Keep It Moving: The Fear Factor - Bishop T.D. Jakes [September 22, 2019]

I want you to get your Bibles and go to the book of Exodus chapter number 4 is 14 verse 4 through 9 and then we're gonna skip down to 13 through 18 the book of Exodus chapter number 14 verse 4 through 9 and then we're gonna go to 9 through 13 but before we read it I want you to if you can in your mind and your heart and your spirit in order to feel the impact of the text once you have it step to your feet for the reading of the word and after this you can sit the rest of the time and I didn't tell you to wear them shoes don't blame me looking cute is expensive amen amen I want you to go back in your mind I want you I want to put the text in context these are the people of God but they haven't really been the people of God for a long time they have been in captivity for 400 years in Egypt they have been in Egypt 430 years but the last 400 years they have been enslaved now we consider the fact that 40 years is typically in scriptures a generation 10 generations are living off of the memory of God there is some memory of God left because he they they knew enough about him after 10 generations to steal call on him but their their their faith in their theology and their understanding of God is diluted by time and polluted by association with the Egyptians this is proven because later when they get in the wilderness and they try to build an image of God they build the image of the Egyptians God because who you hang out with does affect you and yet with just a little bit of faith that they had left enough to call on God by by reason of the intense bondage that was placed on them they cried unto God and God heard them I'm so glad that you don't have to be perfect or have everything right for God to hear you you don't earn the right to be heard God heard them they were struggling but God heard them they were broken but God heard them they didn't even have full understanding of who he was but God heard them and sent Moses to deliver them now Moses was somebody they should have known but Moses has been on the backside of the desert for 40 years so whereas the old people might have remembered him the young people didn't even know who he was and Moses has a responsibility of leading a people that he has kin to but not familiar with okay now he is leading them out of bondage and away from favor and they have Pro favor let my people go that they may worship me in the wilderness and as they began to leave Pharaoh changed his manner oh is right and as they're trying to escape and they're trying to flee favor now sets out to take them back at least maybe kill them this is not a democracy there are no court systems there will be no litigation they can't file charges whatever favor decides to do to them is done so as they are fleeing and they sense favor coming who knows what is going to happen so as you step into this text I want you to step into it ask them and then it will be my responsibility to make it relative to you but you can't appreciate what the text means until you go back to the utter fear of leaving everything that is familiar and being on the run the vulnerability of not being protected having neither socio or economic power or political status or a voice to fight back and here comes a bigger force coming against you than you've ever had on 600 chosen chariots and you walk in you can hear the hoofprints of the chariots of your past about to overtake you and there on a horseback and you got on a pair of Nikes that's what's going on in this text now put the text on the screen let's take a look at it and God says and I will harden Pharaoh's heart and he will pursue them but I will gain glory for myself through favor and all his army and the Egyptians were alone that I am the Lord so the Israelites did this when the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said what have we done we have let the Israelites go and have lost their services so he had his chariots made ready and took his army with him he took six hundred of the best chariots along with all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them the law and hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt the Lord women them the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites who were marching out boldly the same God who told them to go hardened the heart of the one who's chasing them the Egyptians all Pharaoh's horses and chariots horsemen and troops pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they can't by the sea of pie ha ha oh let me tried ha ha of opposite Bale Zafar that ha ha rocks with our sniffing along a few hours of sleep Moses answered the people do not be afraid stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today the Egyptians that you see today you will never see again oh I can stop right there you could go home right there the Egyptians that you see today you will never see them again come on the Lord will fight for you what you need only be steel then the Lord said to Moses why are you crying out to me tell the Israelites [Applause] tell the Israelites to move on come on give me the rest of it raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground I will harden the heart of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them and I will gain glory through favor and all his army through his chariots and his horsemen the Egyptians would know they will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh his chariots and his horsemen somebody say man I want to use for something remain standing for just a few more minutes I want to use for a subject keep it moving because the Lord said tell Israel to move on but I'm scared lowered move on but I don't know what's going to happen move on but I'm in danger Lord move on but I'm feeling vulnerable Lord move on how do you keep it moving when all hell is breaking loose in your life how