Defense Against Offenses: Get Out of Your Feelings - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Music] now to the word of god [Music] can i take just a moment and look at you you just look so good you don't look like nothing you've been through you don't look like you've been through a storm a test a trial a tribulation a pandemic a sickness a disease an affliction a divorce a crisis a dilemma a stress attack a trauma you're just looking so good with your saved and sanctified self you look like jesus has been keeping you preserving you taking away for you providing for you is there anybody here that jesus has been keeping you alive through hell and hot water he's been keeping you alive make some noise in this house let me i believe with all my heart i have a word from god i believe it is a prophetic word i believe it's going to speak to somebody and i believe it's going to deliver somebody before i give you my scripture i want us to act like we're not at church i want us to act like you're talking to your best friend and we're hanging out at starbucks and we're having a latte yeah we're having a latte i can't smell it but i can drink it yeah we're having a latte and we're having it with that special uh uh pumpkin bread they make you know yeah that bread that's juicy when you bite into it that don't have no calories in it because you prayed in tongues and all the calories just drip you know the one i'm talking about come on come on come on come on you know the one i'm talking about glory to god and we're just going we're going i'm going to let you hear me and jesus have a conversation about this text it is in the gospel of saint luke chapter 17 verse 1-10 i'm reading out of the king james version no particular reason i study out all of them but i think i read out of king james because it's old and i'm old and we've been hanging out so long it ain't no needing us breaking up now then said he unto his disciples shh he's not talking to anybody but his disciples it is impossible but that offenses will come but woe unto him through whom they come it were better for him that a milestone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea then for him that that he should offend one of these little ones take heed to yourselves if thy brother does trespass against he rebuke him and if he repent forgive him and if he trespass against these seven times in a day and seven times in the day turning into thee and saying i repent thou shalt forgive him this is my favorite part and the apostle said unto the lord increase our faith they said we're all right we've forgiven you one time but if it's 7 times 70 you're gonna have to do some work on me to increase our faith as being honest and then increase our faith and the lord said if he had faith as of a grain of mustard seed ye might say unto this sycamine tree be thou plucked up by the root and be thou planted in the having and be now planted in the sea and it should obey him notice that this time jesus says something that he says before differently the first time he says if you have the faith as of grain of a mustard seed you shall speak to the mountain but this time he doesn't use a mountain as an analogy this time he says if you have the faith as of a grain of a mustard seed a mustard seed is so teensy weensy itsy bitsy that it would fit right in between my fingers like that he said if you have the faith as of a grain of a mustard seed you might say to this sycamine tree be thou plucked up by the what by the root and be thou planted in the sea and it should obey you but which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle will say unto him by and by when he has come from the field go and sit down to me and will not rather say unto him make ready wherewith i may suffer and gird thyself and serve me till i have eaten and drunken and afterward thou shall eat and drink does he thank that servant because he did the things which were commanded him i think not so likewise ye when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you when you have forgiven seven times seventy when you have done all those things that i have commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which is our duty to do we've made the lord add a blessing to the reading of his word that's more word than some of y'all read in a month that'll last you a day so i'm going to use something i never use i'm going to use a subject and a subtopic because i couldn't choose between the two and one of them sounds uh real cool in one of themselves real intellectual so i'm going to use both of them okay so the subject is defense against offenses defense against offenses and the subtopic is get out of your feelings get out of your feelings so one of them ought to grab you you pick the one you lay can we stand and have prayer before i go into this yeah ooh i like the sound of all them seats going up and just sound rumbling like i'm in a great big stadium which i am that's so cool can y'all hear me up in the balcony yeah y'all got in here didn't you glory to god spirit of the living god fall fresh like do in the morning [Music] cascade upon us open up our tendency to be religious and superficial and expose the innermost sanctums of our heart that we might receive in just digest and appropriate the word of god i thank you in advance for what you're going to do here tonight at victory church at potter's house and all around the world wherever people are listening that lives would be changed that marriages would be changed that ministries would be changed that workplaces would be changed that hearts would be changed that the power of the holy spirit would get so deep down inside of us that we are freed on the inside freed in our hearts thank you for what you're going to do in jesus name amen let me hear victory praise [Music] come on show father's house what a victory praise now sir [Applause] you may be seated in the presence of the lord [Music] i feel good glory to god i feel like doing a split i'm not gonna do it but i feel like doing the split i'm like james brown after he got in his 60s when he was in his 30s he did a split you know what about what he got in his 60s he kind of got it yeah yeah so that's it that's it right there when i was a young man i danced in the spirit i danced so long they'd have to put me in the car and i'd still be dancing now that i'm older i act like i'm a dance [Applause] yeah fake em out god is good we are fearfully and marvelously made created in christ jesus unto good works we are unique authentic autonomous individually defined by the master himself we are a designer's original in a category all by ourselves there has never been another you and there will never be another you again even if you have a twin it's not you god has put so much detail in the specificity that even your fingerprint stands in a category all by itself god himself shows up in the scriptures the very first time we see him we see him stooping over clay the stooping god shows us that all throughout the book of genesis god will be stooping to reach us he stoops down and he forms man from the dust of the earth and man it's just a ceramic a clay pot until he breathes the breath of life into him and he becomes a living soul the word living soul in the hebrew is nefesh he becomes aware of himself he's not just alive like a rose bush or a plant or collard greens or potatoes or or anything like i'm kind of hungry so you know all of my illustrations will be food illustrations tonight uh but but he becomes aware of himself if you cut a rose bush it doesn't scream if if you cut celery it doesn't cry but because we are aware of ourselves we have feelings and the gift of feelings is unique we are created in the likeness and the image of god god has feelings the bible says and the lord was angry with wrath which means anger with fire god has feelings god has feeling jesus comes to lazarus uh funeral service and weeps with mary and martha god has feelings and we need feelings i know this is a faith church but we need feelings faith and feelings are not necessarily at odds with each other we need feelings we were created to be a feeling species if we had no feelings we'd have no love