Angels in Your Wilderness - Bishop T.D. Jakes

in the gospel of Saint Mark chapter number one verse 9 through 13. we will find our assignment for this morning thank you Jesus Mark 1 9-13 I may read another text too before I get too lost in it just brief Texas and it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized of John in the journey and straightway coming up out of the water he saw the heavens open and the spirit adopted descending upon him and there came a voice from Heaven saying Thou Art my beloved Son in who I am well please and immediately the spirit tried with him Into the Wilderness and he was there in the wilderness 40 days and tempted of Satan and was with the wild beast and the angels and the angels ministered unto him wait wait wait wait wait wait wait hold that text right there we got a wilderness we got a beast we got a weary savior and we got angels all of it together in the same sentence you think you're strange because you got so many things going on good and bad simultaneously in the same space that's where the glory of the Lord is revealed this morning by the grace of God I want to talk to you just a little while about angels in your wilderness look at your neighbor like you know what you're talking about look them right eyeball the eyeball fake eyelash to fake eyelash lip gloss to lip gloss glory to God and tell them I got angels in my Wilderness [Laughter] yeah I got angels in my Wilderness you better be careful fooling with me cause I got angels in my Wilderness I'm not in this by myself I got angels in my Wilderness I got angels in my Wilderness and if you don't help me they'll help me and if you don't come get me they'll come get me and if you don't protect me they'll protect me I gotta hate us in my Wilderness Spirit of the Living God Falls fresh on us today as we open up the Oracles of God open your mouth clear your throat and speak to us oh God speak so clearly and so succinctly that we are mesmerized by the profundity of your truth the relevance of your elevation the healing words should flow into our souls our Spirits our families our finances our emotions God we will not hold any place back from you getting to if you need to correct this correct us if you need to turn us around turn us around if you need to chasten us chasing us but please sir don't leave us for without you we are nothing have your way great God that you are in Jesus name somebody shout amen you may be seated in the presence of God yeah yeah it is important that we look at this with a very clear understanding of contextualization that's when people step into the middle of your story they misdiagnose Who You Are and they make false assumptions based on brief statements we're living in an age now where people will take a snippet of a sermon and write an argument against a snippet [Applause] a phrase one statement you put out and they say they know you by phrase as if you could be reduced to a sentence see the quickest way to get into heresy is to take a text out of context now I'm all for technology but sometimes when people text me I have to pick up the phone and call them because sometimes you you you you meant it in one way but I read it in another way and before I respond I read it I just want to be sure do you really mean for me to go off like I'm getting ready to go off you know I just want to be sure let's set some rules straight because I might have read it in the wrong turn and most of the time I was wrong because it is difficult to deliver sensitive information in the text because the text does not give you context so as we read this brief statement these four verses of scripture in the gospel of Saint Mark chapter one I'm not sure that this text of a scripture gives us context Jesus wasn't born in the wilderness neither did he grow up in a wilderness okay nor was he baptized in the wilderness and yet he finds himself in the wilderness I have been in the same spot that Jesus was in I had the privilege years ago of going to Jerusalem and not only going to Jerusalem which is amazing but going down to the Jordan and across the Jordan River into the country of Jordan and when you cross the Jordan River you are standing in what is now currently called Jordan and you're on your way to Amman but you have to go through the Wilderness to get there and little did I know that the same Wilderness I was standing in is the Wilderness in which Jesus was tempted is also the place where Elijah comes having crossed the Jordan to be caught up in the Chariot of fire so the history of the text goes archaeologically deep into the soil of the same space a lot of things happen in the same geographical location so in the same place that God sends a chariot down from heaven to evacuate Elijah out of the human capacities of this mundane ritualistic world it is in that same spot where he allows the spirit to carry Jesus to be tempted have you ever had a spot that provoked many different memories our house who used to live in and you can remember good times and bad times a person you grew up with and you remember something nice and you remember something yeah yeah yeah spaces are complicated and the spirit has brought him to this place but I don't want to take the text out of context it is important that we understand that Jesus has dropped off the scene for at least 18 years we know nothing and it is funny to me because the Bible gives us the highlights of the life of Jesus and not the nothing moments of his life and the hardest parts of Walking with God are through the days