T.D. Jakes Sermons: Stay on Track

coming up on the Potters touch did you know your blessing is already ready that is that it's already in place that God isn't fixing it up right now it's already done that the work doesn't have to be applied to where you're going the work has to be applied to you so that when you get where you're going you can handle what you got a handle and so God help me preach the steps the steps the steps touch three people say the steps the steps the steps he sees the greetings in the name of Jesus Christ our King I am so blessed to have the opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you the message that I'm going to share with you today I believe will strengthen you fortify you bless you even help your friends you ought to call text tell everybody he's on get ready for this word the message is stay on track say neighbor God said stay on track don't deviate don't procrastinate don't become frustrated all you have to do to win this battle is stay on track there are a moments that try the human soul so violently and so perplexing that if the truth were told all of us have had moments that we wanted to throw up our hands and walk away discouragement can creep in secretly hide behind clothes makeup hairdos discouragement is so bold that it will even hide behind a smile it will always ride to work with you and if it doesn't catch a ride going to work it'll catch a ride on the way back home discouragement will go into a tent into a garage apartment it'll going to subsidize living it will walk right into a section-8 neighborhood it will come in but but but don't think that it stops there discouragement will walk right into a middle-class house and sit down at the dining room table and have a cup of coffee early in the morning it won't just stop there it'll go in a mansion and sit on the side of the jacuzzi stick his feet in the hot tub and tell you life is not worth living if you listen at discouragement it will cause you to make bad decisions it will cause you to think that life is not worth living and secretly behind the facade of a smile and a good morning and a praise the Lord and how are you you will wonder if you're ever going to get out of what you're into particularly painful is discouragement and the life of the believer because as we travel from season to season it is not just the perils that we face but it is seeing the wicked go forward while the righteous are held back I don't know him I don't know if you've ever thought like that but sometimes I see people succeeding who didn't pray nearly as hard work nearly as long have not been faithful at all and it seems like they seemingly have moments of victory placed in close proximity so I could see it their victories are flaunted in my face not while I am having a similar experience but while all hell has broken loose in my life and I am going through agony and tragedy seemingly they are having victory and triumph and if you are not careful the very sight of their prosperity becomes you're a guinea and seeing them go forward will be a source of such continued frustration that it is not your test that baffles you but their success agonizingly displayed before you makes you despair of life until David says and 37 and one fret not thyself over evildoers how they prosper in their own way they shall soon be cut off he says in other words don't make a permanent decision over a temporary circumstance he says don't allow a moment of agony to make you draw a conclusion about life prematurely because if you just keep on walking with God God has a way of making everything all right but he warns us and declares to us that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord steps somebody steps now this the term steps implies process means it's gonna take a while means that you can't get to the destination just because you want it just because you saw it just because you like it just because you need it in fact we are often tormented by vision mm-hmm yeah we are tormented by vision it's a painful thing to be a visionary because the visionary sees what shall be and wakes up to deal with what is sometimes the visionary cries out on the inside and says God don't even show me what she'll do because every time I shout and dance over what you showed me I go home to a harsh and painful bleak dark reality and the fact that I am torn between what shall be and what is creates agony in my life the Bible said Hope deferred makes the heart sick there are moments that I'd rather not know that I'm going to be king if you're going to send me back out into the field to take care of sheep why didn't you just hide that I was going to be king so I could be satisfied taking care of sheep but because you told me you had more for me I wanted to hasten the process to get to my destiny now now I'm not happy doing what I used to be happy doing because I'm tormented by what shall be I want to hasten my process so that I can get to an expected end but that cannot be done because a blessing given too soon is not a blessing at all I could give my son the car keys now and tell him to go to the store but had I given it to him when he was 5 it would not have been a blessing at all same car same Sun giving too soon he can't handle it the car can handle it the road can handle it I can give it to him but he can't handle it so would I be a good father if I gave him a good thing too soon sometimes my goodness is proven by my ability to say not yet the younger brother of the prodigal son teaches us in fact eclis that if we get what is ours too soon we cannot handle it that the same thing that should make us praise the father will drive us away from the father if we get it too soon the Bible said he said give me the portion of goods that falleth to me the father