can can God set this situation up and put me if you love me how could you put me in a situation like this and you know I'm human and you know I'm scared and yet you still say move on look at your neighbor on your left and your right and say keep it moving I know the conditions are not everything that you want them to be I know all the circumstances are not the way you would like for them to be I know that there are impending dangers that threaten your progress I know that you don't have the insurance of an outcome and when you don't have insurance it is difficult to have assurance all you have is God's command in your life that God said keep it moving let's pray about this and then we're going to talk about it father in the name of Jesus we approach our throne of God and we honor you and we bless your name because you are God if you didn't do anything we still honor you just because you are God and beside you there is no other open up the volume of the book and speak to us in such a way Lord that we understand more clearly your word the profundity of your word the relevance of your word the power of your word but most importantly the spirit of your word for what shall it profit us to understand the letter of your word and then fail to understand the spirit and the intent in which it is derived speak out of the volume of the book o God speak to us in such a way that we will have strength for the weak we call it done in Jesus name somebody shout a man all right you can sit down you don't have to get up till tomorrow so I'm in the airport the other day and I ran into a fellow clergyman a pastor here in the city and we were exchanging the pleasantries how you doing hi how are you so forth and so on and he said I want to ask you a question I said okay he said how do you keep it fresh he said you always seem excited you always got a fresh word you're always going for it he said how do you keep it fresh and I kind of didn't exactly know how to answer that cuz I hadn't really thought about it like that it's not like I was trying to be fresh my friends it's not like I get up in the morning and pray lord help me to keep it fresh and then my daughter texted me and she said one of the things that I admire about you is that you're never afraid to be a sophomore again you know she has a way of saying stuff that takes you into deep thought a sophomore game that you're not afraid to recreate yourself that you're not afraid to be adventurous that you're not afraid to be back at one again like one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven is one again on the next level twenty-one is one again on the next level 31 is one again on the next level 41 is one again on the next level 51 is one again on the next level 61 is one again on the next level and some people don't grow because they're not willing to give up the ten to be one again and if you're not willing to give up the ten you'll stay where you are for the prestige of having reached ten and not willing to go back to warm again you fail to grow to what your capacity was meant to be because you don't want to be a sophomore once you better senior you don't want to say I don't know again you know you don't want to do anything that's out of your comfort zone again you you don't want to go into the unfamiliar again and you stop growing because you stopped going in order to keep brewing you have to keep going are you following what I'm saying and you cannot love the prestige of ten to the degree that you fail to come to eleven eleven put you in a room with 20 and some people can't stand to be in a room with 20's once they have reached 10 they'd rather be a big fish in a small pond then to swim into a bigger stream and be surrounded by whales and sharks and dolphins and all that kind of stuff they like image more than reality speaking of fish you know I was I was I was reading this thing about right now salmon and they were talking about how the polar bears are starving because we're eating up all their food salmon has become so popular all over the world that now when the polar bears get ready to fish for food and go eat they can't eat the salmon that they normally eat because it's on all of our restaurant menus and it's all over the world and I don't mean to make you feel guilty if you eat the salmon because I know you tried to lose weight and all that kind of stuff yeah I get it but we're eating up the polar bears food and they were talking about salmon but before salmon was so popular he used to be Cod and everybody was eaten caught and Cod was on the East Coast don't worry this doesn't sound like I had nothing to do with it but it will in a minute Cod was on the East Coast and people in the East Coast were all eaten Cod and and back then in order to get into the West Coast cuz the West Coast started warning dishes that were made from Cod they had to put it on train and it took a long time to get it from the east coast to the west coast so what they did they started putting the car on ice but by the time they got it to the west coast and tried to cook it it had lost his taste and its texture and it wasn't fresh so they said I tell you what we'll do we won't put it on ice will lead them alive and we'll put them in big fish tanks and we'll send them on the train and they'll travel by train and then when they get them there they'll be fresh and they did that and when got there and they got ready to cook the car it still didn't taste right and the texture wasn't right they couldn't find a way to ship it and get it to me fresh now I can understand why it wasn't fresh once it was frozen but to be alive and not be fresh was confusing yeah how can you be alive and not be fresh traveling and not be fresh swimming there and not be fresh and raising a family have not be fresh look fresh but not be fresh dress fresh but not be fresh smell fresh but not be fresh when they tasted it it wasn't