Classic T.D. Jakes - The Struggle is Over - 1994 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Get your Bible and turn quickly to the
2. 0:02book of Genesis, chapter number 32.
3. 0:12Lord, prepare me
4. 0:15to be a sanctuary,
5. 0:21pure and holy,
6. 0:26tried and true.
7. 0:31And with thanksgiving,
8. 0:36I'll be
9. 0:42sanctuary. [music]
10. 0:47Lord, for you,
11. 0:52Lord, prepare
12. 0:55me
13. 0:56to be a saint.
14. 1:01>> I want to be pure and holy.
15. 1:03>> Pure and holy. [music]
16. 1:06>> Let me be tried and true.
17. 1:09>> Oh yeah.
18. 1:12With thanksgiving, Lord.
19. 1:15With thanksgiving,
20. 1:17I'll [music] be a living.
21. 1:18>> I'll be a living.
22. 1:22>> Make me a sanctuary.
23. 1:25[music]
24. 1:30>> For you.
25. 1:35>> Thank you, Jesus. Stand to your feet.
26. 1:38We're going to read out of the word of
27. 1:40God. I like for people to stand so
28. 1:42nobody gets to sleep on me while I'm
29. 1:44preaching.
30. 1:46>> Amen. If you see somebody sleep, wake
31. 1:48them up.
32. 1:50We're going to just read a few passages
33. 1:52out of the 32nd chapter of the book of
34. 1:54Genesis, verse 22. A very elementary,
35. 1:57simplistic text, but I felt impressed of
36. 2:00the Holy Spirit to share just an excerpt
37. 2:02out of it for this morning.
38. 2:05Verse 22, and we're going to read
39. 2:07through 31. Let's read together. I may
40. 2:09drop out, but you continue. And he rose
41. 2:11up that night and took his two wives and
42. 2:15his two women servants and his 11 sons
43. 2:19and passed over the ford jabbach. And he
44. 2:22took them and sent them over the brook
45. 2:25and sent over that he had. And Jacob was
46. 2:29left alone. And there wrestled a man
47. 2:32with him until the breaking of the day.
48. 2:36And when he saw that he prevailed not
49. 2:38against him, he touched the hollow of
50. 2:41his thigh. And the hollow of Jacob's
51. 2:44thigh was out of joint as he wrestled
52. 2:47with him. And he said, "Let me go, for
53. 2:51the day breakth." And he said, "I will
54. 2:53not let thee go except thou bless me."
55. 2:57And he said unto him, "What is thy
56. 3:00name?" And he said, "Jacob." And he
57. 3:03said, "Thy name shall be called no more
58. 3:05Jacob, but Israel, for as a prince has
59. 3:09thou power with God and with men, and
60. 3:12hast prevailed." And Jacob asked him,
61. 3:15and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy
62. 3:18name. And he said, Wherefore is it that
63. 3:21thou dost ask after my name? And he
64. 3:24blessed him there. And Jacob called the
65. 3:27name of the place panile. For I have
66. 3:29seen God face to face and my life is
67. 3:33preserved. Can you say amen?
68. 3:36>> Remain standing on your feet. We're
69. 3:37going to pray. But my assignment this
70. 3:40afternoon is to come all the way from
71. 3:42West Virginia
72. 3:44to Anaheim, California to tell you that
73. 3:46God said the struggle is over.
74. 3:50[cheering]
75. 3:54I don't know what you've been going
76. 3:55through or who you've been going through
77. 3:56it with, but the Lord sent me. I'm just
78. 3:59a mailman. I've got a postcard for you.
79. 4:01You've been in a test and you've been up
80. 4:03under pressure, but God said the
81. 4:05struggle is over. And I don't know who
82. 4:07that's for, but whoever it is, God is
83. 4:09speaking to [cheering] you right now.
84. 4:10[applause]
85. 4:11Father, in the name of Jesus, let your
86. 4:13anointing permeate this room. Saturate
87. 4:17us with glory so powerful that tidal
88. 4:20waves of deliverance erupt in this
89. 4:23place. Send the kind of anointing that
90. 4:25heals tumors and cancers, diseases and
91. 4:28afflictions, depressions and oppressions
92. 4:31broken by the power of the living God.
93. 4:34I'm not going to wait till you move to
94. 4:36praise you. I'm going to praise you in
95. 4:38advance. Your credit is good with me.
96. 4:40FATHER, I'LL PRAISE YOU RIGHT NOW. You
97. 4:43can work later in the name of
98. 4:45[screaming] Jesus. Oh, bless your name.
99. 4:48I thank you for it. Amen. Amen. Amen.
100. 4:52You may be seated in the presence of the
101. 4:54Lord.
102. 4:56Glory to God.
103. 4:59Hallelujah.
104. 5:01>> The struggle
105. 5:04>> is over.
106. 5:07Thank you, Jesus.
107. 5:10Whenever the Israelites got ready to
108. 5:12pray, they would address God through
109. 5:15covenant. They understood the power of
110. 5:19covenant. And they called him the God of
111. 5:22Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
112. 5:25of Jacob because it was through the
113. 5:27patriarchs of the faith that they came
114. 5:30into a revelatory knowledge of who God
115. 5:33was to them. Whenever we look at
116. 5:36Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we're looking
117. 5:38at the foundation of the Israelite
118. 5:40nation and their revelation concerning
119. 5:43the sanctity of God. And whenever they
120. 5:46got ready to pray, they brought before
121. 5:48God, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
122. 5:50reminding God of the covenant that he
123. 5:52had made with their fathers. They
124. 5:54understood that if God bless my father,
125. 5:56he will bless me, too.
