Delayed Gratification – Bishop T.D. Jakes

In contrast to instant gratification — delayed gratification is when you acknowledge the value in something and act patiently to receive it. You must wait in the Spirit, work in the flesh, and watch how God will elevate you higher than you ever thought possible. The cost to get it includes submission, strategy, surrender, and suffering. Your better isn’t far off, but what price are you willing to pay to get there?

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let’s go to work

in the gospel of saint luke

chapter number 22 verse 42 through 51

and then i will

drop down to 55 and luxuriate the

theology of this message

by continuing the story from 55 through

we will be reading out of the king james

version for no particular reason other

than the fact that we both share

being old

i like the language i learned the

language in king james go to it now luke

42-51

when you go to this you have stepped

into

the most stressful

overwhelming

conflicting moment in the life of christ

himself

the fortress of hell

has come against him

all of the legions of demons have come

in concert for this moment

when we step into this text

all that he has done before is now on

trial

it is not just that he is on trial all

that he has done before is on trial and

all that he is

is on trial

good lord

the disciples are standing around with

him

staring watching beholding

thinking that they are part with him but

the pressure has become so tight

the need so great the wrists so high

that even the strongest of the disciples

begin to buckle up under the weight that

jesus is standing up under

we step into this moment and it is there

not only so that we will have the

beautiful continuity of the history of

the circumstances that led to the

crucifixion but there is an underlying

message that i want to extract from a

very familiar story for the edification

of the church and where you are right

now

and i believe in my spirit that god is

going to answer somebody’s question

today

through the word of god

so i want you to listen with the king

here

with an infinite ability to understand

that god is talking to you

and he has drawn you out here this

morning so that he could sit by the fire

and talk to you as a father would his

son

so that through it you might become

better and stronger and richer in him

are you ready

saying father if thou be willing remove

this cup from me

nevertheless not my will but thine be

done

and there appeared an angel unto him

from heaven strengthening him

and being in agony he prayed more

earnestly agony requires more earnestly

when you’re in agony you have to pray

more earnestly when you’re in agony you

have to pray more earnestly if it

weren’t for the agony there wouldn’t be

the earnestly

sometimes god will allow the agony to

bring you to a place of earnestly if god

didn’t bring agony into your life you

would not pray with more earnestly

and his sweat

was as as it were great drops of blood

falling down to the ground

and when he rose up from the prayer and

was come to his disciples he found them

sleeping

for sorrow

and he said unto them why sleepy

rise and pray watch rise and pray lest

ye enter

into temptation

oh i didn’t know that prayer was a

deterrent for temptation

that if i pray strong enough there are

some temptations i won’t enter in

because of my prayer life

that he will lead me around certain

types of temptation

and deliver me from evil because i’m a

prayer warrior

and while he yet spake behold a

multitude watch this watch this watch

this don’t just read it watch it and

while he yet spake behold a multitude of

mob came a scandalous mob came and he

that was called judas one of the twelve

went before them and drew near unto

jesus

to kiss him

but jesus said unto him judas betray us

now

the son of man with the kiss

have you no class have you no dignity

of all the ways to betray me you would

betray me while being intimate with me

[Applause]

