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Bishop T.D. Jakes – WATCH WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE GIVING UP – Motivational Speech For Success 2018


anybody could dream it but you’ll never
see it until you’re willing to be
committed to it I was telling somebody
the other day when I didn’t have
anything
Church didn’t have any members I’d get
off work
working at carbide and drive up the
roads and working on the church til I
had to turn around and go back to work
we worked when we didn’t have food we
worked when we didn’t have lights I was
putting my whole check in offering all
of it trying to keep it going when I
finally got some staff I went on the
road preaching and whatever I made on
the road preaching I brought it home to
make the payroll of the status and
sometimes I got them paid and couldn’t
pay me commitments look like a fool
didn’t have any clothes suits was
falling off me lied and wore out my
clothes couldn’t send him to the
cleaners had to wash my suit in the
washing machine they laughed at me look
like old raggedy country preacher I had
holes in my shoes
I couldn’t kneel down and pray because
if I knelt down to pray they would see
holes in my shoes they laughed at me
they said that boys lost his mind he’ll
never be nothing he stutters he’s got a
lisp any speech he’ll never be a
preacher I don’t care what you if you
he wants to rip you until you become
impotent and so impoverished in your
spirit that you are an empty building of
ghost town of vacant house your lights
all and nobody’s at home you’re going
through the motions of life with the
form of godliness denying the power
thereof he doesn’t man how many days you
live as long as you don’t live in the
days that you have he wants to rob you
had raped you an abuser in fact the
enemy comes to kill to steal and to
destroy he wants to sabotage your
success because you were created to win
you were carved to win you were set
aside to win you were formed to win the
part of MIT for you to be a successful
vessel of Honor that you might be meat
for the Masters huge you were not meant
to fail you were not meant to die you
were not meant to quit you were not
meant to collapse you were meant to live
doctors still can’t figure out why the
human body dies because the body was
meant to rebuild itself refurbish
yourself free strengthen itself you are
not meant to fame you are not meant to
collapse you were not meant to have a
nervous breakdown Express attack a
migraine headache breakout at nervous
conditions and rashes and all types of
diseases and hypertension that have
scripts attacks and heart attacks and
nervous breakdowns you were not meant to
lose it lose control right now kick the
dog slap the net heal the children beat
the white dog the children you were not
meant to
failure you were not meant to be
destitute to be lonely to be hungry to
be isolated to be driven you were meant
to be the head and not the tail a bubble
and not to be you were meant to prosper
and live in goodly house of you are
children of the king the heavenly hosts
the God of Israel dwelt in the midst of
you too many times we have been so much
focus on teaching you to be good seed
that we haven’t taught you the power of
good soil and so when we come to Solis
issues the seed ignores the soil we
flick the channel and has nothing to do
with me we close our eyes because we
have been taught to be good seed but we
Jesus says the sole word for sowing seed
and in some fell by the wayside some
fellows rot some fell among stores look
have you been positioned to flourish
positioning has a lot to do with
flourishing to be in an environment in a
family that supports to my sister and I
were talking the other day I will tell
her what an amazing person she is that
all of our lives together and and all
the things that God did in my life not
once in all of the years that I’ve known
her and she was there when mama hardly
have I ever known her to be jealous of
me not once not ever she has always been
my cheerleader my greatest fan and she
said how could I be jealous of you
you’re my brother I said a lot of people
have siblings that hey
and some of my development has to be
that God planted me in an environment of
people that supported me my brother my
sister my mother my father they all
supported me you can have good seed but
if you’ve been in bad soil people who
hated you
environments that denied you education
that underserved you communities that
limited you mentality said poisoned you
[Applause]
how do you hear what I’m saying if your
soil wasn’t right it doesn’t mean that
you’re not right but if your soil wasn’t
it’s gonna choke you out on the rocks
tell you roots to grow for something you
ought to be blaming the soil for you
cannot take a peach seed and plant it in
a teaspoon of dirt and expect it to grow
though the teaspoon of the dirt is the
same size as a peach seed it will not
grow the seed will only grow when it is
planted in something bigger than itself
and I want to know where you plant it
this morning are you playing it is
something bigger than you or have you
always been planted in teacups
surrounded by little dirt new resources
people where the colonies if enough
people like me then I am how many people
following you on Twitter I got to get my
following up I got to get my friends up
because if I have popularity who you got
quite again it’s like if I let me show
you how many people follow me
[Applause]
so I am because of who follows me who
Laxmi popularity base identity who
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performance based identity if you do
this you’ll be the fan of God if they
like you
you’ll be the Son of God if I give you
my possessions you’ll be now let me show
you something
I’m teaching just do it okay and yet I’m
criticizing doing it to define who you
are well I’m confused should I do it a