126. 5:59And there's certain holiness, there's a
127. 6:01certain rich tradition and a certain
128. 6:03sanctity to when they begin to approach
129. 6:05God from that concept. But whenever I
130. 6:08hear that that trinity, that that
131. 6:11trinity of prayer going forth, the God
132. 6:13of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I always
133. 6:16think of something that happened to me
134. 6:19uh in elementary school. They used to
135. 6:21give us uh some things to color and it
136. 6:24would be maybe a couch and a chair and a
137. 6:27coffee table and an end table and a
138. 6:30refrigerator and we had to color all of
139. 6:33the various articles of furniture. At
140. 6:35the bottom of the coloring book, it
141. 6:38would say, "What is wrong with this
142. 6:40picture?"
143. 6:41It was our assignment if we could color
144. 6:45to at the end of the coloring to circle
145. 6:47the thing that did not fit in the
146. 6:50picture. And generally I was intelligent
147. 6:52enough to deduce that the refrigerator
148. 6:54normally went in the kitchen. If you had
149. 6:55a house big enough to have a kitchen,
150. 6:57you could put it in there. But whenever
151. 7:00I read this text and hear about the God
152. 7:02of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I always
153. 7:06want to circle Jacob
154. 7:08because he is the one person that does
155. 7:11not fit the characteristics that Abraham
156. 7:14and Isaac had cleaved unto. He seems to
157. 7:18be to me to be the the misfit of the
158. 7:22family. He seems to be the type of
159. 7:24person that really does not belong in
160. 7:27this this sanctity and this holiness and
161. 7:31this consecrated familyrich tradition
162. 7:34toward God. Jacob is a misfit. And it
163. 7:37almost MAKES ME WONDER HOW IN THE WORLD
164. 7:39could God allow Jacob to be in such a
165. 7:41holy lineup?
166. 7:44HAVE YOU EVER SEEN GOD SAVE or bless or
167. 7:47use somebody and you wanted to get on
168. 7:49your knees and tell him some things that
169. 7:51he might not know about them?
170. 7:55Because God has a way of blessing the
171. 7:58strangest people.
172. 8:00He has a way of raising up PEOPLE
173. 8:02WITHOUT ASKING YOU OR MEETING WITH YOUR
174. 8:04board or TALKING TO YOUR COMMITTEE. GOD
175. 8:06JUST BLESSES PEOPLE WITHOUT YOU EVER
176. 8:08EVEN GETTING A CHANCE TO VOTE. WHO DOES
177. 8:11HE think he is?
178. 8:15And God bless Jacob, the family
179. 8:18embarrassment,
180. 8:20disgrace to the community,
181. 8:23mismatch, riff raff type character, and
182. 8:26yet God blessed him.
183. 8:31I'm glad Jacob made it to the lineup
184. 8:34>> because if Jacob got to be in the
185. 8:36lineup, there is hope for anybody in
186. 8:39this room that IN SPITE OF WHATEVER YOU
187. 8:42WENT THROUGH, God has the power to raise
188. 8:45you up again.
189. 8:48>> The thing that I love about God is that
190. 8:50once he makes a commitment to deliver
191. 8:53you, he doesn't matter. It doesn't
192. 8:55matter to him how difficult the task is
193. 8:57before he starts. He will roll up his
194. 9:00sleeves and go to work on you and do
195. 9:02whatever it takes to deliver you and to
196. 9:04bring you out. [applause]
197. 9:07I know there's a witness in here
198. 9:08somewhere.
199. 9:13Jacob's name literally meant a suppler
200. 9:16or a trickster or a con. And he was he
201. 9:19was a fighter in the womb. He was
202. 9:21causing conflict from the very
203. 9:23beginning. He was he was a man of war.
204. 9:25He was a schemer. He was he was an odd
205. 9:28person that that God somehow reached out
206. 9:31his hand for and said, "I'm going to
207. 9:32bless you." But there is a difference
208. 9:35between God calling you and then the
209. 9:37procedure that it takes for you to
210. 9:39become what he called you. FOR GOD CALLS
211. 9:42THOSE things that are not as though they
212. 9:43were and then makes him become whatever
213. 9:46he called him. And I thank God because
214. 9:48once he puts his hand on you, he won't
215. 9:51lift it off until you have become what
216. 9:53he has spoken out of his mouth that
217. 9:55you're going to be.
218. 9:57Hallelujah. [cheering]
219. 9:59[applause]
220. 10:01>> So many people don't understand what
221. 10:02happens to them when they give their
222. 10:04life to the Lord. Once you give your
223. 10:07life to the Lord, you can never just go
224. 10:09back to acting like you used to act and
225. 10:11being what you want to be and acting
226. 10:13using your mother's temper and Aunt
227. 10:15Lucy's attitude and Uncle Richard's
228. 10:17anger. Because once GOD GETS HIS HAND ON
229. 10:20YOU, HE WILL SHAKE YOU AND SHAKE you and
230. 10:22shake you and shake you TILL HE SHAKES
231. 10:24ALL OF your tradition and all of your
232. 10:26family and all of your past and all of
233. 10:28your mood swings AND ALL OF YOUR
234. 10:30ATTITUDES out of you. I thank him for
235. 10:34being that kind of God. I used to think
236. 10:36that the most powerful moments in my
237. 10:38walk with God was when I was in a crowd
238. 10:40like this and people were gathered all
239. 10:43around and the music was wonderful and
240. 10:45the singing was great and they brought
241. 10:46in great powerful prolific aators who
242. 10:49were able to declare eloquently the
243. 10:51truth and exoggetically deliver the text
244. 10:53with wisdom and clarity. I thought THAT
245. 10:56THOSE WERE POWERFUL MOMENTS IN THE
246. 10:58SPIRIT and they're great and they are
247. 11:00good. BUT I FOUND OUT THAT WHEN GOD
248. 11:02REALLY GETS READY TO work you over, he
249. 11:04takes YOU OUT OF THE CROWD AND GETS YOU
250. 11:06BY YOURSELF WHERE HE CAN DEAL WITH YOU
251. 11:09WITHOUT YOU PRETENDING OR ACTING LIKE
252. 11:11YOU'RE ANYBODY ELSE. [cheering]
253. 11:14And so the Bible says, "And Jacob was
254. 11:18left alone."
