Have you ever had a moment when you realized that what you believed was real was only your imagination – or when you discovered that a “truth” was more fiction than fact? Have you heard the phrase, “It’s all in your head”?

In this sermon, T.D. Jakes gets into the head games that the devil likes to play, and how we should protect ourselves so that we can survive the battle and enjoy the blessings.

For this revelatory message, T.D. Jakes references Ephesians 6, which speaks about the armor of God, and focuses on one essential element, the helmet of salvation.

Speaking of spiritual warfare, T.D. Jakes offers this insight: Blessings do not come without a battle, but the level of the battle is an indication of the level of the blessing. It’s important, therefore, to be prepared for the fight so you can step into victory.

The armor of God is absolutely necessary for this. You must be ready to stand against the enemy’s tactics, one of his favorites being to mess with your head.

The devil often tries to convince us against what we already know is true. This is when we might see our feelings struggling against the knowledge of God or our minds being consumed by worries, doubts, what-ifs, and if-onlys.

Rather than being ruled by feelings and false narratives, we must put on the helmet of salvation and be governed by the Word, protected by the truth. This is how we can win the battle and reap the blessings.

Watch the video to get all the powerful insight from this message, “This is Not the Time to Lose Your Head.” Also, be sure to subscribe to our channel for more T.D. Jakes sermons.