we would have no love and then how could god ask us to love him with all our heart and our mind and our soul if we couldn't feel anything our feelings are a gift to us besides the bible says we can be touched he can be touched by the feelings of our infirmity tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin god cares how you feel and so he wants us to have feelings he doesn't want us to be led by feelings but he wants us to have feelings he wants us to have feelings so there is a natural feeling we have when we birth a child there's a natural protectiveness that we have over a child you can take the teeny any bitsiest woman in this room and mess with her kid and she will turn into a serial killer i would rather fight any dude in the room right now than to fight an angry mama because god equipped a mama with feelings i mean father's about he'll knock you out too they'll bust your chops but a mama will pull your teeth out of your gums and look at you like you're a chopped liver and say don't give near my child again god gives us those feelings and those instincts so that we might be protective and so that we might be corrective and so with that we might have empathy and we need those feelings these feelings cause children to be feel loved and to feel safe and to feel nurtured but the problem is those feelings as many wonderful things as they do can also do negative things we can get hurt in our feelings we can get bruised in our feelings we can get disappointed in our feelings we can be forsaken in our feelings we can be rejected in our feelings and not even show anybody because you can't see a feeling if you break your leg you can see a broken leg if you break your arm you can see a broken arm a broken heart cannot be seen a broken heart cannot be seen and it is impossible to treat there is no prescription for a broken heart for a disappointed child who was not raised by their parents there is no prescription that will take away that pain there are feelings that we have to manage in order to be successful we have to manage them like you have to manage money you have to budget your feelings you have to put guard rails around your feelings you have to control your feelings because if you listen at your feelings you'll make snap decisions that you later regret i often say never make permanent decisions over temporary circumstances because in a temporary moment of passion you can make a permanent decision that you live to regret feelings are very very important to us but they must be managed he became a living soul means that he had a place to warehouse his feelings so that your feelings are not homeless they are sheltered in your soulless man not exhibited in your body not shown in the way you walk and so if you are wounded in your feelings you can hide it and nobody can see it and nobody can know it and you can smile and say good morning welcome to jcpenney's and nobody's ever the wiser to the fact that you have a broken heart that you have a broken marriage that you don't feel comfortable on your own job that you wonder why your mother didn't raise you or why she treated your sister better than she treated you or why they never asked you to sing a solo unless it's so low and it hurts your feelings and we have all of these feelings and in the beginning of the text when jesus is talking to his disciples he is talking to them about feelings and his first thing when i started reading this text i said lord you spent all of those verses 11 verses talking to us about how we feel and i i got teary eyed and i said thank you for caring about how i feel thank you for caring about how i feel because i'm not sure that people always care about how you feel we it is much easier for us to care about how we feel than it is to care about how others feel to care about how others feel is empathy but not everybody is equipped with the ability to be empathetic they can be selfish they can be narcissistic they can be tied into themselves and sometimes when your feelings are wounded and you're surrounded by people that are oblivious willingly or unwillingly to how you feel you are alone even in a crowd now jesus is preparing his disciples to take over the world and he does not want them to be petty so he says it is impossible for you to not have a fence it is impossible that means if you tip around and be real quiet and real sweet and you always do nice things for everybody and you're just as kind as mother teresa that does not exempt you you will still get offended that means that if you change your hair and you change your dress you will still get offended if you don't believe it go on social media if you lose weight they say you're too skinny if you gain weight they say you need to work out more if you dress dollys they say you need to be simple if you dress simple they say you need to freshen up there's always somebody out of 8 billion people on the planet you are gonna get on somebody's nerves i don't care what you do and you can't manage eight billion people's feelings so jesus does not want to raise up 12 disciples who think victory is managing how other people feel oh that was good because for some of you victory is changing people's minds and you think that if i do this well enough long enough right enough left enough short enough to get tips in my hair get tense in my hair get weaves in my hair get my lips blown up get my jaw so i can get my tummy tucked and take my tummy and put it behind me then when i [Applause] did i say that out loud i didn't mean to say that out loud i'm sorry we're always trying to manage what people think of us and jesus says it is impossible he just comes right out the top slaps us right across your face bam it's impossible for you to live your life and not have offense so you might as well quit running from it you might as well quit making it the achievement of your life to get everybody to like you i don't care what you do somebody's not gonna like you that was one of the greatest lessons my father taught me in an old red pickup truck that had a red a bumper on it that he had gotten from the junk yard and he was coming back from a job and i was coloring in the car and i was eight years old and i was having a father-son talk with him about some kid at school that didn't like me and he said boy i don't care what you do everybody is not going to like you stay with me all of my life because all of us want to be liked and we want to be loved and we want to live our lives without a fence because a fence is stressful it's stressful it's stressful yeah i know you say you don't care but it's stressful people will say stuff to you that will make your hair stop growing and jesus says clearly it is unavoidable there is no way to live your life without a fence if you chew long enough your teeth are going to bite your tongue i know you married harry and he's six foot two and fine and he's got biceps and triceps and recepts and deception and everything all over and he's so gorgeous and he treats you like a lady like you have never been treated before in all of your life and i know he's so wonderful and he's so thoughtful and he's so kind and when you looked through in his eyes you saw all the way down into his heart and you knew that we would always love each other forever and ever and ever until you found out that he leaves his socks on the floor and he left his dirty underwear in the bathroom and all of a sudden you get an attitude about the way he smacks his food at the table can you please shut your mouth with your jew you're cute but you got no manners it's true you're going to have a friend you're going to have a fence it's going to happen sometime it's going to happen to you sometimes you're going to go through some things but god cares about your emotional well-being because if you get emotionally off it affects everything else when we go on an interview they want to know our iq our intellectual quotient how intelligent are you there is a measurement whereby we can measure the quotient whereby your intelligence exists okay but there is also an eq whereby you can begin to evaluate the emotional quotient don't slip over this write this down because a lot of people with