T.D. Jakes Sermons: Nothing Just Happens

I wish I had time to talk about time what do you do when the clock is against you and and you have enough wisdom to do it over but you don't have enough time to do it over what do you do when you miss your season and you miss your window of opportunity what what do you do when you you know that you've got the desire to do and you've got the passion to do it but but you look in the mirror and and the wrinkles in your face and the sagging of your body indicates you don't have time to do this all over again she says I don't have time to get pregnant again I don't have a second chance at life my life is over go away don't hang around me I have nothing left to give there are people that when you start running out of time you get bitter you get desperate you start pushing people away from you because they're asking something of you that you don't think you can give anymore and you find yourself in a place of completion and it feels like God has forgotten you but I remind you nothing just happens this is the greetings brothers and sisters in the name of Jesus Christ our King I am so blessed is so excited to have the opportunity to share the world with you I'm excited about the word I still get excited about the word good preaching 37 years I still love his word I love what it does in your life and in the heart I love how it strengthens you I love how it helps I've got a message that I believe you are going to love take a look when we look at the theology in the Book of Ruth we know that the Book of Ruth is a template for a far larger issue load it with shadows and types it brings to us significant issues as it challenges us to understand that all of the characters in the Book of Ruth are the backdrop for historical data that points to a panoramic view of the life of Jesus Christ and the fulfillment of Jesus Christ and suddenly being we begin to recognize that when we look at a character like Elimelech we are looking at a relationship between him and his wife and how when a limb elect died naomi became very very bitter and and in the same since israel became very bitter if a lost relationship with jehovah and and it was widowed as it were and is strange a task away woman who had become very bitter because she was denied relationship with jehovah and we see the two sons and seeing the splitting of the nation of israel down to the tribe of Judah and we begin to see how they break and divide and then die and through their death and the famine there we see Ruth who is a Moabite woman who is connected to them by marriage and now her husband have died and she is estranged and she goes back to Moab goes back to Bethlehem with Naomi Ruth being a type of a church and they only being a type of Israel the church gets connected to God through Israel who walks her back home to Boas who is a type of Christ and Boaz who stands here and sees Ruth over in the corner gleaning in the corners of the field spies her and brings her from the background to the forefront covers her with his skirts makes her his wife legitimizes her authenticates her called with her to be an air of a grace of which she would have been estranged had her blood prevailed but because his blood prevailed over her blood he was able to it's just a wonderful wonderful wonderful story a famine has arose in this text in a family who is headed by Elimelech and they leave Bethlehem the house of bread because of the severity of the famine and they go to Moab everybody's running for their lives running for their lives they go into Moab for survival say say thinking that they were going to be there a short time end up being there 10 years ulema lack is strong enough to get Naomi out of there with their two sons and get them out of Bethlehem to Moab but he dies in Moab he dies in Moab and now Naomi is widowed surviving a famine raising two sons in a foreign country unable to get back home because of the famine trying to survive against adversity and then she loses her two sons two sons now the woman has had a dead husband and now lost two sons the husband you might could tolerate you make it they will it was he was up in years he was up in age it makes sense but to lose two sons in the space of ten years she has lost every man she has ever loved exasperated and frustrated she makes up in her mind this is enough for me we're coming to the end of the famine I want to go back home there is nothing left for me she makes a statement she says I went out full and I came back empty in other words there was a famine but I was still blessed it's amazing because sometimes you cannot know your blood because you're going through a famine only to find out that the thing that you were worried about if not nearly as significant is the thing that you had in the midst of her famines she still had her husband and her children sometimes you can have something and not appreciated until you lose it after that she lost her husband and her children the famine seemed insignificant by comparison I say that because sometimes you're whining about things that really don't matter you're upset about things that really don't make any difference in your life and if you were smart you would learn how to count your blessings and to thank God for what he's done in your life it looked like all hell had broken loose in her life the famine who would have thought that a famine would come and disrupt this relatively wealthy family and caused him to flee like vagrants and move into Moab and uproot all of their heritage and leave their home and their surrounding and their friends and find themselves in Moab who would have thought that having gone to Moab that she would lose the husband she was relying on to be her sustenance her source her friend and her support he died and left her there who who who would have thought that having lost her husband she goes to rely on her sons and both not one but both sons died who would have thought that this woman would end up in a female feminine Trinity of three women who the only thing that they now share in common is that all of them have gone through death three women Naomi who if the older woman and Ruth who would have her daughter-in-law and Orpah who was her other daughter-in-law three women whose common a commonality was pain pain is a strange company keeper it brings the oddest people together they're the secret fraternity that exists amongst those who have been in pain that is mind-boggling it transcends the color of skin it transcends your background when you've been through certain things you feel for other people who have been through those things because you relate to them and so the women share to tear together they wept together they cried together they shared pain together they shared burial together they shared their losses together they shared their emptiness together Naomi decided this is it got a split I'm going to quit I'm going back home where I came from gotta go can't take anymore I'm going back home I'm bitter but I'm going back home bitter I'm frustrated but I'm