T.D. Jakes Sermons: And Ye Shall Have It

For the last few days in my own devotion contemplating this directional flow, I believe that it is the mind of the spirit for the church at this hour. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 7-10. When you have it, say amen.

Amen. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world knew. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written, I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit searchth all things, yay, the deep things of God.

Oh my mercy. Glory to God. Somebody shout, "Amen.

" Go to the Gospel of St. Mark 11 and let's consider the witness of Mark 11. In fact, let's begin reading at verse 22.

11 and 22. And so that we get the the context in which the text shall be extrapolated. And Jesus answering said unto them such a simple thing.

He says to them, "Have faith in God, not in yourself, not in your friends, not in your family. Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire when you pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them, and ye shall have them. Look at your neighbor and say, "Neighbor, neighbor. " and ye and ye shall shall have it.

I I don't I I I don't know what it is. I I don't know what you desire. I don't know what you've been praying about.

I don't know what you've been envisioning in your spirit. But the word of the Holy Ghost is, "And ye shall have it. " Look at your other neighbor and say, "And ye shall have it.

This is the father's touch. Greetings to you and in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It's mourning.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning and I pray that that joy is resident in your life right now. I'm excited because we're about to share the word of the Lord with you. That's right.

This is the breakfast of champions. receive this word and you'll be blessed. And Jesus is trying to teach his disciples the power of prayer.

The power of prayer that that if you believe God, all things are possible unto you that you can speak to mountains and they'll move out of your way through faith in God. And he says, "Whatsoever you desire, whatsoever you desire. " Now, now, now that disqualified a whole lot of people right there because a lot of people, their problem is they don't want nothing.

They've been numbed to death by the enemy. Church people, good church people, numb have decided that your life is over and and that if it was going to happen, it would have happened by now. And you just come to church out of duty.

It's a routine. You just go. But you don't want anything.

Yeah. And we cannot feed you because you cannot I don't care how good you cook, you cannot feed people who are not [Applause] hungry. So the Bible makes an assumption and it says whatsoever you desire that that already puts an elite category on it because somebody doesn't want anything.

That's why you can't be influenced by who's sitting beside you because they might not want anything when you want something. You've got to go for yourself. Even if the person next to you does not whatsoever you desire, have the Lord, I thank you.

Excuse me a minute. I want to talk to the Lord. Lord, I thank you for passion.

I thank you, Lord, that I never went through anything that got so bad that it took my fight away. I cried. I fussed.

I even complained. And yes, I got mad. But I didn't quit cuz I still got my passion.

Touch. Somebody say, "I still want it. " Yeah.

I still I still want it. I still want it. Still got that roar down inside of me.

Still Still got that tenacity. still got that relentlessness. I I still want it.

Even though I realize that passion hurts. Passion sounds like a wonderful thing to feel until you've had it. Unrealized passion is painful.

And some people don't want it because it hurts to want. They choose rather to anesticize their passion with tranquility rather than to feel the pain of unrealized passion. Whatsoever ye desire when you pray.

Not if you pray when you pray. The assumption is that you are a praying people. He says, "When you pray, you want to pray for what you desire.

You don't just desire it and hope God gets it through mental telepathy. Whatsoever you desire when you pray. " And and this I never saw this this way.

And if you miss this, you're going to miss the whole message. This is the security guard that guards the gift of this text when he says, "Believe ye receive it and you should have it. " Now, see, when I read it before, I thought that it meant that if I could muster up enough belief, I should have it.

But, but he said, "Believe you received it. [Applause] and ye shall have it. Believe you received it and you shall have it.

Now, the problem with most of us when we pray for our desire, we believe that we're going to receive it. [Applause] If you believe that you're going to receive it, there's no guarantee you shall have it. But but what he is saying believe you have you you receive it and the consequences are ye shall have it.

Let me let me work on this a little bit. This this this is going to be good. You cannot believe you receive it, though you haven't had it yet, without an operation of the Holy Spirit in a dimension of faith that cannot be conjured through the flesh.

When when I'm talking about some kind of shake and bake, stir fry faith you jacked up to try to convince yourself, "Oh, I believe it. I got to believe it. Make me believe it.

I will believe. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because if you have to do that, then you shall not have it because it's not yours.

If you have to work it up, [Applause] if you have to force yourself to believe it, then maybe you should realize that just because you just because you desire it doesn't mean you should have it. See, your desires have to be purged in the fire of prayer. Because if we are to be honest this morning, you know everything you desire.

[Applause] Don't you sit there and look at me like everything you desire is holy. [Applause] And even out of the holy things you desire, everything you desire that's good may not be yours. [Music] So So how do we know when when the desire is a god-given desire or a humanisticdriven desire?

