T.D. Jakes Sermons: This is Not the Time to Lose Your Head

coming up on the Potters test are you obtained them without a king are you so busy managing the emotional relationships that you have that you don't have the energy to think the thoughts you need to think to go where you need to go are you so busy managing your feelings and the feeling the people around you and trying to make them feel what you feel and still need what you need and what what you want that you're not making progress in life this is the bottom greetings friends in the name of Jesus Christ our King

I'm so excited to have this opportunity to share the word of Lord with you I'm grateful for what God is doing in your life and I want to contribute something that I believe will help you in this season of your life no matter how blessed or successful you or I might be there are moments in your life that you go through tests and trials just like anybody else people don't understand that with every blessing there's always a battle and I want to share this word with you that will help you with the battle so that

you can enjoy the blessings because sometimes you're so busy of the fight you lose sight of the victory I believe this is going to bless your life the message is called this is not the time to lose your head this is not the time to lose your head take a look at this word it will bless your life a sticker Paul writes to the Church of Ephesus and tells them to put on the whole armor of God because you are under attack there is not a person in this room that is not constantly up under

attack no matter how bless you been no matter how successful no matter how accomplished no matter how healthy no matter how fruitful you are somewhere in your life you are either being attacked or about to be attacked in some area of your life and God says I'm going to bless you but you've got to dress for the battle while you receive the blessing with every blessing there is a battle I would venture to say the greater the blessing the greater the battle the enemy would not send that level of battle against you if there were

not that level of blessing before you the level of battle you face is an indication of the level of blessings that you stand to receive no Rommel Rob's an empty house nobody holds up a bag lady cuz she doesn't have anything to steal if you're up under attack there's something to be gained so the Bible says put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil the wiles of the devil the tactics the antics of the devil and then he says once you get it all order

having done all the stabbed so you got all dressed up not to run you got dressed up to stand not to give place or territory to the devil not to evacuate the turf that's yours did you hear that not to evacuate the turf that is your and he said if you're going to hold on to what I have given you because I have given you some things that you are yet to possess and in order to possess what I've given you to take it out of the euphoria of an idea and snatch it into the

realm of a possession you're going to have to stand having it all to stay as your willpower your strength your might your intensity having been all to stand the first stand belongs to you you have to do that stop asking God to make you stand if you're not willing to stay you have to have an investment in what God has given you and having that all to stay you won't get to the suckage stand until you run out of the first one having done all to stand then it says stand therefore with your loins gird

about with truth and every begins to equip us for battle it comes down to the helmet of salvation how important is it to protect your hair when the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds look at how we got to fight for the pulling down of strongholds casting down oh you got it imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against what the knowledge the knowledge of God the happenings that are coming against you are coming against what you know about God what you know about

God you know your heal the symptoms come to convince you that you're not you know you're free I thought you did y'all know you free okay y'all y'all know you're free the enemy comes against your freedom to convince you that you don't have what God has already released you the Bible calls his attack imaginations you're being sought by imaginations shadows and ghosts some of you are stressed to death over what ifs and maybes you've been stabbed by suppose you lay in a bed wrestling with ghosts of what ifs and maybes and suppose and I think

and I heard and I felt and you wake up tied in the morning because you you might have slept but you didn't rest coz all in your sleep you've been fighting the Bible says there is a helmet that will protect your head head speaks to leadership head speaks to government most people are living their lives from a hard place and not a head place they are so engrossed with what the heart feels that they have not covered what the head thinks most people are governed by their emotions they're having a hard experience in a head

fight you will never win a battle if you're having a heart experience in a head fight you're telling the enemy how you feel has nothing to do with what you know and if you're gonna deal with the Lord never approach an or with feelings you got to approach an or with facts the enemy wants to cut off your head and leave you with feelings real decisions that move your life along I'm not coming out of your emotions they're coming out of your head real opportunities that God would open up for you have to come out

of your head and not out of your feelings you there are so many people that are so abstract and they're just moving along from day to day out of their emotion than their fear I don't know I'm just not feeling it today I'm just not feeling it today come back on Thursday I might be feeling own thing I'm not in the mood for this I can't handle if I did you need anybody there and every time you do it you are cancelling out opportunities because it is with the mind that we serve the Lord a

person who does not function out of their head is a person without government a person who moves totally out of their emotions he's exempt from the greater opportunity than life because you will forfeit what God has given you because of how you feel God did not promise you that your feelings would line up with the facts how many of us are living a headless life because we have not separated how we feel from what we know you can't you can't work with people like that you really can't work with people like that because if I

criticize your work it doesn't mean I criticize you and to have to babysit your feelings when I don't have time to babysit your feelings I need you to correct the problem and go back to work it's not personal if you do it right even that what God told Cain why is thy countenance fallen Cain why are you trippin out about this stuff why are you jealous of Abel if thou doest not well will I not receive you he said I'm not against you Cain I'm against what you did and if you fix what you did

