Trust Your Wings | Bishop T.D. Jakes

If a bird is perched on a branch that breaks, it trusts its wings to fly. Sometimes, the things you count on to hold you up — your family, friends, mentors, job — might fail you. That’s when you trust that God will always be there to lift you. He will never fail you, so seek Him first!

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[Music] presence I appreciate you 1st Samuel 30 verse 3-9 when you have it say Amen if you can’t find it we’re going to put it on the screen you’re going to see it anyway I can tell you this if you s uh Phim and you’re in the wrong direction you got to go back to the other end of the book 1 Samuel 30:3 we come into this moment in David’s life uh that is perplexing it is it is a hard place in his life and it says so David and his men came to the city and behold it was burned with fire and their

wives and their sons and their daughters had been abducted they’ been taken captive then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voices David and the people that were with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no more power to weep that grief that kind of grief where it runs out of tears and David’s two wives were taking captives Lord have mercy I might have left one of them anyway and David’s two wives were taken captive aoam the gelite and Abigail the wife of nabal the Carmelite and David was

greatly distressed just because you’re a leader doesn’t mean you don’t feel just because you got a degree doesn’t mean you don’t feel just because you got things going doesn’t mean you don’t feel great David was greatly distressed for the people spake of stoning him the people spake of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved every man for his sons and for his daughters so grief has turned to anger see emotions will switch on you that’s why people change on you cuz

in in in one season of their life they’re one way but in another season of their life they will Swit so they were crying together now they’re ready to kill him because when things go wrong for you you always need somebody to blame and when David saw the men that he come back with turn on him and decide we’re ready to take you out David encouraged himself tell somebody say I’ll do it myself and David said to ABI the priest a himc son I pray thee bring me hither the epod and ab brought hither thither

the ephod to David and David inquired of the of the Lord saying shall I pursue after this troop shall I overtake them and he answered him pursue for Thou shalt over surely overtake you will somebody shout surely surely overtake them and without [Music] fail and without fail re what and without fail keep going so David went he and the 600 men that were with him and came to the brook bessor where those that were left behind stayed can you say amen amen now let’s go to Psalms 91 just for a minute just for a minute he shall cover thee with his

feathers talking about God God will he shall cover thee with his feathers and under his under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler can you say Amen can you say amen amen this morning for the next few moments if you will allow me the Lord has instructed me me to give you these instructions as you go back home as you go back to your cities your countries and as you go back to work tomorrow on Monday the Lord told me to tell you to trust your wings I want you to touch your neighbor

and just say trust your wings your wings Spirit of the Living God Falls fresh on us as we go into the word of God I thank you for your presence your healing your power Your Glory release it in this place in Jesus name we pray somebody shout amen am you may be seated in the presence of [Applause] God so when my wife and I uh moov to Fort Worth uh we moved to a place where I have access to a really nice back porch where I go and chill out and get my head together and there was there was a family of hawks when we came there and

now it’s a multitude of Hulks they’ve been being fruitful over the years they have not moved they are everywhere I was talking to my sister on the phone last night and I said do you hear that noise and she said what is that I said those are the hulks flying through the trees launching in the branches and and it occurs to me there’s a couple of things I want you to understand about the way hwks operate very much like eagles they can fly very high high as high as 15,000 ft in the air they can soar they can soar and look

down with Keen eyes so Keen that they can see a rodent in the field at 15,000 ft and then dive down an attack that rodent they also rest on branches they rest on branches the only thing about resting on branches is that occasionally branches break and when you watch a branch break that any bird is sitting on the bird never screams never shouts never seems frustrated in spite of the fact what it was standing on it’s broken and occasionally in your life things will break the reason that the Hulk doesn’t get upset when he finds himself in a

critical situation is because he knows he can trust his wings let’s take a moment and pray father right now in the name of Jesus I know you’re able to do anything but fail you’re the God of All Flesh there nothing too hard for you you’re the master physician you’re the Healer of of all diseases I pray in the name of Jesus whatever is attacking uh right now this brother that the healing power of the Holy Spirit would step in and intervene thank you for our metaphorical professionals that are handling this and

