Key Insights
- 🧥 “How many people are honest enough to admit to yourself that the pieces of you don’t go together?” – Bishop T.D. Jakes challenges individuals to acknowledge their own internal inconsistencies.
- 🧵 “It’s a quilt. It’s it’s a quilt. It’s not a blanket.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the beauty of diversity and imperfections in life.
- 🎶 When we praise God, He moves into our praise and comes to rescue us.
- 🙌 Praise is a weapon that can be used for warfare, as Israel did when they said “send Judah first” and began praising God, causing things to happen.
- 🌊 “I wanna preach to a room full of people that’ll step out of a boat and walk out on water, don’t have no bridge, don’t see no rocks, but I’m going to walk on it anyway.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes
- 🤪 “If I don’t get crazy, I’ll never be nothing.”
- 🗣️ “Open your mouth. Let God hear your voice. He knows your voice.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes encourages individuals to express their prayers and praises to God, highlighting the importance of personal communication with Him.
Trusting God in Difficult Times
- 🙏 The dividends of trust: Trusting in God during tough, painful, scary, and uncertain times can lead to reaping rewards.
- 😇 “The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them.”
- 🙏 Trusting God means being able to trust Him even in the midst of physical pain and medical procedures.
- 🙏 “God has got my back when I’m right, wrong, weak, strong, scared, faithful, consistent, and unstable.”
- 🙏 “There’s a dividend that God only gives people who trust Him.”
The Authenticity of God
- 🙏 “Your god is consistent. Great is our faithfulness lord unto me.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes emphasizes the importance of trust in God’s consistency.
- 🏛️ Hosting Africa’s first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was a historic and awe-inspiring experience for Bishop T.D. Jakes.
- 🗣️ Understanding the verses in the texts reminds Bishop T.D. Jakes of Liberia, connecting the idea of praising God continually with the country’s history of liberation.
- 🙏 Intimacy is a lost art, but with God, there is nothing hidden from Him with whom we have to do.
- 🙏 Our God is authentic, encompassing both love and wrath, and cannot be easily explained or confined.
Summary
Trusting in God and praising Him in the midst of chaos brings blessings, protection, and breakthroughs in our lives, even in difficult and uncertain times.
- 🙏 Trusting in God yields dividends, bringing blessings and abundance even in difficult and uncertain times.
- 📚 Life is a chaotic and fragmented journey, where knowing a person takes time and their emotions can surprise you, disproving Shakespeare’s claim that life is a tale told by an idiot.
- 🙏 Trust in God is built on imperfections and variations, and praising Him in the midst of chaos summons Him into our circumstances and serves as a weapon against the enemy.
- 🔑 Despite our vast online communities, we are still lonely and lack genuine connections, but God sees and knows everything about us and can create something beautiful out of what may seem like rags.
- 🧵 Authentic people are like quilts, complex and multifaceted, and while our understanding of God is limited, he is the only one who will always have our back and hold us together.
- 🙏 God has our back in every situation, including our troubles and challenges, and we can trust in Him for peace and protection.
- 🙏 Trust in God’s plan, even when it seems unconventional or crazy, and be willing to take action and step out in faith for blessings and miracles.
- 🙌 Trust in God, take risks, and praise Him boldly for blessings and breakthroughs in your life, even in difficult times.