I'll bless you like I bless them so stop trippin Cain get your heart out of the way of your head and I will move you forward I know that's culture shock to a lot of me cuz everything you've ever gotten you've gotten out of your feelings but let me tell you the devil is not fighting you over your feelings he is fighting you over your head he is giving you images and imaginations and threats some disaster to send your head into a panic mode so that you will digress mentally from the leadership that the rest

of you needs it has to come from the facts and not the feelings it is written thou shalt not tip the LORD thy God it is written it is written not one time do you hear Jesus said I'm so hungry well I'm so hungry this is one time let me turn discover the bread because a brother like me got all kind of rumbles going on in my stomach like here I've been out here 40 days devil night night you know 40 days you oughta have little kind of passion on me he did not approach the

devil with feelings because the devil has no compassion whatever you do don't lose your head pull your feelings out of it pull your insecurities out of it your vulnerabilities those childhood voices that come back to attack you the rest of your life are the tools that the devil uses to cause you to digress from what God created you to be and stand on what you know still to come on the POTUS touch so if I was the devil I'd do everything I could to keep your head foggy to keep your mind all tied up to

keep your emotions governing your head to the point that you can't even think a clear thought because all will fall now anointest my head with all now my cup runs over my cup can't run over is my head in it could anoint it with the will my cup is only catching the residue of what my head got first are you under the Shepherds watch alarms go off that you can even hear and angels start flying in that you can't even see the corrals sheltered by the shepherd for your gift of any size you will receive

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Destiny Christian study guide workbook and destiny step series on DVD find your safety under the Shepherd's watch today bible says in 1st Samuel speaking of loud Eli the word of the Lord was scarce in those days the word of the Lord was scarce in those days and there was no open vision Eli was living but he was losing his head vision comes from your head word is spoken out of your mouth which is in your head the word was scarce the vision was dim and the kingdom was collapsing because of what was empty in the

head had destroyed the success of the kingdom of the priesthood of the sanctity of the ministry because the priesthood was headless sexuality was running amuck hoffa and phineas were going through the church going through the women like a fox going through a henhouse because the place was headless elide it was not strong enough to chase in his own child because his emotions were leading and not his head oh it's gonna be rough in here today the word of the Lord was scarce in those days about said there was no open vision and ultimately when everything

was said and done they went out to fight against the Philistines and they were defeated and he could have wished heard that Hoffner was kill his son he could have withstood that jenny has was killed as well he could have was stood there but when they told him that the glory of the Lord was departed he fell off his throne and of all things he broke his neck his head came off that's what I'm trying to tell you the last little piece of government fell off and whenever you see the head come off there is

a shift of authority Eli lost his head samuel comes to a place of prominence because the head the decapitation of the head is a removal of the government are you a king damata king are you so busy managing the emotional relationships that you have that you don't have the energy to think the thoughts you need to think to go where you need to go are you so busy managing your feelings and the feeling the people around you and trying to make them feel what you feel and need what you need and what what you want

that you're not making progress in life because you are leading with your heart and not with your head you can cry your way up you can't bust your way out you'd have snapped you'll Nick four or five times and it didn't change your life the definition of lunacy is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result so why are you doing what doesn't work if flip it out on her isn't working why are you still doing it if giving him a piece of your mind hadn't worked in the first 15 years wouldn't it

be a good time now to change strategies why are we loyal to ineffectiveness why are we loyal within effectiveness we date effectiveness but we marry in effectiveness we Vivid effectiveness for the weekend on a Sunday and a motivational message and a special television show we fit we love to visit it but we are married to habits that are ineffective and we are loyal to things that we know don't work but because of how I feel take unto you the helmet of salvation Eli lost his head and the power shifted and the world changed and whenever

