Don’t Let the Chatter Stop You Part 1

Get ready for a stirring T.D. Jakes sermon that will help you focus on your purpose and see opportunity in your adversity.

In his message, “Don’t Let the Chatter Stop You,” T.D. Jakes uses the life of Moses to illustrate how God uses both our ups and downs to lead us into our destiny.

Moses didn’t just step into his God-ordained purpose. He had a long and difficult road, one filled with conflict and confusion. He was born a Hebrew but raised as an Egyptian. When he finally felt compelled to choose sides, the Hebrews rejected him, and he was run out of town.

T.D. Jakes points out that the fight between the Egyptian and Hebrew slave where Moses intervened represents his own internal conflict — a conflict between who he was born to be and how he was raised. Moses felt sure that he was doing what he was supposed to do, yet he faced major obstacles and pushback.

Don’t litigate over how much you have a right to have what I got because until you suffered what I suffered.
Float it through what I floated through. Survive what I survived.
Don’t don’t be frustrated because some princess pulled me out the water and and put me in the palace.
If you weren’t gonna float down with the alligators, then don’t complain about me eating in the palace.
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The message today is don’t let the chatter stop you.
I cannot tell you how many people tweeted me at bishopjakes to tell me This message blessed them in a powerful way when I preached it because so many people are distracted by the chatter around them to the point that they cannot focus on the goal before them.
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Now Moses is a grown man. We we are seeing him close to forty years old.
He’s a grown man. He’s blessed. He got things he wouldn’t have gotten any other way.
Education, by the Egyptians. The Egyptian culture, we are still studying.
Their advancement in technology is still intimidating even to modern scientists today.
Their architectural abilities have caused people to travel for miles to study the pyramids Moses was exposed to that in a way he would have never been exposed had he not gone through the adversity in his house He would have never been exposed to the opportunity, adversity, opportunity, adversity, opportunity, every time he had an adversity, he had an opportunity.
He’s forty years old, and he’s got the opportunities that people would kill for.
Got the opportunities that other people would have died for, got to go places and do things and understand things that had he stayed in the house He started in.
He would have never gotten. All he would have known how to do was make bricks without straw.
But god pulled him out And sometimes when god pulls you out of your natural environment, it’s painful.
Yes. You suffer a lot. He didn’t pull you out to kill you.
He pulled you out to bless you. Now he’s forty. He’s near forty years old.
And he’s blessed. He’s blessed. He’s educated. He’s articulate. He’s intelligent. He’s bilingual. He’s blessed.
But he’s, uh, confused. I mean, as well.
You can oh, lord, I wish I had time.
You can be blessed and still be confused.
He’s all dressed up and confused.
He’s a grown man with little boy issues, struggling and suffering on the inside and walking around and all of the Egyptian capes and all dressed up like he’s a prince.
He he looks like a prince, but he’s not He he’s he’s a Hebrew by blood, but he’s not.
He’s neither Egyptian nor Hebrew. He’s he’s stuck in the middle, and he looks out the window, and he sees 2 men fighting, a Hebrew and an Egyptian fighting.
What he sees on the outside is a reflection of what’s going on on the inside.
If I say nothing else this morning, I have said it all because if you can grasp what I just said, then you realize that what you see on the outside is a reflection of what is going on on the inside.
What you see on the outside. I wish I had times since to really work that.
I was sitting with a bunch of psychologists, and they were they were counseling a woman that was saying that she’d been contemplating suicide.
And the psychologist said, oh, no. No. She’s not gonna commit suicide.
I said, how can you say that with such absolutenants? They they said her hair is comb.
She she she brushed her teeth.
Her clothes are pressed.
What you see on the outside is a reflection of what’s going on on the inside Do do you hear what I’m saying?
There’s fighting on the outside because it’s fighting on the inside.
I’m a drill into that a little bit.
Interesting point in 35 years of counseling people, I’ve counseled all kinds of angry men.
I’ve counseled men who beat their how many beat them beat them mercilessly hit them in the head with skillets and wrenches and stuff like that through hot oil on them, all kinds of stuff in life.
But I never saw a man who beat his wife and liked himself.
What you see on the outside is the reflection of the conflict on the inside.
And I could go home now.
If because because if you did that
talk justice, you could spend the next 24 hours going through your life, saying what do you see?
Going through the trunk of your car, through your garage, through your house, what you see on the outside is a reflection of what’s going on and inside.
If you’re happy to live in clutter, I’m not gonna bother you I’m not gonna bother you.
Now we all have to live in it, but if you’re happy to live in clutter, if you’re comfortable and it doesn’t bother you, maybe it doesn’t bother you because what you see He sees the fighting on the outside It’s a reflection of the fight on the inside.
He raises his hand to stop it.
He’s trying to stop it in them so he can stop it in him.
The fight on the outside forced him to confront the conflict on the inside.
All of us said he’s been conflicted for 40 years, but some circumstances arose in his life that brought to the surface the inner conflict that he has in his soul.
And he rises up because now, faced with a Hebrew and Egyptian he now has to choose whose side are you on?
40 years have not demanded that he make a choice, but one incident has pushed his emotions to the surface.
