Bishop TD Jakes - In Harmony With God

0:00Coming up on The Potter's Tech. If you can come into agreement, you can do anything. So anytime there's more than you, Satan will test it with divisions to limit your power and stop your anything. So the moment you take a partner, get married, take a group, make a family, join a committee, get on a board, join a church, the moment you do it, Satan will send division. And the reason he sends division is because he knows the power of unity. This is The Potter's Touch. Greetings, friends, in the name of Jesus Christ our King. I'm blessed and delighted to have an opportunity to share this word with you, quality word. Not come to come from me, come to come from me, came from God. The message today is called, in harmony with God. Before you can be in harmony with other people,

1:01not to be in harmony with God. You're trying to get along with people and you're not in fellowship with God. Let me show you how to get in fellowship with God. And then he would show you how to get in fellowship with the people. It takes God to get along with people. Go to Acts 2 chapter 1, and let me show you how to get in harmony with God. And if you read the first chapter of Acts, the last disciple he mentions in the list is Judas. But it's not Judas Iscariot. It's Judas the Brother of James. Poor Brother of James. This is a bad name, a bad time to have the name Judas. Yeah, because Judas has messed up things. Judas Iscariot has messed things up so bad that going forward, Judas the Brother of James always is referred to as Judas the Brother of James to give him distinction from Judas Iscariot. Judas Iscariot is the guy who failed to be a good disciple, failed to do a transaction with the Roman soldiers,

2:04tried to kill himself and tried to hang himself and failed at that. Robes snapped and his guts filled out. Wasn't good at anything. But he was perfect at his purpose. People that you think that aren't good for anything are perfect at their purpose. Remember that Jesus picked Judas. Jesus couldn't have made a mistake. Judas was perfect at his purpose. Can I teach you a little bit more? He is the son of tradition. God, he is the son of tradition. You never in the Bible will see anybody else call the son of tradition except the Antichrist. So many people would suggest that he is the early embodiment of the Antichrist and that the Antichrist who will appear again,

3:04will appear even as Christ will appear again, that he is the continuation of Judas Iscariot. And it is plausible seeing as Satan cannot create. He can imitate, but he cannot create. Because if he could create, he would be a creator which would make him a God. He can imitate, but he cannot create. And everything he ever did is something he's done before. So his appearance in the Antichrist, as Judas requires an encore as the Antichrist, Judas was perfect at what he was chosen to do. That's the way you've got to look at the bad things that happen in your life. They were perfect at what they were chosen to do. Push me into my destiny,

4:04shake my personality, move me from faith to faith, help me out of my comfort zone. Made me have to trust God. Made me have to become self-reliant. I'm so glad you were in my life. You were chosen to hurt me. You were chosen to betray me. When you betrayed me, you liberated me. Thank you for being the hater you've been in my life. You all understand what I'm saying to you. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Stop being mad. Stop being angry. Stop being upset. Take it, God, for everything that you went through. In all things, give thanks to good, the bad, the ugly. Say, Lord, I thank you. I learned something. I couldn't have learned any other way. I was exposed to things. I couldn't have been exposed to any other way. I learned that I had more power than I thought I had. I thought I'd lost my mind going through that. I'm stronger than I thought I was. I'm tougher than I thought I was.

5:04Let me hurry on. See, if you go to Acts 2 and step over Acts 1, you miss the process that they went through of being in harmony with God. They had to get in harmony with God. So by the time they listen to Judas, the brother of James, they say, oh, wait a minute. That reminds me, we're down to 11. So we got to get restoration. We lost something. Give me back what I lost. So they say they chose by the drawing of straws another disciple in the original language. It says another of a different kind. This is interesting from when you refer to the Holy Spirit, you refer to the Holy Spirit in Greek as alos paracletes,

6:06another of the same kind. Saying that the Holy Spirit is another of the same kind of Christ. Now when they're picking another disciple to replace Judas, they don't say alos paracletes because we do not want another of the same kind. How many of you have been through something, but you don't want another of the... I thank you for my lesson, but that's enough of that. Been there done that. If I get to pick again, I do not want another of the same kind. So I want another of a different kind. I want another of a different kind. They cast lots. They pull lots and choose Matthias to continue the succession

7:07of the bishopry. Matthias has chosen. The criteria of being chosen. They said, we want somebody who was eyewitness to the resurrection of our Lord. We want somebody who was there, the deathbill in the resurrection. We want somebody who was there at moments who has a personal stockiness. And there must have been several people that met the criteria because they had to come into agreement as to who was to be chosen. If there was only one person who met the criteria, you don't choose lots when there's just one. They mentioned a guy named Justice who is a possible candidate who meets the criteria. But there must have been several who fit within the group. What do you do when you've got a hard choice? And there's many options. You don't know what to do. See, they're trying to bring their team into some sort of harmony. Because no doubt what I'm saying. I want justice. Well, Willie James would fit it. What about Matthew? What about Paul Rogers? It's a way. Because we cannot have pentacrossed in disagreement.

