the

last word of the text says that it was unfruitful. These are they who ended up unfruitful. I want to

talk to you this morning warn you if you please to the fact that destiny has a stalker.

Destiny has a stalker. Destiny has a stalker. Spirit of the living God.

Move in this place. There's not a person in this room that doesn't need you. Without you we can do

nothing. We do not want to be busy without purpose. We don't want to work Lord and labor and

toil and have nothing to show for at the end of the day. Life is too tough to get to the end of it

and have no fruit for the time that we've been here. If there's a stalker to our destiny reveal it

attack it and destroy it because we want to see the harvest. If you're going to sit in the rain

I want to see the harvest. Have your way in this place in Jesus name somebody shall amen. You

may be seated in the presence of God. When I say to you that destiny has a stalker it might not

immediately hit you what that means unless you have ever been stalked. Some person who says they

admire you or becomes infatuated with you becomes so engrossed that at first you think they're just

being friendly or I just ran into them at the store or they just sent me a compliment or they

just helped me put the groceries in the car and then it's funny I ran into you again

over at the mall last Saturday and then you notice that you're loading the kids toys in the car

and there they are again and then you start to feel a little uncomfortable because if you are

person of instinct when you meet people instinct will kind of give you a little intuition that something

isn't right and after why are you a stalk now now I know what this is like because I have been

stalked I know what it is to be stalked I know what it is to be driving forward and looking in the

rear view mirror just to make sure that I'm not being followed I know what it is to get close to my

house and bypass my house and have to go another direction and throw somebody else to send I know

what it is to have to call somebody and say look this this car has been following me I know

what it is to be stalked I don't care how tough you are I don't care how prayerful you are I don't

care how how armed you are it's an it's an uncomfortable feeling to be stalked it's an invasion

of privacy hasn't touched you hasn't hurt you just looming around you stalking you unwanted

attention unwanted aggression destiny has a stalker I want to interject something that that Jesus

said to to Peter he says he says Simon Simon Satan has desired to have you that he might sift

you as we but I pray for you that your faith failed on I always know that Satan has desired

Satan has desired it's creepy to me that that Satan has desired desired.

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he he set you up he's got a plan he has desired to what he wants to have you

he stalking you that he might sift you cut you off stop you from reaching the place that I have

but I prayed for you good god of money I prayed for you that your faith failed you not

and what I love about the verses he then says when

not if see if if you win when now are converted strengthen up Jesus said I prayed for you

that your faith wouldn't fail and I don't doubt my prayer he didn't say I prayed for you

that your faith wouldn't fail and if now are converted because if means I don't know how this is

going to turn out he says when now are converted strengthen our brother it's fighting the fact

you're being stalked by an enemy that desires to hand you I prayed to stop his plan for you

when thou art converted strengthen thy brother the one thing we can know for sure is that there are

a lot of things that can happen on the road to destiny try to get from here to there can be tough

the Lord gave me grace as a father to raise five children and I think successfully so

I don't want to do that again that was enough for me I had grace for five not for six or seven

if I'd had grace for six or seven he'd give me six or seven I had grace for five

it's it's easy when they're little oh boy oh boy look at me I grabbed my teeth

but they don't stay there getting them to adulthood getting them to all diseases and crisis and

car rinks and storms this teacher and that teacher and this principal this fight and this school

incident that incident and this outbreak of disease in malaria and and and and Facebook's and

Twitter's and Instagram and what's that and what account in whose name and where's it uh

uh getting them to the destination is tough everything that starts then finish well

destiny speaks to the end of a thing anything can start good oh you ought to see how good these

wedding start all they start so good they can't even wait to kiss the bride can I kiss an

half talk to them 20 years from now they waving at each other see oh it starts so wonderful

beginning it to the destiny it's the thing that's what makes the apostle Paul's message so

profound when he tells Timothy I finish my course I finish it's not did you start it did you

finish now the night a plane started out started out for a destination a Russian plane hit the

news other day 224 people on board got on a plane feeling sure they would reach their destiny

didn't make it I was listening at the news it was really interesting they were trying to

figure out because the terrorists wanted to take credit for and they said no it wasn't that they

