T.D. Jakes Sermons: Nothing Just Happens

I wish I had time to talk about time what what do you do when the clock is against you and and and you have enough wisdom to do it over but you don't have enough time to do it over what do what do you do when you've missed your season and you've miss your window of opportunity what what do you do when you you know that you've got the desire to do it you've got the passion to do it but but you look in the mirror and the and the wrinkles in your face and the

sagging of your body indicates you don't have time to do this all over again she says I don't have time to get pregnant again I don't have a second chance at life my life is over go away don't hang around me I have nothing left to give there are people that when you start running out of time you get bitter you get desperate you start pushing people away from you because they're asking something of you that you don't think you can give anymore and you find yourself in a place of depletion and it feels like

God has forgotten you but I remind you nothing just happens this is the touch greetings brothers and sisters in the name of Jesus Christ Our King I am so blessed and so excited to have the opportunity to share the word with you I'm excited about the word I still get excited about the word been preaching 37 years I still love his word I love what it does in your life and in your heart I love how it strengthens you I love how it helps you I've got a message that I believe you are going to

love take a look when we look at the theology in the Book of Ruth we know that the Book of Ruth is a template for a far larger issue loaded with shadows and types it brings to us significant issues as it challenges us to understand that all of the characters in The Book of Ruth are the backdrop for historical data that points to a panoramic view of the life of Jesus Christ and the Fulfillment of Jesus Christ and suddenly be we begin to recognize that when we look at a character like IMC we are looking

at a relationship between him and his wife and how when immc died uh Naomi became very very bitter and and in the same since Israel became very bitter as they lost relationship with Jehovah and and was widowed as it were and ex stranged a Cast Away woman who had become very bitter because she was denied relationship with with Jehovah and we see the two sons and seeing the splitting of the nation of Israel down to the tribe of Judah and we begin to see how they break and divide and then die and through their death

and the famine thereof we see Ruth who is a moabit woman who is connected to them uh by marriage and now her husband has died and she is a strange and she goes back to Moab goes back to Bethlehem uh with Naomi Ruth being a type of the church Naomi being a type of Israel the church gets connected to God through Israel who walks her back home to Boaz who is a type of Christ and Boaz who stands her and sees Ruth over in the corner gleaning in the corners of the field spies her and

brings her from the background to the Forefront covers her with his skirts makes her his wife legitimizes her authenticates her causes her to be an heir of a Grace of which she would have been a strange had her blood prevailed but because his blood prevailed over her blood he was able to it's just a wonderful wonderful wonderful story a famine has arose in this text in a family who is headed by IMC and they leave Bethlehem the House of Bread because of the severity of the famine and they go to Moab everybody's running for their

lives running for their lives they go into Moab for survival sake thinking that they were going to be there a short time end up being there 10 years IMC is strong enough to get Naomi out of there with their two sons and get them out of uh Bethlehem to Moab but he dies in Moab he dies in Moab and now Naomi is widowed surviving a famine raising two sons in a foreign country unable to get back home because of the famine trying to survive against adversity and then she loses her two sons two sons now

the woman has had a dead husband and now lost two sons the husband you might could tolerate you might could say well it was he was up in years he was up in age it makes sense but to lose two sons in the space of 10 years she has lost every man she has ever loved exasperated and frustrated she makes a in her mind this is enough for me we're coming to the end of the famine I want to go back home there is nothing left for me she makes a statement she says I went

out full and I came back empty in other words there was a famine but I was still blessed it's amazing because sometimes you cannot know you're blessed because you're going through a famine only to find out that the thing that you were worried about is not nearly as significant as the thing that you had in the M of her famine she still had her husband and her children sometimes you can have something and not appreciate it until you lose it after that she lost her husband and her children the famine seemed insignificant by comparison I

say that because sometimes you're whining about things that really don't matter you're upset about things that really don't make any difference in your life and if you were smart you would learn how to count your blessings and to thank God for what he's done in your life it looked like all hell had broken loose in her life the famine who would have thought that a famine would come and disrupt this relatively wealthy family and cause them to flee like vagrants and move into Moab and uproot all of their Heritage and leave their home and their

