God Knows When! – Bishop T.D. Jakes
God Knows When!
An America under siege. A world under strife. A people without hope. When uncertain and unpredictable events occur, we are weighed down with worry for where we’ll end up next. It’s no wonder that people have found themselves weeping, crying, and calling out to God for relief. But there’s an expiration date to your pain, for your laments will turn to laughter, you will dream again, and your captivity will be broken. No tears will be wasted, and no joy unpermitted when He turns your suffering into your salvation. Lord, guide us when we don’t know why — because you know when!
I’m excited.
I wanna touch and agree before I do anything else.
For those of you who have invested into the kingdom of God who have hooked the cables of your faith to the power of his promise expecting that there’ll be a transfer in the spirit world.
Wealth starts on the inside before it shows up on the outside.
Healing starts on the inside before it shows up on the outside.
You start being healed in your spirit before you’re healed in your body.
And I’m praying that there’ll be a connection and that this service will jump start your faith.
Let’s pray father in the name of Jesus. We thank you for your many blessings.
We thank you for your kindness. We thank you for your goodness and your peace and your power.
We thank you for your strength and your tenacity.
We thank you because your long suffering because you put up with us, bless every seed that’s sown and every seed that will be sown as people continue to log on, let the same anointing fall on their gift as it falls on ours.
We pray proactively. We bless what hadn’t even come yet.
We call it done in the name of Jesus, not just historically, not just contemporary, but proactively, we pray in advance practice shaking together and running over in the name of Jesus.
We pray somebody who loves him. I see a man again.
I’m anxious on this Sunday morning to share the word of the Lord with you.
I have been on a trajectory all through January.
We have been following the plight of the Hebrews in a captivity, drugged down into Babylon.
And I wanna pick up where I left off from last Sunday and go deeper into the word of God.
And if you wanna join me, go to Psalms 1 26 verse one through six.
So you can hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying to the church occasionally while I’m ministering, the prompter will come up giving latecomers an opportunity to sow into the kingdom of God so that you can step into this blessing that God has for His people.
When you haven’t seen it, would you stand for the reading of the word?
It is in the book of Psalms, 100 and 26th division starting at the first verse concluding at the sixth verse that we will find the canvas on which I will paint the text and the truths that God has shared with me regarding your life.
Let us start at verse one.
When the Lord turned again, the captivity of Zion, we would like them that dream.
Then with our mouths filled with laughter and our tongue was singing.
Then said them on the hand of the Lord have done great things for them.
Uh The Lord has done great things for us. Well, we are glad. Turn again our captivity.
Oh Lord. As the streams in the south, they that sow in tears shall reap enjoy it.
He may go forth that we bearing precious seed shall check this out. Doubtless.
Come again with rejoicing, bringing his shes with him. Can you say amen?
I wanna go back to that first verse. I wanna read that first verse again.
Psalms 1 26 and one. When the Lord turned again, the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
I read the whole thing, but I really didn’t need it. I didn’t need the whole verse.
I really wanna preach on the word.
When, when the Lord turned again, the captivity of Zion, we would like them to dream.
When the Lord turned again, the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Let us pray as we consider the subject. God knows when, say that with me.
God knows when, say it again. God knows when, say it again.
God knows when one more time that God knows. When let us pray. Father.
Thank you for the privilege on this Sunday morning that you have endowed us with the supernatural grace to conversate with divinity, to vocate up under the cloud of your anointing to have this precious moment to be saturated with truth in such a way that we are affected all week long because of what we heard today.
Now bind every devil and every distraction. When we’re home.
There could be all kinds of distraction, bind every distraction so that we can focus in and hear what the sayeth the Lord for in your hands are the words of eternal life.
I believe you’re for it In Jesus name. Some believers say amen, have a seat.
Then let’s discuss this word God knows when, when I read the text amidst the magnitude of powerful things, prolific things that stood out to me, it was the one word win that captivated me the most when the time capsule, when the ambiguity of it, when the uncertainty of it, when the promise of it, the Lord knows when is often an expression.
Uh like you say, the Lord knows when I’ll get back to Alabama.
The Lord knows when I’ll get back to the story. It, it it’s more of an expression.
