Overcomers
Today I watched a clip by TD Jakes called Overcomers, below are the main points and my story follows.
There are four things great overcomers have:
1) Great Morals and great values
We need to build our home where truth is, TD says ‘pitch your tent where truth is’.
2) Great methods
Having great methods restrains you from leaping into your dreams.
3) Great Means
Take what you have and use it for God’s glory. Use your gift for God’s glory and your gift will make room for you.
4) Great Management
To him much is given much is required. If you don’t have great management you will waste what God has given you.
The more God pours into your life the more you have to manage it.
God has an appointed time to bless us. It is pre-destined and therefore unusual opposition will come against it, all hell will break loose against it.
You must value the word of God; make room in your life for the word of God.
My Story
The Lord has been working this message in my life. When I was first separated and divorced my morals were not the best. I was so desperate to have somebody love me I was tempted to drop the guard. Praise God He encamped around me and protected me from sin.
Gradually I have established my morals as a single woman and now I can say I have them, I can define them, they hold me, I respect them, and I love them.
No longer desperate I will not compromise, I will not drink from a polluted fountain, and I will not eat unclean food.
The process has taken 7 years but praise God it is the foundation of my life. Amen!
Having great methods has come from learning restraint in morals. I have a vision of my future but I will not rush it or I could destroy it.
There are processes I must go through to reach the end, the processes keep me humble, refine me, wash me, cleanse me, and cause me to mature, to grow.
My vision sees the maturity, the fulfillment of time, but right now my experience is in its infancy. If I rush the infant cannot handle the future, I stress the infant and cause it to become ill, fall away.
The process causes the infant to grow into manhood, complete, whole, perfect, and lacking in nothing.
I see the baby business the Lord has given me, I protect it, do all I can to clear the briars from its path, but I must give it room to grow and mature.
I see the relationship down the road; I am being made ready for that. I must be mature and complete or I will again be ruled by dysfunction, God does not want that.
I see all that is coming, it is there in the spirit and as I keep walking it keeps coming towards me.
I have great means at my disposal. My gifts I must use, expand them, refine them, polish them and exercise them.
The more gifts I have ready to be filled the better, when the infilling comes I will have an abundance for every good work.
I cannot be slack in any way; I must pick up and practice my gifts. As I train my body for triathlon, I must train my all for readiness, for launching.
Great management is something I am learning. I cannot just give away all I have. The Lord has challenged me as to why I do this.
I want to show diligence in management so that I might be given the more.
With my finances I restrain myself and look to the big picture. My giving is consistent, first before anything else is paid my tithe is paid, yet I do not give away all. God gives me all I need and if I give away more than I should then I am in lack to pay the bills. This is wisdom.
I love the Lord with all I have but He does not require all He gives me to go back to Him without profit. He wants me to learn to keep and profit.
I must be diligent in managing my time, my resources. I cannot give others all my time, I cannot work all the time and I cannot sit and spend time with the Lord all the time. There is balance.
I must care for all that is given to me. Care is not spoiling. Care is circumspect.
Great management comes from great discipline. Christ is my example, I want His results, therefore there is a cost, my life.
Amen!
There are four things great overcomers have:
1) Great Morals and great values
We need to build our home where truth is, TD says ‘pitch your tent where truth is’.
2) Great methods
Having great methods restrains you from leaping into your dreams.
3) Great Means
Take what you have and use it for God’s glory. Use your gift for God’s glory and your gift will make room for you.
4) Great Management
To him much is given much is required. If you don’t have great management you will waste what God has given you.
The more God pours into your life the more you have to manage it.
God has an appointed time to bless us. It is pre-destined and therefore unusual opposition will come against it, all hell will break loose against it.
You must value the word of God; make room in your life for the word of God.
My Story
The Lord has been working this message in my life. When I was first separated and divorced my morals were not the best. I was so desperate to have somebody love me I was tempted to drop the guard. Praise God He encamped around me and protected me from sin.
Gradually I have established my morals as a single woman and now I can say I have them, I can define them, they hold me, I respect them, and I love them.
No longer desperate I will not compromise, I will not drink from a polluted fountain, and I will not eat unclean food.
The process has taken 7 years but praise God it is the foundation of my life. Amen!
Having great methods has come from learning restraint in morals. I have a vision of my future but I will not rush it or I could destroy it.
There are processes I must go through to reach the end, the processes keep me humble, refine me, wash me, cleanse me, and cause me to mature, to grow.
My vision sees the maturity, the fulfillment of time, but right now my experience is in its infancy. If I rush the infant cannot handle the future, I stress the infant and cause it to become ill, fall away.
The process causes the infant to grow into manhood, complete, whole, perfect, and lacking in nothing.
I see the baby business the Lord has given me, I protect it, do all I can to clear the briars from its path, but I must give it room to grow and mature.
I see the relationship down the road; I am being made ready for that. I must be mature and complete or I will again be ruled by dysfunction, God does not want that.
I see all that is coming, it is there in the spirit and as I keep walking it keeps coming towards me.
I have great means at my disposal. My gifts I must use, expand them, refine them, polish them and exercise them.
The more gifts I have ready to be filled the better, when the infilling comes I will have an abundance for every good work.
I cannot be slack in any way; I must pick up and practice my gifts. As I train my body for triathlon, I must train my all for readiness, for launching.
Great management is something I am learning. I cannot just give away all I have. The Lord has challenged me as to why I do this.
I want to show diligence in management so that I might be given the more.
With my finances I restrain myself and look to the big picture. My giving is consistent, first before anything else is paid my tithe is paid, yet I do not give away all. God gives me all I need and if I give away more than I should then I am in lack to pay the bills. This is wisdom.
I love the Lord with all I have but He does not require all He gives me to go back to Him without profit. He wants me to learn to keep and profit.
I must be diligent in managing my time, my resources. I cannot give others all my time, I cannot work all the time and I cannot sit and spend time with the Lord all the time. There is balance.
I must care for all that is given to me. Care is not spoiling. Care is circumspect.
Great management comes from great discipline. Christ is my example, I want His results, therefore there is a cost, my life.
Amen!
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