TD Jakes - It's Prophetic: You Are Made for More
When something fits you that wasn’t even supposed to fit you and it doesn’t make any sense, did it fit you? When you feel at home in a place you weren’t even raised, and all of a sudden he’s adorned the meat with salvation and given you the Garment of Praise when you were living in the spirit of heaviness, and it fits. Anytime it fits, courts are always prophetic; it’s prophetic. That means that God knew that David was to become Jonathan, so he entered into the new door as someone else, and you said, «No problem. This is how I am; I’ve got to be myself. I need to just shut up.»
Why do you believe in salvation if you insist on being how you are? Because salvation came to change how you are, and you are so in love with standing who God has designed you to be, maybe in total contradiction to everything you’ve experienced up to this present moment. It’s prophetic. Let me show you why it’s prophetic. There are two things about David that are interesting, and they seem totally different. David is a fighter; he could fight. You jumped on David after a bad day; I don’t care how the odds were against him, he could fight. I don’t care if you’re bigger, like Goliath; he could fight. I don’t care if it was a hundred foreskins of the Philistines; he could fight. He could fight by himself; he could fight. He was fierce by himself; he could fight. He fought lions and bears and tigers. If you can fight a lion, you can fight. He was a fighter, and he was a praiser.
Now, most men have trouble praising because they hold on to the fighter and fake the praise. But David had mastered when to do battle and when to praise. The reason David was so good at fighting and praising is that David was not from their tribe; they were from the Tribe of Benjamin, where kings came from. David was from the tribe of Judah. Judah means praise. That means his great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was named Judah by Leah. In fact, the tribe of Judah didn’t even have any business in the House of the Tribe of Benjamin if it weren’t for prophecy. And when that boy took his coat off and put it on Judah, yes, these are more than two boys—these are two tribes switching in the prophetic destiny of the Messiah. It was good for them to have this moment because they pivoted in that moment; Judah has entered into his destiny through David.
Watch this. Look at Genesis 48:8-10—just throw it up here; you got to go to it; there it is right in front of you. «Judah, whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.» Come on, Judah is alive! No wonder David could whip a lion; he is a lion, Judah, an Israelite. All my praises make some noise; Judah is a lion’s whelp. I don’t have time to preach this, but somebody please preach this for me. He’s a whelp; he’s a lion’s cub from the prey. «My son, thou art gone up; he stooped down; he couched as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up?»
Here’s the kingdom: the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh, the Messiah, comes, and unto him shall be the gathering of the people. Little did they know that the transference of clothes is the transference of roles; it is the transference of the kingdom; it is the transference of authority; it is the transference of power. Slap somebody and say, «Fit me!» I don’t understand how it fit me, but it fit me. It fit me—I didn’t even go to school for it, but it fit me. I didn’t get the training for it, but it fit me. It’s because it’s prophetic; I was predestined to be in the role that I’m in. Somebody’s looking at you and saying, «How did a girl like her get a man like him?»
It fit me. Somebody’s looking at you saying, «How did a guy like him get a woman like her?» It fit me. What God has for you is for you. I want somebody that has something that doesn’t make any sense to praise God for the prophetic power that moves you into a position of influence. I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost about to take over this room because, somebody I’m speaking to right now, you’re at the pivot point; things are about to shift in your life. Somebody in here has been a praiser and a fighter; you had to fight with one hand and praise with the other. I want my warring praises; can you give me 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds of a war of praise?
I’m soft enough to worship, but I’m fierce enough to war. I’m soft enough to praise him, but I’m strong enough to be powerful. I want the real war praisers! Praises are my weapon; praises are my defense. Don’t let my dance fool you; I’ll fight my way here. I’ll fight off the enemy and still praise my God, and every time I get the victory, I will dance! Every time I get a breakthrough, I’m gonna dance! Every time God opens the door—no, no, no, I’m not hearing from church folks, I want to hear from fighters. Give me a hundred fighters that’ll jump out in the aisle and praise him like you’re mad, praise him like you lost your mind, praise him like you haven’t got a sin, praise him like you don’t care what you got on, praise him like you don’t care what you look like, praise him like you’re glad for your voice right now!