Your Breaking Point Is Your Breakthrough Point - Bishop T.D. Jakes

why do you think God has you here at this moment a cave that wants to talk to you he's got you here because he's got something wants to tell you because the lights been too noisy too busy and too fast and too loud and too rambunctious and you couldn't hear God brought you to the cave to change your perspective do you think God doesn't know what happened to you do you think God does not realize the injustice --is of the pain and the trauma you've been through God already knows that God wants to whisper something to you and you need to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying cuz he's gonna show you not only how to get out of the cave and how to get to the king [Music] well I've been asking the Lord what he would have me to share with you and the Holy Spirit has directed my attention get your Bibles and open your hearts and open your spirits as we prepare to experience what God is about to say to us it's in Genesis chapter number 42 verse number 33 through 37 Genesis chapter 42 verse number 33 through 37 give you a minute to find that a loofa god is on the way hallelujah who we bless your name now if we were here in the service like we normally will be we'd have you to stand for the reading of the word so you can do that at home if you want I'm gonna read the passage and the man the lord of the country said unto us hereby still I know that ye are true men leave one of your brethren here with me and take food for the famine of your households and be gone and bring your youngest brother unto me then shall I know that you are no spies but that ye are true men so will I deliver you your brother and ye shall traffic in the land so he's asking them to use their brother for collateral and it came to pass as they emptied their sacks that behold every man's bundle of money was in his sack and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money they were afraid and Jacob their father said unto them me have you bereaved of my children he starts listing his children Joseph is not and Simeon is not and now you want to take away Benjamin all these things are against me and Reuben spake unto his father saying slay my two sons if I bring him not to thee deliver him into my hand and I will bring him to thee again can you say man I want to use for a thought for your consideration this morning your breaking point is your breakthrough point I must say that again your breaking point is your breakthrough point and though I'm happy to appreciate everybody I really want to preach to people who have been overloaded stressed out at the end of your rope feel like if one more thing happens imma pull the hair out why don't have here but I will pull the hair I used to have out of my head I've just had my with it you're your breaking point is your breakthrough point let's pray together father in the name of Jesus sanctify the Word of God into our hearts and into our spirits let the word give life to us anoint me that I might be able to unfold the word in such a way that even those who may not be familiar with the word can understand it without losing the integrity of the strength of those who are experienced in the word let me feed the entirety of your family both the young and the old the experience of the new convert in Jesus name we pray somebody shout amen you may be seated in the presence of the Lord so what had happened was Jacob who is a descendant of Abraham who is a man of faith that God used in such a mighty way Jacob is now an older man he is living in the land that Abraham has founded and discovered it is what we refer to as a natural promised land but now the promised land has a problem it has become the place of famine now later 400 years further in the future rather 400 years in the future the place that he's trying to get to will be the place that they're trying to get away from and where the family is now will become the promised land later on and why do I take the time to tell you there because everything changes in life nothing stays the same sometimes the person you meet who was a blessing ends up becomes a burden and the person that you thought was a burden ends up becoming your greatest blessing you can't get stuck into one frame of thinking about a thing like it will always be the same because everything changes over time at this particular time what Abraham thought to discover the Promised Land the land that flows with milk and honey there's no flowing going on the milk has dried up the honey has dried up in the honeycomb there are no more grapes being gathered in the field there are no crops there's no gathering of wheat the famine has broke it out the cows have gotten thin the sheep are afflicted any time one thing happens in one arena it affects every arena we're just talking about the loss of a water but water affects crops which affects food which affects cattle which affects people when one thing happens it's a domino effect and one thing leads to another leads to another leads to another until jacob says to his sons the sons he has left I gotta get out of here we got to get out of here we got to go someplace where there's gonna be food because they we live by that that that food that ability to access food and if there is no food there we cannot we cannot survive that's what makes the scripture profound man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God it doesn't say that we don't live by bread and since we don't live by bread alone but we do have to have some bread they're running out of bread they're running out of food the children are getting sick breast milk is not flowing the