But today, I want to use it more as a conviction.
I wanted to have more meaning than a casual American colloquialism.
I wanted to point to the fact that the Lord knows when is my conviction.
I want to discuss an absolute conviction with you and just something that you can really sink your teeth into the Lord knows when his knowledge and sense of timing has long been a discussion of theological worth that God knows is where we get omniscient God being all knowing, knowing everything from the beginning to the end that the Lord knows.
It is comforting to say the Lord knows when, especially when I don’t, it is important for us to understand the Lord knows when to this, to rebuke the tendency to believe that our lives are chaotic.
We turn on the television set every day and we don’t know what in the world we’re going to see.
We don’t know what’s going to happen. We don’t know what calamity is going to face.
There’s a feeling of uncertainty, there’s a pensiveness that’s in he and in our spirits right now sitting on the edge, not knowing what’s going to happen next to know and to remind yourself that God is omniscient and that God has a plan and he has a schedule and he has a sequence and he has a structure gives comfort whether he shares it with me or not.
For God often knows things that he chooses not to share.
Like parents don’t always share with the Children and Children don’t always tell their parents.
It is possible to have information and not es spouse, the information to you.
But the Lord knows when it’s like Children going on a ride and they’re in the back seat of the car and they keep saying to you, are we there yet yet?
They are comfortable to ride on the car. In the uncertainty of not knowing where they are in the journey.
They are confident because they know that their father or their mother has the wheel. Are we there yet?
I don’t know whether we’re there yet. I don’t know whether we’re at the end of suffering.
I don’t know whether we’re at the end of sacrifice. I don’t know whether we’re coming to harvest or not.
Are we there yet? But I do know who holds the wheel.
And as long as I know who holds the wheel, I’m not worried about where I am in the journey because I know before we got in the car, you had a plan, you had a map, you had a strategy, you had a timing and I’m going to wait on you, Jesus at one point tells his disciples.
He says, henceforth, I call you no longer servants but friends for a servant.
No, not what is ma to do. It is possible to serve God and not know wind.
It is possible to be your parents’ child and not know. Are we there yet?
It is possible to be going through a process of healing and know it’s coming but don’t know with.
But then win is also a promise because it, it lets me know that God has a win, that whatever I’m going through.
I will not always go through it that sooner or later.
God has set a date and God uh you didn’t hear you I don’t think you heard the power of what I said, God has a win.
He’s not making this up as he goes. He’s not just contemplating, he’s not just figuring out.
He’s not just responding to your moves, your attitudes and uh and the, the attacks of the enemy and the things your friends say about you.
God is not making it up as He goes, you are not at the mercy of your detractors, your critics, your haters.
You are only at the mercy of the timing of God.
And God knows when from the book of job, the oldest book of the Bible job says to us, the Lord knows the way that I take.
And when he has tried me, uh I shall come forth as you go.
I might not come forth today. I might not come forth tomorrow.
I may not even come forth next week or next month.
But when He has tried me, I shall not, I might not, I hope not.
I wish I shall come forth as go. I know how the story ends.
I will not burn in the purification of the fires that separate the draws from me forever.
I just don’t know how long I have to be in the fire to get all the things out of me, for me to be pure gold.
But I know when it’s over, I shall come forth as pure gold and every contaminant that would contaminate my worth of value will have burned off in the process.
But not me. Gold don’t burn, baby burns. Golden burn.
It may melt, it may become softened, but it will never burn because it’s gold.
So if God allows me, job says to put me in the fire for a while, he’s only trying to burn off those things that would weaken my value and I shall come forth as pure gold.
Now, I know job is not the first book in the chronological order of your Bible, but it is the oldest book in the Bible.
And from the book of Job to the last writing in the Book of Revelations, there’s a consistency of understanding, take a minute and look at revelations 28 through 11.
And the Bible says, and the angel of the church in Mina, unto the angel of the church in Mina, right?
These things say the first and the last which was dead and is alive.
I know that works and tribulation and poverty, but they are rich and I know the blasphemy of them would say they are Jews and are not but are of the synagogue of Satan fear and none of those things which thou shalt suffer.
