It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
T. D. JakesYou cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.
T. D. JakesWhen you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
T. D. JakesBaptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.
T. D. JakesWorship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
T. D. JakesIf you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match Godโs will? If you arenโt, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.
T. D. Jakes