were trying to take credit for something that they didn't do they're trying to figure out what

stopped the destiny and then they brought an expert on the news and she said she said it is very

rare for a storm to be that high and that's strong and she said according to all the records that

we can determine there was no turbulence that high that should have caused that the magnitude of a

tragedy on a piece of equipment that is this modern we can rule out external circumstances so

it must be something that happened internally or human failure two things we have to consider

either your destiny is aborned by something on the inside

or something on the outside if it's not if the black box says nothing happened internally

then there has to be something that happened externally in my text today this destination was

aborted too but it was aborted not by something on the inside because the sword knows that the seed

is good you don't get me in a minute the sword knows that the seed is good he knows that the ground

is good but he is warning us about the external conditions in which destiny has to operate

look at your life look at how much easier it would have been for you if your external circumstances

had been better I'm not even going to work on the inside right now when you look at when you look

at see for me let me talk about me when you look at me I tell myself this I might have done better

in a better external circumstances but if I told you the environment I came from

you would say my god how did you how did you become fruitful in the elements you were in

it's the elements it's the elements this is why I can't compare myself with you because we didn't

grow up in the same elements this is why you have no right to judge me tell it wait now tell

me what you would do because you didn't come up in the elements come on with somebody I wish I

had a witness I need somebody who came up in bad weather when a bad weather my storm my hurricane

surviving tornado surviving tsunami surviving been through hell and high water but some kind of way I

made it over people how much you boy if you in here you have to learn how to celebrate small

successes because what is normal for other people is a victory for you because in your circumstances

you should have had a nervous breakdown you should have lost your mind you should be locked up

in San Quentin you should be a drug dealer right now but the grace of God was so strong in your life

that in spite of the circumstances talk to me anyway I want everybody who came up to hell and

how water to just take 10 seconds and give God some kind of thank you

yeah yeah yeah yeah I know they don't understand why you praise the God

I know they don't understand why you sound

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they don't have no big house they've been through crisis they've lost children they've lost jobs

and they just jumping up and down and clapping and you sitting up there with your fine self

said how in the world is she up there clapping but if you have been through what she had been through

y'all are gonna talk to me you would praise him too because success is relative to where you came from

to what you've been through to what you've been doing

tell somebody say these are they these are they these are they that were sold in environments

that should have choked you

at that shit of choked you you went through something that should have

have choked you you you you were racing a community that should have choked you you still don't

know who your father is and it should have choked you but in spite of it all you sprung up

anyway to god be the glory

oh tell somebody tell them I didn't let it choke me

I cried but I didn't let it choke me I got depressed but I didn't let it choke my destiny

I couldn't die but I didn't let it choke my future I didn't let it terminate my assignment

I had to raise it myself but I didn't let it choke me I had to get a part-time job but I didn't let it

choke me glory to god I couldn't get a cable TV but I didn't let it

because if the stalker gets you he will choke you choke you choke off your whim

it's a terrible thing Jesus says these there are three things that choked this category of people

when you choke somebody you cut off the win when you cut off the win you cut off the source

for which they breathe these are the things that will choke you you then asphyxiate and die

because you can't get the most essential thing you need to survive

that essential thing in this text is your covenant with god

I gotta have it I gotta have it I don't have to show it I don't have to flash it I don't have

to have an act to show my car I don't have to have a cross around my neck back when I first

started preaching I just had all these big crosses big old cross cross so I ain't more than I did

needed a neck brace to hold across a big old cross I was young you know I wanted everybody

no I was called to the ministry I got a big old cross jewels all over it put it on my chest

to be clear to shirt on my neck was hurting trying to hold across it I don't have to have that

I found out that the real evidence of being a preacher wasn't in what I wore

it wasn't in what I put around my neck it wasn't in wearing a robe or a clergy collar

that the real stuff is on the inside I have to have my relationship with god I can preach without

my cross I can preach without my Bible I can preach without my notes I can preach without my

