Don’t Be Your Own Enemy (TD Jakes, Motivation Clinic) Motivational Sermon

Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..

Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

The demons could talk but they couldn’t stop him from running.
So pain to pain therapy is when people try to treat their own pain and they treat the pain on the inside by creating pain on the outside.
And any time you see people with marks on their arms, they’re not crazy.
They’re cutting themselves to distract themselves from the pain that they have on the inside and the pain on the inside.
God is so great that they start distracting themselves with pain on the inside and they are called cutters.
This type of reality exists whether you cut yourself physically or you cut yourself mentally.
The reason that you’re cutting yourself is pain to pain therapy.
You’re fighting fire with fire is self mutilation, is self sabotaging behavior.
You could have been out but you cut yourself.
You could have been further but you cut yourself, you could have been more successful but you cut yourself because you don’t feel worthy on the inside.
You reject prosperity on the outside and every time something intimidates you, you cut yourself back. I’m too fat.
I’m too dumb. I’m too stupid. I’m too ugly. I can’t do a photo shoot. I don’t like my pictures.
I don’t like the way I look.
I don’t like who I, you might as well take a razor and start cutting your arm because you are cutting yourself.
And the reason the enemy wants you to do it is that you make his job easier.
He’s using you against you to destroy you.
And there, the man is shut up in the tomb cutting himself and he can’t stop cutting himself every time you get a chance to go up, you talk down every time you get a chance to have better.
You say I just don’t need all that. It just don’t require all that. It don’t take all that.
What you are doing is cutting yourself.
But when the boat docked and Jesus stepped off the boat before he could get both feet on dry ground, the man came running to Jesus, slap your neighbor and say, run, run, run away from self sabotage, run away from self destruction, run away from the way you talk to yourself, run away from canceling out your pain with more pain.
You had a bad man, you go get a worse man.
You had a wife beater, you get another wife beater.
It’s pain to pain therapy because you don’t feel worthy of good treatment.
When a good man comes into your life, I just don’t like him. You’re cutting yourself.
If you are tired from running with short legged humans, don’t sign up in a horse race because you don’t have the strength to play on that level.
When you say to God, I’m sick of this. I can’t handle this.
You, you’re saying I can’t handle promotion because if the footman wore you out, I don’t care how much you admire horses ain’t no need in.
You signing up to get into a horse race until you master the footman race.
You don’t get into the horse race. And here’s the problem.
We got people who want promotion with our process.
They want promotion without process because the reason they want promotion is because they have no self esteem.
So they need crowd esteem to feel good about themselves.
And they think that if they get promoted high enough, then people will like them and then maybe they’ll like themselves.
You got it backwards. You gotta like yourself first.
Are you following what I’m saying?
And then you’re gonna be excellent at what you’re gonna do and then you find greatness when you have maximized smallness.
If you’re weary with smallness and you’re tired all the time and you can’t focus.
What are you gonna do with greatness? You’re asking for more and you haven’t mastered less.
The Bible said, if you are faithful over a few things, then I will make you ruler over many and you’re trying to be ruler over many and you haven’t been faithful over a few.
You’re so barely reaching out to your future that you are neglecting what you have been given right now.
Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. I just felt somebody’s toes up under my foot right now.
You are so busy trying to progress that you are neglecting where you are. That’s not how you progress.
You master where you are and then you get promoted to where you’re going.
You don’t neglect where you are trying to reach out to where you’re going because if you are sloppy yesterday, you’re gonna be sloppy today and you’re gonna be sloppy forever more.
If you learn how to do great things in a small place, you’re gonna do great things in a larger place and you’re gonna be great over here.
The reason you’re not getting the promotion is because you won’t make the practice.
You cannot play the Super Bowl.
If you don’t make the practice, you cannot get the prize for winning the Olympics.
If you don’t make the practice, if you don’t see God’s glory in rehearsal, you won’t see God’s glory in recital.
Now, the recital is that wonderful, big, sexy, amazing thing where everybody claps when you perform and the rehearsal is that private, boring, painful thing where you struggle to get it together and there’s nobody there to clap at all.
Can you play without clapping?
