T.D. Jakes points out that the fight between the Egyptian and Hebrew slave where Moses intervened represents his own internal conflict — a conflict between who he was born to be and how he was raised. Moses felt sure that he was doing what he was supposed to do, yet he faced major obstacles and pushback. We, too, may often feel unsettled when we’re following what we believe is our God-given purpose and run into conflict. But these bumps in the road don’t necessarily mean we’re doing the wrong thing. It might just be the wrong time. As T.D. Jakes says, “You can be anointed but not appointed.” T.D. Jakes also tells us that God intends blessing. In fact, we are already blessed. It doesn’t matter if our present reality doesn’t reflect our vision and destiny. We might not see the big picture, but God knows each step of our life’s path. Believe in the vision God has shown you. Endure. Stay focused on your purpose. Opportunities and blessings are already waiting for you.
don’t litigate over how much you have a
right to have what I got because until
you suffered what I suffer floated
through what I floated through survived
what I survived don’t be frustrated
because some princess pulled me out of
the water and put me in the palace if
you weren’t gonna float down with the
alligators then don’t complain about me
eating in the palace this is the posture
god bless you my friends we are together
again and we’re excited about it we’ve
been sharing a series that is blessing
God’s people the series is The Verge the
message today is don’t let the chatter
stop you I cannot tell you how many
people tweeted me at Bishop Jake’s to
tell me this message bless him in a
powerful way when I preached it because
so many people are distracted by the
chatter around them to the point that
they cannot focus on the goal before
them the message don’t let the chatter
stop you maybe what you need to get your
focus back check it out now Moses is a
grown man we were seeing him close to 40
years old he’s a grown man he’s blessed
he got things he wouldn’t gotten any
other way education by the Egyptians the
Egyptian culture we are still studying
their advancement and technology is
still intimidating even to modern
scientists today their architectural
abilities have caused people to travel
for miles to study the pyramids
Moses was exposed to that in a way he
would have never been exposed had he not
gone through the adversity in his house
he would have never been exposed to the
opportunity adverse for the opportunity
adversity opportunity adversity
opportunity every time he had an
adversity had an opportunity he’s 40
years old and he’s got the opportunities
that people would kill for kind of
opportunities that other people would
have died for got to go places and do
things and understand things that had he
stayed in the house he started in he
would have never gotten all he would
have known how to do was make bricks
without straw but God pulled him out and
sometimes when God pulls you out of your
natural environment it’s painful
you suffer a lot he didn’t pull you out
to kill you he pulled you out to bless
you Nine’s 40 he’s mere 40 years old and
he’s blessed he’s blessed he’s educated
he’s articulate he’s intelligent he’s
bilingual he’s blessed but he’s uh
confused you can yeah lord I wish I you
can be blessed and still be confused
he’s all dressed up and confused he’s a
grown man with a little boy issues
struggling and suffering on the inside
and walking around and all of the
Egyptian capes and all dressed up like
he’s a prince he he looks like a prince
but he’s not he’s he’s a Hebrew by blood
but he’s not he’s neither Egyptian nor
Hebrew he’s stuck in the middle and he
looks out the window and he sees two men
fighting a Hebrew and an Egyptian
fighting what he sees on the outside is
a reflection of what’s going on on the
inside if I say nothing else this
morning I have said it all because if
you can grasp what I just said then you
realize that what you see on the outside
is a reflection of what is going on on
the inside
what you see on that side wish I had
times this to really work there I was
sitting with a bunch of psychologists
and they were they were counseling the
woman that was saying that she been
contemplating suicide
and the psychologist said oh no no she’s
not going to commit suicide I said how
can you say that with such absoluteness
they said her hair is combed
she brushed her teeth her clothes are
pressed it what you see on the outside
is a reflection of what’s going on on
the inside
do you hear what I’m saying
there’s fighting on the outside because
there’s fighting on the inside I’m gonna
drill into that a little bit interesting
point in 35 years of counseling people
I’ve counseled all kinds of Angry Men
I’ve counseled men who beat their wives
and they beat them beat him mercilessly
hit him in the head with skillets and
wrenches and stuff like that do hot oil
on all kind of stuff away but I never
saw a man who beat his wife and lacked
himself what you see on the outside is
the reflection of the conflict on the
inside I could go home now because
because if you leave that part justice
you could spend the next 24 hours going
through your life saying what do you see
going through the trunk of your car
through your garage through your house
what you see on the outside is the
reflection of what’s going on in the
inside if you’re happy to live in
clutter I’m not gonna body another body
now we all have to live in it but if
you’re happy to live in clutter if
you’re comfortable it doesn’t bother you
maybe it doesn’t bother you because what
you see he sees the fighting on the
outside it’s a reflection of the fight
on the inside he raises his hand to stop
it he’s trying to stop it in them so he
can stop it in him the fight on the
outside forced him to confront the
conflict on the inside all of us and
he’s been conflicted for 40 years but
some circumstances are rules in his life
that brought to the surface the inner
conflict that he has in his soul and he
rises up because now faced with a Hebrew
and an egyptian fightning he now has to
choose whose side are you on
forty years have not demanded that he
make a choice but one incident has
pushed his emotions to the surface do
