TD Jakes Sermons: Can God Trust You With Trouble 1

I'm done I am NOT going to the country club and tell my friends at the golf tournament that my girlfriend is pregnant with the Holy Ghost I'm out I'm just out I'm just out whenever God does something you don't understand you have a tendency to want to back out but the real truth of the matter is life is designed to try your staying power [Music] this is the Christmas season there's no doubt about that but the first Christmas was not filled with shopping mall than shopping carts and long lines and coupons and getting on the Internet it was filled with trouble and and tests and trials and and I want to ask you whether you're celebrating or frustrated can God trust you with trouble take a look at this I almost entitled this this message mother with because because I now realize that mother with if the remaining nectar of truth that has survived through the struggles of life its essence and aroma permeates the soul of the student and stays with you even after your mother is gone because her wisdom is the nectar and the composite of what she learned through the adversity and the vicissitudes of life you can't have mother with at-15 you can't have mother with at twenty you can't have mother wit at thirty you can't have mother within 35 mother with is what is left what what works out of what you try your conclusion what which is what you come up with and and then I almost call this this mother way so my wife my wife taught me a lesson she didn't even know it she was uh she's she one of the problems that led to her surgery she had a herniated a disc in two different locations and the herniation and pressed against the nerve and her left arm and hand were not working properly and she had lost all feeling and sensation in in her extremities she could she could move it a little bit but she couldn't feel anything when she touched it and she had problems moving into there it was a real problem so we were praying about it she went in she had the surgery all the kids come we we have the kind of family that when one of us is in trouble everybody Huddle's yeah we all huddled yeah yeah if if you jump on one of us right now it's it's you you really got to be awesome because if everybody's gonna dive in and ask what happened later because it's old school I know it's not a start didn't happen much now but is we huddle we huddle we attack things together we survive things together so when my wife came out of surgery she went in I prayed for her before she went in surgery she came out of surgery she's in the recovery room she's in their intensive carrier that the anesthesiologist has just walked out season now coming out from under anesthesia and she came out praising God she came out thinking gosh she came out glorifying God and once he had gotten herself together and she and I'd spent a few moments together all the kids came around the bed so all the kids and me around the bed and this was one of the life lessons I will never forget I really cannot articulate it like like she did and all the children around the bed and I'm around the bed and my wife is weeping and she's just thanking God that she's come through the surgery okay and the children all gathered around the bed and she reached out and she started touching them just on the hand and in the face she said she said she's just touching them just touching all over him and she was crying she said I can feel my children again and every now and then we had this moment that I know it's a moment that I'll never forget the rest of my life it's it's a teaching moment it's it's it's not the sort of thing that most men would do well had we regained consciousness we would appreciate the support of the family and a friend but my wife took it somewhere else she was touching all the children and I knew she was remembering touching them before and feeling them in her body in a way she went somewhere I couldn't go and she was crying she said oh she said I can feel my children and and the whole room was in tears because it was the kind of communication that requires no speech through the connectivity that pre-existed birth I can feel my children again and I step back because this was a mother moment you couldn't touch it it was just it was just somewhere else I was just in awe at the bond I got my little feel you know but uh put my face out there to feel really there are some times that I have a tendency of the man to be insensitive of certain things relating to femininity and sure have to educate me to the significance of law machine you know she said that's important to a woman because the so on so on so on so on so on and then that she becomes the teacher and I become the student one of those things is it's the whole notion of never giving birth and what I'm wanting to give birth and the whole process is something that that I I see through a glass darkly I I have never wanted to be pregnant the idea of something inside me living and kicking makes me shake I just I cannot see what would be wonderful about your stomach moving around like The Exorcism Satya it's just a god thing but she she has to help me with that to understand why that would be wonderful and and how your body changes in how your attitude changes and how there is a bonding that takes place and and and there's a loving that begins before birth there is an excitement there that you know I was there when y'all was born I was there I was for you hope you come out alright I was cheering y'all listening and here come another hey for those of you don't know what that is that's the machine unless you know the contractions and I told everybody we were having a baby you know how we do we have the baby but really when true she was having the baby I was eating up the hospital food yeah yeah expectations are everything they're just it's amazing when you when you have this expectation and and and it's an exciting moment that's that's why I chose the Virgin Mary to teach today because she's having this girl moment and I'm I'm gonna do a guys who in addition of a girls moment she generally getting married some curly stuff y'all turn into somebody else when you get married I believe women look good when they get married they get a glow there's a effervescence that come against them they stop flashing their engagement ring and and then rosebush pop out on their cheeks and and Stardust gets in their eyes and they're running all over the place gorillas getting murdered she is his spouse to Joseph planning her wedding it's