going back home and they fellow gnome and begin to weep because they only had left a significant impression on them and all of a sudden in the midst of this pain Naomi scars reasoning with them stop crying so I'm crying I have no options like what am I going to do she said if I married today and had more children what are you going to do wait for the children to become grown that they might be your husband's again she said I'm out of the game the clock is against me oh I wish I wish I had time at this age of this stage they're the reason why it happened at this age they're the reason why it happened at this level in life it's not a mistake it's not an accident God didn't fall asleep on the job and the devil came in and wrecked the car no God never sleeps and he never slumbers he's in complete control and he knows where you are and he knows how old you are and he knows how much time you spent and he knows what happened to you and he knows who walked out and left you and he knows who betrayed you and he knows who molested you and he knows who rapes you and he knows who rejected you and he knows where you are in life and he about your bills and he knows about your degree and he knows you dropped out of school and he knows about what you didn't get and he knows about the health of your child and he knows about the condition of your neighborhood understand that and tell yourself nothing just happens and so open walks away she walks away I may have to turn this into a series cuz I can't I can't get out of this but Oprah walks away and she cried and she goes back but and she there are people who can walk away from you and hear me when I tell you this when people can walk away from you let them walk when people can walk away from you let them walk I can sit down now I preach I can sit down I don't need to make an altar call or nothing I can say I don't have to who I don't have to make you shout I have just reached right now when people can walk away from you let them walk I don't want you to try to talk another person in the stand with you loving you calling you cared about you coming to see you stay attend to you I mean hang up the phone when people can walk away from you let them walk your destiny is never tied to anybody that left the Bible said that they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not of us for have they been of us no doubt they would have continued with us people leave you because they're not joined to you and if they're not joined to you you get superglue and you can't make them stay let them go who's on the other hand coming to the crossroads she looks at oppa who left roof turns to Naomi and says as the Lord liveth I shall not leave thee occasionally in scriptures and the whole Bible you see it you see it happening where people who are not even blood-related spin their lives together in the most intimate connection possible and in theologians and scholars and preachers stumble about it because they don't know how to talk about it because we don't understand the power being joined together how can we explain what made Elisha leave his natural mother and father and run after Elijah to wait on him to clean his clothes to pour water on his hair to set up his tent but some kind of way Elijah sensed that his destiny was tied to Elijah how can we explain Timothy who walks away from everything that he owns to hang out at the outside window of a jail cell as an old man prepares to be beheaded he peeks in the window handing him books and blankets ministering to him the young man understood I'll never be who I was meant to be without you in my life do you hear what I'm saying that's something there's something about the way you talk it feeds me it's something about the way you speak that changes me something about your spirit that motivates me and I'll never be completed without you and I didn't meet you by accident I didn't stumble up and leak this definitive composure that none of us shocked this didn't just happen there's there the reason that I'm in this place I'm so sick of talking to people who think that everything just happen I guess I'll go to church I guess I'll get safe I guess I moved to Chicago I guess I'll move $2 that's not how it is the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord your steps were ordered if you haven't got the phone call that you got when you got like you got it you wouldn't even be here right now if you had to make the turn that you made yesterday you wouldn't experience what you're experiencing today God has been behind the curtain like a puppet master pulling strings in your life it's not that you're smart it's not that you're great it's not that you're holy it's not that you're perfect it's not that you're good but God winded you up pointing you in the right direction release you into your destiny and you are here and you can't get away drop somebody and tell them nothing just happens still to come on the Potters touch think about the most impoverished financially depleting thing that ever happened in your life and shouting nothing think about the worst scandal that you ever went through in your life and shall be nothing think about people who loved it walked out at Lithia and shot nothing think about betrayal on the highest level of your life and shout nothing think about the struggle going on on your job right now and shout nothing they'll live a satisfying productive life you must be filled to capacity gasa there's no question my seed is potent my word works the question is do you have the capacity to receive helping us reach others with your gift of any size you will receive filled to capacity on CD it's not excessive without purpose he's got something inside of him and out of the pregnancy of his own divinity he begins to speak things into existence and when your gift is $70 or more we'll give you both messages from Awakening on DVD as well whatever you have a need for God have a feeling for he can feel your need however when your gift is $125 or more we will also add Sarah Jake's book colliding with destiny a 30 day journey through the Book of Ruth and the be still journal just write us visit our website or call one 800 Bishop 2 this means that I'm up under the banner of his wheel I'm up under the banner of his will even in the midst of death I'm up under the banner of his wheel even in the midst of pain I'm up under the banner of his wheel even in the midst of separation and disappointment I'm under the banner of his wheel can I take it to the next level Jonah was sent to Nineveh went to Tarshish headed for Tarsus not obeying God got thrown off the boat into the belly of the fish swallow up for three days even though God told him to go to Nineveh and he didn't go he was still in the wheel I'm not sure you can handle this he he went the wrong way and he was still in the will they threw him off the boat he was feeling the wheel I'll prove to you he was in the wheel it just happened to be a big fish see it just happened to be a big fish swimming beside the big boat show that when beat men dumped