fresh so in a last-ditch effort to try to fix the problem they decided to put some fat fish in the tank now catfish are natural predators to God and putting a few catfish in the tank meant that all the while they were traveling the car had to be on the run [Applause] and when they finally got them there this time now they were still fresh because in order for the card to be fresh it had to be in an environment of catfish the Lord knows exactly what kind of catfish to put in your life to keep you fresh and even though fresh means being uncomfortable and even fresh means being on the run and being fresh means that you're being chased I know you've been praying for a tank with no catfish but God uses the catfish to keep you fresh and if you think about it in your life all your life you've had something chasing you you don't really pray right until something is after you [Applause] you don't really seek his face until something is out - you really call on his name until something is out to you you don't really reach your potential of greatness until something it's behind you saying you've got to go all the way you got to finish the class you got a graduate you got to get your degree you got to open up that business you've got to make this marriage work you got to get themselves together it's not because you're always so happy with things but it's embed gum catfish shake heaven somebody said what are your catfish [Applause] yeah put in here what are you [Applause] what are your aquarium catfish Pharaoh was Israel's catfish and God hardened his heart so that they could see his glory and he created the situation to put them in a predicament that they couldn't get out of so that they would know that it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord that brings you out of every dungeon every tribe everything device that the enemy comes up against you if you didn't have opposition if you didn't have opposition you would think you got there by yourself but thank God for the catfish that lets you know can you imagine the other terror of having a two-year-old in one hand and a newborn baby in your arms and being a slave on the run from a payroll who doesn't just come after you but he gets his best chariots see some of you are crying out in distress but you have to understand other people look at you and say you're whining but they don't understand you're not running from horses you running from 600 chosen chariots Satan has shot his last shot trying to take you you're not in trouble because you're weak you're not in trouble because you're not consistent you're in trouble because the enemy has loosed assassins to utterly annihilate you and you are in a fearful atmosphere and you're moving forward but you're under attack the train is still rolling but the catfish is still nipping at you you can you can see where you're gaining ground but you people looking back because you know that that you've got to keep moving because you've got some chasing you somebody in this room has got to double the fight I know the churches are some people come because they got a nice dress to wear and some people come because they're looking for a girlfriend and some people come because they want to do business but some of us are here because of the catfish some people here because they're curious but other people are here because you've got catfish chasing you and you're saying give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses that we gave it though the transmat lead if not as in today sir and by the way Lord please deliver us from evil these people are fleeing from oppression and they're going where they've never been to do something that they have never done with someone leading them that they have never met I've been here 10 years I'd never shifts your hand Moses has been gone 40 years it's not like he's been hanging out at Starbucks with these people and they are under his leadership and he has led them to a scary place I would like to submit for your consideration that you are not living until you have been living in a scary place you don't know who you are until you've been in a scary place you don't know what God can do until you've been in a scary place you don't know what faith is until you've been in a scary place you don't know how powerful your God is until you've been in a scary place other up until then it's just religion and doctrine and theology and it says 'women Sunday and the mean Sunday and the cat fries Sunday but when you're in a scary place it changes what church feels like to you because of the catfish which brings me to this whole fear that they had and what's funny here is the cohabitation of faith and fear they had enough faith to go so we can't say they didn't have faith they packed up everything they had and left in the middle of the nights at the dictates of the Holy Spirit to go someplace they'd never been that took faith it took faith to go and God brought them out the death angel had passed through that night and the Bible says that every house that didn't have blood on it the Death Angel had stepped in and taken a son out of the house of saud out of the house that's quite an offering I might give you a chicken or something but but they had the faith to believe God to go and they were doing real good until they ran into the fear fracture in President Obama's book The Audacity of Hope he wrote a line that stays with me all the time the presence of faith is not the absence of doubt you have to think about that I mean the presence of faith it's not the absolute of doubt that doubt and faith can live in the same space I believe you but I'm worried I trust you but I'm nervous I know it's gonna be alright but I'm still up at two o'clock in the morning now this message is for the real people church people are not going to own up to the fact that there are some things that can happen to you I don't care how many scriptures