Bishop TD Jakes - The Starving Prince

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Coming up on the butter's tax.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I cannot sow into something that is more limited than
I am, because I cannot get a harness.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
From poor soil.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
For every problem that is in your life, God has
a plan. Whatever family you are in has not taken
God by surprise. The enemy doesn't want you to be
strategically placed in position where you can affect godly change.
He's trying to run you out.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hang in there, Hold on.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Help is on the way.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I remember when Old Roberts, the evangelist, was going in
his tent meetings and I was a boy, and he
was teaching old seed time and harvest, and it swept
the country, sewing it and repeat. If you're so, you're
going to reap. And people started sowing seeds with intentionality,

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and all that didn't step into and criticized it because
they thought we are to give just because we're giving,
not expecting to receive. But the problem with giving without
expecting to receive is if I sow without harvest, then
my giving it's just philanthropy, and eventually I will give out.

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No matter how rich I am, if I give without
any expectation of return, I will eventually give out because
I am a limited resource, so forgive me. I do
want something back at some point, not all the time,
not from everybody, but at some point I want something back.

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I want I give people what I value, and it's
a sign that what I give you is what I value,
And yes, I want it back. If I hug you,
hug me back. If I love you, love me back.
If I encourage you, en carries me back. If I

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stood by you.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
When I'm in trouble, stand by me too.

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Can I get a witness in here? I do want
something back. I don't go to work because I like
to work. I go to work because I want to
get paid. I want something back. What the hell I
want it back. Whatever I have to do to be

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in the kind of soil, the kind of country, the
kind of community that will give me something back, I
want it back. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I
am afraid that too many times we have put so

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much focus on teaching you to be good seed, that
we haven't taught you the power of good soil. And
so when we come to soil is issues. The seed
ignores the soil. We flick the channel that has nothing
to do with me. We close our eyes because we

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have been taught to be good seed, but we have
not been taught to pay.

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Attention to sore And yet the Bible is clear.

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Jesus says the sorel went forth sowing seed, and some
fell by the wayside, some fell amongst rocks, some fell
amongst storage. The whole text is about environment. Look at
you and look at your environment. Have you been positioned.

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To flourish? Positioning has a lot to do. Is flourishing.

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To be in an environment and a family that supports to.
My sister and I were talking the other day. I
was telling her what an amazing person she is, that
all of our lives together and all the things that
God did in my life. Not once in all of
the years that I've known her, and she was there
when Mama had me, have I ever known her to
be jealous of me.

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Not once, not ever.

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She has always been my cheerleader and my greatest fan.

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And she said, how could I be jealous of you?
You're my brother? I said, a lot of people have siblings.

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That hate them that I'm jealous of them.

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That hope, Thank chalk, and some.

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Of my development has to be that God planted me
in an environment of people that supported me. My brother,
my sister, my mother, and my father. They all supported me.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
You can have good seed, but if you've been in.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Bad soil, people who hated you, environments that denied you,
education that underserved you, communities that limited you, mentalities that
poisoned you.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Until you hear what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
If your soil wasn't right, it doesn't mean that you're
not right, But if your soil wasn't right, it's going
to affect how you're root and how you grow.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
And you like grow a little bit.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
The model says, you can grow for a while, but
then the dogs will choke you out, or the rocks
will not have enough soil for.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Your roots to grow. Are you blaming God.

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For something you ought to be blaming the soil for.
Jacob told his sons go where they have the coin.
I will I tell you test three people say go
get the coin, Go get the coin, Go get the coin,

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Go get the coin. To be planted in something, listen,
I want to be planted in something that is bigger
than me. You cannot take a peach seed and planted
in a teaspoon of dirt and expected to grow though

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the teaspoon of the dirt is the same size as
the peach seed.

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It will not grow. The seed will only grow.

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When it is planted in something bigger than itself. And
I want to know where are you planting it this morning?
Are you planted in something bigger than you? Or have
you always been planted in teacups surrounded by little dirt,
little resources, small minded people, narrow, limited places that never

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let you stretch to reach your capacity. Sometimes you gotta
go where.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
The corn is, where.

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The table is fat, and the feast of the lord.
Oh yes, oh yeah, somebody gets what I'm saying this morning,
tender eniators, I need something bigger than me. You cannot

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feed me. You cannot feed me if you're not bigger
than me. You cannot feed me if you are not
bigger than me.

