Angels in Your Wilderness - Bishop T.D. Jakes

in the gospel of Saint Mark chapter number one verses 9 to 13. we will find our task for this morning thank you Jesus Mark 1 9-13 I can read another text too before I get too lost in it, just a brief Texas and it came to Pasa in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John on the way and then coming out of the water he saw the heavens open and the adopted spirit descending upon him and a voice came from heaven saying You are my beloved Son in whom I am well please and immediately the spirit tried him in the

wilderness

and he was there in the

wilderness

40 days and he was tempted by Satan and he was with the wild beast and the

angels

and the

angels

ministered to him wait wait wait wait wait, wait, wait, hold on to that text.

Right there, we have a desert, we have a beast, we have a tired savior and we have angels, all together in the same sentence, you think you are strange because you have so many good and bad things simultaneously in the same space that is where the glory of the Lord is reveal this morning by the grace of God I want to talk to you for a little while about the angels in

your

desert look at

your

neighbor as if you know what you're talking about look at them, right eyeball, eyeball, false eyelash to false eyelash, lip gloss to lip gloss, glory to God and tell them I have angels in my desert, yes I have angels in my desert, you better be careful about fooling me because I have angels in my desert.

I'm not alone in this I have angels in my desert I have angels in my desert and if you don't help me they will help me and if you don't come get me they will come get me and if you don't They won't protect me they will protect me. I have to hate us in my desert. The Spirit of the Living God falls fresh upon us today as we open the Oracles of God, open your mouth, clear your throat and speak to us, O God, speak so clearly and so succinctly that we are mesmerized by the depth of your truth, the relevance of your elevation, healing words must flow into our souls, our spirits, our families, our finances, our emotions, God, we will not stop you from getting anywhere if you need to correct. this correct us if you need to turn around turn us around if you need to punish us by chasing us but please lord don't leave us because without you we are nothing do what you want great God you are in the name of Jesus someone shout amen can be sitting in the presence of God, yes, yes, it is important that we look at this with a very clear understanding of contextualization, that is, when people come in the middle of your story, they misdiagnose who you are and make false assumptions based on brief statements that we are living in an age where people take a fragment of a sermon and write an argument against a fragment, a phrase, a statement that you publish and say they know you by the phrase, as if you can reduce it to a sentence.

The way to enter heresy is to take a text out of context. Now I'm all for technology, but sometimes when people text me, I have to pick up the phone and call them because sometimes you said it one way, but I read. in another way and before answering I read it. I just want to be sure if you really want me to leave like I'm getting ready to do it. You know, I just want to make sure that we set some clear rules because I may have read it in the wrong place and most of the time I was wrong because it's hard to give sensitive information in the text because the text doesn't give you context, so As we read this short statement, these four verses of Scripture in the gospel. from St.

Mark chapter one I'm not sure this text of a scripture gives us context. Jesus was not born in the desert nor raised in the desert, nor was he baptized in the desert and yet he is in the desert. I have been in the same place that Jesus was. Years ago I had the privilege of going to Jerusalem and not only going to Jerusalem, which is amazing, but going down to the Jordan and crossing the Jordan River into the country of Jordan and when you cross the Jordan River, you are standing in what is currently called Jordan and you are on your way to Amman, but you have to go through the desert to get there and I didn't know that the same desert I was standing in is the desert. where Jesus was tempted is also the place where Elijah arrives, having crossed the Jordan to be caught up in the Chariot of Fire, so the history of the text delves archaeologically into the soil of the same space, many things happen in the same geographical place. location, then in the same place where God sends a chariot from heaven to evacuate Elijah outside the human capabilities of this mundane ritual world, is in that same place where He allows the spirit to take Jesus to be tempted.

Have you ever had a place? that caused many different memories our house we lived in and you can remember good and bad times a person you grew up with and you remember something nice and you remember something yes yes yes the spaces are complicated and the spirit has brought it to this place but I don't want to taking the text out of context it is important that we understand that Jesus has disappeared from the scene for at least 18 years we know nothing and it's funny to me because the Bible gives us the highlights of Jesus' life and not the moments of any of his life and the most difficult parts of Walking with God are through the days of nothing so neither heat nor cold are neither good nor bad just for her I just woke up I just arrived to another day what you do nothing you know what you are Doing these things now, only things that I have to do, can I stay with God during the days of nothingness? 18 years we are dark for us where Jesus is, so no name.