Bible because I worried about hitting my heart that I might not say the gives me

but there are some things that threaten to choke the thing that makes you able to do what you do

these are they who started good and crashed and failed and faltered and in the text the Bible says

they were choked by three things I will give them to you and I'll be done they were choked by the

cares of this world they were choked by the cares of this world they cared too much about the

things around the cares of this world choked off what they needed they put their passion into

something that might be important but was not as important as the thing that it choked from them

I'm not saying you shouldn't be concerned about the conditions of the world but the cares of this

world can choke the couple that I talked about earlier when they first get married they're in love

because love their relationship is romantic it's it's not it's not administrative

she's fine oh she's so fine and the way she laughs it just sounds like tinkling glass

when she laughs oh yeah and then little twinkles you get a little different works up on that side

you know that little one different just on the side right there in the middle it's so cute

he don't know that she don't pay her bills

he knows she can cook but she don't clean the kitchen see when you get down to the business

of marriage the external things about marriage that's where the trouble begins all girl he finds

you ain't never say he's fine girl he's fine lord hammeres he's fine don't know he

don't know he's mean as a junkyard dog got a temper like a drunk gorilla

but when you get down to the the peripheral things the peripheral things

caring too much about this world

will choke your destiny I told my sister one day she called me and she was going on and all

about what was in the news and this happened and that happened and this one happened and that

was happening this one and this one and this one happening oh it happened again and this is

again have you seen the news have you seen I said cut off that TV cut off that TV that TV is

going to drive you crazy 24 hours of bad news you were not designed to absorb 24 hours of tragedy

and made him you were not designed to sit up and constantly have these images bombarded upon

your mind your mind needs to break your mind needs laughter your mind needs joy your mind

needs food your mind needs fun your mind needs rest you can't just sit up and look at troubles for

24 hours and it's not it'll choke you you worry and people who keep worrying about this and all

the kids and all the kids and all Mary and I speaking to Brandon speak to Jimmy Jimmy call me last

night about Willie stop as an F all they gonna be crazy when you did go to bed take a break take a

break put them on a shift I'm open from three to six I'm getting a bath from six to eight come on

somebody because the cares of this world will choke you you will die they will still be arguing

I'm not saying you shouldn't care but when you care to the point that it shakes off your source of life

there is a stalker chasing you right now looking for an opportunity to choke you to death with the

cares of this world the cares of this world you were not designed to handle the cares of this why

do you think Jesus said cast your cares upon me he know he built you he said I know you are not

designed for the weight load you are under doing only I can I can handle it I can handle it I can

stand up to it but no you're gonna be super hero then you wonder why you can't sleep you wonder

why your food doesn't digest you wonder why you don't have no peace you wonder why you don't

have any joy you wonder why you feel with anxiety you wonder why you're having mood swings and

temperate tantrums you're stressed out Paul said it this way he said I was pressed above measure

and beyond strength you and I Jesus didn't come to bring you the bad news he came to bring you the

good news he said I got good news good kindness good news to the poor good news to the oppressed good

news good news good news I'm talking about balance I'm talking about balance the cares of this

world you surround yourself with people that need you and you have more people who need you

than you do who feeds you and you wonder why you are chelts you can't get air you're a good person

you've got a good heart you want to be there for everybody but over a period of time you get

chelts by the cares of this world and let me tell you what they're doing they're all dumping

their stuff on you and they go to bed and you send them like this

you want to help people to manage their life you don't want to carry their life

and if you do the stalker will choke you your counsel other people's marriages and lose your own

you'll help them with their kids and can't get yours back come on talk to me somebody

and you won't reach your destination because you were not designed for the weight load

that you carry what do you do

y'all missed it you just shake it off you just shake it off you learn to say call me back

not right now call me on Tuesday Monday's my day I'm taking me a bath call me labor I'm going

what I need to do to keep afloat so that I can keep my altitude not crash and burn and fall short

on my destination what I'm saying to you in short is are you caring about things that are beyond

you are you caring about things you cannot fix are you loaded down with the weights of this

world because if you are it it is because the stalker is trying to destroy your destiny

