Latest / THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER / TD Jakes Sermons Reposition Yourself Part 4 - The Potter’s House of Dallas
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The problem with some people's marriages is that you married Israel,
- 0:09Speaker 1: but you got to live with Jacob. Y'all don't want
- 0:13Speaker 1: to talk to me. Let me leave that alone. And
- 0:17Speaker 1: until you can deal with Jacob, you can't enjoy Israel
- 0:21Speaker 1: because both of them show up from time to time
- 0:24Speaker 1: without warning because they're both laying in the same bed. Greetings,
- 0:39Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, in the name of the Lord. This
- 0:41Speaker 1: is a teaching that I believe is absolutely invaluable. As
- 0:44Speaker 1: people are downsizing, as people are relocating, as they're moving
- 0:48Speaker 1: in and out of relationships and marriages and emptiness syndromes,
- 0:52Speaker 1: the one thing that is sure about life, as soon
- 0:55Speaker 1: as you get it all pinned down, it will always change.
- 0:59Speaker 1: If you have the liquidity of thought and the nimbleness
- 1:01Speaker 1: of mind, the flexibility to be able to reposition yourself,
- 1:05Speaker 1: you can always keep moving forward. It is the inflexible
- 1:09Speaker 1: that become overwhelmed. Reposition Yourself is a teaching that helps
- 1:13Speaker 1: you to be flexible enough to move with the flow,
- 1:18Speaker 1: the ebbings and the tides of life. to many of you,
- 1:23Speaker 1: what I hope you are starting to understand is that
- 1:26Speaker 1: if you will allow God to do some shifting in
- 1:29Speaker 1: this season in your life, it will not take you
- 1:33Speaker 1: long to come into alignment for what God is going
- 1:38Speaker 1: to do in your life. But God is going to
- 1:42Speaker 1: do a quick work in your life in spite of
- 1:46Speaker 1: the original injury that started this problem in the first place.
- 1:51Speaker 1: God is going to snap some things into place in
- 1:55Speaker 1: your life that's going to reposition you and bring you
- 1:58Speaker 1: into alignment. And the best is yet to come. Who
- 2:09Speaker 1: would have ever thought that something as simple as a
- 2:11Speaker 1: tennis shoe would end up causing so much pain? Who
- 2:20Speaker 1: would have ever thought that something as simple as an
- 2:26Speaker 1: absent father would have cost so many years of excruciating
- 2:39Speaker 1: pain in non-related areas. Who would have ever thought that
- 2:47Speaker 1: not being the preferred sister or the preferred brother, that
- 2:54Speaker 1: now that you're an adult, 40 years old, that you
- 2:57Speaker 1: would still be wincing as a man from something that
- 3:02Speaker 1: happened when you were a kid. Who would have ever
- 3:09Speaker 1: thought that the rejection of a first boyfriend or a
- 3:13Speaker 1: date rape when you were a girl would be affecting
- 3:16Speaker 1: you on your second marriage? The Bible said that it
- 3:26Speaker 1: is the little foxes that destroy the vine. It's not
- 3:31Speaker 1: always big stuff. It's little stuff. See, you have to understand.
- 3:36Speaker 1: When I looked around and my back went out, I
- 3:39Speaker 1: couldn't get out of the bed to turn in my sleep.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Woke me up in the middle of the night. The
- 3:44Speaker 1: pain was so bad, it was hard not to scream
- 3:47Speaker 1: out in the middle of the night. I'm not talking
- 3:48Speaker 1: about a little bit of pain. I am not a
- 3:50Speaker 1: wimp of a person. I can deal with some stuff.
- 3:55Speaker 1: But there I am at 3 o'clock in the morning
- 3:57Speaker 1: biting my lip to keep from screaming out in pain
- 4:00Speaker 1: because I turned in my sleep and the pain woke
- 4:04Speaker 1: me up. Five months after a little incident the incident
- 4:11Speaker 1: is over but the after-effects of The effects of not
- 4:21Speaker 1: being prepared for what I was getting ready to do,
- 4:24Speaker 1: the effects of not stretching properly, the effects of not
- 4:28Speaker 1: being geared up for what I was about to do,
- 4:30Speaker 1: the effects of stepping into a situation for which I
- 4:34Speaker 1: was not prepared left me with months of pain because
- 4:38Speaker 1: the preparation did not match up with the process. Now,
- 4:45Speaker 1: you know that I didn't bring you out here this
- 4:48Speaker 1: morning to talk about running Except you're running a race
- 4:56Speaker 1: called life. And many of you didn't start out with
- 5:00Speaker 1: the right equipment. You didn't have the support for the race.
