Key Insights
- 🗡️ “Before you five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.”
- 🌱 “Stop expecting God to do your planting, God is not going to plant for you.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes
- 💭 It’s important to prepare and sow seeds in advance to maximize your ability to receive blessings.
- 💍 “If you don’t sew into it, you can’t harvest it.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the importance of investing and sacrificing in order to achieve a better marriage or any desired outcome.
- 💪 Persistence and determination are key to success, as demonstrated by Deborah Martin Chase’s five-year journey to get her movie greenlit.
- 💭 Big dreams require belief in oneself and the ability to persevere through repeated rejection and setbacks.
- 💦 “You can’t wait till you get there to get there, you gotta start getting ready for it before it happens in your life.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes
- 💡 “The best response to criticism is success.”
- 💡 “Most of what is holding you back is your gaze. Your gaze is backwards. You’re looking at what happened and what you’ve been through and how unfair it was and how long it was and how unjust it was and it shouldn’t happen and how you’re a better person than that and you’re right. But you won’t get to better looking backward. You’ll only get to better looking forward.”
- 💪 Bishop T.D. Jakes shares his journey of perseverance and resilience, highlighting the importance of not giving up on your dreams and fighting for them.
- 🌧️ “When the rain comes, the entire situation is going to change and you gotta be strong enough to be harvesting over here while you are planting.”
- 💪 The backside of blessings is that they require a lot of work, but it’s worth it.
- 📚 “Preparation is never time wasted, and it is essential for excellence.”
Faith and Obedience
- 💡 Every promise of God has a backside, requiring responsibility and action from us.
- 🙏 “The church today wants the blessing but we don’t want the obedience.”
Love and Relationships
- 💑 True love means being there for someone through their highs and lows, embracing their flaws and weaknesses, and providing a safe space for them to be themselves.
Summary
The key idea of the video is that in order to achieve success and blessings in various areas of life, it is important to be humble, obedient, and persistent, while also addressing past issues, overcoming fear, and surrounding oneself with positivity.
- 🔑 Having victory in business and church is not enough if you don’t have victory in your home; it is important to be humble, open to correction, and willing to submit in order to have successful relationships.
- 📚 Sometimes we struggle to build for ourselves because we expect things to happen on their own, but we need to break free from our past and establish a new normal; obedience and reverence towards God’s house and word are important for receiving blessings and promises in a society that lacks respect for authority and discipline.
- 🌱 Planting seeds in the present is essential for future success and opportunities, whether it’s in relationships, career, or retirement, and God will bless your efforts.
- 💪 Big dreams require persistence, sacrifice, and self-belief; prepare for success by addressing issues, overcoming fear, and surrounding yourself with positivity.
- 🌱 Stop dwelling on past hardships and focus on sowing seeds for growth to achieve better things in the future; embrace life, be strong, and multitask to prepare for blessings; invest in spirituality and honor God to become a better Christian; blessings require hard work and perseverance.
- 📚 Effort is required for spiritual growth, facing fears and persevering through challenges is necessary for success, focus on improving the “backside” of your life, parents need to model spirituality, live in safety means being authentic, and love is vulnerable.
- 🌟 This year is about embracing vulnerability, expressing your gifts without fear, and experiencing God’s favor to overcome challenges and achieve more with less, leading to abundant blessings that may overwhelm you.
- 🌱 God wants us to continuously plant, sow, and harvest in our lives, always moving forward, because better is coming in various areas of life; despite challenges, victory is imminent.