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I need something from the soil. I want to tell
you that's your problem.

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You have invested into little people, little ideas, little companies,
little communities. You have planted in the dry places that
have restricted you. You got some roots, but when the
sun came, you.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
With it and died.

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But I'm prophesied God is about to transplant you into
a place.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I feel something in this place.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
The very reason you're in this chack this morning is
God wanted you to be a part of something bigger
than yourself. Some of you came from places where you

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had titles and positions, and you directed the choir, and
you with a chairman of the dickon mor.

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Than you with than this, and then that and the other.

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And they still don't understand why you would give up
all of those titles.

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And I'm over here and just sit in the few.

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I'll tell you why I want to be planting in
something that's bigger than myself. Jacob said, ten sons to
go get the car, he said, tending to increase. Touch

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ten people in the holly. Increase, increase, increase, Get out of.

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That little pot get out of that little.

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Teacup, get out of that small minded mentality.

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I profers high increase all of your life. How is
life that well man?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Increase still to come on the potter's touch.

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Don't you up on your dream because God has a plan.
Don't you fall in a look? Because God has a plan.
You don't have to sell.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Your mony because God has a plang. You don't have
to come promise your liars. Couse, God has a plan.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
When the rain falls, we rise up, mobilizing leaders to
all corners of the globe. Megacare recently made its way
to Guyana, South America, in a place where poverty, unemployment, alcoholism,
and drugs rob people of basic physical needs. Megacare established
of medical camp providing screenings, counseling and much needed medical supplies.
We thank you for your support of Megacare and Tdjke's ministries.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
Why inspiring to me and my family, and I thank you.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
You are truly reaching across the globe.

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I went through too much to let's you steal my
short That's still my piece, still my power.

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We gotta stop waiting for somebody else to do it
for us, and we got to realize that Jesus has
already set us free.

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For faith without works is dead beat alone. Look at
your sister and say, what's that thing? I need? Some women?
You are ready to get that fight back to slip
up your hands and let the wooly ghost right for you.
Right now, you're raising your hands over depression. You're raising

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your hands over fear. Your hands are raised your hardest race.
Now lift your boys to take the roof off of
this floor. God has a plan. That means that the

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famine that you're in, whether it's a famine for finances,
a famine for love, or famine for opportunities, of famine
for recognition, whatever famine you're in, has not taken God
by surprise. The famine may have shocked you, but it

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has not shocked God. God has a plan for every
starving prince a shadda, starving, starving not just money. Some
of you are starving for love, starving for companionship, starving

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for understanding is not just money, Starving for direction and ministry, Starving.

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To be around people who are not.

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Jealous of your starving or shadda until I find somebody,
are there any time? In princes in this flag, You've
been in a famine for years, but God is about
to break you out of your famine. Don't be wearing

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well going. God has a plan. Don't you sit there
and die because God has a plan. Don't you give
up on your dream because God has a plan. Don't
you fall in a rock because God has a plan.
You don't have to sell your body because God has
a plan. You don't have to compromise your values because.

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God has a plan.

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I don't know who I'm preaching to. The book said,
the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of
our God and of His Christ, God planning Joseph in
the kingdom for such a time, as I'm telling you,

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the trouble that you're going through right now is a
setup for a shift. God is getting you out of
your comfort zone so he can shift the way you think,
because God is about to plant.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
You in a big thing.

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Your eyes have not seen, your years have not heard,
neither has enter into your heart what God has in
store for you. And Joseph says. The Bible says that
when the Ten Brothers came to Egypt, Now, Egypt has

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always represented the world. It has always represented the world.
When God brings the children of Israel out of Egypt,
it is fleeing worldliness that it's typified. Pharaoh is the
type of a leader of worldliness, chasing down the righteous,

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trying to slaved them. God delivers the righteous through the
Red Sea and away from Egypt is always a type
of the world. And yet God called Joseph to be
a leader in the world so that when the Righteous

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seed came, there would be somebody on the inside who
could facilitate the shift. I'm telling you that God will
put certain people in certain places so that when you
get there, they will recognize you. You don't hear me,

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they will recognize you. The Bible says that the ten
brothers did not recognize Joseph, but Joseph recognized them.