I want you to say this with me as loud as you can

if you are spiritual you felt something just break in that phrase that felt so good

it felt so liberating to set boundaries to say this is enough this is enough this is enough

this is enough I it's not the general important it's not that I won't help it's not that I won't do

but I cannot carry more than I can carry somebody shout

somebody way over there just got a break through off of that word right there

you have followed me long enough you've chased me long enough you showed up in places you weren't

supposed to be long enough you've got in my marriage you've got in my joy you've got in my peace

you've robbed me of my prayer life you've taken a smile off of my face somebody holla it off

I feel like I don't know who it is but somebody's gonna get a breakthrough in here today

somebody that the enemy has set up to crash and burn is gonna regain your altitude and finish your

course and all you need to do is to be able to say if you don't get anything else out of what I

preached today if you can only remember one word out of what I said today that one word is

so when you go home and everybody's going crazy and everybody's calling you and how come you

didn't move me and when are you gonna change this and you need to do this and you need to do the

do what you can and when you've done enough just holla

saying enough maybe the difference between you finishing your course or ending in a body bag

and they'd be talking about what a good person you were she was always there for me

that's the problem I was always there for you I was never there for me and by the way I

noticed you weren't there for me because yeah ain't that something I was always there for you that

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number two this is the second stalker the deceitfulness of riches and I want to work this

thing the deceitfulness of riches now the way the church likes to teach it is that God hates the

riches but God does not hate the riches for the Bible saying it is God that gives us the power

to get wealth so if God hated riches all they have to do is not give it to you

but it is the deceitfulness of riches riches are deceitful riches are deceitful

if you're taking notes we should write down how riches are deceitful

now there's a lot of deceit here and I want to spend some time and I really want to work on this

in Malachi he says 13 bringing all the times and offerings into the storehouse and there might

be meat in my house and prove me now here with if I will not open them to you the windows of heaven

and God says I will pour you out abundance a blessing that you will not have room enough to

receive I will give you more blessings and you can handle okay bring you all the times and

offerings in storehouses there might be meat in my house and prove me now here with if I will not

open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you will not have room enough to receive

now so to the person who does not have the blessing and they are paying ties to get the blessing

they won't have room enough to receive and God gives them the blessing they won't have room enough

to receive then once I get it then why would they continue to tie

if the object is just to get it and you got it wouldn't it be over

if if he poured you out of blessing you will have room enough to receive and you sit in good

and if riches were the destination then the transaction is finished the real deceitfulness

of riches begins not with people who have it but with people who don't

because why would riches seduce who it has

think with me now think with me think with me now think with me now think with me why would you

seduce what you already have the seduction is to the person who doesn't have it the deceitfulness

if you get me if you just get me you're going to be good let me show you how good I am

let me show you how happy you would be if you could get this car you get this house you're

going to have joy notice how they sell it to you on TV they don't show you nobody in the big house

looking sad but I can take you in all kinds of neighborhoods and show you people living in big

houses that are miserable but on the commercial everybody who's got a private pool is playing in it

and they jump in it we we I'm coming up with the burgers in the minute and everybody's just

smiling the deceitfulness of riches associates joy with stuff that the reason you don't have joy

is because you don't have stuff that the reason people don't respect you is because you don't have

stuff that if you get enough stuff you're going to be important hear me good particularly young

people hear me real real good do not think that the things that you own define who you are

the deceitfulness of riches is that it promises more than it can deliver

it says that if you get a certain thing or you wear a certain thing or you drive a certain thing

or you live in a certain place then that will fix whatever else is crazy about you that's wrong

you're just going to be crazy in a big house you're going to be crazy driving a big car if you

was mean in the shack you're going to be mean in the mansion don't buy into the commercial

that what matters begins with zeros the deceitfulness of riches the deceitfulness of riches I'm

going to show you why the person who doesn't have gifts to get the promise they give to get the

promise bringing all the times in our friends in the storehouse that there might be meat in my house

pruning out here with if I will not open unto you the windows of hell I didn't say God said

