The Backside of Better - Bishop T.D. Jakes [January 19, 2020]

[Music] [Music] good to you but what we're gonna do I'm gonna give you a clip from last week did you only join last week I tell you last week set it off I don't think we've ever gotten any more response from around the world I think it's because you were on the stage with me I'm gonna have to bring you out of the closet put you to work hey man bring you out of hiding and you give you a job up here and I retire no now cuts it out cut look at now we had a great great time the message with model homes and we don't we can't have a great year if we've got a bad home then you use Church as an escape to avoid life and so we want the same experience that you have in the service of God to radiate in your home and we were just talking to you very practically and pragmatically about relationships take a quick look at this and then I'm going to share with you what we got today if you have victory in your business and you have victory in your church and you don't have victory in your house do not know that most people are trying to build something that they never saw we are willing to fight the person we love to become what we had in mind even though we don't even know what we're doing and I'm only asking for one thing both from men and women is to give up on the possibility that everything you think is right because the moment you humble yourself to the point that I could be wrong you open up to correct the mistakes that were in your models anytime you are from the outside and you come into something don't come in talking come in listening I know you think it's just you and him against the world but my darling it is not the case there's like these profane words that are very controversial today there's the S word I don't like to use it you know but I'll go go ahead use it today submissions I choose to take my will and lay it under you so that you can govern I mean how [Applause] you got this most men are not hard to get back because they're stubborn we're hard to get back because we don't know how to come back we go into survival mode which is very dangerous but Paige remembers when the Bible says that the heart of her husband safely trust in her yes okay once you disrupt that trust where he feels that he can no longer rest in you he has checked out who you are attracted to your opposite and if you're not careful you spend the rest of the marriage trying to turn them into you I'm an extrovert I want know I'm reading her because I secretly wanted her to save me from this I call her out of her comfort zone I call her cuz secretly up under that introvert is a wild woman [Applause] we value the fact that we weren't going to make our children be props we gave them the freedom to be themselves I didn't tell them where their destiny would lead them giving them the freedom to choose their own path and or mess up their own lives ought to be every human right when your children get older carrying them into your orbit it's not enough they want you to come into theirs so instead of coming in my room to talk they want me to come into so if you love somebody come visit them after I get through being beat up at work and beat up in life and fighting off my haters and fight off my enemies and dealing with my devils and dealing with my crazy self when I see you coming I want to see safe [Music] got you with my crazy sir and my lab music self and my extrovert proclivity self and all of my weaknesses and all of our faults when the rubber meets the road and you can't count on nobody else I got you right or wrong up or down in or out I don't care [Applause] we like sorry bears about it so I visit Los Angeles all weekend I've just got back yesterday evening and I came in the house and you know how I tell you it's always real quiet you know like a little mausoleum it feels like a spa in there I came in the house I open up the door the music was up loud candles were burning all over the house she said I got you down I got you down so we got to do some well teachers around in here the Lord is blessing are you ready this your Bible to go to the Book of Leviticus chapter number 26 verse number 2 3:11 and we're gonna talk about some stuff we're gonna talk about some stuff Leviticus 26 and 2 it's a continuation of our understanding of Moses writing the Pentateuch he now has a bunch of people on his hands and he's trying to shape into a into a contemporary understanding of themselves having spent 400 years as slaves they are not certain how to be free because when you've been bound a long time bound becomes normal oh you didn't you didn't hear I'm gone already when you've been bound a long time it becomes normal when you've been abused a long time abuse becomes normal when you've been depressed a long time depression becomes normal and freedom becomes work so Moses is now teaching them they are now they have now transitioned from from being up under pharaoh's thumb that watched him be drowned in the Red Sea and they've gone from being slaves to sons and become a nation of people they have received the commandments and and they're trying to begin to understand how to observe them so that they can be all that God would have them to be and Moses says to them in a little bit ACCA's 26 and to observe my Sabbath's and have reverence for my sanctuary I am the Lord if you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my Commandments I will sin you check this out I will send you rain in its season and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit your threshing will continue until grape harvests and the grape harvest will continue until planting and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land I will grant peace in the land and you will lie down and no one will make you a friend I will remove wild beasts from the land and the sword will not pass through your country you will pursue your enemies and they will fall by the sword before you five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and your enemies will fall by the sword before you I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers and I will keep my covenant with you good god you will still be eating last year's harvests this right here is what what drove me to the test you will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new good God Almighty that's good right there come on somebody I will put my dwelling place among you and I will not abhor you can you say man oh gosh that's good remain standing I'm gonna talk to you from the subject the backside of better the backside of better the backside of better we looked at the face of that scripture I'm going to talk about the face but I'm also going to talk about what you may not have noticed in that particular text and I'm calling it the backside of better did you know better has the backside everything has the backside success has the backside restaurants have a backseat backside you go in the restaurant you've been going to the restaurant for years you're only seeing the face of the restaurant you want to see the backside go in the kitchen you say in the faces of the hotel if you want to see the backside go down into that quarters where it says employees only everything has a backside everything has a backside every promise of God has a backside every gift from God has a back side has a responsibility has a requirement and we're going to talk about it today because we are going to better maybe it's just us we are going to better I didn't have another year to stay on the same level I was last year and I shouldn't go through everything I went through last year to go backwards I am going to better who's going to better with me spirit of the Living God fall afresh of us as we share the Word of God let it be strength to us