Pastor Jenkins’ 60th Birthday Celebration with Bishop T.D. Jakes & Israel Houghton

well praise the Lord everybody [Music] it is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord and the blessed name can we give the Lord of praise tonight for his wonderful works for his faithfulness for His goodness is kindness clap your hands all you people and shout to God with a voice of triumph come on lift your voices to Jesus come on lift your voices to the king tonight today we've come to honor the name of Jesus and celebrated for his goodness his kindness in His mercy anybody glad to be in the house of the Lord tonight can't you shout to the Lord tonight glory to the Lord glory to the Lord listen we've come tonight to celebrate Jesus we've come to celebrate the gift of God and our pastor and we've come to make his phrase glorious so whenever you're carrying in your mind and your spirit release it tonight and watching the Lord to her first thing in you anybody want to experience Jesus tonight is my salvation who shall see who shall be afraid Oh sham shall be say it again say Oh sham she'll be afraid again Shambu shall I be afraid [Applause] oh I will trust in you I won't trust in you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh i'ma try a thing here Oh trust come on let's go I will remain yes come from tonight we come to celebrate the majesty of Allah to glorify Him and to exhaustive and sensitive at the biggest brains for ears we said open him we the only ones guard the Salah we said we said our boy we share our who is the Emma let's take long [Music] Oh [Applause] without who is the [Music] you are [Music] [Music] you are we say [Applause] who [Music] I will remain confident in this time of see the goodness of the Lord everybody [Music] we'll see [Music] a great phrase seven minutes or his faithfulness hits one the footer give him a ball we let me move to it but lowry met me long soon hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus follow tonight we've come to worship you and glorify you celebrate you for your wonderful works we declare that you are an amazing God celebrate you for our pastor for the grace that you've provided over his life we give you praise we pray tonight Lord as we come to this place that you would get what belongs to you every praise every honor every glory every thank you let it go to you the true and living God thank you for reigning all the rights and ruling over us abiding in us we give you praise we'd love you so much don't know what we would do without you that your presence be manifest tonight we invite you to invade this place with your glory invade this place with your power release the aroma of your presence tonight Lord Jesus release the aroma of your presence Lord Jesus and we'll give you the praise that belongs to you and Jesus glorious stain we praise you forever [Music] you deserve the glory and the can we lift it up to the Lord tonight yes and the honor so I lift my hands and words of God [Music] bless your Holy Name you are great there was someone else come on lift your voice like an offering to the Lord you you Damir because [Music] [Music] there is no one else hallelujah to Jesus glory to the Lord can we sing that one more time everybody come on you deserve happy honor come on let's demonstrate not this Friday [Music] and bless your [Music] and the yard showing this my hands and worship come on [Music] you are great Dubey record to me there is no one else that's why we praise you that's why we draw beside you boy everybody shake here's a miracle there is no one else there is none thank you I feel like me just honor the Lord while we're here come on no one else can touch my [Music] tell the Lord I search for all eternity [Music] at sundown [Applause] [Music] [Music] there is none [Applause] when I counted to his presence I myself I lift up both my hands [Music] piqué - were champion hallelujah I worship Him when I come into your brand's it's God [Applause] [Music] remembering what he's done [Music] the victories him for his loving-kindness is better than life show it my lips I praise him I Dora fire [Applause] for me we needed something free thank you Jesus [Music] [Applause] shut be cold shall we car [Applause] [Music] please go that before you clap your hands lift your hands to Jesus won't you just lift them to him lifted to it and worshiping worshiping worshiping worshiping for being God worship it for being God worshiping for being God let me hear your phone tonight but hear your heart tonight come in and hear your heart tonight let EKU home tonight [Music] hallelujah cold come on let it hear your heart tonight lift your eyes to Jesus [Music] phrasing he's worthy he's worthy of our Braves just because just because just because he's God just because he's got amen amen you may have your seats if you can I am Reverend Maurice Wynn and I'm here to do Scripture in prayer amen amen our scripture today is found in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 12 through 13 as we celebrate today a great leader this scripture reminds us to exhort and recognize a great leader in reads in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 12 through 13 in it reads and we urge you brethren to recognize those who are laboring among you and our over you and the Lord and admonish you which means to instruct and to teach and to it's seen them very highly in love for their works sake be at peace among yourselves and it says it's themed and very highly in love for their works safe let's pray Laura guy we thank you just because you redeemed and set us free Laura guy we didn't deserve it but you decided to die on a cross for all of our sins father God so we thank you did and God we're celebrating this day to honor a wonderful great pastor and a great leader Lord God so we ask that you surround him and smear him with your love and your grace Lord God we thank you for him continuously laboring and considering and sitting at your feet to to guide us in director's Lord God I pray that you would continue to surround them with your look gird up his family Lord God allow him to continue to have wonderful days ahead Oh God where he would continue to surrender his life to You Lord God constantly sacrificing his life for us for the garden and for this kingdom Lord God I pray that the souls that he has continued to touch God they would continue to reach more and more souls to come Lord God we thank you for this branch of silo of God I thank you so much for this opportunity to celebrate him and we thank you for allowing him to be present with us we love you Lord goddess in Jesus name that we praying in things amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so tonight is our midweek Bible study night and it's also the beginning of our celebration for the best pastor in the you in the in the universe we love you faster I can't hear you [Applause] they're really hates to be acknowledged like that he really hates it so just to double it up give it up one more time he's a man of integrity he's a man of godly character he's a man of unusual grace and one of the things I've learned about serving with pastor Jenkins for the last 17 years is that whatever he thinks that he wants God doesn't just do it God over does it and I was in a training class today and one of the pastors said that it's one thing to operate in Grace and favor and is one of the things it's another thing to have two to work grind and hustle and this man walks in so much grace and so much favor that we actually are the benefactors of the Grace and the favor that he operates in besides that you know you really love Jesus for real when you want your birthday party to be a church service listen break out the party favors so we've been working from you know months on a special birthday song to sing to our pastor alright so think about songs that you know makes sense to pastor in like songs to speak about his life and this is one song we sing at the church all the time you know we want to lift up for y'all and honor of our pastor and speak about yeah I see okay so you started in um ago Wiki okay come on doc I feel like I'm a preacher in a minute okay you saw okay have you ever been in