babies are crying the cattle are dying everything is affected what was greed has turned brown and they said some of Jacob's sons he sends down into Egypt where things are going well to see if there's a possibility that he can negotiate a way for them to enter into Egypt and sejoon there until the famine is over God has a way of moving us through trouble that's a good shout spot right there he has a way a movement I still trouble he knows that we wouldn't move if certain things didn't Drive and he'll allow things to dry up sometimes not because he's trying to kill you but because he's trying to move you to the next level I don't know who I'm preaching to but I feel like I'm talking to somebody already just because something has dried up over here that means you have to drive with it you may have to move you may have to change you may have to be adaptable enough to get out of the traditional way of surviving but you but at the end of the day God will use it to shift you now Jacob has sent his sons over into Egypt and they have gone over there and they have met what they will later what they came to learn was there is strange brother named Joseph who they had thrown into a pit who they had ridicule and ostracized who they had told their father that he was dead when they finally recognized that the new Prince of Egypt is the old son of Jacob as well you got to be careful how you treat people when you meet them in one dimension you don't know where God is gonna take them to in the next dimension the last time they saw their brother he was in the bottom of a pit and oh well that they had thrown him in bruised and battered and shaken and scared they had watched the Midianites sell him into slavery and he was gone and he went home and told her daddy they waved his bloody coat in front of their daddy and said he's dead the people just because everything just because people are related to you doesn't always mean that they're nice to you Oh y'all ain't gonna say nothing but I know I'm right about it and I always said when they see him again after all the things he's gone through and that's for another message he is now the Prince of Egypt and now as the Prince of Egypt they are negotiating with the person that they tried to destroy be careful life has a way of switching just like the Promised Land switches in 400 years the life of Joseph is switched he was in the pit last time they saw him now he's in the palace and how he's calling the shots now he's in control now there's role reversal that's why the Bible says to do unto others as you'd have them to do I you cuz you never know where they're gonna be you and you're gonna be there you don't want the trouble that you're going through to be something that you read same as somebody so here we are at this point and Joseph now in the promised land has said to them or one of his board has said to them if you're going to go back leave one of your brothers here as collateral because they're suspicious that they might be spies leave one of your brothers here there will know that you're real Joseph in the meantime has taken money and put it into their bags when they get back home to Jacob their father who is now old they open up the banks and there's money in the base and get scared because they know they didn't put the money in there they don't know whether they're gonna be accused of theft or if they don't know whether that this is payment for the brother and the brother has gone into slavery they don't they don't know what to think and when you don't know what to think you think everything and they come to they come to tell their father can you imagine having to walk over to your father and tell him that that your brother is left in Egypt and and that we don't we don't even know for sure how we're gonna get him back and they walk he later date when they told Jacob then his son was in Egypt and that they were not able to bring him back it was too much for him now that now let's get Jacob now but we're about to get somewhere we're about to get something Jacob is not new to the scriptures Jacob has been through a lot already Jacob has been fighting not only his life Jacob Esmond fighting since he was in his mother's womb Jacob is one of twins born he was fighting while she was still pregnant with him fighting for recognition he was fighting when he was in her house fighting for the birthright he's had to fight all of his life he's even had to fight with God to understand who he was he doesn't know who he is Jacob hasn't always been a good man he's done some bad things he's done some wild things he's tricked some people he's been a con artist he's been asking yeah but there's something good in Jacob and there's something holy in Jacob and Jacob has wrestled with God so he wrestled in his house he wrestled in the hole and he wrestled with God when you had to fight all your life all my life I had to fight huh anytime you had to fight all of your life I don't care how strong you are I don't care how tough you are I don't care how resilient you are I don't care how mean you are I don't care how radically you are eventually you get to a breaking point I don't care how many times you have rose up the victor he has fought Esau at war he has fought in the womb and survived he has fought on the mountain and prevail with God he has won a lot of battles but now he's old and the the accrued impact of stress has taken a toll on him you know there's always that one person in the family that's the strong one let's call Mary let's call Lucy Lucy can handle it Fred can fix it let's call this one let's call that we have a way of leaning on them to get us through but