God promises he said I will pull you out of blessing you and I have room enough to receive

if you need a blessing he tells you how to get it so that when you tie the when you sew and when

you do all the answering things that go along with that God says I will give you the blessing the

person who doesn't have it doesn't that they might get the blessing the person who has the

blessing gives so that the blessing doesn't have them okay I don't I don't know what I'm

rich enough because I have just enough money to enter into a room where money is and it

redefines riches relative I could take there are some people in this room that that our middle class

and lower middle class I could take you into some third world countries where by their standards

you be rich the definition of rich depends on who's looking at it when I was a little boy

anybody who had a doorbell was rich I'm serious if you had air conditioning oh my god they got air

conditioning in more than one room not hanging out the window they got great they got flowers in

the yard and stuff they rich is relative to perspective okay and that's why if you're trying to

go up you're going to be miserable because as soon as you get up you're going to be in a bigger

room where they got even more money and then a bigger room where they got even more money and then

a bigger room where they got even more money and if your self awareness is dependent upon how

your peers see you all your riches is going to do is bring you into a bigger room where you pour

again somebody out of class the deceitfulness of riches is that it keeps moving it keeps moving chase

me come on chase me come on chase me come on chase me come on chase me oh you're not there yet

if you only had this oh you're million now you need to be a billionaire now you're the

world millionaire if you're the world of billionaires you pour if you're a millionaire and you will

chase it all of your life deceitful so the person who is seeing the blessing of God gives

not that they might get more they are not giving to get the blessing they are giving so that the

blessing doesn't get them you are giving to say Lord nothing that you gave me is more important to

me than you nothing that you put on me is more important than you nothing that you did for me is

more important than you I will not worship what you gave me I will worship you I will cast my

crowns at your feet you can trust me with the blessing because I will always prefer the

blesser over the blessing and I lead at your feet to say I will have no other God be so y'all

don't hear me y'all don't hear me the more God blesses you the more generous you have to be

to maintain the blessing because if you don't become more generous then the blessings got you you know

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because if you have something that you prefer over the god who gave it to you it has become your god

the deceitfulness of riches here is the deceit I want you riches are saying I want you to choose me

over the one who gave it to you the reason you bring your time and your offerings and you are

generous is because say him who much is given much is required god didn't require much

from somebody he gave little he requires little from somebody he gave little

he requires much from somebody he gave much because when you give it you are saying I have it

it doesn't have me the prodigal son got the blessing and left the blesser and the blessing

shocked him by making him think that if you have your father's stuff you don't need your father

can y'all hear what I'm saying to you I'm making sense to you I'm sorry this isn't I can't

demonstrate for you I told you I'm just recovering I can't demonstrate so if you don't listen

and you don't get it you won't get it god is saying to somebody I will take you as high as I can trust you

I will take you as high as I can trust you and the way you keep god's trust is every time

he gives you something you keep casting it down you keep casting it down I want to have the blessing

I never want the blessing to have me I'm going to go through this again the person who doesn't have it

is showing that they might get it the person who hasn't is showing so that it doesn't get them

is it thinking it is it thinking it so every time god takes you higher you have to

enlarge your capacity to be generous now can I go you understand what I'm saying now what happens

to most people you take a small minded person and you put them in a bigger situation you are in a

bigger situation but your mentality is still where you came from so instead of becoming a giver

you become a hoarder and it's not because you're a bad person you haven't rested in what god has

given you to the point that you feel free enough to be generous therefore you don't have the

faith to keep it and you end up losing it because you don't you don't flow in the cycle

I don't know I feel like I'm training somebody somebody's about to step into another dimension

of grace who am I preaching to this boy

say hey listen my tell me it's my destiny to be blessed

I'm taking notes I'm writing this down I'm getting ready I'm learning how they think I'm

learning how they function it's my destiny to be blessed I don't want to be in a situation

that is bigger than me sit down let me give you some more

I was sitting in church one day and I was sitting maybe a couple of rows from some renowned singers

and we went worship service and the renowned singer was just singing you know just a little bit

and there was this other girl on the other side I didn't know who she was and she was just

she's going up down the stair and here this person is who's a recording artist I couldn't even hear

her singing at all the one to be

is hidden 10,000 notes the one who already has been discovered is holding her stuff

and the other girl is exploring her stuff when you know who you are and you know what you've got

and you know what God did in your life you don't have to try to impress anybody

come on somebody come on somebody what you want is good success

if the Bible says I will make your way prosperous just one chapter one I will make your way