a church and the people don't really notice not a good [Music] hey you ready yeah now says they go I reckon he's got ed to be won over you started okay go play the first note again okay we had this all together ladies and gentlemen Grammy Award winning seller award winning Dove Award winning [Applause] [Music] happy back there - hooyah [Music] [Music] happy birthday happy birthday [Music] [Music] I love you man it's so good to be back [Music] thought you occurred and your Percy what you say [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] buzzer bender to you [Music] but people nation people [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] you you [Music] let's make some noise [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] who am i that you're mindful of me that you hear me when I come and is it true that you would see I'm a friend of God Almighty Lord of glory you can call me friend you'll call me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on set [Applause] I'm a friend of God I'm a friend he'd Carly's friend he calls me friend he calls me he comes me what he calls me Fred [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] just wanna encourage your heart tonight and God is in it there is no limit it's not it's not me it's not it's only the beginning [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's encourage somebody right here I know it's darkest just before the dawn this might be the hardest season it won't be too long me too here's why you're close to the sky surely that can yeah all things anew how many can testify to that that all things are made new you might not see much so Minister and it's turning around the season [Music] an experiment through the classy [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Applause] when God is in it there is no limit God is in it tell somebody it's not all [Music] [Music] I'm singing assuming a pastor [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] Oh [Music] so job [Music] oh gosh believe it [Music] [Music] just [Music] [Music] [Music] do me a favor shake somebody next year and say it's only the beginning [Music] it's not oh no it's not finished it's not anything oh it's only that it's only the beginning is in it all things are [Music] [Applause] [Music] all things and [Music] sing it carry you [Music] [Music] so what a moment you would bribe me to it's such a freedom I found you you're the hinder makes all things new yeah I'm not coming back moving you to declare to you my past is over you things I'm a new man move it [Music] get you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I thank God for the first 60 years but I'm grateful for the next 60 years singing you 120 you can make it to 120 you look 40 [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's not shoddy would either couch of you all come down to me [Music] snow kicked out this [Music] [Music] clapping [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh God [Music] [Applause] [Music] we'll take your seats if you can hallelujah [Applause] we do love Buster jinkins we love you pastor gg's and this night is celebrating Jesus for putting an angel over this house full of integrity a great man of God that leads us and loves us so I know you love him and that's why you're all out tonight so that he will know how much we praise God for him we love you bastard amen we love you sir so I just wanted to take a few minutes just to say thank you to all of you who came out tonight all the bishops and pastors and first lady's and leaders and you and me we're off because we love our pastor and I want to thank you thank you thank you thank you so much so many of you have come from really far and it's overwhelming to see all of you so again from the bottom of my heart just want to say thank you for coming well pastor Jenkins this has been a very difficult thing to do to keep all of this from you and I did threaten a few people like if they said anything but we wanted to surprise you and just want to just bless your socks off of you because we love you so much so these um these today and Thursday just full of surprises because you're so deserving now now one thing I know pastor he just loves going to church like no matter where we are we can be in London Africa people find a church to go to so how could we celebrate his birthday without having an opportunity to corporately worship our Lord together and so I said we will bring in one of your favorite preachers and we were able to keep it a secret weren't we'd you all are wonderful all of you kept the secret so I think we should let pastor in on who will be preaching tonight amen let's do that pastor Keith battle was the senior and founding pastor of Zion Church for over 25 years past a battle has been sharing God's troops and an engaging humorous manner in July of 2000 he started science with its first worship service since then Zion Church has grown to over 11,000 attendees across four campuses ash to battle enjoy speaking in sports chapels for NFL teams as well as for the NBA he also enjoys consulting CEOs and ministry leaders in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations pastor battle is blessed to have been married to his wife mrs. Vikki battle and they have three young adult children and one grandchild when you hear a message from Pastor Keith battle you are sure to laugh and think please help me in welcoming pastor Keith battle [Applause] praise the Lord everybody and fast did you know I'm honored because you could have they could have picked anybody to do this and it's a whole lot of people they could have picked it up and um far better than me is preachers out there that they could have used there would have been better than me so but you know sometimes you got to go what you can afford amen [Applause] yeah so you know what I was thinking I was like why would he ask why would they ask me to do this I start thinking all the people that are better than me and I have a list I won't go through it but I do tell you there's somebody I think that I can think of that nobody else is better than check this out marketed painter and entrepreneur who serves as senior pastor of The Potter's House a global humanitarian organization in 30,000 member Church located in Dallas Texas named America's best preacher by Time magazine the voice of Bishop TD jakes reverberates from the world's most prominent stages to a nexus of charitable works TV Jakes ministries extends a hand of help to the needy heart of compassion to the hurting and message of empowerment to the oppressed and disenfranchised his worldwide impact can be felt through a media empire that expands film radio best-selling books and conferences get ready get ready get ready for Bishop TD jakes hands together give the Lord some praise in this place tonight oh you can do better than that I said give the Lord some praise in this place tonight hallelujah before you said I'll shake it with three people tell them God's got a blessing in here for you tonight [Applause] oh yeah you may be seated I think we got it real good this is the first time in in 42 years of ministry that anybody ever had to hide me in the back and I was so scared that I was gonna give it away so got away so I didn't want to talk to you very much happy birthday to one of the most incredible people on the planet all all of this is is meant to say that we love you and that we appreciate who you are to the body of Christ and all of your friends and all of the bishops and the elders and the apostles of the potentates that have gathered from near and far are coming because it is inescapable your integrity it is obvious that you are incredibly unique and gifted and your impact on the world will be felt long after you've had 60 more as I heard in Israel talking about they'll still be talking about you I want you to help me just give it just one more big praise for this tremendous man of God and his lovely wife who pulled it off women are sneaky a guy would have never been able to pull that off we were too messed up at ol summer did something how did you keep that from him knowing about it you this you just got it like that are you really surprised are you faking