Bishop TD Jakes - The Heart of the Matter

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I know you thought you'd be further than you were about now.

I know you had in your mind that you were going to be an overnight success.

But because of the whom you were in, God had to keep you down.

I'm going to be a part of this.

God had to keep you down because of the people that were around you.

God had to keep you down because of the system that birthed you.

God had to keep your neck down so you didn't get your head cut off.

But God is going to allow you to pass through the birth canal.

And now you're getting out where you can stretch your neck and become who God called you

to be.

Tell your neighbor this is my season.

This is the potter's touch.

Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, I welcome you for this opportunity to experience

the power and the life-changing influence of the Word of God.

I love the Word of God.

And this particular method that I'm going to share with you today is called the heart

of the matter.

I believe it will bless your life.

It is an excerpt from the International Pastures and Leadership Conference.

Whether you're a pastor or a leader or just a leader over yourself, I believe this

Word will strengthen you.

Are you busy working a vision that no longer works?

The more you are exposed to things, the more you realize your dysflexion.

It's in wait a minute.

I'm behind.

I'm missing out.

Come on.

Catch up.

Let's catch up in the Word and you can catch up in life.

Take it out.

I want to talk a little bit.

Let me explain a little bit about how I got to where I'm at right now.

I went to a safari in South Africa that really blew my mind.

I was invited over there in the guest today.

I went to the safari and I had this great experience.

And while I was out there, I was traveling on a jeep with a zoologist and a zulu.

And we were going into this conservatory to do a safari.

And a zoologist was spouting all kinds of amazing information.

He was telling me, you know, all about the animals and how their teeth were shaped and

how when they bite, certain branches had pruned them in such a way that nature allows the biting

of the animal to prune the branch so the branch is not killed and it grows.

He was telling me how to look at their feces and determine whether it was male or female

or how closely we're in.

What happened?

Just all kinds of amazing, you know, zoological information that was amazing.

The only thing was he could explain about the eagle and the breadth of his wings and how

it fly.

He could tell me about the rhinoceros and his mating practices and all of that.

He could tell me about the lions and the tigers and all of that.

He could even tell me about the elephants and how they drink water and how they conserve

water and how they mate and how they do what they do.

But he couldn't find them.

He could explain it, but he couldn't find it.

He couldn't find the elephant and all of a sudden the zool who has got a shotgun sitting

on the edge of the Jeep, the first time he says anything, he's been quite the whole time.

He stood up and said, the elephant is over there and all of a sudden it ceased to be about

the elephant because, suddenly, I realized that I was seated in between intellect and instinct.

I can't explain it all day long, but instinct can find it.

Some of you have spent 20 years explaining something that you can't find.

You can teach it, you got to agree with it, you got classes in it, you're qualified

to do it, but you can't find it.

And you get frustrated because you thought that if you went to school, having a degree

would make you successful, but there's a difference between explaining an elephant and

finding an elephant.

Thank God for the intellect that makes you explain it, but dig a little deeper and get the

instinct that makes you able to find it.

And I've suddenly realized that most every amazing thing that had ever happened in my

life had come through a collaboration of intellect and instinct.

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That intellect loads the gun.

But instinct pulls the trigger.

Be as smart as you can be.

Learn all you can learn.

Be exposed to all you can be exposed to.

Because you're feeding your dream.

You're feeding your dream.

But when you get through loading the gun,

you've got to have the instinct to pull the trigger.

When you get through getting all the stats and the data,

and you went to all the data classes,

and you did all the research, you did all the homework,

and now you're ready to go back.

You've got all kind of information.

I'm so happy for you.

But it's going to take a good instinct

to show you how to take what you learned

and use it in your situation.

Touch your neighbors, I'm getting ready to pull the trigger.

For instance, the giraffe.

The giraffe is an amazing animal in South Africa.

It is absolutely amazing animal.

The animal is absolutely huge.

He is amazing.

And his name, his original name literally translated

means fast walker.

One of the defenses that got built into the giraffe

is to speak to which he can move.

