T.D. Jakes Sermons: Feed What Feeds You

coming up on the Potters touch anything that feeds you you must feed it if you don't feed anything else common sense yes you feed what's feeding you you bless what's blessing you you help what's helping you you pour into what's going into you you don't need a degree to speak Hebrew to understand that this is the past greetings in the name of Jesus Christ our King I've excited and delighted to have this opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you and particularly this message that the thought has really really been the substratum of many of the things that I have really meditated on in recent days the message is called feed what's feeding you if you would learn to focus on what's feeding you and give it your upmost attention you'd be surprised how much further you can get along rather than focusing on things that have no intrinsic feeding value for you how do you value what you've been given how do you value the people you've been given those portals of access of God it's given you that feed you are you taking care of what's taking care of you take a look at this and a bless you feed that's reading you and then the Lord said to me and I'll share it in short order he gave it to me in long for him but I shared it short order everything that I created I created in a system of cycles everything that I created I created in a system of cycles and I designed it so that if they obey that one law of feeding what's feeding you I would never have to create again watch this he says I allowed the grass to grow up out of the ground with the promise that the grass would feed the ground that fed it and as long as the grass feeds the ground that fed it the cycle will go unbroken and it will always reproduce again if the ground starts giving more to the grass then the grass gives to the ground they break the cycle and everything goes black he said you see the heavens you see the rain coming down he said I fixed it the same way I designed it to cycle the cloud that bursts and gives the rain can afford to release it because as though every humidity comes it goes back up and the cycle goes again what does it door is feeding what's feeding in are you here we go get quiet are you hear what I'm saying you remember when Jesus passed by the fig tree and cursed the fig tree what is this was it did Jesus kill the tree cause he was hungry I mean I mean you know that's like going past KFC and they closed so I burned it down I bet you won't close up again brother hungry up in here I'd be kind of crazy did Jesus really just curse the fig tree cut he was hungry no he cursed the fig tree cuz it broke the law he cursed the fig tree cuz it broke the cycle he cursed the fig tree because the fig tree was receiving and not giving in another text she said why comforted the ground why would you be in the ground and keep drawing and drawing and drawing and not expect to give nothing back to what's given to you this is not benevolence this is not generosity this is sick you learn cycles you're giving to what's giving to you and anytime you break the law it will die there will be a curse every time you break the law if you marry somebody and they keep givin to you and you don't give anything back to them I guarantee you the marriage is cursed because anytime you don't give to what's given to you you will kill the source do not muzzle the mouth of the Ox you can't keep working the Ox and muzzle in his mouth any pain that feeds you you must feed it if you don't feed anything else common sense says you feed what's feeding you you bless what's blessing you you help what's helping you you pour into what's going in the oh you don't need a degree to speak Hebrew to understand that on everything operates that way the fields crops the corn the okra everything operates by giving back to the thing that gave to it the ground gave it to me now I give it back to them they give it to me I give it to them the cloud gives me rain I give back humidity back to the cloud everything is a sick Euler system of reciprocity every relationship in your life were you violate that law is cursed I've never understood why I got such a high this is just a personal testimony I got such a high off of a terrible situation I don't mean it didn't hurt I don't mean it didn't break my heart but I got such a high out of taking care of my mother I got such a high out of it of everything I've ever accomplished I've been all over the world got all kind of trophies and grant even better than edited ah the thing I'm most proud of is that I took care of my mother to see dad above everything else above everything else I've ever done in my life it is by far the thing that I'm most proud of and the reason I am so proud of it is that I got to prove to her that if the shoe were on the other foot I would do for you what you did for me that is a wonderful thing so I cleaned her sometimes and washed her sometimes and fed her some time and when I didn't do I paid to have it done to make sure that she was taking care because when I was a baby she washed me and clean me and I threw up on her I peed on her and she still loved anyway so I told her that's all right mama don't even worry about it I got you because I want to see what was feeding it says something about your character when you give back to something that gave to you be not deceived you're not too busy you're not to be you're not too important to break this long God is not much whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap tada was driving down the road one day and I saw a sign on the front area of the car and it says just teeth you're teaching your children how to treat you by how you treat your parents whatever you throw at your parents your kids are gonna throw at you you cannot show disrespect and reap honor you cannot show hostility and real of you cannot show greed and reap prosperity whatsoever a man saw that Sal that shall he also reap say you want friends show yourself friendly you know why people don't like you you're not nice let me just cut through it let me just cut through the drama let me tell you what everybody is trying to tell you and they can't get across to you the reason folk don't like you is because you're not nice you've been the putative and conniving and they understand it and they won't play around with it and you don't need to go to school you need to learn how to smile shut your mouth sit down in your seat and be nice and people will always come around nice people I don't care how cute you are if you are nasty nasty will trump cute every time be not deceived God is not mad whatsoever you feed what's feeding you your time your talent you you invested into what's feeding you some people are eaten one place and soand you're not gonna talk to me how in the world