surrounding and their friends and find themselves in Moab who would have thought that having gone to Moab that she would lose the husband she was relying on to be her sustenance her Source her friend and her support he died and left her there who who who would have thought that having lost her husbands she goes to rely on her sons and both not one but both sons die who would have thought that this woman would end up uh in a a female feminine Trinity of three women whose only thing that they now share in common

is that all of them have gone through death three women Naomi who is the older woman and Ruth who would have who was her daughter-in-law and Ora who was her other daughter-in-law three women whose common uh commonality was pain pain is a strange company keeper it brings the oddest people together there is a secret fraternity that exists amongst those who have been in pain that is mindboggling it transcends the C color of your skin it transcends your background when you've been through certain things you feel for other people who have been through those things because

you relate to them and so the women shared a tear together they wept together they cried together they shared pain together they shared burial together they shared their losses together they shared their emptiness together Naomi decided this is it got to split I'm going to quit I'm going back home where I came from got to go can't take anymore I'm going going back home I'm bitter but I'm going back home bitter I'm frustrated but I'm going back home and they fell on Naomi and begin to weep because Naomi had left a significant impression on them

and all of a sudden in the midst of this pain Naomi starts reasoning with him stop crying stop crying I have no options I what am I going to do she said if I married today and had more children what are you going to do wait for the children to become grown that they might be your husbands against she says I'm out to the game the clock is against me oh I wish I wish I had time at at this age at this stage there's a reason why it happened at this age there's a reason

why it happened at this level in life it's not a mistake it's not an accident God didn't fall asleep on the job and the devil came in and wrecked the car no God never sleeps and he never Slumbers he's in complete control and he knows where you are and he knows how old you are and he knows how much time you spent and he knows what happened to you and he knows who walked out and left you and he knows who betrayed you and he knows who molested you and he knows who raped you and

he knows who rejected you and he knows where you are in life and he knows about your bills and he knows about your degree and he knows you dropped out of school and he knows about what you didn't get and he knows about the health of your child and he knows about the condition of your neighborhood understand that and tell yourself nothing just happens and so Ora walks away she walks away I may have to turn this into a series cuz I can't I can't get out of this orpa walks away and she cries and

she goes back but and she and and there are people who can walk away from you and hear me when I tell you this when people can walk away from you let them walk when people can walk away from you let them walk I can sit down now I preach I can sit down I don't need to make an altar call or nothing I can sit I don't have to hoop I don't have to make you shout I have just preached right now when people can walk away from you let them walk I don't want

you to try to talk another person in the staying with you loving you calling you caring about you coming to see you staying attached to you I mean hang up the phone when people can walk away from you let them walk your destiny is never tied to anybody that left the Bible said that they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not of us for had they been of us no doubt they would have continued with us people leave you because they're not joined to you and if they're not

joined to you you can get superglued and you can't make them stay let them go Ruth on the other hand coming to the crossroads she looks at Ora who left Ruth turns to Naomi and says as the Lord liveth I shall not leave thee occasionally in scriptures in the whole Bible you see it you see it happening where people who are not even blood related spend their lives together in the most intimate connection possible and and and and theologians and Scholars and preachers stumble about it because they don't know how to talk about it because

they don't understand the power being joined together how can we explain what made Elijah leave his natural mother and father and run after Elijah to wait on him to clean his clothes to pour water on his hand to set up his tent but some kind of way Elisha sensed that his Destiny was tied to Elijah how can we explain Timothy who walks away from everything that he owns to hang out at the outside window of a jail cell as an old man prepares to be beheaded he peaks in the window handing him books and blankets

ministering to him the young man understood I'll never be who I was meant to be without you in my life do you hear what I'm saying there's something there's something about the way you talk it feeds me it's something about the way you speak that changes me it's something about your spirit that motivates me and I'll never be completed without you and I didn't meet you by accident I didn't stumble up and meet you this this this this didn't just happen there there the reason that I'm in this place I'm so sick of talking to