Oh, I’m gonna say that again, fear and none of those things which thou shalt suffer.
Behold, the devil shall cast some of you in the prison that you may be tried and you shall have tribulation.
This is what I love. Ye shall have tribulation. 10 days.
Be thou faithful of the day. It’s the 10 days that gets me happy.
Maybe the 10 days doesn’t get you happy, but the 10 days gets me happy.
It’s good to know that before I get in it.
God has already given me a schedule to come out.
Somebody I don’t know who I’m talking to but you’re, you’re on your ninth day.
God is speaking without fear and none of those things without so suffer.
Behold, the devil should cast you in the prison, but you’re gonna be alright.
You should be tried but you’re gonna survive. You’re gonna have tribulation, but I put it on a calendar.
I got a timer on it.
Be thou faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life.
So from the first book of the Bible to the last book of the Bible, we see the same thing being said, the final words in revelations, declare he that has an ear.
Let him hear what the spirit say unto the church.
He that overcome and should not be hurt of the second death.
This is important for us to understand that from the very beginning to the last God has a watch, God has a watch and a timer is on it and it’s already set.
Solomon declares an Ecclesiastes to everything. There is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
If nothing is running chaotically, everything is on schedule, everything is on schedule. I said nothing is chaotic.
Everything is on schedule. You, you, you ought to write that down.
Everything is on schedule it where I’m right where I’m supposed to be, when I’m supposed to be going through what I’m supposed to go through at the time.
I’m supposed to go through it because God has a time and a season for every purpose under heaven.
It’s not enough. I want to know my purpose. Pastor, I don’t know my purpose.
Please pray for me that the Lord will show you your purpose. Don’t worry about your purpose.
Where about your season?
Because when you get in your season, your purpose will be clear.
And wherever there is purpose is gonna be timing and wherever there’s a timing, there will always be a win.
Somebody just type win, win, win, win, win, win.
God knows when God knows when God knows how God knows what, when the Lord turned again our captivity.
When we left off last week, we were weeping.
We had hug our halves by the willow trees and we have wept when we remembered Z and we learned how to live off of memories.
We were sustainable because we could remember days that were not this tough.
I was uh I was talking to my wife the other day and I told her, I said, uh just, just late at night and I said, I’m at camp running water.
She, she said, what are you talking about, I said I make camp running water.
She said, what do you mean? I said, I’m seven years old.
I at camp running water and I’m, uh, you think I’m here in Dallas?
But I at camp running water because I was thinking about where I came from.
I know how to live off of memories and all they had as they were drunk, shackled and chained, bleeding and ostracized and carried down down from Sweet Jerusalem.
Oh Je Je Je, the city of Salem peace.
They had left the city of peace and gone into the plague of adversity.
And not only did they leave, they did not leave up under their own auspices or on their own accord, but they were drug and chains by the Babylonians into captivity.
Last glances, looking back, they promised Jerusalem if I forget the, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
There ought to be some things that you refuse to forget.
And when they came down to the near the river of Euphrates and then they saw the willow trees and they hung their hops on the willow trees and they wept Jesus, wept.
All of us sweep.
There are times you go to a season a morning, a season of struggle to, to, to be transparent.
I’ve gone through seasons of weeping. Not, not, not a few minutes or an hour.
Seasons of weeping, seasons of weeping.
I can remember coming into the hospital room with my wife going up on the elevator to see her mother who was in the hospital and her mother expired and with my own two hands, I close mother’s eyes and I watched my wife turn into a ghost and the room was filled with agony and there’s our heart to interact with pain.
We could not believe that somebody is so strong, so vibrant, so tough, so full of life, so powerful.
My mother in law was the kind of woman you either liked her or you didn’t it?
She didn’t care which one you chose. How could she be going?
It was the first time that death has circled in, in recent years, so close and touch somebody that was a part of our lives and my wife was devastated.
And you know, if you know anything about losing anybody close to you, that’s not the kind of thing you shake off in a week or a month, you don’t shake that off in three months.
That devastation continued and continued and continued and I had to preach with it and we had to go to church with it and then we had cameras in our face with it and just when it was starting to ease up a little bit, my mother took sick and got worse and worse and worse and died with us.