I guess I believe it he started crying so that's good you get them tears you doing real good a couple of clapping hands thank God for him on behalf of my wife and myself honey would you stand it's a privilege for me to have her with me tonight a man you stood up so quick they could see you stand up stand up you come down off to stand up look around give it up for my first lady my real she all shied and stuff opposites attract I'm an extrovert she's an introvert and we working work out real good thing of a man I see it's just partnership we totally different but it's just partnership I'm happy in the crowd she's happy not to be in the crowd she lets me have the mic she gets the money it sounded like a good deal at first cuz I didn't have no money so you know I thank you for being a ride and I we love you I won't take a lot of time with formalities I want to get directly into the Word of God I do have something that the Lord laid on my heart to share tonight in the Gospel of st. John chapter 6 verse 1 through 9 yes I feel at home here amen and with if you would stand for the reading of the word of God that would really do it and I won't take a long time tonight but there are a couple of things in this very familiar almost apologetically familiar text that I share with you tonight there are a couple of things of note that I think are significant and and it is always my prayer in my hope that God would speak to you even in the midst of this festivity then he would shine light on your life in some divine way that he would answer some question that you have laid before him that he would minister to you because those of you who are in the building often ministered as so many people how many ministers do we have in the household your hand up how many ministers Wow Wow you know what that's that's amazing but the truth is we're all ministers is just that we don't get the water in the pulpits you know but we we're all ministering we're all serving every day every day often without the accolades and without big knowledge meant there are people who are drawing off of you every moment of your life when the woman with Asian blood touched Jesus he said the virtue went out everybody who's pulling on you take something from you come on talk to me somebody everybody no matter how much you love them you love them the little booboo you love little booboo little boob all their little google sweet little booboo but Google can be draining Mele and milky and cousin Willy and grandma and Mama and all of them can can we be honest tonight they can be dreaming check this out in the Gospel of st. John chapter 6 verse 1 through 9 after these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee which is the sea of Tiberias and a great and a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased and Jesus went up into the mountain and there he sat down with his disciples you see that everybody's following him and Jesus almost escaped to the mountains and there he sat with his disciples at the Passover and the Passover a feast of the Jews was 9 when Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto Him he said unto Philip when shall we buy bread that these may eat check this out and this he said to prove him for he himself knew what he would do yeah Philip answered him well you know money looking kind of funny we got about two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them it's not sufficient I don't have enough I don't I don't have enough have you ever felt like you didn't have enough two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little if all of them getting a little bit we're gonna run out it's always interesting when pastors and accountants talk pastors have big dreams and accountants have reality and it's it's it's a cultural war between the two of the pastor said thus saith the lord the count is saying is not saying their bank that's what's going on here the dynamic the desire is to feed the multitude the reality is we don't have enough one of his disciples Andrew simon Peters brother saith unto Him there is a lad here which have five barley loaves and two small fish check this out but what are they among so many a subject tonight is more than enough let's pray father I invite you into this moment into this second I pray God that by your glory that you would just use me to be a blessing to somebody tonight I know that you are all sufficient you are L should I know that you are more than enough but sometimes I feel like I'm not I pray God that you would show your sufficiency in the lives of every person in this room in the name of Jesus we pray somebody shall a man hug somebody and say more than enough I think I I try to keep up with the times because I grew up at a time this really makes me sound old I hate to start right here but I grew up at a time that innovation was an eight-track player and my mother bought this big console with with with with the television and the record player and the eight-track player and the radio was all in one in the hill the government would have talked about it was in the living room and and here's the thing about it mama made enough money that she could buy it but she couldn't run it and before they had remote control they had children we didn't have remote control we had kids so what they would do is tell you go over there and turn on the record player and turn on the 8-track and turn on everything we would cheap labor we were the first people that would work for food if you didn't work you didn't eat and so I was the remote control and I can remember murmuring and complaining and how in the world did you let yourself get behind where you have money enough to buy something and yet you don't know how to run it and because I can remember saying that I'm trying hard not to become that but everything's moving so fast okay so I had to when I came up we had a party line and then then we had rotary phones and and then we finally got the cell phones the flip-top cell phones you you remember first there was some big ones and look like a suitcase and only rich people had it ain't man you know you just looked at it in amazement who they got a fold cha nor whatever has they got a fold glory to God then they they finally got it a little smaller where it was a flip-top you know and and then they got a blackbird CrackBerry everybody had a blackberry running around on the blackberry from their iPhone came along and then iPhone one and iPhone too and I found three and iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 and I followed up a six plus I got all the way to seven and I got mad I said I'm not going up not a lover lover I'm serious I'm still got the seven plus can you believe it I don't know what it is a selective sting genus I'll spend money on some things but when I feel like you just pulling money out of me I get mad I say I'm not going to ain't nothing wrong with the seven plus is doing everything I needed to do if I can call you and takes you and get on the worldwide web I'm good I download all kind of apps I don't need and the other thing is I don't need another way for another person to be able to reach me our world is our ability to access the world is so big now it is so big our world is so big and I know I sound like an old fuddy-duddy but I don't think that that God meant for our world to be so big yeah wait on me I'm gonna make it make sense in a minute sociologically psychologically I don't think that it is healthy to have all of those people in your space all the time in your life in your head that's too many people as too many people with too many opinions and too many ideas had too much concept and it's absolutely crazy and I think that's why we're all stressed out and we're nervous and we can't sleep at night and our digestion is all and you gotta take a pill for everything we have made G&C rich we could save a lot of money if we start putting people out of our lives is too crowded it's too much it's too loud it lasts too long 24 hours a day news coming at you around the clock I don't need to hear from you at 3 o'clock in the morning I need to go to bed I grew up with the six o'clock news she heard the news while you was a dinner and