prosperous and God said I will give you good success if there is good success there is also bad

success the deceitfulness of riches is the enemy trying to trick you in the bad success

can I go a little bit deeper just a little bit I really have to learn this because God

began to bless me and as God began to bless me I had to change my mentality and I had to change

my expectation I had to change my mentality because I had to learn that it was safe to be generous

it was important to be generous and while I don't let anybody use me and tell me who to be charitable too

let me say that so don't write me yeah I choose my own charities but I make sure that I choose

them because it is out of the charitable heart that God pours in the blessing here's the other

thing I had to learn when you are more blessed in any area I'm not just talking about money

education wisdom intellect whatever it is political influence whatever it is I'm making never any

area that you are exceptional do not look for reciprocity when you are the one that is blessed

don't expect your brothers to be fair if you do you're going to be wounded because the truth of

the matter is they don't have what you have on the level that you have it to give back to you

so you can't look for fair like you did when you were both on the same level you to him who much

is given much is required you have to learn how to expect to be the more giving one and understand

that God will make it up to you and not them let let me paint this for you and I'm almost

where it needs to be these are the thorns that choke you that choke your growth that stop you from

being what God wanted you to be that abort your destiny I've given you two of them let me give you

the third one the third one is very interesting because it is quite for vague Jesus said and lust

for other things and lust this is the third stalker this is the third thorn this is the thing that

would choke your destiny lust for the thing not our society when we hear the word lust we always

think about says but that's not necessarily what he's talking about here lust for other things I

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podcast or ever you get your podcasts the third thing that will choke you is that nothing is ever

enough for you for you it is the nebulous in the script need for other things

whatever is other it is the spirit of covetousness

i want whatever is not mine i want it you remember the old testament how the Bible talks about

that's not covered by neighbors ox that's not coming by neighbors white that's not coming

coming coming coming coming coming coming coming coming it's other things your lust

for things you don't have will choke you

you watch this your lust to be somewhere else someone else can be just as simple as your desire

to be married becoming so big that it chokes your destiny because you can't maximize where you are

for lusting let me let me show it to you i'm going to show it to you let me show you why it's a

spirit the single person not all of them but some lust to be married while the married people

you can't laugh don't laugh don't laugh

see it isn't it isn't married or single it's just something other than where i am

then people wish i could put on weight big people wish i could take weight off

the lust for other things it is the seduction of the enemy who always makes other people's lives

look better than yours that somehow you are missing out on something that drives you over the

edge to say i wish i wish i wish i wish i wish here's what i'm trying to tell you the enemy couldn't

take away what god gave you he just devalues it in your eyes until you don't appreciate being you

it is the lust for other things it is the lust for other things yeah you're nice looking but

your nose looks funny oh you got pretty eyes but your lips are too thin it is always something

wrong with you you've never been happy to be you it is the lust for other things that's why

didn't define it it's nebulous it's infinite it can change at different stages and ages in your

life it's just other anything other than me anything other than where i am the kids how do you

i'm eight and a half i'm nine and a half i'm ten and a half they can't wait to get to the next year

then when you get old have you noticed you know you're here you're here anybody said i'm 40 and a

half i'm 42 and a half i'm eight and a half no no no we cut that half right off it is the lust

come on talk to me somebody it is the lust let me show you how dangerous this is you will never be

happy never be happy because whatever you get it will always be the other whoever you marry

you'll always want the other i see people how fish i had a marriage like you how you know what my

marriage is if i could just find a wife like first you don't even know first lady you know what

it's killing you other things other things other things and the Bible said do not comment other things

stop warning what other people got you don't know what's going on in that house you don't know

what's going on in that life shut your mouth and thank god for what he gave you

somebody how to heat up we get ready to drive that stoker right out of your life

we get ready to drive it right out of your spirit out of your mind god wants you to appreciate

what he gave you like he gave you how he made you where he placed you what he put inside of you

god wants you to say lord i thank you for how you made me for where i am for my age for my state

for my house for my apartment for these shoes for my kids for my husband lord i thank you