been said if you want to make God laugh tell him what you got planned and in the process of planning for this special day with this special person with your special friends and interruption occurs God will interrupt your planet he doesn't care much money you spent on it how long you've dreamed about it how hard you worked out at how you've envisioned it you've got everything set up and then it's gonna be like this and when I'm 22 and by the time I'm 28 I've got to be here about 36 I'm gonna be right here you got it all framed up how it's gonna go he'll knock it all over the floor angel comes in and says he'll marry you've been highly favored amongst women that's good that's good you've been highly favored that's good news is wonderful I'm favored I see y'all Shanna I got the favor you know I'm the power send him a favor little flavor mmm been highly favored you should rain for the Sun yeah I plan that after we get married I'm gonna have Tara no it's not gonna happen when it's convenient it's gonna happen when it's crazy I thought you said I was favored I'm gonna be like pregnant the the first woman with an unexplainable pregnancy the Bible says she pondered these things in her heart God says stuff that makes you think he takes you through things that you don't talk about you ponder them in your heart why did I come up the way I came up why at this stage in my life did I go through what I went through why are we relocating at this season in my life why after 20 years and I out of a job why did I lose I'm the only one that's ever asked God why God God does some things that are confusing he does some things that are confused he allows some things that aren't explainable he disrupts your life in crazy ways he how could you tell this girl she has favored and when I leave you gonna be pregnant and they're gonna be looking at you and you're gonna be riding the back of the donkey with no place to stay birth your baby in a barn how is that favor still to come on the POTUS touch Christ the Lord is born in a messy relationship by couple on the run and a pregnant sweating woman gives birth to a holy child it doesn't even have any clothes to wrap around him takes the milk rags with the sour milk expelled from the cows and wraps the milk of the word in the milk of the cows what's pulling me down to the mountain when I have an opportunity I need to go to the top if you've ever climbed a mountain you know that reaching the summit requires perseverance determination and struggle in your journey with Christ he's often pushing you to a new and sometimes uncomfortable place but there's always purpose in the pain and when you reach the destination that he leads you to the few is worth it we've got the key to me to Who I am to what I am and I had no chance of unlocking the door to myself without getting to the key and he took the key and hid it in his garments and started up the heels and told me you'll never know if you don't chase me for helping us reach others with your gift of any size you'll receive secret to elevation on CD or when your gift is $200 or more you'll receive view from the top on DVD a grateful heart stationery and the woman Thou Art Loosed Bible reach the destination that was meant for you today you know what Sarah babe it's time for Christmas and the best part of all is giving God gave His Son and we celebrate his life I think my favorite part is getting an opportunity to spend time with our friends and families certainly there will be many lives the love of Jesus is the source from which all love flows let that love flow into your life and remember that Jesus is the reason for the seasons god bless you the oxymorons of life will trip you up if you're not careful we have a tendency to process things this is good that is bad this is good that is bad this is a good job that's a bad job this is a good house that's a bad house this is a good person that is a bad person as long as you think linearly about life you will always be confused because life is quite paradoxical if you meet somebody bad you'll find out they got good qualities and if you get around somebody that you think is really good and you hang around I'm close enough [Applause] and it will blow your philosophies away over who's good and who's bad because sometimes the person you thought was bad would help you and the person you thought was good wooden and you'll learn not to be so cynical so critical so conclusive so premature in your understanding they think you know so much it takes all of your life to figure out life is this a good thing or bad thing it should I be happy or should I cry I'm confused we we celebrate when they come we cry when they leave but the Bible says that's backwards the Bible says we should cry when they come and celebrate when they leave have you ever been crying about something you should have been shouting about I was shouting about something you should have been crying about and it took you ten years to realize that the thing that you cried about watching the most joy and the thing you were excited about God all kind of Hell in your life I'm just saying I'm just saying I'm just saying hole your wisdom for a while because wisdom works slow don't be so quick to tell everybody what they ought to do because you might not be as smart as you think you are you may have misdiagnosed a moment God says she'd been highly favored and right after his Exodus she has to go tell Joseph honey I'm not gonna be able to wear that gown and now you go into the test that comes before triumph and the frustrations that come before favor because her boyfriend says I'm out I'm a walk out quietly I'm done I am NOT going to the country club and tell my friends at the golf tournament that my girlfriend is pregnant with the Holy Ghost I'm out I'm just out I'm just out whenever God does something you don't understand you have a tendency to want to back out but the real truth of the matter is life is designed to try your staying power your staying power you are you having done all to stand can you can you can you stand when you don't understand when favor wears the clothes of frustration adorned with the jewelry of failure and you question in your own mind if I'm favored why am i pregnant on the back of the donkey in the hot Palestinian heat looking for a place to stay to give birth to a holy child who ends up born in a dirty place and so it was the Bible says with the birth of Jesus it was an oxymoron a holy child born in a horrible place espoused to a virgin Joseph is espoused to