of nothingness then neither hot nor cold they're neither good nor bad they just to her I just woke up I just made it to another day what you doing nothing you know what you doing now this stuff just stuff I gotta do can I stay with God through days of nothingness 18 years that our obscure from us where Jesus is just so no name Carpenter's Son Moving about growing up from 12 to 30 years old in total obscurity he doesn't pick up again until this new highly successful and accomplished disruptive thinking John I call him a disrupter because he broke all of his father's rules and won doing it he didn't dress like a priest he didn't eat like a priest he didn't function in the synagogue he was in the wilderness eating wild locusts and honey and dressed in Camel's hair don't be scared to be different [Applause] different does not disenold greatness in fact it actually confirms greatness nobody writes books about ordinary go to the library you won't see any books written about people who weren't disruptive or in some way extraordinary and you have to understand that and realize that Jesus was 18 years that we know nothing about and then at 30 years old he's in the crowd not on the stage he's in the crowd not on the program he's in the back row of the crowd coming to hear his cousin John and he comes down to the Jordan and all the eyes are on John and none of them are on Jesus because John the Baptist was the new hot thing and you know how we love the new hot thing I tell young preachers when you start a church you're only new ones you only knew one so why you knew you might as well Rockets rocket go all the way with it because as soon as people get used to you they start taking you for granted oh I won't go this week I'll go next week I'll check it out later I'll take it out online if I get to it I'll come to it that's what happens in any relationship familiarity breeds contempt if you want to stay fresh stay back because if you're overexpose yourself no matter how good you are at what you do people get used to you you can sing the pain off the wall but if you sing all the time they get used to your riffs and runs and the person they shouted about today they ignore tomorrow you can be the greatest wife in the world and celebrate it for the first few years but after a while they get used to it and they want to know are there any new tricks so save some [Applause] don't fit everything on the first week Hallelujah come on somebody don't fit everything in the first week don't tell everything in the first week because you got to keep it fresh you got to update you got to remain interesting you gotta keep reading you got to keep developing yourself because once people get used to you they walk past you they ignore you they walk past Jesus to get to John because John was the new thing and he was bad and he was disruptive and he was dressed different and he would you know and they was coming to hear him and to check him out and while John is baptizing in the Jordan nobody is talking about Jesus you better go make some shoes somewhere make a table a chair somewhere push your passion Jesus trying to get to John often we push past the greater trying to get to the lesson because it takes time to fulfill to reveal greatness and when time has not exposed who you really are people sub you to the side trying to get to something that is less than what's down inside of you and you got to be okay with it because that's the test too obscurity is a test too being ignored is a test too being treated as ordinary as a test too to make sure that your ego is low enough that when God exalts you you won't start worshiping yourself he'll let people push past you and say how you like me now because he doesn't want you to be ego driven he wants you to be Spirit Led and you can't be Spirit Led and ego driven so God allows people to walk past you tell you about my job walking past the water walking Jesus can you imagine walking past the dead raising Jesus can you imagine walking past the Jesus who turned water into wine can you imagine who you might have walked past this morning and Jesus does not stop them from walking past him he doesn't whip out his business cards he doesn't start doing Sideshow miracles to get on their itinerary I like him because he got class there's a difference between education and class there's a difference between money and class they're the difference between a great vocabulary and class I'm not sure you can teach class Jesus class makes you handle rejection class makes you handle not being celebrated class won't let you just do anything to get on the itinerary because you think too much of yourself to lower yourself down to make yourself a trap for somebody just so you can get their attention class will make you wait class will make you a hug a pillar class will make you roll over by yourself has to make you hold your head up when other people are ignoring your class will make you sit back and let them prank somebody listen to the date ass Jesus and absolute glad oh my god I think I'm still on the road I feel like preaching up in here if y'all mess with me this morning it's going to be Church up in this place I feel something flowing up in this place right now I want to celebrate all the people who have kept their class it wasn't that you wasn't lonely but you kept your class it wasn't that you weren't qualified but you couldn't be a class and whether God wasn't going to use you in a body way but you hell to your integrity just say buddy held on to his Integrity without your