How do we know when when God called us to preach or grandma [Applause] How do we know when this woman is my woman or she just [Applause] fine? Most of us have lived long enough to have regret as a result from manipulating the system on our own. Think of the things that you forced your way into and then you had to cry your way out of it.

I used to preach a message years ago. You got what you wanted but you didn't want what you got. So the criteria now says now whatsoever you desire when you pray then when you pray in the process of prayer we're going to put we're going to put a fence here.

Believe you have received it. Believe you have received that's literally what it said. Believe ye receive it and ye shall have it.

where you can't believe you received what isn't yours. You can hope you're going to get it. You can believe you shall receive it.

But in order what? Let me break it down where you can get it. He is saying you receive it in your spirit before you receive it in your life.

Whatsoever you Oh, come on with me. We're going to get this in a minute. Whatsoever you desire when you pray, believe you receive it and ye shall have it.

So believe you receive it. That's receiving it in one dimension means I have it in another one. Receiving it in one dimension means I have it in another one.

Receiving it in one dimension means I have it in another one. Now you can't expect to have it in the natural if you haven't received it in the spirit. Uh-huh.

Let's work on this. You cannot have healing in the natural until you receive healing in the spirit. You cannot have prosperity in the natural until you receive it in your spirit.

The reason some of you are broke is that you have a broke spirit. You have a broke mentality. You can't receive it in here, so you can't receive it right here.

It comes in your spirit before it comes in your life. Oh, come on. A woman is a wife before you put a ring on her finger.

If she's not a wife before you put a ring on her finger, she won't be a wife. Let me prove it by the scripture. The Bible said, "Whosoever findeth a wife findeth a for good thing.

" If she was a wife when I found her, I didn't make her a wife. You have to be it in order to become it. Oh, let me go deeper.

God told Moses, God told Moses, "Anoint men to be elders that you know to be elders. " You can't make him an elder if he's not an elder. You can't make him a deacon if he's not a deacon.

If it's not in here, it won't be out there. Give them all the papers you want to, but you can't make them what they are not. still to come on the potter's touch.

This is to keep me from trying to receive stuff that's yours because if he didn't speak it to me, I can't believe it like you and I can't receive what is yours. So, I can't cover it what God has given to you because I don't have the faith to receive what I don't have. Have you ever wanted to discover the difference between God's desires and yours?

Or learn how the Holy Spirit reveals the deep things of God. God has a specific plan for you. His desire is for you to discover his will and to receive the fullness of his blessing.

understanding our purpose and our dreams through the lens of the Holy Spirit. What is really most important here is that you develop an ability to hear in your own life what the Holy Spirit is saying to you. Desire, pray and believe, you will receive it.

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Believe you receive it. I got it right now. Got it right now.

I'm not going to wait till I have it to receive it. I receive it in my spirit. I'm walking in what I've received in my spirit right now.

I'm walking in it. I'm walking in it. I'm walking in it.

They haven't called me that yet, but I'm walking in it. Nobody has acknowledged it yet, but I'm walking in it. The lump hadn't gone down, but I'm walking in it.

I still got a fever, but I'm walking in my spirit. The check hadn't come yet, but I'm walking in it. I'm laying out plans.

I'm picking out stuff. I'm designing, making arrangements, getting ready. Oh, I have nothing in my spirit that's going to stay where I am.

I received it in my spirit and I'm going to have it in my life. Whatsoever you desire when you pray, [Applause] believe. Glory to God.

Glory to God. Believe. He received it and ye shall have it.

This is some powerful stuff. This is Holy Ghost dynamite. If you really receive this in your heart and in your life, this will change your life.

Well, since Jesus is talking about having faith and this is faith in another dimension, this is faith in the spirit world that I am receiving in the spirit. Things that I don't have in the natural. Where do I get this faith?

Well, glory to God. If you could get it from me, that'd be good. But this is not contagious.

If you could get it in the store, you can sell it and be rich, cuz it would change the trajectory of your human experience. How How do I get it? Well, let's let's go to the word.

The word says, "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. " Now we know this. We understand that when we hear teaching and preaching, it produces faith.

We understand when we study the word, it produces faith. But have you considered at the time the text was written, there was no Bible to study. [Applause] So if faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God, do we limit the word of God when we confine the word of God to scripture alone?

Seeing at the time it was written, scriptures were still being written. Come on, Bishop. Oh, this this might be too much for Sunday morning.

I'm teaching Bible class this Wednesday. I can I can let it rip this Wednesday, but I'm just going to play around this morning. If If faith cometh faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God, is he really just talking about scriptures when scriptures are still being written?