let it be nourished when leather.this it empower us and vigor aid us and motivate us to become all that you would have us to be and we thank you for the back side of better in Jesus name Amen you may be seated now let me come off the top by saying you're going to have to scale this teaching to your life story that is to say this is not a one-size-fits-all sort of message you must understand that better for one person is totally different from better to another it depends on what you value and how you define better and what the purpose of God is in your life to the Hebrews it was to be better agriculturally to have food t to have sustenance to be sustained but there are a lot of different kinds of betters depending on what you have gone through and what you've been through these are people who had proven that they had a great work ethic they had been slaves for 400 years they have built Egypt they had worked and proven that they were skilled artisans not just laborers they were gifted they were talented they were builders they were gifted to build and to sustain and to grow they were gifted agriculture early they had talent they had work I think they had always been good at building something for somebody else but the question becomes some of us that are really good at it building for other people really suck it building for ourselves can you say suck from the pulley I don't know enough wait I think about you edit it out listen we are really good at doing things for other people but when it comes down to doing things for ourselves sometimes it becomes challenging we procrastinate we don't fulfill our own vision our own dreams we don't work to the degree that we ought to work to see accomplish what ought to be accomplished in our lives and most of the time we don't do it because because we think it's just going to happen it's not just just gonna happen reading that text head on it feels like it's just gonna happen God's gonna do it and it's just gonna happen there are certain things that God's going to do but there are certain things that you have to do so what the challenge is we're bringing people out of anything out of anything out of poverty out of abuse out of silence out of normal out of routine out of rituals the challenge is to break the culture of what has been built up around where you came from and so when you read this text Moses has a big job it's not just writing down what God says and coming down and telling the people he has to create a new normal for them they have been up under a monarchy they are now up under a theocracy so everything has to start over they have been serving the Egyptians so long that when they got ready to build a picture of what they thought God looked like they built what the Egyptians God looks like a similar Association brings about a simulation and once you've been around a certain kind of people long enough you start adapting things about them that you didn't even intend to death that's why you need to be careful who you hang around oh yeah because that they will distort your image of God and your image of self and now Moses is trying to take them through detox and establish the theocracy and he does it in three different ways he gives them the Ten Commandments he gives him the the judgments and he gives them the sacraments the commandments are the Constitution because now they have become a new nation they have become a new nationality they have become a new nationality in the earth but they don't know how to be a nation because they've been a slave and free feels funny when you've been bound so the Ten Commandments becomes the Constitution it becomes the creed that they go to but they couldn't stop with the commandments cuts the commandments deal with the South shall nots and it sets up some rule of thumb that sets them apart that gives them some distinction it deals with remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy that's what set them apart from other nations the Sabbath was a part of an expression of the Covenant they have with God and that's why you saw that early in the tanks the judgments deal with how you treat each other so when you read the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy as well you hear a lot of thing if your brother takes your goat and if you look on your neighbor's wife and it's dealing with how they interact with each other because when you are redoing how you respond to life from a cultural perspective it is possible to be out physically and not out mentally just because you have a degree that makes you get up now y'all know so they'll sit there look all cute act like you can go to school and have more degrees than a thermometer and we can make you mad and you can go right into hoodrat [Applause] is it African American colloquialism I'll explain you later I'll tell you where we get home but you go into what you came from because you haven't fully been delivered mentally from where you came from and somebody set you off and you react to things that's what makes very difficult because sometimes what sets off your spouse has nothing to do with you has something to do with somebody who came before you and you strike that nerve and she's not talking to you your name is Jimmy she's talking to Willie oh don't you - don't you try that I have already been through that and if you you and you don't even know what you're fighting about you're trying to fight back because the newness hasn't been adapted in the cultural sense so so God begins to give them judgments to control how they deal with each other and then supplements to teach them how to worship you must be taught how to worship we are born with an instinct to worship but we must be taught how to worship because worship is not about how you feel it's about what God wants so I don't clap because I feel like clapping I clap because the Bible says clap your hands oh you people shout unto God with the voice of trial I'm not normally allowed prayer I didn't ask you what you are normally shout unto God with the voice of trial I'm not just doing that to do that shouting does something in the spirit shouting break something in the spirit shouting releases something in this fear and for the demonic warfare that you have to fight you can't always be prim and proper sometimes you have to shout under God with the voice of triumph you have to shout unto God with the voice of triumph when you feel defeated I didn't ask you how you feel you might feel defeated you might have just been defeated God says shout under God with the voice of triumph call those things that are not and so they were God said I want you to start walking around like you got the victory even when you don't feel like you have the victory [Applause] come on somebody put my future back up he starts out at the very beginning of the scripture he starts talking about number one he will start talking about the sacred observe my Sabbath and have reverence for my sanctuary for I am the Lord he starts dealing with the sacred he's gonna end up dealing with vegetation and crops and everything else but he says before I can bless you you must obey see the church today wants the blessing but we don't want the obedience we don't want to honor God's house or God's word of God's Way we don't want to live the way God says live we just want what God says we can have so as long as you're preaching about the promises we're ready to shut the place down but when you start talking about requirements then we get grime filled let's go to another Church because we don't want to do what it takes to be eligible to walk is the blessings and the promises of God I'm being opened with you something is going to be required of you for you to walk into what God has for you to receive you are not just arbitrarily gonna be blessed