a virgin who is pregnant by ghosts and in the midst of planning for the wedding now we are planning for divorce and and now the life has all become discombobulated because it is no longer smooth sailing it is no longer predictable it's not black or white right or wrong up or down in or out it's it's a it's complicated if you ever told your life story Oh your mama was a good woman yes she was a great woman the wonderful woman wonderful woman is complicated I had a good childhood I'm strong yeah I'm so we might be there well yeah that part right there I'm strong about most stuff but life is complicated the Virgin teaches us how to be consistent when life is complicated Kanna be steadfast and abounding in the purpose of God while you are confused and pondering in your heart what in the world is going on in my life God if he's gonna bring your son into the world for the first time why is he not born in a palace escorted by angels in a palatial environment why would you choose the opposite the desolate the day the decrepit the disturbing and Christ the Lord is born in a messy relationship by couple on the run and a pregnant sweating woman gives birth to a holy towel and doesn't even have any clothes to wrap around him takes the milk rags with the sour milk expelled from the cows and wraps the milk of the word in the milk of the cows what you call swaddling clothes we're mid rags laying around in a barn and God chose this method to make his entrance and and you see you can have favor but that doesn't mean you don't have fear you can have all the favor you want to but you are going to have some frustration don't you sit there for one moment with your pretty self acting like your life wants a straight line of unchallenged successes how dare you sit there beside your little sweet muffin and act like you were always right I'm right and he's wrong it's amazing counseling couples they come in your office and they've already decided who's right and who's wrong so then they have predetermined scripts not knowing that everybody thinks they're right and when you really begin to unravel it both of them are a little bit right and a little bit wrong and such as life it's it's it's it's this complicated situation and and the Virgin Mary teaches us that you can be you can have a visitation from an angel and still ride on a donkey that the holy ghost can come upon you and you can still have no place to stay that that that with that that which is within you can be conceived by the Holy Ghost and that that is around you can be demonic and angry and ready to give up and walk out the door and your job should you choose to accept it is to survive at all I'll be back to you in just a moment learn to be an overcomer with bishops latest message can God trust you with trouble whatever is going on in your life right now that she may take a moment and think maybe God chose me for this assignment because he knew that a lesser man would have caged that a weaker woman would have walked away that a more childish individual would have thrown in the towel yes yes I was frustrated but I kept on swinging order your copy of this dynamic message on CD or dvd when you write to us visit our website or call one 800 Bishop - what's pulling me down to the mountain when I have an opportunity I need to go to the top if you've ever climbed a mountain you know that reaching the summit requires perseverance determination and struggle in your journey with Christ he's often pushing you to a new and sometimes uncomfortable place but there's always purpose in the pain and when you reach the destination that he leads you to the few is worth it we've got the key me to Who I am to what I am and I had no chance of unlocking the door to myself without getting to the key and he took the key and hidden in his garments and started up the heel and told me you'll never know if you don't chase me for helping us reach others with your gift of any size you'll receive secret to Elevation on CD or when your gift is $200 or more you'll receive view from the top on DVD a grateful heart stationery and the woman Thou Art Loosed Bible reach the destination that was meant for you today does not matter where you start it matters where you finish you're getting practical information from leaders have been proven and been through there and done that and overcame and been victorious I shudder to think how many conferences would have to take place to reach this many leaders at one time we came here to get a deeper understanding of how we could take the vision that God has given you and take it to the next level it refocused my my thought process my hearing my ability to see the word much differently let's begin to think beyond just our tradition and a mindset challenging us on a whole new level I'm loving the cross pollenization I'm loving the output box thinking get up close with TD jakes ministries at TD jakes or connect with us anywhere at any time if you haven't been hanging out with us on social media you've been missing I'm there for you ministering sharing the Word of God encouraging you and sometimes answering you yes isn't me personally come on over to social media hang out with me I've got something for you that will really bless your life to us on Facebook tweet us on Twitter follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our You Tube channel connect with us today the anointing of God is on you because God trusts you [Music] he trusted you with your life don't you divorce that thing Joseph he trusted you as complicated as it is that you would learn how to be consistent in spite of complications he knew when he trusted you that you were going to need him [Applause] he knew it but he's been waiting on you to know it he gave you an assignment that was too big to do by yourself that sooner or later you would humble yourself and say God I can't take it without you I can't make it without you I can't do it without you [Music] we're out of time we've got to stop there but it's been a real joy and a real opportunity to share the love of the Lord Jesus Christ with you I want you to keep your sanity during this season to be calm and your spirit to possess what Christ came to give us that perfect peace that passes all understanding know that we love you with the love of the Lord and that we are praying for you and that God's best is his gift to you happy holidays [Music]

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Length: 28min 16sec (1696 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 22 2013