255. 11:22Not just enough that he was alone, he
256. 11:25was left alone. Left alone means that
257. 11:28there were people around him and they
258. 11:30moved away.
259. 11:31>> And whenever God gets ready to really
260. 11:33bring you into the truth of your
261. 11:35destiny, people leave you.
262. 11:41>> And you will never be who God wants you
263. 11:42to be until you become comfortable with
264. 11:44people leaving you. [cheering]
265. 11:48>> Because when God really gets ready to
266. 11:50bless you, ONE OF THE SIGNS THAT THE
267. 11:51blessing is about to break loose in your
268. 11:53life is people leave you.
269. 11:58>> [cheering]
270. 11:58>> If anybody left you, I want you to know,
271. 12:01don't panic. IT'S A SETUP. GOD'S GETTING
272. 12:03READY TO OPEN UP THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
273. 12:05AND POUR YOU OUT A [screaming] BLESSING
274. 12:07THAT YOU won't have room enough to
275. 12:08receive.
276. 12:10[applause and cheering]
277. 12:12AND JACOB WAS LEFT.
278. 12:18[cheering]
279. 12:20>> He was LEFT ALONE. NOBODY TO IMPRESS.
280. 12:25nobody to appear pompous and religious
281. 12:27for. He was left
282. 12:31alone.
283. 12:33It doesn't matter who you are in a
284. 12:35crowd.
285. 12:37It matters who you are when you are
286. 12:39alone.
287. 12:43God doesn't want to deal with your face,
288. 12:46your reputation,
289. 12:47your name, your education, your
290. 12:49intellect, your annuities, your
291. 12:51investments, or your CDs.
292. 12:55God doesn't care what school you came
293. 12:56from or what you drive.
294. 12:59>> God wants to deal with THAT PART OF YOU
295. 13:01that you have to deal with when nobody
296. 13:03else is around. And for that purpose,
297. 13:06he'll put you in isolation
298. 13:09>> so that he can give you revelation.
299. 13:13[applause]
300. 13:17>> People who you never thought would
301. 13:18forsake you will leave you alone.
302. 13:22And I praise God for being left alone.
303. 13:25>> I PRAISE HIM FOR GIVING ME PRIVACY
304. 13:28>> while he chastises me.
305. 13:30>> I used to tell my mother, "Mother, if
306. 13:32you're going to whoop me, take me in the
307. 13:33house.
308. 13:35Don't punish me out in front of all of
309. 13:37my friends." WHEN GOD GETS READY TO
310. 13:39DEVELOP YOUR CHARACTER, he'll put you in
311. 13:41a place of isolation.
312. 13:44He's setting you up in a position where
313. 13:48all of the people that would take credit
314. 13:50for your deliverance are backing away
315. 13:54so that when you get your complete
316. 13:57breakthrough, you won't owe the praise
317. 14:00to nobody BUT THE LORD.
318. 14:05YOU'RE GOING TO lift up your VOICE LIKE
319. 14:07A TRUMPET and say, "If it had not been
320. 14:10for the Lord that was on my side, IT
321. 14:14WASN'T MY MOTHER. IT WASN'T MY FRIENDS.
322. 14:16IT WASN'T MY WIFE. IT WASN'T MY HUSBAND.
323. 14:18BUT THROUGH IT ALL, GOD HAS BEEN there
324. 14:21all the time." And Jacob was
325. 14:25>> left
326. 14:28alone. Hallelujah.
327. 14:31And there wrestled
328. 14:34a man, an angel, a a theophonic
329. 14:37manifestation of God.
330. 14:40We have a wrestling God.
331. 14:46We have a wrestling God.
332. 14:48I apologize to this generation because
333. 14:51we've just taught you about a blessing
334. 14:52God
335. 14:54and a healing God and a delivering God
336. 14:58and a miracle working God. And he's all
337. 14:59OF THAT, BUT HE IS ALSO A wrestling god.
338. 15:05>> Oh, yes, he is. He is a wrestling god.
339. 15:10He knows how to work with you until you
340. 15:13become what he wants you to be. He
341. 15:17doesn't just have love, he has tough
342. 15:18love.
343. 15:20Some of us are pretty tough to deal
344. 15:22with. And everybody else who tried to
345. 15:25tell you something, you didn't want to
346. 15:26hear them. And because people are more
347. 15:29concerned about being in your favor than
348. 15:31they are seeing you delivered and
349. 15:33getting the BLESSINGS OF GOD, SOMETIMES
350. 15:35THEY'LL PLATE YOU AND LET YOU HAVE IT
351. 15:37YOUR WAY. But God IS NOT BURGER KING. HE
352. 15:39SAYS YOU CAN'T HAVE IT your way.
353. 15:41[cheering]
354. 15:42And he SAYS, "WHATEVER IT TAKES TO BRING
355. 15:45YOU INTO A PLACE OF BLESSING, I'M
356. 15:47WILLING TO ROLL UP MY SLEEVES AND BACK
357. 15:50OFF IN A CORNER WITH YOU AND WRESTLE
358. 15:52WITH YOUR PAST AND YOUR OLD NATURE AND
359. 15:55WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT YOU AND HOW YOU
360. 15:57SEE YOURSELF, YOUR DOUBTS, YOUR FEARS,
361. 15:59AND YOUR TEARS. I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU
362. 16:01DRY UP AND SIT OVER IN A CORNER AND FEEL
363. 16:04SORRY FOR YOURSELF. I'M GOING TO WRESTLE
364. 16:06YOU ALL NIGHT AND ALL MORNING UNTIL YOU
365. 16:08GET A BREAKTHROUGH. GOD WILL [cheering]
366. 16:11wrestle with you.