great iqs have poor eqs and you hire the intelligence but you got to live with the eq and by the time they get to wreaking havoc on your job in your life and your marriage with your kids you would take somebody with a lower iq if they had a little bit higher eq can i get a witness up in here somewhere you find out she's cute but she's crazy she is built like a coke bottle but she is empty as a beer drum and you find yourself in this situation where you got these people because you don't end up married to their iq you end up living with their eq yeah and jesus said people get offended and how we manage the offense determines the outcome of our lives because there are no classes that teach us how to manage our eq there are no classes they don't teach that in school not even in universities they don't teach you how to manage your emotions they don't teach you that at home they teach you your abcs and which fork to use i know which fort to use my mother spent hours teaching me which void to use that's a salad for it don't eat with that food no that's a dessert spoon eat with that dessert spoon does it hurt spoon goes above the plate this is where the glass goes this is where the bread goes you got her bread plate she taught me all that kind of stuff i don't use none of that i eat your food my food any food that gets in my proximity is at risk of termination i wish she would have spent a little bit more time telling me how to manage emotions jesus says if it's impossible to live without offense we should talk to people more about offense rather than acting like once you come to jesus you will never be offended nobody will ever get in your nerves and nobody will ever take your parking space some of you before you get out of this building somebody is going to get on your nerves and you got to be okay with it you got to be able to deal with it because they're sitting up talking to somebody and they're holding up traffic and you got to go to work at seven o'clock in the morning and she's having a conversation and praying for somebody out of her car window and you can't get around her and all of a sudden your anointing dissipates out of your baby toe and your eyes turn red and your fangs come out and all of that yeah you know i'm right about it he cares so much about it he cares so much about it and when your feelings are wounded or hurt or in pain the body the human body i've done a lot of research on this the human body cannot differentiate between physical pain and emotional pain the same secretions that come out of your body when you have emotional pain like breaking your leg are the same reactions that you have to a broken heart but no medicine and so there is no treatment we can't reset it we can't stabilize it we can't bring it back to order and jesus is talking to his disciples and we get to eavesdrop on the conversation without the fbi we get to hear jesus prepping his boys to go out and do kingdom work and he's prepping them so that they won't be petty because you can't do great work massive promised land work with a petty attitude you have to have thick skin to operate for the kingdom you have to be strong to operate for the kingdom you have to have some things in place that protect you because if you're not careful the offense will become a distraction from the calling and you'll put all your energy into settling the offense rather than focusing on the mission that the lord has given you and your your wounded feelings will be your sand ballad and tobiah and you'll give up on your calling and come down off your wall to have an argument with how you feel and you think you got the victory but you lost the victory because the disruption was a distraction from the purpose of god that was in your life so you be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord and then he says i don't want you worrying about it because i'm going to deal with it he says it would have been better that a millstone be tied around your neck and you'll be cast into the sea then for you to hurt one of mine he kind of sounds like my mother my mother i called my mother down to the school because i was having trouble at school and the vice principal said she was gonna call my mother and i said no you're not gonna call my mother i'm gonna call my mother a few minutes later this black woman pulled up in this green imperial with her wig on backwards [Applause] i'm not being funny this is the truth her wig was on backwards and her eyes were red like dracula and she had fangs coming out of her mouth and i said there's my mama [Applause] it changed the whole meeting when mama got out the car god said i will ride up on you like your mama if you hurt one of the least of mine it would be better that a millstone be tied around your neck and you'll be cast into the sea than to hurt one of my people's feelings their emotion that ought to make you careful that i'll make you scared it ought to make you a a steward of with a fiduciary responsibility to manage the feelings of the people in your life so that you don't become a brood and careless with the way you talk to each other because god is watching how you talk to me and even though i don't get upset he gets upset and vengeance is not mine but it's his and the lord says i will repay you if you mistreat not just the big people on the front row but the people where [Music] back in the balcony he says i care whatever you do to the least of mine to the parking lot attendant you have done it unto me oh that's cool that means god is my security i don't have to have security god is my security that he's my protection and that means that i don't have to fight back that means the battle is not mine it belongs to the lord it means i don't have to fill my heart with anger and getting even and coming up with schemes to get back at you or straighten you out it means that the battle belongs to god and god will deal with you all by himself because he doesn't want me distracted from healing the sick and raising the dead and turning water into wine and preaching the gospel and loosing the bound and setting the copter free he doesn't want me to be distracted from laying hands on people and seeing tumors dissipate out of their body he doesn't want me to be distracted from my divine assignment to preach the gospel all over the world to change the world to win people to jesus christ and i can't win you to a loving god with an angry heart while i'm getting on your nerves i might as well go a little deeper he warns husbands god cares how you treat your wife god said if you don't treat your wife a certain kind of way he said your prayers will be hindered that's scary god says i will hinder your prayers that means i'm watching even though you're bigger than her and even though she in most cases and aj in most cases uh in many cases see god says i will defend her by shutting up the heavens and stop everything from going right because of the way you talk to her and if you don't want your prayers hindered he says exercise whatever influence you have in a measured way because i'm watching and i'm like the lord when i meet people for the first time and i don't know them i don't watch how they treat important people i watch how they treat people that they think are not important i watch how they treat the waitress and the bus driver and the uber driver and stuff like that because it lets me know how you would treat me if you ever got the upper hand and i choose my friends by the way they treat people they think they don't need because the moment they stop meeting you they will treat you that way too oh this is worth the whole message this part right there is worth the whole message so pay attention if you're trying to figure out who to date don't watch how how he treats you everybody treats everybody good on a day look for how he treats the waitress look how how he treats a person who parks your car look at how he talks to people that he thinks he doesn't need or that she thinks she doesn't need and you'll have a clue into the rhythm with which she handles her emotion because one thing about crazy it will peak out it will sneak out you might get covered up for about a two or three days but by that