Bishop TD Jakes - I Did Not Say it Would Be Easy

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I will not be leaving you on the mountain.

I will not send any mountains on fire.

I will not give you 10 commandments.

But I will be with you.

Yes!

I will with Moses.

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The message is I did not say it would be easy.

Everybody sees you being blessed and they think it's going to be easy.

It is never easy.

God says I didn't say it would be easy.

But it is worthwhile.

So if you're in the throes and the crux of a challenging situation and you're wondering,

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Just because His trouble doesn't mean that God is not there.

He said, I am a very present help in the time of trouble.

The message, I did not say it would be easy.

Take a look at this.

Owning land is a very important thing to do.

I like to own stuff.

I do.

I got control issues.

If I own it, you can't evict me.

It's mine.

Somebody holler, it's mine.

When you know it's yours, you're not uncomfortable.

There's a certain settling that comes into your spirit because it's yours.

It's my land.

And I grew up understanding that and I believe that and I appreciate it.

I'm going to tell you why.

They're making money every day.

Running off the press every day.

We might not have it, but it's out there.

The value of the dollar fucks your ways up and down.

Comes and goes.

Be there and not be there.

Money's coming off the press all the time.

Money's coming on the state of the country and the world and international economic issues.

What is in your wallet will fluctuate all the time.

They are not making any land.

There will be no more land.

So when you have a land, you have something that will not fluctuate as it relates to being saturated in the market.

Land is important.

So God says to the children of Israel, I have given you the land to possess.

Something that is a limited resource.

I'm not giving you something that's unlimited that somebody can produce so much of it that the value decreases.

I have given you the land to possess it.

In a society that the children of Israel were living in, the land was very important.

They didn't have paper money like we have today.

Largely, they bartered either through the things that grew on the land or that that grazed on the land.

They either grew it or it grazed.

It either came out of the land or it grazed on the land.

If it didn't come out of the land and it didn't graze on the land, you had nothing to barter with.

So no matter how many seeds you had, if you had no soil, the seeds meant nothing at all.

What good is seed without soil?

Seed will never reach its potential without soil.

What good is it to have sheep if you have no place to graze?

Come on and talk to you about it.

See some of us have seed but no soil.

Some of us are sheep but we have no place to graze.

And eventually I don't care how strong the sheep is if there's not a grazing place.

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I do not want to be homeless, destitute.

Even when I travel internationally, have a good time, stay in a hotel, eat food, do whatever I want to the country to do.

There is a certain angst I have in another country.

The moment the plane lands back in America, there is a certain feeling of relief because I'm back on my turf.

It is stressful emotionally and mentally to be away from home.

Some people are not homeless physically, they're homeless spiritually.

Some people are homeless emotionally.

Spiritually homeless, you don't know who you are, you don't know what you believe, you don't know where you stand.

Anything anybody says it sounds good, you gravitate to it.

Emotionally homeless is when you have all kinds of love to give and know where to give it.

These people are homeless.

They have spent 430 years in Egypt and they have spent the last 40 years in the wilderness.

430 years, 400 of which they were in bondage.

The first 30 years, they were not in bondage.

They were welcome until a Pharaoh rose up who knew not Joseph and then enslaved them.

You started out a guest and ended up a slave.

Can you imagine?

And a slavery that lasted for 10 generations.

The only taste of freedom they had was sitting around campfires at night trying to remember what it was like to be free.

Trying to remember what it was like to be home.

Trying to hold on to whatever customs they had of home.

And then God sends Moses down to Egypt and to command Moses to tell Pharaoh let my people go.

Last week I told you freedom cost something.

Did I tell you?

It's not going to be easy to be free and then be free.

Oh you remember glory to God.

Oh glory to God, I love that.

I love that.

There's one thing to be free and there's another thing to be free.

Now they are in the pursuit of that freedom.

Pharaoh is gone.

They are free.

But they have spent 40 years trying to be free.

Indeed.

The one who brought them out, who performed miracles, who healed them, who fed them, who nurtured them, who guided them, who delivered them out of the hands of Pharaoh.

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That's on you.

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I want you to feel the anxiety that comes in the midst of uncertainty.

Moses is dead.

This is a game changer.

The lamentations became so strong that they went for over a month, the whole nation sobbing and crying,

a pastor.

Yes.

And he died, and we're not quite.

That we're close.

We're not there.

Who in the world will take us to rest of the way?

Who can do miracles like Moses?

Well, I'd like to nominate Brother Joshua.

Joshua, who was Joshua?

Joshua is only good under Moses.

He was alright as an assistant.

We accepted him as an associate.

Joshua?

Joshua, you don't do no magic.

Throw your rod down and do something like Moses did.

Joshua, you train him to do it.

So it sticked down and had to pick it back up.

It didn't turn into nothing.

Where can you bring water out of rock?

No, you're going to have to go down to the river and get something to drink.

Moses is a tough act to follow.

Moses lifted up a suffered in the wilderness and everybody's sick

that looked at it, God healed.

Can you heal us?

Well, no.

CBS is down around the corner.

What do you do when you don't measure up to who you're being compared to?

It's hard to measure up to another man's miracles.

God says to Joshua, Joshua and I was with Moses,

so shall I be with you.