integrity you got nothing that your integrity is determined by What You Won't Do there are some things that I'm just not gonna do I'm just not gonna do that I'm just not gonna do that if I go broke I'm not gonna do that if I can sell the car I'm not gonna do that if I have to sell the shoes I'm not gonna do it I'm just not gonna do it right because I think too much of myself you don't know me but he does and all of a sudden John the Baptist looks up with his feet standing in the Jordan River in the same Jordan River that Joshua's feet had stood in the same Jordan that went hither and dither and the children of Israel had walked across on dry ground John is standing in that same Jordan the same Jordan where they took out the 12 smooth Stones where the feet of the priesthood firm John is now standing in that same Jordan only it stood up him pulling out a rock he's about to reveal The Rock The Rock of Ages The Rock in a weary Land The Rock can assure a place I'm talking about Jesus everybody's looking at John but John looks up and he sees Jesus [Applause] and how you manage greatness has a lot to do with how you end up [Applause] a lot of people will not shine a light on anybody who might make them look less let me hear some John says behold don't keep looking at me behold there's something greater than me behold the one you won't pass behold the one you overlook behold the one you ignored he is the Lamb of God will take you the way the sins of the world and the Bible says the crowd Parts Jesus goes from obscurity to notoriety in a step you think it's Gonna Take Years you just gonna step into what God has just just the steps already been ordered don't worry about the stage pray for the step if you make the step the stage will take care of itself too many people are in love with the stage and not the steps so they get on the stage and can't stay on it because they don't take the steps to qualify them for the state don't pray for the stage pray for the step the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and He delighted in his way I feel something in this place I feel something in this place something's about to break loose in this place [Applause] and Lord if it ain't cousin Jesus coming from obscurity to notoriety and the Bible says that that Jesus came down into the Jordan and John didn't even want to bypass him footnote for my new members this is a Deja Vu moment this is the first time that we have seen Jesus and John in the same space since they were in Mary and Elizabeth and there's something familiar about them standing in fluids again the last time Wet Jesus and wet John were together John got filled with the Holy Ghost while he was still in his mother's womb good God Almighty and hear that in the wet place in the birthing place in the reshaping place in the rebuilding place is familiar but it's not familiar it's the same but it's not the same it's deja vu somebody in this room what God is doing in your life is familiar but it's not familiar everything in your past has prepared you for what you're about to do now it is the same but it's not the same they're standing in the fluids again and just like before the holy ghost shows up [Applause] foreign was filled with the Holy Ghost this time it descends like a dove it descends like a dove and the Bible says that the heavens open up who hold up a minute Lord please lead my steps to the place where the heavens open up hey Jesus if you don't mind leave my steps to the place where the heavens open up I don't want to shout in front of closed Heavens I don't want to give in front of closed Heaven I don't want to work in front of closed Heaven put me in the position where the heavens open up they're only going to open in one spot so I got to be in place when they open excuse me I don't have time to argue with you I gotta get to this place I gotta get to this place because they're only going to open in one spot and I gotta be in the spot Jesus Jesus comes to the spot glory to God imagine they even say I'm close to the spot I know I'm close to the spot because hell is nervous I know I'm close to the spot because it's tougher than it's ever been I know I'm close to the spot because my emotions are all over the place I know I'm close to the spot because the enemy's trying to discourage me and he wouldn't be trying to discourage me if I weren't close to the spot I'm online this morning because I'm close to the spot and God wants to give me some directions that we be made you do it for a night but joy cause it's in the morning God is trying to tell you you're getting close to the spot don't give place to the devil don't give territory to the devil don't give up your spot to the devil stand on your spot [Applause] look at somebody and say this is a spot where it goes down this is a spot where the heavens open up this this spot where the demons get stirred up this is the spot where the yolks are broken this is the spot where the glory comes down this is a spot where the father speaks somebody shout this is the spot Stay With Me ain't nothing but a distraction stay with me this is a spot this is a spot look at your neighbor say this is the spot see you got to know when you're in the spot because if you don't know what you have you won't know if you're losing when you know you're in the spot you can't let no devil in hell move you out of your spot this is a spot devil can't have no stage here this is a spot if you're looking for entertainment you better go down the street this is the spot this is the spot this spot is