Spoken by T.D.JAKES
Spoken by T.D.JAKES
what is something you'd suggest
To add to our daily routine
To empower ourselves?
Quiet.
we're too busy
we are so busy
that we don't notice that we're not productive.
busy does not mean that you are producing
we are just spinning our wheels
and the great
thinking and progress
That we've made in this country.
Steam engines, telephones,
automobiles, all types of things
spacecrafts were done by people
who had moments to think.
we're moving so fast and at breakneck speed,
and if we get a free moment
we're on Twitter
and Facebook and everything.
it's the death of creativity.
And I would challenge people
to go back to meditation and
if you're spiritual, go back to prayer
if you're not, just go back to just laying
still for a moment to clear your head
to hit the reset button,
because we are starting every day
with the burdens from yesterday
assaulting us in today.
Let's put a comma between all of it,
shut it all down
and you'd be surprised what you can hear
when you shut up.
Too many times,
we have spent so much Focus
on teaching you to be good seed,
that we haven't taught you
the power of good soil.
And so, when we come to soilish issues
the seed ignores the soil.
We flick the channel,
that has nothing to do with me.
we close our eyes
because we have been taught to be good seed,
but we have not been taught to pay attention
So and yet the Bible is clear.
Jesus says the sword with false sowing seed
and in some fell by the wayside.
Some fell among rocks, some fell among stones.
The whole text is about environment.
Look at you and look at your environment.
have you been positioned
to flourish?
positioning has a lot to do with flourishing,
to be in an environment,
in a family that supports you.
My sister and I were talking the other day.
I was telling what an amazing person
she is that all of our lives together
and all the things that God did in my life,
not once in all of the years that I've known her
and she was there when Mama had me.
Have I ever known her to be jealous of me?
Not once, not ever
she has always been my cheerleader
my greatest fan.
And she said, how could I be jealous of you?
You're my brother
I said,
A lot of people have siblings that hate them
That I'm jealous of them.
That hope they talk
And some of my development has to be
That God planted me in an environment of people
that supported me
my brother, my sister, my mother,
my father, they all supported me.
You can have good seed,
but if you've been in bad soil,
people who hated you,
environments that denied you,
education that underserved you,
communities that limited you,
mentality said poisoned you.
Oh, do you hear what I'm saying?
if your soil wasn't right,
it doesn’t mean that you're not right.
But if your soil wasn't right,
it's going to affect how you root
and how you grow.
And you might grow a little bit.
The Bible says you can grow for a while
but then the will choke you out all the rocks
will not have enough soil
for your roots.
Are you blaming God for something
you ought to be blaming the soil for?
you cannot take a
peach seed and planted in a teaspoon of dirt
and expect it to grow.
Though the teaspoon of the dirt
is the same size as the peach seed.
it will not grow
the seed will only grow when it is planted
in something bigger than itself.
And I want to know
where are you playing it this morning?
Are you planted
in something bigger than you
or have you always been planted in teacups
surrounded by low dirt, little resources,
small-minded people,
narrow limited places,
that never let you stretch
to reach your capacity.
Sometimes you got to go where the corn needs.
To be planted
is Destiny concealed.
To have increase its Destiny reveal.
So, when you plant a seed, you don't plant it
as if the planting were the final destination.
You plant it and you can't see it anymore.
Is Destiny is concealed.
In the hopes
that ultimately
it will become a stalker or of corn
or an apple tree or whatever it was you plant it.
And in between,
the destiny concealed and the
destiny revealed
is something we call watering.
And I thought
as dynamic
as the text may be
to Grumble with the notion of being planted
and to Grapple with the notion of having increase
seems totally irrelevant
if we don't stop by the station of watering.
Because watering is the last step
before increase.
It is the transition point
between what is concealed and what is revealed.
And without the benefit of watering,
The destiny will die in the ground,
Never reaching its potential
simply because it has never been watered.
And I thought I would ask you this morning,
have you ever been watered?
I'm reading somebody's mail right now.
you come out, embrace what I'm about to teach.
If you don't understand,
that you have been planted,
you didn't grow wild, you didn't just happen.
you weren't just an afterthought
you didn't just come to be.
you were planted.
the sperm cell that created you out swam
all of the millions of other cells
before you had a Bible.
before you had a Bible
before you had a hymn book.
you were already in a fight
and that cell outswim all the rest
because you have been planted
well, I want to make the distinction
about being planted
because the active planting can be confusing
to the student who has not watched,
because planting looks no different from burial.
in order to do either one of them
you got to do some digging.
And once you dig down in the ground,
Both of them are conceal.
but one of them has a destiny
and the other one does not.
You bury the dead to get rid of the body,
but you plant a seed
so that it can go through a transformation
of coming back up greater than it was
when it went down.
Oh, good God, of mercy so good, humble
I'm so good
come over here
say it again.
When you plant a seed,
you're not bearing it to get rid of it.
you're planting it.
so that it can go through a metamorphosis
and come back up
better than it was when it went down.
how many people in this room
have come up better than you were?
I'm better
I'm better
I'm better than it was when it went down.
it was good for me that I've been afflicted.
so had I not been afflicted
I would have never known the glory of God.
I'm better for it
I didn't like it, but I'm better for it
I couldn't see down there, but I'm better for it.
You see I was planted in a dark place
where my sight didn't work for me.
but I'm better for every time you
go through some dark and you can't see your way out.
Remember, you've been planted, not been buried.
and when you come up,
I'm coming up
I'm coming up
write yourself a note
I have not been buried.
I have been planted.
I may be underground
but I'm not buried in this mess
I'm planted in it
I'm planted in it
and if I'm planting it
expect me to come back up again.
making your relationships count
because everything is about relationships.
first of all, your relationship with God,
that's a very important thing to have
because as long as you know
that there's somebody in charge,
you don't have to bear the brunt
of the responsibility and the weight
of what's going on in your life.
you can talk to the boss.
number two, enjoy your relationship with yourself.
if you don't like
you it makes it hard for me to like you.
because people when you
walk into their atmosphere,
they draw you into the cosmos of their own drama.
And if they're full of drama without you,
when you come in
you become
caught up in the Cyclone of their drama.
enjoy your relationship with yourself,
and then anybody else who comes.
they enter into a party you
already started
you understand?
Yeah, yeah, and
I’m just saying, yeah
And then relationship with your kids,
The relationship with your spouse,
The relationship with your friends,
Taking time to enjoy the relationships
Because there is no fruit.
Nature teaches us that there is no fruit,
without relationships,
you cannot be fruitful by yourself
in business, in home, in life, in church.
I don't care what it is
you are no more than the relationships
you surround yourself with
And make sure that though the good one