for what you gave this is the day that the lord

somebody help me praise him right now

shout enough

stand on your feet i'm going to call for this

hear this when Jesus teaches on this when Jesus teaches this

he calls them thorns

that he said i was so good seed in thorny places

be careful that you don't let life's thorns choke you

i'm going to tell you something about what i preached today

it is really about balance

it's really about temperance it's really about perspective and it's really hard

because i've seen some days that i had the blessing and i've seen some days that the blessing

had me my sister and i were joking around and i i got more house now that the kids ago

than i need i got big old pots so we got skillets biggest me

me and you could jump in the skill and go swimming

and we got big old skillets and all kinds of stuff and my sister said how

i love you keep this stuff i don't know i said right now it's working for me

i said the day i start working for you

the day i'm working for the thing instead of the thing working for me

it's the day i will let the thing go

if you are working for something that's not working for you

you need to reevaluate do i really need that

it's not working for me i'm working for it

who god is time to make a change go a little deeper yes Lord

with every promotion every door god opens every time god gives you increase

you have to be more generous you have to be more generous because if you don't the thing he gave

you will choke your relationship with him and you'll find yourself in the whole pin

really realizing that the giver is always better than the gift

see what i'm saying

it's a weird thing it's a weird thing it's a weird thing that the lord had me share this with you

it's a weird thing to me and this is why it's weird in my private devotion this was between me

and him and he told me to share it with you this is not normally congregational food

this is preparational food

this is a kind of food you feed the people who are on the verge of something

who are who are about to step into another dimension who are getting ready to move into another

arena who are getting ready to get another level of anointing another level of gifted another

level of influence another level of power another level of finances do not know some of you have

an anointing that's so strong that god needs to be able to trust you with that gift he's getting ready

to stir that gift to another level he's getting ready to take that gift to another dimension he's

getting ready to move you into another level of influence there's another level of glory that's

about to follow your life and god needs to be able to trust you with what he's about to release

into your life there is a glory coming from the throne i feel the presence of god in this place

right now i don't know who you are you might be in the balcony you might be in the back row

you might be visiting from another country but the glory of the lord lift your hands and get ready

to receive from god right now

yes lord the lord told me to stir up the gifts that lie within you raise your hands

i decree into clear that the learning of the lord will overwhelm you in ways

beyond your human imagination i decree and declare a spirit of prosperity will fall in your life

like you have never seen before i decree and declare that god is about to open new doors for you

press down shaken together and running over i decree and declare that you will finish your course

on time i decree and declare that another level of grace is coming upon you now

if you have the capacity to believe it if you have the capacity to receive it lift your hands and

open your mouth take over this room and bless your daddy give god the praise

so i told him i said lord when i got through reading the text i said lord all of these storms

they scare me don't ever get where you can't be scared because you think you can't fall

anytime you think you can't fall in and get you i said lord you mean i got to walk in between

all of these storms the deceitfulness of riches the cares of this world and all the lust for other

things you mean i have to deal with this and that and the other and all these storms and i got

to grow in the middle of prickly things and hateful things and being stalked by all kinds of haters

and imitators and all of these thorns growing all around me this could get me and that could get me

and that that other could get me and lord i don't want to be one of those people that you sold

good seed and i got choked and i got depressed and i gave out and i gave in and got weary and well

doing i don't get tired but i don't want to quit and then he told me don't you remember

when i was going to the cross i said yes lord i remember when you were going to the cross

he said you remember how they how they beat me with the cat and nine tails yes lord i remember

how they beat you with the cat and nine tails and he said you remember how they stripped me of my

garments i remember i stripped you of your garments he said you remember how they cast lots for it

and my friend say yes lord you remember how they pierced me inside yes lord i remember that

they nailed me to the tree yes lord i remember that he said you remember what i had on my head

i said yes lord he said oh my head i had a crown of thorns and he said tell my people

that i have already carried your thorns i already put them on my head

i wore them on my head so that they don't have to stop you from going where i want you to go

i want the worshipers in this room

to lift your hands and praise and adoration to god

and place those thorns back on his head and out of your life

i will not be deceived i will not be delayed i will not be denied

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