Key Insights
- 🙏 Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the importance of addressing trauma, triggers, and triumph in our lives.
- 🏥 Psychologists use the word trauma to describe the degree to which an event or incident has damaged the soul, highlighting the emotional and psychological impact it can have.
- 💔 Trauma triggers can have a long-lasting impact, as they prompt recall of previous traumatic experiences, and there are different types of trauma, including chronic and acute trauma.
- 🧠 Trauma triggers can elicit strong emotional and physical reactions, causing individuals to shake or feel nervous, as they are transported back to the original traumatic event.
- 💔 The Hebrew children in captivity experienced unimaginable trauma, including being dragged out of Jerusalem, castrated men, raped women, and a loss of their culture, faith, and way of life for 70 years.
- 💔 Trauma triggers can throw individuals back into the painful memories and emotions of their past, causing them to relive the agony they have experienced.
- 😢 The trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our way of life, causing us to lose loved ones and experience the distressing effects of isolation and fear.
- 😔 “You can’t go through this kind of stuff with your lips closed, pretending like it didn’t matter.”
- 😢 Trauma triggers are everywhere, even in the media we consume, and they can have a profound impact on our mental health.
Embracing Triumph and Resilience
- ⚔️ Triumph cannot exist without conflict; we must go through battles in order to experience victory.
- 💡 “We often focus on trauma and triggers, but we fail to take advantage of the triumphs in our lives.”
- 🙏 The majority of the people have chosen to go back to Jerusalem, showing their faith and trust in God’s plan for them.
- 💪 Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and praising God for bringing us through difficult times and bringing us back full circle.
- 💪 The power of resilience: “You can’t kill yourself in the day of adversity because if you kill yourself, you kill your future.”
- 🏛️ “The glory of the latter house will be greater than the glory of the former house.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes highlights that God promises a greater glory in the future, surpassing the glory of the past.
- 💪 “We are the generation that God has chosen to go through this season and we will not fail him… We will survive and we will be triumphant because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.”
Importance of Hearing from God
- 🌍 Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the importance of hearing from the Lord, stating that people don’t want to hear from him or his church, but from God Himself.
Summary
The key idea of the video is that by acknowledging and overcoming trauma, celebrating victories, and relying on God, individuals can find triumph and become winners in life.
- 📚 Bishop T.D. Jakes discusses the emotional experience of laying the foundation of the temple, and prays for transformative changes in the audience’s lives.
- 🔑 Trauma triggers can have long-lasting effects on individuals, but by celebrating victories and appreciating trials, we can find triumph and become winners in life.
- 🎉 Learn to celebrate yourself, acknowledge and overcome trauma, and embrace triumph by praising God for overcoming challenges, as triumph is not just about material success but also about being alive and standing strong despite the enemy’s attempts to bring you down.
- 🙌 God brings people full circle after trials and losses, allowing them to see the fulfillment of their dreams and celebrate, even in the face of obstacles and limited resources.
- 🔑 Triggers can cause people to relive past trauma and experience discomfort, leading to weeping and a lack of control, while others find joy and progress in change.
- 💪 Open your mouth and release the trauma, cry out to God, and holler for a breakthrough, acknowledging and expressing your pain and trauma, while staying true to your purpose and avoiding violence and political agendas.
- 🙏 God acknowledges the trauma and stress in our lives, and wants to do something new and greater, replacing our old with a new kind of glory, so we must surrender to His sovereignty and allow Him to restore our joy and dance.
- 🙏 Release your pain, rely on God, and overcome trauma and triggers by praying for healing, protection, and strength.
