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You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.

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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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Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.
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To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.
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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.
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Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.
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I think we have to find a leader who reflects all of our concerns and not just some of them.
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Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.
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Any great teacher is a great student.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.
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I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.
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Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
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Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.
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I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.
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I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.
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God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's nutritious word. Beyond that, we must trust the word to take it's effect. It will work faster in some people than in others. the spiritual body grows and metabolizes food at different rates much like the natural body does.
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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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There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.
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Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.
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