- 5:09Speaker 1: And when you don't have the support for something, it
- 5:11Speaker 1: will really throw you out of a line. And being
- 5:15Speaker 1: thrown out of a line affects how you deal with
- 5:19Speaker 1: everything else. The rest of your life. In the second
- 5:26Speaker 1: half of your life, number one, you have to separate
- 5:30Speaker 1: what was purpose from fodder. What you were really meant
- 5:37Speaker 1: to do from all of the things that people put
- 5:39Speaker 1: in your life that you really weren't meant to do
- 5:42Speaker 1: in the first place so that you can focus to
- 5:46Speaker 1: make the second half of your life the most effective.
- 5:52Speaker 1: That means at some point in your life you have
- 5:54Speaker 1: to say, you know what? That wasn't for me anyway.
- 5:59Speaker 1: And I was never meant to do that anyway. And
- 6:03Speaker 1: this was something that my mother put on me. And
- 6:05Speaker 1: this was something that my father wanted. And this is
- 6:08Speaker 1: something that my friends wanted. This is something I tried
- 6:10Speaker 1: to do to keep up with my brothers and sisters.
- 6:13Speaker 1: But this right here, I was born to do that.
- 6:16Speaker 1: I was created to do that. And so on the
- 6:19Speaker 1: second half, I'm going to focus and reposition my efforts
- 6:25Speaker 1: from all of the distractions that divided my focus so
- 6:30Speaker 1: that I can have complete alignment and be prepared to
- 6:33Speaker 1: make the second half the best half. I tried to
- 6:44Speaker 1: beat it, but there isn't. There are some things only
- 6:47Speaker 1: age can teach you. Read all the books. Get hands
- 6:54Speaker 1: laid on you. Anoint yourself with oil. Talk in tongues.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Pray in the Holy Ghost. Don't eat chicken. Don't eat rabbits.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Walk backwards. Stand on one foot. Bounce around on your head.
- 7:03Speaker 1: But inevitably there are certain things that only time can
- 7:08Speaker 1: teach you. Jacob is now an old man. He's learned
- 7:14Speaker 1: some stuff. He's done some crazy things. He's made some mistakes.
- 7:19Speaker 1: He's been wild. He's been frivolous. He's been irresponsible. He's
- 7:22Speaker 1: been crazy. He's been untrustworthy. He's been unpredictable. And he
- 7:26Speaker 1: survived it. He's gone through a transformation. to find out
- 7:30Speaker 1: who he was from Jacob to Israel. He has, in
- 7:34Speaker 1: the process of wrestling with God, found out who he
- 7:37Speaker 1: was and then spent the second half of his life
- 7:40Speaker 1: trying to make what he found out materialize in his life.
- 7:44Speaker 1: And even as he gets ready to die, there is
- 7:47Speaker 1: still some flipping in the text between Jacob and Israel.
- 7:54Speaker 1: All the way down to the end, there are certain
- 7:56Speaker 1: struggles that remain present in your life. As Jacob, he
- 8:01Speaker 1: hears that Joseph is coming and he's getting ready to die.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Jacob is about to die. But when he heard that
- 8:09Speaker 1: Joseph was coming, Israel sat up in the bed and
- 8:13Speaker 1: strengthened himself. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. For the
- 8:18Speaker 1: benefit of you that might not know your scriptures, Jacob
- 8:21Speaker 1: refers to his old man, who he is, his base nature,
- 8:25Speaker 1: his carnality. Israel refers to his divine self, his spiritual self,
- 8:31Speaker 1: his holy self, his purposeful self, and all the way
- 8:34Speaker 1: down to the grave. We are seeing both people showing
- 8:38Speaker 1: up in his life. One moment he's acting like Jacob.
- 8:40Speaker 1: The next moment he's acting like Israel. One moment Jacob
- 8:43Speaker 1: is in tears. The next moment Israel is standing by faith.
- 8:47Speaker 1: One moment Jacob is getting ready to die. The next
- 8:49Speaker 1: moment Israel sat up in the bed and strengthened. Have
- 8:53Speaker 1: you ever had your divine self sit up in the
- 8:56Speaker 1: bed and strengthen your dying self and say, wait a minute.