Holding on to her gasp her last breath, she was gone.
And I wondered how in the world could I be anointed?
And used of you and seeing people heal in my services and you not heal. My mother.
I remember preaching in this very church, going to the hospital wet and laying my body on top of hers and praying for her.
And she still died.
My best friend in the world, we were closer than two peas in a tiny pod.
She died before I could get over. My mother in law.
My mother died and then my daughter came in the room and told me she was pregnant and it was a season we have, you had gone through a season, are weeping that before you can get out of this.
Here comes something else and your heart is overwhelmed and you smile in front of people as best as you can.
But you go home, please, please let me go home so I can go back to being real because I’m tired of faking the smile.
And I only told you I was doing ok because I knew it was nothing you could do about it anyway.
And let me go back to my weeping and we wept when we left off.
Last week, the Children of Israel, we’re in a season of weeping and bleeding her suffering and they’d hung their hearts by the willow trees and they wept.
They asked them to sing. How can you sing?
The Lord sung in a strange land.
And people are, people honestly want you to perform like you haven’t been through what you’ve been through.
But there is a degree of pain that comes so strong that you have to shut down everything.
There is some discomfort you can still function through.
But there is a level of sorrow that is so grotesque and so obvious and so profound and so demonstrative that it was such a how can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
They hung their hearts about the willow trees and all we could hear was nothing, nothing but weeping.
There is a crime that engulfs the soul.
There wants a spirit that takes you to a place where you wonder will I ever, y’all don’t know what I’m talking about.
I wish I could talk to somebody who was real with me because I get sick of church folks.
Sometimes, sometimes they’ll catch you in your grief and in your season of pain and they’re in their season of progress.
And they looked at a child. If you just believe God, everything will be all right.
If you just walk in faith and claim, shut up, you’re in spring, I’m in the winter.
Shut up. You don’t have no coat on because it’s not cold on your side of the world.
But over here we’re in the season of weeping and they work a long time and it worked a long time and I had to come back and preach this part of it to let you know that there is a time after you have suffered a while and cried a while and been empty a while and been plagued a while and been lonely a while and been frustrated a while and been without a while and had been denied a while.
There is a place that comes along after you’ve been confused a while after you’ve been in anguish a while after you’ve been to in a while.
There is a win win when there is a time my brothers and sisters that God just said enough.
I don’t know who I’m preaching to today, but the Holy Ghost said enough.
I don’t know who this message is for. But God said enough.
You’ve been in a season of hell and high water. But the spirit just said enough is enough.
You’re coming into a wind and you’re coming into a release and you’re coming into a breakthrough.
If you think that I might be preaching to you, give him a crazy praise right now.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that’s for me, that’s for me. That’s for me.
I claim it for mine. I reach up and grab it.
God just said it now, here you go.
When God said enough, I checked it on my watch and I saw that God had a time to bring me out of my weeping.
God has a time already set aside. Didn’t you hear the bell ring? Did you?
Did you not hear that alarm go off? Did you not hear that? Weeping may endure for a night?
But joy comes in the morning. Do you not know that God has a win?
God had a point in their suffering in Babylonian captivity that God said. That’s enough.
I let you be drugged out of your own land. I let you be drugged down and shackled like animals.
I let your men be castrated and your men be red.
Your women be raped and I let you weep by the willow trees and I did nothing to stop it.
But I did keep my eye on the watch.
And when the Lord turn to our captivity, the, the writer here, when he writes about the Lord turning our captivity, he does not have access to all the things that God had to do to turn their captivity around.
The fall of Babylon denotes the end of the Neo Babylonian Empire.
I think it was conquered by a, by the Arcadian Empire. It was, it was conquered.
Wait, wait, I want you to see this. The people who conquered Jerusalem got conquered, right?
See the, the, the the Archimedes were Persians.
They were nomadic Persians that after 70 years of Babylonian captivity, they came in and conquered the conquerors.
See, sometimes God’s got you on hold because he’s getting another group ready to come in and deal with your enemies.
God has a way of getting justice out of the chaos in your life.