just because you wanna be for us God is not Santa Claus and so he storms around he said I'm checking out how you treat me remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy honor my sanctuary honor my sacred this is a sanctuary this is not an auditorium it's a sanctuary so don't bring those chicken bones in here you don't eat in here you don't drink in here you don't fool around and here this is a sanctuary this is not a Michael Jackson concert this is a come on there must be order in God's house there must be order in Gaza there's a certain thing that God gets out of you reverencing this is the house of the Lord he says honor my Saint so where are you hearing what I'm saying to you he wants you to understand that some things are sacred some things are sacred we're living in a society today that nothing is sacred everything is so familiar that we have no respect for authority for order for discipline for anything else nothing is sacred and that is damaging to us there are some things that ought to be sacred I sound a little old school now old fresh and just put up with me I'll be on the next phone in a minute but I don't think I would call your mama by her name if she raised you and she she is a good mother she honors you I don't think you ought to come in and call her Helen I don't think I don't think my kids ought to be run enough to be talking about what's up TV not with the full 17 maybe with the llama guns and their girly give you but there will be a full set of teeth some things are sacred that's not because I'm dictatorial that is because I'm not covering in your life and if you bring me down and make me common I can't cover you bringing other people down let's bring you up you need to have some things that are sacred in your life Rosen Church Eggman glory to God glory to God glory to God we have not talked before the on or anything we don't honor anything we don't honor anybody we don't respect anything we don't respect anybody everybody does their own thing I don't feel like it I don't want to do it I don't have to do it I come when I get ready I leave when I get ready sit down get a grip yeah it don't make me come over there you need to understand some things are sacred and God is establishing order parents you are not doing your children any favor buddy buddy in with them you get a friend anywhere you got one time to have a mama you got one time to have a daddy get yourself in line you won't respect me today aren't you glad I didn't raise you yeah you're gonna learn that let the church say van and then he says I will send rain put it up there I was sitting rain I will send rain I will send you rain in its season oh good god so I want to talk about seasons I will send you rain in its season I won't send you rain when you want it I won't send you rain when you think you need it I will send you rain in its season there's a season for rain you better help me preach girl there's a season for rain there's a season for rain there's a season for dryness there's a season for drought there's a reason it hadn't rained yet it's not time yet you don't want continual rain I will send you rain in its season why do you not want rain all the time because if you don't plant before the rain then all you get what I said in the rain is wet now the text doesn't say anything about planting it just talks about rain but the backside of the test requires that you understand that when I sit in the rain you gotta be ready for this oh god I don't know who I'm talking to today but God's getting ready to send you some rain you don't have to worry about rain you have to worry about ready are you ready for the rain oh my god because there is no doubt I will send away there's no doubt about what I said Naren the doubt is will you be ready because if you have not ploughed and planted before I sit in the rain then you'll just be wet and what good is wet the rain only blesses what you already did stop expecting God to do your planting God is not going to plant for you you have to plant seeds I would say I'm gonna take the time because I really want you to give this every other day I'm getting a text from Jarrell one of my staff people asking me questions about leadership the Leadership Conference the location the hotels the availability the rains the fees for 2021 [Applause] oh you thought I was gonna say 2020 we did that in 29 team now that is 2020 I'm not working on 2020 all I got left to do in 2020 is harvest what I planted in 2019 and so when I'm in 2020 I'm planting for 2021 because if I don't do that I will diminish my ability to receive harvests if I'm not ready for the harvest note to self get ready for the rain get ready for the ring am I ready for the ring am I ready for the ring which brings me to my third point have I so seed now now let's let's let's take this in context whatever better is to you you have to sew into it lord I need the Lord to bless my marriage I need the Lord if he know if I don't get a miracle in my marriage I'm gonna show him did you sew into it because if you don't sew into it you can't harvest it the rain will come but you'll just get wet because there aren't enough seeds to draw harvest I'm trying to decide whether I'm gonna go deeper with this and I kind of go deep everything when it comes to sowing seed God doesn't mention so much the seed as he does the rain because God is mentioning what you can't do you can't make it rain up in here I don't care what you said at that club [Applause] i watch TV thank you but thank you thank you but you can't make it rain up in here no your job is to go do the silly God's going to send the rain are you ready for CC better post because we don't have the patience to wait on harvest we want everything now God is talking to an agricultural society that understands that this is going to take some time that plowing is gonna take some time that fertilizing the soil is gonna take some time that's sowing seed is gonna take some time and some sweat and some work and some sacrifice sigh say it with me sigh fine yeah so if better for you is a better marriage that means you're gonna have to give to something that doesn't immediately give return back to you so that means you got to show into something that looks like it's not working it's gonna take some time for you to read so you're going to have to so sacrifice sewing is about sacrifice that means I love the commercial where the woman says that she gave up eating carbs for a week I thought girl you should went on an age go get you some pie and ice cream enjoy yourself get your big old hamburger with some cheese and stuff because if you think a week of sacrifice it's gonna get the job done I don't know about your body but my my body laughs had one week of doing right say come home please are you serious you've been eating bad for eight years you're gonna eat good faith days I'd be standing in the mere talk about this thing working but that's the way we are about mostly we want it now we want to do right for a minute and then we want to reap a huge return all right that we have not invested enough time into for it to work the gestation of a seed varies from plant to plant some things grow quicker than others in the natural when you started talking about the gestation of a seed in a woman's body she cannot get pregnant tonight and give birth tomorrow in fact it is dangerous to give birth prematurely there's going to be a sacrificial period through enough nauseated swollen ankles face breaking out all kinds of changes during the period of sacrifice for the birth of a humanist I a month for different seeds is going to be a varied amounts of months when you want certain things to happen it's going to be a longer period of time raising children is sowing seeds you may so for 20 years and not