eventually even the strong get tired even the strong get weary even the strong get to the breaking point and come to the point then you feel like if one more thing happens to me I'm gonna lose it if one more email one more text one more phone call one more bill collector one more problem one more affliction one more surgery one more to have just gonna lose it I will steal everything else but I'm at my breaking point everything has a breaking point everything when it were in the company I used to work for they would rate different types of equipment by their psi and the PSI just meant how much pressure they were at that particular machine was able to absorb the pressure rating how much death if you it's strong enough to absorb a certain psi if you go beyond that you're gonna destroy it a car engine has an RPM it's rated to be able to go at a certain speed its rates per minute so in a certain rpm it can continue to handle if you go beyond that there's no guarantee so everybody strength has a limit everybody has a limit there's no sign on us there's no tag on us there's nothing written on our forehead where your limit is might not be where my limit is where his limit is might not be where her limit is but everybody has a limit in your family everybody has a different limit some people can tolerate pain better than others some people could go through bereavement better than others some people can be up under attack and withstand better than other know meaning you turning up your nose at their limit because you got a limit to just cuz there's not the same limit don't mean you don't have a limit Jacob wish oh my god he said his limit I want to talk to somebody tonight who feels like you're close to your limit and if you like me whenever I get close to my limit not only am i suffering from the pressure being close to my limit I'm suffering from the embarrassment that I have a limit because deep down on the inside I think I ought to be strong enough to absorb everything I don't care what they hit me with so I can be close to my limit and not even tell anybody that I met my breaking point because I'm ashamed that I feel the bottle hear what I'm saying when you a Christian and a believer there's another level of anxiety that comes on you because you feel like I could do all things through Christ who strengthens me and so I shouldn't have any living at all Christ has no limits you have a limit Christ can do anything he can he can absorb anything but you have a limit yeah well I said I can do all things through Christ but you're not just doing it through Christ you're doing it through flesh so you got to go to bed sometimes it's Christ in you the hope of glory we have this treasure the treasure is infinite but we have it in earthen vessels the vessel is finite you have a limit you got to go to bed sometime you got to get some rest sometime you got to eat sometime you got to get away sometimes you trust me you have a limit and then function act like they don't have a limit or lie and they do have a look you can have more degrees of the thermometer but still have a limit you can have more talent than anybody in your city and still have a limit a lot of times when you're talented people see your talent and they think you have no limits because you have a talent those are two different things my talent is not me feel like I'm helping somebody today and Jacob who has wrestled with God and prevailed and the Bible said his name will be called Israel because now you have wrestled with God and prevail who wrestles with God and prevailed Jacob who had wrestle against Esau and walked away with his birthright Jacob who have withstood everybody who was stood Jacob who stood up even when his father didn't like him Jacob who had withstood the scorn of his own father still has a breaking point and when they told him we left your son back in Egypt for definite aware about that daddy we're gonna get him back we don't get him back youth is always optimistic but age you're seeing some things age knows that every story doesn't have a happy ending age knows that if you keep driving real fast in the car they're gonna find you up under a bridge AIDS knows that you could lose everything so you don't gamble everything you don't risk everything cuz you've been through enough you've had enough willing and you've had enough losing to learn that losing is possible I told you that Jacob had had a series of winnings but uh he's also had a series of losses he has he is he has lost a lot of things he loses his wife the love of his life the one that he's labored to have he loses her I put laboring 14 years together he loses her first she said bearing than this she has a child and then she has another child and the birth of that next that last child killed her he lost the love of his life he's taking some real blows in his life to finally find the love of you like number one that's the miracle number one to find somebody that you can love for a lifetime it's a gift from God and then to have her die on the road to Ephrata while they were just a few miles from Africa she gassed and died and pushed the game birth to a son that would be called Benjamin and there on the side of the road he has to bury the love of his life he's already lost his beloved son he's lost his beloved son he's lost him completely and to lose his beloved son is a painful thing he's lost Joseph he's lost his beloved wife and he's lost his beloved son and now they're telling him you gonna lose again and he says this is this is this is too much this is just this is I can't handle it maybe I could have took it when I was younger but I can't handle it now see