third week it will start giving you glimpses you know i'm cute but i will go off on you and her head starts spinning around like the exorcist as she attacks the waitress just because the stake is too done just start taking notes right there you are in trouble boy you're going to be in trouble jesus cares how you treat people you think you don't need he's watching how you handle them he's watching how you treat them anybody can treat somebody good when you want a loan when you need an equity loan when you need an investment when you need a job when you need some help when you're trying to go up but very few people take the time to respect the janitor the butcher the baker the candlestick maker the attendant you got to treat people with the same dignity because that is the commandment of the lord toward you so when jesus begins to talk about this he talks about it from three perspectives he talks about his protection he talks about his purging and he talks about his provision his protection his purging and his prevention and i just got to talk about how god protects you you might to the defenseless to the broken to the wounded to the rejected to the ostracized to the person who has a scarlet letter on their head i want you to lift up your head jesus is watching out for you for the person who has no recourse and can't afford help and can't get the breakthrough that they need jesus is watching out for you to the person who's tied up in an abusive relationship jesus is watching out for you to the person who's mistreated on the job and in their neighborhood and in their life jesus is watching out for you and you may not see it but sooner or later god is gonna handle the person that's mishandling you glory to god i feel like shouting right now i feel like praising him right now i feel like giving him the victory right now because if god before you he's more than the world against you if god is on your side he'll make a way out of no way if god is on your side he will stop the lion from biting you the fire from burning you he will stop the enemy from destroying you he'll stop the snake from biting you he'll stop the sea from drowning you if god is on your side he'll make a way in the middle of the desert he'll bring you water out of a rock he'll open up the red sea to get you across if god is on your side he'll heal you by lifting up a serpent in the wilderness if god is on your side you can fight the philistines with the jawbone of his ass if god is on your side he will make a way out of nowhere he'll put streams in the middle of your desert if god is on your side he will lift your head up he will renew your strength he will encourage your heart he will renew your spirit if god is on your side he will bring you out from under the power of the enemy he will heal you even when the doctor says no if god is on your side he will change the records in the accountant he will lift your head up he will make your feet his hind's feet when you should have fell over he'll stiffen you to be able to stand if god is on your side he'll bring your fever down he'll bring your courage up he'll strengthen your will and your tenacity if god is on your side somebody shout if god [Applause] so the first thing jesus does is deal with the people who've been dealing with us who have injured us not necessarily physically but emotionally to alleviate us from the responsibility and the heavy weight that vengeance takes on the human soul it takes so much weight to be vengeful and satan tempts us to be vengeful even if it's in little ways like rolling your eyes when they come in the room and i will admit i've had some struggles because when you get on my nerves i kind of want you to know it and i don't want to say anything where i can be quoted but my eyes cannot be quoted so i close my lips and go [Applause] and then he gets on me i said you don't have anything to do with that i will handle that and the moment he gets to addressing my enemies now he now brings it home to me so he moves away from just talking about protection to purging and he says if your brother has sinned against you got on against you or has hurt you or has offended you and the reason i'm preaching about this is because we are living in an era of offense everybody's offended you can't say nothing about nothing that don't make somebody mad you can tweet two plus two is four and somebody come back and say who says who made you an expert on two plus two b and four it don't really have to be four everybody's offended rich folks are offended poor folks are offended black folks are offended white folks are offended everybody's offended the women are offended the men are offended now we've raised up a bunch of kids and the kids are offended everybody's offended now we got to live in the same house with a bunch of offended people everybody's got something against everybody and then we come to church and say as for me and my house we will serve the lord are you kidding me get out of here you and your house aren't even speaking your daughter is mad and her mama the dog bit the cat the cat ate the goldfish the husband and the wife ain't speaking and don't you bring your mammy-in-law back over into this house on another thanksgiving i'll send her a plate [Applause] everybody's offended and we live in a society that makes a career at keeping us mad at each other we live in a society that pits us against each other and tells us what each other thinks and we believe in and so we get offended over what we heard somebody thought and how they think and how they feel and they'll find one dumb somebody that represents that people group that'll come up and say something stupid and then you'll judge millions and millions of people on that one individual and be offended over one individual i've never seen such a time where you can't say anything everybody's offended everybody's upset everybody's nerves are on edge everybody's upset about something you don't even know what you're upset about we are living in the land of offense and we have a god who has told us not to allow offense to get in our spirit because you can't have great worship and be offended it affects your harmony flow it affects your connectivity it affects how the holy spirit invades the room it matters whether you get along with other singers it matters whether the drummer likes a guitar player it changes the atmosphere when there's ought against your brother the bible said leave your gift at the altar i don't care how gifted you are if you've got a bad attitude god said i don't want your gift until you get that bilateral connection that horizontal connection together god said i don't want to hear no more vertical stuff coming out of your mouth as long as you're not speaking to the person that you're shouting beside god says it does matter how you feel about one another can i go deeper so then he says to the offended he has moved away from the offender to talking to the offended and when he talks to the offended he talks to us about how to get the contamination out because it's easy to get contaminated if there's no way to escape offense then everybody in here has been offended at some time another can we be honest it's hard to get church people to be honest because we have our reputation at stake and we don't want anybody to know that we're human but to all the real people in the room hold your hand up if you've ever been offended [Applause] i have been offended sometimes i don't read the comments because when i'm offended i have a tendency to say something back and i got a struggle down inside of myself to shut up cause i can think of a whole lot of good stuff to say back to you and even when i do say something back i have to edit it so that i can keep my day job cause if i let the full theory of what i could say back would just let it flow hit the organ markets marcus would have to play the organ behind me when i got to telling you what i thought about you i got to tune up and so i have to shut my mouth now jesus moves from talking to the offender to talking to the offended and he says if someone offends you and you confront them i want to stop there because most of us don't have the courage to confront