About 40 miles an hour, when he gets in a hurry,

he can really get away.

That's pretty fast.

He is a fast walker.

When you get back home, when the plane lands,

or the bus lands, or you get out the car,

this is not a season for you to be moving like this.

This is a season for you to be a fast walker

and step into your destiny and take back what they did

and they stole.

Touch your neighbor and say, it's going to be fast.

Book with your seat belts.

I'm going to go in the phone with Clark Kent.

I'm going to come out Superman.

I want you to get my beat, get my rhythm

because I'm getting ready to expedite the process.

God to Abraham, surely blessings I will bless thee

and multiplying, I will multiply.

The multiplication is God expediting the process.

Touch your neighbor and tell him God's getting ready

to multiply in your ministry.

More and more, you want to see young men,

there's some young men sitting over there right now

who have built in five years,

what it took some of us old guys, 40 years to build,

because God is in a hurry.

He has spared up the process.

You have got to move.

Touch your neighbor and say, move.

Don't just think and plan and meditate and wish

and philosophy and research and throw pictures of it

and sit up and hold your hands and frame it on the wall.

No, you didn't come all the way down here

and spit all of this money so that you could decorate your walls

with pictures of your dreams.

You came down here so you could step into your dreams

and manifest the purpose of God.

Look at the man saying, I'm going to step into it.

The main thing about the giraffe is that his neck is nine feet long.

His neck is nine feet long.

It's huge.

From his hoof to the top of his head is about 16 to 20 feet

depending on how fast they grow.

That's a pretty big animal.

But let me tell you something.

He is not born with a long neck.

He is born short and stubby and small

because all of that couldn't get through the womb.

I knew it would get you to minute.

So when he comes forth, he doesn't really look like a giraffe

because all of his attributes have not come to fruition

and the reason he has been dwarfed down is so that he could make it

through the passage from one idiom of thought to the next

from one world to the next.

Touch your neighbor tell him I'm passing through.

My neck hadn't come out yet.

My hoofs aren't hard yet.

I haven't got my legs together yet.

The Bible says this fires not the day of small beginning.

Don't judge me by where I start.

Judge me by where I finish.

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His neck is growing.

Once it gets out, his neck starts to grow.

Once you get out, his legs get strong.

Once he gets out, he starts moving around.

And little by little, he comes into the full stature

of what he was meant to be.

Not all at once, but every time you look around,

he's growing just a little bit more

in the coming into his own and becoming.

And that's the way God bless you.

I know you wanted it to be quicker.

I know you thought you'd be further than you were by now.

I know you had in your mind that you were going to be

an overnight success, but because of the womb you were in,

God had to keep you down because of the people

that were around you.

God had to keep you down because of the system that birthed you.

God had to keep your neck down so you didn't get your head cut off.

But God is going to allow you to pass through the birth canal

and now you're getting out where you can stretch your neck

and become who God called you to be.

Tell your neighbor, this is my season.

Now, understand me.

Y'all doing all right.

Understand me here.

What drew me to this particular approach

is that once I learned that the giraffe was a fast walker

and once I learned that his neck and his body

and the massiveness of his body

doesn't begin to grow until after he gets out.

I began to think, wow, there's something in there.

And then I found out the giraffes eat from the tops of the trees.

Giraffes eat from the tops of the trees

and God knew that where his sustenance was,

where his nutrition was,

God knew he was going to need a long neck

to be able to reach to the tops of the trees

where the sun has fallen and produced the best food for him to nurture on.

Giraffes eat from the tops of the trees, not from the grass.

I want to speak to every long neck ministry in this place.

Your neck is too long.

Your destiny is too great.

Your prophecies are too sure.

The anointing is too massive on your life

for you to ever drop your head again.

You cannot drop your head.

You cannot be around people that make you drop your head.

You cannot feed thoughts to you that make you drop your head.

You are at your best when you're standing up tall

and ready to step into your destiny.

Touch your neighbor and say don't drop your head.

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