This is a problem to all of you that are building and believing and really have a purpose and you really feel the pull of destiny.
You need to be patient with the process and not enthralled with the promise you want the rudiments of success and that’s what’s killing you.
You compromise the rehearsal time and bought the Tuxedo for the recital.
Now, you look like something that you’re not.
Somebody say wrong focus.
Could it be possible that your life is stagnated because you have an attention deficit?
You didn’t give the attention to it that it takes to win it.
That doesn’t mean that you aren’t called to it.
It means that you are starving your destiny of the attention that it needs for you to progress.
Jesus was fully committed. He picked people who were committed everybody.
Jesus called the ministry was working. He didn’t pick nobody who was laid off, needed a job.
He interrupted people who were working at something and said, if you follow me, I’m gonna take you to the next dimension.
You see the next dimension isn’t foreign from this dimension.
It’s an escalation of a process that was already in motion.
Peter, you’ve been casting your nets out here and catching fish.
You have been teaching other fishermen how to catch fish. I’m getting ready to make you fishers of men.
The results will be different, the effort will be different, but the process is still the same.
You’re still gonna be teaching other people, you’re still gonna be throwing out your net.
You’re still gonna be bringing in the drought.
But instead of catching fish, you’re gonna catch souls your future is in some way kin to your past.
Oh, y’all ain’t gonna talk to me today.
Everything you are going to be, you already are in another form.
You are the acorn of an oak tree.
Acorn doesn’t look anything like an oak tree.
It doesn’t remotely look like it would ever have branches and leaves and be productive.
It’s just a, a nut. Acorn is a nut.
But everything that an oak tree is is in the acorn even though it hadn’t shaped out yet.
So everything that the acorn will ever be is already in that nut and everything that you will ever be is already in you right now.
And the best people to be around are people who see it in you.
Even though you don’t look like a tree yet, I’m looking for somebody who sees a tree in my nut.
All of that was in me all the time while you were stepping over me and stepping around me and stepping past me.
All that you see coming out of me now was in me. When you said, I looked like a nut.
Somebody hold a destiny.
Destiny will bring the tree out of you. Destiny will bring the tree out of your nut.
What’s in your nut? Listen to this.
It’s not just that people step over you when you’re in that acorn stage, sometimes you step over you because you’re so busy trying to compete with the trees that you haven’t gone through the process of the acorn.
Give it some time, give it some water, give it some sun, give it some focus and you’ll reap a harvest and you’ll go through a process all of a sudden, you gotta look at that.
All of that is coming up out of the nut.
It’s not what it’s gonna be, but it’s not what it used to be until you can clap for the seedling.
You will never see the tree until you can appreciate the process.
You will never get to the pro some of you have a life.
You have a business, you have a company, you have a family, you have an identity that is in seedling form.
You’re not the nut you used to be, but you’re not in the tree, you’re gonna be.
But until you learn how to appreciate where you are in the process, you won’t get the power to evolve to your ultimate destiny.
This is motivation clinics, team commentary on today’s topic, controlling your emotions, doesn’t mean you don’t express yourself.
It means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.
The fear of failure is a well known obstacle that holds us from achieving our dreams.
This fear discourages people from exploring new opportunities and taking risks. Personally, I have never had success with dieting.
So I avoided it altogether. Additionally, I used to dismiss the idea of getting a gym membership.
I realized that it wasn’t that I didn’t like the two.
The truth was I didn’t like to commit because of the fear of failure.
Let me tell you something, the world is not really against you.
The only thing that’s against you is yourself.
If you start from today, seeing yourself as a successful person and doing the work that comes with it, your whole life will change in the next six months.
Engaging in self sabotage is a form of psychological self harm.
For example, when you hold the belief that you don’t deserve love, this belief causes you to unconsciously create situations where you push people away.
This behavior is ultimately harmful to you.
However, once you recognize and embrace the fact that you are indeed deserving of love, you will find the courage to open your heart and love others generously special thanks to Bishop T D Jakes, thanks for watching motivation clinics videos to anyone in a difficult situation right now, we are sending you our prayers.
Don’t forget to keep the faith things will turn out fine.
See you in the next episode.