the height of betrayal is to do it with

a kiss

you could have pointed at me

you could have described me to them

but you took advantage of your ability

to access me

the fact that i allowed you to be able

to access me you now use it against me

and flaunt it to your friends that you

can get to me

all to my demise and my destruction

when they which were about him saw what

would follow they said unto him lord

shall we smite with the sword they don’t

know what to do because the mob has come

they’ve come with torches and weapons

and lights and screaming and terror

terrorists coming against jesus

and one of them smote the servant of the

high priest and

cut off his ear his right ear and jesus

answered and said suffer ye thus far

and he touched his ear

and healed him

and when they had kindled a fire in the

midst of the hall

and were set down together i’m down at

verse 55 peter sat down

among them

oh wait

how can you cut the ear

off a person

and then sit down amongst them

but a certain maid beheld him as he set

by the fire and earnestly looked upon

him and said this man was also with him

and he denied him

saying woman i know him not

and after a little while another saw him

and said god also of them and peter said

man

i am not

and about the space of one hour after

another confidently affirmed saying of a

truth this fellow also was with him for

he is a galilean

and peter said man i know not what bout

says and immediately while he yet spake

the cop

crew and the lord turned

and looked upon peter

it’s a powerful thing

it’s it’s not

it’s not that the lord said anything to

him

he gave him that look you know that look

your parents gave you when you were

showing off in church

he just

looked upon peter

and peter remembered the word of the

lord how he had said unto him before the

crows thou shalt deny me thrice

and peter went out

and wept

he wept

bitterly

can the church say amen

this morning while you’re standing i

want to talk to you about delayed

gratification

if you’re watching on the internet type

that on the line delayed

gratification

because underneath

the texture

of this story

and the continuity of the events

i want you to see that jesus is teaching

them the power

of delayed

gratification

let us pray spirit of the living god

come real close

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hover over this place

in such a way

that you bring clarity of thought and

nimbleness of mine and endow me with the

grace and the gift of being able to

articulate that which defies human

language

as we stand on the precipice of this

text we know this is the week

separated from all other weeks there

would never be or never will be another

week like this week

this is the week when all that you have

professed

has come to trial

in this moment we

are in such

coinanea

because there are many people in this

room that all that they have professed

has come to trial

in this season that we’re in right now

all that we have sung about and shout

about it’s preached about and talked

about and testified about has come to

trial through the events that come

against us in this moment and we have

fellowship with you because we feel the

weight and the pressure and the

responsibility

of responding to something that had we

had a right

to choose we would have avoided

but we trust you when we can’t trace you

have your way in this place

spirit of the living god fall freshly on

in the name of jesus we pray somebody

shout amen

you may be seated in the presence of the

lord

yeah

let’s go to work

glory to god

delayed gratification is a hard thing to

teach

particularly when you are teaching it to

people who have been

oppressed

because when you have been oppressed

whether in a marriage

or on a job

or in society

you have waited so long for any inkling

of success

that the moment we get any inkling of

success we need to be able to sport it

it is therapeutic

it is reassuring

it is comforting but delayed

gratification requires a degree of

maturity that very few people have

delayed gratification requires that you

are seasoned enough to see the higher

purpose

rather than the momentary gratification

of proving to naysayers

that you got it going on

when you make proving to other people

that you are somebody your goal

you fall short of your divine purpose

because god did not create you to

impress people

because if you impress them what is the

reward

you are impressing people that have

nothing to give you but an opinion

and everyone has an opinion

and few of them are changed by the

accruments of our success our problems

today

center around the fact that we have a

tendency

to buy our wants

and beg our needs

because we can’t wait for it

we spend years

in the wilderness of adversity

rather than walking into the land that

flows with milk and honey

because we like the ability

to have delayed

gratification

any goal that you’re going after whether

you’re trying to lose weight or whether

you’re trying to build wealth or whether

you’re trying to start a ministry or

whether you’re trying to build a

marriage or whether you’re trying to

open up a business you have to have

delayed gratification

if you open up a business and you start

eating up all the profits and spending

it as fast as you’re making it your

business won’t last long you have got to

open up the business and ignore the

prophets

if you have the strength to ignore the

prophets long enough

they will accrue in value and strength

to the point that you can go beyond what

we fall into

the abyss of looking rich

it is far better to be a thing than look

a thing

but in our haste to be impressive

we will take the shortcut

of looking like we have something

that we do not

and when we do that we forfeit the

opportunity to actually be

what we are professing

because it is expensive to require

immediate gratification

in a marriage it’s expensive

to require immediate

gratification

on a job it’s expensive to require

immediate gratification i have learned

the things that come quickly do not last

the things that are the most valuable

and most important take time to accrue

and to build up and the time is

necessary it is not just god holding

back things from you it is god giving

you an opportunity to build up to be

able to withstand the harvest that he’s

getting ready to drop on you

the harvest that god has for you is so

big that he has to break your habits

he has to break your habits

so that you can enjoy your harvest

your habits are destroying your harvest

he would have invested more but he knows

he can’t trust you

because your gratification becomes more

important than his will

and anytime your gratification becomes

more important than his long-term will

he has to hold back what he would have

given you because you can’t handle it

i was visiting one of my spiritual sons

and he picked me up in a jaguar

and the jaguars are very nice and

expensive car

is not my kind of car because i’m too

big

they make great they make jaguars for

little people

little cute people

a little five foot four cute people

i got too much legs and accessories and

stuff and

and

and accruments and

supplements to be comfortable in the

jaguar but i got in the jaguar i folded

myself down like a piece of luggage and

i fit down into the jaguar and i rode in

the jaguar and he took me out to an

impressive restaurant and we had a good

time and we had a great time and when we

got back to the hotel i got out of the

car and i slammed the door i didn’t mean

to but i slammed the door i slammed the

door hard enough that he got mad that i

slammed the door but he respected me too

much to show that he was mad but inside

he was mad because i slammed the door

and he asked me later what’s wrong with

you

and i said what’s wrong with you

[Applause]

