T.D. Jakes: How are You Talking to Yourself? | Sermon Series: Crushing | FULL TEACHING | TBN

and i'm wondering if there are things echoing in your head right now that are stopping you from living your best life because you will not silence them by speaking back you shall have whatever you say so says the word of god you shall have whatever you say this is the end you're going to lose everything you won't come out of this you're not smart enough you're not bright enough you waited too late you should have started younger those are the kind of voices that we all live with for me our ministry was growing we lived in a nice house nice house we'd ever had driving a nice car living from paycheck to paycheck but making it every night i lay down at night after she goes to sleep i hear the voices those voices are the kind of voices that stop you from buying into your own life stop you from enjoying the good times and believing that they will last the anxiety and the pressure and the strength that it took to get from where you were to where you are doesn't go away so so you don't really believe it's yours you're driving it but you don't really believe it and you're scared to relax and really rest in whatever it is or whoever it is because everything else went away maybe this will go away too we talk about faith for bad times but but you also need faith in good times to actually believe the goodness of god is not going anywhere to silence the voices they keep saying you'll never make it you're about to lose everything fear gets in your heart see see i know what it's like to be poor and i know what it's like to be without and i know what it's like not to have dinner for my kids returning to that that the idea that that could happen is terrifying the enemy always has some sort of tool or memory or situation that he uses to terrify you even though the good times are here and and the dream is there the blessing is there and the goodness is there but there's always this haunting nagging defiance that says don't you relax you're not worth it you don't deserve it and it's not going to last resting in what god has done is often more difficult than receiving what god has done to rest in it to believe that it will last to believe that you will ask that love will last that that life will last that that good times will come that things will be better it's difficult because of the voices and you are what you eat and the voices are the food that feeds your faith or fear so if you want to change your diet you can change your outcome but you have to stop talking to yourself the way you do because if you continue to talk to yourself the way you do you will always be where you've always been it is what you say within yourself that heals you the woman with israel blood said to herself if i can but touch the hem of his garment i'll be made whole there was no scripture to validate that she could say she wasn't quoting deuteronomy or new numbers or anything like that it's just something she said to herself there was no doctrine around it we've never seen that happen before but she said to herself if i can but touched to him of his garment i'll be made whole wow and all the while she was crawling she kept saying over and over again if i can just touch if i can just touch if i can just touch i can just touch the end of the glove and without jesus permission and without the support of the disciples she creeped up on him and snatched a miracle snatched it snatched it because of what she said to herself yes you see those voices that say what you can't do what you can't have what you can't be what's not going to last what's not going to work is how the enemy pulverizes the promises of god in your life and it takes word to combat word that's why when jesus was in the wilderness and satan was so unworried at him he was throwing word back and what we have to do is put word on word i'm blessed i'm blessed in the city i'm blessed in the field i'm blessed in my uprising i'm blessed in my down setting i'll be blessed into my old age i'll be blessed when i'm an old man my grandchildren will be blessed my body is blessed my body is my mind is blessed my head is blessed i got this i can handle it i can do it bring it on here it is that kind of talk saying that to yourself drives back the other voices of negativity that we all have creep up behind us and tell us that we're not capable and we're not competent and we're not gifted enough and we're not good enough or we waited too late or god is punishing us to talk back to those voices shuts the enemy down the pressure i was going through i was causing because the pressure i was going through was coming from the things that i allowed to reverberate in my head and i'm wondering if there are things echoing in your head right now that are stopping you from living your best life because you will not silence them by speaking back you shall have whatever you say so says the word of god you shall have whatever you say if it's betrayal you shall have whatever you say if it's a life without love you shall have whatever you say it doesn't just work positively it also works negatively you shall have whatever you say she touched him and she was made whole and he says who touched me which means he's oblivious to what's going on this is all happening in her head the whole thing happened in her head and the lord who is i'm missing asked a question who touched me and the disciples wanted to be important answered him said everybody touched you he said no no no no no no that's not what i'm talking about everybody around me don't touch me everybody around me don't touch me you've been sad everybody around me don't touch me just cause you're around me don't mean you touch me somebody touched me somebody touched me and she came out from the cross chief's lead and see it was me it was me she got a miracle while jesus wasn't looking because of what she said to herself that's what i want you to see and stop letting those other words crush [Music] when i say excellent you say excellent excellent excellent excellent the problem is we all said the same word but we don't all mean the same thing because what you call excellent what i call excellent may be two different things based on the lives we've lived the things we've experienced the places we've been exposed to our ideas of excellent made very drastically based on how we define excellence the problem with the english language is that it is limited to interpretation so how do you know when i say i love you that i mean what you meant when you said you love me so we're having a conversation and i'm making an assumption that your love is my love and it may not be at all or we're planning a banquet and i and i make an assumption that you're excellent it's my excellent and it may not be at all because the reality about it is your definition of excellence rises no higher than your level of exposure whatever you've been exposed to that becomes the new paradigm of what excellent is to you and it shifts from day to day and the hardest thing in the world is to have a conversation with somebody and all you have to use is words because i'm not sure that you mean what i mean when i say excellent i'm not sure that you mean what i mean when i say love i'm not sure you mean what i mean when i say loyal i'm not sure you mean what i mean when i say hurt because all we have it's worse the reality is we have to make up in our mind that whatever our definition of excellence is is called change it's going to get higher it's going to get broader it's going to get better it's going to be different or it's going to go down and a lot of it depends on