This is Not the Time to Lose Your Head

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.

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 potter’s touch. Are you a kingdom without a king?
Are you so busy, mange 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 and need what you need and what what you want that you’re not making progress in life.
Greetings, friends in the name of Jesus Christark King.
I’m so excited to have this opportunity to share the word of the lord with you.
I’m grateful for what God is doing in your life, and I wanna 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 test and trials just like any else, people don’t understand that.
With every blessing, there’s always a battle.
And I wanna share this word with you that will help you with the battle so that you can enjoy the blessing because sometimes you’re so busy in the fight.
You lose sight of the victory.
I believe this is gonna bless why 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.
Let’s take a look. Paul writes to the church of Ephasis and tells them to put on 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 blessed you’ve 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 babble you face is an indication of the level of blessings that you stand to receive.
No robber robs an empty house.
Nobody holds up a bag lady because she doesn’t have anything to deal.
If you’re up under attack, there’s something to be gained.
So the Bible says put on the whole armor of god that you may be able to wish stand, 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 on, having done all the tad.
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 shows.
Did you hear that?
Not to evacuate the turf that is your and he said if you’re gonna hold on to what I have given you, because I have given you some things that you are 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 stand.
That’s your willpower, your strength, your might, your intensity, having done 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 stand you have to have an investment in what god has given you and having done all to stand.
You won’t get to the second stand until you run out of the first one.
Having done all the stand in, it says, stand there for with your loins gird about with truth.
And as he begins to equip us for battle, he 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 gotta fight for the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down.
Oh, you got it. Imagineations. And every high thing that exalts itself against what?
The knowledge the knowledge of god the high things that are coming against you are coming against what you know about god.
What you know about god. You know you’re healed. Yes.
The symptoms come to convince you that you’re not. You know you’re free.
I thought you did. Y’all know you’re free? Yeah. 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 fought by imaginations.
Shadows and ghosts. Some of you are stressed to death over what ifs and babies.
You’ve been stabbed by suppose.
You lay in the bed wrestling with ghosts.
Of what if some babies and suppose, and I think, and I heard, and I felt, and you wake up tired in the morning because you You might have slipped, but you didn’t rest.
Cause 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 and not a head place.
They are showing gross 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 hard 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 approach a noor with feelings.
You got to approach a noor with facts The enemy wants to cut off your head and leave you with feelings.
Real decisions that move your life along are 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 emotions and their feelings.
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 on Thursday. I’m not in the mood for this. I can’t handle this.
I said, 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 is 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 is not personal if you do it right.
Even that what god told Kain, why is that accountant has fallen Why are you tripping out about this stuff?
Why are you jealous of able? If thou do us not well, will I not receive you?
He said, I’m not against you, Kane. I’m against what you did.
And if you fix what you did, I’ll bless you. Like I bless him, So stop tripping Caine.
Get your heart out of the way of your hand, and I will move you forward.
I know that culture shock to a lot of you because 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 of 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 shall not tip the lord by God. It is written. It is written.
Not one time do you hear Jesus saying, I’m so hungry, devil. I’m so hungry. This is one time.
Let me turn this stone to bread because a brother like me got all kind of rumblings going on in my stomach right here.
I’ve been out here 40 days, never not night.
You know, 40 days, you ought to have a little compassion on me.
He did not approach the devil with feelings because the devil has no compassion.
Whatever you do. Don’t lose your head.
You pull your feelings out of it. Pull your insecurity 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 potter’s touch.
So if I was a demo I do everything I could to keep your head fogging, to keep your mind all tied up, to keep your emotions governing your hit to the point that you can’t even think a clear thought because the hole will fall that one went to my head with oil.
Now my cup runs over.
My cup can’t run over if my head in the anointed with a little.
My cup is only catching the residue of what my head got first.
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Bible says in 1st Samuel speaking about 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 a monk.
Off my infinias were going through the church going through the women, like a fox going through a hen house.
Because the place was headless.
Eli was not strong enough to chasing 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.
The Bible 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 understood that. Hoffman was killed.