the person we're offended with you can confront people without being confrontational burying stuff doesn't heal it covered wounds don't heal well oh i struck something that died i felt it at least 10 couples had a seizure i mean absolutely there's an absolute just a seizure right there on the floor covering it up will never make it better you have to have the courage to speak up and don't let anybody take your voice away don't let anybody out talk you to the point that they take your voice away because just because you're out talking doesn't mean you changed my mind jesus said confront them and if they repent forgive them and the disciples was cool with that they were cool with that and then he messed around and said and if they do it again and again and again and again and again and then he gave him a number 70 times 70 and they did some quick math and said increase our faith because i'm good on like maybe a couple of times or three times or maybe even seven times but when you go from addition to multiplication i'm not sure that i don't need a touch of the lord to help me to be able to do that because seven times 70 lord that's getting like like way up into some big numbers there and i don't know i don't know i mean i love you and everything but i don't know i mean i'm not saying that i won't do it but i'm not sure that i will do it and so i don't want to over commit myself and i don't want to lie to you because you know everything from the beginning and i don't want to offend anybody but i just don't know if i can sign up for 7 times 70 maybe 3 times 70 but 7 times 70 might be above my quota and then they said to him increase our faith and i said to myself what does faith have to do with forgiveness the disciples saw faith and forgiveness interconnected they said in order for me to develop the ability the ability to be able to purge my heart of the way i feel i need faith i need to believe that nothing you did stop me from getting there i need to believe that my destiny is not altered by the things you said or did or left or didn't give me i need to decide irrevocably that the the the promises of god are yay and amen and that no man or no woman coming or going or leaving or staying or paying or caring can stop me from turning out at the destination that god has for me in fact i need to believe that it was good for me that i was afflicted some kind of way god used what you did to fertilize my dreams and i became stronger now and richer now and better now and fuller now and i've got to learn how to glory in tribulation i've got to dance when i'm falsely accused i've got to learn how to praise god even when you don't like me my defense is to believe god and say devil you meant it for evil but god made it good to god be the glory you threw me in the pit you threw me in potiphar's house you put me in prison and i landed the prince of egypt i still got to where i was trying to go you didn't help me but i made it you lied on me and i made it you betrayed me and i made it you left me and i made it you excommunicated me from the family and i made it you said i was dead but i'm back i'm back i'm back i'm back is there anybody that made it back through something have you been through something and all hell was breaking loose and they thought you wasn't gonna make it jump on your feet and holla i'm back [Applause] [Music] i'm back i'm back i'm back like lazarus is back from the dead i'm back like the woman with the issue of blood is healed from her infirmity i'm back like luke 13. i straighten up myself and got myself together now you talking about a victory when you've been through hell and thrown in a pit and made it out of a prison and been through a storm and been through a crisis and been alienated and rejected and landed on your feet you talking about a shout you talking about a dance you talk about what to run you talking about wanting to leave i wish i had 30 people that have been through something and god brought you out to put your hands together open your mouth dance on your feet do a cartwheel stand on your head let hell know i made it anyway i made it anyway to god be the glory for the things he has done [Music] we're going to make a declaration there we're going to make a declaration tonight that's going to make demons run out of every exit door in the room we're going to make a declaration tonight that brings depression out of your spirit suicide is going to have to flee out of this room anxiety and hypertension is gonna have to get up and get out of here glory to god look at your neighbor and tell them i'm gonna be all right tell your other neighbor i'm gonna be all right hell gets nervous hell gets nervous when you start talking faith demons start trembling when you start talking faith witches lose their power when you start talking faith sickness loses this grip when you start talking faith high blood pressure comes down when you start talking faith plumers shrink in your body when you start talking faith i wish i had 30 seconds of crazy supernatural holy ghost [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] tell everybody around here i'm going to land on my feet i'm going to land on my face i'm going to land on my feet it's my first year in college but i'm a land on my feet i just moved to tulsa but i'm a land on my feet i'm looking for a job but i'm gonna land on my feet i'm not sure i got the student loan but i have a land on my feet i'm nervous about going to class but i'm a land on my feet i started my own business but i'm a land on my feet i don't have enough capital i'm a land on my feet i'm raising my kids by myself but i'm a land on my feet this is the first time i tried to own something but i'm gonna land on my feet if you don't help me i'll land on my feet if you don't stand with me i'll land on my feet if you allow me i'll land on my feet if you scandalize my name i'll land on my feet i don't know who i'm preaching to but i'm talking to somebody tonight the lord sent me all the way from dallas texas to tell you you're gonna land on your feet you're gonna land on your feet [Applause] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] sit with me i'm not through yet sit with me i'm just getting hot now glory to god i just kicked into the zone baby don't you see them devils running out that door right now don't you see them sleeping out of that window don't you see them devils getting back out of the way [Applause] when jesus says none but the pure in heart shall see god the word pure comes from a greek word where we get capped catheters is a word the root word is cath where we get catheter none but the pure in heart nobody but the people who have a catheter in their heart shall see god a catheter whereby they measure their heart to make sure that the heart is flowing blood properly and there's no blockages a catheter i won't tell you about the other usage but all the men said ouch yeah yeah the catheters are designed that you have a flow and god says i want your heart to be open to a flow and i don't want you to allow any blockages to get in your heart because if you allow a blockage to get in your heart it will stop you from seeing god none but the pure in heart shall see god if that's not enough motivation to make you get it out of you i don't know what he is i'm not sure whether he meant none but the pure in heart shall go to heaven but i am sure that he means you won't be able to see god in your situation if your heart is blocked up with unforgiveness and i need to see god to figure out how to make it through the wilderness so i can move when he moves so i can walk when he walks so i can flow when he flows so i can step when he steps i gotta see god if i don't see you because he shows me the path his word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my pathway and if i let something get in my catheter a catheter in my heart will affect my eyes god says none but the pure in heart shall see god god says if you get it in your heart it will hinder your vision so the enemy sends things to get in your heart to shut down your vision oh my god this is so good i'm gonna shout out my own preacher god said i made your heart to flow i made your heart to flow