he says what do you mean i said let me

tell you something

you will never have anything

because you like the ability to wait

you got more car than you got money

you got more carding you got house

you got more car then you got college

tuition for your children you got more

car then you got savings you got more

car than you got mutual fun you got more

car then you got church you got more car

than you got ministry you got more car

than you got people and you’re trying to

get the people to sacrifice and they

don’t see any sacrifice on you

see jesus said if you suffer with me

you’ll reign with me he does not

disconnect

the continuity between suffering and

raining he said you can’t just leap into

reigning without going through suffering

suffering justifies the rain

suffering teaches you things that make

you able to maintain

the reigning with him

so he says i will not allow you to reign

with me if you forsake the suffering

with me

and we lose over and over again

because we lack the ability

to wait

he said what do you think i should do

i said you should you should trade it in

you should trade your car in this is the

test of sonship

i said you should trade your car in and

get a jeep

i didn’t expect him to do it

because most people say they are your

sons

only mean

see see the real test of being a son is

chastisement

the bible says that if you endure

chastisement you’re a son

you’re not a son when i’m saying things

that you like

that don’t mean anything anybody will

follow you as long as you’re saying

things that you like but sonship is

proven when i say something that you

don’t like and you submit to it

i’ve taught you before that the root

word to submit is to submit to the

mission submission submission means that

there has to be a mission that is

greater than your need for gratification

and you submit to the mission

but the problem with most of us is that

we have no sense of mission

instead we only have a sense of moments

so we have things like shopping therapy

because we want to feel good in the

moment

and we think that everything should

happen

in the moment

but the truth of the matter is anything

worth having takes time

anything that’s worth having takes

commitment anything that’s worth having

takes suffering there are no shortcuts

to it it requires

suffering

it is not just patience that i’m

teaching about this morning

because patience alone is not enough to

deliver what god gave me to give to you

today

you can have patience and still

not have the ability to have delayed

gratification

patience just means our weight and we

have a lot of church people who are

stuck in the weight mode

they’re waiting on god to do something

when in fact god is waiting on them to

do something

so patience alone is not enough

delayed gratification requires that you

have patience and strategy

i want you to write this down patience

plus strategy equals

gratification

patience

plus strategy

equals gratification

if you have patience and you don’t have

a strategy you’re just waiting

but when you know you’re waiting with a

strategy in mind

you know ultimately it will lead to

gratification because you are not

waiting because you’re tired or because

you procrastinate or because you’re lazy

or because you don’t care you are tired

on schedule you are waiting on schedule

you are sitting on schedule you are

denying on schedule you’re driving a

lesser car on schedule because you got a

bigger vision than a car

i never will forget when we were in west

virginia and you remember we were in

west virginia we bought our first really

really really nice home and we were

entertaining a couple and they made fun

of our car and they said you can’t drive

this kind of car up to this kind of

house

he said you can’t you need to get rid of

this rust bucket

that’s what he called my car rust bucket

you cannot drive this kind of car up to

this kind of house i said driving this

kind of car is what got me this kind of

house

well y’all don’t hear what i’m saying

i i i drove the car i knew it looked bad

i know it was i know i know it was kind

of rusty i knew it was old i knew it was

about 12 years old but i was driving it

for a reason

it was part of the strategy that the

money that i could have been putting

into payments i was putting into

something that would build equity that

would build

i sacrificed on the depreciating asset

so that i could build up the

appreciating asset because i got tired

of visiting better

come on come on stay with me i got tired

of visiting better and as soon as you

get tired of visiting better and you

want to start living in better you have

to practice delayed gratification

in order to be able to get there

the reason this text speaks to me

in such a powerful way

is because this is one of the only times

that we see

jesus lose

the disciples had never seen jesus lose

from the marriage at cana

to the woman with the issue of

blood to the sour phoenician woman

to over and over and over again to blind

bottom hairs

every time jesus healed a man whether

he’d been by the pool for 38 years or

whether he had a withered arm

we saw immediate results

he called lazarus from the grave and

immediately he got up out of the grave

he stopped the widow of name stopped her

in the middle of a funeral processional

touched the casket and immediately the

boy got up

he cursed the fig tree and when they

came back the fig tree was dead

he spoke to zacchaeus and said this day

i shall be at your house and this day he

was at the house

whenever jesus spoke a thing it became

whatever he said

he healed the lepers and told them to go

show themselves to the priests and

before they could get to the priest they

were already healed

he came to the disciples walking on the

water

jesus was a winner

everything he did was winning matthew

mark luke and john all gang us to teach

us that jesus is a winner

and this week contradicts all that we

understand about jesus because in this

week

the disciples the students the mentor

the school of prophets that were coming

up under him

were following him into a loss

he was teaching them a message that is

critical for us to learn

that sometimes

you have to lose

to win

oh god

this is so good i’m gonna get the cd

myself

sometimes you have to lose to win when

the wind is big enough a lose always

precedes it

don’t let the loose fool you

it’s a tactical maneuver

to bring you to an expected end

it doesn’t matter what you had to go

through if you ever had to build a house

while you’re building a house that

drives you crazy the contractors get on

your nerves everything gets on your

nerves the bank gets on your nerve the

zoning committee gets on your nerve the

permits get on your nerves the extra

money you had to spend get on you there

everything gets on your nerve but the

moment the house is built and you get

all your furniture in and you move in

and you settle down and you light your

fireplace and you put your music on and

you dim your lights you don’t remember

the contractor you don’t remember the

permits you don’t remember the struggle

you don’t remember the pain because

what’s in front of you is greater than

everything you went through and so

you’re not sitting in your new house

fussing about the contractor because the

gain is great enough

to swallow up the agony of the process

oh y’all hear what i’m saying

and there’s somebody that i’m preaching

god is getting ready to give you a

massive gain

and what i’m what i am sitting here to

teach you is that you have to be willing

to lose in the short run

to win in the long run

you have to do without on the short run

so that you can have in the long run you

have to be willing to be laughed at in

the short run and spend 120 years having

all your neighbors laughing at you

building a boat in your backyard you

have to go through 120 years of them

making fun of you and saying you’re a

lunatic but they won’t laugh in the end

because when the rain comes they’ll

understand that you were working on

something while you were waiting on

something catch somebody and say i’m

working on something

yeah i’m working on something i might

not look good right now but i’m working

on something i might not be impressive

right now but i’m working on something i

might not have any money right now but

i’m working on something i may be a

student in school living off of roman

noodles but i’m working on something i

may have to study while you go to the

basketball game but i’m working on

something i may not get to do all the

fun things that you get to do but i’m

working on something i’m in the gym

cause i’m working on something i’m in

the field running cause i’m working on

something i’m reading books at two

o’clock in the morning cause i’m working

on something i’m exercising because i’m

working on something anytime you’re

working on something you got to go

through a period of suffering and if you

lose over here you’re going to win over

there who am i talking to this morning

this is the first time that the

disciples

got to see him lose

all he ever did was win

at 12 years old they brought him into

the temple and he warned up against the

doctors and the scholars he won he

outsmarted all of them at 12 all he ever

did was when

when his mother told him they ran out of

wine he took water and turned it into

wine and the wine could not resist the

word for the word said turn the wine and

the water

obey and all they had ever seen

him do

was when

but this week

he was acting strange

it was not unusual to see him go apart

to pray he often went apart to pray even

after he fed the five thousand he went

into the mountains to pray and he came

back walking on the water and it was

fine and it was good but this was

different

this was a different kind of prayer

this was a stressful agonizing

tormenting prayer

this was a prayer that made him want

company

because when you have delayed

gratification and you’re suffering you

want friendship misery enjoys company

but there are some places that god is

taking you that you can’t take anybody

with you

no matter how much they love you no

matter how much they like you there are

some things that god takes you through

that you have to face it alone

you have to face it alone i went in the

labor room with my wife and i was in the

room with her but when they said push

they weren’t talking to me

when they pulled out scissors and did an

episiotomy i didn’t bleed

the truth of the matter is i told

everybody we were having a baby

but when i saw them

do what they did i said no

we have no

baby you have the baby and i’m praying

for you

[Applause]

because some things nobody can do for

you

peter james and john have gone into the

garden of gethsemane the place of

pressing the place where all of the

olive trees were kept the place where

the only way you could get the oil was

to crush the olive and it is ironic that

a crushed jesus comes into a crushed

place

getting ready to be transformed from one

element into another crushing is always

standing in the way

i wish i had some crushed people in here

i wish i had a few people who had gone

through some crushing times i wish i had

some people who had lost a friend or

lost a house or lost a spouse or went

through something that crushed you and

you didn’t know whether you could take

it and you didn’t know whether you could

make it and you wondered where was god

in the middle of your situation i get

tired of people always acting like

you’re on top of the mountain every now

and then god orders a valley in your

life and when god orders a valley in

your life you got to be prepared to walk

through the valley of the shadow of

death and know that i’m going to walk

through it i’m not going to stay in it

but i got to walk through it because the

valley comes to teach me god teaches in

the shadows god teaches in the darkness

god speaks in the night when god said

let there be light he said it in the

dark some of the greatest words you will

ever get from god will not come from

your successes they will come from your

failures in the darkest moments of your

life that’s when faith stands up

undaunted i don’t need faith for victory

i need faith when i have to lose

to win

[Applause]

[Music]

all over the bible it hints about it it

talks about it we see it with jonah

he had to lose

to win

he ran away from nineveh

and went to tarshish

and then got thrown off the boat the

prophet of god

the man of god

the evangelist of the hour the one that

was to speak to nations has now been

capsized thrown overboard and swallowed

up by a fish

and went down

down

down to the bottom of the mountains

he had to go down before he went up

baptism itself teaches us this principle

that before you can come up you got to

go down

going down is a part of the process if

you go down

you can come up

we want to go up without going down but

in order to get a great thing done you

got to go down before you go up and

jesus was at his wits in

they had never seen him pray like this

they had never seen him agonized like

this he kept praying and coming back and

checking on them and they were asleep

and then he had to go back and pray

again they had never seen jesus have to

repeat the same prayer three times

jesus said in the tomb of latter father

i know that you always hear me

but in the garden of gethsemane he has

the same conversation

with the father

three times

and the third time it was so

intense

it was intense somebody said intense

it was until there’s prayer and then

there’s intense prayer

the prayer was so

intense

that he started sweating

if i were to theme this text it would be

blood sweat and tears

because in the early phases of this text

we will see blood sweat and finally we

will see tears

the truth of the mighty is is that jesus

swept until great drops of blood started

coming through the pores of his skin

that’s intense

the book of hebrews says you have not

yet resisted under blood you say you

want deliverance you say you want out

you say you want up you say you want

better he said but you have not resisted

under blood

you want that comfortable lazy boy

blessing

that double portion blessing

where you come down the house sashaying

with the cute dress on and we put some

oil on your head in the shape of a cross

and lay hands on you and you want a

double portion of the anointing

you don’t want to be homeless like i was

almost homeless you don’t want your

lights to be cut off you don’t want your

water to be cut off you don’t want your

car to be repossessed i’ve never had

anybody run down the aisle and say i

want to go through the hell you went

through no they don’t want to go through

the hell i went through they want the

anointing that i have but they don’t

understand that the hell i went through

is what created the anointing and you

can’t get the anointing until you go

through the hell if you see me when i’m

taken up you can have a double portion

of my spirit but until you’ve been at

gilgal until you have suffered at

jericho until you have walked this thing

out you don’t get the reward without the

pain

you don’t get success without struggle

[Applause]

you have to be prepared to lose

[Applause]

in order to win

and jesus was bleeding

out of his pores

trying to understand

this moment

is there any

ability

to negotiate

a settlement with god

that allows me to have a massive win

without a massive loss

father if it be thy will

pass this bitter cup for me

i want to redeem the people but i don’t

want to be beaten strip naked crown of

thorns put on my head

stretch wide hung high and die in the

blazing palestinian heat until i

collapse dead on the cross

surely there’s got to be another way to

get to winning without losing

and you’re going to make me lose in

front of my admirers

one of my spiritual son said you don’t

know how stressful it is to have to

preach with you in the building

he said i have so much respect for you

it makes it difficult for me to preach

when i know you’re looking at me

i said it is just as hard on the father

to preach in front of the son who

admires him as it is for the son to

preach in front of the father who’s

sitting there

trying to train him because you think so

highly of me it requires great stress

for me to deliver up under the fierce

intensity of your admiration

your admiration becomes my aggravation

[Applause]