But God, my stick, don't work.

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And God, this water thing is not working for me.

I didn't say I was going to do through you what I did with Moses.

I said I would be with you.

Oh, gosh.

Shut up.

I said I would be with you as I was with Moses.

I did not call you to be a cheap copy of a great original.

You can't imitate Moses.

There will never be another Moses.

Other prophets have I spoke to through dreams and vision.

But Moses, I talked to face to face.

I will not be leading you on the mountain.

I will not set any mountains on fire.

I will not give you ten commandments.

But I will be with you as I was with Moses.

The only thing I promise you is that I will be with you.

You, your gifts, your talents, your resources.

As I was with Moses, I will not make you Moses, Jr.

Until you develop an appreciation for being you,

you will never discover what God can do in you trying to be me.

Good God, Emerson, I want to run myself.

Still to come on the power's touch.

So you got disagreement with the people you are leading.

Disagreement with the people you are fighting.

Disagreement with the person inside of you.

So you will have to be strong.

You will have to be strong.

You will have to resist your own fear.

And resist their doubts.

And resist their murmuring.

Be strong.

Just accept the most.

Be strong.

When the voices rise up in you and say you're not good enough.

Be strong.

When the people murmur against you and say you can't do what Moses did.

Be strong.

Whenever I say I'm not going to let you have the land.

Be strong.

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Now I assume you understand that Joshua is a fighter.

He fought all through the wilderness.

He was Moses' right-hand man.

He has now become the leader.

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To continue the leadership.

Moses was, Joshua was known for fighting.

He was a fighter. He almost fought God.

He ran up on an angel.

He was silent.

He was a fighter.

Yet when God commissions him over and over in the text, he will go up and say, over and over again, be strong and very courageous.

and very courage, be strong and be of good courage, be strong and possess the land.

Because God knows that for what you're going to do, it is not by our strength.

You understand? You understand? She helped me treat this thing this morning girl.

It's inner strength. You got to have inner strength for this fight.

It's not for our strength. It's not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit.

Say it for Lord. So you got to have that inner, that inner, that inner, that cut strength.

At Billy's strength, that devil, the fine, comahilla, I want a strip.

That rolled me out in front of them and I'll creep from a chair strip.

That's a necessity to take a lick and keep on taking that inner strength.

That when I can't do as I would, I'm going to do as I can, but I'm not going to stop doing.

To the best of my ability, I'm going to stretch and don't go sharp.

How did I get this out?

Strong. Strong. Strong. Strong.

See, Joshua, as the second man, you were just used for physical strength.

But as a leader, you got to have inner strength.

You got to defy the Emirates, the Hittites, the Gempsites, the Derisites.

You got to defy all of them.

You got to defy your inner insecurity that you're not as good as Moses.

You got to defy the fact that the people you're leading don't react to you like they did to Moses.

So you got disagreement with the people you're leading. Disagreement with the people you're fighting.

Disagreement with the person inside of you.

So you don't have to be strong.

It's a terrible. You will have to be strong.

You will have to resist your own fear and resist their doubts and resist their murmuring.

Be strong.

Be strong. When the voices rise up in you and say, you're not good enough.

Be strong. When the people murmur against you and say, he can't do what Moses did.

Be strong. Whenever I say, I'm not going to let you have the lead.

Be strong.

Call it somebody. Be strong.

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They say no time to give up.

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Watch this.

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She should have had a C-section.

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But the baby was so big, it knocked her pelvis bones out of joint.

But she had to push.

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In order to do what God put in you.

All your structures got to move.

All your structures got to shift.

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But you got to push.

The Lord told me to tell you.

You would be easy.

I didn't tell you it would be easy.

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Stop your baby and I'll hop on.

Push.

You got to fight it.

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But I've got to endure this pain.

I'll come back up.

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Take it, baby, you're almost there.

You're almost there.

The Lord gave me this word to give to you.

He told me to tell you I did not say it would be easy.

I told you I would be with you.

I told you that no man would be able to withstand you all the days of your life.

I told you that everywhere you fit truck.

I'd give you the land.

I told you that no man would be able to withstand you.

I told you that I would bless you.

I told you that as I was with Moses, so should I be with you.

But I did not tell you it would be easy.

If you got ahead, fight it all.

You need to release it in the sour.

And make up in your mind that will stop feeling sorry for yourself.

You will stop crying.

You will stop being depressed.

You will stop being discouraged.

That whatever it takes to do what you have to do to do what God told you to do, you go push.

You can't get no more epidurals.

It's too late for an epidural.

But maybe it's about to break.

There's no time to frame in the damn your adversity.

This thing is about to happen.

God didn't tell you it would be easy.

But He said it would be with you.

Alas, brothers and sisters, I'm out of time.

They're making me go.

I've got to close.

I hate to do it.

But I wanted to leave this word with you and to encourage you to hold on to your faith.

There will always be disagreements between God's promise and where you are positioned right now.

Don't let the situation you're in deter you from the situation that is before you.

God asked more for you.

Stay tuned.

The best is yet to come.

May God bless you, may heaven smile upon you.

Until you and I can get together again.

Mr. Jakes is praying for you.

What I will not resolve and what I will not let go will kill my future.

It will kill my destiny.

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