Prepare for an awakening as T.D. Jakes offers a spiritual perspective on life experiences in his sermon, “Nothing You’ve Been Through Will Be Wasted.” In this message, T.D. Jakes urges us to not mourn the past. Time isn’t lost. Just because you experienced failure and disappointment doesn’t mean that you wasted your time. God has a way of taking anything you’ve been through in the past and using it to bless and enable your future. T.D. Jakes also says that adverse circumstances are not necessarily a sign that you’re under attack from the enemy. It may be that God is moving on, and you need to get up and move on with Him. Are you in an uncomfortable situation? Do you feel like you’re spinning your wheels or that your skills and talents are being wasted? Are you confused about who you are or what you’re called to do? Don’t lose hope. You may have questions, but God has the answers. Learn from Moses’ example as T.D. Jakes shares from his life’s evolution of triumph, failure, confusion, and uncertainty until he eventually, in God’s timing, discovers his purpose.

the congregation was in flight you ain’t

never seen such flapping going on in a

place in all of your life I mean big old

long arms and short arms little skinny

arms and fat arms it was all do

everything was just flapping in this

place that was an out sign of an inner

conviction to rise to the height of your

calling spread your possibilities and

soar above your adversities and fly like

the Eagle you were created to be looking

today we say I’m an eagle

is the part-time

from time to time I hear people writing

to me or their hit me up on Twitter and

they say I went through five years it

got wasted I gave ten years into that

relationship it was wasted I work for

that company 20 years it was wasted you

are wrong this message has nothing that

you’ve been through shall be wasted stop

Mourning over where you been and use it

to get on with getting on but getting on

to where you’re going nothing that

you’ve been through every waste you can

always tell when God stirs a nest all

hell breaks loose and like the little

eaglet when the nest first gets stirred

the little eaglet tries to sit where it

used to sit and it has to bump jump up

tries to sit over again and it has to

jump up and it has tries to sit again

and cries just because something doesn’t

work in your life doesn’t mean you’re up

under satanic attack I will say that

again just because something doesn’t

work in your life that mean Europe under

satanic attack it could be possible that

you’re trying to rest in where God used

to be seeing yourself through the lens

of who you were will stop you from

seeing yourself through the lens of who

God called you to be and sometimes God

has to stir the nest because the purpose

of that person place or thing in your

life has been completed there’s nothing

more frustrating than trying to raise up

something that God is trying to kill

nothing more frustrating than trying to

be somebody that God is trying to

crucify you have to have the liquidity

of thought the liquidity of thought and

the nimbleness of mind to transition

from how you once saw yourself into

where God is calling you if you saw

yourself as a sedentary eaglet sitting

in a nest enjoying the comfort of your

nest it’s hard to see yourself soaring

after all soaring is more work requires

more muscles requires more effort you

expend more energy it’s easier to lay

back in the nest they feed me feed me

love me let me acknowledge me open doors

for me make the way for me me me me me

me

me all of a sudden the food stops when

the food stops is assigned for you to

move on Mama’s not dropping it in your

mouth as good as it was I revealed the

problems of the devil I come against it

can’t you see the little Eagle is

praying I come against Satan power in

the name of Jesus I command desire abuse

of powers and the principalities over

this region mama should have been hit

right now I come against Ishida you you

you delay in my blessing you holding up

my blessing I revealed the part where

mama mama should be there I’ve a bigger

power their prison bodies are holding it

by prayed and prayed and why did I am

with you pray and it doesn’t work when

you rebuilt it and it doesn’t stop you

finally said I’m hungry look

the food ain’t coming in here comes the

problems and the thorns are coming up

and I don’t have the nourishment to rest

in the place I used to be I don’t have

the grace to do it I always knew when

something was over I just didn’t have

the grace to do with the grace i grace

will cover your eyes against what you’re

going through and make it easier to

manage because you don’t feel the weight

of it when you have the grace to do it

yeah when you have the grace to work two

or three jobs when you have the grace to

do it it doesn’t bother you like it

would bother you because you got a grace