coming up on the Potters test are you

obtained them without a king are you so

busy managing the emotional

relationships that you have that you

don’t have the energy to think the

thoughts you need to think to go where

you need to go are you so busy managing

your feelings and the feeling the people

around you and trying to make them feel

what you feel and still need what you

need and what what you want that you’re

not making progress in life this is the

bottom

greetings friends in the name of Jesus

Christ our King I’m so excited to have

this opportunity to share the word of

Lord with you I’m grateful for what God

is doing in your life and I want to

contribute something that I believe will

help you in this season of your life no

matter how blessed or successful you or

I might be there are moments in your

life that you go through tests and

trials just like anybody else people

don’t understand that with every

blessing there’s always a battle and I

want to share this word with you that

will help you with the battle so that

you can enjoy the blessings because

sometimes you’re so busy of the fight

you lose sight of the victory I believe

this is going to bless your life the

message is called this is not the time

to lose your head this is not the time

to lose your head take a look at this

word it will bless your life a sticker

Paul writes to the Church of Ephesus and

tells them to put on the whole armor of

God because you are under attack there

is not a person in this room that is not

constantly up under attack no matter how

bless you been no matter how successful

no matter how accomplished no matter how

healthy no matter how fruitful you are

somewhere in your life you are either

being attacked or about to be attacked

in some area of your life and God says

I’m going to bless you but you’ve got to

dress for the battle while you receive

the blessing with every blessing there

is a battle I would venture to say the

greater the blessing the greater the

battle the enemy would not send that

level of battle against you if there

were not that level of blessing before

you the level of battle you face is an

indication of the level of blessings

that you stand to receive no Rommel

Rob’s an empty house

nobody holds up a bag lady cuz she

doesn’t have anything to steal if you’re

up under attack there’s something to be

gained so the Bible says put on the

whole armour of God that you may be able

to withstand the wiles of the devil the

wiles of the devil the tactics the

antics of the devil and then he says

once you get it all order having done

all the stabbed

so you got all dressed up not to run you

got dressed up to stand not to give

place or territory to the devil not to

evacuate the turf that’s yours did you

hear that not to evacuate the turf that

is your and he said if you’re going to

hold on to what I have given you because

I have given you some things that you

are yet to possess

and in order to possess what I’ve given

you to take it out of the euphoria of an

idea and snatch it into the realm of a

possession you’re going to have to stand

having it all to stay as your willpower

your strength your might your intensity

having been all to stand

the first stand belongs to you you have

to do that

stop asking God to make you stand if

you’re not willing to stay you have to

have an investment in what God has given

you and having that all to stay you

won’t get to the suckage stand until you

run out of the first one having done all

to stand then it says stand therefore

with your loins gird about with truth

and every begins to equip us for battle

it comes down to the helmet of salvation

how important is it to protect your hair

when the weapons of our warfare are not

carnal but mighty through God for the

pulling down of strongholds look at how

we got to fight for the pulling down of

strongholds casting down oh you got it

imaginations and every high thing that

exalteth itself against what the

knowledge the knowledge of God the

happenings that are coming against you

are coming against what you know about

God what you know about God you know

your heal the symptoms come to convince

you that you’re not you know you’re free

I thought you did

y’all know you free okay

y’all y’all know you’re free the enemy

comes against your freedom to convince

you that you don’t have what God has

already released you the Bible calls his

attack imaginations you’re being sought

by imaginations shadows and ghosts some

of you are stressed to death over what

ifs and maybes you’ve been stabbed by

suppose you lay in a bed wrestling with

ghosts of what ifs and maybes and

suppose and I think and I heard and I

felt and you wake up tied in the morning

because you you might have slept but you

didn’t rest coz all in your sleep you’ve

been fighting the Bible says there is a

helmet that will protect your head head

speaks to leadership head speaks to

government most people are living their

lives from a hard place and not a head

place they are so engrossed with what

the heart feels that they have not

covered what the head thinks most people

are governed by their emotions they’re

having a hard experience in a head fight

you will never win a battle if you’re

having a heart experience in a head

fight you’re telling the enemy how you

feel has nothing to do with what you

know and if you’re gonna deal with the

Lord never approach an or with feelings

you got to approach an or with facts the

enemy wants to cut off your head and

leave you with feelings real decisions

that move your life along I’m not coming

out of your emotions they’re coming out

of your head

real opportunities that God would open

up for you have to come out of your head

and not out of your feelings you there

are so many people that are so abstract

and they’re just moving along from day

to day out of their emotion than their

fear I don’t know I’m just not feeling

it today I’m just not feeling it today

come back on Thursday I might be feeling

own thing I’m not in the mood for this I

can’t handle if I did you need anybody

there and every time you do it you are

cancelling out opportunities because it

is with the mind that we serve the Lord

a person who does not function out of

their head is a person without

government a person who moves totally

out of their emotions he’s exempt from

the greater opportunity than life

because you will forfeit what God has

given you because of how you feel

God did not promise you that your

feelings would line up with the facts

how many of us are living a headless

life because we have not separated how

we feel from what we know you can’t you

can’t work with people like that

you really can’t work with people like

that because if I criticize your work it

doesn’t mean I criticize you and to have

to babysit your feelings when I don’t

have time to babysit your feelings I

need you to correct the problem and go

back to work it’s not personal if you do

it right even that what God told Cain

why is thy countenance fallen Cain why

are you trippin out about this stuff why

are you jealous of Abel if thou doest

not well will I not receive you he said

I’m not against you Cain I’m against

what you did and if you fix what you did

I’ll bless you

like I bless them so stop trippin Cain

get your heart out of the way of your

head and I will move you forward I know

that’s culture shock to a lot of me cuz

everything you’ve ever gotten you’ve

gotten out of your feelings but let me

tell you the devil is not fighting you

over your feelings he is fighting you

over your head he is giving you images

and imaginations and threats some

disaster to send your head into a panic

mode so that you will digress mentally

from the leadership that the rest of you

needs it has to come from the facts and

not the feelings it is written thou

shalt not tip the LORD thy God it is

written it is written not one time do

you hear Jesus said I’m so hungry

well I’m so hungry this is one time let

me turn discover the bread because a

brother like me got all kind of rumbles

going on in my stomach like here I’ve

been out here 40 days devil night night

you know 40 days you oughta have little

kind of passion on me he did not

approach the devil with feelings because

the devil has no compassion whatever you

do don’t lose your head pull your

feelings out of it

pull your insecurities out of it your

vulnerabilities those childhood voices

that come back to attack you the rest of

your life are the tools that the devil

uses to cause you to digress from what

God created you to be and stand on what

you know still to come on the POTUS

touch so if I was the devil I’d do

everything I could to keep your head

foggy to keep your mind all tied up to

keep your emotions governing your head

to the point that you can’t even think a

clear thought because all will fall now

anointest my head with all now my cup

runs over my cup can’t run over is my

head in it could anoint it with the will

my cup is only catching the residue of

what my head got first are you under the

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bible says in 1st Samuel speaking of

