[music]
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Bishop Jakes: And the devil's been saying,
"Where is your God?"
Well, tonight you're gonna get an answer.
male: All of the events and seminars, and what's available
here, you could literally take a family vacation
the entire week here.
male: We've done Super Bowls and Final Fours, but to have an
event that talks to the soul, that talks to the families, that
talks to the way that we live, it's something special.
female: I came here for a breakthrough and I have received
my breakthrough.
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male: And I think there was a supernatural encounter.
boy: I love the Lord and I love MegaFest.
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female announcer: Coming up on "The Potter's Touch."
Bishop T.D. Jakes: The prayer you have been praying will only
be answered when you release the promise you've been carrying.
You are highly favored.
And what God is getting ready to do in your life, he will not
need a partner.
He's just going to bring it to pass all by himself.
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♪ The Potter's Touch, the Potter's Touch. ♪♪
Bishop Jakes: Hey everybody,
I'm so excited to have this opportunity to be in your home,
to share the infallible, enriched Word of God with you.
It just gives me great joy, and I pray it's going to bless you
in a special way.
Today, we're going to be talking from the message "You Are
Blessed and Highly Favored."
But before you start shouting, I want you to understand that
being blessed and highly favored doesn't mean that your plans are
going to go the way you want them to go.
In fact, it's just the opposite.
Many, many times, God disrupts everything that you had in mind,
totally tears up your plans, and goes in a completely different
direction.
To be blessed, to be highly favored is to have the liquidity
of thought to be able to let go of what you thought was going to
happen, and to embrace what God wants to do in your life.
It may be a shift, it may be a turn, but God has a plan, and
it's better than yours.
Take a look at this and be blessed.
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Bishop Jakes: Luke 1:28.
And my subject is "Are You Blessed and Highly Favored."
Stand, please.
"And the angel came in unto her, and said, 'Hail, thou art highly
favored.'" That's good.
Sound real good to me.
I like to be favored.
Don't you like to be favored?
Of all the people in the world, you're favored.
That means you've been selected, you've been chosen.
You have exceeded the rest.
You are in a category all by yourself.
You have been highly favored.
Theologically, it means you have been highly graced.
Watch the interchange between grace and favor.
"And Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and Noah was
highly favored."
To be favored is to have grace.
The grace that set you apart.
Sometimes, you win and you can't take credit for it.
It's just grace.
If you manage to hold your marriage together, you can't
look down your nose at people who didn't.
'Cause you're looking over at sweetie pie now thinking, "It's
just grace, honey."
Yeah.
If you raise good children and they turned out good, don't talk
about somebody else's.
'Cause nobody has the secret sauce to raising excellent kids.
Just grace and highly favored.
Get through school, walking over to get your degree, and you know
all them tests, and those exams, and them finals, just grace.
You've been highly favored.
"The Lord is with thee."
That's good news too.
"Blessed art thou among women."
You're in a class all by yourself.
I want to talk about "Are You Blessed and Highly Favored."
I'm doing it in part because we don't do it too much now because
y'all are the modern, contemporary, edgy, 21st century
church, but I grew up in the storefront, in the sanctified
church, hand clapping, foot stomping, devil chasing, cancer
rebuking, fire baptized church of the living God.
The kind of church where the name was longer than the
building.
The kind of church where nobody said hello, and if you said
hello, you were a sinner.
You said what?
"Praise the Lord."
You answered your phone at the house, "Praise the Lord," till
it was a bill collector.
And the old saints, when you asked them how they were doing,
they didn't say they were good, or they were fine.
They said they were blessed and highly favored.
So, I want to know, are you blessed and highly favored?
Whenever God gives you a word, it's going to take faith because
the Word never addresses the obvious.
The Word never comes to tell you that that you already know.
The Word comes into your life to reveal something that will
require faith to execute, "For faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God."
So, the Word doesn't come to tell rich people they're rich.
The accountant can tell you that.
The Word comes to tell poor people, "You're rich."
The Word is a contradiction to a circumstance.
It comes to weak people and says, "You're strong."
The Word comes in direct contradiction to your
circumstance and how you see yourself.
And whenever the Word comes, faith has to come right in
behind it, for faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word
of God.
I don't need faith to know I'm a man.
I don't need faith to know I'm African-American.
I don't need faith to know what I know.
I need faith to know what I don't know.
And without faith, I won't be able to receive the Word of God.
First R, receiving.
Receiving the Word of God, receiving the in-obvious,
receiving the abstract, receiving the ridiculous.
The angel came to challenge her circumstance, and to tell her,
"You shall bring forth a son, and his name shall be called
Jesus.
And he shall save his people from their sins."
Now, we can come out here and put a big manger up in front of
the church, and sing kumbaya, and rehearse the story, and go
home and eat chitlins or whatever.
But the Word doesn't come so that we'll have another
historical account of a biblical story for recitations to
children.
The Word comes that we might learn how to live in a
contemporary society with ageless principles.
So, what are the principles that this story comes to teach us?