you know I don't care how long you've been in church I don't care if you can quote the entire New Testament there are some things that can happen in your life that makes your heart start beating in your chest until it looks like your dress is jumping and you do like Peter and you say Terris a lot that we perish we like to think that people are good or evil and right and wrong or up and down the believers or unbelievers but the truth of the battery is believers have doubt and then get scared sometime maybe we're not supposed to but when you hear the hoofprints of something that she dreaded that you had had 400 years of trauma with and you finally thought you got away and all of a sudden you hear the footprints of something trying to overtake you that you have dedicated and risked everything in your life to escape it's hard to be cool and scared you can look cool there are some people that can look like nothing bothers them and you say Lord I wish I was more like them stop praying prayers where you wish you were more like people cuz you can't tell what's going on inside of me by looking at my place the truth of the matter is I can look cool and still be frightened out of my wits flavor had absolute power he had no Congress he had no City he had no Supreme Court he had nobody to check him he could kill him and absolute power produces absolute terror if I know I'm totally at your mercy and I don't know how things are gonna end up it's terrifying I want to speak to your worry I want to speak to your fear I want to speak to your anxiety I want to speak to the thing that speaks to you when church is over I want to speak to the thing that's got you up at 2 o'clock in the morning I want to speak to you about the thing that you can't speak to other people about because it's too personal and it's too scary and it's too dangerous and you don't even want to talk about it but it's chasing you around your tank it's chasing you around your your take fear I've done about real fear I was in South Africa I'm gonna get back to in a minute having to talk to you I was in South Africa and one of the brothers hit was in South Africa it's scared of monkeys and and the monkeys are all over the place in South Africa you know so if you eaten breakfast out on the terrace or something like that the monkey is waiting on you to move because they will come in and take your roll while before you can put butter on it they're come and take your roll and laugh at you I thought the monkeys was killed he was having a spasm and he said I'm scared a monkey it didn't really bother me like that cuz I figured I'm bigger than the monkey and if it came down to it and we had to knuckle I know it might not be Christian but I will fight a monkey especially about hungry I will flat-out punch a monkey or the animal rights displayed here pray for my friends and lord if you're not paying for that breakfast put my roll down that's where I was about attitude you know y'all would have been reading about me in the South African telegram where your pastor punch down a monkey over a roll so I wasn't scared of the monkey I thought they would kill me but [Applause] I am scared of some things and just because I'm not scared of what you're scared of doesn't mean that your fear is not real because everybody's scared of something I look like a hero in that moment as I'll protect you outside that the book the monkey wouldn't let that be it wasn't like it was a gorilla I'm not like that that would have changed I would have took this out of the sermon I would think [Applause] fear does stuff to the body living under constant fear though it is an emotion it actually takes toll on the body it affects your physical health it even weakens your immune system affects your digestive tract does damage to you cardiovascular system fear does stuff that doctors can detect in the body that you have no reason to be sick and yet your body is responding to something that the doctor cannot detect they're just seeing the effects of fear of the body irritable bowel syndrome all kinds of stuff happen to you decrease fertility because you're afraid because your body has taken all of your blood and directing it toward fight or flight increasing your site so you can see and your legs so you can run the blood that normally feeds your body and your functions is fleeing because you are in fight-or-flight mode so fear takes a toll on you because our primal instinct is to flee or fight but fear don't just take a toll on your body it also takes a toll on your mind they call it a Migdal or hijack it affects your mind it has that's everything your brain perceives everything differently when you're afraid you can't trust your judgment when you're afraid you see everything that's negative when you're afraid it affects it affects everything about your decisions when your friend we we used to call it paranoia you you just paranoid is there anybody in here that's ever just been paranoid the polymer rings in your job or you just feel like something's about to happen my wife describes it as they're feeling like a balloon is about as full of water it's about the bus up under you over your head and you don't know who's got the pin anxiety it affects you everything and if you're up under it long enough it causes the brain now hijacked to remember certain things like how something smelt or a sight or sound will take you right back to that spot so you end up with post-traumatic stress disorder it's over but it's not over for you and there are triggers that can take you right back to that space and you will react off a trigger though the problem is gone I want you to think about that because I think what I'm teaching right now has destroyed more marriages and more ministries than anything we could talk about it's not what's going on is that what is going on it's triggered something that went on nobody ever got destroyed by hoofbeats