Carpenter's son. Moving as he grew from age 12 to age 30 in total darkness, he does not pick up again until this highly successful and accomplished new disruptive thought, John. I call him a disruptor because he broke all of his father's rules and won by doing so, he didn't dress like a priest. he didn't eat like a priest he didn't function in the synagogue he was in the desert eating wild locusts and honey and dressed in camel hair don't be afraid to be different different doesn't deny greatness in fact it actually confirms greatness no one writes books about the common , go to the library, you won't see any books written about people who weren't disruptive or in some way extraordinary and you have to understand that and realize that Jesus was 18 years old that we know nothing about and then at 30 years old he is in the crowd not on the stage he is in the crowd not in the program he is in the back row of the crowd coming to hear his cousin John and he goes down to the Jordan and all eyes are on John and none of them are on Jesus because John the Baptist was the new thing and you know how we love the new.

I tell young preachers that when they start a church they are just new, they only knew one, so why did they know they could do it too? Rockets Rocket, do it all the way because as soon as people get used to you, they start taking you for granted. Oh, I'm not going this week. I'll go next week. I'll check it later. I'll get it online. If I come I will, that's what happens in any relationship, familiarity breeds contempt, if you want to stay fresh, stay back because if you overexpose yourself, no matter how good you are at what you do, people get used to you.

You can sing the pain from the wall, but if you sing all the time, they will get used to your riffs and runs, and tomorrow they will ignore the person they screamed for today. You can be the best wife in the world and celebrate it during the early years. but after a while they get used to it and want to know if there are any new tricks, so save some, don't fit everything in the first week. Hallelujah, come on, someone don't fit everything in the first week, don't tell everything. the first week because you have to keep it updated you have to update you have to stay interesting you have to keep reading you have to keep developing because once people get used to you they walk past you they ignore you they walk past Jesus to get to John because John It was the new thing and it was bad and disruptive and he dressed differently and he would know it and they would come to listen to him and see him and while John is baptizing in the Jordan no one talks about Jesus.

You better go make some shoes somewhere, make a table, a chair somewhere, push your passion. Jesus trying to reach John. We often overlook the greatest trying to get to the lesson because it takes time to fulfill and reveal greatness and when time has not exposed who. You really are people who push you aside trying to get to something that is less than what is inside you and you have to accept it because that is the test. The darkness is also a test. Being ignored is a test and being treated like. It is also normal as a test to make sure your ego is low enough so that when God exalts you you won't start worshiping yourself, he will let people walk over you and tell you how you like me now because he doesn't want to. that you be like that driven by the ego, he wants you to be led by the Spirit and you can't be led by the Spirit and driven by the ego, so God allows people to walk by you, tell you about my work, walk by the water, walk to Jesus, can you imagine passing by the dead, resurrecting Jesus, can you?

Imagine passing by the Jesus who turned water into wine. Can you imagine who you could have passed this morning and Jesus doesn't stop them from passing by him? He doesn't take out his business cards. He doesn't start doing secondary miracles to get. in their itinerary I like it because it has class there is a difference between education and class there is a difference between money and class they are the difference between a great vocabulary and class I'm not sure you can teach Jesus class makes you handle rejection class makes you put up with not being celebrated the class will not allow you to do anything to be on the itinerary because you think too much of yourself to lower yourself and become a trap for someone just so you can get their attention the class will make you wait for the class you will give a hug a pillar class will make you turn around just has to make you lift your head when other people ignore your class will make you sit back and let someone prank you listen to the quote ass jesus and absolute I'm glad oh my god , I think I'm still on the path.