- 9:00Speaker 1: God didn't bring you this far to leave you. Have
- 9:03Speaker 1: you ever been ready to give up and then somebody
- 9:06Speaker 1: preached a word that made Israel sit up in the bed? Oh,
- 9:18Speaker 1: oh God, oh God. To all of my single sons
- 9:26Speaker 1: and daughters, Whenever you meet somebody, a prospective candidate to
- 9:30Speaker 1: marry them, understand that you are dating at least two people.
- 9:39Speaker 1: At least, I mean, saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost,
- 9:44Speaker 1: baptized and got it going on and on my way
- 9:46Speaker 1: to heaven is still at least two jokers in here
- 9:50Speaker 1: at any given day. And you have to figure out
- 9:53Speaker 1: which one are you talking to today. Sometimes you're going
- 9:57Speaker 1: to get Jacob. And other times... you're going to get Israel. And.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Oh God. Oh God. The problem with some people's marriages
- 10:20Speaker 1: is that you married Israel. But you got to live
- 10:27Speaker 1: with Jacob. Y'all don't want to talk to me. Let
- 10:32Speaker 1: me leave that alone. And until you can deal with Jacob,
- 10:37Speaker 1: you can't enjoy Israel because both of them show up
- 10:40Speaker 1: from time to time without warning because they're both laying
- 10:44Speaker 1: in the same bed. you could almost wake up in
- 11:12Speaker 1: the morning and say, which one are you today? All
- 11:29Speaker 1: the way down to the end of his life, we're
- 11:32Speaker 1: still seeing Jacob and Israel struggling for control. This means
- 11:40Speaker 1: That if you are waiting for the complete annihilation of
- 11:44Speaker 1: Jacob to start your life, your life will be over
- 11:50Speaker 1: and Jacob will still have some presence. Y'all don't want
- 11:55Speaker 1: to talk to me. He's old now. Israel. Israel. Sat
- 12:11Speaker 1: up in the bed. Strengthened himself. And waited for Joseph
- 12:18Speaker 1: to come. Death could have took Jacob. But not Israel.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Sat up in the bed. He strengthened himself. And Israel
- 12:35Speaker 1: always talks about where he was when it happened. He said,
- 12:40Speaker 1: and God blessed me and touched my life. And all
- 12:48Speaker 1: of these years I have survived. Many times it was
- 12:55Speaker 1: Israel that pulled Jacob. Do you all understand what I'm saying?
- 13:07Speaker 1: He said, now I'm getting ready to die. And he says,
- 13:11Speaker 1: I want you to bring your sons to me that
- 13:15Speaker 1: I may bless them. He doesn't have to bless Joseph.
- 13:19Speaker 1: He's already blessed Joseph. Now he wants to bless Joseph's seed.
- 13:32Speaker 1: These boys' mother was a heathen. an idolater, an Egyptian
- 13:42Speaker 1: that Jacob had met while he was in Egypt. They
- 13:48Speaker 1: are Hebrew on their father's side, Egyptian on their mother's side.
- 13:55Speaker 1: They are monotheistic on their father's side, and they are
- 14:00Speaker 1: pluralistic on their mother's side. And as they walk into
- 14:06Speaker 1: the room, they have been affected By both. Nobody could
- 14:14Speaker 1: have blessed them like Jacob. Because Jacob already knew what
- 14:18Speaker 1: it was like to have two opposing personalities. See, let
- 14:27Speaker 1: me tell you something. It takes certain people to mentor
- 14:31Speaker 1: certain people. I listen at all the pastors on TV
- 14:39Speaker 1: who talk about, I don't mean to be crude, but
- 14:42Speaker 1: they say that they were raised in church and they
- 14:46Speaker 1: come from five generations of spiritual leaderships and they were
- 14:50Speaker 1: raised in Sunday school and they were virgins when they
- 14:54Speaker 1: got married and these lips have never tasted a cigarette
- 14:58Speaker 1: nor drink a liquor or ever smoked a joint in
- 15:02Speaker 1: my life. All of my life, I've been a committed
- 15:06Speaker 1: Christian to Jesus Christ. You can't help me. Nothing against you.
- 15:20Speaker 1: I admire you. I respect you. I honor you. I
- 15:24Speaker 1: revere you. You can't help me. I need somebody who
- 15:30Speaker 1: has some issues. because I came with some mess in
- 15:36Speaker 1: my life. And I need somebody who can lay hands
- 15:41Speaker 1: on me that says, been there, done that, got a t-shirt.