but the sound of the hoofbeats is a trigger and reminds him of the abuse of 400 years and Pharaoh has actually hurt nobody but they heard him coming and they were struck with terror you have to be careful we were singing of it as though the devil is a liar and he is but but but the lie can be a trigger and when he brings up what could happen and you remember something that did happen it's almost as if it is hop oh and all of a sudden you overreacted in this situation and people who haven't been through what you've been through don't understand why you are flipping out over this situation but it's a trigger and you're horrified and it doesn't always have to be a horse coming it could be a heartbreak it can be a disappointment it can be a lost job it can be a lost opportunity and all of a sudden instead of being rational and saying well I have to find me another job you want to kill yourself oh god my life is over I'm curse let go right Jim I got this and you just pass them out and flavor help me touch you you just heard hoofprints and your life your joy your peace your amygdala has hijacked the opportunity you have to be happy right now because it keeps dragging you back into something that you are actually out of oh y'all miss that y'all miss it see the end of the Bible says the enemy comes to kill steal and destroy and one of the things he will do is steal the Peace of where you are with the threat of where you been and all of a sudden when you hear the hoofprints cover it's not like he got you but it reminds you that he used to have you and all of a sudden it's as if you're already been now they're crashing where they're at and wishing for where they've been and said why didn't you leave us in Egypt why didn't you leave us where we just got to praying to get out of because if you're not careful fear will cause you to be stuck at ten rather than risk going to eleven Oh God who am I talking to I'm talking to somebody I don't know who I'm talking to somebody's getting ready to step into the next dimension and God is getting you ready for something and he needed you to hear this message no Geneva said don't get stuck because fear can paralyze you fear can shut you down fear can immobilize you fear to make you run everybody away even people who are gonna help you but the fear that you might get hard again I'll just get out just pack your stuff and get out of here just like my daddy go get out I'm going to get it and fear can make you drive away people who are trying to help you and so they're the Israelites are mad at Moses because your perception of who's with you and who's against you can be disrupted by fear fear rejection fear of disappointment fear of failure can make you not try fear of falling can make you not climb feel a big fear being defeated can make you not fight there are a lot of you you're not as passive as everybody thinks you are and you're not as a pathetical as they define me to be it's just that you're a bridge you fall so maybe I shouldn't climb if I don't climb I don't fall in front of God won't have to go back if I'm a slave I wouldn't have to deal with this take me back and all of a sudden the sights the sounds the smells become triggers that make us forfeit what God has in front of us and yet in spite of all of this in spite of what fears done to the mind in spite of what fear does to the body in spite of all of these circumstances the Bible says that God is going to get some glory out of this now I want you to say that with me God is gonna get some glory out of this it's about to sink in let's do it again God is gonna get some glory out of this I want you to think about whatever your this here's whatever your catfish are whatever your favor here whatever that thing that kept you up at night say it again God is gonna get some glory out of this now give me 30 seconds of crazy praise [Applause] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [Applause] yes yes yes yes yes see the reason I got you praising him and trying to break their paralysis and trying to break their paralysis there's got you stuck in the same spot buffering buffering buffering buffering buffering worry and worry and worrying upset upset upset mood swings mood swings both way if you crazy you break that paralysis [Applause] and don't praise him till I get my family back I'm afraid until I get my courage back and I'm appraised until I get my strength back i'ma praise him until I get my fight back and to praise him till I get a sense of direction back and the praise until I get up off the floor and the praise until I stand up and start walking somebody that did praise [Applause] that's three people that are being blessed around here and say keep it moving keep it moving keep it moving keep it moving [Applause] when you don't know what to do when you don't know where to go when you worried about what might happen when the enemy is threatening your future with your past is trying to overtake you oh my god I feel you preacher the medians border I feel you preacher to me this world I don't know what I'm preaching than you are you're preaching to me Oh baby where are these sharpening I sharpening [Applause] so Moses it said I'm just talked to I'll tell you didn't have to get up Moses [Applause] Moses is talking to God because sometimes you'll have nobody else to talk to he can't talk to favor fragrance chasing him and he can't talk to Israel cuz they're mad at him and sometimes in the fearful place the worst part of the fear is that there's nobody to talk to and maybe I wouldn't be so afraid if I could just talk about it and Moses has nobody to talk to so he cries out to God the best prayer means come out of the worst situations you don't have a great prayer meeting cousins Wednesday you have a great prayer meeting cuz all hell is breaking loose you have a great prayer because the catfish are in your tab you have a great prayer meeting