Velvet Gloves! - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Music] i want you to get your bibles and go to hebrews 11 32-34 and judges chapter 4 verse 15-21 again hebrews 11 chapter 32-34 and judges chapter 4 verse 15 through 21. i'm going to repeat it again because i gave you two scriptures and some of you can only remember what hebrews 11 32 through 34 and then we're going to judges chapter 4 verse 15 through 21 when you have them say amen it is interesting because where we pick up reading hebrews 11 is seldom read we always read hebrews 11 from the very top now faith is the substance of things hoped for they haven't done some things not seen for by it the elders obtained a good report through faith we understand that the world's refrained by the word of god so that things that do appear where things that appear we're not made from things that do appear and everybody talks about them by faith are able by faith enough by faith noah through faith sarah also herself received strength to conceive c when she was past childbearing age and we talk about all of that up here but down toward the end is a less familiar passage of scripture but we're going to read it today hebrews 11 32 and what more shall i say i do not have time to tell about gideon and notice this barack we're going to talk about him today samson and jephthah about david and samuel and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms administered justice who i didn't know god was concerned about justice god is concerned about justice that's interesting and gain what was promised who shut the mouths of lions quenched the fury of the flames and escaped the edge of the sword watch this watch this closely whose weakness was turned to strength uh that that that part right there is what nabbed me whose weakness was turning straight now if you don't have any weakness in here that won't mean anything to you but if you understand by faith that god can take your weakness and turn it to strength glory to god the thing you hated about yourself the thing you worried about yourself the thing you were embarrassed about yourself the bible says by faith god can use your weakness and turn it to strength and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies can you say man let's go to judges for a minute and visit judges and i'm picking it up in the middle of the story but i'm going to tie it all together at barack's advance the lord routed cicero and all his chariots and army by the sword and siser got down from his chariot and fled on foot he got beat so bad he had to jump off his chariot and run barack pursued the chariots and army as far as harold's shepherd and hagar um and all cicerous troops fell by the sword all of them not a man was left sister meanwhile fled on foot to the tent of jail the wife of heber the key knight because there was an alliance between jabin king of hazor and the family of heber the kenite jael went out to meet caesar and said to him come my lord come right in don't be afraid so he entered her tent and she covered him with a blanket i'm thirsty he said please give me some water she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him up stand in the doorway of the tent he told her if someone comes by and asks you is anyone in here say no but jail hebert's wife picked up a tent pig and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast to sleep exhausted she drove the pig through the temple into the ground and he died judges 4 21 sow ends the word of the lord this morning i want to talk from a very unusual subject i want to talk from the subject velvet gloves velvet gloves us pray spirit of the living god fall fresh on us today we have come to be moistened by the dew of your glory the dry parched scorched earth in which we live have left us famished for your dewdrops if you would let it rain on us it would probably be more than we could handle but just let some drops let some drops fall on us to moisten our hearts our minds our souls our spirits our attitudes and our dispositions so that we can leave this place refreshed because we have been with the lord i thank you in advance for what you're going to do have your way great god that you are and we are careful to give you the glory and the honor and the praise not as if we were doing you a favor but it is yours rightfully yours and we only give you what is due to you in jesus name we pray amen you may be seated it is interesting to note that i underscored the fact that god is concerned about justice not just truth and not just mercy but justice that justice the bible said should flow down like a mighty stream it's god's will for his people for there to be justice and justice also means equality to be treated fairly to have the opportunities equally distributed amongst all people and yet that has not been the case not just in our contemporary society but down through history that has not been the case not with the traditional conversation alone that we often have about minorities in this country but even as it relates to gender there has not always been justice i am amazed when i read the text about deborah the only woman who is listed to be a judge over israel who subdued 9 000 chariots from the canaanite army and she hardly ever gets a mention anywhere not in a song not in the sermon not anywhere we are quick to talk about moses who was able to overcome 600 chariots but this woman overcame 9 000 chariots and hardly gets a mention at all and it might be because so much of the pulpit is dominated by men that we have a tendency to glorify the man at the expense of not acknowledging the woman because our influences has contaminated our theology to the degree that we don't always recognize women for fear that we cannot oppress them from the