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Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.

T. D. Jakes

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
Sr.
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Faith

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I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.
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I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
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You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.
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I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.
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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.
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The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.
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The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
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Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.
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Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.
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The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.
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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.
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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.
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It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.
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There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.
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You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.
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