that which was has lost his head that which is will come the power lost is here they say Ichabod the glory has departed I guess it did the glory departs cuz the head is gone I told you the anointing comes on the head if there's no head there's no glory Eli broke his neck lost his head yes or going to party cuz the glory only falls on a clear head so if I was the devil I'd do everything I could to keep your head foggy to keep your mind all tied up to keep your emotions

governing your head to the point that you can't even think a clear thought because all will fall thou anointest my head with all now my cut runs over my cup can't run over is my head in anointed with the will my cup is only catching the residue of what my head got first John the Baptist is preaching out in the wilderness he's different from his daddy his daddy was a church preacher preached in the synagogue's John the Baptist preached in the wilderness his daddy dressed in priestly clothes John the Baptist dressed in camel hair while

ate while locusts and honey but he was preaching more effectively in the wilderness then his father had ministered in the temple he was doing real good and then he says something he says I must decrease that he might increase he said there's going to be a shift and when the shift comes I must decrease that he might increase when did the shift come when they cut his head the cutting of the head is the shifting of government do you hear what I'm saying good goddamn lesson do you hear what I'm trying to tell you this

morning very the shift going on in your life and it starts with your head they start with your head it starts with your head it starts with your head the slave masters knew it you can teach the slaves how to do anything but read why was reading forbidden because if you got it in your head you could get it in your life they said our change cannot hold an informed head when your head comes out it won't be long until everything begins to shift touch your neighbor tell them I feel a shift so they took

Jesus to pilot and they palette asked him are you the King of the Jews are you the head of the Jews and Jesus said thou says so they they said put a split up sign up and call him the key on the Jews they tried to get pilot to take it back he said what I have spoken I have spoken this Commodus son is the head of the Jews so they took the head of the juice and they took him to the head of a mountain and the mountain will call Golgotha and when they called

him Golgotha go go to be strong so they brought the head to a head touch your neighbor and say there's got to be a shift whatever heads get together there will be a shift but he told the disciples he said I got to go away don't preach it go to jerusalem because the head has gone up in a cloud and the body was left looking up and the angel said to the body he made of Galilee why stand ye here gaining up his head for the same head that you see our sin shall descend in

like manner and the book said and with the day of Pentecost was fully come and they were in one place with one Accord here comes the shift slab somebody tell them is coming back it's coming back is coming back it's coming back then will you should have killed me when you had the chance but I'm getting my head Hey I've got us up there I'm really not finished with this I think it is provocative it is powerful and is also quite important to understand how to keep your head a level head in the time of

battle because we all face them but I want you to understand that you can stand in the middle of the test in the trial and you can not only stand but you can overcome and be successful in spite of the struggles that are inherent with being who you are I get it I totally totally totally totally get it before cause I do want to mention this I want you to get this in your hands on this it is literally a tour guide into your destiny the book is called destiny step into your purpose you need

to understand that destiny is pulling you to unexpected in and how do you step into it now share it in this book in a bless your life and strengthen you and encourage you because I know what it is to have to climb up with one hand and fight back with the other but together we can get it done god bless you friends I thank God for you it's been a real pleasure to be with you today and I pray for you and I pray that you will pray for me and to all of you that

are getting ready to meet me at megafest I'm kidding ready for you so I gotta go god bless you take care I'll see you soon I want to make sure that when you leave here that you leave here on a whole nother you don't have to live in the dark feeling like you never know what to do God will leave you and guide you direct you is not so addendum he's not just oh Jesus do you know how strong his lonely I just need to reach open to just reach back and dig in and see

what God did in your life sin it'll give you a clue about where you're going now every day you wake up and you're adding to the kingdom you're subtracting from hell and that's why the devil can't stand you another there's a force on the planet much rather than the facts and it's called the truth of the word of God the anointing is coming on your life to change your season and like me I'm sorry Brian we're gonna have to let you go see we had to make staff changes listen for best answer destiny awaits you

will you take the first step destiny is written to connect what's in you with the purpose that awaits you the first action step requires faith order destiny today everywhere books are sold there is more you want to redeem the years you lost out of your life stop falling your emotions go at it head first and God said I will give you back the time you lost I will restore from the mistakes you made I will do a new thing in you and the form of things will pass away when you stop sniffling and whimpering and

crying and having tantrums and schizophrenia and be sober and get a grip on yourself God said I'll open up the windows of heaven and I'll pull you out of listen y'all won't even have room enough to receive this is the