you choose your conditioning or your
pedigree now he chooses his background
his heritage and he kills an Egyptian
killed an Egyptian and buries him in the
sand looking to the left of the right he
sees nobody and buries it in the sand
24 hours later what he sees on the
outside is totally different from what
he saw yesterday he does not see an
Egyptian and a Hebrew fighting because
even made the choice only to find out
that there’s still conflict
the Hebrews are fighting and he rises up
to solve it now this this is the what
when a woman is birthing a baby
they call it crowning when the head
first comes out the head is the first
thing to come on you hear the nurse say
it’s crowning his greatness is crowding
his greatness is crowning
but it’s crowning at a time that he is
not positionally in a place to function
on the level that he’s able to think on
so he’s he’s functioning like a king but
he is not a king
so you you got an internal conflict that
has now gone external thing with me
church one of the things I love about
preaching at the potter’s house is that
you are a thinking people I cannot
pastor people who do not think I’m
allergic to them they make me itch who
deliver me from stupid people just my
head the line to the Lord’s Prayer
deliver us from evil and stupid people
just I’m just gonna inserted right in
there just they’ll it take me out of the
case in her have you ever had an
argument with the fool
you lose all interest in the argument
when you find out that you are not even
intelligent enough to debate me on this
level and you start saying that’s okay
don’t even worry about it
it’s all good that baby just cheeto
robbed with the music honey it’s all
right
it don’t even matter talk to the hand
yeah yeah he’s in a dilemma now and he
is fighting he is fighting his greatness
is coming out it’s crowning and when
greatness crowns
it creates conflict because it does not
crown and when you have been placed in
the position it crowns before you’re
rich before you got the money
yeah educated before you got the degree
you are preacher before they ordain you
you’re a leader before you get the job
you’re a visionary before you become a
CEO your wife before you get married
you’re a husband before you find a woman
if you’re not that before you won’t be
after so you have to go through a period
of displacement where you have vision to
function on a level and don’t have
opportunity which creates frustration
because you say I feel this with
everything I got inside of me but
nothing outside has acknowledged me on
the level that I think on it and you
don’t feel appreciated because your
thoughts are up here and your situation
whoa
do you hear what I’m saying to you still
to come on the fighters touch I had no
idea I was even important enough to be
hated on the level I was hated horn
I couldn’t even defend myself because I
was shocked that you cared enough to
write anything about me Who am I that
you would care anyway your hatred of me
helped to tutor me into understanding my
own significance
what do you do with the fire that will
not go the wait is over God wants to use
you in extraordinary ways now great
things are ahead of you you’re on the
burden you are not just going from day
to day week to week month to month and
now you get ready step into another year
you are standing on the cusp of an
entirely new awakening there’s a burning
desire down inside of you that will not
shut up I got the pain but I got the
passion tooth I got the problem but I
got the passion tooth I got a little
chatter going on but I still got the
passion life is gonna hand you something
every day take in what you can get out
of it let go what you take it out of it
but don’t let anybody hurt you so bad
that you show the wait is over it’s time
to make your life count order the birds
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Bishop 2
Matt Matt Melvin look at the conflict
for a minute if it were not enough
conflict to be a he Egyptian speaking
Hebrew a cultural conflict with an
unresolved childhood now God is bringing
greatness out of a man who doesn’t have
a position to match his intellect a
weaker person would have blown their
brains out I said this this is just
crazy this doesn’t make any sense some
of y’all are there right now your life
does not make any sense you’re in the
middle of your life and it doesn’t make
any sense because you’ve got cops over
here but your situation is over here and
you’re still trying to work out some
stuff from your childhood but you are
wrong may praise the Lord and you’re in
this situation and you’re trying to fix
people around you while you’re still
conflict it on the inside and you wonder
how can the physician be sick how can
the healer be broken how how can I help
other people and can’t help myself
how can i oh God and help me to preach
this thing I’m not talking to anybody
today
he’s 40 years old and he’s trying to get
it together he trying to figure it out
and he’s running out of time and he’s
trying to help he’s trying to make a
difference in spite of his background in
spite of his childhood in spite of his
conflict he’s trying to make a
difference he’s trying to make a
difference there’s something bound
inside of him he can’t figure out what
it is nobody’s taking ownership of it
the Egyptians haven’t embraced him the
Hebrews don’t like it Moses doesn’t
understand it yet when he sees conflict
he runs in there with a big s on his
shirt and he runs out there with his
cape in his boots on and he’s trying to
help people who don’t even like him have
you ever tried to help people who don’t
even appreciate the help you’re trying
to give them and there you are trying to
make a difference in their life and the
very people you trying to help are
giving you the most hell you ever had in
all your life cuz you have never been
hurt til you get hurt by somebody you
trying to help oh I wish I had somebody
who’d been misunderstood I wish I had
somebody who was trying to do a good
thing and every time you tried to do
something good things got worse instead
of better the more Moses trying to help
people the bigger mess he found himself
here he’s got a dead man buried in the
sand and he’s out there in another fight