that was it if they didn't get it in an hour it didn't happen 24 hours are you telling me over and over and over the same thing again and again is private me grab my the only one but is there anybody else that is just sick and tired of this craziness have we lost our mind some of the people who comment on my stuff on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram comment in languages I can't even translate I know even though whether to be happy or a beat man I don't know whether to fight back I don't know whether they insulted me a glad and then I got people following me or or in the hip hop family the language has shamed other day they said I was tripping and I thought they met I was sweating I was mad all day cuz I thought they was making fun of me it was late at night and somebody told me dripping is good I thought they're making fun of me sweating as they think they call me the drip and I was I was hot I said don't say nothing because I have to talk to myself I have to call myself in the counseling and have a prayer meeting with myself and tell myself don't flip out now cuz really there are 10 people in here and it depends on which one answers you what you gonna get one of us is a bishop the other one is the fool what about real people that I want to talk to some real people tonight all you church will go home I want to talk to some real people tonight I want to talk to the people that you got another brother down inside of you you got to put him a lot cuz if he come out of control you will lose your job your life your wife your friends your family [Applause] I'm just being real with you there are over seven billion people on the planet we got more people on the planet than we ever have in the history of the world it's crowded everything is crowded people on top of people we can't even get out of a city when there's a hurricane we run out of gas we can't go nowhere we can't move is crowded 6.8 billion people on the planet have a mobile device that's too many people out of seven billion 6.8 billion people got a phone I don't want to talk to you on any given day one point four billion people log or in the Facebook one point four billion people are in your phone right now waiting on you to say something that's a lot it used to be it with you and your kids and your friends and your little church with with the little wood floor and the Mahalia Jackson fan and only two or three people could sing in the church if you knew each other you knew everybody's mama and you had a relationship with everybody now you got friends that you don't know followers that you never met come on talk to me somebody all of them got an opinion about everything we got more people but we got less peace we got more crowds you can talk to somebody wake up three o'clock in the morning and talk to somebody over in the East Stand Bowl and we feel lonely how could you have that many people in your pocketbook and still be lonely we were not designed for this something that's crazy more people doesn't mean more quality we've lost sight of what relationships they are we use people's name to brag to justify look at how many followers I got they're not following you they don't know you they don't like you that's not what you look like anyway you like the pigeon market the picture took you're wasted build your chest up you ain't that cute they don't know you [Applause] I like babies anyway I like babies I like babies I like babies I like babies I like little cute babies with fat Charles who can't talk you eat what I say you go eat burp you and go to bed kids are cute till they can't talk they may got an opinion about I don't want to win and I don't like that they might win that that's all the stuff you got all of these opinions and all of these people and it's not just that they have an opinion about them they got an opinion about you everybody got an opinion about you if the people with the strong and subpoenas about you don't even know you to say I'm gonna follow you like I can [Applause] how did that prove me that say give me a disease if you are follow me well I feel a pain in my neck we're inundated with people and opinions and ideas and images around the clock you can have any kind of news you want to hear if you change stations take out the truth you like 24 hours of watching people try out 24 hours of watching an earth K 24 hours all of those images are still living in your head when you close your eyes that's why everybody's strung out on all kind of drugs I'm not just talking about in the hood I'm talking about some of you professional people smelling all good maker boy you hook only everything in your medicine cabinet [Applause] because the more people can access you the more they think they have a right to you I don't like your hair like that you don't look good in that color that's too tight on you people got their mouth all in your eyes and sometimes by the time you use the strip's that it takes to withstand all of these people that you're never gonna meet anyway you don't have enough left for the people that are in your life so they really don't get your attention because you're dealing with all of these superficial really it don't matter people so you're sitting at the dining room table and you can't eat without your phone and you're not talking to the people that cook the food or bought the food or paid for the food no you're talking to somebody that you will never need know or care about [Applause] there's something to be said about small groups and intimacy and where you pay attention and where you have real conversation and you have real connectivity sometimes people are overwhelming they want more and more and more and more there's not a person in this room who doesn't have somebody in your life who's not complaining because you're not there enough or you don't call enough or you don't text enough or you didn't come see me or you didn't do this so you miss my birthday are you miss Halloween or you don't act like you used to hi and we are overwhelmed because the people who make the biggest withdrawals make the least deposits the truth of the matter is were surrounded by people who need us not people who feed us and after a while you find yourself operating in the red in my text tonight I want to talk about this this miracle that makes no sense this this is one of the few miracles in the Bible that makes no sense most of the time that Jesus performed a miracle it was a crisis a blind man a man who was lame from his mother's womb a woman who is hemorrhaging into death these were real miracles that touched diseases and lives and set them free and because he changed lives he drew crowds any time you're effective you don't have to advertise it much all you should shout me down right there anytime you got to oversell the product there's something wrong with it because the people needed if they would come get it Jesus was so effective that people followed him because he was effective and he set them up he had just landed and come across the Sea of Galilee and they followed him he goes up in the mountaintops and talks to his disciples and while he's talking to the disciples the crowds are building and people are wanting more and more and more and more and what's amazing to me is all he had to do was say go home this is not a crisis nobody's bleeding to death and nobody's sick they're just hungry all I had to do was say I see you tomorrow but this is an opportunity for Jesus to teach his disciples a lesson he wants them to understand that there are going to be contradictions in your life that there's going to be more demand than there is supply he wants to train them how to operate when you're working out of deficit I want to talk to somebody tonight in spite of all of your clapping and all of your joy and all of your singing and I know you felt the joy of the Lord when they were singing up here I could feel it all the way down in the basement hiding in the closet where they had me under the toothbrush [Applause] I would have shouted but I hit my head and hurt myself and when you get in church and you get this great singing and you get this great music and you get all of this great stuff going you