That whenever God calls you something that you are not, you
become what he said because he said it.
The angel doesn't say, "Hail Mary, you're going to be
blessed.
Hail Mary, you're going to be highly favored."
He says, "You are highly favored."
Right now, yes sir, help me preach that thing this morning.
Right now, you are highly favored.
You shall bring forth a son.
His name shall be called--I don't feel pregnant.
I don't seem pregnant.
I don't feel any physical signs that I'm pregnant.
"That's why I came, to tell you that there won't be any signs.
There won't be any sounds.
There won't be any witness.
But I'm going to bring it to pass."
In fact, that's how you know God did it, when there is no
evidence but his Word.
And she struggled to receive the Word.
How can these things be, seeing as I know not a man?
That's our biggest problem with receiving the Word of God.
We seem to be hooked on the validation of men.
And if we don't get the validation and the commendations
of men, we have trouble believing God's Word.
How can I be rich when man says I'm poor?
How can I be strong when man says I'm weak?
How can I be the head when my friends say I'm the tail?
How can I be above when my situation looks beneath?
How can I be an overcomer when it looks like everything has
pressed me down?
How can I have peace when I feel so confused?
How can I have joy when I've been going through a season of
depression?
The angel said, "That's why I came, to tell you that your
circumstances are lying, your conditions are not true.
What you feel doesn't matter.
Your flesh will not confirm it.
Your emotions will not validate it.
Your friends will not collaborate it.
Humanity will not condone it.
But you are highly favored.
And what God is getting ready to do in your life, he will not
need a partner, a board, a committee.
He will not need a man.
He's just going to bring it to pass all by himself.
He's going to do it through your lonely self, your empty self,
your lacking self, your troubled self.
Your situation doesn't confirm it, but God's going to--how can
these things be, seeing as I know not a man?
You don't need to know nobody.
You don't need anybody to authorize it, organize it, give
you credentials, lay hands on you, say it's going to happen,
validate it, stand with you, put their support behind you.
They don't have to vote for you.
They don't have to believe in you.
They don't have to like you.
They don't have to confirm it.
They don't have to support it.
If God said it, that settles it.
It shall come to pass.
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female: Every now and then,
ladies, despite what everybody says, you got to take your cute
clothes off, and throw your cute shoes out, pull your hair back,
and climb on a rock and say, "I shall not be moved."
Does anybody know what it's like to be on a rock by yourself,
fighting against things that try to pluck faith out of your mind,
hope out of your spirit, vision out of your heart?
God is teaching you about you.
He's teaching you about him.
He's teaching you that he'll be closer than a brother.
He's teaching you he'll be the best friend you ever had.
He's teaching you that when everybody else walks out of your
life and says you dead, he walks in and says, "Breathe, breathe,
breathe."
Resuscitate me back to--that's how you learn to worship him.
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Bishop Jakes: It was--to me,
it was something about the leaping of the baby that gave
her strength for the second R.
The second R is resilience.
And Shaddai.
You have to go from receiving to resilience because now you're in
process.
And in order to get through process, you have to be
resilient.
What I like about God, God won't ask you to be resilient without
giving you hope.
So, he let then have this meeting to give her some
encouragement that you're on the right track so that when you go
back into discouragement, you would have something to
encourage yourself with.
Say, "I don't know how this is going to turn out, but I do know
that I'm onto something.
'Cause when I went in there and kissed cuz, it was some leaping
going on in there."
Some of y'all get that by coming to church.
When all hell is breaking loose, you come to church, and
something is said or done that makes your baby leap.
And even though you got to go to work Monday and deal with the
same stuff you were dealing with before, Sunday makes it a little
bit better 'cause your baby leaped on Sunday.
So, you can go in there and face all them haters, and say, "Good
morning, welcome to JC Penneys."
Because once you are strengthened on the inside, the
things that happen on the outside don't bother you because
your baby done leaped.
When your baby leaped, you can sustain yourself.
Let me quit, I feel like preaching.
The devil said, "Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
I couldn't stop her from receiving it, and I couldn't
stop her from being resilient," he said, "but I ain't through.
I got another test.
See how favored she is now.
I'm going to give her the third R, rejection."
Rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection.
See, being favored doesn't mean you don't need resilience.
Being favored doesn't mean you won't be rejected.
But you've got to--that's why the angel told you.
The angel wouldn't have told you if your circumstances would have
validated it.
The angel told you so you'd have something to hold onto while you
were going through rejection so that none of these things would
move you from what you believe.
Get back on the horse, Mary.
We going to find something."
"Ahh, Joseph, I can't wait much longer."
"That's all right, baby, we're going to find something."
Now, she got to trust the guy who was about to divorce her.
And she's vulnerable now because the baby is heavy.
"Ahh, Joseph, we don't have much longer."
"Wait a minute, I see a place over there.
Let me try that.
Mister, my wife is going into labor."
"I'm sorry, no room."
God, what am I going to do?
Now, I'm not sure I can do justice with the final trimester
of pregnancy.