stage and from the pulpit and from doing all the things that they were given to do but deborah was a bad girl y'all she was a bad girl she she was a prophetess and a wife she was a judge and a family woman she had the power to rule as a judge and the ability to follow as a wife equally distributed in the same person one without contaminating the other she stood in a class all by herself to be honest society has often often often down through history been mesogenic in the way that we treated women women were treated almost like livestock not that long ago mary smith was decided by men through bartering the woman wouldn't even be in the room and they would decide who you were going to give your body to and who you were going to be married to and where you were going to go without you having any saying at all i know it's hard for you nick twist twisted sisters to understand this but this has not been that long ago they were basically sold based on the diary of the family given to the highest bidder it was it was a form of slavery to be a woman because they bought you and anytime people feel like they buy you [Music] they own you many cultures practice this then and some still do today one of the atrocities of the afghanistan being taken by the taliban is the fear of women's rights being abolished again as they had been in the past only this time they're being abolished by a generation for who for the last 20 years has enjoyed the freedom and the rights that would do them as women and they are shocked by the atrocities that their mothers were used to do you hear what i'm saying even america's history is littered with feminine abuse if the truth were to be told it was late in the fight for justice that that that women got any rights in this country at all and it's not that long ago if you talk to your grandmothers it's not that long ago that women were exiled from the right to vote they were exiled from the right to lead to have positions uh in in in corporate world or even uh in the pulpit or on stage in fact as a little boy i can remember that if a woman was to speak if a woman was to speak she had to stand on the floor she could sing all she wanted to but if she got ready to say anything she had to stand on the floor and this still goes on today wife beating was made illegal in all states of the united states only by 1920 up until 1920 it wasn't illegal to beat your wife and it wasn't enforced really strongly until 1970s in your lifetime there was a time period that it was common to be the child and a wife with the same belt think about that for a minute think about that particularly within feminism and women's rights movement they begin to push push push push to finally about 1970 they begin to recognize the loss from 1920 as concern about wives being beaten by their husbands gain more and more attention victory is something you have to fight for it doesn't come easy it doesn't come without fighting it doesn't come without protest often it doesn't come without bloodshed to a degree the pendulum has to begin to swing to a degree that women have rights never experienced before in fact it's a pretty good time to be a woman right now a lot is starting to change in the world for women come on talk to me somebody give me give me a little time to give you a little history i'm going somewhere passed by congress in june 4th of 1919 and ratified on august 18th of 1920 the 19th amendment granted women finally the right to vote up until then they had the right to work but not the right to vote they had the responsibility to pay taxes but not the right to vote taxation without representation the very thing we fought against we came along and did to women in this country the 19th amendment legally guarantees american women the right to vote finally and until you get the right to vote nobody pays you no attention young people hear me when i tell you the right to tweet is not the same as the right to vote you think you've really done something when you tweet it when you posted about something it doesn't mean anything at all the right to vote is the thing that makes a difference because no legislation is going to be passed because you tweet it only when the when the legislation is only passed when people fear that they're going to be booted out of office because you have the right to vote the right to vote is a very important thing it empowers women it changed the world it empowered people of color it empowered minorities it is a powerful thing achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle victory took decades of agitation and protest you don't always get what you want when you want it it takes a long time to get things to really change society changes ever so slowly ever so slowly and religion changes slower than that slower than that the me too movement was a wake-up call that the workplace can still be an unfriendly place for women to work saudi arabia granted women the right to drive only one year ago for the first time in the history of saudi arabia a woman could get behind a steering wheel and drive her own car can you imagine that a historic move that cracked open a window to new freedoms for women who have long lived under repressive laws we're living in the middle of change faith also now has been complicit in this i i can't understand that faith has been complicit it's been an accomplice in limiting women's rights and the bible was used to justify the abuse using scripture out of context like submission to control women they use those terms to beat women they've also used biblical terms to reinforce slavery scripture in the hands of a fool becomes a weapon of unrighteousness do you hear what i'm saying be careful how you use scripture when you have an agenda even church people