feel good and for an hour or so you forget [Applause] that when this is over you got to go back home and you tell me you can't even wait till it's over you check in your phone now to see who you need to take back cuz you can't even have a worship experience without responsibility of responding to people 24/7 before you start your car you open up your phone and start answering people like they gonna die if you don't answer them they not gonna die somebody shot this is too much this is the death of creativity because we don't have the database in our head to hold all of these situations and be creative and so our creativity is diminishing and so our divorces are escalating and our children are less literate and our compassion is decreasing and we're not developing the ability when was the last time we created stuff for the first 200 years of this country we created all kind of stuff now we just copy and paste what other people did there's no original thought because your brain is tired I want to talk to somebody tonight until I shake you loose from the clutches of the enemy [Applause] you cannot be creative in a fog in a stress lambs give birth sheep give birth in calm places he needed me beside the still waters when was the last time you spend any time in a calm and stable place you could figure out how to get out of debt you can figure out how to pay off your home you can figure out how to bring love back into your marriage you can figure out how to deal with your child if you cut off your phone you can't be creative because you're tired what do you do will they keep wanting more and more and more and more and you allow them enough to give it but the truth of the matter is you don't have enough this text argues the difference between ideals and reality the ideals are I want to be there for you the reality is we only have two hundred pence and what is that against so many and so Philip is telling Jesus if we try to feed them all of them if we give all of them a crumb we're gonna run out and so you start giving people crumbs that deserve loaves and you wonder why they leave and you wonder why they faint and you wonder why our families can't stay in the storm and why our marriages can't go through a test and you wonder why people have changed six churches in three years cuz we don't have enough if Jesus felt about you come out of him when that woman touched him don't you sit there and act like you don't feel the virtue go out of you when people keep reaching out and calling you and asking you for lord I need help move it I need you to cut move me I need you to come see if outside I need you to come over here I need you to go over there have you been to see your mama lately have you call your grandma Maggie call your sister you're not keeping up with your sister what about what about your job you need to go over the reserve and all of a sudden we recognize the ideals are I really do love big enough but the reality is I'm [Applause] and so Philip is finally give Jesus the facts the facts are I don't have another can I tell you this story the first time I did I went to potters house to Pastor I was used to pastoring in a small church where I did everything and I ran everything I had a little staff I preached all the funerals I did all the weddings I did everything when I got to potters house and we looked up and we had ten thousand people in a year I couldn't do all the funerals I couldn't I couldn't do any more I couldn't do any more I was frustrated cause I think I'm good at it I think I'm good at its service to the family and being compassionate and being loving two times the grief I like to give that out I'm called or hurting people I like to be able to do that and I'm driving around I've delegated people to do funerals but I'm literally driving around in circles around my church frustrated cuz I want to go in there do the funeral so bad because I don't think they're gonna do it right now I don't think they're gonna handle it right and I'm driving around in circles and I'm trying to break my old proclivity of doing everything myself and I realized this is the benchmark between growth and failure is the changing of systems and if I don't pass this test I'm going to thwart the growth of my church because I'm used to doing everything myself and I'm literally driving around in circles with tears in my eye because I got control issues okay I said it I said it in front of everybody I said it okay I got [Applause] and about my fifth lap around the church the Lord spoke to me and said I finally put you in a position where you can't give them you maybe now you'll give them me I set you up on purpose I meant for you to be overwhelmed I meant to put you in a situation where you wouldn't have enough I am trying to make you understand TD jakes that you are a limited resource and no matter how much you love people you cannot be there for everybody and I want you to forgive yourself for not having enough because the weight and the pressure is on every last one of us to be more than enough and the truth of the matter is you don't have enough and the Lord was trying to teach me if you maintain the mentality of your storefront though I put you in a bigger place you will lose back down to the level of your leadership because you you that you are not a big enough thinker to incorporate a system to subsidise the fact that you are a limited resource and yes you have the passion but you don't have enough product and yes you have the love but you don't have enough resources and this this situation you must see this problem this dilemma that we're talking about in the text what what blew my mind about it is this didn't just happen Jesus set him up he said what are they gonna eat and the Bible says this he asked him having already known God intentionally will put you in a position of being overwhelmed so that you can discover him how many people in this room have ever been overwhelmed stand up on your feet stand up on your feet if you feel like you're overwhelming if you feel like people are pulling at you and calling you and asking you for more and more and more and more and more and more while you are standing on your feet I want you to just go ahead and say I am not enough I'm okay with that except that but I have a God who is more than enough praise Him right where you are yes yes yes yes I relieve you of the stress of being everything to everybody all the time I release you to let go of the burden and the guilt and the shame that you carry for the marriage that didn't work and for the child that still accusing you because you didn't show up somewhere you are not on the present you can't be everywhere I command you to release it let it go [Applause] walk over to somebody take them by the hand and say I love you but I'm gonna disappoint you I'm gonna let you down sometime I'm gonna get on your nerves sometime I'm gonna miss your signals I won't always respond on cue but if you can handle it we can make it that's what a real relationship is all about - you've been delivered from a lot of things but tonight you're gonna be delivered from people accusations in their path open your mouth you've lost yourself trying to be everything everybody but I want you to start shaking yourself a loose right now from everything everybody decide to be your shop sit down I'm almost off what feel something in this place I feel something in this place I feel something in this place I don't know who I'm talking to but I'm talking to somebody tonight I feel the spirit of release in this place I feel it releasing in this place I break the guilt and the condemnation that you've hidden your heart maybe it was my fault maybe he left me cuz I'm not woman enough devil is alive ain't nobody gonna be enough for some people wounded people are thirsty that rabbit is say always warm or let it go break me get your joy get your peace [Applause] people always want to blame you for their dysfunction you are not the Messiah you are not God what process but I hope you get this [Applause] I can feel demons fleeing the room I can feel spiritual heaviness breaking in this room right now I can feel yokes breaking the chains falling off I can feel a head