see any lord have mercy catch me I put the smear to take me out not see anything but eventually you're going to see a harvest because what you put in them will not return unto you void it will eventually show up summit 20 Summit 25 summit 32 some at 40 but eventually be not deceived God is not mocked whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap you can't wait till you get old and start thinking about putting back for retirement so all you people that are in your thirties you ought to be thinking in your sixties because you can't wait til you 60 or 55 and say you know what I don't need some retirement but that's too late so this text has a long-term component of sacrificial sowing so that when the rain comes God has something to bless God will only bless what you do or Bishop can you prove that by the scriptures I'm glad you asked me I absolutely can Psalms is clear about it blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in that law that he meditate day at night and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth fruit wind in his own season his leaf shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper say that again what soever he doeth shall prosper again what soever he doeth shall prosper that means that God cannot prosper what you will not do we might as well kick this year off right and get it in here because we are really sowing into 2021 and 2022 and 2023 and some of the things that you are showing you will not see the benefit in the first year I was interviewing Deborah Martin chase about her movie Harriet and she said I have been pushing this movie trying to get this movie greenlit for five years five years of people saying no before she got one years five years of those dry chicken meetings five years a meeting with committees and boards and directors and making presentations and appeals and said we'll get back to you and we'll have you know people call our people call your people no we're not interested we're going in another direction that's not appropriate for all this that's not where we're going right now fine [Music] but the budget was 25 million dollars and you cannot get 25 million dollars in five months to him how much is given much is required I want to talk to my big dream people I want to talk to my big dream people who are dreaming big dreams and you used to dream small dreams and now you're big in big dreams and you're wondering why it's not happening that's quick and it's your small dreams big dreams take time big dreams fake your ability to be told no over and over and over again and still keep going after what you want because big dreams take time big dreams take focus big dreams take sacrifice big dreams require that you believe in yourself I did not have a meeting with you to encourage you I had a meeting with you and allows you to meet with me so that I could consider your proposition that I might say no this year and call you back three years later and say you remember when you met with me three years ago about so oh you're looking at me strange cuz you thought you had faith in power this is my year glory that God and this is right here and if it's gonna happen this year glory to God that house this year not you you hit that credit straight not to you been on that job for three years and this is your first year on the job and you've only been there twenty minutes and you might not have to go house shopping just here depending on what you're trying to just a certain things take longer to birth than others and God says I will send rain in its season wonder why God has you here listening at this maybe there's something that you're digging around and dung it around and planting around right now that God wants to encourage you it's gonna take time but it's gonna happen and when you get to doing what you're supposed to do I will sit rain in its season I just want to stay there a minute I will sit rain in its season I will said I've already set my watch to a particular season and when I give my nods the clouds are gonna gather over your head and it's gonna rain like it never rained before we says to me oh my god I gotta hurry and get my seed in the ground and get my soul broken up and get ready so that when the rain comes I am ready to receive what God has for me I don't have time to be anybody's hater I got too much work to do I gotta make sure that what is last season I don't have time to be jealous of you I applaud what he did for you cuz there's a sign that the rain is coming the rain is coming touch somebody and tell them the rain is coming [Applause] Oh baby please don't come today because we don't have the nursery yet and we haven't bought a crib yet and the wallpaper is back long then it hadn't come in here and we don't have my bassinet Oh baby please don't come today because I need to get ready for what's about to be birthed in my life and the worst thing I can have is a quick baby [Music] no place to put it no place to hold them nothing for them to play with nothing for them to do is your life ready for what you're praying for [Applause] getting your life ready for what you're praying for oh my god I'm talking to somebody I'm getting you ready things are about to switch in your life you may have to change your circle of friends for what you're praying for because you know you can't bring your crazy girlfriend into this new circle of people you got because she don't say something stupid and mess up the whole deal [Applause] [Music] the rain is coming on schedule there is no doubt about it you don't have to worry about it you don't even have to pray about it the rain is coming on schedule there is no doubt about it sooner or later it's going to be raining right on your property but if you don't put the seed in the ground you're not ready for what God is about to do in your life I'm telling you you can't wait till you get there to get there you got to walk like what you're our Lord till you become what you walk like you gotta start getting ready for it before it happens in your life are you hearing what I'm saying to you today trust me people tell them it's coming it's coming it's coming I'm sowing into I'm sowing into my marriage of sowing into my retirement or I'm sowing into my peace I'm sowing into my piece yes I saw you call me I didn't answer because I'm sworn in tomorrow [Applause] and I know how stressful it is when you and I get on the phone and it's not that I don't love you but I didn't answer cuz I'm yeah I'm sawing it into my pieces I'm sawing into my piece I'm not ready for this wife because I got to get this job so that I don't ask her to marry wait as soon as I get this job ready and I give this credit ready and I get this house ready and then I'm gonna talk to you cuz now I'm ready for the rain but I don't want it to rain and I'm not ready and I ended up asking you to live with my mother even though you're willing to do it it's gonna strain the happiness we could have had because instead of us laying in the bed talking about me and you we're learning to be a tough about my mother and it's a sign that I wasn't ready for the rain oh it's gonna be a rough Sunday this morning it's gonna be a rough Sunday this morning it's gonna be a rough Sunday this morning I can't hang with Eagles if I can't stand Heights so if I'm gonna be ego bound I have got to overcome my fear of heights I got to get used to the next level if I'm gonna fly up there if I'm gonna mess up there if I'm gonna live up there I'm gonna have to visit up there note yourself visit where you're going this is where you're going till it doesn't feel strange till it doesn't feel foreign till it doesn't feel hard till you understand the culture until you understand the dynamics the truth of the matter is I haven't gotten over Egypt and until I get