BECOME WHO YOU ARE || TD JAKES BEST NEW YEAR MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

BECOME WHO YOU ARE || TD JAKES BEST NEW YEAR MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

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feels wherever you’re sitting standing
walking moving the presence of the Lord
is in this place free
it’s Who I am this my job descript
your hands and give God praise all
over the viewing
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over you if you’re glad to be in the
potter’s house is what it would you clap
their hands you’ve got dreams
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and then last week we talked about being
grounded into your family a man and the
Lord moved in a mighty way on our
families come on give God a praise for
what he did so far well I’m so excited
about this because we’ve been working
behind the scenes to get my notes and
give them all in order and give them
translated into a way that you can
download my notes and access the
information that was my goal that was my
vision just to be able to get on our
website or there be able to get on our
app our app they had to download the
notes with what I was after but my staff
took it to another level and I want you
to hear what they prepared for you
they’ve taken my sermon notes and put it
into a seven-day outline so that you can
have your own study and follow up on the
notes oh isn’t that cool I’m so excited
about it for those that have the app if
you don’t have a download app it’s free
make sure you did downloaded whether
your water will studies and programs and
information but you can get my notes by
downloading the app and it is available
to you shout hallelujah
my wife sends her love she’s in
California probably watching online with
my daughter Sarah who is getting very
close to delivery another grandchild
and so mommy’s out doing all the kind of
stuff that only mommy can do because I
figure I’ve never had a baby but I
figured if you having a baby you want
your mama I would want my mama my daddy
my cousin everything Big Bird a man and
a teddy bear and I still couldn’t do it
say man for the strong Mama’s we got in
the world of that
so she said their mama wanted to be sure
and give you that I’m excited to get
into this material are you ready to get
into the Word of God father give us
nimbleness of thought and clarity of
mind that we might be endowed with all
the grace that comes from you to
articulate the abstraction of your deity
you are more than we can ever Express in
human words or forms or metaphors you
exceed our every expectation and go
beyond our meager attempts to teach your
principles and concepts that’s why we
invite the Holy Spirit to illuminate to
magnify to be glorified in the teaching
that’s about to be shared today not only
today but every day we want you to be
first place in our lives and bless me
Lord to be used of you an effective way
in Jesus name somebody shout Amen I want
to begin with a series that talked about
the grace to be grounded and this is the
third down pavement of the franchise of
understanding the various areas in our
lives that we need to be grounded and
quite frankly finances is one of them
amen we just might as well admit it it
is one area that we need to be grounded
we have good times and bad times we have
moments we go up moments we go down but
we want to be reach a place of stability
as spirituality plays a part in that
there are those who wonder why would you
even talk about finances because they
don’t associate these types of
conversation with church but there are
several reason but I want to share some
time with you that I think it’s very
important
you cannot serve a community an
underserved community or community this
under attack economically financially
and socially and not deal with the
issues around that community you
understand what I’m saying you got to be
prepared to take them on you can’t just
leave people to Jesus and then leave
them stranded
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tell them to shout and praise the Lord
to spin around and they go home and live
in abject poverty and create situations
that are detrimental to the faith that
you’ve been teaching them the other
thing when you teach the gospel and you
teach it with power and with clarity and
people get saved it puts some people out
of business doing righteous put some
people out of business because they have
never had a template how to do things
right and how they work doing things was
not the right way and now they have to
be reprogrammed to a better way of doing
things somebody say man it in the last
21 years due to money related issues our
incarceration rate has gone up fifty
five percent so this is not just a
matter of sin though it is sin but it’s
also a matter of lead it’s a matter of
desperation fifty five percent so you
can’t just lead people to the altar pray
for them take them to the sinner’s
prayer and leave them stranded there
you’ve got to come up with ways that
people are not desperate about how to
take care of their families how to feed
their children and how to be a part of
the American Dream when they begin to
interview various ones out of that fifty
five percent that an increase the
highest category thirty nine percent of
inmates cited deprivation I was hungry I
didn’t have schoolbooks for my kids and
we didn’t have a place to stay
I was desperate that’s not evil that’s
desperate you understand what I’m saying
15.5 said it was drugs so 1446 said it
was alcohol but the largest amount of
people said it was just because they
were trying to make ends meet doors were
closed in their face didn’t have a way
to get up our educational systems are
failing us our criminal justice system
completely needs to be overhaul and
people are in trouble
why can you say our educational systems
are failing us number one were
twenty-four number 25 in the world we
used to be number one now it used to be
this was the country that everybody went
to to get a good education now today we
are numbered 25 there are 24 other
countries above us in teaching
excellence in in education and that’s
gonna affect economy
why do you say criminal just
because the criminal justice system is
designed through politics intervention
intervening into it that it has created
the biggest mess I have ever seen in all
of my life we have more people
incarcerated in America than all the
other countries of the world combined
all of them combined on half as many
people in jail as we do they have more
people but they have less less people
incarcerated than all of the countries
in the world combined we really need to
be able to do that especially when you
consider the fact that you can make a
mistake with your 15 16 17 18 years old
that affects the outcome of the rest of
your life especially when you consider
the fact you can’t just preach the
gospel to people and tell them if you
need to accept Christ and lead them to
the Lord in prison and lead them out and
tell them this is America you can have
the American dream when in reality when
you’ve been incarcerated in most states
you can’t get a job you can’t get a job
because the same people who are telling
me to just stand up on my feet also have
a place of application that if you’ve
ever been persecuted for a federal
offense it locks you out of a job how
can I stand up on my feet without a job
I can’t vote so in many areas I cannot
vote so why would the politicians pay
any attention to me when I don’t have
the right to vote and incidentally it’s
cold outside
I’d like to have a place to stay but
because of a mistake I’ve made 25 years
ago I can’t even get a place to stay so
if I can’t get a place to stay and I
can’t get a job how in the world can I
stand up on my feet and receive the
American Dream
no wonder the rate of recidivism is a
problem in our country because some
people go back to jail but because
they’re evil not because they’re wicked
not because they like being in jail they
go back to jail because they need a
place to stay they need something to eat
and they need something to wear surely
there’s got to be a better plan than
what we are dealing with right now
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