sometimes will twist scripture to accomplish their own agenda to do what they want to get done that's why we don't need no bootleg preachers preaching in the house using scriptures out of context to control people because scriptures are powerful but when they're misused they become dangerous religion has been a part of the problem religion but not god god has often been an emancipator for women he's often spoken up for women he's always spoken for justice he's always spoken up for integrity the bible said male and female created he them and called his name adam he created them and called his name adam equally not substandardly she was equal adam and eve were equal male and female created he them and saw them as one person one person with the same justice with the same right she was taken out of adam's side not his back to stand behind him but rather his side to stand beside him and might i remind you of the daughters of zelophehad who had to go to moses because their father had died and had no sons and they weren't going to get their inheritance only because they were women and they had to go to moses and fight to get the right to inherit their father's wealth and moses in turn didn't give it to them right away he went to god and asked god what shall i do with these women that won't shut up these women that keep on coming up these women that keep on fighting back these women that keep on arguing these women that keep on protesting and the lord said to moses the woman is right i thought the sisters would shout me down to know that god had your back to know that god would speak up for you to know that god would make sure that you got your inheritance ought to make you shout me down to understand that you have a god who cares about you and sees you in the same life that he sees me and make sure you get everything that is inherited to you because if he wouldn't fight for your inheritance then your prayer life would have no power because every healing and every miracle and every deliverance that you ever get is also part of your inheritance and you don't have to go to a man to get a man to pray for you not any man not a pastor not a priest not a pope not a potentate it's good for you to know that when you bow your head and open your mouth you can open up heaven and god will hear you and you can get every promise that god has offered you and you have equal access to the throne not to replace me but to stand shoulder and shoulder beside me can we make some noise in this place this is not the kind of liberation that puts men down this is the kind of liberation that relieves stress off of men i don't want a woman that can't hold her own ground i don't want a mindless woman that cannot be a partner in life for the kind of devil we deal with i need somebody who can touch and agree with me i need somebody who can be strong when i'm weak i need somebody who can be wise when i'm angry i need somebody who can help in a crisis i mean if somebody breaks in the house i don't need nobody screaming in a corner i need somebody who can grab a lamp did i say that i said that out loud i didn't mean to say that in our text today we have two very powerful influential women that i hardly ever talked about one of them is debra and i told you deborah is a judge she's a judge she comes into power after e-hud she rises to power the bible doesn't tell us how she rises to power but she is a stand-alone woman to be a judge not over a court not over a community but over a country over a whole body of people over the tribe of israel is headed by a judge there were no kings so she was a sovereign power and absolute power and absolute authority and we hardly ever hear anything about this multitasking bad sister girl who could judge israel all day long all 12 tribes and still make it home for dinner and take care of her husband she was a bad sister and nobody says nothing about her she was a judge she was a wife and she was a prophetess she could hear from god she could get a word from god and the word that she delivered was sure and it was stable and it was solid and god chose deborah to be a judge at a time that the canaanites were attacking israel where part of god's judgment on israel and their 9 000 chariots had been sent against israel and god had a woman up front leading the way calling the shots making the decisions and in a place of power [Applause] on the other end of the spectrum is a woman named jail and jail is married to a man who was an ephraimite and jl is a housewife and both of them play a strong role in the story jl is not a judge she is not known to be a prophetess she did not write any books she did not have any particular obvious power but yet in the end of the day she does she strikes the final blow that ends the war and destroys the reign of the canaanites by a common woman a housewife that's good news for you don't have to have a degree you don't have to be a graduate you don't have to be a ceo you don't have to be a president you don't have to be a senator you still have power with god and jl represents a woman that's been overlooked and ignored but in the time of trouble god chose her to get a breakthrough are you hear what i'm saying there are two men in the story barack the ephraim and cicero cicero the captain of the canaanite army with his nine thousand chariots and soldiers war at that time was considered a man's responsibility was leadership and here god breaks all societal rules i don't know who this is for but the lord told me to tell you he's gonna break a rule to bless you i don't know whether you can handle that or not but god said he's gonna break a rule to bless you if you're strong enough if you're tough enough to withstand the ridicule of public opinion god said i'm going to put