that you would believe in me

is nothing but pressure

to deliver up under such adverse

circumstances is not easy and jesus is

trying to negotiate to see if there is

another option and the third prayer he

says not my will

but thine be done

the surrender to the loss

is shaking

it’s shaking

it’s it is so shaking

that when he walks out this last time he

tells his disciples

sleep on

you’re not no matter how much you pray

you’re not going to change the process

prayer will not change process

prayer will not

change process

i told you a couple of weeks ago you can

kneel down beside your bed and pray to

your mouth is dry and you get white in

the corner of your lips but when you get

up you still got to make up the bed

because prayer does not change process

god will not make up your bed just

because you knelt beside it

are you with me

here we are in the garden of gethsemane

and we always preach about the cross but

for me for me it’s all about the garden

the victory is won not on the cross it’s

in the garden

the victory is one when you say yes to

the process

oh yeah the victory is not one when you

get whatever it is that you’re believing

god for the victory is one when you are

pressed to the point that you say though

he slayed me yet shall i trust him when

you’re oppressed to the point that

you’re saying costs what it costs i’m

going to trust him even in my pain in my

agony in the hospital in a crisis in

bereavement in suffering in agony when

you can go to the cemetery and walk away

and say he’s still god

that’s the kind of stuff that makes hell

nervous that’s the kind of stuff that

makes demons tremble that’s the kind of

stuff that makes the witch lose her

spell

[Applause]

[Music]

he never said

that out must

all shots somebody out of shot he’s

still god

i may not have a job but he’s still god

i may not have any money in my pocket

but he’s still god i may have gone

through a divorce but he’s still god i

may be raising my children by myself but

he’s still god i may be homeless but

he’s still god see faith is not proven

in victories faith is proven in peril

and drama and struggle and denial and

weeping and pain and when god gets ready

to make you a great woman you’ll know

he’s gonna make you great by how you

suffer

the greater the glory the more intense

the story

because you can’t get this all out of a

book

you have to rock with it and roll with

it and groan with it and weep with it

and cry with it and crawl with it and

stumble around and say where are you god

i can’t find you eli eli llama sabotage

why have you forsaken me oh you can get

technique you can get style you can get

information you can get data but until

you get guts

[Applause]

what good are your gadgets if you have

no guts

you develop guts

in gethsemane

you you develop guts

when blood comes where sweat was

blood sweat and tears

you develop a great union after you’ve

had a great fight

you develop a great marriage when you’ve

been unhappy and stayed anyway

you become a great parent when you

parent a troubled child

anybody can parent a child is up on the

dean’s list and straight a’s and no

problems and polite but when you have to

go get them out the strip club and stand

out in front of the crack house and say

jiminy

your mama out here come on talk to me

somebody where are the mamas i wish i

had some real mama when when you gone

through hell and come back you come back

with something that you cannot buy

[Applause]

[Music]

jesus now understands

something that i’m trying to teach this

morning

and that is simply that it cost what it

costs

you can go

and buy a vw

and catch a sale

you can catch levi jeans

on sale

you can go find a monster

and negotiate

but if you go to buy a rolls royce

there is no markdown there is no

discount there is no

negotiation because of the quality

god told me to tell you what he’s going

to give you is going to be amazing but

it will not go on sale

so there’s no need of you sitting there

waiting for it to drop down to the

bargain basement so that you can get 40

off no it’s gonna cost what it costs and

with travail and tears and agony and

suffering you shall enter in sleep on

[Music]

[Applause]

going to sleep peter

he said you should have been praying

unless you enter into temptation

the temptation to fluctuate

the temptation to be unstable

the temptation to vacillate

is broken by prayer

back up

but instead of praying they were

sleeping

and the more you sleep the less you pray

and because you are mighty men of valor

you should have been praying not to

enter into temptation he’s not talking

about a woman he’s not talking about a

club he’s not talking about a strip club

he’s not talking about a joint he’s not

talking about a drink that’s not the

temptation

the temptation

is to offer a quick solution

to a long process

the temptation is to shortcut the

strategy

the temptation is to look for an easy

way out

oh peter was asleep

so when jesus comes out from the garden

of gethsemane as soon as he walks out of

the garden and the garden of gethsemane

is not a big place it’s about as big as

half of this stage maybe a little bit

more with olive trees all over the place

and jesus has been back in the inner

sanctum of the garden of gethsemane way

past where his people were you can’t be

a leader if you can’t go past your

people

the bible says it this way he went on a

little further

they stayed there and prayed but he went

on a little further and if you’re going

to be a great leader you got to go on a

little further and when you go on a

little further you got to go by yourself

you don’t have anybody holding your hand

you don’t have anybody staying up

bringing your coffee in the middle of

the night when you go on a little

further you got to go by yourself if

you’re just gonna go through

kindergarten grandma can help you but if

you’re going after your doctorate you

got to go by yourself that means you got

to be up when other people are in the

bed that means you got to be reading

when other people are watching the game

it means you got to have the discipline

because it costs what it costs and it’s

not going to go on sale

somebody ought to shove me down

somebody ought to shout me down

somebody oughta shout me down somebody

ought to shout me down

[Applause]

jesus walks out of the garden prayer

rich

[Music]

and peter james and john come out faith

poor

and as soon as they come out of the

garden

here comes

a railing mob

imagine what happened on january 6th

a mob

has come

a mob is coming where is nancy and bob

has come

and they said where’s jesus

can you imagine the other terror when

people are not only assembled in a mob

with weapons and lanterns they’re

calling your name

where is jesus

[Music]

and then then then jesus does something

that’s utterly amazing it’s not

mentioned in my text but it’s mentioned

in the gospel of saint john he said i

that speak him he and they all fell

backwards

i that speak am he and they all fell

backwards he’s letting us know

that he did not succumb to the power of

the mob

he submitted to the prayer of with the

father

he says i can handle the whole mob i

could swallow you up i could knock you

off your feet i could bury you in the

earth i could drown you in the jordan i

could speak a word and you couldn’t

catch your breath i am not allowing

myself to be shackled because you’re

stronger than me

i am being shackled because i’m strong

whether i’m shackled or not

i’m strong with no car i’m strong with

no friends i’m strong with no help i’m

strong with no money i’m strong with no

company i’m strong if you leave me i’m

strong if you stay i’m strong if you

cuss me out i’m strong if you allow me

i’m strong if you’re spitting my face ah

that speak and he and they all fell

backwards

and old half praying half sleeping peter

reached in and got his sword

and cut off

k office nephew’s servant’s

ear

watch this

he cut off his ear

of all things to cut off he cut off his

ear

and jesus stoops down

and puts it back on again

because how can he ever get better if he

can’t hear

the enemy wants to cut off your ear

[Music]

he’ll do anything to keep you from

hearing what thus saith the lord you

didn’t hear what i’m saying you don’t

hear what i’m saying the enemy’s after

your ear that’s why he sent your crazy

girlfriend to cut off your ear her

advice is cutting off your ear your

associations are cutting off your ear

your so-called friends are cutting off

your ear anything that stops you from

being able to hear is cutting off your

ear but jesus

stood down

[Applause]