Do you choose your conditioning or your pedigree?
Now he chooses his background, his heritage, and he kills an Egyptian.
Killed an Egyptian and buries him in the sand looking to the left or the right, he sees nobody and buries it in his hand.
24 hours later, what he sees on the outside is totally different from what he saw yesterday.
He does not see an Egyptian and a Hebrew fighting because he’s made the choice Oh.
Only to find out that there’s still conflict Oh.
That the Hebrews are fighting and he rises up to solve it.
Now this this is the the what what when a woman is birthing a baby, they call it crowning.
When the head first comes out, the head is the first thing to come out.
You hear the nurse say is crowning. His greatness is crowning.
His greatness is crowning, but he’s crowning at a time that he is not positionally in a place to function on the level that he’s able to think on.
Alright. So he’s he’s functioning like a king, but he is not a king.
And so you you got an internal conflict that has now gone external thing with me, church, One of the things I love about preaching at the potter’s house is that you are a thinking people.
I cannot pastor people who do not think I’m allergic to them.
They make me itch to deliver me from stupid people just I might add the line to the lowest prayer, deliverance from evil and stupid people.
Just I’m just gonna insert it right in the Did it take me out of the chase of her?
Have you ever had an argument with the full You lose all interest in the argument when you find out that you are not even intelligent enough to debate me on this level, and you start saying, that’s okay.
Don’t even worry about it. It’s all good, baby. Just chill. Wrong with the music, honey.
It’s alright. It don’t even matter. Talk to the hand. Yeah. Yeah.
He’s in a dilemma now, and he is fighting. He he is fighting. His greatness is coming out. It’s crowning.
And when greatness crowns, it creates conflict because it does not crown in when you have been placed in the position, it crowns before.
You’re rich before you got the money.
You’re educated before you got the degree. You’re a preacher before they ordain you.
You’re a leader before you get the job. You’re a visionary before you become a CEO.
You’re a wife before you get married. You’re a husband before you find a woman.
If you’re not that before, you won’t be after.
So you have to go through a period of displacement where you have vision to function on a level and don’t have opportunity, which creates frustration.
Yes. It does. Yes. It does.
Because you say, I feel this with everything I got inside of me, but nothing outside has acknowledged me on the level that I think on it, and you don’t feel appreciated because your thoughts are up here and your situation.
Woo. Do you hear what I’m saying to you?
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I had no idea I was even important enough to be hated on the level I was hated on.
I couldn’t even defend myself because I was shocked that you cared enough to write anything about me.
Who am I that you would care anyway, your hatred of me helped to tutor me and to understanding my own significance y’all know.
You’re what I’m saying. What do you do with the fire that will not go?
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I got the pain, but I got the passion too. I got the them, but I got the passion too.
I got a little chatter going on, but I still got the passion. Life is gonna hand something every day.
Take in what you can get out of it.
Let go on what you can get out of it, but don’t let anybody hurt you so bad.
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No. No. No.
Look at the conflict for a minute.
If it were not enough conflict to be a he a Egyptian speaking Hebrew, a cultural conflict with an unresolved childhood.
Now god is bringing greatness out of a man who doesn’t have a position a weaker person with a blender brains out.
Yeah. And so this this is just crazy. This doesn’t make any sense. Some of y’all are there right now.
Your life does not make any sense.
You’re in the middle of your life, and it doesn’t make any sense because you got thoughts over here, but your situation is over here.
And you’re still trying to work out some stuff from your childhood, but you’re a grown man.
Praise the lord. And you’re in this situation and and you’re trying to fix people around you while you’re still conflicted on the inside.
And you wonder how can the physician be sick? How can the healer be broken?
How how can I help other people and can’t help myself?
How can I, oh, god, help me to preach this thing? Am I talking to anybody today?
He’s forty years old, and he’s trying to get it together.
And he’s trying to figure it out, and he’s running out of time, and he’s trying to help, and he’s trying to make a difference in spite of his background, in spite of his childhood, in spite of his conflict, he’s trying to make a difference.
He’s trying to make a difference. There something down inside of him. He can’t figure out what it is.
Nobody’s taking ownership of it. The Egyptians haven’t embraced it. The Hebrews don’t like it. Moses doesn’t understand it.
Yet, when he sees conflict, he runs in there with a big s on his shirt, and he runs out there with his cape and his boots on, and he’s trying to help people who don’t even like him.
Have you ever tried to help people who don’t even appreciate the help you’re trying to give them?
And there, you are trying to make a difference in their life and the very people you trying to help are giving you the most hell you ever had in all of your life because you have never been hurt till you get hurt by somebody you trying to help.
Oh, I wish I had somebody who had been misunderstood.
I wish I had somebody who was trying to do a good thing.
And every time you’re trying to do something good, things got worse and stood up better.
The more Moses tried to help people, the bigger mess he found himself here.
He’s got a dead man buried in the sand and he’s out there in another fight.
And before he can get out of this, here comes that.
