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God Chose You for a Purpose!: T. D. Jakes

Insights

🌍 We are meant to be given to the world and make a difference, but first, we must go through a process of being taken, blessed, and broken by God.

🌟 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and I ordained thee and I Sanctified thee to be a prophet unto the Nations.” – T.D. Jakes shares a dream that revealed his purpose as a prophet, highlighting the idea of predestination.

🌟 Despite our doubts and insecurities, God chooses individuals from unexpected backgrounds for a purpose.

🌱 When God plants you in the right place, your influence will extend beyond barriers and walls, breaking down divisions and uniting people.

🌟 God’s willingness to come down from glory to Earth, taking on human form, shows His immense love and desire to be close to us.

🌟 Jesus proclaimed, “I am God dwelling amongst you in the midst of you in your Camp, so that you can understand me.”

πŸ•ŠοΈ Satan opposes the unity of the church because when believers come together in peace, they become one and embody the essence of Christ.

🍞 Miracles happen at the table, where Jesus took, blessed, broke, and gave bread, symbolizing the Last Supper and the feeding of the five thousand.

Summary

TLDR: God chooses weak and broken people to fulfill their purpose and through communion, believers become a mystical body of Christ.

  1. πŸ’‘ The more God takes, blesses, and breaks you, the more he multiplies you to meet the needs of the world.
  2. πŸ™ The speaker had a dream at 17 where God revealed he was chosen to be a prophet, and despite initial resistance, he ultimately accepted his purpose as a preacher.

2.1 At 17 years old, the speaker had a dream where God revealed that he was chosen to be a prophet, which was confirmed by his birth with a veil over his face.

2.2 The speaker initially resisted his calling to be a preacher, engaging in reckless behavior to try to convince God to choose someone else, but ultimately accepted his purpose.

  1. πŸ‘‰ God chose the speaker, despite his doubts and excuses, to fulfill a purpose that he couldn’t understand.
  2. πŸ™ Feeling inadequate drives us to seek divine intervention, as God chooses weak and broken people to show His strength and glory, leading us to our purpose.

4.1 Feeling inadequate is a sign of humility and drives us to seek divine intervention, as the complex questions and problems of the world cannot be answered or solved by our own abilities.

4.2 God chooses weak and broken people to show that His strength and glory come from Him, not from our own talents or skills, and He will not let us go until He has placed us in the purpose He has prepared for us.

  1. 🏜️ The wilderness was a challenging journey for Israel, but in the midst of it, God established a tabernacle as a meeting place where Divinity and humanity could come together, foreshadowing the ultimate embodiment of this union in Jesus.
  2. πŸ™ God chose to dwell among us and made himself accessible to all people through the Tabernacle, representing Jesus and his desire to be with us.

6.1 The Tabernacle in the wilderness was a representation of Jesus and God’s desire to be with us, as shown through the holies of holies and the 12 tribes of Israel.

6.2 God chose to dwell among us and made himself accessible to all people, taking on the form of Mary’s flesh as the Tabernacle.

  1. πŸ™ Jesus revealed God’s love and power through his presence and actions, transforming the Passover into communion as a memorial of his physical body being served to the church, symbolizing hope for a glorified body.

7.1 Jesus is God dwelling among us, revealing the love and power of God through his presence and actions.

7.2 Jesus transformed the Passover into communion, merging grace and dispensations, and the bread and wine serve as a memorial of his physical body being served to the mystical Body of Christ, representing the church’s hope for a glorified body.

  1. πŸ™ When believers come together in unity, they become a mystical body of Christ, discovering the true essence of Jesus through communion at the table.

8.1 The speaker explains that when believers come together in unity, they become a mystical body of Christ, with each person holding a portion of the mystery that brings them together as one.

8.2 Discover the true essence of Jesus and the mystical Body of Christ through communion at the table, where the disciples on the road to Emmaus were enlightened by Jesus’ teachings using the Old Testament.

8.3 God is an actor who made as if he would go further, but the disciples learned the most about him when they sat at the table with him on the road to Emmaus.

8.4 When you sit down with Jesus, he takes, blesses, breaks, and gives you to the world, multiplying and increasing you in the process.

 

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