unrestricted i don't want you to gather plaque or anything else that slows the flow because everything god does is in a flow everything god created was in a flow when god created the earth he created it in a flow and the river spread the streams and the streams fed the lakes and the lakes fed the ocean and god didn't create new water he just left his flow he goes up it rains down it goes up it rains down it's a flow everything god created has a flow when god created man from the dust of the earth he didn't have to keep creating blood he let the blood flow through the most elaborate highway system that you call the cardiovascular system your blood was made to flow and i don't have to check your heart to see if your flow is right i can touch your wrists and tell what's going on in your heart because the pulse the rhythm of your pulse tells me the activity of your heart and god said if things are shutting down the first thing i want you to do is check your heart what have you allowed to get in your heart that has closed down your vision so if i was the devil and i wanted to shut down your vision i wouldn't have to attack your eyes if none of the pure in heart shall see god then all it had to do is contaminate your heart until you lost your vision and if you lost your vision you couldn't find your way out and the reason jesus says 7 times 70 isn't a particular number that he's after he's talking about keeping your heart open so that whatever happens you keep flowing you keep flowing you might have the feeling but as quickly as you can you let it flow out you don't let things stay in and contaminate you and block you let me show you how quick jesus was they beat him until he was unrecognizable they beat him until his entrails were hanging out they beat him so long that josephus says he should have died on the whipping post but had he died on the whipping post we wouldn't have been redeemed because the bible said cursed is he that hangs on the tree not the whipping post so he fought death on the whipping post refusing to die but when they hung him high and stretched him wide and nailed him in his right hand and nailed him in his left wrist and nailed his feet together and when they put him up on the cross jesus is not on the cross cussing at him yelling at him telling him i curse your unborn children i curse your future i curse your destiny i curse your mama jesus didn't say that i probably would have said that jesus did don't judge me jesus wouldn't say that instead of allowing them to contaminate his heart while they are killing him he says father forgive them for they know not what they do he said i'm going to keep my heart open no matter what i go through i'm going to keep loving i'm going to keep my nature you're not going to change my nature from being the person that i am you're not going to turn the lamb into a lion i could call 10 000 angels and kill every last one of you but i'm not gonna do it because a lion cannot deliver the people i've got to be a lamb to get this done and in order to be a lamb i got to forgive you while you're sticking nails in my hand oh my god that's shouting stuff glory to god i wish i had me a southern church in here right now i'm gonna outsmart the devil i'm gonna outsmart the devil you're trying to change my nature you're trying to turn me into a lion but i can't redeem as a lion i can only redeem as a lamb and in order to be a lamb even though you're nailing me i'm going to forgive you because i understand that it's not you that's doing it it's the spirit of the enemy that's working through you and i ask my father to forgive you for hurting me because i know it really wasn't you if you knew what you were doing you wouldn't hurt me like that you're just carrying out orders and the orders are coming from satan and i'm under attack and why would i fight the soldier when the war is not with the soldier it's with the enemy and the enemy is trying to get me to mess up what i'm about to do on the cross i don't know who i'm talking to but the enemy is trying to mess up what you're about to do in your ministry and the reason you're up under attack is that he wants you to contaminate your heart and the lord sent me from palace to tell you don't you do it don't get bitter don't get even don't get mad don't get upset don't respond don't react hold your peace i know you look weak i know you look helpless i know you know something you could say i know you can fight i know you can defend yourself but this is not a battle that you're gonna win with your fist for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places the weapons that we use are not carnal you got a weapon to fight with and there jesus is bleeding to death on the cross talking about father forgive them he's interceding for murderers [Applause] glory to god that's what he means by 7 times 70. later in the scriptures he will tell us less a root of bitterness defile you a root a root [Music] a bitterness de value they gave him frankincense and myrrh which was roots so there are roots that can anesthetize the pain and there are other roots that can defile you are you carrying a root of bitterness because if you are it will defile you i'm almost where i want to be you still with me you're not tired of me yet and and so they said lord increase our faith increase our faith till we believe you when our feelings are hurt anybody can believe you when they're happy increase our faith till we believe you when we're in pain when the nails are in our wrist when we've been publicly humiliated when we are at our wit's end increase our faith to believe that some good is going to come out of this i remember one time i was under attack and it was real bad and it was real painful and it's the only time in my life i've ever been curled up in the corner of the floor crying and just just beside myself and i took a walk in my backyard and i was crying and i was walking in the backyard and i was talking to god and i said i don't know why you let this happen to me and i don't know why you're letting this go on in my life and i don't know why you allowed me to go through what i'm going through i said but i want you to know that i trust you i trust you i trust you and if you ordered me to go through this i'll go through whatever you want me to go through to be whoever you want me to be cause i know you love me and i know you know what's best for me and though you slay me yet will i trust you and i was crying and i couldn't hardly even see the path i was walking on but i told god i will pass this test because i trust you i trust you when things go right i trust you when things go wrong i trust you when you make me happy i trust you when you make me cry because i am convinced because of calvary that you're in love with me and you can't be in love with me and do something that's going to end up bad and i trust you i trust you with tears running down my face i trust you and the more i said i trust you the more demons begin to scream and shake i trust you i don't understand you but i trust you i don't see the plan but i trust you you've broken my heart but i trust you it's painful but i trust you i want to speak to everybody who's ever lost anybody lost anything lost a loved one went through a hard time you don't have to understand god to trust him you need to let hell know i trust him i trust him that some kind of way this is gonna work for my good if you've been going through a very painful place slip your hands up in the air and give god a praise that you trust him i trust you i trust you in this season i trust you in this season i trust you when i lose my job i trust you when my loan didn't approve i trust you when people rise up against you i trust you when things didn't turn out the way i wanted them to turn out i trust you when i didn't bring a medal home from the olympics i trust you when i fumbled the ball on the field i still trust you i trust you order my steps in your word dear lord order my steps in your word order my steps in your word dear lord order your order my steps in your word order my steps in your word somebody stomp your foot order my steps order my steps order my steps order my steps i won't break my