you in a position of influence and i'm going to break a rule to bless you and i'm not just talking to the women i'm talking to some men in here too that it looked like all the odds were against you and it looked like you would never be anything and if anybody knew where you came from they'd never understand where you're going but god said he's gonna break a rule to bless you he's gonna take you out of the hood and raise you up in a way that would blow your mind he's gonna take you from the back row to the front row and the last shall be first and the tail shall be the head and god said i'm getting ready to switch some things up that's why he's shaking the world right now because god is getting ready to switch some things up and i came to tell you this morning that change is on the way look at your neighbor and say change is on the way [Applause] change is on the way change is on the way forgive me for saying this it might be kind of rude but i don't want to come to church and change it's not on the way i don't want to worship a god that can't change anything i don't want to worship a god that's just a statue sitting on a wall i don't want to worship a god who can't make a difference in my life i came to worship a god that could do radical things they can do things that i cannot do that can touch things that i cannot touch i came to worship a god who is a god of miracles a god of healing a god of deliverance a god of power a yoke breaking god a door opening god a mountain moving god a wave making god when you see me shout that's what i'm shouting about when you hear me holler that's what i'm hollering about when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me i don't know about you but my soul cries out hallelujah [Applause] i don't want to be in a passive religion a limp-wristed religion that doesn't have influence it doesn't have impact that bring me from the gutter most to the uttermost i want to serve a god that when all of hell has come against me and all the demons are riding on chariots and all of satan's horsemen are coming to take me out i want to serve a god who has the power to strike a blow and break a yoke and open up a door and loose somebody i wish i had 30 seconds of crazy praise to fill this house [Applause] [Music] you see we really don't know how to praise god right because when it comes to praising god we give him those cute little praises we actually make more noise at a football game than we do in a church service but the bible said praise him according to his excellent greatness if your god is a great god he deserves a great praise i ought to be able to see the greatness of god in how you praise it on your couch in your living room sitting in your car looking at your ipad let everything that have breath yes yes if he's done something for you look at your neighbor and say he's greater than that he's greater than your dance he's greater than your shout he's greater than your tambourine he's greater than your voice he's greater than your leaping oh if i had the tongues of men and of angels i still wouldn't be able to express how great god is to me let the redeemed of the lord say so let the redeemed of the lord say so let of the lord [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so the story goes so the story goes that israel was in trouble and god raises up this one woman deborah to be a liberator [Applause] the oppressed becomes the liberator god has a sense of humor he will take your weakness and turn it into strength he will take the very thing that they used against you to open up a door for you that's why you ought to stop hiding your weakness because god said my strength is made perfect in your weakness i will take the foolish things of this world who would have thought that god would raise up a woman in the middle of one of the greatest attacks that israel had ever experienced when women were oppressed and yet god said that's who i want i want somebody who's oppressed i want somebody they look down on i want somebody they said would never be nothing i want somebody who had three strikes against them i want somebody who's been through hell and hot water so that when i raise you up they will know it was me and not you that got the job done if i had a witness in this place i would preach this morning i feel the presence of god about to take over this place [Applause] of all of the millions of people that god could have chose and all of the powerful and influential and highly respected people god chose deborah and she set up under a palm tree it is called the palm of deborah and she judged all of israel with power and integrity and authority the judge has become the judge imagine that imagine that the oppressed has become the leader do you have an imagination that accommodates a reversal in your life of what you've been through can you believe god that god could reverse your entire story that's why i am totally against suicide because when you kill yourself you don't know who you're killing you're killing your past but you haven't met your future god can do things in your future that will negate everything that happened in your past i come against the spirit of suicide it's based on where you've been but it ain't got nothing to do with where you're going god can raise you higher than you've ever been before and god raised her up [Applause] and there perched up under a palm tree she settled the disputes amongst the people with wisdom and grace and integrity and when the time was right the lord spoke to her and said it's time to settle up with the canaanites nine thousand nine thousand chariots with nine thousand men are coming against you and i want you to attack them not cry [Music] [Applause] not faint not collapse not give out god said i want you