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