anoint them with insight and give Victory in Jesus name we pray somebody shout amen amen so what I’m saying branches break and you need to understand that before you get back home and you’re all lit up with the glory of God and and you’re all surrendered and youve surrendered everything over to God but but that does not mean that your family has surrendered that your environment has surrendered that that your husband has surrendered that your co-workers have surrendered that doesn’t mean that you don’t have to pay taxes

that doesn’t mean that your bills aren’t due that doesn’t mean I don’t want you to have the expectation just because God has revitalized you and set you on a new trajectory that life won’t keep on lifing because branches break that’s why we have to begin to understand this from the perspective of things will change in your life at such a rapid Pace that you can’t keep up with it you can’t always tell your friends from your enemies just because somebody says something that you don’t like doesn’t

necessarily make them an enemy but in a moment of pain and grief somebody needs to attack you or attack somebody or blame somebody we can’t be so sensitive that we’re not successful because if you’re not if you’re not careful you become so sensitive that you won’t be successful at what God called you to do because you’ll stop to argue with somebody and straighten out somebody and fix somebody and think that is the victory when the enemy is just distracting you from your assignment and the enemy wouldn’t be

distracting you if you didn’t have an assignment and one of the great things I’ve learned about life is to learn to distinguish the distraction from the assignment because many are the times that you will land on a branch and the branch breaks and if you don’t remember your wings you will fall the gravitational pull is never up it’s never uh upward it’s always downward so we are always fighting against a gravitational pool that wants you to fall and you have to remember your wings and that God covers you with

wings and that the angels of the Lord encamp about them that fear him and that in the presence of God there is fullness of joy and that in the presence of God you’ve got power that sometimes when the branch breaks you forget your wings you’re so busy looking at the breaking of the branch and the pain that it caused and the fear that it brought that you don’t recognize that you’ve got you’ve got wings look at your neighbor and say I got wings I got Wings yeah yeah yeah I want you to love me I

want you to support me I want you to be with me but if you don’t I want you to be my prayer partner I want you to be my secret keeper I want you to be my sister and my sister Soldier my brother’s solder but if you don’t I want to keep my job I want to keep my house I want to keep going forward I’ve got plans I’ve got ideas I’ve got things that I hope to accomplish in my life but if everything doesn’t come together exactly the way I want it to come together I’ve got to always remember I got wings look at somebody

say I got Wings there is a moment in David’s life that David has seen a series of Breaking branches in fact David’s whole life is full of branches that break he is born into a family that really didn’t it wasn’t a good fit it wasn’t a good match they weren’t really excited about it some theologians and Scholars think that that that his father did not really uh pick him out or Point him out or appreciate him because he suspected that David wasn’t his I believe he was but he suspected that David wasn’t his d That’s

why David said I was born in sin uh and in iniquity did God for me he was a reject whether that’s right or wrong he was a reject in the family he was ostracized in the family he was more comfortable with sheep than family sometimes what you do is is what was pushed on you because of what you’re trying to avoid anybody understand what I just said and so he goes through that and he goes through this and he goes through the other and yet God has a plan for his life and it’s far beyond what it looks like right now because in this season

he’s taking care of sheep but in the next season he’s going to be a great leader but you you go on to become a leader you don’t this doesn’t happen as quick as television life is not a television show life is not Tik Tok life is not Instagram life is not X it doesn’t happen that fast it takes time it takes life it takes suffering it takes enduring hardness it takes branches breaking for you to really understand not only that you got wings but to trust your wings it’s it’s one thing to

have it and it’s another thing to trust your wings now this is not just a sermon it’s a prophetic word to somebody so I want you to be listening not to the continuity of the address but to the specificity of the Rama that God is saying to you because you’re getting ready to face some things that when you face him you got to be able to trust your wings and David has been sent on a menial task down there to uh bring some lunch to his brothers who are more mature and who are in the Army and David is just an Aaron boy until he sees

