In other words, don't let what you're going through get to you. When Jesus was sleep on the bow of the ship, when Jesus was sleep in the bottom of the ship and the storm was raging around the ship, and Peter gets flustered and Peter lets the storm [...]

TD Jakes : Because once people respect you and then found out you are human, they reject you. Am I talking good? So, winning at home implies it's a fight. You can't win if it's not a fight. And let me tell you something, I know you sitting there [...]

I wanna make you to understand that when you start talking about Gadarene, it's an adjective that means, in the Greek, it means to move rapidly and without control. To move rapidly and without control. That's the name of the area: To move rapidly [...]

The one thing I can guarantee you that all of us will face, male or female, is a storm. Single or married, is a storm. Divorced or not, is a storm. There is nobody you're going to meet, or greet, or fall in love with, or fall out of love with, that [...]

Jesus does not discuss how the Father made him rich or famous. He talked about how the Father loved him. When you take the father's love from the child or the father doesn't know how to give love to the child outside of the woman, the child is [...]

Joseph's tears are amazing. They threw him in the pit and he didn't cry. They stripped him of his clothes and he didn't cry. They ripped his coat of many colors and he didn't cry. They separated him from the love of his father and he didn't cry. [...]

Little did he know that today would not be like any other day when they led blind Bartimaeus to his spot and set him down out of the way, close enough to the traffic to attract attention but not so close that he would be trampled on by the crowd. He [...]

Let's talk about the historic feasts and parties of ancient Israel and understand that the harvest seasons were huge events, not just work events. They were moments of elaborate celebrations, and people would come from miles and miles around to [...]

And when the angel came to get in, he found him in the wine press. The wine press is the strip club of grapes. It is the place where grapes disrobe and uncover themselves, for it is not the skin of the grape that is the most important thing. It's [...]

And so it was amazing for me that, in the same year, the first time I made my first trip to the motherland, to the land of my ancestors, when I first got off the plane, to hear the gentlemen say in a deep, African accent, "Welcome home," [...]

Not long ago, my wife had a medical problem that slipped upon us like a thief in the night. In the midst of doing our daily tasks and going through our routines, she collapsed on the bedroom floor, and we had to call 9-1-1, and it was just the [...]

So the Lord called me, and I became aware of it around 17, though I didn't say, "Yes," to him until I was 19. And it's funny because, when we talked about the Lord calling us, it's like it's this one-time experience like he calls you one [...]

The Bible says that we are "A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," that we didn't just wander in to him. We were chosen. He said, "You have not chosen me. I have chosen you. I picked you out. I [...]

This is the end. You're going to lose everything. You won't come out of this. You're not smart enough. You're not bright enough. You waited too late. You start should have started younger. Those are the kind of voices that we all live with. For me, [...]

When I was 17 years old I laid down and went to sleep, and while I was sleeping I dreamed I was reading a verse that I didn't know existed at the time. God was saying to a young man, before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee or I ordained thee [...]

And so I had sat on a plane for about 12 hours, left the beautiful city of Dallas, flew to London, got out in Heathrow, walked the corridors, made the change, and then flew another 9 or 10 hours to Lagos, Nigeria, and then, by car, I traveled out [...]

You know the funniest thing to me is that poor people think that rich people don't get crushed. They think that if they had money, they'd have everything. But crushing is the one thing in the world that you can count on to be totally unbiased. It is [...]

It is a misnomer to think that if you walk with God and serve good and do his will and work that you won't have any trouble. The reality is they that live godly shall suffer persecution. And you don't get to pick when or how or what the suffering [...]

So I was building my church, the church of my dreams, the church beyond my dreams, the church that I never thought I would ever get to build, the church that was valued out at millions and millions of dollars that I didn't have, but I had the faith [...]

I love the holidays, any kind of holiday, thanksgiving, I'll make up a holiday. I love holidays 'cause you have great food, and you have great fun. People come over. I like to entertain and have a good time. Fourth of July is one of those times. I [...]

Abram is not the Abraham that you are accustomed to hearing about. He is out of Mesopotamia, he is a Chaldean, he is carnal, he is an idolater, his family is all into idolatry because Abram is just a few generations from the sons of Noah, who had [...]

Whereas you want blessings just so you can brag about that you got them, God gives blessings to people who will take action. And if you're not going to use it, why would God give it to you? And so, he designed it that if you didn't use it by a [...]

When life seems crazy, when life is confusing, when it's unfair, when you lose your baby, it defines a moment. When your husband walks away, it defines a moment. When you lose your job, it defines a moment. When you feel like you're about to lose [...]

Let us not forget that it is by his stripes we are healed, that he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was upon him. And with his stripes, we are healed. And let us not be so [...]