I feel like preaching here. If they mess with me this morning, it will be the Church in this place. I feel something flowing in this place right now. to celebrate all the people who have kept their class it wasn't that you weren't alone but you kept your class it wasn't that you weren't qualified but you couldn't be a class and if God wasn't going to use you in a corporal way, but damn your integrity, Just say, buddy, he held on to his integrity without your integrity, you got nothing, your integrity is determined by what you won't do, there are some things I'm just not going to do.

I'm just not going to do that I'm just not going to do that if I go broke I'm not going to do that if I can sell the car I'm not going to do that if I have to sell the shoes I'm not going to do it, I'm just not going to do it well because I think too much about myself, you don't know me, but he does and suddenly John the Baptist looks up with his feet standing in the Jordan River in the The same Jordan River that Joshua's feet were in the same Jordan that went to and fro and the children of Israel had walked on dry land.

John is standing in that same Jordan, the same Jordan where they took out the 12 smooth stones from where the feet of the priesthood signature were. John is now standing in that same Jordan only he stood up taking out a stone that is about to reveal The Rock The Rock of Ages The Rock on a tired Earth The Rock can secure a place I'm talking about Jesus everyone is looking at John but John looks up and sees Jesus and the way you handle greatness has a lot to do with it with how you end. Many people do not illuminate anyone who can make them look less.

Let me hear something from John that says: Here, Don. Don't keep looking at me, here is something greater than me, here is the one that you will not pass, here is the one that you overlook, here is the one that you ignored, he is the Lamb of God, he will take you along the path that the sins of the world and the Bible says the multitude Parts Jesus goes from obscurity to notoriety in a step that you think will take years you are only going to take a step in what God has only the steps have already been ordained do not worry about the stage pray for the step if you take the step The stage will take care of itself.

Many people are in love with the stage and not the steps, so they get on the stage and can't stay on it because they don't take the steps that qualify them for state. Don't pray. for the stage pray for the step the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and He delights in his path I feel something in this place I feel something in this place something is about to be released in this place and Lord if it is not The cousin Jesus comes from obscurity to notoriety and the Bible says that Jesus went down into the Jordan and John didn't even want to overlook it.

Footnote to my new members. This is a Deja Vu moment. This is the first time we have seen it. Jesus and John in the same space since they were in Mary and Elizabeth and there is something familiar about them again standing in fluids the last time wet Jesus and wet John were together. John was filled with the SpiritSaint while still in his mother's womb. Almighty God and to hear that in the damp place in the place of birth in the place of remodeling in the place of reconstruction it is familiar but it is not familiar it is the same but it is not the same it is deja vu someone in this room what God is doing in your life is familiar but not familiar, everything in your past has prepared you for what you are about to do now it is the same but it is not the same you are standing in the fluids again and just like before the spirit appears holy stranger was filled with the Holy Spirit this time descend like a dove descend like a dove and the bible says the heavens open who wait a minute Lord please guide my steps to the place where the heavens open listen Jesus if you don't It matters, leave my steps towards the place where the heavens open.

I don't want to scream in front of the closed sky. I don't want to face the closed sky. I don't want to work in front of the closed sky. Put me in the position where the heavens open. They will only open in one place. so I have to be at the place when they open sorry, I don't have time to argue with you I have to get to this place I have to get to this place because they are only going to open in one place and I have to be at the place Jesus Jesus arrives at the place glory to God imagine they even say I'm close to the place I know I'm close to the place because hell is nervous I know I'm close to the place because it's harder than I've ever been I know I'm close to the place because my emotions are everywhere I know I'm close to the place because the enemy is trying to discourage me and I wouldn't be trying to discourage me if I weren't close to the place I'm online this morning because I'm close to the place and God wants to give me some instructions so that we can force you to do it for one night, but I enjoy it because it is in the morning.