because flavor after your hon is it will make you different I know how you're conservative and you're quiet and you're just not that kind of person and you know but if you get in enough trouble if you get a lot trouble born after you trouble will make you act like you Pentecostal whether you are or not have you running around your house I was ahead of witness in this place [Applause] and looking up the Goblin I didn't sign up for this have you had it sign up for this I didn't ask for this stuff is happening in my life right now [Applause] do tell I will go get his cool by pairs of go give him divorce I did sign up for the edge you didn't tell me my husband was gonna cheat on me I didn't sign up for this you didn't tell me my baby was gonna be born deformed what do you do when you find yourself in something that you didn't sign up for cuz you knows what my found out about God God is weak on details [Applause] he don't tell you all the details just go down and tell Pharaoh to let my people go [Applause] he didn't mention he's gonna try to kill you when you do it big blue detail kind of help a brother out I would kind of like to know if you gonna sign six hundred hit men to come kill me before I get started I didn't sign up for this [Applause] and he looks up to God and says what am I supposed to do the people you sent me there they don't even like me the people I'm trying to help don't like me my child don't like me my mama don't like me my dad the people was supposed to be on my team to fight the Devils but the people wanted me to come home what do you do with the bad people that you're trying to help don't even appreciate you I don't fight my enemies behind it is my dad to fight you too [Applause] and then godsister strangers in him he calls on God to help and God does absolutely nothing now preachers don't preach about that they preach determines where you called on the Lord and the Lord moved I really need you to tell me what to do when I call on the Lord and the Lord moves I need somebody to tell me what to do when I call on the Lord I want to take series on that what do you do when you ask him to heal and he does it and you're asking for prosperity and they take your car what do you do when things aren't turning out the way you had in mind I'll tell you what you do keep it moving Oh y'all hear what I'm saying you don't hear the power of what I'm saying you don't understand that some of the release of the power of God can only be released if you yeah if you don't keep it moving it's not gonna work the enemy is trying to shut you down and leave you paralyzed but the Lord said I don't care what triggers you here I don't care what sound you heard [Applause] so God says to Moses tell the people to keep it moving and God said to me to tell you keep it moving I know you're scared but keep it moving I know the enemy is playing your triggers but keep it moving I know you don't know the outcome of this situation but keep it moving I know you wish I would clear to take all the catfish but keep it moving I'm God and I know what you need and I know what it takes to keep you fresh then I know what it takes to get the glory out of your life and it's my job to be God and it's your job I made it all the way I started preaching when I was 19 and they said I wouldn't last two weeks and I made it all the way to 62 I'm chasing here I got there yet but I'm I'm on your heels buddy I'm coming out here because you can't go ahead if you don't keep it moving so I kept it moving when I was broke and I kept it moving when I had some money and I kept it moving when things were going right and I kept it moving when things were going bad and I kept it moving when I had the faith and I kept it moving when I was scared out of my mind to all of it I just I know you scared but keep it moving keep it moving what I got playing will only work if you see I got I got something set up down the road that's gonna fix this whole problem but you've got to be in the right place in order for my plan to activate if you stop right here I can't get no glory out of your life but if you just keep it moving right down the road I got a setup for everything that's trying to attack you right now poor evaporates into [Applause] [Music] you see what I'm trying to get you to understand is that if they would have stopped right there Pharaoh would overtook him he would have destroyed him the miracle was in the movement the miracle was in the movements the miracle was in the movement the miracle was in the movement the miracle is in the movement and there's somebody this morning that the enemy is trying to paralyze you with fear and he's called it all your triggers devolve and the Lord said if you just keep it moving you will walk right into the power of God and God's gonna get the glory see we always preach about what happened at the Red Sea but you got to get to the Red Sea in order for that to happen and the enemy doesn't even want you to make it to the Red Sea [Applause] another thing the other reason God didn't say anything he said he wanted Moses to discover what was in his hand [Applause] God didn't need to do anything else because he had already equipped Moses for where he was at this stage in his life I don't know who I'm preaching to but God has already equips you and His grace is sufficient somebody talk to me this morning His grace I know it's painful but His grace is sufficient I know you cried all night long but His grace is sufficient I already put enough stuff in your head then if you learn to use what I gave you no weapon formed against you she'll be able to prosper in fact I set this up so you could see what you got [Applause] Martin his heart so you could see what you got I made him chase you so you could see what you got I sent him after you so you would stay fresh what I'm trying to say is that favor is joke catch this and God put him in to take the devil didn't