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God's not going to promote you because you have a dream, He's going to promote you because you've maximized where you are so now you're ready to go to the next level.

T. D. Jakes

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
Priest
Writer
South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
Sr.
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Next
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Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.
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If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
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There’s something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.
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Set the goal to harvest what's in you rather than having a car, house or a relationship.
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I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
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My views about hell are very traditional.
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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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Don't try to change the package more than you try and change the product.
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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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