God is trying to tell you. you are approaching the place do not give room to the devil do not give territory to the devil do not give your place to the devil stand in your place look at someone and say that this is a place where everything sinks this is a place where the heavens fall open this is a place where demons stir this is the place where buds break this is the place where glory descends this is a place where the father speaks someone shouts this is the place Stay with me it's nothing more than a distraction stay with me this is a place this is a place look at your neighbor say this is the place look you have to know when you are in the place because if you don't know what you have it you won't know if you are losing when you know you are in the place you can't allow no devil in hell will get you out of your place this is a place the devil can't have any stage here this is a place if you're looking for entertainment you better go down the street this is the place this is the place this place is busy I have this place covered camera over here I have this foreign vodka I know you want it but this is a place I know you're trying to take it away from me but this is a place.

I know you're trying to be a side show at my theater, but this is it. I'll hold it down. I'll hold it down. I'll hold it down. now put it here I got it here I'll keep it right under the haters after your place let someone say hold it down I've been here too long to give up my place I've been preaching too much to give up my place you don't do something for 46 years and let a sideshow take your place the devil is alive this is possible I paid for this place I cried for this place I studied for this place I work for the place hold it down this is the place look this is the place where everything changes this is the place where darkness he becomes notoriety this is the place where his purpose is revealed this is the place where the yoke is broken this is the place take this out of affirmation he is affirmed in this place not only by God but by John you need someone else to affirm you besides you if you're the only person who thinks you're cool uh when John pointed it out and put it on the table, he made it relevant John took his influence and directed it toward Jesus when he said Behold the Lamb of God, he said to his crowd to look at it, that's a turning point, you have to be a pretty big person to use your influence and make another person look good, very few people will do that.

They prefer to write you a check. They give up some influence. This is the place where the crowd discovers Jesus. This is the place where the heavens open and the Holy Spirit floats down. It wasn't a pigeon, but that's the closest thing. a metaphor for how we describe how the holy spirit came down it is gentle it is not out of control if you have a spirit it got you out of control it is not the Spirit of God the spirit of God is a gentle spirit it does not take 20 people to hold it when it has God , the spirit of God is so the writer said: I need a metaphor to describe it because I can't explain how soft it felt at one point we were singing a song and we don't even know what verse.

He fell but the spirit simply descended like a dove. I began to pray with my intellect and suddenly the Holy Spirit took over. He descended like a dove. I can't teach it because I can't control it. If I can. I'm not telling you because I can't control it. I did not do it. I didn't make it. The Holy Spirit descended like a dove. It is a place of affirmation. It is a place where he extinguishes your enemies. It is a place where he extinguishes your enemies. A place where even your critics have to admit that kid's got a little oil in him.

It's a place where they have to recognize that you can do what you do how you do it and I don't mean just preaching whatever you do, if it's surgery. If it is medicine, if it is pulling teeth, there is something that God gave you that you can do as you like, although other people could do it, they went to the same school, took the same classes, took the same courses, but God put something inside you. that you have an instinct, not just information, you have an instinct that makes you be ahead and above others is because the Holy Spirit descended on you like a dove, this is a place and then, if that were not enough, its father He claimed him as his father.

Come on guys, his father said, that's my son, man, you've got the juice, it's you, let's look like your dad voicing your dad and the Earth voicing your dad there, no man has seen the dad at any time saying the son, but the son has revealed it, can I teach this class? Then he says, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased," so there is no question whether God is pleased with him, but the same spirit that anointed him took him into the wilderness. The reason we will text you is because sometimes when you are in the desert you think you did something wrong.

This desert is not your fault, it is not your punishment, it is your preparation, this is the place where God tests the authenticity of what he said in the Jordan because God says that I am not going to call you something that you cannot manifest, so I I'll lead you into the wilderness, but don't go into it feeling punished, oh, that's better than all of you screaming, yeah, the. The desert has been designed to place you in a category of exceptionalism. The wilderness is where I will use you to teach Satan. You are not like the first Adam and his three little tricks that he used in the garden will not work on you.

Say these three. tricks this is all she has in her bag the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of the light that is all she has in her bag she may have a different dress she may be wearing jeans she may be sagging But all of this is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, that is all there is in the world, we obsess over the details. God is talking about categories, the Bible said he tried at all points, as we still don't have it. sin, your body doesn't care if you ate banana pudding or chocolate cake, it's still calories, now we come face to face, how dare you like chocolate?