lot good you did you just said just do
it and then you turned around and said
cannot rotate my own text which way is
it
reven do I do it or not do it the
problem is not about doing it it is why
you do it what I am criticizing is
putting the doing before the being so
that you think that if I do this I will
be somebody
if I bad this I will be somebody
if they like me I will be there you got
it backwards the people that know their
[Applause]
and because you’re doing doesn’t come
from the deeper place of being it hasn’t
worked for you because you are who you
are you can do what you can do but if
you’re trying to find out who you are by
doing things you will never find out who
you are by doing you have to start with
being so are you giving and I want you
to see this I don’t want to lose you
this because the difference between the
two determines the direction of your
destiny if you’re always seeking a
certain status to validate who you are
you’re never gonna have peace you have
to know who you are and then you can
climb to the status you can’t climb up
to find yourself you have to find
yourself so you can climb up oh you
can’t climb up to find yourself you have
to find yourself so you can climb up so
you can be who you are before anybody
knows who you are
so that means you could be rich while
you could you could be healed while you
you can be loose while you bound it does
not yet appear what you sell me it
hasn’t showed up but you got to be
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always go to something bigger than
yourself
I’m wondering if you’ve been defeated
because you have been giving yourself
wholly to something that was too small
to hold you have you thrusts yourself
into a glass of water have you leapt off
the diving board into a cereal bowl
person are you not guilty of immersing
yourself into things that were too small
to hold your vision
[Applause]
oh my god this so good I’m gonna get the
CD myself Jesus sent him to throw
himself into something that was bigger
than his condition and he had to go to
get to it he had to get out of his
comfort zone
my problem is so many times you’ve
thrown big ideas and small people
you’ve given big commitment to cereal
bowl people and you’re trying to get
your sight back from a source that’s too
small to support what you’re willing to
put in is your investment bigger than
the bank you should see the way you’re
looking at me is you’re it’s the reason
you keep being disappointed by people is
that you have wholly thrown yourself
life to me and said you pick up the pace
if you don’t pick up the pace you gonna
be left behind
I’m amazed that the people that lack the
flexibility to pick up the pace they
just get in a read I scroll down here
and I’m gonna buy and go stroll over
here I’m gonna stroll over there one of
the most amazing thing about the
disaster and Malaysia is that when it
happened everybody had to pick up the
pace all the news media had to pick up
the pace
they were booking night flights and
flying over here flying over there
somebody had to work overtime won’t be
home for three days typing in the middle
of night research going on because when
something happens pick up the pace
that’s why I can’t deal with people who
cannot pick up the pace don’t be
strolling when I got a nine one one of
you and the people who can pick up slack
the neighbors say pick up the pace
something’s about to happen pick up the
pace something’s about to happen pick up
the pace something’s about to happen
pick up the pace something is about to
happen pick up the pace something is
about to happen
pick up the pace something’s about to
have it I came to tell the young people
pick up the pace pick up the pace
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I would rather aim for the stars and not
hit them then to not aim at all I would
rather go after it and not get it did
not go after it at all I’d rather try
and fail did not try at all I don’t want
to live with the idea wonder what would
have happened had I done more with my
after my destiny touch the neighbors say
run you gotta run after your destiny you
can’t stroll after your destiny
you can’t walk after your destiny you
gotta ride somebody
[Applause]
you gotta run you gotta run
you gotta run you can’t just wake up in
the morning let me see what’s gonna
happen today I don’t know where I go I
just woke up oh you should stay in the
bed give the day to somebody who’s gone
wrong after their destiny give the day
to somebody who has a plan who has a
strategy because success is never an
accident
and if you don’t since we’re talking
about business we’re talking about money
you can’t beat tribal and be a global
thinker at the same time the reason
money is called currency is that it
needs to be able to flow and the issue
is do you have a vision that flows
beyond people who look like you dressed
like you and vote like you and if you’re
gonna do business you can’t do
segregated business and do it well if
you’ve got a product that you believe in
or message that you believe in or a
movie that you believe in or whatever it
is you want to reach the broadest amount
of people and most people think probably
all of their relationships their
contacts their associates are tribal and
you block the ability to succeed when
I was believing lonely I was believing
betrayed
joke
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just three Fremont um keep the faith
keep the faith
if you lose a job keep the faith if you
lose the spouse keep the faith if you’re
burying your child keep the faith if you
have to downsize keep the faith if you
have to move in with your mama keep the
faith if you had to when said keep the
faith
if you have to catch the bus keep the
faith if you have to come
keep the faith if you get sick keep the
faith
if you lose your kidneys keep the faith
if you got heart trouble
keep the faith to be planted is destiny