people who think that everything just happen I guess I'll go to church I guess I'll get saved I guess I'll move to Chicago I guess I'll move to Dallas that's not how it is the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord your steps were ordered if you had to got the phone call that you got when you got like you got it you wouldn't even be here right now if you hadn't to made the turn that you made yesterday you wouldn't experience what you're experiencing today God has been behind the curtain like

a puppet master pulling strings in your life it's not that you're smart it's not that you're great it's not that you're holy it's not that you're perfect it's not that you're good but God winded you up pointed you in the right direction release you into your destiny and you are here and you can't get away flap somebody and tell them nothing just happens still to come on The Potter's touch think about the most impoverished financially depleting thing that ever happened in your life and Shout nothing think about the worst Scandal that you ever went through

in your life and Shout nothing think about people who loved you and walked out and left you and Shout nothing think about betrayal on the highest level of your life and Shout nothing think about the struggle going on on your job right now and Shout nothing to live a satisfied productive life you must be filled to capacity God said there's no question my seed is potent my word works the question is do you have the capacity to receive my word for helping us reach others with your gift of any size you will receive fill to

capacity on he's not excessive without purpose he's got something inside of him and out of the pregnancy of his own Divinity he begins to speak things into existence and when your gift is $70 or more we will give you both messages from Awakening on DVD as well whatever you have a need for God has a fing for he can fill your need however when your gift is $125 or more we will also add Jake's book colliding with Destiny a 30-day Journey Through The Book of Ruth and the be still Journal just write us visit our

website or call 1800 Bishop [Music] 2 this means that I'm up under the banner of his will I'm up under the banner of his will even in the midst of death I'm up under the banner of his will even in the midst of Pain I'm Up Under the banner of his will even in the midst of separation and disappointment I'm up put the banner of his wheel can I take it to the next level Jonah was sent to Nineveh went to tarses headed for tarses not obeying God got thrown off the boat into the belly

of the fish swallowed up for three days even though God told him to go to Nineveh and he didn't go he was still in the whe [Applause] I'm not sure you can handle this he he went the wrong way and he was still in the wheel they threw him off the boat he was still in the wheel I prove to you he was in the [Music] wheel it just happened to be a big fish see it just happened to be a big fish swimming beside the big boat so that when P men dumped him over

the fish just hoop in the this is too strong you can't take this the fish carried him down to the the bottom of the mountains with seaweed wrapped around his neck he's thousands of feet below sea level and God sustained him sustained him not one day not two days not four days but three three days nothing just happens on the third day on the third day the back sliding rebellious reprobate disconnected disjointed preacher comes up out of the water and thousands of years later Christ says even as Jonah was in the belly of the fish

three days so shall the son of man be in the grave he had to get up when he got up and he had to go down when he went down because nothing just happened oh [Laughter] God your mistakes were in his will your trouble was in his will your pain was in his will I don't care what you went through David said if I make my bed in hell Thou Art there if I take the wings of their mour and Ascend to the utter most parts of the earth God is still there he was with

you in the middle of your trouble he was with you in the middle of your pain that's why Paul said I've learned whatever state I'm in there with to be content I know how to be rich I know how to be poor I know how to be free I know how to be B you ought to shout I don't care where you are because nothing just happens [Music] tell seven people and tell him he's got a plan he's got a plan [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] whatever God has predetermined to happen whatever God has predetermined

to happen will come to pass and no devil in hell has ever been able to abort the purpose of God not once and yes God gave you a human will and you're a free moral agent but if you think your human will is strong enough to change his Divine will you are tripping you are out of your mind God is God the reason we worship him as God is because he is the CEO he is in charge he runs the universe and when God gets ready to make you and when God gets ready to break

