Key Insights
- 😇 “Following Him, don’t worry about the enemy behind you, greater is He that’s in you than he that’s after you.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes
- 🎉 “I’m gonna praise you like it’s already done…for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever” – Bishop T.D. Jakes encourages declaring victory and speaking blessings into existence, trusting in God’s sovereignty.
- 🏛️ “Perhaps God goes by quality and not by quantity, so the most successful pastor may not be the one with the most members, but the one who is qualitative and not quantitative.”
- 🙌 God is about to do something in our lives that we have never seen before, something beyond our imagination and understanding.
- 💡 “If you can put up with the trauma of uncertainty, eventually I will show you. I got a plan to work this out that you haven’t seen.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes highlights the need to have faith and patience during times of uncertainty, as there is a greater plan at work.
- 🌍 “God will put you in the region without telling you exactly where…that’s why your soul keeps getting happy because even though you haven’t hit it yet, you know you’re close.”
- 🍞 “All my life, I pictured sandwiches falling from heaven. I didn’t know that I had to cook… What God lets rain down from heaven is potential.”
Overcoming Challenges and Adversity
- 🙌 “God will drown what’s chasing you baby. He will drown what’s chasing you if you just keep on.”
- 🚶♂️ The slaves endured a long and burdensome journey, carrying everything they owned on their backs for two and a half months.
- 🕯️ “You don’t know how tough they are until you hit them and all of a sudden that little woman that you thought wasn’t tough starts pulling down the mantelpiece and grabbing up the candlesticks and coming at you and saying you touch my child, I kill you.”
- 💪 Trusting God’s plan may require leaving behind familiarity and comfort in order to enter a place of fruitfulness and personal growth.
- 😈 The greater the attack from the devil, the greater the blessing from God.
- 💪 Everything you ask God for is within your reach, but it won’t be easy or comfortable – you have to stretch, claim it, and make it yours.
Discernment and Spiritual Awareness
- 🤔 “This is not cognitive. This is supernatural. This is not natural wisdom. This is not the wisdom of men. This is the foolishness of god.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the power of supernatural wisdom over human understanding.
- 🌊 The disciples struggled to recognize Jesus when he appeared in a different form, but they recognized his voice, showing the importance of listening and discernment.
- 🤔 “If you can see what others cannot see, you can get what they cannot get.”
Summary
The key idea of the video is that recognizing God’s answers requires surrendering our own thoughts and ways, trusting in His plan, and embracing the unknown in order to reach our fullest potential.
- 🙏 God’s people were called out of slavery and into sonship, complaining in the desert but being provided for by God with bread from heaven, and we should recognize God’s answers and thank Him in advance for things yet to come.
- 🙏 God supernaturally cancels the debt of the Israelites and provides for their needs in the desert, teaching them faith and showing that blessings carry weight and He will settle all accounts in due time.
- 🔑 People often react with misplaced rage when faced with uncertainty, recognizing God’s answers requires surrendering our own thoughts and ways and prioritizing inner strength over outer appearances.
- 🙏 God’s answers may not align with our expectations, but if we trust and let go of our preconceived notions, He will reveal His plan in His own time, even if it seems foolish to others, and we must have faith and not grow weary in our efforts.
- 🙏 Let go of the familiar and embrace the unknown, because God is leading you towards your purpose and providing for your needs.
- 🙏 You are in spiritual warfare in your journey towards your destiny, so don’t let the devil take over; worship opens up our spiritual senses to receive God’s messages; recognizing something new requires a different approach; Jesus went to the mountain to hide from being crowned king before being crucified.
- 🙏 Recognizing God’s answer requires discerning His voice and not relying on appearances; His answers may defy recognition and appear different from expectations, but it is important to sense and recognize His presence in various forms.
- 🙏 God’s answer requires letting go of expectations, recognizing opportunities, and collaborating with Him to reach our fullest potential.