over Egypt I'm not ready for the Promised Land the wilderness is a place that are detox from who I was so that my proclivities will fall off for me because I'm free but I still thinking like a slave and it's gonna take some time for me to embrace me sometimes people are trying to get other people to embrace things that they have not fully accepted and that's why we're fighting so much and that's why you say I'm not helping you because you are not convinced you are a good woman now I have got to feed something that you don't fully believe so you need time before the rain because you're still mad at your ex and as long as you're angry with your ex you're still tied to it [Applause] anger is still a connection the fact that you see us turn about even talking about it and complaining about it means you're still thinking about it and I don't want to marry somebody who's thinking about oh my god Tessa might say the rain is coming the rain is coming if I'm sick I don't want to be around sick people put me around a healthy people put me around what I'm trying to be I don't want to be around people who was talking about medicines and medications and have you tried putting a hot rap on in there if you take onions and boil them and put them around your neck just swelling ago now your fever go down I want to go around people who are talking about going to the movies at 10 o'clock at night I want to be around people who are talking about a child let's go eat let's ride downtown let's go somewhere I'm saying wait a minute let me get myself together I'll be there in a minute I want to be around where I'm but I'm talking to somebody touch your neighbor and say get ready get ready get ready get ready get ready get ready because you're coming into a Caesar get ready because you're coming into a season getting ready because you're coming into a season get ready because you're coming into a season the rain is coming [Applause] I want to talk to some people who felt like he just had to be here this morning the reason you felt like you had to be here this morning is because God had a word for you the rain is coming the rain is coming you don't have time to worry about what they're saying about you on the blog site the rain is coming those gossipers don't have nothing to do but I gotta get ready and get this ground ready and get this song ready because the rain is coming [Applause] the best response to criticism is success you don't have to tell them anything [Applause] so sit with me we're gonna go friend so now y'all got me saturated you got me excited you got me you got me exhilarated you got me inspired you gotta be fascinated I'm planning some things right now that may not come up for five years or eight years but I'm planning them while I'm strong enough so that I can reap them when I need them see what I'm doing while I'm teaching this is I'm trying to get a mindset in you that's looking forward the problem with most of us is that we're looking backwards our entire gazes in the rearview mirror of regret and neglect and abuse and shame and you can't get ready for the Promised Land if you're still grieving over Egypt most of what is holding you back is your gaze your gaze is backwards you're looking at what happened and what you've been through and how unfair it was and how long it was and how unjust it was and it shouldn't happen and how you're a better person than that and you're right but you won't get to better looking backward you'll only get to better looking forward God I feel God speaking to somebody in this role in a very deep way you cannot get to the promised land saying I haven't got closer with Pharaoh in [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my God my God my God touch everybody you can reach and say something's about to happen [Applause] [Music] [Applause] God wouldn't be telling me this it's someone about the I feel the witness of the Holy Ghost in this room something is about to happen I gotta get some seed in the ground I got to get some seed in the ground most the time when the church talks about seed in the ground it's only about offerings but this is bigger than that I got a seed into whatever better looks like for me I got a sacrifice into it I gotta get ready forward I cannot allow the demands of 2022 so overwhelmingly that I'm not planting for 2021 oh I should have charged you for this you should have to pay to come and get this this is a level thinking of those people who are determined to maximize their lives and go to the next level who are willing to put up with the fertilization that takes you to the next level sit down let me taste something I was thinking the other day I thought I was looking at the body of my work and what I've done over the 43 years of my ministry 62 years of my life I got a lot done I got a lot done I got a whole I came a long ways from selling hot Bologna to pay the electric bill to keep the doors of the church open long enough to get up on my feet and working two or three jobs and taking my check and putting it in the offering because I had that come a long ways for me I came a long ways I came a long ways from our first plane to our first movie I came along I came a long way almost went bankrupt in the first place lost everything we had did me break even but we kept on doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it I didn't give up I didn't quit I didn't sell out I didn't train I didn't make more my dream I kept fighting for it and fighting for and fighting for it and working for it and labor and forward and I said I don't understand you you planted so many different seas in so many different areas in ministry and fashion and in books and retail and real estate in real estate development and in entertainment you planted so many season I was just thinking back over my life as to why I'm wired like that and then I remembered I was born in between two dead babies watch this I was born in between two dead babies my sister and I are five and a half years apart when my father got sick she was gone I remember when you came home to visit and Danny was sick and how you started crying in front go I'd see it right now cuz because he was so shocked at how sick he was but you were shocked I grew up in it so I was raised by a dying father and they don't feel bad for me because as tough as it was I wouldn't appreciate life like I do if death had not fertilized me I would have been normal but but the reason I'm not normal is because death was fertilizing me telling me don't waste time boy don't waste time you not guaranteed tomorrow whatever you will do go ahead and get it done this is the day that the Lord hath made this is the day that there is a day [Applause] I'm older now that my father ever got to be I'm older than his father ever got to be I'm older than my father was I'm older than my grandfather was and I'm still running all over the church [Music] [Applause] what I'm saying is you you got a fertilize and all of that stuff you crying about what's fertilization for what God is about to do in your life everything you cried over everything you suffered about everything you did without everything that was unjustified fair what's fertilization for what God is going to do in your life if you hadn't suffered like I suffered you wouldn't run like I run if you had labored like I live you wouldn't fight back like I fight back I refuse to allow you [Applause] fool that [Applause] slap somebody to fight back out working out working out working out think about running out last keep getting up over and over again because the rain is coming and the rain is coming on schedule [Applause] and I don't have an almanac I don't know what I like is y'all city people something y'all know how many peoples over time and I hear I'm and I can tell you