to attack them and bring them down and he told her to get barack to come and be the captain of her army she's the judge he's the captain she chose him she calls barack and says barack i want you to lead the army she says i'm going to bring them down to mount tabor but when i get them down to the mountain i want you to be ready with all of your armies to attack them and to destroy them and to annihilate them she was strong and barack said i will only go if you go with me [Applause] and he said if you don't go with me i will not go and she said i'll go so here you have barack and deborah launching war with the armies of canaan can i preach this thing and they're launching a war against the canaanites i want to talk to somebody who's launching a war and you feel overwhelmed and it feels like it's more against you than it is for you but i came to tell you something if god be for you he's more than the world against you you are not in this thing by yourself god is on your side and he's going to bring you out not just a conqueror but more than a conqueror talk to me somebody more than a conqueror but when when barack said i will not go unless you go with me and if you don't go with me i will not go he was saying no to god because god had called him to lead the army and at any time god calls you you don't say yes based on any condition if god said do it you do it i don't care who quits i don't care who leaves i don't care who walks away i don't care who gets mad let me talk to my leadership here in a minute away with allowing people to control your department i don't care who quits if god told you to do it while they're walking out the door have somebody else coming in the other door because the work of god has got to go forward and the old one monkey is going to stop the show can i hear some noise in this place if you don't want to go please don't hinder me i need some strong leaders some leaders with some spy and with some backbone and with some guts i'm tired of people whimpering and crying and chasing people and begging people i ain't gonna beg you to do nothing if you don't do it god's got somebody else that'll stand up and get the job done and get it done with power and with glory and i'm gonna find them and while i'm waiting i'm gonna do it myself [Applause] [Music] check my record [Applause] and deborah prophesied she said because you have said this you will do the work but a woman shall get the credit for bringing the canaanites to their knees and it almost sounds like she's talking about herself because she's fighting beside him but she's talking about a no-name inconsequential unthought about housewife named jail jail wasn't even on the map but god was holding her back for such a time as this these two women one on the left and one on the right these two women are the bookends of victory soft and sensitive compassionate and caring fragrant and romantic they are both wives and warriors i call them velvet gloves and i would love to say that i created the term but i did not the truth of the matter is the emperor napoleon bonaparte is often credited as having first used the expression of an iron fist in a velvet glove to signify that firmness can be couched with outward gentleness that you don't have to run around looking like a rock to be tough that you don't have to be hateful and mean and obnoxious to have strength that it is possible to have an iron fist in a velvet glove and so i called deborah and jail velvet gloves but don't let the glove fool you in that glove is an iron fish the notion of an iron fist in a velvet glove is an oxamoron the velvet is as soft as the iron is hard somewhere in every person in this room is a velvet glove and an iron fist and if you will find it you can fight your way out of anything that the enemy sends against you [Applause] some of you are more acquainted with your velvet glove than you are your iron fist and some are more acquainted with your iron fist than your velvet glove but they both serve a function in getting you the victory the velvet glove is sometimes the way you want to go because people will underestimate the velvet glove and never see the iron fist coming you if you're going to make it through this world you have to be a velvet glove with an iron fist can i preach this thing an iron fist in a velvet glove means a person who has a gentle sweet or unassuming appearance or disposition but who in reality is a particularly severe forceful and uncompromising an example use it in a sentence is tom is in it tom is in for it now with his wife she might seem like a nice lady to us but she's an iron fist in a velvet glove i wonder how many people in this room have discovered your iron fist how many people in this room have been pushed hard enough to find that place in you that won't break maybe there's somebody over in the corner that has been pushed to the wall and all of a sudden you discovered that you're tougher than you thought you were you're stronger than you thought you were you could do more than what you thought you could do or maybe it's somebody over here that got backed in a corner and shoved to the wall and you thought you were gonna break but you didn't and hell thought he had you but he didn't and you stood up with an iron fist in a velvet glove and you still know how to be nice and you still know how to be graceful and you still know how to be kind but don't push me because behind my velvet glove i got an iron fist i can make it by myself i can take it by myself i can stand up for myself i i'll fight you back because i got an iron fist in a velvet glove jl mirror a mere housewife succeeds after the deborah and barack have driven 9 000 soldiers down and beat them down and not one of them not one of them escaped not one of them