occupied I got this spot covered camera over here I got this vodka [Applause] foreign [Applause] I know you want it but this is a spot I know you're trying to take it from me but this is a spot I know you're trying to be a side show on my theater but this is the spot I'ma hold it down imma hold it right down imma hold it right now put it right here I got it right here I'ma hold it right down the enemies after your spot let somebody say hold it down [Applause] I've been around too long to give up my spot I've been preaching too hard to give up my spot you don't do something for 46 years and let a sideshow take his spot the devil is alive this is possible I paid for this spot I cried for this spot I studied for this spot I labor for the spot hold it down [Applause] this is the spot watch this this is the spot where everything changes [Music] [Applause] this is the spot that obscurity turns to notoriety this is the spot where his purpose is revealed this is the spot where the Yoke breaks this is the spot take this out of affirmation he gets affirmed in this spot not just by God but by John you need somebody else to affirm you other than you if you're the only person who thinks you're great uh when John pointed him out and put him on the mat it made him relevant John took his influence and directed it toward Jesus when he said Behold the Lamb of God he told his crowd to watch him that's a turning point you have to be a pretty big person to use your influence to make somebody else look good very few people will do that they'd rather write you a check they give up some influence this is the spot where Jesus is discovered by the crowd this is the spot where the heavens open up and the Holy Spirit floated down it wasn't a dove but that's as close of a metaphor to how we describe how it descended the holy spirit is gentle it's not out of control if you got a spirit got you out of control it's not God 's Spirit God's spirit is a Gentle Spirit it don't take 20 people to hold you when it's got God God's spirit is a [Applause] so the writer said I need a metaphor to describe it because because because I can't explain how how soft it felt one minute we were just singing a song and we don't even know what verse it fell in but the spirit just descended like a dove I started out praying out of my intellect and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit just took over it descended like a dove I can't teach it because I can't control it I I can't tell you about it because I can't control it I didn't do it I didn't manufacture the Holy Spirit descended like a dove it is a place of affirmation it is a place where he shuts down your haters it is a place where even your critics have to admit that boy got some oil on him it is a place where they got to recognize you can do what you do like you do and I'm not just talking about preaching whatever it is you do if it's surgery if it's medicine if it's pulling teeth there's something that God gave you that you can do like you do like though other people could do they went to the same school they took the same classes they put the same courses but God put something down inside of you that you got an instinct not just information you got an instinct that causes you to stand ahead and shoulder above other is because the Holy Spirit descended on you like a dove this is a spot and then if that were not enough his father affirmed him his father come on fellas his father said That's my boy you man you got the juice you're the one let's get you looking like your daddy expressing your daddy and Earth expressing your daddy in there no man have seen the father at any time saying the son but the son have revealed him can I teach this class and so he says this is my beloved Son in whom I am well please so there is no question as to whether God is pleased with him yet the same spirit that anointed him led him into the wilderness [Music] the reason we will text is because sometimes when you find yourself in the wilderness you think you did something wrong this Wilderness is not your fault it is not your punishment it is your preparation [Music] this is the place where God proves the authenticity of what he said in the Jordan because God says I'm not going to call you something that you can't manifest so I'm going to lead you into the Wilderness but don't walk into it feeling punished oh that's better than y'all shouting yeah the Wilderness has been designed to set you into a category of exceptionalism the Wilderness is where I will use you to teach Satan you're not like the first Adam that his little three tricks that he used in the garden will not work on you say these three tricks this is all he has in his bag the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of light that's all he got in his bag it may have a different dress on it it may be wearing jeans it may be sagging but all of it is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life that's all that's in the world we get hung up on details God is talking about categories the Bible said he was attempted at all points like as we are yet without sin it don't make no difference to your body whether you ate banana pudding or chocolate cake is still calories now we get in the face how dare you like chocolate I like banana pudding best details that God doesn't care about is lust of the flesh lust of the eye and the pride of life they were in the garden with Eve I don't have time for this they were in the garden with Eve when she saw that it was pleasant to the eyes [Music] when