367. 16:14[applause]
368. 16:18And I thank him
369. 16:21>> for wrestling.
370. 16:23I thank him for being the kind of God
371. 16:25who will confront uncomfortable issues.
372. 16:28I thank him for being the kind of God
373. 16:30that sends an anointing that makes you
374. 16:32squirm.
375. 16:34>> If you're in a ministry that doesn't
376. 16:35make you squirm sometime, get out.
377. 16:37You're in the wrong church.
378. 16:39[cheering] Real good preaching ought to
379. 16:40make you squirm a little bit sometime.
380. 16:43Real good preaching ought to make you
381. 16:44restless sometime. Real good preaching
382. 16:47ought to make you say OUCH SOMETIME.
383. 16:49REAL GOOD PREACHING OUGHT TO MAKE YOU
384. 16:50FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY'S BEEN watching you
385. 16:52sometime. It ought to MAKE YOU THINK
386. 16:53THAT SOMEBODY'S HIRED AN INVESTIGATOR.
387. 16:55REAL GOOD PREACHING WILL GET IN YOUR
388. 16:57BUSINESS. IT'LL GET IN YOUR MARRIAGE.
389. 16:59IT'LL GET IN YOUR MIND, YOUR MOODS, AND
390. 17:01YOUR ATTITUDE. GOD WANTS TO WRESTLE YOU
391. 17:03SO HE CAN BLESS YOU.
392. 17:06[cheering]
393. 17:08And there wrestled
394. 17:10a man
395. 17:12with him
396. 17:15until
397. 17:17sometimes people will confront you, but
398. 17:20when they see how strong will you are,
399. 17:22they'll back away.
400. 17:24>> But God is committed to the case.
401. 17:29>> He says, "I'm going to wrestle you until
402. 17:34the breaking." Somebody say breaking.
403. 17:36Breaking.
404. 17:37>> That's what you got to come to. That
405. 17:39breaking of day. That that that place
406. 17:42where day erupts, where night says, "I
407. 17:45can't hold it any longer. I've got to
408. 17:47turn him loose." The breaking of day.
409. 17:50God said, "I'm going to see you through
410. 17:51the darkest moment in your life. The
411. 17:54time of isolation, the time where you
412. 17:56have to deal with every issue in your
413. 17:58past." God said, "I'M GOING TO SPEND THE
414. 18:00NIGHT WITH YOU UNTIL YOU GET TO THE
415. 18:02BREAKING OF DAY." TOUCH SOMEBODY AND
416. 18:04TELL THEM SOMETHING is about to break.
417. 18:06THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW. THAT'S
418. 18:08WHY THE ENEMY IS TRYING TO DESTROY YOU.
419. 18:11THAT'S WHY THE PRESSURE IS MOUNTING.
420. 18:13THAT'S WHY HELL'S HOUNDS HAVE BEEN
421. 18:14LOOSED AGAINST YOU. THAT'S WHY
422. 18:16DEPRESSION IS COMING AFTER YOU AND YOUR
423. 18:18MIND IS IN A TURMOIL IS BECAUSE THE
424. 18:20DEVIL KNOWS THAT SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO
425. 18:22BREAK IN YOUR LIFE. [screaming] WHATEVER
426. 18:25YOU DO, DON'T GIVE UP. WHATEVER YOU DO,
427. 18:27DON'T QUIT. WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T BREAK
428. 18:29NOW. YOU'RE TOO CLOSE.
429. 18:33>> [cheering]
430. 18:35[applause]
431. 18:37>> GLORY TO GOD.
432. 18:48>> There is a struggling going on.
433. 18:52But God has set an alarm clock.
434. 18:56He says, "I'll let it last, but I won't
435. 18:57let it last too long."
436. 19:00>> He says, "I'm not just alpha. I'm also a
437. 19:02mega.
438. 19:04>> I'm not just the beginning, but I'm also
439. 19:05the end.
440. 19:07>> I'm not just the first, but I'm also the
441. 19:09last. God says, "I don't start nothing
442. 19:11that I can't finish. And if I allow a
443. 19:13struggle to start in your life, don't
444. 19:15worry about it. I set the alarm clock.
445. 19:17When the problem started, I already set
446. 19:19a time for you to get out. And when the
447. 19:22bell rings, everything in you has got to
448. 19:23turn loose. Everything in your house is
449. 19:26going to turn loose. Everything in your
450. 19:27marriage is going to turn loose.
451. 19:29Everything in your home is going to turn
452. 19:30loose. Hallelujah. [cheering]
453. 19:36[applause]
454. 19:41[cheering]
455. 19:49>> God has invested too much in you to let
456. 19:51you go down.
457. 19:53>> He's invested too much in you to let you
458. 19:55be normal.
459. 19:57He's not going to let you be normal.
460. 19:59>> Some of you have been struggling trying
461. 20:01to fit in.
462. 20:02>> You've changed everything about yourself
463. 20:04trying to fit in. You've changed your
464. 20:06manner of worship, your manner of
465. 20:08walking, your manner of talking, what
466. 20:09you wore, what you dress, how you smile,
467. 20:12WHEN YOU'VE CHANGED SO MUCH. YOU DON'T
468. 20:13EVEN know who you are yourself.
469. 20:16But no matter WHAT YOU CHANGE, YOU STILL
470. 20:18DIDN'T FIT IN. AND THE LORD SAID HE
471. 20:20DIDN'T INTEND FOR YOU TO FIT IN.
