Key Insights
- 🩸 Agony can lead to more earnest prayer, and sometimes God allows agony in our lives to bring us to that place of earnest prayer.
- 🙏 The real test of being a son (or follower) is enduring chastisement and submitting to teachings that may be uncomfortable or unpopular.
- 🚶♂️ We must be prepared to walk through the valley of the shadow of death when God orders a valley in our lives, knowing that we will not stay in it but must walk through it to learn and grow.
- 🙏 Going through difficult times is necessary for growth and success: “Before you can come up you got to go down going down is a part of the process.”
- 🙏 Faith is not proven in victories, but in peril, drama, struggle, denial, weeping, and pain.
- 🙌 To be a great leader, you must be willing to go on a little further and go by yourself, even when it’s difficult and requires discipline.
Delayed Gratification and Sacrifice
- 💰 We often prioritize instant gratification over a sense of mission, but anything worth having takes time, commitment, and suffering.
- 💡 Sometimes you have to lose to win – a critical message for us to learn.
- 🙏 Bishop T.D. Jakes challenges listeners to resist until blood, reminding them that true deliverance and blessings require intense effort and sacrifice.
- 🙏 The path to greatness often involves suffering: “The hell I went through is what created the anointing and you can’t get the anointing until you go through the hell.”
- 🔥 Bishop T.D. Jakes challenges us to consider what we have sold Jesus for in our own lives, and whether it was worth it in the end.
Lessons from Jesus’ Compassion and Forgiveness
- 🔥 The power of healing – Jesus’ ability to heal the servant’s ear even in the midst of chaos and violence shows the power of compassion and forgiveness.
- 💍 A great marriage is developed through staying committed even during unhappy times.
- 🙏 Jesus fed and showed kindness to his betrayer, teaching us to be nice to those who are nasty to us.
Summary
The video teaches the importance of delayed gratification, sacrifice, and faith in achieving long-term success and growth, as seen in Jesus’ struggles and teachings.
- 🙏 Jesus faces his most stressful moment, teaches the power of prayer and delayed gratification, and heals a servant’s ear while being betrayed and attacked.
- 🚪 💥 Priorities were discussed after a heated exchange. 🙏🏼👑 Suffering is necessary for reigning with Jesus and forsaking it means losing the ability to wait, which is the test of sonship, and trading in your car for a jeep is a symbol of sacrifice. 🎯🕰️ To achieve anything worth having, one must submit to a greater mission and have patience and strategy for delayed gratification. ⏰👍🏼 Having a strategy and being patient leads to gratification, even if it means waiting or making sacrifices along the way. 💰📈 Practice delayed gratification to build equity in appreciating assets instead of sacrificing for depreciating assets, as seen in Jesus’ loss in the Bible. 🙏🏼💪🏼 Jesus performed miraculous acts, but this week teaches us that sometimes you have to lose to win.
- 🏠 Building a house requires sacrifice, but the end result is worth it. 💪 Enduring short-term losses and ridicule is necessary for long-term success.
- 🙏 Jesus’ prayerful struggle teaches us the importance of faith during difficult times.
- 🌄 Valleys in life are necessary for growth and the greatest lessons come from our failures.
- 💦 Baptism and Jesus’ struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane show that to go up, we must first go down.
- 🙏 Struggles and pain are necessary for success and anointing, as seen in Jesus’ intense prayer in the garden of Gethsemane.
- 🙏 Great marriages and parenting require going through difficult times, leaders must go further with discipline, Jesus shows strength through submission, don’t cut people off, identify your Judas.
- 💔 Jesus can heal our emotional pain and we should be cautious of those who switch sides for the sake of winning.
- 🙏 Trust in God’s promises and endure hardships, for he will raise you up and bless you.