loud Eli the word of the Lord was scarce

in those days the word of the Lord was

scarce in those days and there was no

open vision Eli was living but he was

losing his head vision comes from your

head word is spoken out of your mouth

which is in your head the word was

scarce the vision was dim and the

kingdom was collapsing because of what

was empty in the head had destroyed the

success of the kingdom of the priesthood

of the sanctity of the ministry because

the priesthood was headless sexuality

was running amuck hoffa and phineas were

going through the church going through

the women like a fox going through a

henhouse because the place was headless

elide it was not strong enough to chase

in his own child because his emotions

were leading and not his head oh it’s

gonna be rough in here today

the word of the Lord was scarce in those

days about said there was no open vision

and ultimately when everything was said

and done they went out to fight against

the Philistines and they were defeated

and he could have wished heard that

Hoffner was kill his son he could have

withstood that jenny has was killed as

well he could have was stood there but

when they told him that the glory of the

Lord was departed he fell off his throne

and of all things he broke his neck his

head came off that’s what I’m trying to

tell you the last little piece of

government fell off and whenever you see

the head come off there is a shift of

authority Eli lost his head

samuel comes to a place of prominence

because the head the decapitation of the

head is a removal of the government are

you a king damata king are you so busy

managing the emotional relationships

that you have that you don’t have the

energy to think the thoughts you need to

think to go where you need to go

are you so busy managing your feelings

and the feeling the people around you

and trying to make them feel what you

feel and need what you need and what

what you want that you’re not making

progress in life because you are leading

with your heart and not with your head

you can cry your way up

you can’t bust your way out you’d have

snapped you’ll Nick four or five times

and it didn’t change your life the

definition of lunacy is to keep doing

the same thing expecting a different

result so why are you doing what doesn’t

work if flip it out on her isn’t working

why are you still doing it

if giving him a piece of your mind

hadn’t worked in the first 15 years

wouldn’t it be a good time now to change

strategies why are we loyal to

ineffectiveness

why are we loyal within effectiveness we

date effectiveness but we marry in

effectiveness we Vivid effectiveness for

the weekend on a Sunday and a

motivational message and a special

television show we fit we love to visit

it but we are married to habits that are

ineffective and we are loyal to things

that we know don’t work but because of

how I feel

take unto you the helmet of salvation

Eli lost his head and the power shifted

and the world changed and whenever that

which was has lost his head that which

is will come the power lost is here

they say Ichabod the glory has departed

I guess it did the glory departs cuz the

head is gone I told you the anointing

comes on the head if there’s no head

there’s no glory

Eli broke his neck lost his head yes or

going to party cuz the glory only falls

on a clear head

so if I was the devil I’d do everything

I could to keep your head foggy to keep

your mind all tied up to keep your

emotions governing your head to the

point that you can’t even think a clear

thought because all will fall

thou anointest my head with all now my

cut runs over my cup can’t run over is

my head in anointed with the will my cup

is only catching the residue of what my

head got first John the Baptist is

preaching out in the wilderness he’s

different from his daddy his daddy was a

church preacher preached in the

synagogue’s John the Baptist preached in

the wilderness

his daddy dressed in priestly clothes

John the Baptist dressed in camel hair

while ate while locusts and honey but he

was preaching more effectively in the

wilderness then his father had

ministered in the temple he was doing

real good and then he says something he

says I must decrease that he might

increase

he said there’s going to be a shift and

when the shift comes I must decrease

that he might increase when did the

shift come when they cut his head

the cutting of the head is the shifting

of government do you hear what I’m

saying

good goddamn lesson do you hear what I’m

trying to tell you this morning very the

shift going on in your life and it