I like banana pudding, the best details that God doesn't care about are the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. They were in the garden with Eve, I don't have time for this. They were in the garden with Eve when he saw which was pleasing to the eyes when he saw that it was good to eat the desires of the flesh the desires of the eyes here is the prayer of life and the desire to make one wise this is how we all fail behind those three things the desires of the flesh the desires of your pride of life now the second man Adam has to face those same Three things must happen for him to be led by the spirit into the wilderness, so what I want you to come out of this is that I may be going through a desert, but that does not mean that I am not his beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.

The favor of God does not exempt from famines once again I see that you keep saying I thought I had the favor of God if I had the favor of God I would not have lost my job if I had the favor of God I would not have gone through this credit if I had the favor of God would not have this moment the two things have nothing to do with the other this is not punishment it is preparation so he took him to the desert because God has history with his desert Elijah reached him in this desert he taught Joshua how to lead in this desert established Israel as a nation in this desert God has history in this desert he met Rahab in this desert God is a desert God he is a rock in the desert he will put streams in the desert God is a god of the desert, you seek him in the sanctuary, but God walks in the desert, so I heard him say: I am a present help in problems, if you are not in trouble, you are not in God. because God is a present help in problems I want to talk to my people in trouble right now if you are in trouble you are not alone in them because God is a present help look this took him into the desert to be tempted to be tested to be tested to be proven not like God didn't know but so all his viewers would know he was legit they know you're legit by how you handle the pain if you can handle the power and you can't handle the pain you're not fit for the kingdom the bible says that if you put your hand to the plow and look back, you are not fit for the kingdom, face it and he went out and fasted for 40 days, now look, I can't.

Go figure, I'm going to be honest, obviously, I haven't fasted for 40 days and, respectfully, it doesn't look like you have. I love this new generation of church, the old church I grew up in when we fasted, you only had water. Your fans have ours like it works. I'm fast and I'm into Ezekiel fans. I'm a fan of Daniel. Fasting until six. Fasting from television. Fasting from porn. What type of fast is that? fast from Facebook, fast from Twitter, you all have these nice little fans that we have, we had the kind of fans where their jaws were sucking and they hoped they didn't have bad breath and they were afraid to eat a search because church come on, someone when we got on a fence it was a fad it was a vegetable fast it wasn't a Big Macs fast it wouldn't move on from fast food it was a fast fat it was a jaw disease and it was fast a fan with bulging eyes it was a fan where you came to church but you were weak it was a fan where you wanted to dance but if I couldn't say a word that's where it came from that I just waved my hand because when you were fast and you couldn't you couldn't dance alone Jesus fasted 40 days to tell his flesh no you will control me to tell his flesh there is something more powerful than your impulses to tell his flesh that I will I will not fall where Adam fell, although I feel what Adam feels.

I'm sorry enough to be touched by the feeling of your weakness, but I'm strong enough to win where you lose, because if I'm going to give you my victory and take on your failure I must maintain my victory or all we'll do is change sin. That's why you are wrong when you come against the devil in your righteousness because your righteousness is like a filthy rag. You have to come against the devil with the righteousness of God. That's why Paul teaches that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, he is my righteousness. I am completing I will never be complete in myself it seems to me that the devil should have attacked him while we were fasting but he knew that Jesus had too much integrity to break his fast so he waited until the fast was over when it was legal for him to eat.

He says there's no biblical reason you can't have something to eat, so if you're God's child, let's have something to eat. man, let's have some lunch, we're not going to the deli we don't have to go to the deli, turn this stone into bread, use your power to satisfy your need, turn something that isn't into something you want, now be calm. because some of you were sitting by a stone, I mean, you know it wasn't bread when you got married, you knew there was no bread, but you said: I'm going to turn it into bread, you can't turn it into bread, no. stone into bread you can't turn stones into bread Jesus said you won't tempt me to see Stones as bread are you tempted to see stones as it reads for the record stones are hard bread is soft have you married any heart trying to make ? because that is the Temptation that comes to you after fasting after you have exhausted yourself you cannot trust not to see the stones as bread he says I must not tell the Lord your God so he takes him to a high place and when he goes up to a high place he tells him he says shows himall the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them now I was in the high places around Nebo it is the same high place that Moses went to see the promised land he could not go to Mount Nebo it is high enough for you to see kilometers and kilometers you can see Jordan and Jerusalem how you can see Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from Mount Nemo you can see a lot of land but you can't see all the kingdoms, so he took him to a high place and showed him Beyond Sidelines what it would give him.