and put it back on again

because faith cometh by hearing

and hearing

by the word of god

and how shall they hear

without a preacher

and how shall they preach say they be

sent if you cut off my ear

my ear

is the only exit out of my situation

you can’t get out of your situation if

you can’t hear

he that has it here let him hear what

the spirit said to the church i’d rather

lose my toes than lose my ear i’d rather

lose my legs than lose my ear because if

i’m gonna learn anything if i’m gonna

know anything if i’m gonna respond to

command i need my ear the first thing

the doctor does when they bring you out

of anesthesia is call your name to see

if you can hear i need my ears so i can

hear if i’m ever gonna come out of this

stupor i’m in i need to be able to hear

my name being called jesus reached down

and said i know he’s gone

and i know he’s bad

and i know he’s working for the enemy

but giving back his ear

to give him back his ear

is the grace to change

there are some people in your life that

you have cut off their ear

and in so doing you have taken away

their grace

to change

you cut them off because you were angry

peter

but you cut them off and left them

condemned

any time you cut somebody off

they lose the ability to change

and why

can you

accept grace for your sin

[Applause]

and be so offended

at someone else’s

you have no right

to cut off someone’s ear

because if i’m gonna get better

it’s gonna come through what i hear

are you listening at me

he cut off his ear

jesus reached down and put it back on

again and tells him i must do the will

of my father

you are not my friend

if your friendship

takes me away

from delayed gratification

because i have prayed three times and

the father has convinced me that there

is no way for me to gloat be glorified

without being crucified

and if you stop the crucifixion

then you hinder the glorification

and you think you’re doing me a favor

but let me die

let me curl up in a nod and die

let me be beaten with the cataline tales

let me be ostracized

oh but i’ve gotten ahead of myself i’m

talking about physical pain

when i have omitted the emotional pain

that on the most tumultuous week of his

life

the people he hand-picked

have betrayed him

he chose judas

and judas has betrayed him

for 30 pieces

of silver

something he could run through in a week

he has sold

jesus

for change

what have you sold him for

what have you sold them for what did the

enemy offer you

that was so hot

that you sold your jesus for a weekend

you sold your jesus

for a promotion

with a company that will later downsize

and lay you off

[Applause]

what would you sell him for

what have you sold him for you’re

watching me on the stream i have a

question for you

how much did it cost to get you to

betray him

how cute was she

how fine was it

some of you

sold jesus

and you got what you wanted

but you don’t want what you got

[Applause]

judah sold jesus for 30 pieces of silver

and not one piece of it stopped him

from killing himself

and you could sell your jesus

for something

that would make you

kill yourself

you know why

it’s a trick

type it on the line it’s a trick

it’s a trick the whole 30 pieces of

silver is a trick

number one it won’t last

number two it won’t bring gratification

and number three it won’t stop suicide

it is the same 30 pieces of silver

that made judas kill himself

not one piece of that silver

would stop the rope he dangled on

and i came to warn you

that you may get what you want

but you may not want what you got

[Applause]

i stopped to talk about this because i

can only imagine

the toll it took on jesus hard jesus had

put up with all of judah’s antics and

criticism and still left him on the

board

jesus had put up with judas criticisms

and aggravation and still left him judas

was jesus treasurer

and he who handled the money

sold him for money

and before he could recover from that

he says to him

why betress thou me

with a kiss

the enemy

who lives a distance from you or writes

a blog about you or starts a rumor about

you or talks about you at the beauty

shop is never your judas

your judas has to be close enough to

kiss you

in order to be judas

your judas has to be the one you eat

with and go out to dinner with he that

sucks with me is judas i want to give

you some homework

identify your judas

[Music]

and still feed him

identify your judas and still take him

out to dinner identify

your judas

and still give him the cup

jesus

fed his judas

jesus washed the feet of his students

and you will know you’ve grown up when

you can be nice

to nasty

you’re not a grown woman until you can

be nice to nasty you’re not a great

preacher until you can be nice to nasty

you’re not a great man until you can be

nice to nasty until as long as you wear

your feelings on your face as long as

it’s important to you that you let them

know that you don’t like them you are

immature

only a child pouts when they don’t get

what they want a mature person can

control their emotions jesus fed his

judas

[Applause]

and

besides

if you feed him you know where he is

[Applause]

y’all don’t hear what i’m saying to you

if you feed him you know where he is if

you fall out with him you don’t know

what he’s going to do you don’t know

where he is you don’t know what’s going

to happen but if you feed him you can

control his actions

jesus told him what thou do is do it

quickly he could only do that because

judas was at the table

can i go deeper

imagine how jesus must have felt

is it not tough enough

to be turned over to the roman soldiers

who hated being there in the first place

is it not tough enough

to be beaten to the point that he almost

died on the whipping pose

is it not tough enough

to have your beard

plucked from your face

is it not tough enough

to have the nails

to dig into the metatarsals of your feet

and bring your feet together

and with one nail

they nailed him to the tree

i believe it’s symbolic of the jew and

the gentile coming together up under one

gospel which is the church but they took

one nail for two feet and brought them

together and they nailed him to the tree

and he bled out on the cross

with nothing to wear but blood

with no covering

but blood

he was executed

before they called it crucified

because crucifixion

was a common execution

imagine you knew

you were on death row

and this is the last week

and the only people who came to visit

you

have now betrayed you

i want to talk to people who have been

betrayed

to be betrayed means i have invested in

you

i have traveled with you

i have fed you

i have laughed with you i have opened up

to you and i have talked to you

never thinking for a moment that you had

another agenda

jesus

was betrayed

let us not be so distracted by the

physical pain

that we ignore the emotional torment

[Music]

because if he can be touched by how i

feel he has to feel it first

he can’t just be a savior of my

physicalities and not a savior of my

mentality

so surely he had borne our griefs

surely he had borne our griefs

so if you if you omit the emotional pain

then when you have an emotional problem

you can’t talk to him about it because

he doesn’t understand

but because he had borne our griefs and

carried our sorrows he is not just a

healer of our bodies he is a healer of

our soul of our emotions of our memories

of our brokenheartedness of our shame of

our hurt of our humiliation

of our disappointment

[Music]

jesus knows

[Music]

what disappointment feels like

and it is exposed when he says

betray us found me with a kiss

a kiss don’t mean they love you baby

it might be how they identify you

but it doesn’t necessarily mean that

they love you

judas betrayed the epitome of the insult

is that you could have pointed me out

but because i gave you access to me

you used to act against me

and now

you betray me

i guess

the worst betrayal in the world

is false intimacy

i’mma say it for the people on the other

side the worst

betrayal in the world

is false

intimacy

that’s why i like my enemies

to be enemies

[Music]

i like my enemies to be enemies i like

my enemies to say i don’t like you i

can’t stand you i don’t like the way you

preach i don’t like the way you look i

like my enemies to be enemies because

once i know your enemy i know how to

handle you what confuses me is when you

wear the camouflage of friendship and i

give you access into the inner sanctum

of who i am and now you betray me with a

kiss

[Applause]

can i go deeper

and peter have had a dispute

a dispute that is strange peter do you

love me

yes lord i love you

feed my lamb peter

do you love me are you deaf jesus

yes lord i love you feed my sheep

peter do you really love me

yes lord

i love you

but the problem is

jesus is saying peter do you agape

and peter is saying i fell ill

[Music]

watch how people answer

do you agape

yes lord i feller

phileo is brotherly love

agape is the love of god

peter do you agape yes lord i fillet

and jesus decides to read him

he says before the crows

you will have denied me three times

i would never betray you

this is some this is

this is the complexity of the text

i believe

that peter really meant

i will never betray you

because we seldom know

what’s really in us

[Applause]