472. 20:22[cheering]
473. 20:23HE'S NOT GOING TO LET YOU BE NORMAL. HE
474. 20:26DIDN'T SAVE YOU TO BE JUST ONE OF THE
475. 20:27BOYS. HE DIDN'T SAVE YOU TO BE JUST ONE
476. 20:29OF THE FELLAS OR ONE OF THE GIRLS. HE
477. 20:31DOESN'T WANT YOU IN THE CLICK AND HE
478. 20:33DOESN'T WANT YOU IN THE CLUB. HE'S
479. 20:35CALLED YOU OUT THAT HE MIGHT CALL YOU
480. 20:37IN. I DON'T KNOW WHO I'M PREACHING TO,
481. 20:39BUT I'M SURE GOD [screaming] TALKING TO
482. 20:41SOMEBODY.
483. 20:43QUIT CRYING ABOUT IT. ACCEPT IT.
484. 20:46HALLELUJAH. [screaming] Accept it.
485. 20:49ACCEPT IT.
486. 20:51>> [cheering]
487. 20:55[applause]
488. 20:59>> HE HAS SET you
489. 21:01apart.
490. 21:05The Bible says that when the angel saw
491. 21:08that the day was breaking,
492. 21:13>> he had to do something radical
493. 21:16to bring him to a place of real
494. 21:18deliverance.
495. 21:20He had to change the nature of the
496. 21:23struggle.
497. 21:24And he smoteed him
498. 21:27at the hip joint.
499. 21:30I'm not talking about a bad mood or a
500. 21:33bad day.
501. 21:35I'm talking about something that knocks
502. 21:37a props out from under you.
503. 21:42I'm talking about something that leaves
504. 21:44you in such a way where you've been
505. 21:47incapacitated
506. 21:49to such a degree
507. 21:51where you've been through so much that
508. 21:52you say, "God, I can't fight you. I need
509. 21:54you.
510. 21:56>> I can't wrestle against you. I need you
511. 21:58on my side and whatever it takes, Lord.
512. 22:01I can't walk without you. I can't talk
513. 22:04without you. I can't run my marriage
514. 22:06without you. I can't raise my children
515. 22:08without you. I can't go through the
516. 22:10storm WITHOUT YOU. I NEED HOLD me up. I
517. 22:13don't know anything. I DON'T UNDERSTAND
518. 22:15ANYTHING. I NEED YOU TO UNDERGARD ME
519. 22:17LIKE I'VE NEVER NEEDED YOU BEFORE.
520. 22:21>> God wants to bring you to a place
521. 22:24>> of total surrender. total
522. 22:28surrender.
523. 22:29>> And you'll never reach a place of real
524. 22:31surrender
525. 22:33until you limp.
526. 22:38I do not work with, trust, or rely upon
527. 22:44any man that doesn't limp.
528. 22:49Any man who thinks he can make it on his
529. 22:51own device, I don't want him. All right.
530. 22:55>> Any man who's too confident in his own
531. 22:57giftings, I don't need him.
532. 22:59>> I find that the greatest people that God
533. 23:01uses in this day are people who
534. 23:04somewhere in their life have a limp.
535. 23:08Because you really don't have to wrestle
536. 23:10to get them to praise God. Because when
537. 23:13you're limping, you need him so bad. You
538. 23:15will praise him while other people sit
539. 23:17down. [applause]
540. 23:19You will worship him even if you have to
541. 23:21worship him by yourself.
542. 23:23>> Even if your eyes shadow runs into your
543. 23:26rouge and the rouge falls on your
544. 23:27lipstick and YOUR TIE GETS DAMP AND YOUR
545. 23:30PIRATION GETS UP UNDER YOUR ARM WHEN YOU
546. 23:32REALLY NEED THE LORD. YOU DON'T CARE IF
547. 23:34SOMEBODY ROLLS THEIR EYES WHILE YOU
548. 23:36PRAISE THE LORD BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO
549. 23:38HAVE IT.
550. 23:41[applause and cheering]
551. 23:44GOD KNOWS WHERE TO SMITE YOU,
552. 23:48to bring you to a place
553. 23:51where you just need him a little more
554. 23:53than other people need. I used to wonder
555. 23:54what makes some people worship and
556. 23:56praise so radically. Maybe they've been
557. 23:58to a strong praise conference.
558. 24:03Maybe they've got my tapes on dividic
559. 24:05worship.
560. 24:08Some things can't be taught.
561. 24:11>> Have to be caught.
562. 24:13You
563. 24:14>> have to go through something
564. 24:17>> that is so powerful
565. 24:19>> that you can't afford to sit in a dry
566. 24:22service.
567. 24:26You can't afford to try to impress
568. 24:28anybody. [cheering] You can't afford
569. 24:31just to go through a religious routine.
570. 24:34[cheering]
571. 24:35>> Touch your neighbor and tell them, "I
572. 24:36need Jesus.
573. 24:38>> I need
574. 24:38>> Now SEE, IF YOU DON'T NEED HIM, YOU'RE
575. 24:40SITTING BY THE wrong person." Because
576. 24:42people who really need Jesus don't fit
577. 24:44in. They might leap over top of your
578. 24:46pocketbook or go to dancing right over
579. 24:48your foot AND YOU MIGHT OUGHT TO MOVE TO
580. 24:50ANOTHER SEAT. BECAUSE WHEN YOU REALLY
581. 24:52NEED JESUS, YOU DON'T CARE WHAT ANYBODY
582. 24:54THINKS ABOUT YOU. YOU'RE LIMPING SO BAD.
583. 24:56YOU NEED HIM TO HOLD YOU UP.