And the Babylonians were sitting around bragging and poking fun and telling them to sing and dance for us.
And while they were playing with him, God was raising up the Persians to over to the empire in 5 39 BC.
God said enough and all of a sudden everything began to change and God used a young man who was the son of a princess to come in.
The young man was Lasha bu and he comes in and God uses him to wreak havoc.
And the Babylonians who thought they couldn’t be brought down.
God brought down, listen, America, be very careful.
The Babylonian Empire came down, the Roman Empire came down, the kite empire came down.
Don’t you get high minded and think that we cannot come down.
We got to be careful what we let go on and what we let happen in this country because it is possible history teaches us that kingdoms fall, nations fall.
Empires cross. The Babylonians thought they couldn’t be taken.
They thought they were bad but the Pis came up and they brought the whole empire down Babylon.
Not Babylon. Babylon’s name goes back to the tower of Babel, but God still brought them down.
Not Babylon. Babylon comes out of the Old Testament Mesopotamia.
The new word we would have would be right, not them, but God brought them down.
God can bring you. He could shut it down.
That’s why you got to live with a certain amount of humility.
I don’t care how many skyscrapers you be or how many jets you own, how strong your technology.
God don’t care nothing about none of that.
When God gets ready to shut you down, he shut down the, oh, wow.
With a virus we can’t even see. And not one atomic bomb. Did anybody any good? Not one supersonic jet.
Did anybody any good? Not IBM. Not Z ros, not Google. Not, nobody could do anything about it.
God used something. We never even thought of a bug from a bird.
Shut down the planet.
You don’t know what God’s going to fight with, but I declare God’s gonna get you out of this.
Uh oh You didn’t hear what I said. I feel like dancing right where I stand.
You don’t know who God’s going to use, but God’s going to get you out of this.
He doesn’t have to use the deacons and the church mothers and the intercessors and the deep and the bishops and the prayer war.
When God gets ready to use you, he can bring an idolater, he could bring a horn. Moger.
God has a way of using stuff that you never even thought about. He’ll use a jawbone of an ass.
He’ll lose two fish and five.
When God says it enough, he’ll use whatever he wants to use.
He’ll use anybody. He wants to use, he’ll touch anybody, he wants to touch.
He’ll use a hole like Ham.
When God says enough, he’ll let a nation that you should be able to beat, beat you.
He’ll let a I conquer you.
Even after you conquer, I came in when God gets ready to bring you out, he’ll use anything and all of a sudden he begin to turn everything around.
Babylon was some place that they thought would never be destroyed. Babylon was strong and fierce.
Babylon was posted by the rivers of the Euphrates. It started out as a small port.
It grew into a great empire.
They were ruling and conquering and taking over, but they messed around and they took God’s Children down into power and when God got sick of it, he brought it to an end and he stopped it and battle on is ripping what they sold, Fred down by myself over evil doers and how they prosper in their own way.
Sooner or later. God will cause them to rip what they sold. You might be outnumbered.
They may have more money, they may have more contacts.
But when God gets ready to bring you out, he will bring you.
Uh I don’t know who I’m preaching to, but I feel like I’m talking to somebody.
If I’m talking to you just type win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win.
When the Lord turned again our captivity, we would like them to dream.
In one moment, the weeping turned to laughter.
Then with our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue was singing.
The very people who were hanging, hanging their hearts by the will of trees and weeping.
When they remembered Zia are now giggling and laughing because God has a wind.
I am telling all of you that are suffering and all of you that are in agony and all of you that are secretly suicidal and all of you that are depressed, don’t get too used to being depressed, don’t get too used to being down because God owns a wind.
And when God says when he will bring it to an end and the same lips that quivered with tears and the same face that cried itself to sleep and the same person who rolled over and over in agony and couldn’t rest at night.
God will make you burst out and start laughing when the turned again our captivity.
It was like a dream.
These people hadn’t been free in so long that free didn’t seem normal.
Have you ever been denied something so long that you got used to not having it?
Have you ever been alone so long that you stopped being lonely?
Have you ever been in a crisis so long that it became your norm?
When the Lord turned again our captivity, it was like a dream.