whether it's gonna rain in May of twenty twenty-five and intention in the future and what I'm trying to get you to do is thinking forward not backward having a strategy for increased not like I'm trying to get you to understand that when the rain comes the entire situation is going to change and you gotta be strong enough to be harvesting over here while you are planting you can't get so distracted by the harvest that you stop playing bad or filler just screaming I feel like screaming I would be feeling like this if God was going up in this room who is receiving this recipe oh my god oh my god oh my god so so so see what I'm trying to show you something you can't allow yourself to be so one-dimensional there you can only do one thing a time no no no you gotta be able to do several things at the same time watch it give me my text put my text up her - let me show you something this is you get to the good part I'm about to get to the good part about to get you good I will send you rain in this season and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit come on your threshing work until a minute wishing your threshing that's harvesting wheat your you will harvest wheat and it will continue until the grape harvest so one hand the wheat has come in and the grapes are about to come in and there's a cycle see I tell you about the season but I didn't tell you about the cycle before you can get one thing here here comes something else wait a minute Jackie that means I got a plan wheat and grapes [Applause] I can't just plant one thing and harvest it and then plant something else because if the grapes are coming in this is a result of strategic showing this is not a guy who put all of his efforts into one thing and said if the Lord don't bless said I won't have anything he says I will show everything and something is gonna come up in here slap your neighbor say so everything [Applause] so wheat so grace so tremendous so comets so onions so everything everything within your power everything you have a seed of everything you have a seed of all the talents you have a seed of show them strategically that was easy God got means for you to have overflow [Music] he means for you to have abundance because you can't help people if you just got enough you you have to have more then enough in order to be able to do it these grapes didn't just come up somebody planted them this week didn't just grow somebody planted it what are you planting how many days in your life have gone by without planting anything in your relationships in your career in your spirituality you know why you're not a better Christian you're not sowing into it [Applause] you know why you're not a better Christian you don't have devotions [Applause] you don't have no devotion and treat you giving trouble you don't think about God until you think about what you want when when the first thing he said was to honor me if you are me and obey me if you bless me bless you somebody better always has a backside and people look at the front of it and they say oh that's better but better always has a backside better means different things for different people it's not always about money sometimes it's about relationships sometimes it's about peace sometimes it's about philanthropy sometimes it's about intellectualism sometimes it's about better education sometimes it's about better equipments better means different things depending upon where you are can you describe your better because if you can't describe it I know you're not sowing into it and if you can describe your better find out what its backside is you know what we are good at we're good at looking great [Music] we are masters at looking great do you know how much it costs you to look great if if you sew under something to the people if you so 50 percent of your image [Applause] and investing it into your reality [Applause] do you know how much effort you spend impressing people that don't matter [Applause] what it's Paula's last name we Paula Madison policy it's something blue blew my mind she said during the recession Paula Madison she said that during the recession the only businesses that didn't lose money was hairdressers [Applause] we don't have that wait together we don't have it weird together even if we gotta pull the kids out of private school [Applause] even if we can't get a clarinet for them to be in the band even if we've maxed out all our credit cards we won't go back to what our grandmothers did and do our own hair come on top for me somebody somebody somebody see y'all too young to remember y'all don't understand hot combs [Applause] I'm not trying to kill no business forever you bill kitchen I'm just saying if you come down to your rent or your hair I choose rent every day I do read every day I can work either were cute that but I'm not gonna be outdoors looking cute [Applause] let me move on I'm about to get into trouble I'm about to get into trouble about to get into trouble go back to the scripture I got to get everything out of this group your threshing your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting oh my god there's a lot work Thresh in this work planting his work harvesting grapes his work see you see this as a blessing but the backside is it is that it's a lot of work your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until plenty I can see why a lot of people aren't blessed blessed is work [Applause] it's easier to be broke see climbing up takes muscle [Music] follow diseases oh you gotta do is let go anywhere you let go you will come down anywhere you're let go you will come down let go of the kids they'll come now let go of the marriage it come down but I built a business yeah but you tore up your house I'm not making fun I'm just explaining anything you let go of false climbing up takes effort the prayer life takes intentionality Bible study takes work I'm scared to death we're gonna leave this world to a generation of lazy preachers with gummybear sermons and Oriole invitations who are biblically illiterate because you know what being biblically literate is what it is what and most of the people talking now don't put in time to study and today you can pass off fussing as teacher stupid is sexy now you know we don't do anything like we used to television has come down entertainment has done down you don't have to be able to sing the same now they will synthesize the note you can miss the note the computer will fictional it's easy to pass yourself off as being ready because our standards have dropped so low have dropped so low what excellency is that now that something is not on the top floor the money is in the basement [Applause] because we want the glory we want the face of it we walk better but not the backside preparation is never time wasted preparation is never time which it I spent seven years seven years shut up studying the Word of God over and over and over again when I first got married I used to have my wife hole the Bible while I quoted scriptures and tell me if I miss the word you don't get here by anointing excellence cost something it means facing your fears it means holding the night to your hands stop shake it yeah it means not allowing your fear to back you away from your promise it means being scared and going it anyway it means getting up and preaching in front of people who don't like you it means doing what you do while you got critics saying you can't do what you doing means being tough enough and strong enough to take a licking and keep on ticking cuz you know the rain is coming it means teaching hard to small groups practicing on them for big group not not turning down little things because you think you're too big to go but using every opportunity to fertilize what God is about to do next in your life ain't