584. 25:01[applause]
585. 25:07>> That's why God will allow people to
586. 25:09leave you. Because if you lean on them,
587. 25:12they're going to ruin you. And God
588. 25:14doesn't want you to lean on anybody else
589. 25:16but him.
590. 25:17>> He'll move them from around you and then
591. 25:19stop you from relying on your own
592. 25:21strength and say, "Now put the weight on
593. 25:23me. Cast your cares on me. I'm the God
594. 25:25that's more than enough. I'm able to
595. 25:27deliver you." Do you hear what I'm
596. 25:30saying?
597. 25:32>> Now listen because I've got to hear.
598. 25:33Listen. And he says something
599. 25:35>> that is very powerful.
600. 25:40As Jacob lost his fight and became
601. 25:44dependent on him, now the God, the
602. 25:48omniscient, all knowing, all wise,
603. 25:52eternal God asks ask a temporal man a
604. 25:57question. And I have to be suspicious
605. 26:00whenever God who knows everything would
606. 26:03ask a man anything.
607. 26:10HE SAYS TO JACOB,
608. 26:13"WHAT is
609. 26:16thy name?"
610. 26:21He said, "I'VE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH YOU
611. 26:23ALL NIGHT. NOW you're ready for me to
612. 26:26really deliver you.
613. 26:29What is
614. 26:31your name?
615. 26:34And Jacob's answer
616. 26:37just blew my mind.
617. 26:40For Jacob says to him,
618. 26:42"What is my name?"
619. 26:46"My name is
620. 26:48Jacob."
621. 26:52What do you mean? WHAT IS MY NAME IS?
622. 26:56See certain struggles will make you
623. 26:57re-evaluate who you are.
624. 27:02Certain heartbreaks, certain trials,
625. 27:04CERTAIN TRAUMAS WILL BRING YOU TO A
626. 27:06place where YOU CONFRONT WHO AM I
627. 27:08REALLY? WHY WAS WHY WAS I DOING IT to
628. 27:11begin with? WHAT WAS I CONCERNED? WHAT
629. 27:13WAS MY MO WHAT IS YOUR NAME? AND ALL OF
630. 27:15A SUDDEN, he began to question his own
631. 27:17identity. He couldn't have asked Jacob
632. 27:20his name because he didn't know. He
633. 27:21already knew who he was.
634. 27:25He says,
635. 27:27"My name is Jacob."
636. 27:30The sad reality hits me in the face. You
637. 27:34know what he's saying? He's saying,
638. 27:37"I guess I am who they say I am."
639. 27:43And that is a great tragedy
640. 27:46that's stopping us from moving into the
641. 27:48crux of what God has for us
642. 27:52because we have allowed others to name
643. 27:57us.
644. 28:01And it's not enough that they have named
645. 28:04us, but we have assumed a pseudo
646. 28:09identity that has been placed upon us by
647. 28:12the opinions of other people.
648. 28:17>> My name is If I had time, I would deal
649. 28:19with some of the struggles that were
650. 28:20going on in Jacob's life because Jacob
651. 28:22was wrestling with a generational curse.
652. 28:26And the uniqueness of his situation is
653. 28:28not coming from Abraham or Isaac. THAT
654. 28:30SIDE WAS PRETTY CLEAR. THE problem is
655. 28:32coming from his mother.
656. 28:36>> Rebecca,
657. 28:37who was a trickster AND A CON AND A
658. 28:41SCHEME AND A LIAR AND A CHEAT,
659. 28:46>> who tried to run a scam on her own
660. 28:48husband AND MANIPULATE THE LIVES OF HER
661. 28:52CHILDREN. AND THAT SAME CONLIKE NATURE
662. 28:55THAT WAS ON HIS MOTHER PASSED to the
663. 28:58son.
664. 29:01And in THE TRADITION OF HIS MOTHER, HE
665. 29:03WAS A trickster and a con and a schemer,
666. 29:08>> contriving whatever he could, whenever
667. 29:10he could, however he could.
668. 29:16>> He was in a mess
669. 29:19like his mother Rebecca,
670. 29:22like Laban
671. 29:24who was also in their family. His uncle,
672. 29:27you remember Laban? He was the con who
673. 29:30conned the con.
674. 29:33>> The schemer who ended up GETTING JACOB
675. 29:35TO WORK SEVEN YEARS FOR ONE WOMAN AND
676. 29:37THEN SUBSTITUTED WITH ANOTHER AND KEPT
677. 29:39IT WORKING 40 YEARS. YOU REMEMBER LABAN?
678. 29:42>> ALL THROUGH THE FAMILY YOU SEE THE
679. 29:44PREVALENCE OF THE SAME WEAKNESS.
680. 29:47>> WHERE IS YOUR NAME?
681. 29:51>> AMEN.
682. 29:52>> WHO ARE YOU?
683. 29:56Are you just like where you came from?
684. 30:02>> Will you always be bound to the curse of
685. 30:04your fathers?
686. 30:07What is your name? Are you like Laban?
687. 30:13Are you like Rebecca
688. 30:16or your sons Simeon and Levi
689. 30:20who tricked the men of SHECKCHUM INTO
690. 30:21BEING CIRCUMCISED AND THEN KILLED them
691. 30:24while they were trying to be healed? A
692. 30:27wicked, conning, scheming spirit
693. 30:29prevailed over the whole family.
694. 30:32And God said, "I had to struggle with
695. 30:34you because I'm going to break the curse
696. 30:36over your house."
697. 30:39>> [applause]
698. 30:42>> You see, WHEN GOD SAYS DELIVERANCE IS
699. 30:44NOT JUST FOR YOU, IT'S FOR YOUR WHOLE
700. 30:45HOUSE.