every time you survive a blow you spin something every time you come to a fight yeah I might have worn the fight but it costs me something to win the fight and I've spent so much I'm not sure that I've got enough left in me to fight this kind of fight again I'm talking to somebody who knows what I'm talking about you've had some wins but you've had some losses and the sum total of the losses somehow always screams louder than the victories Oh y'all hear what I'm saying that the sum total of the losses always sounds louder than the total of the victory you don't see Jacob rehearsing all of his victories here he's rehearsing all of his failure because when you're under attack the enemy won't show you where you want people always bring up where you're lost cuz he's trying to get your mind but God it's sitting this word to you today to break that stronghold but the enemy's trying to use to make you forget how many times you are your whole life was not a waste your whole life was not a series of failures take back old man take back how God brought you take back old man and remember how God bless you take back home woman and remember how God brought you to how you survived how you were born alive and somebody else was died in the crib take back and remember God brought you out of the hospital face back think how God sustained you when you didn't have a job think back and remember how God delivered you when everybody had the front of you that feedback all of a sudden everything starts closing in on me now not everybody who's watching this video knows what it feels like to have everything closed in on me but I'm a good one to preach this because I understand what it feels like to have to feel to feel like it's not true but feel like feel like everything's closing in on you're in the old man yes he said Jacob has gone and Syrian is gone and you want to take my lass Benjamin and take him he says all these things are against me this Sunday morning I want to talk to somebody who's dealing with collateral damage you've survived a lot of things you've been through a whole lot of things but on inside your soul is tired if your body was tired and not would fix it oh but when your soul gets tired sleep won't do nothing with that when your soul gets tired you can't take a vacation and fix that with your file gets tired you can't find nobody to talk to the ventilate your soul and recuperate who you are when your soul gets higher you get tired of encouraging people with your soul it's tired you don't want nobody to even call you on the telephone what do you want and what do you want and who's going with y'all Sal gets tired you start yelling at the kids and slapping the dog and kicking the cat when y'all hug it's fire this take a soul with Tyler I feel like preaching I feel like he's a Jacob so was tired I want to talk to somebody whose soul is time and you're bent over on the inside you standing up on the outside but you're bent over on the inside and you feel like oh my god all these things these things it's a whole collection it's not one thing if there's one thing out of wood if it was two things I would have put there but it's not just one or two things it's all these things are against me look at how he had purposes it's against me now my son is in Egypt but it's against me and he thinks that Joseph is dead it's against me see how he has taken what happened to them and owned it for him look at how he interprets it as it being against him even though the attack was against them because it was people he loved he said it was against me see sometimes the pain we carry is not all sometimes the pain we carry is paid we adopt it it belongs to somebody else it happened to them but it affected you and now the old man is standing there he's free he's alive but he's not enjoying his life coz he says all these things I guess free Jacob has counted up what's wrong but he has not counted up what's right and I'm just wondering this morning have you spent as much count up what's right as you have counting up what's wrong oh these things against me and alas I'm at my breaking point you gotta understand when you have been other people's hero a shame that comes on you when you need the help you gauge with you're always the one on the giving here there's a shame that comes on you that you need to be encouraged that you need to be uplifted that all these things are closing in on you and very seldom will we even an utter of the words we just will just silently erode like sands off the banks of a river side never screamed though they are dislodge in the silence the the constant friction of life the friction the going and coming and getting up and going to bed and dealing with this and dealing with that and answer the phone and handling this and handling this one and handling that one he created it and little do you know everything that she went through and everything that passed by you he rode it a little sudden he says all these things against me and he is at the breaking point the son says oh no daddy no daddy I promise you on the lives of my two sons I am going to get Simeon back I'm gonna get him back daddy I'm gonna get him back calm down I'm gonna get him back these are the family discussions that nobody ever talks about oh no no you don't put this on Instagram this is not what you put on snapchat no no no it's not going on snapchat no no you know go FaceTime and talk about this these are discussions to go behind closed doors with your an a breaking point it affects that thing in your house you smile for the picture but as soon as the picture is over the grimace returns because you are at a breaking point I'm