she saw it was good for food the lust of the flesh lust of the eye here's the prayer of life and desirous to make one wise that's how we all fail behind those three things the lust of the flesh lust of thy pride of life now the second man Adam has to face those same three things to pass so he is led by the spirit Into the Wilderness so what I want you to get out of this is I may be going through a Wilderness but that does not mean that I am not his beloved Son in whom I am well pleased God's favor does not exempt famines one more time see you keep saying I thought I had the favor of God if I had the favor of God I wouldn't have lost my job if I had the favor of God I wouldn't have gone through this credit if I had the favor of God I wouldn't have this moment to the two things have nothing to do with the other this is not punishment it's preparation [Applause] so he led him into the Wilderness because God has history with his wilderness he caught up Elijah in this wilderness he taught Joshua how to lead in this wilderness he established Israel as a nation in this wilderness God has history in this Wilderness he met Rahab in this wilderness God Is A wilderness God he is a rock in the wilderness he'll put streams in the wilderness God is a god of the Wilderness you looking for him in the sanctuary but God hangs out in the wilderness so I heard him say I am a present help in trouble if you ain't in trouble you ain't in God because God is a present help in trouble I want to talk to my people in trouble right now if you in trouble you're not in it by yourself because God is a present help watch this he led him in the wilderness to be tempted to be tested to be tried to be proven not as though that God did not know but so that all of his Spectators would know that he was legit they know you legit by how you handle pain if you can handle power and you can't handle pain you're not fit for the kingdom the Bible said if you put your hand to the plow and look back you're not fit for the kingdom stand up to it and he went out there and he fasted for 40 days now look I can't imagine I'm gonna be honest obviously I have not fasted for 40 days and respectfully you don't look like you have see I love this new generation of church the old church I grew up in when we went on a fast you just had water your fans got ours like it works a job I'm fast and I'm on the Ezekiel fans I'm on the Daniel fan I fast till six o'clock I fast from TV I fast from porn what kind of fast is that I fast from Facebook I fast from Twitter y'all got these nice little fans we got we had the kind of fans where your jaws were sucking and you was hoping you didn't have bad breath and you were scared to eat a search cause the church come on somebody when we went on a fence it was a fad it was a fast from vegetables it wasn't a fast from Big Macs it wouldn't advance from fast food it was a fast fat it was a jaw sick and fast it was an eye bulging fan it was a fans where you came to church but you was weak it was a fans where you wanted to dance but if I couldn't say a word that's where that came from I just waved my hand because when you was fast and you couldn't you you couldn't dance you just Jesus fasted for 40 days to say to his flesh you will not control me [Applause] to say to his flesh there is something more powerful than your urges to say to his flesh that I won't fall where Adam fell though I feel what Adam feels I feel it enough to be touched by the feeling of your infirmity but I'm strong enough to win where you lose because if I'm going to give you my victory and take on your failure I must maintain my victory or all we will do is exchange sin that's why you make a mistake when you come against the devil in your righteousness because your righteousness is as filthy rags you have to come at the Devil with the righteousness of God that's why Paul teaches that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus he is my righteousness I am completing him I will never be complete in myself [Applause] it seems like to me that the devil should have attacked him while we while he was fasted but he knew Jesus had too much integrity to break his fast so he waited till the fast was over when it was legal for him to eat he says there is no biblical reason why you can't have some food so if thou be the son of God let's have some lunch man let's have some lunch we ain't got to the deli we ain't got to go to the deli turn this Stone to bread use your power to satisfy your need turn something that ain't into something you want [Applause] y'all quiet now because some of y'all sitting by a stone I mean y'all you you know it wasn't bread when you married it you knew there was no bread but you said I'm gonna turn it into bread you can't turn no stone in the bread [Applause] you can't turn stones in the bread Jesus said you will not tempt me to see Stones as bread are you tempted to see stones as read for the record stones are hard bread is soft have you married some heart trying to make yourself because that is the Temptation that comes on you after the fast after you have spent yourself you can't trust yourself not to see Stones as bread he says I should not tell the Lord thy God then he takes him up to a high place and when he goes up to a high place he says to him he shows him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them now I was at the high places around Nebo it's the same high place that Moses went to to see the promised land he couldn't go to Mount Nebo is high enough that you can see for miles