Goliath Goliath introduces David to the world Goliath is a great thing he’s not a bad thing I know he’s ominous I know he’s forboding I know he’s intimidating but the massiveness of the challenge before for him is how David got discovered when God gets ready to really introduce you to the world he will often use a giant problem in your life to bring you to the stage that you need to be in amen Come on talk to me somebody and so God uses Goliath to create a platform for David to stand on and David

is discovered in a fight so if you run from every battle if you hide from every breaking Branch if you’re scared to land on something because you’re so intimidated you may miss the very Usher that’s going to Usher you into the next stage of your life avoiding broken branches Goliath was used and now he’s fighting Goliath who is a Philistine for for the king of Israel and all of a sudden the king discovers him in the fight hear me right now there is a fight that you have been in that God ordered

and even even though you prayed he didn’t move it even though you spoke in tongues he didn’t move it even though you anointed yourself with oil he didn’t move it there’s a fight that’s been going on in your life if God doesn’t move the fight then that means God is going to use the fight to become a platform for you to discover what you can do what you can endure what you can stand and what’s next in your life I don’t know who I’m talking to but I’m going to unravel some things this

morning I’m going to share some things this morning that are going to revolutionize your life and all of a sudden King Saul likes him and invites him into the palace and David has to make the transition from being a Shepherd boy where what you smelt like didn’t matter and what you wore didn’t matter and what you look like didn’t matter and all of a sudden he is catapulted into the palace where there is protocol where there is order where there is structure where there is Ambiance where there is rules and David

has nothing in his background that has prepared him for the platform that he’s about to stand on but David is fluid enough that he’s able to adapt to different situations rapidly and God uses Jonathan God will send somebody that loves you enough to school you to get you ready for what he’s about to do in your life you after you’ve discovered your goath you got to find your Jonathan when you find your Jonathan they will they will dress you they will change places with you I wish I had time to

really get down into David and Jonathan because in David and Jonathan I see substitution I see Jesus Trading Places with us I see him giving us his righteousness and us giving him our sins and the prince in the house dressed David as a prince gave him something he didn’t work for he didn’t earn he didn’t have a background for but through relationship there was a conveyance a conductor a conductor Bel that brought him into a power that he never would have had had he not been in that relationship so protect your

relationships because God often will tress you through the relationships that you have if you protect them and it happened and boom it happened and David is there and David is in the palace and David is in the palace and he kills uh a thousand three I think it was a, or three 00 Philistines and brings her forkins and throws them down at the king’s feet but then David was so good at what he did that it created jealousy Saul was good with David as long as they were singing about Saul but when they changed their song

and started singing Saul has killed his thousands but David has killed his tens of thousands all of a sudden the branch broke see some people only lack you in one dimension of your life but when God finally brings you into the next dimension of your life don’t be surprised because everybody can’t handle roll reversal I said everybody can’t handle roll reversal the first should be last the last should be first we shout about it but when it happens everybody can’t handle that and so David ends up having to

leave the palace and he ends up running from the very person he was fighting for and the reason David is running from Saul who is now trying to kill him and throwing javelins at him see you’re under attack because the enemy only tries to take you out because of your destiny and he’s trying to stop you before you get there and you don’t understand why it’s happening cuz sometimes he sees things that you don’t see and you don’t understand why he’s throwing javelins at you why would the

king throw a javelin at a boy but God knew what David was going to be and Saul knew what David was going to be and it got on his neres many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord the Lord delivered them out of them all and all of a sudden David finds himself in a situation of transition and when we come to settle on the text David is now H has gone through a period of hiding amongst the people he was fighting look look at how fluid he is he is now hiding amongst the Philistines from the people he was