comes falling in the floor I can feel God destroying yokes it a bit on you for you guilty about your mama give me about your brand mama you didn't make it to the hospital for she died you are not Jesus she'll take me everywhere [Applause] [Music] Jesus created a problem for them to discover their limitations yeah maybe crazy yeah some of you had the only God knows the things you whisper to him in prayer and the guilt and the pain that you carry for things that happen and people who got sick and people who died and people who walked away and children who stuck their finger in your face and say you weren't there for me and you was busy trying to do everything you could and you have carried that guilt and used and store it and you shouted over it but when you go home you lay down with it every night but the night is your life tonight is your breakthrough night tonight is your deliverance night that night is the night that the yolk breaks in your life and I don't care if anybody else gets a breakthrough you need to go for yourself tonight and break that chain that's been on your neck God is not finished with you yet God wants to use you in a mighty way God has a plan for your destiny Shantanu boy [Applause] so they told him their bookkeeper told him we only have two hundred pennyworth and though that's not a bad amount it's not enough for the demands that are on me right now take a minute for me and just think about how much is expected on you I mean let's leave Church and let's go to Starbucks and you and me and sit down have a latte and let's talk about how many people expect stuff from you [Applause] [Music] truth is I'm tired [Applause] truth II can we just be honest can you just be honest for a minute and tell the truth is I'm tired I'm tired of people out love compressors nodded out a little I'm tired now you know if I'm tired of people I love I'm tired of people that got my DNA and got big lips like me and a wide flat nose and I love them and I'm still tired of people I love so you know you Joe cuz I don't know don't stand up I know you gonna sit there and look at me funny like I'm the only one who gets tired of people that you love Danny can you be here daddy can you come there daddy can you go over there you my brother got ya better be there what's wrong with you you ain't call me intimidate you alright [Applause] like a sleeping room [Applause] Jesus often does things to make us take inventory to count what you have so you can make better decisions to not overextend yourself and commit to more people to do more things than what you are physically able to do he says count up what do you have he said we got two hundred pennyworth and then they came in but Sarah oh wait a minute there is there is a little boy he just got two fish and five loaves of bread what is what is it see when when you run out you get desperate and not her down to snatch in the kids lunch that's hungry when you go snatch the kids lunch you gonna take the lunch from the lookee at the luncheon mama backed him we look greasy bad you know that's kind of lunch we had cuz we could always afford lunch boxes like the rich kids we had greasy bags with leftovers in them [Applause] he come less happy they come out the school bus yellow school bus you know they come up with the thermos and all that kind of stuff we come out with aluminum foil you Begbie all greasy now they will smash the little kids lunch to Tricia five loaves of bread seven articles that's all it was in the bay to fish five loaves of bread I counted it is seven articles and then the question that has is what is that against so many seven is completeness you gotta get a hole before you can help anybody you gotta be hold you you gotta be okay you you gotta be whole so you can help anybody until you get seven in your bag you can't serve nobody else you gotta have seven in your bag minimum requirement for a miraculous situation is you gotta be whole on the inside on the inside down inside of you you gotta be cool stop preaching over top of pain and singing over top of pain and preach it over the top of problems and helping people while you believe in the death we believe in God that somebody goes sense it and rescue you there you go sense nothing they gonna abuse you till you pass out and die they treat you like you treat yourself you gotta stop people and say wait a minute I gotta go back and get myself together so I can help you I can't help nobody else can i okay [Applause] and I'll only be enough when I reached that seven that completion that wholeness that Sabbath that resting in my soul not eaten by ambition or greed or need or trying to prove something to your sister or your mother-in-law and all of that sick stuff that we do trying to measure up to what your brother-in-law bought for his wife and all of that stuff where you overspent because you have low self-esteem and you wanted your wife to have a new coat too and you've been paying on the coat for 12 years so code has fallen apart and you are still making payments on the coat [Applause] this is beautiful churches of wonderful judges amazing Church and it's a great church and it's it's just fabulous and it's wonderful if you've got people but if you just build it so that you can keep up with the Joneses ego puts us in situations of stress and pressure and anxiety and some of it is the pressure that we have to live up to people who aren't gonna love you anyway so I want to strip you down to your lunch to your to fish and your five loaves of bread and tell you I know it looks little and I know it seems insufficient and and when they brought the lunch they said what is this against so many and you are saying what am i against so many and Jesus says I will unlock the miracle of you I will take your not enough and make it more than enough if you will present it into my hands and the Bible says he took it thank you Lord for taking my not enough even though I was limited and even though I failed and even though I let people down and even though my life is full of giants that are all bigger than me thank you for accepting my little - fishing my little five loaves of bread thank you for not rejecting me I couldn't take another rejection thank you for accepting my talent I will never be able to sing like Israel I can't sing like him I can't even pantomime like him I'll never be able to write a song like that I can't I'll never be able to thank you for taking my rasping country old school voice and sending it around the world because I gave you what I had I didn't allow myself to be worried about what I didn't have I just gave you what I had oh my god I don't know who I'm talking to but the Lord said if you will give him what you got you'd be surprised what God will do with you a little bit with you a little bit with my list with my country shelf you'd be surprised how God will take what's in your bag grease and all and send it to the nation's and use it around the world and I rebuke every devil that ever made you feel bad because you didn't measure up to somebody else God said I'm gonna take what's in your little bag and I'm gonna make it more than enough I'm gonna make you social I'm gonna blow your mind glory to God touch three people say you don't know what you got you don't know what you got you don't know you don't know you don't know you don't know you don't know you don't know you don't know what you got the devil doesn't want you to know what you got didn't ever want you to feel inferior and then completed and sufficient but I revealed that devil I'm gonna run him out of the door right now Rush's I want you to open that back door I release every spirit that ever held you down that ever call you you didn't have any words that you never be anything you would do it he can open that door I cast them out in the name of Jesus I want three minutes of crazy Holy Ghost supernatural praise [Music] [Applause] open your mouth this is your breakthrough moment open your mouth open [Music] [Applause] God is getting ready to blow your mind what he loved with what you got your talent your skill your ability your ministry your preaching your anointing your gift God's gonna use what's in your bag shop for what he