to them yeah you got a grace to put up

with something that other people

couldn’t put up with you got the grace

to do it but but but but when that grace

stops and all of a sudden you’d notice

those thorns and thistles start coming

out now now you got to move into another

dimension Moses his thorns and thistles

was the murdering of an Egyptian man and

and and and his people knowing it and

talking about it and rising up against

him and not letting even forget of what

he did what he did people people will

attack you they will always bring up

what you did you have to live with what

you did all your life that’s why you

ought to be careful what you do

that’s good that’s that’s a tweetable

code right there yeah yeah yeah yeah

that right there that right there since

Hyundai said that right there they were

bringing up what he did and all of a

sudden he had to get out of the nest

leave the palace and the marble floors

the gold columns and the big fans and

the grapes being fed to him wine being

served to him somebody to bathe him

somebody to teach him somebody to train

him somebody to take care of him all of

that shut down and he escapes into the

desert a dry place a barren place and

while running from his pass he runs into

his purpose while escaping how he was

once to find he now runs into a new

identity that he never had before what

what what would the correct term for it

is is it is is an epiphany whereby you

you begin to have an awakening to to

something that you didn’t know a

spiritual or an epiphany Kennedy of

spiritual awakening whereby it changes

the lens through which you see

everything going forward you don’t have

that every day you don’t have that ever

you don’t have that every week just

periodically in the space of your whole

life

you have those spiritual awakenings that

change save in his case the next 40

years of his life was changed by one

moment the one moment change the next 40

years it was like a bad moment an Eagle

stirring moment has placed him in the

wilderness and all of a sudden he

doesn’t know who he is now this is a big

deal because his identity has always

been a problem he was a Hebrew boy but

he didn’t grow up with the Hebrews

he was a Hebrew boy raised with the

Egyptians he was already up under

identity crisis he was – he grew to be

Egyptian and – Egyptian to be Hebrew and

what I want to talk to people whose

background is complicated

I want to talk to people whose resume

has to be censored let me try them later

they don’t understand I want to talk to

people who only tell half your testimony

there are certain parts of your

testimony that are available for human

consumption look at somebody say but

it’s complicated

let me just try something daddy was a

good man but it’s complicated mama was a

good mother but it’s complicated I grew

up a happy child

but it’s complicated whenever you hear

people throw that butt in there there

are some extenuating circumstances means

I can tell you about this party all in

all it was good but but there was some

other stuff that I don’t want to bring

up but that other stuff helps to shape

Who I am just as much as the good stuff

helps oh god help me and Moses was his

own man he was strong and mighty he’d

been raised he was strong he was

powerful he was educated he was

intellectual he was respected in Egypt

but but it’s but but he wasn’t really

truly an Egyptian and though he was

raised with him he really wasn’t one of

them and and he was a Hebrew to a degree

and yes he was a Hebrew but but it

wasn’t like he could go hang out with

the Hebrews because Hebrews didn’t like

him because he had the smell of the

Egyptians on him he he had the egg

heaven had got the nerve to have any

Gyptian accent oh you you don’t talk

like one of us who’d you talk like you

you and Egyptian you know how people

will hear your speech and say you talk

like the other people

still to come on the POTUS touch he had

rose

he couldn’t wear jewelry he didn’t need

training in science that is totally

unusable in this environment because all

information is not transferable from one

world into the next you’re going to say

one thing this is not that so you cannot

come over into this and act like that

and stay if you’re going to survive in

this you have to give up bad and become

a student again

don’t settle in your nest when you

should be soaring it’s time to fly every

time I try to sit out with less than

what I was created to be some sticks man

I gotta get up and try a dad there are

certain situations that God will make so

unbearable that you don’t have to

discern that it’s time to go it’s almost

impossible to stay what’s wrong with you

is all most people who knew you win

because if they knew you win don’t hold

you to back dad I got a

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love to hear married couples talk about