gave in and gave it to him and the blessing drove him over the edge my prayer has always been Lord don't give me more than I can handle you know when to bless me you know how to bless me you know when I'm ready to be blessed teach me patience with the process go through the process God has ordered steps that the thing that I'm thankful for is to know that God orders the steps it helps me to understand that I am NOT wandering aimlessly that I'm not just moving on my own that there is a course for me to take and that I can't graduate till I take it that there is the path for me to trot that God isn't making this thing up as he goes I thought he was making it up as he went that's why I prayed so he could make it up my way I prayed to abort the process I prayed to speed it up I prayed to get out of things that he wanted me to stay into I prayed that I wouldn't have to endure some things that he wanted me to endure I was working on the destination but he was working on me and and sometimes he made me wait he he made me slow down said no you skipped that step go back go back and do that again if you skipped it with Jimmy I'm gonna send it back with Freddie if you skipped it with Willie you gonna have to go do it with Roger if you skipped it with Sally you won't go through it with Suzy because all of these are tools that I'm using the work on you I'm not preparing the blessing for you I'm preparing you for the blessing the blessing is already prepared oh my god the blessing is already prepared eyes have not seen ears have not heard neither has entered into the heart of man the things that God have prepared for them the love it did you know your blessing is already ready that is that it's already in place that God isn't fixing it up right now it's already done that the work doesn't have to be applied to where you're going the work has to be applied to you so that when you get where you're going you can handle what you got a handle and so God help me preach the steps the steps the steps touch three people say the steps the steps the steps you wanted a good husband but you wasn't a good wife you wanted children but your wasn't a good parent you wanted that wife but you wasn't a good man and anytime you get anything too soon you will trip on the steps so God puts us in process and order steps still to come on the Potters touch press toward the back on the prize of the high calling slap your David televised press press press over depressin aggressive of rejection and press over fear i press over loneliness devil you thought you had me but every time you tried i press before I died in a cage I want to run in the wild we can do what it is without limit without being boxed in a cage without being hindered I want to run in the wild of my destiny I want to run in the wild of my purpose telling us to branch out and it's time to shift it just about taking it to the next level and just thinking outside of the four walls I got to get out of this cage God has given us a place around where we are pastoring to take over that region we look for the king of God you're frustrated about something that's 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 the cage is open you don't have any excuses anymore on why you can't fulfill your purpose and complete your assignment to register for this international gathering visit pastors and leaders org or call 1-800 Bishop 2 steps a good man are ordered by the Lord even Jesus had steps they tried to crown him too soon and he disappeared because they were trying to make him skip the steps she said no no you can't crown me before you cross me it is my cross that makes my crowd it is my agony that makes my ecstasy it is my sickness that makes my healing it is my poverty that illuminates my prosperity makes me appreciate where I am oh god help me makes me appreciate where I am right now you don't know this good help till you've been sick you don't even notice it you don't even understand the words that are coming out of my mouth until you have been sick you will never thank God for feeling good until you felt bad you'll never paint God for your back for your neck for your hand so you kick this for your lip up until it's been Charlie but after a while you start taking on some crazy stuff thank you come back and sheet is loaded ha ha ha yeah yeah yeah yeah the truth of the matter is it's a whole lot of folk in here that are thankful for stuff that they can't testify about because people wouldn't understand your testimony I mean dumb stuff like Lord I think yeah I can't afford to get my hair done Oh y'all are the say let me talk to these people over here lord I thank you I got the book money to send the kids to school I know that ain't a big testimony but when you been to hell and back you can face God for little stuff the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and I don't have to be on the stage to be grateful I can praise Him on the step because every time I make a step touch the neighbors had praise him on the steps don't wait til you get to the stage don't wait til you get finished don't wait till everything is in order but every now and then you ought to stop right in the middle of the step and say Lord I take it I'm not where I'm gonna be but I'm glad I'm not where I used to be lord I thank you is there anybody in here that's praising God on the steps look at your neighbors how I'm not there yet I'm not finished yet I haven't arrived yet but when you see me praising God I'm praising him on the steps somebody praying on the steps the devil hates step praise I said the devil hates their praise Satan hates step praise praise the stops in the middle of the step as they like hell not myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting that which is Muhammad and reach into