And before he can straighten out that, here comes something that’ll look like every 24 hours, a new kind of fight breaks out in your life.
Is there anybody in church today that every time you turn around, scared to answer the phone.
Scared to open up your own email.
You say, lord, if another fight breaks out in my life, I got fighting on the inside.
I got fighting on the outside. I got fighting in my personal life. I got Oh, god.
I’m talking for somebody. I don’t even know who it is.
And I want you to see the irony These 2 Hebrews are fighting.
Moses comes out to break up the fight, and one of the Hebrews, he’s not trying to kill anybody.
He’s just trying to say, go home. Don’t fight.
And one of the Hebrews said, who are you to be trying to straighten us out?
Who made you prints? Who did making prints?
The lord had made him prints.
But he was trying to do the right thing at the wrong time.
Don’t try to get there before you’re there.
Just because you can think there. You have not been placed there.
You can be anointed and not be appointed.
You can be anointed to be king over Israel, David, and men have to be sent back out there to shovel sheep dung.
Because one of the tests of greatness is your ability to survive frustration.
So god will put greatness in isolation, which creates frustration because you have to be able to survive frustration in order to be eligible to become a leader.
Because if you can’t handle internal frustration, you sure can handle external frustration.
If frustration on the inside is gonna make you quit, what in the world are you gonna do when you have frustration on the outside?
So when god is getting you ready for frustration on the outside, he lets you deal with a lot of frustration on the inside so that you can learn how to be frustrated and still be faithful, frustrated, and still be consistent, frustrated, and still be diligent.
I’m talking to somebody. I don’t know who it is, but I’m talking to somebody this morning.
So here he is.
And he he’s he’s trying to have, yes, shout with me, baby.
I feel something about to break loose in here this morning.
I feel the anointing of god about to break loose in here.
See, when you hear, this is how we express ourselves, but when you hear people hollow like that, that means truth hits you.
When when when truth hits you in the face, all of a sudden, you have a reaction to it because I’m preaching to you about one thing but god is showing you different things in your life that fit what I’m preaching about.
That’s a miracle of preaching the gospel.
And so the guy says to him, who made you prince over us?
His prophecy is in the mouth of his enemies.
His prophecy is in the mouth of his enemies.
I learned more about who I was from my haters.
I had no idea.
I was even important enough to be hated on the level I was hated on.
I couldn’t even defend myself because I was shocked that you cared enough to write anything about me.
Who am I that you would care anyway?
Your hatred of me helped to tutor me and to understanding owed significance.
Oh, y’all don’t hear what I’m saying. Oh my god.
So his haters now have said to him, who made you prince over us?
And then he says, this is where I wanna hammer down.
He said, are you gonna kill me like you did the guy yesterday? Yes.
Now on one hand, he has just discovered that he is a prince and doesn’t know it, anointed, but not appointed, has greatness that hadn’t been revealed yet.
And that’s a that’s a wonderful thing.
In the next sentence, he finds out that his past has come back to haunt him.
What the first sentence should have made him say, you know, yeah, I’m gonna be prince over you.
That’s right. You did god is just showing you what he’s already showed me.
But the prince is a liar and a murderer.
What do you do?
When you got holiness and freakiness.
I’m gonna look right over top of everybody’s head.
Amen likes.
What do you what do you do?
Y’all look so guilty?
Y’all need to be If y’all didn’t look so funny, I would know it was you.
But, uh, I don’t know nothing about you. I just passed it here. I’ll go home with it.
But what do you do? Ain’t life crazy.
It’s a mess, ain’t it? It don’t make no sense, man. I tell you.
That’s why I get into work because I was trying to figure it out because it’s crazy. It’s crazy.
What do you do when you got so much strength in you that everybody comes to you, and everybody leans on you, and everybody depends on you, and everybody comes to you for answers?
And you are a strong person, but you are equally a weak person.
You you you you a powerful person, but you’re also a tired person.
And people see one side and they don’t see the other side.
And am I talking to anybody today?
He he is a prince over them. He will deliver them.
He will bring them out from the hands of Ferro. He’s all of that.
But he also just lied and killed a man and buried him and hid the body.
And I ain’t that crazy. I say all of this to comfort you.
Aren’t you glad you came to church this morning?
Now now watch this.
The enemy will always send a terrorist alert when you are close to your destiny.
Stay tuned. I’ve got more for you in just a moment.
What do you do with the fire that will not go?
The wait is over. God wants
to use you in extraordinary ways now. Great things are ahead of you.
You’re on the verge.
You are not just going from day to day, week to week, month to month, and now you’re giving a step into another year.
You are standing on the of an entirely new awakening.
There’s a burning desire down inside of that will not shut up.
I got the pain, but I got the passion too. I got the problem, but I got the passion too.
I got a little chatter going on, but I still got the passion.
Life is gonna hand you something every day. Take in what you can get out of it.
Let go on what you can get out of but don’t let anybody hurt you so bad. Back you so.
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The Bible says in Hebrews that the gifts and callings of god are without repentance.
When I grew up, they taught us that that meant that people could be gifted without repenting.
But when I studied the texts, What it really means is that once god calls you, he does not repent.
He does not change his mind. He does