I can imagine it.
But she says real--but all the women, you got this, don't you?
Except she wasn't on no donkey in Palestine with no anesthesia
and no pre-natal care.
So, add that in there so you get that.
I'm going to tell you what it feels like to be the man, and
the family's in a crisis, and you can't deliver.
I'm going to tell you what it is to go back home and look at
need, and can't produce.
I'm going to tell you the pressure that comes on your
heart when you recognize you are running out of time, and you
told her, "I got your back."
And you wish somebody had yours, and you running out of time.
"Ahh, Joseph."
And you Joseph, and you can't do nothing.
There's some men in this room right now who know what I'm
talking about.
"Ahhh."
But you had to go back to the donkey and say, "We got to make
do," and saddle up the people you love on top of something you
hate into a something you can't fix, and keep on riding.
That's what being a man is.
That's what it is.
[congregation applauding]
That's what it is.
I say you're a man even though you didn't get it in the end.
I say you're a man even though you didn't fix the problem.
I say you're a man even though you couldn't do what you wanted
to do this year.
I say you're a man, you know why?
Because you stayed.
[congregation cheering]
"Ohh," she birthed the thing that would birth her.
"Ahh," she delivered the thing that would deliver her.
"Ahh," she pushed out the baby that would push her out of sin.
She nursed the child that would nurse her.
She held the one that would hold her.
She blessed the one that would bless her.
You see, the reason the devil doesn't want you to birth what
God put in you is because, as soon as you get through birthing
it, it's going to birth you.
[congregation cheering]
Everything I ever delivered
always turned around and delivered me.
She birthed the final R, redemption.
She redeemed in delivery what would redeem her in crucifixion.
The thing that's in you right now will deliver you.
This is what I want you to see.
God doesn't need anything in me to deliver the thing that's in
you.
When you push out what's in you, you will meet your deliverer.
Or let me say it to you in Bible language.
Your gift will make room for you, and bring you before great
men.
My gift will not make room for you.
My gift will make room for me.
the most my gift can do is help you to birth your gift.
Your gift will make room for you so that when the room is made, I
don't get the credit.
Isn't this all about room?
Isn't the rejection about room?
Isn't Joseph's portrayal about his room having the capacity to
handle a woman who was pregnant in a way he didn't understand?
Didn't the innkeeper say that they had no room?
And once she birthed the Christ, did he not make room for her?
What are you carrying inside of you that would answer the prayer
you've been praying?
The prayer you have been praying will only be answered when you
release the promise you've been carrying.
The answer to your prayer is in your promise.
And the only question is, are you blessed and highly favored?
[congregation applauding]
I don't know whether you're in
the receiving stage, the resilience stage, the rejection
stage, or the redemption stage, but if you are,
if you are, you are blessed and highly favored.
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Bishop Jakes: We're out of time,
we've got to stop there, but it's been a real joy sharing
the Word of the Lord with you.
Being blessed and highly favored is an amazing promise from God
to all believers.
However, sometimes life gets really tough, and you must be
determined in your own heart just to believe God's Word, and
be resilient, and just push your way through.
The Bible tells us we'll need to prepare ourselves for rejection.
But remember now, God has a plan.
He wants you to press on in faith and keep using the gifts
he's placed inside of you.
That's what makes you successful.
God's promise of favor will never, ever fail.
I want to take a moment and thank so many of you that have
decided to join our Global Partner Systems.
I'm so happy about this.
Through GPS, lives are being transformed by the gospel, and
humanitarian missions at home and around the world, all
because of you.
If you want to make an eternal difference in the lives of
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Go to tdjpartners.org and become a GPS partner today.
Listen, I'm out of time, y'all.
I've enjoyed sharing the Word of the Lord with you, and may God
bless you till we meet again.
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Bishop Jakes: You've got to buckle up, ride it out.
Every blessing I ever had in my life, I had to ride it out to
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But God said, "No, you're going to skip steps.
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female: I like that the zip line is very cool, and we get to
play games and stuff.
male: You can play, and then you can go to praise and
worship.
female: Find out who they are and what God has called them out
to do.
male: MegaFest is one of the ways that you can have fun and
also learn about God.
female: It will be really fun for them, and they'll get all
their giggles and wiggles out.
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all: MegaFest.
announcer: Feel free to reach out to us on social media and
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We look forward to seeing you next time on
"The Potter's Touch."
♪ The Potter's Touch, ♪ ♪ the Potter's Touch. ♪♪
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[music]
[music]
Bishop Jakes: And the devil's been saying,
"Where is your God?"
Well, tonight you're gonna get an answer.
male: All of the events and seminars, and what's available
here, you could literally take a family vacation
the entire week here.
male: We've done Super Bowls and Final Fours, but to have an
event that talks to the soul, that talks to the families, that
talks to the way that we live, it's something special.
female: I came here for a breakthrough and I have received
my breakthrough.
[music]
male: And I think there was a supernatural encounter.
boy: I love the Lord and I love MegaFest.
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