can you be eating over here and sewing over there how can I be your wife washing your drawers changing your baby's cooking your food and hoodie over there give me your money you eat over here oh you know no I'm gonna break it down don't say nothing I'm gonna bring it worth if anybody was gonna get a watch it should have been me if anybody was gonna get a ring it should have been me if anybody deserves to go out to dinner it should have been me be not to see God is not mocked whatsoever man saw that surely also reap if I give to you why would you not give to me anytime you take in anything living it has to be so don't take on more then you willing to feel and don't expect me to gold sell cuz you got tired now I got to reduce my value down to your confident how many people understand the words that are coming out of Momo so the question is how can you understand that about you and about your life and about your sacrifice and not understand that about your church I'll sit if I'm the one making your life better if the dance and the drama and the stage or the book or the ministry pours into you why would you call it robbery to feed what's feeding you when you go to a restaurant they don't ask you to pick up the check around the table but they do expect you if you wait to pick up the check for what you ate if I feed you aren't you supposed to feed me and if you don't here comes the paddy wagon to pick you up because the restaurant will not be moths still to come on the Potters touch whatever you invest the most in will give the most back to you give and it shall be given unto you again good measure pressed down shaken together and running over whatever you give yourself to it will give itself back to you if you practice well you'll play well if you give to him it will give back to you why are you angry and things and people and jobs and businesses and churches that don't give back to you when you don't give anything Christ came so that you may have life and have it more abundantly the mystery and the majesty is that you don't have to work for this God's provision is never limited your River is dried up but God said I already got a plan for you I already have made provision for you know you can receive all that God has in store for you for your gift of any size you will receive feed would feed you on CD when you visit our website or call one 800 Bishop - I'm gonna bless you according to your appetite let me find somebody that's hungry for what I have and for your gift of $70 or more you'll receive abundance supply on DVD whatever little bit you got you need to use it and let God open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing however when your gift is 125 dollars or more you will receive abundance supply on DVD a blessed mug and no card set I refuse existence I will not just exist I will live I didn't come to make you religious I came to make you a plentiful blessings await you today and God will provide in abundance supply are you trying to draw from something where you have little investment if you sow sparingly Oh y'all got quite only stay with me don't leave see when I was saying stuff you could use on your spouse in the car on the way home you about to dance about of here so don't you drought now you stay right here fresh with me right now as long as you were shoveling that word at somebody else you about to follow up telling bishop that's right Lord Jesus God I'd live wherever you're being fed you watching over the Internet if this is not feeding you don't you feed it if potter's house doesn't feed you don't you feed it if the books don't bless you don't read it if you don't enjoy the ministry don't watch it but if you're gonna sit up there and watch it week after week after week after week after week after week and tweet and talk and take the stuff and put it in your messages and talk about it at work and use it in your major use it in your situation don't get to the end of the broadcast and click off as if the transaction is over be not the see God is not not you owe it not to me to God that if God uses me or him or him it doesn't matter who he uses to pour into your life don't you sit up in the restaurant and eat and belch and wipe your mouth forget him walk away like you got amnesia because when the fig tree did that God cursed it for it failed to produce on the level that it took let's talk about levels you cannot draw 60 and produce 30 simple you cannot draw 60 percent and produce on a 30 percent level some people are better takers than givers if you're going to draw give on the level that you draw from because if you don't give on the level that you draw from you will slow down the death but the death will still occur because little by little that depletion just happens it doesn't happen as fast as a robber who stole everything but it is a gradual decline until all of a sudden it feels like people got tired of you they've not getting tired of you they've gotten tired of carrying something that's not giving back on the level that is taking this is God's Word let's read it again go back to your Bible cuz I want you to read this in your Bible I want you to get this I'm not worried about you Sheldon you missed your chance advance let every man bear his own burden nor even Paul is saying this he sang it to the early church because the majority of the church worked a secular job and then he says let him that receive a teaching communicate to him that teaches in all good things in God's perfect order it was not God's will for the man of God to do anything except give himself over the prayer and study of the word to relieve him of responsibilities is why the Deacons were created so that the Apostles would be able to turn themselves fully over to the Word of God so that when you came to be fed you would get a full meal without the restriction of them being distracted to the cake take care of their own needs so he said let him that receiveth teaching communicate to him that teaches in all good things then be not deceived God is not mocked God and the reason if God is not mocked and I want you to give this I want you to give it as I said it but I want to underline it again God put in a system a cycle so delicate that man's tampering with one of God's systems breaks it down a system let there be light and there was light and it was good in the evening in the morning were the first day and God said bring forth and herbs yielding for seed after its own kind each producing after his own kind and God said it was good that's not just creation though their systems circular systems that once God put it in motion as long as you don't mock him that system will go uninterrupted give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down shaken together as long as you don't violate it as long as I throw you the ball you