talking to somebody you did not need no covet 19 to be had a breaking point you are already dealing with this and debt and this bet and this and debt and now on top of that now we got a pandemic I pay a different a worldwide pandemic a worldwide pandemic that threatens your job your future your economy and all of a sudden you started when nobody's looking not not wouldn't it looking when they're looking you quoting scriptures when they're looking you're talking good when they're looking you're standing strong when they look at you tell them we gonna get through this we're gonna look at you you got your game face on when they're looking but so what is that I'll go to bed about two o'clock in the morning three o'clock in the morning with your head bent over like you're carrying across and you are they still cross who came in across like the weight of the process too much for you to bear about three o'clock in the morning you start thinking all these things are against me can you imagine what it was like to be Jesus and the cross would be too heavy and your disciples are looking at you and they saw you walk on the water and heal the sick and raise the dead and now you're struggling around with a cross that's too heavy if Jesus said this weight is too much if he stumbled upon the depressor of the load of a breaking point and somebody had to come and give up on their who are you to think that you can handle all kind of weight and take on everybody's problem and fight every battle and land on your feet he said all these things are against me that's what he said that's how he perceived it that's how he saw it but that's not how it was oh I want to make a distinction between how you see it and how it is there your program and especially talking about keeping it real and they think telling their business is keeping it real keeping it real it's separating how you perceive something from how it is Jakub perceived that all these things were against him when in reality all these things were working for him number one Joseph was not dead and if it were not for the famine he would never find out that Joseph was not dead number two shannon was going to be reconnected to him again and if it were not for the famine there would be this big family reunion and the Jacob had lost was about to come back to this life again this kind of preacher cuz you believe pro-v a bad team or do you believe me he's about to come back to you oh you understand what he did from a job you'll know instead what did to my car your non-sterile did to my mans you understand what did forget I don't care about all of that I want you to understand that God is still sitting on the throne and that he's still working things out and that Romans 8:28 is still true though it hadn't even been written yet that all these things work together for the good and them that love the Lord the things that he thought was against him are going to work together for his good the things you think that our gets you they're going to work together for your good I feel the spirit of prophecy on me right now I'm prophesied to somebody it looks bad but it's gonna work out good they meant it for evil but God's gonna make it good you cried all night but joy is coming in the morning you're bent over now but you gonna be standing strong in a minute I came to tell you your breaking point is your breakthrough about to give you a break I know the devil don't want you to believe I know your flesh cannot receive it I know your mind cannot encompass it I know the evidence does not verify but my faith is my evidence it's all the evidence I need of a thing that I have not seen and I came to tell you today that when it's all over everything the enemy stole from you God is going to give it back to you I want somebody to take 30 seconds and just praise God like you lost your mind praise him like you're on the verge of a breakthrough I know you feel like you're at a breaking point but I want you to pray them like you're the version of a breakthrough you get ready to confuse the devil he said I thought she was about to have a nervous breakdown why is she jumping up praising in the living room shouting by the couch praising God didn't leap out the bed and praising God it's cuz I just realized my break point is my breakthrough and a breakthrough it's on this way I value to give him some praise right where you are there you to praise like you lost your mind I dare you to praise it like you got nothing to lose I dare you to praise him like you believe God radically I dare you to praise him thank you know God's got a plan dad you're the praising like the best is yet to come praise it black you're on the verge of a breakthrough praise it like you're about to get up out of that bed praise it like your body's about to be healed praise it like your temperature's going down praise it like your lungs are starting to breathe again praise it like you got money in the bank praise it like all your children came home praising like God just open up a window from heaven and pour you out of the guy open your mouth and praise God I can do the preacher but you got to do the praise I can do the tellers but you got to do the hearing I can do the declaration but you got to receive it you that add the breaking point give God a praise and put the devil to shame the more you praise it the more you put the devil to shame don't be afraid to give God some glory don't be afraid to lift him up don't be afraid to lift up hands that have been worried and don't be afraid to lift up your head don't be afraid to open up your mouth don't be afraid to thank God cause everything is gonna shift in your life and