starts with your head they start with

your head it starts with your head it

starts with your head the slave masters

knew it you can teach the slaves how to

do anything but read why was reading

forbidden because if you got it in your

head you could get it in your life they

said our change cannot hold an informed

head when your head comes out it won’t

be long until everything begins to shift

touch your neighbor tell them I feel a

shift so they took Jesus

to pilot and they palette asked him are

you the King of the Jews are you the

head of the Jews and Jesus said thou

says so they they said put a split up

sign up and call him the key on the Jews

they tried to get pilot to take it back

he said what I have spoken I have spoken

this Commodus son is the head of the

Jews so they took the head of the juice

and they took him to the head of a

mountain and the mountain will call

Golgotha and when they called him

Golgotha go go to be strong so they

brought the head to a head touch your

neighbor and say there’s got to be a

shift

whatever heads get together there will

be a shift but he told the disciples he

said I got to go away don’t preach it

go to jerusalem because the head has

gone up in a cloud and the body was left

looking up and the angel said to the

body

he made of Galilee why stand ye here

gaining up his head for the same head

that you see our sin shall descend in

like manner and the book said and with

the day of Pentecost was fully come and

they were in one place with one Accord

here comes the shift slab somebody tell

them is coming back it’s coming back is

coming back it’s coming back

then will you should have killed me when

you had the chance but I’m getting my

head

Hey

I’ve got us up there I’m really not

finished with this I think it is

provocative it is powerful and is also

quite important to understand how to

keep your head a level head in the time

of battle because we all face them but I

want you to understand that you can

stand in the middle of the test in the

trial and you can not only stand but you

can overcome and be successful in spite

of the struggles that are inherent with

being who you are I get it I totally

totally totally totally get it before

cause I do want to mention this I want

you to get this in your hands on this it

is literally a tour guide into your

destiny the book is called destiny step

into your purpose you need to understand

that destiny is pulling you to

unexpected in and how do you step into

it now share it in this book in a bless

your life and strengthen you and

encourage you because I know what it is

to have to climb up with one hand and

fight back with the other but together

we can get it done

god bless you friends I thank God for

you it’s been a real pleasure to be with

you today and I pray for you and I pray

that you will pray for me and to all of

you that are getting ready to meet me at

megafest I’m kidding ready for you so I

gotta go god bless you take care I’ll

see you soon I want to make sure that

when you leave here that you leave here

on a whole nother

you don’t have to live in the dark

feeling like you never know what to do

God will leave you and guide you direct

you is not so addendum he’s not just oh

Jesus do you know how strong his lonely

I just need to reach open to just reach

back and dig in and see what God did in

your life sin it’ll give you a clue

about where you’re going now every day

you wake up and you’re adding to the

kingdom you’re subtracting from hell and

that’s why the devil can’t stand you

another there’s a force on the planet

much rather than the facts and it’s

called the truth of the word of God the

anointing is coming on your life to

change your season and like me I’m sorry

Brian we’re gonna have to let you go see

we had to make staff changes listen for

best answer

destiny awaits you will you take the

first step destiny is written to connect

what’s in you with the purpose that

awaits you

the first action step requires faith

order destiny today everywhere books are

sold there is more you want to redeem

the years you lost out of your life stop

falling your emotions go at it head

first and God said I will give you back

the time you lost I will restore from

the mistakes you made I will do a new

thing in you and the form of things will

pass away when you stop sniffling and

whimpering and crying and having

tantrums and schizophrenia and be sober

and get a grip on yourself God said I’ll

open up the windows of heaven and I’ll

pull you out of listen y’all won’t even

have room enough to receive this is the