and miles you can see Jordan and Jerusalem how you you can see Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from Mount Nemo you can see a lot of land but you can't see all the kingdoms so he took it to a high place and showed him Beyond Sidelines what he would give him he showed him Jerusalem the city that Moses was happy just to see I may not get there with you but I got to see it he knew what Jesus wanted before he showed it to him because Satan will never tempt you with something you don't like quick story I was going through a test and this woman was calling us all time tonight early long time ago years in our Mercy you know story so don't tighten up uh two o'clock in the morning three o'clock in the morning she said I was gonna die her husband was gonna die and we was going to get married all our children was gonna die she'd kill all y'all all our children was gonna die and and we were going we were gonna get married and it was aggravating it was nerve-wracking and I call a spiritual mentor and I said but what do you think about this she said are you attracted to this woman I said no and not at all do you want this woman absolutely not he said she said to me don't you think that if the devil was going to tempt you he would tempt you with the woman you wanted [Applause] so then she asked me what do you feel when she calls I said rage she said that's the temptation so the next time she calls I want you to resist rage and worship [Music] I'm just telling this to help somebody so instead of getting raged and tossing threats at each other and threatening to run over her with the car and stuff like that because I was growing in the Lord I was growing I was growing I wasn't there yet don't don't judge me so when she called again I said oh I bless you Lord I bless you I bless your Holy Name there's nobody like you Lord You're holy in the earth I give you glory and I give you honor and I give you praise and I lift you up and she started screaming you might be fighting the right Devil with the wrong weapon Jesus is at the end of his fast and the enemy is now tempting him with the pride of life and by the way you are offering Jesus what's already his because the Earth is the lowest the fullness thereof the world and they that dwell therein and how you gonna offer the bread to the bread when he is the bread of life how you the enemy is always offering you stuff you already got count on you not knowing it to need it and Jesus has been living life and let me tell you what living life is living life is like going to Six Flags it's up and it's down you laughing and you crying you screaming and you threatening the man let me off I let me off I went off this thing that's what I do I drink him let me I I said let me off I don't care that it's the middle of the right let me off if you don't want me to throw up on you you better let me off because I'm you don't get to get out of it because the ride gets rough Jesus first lesson to us is to teach us that one moment you're being Affirmed by man and God and the next moment you're in the wilderness in the fast of your life and that's normal one moment you're talking to your father and the next moment you fighting with your devil and that's normal one moment you're reconciling with your friend and the next moment You Are by yourself that's life that's normal fast faith and transition yeah you keep waiting for Faith to stop the movement you gotta have faith in the movement life is going to do what life is gonna do and it doesn't mean that you don't have faith and it doesn't mean that God is judging you just because you're in a wilderness by the way a Wilderness is a dry place very few things grow there A wilderness is a place of isolation A wilderness is a place of unpredictable temperatures it is hotter than fire during the day it is ice cold at night you can't dress for it you can't prepare for it you have to survive it some of you are in a Wilderness are you living in a city but you're in a Wilderness you got a nice condo but you're in a Wilderness you got two kids and a dog but you're in the wilderness you are in a Wilderness right now because nothing is growing and nothing is moving and it is dry and you are alone and you are wondering where is God who opened up the Heavens last month now that I'm in the wilderness and that's why I had to preach this message because we only see God in the Magnificent we don't see God in the mundane but God reveals himself in the mundane Wilderness places of your life anybody need this you can see God when the choir is singing and everybody shouting you can see God real good but you can't see God when you're driving home from a job you lost you can't see God when the doctor says there's a lump in your breast you can't see God when the principle says we're putting your child out of school and you ain't got no place to put him you needed him to go to school because it was good for him but it was good for you too and now you got this crop snatcher at home not doing nothing nobody to take care of him and he has his actions have made your life complicated talk to me somebody have you ever had somebody's life make your life complicated and you're trying to figure out what you're going to do because where is God in my wilderness and by the way the fast is over so why am I under attack now you bring me up here and show me all the kingdoms the lust of the eye that that you will give me if I just bow to you but it is written that I should only serve the Lord my God and I will have no other gods before