can throw it back to me as long as I pass it to you you can pass it back to me but I can't stop passing it and then say why don't you giving it back God is not mocked the system now I'm quickly close with this whatsoever a man saw that silly also read what areas in your life are you underfunding and over expecting what areas in your life are you under funding and over expecting ooh are you expecting more out of a career than what you're willing to study for are you trying to get something out of the Piana that you didn't put into it are you trying to get something out of ministry that you don't put into it do you realize you can't come once a month and get what you need my tree died it wasn't that I didn't feed it I just didn't feed it off to I put it in the light when I was home I gave it water when I gave a chance and little by little the little green things just fell off and I hated it because I didn't look good and I had to hide it cuz it looked bad but the way it looked was a result of how I treated it I was over expecting and underfunding Wow don't take on more than what you can afford don't overextend yourself beyond your willingness to invest don't take five dogs three cats at a pool when you know you are not gonna take care of it don't take them anything complain cuz you got to walk them common sense tell you that if you had it you gotta take care of it don't have a baby because it's because of the baby daddy because the daddy may not stay and you still got the baby to those of you who didn't understand that what that actually means that a life filled with promiscuity and indiscretion ends up in total despair and degradation it is wisely and for us to be contemplative before we make such decisions that end in ruin let him that receiveth give back we have a responsibility and I'll close with this our generation has a responsibility I am tired of hearing my generation talk about the younger generation I'm sick of it we talk about them and their antics and their foolishness and their ways as if they were not our kids whatever is wrong with them and whatever's right with them they are our children it happened while we were doing our thing had gone about our business and dropping it like his heart and because we left him to be raised by computers and they had nobody to love and nobody to talk to had nobody to stand by them that's why they didn't turn out like you did cuz your mama put more into you then you put into your daughter and if you want to change the outcome you have to change the investment so shut up talking to me about these kids they are our children and they didn't get here by ourselves and because we were more interested in making money than we were making people we left them home alone and they figured it out the best way they could and the only way to fix it is to go back and do your fresh watch over and repair and say I know I wasn't there for you like I should have been but I'm not gonna leave you in this mess by yourself mama made some mistakes and that it is some crazy stuff but I'm in this mess with you and whatever it takes to work it out so we owe it because this is the first generation in history that is biblically illiterate because this is the first generation of young people who never knew went to Sunday school never went to Vacation Bible School never went to the sunbeam choir never were in the Tom Thumb weddings you know why we didn't take them now they don't know anything about God and we don't understand why and before we die that's why I want to build a you sinner that's why I want to educate our children that's why I want to put them in classes and put some face down in him because now that we got enough sense to come out of the strip club and finally admit that we are broke people let's go back and parent them the way we should have done 20 years ago and raise up something so that we can put in them what mom and them put in us cuz I don't want them to face so well without understanding what God is able to do shall yes lord I hate to stop there it's been a real joy to have the opportunity shared its word with you I see so many people today they're so busy trying to apprehend what's in front of them that they don't feed what's feeding them they sacrifice so many portals that God has given you and the people that God have given you that feed you financially spiritually emotionally every area your life are being sacrificed while you're snatching something you don't even have yet or taking care somebody's business is not even yours you need to feed what's feeding you let's break this down into something you can really use in your daily life and stop sacrificing the many many people and opportunities that God has given you and taking them for granted trying to get to the next level do what you do on the level you're on you work your way to the next level in fact you need to work your way to Orlando Florida April 30th through May the second I have got it comforts it's got your name on it your builder your feet are you're a thinker you need to go to the conference international pass through the Leadership Conference and let us pour into you so you can go and pour into other people and do what God has called you to do whether you're a pastor a leader elder Deacon auxilary leader worship leader no matter what your function is in the kingdom you need to be there even if you're a leader that hasn't been recognized haven't started the business yet haven't opened up the company yet haven't built the mission field yet whatever it is if it's through it on the inside we got to start feeding before you birth it you can't start feeding the baby after the baby's born it's got to be fed even while you're carrying it on that side join me in the paths of mission comfort you have some month Eakins gonna help you out don't miss it before I die in a cage I want to run in the wild to understand what it is to be a pastor they can hear that life-changing message that and the education you're frustrated about something that just an incubator to take you to the next dimension now we're gonna grow and go to global missions no more limits no more boundaries to register for this international gathering visit pastors and leaders org or call 1-800 Bishop to I'm talking to you about family and jobs I'm talking to you about career and future I'm talking about to you about how you study how can you be a great preacher if you don't put nothing in you wait till Saturday night to snatch something out no wonder it's not producing you're not investing I'm talking to you about how you treat your parents I'm talking to you about how you treat your kids I'm talking to you about how you treat your church I'm just asking you to feed what's feeding you this is the

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 07 2015