died you [Applause] see most of the time in church were shouting over somebody else's give somebody saying you happy somebody plays you happy somebody preach you happy tonight I want you to shop for what God gave you South Hill held its nervous shout till demons tremble shall kill yokes are broken shout till curses are shaken Oh [Applause] one over touch seven people and say I can do this seven seven people I can do this salmon people and when you get to the seventh person shout like you [Applause] [Music] yeah you know pray that my team is not triplet right now hell disturbance right now [Applause] [Applause] so Center your feet so the Lord said let me break it down for you if you will give me you are not enough I'm gonna make you more than enough I'm gonna do a miracle in your life that you are not gonna run out are you ought to shout me down right now you are not gonna run out you don't have to be tired and exhausted and angry and snapping at people God says I am going to strengthen what you've got and so I think I'm gonna get this message myself every time I'm stressed out I'm gonna play it in the car so so watch this remain standing so I'm just 2 minutes chef Godwin wrote this book smallest a new big small is the new big big is out of style stop asking for being small it's a new big and I would have thought that it was just something that self said to be talking but I notice a pattern in Scripture that almost every miracle in the Bible happened with small a pot of oil a handful of meal two fish and five loaves of bread God never did ask for big he's not looking for big people big important self-righteous uppity as my grandma would say persnickety people small is the new big so when they went when they gave Jesus a to fishing the five loaves of bread he said no let me show you the miracle isn't it being even smaller so he said if you give me your gift let me break it down for you you were always enough but I needed to break it down for you and he took it and he blessed it the Lord said if you'll give me what you got I'll take it and I'll bless it you'll never be enough in your own strength not for yourself not for your companion not for your children not for your parents not for your job you'll never be enough but if you give it to me I'll bless it and I'll break it down for you because that you're poor and you are a winner and and not only will I give you to the world they're gonna have leftovers tonight pastor Jenkins I dedicate this message to you and I want to tell you why because you go to pastors conferences and sit in the back in blue jeans and write on your iPad and never asks for VR PC because most of the time most of the time in any crowd you have the biggest Church and you have the smallest demands because you are good to everybody you help anybody because you serve in silence and in secret and pour out of yourself to everybody all the time because you never come in and try to be important you've never done it you've never done it you've never complained because your name wouldn't call I've seen guys with far less make so much noise they are so big with so little because you made it look good to be small [Applause] and so Seth Godin was right it's not in all of the crowds and the entourages and all of the adjutant's in all of the dis and all of that and all of the other you showed us something we have not seen in the kingdom in a long time [Music] you you drive yourself you come in in simplicity you never make a fuss in all the years I have known you I have never ever heard you complain about anything not much I have seen guys in storefronts lock you down getting to the front I have seen yourself at meetings and I didn't even know you were there because you were back in the corner somewhere taking notes with your head down and your and your handkerchief out and your tears rolling down your face thanking God that he would take your two fish and five loaves of bread and do all of this and when your wife called me and asked when I come I had to come I had to come because small is a new big keep on doing small it looks good on you it looks so good on me join hands with everybody leaving the one untouched I found out that the smallest people need to be big and so they always fuss it make a lot of demands because they're insecure it's not that they're bad people they're just insecure but when you're big enough to be small it's because you feel safe enough not to be intimidated and if God took a handful of meal and a pot of oil and two fish and five loaves of bread maybe we should stop praying to be big if the miracle is in the pieces maybe we should ask God to make a small because the Word of God said when you were small in your own eyes I blessed you when you were small enough to help people and small enough to open the door and small enough to lift away that's small enough to serve somebody I blessed you so tonight small listen to me we dedicate this night to you sir and your 60 years of shining bright from your little corner building massive cathedrals and saying nothing I saw him yesterday he came to hear me preach at another church he's never even mentioned anything about his birthday at all he didn't say nothing and I ran out the door for I messed up and said too much by God bless you yeah I'm trippin I gotta go home I know I used to rock work when we were this little thought tonight rolled out of the heart of God to correct some of us who are beside ourselves sometimes we take ourselves too seriously come on come on come on come on come on come on don't wait till you get sick no wait - you almost died and realize you ain't so such you much just just till a minute and for those of us who feel stretched to the breaking point and we feel overwhelmed God will take your pieces you're enough you're enough mama for that child I know they got Down syndrome but you you enough mama you enough daddy for that child who's in trouble and driving you crazy and I know you didn't have a father yourself but if you'll take your pieces brother and give them to God God will get in your fragments and your two fishes your five loaves of bread and he'll make a daddy out of somebody who never even had a daddy and he'll show you and you're gonna figure it out you don't figure it out because God is gonna break it down for you squeeze that hand you're holding right now God has created a situation to show himself strong in your life he already knows the answer before he's asked you the question don't panic this is just a test in a controlled environment for you to find out what you got you got this squeeze that have you got this I know it looks like it's out of balance and it looks like you're overwhelmed and it looks like there are more that I get you than they are for you that's all right you got this if you give your little bit yourself over to God God is gonna stretch you like you've never been stretched before father tonight if we pray tonight I pray that you would lift burdens and destroy yokes that you would loose the bound and set the captive free where we're to hide that you would humble us down where we're insecure that you would pump us up and give us courage whatever we stand in need of today that you administered us right where we are Holley lilia to God I thank you for your presence moving up and down now right now I'm thinking for your glory in this place thank you for your glory in this place and thank you for your glory in this place be glorified in this place be magnified in this place let your presence be known in this place I pray God that not one person would leave here in guilt and condemnation not one not one not one not another day not another day not another day not wrestling another night taking the fault of everything and everybody and blaming yourself for stuff you're not God let yourself go this is your get-out-of-jail-free day get out of jail free today for Lord you are the God that is more than enough you are there all sufficient one you are the one that destroys yolks and bondages that looses the bound and sets a captive free and I pray you be glorified in this place in a supernatural way in Jesus name Amen I want you to say I know we normal clap wait wait wait