And the Holy Spirit told me to tell you you’re gonna dream again when I get to bringing you out, you’re gonna be scared to believe it.
It’s gonna seem like it’s somebody else. When I open up a door for you, it’s gonna blow your mind.
When I set you free. You’re gonna say is that me? I don’t know what to think about it.
Is this my house? Could this be my job? Could this be my husband? Is that my wife?
You mean you would do that for me?
God said, I’m going to bless you so you will have to pinch yourself. Oh, get ready to pinch yourself.
God said, I’ll blow your mind. I’ll cause you to prosper.
The contracts will close, the property will sell, the door will open, the mountain will move, the yolk will be broken.
The enemy defeated when the Lord turned again, when he turned, when he turned, God got to turn and he did something in heaven and it hit the earth realm.
He did something in heaven and God raised up somebody who didn’t even know me to deliver me.
When the Lord turned again our captivity, we would like them that dream. It was hard to believe.
Then with our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue was singing.
I want somebody to just start laughing right now. I want you to practice your laugh.
I want you to practice your laugh. I want you to practice your laugh.
It’s not going to seem like a laugh right now.
But I want you to start practicing your laugh because God said, I’m gonna make you laugh again.
You’re gonna get right up in the devil’s face and laugh.
You’re gonna get right up in the face of the Babylonians and go to laugh and you thought I’d never laugh again.
Check this out, check this out sickness of cancer, leukemia COVID.
You thought you had me. I like to die.
God said, I’m gonna fill your mouth with laughter and your tongue was singing.
And all of a sudden I am going to bless you so good that even the unbelievers are going to say, the Lord have done great things for them.
I’m going to bless you so good that you’re not gonna be able to hide it.
I’m gonna bless you so good that unbelievers are gonna be standing there with their mouth hanging open and shock.
The bible said, the heather said, the Lord have done great things for them and they agreed with the heather and said, the Lord had done great things for us where we are glad.
I pray a spirit of gladness, father right now in the name of Jesus, I pray a spirit of gladness against every spirit of heaviness and every spirit of forlorn and every spirit of frustration and every spirit of defeatism and every spirit of agony and every spirit of witchcraft and every spirit of evil and every spirit of death and every spirit of mourning.
I pray a spirit of gladness would break out right now.
Somebody is going to start laughing in the holy ghost.
You started up crying, but you’re going to end up laughing.
God’s going to give you a belly laughter, a laughter down in your spirit and down in your soul.
Open your mouth and make a joy for doing it.
Open your mouth and make a joy for the, open your mouth and make a joy for the, make a joy for no, make a joy for no.
Make a joy for the, make a die, die for joy, for die for.
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, dude.
Our joy is how we draw water from the wells of salvation.
Why did you let the devil have your joy?
It’s time to reach in there and get your joy back, reach in there and get your smile back, reach it there and get your peace back, reach in there and get your power back, reach in there and get your happy place back then with our mouth, feel with laughter and the tongue was singing you because suddenly I got to see it.
The Lord, I saw the end of my suffering.
I saw the end of it. You’re gonna see the end of it.
You’re gonna see the end of it.
It’s a tough period right now, but you’re gonna see the end of it.
All of those things I listed that I suffered. I live to see the end of it.
I live to see it turn around. I live to see it come out weeping may endure for a night.
But joy comes in the morning. You’re going through a season.
But if you hold on, you’re going to see the end of it.
The Lord have done great things for us. Have you thought about that lately?
Have you ever had to remind yourself how blessed you were that the Lord has done great things for us.
You know, it’s the enemy’s job to always show you the negative.
But you got to count up the positive and say, you know what?
It’s not as bad as I think it is.
The Lord has done great things for us and I’m going to go ahead and be glad I give you permission to be glad I give you permission to have joy.
I give you permission to get your smile back. I give you permission to get your praise back.
I give you permission. Some of you have not had permission.
You’ve been locked up, you’ve been shackled down, you’ve been bow, you’ve been held captive by a spirit of defeatism, but I break you loose and I give you permission right now.
I break every part of your spirit. We’re off.
We are glad we are glad, turn again our captivity as you did the streams in the south, turn it absolutely around until I look schizophrenic, turn it around until they think I’ve lost my mind.