concealed to have increase is destiny
revealed so when you plant a seed you
don’t plant it if the planting were the
final destination you plant it and you
can’t see it anymore
it’s destiny is concealed in the hopes
that ultimately it will become a stalk
of corn or an apple tree or whatever it
was you plant it and in between the
destiny concealed and the destiny
and I thought as dynamic as the text may
be to grapple with the notion of being
planted and to grumble with the notion
of having increase seems totally
irrelevant if we don’t stop by the
station of watering because watering is
the last step
before increase it is the transition
point between what is concealed and what
is revealed and without the benefit of
watering this the thedestiny will die in
the ground never reaching its potential
simply because it has never been watered
and I thought I would ask you this
morning have you ever been watered I’m
reading somebody’s mail right now you
cannot embrace what I’m about to teach
if you don’t understand that you have
been planted you didn’t grow wild you
didn’t just happen you aren’t just an
afterthought you didn’t just come to me
you were planted the sperm cells that
created you
I’ll swam all of the millions of other
cells before you had a Bible before you
had a Bible before you had a hymnbook
you are already in a fight and that cell
elsewhere of all the rest because you
have been planted well I want to make
the distinction about being planted
because the act of planting can be
confusing to the student who has not
watched because planting looks no
[Applause]
in order to do either one of them you
got to do some digging and once you’re
deep down in the ground both of them are
concealed but one of them has a destiny
and the other one does not you bury the
dead to get rid of the body
but you plant a seed so that it can go
through a transformation of coming back
up greater than it was when it went down
oh good god of mercy that’s so good I’m
gonna come over here and say it again
when you plant a seed you’re not burying
it to get rid of it you’re planting it
so that it can go through a
metamorphosis and come back up better
than it was when it went down how many
people in this room has come up better
I’m better I’m better I’m better than a
walls want to went down it was good for
me that I’ve been afflicted for had I
not been afflicted I would have never
known the glory of God I’m better for it
I didn’t like it but I’m better for it I
couldn’t see down there but I’m better
for it
you said I was planted in a dark place
where my sight didn’t work for me but
I’m better for every time you go through
something dark and you can’t see your
way out remember you’ve been planted not
I’m coming out I’m coming up brother
right here on the come up and say
brother right here on the come up is any
sisters in here on the come up are they
do families in here on the come up are
they any preachers in here on the come
up you already been through hell already
been through hot water already been
planted already been in a dark place but
just cuz I’m in a dark place don’t
expect me to stay in a dark place
write yourself a note I have not been
buried I have been planted maybe
underground but I’m not buried in this
mess I’m planted in it
I’m planted in it and if I planted in it
expect me to come back up again
and when I come back up you won’t
recognize me
because I’m going to be transformed by
the experiences that I had to do it was
friend that too many times we have put
so much focus while teaching you to be
good seed that we haven’t taught you the
power of good soil and so when we come
to Solis issues the seed ignores the
soil we flick the channel that has
nothing to do with me we close our eyes
because we have been taught to be good
seed but we have not been taught to pay
attention to sort jesus says the soul
with full sowing seed and in Sun fell by
the wayside some fellow must watch some
fellow monsters look at you and look at
have you been positioned to flourish
positioning has a lot to do with
flourishing to be in an environment in a
family that supports to my sister and I
were talking the other day I will tell
her what an amazing person she is that
all of our lives together and all the
things that God did in my life not once
in all of the years that I’ve known her
and she was there when mama hardly have
I ever known her to be jealous of me not
once not ever she has always been my
cheerleader my greatest fan and she said
how could I be jealous of you you’re my
brother I said a lot of people have
and some of my development has to be
that God planted me even grabbing the
people that supported me my brother my
sister my mother my father they all
supportively
you can have good seed but if you’ve
been in bad soil people who hated you
virus that denied you education that
underserved you communities that limited
you mentalities that poisoned you
[Applause]
I’ll do you hear what I’m saying if your
soil wasn’t right it doesn’t mean that
you’re not right but if your soil wasn’t
right it’s gonna affect how you’re rude
and how you grow a little bit gross will
choke you out or the rocks will not have
enough salt
tell your roots to grow are you blaming
God for something you ought to be
blaming the soil for you cannot take a
peach seed and plant it in a teaspoon of
dirt and expect it to grow though the
teaspoon of the dirt is the same size as
the peach seed it will not grow the seed
will only grow when it is planted in
something bigger than itself and I want
to know where are you playing it this
morning are you playing it is something
bigger than you have you always been
planted in tea cups surrounded by little
dirt little resources small-minded
people now
places can never let you stretch to
reach your capacity sometimes you gotta go where the corneas
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