The Power of Timing – Bishop T.D. Jakes

do you have the courage to act outwardly on what you see inwardly do you have the courage it takes courage to be successful it is far easier not to be successful misery will always have Company Success breeds contempt if you don't want to make way be mediocre be normal and fit in and if you're more concerned about people than you are God then neutralize everything he put in you just fit in with everybody else dress like them walk like them act like them eat like them go where they go think like they think do what they do and once you've neutralized your uniqueness you don't need courage it takes courage to be different it takes courage to go where you've never gone before for some of you it took courage to come to this conference it takes courage to get you outside of the bar it takes courage to be successful it takes courage to win people don't talk about people that don't win if you win they're going to talk about you do you have the courage to stand there though the storms keep raising and the people get to talk it and you stand there and say I've come too far to turn around text your girlfriend and say do you have the courage [Music] [Applause] it takes courage to be exceptional it takes courage to be wise it takes courage to be rich it takes courage to be educated it takes courage to be knowledgeable because the moment you do but you you don't talk like you oh you don't got forgot where you came from look at you T it takes courage and I'm just wondering and the weak watered down mediocre society that we live in today in this reality TV world we live in today I'm wondering if there's anybody left that's got the courage to say after all I've been through and all my ancestors have been through and all my parents have been through I didn't come through all of that just to fit in with Normy I have the courage to go after my dream the best things in life takes time when I was younger I was impatient because I had the naivity of thinking that dreams would come quickly but the best things in life take time from simple things like food preparation to more complicated issues of parenting and marriage the best things in life take time you can get married you can have a wedding in 30 minutes but it takes years to have a marriage it is a sharp contrast between being rich and being wealthy you can hit the lottery receive an inheritance uh you can be catapulted from rags to riches and you can be rich quick though many Define wealth differently than how I will today true wealth isn't just about money but it is about the lessons you learned ear while struggling upward if you have money without wisdom you will soon be parted from your money the best things in life take time takes relationships you got the money but because it was given to you quickly you didn't build the infrastructure to sustain it you don't have the relationships to sustain it you don't have the information to sustain it and most people who hit the lottery 70 to 80 % of them go broke within 5 years you can't imagine that you could hit that much money and lose it but the truth of the matter is God is teaching us that the best things in life take time there are things that you learn from struggling there are things that you learn from test and trials and trial and error some of my best teachers were failure it takes time to to do well it takes even longer to be well some people are seasonal some relationships are seasonal some opportunities are seasonal And yet when we see the seasons change we think the blessing has ceased but it is not that the blessing has ceased it is that the season has changed there's a great I got a lot of trees in my yard there's a great deal of difference between how my yard looks in the spring and how it looks in the fall and by the time it gets to Winter quite frankly the trees are ugly and Barren and destitute and if you came in the winter and saw it you would have no idea of how beautiful it would be if it takes time there is a time to be born and there is a time to die if I had time I'd talk about the there are very similar birth and death a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted now listen at what he says there's a time to plant and there's a time to pluck up that which is planted do you know the difference in your life the difference between knowing when to plant and when to pluck have you ever asked God maybe you've asked him when to plant but have you ever asked him when to pluck up or are you intent on keeping that which is planted to the destruction of plucking up that which you have become accustomed to you can't have a new season until you are willing to say goodbye to the season you had I call it the Art of Letting Go the spirit of release not wrestling releasing some of you are wrestling to hold on to something that God is trying to take away from you and you need to release it and simply Let It Go that was that season if you are still talking the way you were talking 10 years ago I've got bad news for you you have a deformity a spiritual dysfunction that keeps your thoughts in one dimension that means you can't fall in love with your thoughts because if you are stubborn with your thoughts you delay your next season I have watched some of the greatest people in every industry you can imagine I've had I've had the privilege of having relationships with people who were at the top of their game and just about every industry you can imagine those doesn't leave the greatest impact understand timing timing is everything you've got to understand it's timing in baseball it's not just skill it is the timing that causes the batter to be effective as swinging the bat you can have the right swing but if you swing at the wrong time you won't have the impact that you should have had some of you are trying to do the right swing but you're swinging at the wrong time you're in such a hurry that you're swinging before the ball can strike the Target because you are more moved by the crowd than you are by the ball timing is everything many people don't realize that not only is timing everything in baseball and baking it is also everything when it comes to Comedy or speaking or music it's about timing it's not just can you read music can you keep time it's not can you tell a joke but can you time the joke it's not can you speak a message can you use timing to convey information you can give great information out of time and be an incompetent speaker because you don't understand timing everything is a rhythm everything is a rhythm God is a rhythm br breathing is a rhythm circulation is a rhythm heartbeat is a rhythm pulse is a rhythm everything that is alive has a rhythm Birth has a rhythm a woman's body has a rhythm God is telling us over and over and over in nature in Creation in procreation that timing is everything you can't be truthful out of season somebody shout teach me to know my season teach me to know my season help me with my timing help me with my you 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