T.D. Jakes: Don't Let Fear Win; FOCUS on Your Calling From God | Men of Faith on TBN

God is talking but the noise is a distraction for you to hear that's the Bible said let him that have an ear hear what the spirit is saying to the church see we always preach about what happened at the Red Sea but you got to get to the Red Sea in order for that to happen and the enemy doesn't even want you to make it that's right to the Red Sea stress affects your body and your organs stress affects your blood pressure and your blood sugar stress affects everything about you stress is a silent killer

it creates things like anxiety it creates all kinds of anxiety anxiety is to be anxious about something that hasn't even happened to worry about the possibility to have faith in negativity to be leave to rehearse in your mind what if this happens and what if that happens and it's coming from the noise it's coming from the noise it's coming from the noise because the enemy knows that if you ever Focus you're going to be unstoppable so he sends all these distractions in your life and the greater the mission in your life the greater the distraction

comes in your life now Elijah has already called far down from heaven he has taken the prophets of Baal down to the Sea and drowned them and buried them in the sea it was Bloody it was noisy it was loud it was messy and now we're finding him not on the first trip which is often preached about but now he's on his second trip he goes back to the place where he last experienced God whenever you're under attack go back to the place where you last experience God we see Elijah going back on the mountain

bloody and messy tired from fighting in conflict in anxiety in stress and pressure and he goes to the top of the mountain with nothing but his servant and this time he goes to stop the noise see there is noise that is in your life and in my life and in our lives and in your life that are watching right now there's noise there are certain noises that have been sent just to distract you from the Commandment that God gave you because when there is noise in your life when there is noise in your life it's

it becomes more and more difficult to discern exactly what God is saying because you got so much noise going around you that you can't tell what is God and what is not God you can't tell whether you should go right or whether you should go left you can't tell whether this is a friend or a foe you can't tell whether this is an enemy or a friend you can't tell whether you should fight or be still you can't tell whether to be quiet or and then all of a sudden you got to stop shake your

NE and say take control of the noise stop it shut it down bring it to an end bring it to an end you have the power within yourself to stop the noise you have the power within yourself by God's grace to stop the noise God didn't stop the noise Elijah stopped the noise Elijah stopped The Noise by putting his head in between his knees he must realize that in order to perform this next Miracle he must be able to focus Steve Jobs said you have to work to get your thinking clear most people will not

put in the work to get their thinking clear now when I heard that Elijah put his head between his knees I did a little exercise and I found out that it is quite difficult maybe not for you but it's it's it's quite difficult to get your head in between your knees it might be a little easier to bring your knees up to your head but that was kind of tough too what is the Bible saying to us to get to a place of peace and Tranquility you have to work at it it won't just happen

because you need it you have to work at getting your thinking clear otherwise you make decision in noise that is not discernable if you notice while I was talking it became increasingly difficult to hear what I was saying though I was speaking you couldn't hear it because of the noise you think God is not talking God is talking but the noise is a distraction for you to hear that's the Bible said let him that has an ear hear what the spirit is saying to the church but that will not happen if you do not stop

the noise Elijah goes up on the mountain and he has to do this his servant cannot do it his Entourage cannot do it his retinue cannot do it his associates cannot do it his church cannot do it you have to make a decision who you it let it invade your space get in your head Cloud your judgment and influence your thinking somebody say stop it stop it stop praying that the noise will stop but you've got to take authority and kill it cut it off shut it down don't answer it cut the TV off get

some peace stop inviting people around who are cluttering your head with all of their problems who think you are an answer machine and all they do is call you up for the answer all the time let me put it in biblical language be still and know that I am God be still and know that I am God but you're a prophet be still and know you're a musician be still and know that I you're a realtor be still and know that you're an accountant be still and know that you're a business be still and know

you're a janitor be still and know you you can't know if you won't [Applause] be be still now he called fire down from heaven but he did it with his voice what brings Fire won't bring water the real problem it's not just the prophets of baale they had to be stopped but the real problem that that is causing the suffering is the drought that's in the land he cannot fight and break the drought the same way he called down the fire tradition is a wonderful thing until it stops progress it it the tool that you

use to bring you here will not be the tool that you use to take you there that's why you got to have the flexibility to change understanding that this is a different kind of fight type that on the line this is a different kind of fight this is a different kind of fight you're not going to be able to casually do this this is a different kind of fight you're going to have to focus to win this fight you can't expend energy trying to drag people who don't want to go trying to convince people who

refuse to be convinced trying to be heal people who are hypochondriacs and they enjoy being sick and they call you up and dump their sickness all over you because they have an attention deficit they want your attention which breaks your focus living under constant fear though it is an emotion it actually takes toll on the body it affects your physical health it even weakens your immune system affects your digestive tract does damage to your cardiovascular system fear does stuff that doctors can detect in the body that you have no reason to be sick and yet

