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
don’t let the counterfeit experience of
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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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being good stop you from the pursuit of
greatness for helping us reach others
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