let me talk to y’all

telling people what you’d never do

stop telling people what you never do

if the circumstances are right and the

conditions are right you would be

shocked what you are capable of doing

the problem with peter it always has

been his problem peter doesn’t know

himself

the worst thing in the world

is to be yoked to somebody

who doesn’t know who they are

because how can i please you

when you don’t know who you are

how can i satisfy you when you don’t

know what you want

how can i be there for you when i don’t

know which you i’m there for

come on come on come on go with me go

with me a little while longer i’m headed

somewhere i’m headed somewhere i’m

headed somewhere i’m headed somewhere

peter doesn’t know

who he is

jesus continually all his life has been

trying to tell him who he is simon

simon

thou art the rock

cephas

you’re a stone

simon

you’re not unstable simon means unstable

you’re not unstable

you’re a rock

but i got to bring that rock out of you

have you ever had something bring the

rock out in you

they ain’t talking to me let me ask

y’all

have you ever had something bring

the rock out in you

and you didn’t even know you were a rock

but when all hell broke loose and you

were backed up against the wall and by

time people got through betraying you

you found toughness you didn’t even know

you had you found strength you didn’t

even know you had and there’s this

breaking point and nobody knows where it

is but everybody has this breaking point

where they flip on you and think enough

is enough

enough is enough no no no no no no

you’re not going to say that no no no no

no let me tell you right now let me tell

you just cause i’ve been quiet doesn’t

mean i’m weak

just cause i’ve been smiling doesn’t

mean that i’m stupid

just cause i’ve been nice doesn’t mean

that i’m crazy and now you got me down

to the rock god wants to take you

through enough stuff that he digs down

to something solid you can’t build a

house on the dirt you got to build it on

a rock and so you’re going through

things right now because god is digging

you out

peter doesn’t know who he is

and when people don’t know who they are

they respond in unpredictable ways

peter pulls out his sword

and cuts off his ear

cause peter’s a fighter

and he said i’ll cut your ear off your

ear right now i’ll cut your ear off your

head

i will block you bro

i will take you out of this world

right now

over jesus

and even though he looks bad in this

moment

maybe this is me

but he looks kind of good

no maybe it’s just my demand in mind

but i don’t mind having a peter around

me every now and then

[Applause]

can i just be real with you

it’s something kind of attractive to me

about somebody who’s so with you that

they would cut off an ear

somebody who’s so committed that they

will defend you and fight for you and

stand up for you and some kind of cool

about it makes me want to give you an

extra communion cup

yeah yeah yeah you cut off a year you

get an extra cup of communion you get

another piece of bread i’m gonna do

something special for you because i like

the fact that you were cut off in the

ear for me

the irony of it all

is that peter was only tough

when jesus was looking

the same guy who cut off in here when

jesus was looking

when they took jesus captive

and they shackled him and they drove him

away

the same guy

the saint honey do you hear me

the same guy

who would cut off an ear

in an angry mob

and risk his

to defend jesus

it’s the same guy

who ends up

sitting with the enemy

footnote

beware of people with strange friends

i pay attention to who you hang around

because it’s it’s difficult for me to

believe

that you could love me

and warm yourself by the fire of the

people that’s going to kill me

oh i lost him on that jesus

i lost him on that jesus i lost him on

that jesus the saint you don’t get it

these are the same people

the reason one girl recognized him is

because she saw him

in galilee

the man recognized him

because he was related to the guy

that peter cut his ear off

so peter

who has cut off an ear

is now warming himself

by the enemy’s fire

which says to me

what you’re really about

is belonging

and now that you can’t belong with me

oh yeah y’all don’t want me to dig down

here

[Applause]

now that you can’t

belong

with me

i’m not even dead yet

and you with them

have you ever been amazed at these

people that can hop around

from one extreme to the other

and today they’re over here and tomorrow

they’re way over there and tomorrow

they’re way over there and they’re they

now peter

peter

the one who was a fisherman till jesus

called him

unlearned peter whose status is only a

result of his relationship with jesus

is now warming himself by the fire of

who looks like the winner

when jesus looked like he was winning he

was with jesus

when jesus looked like he was losing he

was with them and watch people who keep

switching sides

all of a sudden you realize that they’re

more interested in winning

then they’re interested in you

and if it’s necessary

to be with you to win i’ll be with you

but if something else comes along that i

can win from

i will warm myself by the fire

and tell them

never

knew

feel that

sit in that a minute

sit in the fact

that judas has just sold him

and peter

who was in the inner circle that was

supposed to be interceding for him

now has denied him

not once

not twice

but three times

and on the third time

jesus brought the sermon

through

the crowing of a

that didn’t know when it growed

that morning that it was preaching

it was preaching to peter

that jesus was right

the cop crowed

and jesus just

looked at him

and when he looked at peter

no sorry

when he looked in peter

[Applause]

peter webb soar

how

there is a book out called

the gospel according to judas

it’s not a part of the canonical bibles

it suggested judas betrayed jesus

because he wanted to start an

insurrection

and he thought jesus was going to do his

thing

and overthrow rome

and the trick backfired

he was too smart for his own good

now i don’t know whether that was really

written by judas or not but if it is

true he was too smart for his own good

peter on the other hand has a different

story altogether

he attaches himself

with power

here is the underlying story

thomas we don’t know where he is

thomas has said i must go and die with

him

where is thomas

wait excuse me

bible scholars are here

when jesus was on the cross

where was thomas

when they shackled him and they took him

away

where was thomas

thomas had said i must go and die with

him

i don’t read where thomas was nowhere

around

so you can’t make decisions based on

what people say

can i can i go just a little bit deeper

can i go see see because some of y’all

got so much faith in the things people

say to you you got so much faith in what

they said you are setting yourself up to

be wounded you’re setting yourself up to

be heard you’re setting yourself

up to be defeated you cannot go by what

people say because people change

let me tell y’all over there people

change

people change

people fall in love if you can fall in

you can fall out

people fall in love they fall out of

love they make commitments they make

changes whenever they get ready and you

cannot build your life on the words of

people

here’s the big takeaway i want you to

see

it is i’m not criticizing the disciples

no doubt i have had judas in me

no doubt i’ve had peter and me

no doubt i’ve been thomas and doubted

i’m not criticizing the disciples

the real point of the message

is that they did not recognize

jesus in laws

they recognized him on the mount of

transfiguration

but they didn’t recognize him in loss

sometimes people only recognize you when

you’re winning

i spent half of my ministry

preaching in store fronts

and i swear

i could preach the same way being i do

now

there were no busloads coming to visit

our church

there were no cameras covering me there

were no bloggers writing on me

nothing

because people react differently to you

when they perceive you are successful

that’s why it’s hard to get up

[Applause]