He showed him Jerusalem, the city that Moses was happy just to see. I may not get there with you, but I was able to see her. He knew what Jesus wanted before he showed it to him because satan will never tempt you with something you don't like quick story I was going through a test and this woman was calling us all the time early tonight a long time ago, years in our Mercy, already You know, the story, so don't worry, uh, at two in the morning, at three in the morning, she said she was going to die. my husband was going to die and we were going to get married all our children were going to die she was going to kill all of you all our children were going to die and we were going to get married and it was aggravating it was stressful and I called a spiritual mentor and I told him but what?

Do you think about this? She said, are you attracted to this woman? I said no and you don't love this woman at all. No, she said. She told me, Don't you think so? If the devil was going to tempt you he would tempt you with the woman you wanted so she asked me what do you feel when he calls I said rage she said that's the temptation so next time I call I want you to resist the rage and adoration I'm just saying this to help someone, so instead of getting angry and throwing threats at each other and threatening to hit her with the car and stuff like that because I was growing in the Lord, I was growing, I was growing, I was growing.

Don't judge me yet, so when she called again I said, oh, I bless you Lord, I bless you, I bless your Holy Name, there is no one like you, Lord, you are holy on earth, I give you glory and I give you. I honor you and I praise you and I lift you up and she started shouting maybe you are fighting the right devil with the wrong weapon Jesus is at the end of his fast and the enemy is now tempting him with the pride of life and by the way in that you are offering Jesus what is already his because the Earth is the lowest, the fullness of the world and those who live in it and how are you going to offer bread to bread when he is the bread of life, how you, The enemy is always offering you things.

You already have to count on not knowing it to need it and Jesus has been living life and let me tell you what it is to live life it's like going to Six Flags it's up and down you laugh and cry you scream and threaten the man let go of me I left I left this thing that's what I do I drink let me I said let me I don't care if I'm the middle right let me go if you don't want me to vomit on you you better let me go because you won't be able to get out of this because the trip it becomes difficult.

Jesus' first lesson for us is to teach us that moment in which you are being affirmed by man and by God. and the next moment you are in the desert on the fast of your life and that is normal, one moment you are talking to your father and the next moment you are fighting with your devil and that is normal, one moment you are reconciling with your friend and the next moment you are alone, that's life, that's normal, fast faith and transition, yes you keep waiting for Faith to stop the movement, you must have faith in the movement, life is going to do what life is going to do and that doesn't mean that you don't have faith and that doesn't mean that God is judging you just because you are in a desert, by the way, a desert is a dry place, very few things grow there.

A desert is a place of isolation. A desert is a place. of unpredictable temperatures it's hotter than fire during the day it's very cold at night you can't dress for it you can't prepare for it you have to survive some of you are in a desert are you living in a city but you're in a desert you have a nice condo but you are in a desert you have two kids and a dog but you are in a desert you are in a desert right now because nothing is growing and nothing is moving and it is dry and you are alone and you wonder where is God who opened the Heavens on last month now I'm in the desert and that's why I had to preach this message because we only see God in the Magnificent, we don't see God in the mundane but God reveals himself in the mundane The wild places in your life anyone needs this you can see to God when the choir is singing and everyone is shouting you can see God just fine but you can't see God when you're driving home from a job you lost you can't see God when the doctor says you have a lump in your breast you can't see God God when the beginning says we will take your child out of school and you have nowhere to put him you needed him to go to school because it was good for him but it was also good for you and now you have this crop thief at home doing nothing, no one cares for him and his actions have made your life difficult talk to Me, someone, have you ever had someone's life make your life difficult and you're trying to figure out what you're going to do?