His son, he could have understood that Finnehas was killed as well.
He could have understood that, 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 the removal of the government.
Are you a kingdom without a king?
Are you so busy managing the emotional relation 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 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’t cry your way up. You can’t flush your way out.
You didn’t snap your neck 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 flipping out on her, isn’t working. Why are you still doing it?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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 strategists?
Why are we loyal to ineffectiveness?
Why are we loyal within effectiveness?
We date effectiveness. But we marry ineffectiveness.
We visit effectiveness for the weekend on a Sunday and a motivational message and a special television show.
We’ve 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 this is how I feel, Take them to you the helmet of salvation.
Yeah. 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 to power.
Lost his head. They said, Ikabod. The glory has departed.
I guess it did. The glory departs because 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, the glory departed, because the glory only falls on a clear head.
So if I was a 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.
That one went into my head with all. Now my cup runs over.
My cup can’t run over if my head in the anointed with a little.
My cup is only catching the residue of what my head got first.
John about this is preaching out in the wilderness.
He’s different from his daddy. His daddy was a church preacher.
Preaching the synagogues. John the baptist preached in the wilderness.
His dad had dressed in priestley clothes. John the Baptist dressed in camel hair.
While a while Locust and Honey, but he was preaching more effectively in the wilderness than his father had ministered in the temple.
He was going 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 It’s a shifting of government.
Do you hear what I’m saying? Good god of mercy.
Do you hear what I’m trying to tell you this morning There is a shift going on in your life, and it starts with your head.
It starts with your head. It starts with your head. It starts with your head. The slave masters knew it.
What? You can teach the slaves how to do any thing, 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 name and tell them I feel a shift. So they took Jesus.
To pilot.
And that pilot asked him, Are you the king of the Jews?
Are you the head of the Jews? And Jesus said, Bouses.
So they they said put a put a 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 Carpenter Sun is the head of the Jews.
So they took the Head of the Jews, and they took him to the head of a mountain, and the mountain will call Gold Goff.
And when they called him Gold Goff, gogonthamy storm. So it brought the head to a head.
Touch your neighbor and say there’s about to be a shift.
Whenever hands get together, there will be a ship,
but he told the disciples, he said I got to go away. Don’t preach yet.
Go to Jerusalem.
Because the head has gone up
in a
cloud. And the body was left. Look it up. And the angel said to the body,
the man of Galilee. Why stand?
Do you hear a game that got this head for the same head
that you see us in uh, shall descend in black matter, and the book said, uh, and win the day.
Of Pentecost was fully cup, and they were in one place with one accord.
Here comes the shift. Swipe somebody and tell him it’s coming back.
It’s coming back. It’s coming back. It’s coming back. Devil, you should have killed me.
When you had the chance, but I’m getting my head.
I’m getting my hair.
I’ve gotta stop there. I’m really finished with this. I think it is provocative.
It is powerful and it is also quite important to understand how to keep your head a level head in the time of battle.
Because we all face him, but I want you to understand that you can you cannot only stand, but you can overcome and be successful in spite of the struggles that are inherent with being who you are.
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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 Megan Fence, I’m kid ready for you, so I gotta go.
God bless you. Take care. I’ll see you soon.
I wanna make sure that when you leave here, that you leave here on a whole
You don’t have to live in the dark, feeling like you never know what to do.
God will leave you and guide you and direct
He’s not some addendum. He’s not just add Jesus. Do you know how strong his name is?
I just need you to reach up in the
heavenly and grab big.
I need you to release it over your life.
Wanna just reach back and dig in and see what god did in your life then.
It’ll give you a clue on 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.
I know that there’s a force on the planet much higher than the facts, and it’s got the truth of the word of god.
The anointing is coming on your life to change your season, and like me.
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You wanna redeem the years you lost out of your bike?
Stop following your emotions. Go at it head first.
And god said, I will give you back the time you law 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 whip and crying and having tantrums and schizophrenia and be sober and get a grip on yourself.
God said I’ll open up the windows I’ll pull you out of blessing.
You won’t even have room enough to receive.