Turn it around until the last time you saw me, I was laying down crying like this and you thought I would never get by.
And when you come back in the door, I’m laughing and dancing and shouting and pray, God will turn it around.
He turned our captivity around and then the writer says that you can’t handle it.
The writer reveals that the tears, we’re never tears at all.
It was how God irrigated the seeds are so that not one tear was wasted for every tear I shed.
I wanted a promise and they that so in tears shall I reap enjoy not to all of you that I’m preaching to who have not gone through any dark places.
This is not your Sunday. You can go ahead and log off because this Sunday, I’m talking to people who have been to hell and back.
I’m talking to people who have dealt with things. They could say nothing about.
I’m talking to people who have grown within themselves.
And I’m telling you it was not without cause they, that soul in tears shall, shall, shall, shall reap enjoy it.
I tell you, it’s gonna be schizophrenia.
You’re gonna be sowing in tears and reap it in joy.
You gonna sow it in suffering, you gonna reap it in dancing, you’re gonna sow it in pain, you’re gonna reap it in purpose.
You’re gonna sow it in agony. You’re gonna reap it in power.
God is getting ready to bring us into the fruition.
And you know how I know because all hell is breaking loose.
That’s how I know it because things that you’ve never seen before are starting to happen because we are seeing devils being loosed out of the pits of hell to come against us right now.
The devil wouldn’t be fighting us if there weren’t something on the other side of this.
And I don’t know what you to do about it, but I’m going to hold on.
I’m going to hold on. It’s tough, but I’m going to hold on.
I’m tired, but I’m going to hold on. I get frustrated, but I’m going to hold on.
I grow, but I’m going to hold on. I cry, but I’m going to hold on.
God wouldn’t be letting this happen if there was something on the other side of this that was so strong that hell is nervous and demons are trembling and Satan has opened up the windows of hell and he sent out all kinds of demons to try to discourage us.
But I’m going to stand, I’m gonna stand until I see a return on every teardrop until I see a return on every night.
I stayed awake until I see a return on every night.
I felt alienated and alone thing that so in tears shall reap in joy.
And then he says he then go forth and wee bearing precious seed shall doubtless.
That’s the word. Doubt. He didn’t say you might come forth with rejoicing. He said, you will doubtless.
Come again with rejoicing.
Look at this, you left bleeding, you left weeping, you’re left suffering.
He said, but when you come back, when you come back, you will be bringing your sheaves with you, press down, shaking together and running over, they came back better than they left and I wanna share with you when God says when there is a place that God just speaks a word and he just turns it all around.
I don’t know whether it’s gonna be Thursday or Wednesday.
I don’t know whether it’s gonna be Friday or next Monday.
I don’t know whether it’s gonna be March or July.
God knows when all I know is I’m waiting on my way.
I’m waiting on my win and when the Lord turns again my captivity, I am not gonna sit there like some of you high minded, fanciful, self, righteous people and act like I have not been waiting on this.
I am gonna praise him like an embassy. I am gonna praise him like an idiot.
I am going to dance like I lost my mind.
I am gonna take my glasses off and shake my head like I’m in a rock band, I’m gonna walk the floor and dance and praise the Lord.
I am gonna be a fool for the Lord because anybody who’s been through, what I’ve been through.
I earned the right to make some noise. I am going to get on your nerves.
I am going to shout the shout of victory. I am going to lift my boy like a trumpet.
I am going to shout him in God. I earned the right to praise him in the right today.
Laugh all you want to. But until you cry like me, you can’t shout like me until you suffer like me.
You can’t rejoice like me until you’ve grown like me.
You can’t dance a victory like me type it right now. I earn this praise.
I earn this praise. You can roll your eyes. All you want to. You can talk about me.
If you will, you can send a text out, you can write a blog. But I earn this praise.
I earned this blessing. I earned this car. I earned this house. I earned this smile. I earned this life.
I earned it. I earned it.
I earned it because I was faithful when I was hurting and because I held on when I was bleeding, I ain’t going to let nobody talk me out of my praise.
No, no, no, no, hell no.