me so though I'm hungry and though I'm weak and though I will weep over Jerusalem I will not bow for Jerusalem watches and so the Bible says that as Jesus experienced in the wilderness continued being weak from the fast but not falling he is now against the rocks he is now against the rocks now everybody won't understand that phrase against the rocks but Jesus is now against the rocks I'm against the rocks I can't walk no further I can't talk no further I can't pray no louder and one writer says that Jesus is up against the rocks watches in the presence of Beast so the beasts are waiting on him to die because we see him as Savior but to be see him as dinner see you gotta understand that you see yourself as a person but many people see you as an opportunity and they're just waiting to catch you against the rocks so Jesus is against the rocks and the wild beasts are just waiting on him to pass out and then the Bible says that the Angels Came and ministered unto him the Angels didn't say nothing when he was on the mountain that Angels didn't say nothing while he was fasting the Angels didn't say nothing while he was tempted but when the Beast got ready to devour him the reason I like this text is I know what it is to be against the rocks that know that the beasts are waiting on me and they see me like dinner I know what it's like to see the glare the red glare of the eyes of the enemy saying I got you where I want you and I am going to take you out I know what it's like to come at the most inconvenient time when I'm at my tiredness and I'm at my weakest and I'm hungry and I've been fasting I know what it's like for the enemy to come at the most vulnerable moment in your life and says I'm coming in to kill but I also know what it's like for the angels to come in and rescue me out of stuff I know what it's like that when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him I know what it's like for God to show up in the moment of your Calamity for the Bible said that the angels of the Lord encamp about them that fear Him and He will show them his Covenant and I want to tell you right now your angels are on the way I know you're tired I know you've been up against the Rocks I know it's been harder than it should have been I know you're out of food and you're out of strength and you're out of friends and you're out of fellowship and I know your life looks schizophrenic that it's the best of times and the worst of times but your angels are on the way and if you get this out of the message you got the whole message God is not going to see his children now up against the rocks and not rescue them huh we have a God that will send Angels coming at you in every direction and in case you don't believe it let me get some witnesses the reason the car wreck didn't kill you is because the Angels covered you the reason you got bible stuff that other people drowned in is because the Angels covered you let me go a little bit higher the reason you got the job wasn't your degree there were people that had more credentials but they didn't have more favor that when God gets ready to minister to you God will minister to you and the reason you are here right now the angels are in your Wilderness I can't get you out the Wilderness but I can't get your angels out either I want you to know that you can learn whatever state you're in to still be content whether I'm in the Jordan whether I'm on the mountain whether I'm in the wilderness the one consistent thing is that the angels are always there you don't seem to understand what I'm saying but the angels are wrapping all around you right now I'm glad if you want to wear a mask I'm glad if you got on PPP I'm glad if you got on special clothes I don't care what you got on your greatest force field is that the angels of the Lord encamp around you and I don't want to insult you but the reason you haven't lost your mind is not because didn't have trauma but when your mind was coming unglued the angels of the Lord had kept round about you and when your enemy was glaring at you and seeking your position it was the angel of the Lord that went in the boardroom and got your job back and if there's anybody in here that ought to give God the praise is people that's got angels in their wilderness [Applause] yes yes yes you go ahead and Shout because you got on Gucci shoes but I'm gonna shout cause I got angels in the wilderness you go ahead and Shout cause you just got married but I'm gonna shout cause I got angels in the wilderness you go ahead and Shout cause you got a four bedroom a house but I'll stay in this one bedroom efficiency sweep and give God the glory because I've never by myself you go ahead and Shout out because you find that wonderful but I'm shouting because I'm healthy and coming with the blood you go ahead and Shout cause you got a quarter officer I'm working from my house but I'm still giving God the praise cause I every time the devil thinks he's got me God sends angels in my Wilderness I want you to take 30 seconds and praise him to the angels know they the God is there [Applause] yes yes yes I'm praising him because I'm recognizing I was never by myself clap your hands and give God for Glory [Music] yeah look at seven people tell them I got angels I got Angels don't mess with me I got angels I got angels I got angels I got angels I got angels I got angel I got angels I got angels all around me I got angels watching my house I got angels watching my car I got angels watching my mind I got angels watching my peace I got angels