and before he could get out of this here
comes dad and before you can straighten
out that here comes something l look
like every 24 hours a new kind of fight
breaks out in your life is there anybody
in church today that every time you turn
around scared to answer the phone scared
to open up your own email you say Lord
if another fight breaks out in my life
I got fighting on the inside I got
fighting on the outside I got fighting
in my personal life I got all God I’m
talking for somebody
don’t even know who it is and I want you
to see the irony these two Hebrews are
fighting Moses comes out to break up the
fight and one of the Hebrews he’s not
trying to kill anybody he’s just trying
to say go home don’t fight and one of
the Hebrews said who are you to be
trying to straighten us out who made you
prince who did make him Prince the Lord
had made him Prince but he was trying to
do the right thing at the wrong time
don’t try to get there before you live
just because you can think there you
have not been placed there you can be
anointed and not be appointed you can be
anointed to be king over Israel David
and then have to be sent back out there
to shuttle sheep down because one of the
tests of greatness is your ability to
survive frustration so God will put
greatness in isolation which creates
frustration because you have to be able
to survive frustration in order to be
eligible to become a leader because if
you can’t handle internal frustration
you sure can’t handle external
frustration if frustration on the inside
is going to make you quit what in the
world are you going to do when you have
frustration on the outside so when God
is getting you ready for frustration on
the outside he lets you deal with a lot
of frustration on the inside so that you
can learn how to be frustrated and still
be faithful frustrated and still be
consistent frustrated and still be
diligent I’m talking to somebody I don’t
know who it even but I’m talking to
somebody this morning so here he is any
easy he’s trying to have this shout with
me baby
I feel something about to break loose in
here this morning I feel their anointing
of God about to break loose in here see
when you hear this is how we express
ourselves but when you hear people
hollow out that that means truth hits
you with when truth hits you in the face
all of a sudden you have a reaction to
it because I’m preaching to you about
one thing but God is showing you
different things in your life that fit
what I’m preaching about that’s a
miracle of preaching the gospel
and so the guy says to him who made you
prince over us his prophecy is in the
mouths of his enemies his prophecy is in
the mouth of his enemies I learned more
about who I was from my haters I had no
idea I was even important enough to be
hated on the level
I was hated on I couldn’t even defend
myself because I was shocked that you
cared enough to write anything about me
Who am I that you would care anyway your
hatred of me helped to tutor me into
understanding my own significance all
y’all hear what I’m saying oh my god
so his haters now have said to him who
made you Prince over us and then he says
this is where I want to hammer down he
said are you gonna kill me like you did
the guy yesterday now on one hand he has
just discovered that he is a prince and
that know it anointed but not appointed
has greatness that hadn’t been revealed
yet and that’s it that’s a wonderful
thing in the next sentence he finds out
that his past has come back to haunt him
what the first sentence should have made
him say you know yeah I’m gonna be
Prince over you that’s right you did God
is just showing you what he’s already
showed me but the Prince is a liar and a
murderer what do you do when you got a
holiness and freakiness I’m right over
top of him I’ve here
a man likes what do you do
y’all look so guilty yummy if y’all it
look so funny I would know it was you
but uh I don’t know about you I just
pass through here I’ll go home with you
but what do you do
hey life craziness of Mercedes event it
don’t make no sense man I fed you that’s
why I get into work cuz I’ve tried and
figured out give it crazy it’s crazy
what do you do when you got so much
strength in you that everybody comes to
you and everybody leans on you and
everybody depends on you and everybody
comes to you for answers and you are a
strong person but you are equally a weak
person you you you a powerful person but
you’re also a tired person and people
see one side and they don’t see the
other side and am I talking to anybody
today he is a prince over them he will
deliver them he will bring them out from
the hands of favor he’s all of that but
he also just lied and killed a man and
buried him and hid the body now ain’t
that crazy I say all of this to comfort
you
I’m so glad you came to church this
morning
now watch this the enemy will always
send a terrorist alert when you are
close to your destiny
stay tuned I’ve got more for you in just
a moment what do you do with the fire
that will not go the wait is over God
wants to use you in extraordinary ways
now great things are ahead of you you’re
on the road you are not just going from
day to day week to week month to month
and now you get ready step into another
year you are standing on the cusp of an
entirely new awakening there’s a burning
desire down inside of you that will not
shut up I got the pain but I got the
passion too I got the problem but I got
the passion too I got a little chatter
going on but I still got the passion
life is gonna hand you something every
day take in what you can get out of it
let go what you take it out of it but
don’t let anybody hurt you so bad that
you show the wait is over it’s time to
make your life count order The Verge
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trials God already provided what you
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this is Jake’s she said I know this is
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push I know what you’re going through is
basic but we can get your next pain
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feel trapped well Jesus is there will bea
a resurrection well Jesus here
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