701. 30:46>> THE LORD WANTS EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE
702. 30:49TO COME OUT. WHEN YOU COME OUT, WHEN THE
703. 30:51PHILIPPIAN JAILER CAME OUT, EVERYTHING
704. 30:53IN HIS HOUSE CAME OUT. GOD DOESN'T WANT
705. 30:56YOU SHOUTING BY YOURSELF. HE WANTS YOUR
706. 30:58CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND YOUR
707. 31:00GREAT GRANDCHILD SHOUTING THE VICTORY
708. 31:02WITH YOU.
709. 31:05GOD SAID, "I'M STRUGGLING WITH YOU
710. 31:07BECAUSE WHEN I BRING YOU OUT, EVERYTHING
711. 31:09IN YOU IS GOING TO COME OUT. EVERYTHING
712. 31:11IN YOU, EVERYTHING DOWN INSIDE of you is
713. 31:15coming out." [cheering]
714. 31:17HOW DO [screaming] WHY IS YOUR NAME?
715. 31:25>> I THOUGHT I WAS WHO THEY SAID I WAS.
716. 31:27THEY CALLED ME A trickster and I said,
717. 31:30"Yes."
718. 31:32They called me a schemer and I said,
719. 31:34"Here I come.
720. 31:38I allowed life to name me."
721. 31:42And because others had an opinion about
722. 31:44me, I assumed their opinion. God said,
723. 31:48"That's why I had to get you away from
724. 31:50everybody because you've been too
725. 31:51influenced by other people's opinions."
726. 31:55What is your name?
727. 32:00I am Jacob.
728. 32:02And the Lord said, "Your name is not
729. 32:04Jacob."
730. 32:07I came to California to tell you, you
731. 32:11are not who they say you are.
732. 32:15[cheering]
733. 32:16[applause]
734. 32:23YOU MAY HAVE DONE
735. 32:26what they say you did,
736. 32:29but you are not
737. 32:32who they say you are.
738. 32:38>> Come to tell you, you're a prince and
739. 32:40you don't even know it.
740. 32:43[applause]
741. 32:45AND BECAUSE OF THE GREATNESS THAT'S DOWN
742. 32:47INSIDE OF YOU, God has to take you
743. 32:50through a purging process.
744. 32:53WHEN HE'S GOT A GREAT INVESTMENT IN YOU,
745. 32:55HE HAS TO TAKE YOU through some changes
746. 32:57and some stages. IF YOU EVER WANT TO SEE
747. 33:00WHO GOD IS REALLY GOING TO BLESS, DON'T
748. 33:02GET AROUND THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T GO
749. 33:04THROUGH ANYTHING.
750. 33:07FOR WHERE LITTLE IS GIVEN, LITTLE IS
751. 33:10REQUIRED.
752. 33:11IF YOU REALLY WANT [screaming] TO FIND
753. 33:12OUT WHO GOD IS GOING TO RAISE UP AND USE
754. 33:15MIGHTILY, FIND THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE
755. 33:17GOING THROUGH HELL AND HIGH WATER,
756. 33:19[screaming] BUT THEY'RE STILL HOLDING ON
757. 33:21TO THE LORD.
758. 33:23GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY. FIND SOMEBODY WHO'S
759. 33:26HELD [groaning and screaming] ON TO THE
760. 33:27LORD THROUGH THE STORM AND THE RAIN.
761. 33:30FIND SOMEBODY
762. 33:32WHO'S BEEN SHOUTING THROUGH TEARS AND
763. 33:35PRAISING GOD OVER PROBLEMS AND PRESSING
764. 33:37THEIR WAY THROUGH THE STORM. GOD
765. 33:39[screaming]
766. 33:39IS ABOUT TO raise them up. HALLELUJAH.
767. 33:45[cheering]
768. 33:45[applause]
769. 33:47Touch somebody AND TELL THEM, "GET
770. 33:48READY. GET READY. GET READY. GET READY.
771. 33:50GET READY."
772. 33:55I don't know what you've been GOING
773. 33:57THROUGH, BUT GET READY. I don't know
774. 33:59what YOU'VE BEEN CRYING ABOUT, BUT GET
775. 34:01READY. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU'VE BEEN
776. 34:02AGONIZING, BUT GET READY. I DON'T KNOW
777. 34:05WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON IN YOUR FAMILY, BUT
778. 34:06GET READY. I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
779. 34:08YOUR CHILDHOOD. BUT GET READY. GOD IS
780. 34:11ABOUT TO OPEN UP THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
781. 34:13AND POUR YOU OUT A BLESSING. YOU WON'T
782. 34:15EVEN HAVE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE.
783. 34:22HALLELUJAH.
784. 34:24HALLELUJAH. [screaming]
785. 34:25HALLELUJAH.
786. 34:27HALLELUJAH.
787. 34:29I FEEL THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY GHOST
788. 34:31IN HERE. SOMEBODY HELP ME PRAISE him in
789. 34:34this place.
790. 34:36[cheering]
791. 34:41LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING AND I'M GOING
792. 34:43TO CLOSE. I'M NOT FINISHED, BUT I'M JUST
793. 34:45GOING TO TO
794. 34:49[cheering]
795. 34:50[applause]
796. 34:51WHATEVER YOU'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THAT
797. 34:53IT SEEMS SO HARD TO PERFORM. AND EVERY
798. 34:57TIME YOU TRY TO DO IT, YOU'VE GONE
799. 35:00THROUGH A STRUGGLE THAT BLOWS YOUR MIND.