put him in the table the Bible doesn't say that the devil said Fredro he said the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart you'll never know what you got until God puts a catfish in the attack you'll never know what you got until Pharaoh comes after you and everything in your head told you you don't think right when you're scared says go back to something that you trying to get out of because it don't seem like this church thing is working this this Jesus thing ain't working out for me right now the loss of my house had to move back in with my mama this Jesus thing it don't see this type of thing it ain't working for me this this praying thing this living for Jesus stuff my husband left me cuz I was living for Jesus seemed like the people in the world were nicer than the people [Applause] and so all God says to Moses is to tell the people to keep it moving and use what you got if you use what I gave you you will find that it is more than what you thought you thought I gave you the stick so when you got tired you can lean on it but there are tricks in your stick [Applause] surprise surprise surprise surprise surprise surprise and disguise my power in ordinary things so that in the time of trouble the enemy won't even know what hit him but if you stretch for what suit touch your baby's hair I got something I know I don't look like much but I got something I know it don't look dangerous but I got something if you won't count up your chariots at least let me brag about my stick I got something that God gave me that will have last [Applause] slappy babysitter's tricks in you stick don't give it up don't throw it away don't cast it aside don't count it out don't give it up is trivial because God will put tricks in your stick if it want to look like a weapon the enemy wouldn't ugh it [Applause] [Applause] I started reading the Bible and almost every miracle in the Bible came out of something that they already had a handful of meal a pile of oil two fish and five loaves of bread a rag in fact it is favorite chasing you that activates the tricks in history now keep it moving and when you get to the right spot stretch out what I did and the Bible said that with Moses stretched out his rod that the ratsy got up and started walking Heather and dinner took hold it exactly God's in a strong way to blow back the Red Sea so the children of Israel could walk across and not only let him go through it [Applause] that they walk through drag ride whoever I'm preaching to through it [Applause] Wow [Applause] [Music] and you would never in trouble anyway because if you read the text the closer they got to the Red Sea the Bible says that God sent an angel to get behind them so pray roll put the got them anyway because God's already got you covered [Applause] slap your neighbors hair got whacked up [Applause] ba-ba-ba-ba [Applause] [Applause] so my brothers and my sisters Potter's House family when the winds came and blew back the Red Sea and they stepped down into the seabed walking on dry ground they were walking in between two walls of water now picture that with me God has made a way but even the way he made it scary because I got my baby in this water I got my mama in this world I got my grandmama in this water I got my children in this water and there the wall on this side and the wall on that side and if they crash here they're gonna kill me so whatever beat I gotta keep it movin slap your neighbor and say keep it bullet [Applause] this is what I want you to see it I'm almost finished even when God makes away it's scary even with God performs a miracle the miracle is now when we read about it and we preach about it we shout about it but if you were walking through with your children through two walls of water so high you can't see over them and you don't see nothing holding it up but you make it I want to talk to somebody that's going through something right now you don't see nothing holding it up your finances don't work out on paper and don't like no sense since you're still here but shopton is holding it up [Applause] and the Lord told Moses tell the people keep it moving and the wind held up the water to the last Israelite had crossed over later in the New Testament Paul when he preaches a Corinth we'll call it baptism said they were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea that means they went in one way and they came out another they stepped in slaves but they came out sons they stepped in as Runaways but they came out as a nation you who were not a people became a people nanny says to Moses close it up and the same rod this is the dual nature of God the same God that opens doors [Applause] closes doors the funny thing about it was when he opened the way they didn't shout [Applause] see we always shout when God makes away but the Bible said that they didn't shout until God shut the door I need to take a moment and thank him for the doors he shut yeah yes I want to thank him but the doors he suck for the job didn't did for the business that didn't work out but the girl I didn't marry thank you the door you shot if I doubted it wouldn't kill me shut shut shut shut the door [Music] when God shut the door the enemy that was chasing them drowned in the Red Sea but not only did he drown the enemy he drowned any potential to enemy had to pursue them any further so the Bible said the enemies that you see today you shall see them [Applause] stop your head to fight with that God said you shall see them [Applause] [Applause] was it a fool after where you are that seven people in say the far [Applause] keep it low you Sofia you shall fight it no more yousa have it before [Applause] Zippy's a colleague overview [Applause] Freeman kind of sanctified [Applause] so Miriam grabbed the Panther II and began to beat that thing to the glory of God for payroll head of his army got drowned in the Red Sea somebody put your hands together