the tail is gonna become the head and the head is gonna become the tail and the sick will be healed and the bow will be loosed somebody shout yeah the reason I chose this text oh you got me excited the reason I shot the reason I the reason I chose this text is because Joseph precedes it Jacob perceives it one way but God perceives it another Jacob thinks he's had a breaking point but this is the beginning of his breakthrough so they load him up and say come on daddy just trust what you can't trace believe what you can't see come on daddy get on in the car by faith everything's gonna be all right it's all the whole workout and step by step moment by moment God was leading him into Egypt where he would be sustained the rest of his life the rest of his life the rest of his injustice he would not want for bread he would not long for water God would supply all of his needs do foreigners do outside us do people who had nothing to gain God had positioned Joseph to be in the right place at the right time so that when his father was at a breaking point his son had come into his own God brings down one and he takes up another and this is Jacob was going down Joseph what's going up and he raised him up so that when the old man was down he could say come on to this house and he'd read the rest of your life I came and Hale you this morning the things are about to switch for you hallelujah that it feels like a breaking point but it's really a breakthrough moment and if you just got the faith to trust God you got the courage to stop counting what your loss and remember what you want you'll get through this Jacob live the rest of his life waited on a hand and foot taking care of eating the bread of the Egyptians you understand it's a Hebrew man eating the bread of the Egyptians it's a monotheistic man eating the brand of a polytheistic people it's it's it's the wealth of the unjust laid up for the just that's why you ought to be nice there everybody cuz you don't know who God's gonna use to bless you they don't have to have your faith to have your blessing so you can't handle me they don't have to have your belief system to have your blessing God put the children's bread in the hand of the Egyptians and because they had a relationship with people outside of their demographics car window and He blessed them and it was so I'll come to the close of this message oh I wonder I want to know how do you perceive it do you perceive it as a breaking point or a breakthrough you need to remain your breaking point you need to rename it and call it breakthrough that's what the model me when he said call those things that are naughty so they were listen here fritters I closed today there's somebody out there who does not know Jesus and the free part of your sins there's a backslider who let a breaking point drive you away from the breakthrough you left you left he didn't leave you you left him you'll find the prodigal son is still at the same address he never left and you need to come home there's a sinner out there even the sinners recognize that the Bible is being fulfilled you can take the newspaper and the Bible and the Book of Revelations and put them side by side and the reading almost are saying the plagues it's all lining up and even the sinners are starting to look and think a little bit different people who scoffed at the church I'm not saying the church is perfect we're not perfect but the gospel is they have to rethink their position on faith you might better stop praying to the universe and call him by his name his name is Jesus ha blast seven wonderful name I feel like crazier than the me blast that one today the name of Jesus best power in the name of Jesus you need to call that name right now do you not know if you asked it he'll come in your life I don't care what you did and who you did it with I don't care how far off the track you got I don't care what went wrong in your life if you call on him he'll come into your heart it's as simple as saying Lord I know I'm a sinner just say it with his Lord enormous City I don't know I've done wrong and I confess my sins please have mercy forgive me I need a new beginning loin i believe you passed for my sins you shed your blood that i might be safe I'm not asking you come into my life before you come into my heart come into my heart come into my heart not just my house into my heart and then overflow into my house and overflow into my situation but I'm through asking you to get me out of trouble when I've never really given you my life so they suddenly wanted I give my heart to you Jesus I turn it over to you Jesus work a miracle in my life Jesus watch man your blood Jesus I accept it's my seat I have a backslider daddy I've been gone a long time but I'm coming home coming home I accept you as my redeemer in Jesus name give him a praise all over the bed why do you think God has you here at this moment a cave god wants to talk to you he's got you here because he's got something to tell you because the lights been too noisy too busy and too fast and too loud and too rambunctious and you couldn't hear God to the cave to change your perspective do you think God doesn't know what happened to you do you think God does not realize the injustice is of the pain and the trauma you've been through God already knows that God wants to whisper something to you and you need to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying cuz he's gonna show you not only how to get out of the cave and how to get to the king [Music]

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Length: 45min 24sec (2724 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 26 2020