because anybody give you money if you

don’t need it

my wife went to the car dealership and

she was gonna get a car and they was

taking her through all these changes and

take her from office to office and go to

the manager and doing all of that stuff

she was sitting there telling me i came

in there i had i had a fit

i had a fit i had you y’all would be

ashamed i’m sorry i had a fit i flipped

out i said you go home

right now

and i told the man

if she wants the car

bring it to the house

if we decide to get the car

we’ll sign the papers in the house

and we don’t need to see your credit

manager

because if i decided i wanted it

and he looked at me

with shock and amazement

because he was used to talking to people

who were down

and i wanted him to know

don’t fool with me

don’t don’t know

don’t fool with me cause i got options

don’t fool with me cause i know the

owner of the company don’t fool with me

because i called the general manager

don’t fool with me cause i got power

don’t fool with me cause i will fight

you all day and for god sake don’t you

fool with my wife cause i will slice you

and

dice you like i own you

and i got in my car and i drove off

and i told the person who was with my

wife don’t you ever take her through

that again

don’t you ever let nobody talk to her

like that again don’t you ever do that

again because when people think they can

say just anything to you

they say just anything to you

and the hard part about getting up

is that people won’t give you a shot

and what i’m trying to teach you

in the text i’ll say this and how close

they didn’t recognize jesus

losing he had always been a winner

and you can always get a bunch of people

to follow you when you win

[Applause]

now he’s a loser

where where where is thomas

where they go

peter why are you sitting over there

with them

judas you counting your money

where did they go

but what the disciples didn’t know is

what i’m trying to teach you

is that for great wins

you have to endure great loss

this is where we contemporize the text

jesus knew

that the only way up

was down

jesus knew that the road

to success was struggle

jesus knew that there was no way to get

the oil out of the olive but to crush it

jesus accepted the process

and he knew that the pain in his life

right now

did not negate the promise that was on

his life

in fact

it initiated

the promise that was in his life there

was no way for him to be lord of all

above the earth under the earth and in

the earth without going to all three

dimensions

so he rebuked peter from trying to save

him

just as much as he rebuked peter

for cutting off the man’s ear

and then peter

denied it

and here’s the kicker

jesus still kept fooling with peter

[Music]

now if you had got in the way of my

destiny

and if you had denied me and made

friends with my enemies and denied me

three times

seemed like to me that would be a sign

i’m gonna be you i know

you and me we finish

when you see me you go that way i’ll go

that way

we christians so we got a heart we will

nod at each other stay out of my face

jesus

invites peter

to preach the inaugural address

on the day

of pentecost

this is for every man woman boy and girl

who’s ever had a little judas a little

thomas a little peter in them

that does not mean

that god is through with you

that

does not mean that god is through with

you the reason they did all of that is

for the first time in following jesus

they had to learn

delayed gratification

the woman with the issue of blood

was healed immediately

the man with the withered hand

was healed immediately the man who was

sick of palsy was healed immediately i

can show you case after case where they

were healed immediately lazarus was

raised from the dead immediately the

water was turned to wine immediately

this is the first

time that they saw

jesus in shackles do you know what it

would feel like to see your leader

your father

in chains

they did not understand

delayed

gratification

they didn’t understand that the rust

bucket got the house

they didn’t understand

that the saving opened up the door

and we don’t seem to understand

that the best promises

often come out of the longest delays

and the reason

the reason i’m preaching this message

is that the lord told me to tell you

you’ve been delayed

but not denied

the lord

told me to tell you

i don’t know what it’s what he’s talking

about but you don’t know what he’s

talking about

god told me to tell you he’s still gonna

do it

god told me

to tell

you

though the vision terry wait for it

in the end it will speak and not lie

god told me to tell you that he has not

forgotten what he promised you and even

though it looks like everything is going

contradictory to what he showed you god

said it’s just delayed

gratification

and he told me to tell you that after

you suffered a while he’ll establish you

and make you perfect and he told me to

tell you that nothing that you suffered

will negate anything that he promised

you that he’s still

going to bring it to pass

it may not look like it all week long it

may not look at while you’re hanging

from the cross it may not look like it

while they lure you in the grave but

early sunday morning

god said i will not lie to you when i

get ready to snatch you up i’m going to

snatch you up so fast it’s going to blow

your mind i just want to know who i’m

talking to

i want to know who this word is for i

want to find somebody who’s been on hold

a long time and you’ve been waiting a

long time and you’ve been delayed a long

time and you wonder how god forgotten

you and you wondered would god ever

remember you and you thought maybe god

had changed his mind and the lord sent

me to preach this message to let you

know i didn’t change my mind

it’s just delayed

gratification

and god said after you’ve suffered a

while

i’m gonna raise you up and establish you

i don’t care how many stones they roll

in front of you when i get ready to get

you up i’ll raise you by my power

i’ll raise you by my glory you don’t

have to play a trick you don’t have to

do a scheme you don’t have to play a

game god said when i get ready to raise

you you don’t have to flirt with the

soldiers you don’t have to make a deal

with rome

when i get ready to raise you

i’ll raise you up i’ll raise you by my

power

i’ll raise you by my glory i raise you

by my strength

because what i have spoken i have spoken

and what i have said i have said and i

swear

god said i swear

i swear i’m gonna bless you

i swear i’m gonna bless you give him 30

seconds of crazy praise

i swear

i swear i’m going to bless you i swear

i’m gonna bless you it might look bad

right now

but god said i swear

i swear

i swear i’m gonna bless you

this word is for you is for the hell

you’ve been going through is for the

pain you’ve endured it’s for the nights

you’ve cried it’s for the moments you

felt like giving up

god said i swear

i’m going to bring you out

surely goodness

and mercy

shall follow you all the days of your

life

when they put you in jail

goodness and mercy went to jail with you

when they were beating your back

goodness and mercy was there with you

when they put you in the grave

goodness and mercy was there with you

and god said i always assigned two

angels

goodness is on your right side

mercy’s on your left side

and the lord told me to tell you i got

you covered

i got you covered and when it’s all over

i’m gonna bring you out

and when i bring you out

you’re gonna be more grateful

because you suffered for it

you cried for it

you waited on it

you’re not gonna be like the other

people

who got arrogant

god said when i bring you out

you’re gonna give me the praise

you’re gonna give me the praise because

you’re gonna know if it had not been

for the lord that was on my side

i would have been swallowed up

but thanks be to god

who gave me the victory

i wonder if i can find ten people

in this room

a hundred people on the internet

that what you got you know god gave it

to you

the door that got opened you know god

opened it for you i want you to testify

god will keep his word

some of you were in abusive

relationships

some of you had to flee for your life

some of you have been beaten

some of you have been in jail

son of you have lost your last time

but didn’t god do it

he brought you up

and while other folks are praising god

for stupid stuff you’re praising god

because god remembered you

and god brought you up

and god brought you out

and god brought you over and i don’t

care how crazy you act

you earned the right

to give god the praise

you earned the right

to give god the glory

you earned the right to run up and down

the aisle you earned the right

to talk in tongues

because you waited on it

you prayed for it

you endured it

you praised him when it looked like it

wasn’t gonna happen

but the lord said i saw every praise

now i’m going to give you a beauty for

ashes

the oil of joy for mourning

and the garment of praise

for the spirit of heaviness i break

every heavy spirit

in this house

you’ve got to go

this is your last sunday

following me to church

i break the yoke

you’ve been in shackles

with a heavy spirit

but the holy ghost said

i’m going to break it today

move your feet

move your hands

let the devil know i’m loose

i’m loose

from the thing that bound me oh i feel

like preaching now i’m loose

from the thing that locked me up

i’m loose

from the thing that held me down

i got loose

let your neighbor say i got loose

i got loose

i got my joy back

i got my dance back

i got my tongue back

i got my power back

you need to let the devil know

i still got it

i got it i got it

i got it in my hands

i got it in my feet

i got it in my soul

i’m gonna take a 60 second praise break

everybody who broke a chain

give god a praise

hallelujah

everybody who broke a chain

give god a praise

everybody who broke a yoke

give god a praise

everybody who refuses to be depressed

give god a praise praise until you feel

it praise it to your baby jumps praise

it to you get your power back i can’t

hear you

[Applause]