that which is before me aah crash aah press I press I was a handsome determined bogan here I press toward the mark on the prize of the high calling slap your name and televised press and press and press over depressive oppressive of rejection I press over fear and press from a loneliness devil you thought you had me but every time you tried I press you look at the neighbors and know I'm not perfect I am not perfect but one day I do I'll crash every morning I get out the bed every day I get in my car I don't care what they say I don't care what they do you better not go to sleep on the steps you better not start crying on the steps you better not give up on the steps you cannot collapse on the steps they will find you on the steps if you lay down there run on the top of you on the steps I don't care whether there's sunshine or rain players your pain when you get up in the morning put your pants on and crash slap your name in holographs I measure the value of a man by how hard he presses and how you can determine who you fight me about how hard they press how hard you press tells me how hard you hit uh-huh you can be all big and muscle-bound and still not have no force behind your punch uh-huh force kinetic energy energy in motion you can't have energy sitting energy is measured by motion that's why the devil wants you to sit sit down and shut up and feel sorry for yourself but your honor brother Devils - Lord oh you are a bloated Elmas - not it just what do you think he got you down you are the Sultan and crash I feel a prescient spirit in here this morning I feel a determination in Hill this morning I feel a fighting it is longing look at the neighbors say get on up them steps get on up get up get on up get up get on up get on up them steps get on get on get on up them steps get on up them steps get get get on up them steps get on up get on up them steps get on up them steps get on up them steps get on up themselves don't you get 40 and you're tired don't you get 50 and get tired don't you get 60 and get tired don't you get 70 and you're tired don't you get 80 and get high jail not just the steps of a good man I'm not talking about a bad man I'm talking about a good man don't you sit there with your good self and say oh that won't happen to me cuz I'm good no it's gonna happen to you because you're good the steps of a good man order ordered by the Lord not offered ordered he ordered you to go up the steps he wouldn't let you bypass your process all those people who offered you quick deals the reason the deal went down is because God ordered you to go up the steps he didn't intend for you to go up the elevator he knew if he got there - fashion was gonna be ready for it she slowed down your process he let the deal go down it wasn't time yet when it's time it's gonna happen ha ha ha when it's time is gonna come to pass when it's time you're coming out of trouble when it's time ain't no grave hold your body down when it's time God is gonna resurrect you when it's time Oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying Oh hallelujah so what I do what do i do what do I do in the meantime in the meantime while our weeks to reach my destination the only thing I have to worry about is Lord let me stay on track they met brother Joe one day they said Joe your children are dead your cattle are dead your wife has despised you your name has gone down he said that's all right I'm right on track the Lord knows the way that I take and when he has tried me I shall come forth as pure gold I don't know who God wanted me to preach to this morning but the Lord sent me to tell you you're right old tribes having an older stand stand there for anyway and whatever happens just love I take you you ordered this step I won't murmur in it I won't complain in it I won't be fearful I won't be frightened in it I'm right on track high five somebody said I'm right on track got a clothes there it's been a real joy to have this opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you I trusted something that's been said or done throughout this message has reverberated in your soul and will bring forth fruit in your life I believe that the best is yet to come this is no time to be weary in will knowing you must stay on track god bless you and may heaven smile pocket nobody wins the Olympics by mistake success is always intentional it's all been leading up to this moment it's time for you to run your race do not allow the cares of this to destroy your passion for living but run after your destiny with your gift of any size you'll receive Bishop's message one after your destiny on CD from the run your race series just visit our website or call 1-800 Bishop - how can we be disciples and be standing still look at your neighbor and say it's time to run and when your gift is $75 or more you'll receive our perpetual calendar with 366 days of hope and guidance from Scripture as well as the entire 4-part series run your race on DVD that includes a bonus message the gate is open from the pastor's and Leadership Conference you've got to untangle all of the things that you have been through reset start over reboot and go to a whole new level I did God say put on the whole armor the helmet of salvation the breastplate of righteousness feet shod with the preparation of gospel sword of the Spirit which is Word of God shield of faith why did he have me put on all that stuff and then tell me stand while you put shoes on and then tell me to be steel while you give me a sword and a shield and tell me to stay he said is gonna take all of that stuff for you to stay on track I gave you all of that equipment for you to stitches just fight the good fight of faith the fight is to stay on track

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 24 2015