how long they’ve been married we’ve been

we’ve been married for 50 years and

people always clap you know they always

clap you know they clamp you know and

they say they’ve been happily married

for 50 years in line

yes I said it I said it I’m in it and

I’m here to represent it you ain’t been

happily nothing for 50 years not for 50

years no not every day and every week

and every minute and every moment for 50

years you you know you telling us about

the good part you’re not telling us

about the tough part you’re not telling

us about when she spent the money that

she was saving up for something else

she’s when I as we you’re not telling us

about the extra pocketbooks up under the

bed and the shoes and y’all fussing

about that you idiot you’re not talking

about that new secretary he got and why

she stand up look at you in the face

like she looking at you you’re not

talking about he always spent all the

money and he don’t take care of business

and you ain’t talking about that you

made a mama’s boy and you’re sitting him

over your momma’s house all the time but

y’all shut it out and you made it over

and you saw I know you made people can’t

say nothing cuz you can’t blow your

cover but there’s some divorced people

in here that have got my back

hi do know what I’m talking about

it bothers me because if you buy that

baloney that people serve out you’ll

expect to see that in your life and if

it doesn’t work like that for you

you’ll give up on it because you’re

expected it to be like what you saw on

TV but in real life you got to go

through some ups and downs and some

crooks and some credit and sometimes you

stay together but it’s complicated and

you you own the house but it’s

complicated

they come in my house all attendees all

look at your house you long missus a

year this month only dismount

thank you down in this one so far I love

it right now

Oh y’all hear what I’m saying to you I

own it but it’s complicated

I want it but they got the notes

and now is messed up and complicated in

his life he is now that’s the messed up

bad has gotten worse that’s why you

gotta watch out about complaining about

bad

because it was kind of complicated in

the palace it might have been bad cuz on

the inside he had some deficiencies and

insecurities and areas where he didn’t

really feel like he totally belong but

he was even good and he was sleeping

good and they was cleaning out the room

and Washington’s clothes and pressing

his little undies and stuff it it was

real good it was good considering you

know what all he’s been through he had a

little bag stuff to kind of fight but he

was doing pretty good and then bad got

worse and now the eagle has stirred the

nest and he has to climb out of the nest

and start running through the wilderness

running to running through a wilderness

he had never been in before he didn’t

know nothing about survival techniques

for the wilderness he was raised in the

palace there he is out there in the

wilderness trying to figure out now

which plant can you eat

how do you get water in the desert he

didn’t know to which cactus you could

you could suck the water out of and he

had to figure it all out because he was

in a new place if his life ever puts you

in a new place and and and and and you

don’t know how to function in this new

environment

and what was complicated has become a

crisis now he’s free from favor Oh Fay

Roy is behind him no no problems there

got that straight now they’ve trying to

kill him he escaped all they got the

Victor got the bull shot he’d hook

victory victory what am i we have you

ever had the victory in one place and

all hell breaking loose in the other

place and and you could you could shout

about this part over here you should

have beat that oaf a roll out but but

mmm things I don’t know what in the

world will do here a little get the flu

situation coming up on the fifth

and he was in the desert and God left

him in the desert for 40 years he eat

one around out there and ran into some

Midianites and Jethro and Jethro kind of

took him up under the wings and oh he’s

dead I don’t kill you eat that right

there is that right there when you get

around there was he that you you dig

that up and suck the roots and get some

moisture out of it to be able to survive

in that environment sad I didn’t I

didn’t learn that and all my schooling

they didn’t they didn’t teach me

anything about what what route took to

suck water out of how to guard myself

against the heat of the Sun how to

survive in a dry place I didn’t I didn’t

know nothing about that

and then he got her hanging around

Jethro Jethro said I got some work for

you to do work

what is work I do you not know I’ve been

raised in favor of house we had people

working for us and all of a sudden he’s

introduced to work and of all things to

be introduced to do I mean he he had

rose

he couldn’t wear jewelry he didn’t need

training in science that is totally

unusable in this environment because all

information is not transferable from one

world into the next you’re going to say

one thing this is not that so you cannot

come over into this and act like that

and stay if you’re going to survive in

this you have to give up that and become

a student again you can’t be important

out of your element and walk around with

your chest stuck out just because you

were successful over there playing

football don’t make you a star over here

having Church just because you’re

successful in church that make you

successful at NASA

any time you step into a new arena

you got to humble yourself

and become a student again so he’s over

there walking around like the Prince

Egypt all important and Jethro I asked

him to go out there and shovel that

sheep dung and this is the test of pride

the test of pride can you do what you

got to do where the Lord has placed you

to learn what you got to learn so you

can move from one level to the next

level to the next level if if you don’t

pass the tests you’ll never complete the

class so you have to keep taking it over

and over and over again because you

didn’t learn what you should have

learned the first time who am i

preaching to I’m talking to somebody

right now Jethro told Moses to lead the

Sheep Oh smelly dirty stinking sheep

look good on them pictures and stuff but

I was out of Jerusalem and isiliye got

to go out there where does she work

see when you see them in the picture you

can’t smell the picture and stuff but

when you actually go out there where the

sheep farm yes it’ll make you carrying

some gleaned and some Lysol and some

fine salt and you know how white they

are in the pictures and stuff that in

real life that the old news

no no no no no no no no that’s photo

enhancement it isn’t kind of it’s not

odor is Oh door this is a French term

yes indeed they should bottle this way

insecticide or something I know they

don’t have to worry about mosquitoes

nothing with what a bite

nothing smell like that and and he’s in

this environment and I know I know the

enemy must have been saying where is

your God now you out here I thought you

had a mighty destiny your momma call you

Moses for being drawn out I thought

there was a king and a mighty man and a

general in you and all you going through

is his survival techniques for desert

you don’t even you didn’t even come up

in look at you running around here you

looking at a sheep

every so often you’ll go to a period in

your life that seems like all of your

real skills are being wasted it will

feel like you’re not being used to your

highest potential it will feel like

you’re living beneath your privilege and

if you’re not careful you will secretly

see yourself as a failure because you

don’t see yourself operating in the way

that you dream that you would and he’s

just running around there saying at

least he didn’t kill me and at least I

escaped Egypt and I’m making the best of

a bad situation and all of a sudden he

has an epiphany just walks up on it when

fastened for it wasn’t praying for it

what talking in tongues just walked up

on it didn’t even expect it just blew

his mind you know God is a master of

suddenly I’m going to say that again

see if you understand that God is the

master of suddenly that means sometimes

your life will take a turn you never

even saw coming it you it won’t be no

gradual progress no evolution that leads

to a revolution

it’ll be suddenly straightway

immediately out of nowhere one phone

call one meeting one person one time one

job and your whole life

thing about the next 40 years is about

to change

I don’t know who I’m talking to but get

ready get ready get ready get ready get

ready get ready get ready get ready get

ready get ready get ready thank you for

allowing me to just interject the

thought or two and we’ll continue right

after this

don’t settle in your nest when you

should be soaring it’s time to fly every

time I try to sit out with less than

what I was created to be some sticks

when I gotta get up and try a dad there

are certain situations that God will

make so unbearable that you don’t have

to discern that it’s time to go it’s

almost impossible to stay what’s wrong

with you is all most people who knew you

win because if they knew you win they’ll

hold you to back then I gotta go

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