escaped it was so bad that cicero had to jump off his chariot and run like a little girl [Applause] into a tent and he had the right one baby jail opened up the door to 10 and says come on in are you thirsty you want some milk come on and get some rest [Applause] and she and he got in her bed and laid down and she covered him up with a blanket and when he went to sleep this velvet glove this soft-spoken woman this easygoing individual had enough steel fist wait a minute not to get a nail no a nail would be bad she took a spike that would hold a tent in place in a windstorm and pulled it up out of the earth and stuck it into his head and nailed his head with a hammer to the ground [Applause] god says there's some things in your life you just got to nail it there's some stuff you just got to nail it there's some stuff you just got to nail it ain't no need to counseling it ain't no need to wrestling with it ain't no need and talking to it ain't no need and waiting on it to feel sorry for you this is a season in your life where you got to nail it if you don't nail it it's going to tell you i don't know who i'm preaching to i don't know what you're going through but god said he's going to put your enemy in a vulnerable position for you to nail it look at somebody in holland nail it type on the line nail it if you get the interview nail it if you go out to the house nail it if god opens up a door nail it whatever it is that god puts you in your house i want you to nail it and by the way devil not in my house you're not going to come in my house and do whatever you want to do because as for me and my house we will serve the lord i want 60 seconds of crazy praise from people who made up their minds i'm undaily i'm going to nail it i'm going to nail it i don't care what it takes i'm going to nail it i don't care what i got to go through i'm going daily this is my moment and this is my time this is my opportunity this is my job this is my chance to get my degree i don't care what my age is i'm gonna nail it i want you to praise god for nailing the thing that tried to nail you open your mouth and give him some praise praise him on the internet praise him on the live stream praise him on the youtube praise him on the facebook let everything that have breath praise the lord praise him right now praise him right loud praise him with your mouth praise it with your feet praise it with their hands somebody's got an anointing to nail that thing nail it to the floor nail it till it can't get away now until it doesn't move i can't hear you open your mouth [Music] yes yes confess it out loud i'm gonna nail it it's tough but i'm gonna nail it it's bloody but i'm gonna nail it if i have to walk over time i'm gonna nail it if i have to take two jobs i'm gonna nail it if i have to study all night i'm gonna nail it this is a season where you gotta nail it if you don't nail it it'll nail you make up your mind i'm gonna nail it i'm gonna mail it to the floor i'm gonna nail it to the floor i'm going to nail it to the floor i need a victory praise a celebration of when she fell sister up the wall was over when she nailed cicero the wall was over and god said when you nail this the war will be over do i feel victory in my blood i feel victory in my mind i feel victory in my spirit i feel victory in my life i'm gonna nail it i'm gonna nail it i'm gonna nail it as a mother i'm gonna nail it as a leader i'm gonna nail it as a father i'm gonna nail it as a preacher i'm gonna nail it as an entrepreneur i'm gonna nail it as a soul winner somebody shout like you gonna be jesus said to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dog you got to be both or you don't get the victory somebody say yes for years people have looked at you and all they saw was velvet gloves but they didn't know that inside you you had an iron fist but i want you to tell them don't let the glove fool you take it on the line don't let the glove pull you tell the devil don't let the glove fool you tell your weakness don't let the glove fool you don't let the glove fool you let the weak say let the poor say the greatest miracles occurred through the weakest people all through the bible god passed by strong people and found weak people and made strong people out of weak people turn around god's getting ready to turn your life around turn how you see yourself around turn your circumstance around turn your situation around samson wasn't a big man because if samson was a big man harry delilah would be stupid why would she have to ask him where his strength was if he looked strong but if he looked like pee-wee herman and he was still throwing gates then she had to try to figure out where it's coming from the devil's trying to figure out where your strength is coming from and yet god is blessing you who am i preaching to god found a man who did not have obvious strip because if he had obvious strength they would have had to hide delilah god said you have in obvious strength strength in strange places strength that's not apparent to the eye and that's why he chose you david was a boy when he killed goliath god didn't wait till he grew up but while he was still a child god used his weakness and turned it into strength he killed goliath with a slingshot a toy a rag and a rock but if god before you he's more than the world against you is god for you i said is god for you i said is god for you i said is god for you when god got ready to open up a restaurant he didn't use a businessman he used a boy with a lunch in a bag and fed 5 000 people because littlest much when god is in it shall yes [Music] when jesus got ready to redeem the world he didn't come as a lion of the tribe of judah he came as the lamb of god velvet gloves iron fist in a velvet glove