nobody talking to us like that somebody's got to go back to talking to us like that somebody's got to go back to teachers simple stuff have no milk to make cornbread sent me all the way doing everything to be in order before you can have anything but we came trouble people see seem to think about the Hebrews they had been trained they come from hell and high water and that's why the desert couldn't stop them come on used to not having enough I'll take what you give me and I'll make it work then go let me get my hands oh so I get my hair don't anybody got played lovely that balcony [Applause] techo baby's head better has a backside [Applause] I worked in a restaurant for years restaurant managers can be some of the nastiest people you ever saw in your life the same ones who are nice to you and said do you need anything else I just come back to see if everything is everything all right entertained there are the same ones that are back in the kitchen yelling at you like you're an animal see you in the front side I work the backside it's different in the restaurant than it is in the kitchen but if you don't get that kitchen right if you don't get that kitchen right because when the inspectors come they're gonna inspect it come on with me see you got to get that kitchen right everybody's trying to look wonderful out front where it don't matter but it's the back side that's got to be inspected because if you get that backside right that front side is gonna come in line real easy you gotta have that backside right are you storing the lettuce with the chicken are you putting this in this kind of man let me check the temperature of this refrigerator they're gonna check the backside but we have become a frontside people we just want to look better we don't want to be better we want to look good we want to look successful we want to look like we got it going over we don't want to have it going on that's why we don't have no retirement no 401k snow investments because you can't see my stocks you can't see my stocks you can see my Gucci bad but you can see and if I can't get a Gucci I get a Lucy but so then when we get all we're in trouble and we're still our children can't help us because we didn't model the backside in front of them broke parents reduced broke kids I'm spiritual parents teacher pathology of the lack of spirituality because you act like faith wasn't important now you bring them to church on the way to court you didn't bring them to Children's Tumor sacrifice they make too much noise to get on your nerve you don't want to be bothered with so you'll teach of Jesus with a little you think of Jesus when they're in trouble it's too late when I'm 18 for you to start quoting scriptures now train up a child come on I'm in the bath train up a child train up a child train up a child I know you got a ministry without a ministry explore with them kids you want to change a generation volunteer for children's church can I go further give me that scripture give me that screw that I'm a little stuff I'm almost your threshing will continue until grape harvest grave I will continue the planning and you will eat all the foods you want you will eat all the foods you want look at God caring about what you want you will eat all the foods you want but this is what got me and living safety my next point you got to get to safe and live and live I want you to pray this prayer with me Lord let me live in safety let me live in safety let safety be my natural habitat let me live in safety whatever it takes let me get to safe whatever safe is to you whatever the threat is around you I want you to live in safety I want you to live do you get that to live do you understand how big that is to live in safety to live - just - just wait time I being rich we talked about being safe because a lot of rich people not safe let me live and say let me live it now what I think when I think living safety I don't just think people breaking in your house and somebody shoot here at the gas station I like I mean that to misunderstand me never safety means to me living free from anxiety [Music] [Applause] living safety means let me live in a place where I'm safe enough to be authentic well I don't have to pretend to be somebody else because I'm safe enough to be who I really am let me live in safety means that I don't have to spend the energy trying to impress people that don't matter because I am safe enough that I don't need your validation to feel good about myself let me live and say because what good is rich if I'm not safe what good is beautiful if I'm not safe what good is smart if I'm not safe I want to be safe no need to have a nice house if I'm not safe the reason we're having heart attacks is first attacks with a hypertensive and diabetic the stress of not being safe to just God says I want you to live in safety where you can speak your mind safe enough to speak mama safe to be a grown man and say it like a TI he I want to live in safe yeah safe enough to be vulnerable get quiet here now do you not know that the ability to be vulnerable is a sign of safety that the reason that some people can't be vulnerable and open up is that they don't feel safe enough to show you who they really are that the reason that some people can never fall in love it's because love is vulnerable and the reason he doesn't show emotions he said he doesn't feel safe and sometimes that made me your father sometimes they may have nothing to do with you he might not have been safe when you married she might not be safe enough to be vulnerable so she fights off anything that requires vulnerability because I don't feel say I would be friends with you if I felt safe I'd love to talk to you but I gotta be safe I've got gifts and talents locked up inside of me because I live in fear you know how many people in this room are gifted but bound there are people sitting out there looking at me right now who are gifted as all get-out if they felt safe enough to give their gift [Applause] this is your year to live in safety and that is so much bigger than putting an alarm system in your house I'm talking about safe enough to be you safe enough to be authentic safe enough to be vulnerable I'm talking about safe enough to be weak safe enough to be humble safe enough that you don't have to put your resume on your 4-year let me live in safety come on give me some more I'm also I'm on myself come on quick quick yeah II live in st. anything their next verse I will grant peace in the land and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid you so good no one no one no one no one of them none of them not one of them will make you a friend will remove wild beasts from the land everything is too big for you to fight I will moving from the land oh my god anything is too big for you to handle I will remove from the land I don't expect you to find a lion or fight a bear he said everything is too much I'll move it off your territory and the sword with my pass through your country because of you I will protect your country because of you I wanna let the sword come through your country [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I won't I won't let it blow up your cities I will not let the sword pass through your land because of you put it up there I will keep going come on this good you will pursue your enemies and they were followed by the sword before you come on five of you he said because of my favor you're gonna do more with less the odds are gonna be against you and you're still gonna prevail five of you will chase a hundred you'll get less budget but you'll do more with it five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and your enemies were followed by the sword before you that's what the word said so the fifth point is safety come on