you and when God gets ready to take you he's never been without the power to to make you yield to his will he's never not one moment or time not been able to orchestrate your Affairs and nothing in your life think about the most damnable thing that ever happened and Shout nothing think about the most embarrassing thing that ever happened in your life and Shout nothing nothing think about the most impoverished financially depleting thing that ever happened in your life and Shout nothing think about the worst CLE that you ever went through in your life

and Shout nothing think about people who loved you and walked out and left you and Shout nothing think about betrayal on the highest level of your life and Shout nothing think about the struggle going on on your job right now and Shout nothing think about the attitude of your kin folks and your family members and Shout nothing think about how your boss is treating you on your job and Shout nothing think about that disagreement between you and your children and Shout nothing think about your past life of sin your hor mongering your inappropriateness your attitude

your dysfunction and Shout nothing shout nothing let the devil hear you say nothing that devil will think he want if you don't shout nothing the devil will think he's in charge if you don't shout nothing he'll think he he's going to win but you got to shout nothing in the midst of hell and high water shout nothing in the midst of pain and despair shout nothing when your credit is denied shout nothing when you're evicted out of your house shout nothing when your boyfriend marri somebody else shout nothing nothing [Applause] hey we'll be right back

after this learn to rely on God with Bishop's latest series nothing just happens even as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days so shall the son of man be in the grave he had to get up when he got up and he had to go down when he went down because nothing just happens God has a way of just choosing to bless you and say that lady right there I'm going to leave that house for her can't nobody buy the house but her everybody else that tries to buy it everything's going to

be tied up that's her house nobody's going to get it but her favor order your copy of this Dynamic series on CD or dvd when you write to us visit our website or call 1800 Bishop ship too to live a satisfied productive life you must be filled to capacity God say there's no question my seed is potent my word works the question is do you have the capacity to receive my word for helping us reach others with your gift of any size you will receive buil to capacity on CD he's not excessive without purpose he's

got something inside of him and out of the pregnancy of his own Divinity he begins to speak things into existence and when your gift is $70 or more we will give you both messages from Awakening on DVD as well whatever you have a need for God has a feeling for he can fill your need however when your gift is $125 or more we will also add Sarah Jake's book colliding with Destiny a 30-day Journey Through The Book of Ruth and the be still Journal just write us visit our website or call 1800 Bop two I

tell you right now it does not matter where you start it matters where you finish you're getting practical information from leaders that have been proven and been through there and done that and overcame and been Victorious I Shadow to think how many conferences would have to take place to reach this many leaders at one time we came here to get a deeper understanding of how we can take the vision that God has given you and take it to the next level it refocused my my my thought process my hearing my ability to see the word

much differently let's begin to think Beyond just our tradition and our mindset challenging us on a whole new level I'm loving the cross polonization I'm loving the out thebox thinking my hands were hanging down but I'm strengthened through this conference I'm excited I'm going to challenge your brain to think through some things to go to the next level are you ready I feel a glory in this place some of you just when the devil thought you would never do it again God made milk gush out of your breast I tell you it's not over till

God says it's over [Applause] tell me this what is she doing nursing a baby anyway even a young woman can't nurse a baby if she didn't have one she didn't birth the baby so her body's not even supposed to be milking making milk and she's too old even if she had birthed a baby but God sir that's why God doesn't want to hear your excuses because your excuses for not doing his will are based on your understanding but God's going to do some things in your life that you don't understand so it makes your excuses

foolishness because you're making excuses based on what you've seen happen before what You' seen happen before but nothing just happens God's going to do something I God God I got to qu oh I can't do God's going to do something for somebody in this room that you have never seen happen before in your life you've never seen him do it for anybody else you've never heard about him doing it you can't explain how he did it but God's going to make it happen I'm out of time I've got to stop there but it's been a

real Joy precious Joy a deep and fortifying blessing to share the word of the Lord with you and to be an instrument to encourage you I pray he used me well and I pray you become all that God has called you to be and I pray above everything else that you do not quit for you are closer now than when you first believed God bless you hold on this is the part touch