Where is God in my desert? And by the way, the fast is over, why am I under attack now? Bring me here and show me all the kingdoms, the lust of the eyes that you will give me if I only bow down to you, but it is written that I must only serve the Lord my God and I will have no other gods before me. Although I am hungry and although I am weak and although I will weep over Jerusalem I will not bow before the vigils of Jerusalem and that is why the Bible says that just as Jesus experienced in the desert he continued to be weak from fasting but without falling, now he is against it. the rocks now he is against the rocks now everyone will not understand that phrase against the rocks but Jesus is now against the rocks I am against the rocks I can't walk anymore I can't talk anymore I can't Don't pray any harder and a writer says that Jesus is against the rocks and watches in the presence of the Beast, so the beasts are waiting for him to die because we see him as the Savior, but to see him as dinner, you must understand that you see yourself. as a person, but many people see you as an opportunity and are just waiting to trap you against the rocks, so Jesus is against the rocks and the wild beasts are waiting for him to pass out and then the Bible says the angels came. and the Angels ministered to him.

They did not say anything when he was on the mountain. The Angels did not say anything while he was fasting. The Angels did not say anything while he was tempted. against the rocks that know that the beasts are waiting for me and see me as dinner I know what it's like to see the glow the red glow of the enemy's eyes saying I have you where I want you and I'm going to get you out I know what it's like to come at the most moment inconvenient when I'm tired and I'm at my weakest and I'm hungry and I've been fasting I know what it's like for the enemy to come at the most vulnerable moment of your life and say I'm coming to kill, but I also know what it's like for angels to Come in and rescue me from things.

I know what it is like when the enemy comes like a flood the spirit of the Lord will raise a banner against him I know what it is like for God to show up at the time of your Calamity because the Bible says that the angels of the Lord camp over those who fear and He will show them His Covenant and I want to tell you right now that your angels are on their way I know you are tired I know you have been against the Rocks I know it has been harder than it should have been, I know you have run out of food and without strength and without friends and without companionship and I know that your life seems schizophrenic, that it is the best of times and the worst of times, but your angels are on the way and if you take this out of the message, you will understand the full message.

God is not going to see his children now against the rocks and he will not rescue them, hey, we have a God who will send angels that will come to you. in all directions and in case you don't believe it, let me get some witnesses. The reason the car accident didn't kill you is because the Angels had your back. The reason you got Bible material that other people drowned in is because the Angels covered you. I go up a little more the reason you got the job was not your degree there were people who had more credentials but they did not have more favor that when God prepares to minister to you God will minister to you and the reason why they are here right now the angels are in your desert I can't get you out of the desert but I can't get your angels out either.

I want you to know that you can learn in any state you are in to remain content if I am in the Jordan, whether on the mountain, whether in the desert, the only constant thing is that the angels are always there. You don't seem to understand what I'm saying, but angels surround you. Right now I'm glad if you want to wear a mask. I'm glad if you put yourself on PPP. I'm glad if you wear special clothes. I don't care what you have in your greatest force field, it's that the angels of The Lord camp around you and I don't want to insult you, but the reason you haven't lost your mind is not because you haven't had a trauma, but that when your mind was becoming unstuck, the angels of the Lord had remained around you and When your enemy was watching you and searching for your position, it was the angel of the Lord that entered the meeting room and took back your job and if there is Someone here who should praise God is the people who have angels in their desert, yes.