your body is responding to something that the doctor cannot detect they're just seeing the effects of fear on the body irrit toile syndrome all kinds of stuff happening to you decrease fertility because you're afraid because your body is taking all of your blood and directing it toward fight or flight increasing your sight so you can see and your legs so you can run the blood that normally feeds your body and your function is fleeing because you are in fight or flight mode so fear takes a toll on you because our Primal instinct is to flee

right that's right or fight but fear doesn't just take a toll on your body it also takes a toll on your mind they call it amigdala hijack it affects your mind it it hijacks everything your brain perceives everything differently when you're afraid you can't trust your judgment when you're afraid you see everything as negative when you're AF friend it it affects the the it affects everything about your decisions when you're Afra we we used to call it paranoia you you're just paranoid is there anybody in here that's ever just been paranoid the phone rings and

you jump or you just feel like something is about to happen my wife describes it as if feeling like a a balloon is about is full of water that's about to bust up under over your head and you don't know who's got the pin anxiety it affects everything and if you're up under it long enough it it causes the brain now hijack to remember certain things like how something smelt or a sight or a sound will take you right back to that spot so you end up with post-traumatic stress disorder it's over but it's not

over for you and there are triggers that can take you right back to that space and you will react off a trigger though the problem is gone I want you to think about that because I think what I'm teaching right now has destroyed more marriages and more Ministries than anything we could talk about it's not what's going on it's that what is going on is triggered something that went on nobody ever got destroyed by hoof beats but the sound of the hoof beats is a trigger and reminds him of the abuse of 400 years and

prro has actually hurt nobody but they heard him coming and they were struck with Terror you have to be careful we were singing a minute ago the devil is a liar and he is but but but the LIE can be a trigger and when he brings up what could happen and you remember something that did happen it's almost as if it is happening oh and all of a sudden you overreact in the situation and people who haven't been through what you've been through don't understand why you are flipping out over this situation but it's a

[Applause] trigger and you're horrified and it doesn't always have to be a horse coming it can be a heartbreak it can be a disappointment it can be a lost job it can be a lost opportunity and all of a sudden instead of being rational and saying well I have to find me another job you want to kill yourself oh God my life is over I'm cursed nothing go right and you just spaz them out and Pharaoh hadn't even touched you you just heard Huff prints and your life your joy your peace your amydala has hijacked

the opportunity you have to be happy right now because it keeps dragging you back into something that you are actually out of oh y'all y'all missed that y'all miss that see the end the Bible said the enemy comes to kill steal and destroy and one of the things he will do is steal the piece of where you are with the threat of where you've been and all of a sudden when you hear the footprints coming it's not like he got you but it reminds you that he used to have you and all of a sudden

it's as if you're already dead it's true now they're cursing where they're at and wishing for where they've been and say why didn't you leave us in Egypt why didn't you leave us where we just got through praying to get out of because if you're not careful fear will cause you to be stuck at 10 rather than risk going to 11 oh God who am I talking to I'm talking to somebody I don't know who I'm talking to somebody's getting ready to step into the next Dimension and God is getting you ready for something and

he needed you to hear here this message n your neighbor and say don't get stuck because fear can paralyze you fear can shut you down Fear Can immobilize you fear can make you run everybody away even people who were going to help you but for fear that you might get hurt again I just get out just get pack your stuff and get out of here yeah you just like my daddy go on get out all true I'm not going through this again I already been through this and fear can make you drive away people who

are trying to help you and so there the Israelites are mad at Moses because your perception of who's with you and who's against you can be disrupted by fear fear rejection fear of disappointment fear of failure can make you not try fear of falling can make you not climb fear of being fear of being defeated can make you not fight there are a lot of you you're not as passive as everybody thinks you are and you're not as apathetic as Define you to be it's just that you're afraid you'll fall so maybe I shouldn't climb

if I don't climb I don't fall if I don't go I won't have to go back if if I'm a slave I wouldn't have to deal with this take me [Applause] back and all of a sudden the sights The Sounds the smells become triggers that make us forfeit what God has in in front of us and yet in spite of all of this in spite of what fear's done to the mind in spite of What Fear does to the body in spite of all of these circumstances the Bible says that God is going to get

some Glory out of this now I want you to say that with me God is going to get some Glory out of this it's about to sink in let's do it again God is going to get some Glory out of this I want you to think about whatever your this is whatever your catfish are whatever your Pharaoh is whatever that thing that kept you up at night say it again God is going to get some Glory out of this now give him 30 seconds of Crazy Praise