fighting for and sometimes when you shut doors you shut doors prematurely because you don’t understand how the branch will break and the situation will change and you’ll find yourself on the opposite side and David has had to hide amongst the Philistines fing himself to be mad finally ending up with 600 men and their families in Zig lag and he is in Zig lag because he is too much an Israelite to fit in with the Philistines but he’s been with the Philistines so long that he can’t go back to the Israelites and sometimes you

have to create your own Camp come on somebody because you don’t I’m talking to the misfit people all you fit people don’t get it but to the misfit people I want to talk to the people that you’re not quite this and you’re not quite that and you’re not quite here and you’re not quite there and you can’t really explain where where you’re at sometimes you got to create your own camp and David is in zigg with 600 men fighting for them and their families and their children and their

goats and their cattle and their oxen and they have just come back from a mission and and when you come back from a mission sometimes you come back weary and tired have you noticed that we have been in a serious of battles maybe it’s just me it’s not you how many people as soon as you get out of one thing here comes something else and S soon as you survived this now you got that you finally got the house paid off now your body’s acting crazy you finally got your head on straight got your therapy together but your credit is

jacked up how many people have gone from Battle to battle to battle to battle to battle and I don’t care how strong you are and I don’t care how anointed you are and I don’t care how gifted you are and I don’t care how talented you are when you come back from a battle you are tired and it’s called battle fatigue some of you have not been diagnosed yet you are numb because you have been in so many battles that you have battle fatigue and you’re trying to find a place to just just just just to perch on

can will you watch with me for a few hours will you stay stand with me will you be there with me and there he coming home from Battle with 600 men and he’s coming to a place and there should be dancing there should be singing there should be rejoicing the there should be somebody the women normally would run out to meet you and they didn’t there is no sound of the laughter of the children there is no smell of the break of the of of the bakon of bread he comes home instead of smelling bread he smells smoke he smells

smoke somebody in here smells smoke and the smoke is the first indication that something is wrong and when he gets back when he gets back to the camp having survived being in Israel having survived being with the Philistines when he gets back to the camp he runs into the fact that while they were gone the amalekites have come in and have abducted all the women and the children and burned the camp and they’re devastated and you sometimes you just got to admit I’m devastated I know you’ve been taught

positive confession and and just name it and just claim it and just just quote the word but sometimes you got to open up your mouth and say I’m sick of this I’m sick of this I’m sick it is because until you get that pain out you can’t get that direction in you got to you got to open your mouth and holler you got to you that that’s why I hope you all don’t get rid of all the old school stuff cuz there was something that the old church mothers knew they didn’t speak Greek they didn’t speak Hebrew they didn’t

understand Swahili but old church oh there was something that they released that broke out of their spirit that opened them up to what God was about to do next in their life if you understand what I’m talking about let me hear you shout unto God you cannot deny this hurt this hurt this hurt this is painful the branch broke the branch broke and I don’t know what to do and then he finds himself in a yet more perplexing situation I need to teach this for a minute he finds himself in the perplexing situation that

the people that he could count on have stopped weeping with him and decided we’re going to blame you and they turn on him aam is gone Abigail is gone and now his own soldiers have turned on him and the Bible says that David encouraged himself in the Lord and and we often preach this kind of stuff but we don’t tell people how to encourage yourself in the Lord because we’re so used to needing the whole 600 behind us in order to get encouragement that when that Branch breaks or that relationship changes or that voice

ceases to be in your ear you don’t know that you’ve got the power inside of yourself to encourage yourself I know it looks stupid but sometimes you got to lay hands on your own head you got to you you you you got to speak to yourself you got to encourage yourself you got to ignore all the ugly stuff and look for something that’s lovely and look for something that’s true and look for something that’s real and decide what you’re going to worry about and what you’re not going to worry about and make

it up in your mind I’m going to trust my wings even if the branch breaks now somebody say trust your wings baby trust your wings trust your wings you’re in a season where you got to trust your wings you got to trust your wings you got to trust that what God gave you is enough to handle whatever life throws at you you got to trust that he that has began a good work in you shall perform it until the day of Jesus Christ you got to trust that God is Not Just Alpha but Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last you got