watching my joy I got Angels covering for me I thank you for my angels Hallelujah he said angels He said Angels sometimes they look like people sometimes they didn't look like anything I could see but God sent angels to risk to God be the glory to God be the glory to the god to God to God be the glory for the things he's done to God be the glory my story should end up like this but to God be the glory they tried to eat me for dinner but to come God be the glory I thought I could make it out but to God be the glory [Applause] [Music] [Applause] as I close today [Applause] I'm just trying to make you aware of how blessed you are how good God's been to you how you didn't get through this because you were smart sometimes stuff was glaring at you that you didn't even know was glaring at you in the presence of Beast God bless you in the presence of enemies God bless you in the presence of haters God bless you in the presence of Envy God bless you in the presence of Tricks God bless you in the presence of Witchcraft God bless you in the presence of people trying to overthrow you God bless you in the presence of rumors God bless you in the presence of office politics God bless you in the presence of people playing games God bless our preaching to somebody in the presence of all hell breaking Luke God bless you and what God is trying to figure out is how can you stand there with your lips glued together and act like I am not good to you when I brought you all of this way by my right hand and my holy arm if don't nobody else praise me in this building I did too much in your life for you not to give me the prayer they might not know how good could I but I know you know how good [Applause] I was I was watching one of this crazy television shows where they do crazy stuff like jump out a helicopters with chains wrapped around or open their mouth and eat worms and they're the disclaimer on the show don't try this on your own I want to say to you this morning as I close don't try this don't try this no no don't try this just cause you came in at a time I was on the mountain don't try this on your own mountains are made out of valleys [Applause] don't try this because you came in and you saw the text but you didn't see the context don't try this because of three years of Fame after 18 years of Silence [Applause] I think you're gonna reach past the 18 and get the three if you reach past 18 and get the three you can't stand the pressure that comes with the three it's the 18 of being ignored they get you ready for what God is going to do next everybody stand to your feet do you feel me do you feel me do you feel me this morning do you feel me online do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth don't try this on your own I was watching I don't watch a lot of TV but I was watching the show and they had people get up on a helicopter and they fail backwards and you're supposed to keep your back straight and your head go through the water if you bent your back the water would feel like concrete you might pass out or break your neck first thing I knew is that I didn't want to be on that show yeah that's the first thing I know the second thing I came to understand that only certain type of people are inclined to take certain kinds of risks and I wasn't going to be jealous of something that I'm not equipped for [Applause] so stop envying what God gave somebody else and only appreciate what God has equipped for am I preaching them say I can't do what you do I love you but I can't do what you do if I could do what you do I would have done it and ain't no need of me getting here and trying to do it now if I didn't do it before now I probably can't do that not not not on the field not even on the dance floor but just because I don't have what you got don't mean I don't have anything yeah so the reason I have the grace to let him and Smith be in Miss Memphis because I'm happy being TD Jakes when you learn how to be happy to be who God created you to be you'll be free listen at me good let me tell you why it's not working out for you right now it's not that you go through Wilderness that wait we don't go through we go through all the same wildernesses that's not the problem I'm not trying to say if you come to Jesus your Wilderness over it wasn't over for Jesus so it's not gonna be over for you how can I take a Jesus who went through a Wilderness and teach the gospel that denies wilderness Wilderness come to everybody but not angels the Angels only come to them that fear Him that word fear means reverence people who reverence God have angels and I'm going to tell you right now life will always bring its wilderness it will bring it to young people it will bring it to older people it will bring it to white people it will bring it to black people it will bring it to brown people it will bring it to rich people quit idolizing rich people if I just had money everything would be all right I know lots of crazy rich people I know rich people crazy as a bed bug and a bottle of rub iness comes to everybody but Angels only come to those who the father sends them

Channel: T.D. Jakes

Views: 1,089,504

Keywords: td jakes, faith, wtal, woman thou are loosed, megafest, potters house, bishop jakes, pastors and leadership, pastors, leaders, instinctbishops, village, Angels In your wilderness, You are guided, Recognize god’s guidance, Mark 1 kjv, a present help, god in the wilderness, i am not alone

Id: w7KGVqmJ1bw

Length: 66min 36sec (3996 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 08 2023