I will look all you a favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers I will increase [Applause] you're listed you're supposed to shout right there I will increase your numbers whenever your numbers are whatever your numbers are God said I will increase your numbers I will increase your numbers Admiral increase your numbers put it up there again I will increase your numbers and I will keep it with you oh my god my god my god come on this is what did it for me you will still be eating this is the whole thing right here you will still be eating last year's harvest and you're gonna have to find someplace to put it to make room for the new harvests and you haven't enough everything look at your life you harvest you're still being blessed and your problem is going to be why I don't put this new harvest because I'm gonna open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing [Applause] you will not have room enough to receive last more the struggle of success is that while you are still eating I guarantee you most of people in this room right now in 2020 are eating last year's harvest you are eating today the decisions from last year or not eating because of the decisions of last year he said while you are eating this is how is this gonna be your problem you're gonna be eating last year's harvest that is the stuff that you sold in 2018 and 2019 you're gonna eat them in 2020 and while while you are yet eating them while you are yet eating them the new harvest is gonna come in and this is going to be your problem watch this and I'm closing you won't have room [Applause] uuuuu won't have room so so you will have to get up from the table and leave your plate and move out your storehouse because this year's blessing is going to overtake last year's blessing and you won't have room enough to receive and I suggest you start sewing last year's blessing getting ready for this year's lesson so you'll have room to receive what's coming next because it's going to come Wow [Music] you be stand up on your feet I'm gonna start the backside are better the backside are better how many people learn something today this is what I hope you get it's the secular nature of sowing and reaping that it comes in cycles not singular but circular it's going to come in cycles the diversity of wheat and grapes you have to plant more than one thing you have to stack them in such a way that they don't come in all at the same time but what as soon as you're finished with this that is already in motion it's like the way we walk as soon as I'm putting my foot down my other foot is lifting up and God said that's the way I want you to plant and that's the way I want you to sow and that's the way I want you to harvest then as soon as you get through with this you get through with that and here comes something else coming and you're not even finished yet and you'll have to move this out of the way to get ready for the next thing that's about to come into your life and whether it boils down to is pressed down shaken together and running over so God give unto your bosom press down shaken together and running over God's got a blessing for you and it is going to come through men give and it shall be given unto you again good measure good measure ain't gonna be no skimpy stuff it's gonna be good measure it's gonna be pressed down it's gonna be shaken together it's gonna be runnin over watch this show man give unto your bosom I'm gonna send man into your life y'all hippie I'm gonna sit relationships into your life that are going to give into your bosom your heart's desire the thing you're trying to do I'm gonna send you help [Applause] and I'm gonna send you help can y'all hear me over there God absolu help they're gonna give unto your bosom to what what you care about they're gonna show into your vision into what you see what you love and what matters to you it's going to be better but you gotta be ready join hands with somebody [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] who [Music] [Applause] [Music] neither is coming better is coming better is coming better is coming better is coming you hear me up there better is coming y'all hear me over there batteries coming better is coming better is coming better is coming in the program better is coming better is coming [Applause] better friends better relationships better family relationships better ministry better teaching better influence that our affluence better financially better emotionally better mentally better physically better is coming the back side is you gotta be ready you gotta sew into it you got to plant the seeds you got to wait on the cycle you got to be intentional you got to be ready squeeze that hand this message means something to the person you are touching it speaks to the specificity of their strategy going forward nobody can help what you did in the past you can only fix what you're doing now and what you're going to do in the future it changes how you look at things it changes where you invest your energy and your efforts and your time this message is a warning that the rain is coming on schedule the rain is coming on schedule the rain is coming on schedule the rain won't work for it wait for you to mature the rain won't work wait for you to quit being distracted the rain won't wait for you to stop feeling sorry for yourself the rain is coming in its season yeah yeah yeah whoo open the windows I have it Lord the rain is coming the rain is coming the rain is coming in every area that I want to be better in my life the rain is coming I've got to get seed in the ground I've got to get seed in my relationships I'm going to get seed in my proposals I've got to get seeds in my strategy it's got to be a diverse planting it's got to be bigger than one dimension because the rain is coming and while the wheat is coming up the grapes will be coming up out of the ground right behind it and as soon as I get through threats in the wheat I got to get ready and run to the winepress because God said is coming from the north the South the East and the West is coming from every direction it's coming squeeze that hand now you know what the fights been about now you know why the devil tried to kill you now you know why the enemy's trying to make you lose your mind he'll knows that the rain is coming over your life [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he tried to control bid me he tried to kill you out business he tried to blow your mind didn't it he tried to make you give up Sydney but the devil is a liar [Applause] squeezin hey you're touching a survivor [Applause] you're touching a fighter you're touching a warrior [Applause] open the floodgates open wide the floodgates open up the windows of heaven Madi right let it ring father we thank you for this word we thank you for this truth we thank you for this anointing we thank you for this power we thank you for this instruction we thank you for this clarity we thank you for this revelation we thank you for this power have your way in this place drive out the wild beasts drive out the wild beasts drive out the wild beasts cry about the Wow sir prosper I thank you right now for whatever it's worth I thank you right now for things I don't even know that you did but you did I thank you right now because somebody streaming online and God has spoke to them in such a profound way and I may never meet them but I thank you because something broke [Applause] off of their life today and we give the appraised and we praise you right now we praise in the rain we praise you in the rain in Jesus name I want you to take 30 second to just crazy [Applause] [Applause] you [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 103min 42sec (6222 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 19 2020