i got it back

i got the yoke off my neck

i got the shackles off my feet

now you’re gonna see me resurrect

there is a spirit of resurrection

in this place this morning

there’s a spirit of resurrection and

especially if you’ve been delayed

i want you to force a praise

i want you to make a praise i want you

to create a praise we’re gonna break

this spirit this morning

it’s gonna break this morning

it’s gonna break out of your house

it’s gonna break out of your life

i dare you to move

i dare you to

open up your mouth

i feel like preaching

somebody better take this microphone

i’m gonna break it before i leave

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

i came to church for one reason i came

to break that spirit off of my mind

off of my neck

off of my head

off of my emotions off of my heart

give me some shout music

i want you to break that spirit this

morning

break it on your couch break it in your

living room

break it into your coffee table break

that spirit

yeah

yes

it’s the

spirit it’s a spirit

it’s a spirit

elbow your neighbor and say give me some

room

i gotta break this spirit

it’s not gonna get in the car with me

it’s not going home with me it’s not

gonna get in my bed tonight i’m gonna

break this spirit i’m gonna leave it in

the party’s house a woman now i lose

from your infirmity

now i lose a loose said man

let him go

loose that creature

kids

yes

here comes the spirit of expectation

it’s all in the balcony it’s all in the

fuse

it’s all in the pulpit

everybody that’s got an expectation

give god a praise at this moment

i got an expectation

give him a praise

happy

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

the devil is frustrated he thought he

had you tied up

but you just got loose

somebody just got their arm out

somebody got one leg out but if you

ain’t got but one leg

shake that leg

i’m gonna shake that leg

till i get the other leg free

if i gotta shake my left

and shake my right and then my left and

then my right and then my left and then

my right and then my left side my right

and then my

[Applause]

man

[Applause]

all it is

is delayed

[Applause]

gratification

[Applause]

when they understood it jackie

they all came back

peter came back

thomas came back

thomas thought it was over

said unless i feel the nail prince in

his hands

i will not believe he thought it was

over

he did not understand

delayed

gratification

jesus didn’t rebuke him

said thrust your hands

into my side

and see the nail prints in my hand

and be not

faithless

but believe

this was the plan

the whole time

nothing that happened

surprised me

i told you if they destroy the temple

in three days i’ll raise it back up

again

i told you except a grain of wheat

falling to the ground and die it abide

alone i’m right on schedule

[Applause]

i just took you another way

[Applause]

i got you there but i’m going to take

you another way

and everything i promise you

you’re going to get it

and it may not be where you thought you

was going to get it from

and it may not be who you thought you

were going to get it from

but everything

i promised you

i will bring it to pass lift your hands

and open your mouth

[Music]

open your mouth

you online open your mouth

[Applause]

open him out

to get out of character we’re breaking

spirits

[Applause]

[Music]

we’re breaking spirits

shackling spirits

limiting spirits handcuffed spirits

they’re broken by the power of god

[Applause]

the spirit of heaviness

it’s a spirit

it’s a demon spirit

it’s a spirit of heaviness

and it’s got to break

i forbid it to get in the car with you

there’s no room in your car for that

spirit

you have to leave that spirit in this

building

you have to leave that spirit today with

this message you have to leave that

spirit today

it’s delayed gratification but it’s

going to happen

it’s going to happen there will be a

tomorrow the sun will come out again the

blessings will overtake you the promises

of god are yea and amen god will get you

through this god will take you through

this god will encourage you god will

uplift you who am i talking to make some

noise if i’m talking to you if i’m

talking to you let me hear from you

back i was preaching

[Applause]

i was preaching it’s been about a few

years ago and i was preaching on the

100-fold return

and i was just preaching it because the

lord gave it to me to preach

and i got in the elevator

to go upstairs to change i was wet

and the lord said to me

i’ve given you a hundred fold return

and i said no you hate me

because i thought if i had 104 return i

would know it

he said yes i have

i said lord i ain’t got a hundred fold

return now

he said you have it

and then he said to

me go get your house for praise

and when i have my house of praise

it appraised for a hundred percent more

then what i paid for it

i told my wife we got to move

we sold that house

for a hundred percent more

than what i paid for it

what am i telling you

god will often hide your return

i didn’t even know i had it

i didn’t even know

i had it

because i was looking at money

i wasn’t looking

at the equity that had accrued

while i had been endearing

[Applause]

i speak a hundred fold return over your

life

i speak a hundredfold return

over your life

in money in wisdom

in favor

in spirit

in action

i speak a hundred-fold return in energy

i speak a hundred-fold return in your

health

and your well-being i speak a hundred

full return you watch it on the internet

turn the camera on me a hundred fold

return my hundredfold return in your

life in your life it may not come in the

form you’re expecting it but search for

it search for it when god says he’s

going to do it he’s going to do it he

did it i had to look for it it was right

up under my nose

almost every blessing you see in the

bible was in their house

[Music]

the pot of oil was in the house

the handful of meal was in the house the

blessing is in your house

[Applause]

a hundred fold

am i telling the truth honey

a hundred-fold

return

you ain’t never seen such packing in all

your life

you know why i had to pack

there is a time

limit

on a blessing

you have to move

in the moment

or you miss it

i was growing up in the elevator the

anointing was on that moment

i had to see that moment

we had to be willing to move right then

before the door closed

there’s a time limit on this blessing

a hundredfold return

i want you to write me about it i want

you to text me about it i want you to

tweet me about it a hundredfold return

if some of you is gonna come through a

relationship that you’ve had and you’ve

underutilized you didn’t even understand

that god’s gonna bring something out of

that relationship that’s more than what

you expected some of it’s gonna come

through property some of it’s gonna come

through exposure but god is getting

ready to add increase to your life

increase to your life i speak promotion

over your life i speak promotion over

your life you receive it come on i speak

promotion over your life i speak

promotion over your life and you

that have waited the longest

are gonna reap the greatest

do something with me

everyone that can

everyone that can if you can’t do it

don’t get mad everyone that can i want

you to sow a hundred dollar seed right

now honey i want you to sow it for us a

hundred full return

over

your life everybody watching all

internet everybody watching in different

time zones everybody watching in

different parts of the country you

started to cut me off but you couldn’t

because god wants you to put something

down on this promise a hundredfold

return

it’s coming

it’s coming it’s coming

it’s coming

no murmurs don’t give it complainers

don’t give it hateful people don’t give

it believers only believers only

believers only a hundred fold return

a hundred

[Music]

a hundred fold

let me get a drink of water

the devil don’t want this

[Music]

put the text on the screen

a hundred-fold return

now

don’t give it if you’re not gonna look

for it

don’t give it if you’re not gonna rust

bucket for it

delayed gratification

[Music]

you got to work for it

may have to move forward

it’s happening

[Music]

you

Delayed Gratification – Bishop T.D. Jakes

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