Is the word of God confined to scripture? on. So if I'm going to get the kind of faith that believes I have received it, and faith comes by the word of God, this kind of believing can only happen when God has spoken in my spirit.

Oh, you don't hear what I'm saying? When God speaks it in my spirit and my spirit receives what God has spoken to me, I receive it. Right?

Y'all don't hear me. This is to keep me from trying to receive stuff that's yours. Because if he didn't speak it to me, I can't believe it like you.

And I can't receive what is yours. So, I can't coveret what God has given to you because I don't have the faith to receive what I don't have. [Applause] Now, can I go deeper?

Now, here is how it works. You as a believer have the Holy Spirit. You also are a spirit.

You are a spirit. You have a soul. You live in a body, but you are a spirit.

That's why the Bible says you don't have to fear the person who can kill the body, but fear the one who can kill the soul and the spirit. You have the Holy Spirit and you have a spirit and you have a conversation that goes on on another level. It is of this conversation that first Corinthians speaks when it says no no he says the problem with you you think like a carnal Christian.

Let let me show you why your life has been going in circles. I'm so glad you came this morning. Isn't this good?

See, a carnal Christian doesn't necessarily have to be a sinning Christian to be a carnal Christian. It certainly incorporates that, but it is not limited to that. Carnal, where we get the word carnivorous, just means meaty.

Meaty. carnivore carn meat flesh means that you make decisions through your flesh. That's all you have to do to be a carnal Christian.

To operate through how it looks, what you heard and how you feel. Dance all over the church, you're still carnal. talk in tongues till your mouth filled like sandpaper, you're still carnal.

You are carnal because you are responding to flesh over spirit. And if you sow to the flesh, you shall of the flesh reap corruption. If you sow to the spirit, I believe it said, of the spirit, you shall reap everlasting life.

So he says what I'm going to do for you will not come through your senses. So if you are operating in your senses, you are going to go back through the same thing you went through last year. Because what I'm sending you will not come through corn.

It will not come through flesh. It's going to come through spirit. And in order for it to come through your spirit, you have to get in the birthing position of prayer so that you can birth in another dimension.

Oh, this is going to help somebody. He says it's not going to come through the flesh. And up to now, you've been making decisions based on flesh, what you see, what you heard, how you feel.

But eyes has not seen what the the things the things the the the the things things things things things. Just touch three people and say things things. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The things. The things.

The things. So when when we say things, we're no longer talking about spiritual. We're talking about tangibles.

God said, "I got tangible things I want to do in your life, but I'm going to send it through the spirit. I'm not sending just the fruit of the spirit. The things God has the thing.

If it's a thing, God can do it. If it's a thing, God can move it. If it's a thing, God can release it.

If it's a thing, God can grant it. If you've been praying, is any too hard for the Lord? He shall have anything.

Touch your neighbor and say thing. Stay right where you are. We'll be right back after this.

Have you ever wanted to discover the difference between God's desires and yours? Or learn how the Holy Spirit reveals the deep things of God. God has a specific plan for you.

His desire is for you to discover his will and to receive the fullness of his blessing. Understanding our purpose and our dreams through the lens of the Holy Spirit. What is really most important here is that you develop an ability to hear in your own life what the Holy Spirit is saying to you.

Desire, pray, and believe. You will receive it. When you write us, visit our website, or call 1800 Bishop 2, you'll be given CIA, the Spirit Speaks on three DVDs just for helping us reach others with your best gift.

And when your gift is $150 or more, you'll receive your very own Dave Oceans book set and a beautiful resurrection cross. Tune in to the hidden wisdom the Holy Spirit has for your life today. Listen friends, I want you to understand that the pastors and leadership conference is designed to take you upward and onward with what God has placed inside of you.

Many of you are unearthing new gifts and you're wishing you had mentoring. You're wishing you could see behind the curtain and understand how people do what they do. We designed this conference for you.

Join us for our pastors and leadership conference 2013. If you know how to influence people correctly and you increase that influence, you will increase your leadership with that individual. We're wanting people to do a job without the equipment.

They need our spiritual DNA. God's not going to beat us over the head to try to get it to us. That there there's got to be something on our part.

We serve a God that has the power and the might to do the things that you thought he would never be able to do in your life. It's a gathering of people that God has selected to lead the way. Meet me there and we'll help get you prepared to reach the next level.

We are simply out of time. I would to God we had more, but we do not. But I pray that God continues to speak to you all day long and that this word repeats itself and gives birth in your heart with revelation knowledge.

Have a wonderful day and let God keep talking as the day goes by.