Yes, go ahead and scream because you wore Gucci shoes, but I'm going to scream because I have angels in the desert. Go ahead and scream because you just got married, but I'm going to scream because I have angels in the desert. Go ahead and scream because you have a four-bedroom house, but I'll stay in this efficient one-bedroom sweep and give God the glory because I've never been alone. You go ahead and shout because you think it's wonderful, but I'm shouting because I'm healthy and coming with the blood you go ahead and shout because you have an official headquarters I'm working from home but I'm still giving praise to God because every time the devil thinks what has me God sends angels in my desert I want you to take 30 seconds and praise him the angels know that God is there yes yes yes I am praising him because I am recognizing that I was never alone clap your hands and give God for glory yes look at seven people tell them I have angels I have angels don't mess with me I have angels I have angels I have angels I have angels I have angels I have angel I have angels I have angels around me I have angels watching my house I have angels watching my car I have angels watching my mind I have angels watching my peace I have angels watching over my joy I have angels covering me I thank you for my angels Hallelujah said angels He said Angels sometimes they look like people sometimes they didn't look like anything I could see but God sent angels to take risks for God be the glory for God be the glory to God to God to God be the glory for the things he has done to God be the glory my story should end up like this but to God be the glory they tried to eat me for dinner but to come God be the glory I thought I could make it but to God be the glory in closing today I'm just trying to make you aware of how blessed you are how good God has been to you how you didn't get over this because you were smart sometimes things stared at you that you didn't even know were staring at you in the presence of the Beast God bless you in the presence of enemies God bless you in the presence of haters God bless you in the presence of Envy God bless you in the presence of Tricks God bless you in the presence of Witchcraft God bless you in the presence of people who try to overthrow you God bless you bless you in the presence of rumors God bless you in the presence of office politicians God bless you in the presence of people playing God bless our preaching to someone in the presence of all hell Luke God bless you and what God is trying to figure out is how Can you just stand there with your lips stuck together and act like I wasn't good to you when I brought you here with my right hand and my holy arm?

Otherwise, no one else praises me in this building. I did too much. Your life so that you would not give me prayer. They may not know how good I can be, but I know you know how good I was. I was watching one of those crazy TV shows where they do crazy things like jump out of a helicopter with tangled chains. or they open their mouths and eat worms and are the show's disclaimer. Don't try this on your own. I want to tell you this morning as we close, don't try this, don't try this, no, no, no. try this just because you came in at a time when I was on the mountain don't try this on your own mountains are made of valleys don't try this because you came in and saw the text but didn't see the context don't try this because of three years of fame after 18 years of silence.

I think you're going to go past the 18 and get all three. If you go past 18 and get all three, you can't handle the pressure that comes with it. all three are the 18 of being ignored prepare you for what God is going to do next everyone stands up do you feel me do you feel me do you feel this morning do you feel me online do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth, don't try this on your own. Was looking. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I was watching the show and they made people get on a helicopter and they failed towardsback and you're supposed to keep your back straight and your head through the water, if you bent your back the water would feel like cement, you could pass out or break your neck.

The first thing I knew is that I didn't want to be on that show, yeah, that's the The first thing I know, the second thing I understood is that only certain types of people are inclined to take certain types of risks and I wasn't going to be jealous of something. which I am not prepared for, so stop envying what God gave someone. more and onlyI appreciate what God has equipped me for. Am I preaching to them? I say I can't do what you do. I love you but I can't do what you do. If I could do what you do, I would have done it and I don't have to.

I come here and try to do it now, if I didn't do it before, I probably can't do it, no, no, not on the field, not even on the dance floor, but only because I don't have what you have. "It doesn't mean I have nothing, yeah, so the reason I'm gracious enough to let him and Smith be in Miss Memphis is because I'm happy to be TD Jakes when you learn to be happy to be who God created you to be." be you". I'll be free, listen to me, well let me tell you why it's not working for you right now, it's not like you go through the desert, wait, we don't go through, we go through all the same deserts, that's not the problem, I'm not. trying to say if you come to Jesus your wilderness didn't end for Jesus so it won't end for you, how can I take a Jesus who walked through a wilderness and teach the gospel that denies the wilderness?

The desert comes to everyone, but not angels. Angels only come to those who fear it. That word, fear, means reverence. People who revere God have angels. And I'm going to tell you right now, life will always bring its desert. It will bring it to the young people. He will bring it to the older people, he will take it to the white people, he will take it to the black people, he will take it to the brown people, he will take it to the rich, stop idolizing the rich, if he had money, everything would be fine. I know a lot of crazy rich people.

I know rich people crazy as a bug and a bottle of rubiness comes to everyone, but angels only come to those to whom the father sends them.