wait wait wait I know we normally clap but no we normally do that but I want you to lift your hands and I want you to open your mouth to God and I want you to praise Him out of your mouth praise them out of your mouth [Music] praise him out of your mouth praise them out of your mouth praise him out of your mouth praise him out of your mouth if he spoke to you in any kind of way if you're feeling of loving on your right now if you're feeling lifting up your little crazy bag and said you're enough you and me you're enough together we can do this that give him the praise and the honor and the glory yeah oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together [Music] [Applause] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes Lord talk to me Jesus break it down for me Jesus show me what I got that I've been looking over that I didn't realize that I had break it down from me Jesus stop me from controlling everything running everything managing everything micromanage and everything give me some peace and some joy and some freedom let me give myself to the people who need it the most [Applause] [Music] halleloo [Music] hallelujah halleluyah halleluyah [Applause] hallelujah [Music] halleluyah halleluyah halleluyah [Applause] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] listen the anointing of God is in this place of Spirit of God is here right now how many of you sense is free to God in this room right now and I don't I don't know if I'm out of water cuz cuz I don't know so ignorant bliss and I'm at home here coming home here I'm gonna ask every person in this building that has $60.00 to offer up before God as a sweet-smelling savour for people who give their lives in the work of the ministry for unlocking some things in you that have been tied up and showing you how even though you might be small sometimes you're in love I'm gonna ask you to break protocol and routine and all that kind of stuff and I'm gonna add every person that has 60 just $60 and I know for some people $60 is a whole lot I'm gonna ask you every one of you I'm gonna give 6,000 I just want you to give $60 and I want you to come up front like it's two fish and five loaves of bread and I want you to make a down payment on your destiny and on your future and I want you to believe God with me that he's gonna take your two fish and five loaves of bread and break it down for you and if you're watching on the internet I want you to do it too and if you're streaming online I want you to do it too and we don't have to have form afresh and just press down just press down if you've got $60 if you got $60 if I came in here with Rosie you will be shocked $60 would start coming out of everywhere but I just want you to bring it because God is good I want you to come out of the balcony I want you to come out at the back they didn't ask me to do it I don't know what I'm supposed to do it I don't know whether you've been taxed in some other kind of way but I'm just asking you to just tonight just a little thing just just a little way to say thank you I know you bought him a plate with the last supper on it and you saw a wooden cross at the Bible bookstore with with some purple fabric on it you gonna give it to him let me take just $60 last time last time he had a birthday and I had a book at the same time he told y'all to go buy my book for his birthday that's how he is he's getting them out of it he's always blessing other people just this one time and take that plate back to the Bible bookstore he got a hundred of them take it back a shitty and get the money back he don't need another picture of the Last Supper of my hair you Jackson singing on her knees dis dis come tonight just come tonight I ask Lord to give me a thousand people that would just come tonight I don't know what they'd be knowing him he loudly give it to some homeless shelter somehow no but he don't have it to do I wait on you what you make happen for other people God will make happen for you I didn't ask for your rent money if you got written me if you got rent for sixty dollars I'm moving in with you I checked out these prices up here y'all serious of you come on come on you're doing good come on you're doing good if you don't have it would you get as close to it and stand up and join us I take fifty dollars at a KFC coupon I take $20 and some Green Stamps and top value stands out take whatever you can do $10 worth of food stamps and some bubble government or whatever you can just represent on some level in some way would you stand with whatever with whatever with whatever with whatever with interest $10 if there's $5 with whatever just represent if you watching online would you just represent tonight you know why we reward the wicked the con armistice cameras the people running around trying to get over on people they they get all kind of stuff and the people who do good we just we just take it for granted we don't never bless people who do right and tonight we need to break that curse until the scammers get jealous out of righteous people and the wicked start saying I need to do better we need to reward good leadership we need to reward good leadership we need to reward good leadership [Applause] thank you Jesus you got me situated yeah sometime you sweet or somebody you got me you got me okay she got me I told she had the body so don't both y'all get me and happy 12th a little too much you got living over 60 years well think about it with you 120 call me back lift it up before God Father we offer our gifts to you our money our talent our resources every person that's waving an offering of any size it is not just the offering that is a gift the hand that waves it is a gift - and I thank you Lord as we give our gifts into the kingdom you are gonna create an opportunity for us over and over again pressed down shaken together and running over I pray God that you would take this this this humble effort and just blow our minds as you multiply it beyond our imaginations and Lord while he's here to hear we thank you for pastor John Kay Jenkins [Applause] in Jesus name Amen Donnell Drive y'all suckers crazy I don't know how they do stuff y'all all fancy people just put it on the steps on the altar right there everybody come prissy and bring it put it anywhere just bring it just bring it just lay it down anywhere bring it bring it lay it down lay it down lay it down lay it down lay it down lay it down lay it down come sing something real good like you can y'all got some of this singing as people this brother can make you shut off our ABCs why you passing by people share the love of Jesus love on them say something nice store tell them you blessed Oh Dominion and power now and forever the Lord God omnipotent reigneth in power forever wind power greater than all you are sovereign God God great God worthy of glory stand every in reverence for the studio Frances Jiro [Applause] yeah [Applause] [Music] now in forever here greater than all [Music] we'll be a boring we stand everywhere [Applause] bless there [Applause] nobody greater nobody greater Karina Vinay nobody sake [Applause] let's say right nobody greater nobody nobody remember God [Applause] check everybody shake [Music] [Applause] Karina then I [Applause] [Applause] to see God [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] turn the roll take Oh [Music] ladies and gentlemen pastor George II can't senior [Applause] there are there are no words in the human language that I know that can express how overwhelmed I am tonight I want to start off let me thank my bride of 38 years for pulling you got me on this one you you got me thank you from the bottom of my heart thank all of you for taking time out of your schedules to come and spend it tonight with me I want to thank my pastor my bishop TD jakes for taking the time all of you I don't want to start calling names but I'm just I just I don't know I know what to say I'm overwhelmed my actual birthday is Thursday so you'll have to actually come back on Thursday good night everybody I love you with the love of the Lord [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 143min 13sec (8593 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 09 2018