and give God some praise [Applause] [Music] [Music] good no more no more get it in your spirit get it in your mind get it in your mouth get it in your hot dog ball [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I play if the enemy has been up to you and you been up under attack I dare you to take just a minute and play God like he drown in it in the Red Sea I bear you the brown enterprise [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] give him a play I said give him a place if you know how to play did not apply [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh just a lot of play [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoo I hear the sound of victory in the house some people think that praising God like that is a denominational thing maybe it's a Pentecostal thing maybe it's an ethnic thing but the Bible said that the children of Israel got tambourines and start beating them at the Red Sea and they started dancing in the presence of God and while they were dancing their Devils were drowning [Applause] so there are three reasons I'll say they said I'm out there are three reasons that he calls the Red Sea one was to drown the present danger two was to drown the potential of the danger continuing but the third one to me is the most important one when he closed the Red Sea he drowned any potential they had of ever going back no matter whatever they had to deal with the rest of the journey going back was off the table because God has shut down [Music] the Red Sea joined hands with somebody leave no one untouched span the house leave no one untouched except somebody who don't want to be touched leave them alone [Music] [Applause] my wife and I been married 38 years we had good days and bad days we had happy days in crying days we had nervous days and scared days we didn't eat it up in years we ate it up in days the trick to being married 38 years is to keep it moving you look around and it's 38 years you look around and you've been married 50 years you look around if you just keep it moving squeeze that hand because the person you're touching is got some things they're scared of and God sent this message to them today because they've been in positions where they didn't know what to do the triggers that upset them they can smell them or see them or hear them approaching and this is a prophetic word in their life that all you have to do to get the victory is keep it moving squeeze that hand God is going to drown any potential you had of going back to being who you were [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you will never be that again you will never go through that again you might have to fight something else but you will never have to fight that again [Applause] Lord this Sunday morning I speak to trauma this Sunday morning I speak to triggers there are some traumas that we have been through and some we might be going through that were meant to paralyze us but we will not be paralyzed there are some triggers that when they come up we react in predictable ways because of the traumas but this day I pronounced those triggers are defeated and I thank you Lord because you allowed these things to happen to keep my prayer life fresh not only will I be delivered but I'll be fresh when I get there [Applause] most of all we thank you Lord because you shut the door on any possibility of me going back to who or what or how I used to be and so as I stand in this church this morning I rebuke the terror the tears we don't talk about I review the tears we don't tell about that the terrorists that threaten us is discombobulated us and make us hard to get along with because we're it looks like we're evil but really we're scared squeeze that hand I pray that every believer in this room would know that they are not alone that God sent an angel in between you and what you're afraid of glory [Applause] [Music] this is what science would call a controlled experiment that God has not lost control of your situation in spite of the hoofprints in spite of the sound in spite of how you feel that your feelings cannot be trusted your feelings are reacting to pass trauma regardless to how you feel more I pray that they would just keep it moving that the victory is in the movement the miracle is in the movement the provision is in the movement the grace is in the movement hallelujah the answer is in the movement the new Dora is in the movement the promised land is in the movement the prophecy is in the movement I thank you lord I'm not gonna have to spend the rest of my life looking back over my shoulder cuz you gonna settle these chariots right here how you gonna fix these horses right now you gonna shut down this situation you will shut it down I'm not gonna be up every night [Applause] the person you're touching right now God is shutting down things he's gonna drown them til you see him drown the Bible says the dead bodies were all up on the side of the bay and Miriam start dancing over top of them because she saw the enemy destroyed and I rebuked the spirit of fear I rebuke the paralysis I rebuke the anxiety I rebuke the physical manifestations of your stress the rashes the disease's the dysfunctions the disorder in your body in your bowels in your stomach in your heart in your cardiovascular system in your behavior in your sleep patterns I rebuke it now how I rebuke it now I rebuke it now I rebuke it now you cognitive functions your brain your memory your emotions I rebuke it now years of being in stress in a means really controlling I rebuke it now physical infirmities emotionally forbid permitting I rebuke it now now Lord restored us the joys of our salvation and we give you praise for it in Jesus name give him all the praise you got [Applause]

Channel: T.D. Jakes

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Length: 87min 45sec (5265 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 22 2019