who you hang around and what you're exposed to there are people that take you up there are people that bring you down they bring you down to their level of excellence that's what that's what a job description for a hater looks like the job description of the hater is to bring you down to the level that they are on so that while they're trying to pull you down i'm trying to get up and if i'm going to get up i have to know that there's going to be a cost in getting up i'm going to have to put my back to it or it's not going to happen god wants somebody to work with him and give what it takes to make it happen is it worth it absolutely i do not want to die let me explain i i was born in between two dead babies the baby before me died the baby after me died i was raised by a dying father and i do not want to live my life and die and at the last moment of my life ask this question wonder what would have happened if i'd have pushed a little harder i don't want to i don't want to get down to the end of the road and and wonder what would have happened if i'd have pushed a little harder i don't want to wonder that i want to get down to the end of the road like paul and say i fought a good fight i kept the faith i finished my course and now later for me as a crown of righteousness in the heaven i don't want to get down to my last breath and wonder what would have happened if i went back to school if i took a course if i worked a little harder if i change the way i dress if i change the way i talk to people if i forgive somebody if i release somebody i don't want to wonder about nothing because that is excellence excellence it to come out with the conclusion i have no regrets i have no regrets the wine he is producing is greater than the pain you are experiencing and if you allow him to take you through the process when he says excellent and you say excellent they will mean the same thing [Music] the dying words of the thief on the cross was remember me the words of jesus at the last supper is as often as you do this you do this in remembrance of me what does remember mean remember re put back together again remember me when we remember what god has done that becomes the foundation on which we build our lives now a house is not a foundation and nobody can live in a foundation but it has to have a foundation in order to be a house and i'm not suggesting that your life begins ends and all through the middle is nothing but jesus jesus jesus because you got to take out the trash you got to brush your teeth you got to comb your hair you got to get your nails done you got to get your feet done or you're going to cut your blankets when you're laying in the bed at night all of that happens but i am saying that god is the foundation when god delivered the children of israel out of egypt he did it as a foundation for them to remember and all through the old testament he says over and over again am i not the god who brought you out from the red sea am i not the god who brought you out by my own hand and my strong arm it becomes a point of reference to which you face the future remembering what he did in the past remembering it putting it back together again and again and again and recreating it as a point of reference to fight from to stand from to drive from to to preach from to teach from what do you have to remember it's important that you have something to remember something on god's resume that you know that you know that you know that he did for you and it tells you that if god would do that he can do this if he can drive back the red sea and bring me across on dry land then he can fight you off he can deal with the amalekites and the hittites and the jebusites and the gerashites god does certain things so you will have something to remember a point of reference to which you build your life upon and you stand on it and you say i'm not sure about this and i'm not sure about that but this one thing i do know you have to know this you have to know this in your norm you have to know this when your girlfriend doesn't know it when your prayer warriors don't know it when your children don't know it when your mama doesn't know it something that you know that you know that you know becomes the catalyst against the trials against the traumas against the sleepless nights against the virus against the crisis against the times that we're living in we have been living in the most perilous times that we have seen in a hundred years we are living in a time when nearly 700 000 people are now dead from something we can't even see we are fighting an invisible enemy and that enemy has friends that has created trauma and distress until we are overwhelmed even when nothing else is going wrong just the feeling that other people are going wrong gives us a certain degree of stress and trauma we how do we stand up against this unseen foe we fight right now of course we need to do everything we can to protect ourselves from the virus but i'm not just talking about the virus i'm talking about your mind i'm talking about your emotions your will your spirit your fight your drive your tenacity your sense of normalcy your courage to get out of the house your courage to get out of the bed the courage to continue when there's a threat requires that there's something about god that you have to remember for the children of israel it was the blood of the lamb that was painted on the doorpost and death angel passed by and said when i see the blood i will pass over you it was walking out to the red sea and hearing 600 chosen chariots coming with failure of chasing them down saying i'm going to get you back he was going to get them back but let me tell you a secret he was also trying to get back the wealth they'd taken for the wealth of the unjust had been laid up for the just and they had borrowed all the gold and all the silver and they had broken the gdp of egypt it wasn't just the slaves he wanted he wanted the money back he wanted the jewels he wanted the gold he wanted the silver he wanted the things that the tabernacle would actually end up being built by he was trying to get it all back he could have got some more slaves anywhere he was trying to get what they had borrowed they had borrowed the whole economy of egypt was running through the red sea for the wealth of the unjustice laid up for the jets and when god brings you out he brings out enough for your children the bible says that god put so much wealth on them that their children had to carry on their backs the wealth that god placed on them i want the kind of blessing that affects my children and my children's children and my children's children's children i i want my grandchildren to blow kisses at my picture when i'm dead in god i want them to be able to say if it hadn't been for that old man i'd have never been able to go to college i'd have never been able to get a job i'd have never been able to work for google i'd have never been able to work for xerox i'd never been able to preach the gospel i would have never been able to do it i want that for them so i have to have something to remember that i can count on that won't break and i want to ask you what do you remember when life get hard when things get tough when friends get few there how to be something in your life that you remember god brought you through or brought you from or brought you out of that feeds you that is the foundation that makes you to rise above the crushing and turns crepe juice into absolute wine 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

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Length: 19min 58sec (1198 seconds)

Published: Tue May 31 2022