him over the fish just happened this is too strong you can't take this the fish carried him down to the bottom of the mountains with seaweed wrapped around his neck he's thousands of feet below sea level and God sustained him sustained him not one day not two days not four days but three three days nothing just happens on the third day on the third day the backslidden rebellious reprobate disconnected disjointed preacher comes up out of the water and thousands of years later Christ says even as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days so shall the Son of Man be in the grave he had to get up when he got up and he had to go down when he went down because nothing just happens whoa Oh God [ __ ] your mistakes were in his will your trouble was in his will your pain was in his will I don't care what she went through Damon said if I make my bed in hell go out there if I take the wings of their mourning and I said to the uttermost parts of the earth God is still there he was with you in the middle of your trouble he was with you in the middle of your pain that's why Paul said I've learned whatever state I'm in therewith to be content I know how to be rich I know how to be poor I know how to be free I know how to be back you ought to shout I don't care where you are because nothing just happens tip seven people and tell him he's got a play and he's got to play it you whatever God has predetermined to happen whatever God has predetermined to happen will come to pass and no devil in hell has ever been able to abort the purpose of God not once and yes God gave you a human wheel and you are free moral agent but if you think that your human wheel is strong enough to change his divine wheel you are tripping you are out of your mind God is gone the reason we worship Him as God is because he is the CEO he is in charge he runs the universe and when God gets ready to make you and when God gets ready to break you and when God gets ready to take you he's never been without the power to make you yield to his will he's never not one moment or time not been able to orchestrate your affairs and nothing in your life think about the most damnable thing that ever happened and shout nothing think about the most embarrassing thing that ever happened in your life and shouting nothing think about the most impoverished financially depleting thing that ever happened in your life and shouting nothing think about the worst scandal that you ever went through in your life and shouting nothing think about people who loved it walked out and left the ax and shovel nothing think about betrayal on the highest level of your life and shout nothing think about the struggle going on on your job right now and shout nothing think about the attitude of your kid folks with your family members and shouting nothing think about how your boss is treating you on your job and shove nothing think about that disagreement between you and your children and shout nothing think about your past life of seeing your whoremongering your inappropriateness your attitude your dysfunction and shove nothing shove nothing let the Demel hear you say nothing that devil would think he warned if you don't shout nothing the devil will think he's in charge if you don't shout nothing you don't think he's gonna win but you gotta shout nothing in the mists of hell and high water shout nothing in the midst of pain and despair shout nothing with your credit is denied shout nothing convicted out of your house shout nothing with your boyfriend marry somebody else shall nothing hey we'll be right back after this learn to rely on God with bishops latest series nothing just happens even as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days so shall the Son of Man be in the grave he had to get up when he got up and he had to go down when he went down because nothing just happens God has a way of just choosing to bless you and say that lady right there I'm gonna leave that house for her came nobody by the house but her everybody else it tries to buy it everything's gonna be tied up that's her house nobody's gonna get it but the flavor what are your copy of this dynamic series on CD or DVD when you write to us visit our website or call one 800 Bishop 2 to live a satisfying productive life you must be filled to capacity gasa there's no question my seed is potent my word works the question is do you have the capacity to receive for helping us reach others with your gift of any size you will receive filled to capacity on CDs not excessive without the purpose he's got something inside of him and out of the pregnancy of his own divinity he begins to speak things into existence and when your gift is $70 or more we'll give you both messages from Awakening on DVD as well whatever you have a need for God have a feeling for he can feel your knee however when your gift is $125 or more we will also add Sarah Jake's book colliding with destiny a 30 day journey through the Book of Ruth and the be still journal just write us visit our website or call one 800 Bishop 2 I tell you right now it does not matter where you start it matters where you finish you're getting practical information from leaders I've 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 can 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 my hands were hanging down but I'm strengthened through this I'm excited I'm going to challenge your brain to think through some things to go to the next level are you ready I feel the glory in this place some of you just went to devil thought you would never do it again God made milk gush out of your breasts I tell you it's not over till God says it's a lot of clothes shot about a condom book or shot tell me this what is she doing nursing a baby anyway even a young woman can't nurse a baby as she didn't have one she didn't birth the baby so her body's not even supposed to be milking making milk and she's too old even if she had birth the baby but God that's why God doesn't want to hear your excuses because your excuses for not doing his wheel are based on your understanding but God's going to do some things in your life that you don't understand so it makes your excuses foolishness because you're making excuses based on what you've seen happen before what you see have been before but nothing just happens God's gonna do something God god I got a good Oh God's gonna do something for somebody in this room that you have never seen happen before in your you've never seen him do it for anybody else violent Gordon you can't explain how it did it but God's going to make it happen I'm out of time I've got to stop there but it's been a real joy precious joy a deep and fortifying blessing to share the word of the Lord with you and to be an instrument to encourage I pray he used me well and I pray you become all that God has called you to be and I pray above everything else fits you do not quit for you are closer now than when you first believed god bless you hold on this is the

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 09 2014