- 16:01Speaker 1: If you're gonna bless me, You have to have done
- 16:04Speaker 1: some mess yourself because you can't relate to all the
- 16:09Speaker 1: stuff I got to climb over to get into the
- 16:12Speaker 1: presence of God if you didn't have to climb over
- 16:15Speaker 1: some stuff yourself.
- 16:21Speaker 2: Still to come on The Potter Statue.
- 16:24Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm teaching. I don't know who
- 16:26Speaker 1: I'm teaching this morning. I don't know who I'm teaching
- 16:29Speaker 1: this morning. But I feel God working like a chiropractor.
- 16:32Speaker 1: He just snapped something back into place down in your
- 16:35Speaker 1: spirit and in your life. And the thing that used
- 16:38Speaker 1: to hurt, it's not hurting anymore because God said, I'm
- 16:42Speaker 1: going to do a new thing. I am so excited
- 16:48Speaker 1: that my dear friends, Bishop T.D. Jakes and Oprah Winfrey
- 16:50Speaker 1: will be together at MegaFest. August 29th. Y'all don't want
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- 17:11Speaker 3: Register at mega-fest.com or call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Slap your neighbor and say, reposition yourself. Come out of
- 17:25Speaker 1: your depression, your despair, your loneliness, your fog, your self-indulgences,
- 17:31Speaker 1: your hatred, your malice, whatever is holding you back from
- 17:34Speaker 1: living the abundant life that God has called you to live.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Reposition yourself. Fix your credit. Fix your mind. Fix your emotions.
- 17:42Speaker 1: Fix your heart. Get over your past. Go on with
- 17:45Speaker 1: your life. This is the day that the Lord has made.
- 17:48Speaker 1: We shall rejoice and be glad in it. Cut it loose.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Get it snapped. Get it pushed. Get it in alignment.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Because you got to walk into the blessings of God
- 17:58Speaker 1: and get what God has for you. Reposition yourself. Watch this.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Verse 8. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons and said, who
- 18:20Speaker 1: are these? And Joseph said unto his father, they are
- 18:22Speaker 1: my sons whom God has given me in this place.
- 18:26Speaker 1: In this place I'm in. In this Egyptian place. And
- 18:30Speaker 1: he said, bring them, I pray thee, unto me and
- 18:33Speaker 1: I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were
- 18:35Speaker 1: dim for age so that he could not see. And
- 18:37Speaker 1: he brought them near unto him and he kissed them
- 18:40Speaker 1: and embraced them. And Israel said unto Joseph, and this
- 18:43Speaker 1: is good too. And Israel said unto Joseph, I have
- 18:45Speaker 1: not thought to see thy face. He said, I didn't
- 18:49Speaker 1: even think that I'd get to see you again. And lo,
- 18:53Speaker 1: God has showed me also thy seed. I want to
- 18:56Speaker 1: stop here and talk to all of you who have
- 18:59Speaker 1: been feeling like you're going to die in the state
- 19:02Speaker 1: you're in. In the back of your mind, you thought
- 19:10Speaker 1: this is how it is. It's not going to get
- 19:12Speaker 1: any better. Maybe it's not meant for me. This is
- 19:15Speaker 1: all she wrote. I came to tell you the devil
- 19:18Speaker 1: is alive. Jacob said, I didn't even expect to see you, Joseph.
- 19:26Speaker 1: I thought I would never see you again. But look
- 19:29Speaker 1: what the Lord has done. Not only did I get
- 19:32Speaker 1: to see my son, but now I'm getting to see
- 19:34Speaker 1: my grandson. I want to rebuke the spirit of death
- 19:38Speaker 1: that has been lurking over you and your mind and
- 19:42Speaker 1: your emotions and telling you that you're going to die
- 19:45Speaker 1: in the state you're in. I want you, if I'm
- 19:48Speaker 1: talking to you this morning, to just get up and
- 19:50Speaker 1: shake it off. God is going to do something fresh
- 19:55Speaker 1: and something powerful and something life-changing in your life. You
- 20:00Speaker 1: haven't seen the half of what God is about to
- 20:04Speaker 1: do Squeeze your neighbor's hand and just say unexpected blessings.
- 20:18Speaker 1: I mean unexpected, unrealized, mind-boggling, life-changing, thirst-quenching, mind-renewing blessings are
- 20:27Speaker 1: coming in your life. I got to take a minute.