cadence i won't break my flow i won't break my movement i won't break my regimen i won't break my future i'm gonna keep on doing what you told me to do dry these tears up i can't stop crying you gotta try these tears up but if you drive up i'll preach for you if you drive up i'll sing for you if you drive up i'll dance for you if you're driving about something if you drive about sing for you if you drive up i'll run for you if you drive up i'll leap for you if you drive up i'll preach the gospel all over the world if you drive up i'll teach bible clan in other nations or country if you drive up i'll help the poor if you drive up i'll feed the hungry if you drive up i'll close the naked if you're drunk [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so he deals with us is this good so so he dealt with us protection he dealt with us as purging and then he deals with us with prevention and this is the prevention part and it's kind of weird he says if you have the faith increase our faith lord they thought the bigger the faith the better the fight and jesus is not going to take that much faith he said if you have the faith as of a grain of mustard seed now watch this before he said you shall speak to the mountain and the mountain shall be cast into the sea but this time he said if you have the faith as a grain of mustard seed you shall speak to a sycamine tree and command it to be cast into the ocean and it will be cast into the ocean and it will be removed and i said why did you go from a mountain to a tree and he said because a mountain has no roots so i started digging into a cigarette tree and i want to tell you can i tell you can i tell anybody anybody want to know what cigarette a sycamine tree is a very unique tree it's not that the roots grow deep only about 24 inches deep into the earth but they grow wide they grow very wide they take over territory and when they grow wide they twist and tangle and so it is almost impossible to uproot the tree because the roots are twisted and wide so when a sycamine tree is growing it is not the trunk you have to worry about it's the root and jesus is saying oh i feel the holy ghost god said if you have the faith as of a grain of mustard seed i will demolish the system that has you stuck you tried to shake yourself loose and you couldn't get loose you tried to pray yourself loose and you couldn't get loose you tried to talk yourself out of it and you couldn't get loose the reason you couldn't get loose is that your roots are intertwined the only thing that will untangle your roots is your conviction of faith in god he said if you have the faith as of a grain of mustard seed i will untangle the system can i go into the system you're hurt over your husband because your husband hurts you but it's rooted into something that happened with your father and now all of a sudden everybody that reminds you of your father gets tied into the system and now you're raising a son and he's taking on characteristics like your ex-husband and the enemy is tangling your roots am i helping somebody if i'm helping you holler at me if you will notice your life has a system of attack there is something consistent in the dna of the things that happen to you it is the roots of the sycamine tree and they get tangled up until you can't take what you can't tell one from another and the same thing that happened to you before is happening to you again and the thing that happened to your father is happening to you and the thing that your uncle went through is now happening to your son and you can see a pattern because the sycamine roots go wild they go wide they touch your father they touch your wife they touch your son they touch your nephew they touch your nieces they affect your job they affect your economy they affect your leadership they affect every area of your life it affects how you handle money it affects your business it affects your future because the roots are intertwined that's why jesus didn't ask for the mountain because when it comes to forgiveness mountains don't have roots and unforgiveness has roots and the roots are the roots of bitterness and the bitterness gets so entangled that sometimes you even forget what you mad about you're just angry it's all tangled up together but the holy spirit said tonight i'm gonna untangle your roots i'm gonna set you free i'm going to bring you to a place of wholeness i'm going to bring you to a place of healing i'm going to bring you to a place of restoration i'm going to untangle patterns that have been going on for generations and generations in your life this didn't even start with you this started with your mother and your grandmother this started with your grandfather and your granddaddy and the roots have gone wide and your past is trying to reach over and mess up your future but the devil is alive this is going to be a root untangling service this is going to be a root untangling meeting you watching on the internet your roots are about to be untangled things that have been in your life and you couldn't get loose and they're all in the ground and it's everywhere and it's all tied up and it's around rocks and it's around ridges and it's around dry places and you love the lord but you can't get loose and you love jesus but you can't get loose and you love your son but you can't tell him and you love your wife but you can't express it and you love what you do but ever all hell is breaking loose on your job and it's affecting every area of your life if you're seeing the same spirit show up in different dimensions of your life it's because your life is the sycamine tree but the lord sent me here tonight to preach a liberating word that's about to loose you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet somebody jump up on your feet like you lost your mind give me more power [Applause] somebody trip up on your feet like you lost your mind somebody jump up on your feet like you lost your mind somebody jump up on your feet like you lost your mind somebody jump up on your feet like you lost your mind yes yes yes yes [Music] you've been a prisoner in your own head you've been a prisoner in your own emotion you've been a prisoner in your own thoughts it's not that you don't look free on the outside good morning welcome to jcpenney's it doesn't look like everything is going well it looks like everything is going fine but you know that down on the inside you've been tangled up in your mind in your spirit and late at night when everybody else is sleep you're awake at night it's affecting your rest it's affecting your peace it's affecting your mind but tonight is your night that's why the devil didn't want you to get in here tonight because tonight is your night for a breakthrough the spirit of the living god the spirit of the living god the spirit of the living god the spirit of the living god the spirit of the living god is in this place tonight we're going to take the faith as of a grain of mustard seed look at your neighbors and you just need a little bit of faith you just need a little bit of faith type it on the line you just need a little bit of faith if you get out a little bit of faith tonight god's gonna destroy the system that's trying to destroy you the odds are against you the roots are against you the situation is against you the times are against you but greater is he that is in you than he that's in the world there's a greater power that's about to take over your life there's a greater power that's about to heal your mind your body your emotions your health your rest the spirit of god is in this place i serve notice on every devil in this place tonight you have no more territory we will give you no more space we will give you no more room we will give you no more power somebody's eyes are opening up somebody's vision is coming back somebody's commitment is being stirred the spirit of the lord is here can i oh can i preach like i do at home i feel the anointing of the holy ghost in this place i feel a screaming of demonic warfare that's been working a system against you all of your life you're not bound you're not tied you're not tangled you're not an inmate you're not alone you've been feeling by yourself