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And I'm trying to.

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Tell you that God will put some people in positions
that you don't recognize, but they will recognize you. God,
hold on, God, I feel something in this place. It's
a prophetic worre it in this place. God will make
people shift into a position to recognize you, even when

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you don't recognize that they are placed there for you.
And so to every starving prince, there is a plan.
There is a plan that there be a Joseph in

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strategic places to bring in divine alignment for things to change.
You hear me, have been fighting a system. You are saved,
but you're fighting a system that has been skewed against you.

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You're fighting systems. Systemic issues are designed to decrease your opportunity,
your values and how you see yourself and the purpose
of God saved you to shift your thinking. Because the

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first thing that escapes in anybody's life is always their mind.
Your mind will always come out ahead of everything else.
And God is putting you into a place where He's
going to turn the systems that were meant against you.

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You're in a fight against systems. I was teaching somewhere,
and I was teaching about the industrial age and how
the country went from the industrial age to the information
age and we lost most of our middle class. And
I've been teaching on it for a while. I didn't
even realize that what I was teaching in the class
was also evidenced in my life because I worked for

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an industrial place, and the shutting down of the industrial
place still me into gross poverty. And if it had
not been for God's grace, I would have been stuck
in a ghetto I couldn't get out of. But God
shifted some things. I'm telling you, can y'all handle this

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this morning? I'm telling you that the enemy set us up.
He meant for you to be born into that family.
He meant for you to have that adversity. He meant
for you to have that low self esteem. He meant
to lower your expectations of yourself. Because he knows that
God has put good seed in you, so he lets

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you fall amongst thistles and be accepted in groups that
choke you. He allows you to define yourself by people
that are choking you. You're in clicks with people that

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are choking out your potentials. Those are not follow us,
those are not friends. Those are thorns. Those are thorns
choking you out. You run with them, you dress like them,
you act like them.

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But the Lord told.

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Me to tell you this morning, you are not one
of them.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
You are not one of you. Do you hear me?

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Stop identifying yourselves by the thorns that surround you, because
God is getting ready to shift you into a brand
new dimension. I'm almost finished, but I tell you right
now that if you take good seed and you put

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it in good soil, you will see a harvest. You
will see a harvest. You know what's killing us? We
have lost our faith in God because preachers have preached

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so much hope and our circumstances have not yield the fruit.
And hope deferred makes the heart sick. And we're saying
God is not working on our behalf because the preacher
is preaching one thing and I am seeing another in

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my life. And that's why we've lost our faith. I
know we've lost our faith. I will tell you how
I know we've lost our faith. We've stopped giving, we've
stopped sewing. It is never hard to get people to
invest when they see return, But when people don't see return,

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they lose hope in investment, especially new investors in the
stock market. New investors get upset by fluctuations. They panicked
and seize their investments. But all investors they understand that
fluctuations will come and they will go and if they

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ride it out, they'll see it come back up again.
The reason we're having trouble we got new investors. You
paid tis three weeks and if you didn't see a harvest,
you gave up. But all investors will say, though he's slaving, yet,

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will I trust him? He may not come when you
want him, but he's right on time. I want you
to understand this, God is story up a blessing for you.
Joey have not seen, Joey is have not heard, But

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God is story up of the lasting for you. Your
problem is not your God. Your problem is not your seed.
Your problem is your soil. You need to be in an.

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Environment of possibilities.

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You need to be fed in the stream of you
can do it people. We need people in leadership that
change our country and the direction that it's on, so
that everybody has the opportunities that the founding Fathers intended
for us to have and greater still. I might not

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chain control. I'm not sure I'm gonna be involved, but
I'm not sure I can control who's in the White House.
But I'm suggle control who's in my house. I'm gonna
control who gets my time, my attention, my energy. I'm

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gonna control what I allow to worry me and what
I ignore because I believe in the sea.

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You are a child of God. However you may feel
like a starving prince, have your circumstances mocked your identity.
Get ready for a change. God has a plan and
he is taking you to an environment of possibilities. Do
not let go of your dream. The Bible says, be

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not weary and well doing, because if.

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You won't give up, you will reap great reward.

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I did it when there were no cameras. I did
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