- 20:30Speaker 1: I got to take a minute because I just felt
- 20:32Speaker 1: death just walk out the room. Whoo! Whoo! It's been
- 20:41Speaker 1: hanging over you like a cloud saying you're not going
- 20:44Speaker 1: to see this and you're not going to get that
- 20:46Speaker 1: and you're never going to get out of this house
- 20:48Speaker 1: and you're never going to get up on your feet
- 20:50Speaker 1: and you're never going to be loved and the devil
- 20:53Speaker 1: is alive. God said unexpected, pressed down, shaken together, running over,
- 21:01Speaker 1: supernatural miracles are going to happen in your life. Look
- 21:39Speaker 1: at your neighbor and say reposition yourself. You're going to
- 21:43Speaker 1: get more than you expected. More than you ever hoped for.
- 21:48Speaker 1: More than your situation dictates. More than your background lended
- 21:52Speaker 1: itself to. I mean pressed down, shaken together, running over blessings.
- 22:18Speaker 1: I got to go in verse 12. I know you
- 22:29Speaker 1: got to praise him because that just leaped up off
- 22:31Speaker 1: of somebody. I know you got, you don't understand what
- 22:35Speaker 1: it is to have something hanging on you, pressing you down,
- 22:39Speaker 1: trying to get you to accept defeat, trying to get
- 22:42Speaker 1: you to just give in and say, this is all
- 22:44Speaker 1: you get. You're just not supposed to get up. You're
- 22:47Speaker 1: not going to have no life. You're just going to
- 22:49Speaker 1: die in this situation. And this Sunday morning, I felt
- 22:54Speaker 1: it lift up off of you. Oh! Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Oh! Oh! Oh!
- 23:31Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm teaching. I don't know who
- 23:33Speaker 1: I'm teaching this morning. I don't know who I'm teaching
- 23:36Speaker 1: this morning. But I feel God working like a chiropractor.
- 23:39Speaker 1: He just snapped something back into place down in your
- 23:42Speaker 1: spirit and in your life. And the thing that used
- 23:45Speaker 1: to hurt, it's not hurting anymore because God said, I'm
- 23:49Speaker 1: going to do a new thing. Whoo. Whoo. I'm telling
- 24:40Speaker 1: you that doctor put me on the table and just
- 24:43Speaker 1: made a certain maneuver and something just snapped back into place.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Touch your neighbor and say something just snapped back into place.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Got my fight back. Got my drive back. Got my
- 24:54Speaker 1: passion back. Got my fire back. Something just snapped back
- 24:59Speaker 1: into place. Been through hell. Been through high water. Been
- 25:02Speaker 1: through pain. Been through trouble. Cried myself to sleep. But
- 25:07Speaker 1: I just felt something snap. Hey, we got to stop
- 25:20Speaker 1: right there, but we'll be right back right after this.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Learn to reposition your life with Bishop Jake's latest message.
- 25:27Speaker 1: If you will allow God to do some shifting in
- 25:30Speaker 1: this season in your life, it will not take you
- 25:34Speaker 1: long to come into alignment for what God is going
- 25:39Speaker 1: to do in your life. But God is going to
- 25:43Speaker 1: do a quick work in your life in spite of
- 25:47Speaker 1: the original injury that started this problem in the first place.
- 25:52Speaker 1: God is going to snap some things into place in
- 25:56Speaker 1: your life that's going to reposition you and bring you
- 25:59Speaker 1: into alignment and the best.
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- 26:16Speaker 1: It's not in the place, baby. It's on the way.
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- 26:23Speaker 1: the journey.
- 26:23Speaker 2: Be lifted up by the power of expectation.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Where you get in a mundane rut of low expectations.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Ordinariness is the enemy.
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- 26:56Speaker 1: I'm tired of crying in this house. I'm going to
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- 27:43Speaker 1: We've got to stop there, but I pray for those
- 27:45Speaker 1: of you who are facing the daunting task of needing
- 27:48Speaker 1: to reposition yourself, whether it is geographically, spiritually, domestically, relationally, academically.
- 27:54Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Change is always difficult. The tools that
- 27:58Speaker 1: I share in my material and in my book go
- 28:00Speaker 1: into deep detail to encourage you and to, in fact,
- 28:04Speaker 1: empower you with the possibility of simply changing. Change it.
- 28:08Speaker 1: Reposition yourself. When you can't change anything else, the people,
- 28:12Speaker 1: their attitude, the circumstance, you change yourself. And my, my, my,
- 28:17Speaker 1: what a relief it is. God bless you. Have a
- 28:20Speaker 1: good one.