T.D. Jakes: Victory Doesn't Always FEEL Victorious | Sermon Series: Crushing | TBN

i mean real agony i'm not talking about you lost your parking space i'm talking about real agony that tries your soul that pushes you to the breaking point that you feel like you're gonna bleed through your skin have to know that that does not mean that you're not recovering [Music] that recovery hurts too not long ago my wife had uh a medical problem that slipped upon us like a thief in the night in the midst of doing our daily tasks and going through our routine she she she collapsed on the bedroom floor and we had to call 9-1-1 and it was just the beginning of a very difficult situation and it's amazing to me that every so often no matter who you are where you live or how much faith you have or what you drive trouble comes right to your house it meets you at the door it challenges you in ways that you cannot always control or correct and you have to endure endurance is a part of crushing to talk about crushing and talk about endearing seems like an oxymoron because who can endure being crushed but we do every day we are crushed in ways that people cannot see and though i kept preaching and though i kept teaching i came home to deal with her illness and watch her suffer through the pain of trying to recover and the odd thing about it is after she had the surgery the doctor said the surgery was successful but she was in as much pain afterwards as she was before i warn you that recovery has pain we know that injury has pain but recovery also has pain and if you're going to be here you have to endure the pain she decided to go see my son graduate from college but she was in pain and she kept moving and crushing is the idea and the notion that life does not stop to accommodate your comfort that situations and demands will not stop just because you are in a bad place or a bad moment and some kind of way every now and then you have to press above the pain and keep moving this is the kind of thing that jesus teaches us in the garden of gethsemane when the great drops of blood begin to come through the very pores of his skin he teaches us the agony of going forward it was easy to heal the sick it was easy to turn water into wine it was easy for him to walk a water not for me it was easy for him but now he's come to a place of crushing and pain and that requires prayer and suffering the pain that my wife had before surgery seemed purposeless it was just pain the pain after the surgery had purpose and even though it had the same intensity it had a different ending and we must realize it's the ending that matters that god's thoughts toward us are good that we might have an expected end but he didn't say anything about the middle and so as we endure the pain and go through the agony agony like being misunderstood agony of not feeling loved agony of being underemployed or unemployed agony of losing a job or a spouse or a loved one i mean real agony i'm not talking about you lost your parking space i'm talking about real agony that tries your soul that pushes you to the breaking point that you feel like you're gonna bleed through your skin you have to know that that does not mean that you're not recovering that recovery hurts too counseling hurts therapy hurts confronting old issues and digging out old wounds that's hurtful stuff and difficult to talk about but if we don't get to the root of it we'll never be well and like her surgery the doctor had gotten to the root of it and when he said that it was successful i expected to walk in the room and find her smiling instead she was wreathing in pain sometimes god allows us to go through surgery and the recovery period may take a while but that does not mean that we're not getting better what it does mean that if once you make a commitment to go through the process you have to be prepared to endure the pain because the pain is a part of the process always knowing that the anesthesia to the pain is the blessed hope that we might have an expected in and today if you are suffering and in agony and in turmoil and feeling disconnected from the world and like life is passing you by while you wrestle with and gruffle with the atrocities and the vicissitudes of life i want you to know that tomorrow is coming and if you can endure this moment and withstand this agony if you can endure the darkness of the night how shall i say it weeping may endure for a night ah but joy comes in the morning whenever you quote that scripture always remember it can be a long night [Music] it can be a long night but i've never seen a night so long that it didn't eventually give way to the morning 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: 6min 57sec (417 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 01 2022