they hung him high they stretched him wide he hung his head and for me he died they said he's just a velvet glove but early sunday morning he rolls up as a steel fist and said oh death where is your victory grave where is your sting somebody start praising god for a third day resurrection [Music] if you haven't gotten up yet your story ain't over let me tell y'all i said if you haven't gotten up yet your story ain't over if you haven't gotten up yet it's still friday night your story ain't over if you wait till sunday morning you're gonna see you got a iron fist in velvet gloves everybody that got a blessing this morning give god a praise [Music] everybody that got a business for it give god a praise [Music] he teaches my fingers to war he teaches me how to fight he teaches me how to fight he teaches me how to stand he teaches me how to not give up who would have thought that a housewife would feel it would kill a warrior she pulled the nail up and stuck it in his head and took a hammer and drove it all the way through his head but he never saw it coming because he never saw the steel fists [Music] when he laid down all he saw was a velvet glove [Applause] how has how has the enemy underestimated you and he laid down because he saw a velvet glove but he never even noticed that behind your velvet glove is an iron fist margaret thatcher the first female prime minister over great britain her nickname was the iron lady because beneath them heels and that makeup she was tough church hear me as i come to a close with covid running rampant with murder on an uprise with people going crazy all around you with people throwing in the towel every few minutes this ain't no time to get weak this ain't no time to give up this is no time for you to collapse this is a time for you to walk around as smooth as this velvet glove and as strong as an iron fist when jail drove the spike through cicero's head the war was over barack did the fighting but jl brought the victory [Applause] i'll fight [Applause] you bring the victory if you fight i'll bring the victory if two of us agree as touching anything on earth it shall be done your standing here this morning is living truth that if we come into agreement no weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises against you god will condemn it so if you kill out the canaanites i'll drive the spike in scissors head or if i kill the canaanites you drive the spike in scissors head it is either way it goes we're not gonna stop we're not gonna stop we're not gonna stop we're not gonna quit we're not gonna back up we're not gonna take down we're not gonna give up till we get the victory press down shake it together and run it over press down shake it together and run it over because we are a steel fist and a velvet glove and no weapon formed against us shall be able to prosper i'm talking to you too i'm talking about your fight i'm talking about your situation i'm talking about your circumstance whatever devil fit fight you it's time to roll up your sleeve and say wait a minute i'm gonna fight back till i nail it until i nail it i'm going to nail it say it i'm going to nail it say it again say it till you mean it say until it never hears you say it till the world hears you say until the enemy hears you i'm gonna nail it whatever you come against [Music] or whatever comes against you i command you this day in the name of the lord jesus to nail it stop entertaining stuff you won't nail if it gets in your tent nail it if it lays in your bed nail it i don't care if it's grief i don't care if it's anger i don't care if it's low self-esteem it's time to nail it you ain't got time to feel sorry for yourself this is a moment for you to nail that thing in the name of jesus get whatever you got to get get therapy take counseling take medicine read scriptures say bible verses say go i love jesus turn around in a circle i don't care what you use as a weapon but fight fight [Music] open your mouth [Music] never that is the sound of velvet gloves make some noise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed out of your family out of your daughter out of your grandchildren utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed utterly destroyed finally destroyed utterly yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yes yes yes yes [Music] [Music] yes yes yes yes yes yes where you fight where you fight there where you're fighting where you're fighting where's your fighter where's your fighters where's your fighters where's your fighter where's your father where's your planet where's your fight where's your fight [Music] man [Music] that's my prophecy to you this week as you go into this week it is going to this week as you step into this week as you step into this week as you step into this week you're going to nail it till you utterly destroy him [Applause] for the first time i began to realize all my life i wondered why did he call me why didn't you get one of those talented people one of those gifted people one of those good people why why did you i suddenly began to realize that he chose me because he turns weakness into strength the bible said he did it with samson he did it with jephthah he did it with barack he did it with deborah he did it with jl and you mean he won't do it with you you

Channel: T.D. Jakes

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Keywords: td jakes, faith, wtal, woman thou are loosed, megafest, potters house, bishop jakes, pastors and leadership, pastors, leaders, instinctbishops, village, God uses weaknesses, velvet gloves, iron fist, hebrews 11, judges 4, where do my weaknesses come from, how to find kindness

Id: E8RixzvUf8I

Length: 66min 34sec (3994 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 12 2021