There are four classes of people, I want you to get this good so you can figure out which one are you because it tells the kind of ground you are. The first class, the enemy stole it before they could flourish, even to the point of salvation. You [...]

"Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed". You gotta be strong to receive seed. Especially if the seed is strong, the ground has got to be strong enough to receive the seed. Are you hearing what I'm saying to [...]

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the Word about Christ. Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? The Word that sticks, the Word that sticks, the Word that sticks. I'm still living off of steady in [...]

The book of Hebrews, the 11th chapter, is considered the hallmark of faith, the Hall of Fame, the hall of faith, filled with different men and a few women out of different eras who had notable accomplishments by faith. The phrase "by [...]

Sometimes we are loyal to a fault. Have you ever been loyal to a fault? All the loyal people say amen. Yeah, it takes something for you to break away even when you know you should break away because you are loyal to a fault. The Pharisees were loyal [...]

He carries both the title of prophet and priest. The Bible talks in Hebrews, put my text back up here for a minute. Hebrews 1, let's go back to it. Going down past verse 1, yeah, maybe about verse 2, yeah, in the, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [...]

There are many today that would have us to think that we cannot speak ethnically and be a part of a church which is unity. But the church is comprised of great diversity. It does not hide nor shy away that every tongue and kindred shall be gathered [...]

There are three books in the Bible that start with God and none of them explain him. Stop trying to explain God. Just stop trying to explain God. He that cometh to God, must first believe that he is, that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them [...]

You may be seated. Well, it might be redundant to say so, but I think it's important that we define what is a thesis. In philosophy, years of your thesis will state a position or a claim. It will state a position or a claim. It's to take a stand [...]

There is a small, minute phrase in the text that I started to pull up, but you can look it up whenever you want to. It's a simple little sentence, but it has great impact, it has the force of a sledgehammer. It says, "And then the manna [...]

And so there is this war going on and it is a war so brutal that Paul writes him, at one point in his letter, he says, who hath bewitched you? What kind of spell did they put on you that you forgot your God, that you're so easily turned away from [...]

The problem with you receiving the promises of God is that sometimes God promises you the most illogical stuff. As long as I've been walking with God, God said something to me a few years ago, I wrestled with him about three years telling him, I [...]

There are three characters in the story. There are two scriptures in the text. There is the woman, the broom, and the coins, and that's all we have to work with is a woman, the broom, and the coins. That's all we have. The coins, the number ten [...]

This is an introductory moment in the ministry of Jesus Christ. I emphasize the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because this is as much about Spirit as it is about anything else. And when you refer to the Spirit, of course, you understand that [...]

Some of the most bitter people are sanctimonious, always judging other people, because they have no appreciation for what God has given them, they sit in the seat of judgment. God has a purpose, he has predestined everything according to his own [...]

And the hardest place to learn is to learn while people are looking. Because if you make any mistakes, you have armed them with weapons to throw at you. And how can you not make any mistakes because you have never done this before. By the way it is [...]

And when Joshua crosses the Jordan, it is at the peak of a season where the banks are overflowing. But don't let it be lost on you that the Jordan is coming down. In fact, some scholars teach us that the Jordan's literal translation for the word [...]

The reason I'm in this text is that when it comes to the story of the lost son, the entirety of this story of the younger son who says, "Father, give me the portion of goods that fall after me," he is distinctly different from the coin or [...]

That's Paul's role here and he's setting up New Testament theology and doctrine, and causing them to really understand who they are. Amidst all kinds of philosophical ideas, amidst all kinds of religions and all kind of philosophies that were [...]

Moses is leading them forward, almost against their will, because while he's trying to get them out from under Pharaoh, when they heard Pharaoh's army coming up behind them, their emotions took over their intelligence. Have you ever had your [...]

We see God inviting his estranged children to be emancipated not only to relieve the oppression, but to meet them in the wilderness to worship him. I want you to understand that they had not had a conversation with God for 400 years. They are the [...]

You remember the Syrophoenician woman who came to Jesus, and had no right to be delivered, and her daughter was grievously vexed with the devil? And Jesus answered her not a word, and then said, "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house [...]

I want three brothers to come out here right quick and help me make this illustration. I'm gonna try not to get lost, and I already picked you out, so move, move, move, move, move. Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus. There you go, [...]

What drew me to the text is for Paul to say, "We know not," we don't even know what to pray for, we don't even know what to pray for. If I told you how many times I walked in the hospitals where people were on life support and I didn't [...]

Somewhere along the way, we developed this phrase in the history of the church to pick out people or persons that we call to be prayer partners, and though the phrase "prayer partners" is not in the scriptures, there are many, many [...]

Jesus had some kind of effervescent power influence that when he walked in the room, even this idolatrous woman knew he was a king, he was the son of David. And there the conversation begins when she calls his name and then expresses the condition. [...]