When God says when and now I’m not going to rejoice because I’m afraid of getting on your nerves.
I want to get on your nerves.
I fully plan to get on your nerves because God has a win for me.
He has a win. He has a win that’s got my name on it.
He has a win that’s already established. And I want every devil to know.
You can’t keep me in captivity, do whatever you gotta do, but you can’t keep me in captivity.
Not when God has a win, it might not come when I wanted it, it might not come when I thought it was fair and when it was right and it might not happen when I, when I thought I deserved it.
But God knows when. Got no sweat.
God knows where.
So having done all the staff, I’m gonna stand here with my loins curd about with truth.
You know where I’m gonna stand because God knows where.
As I come to the close of this message, I wanna remind you the cardinals when though the storms are raging and the wind is blowing.
God knows when and you think you can’t take it anymore.
Got no way. So all you gotta do in the meantime is stand.
Yeah.
Just you don’t need the answer.
Just stand.
Stand deserves friends.
Turn away. You’re wrong, don’t you give up now? Don’t you give up?
Yeah. When you like you just left.
Watch the Lord. See, yes.
After you’ve done all you can, after you done all you can, you just, you are a, you ought to tell them because some folks don’t believe it and they’re ready to give up and listen the cut eye Oh, tell me how, deal with the shame.
Oh, can you while your heart has been broken?
Tell, tell, tell when you’ve done all you can and it seems like you can make it through.
Don’t you give up now? I, that’s all you got to move.
That’s your homework. Oh, pa, pa, pa, pa, you just stay.
You say, I don’t know what to do. I’m telling you.
I’m telling you, you just stay in the middle of the storm. You stand.
I want to pray for somebody.
It feels like you can’t make it.
I’m not judging you because I felt like that too.
I wanna pray for somebody who felt like quitting because I felt that too.
I want to pray for somebody who says, where is God? Now?
I said that too.
I want to pray for somebody whose faith is in a crisis because she’d been through so much pain.
He said, how could he love me and let me suffer like this.
God knows when God knows how God knows who God knows what I wanna pray for you because I know what it’s like to have a pain that they don’t have a pill for Yeah, to have an ape that cannot be elasticized.
I understand what it’s like to be in such a complex, confusing situation that you think you’re gonna die in Babylon, but he’s coming to get you and you’re gonna come back with your sheaves and you will get through this.
I said you will get through this. You will get through this.
You will, you will, you will call on his father in the name of Jesus.
I thank you for your power.
Strength of the fee will need and lift, lift up the bow down head.
Give courage to the person.
That’s about the fate, pouring the oil and the wine on the wounds that we have, that ache late at night in our souls.
And we feel like we messed up so bad and we lost so much time.
That is there anything salvageable at all? They were in captivity? 70 years. That’s a long time.
But when the Lord turned again their captivity, it was like a dream.
Your win is coming.
I pray for you right now in the name of Jesus that you will bow and you won’t break that.
You’ll stand firm on the gospel of God, what everything said and everything’s done and all the haters have hated and the Spectators have spectated that you’ll stand up and start laughing until hell, I’m back.
I’m back. I went away for a while, but I’m back.
I got my grip back. I got my faith back.
I got myself back because I discovered that God no swim.
If this is your word.
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Our prayer warriors are designated and anointed to help you get the breakthrough over the specificity of the things that you are agonizing about right now.
If this is your word and it spoke to you and it loose your creativity and your innovation and you’re ready to dream again and build again and birth again and start a business and write a book and open up a company And all of a sudden you feel motivated again so into this world, that’s my word.
I’m going to sow into it. I’m going to own it. I don’t care what nobody else does.
That was my word are so intuitive and you laugh right now.
But when I come back, bringing my shoes, you’ll see who’s last in. Yeah.
You’ve been saying that for years.
I don’t care how long I’ve been saying, God knows when and it will come to pass this Sunday morning.
I bless you. I bless your feet to stand. I bless your ankles to be firm.
I bless your back to be straight and you had to be high. What?
Tell them what to do. Tell them what to do.
Believe God will shot for win.
Been for you says when
- The Blessings of Being Imprisoned | Jonathan Cahn SermonTháng chín 10, 2023