but the holy ghost said you're not by yourself god is getting ready to demolish the whole system and not only is he gonna pull the tree up but he's gonna cast it into the sea if you're in this place and you got something that needs to be cast into the sea if you're in this place and you've been carrying a pain there's too much for you to bear if you're in this place and you've been wounded for a while i want you to seize the anointing that is in this room to untangle yourself and set yourself free where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty that's going to be liberty in this place tonight there's going to be liberty online every time you try to make a move the devil tries to shut you down but the devil is alive god is about to uproot that thing out of your life and set you free i need a hundred people in this room that feel god pulling the sycamine tree out of your life to give god a praise i feel the anointing of the holy ghost in this place i gotta be free i gotta come out of this i gotta get loose i gotta be whole i gotta be delivered whatever it takes [Applause] whatever it takes to get me out of this i got to be free i didn't come this far to be bound i didn't come this far to be tangled i didn't come this far to be blind i didn't come this far to go back never you're a liar tonight is my night in the name of jesus i declare liberty all over this house for the next three minutes everything that god appraised get it out get it out loose your daughter loose your son lose your job lose your finances lose your peace lose your joy lose your vision lose your anointing lose your calling i can't hear you i can't hear you [Music] glory to god love three people and tell them i'm free i'm free my roots are loose my mind is loose my heart is loose [Music] i feel that old-fashioned anointing of the holy spirit in this place somebody's got a breakthrough the devil is mad hell is upset the enemy had a system that's been operating in your life but you're going to be the first generation not to have a sycamine tree i rebuke the tree that's part of your life [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so they're closed tonight the defense for an offense is the discovery of mustard seed faith if you believe god just a little bit the entire system there's a system working against you there's a system working against you the way you were raised the things you came through the things that happened to you were all designed to take over territory god is going to move the tree [Applause] [Music] i want everybody in this place that this message spoke to in a special way and you said my god that man is talking to me god put an anointing on me for you you might be watching online but the anointing is for you you don't have to spend the rest of your life tied up to a dead root young people you don't have to start your life off entangled and angry and bitter and hurt there are some young people in here with old people's problems you've seen stuff that a young person should have never seen you've been through things that people your age should have never gone through and you are here under duress against all odds it's a miracle that you're here and god wants to pull your sycamine tree up by the root there are couples in here you were meant to be power couples in the kingdom of god and that's why the enemy fights you so and you've been hurt and you haven't been able to get over the hurt you've said all the right things but the rooting system is so complicated that you're tied to it there are people in this room who have incurred injuries betrayals disappointments that left you wounded and every time you see certain people you feel a certain way but you smile and you hide it the enemy is trying to plant a root on you if you are in any of those categories come as close to this altar as you can don't worry about what you got on don't worry about what people say don't worry about what they think don't worry about it don't worry about it don't worry about it don't worry about it don't worry about it the only thing we want the only thing we want is to untangle this route we got to untangle this route this route is wide this route is this route is complicated this route is far-fetched and you love jesus and you worship jesus and you praise jesus but you go home and you wrestle with this root and it's a root of loneliness and it's a root of anger and it's a root of lust and it's a root of unforgiveness and it's a root of anger and the enemy keeps telling you what you would have had if things would have been different because he's trying to kill your faith that god can get you there anyway that you can be in the pit that you can be in potiphar's house that you can be in the prison and still end up the prince but the lord sent me here tonight to tell you that your destiny is secure then god is going to bring you into the fullness of his purpose and he's going to uproot that sycamine tree that rooting system the things they said the things they did the things you heard that brought you to where you are right now you're a king's kid you're on the verge of deliverance the anointing of the holy spirit is here right now and god is about to do something amazing in your life glory to god glory to god they're still coming don't miss this opportunity don't let your pride hold you in your seat don't let your fear hold you back you're in the presence of the king of kings and the lord of lords and god is gonna give you a pure heart so you can see him so you can see him before this year is out you're going to see god in a way you never saw him before you're going to love god in a way you never loved him before you're going to reach god in a way you've never reached him before before this year is out god is going to uproot that tree that bitterness is going to go that anger is going to go that frustration is going to go lift your hands up and open your mouth the spirit of god is in this place [Music] father these are your sons and these are your daughters these are your people these are your children like a mama fights for a child you will fight for them you will go to war for them you will battle for them their enemies become your enemies i cast all my cares on you right now i will not carry this another day i will not carry it another day i will not lay up at night thinking about it i will rebuke the images the pictures the memories the scars the constant rehearsing of how i got wounded and how i got hurt i reserve my feelings for praise i preserve my feelings for worship i reserve my feelings for love i will bless the lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mind i feel glory coming in the room i feel glory come into the room here comes a wave of glory it's all in the aisle it's all over the internet it's all on the tube i feel the glory coming i feel a glory coming where the spirit of the lord is there is liberties where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty i declare liberty over your life right now in the name of jesus i declare liberty over your life shake your hands your hands are free move your feet your feet are free your heart is free your vision is free now open your mouth and give god [Applause] tonight the holy ghost said get out of your feelings get out of your feelings get out of your feelings get out of your feelings the enemy's been trying to contaminate you he's always talking to you about how you feel about it it doesn't matter how you feel about it the only thing that matters is what you believe about it i want you to turn or lose what you believe and turn it on what you feel and let the peace of god which passes all understanding keep your heart in mind come on somebody come on anybody come on everybody [Applause] let everything that have breath praise you the lord if you're breathing give him the praise if you're alive give him the praise if you've got a mouth give him the praise if you got a tug give god a praise open your mouth to the lord open your mouth and shout unto god with the voice of christ [Music] you

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Length: 88min 48sec (5328 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 12 2021