T.D. Jakes: Can You Trust God When He Doesn't Answer? | Sermon Series: Crushing | TBN

we cannot see what god can see we can see to  the corner but god can see around the corner   and if you just trust him when  all hell is breaking loose   if you trust him with tears running down your  face if you trust him through a bad season   and a storm and i and it's okay to be scared  you can have fear and faith at the same time and so i had sat on a plane for about 12  hours left the beautiful city of dallas   flew to london got out in heathrow walked the  corridors made the change and then flew another   nine or ten hours to lagos nigeria and then by car  i traveled out somewhere i had never been before   to speak to over a million people i was  in the hotel getting ready for the event   pastor adeboye had invited me to one of the  biggest meetings he does during the year   he's huge all over the world but in africa it's  unexplainable and i was getting ready to go   when i got a call the phone rang my son jamar  had had a heart attack and the doctors were   trying to stabilize him and while they were  telling me about it he'd had a second one and the airport was shut down for the evening   and we had to pull all kinds of strings to get out  of there and i never got to preach to the crowd one because under battle you always  have to keep your priorities straight don't let the seduction of the crowd or the  allurement of the masses make you forget about the   commitment to the few jamar was my son and i had  to be there and i wondered lord how in the world   could this be happening they had rushed  him into surgery and it didn't look good   and i said this is a  20-something year old young man   who's vibrant healthy in good shape  not overweight how could this happen you we we want to understand everything but we don't so i flew for hours and hours and  all the while i stayed awake the whole time   saying god spare my son because i don't  want to know the pain of losing my child and we want to understand why and i got  to the hospital i came down the hall   and he's laying in the hospital bed  and he said i hear my daddy coming and i walked in the room i shaved his chest   i talked to him i tried to get him ready  for this this surgery they were going to do   because they had to try to figure out where this  was coming from and the first one hadn't proven it   and i wanted answers and i learned something  you don't get answers because you want them that god doesn't explain himself for that matter   the doctors don't explain themselves i  would have took an answer from anybody   they weren't explaining much because they  weren't sure why he had the heart attack   they couldn't give me answers and when i prayed  and asked god why did i have to go through   this he chose to be silent and the real issue  becomes can you trust god when he doesn't answer because we want answers and we're  raised in school to seek answers   and then if you get the answer right we reward  you and it makes us think that there's an answer   but sometimes life hands you stuff where  there is no answer now he recovered   and i'm happy about that he really recovered but  my point in talking to you about seeking answers   is that it's a dangerous thing to seek answers  while you're suffering that's like trying to   diagnose a storm in the middle of a tsunami  you have to get to the other side of it and   look back at it and see it in retrospect because  if you ask too many questions at the wrong time   you're not going to come up with  healthy answers or no answers at all   and the frustration becomes a distraction  because what difference does it make why   you're still dealing with what and if you're  dealing with what you can't worry about why   so you're dealing with what and surviving what  must take preeminence over understanding why   i grew up in a little baptist church in the  hills of west virginia on the mountaintop   and we used to sing an old song we are tossed and  driven on the mighty seas of time summer times and   summer tempest half succeed or bright sunshine  in the land of perfect day when the mists have   rolled away we will understand it  better by sometimes you have to realize   that you have to settle to walk in the dark   to walk by faith and not by sight to not ask god  to appeal to your intellect because when you ask   god to appeal to your intellect you ask him to  come down to your level when his thoughts are   above your thoughts and his ways are above your  ways he has to come down to your level to explain   himself and sometimes god is not interested in  your intellect he is interested in your obedience do you hear what i'm saying to you because  obedience is proven best when you don't understand   if i tell my child clean up the  room you don't get to ask me why   i don't have to explain to you we got company  coming over and we got this no no no i said   clean the room obedience is better than sacrifice  obedience is better than understanding and god is   trying to teach us to obey him and to trust in  the fact get this that pruning is not punishment that you are not cursed because you had a bad day   that god is not punishing you just  because you're going through suffering   they feel the same but they're not the  same the intention is quite different   between pruning and punishment pruning is  the reward of having something of value   is how god lets you know that you're valuable he  he wouldn't prune you if you were a dying bush nobody prunes a dying bush he prunes you  because you're fruitful but pruning feels   like punishment and if you're not careful you  will feel like you're punished and if you will   by that you're punished then you will believe  that you're cursed god doesn't cut to kill us he cuts to heal us i had to trust god  when they cut in my back four inches   and operated on my back and i had to learn how  to walk again i had to trust god as i preached   on sunday mornings and couldn't walk i went to  washington dc and preached i had to lay on the   floor in the back of the church the pain was so  great and then when they got ready to introduce   me i came out and i preached because when the  anointing was on me and the spirit started moving   and the energy got up it was like i had no pain  i only made one mistake i sat down after i got   through preaching instead of leaving and when  i sat down i couldn't get up and there in front   of everybody they they had to help me up out of  my seat the one who preached power and anointing   and glory couldn't get out of his chair and  this oxamoron between strength and weakness   between victory and being paralyzed is the  human experience truth and trust hold hands   they hang out together we need both to see  the the crushing from god's divine perspective   we have to look at it from god's  perspective to avoid our limited view   we cannot see what god can see we can see to the  corner but god can see around the corner and if   you just trust him when all hell is breaking loose  if you trust him with tears running down your face   if you trust him through a bad season and a storm  and i and it's okay to be scared you can have fear   and faith at the same time i was afraid for my son  and yet i had faith for my son you can have fear   and faith at the same time jesus said which of you  if your son asks for bread will give him a stone   or if he asks for a fish would you give him  a snake if you then through all of your evil   ways know how to give good gifts to your children  how much more will the father give what you need   to his children god knows what  you need even when you don't like   what you need that is crushing at tbn our mission  is to use every available means to reach as many   individuals and families as possible with the  life-changing gospel of jesus christ thank you   for helping make the gospel of grace go around the  world without you we couldn't do it god bless you

Channel: TBN

Views: 191,913

Keywords: td jakes, god's will for my life, td jakes 2021, td jakes 2022, td jakes sermons, td jakes motivation, td jakes live streaming, td jakes motivational speech, td jakes 2021 sermons, td jakes courage, td jakes 2021 motivation, td jakes crushing, tbn, crushing sermon series, bishop td jakes, trinity broadcasting network, trinity broadcasting network live, tbn live, t8b2n6, 8t2b6n, tbn826, 826tbn, suffering, christian suffering trinity broadcasting network, matt crouch t8b2n6, bishop

Id: Z2cUITwF9qk

Length: 10min 35sec (635 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 11 2022