800. 35:02AND YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY A SIMPLE
801. 35:05THING HAS BECOME SO COMPLEX. BUT GOD HAD
802. 35:09TO TAKE YOU THROUGH A PROCESS. IN THE
803. 35:12PROCESS, YOU LEARN HOW TO TRUST HIM. IN
804. 35:14THE PROCESS, YOU LEARN HOW TO PRAY. IN
805. 35:17THE PROCESS, YOU [screaming] LEARN HOW
806. 35:18TO PERSEVERE. IN THE PROCESS, YOU LEARN
807. 35:21HOW TO HOLD ON. IN THE PROCESS, YOU
808. 35:23LEARN HOW [screaming] TO BELIEVE IT. BUT
809. 35:25GOD SAID HE'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOU IN
810. 35:27THE PROCESS. HE'S GOING TO TAKE YOU INTO
811. 35:30THE PROMISE.
812. 35:32>> [cheering]
813. 35:34>> YEAH, [screaming]
814. 35:36I'm not supposed to preach. Can I
815. 35:38preach? Can I preach while I'M HERE?
816. 35:42I CAME TO TELL YOU WHAT TIME IT IS.
817. 35:45YOU'VE BEEN IN A NIGHT SEASON. YOU'VE
818. 35:48BEEN IN A STORM. YOU'VE BEEN IN A DARK
819. 35:50PLACE. YOU'VE HAD TO HOLD YOURSELF UP.
820. 35:53YOU'VE HAD TO LAY HANDS ON YOUR OWN
821. 35:55[screaming] HEAD. YOU'VE HAD TO
822. 35:57ENCOURAGE YOURSELF. YOU HAD TO PULL
823. 35:59YOURSELF UP. BUT THE LORD SENT ME
824. 36:02[screaming] HERE TO TELL YOU THE
825. 36:03STRUGGLE.
826. 36:07[cheering]
827. 36:10The struggle
828. 36:12is over. I DON'T KNOW WHERE HOME IS, BUT
829. 36:16WAIT TILL YOU GET BACK HOME. THE
830. 36:19[screaming] STRUGGLE.
831. 36:21[cheering]
832. 36:23The struggle.
833. 36:25THE STRUGGLE IS OVER. YOU'RE NOT GOING
834. 36:28TO HAVE TO WRESTLE. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
835. 36:31HAVE TO CRY [screaming]
836. 36:32WHEN THIS MEETING IS OVER WHEN YOU GET
837. 36:36BACK TO YOUR HOUSE. YOU'RE NOT EVEN
838. 36:38GOING TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE
839. 36:40THROUGH THE NIGHT, GOD HAS BROKEN THE
840. 36:44[screaming] POWERS OF THE ENEMY, OVER
841. 36:46YOUR LIFE, OVER YOUR FAMILY, OVER YOUR
842. 36:50CHILDHOOD. [screaming]
843. 36:51JUST STRUGGLE IT ALL OVER.
844. 36:54Just struggle it. JUST STRUGGLE IT OVER.
845. 36:58I FEEL THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY GHOST.
846. 37:01[cheering]
847. 37:08Can I SAY ONE MORE THING? IT'S BEEN A
848. 37:11LONG NIGHT. [screaming]
849. 37:13IT'S BEEN A HARD NIGHT. YOU'VE LOST SOME
850. 37:16FRIENDS THROUGH THE NIGHT. LOST SOME
851. 37:19PROMISES THROUGH THE NIGHT. SHED SOME
852. 37:23TEARS THROUGH THE NIGHT. BEEN IN PAIN
853. 37:27THROUGH THE NIGHT. SUFFERED LOSS THROUGH
854. 37:30THE NIGHT. BUT I CAN FEEL THE BREAKING
855. 37:34OF DAY. GET BACK, DEVIL. YOUR TIME IS
856. 37:38UP. [cheering]
857. 37:41[music]
858. 37:44>> [screaming]
859. 37:49>> YOUR TIME IS UP. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE
860. 37:52LORD TOLD ME? HE TOLD ME TO TELL YOU TO
861. 37:56SERVE AN EVICTION NOTICE ON YOUR
862. 37:59STRUGGLE. PUT IT OUT OF YOUR [screaming]
863. 38:01HOUSE. PUT IT OUT OF YOUR MIND. PUT IT
864. 38:04OUT OF YOUR EMOTIONS. JUST STRAIGHT UP.
865. 38:11WELL, I'm I'm I'm going I'm going to
866. 38:13come back in the morning. But but but
867. 38:15but [laughter]
868. 38:17Hallelujah.
869. 38:19Hallelujah.
870. 38:20I FEEL A BREAKTHROUGH. I FEEL A
871. 38:23DELIVERANCE. IT'S GOING TO AFFECT YOUR
872. 38:26CHILDREN. IT'S GOING TO AFFECT YOUR
873. 38:28GRANDCHILDREN. IT'S GOING TO AFFECT YOUR
874. 38:30MARRIAGE. GOD'S GOING TO TURN THE whole
875. 38:33thing around TO STRUGGLE. [screaming]
876. 38:36YEAH.
877. 38:44HALLELUJAH.
878. 38:46WELL, I DON'T WANT TO MESS UP A GOOD
879. 38:47MEETING, BUT I FEEL THE anointing of the
880. 38:51Holy Ghost, AND I WANT YOU TO HELP ME
881. 38:53PREACH. I REALLY CAN'T FINISH IT RIGHT
882. 38:56NOW, BUT I WANT YOU TO HELP ME PREACH.
883. 38:59SHAKE HANDS WITH THREE PEOPLE AND TELL
884. 39:01THEM THE STRUGGLE IS OVER.
885. 39:07YES.
886. 39:09YES.
887. 39:10I dare you [screaming] to give HIM THE
888. 39:12PRAISE. I DARE you to lift him up. I
889. 39:16dare you to give God the glory.
890. 39:25[music]
891. 40:01Hallelujah.
892. 40:04>> [music]
893. 40:07[cheering]
894. 40:07>> Glory.
895. 40:09Oh,
896. 40:22[music]
897. 40:29hallelujah.
898. 40:31[music]