8:11Thank you for the 10 days you gave us to get our eye together. So we can figure out how to move forward as a team. See, sometimes God didn't give you what you want when you wanted. So you have time to bring yourself into agreement so that you align and ready to move forward in your life. So praise God for the space between the promise and the performance of that promise. Because grace lives in the gap. Oh, God, I wish I had time. Grace. See, see, I'm trying to get to God. Let me show you this. I'm trying to get to God. But I fall short of reaching Him. I'm trying to reach His brother right now. But I'm falling short. And like I fall short as being a child. I fall short as being a child of God. I fall short of God's righteousness. But don't worry about when I fall short.

9:11Because grace lives in the gap. Grace always lives in the gap between my effort and God's requirement. Grace lives in the gap. So don't go from 40 to 50 because grace is in the gap. Grace giving me time to get it together. Grace giving me time to settle old grievances. Grace giving me time to pick out where do I go from here. Grace delivers me from gazing upward when I ought to be walking outward. Grace giving me time to get my head on straight, get my focus back, get myself together. Lord, I thank You for grace. I thank You for the gap. I thank You for the difference between my effort and Your ability. I thank You that You taught me to stretch. And even when I stretch, I'm limited. But You make up the difference between my limited and Your ability that You attribute good and good to the tablespoon. Thank You for the gap in my life.

10:13Thank You for the gap in my life. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Thank You for everything you made. Thank You for the gap in my life. Amen, amen. So they have had some time to deal with some old issues to stop them from being divided before they have restarted, there has to be unity, there has to be agreement. Watch this because I'm just now getting to the good stuff. It's about to get good now. Because I want you to understand that Satan is a divider. Okay? God is a multiplier. Satan is a divider. God tells Abraham, surely blessings I will bless thee of multiplying, I will multiply thee. God is a multiplier. Give me the two fish and five loaves of bread. I'm God, I'll multiply. God is a multiplier. Satan is a divider. A house divided against itself shall not stand. Satan is a divider.

11:13So wherever there is the hope of unity, Satan sends division. Because if you can come into agreement, you can do anything. If you can come into agreement, you can do anything. So anytime there's more than you, Satan will test it with divisions to limit your power and stop your anything. So the moment you take a partner, get married, take a group, make a family, join a committee, get on a board, join a church, the moment you do it, Satan will send division. And the reason he sends division is because he knows the power of unity. So, and here's how you play into his hand. He sends division so that you will fight the individual

12:18and not the issue. Still to come on the potter's touch. God said that's what I've been waiting for. And as soon as you get with one accord, now I'm going to roll back the heavens. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven. I don't know who I'm preaching to today. But God said he's ready to make the sound. He's ready to release the healing. He's ready to release the blessing. He's ready to open up the door. He's ready to make the way. He's ready to move the mountain. He's ready to release the glory. Megafess 2015 is more than a festival. It's an experience. This is Megafess. From August 19th to the 23rd, Megafess is taking over Dallas, then extravaganza for the whole family. And 100% pure fun. There is something for everyone. Visit Megafess.com to find event updates

13:19and to make reservation. This experience is one you don't want to miss. Unity, one that's saying this. And then the day of pinnacles will fully come and they will be in one place with one accord. Now, they have come into one accord having just resolved the issue about Judas. They couldn't have come to one accord with Judas. Because Judas was off key. He was off key because he had another purpose. His purpose was not to preach the gospel. His purpose was to expose the gospel,

14:19but not to preach the gospel. So when he came over and kissed Jesus on his head, he had accomplished his purpose because he exposed the gospel. He wouldn't call the priest the gospel. When you have Judasis, whether it is Judas within you, or Judas connected to you, or Judas in your group, it doesn't mean you can't sing the song, but it just means that when everybody doesn't have the same agenda, it sounds like this. And every hand of this old lamb, this old lamb, this old lamb, every hand of this old lamb, it's free for white and gold. Same song.

15:22They're all singing the same song, y'all. They're singing the same lyrics. They've got the same vocal inflection, but because all of them had a different agenda, it was disturbing to the ears because there is a definite sound because they are disconnected in terms of purpose. So the damn Pentecost cannot fully come until we eradicate the Judasis out of our lives and we all come into agreement. We can't even have the damn Pentecost while you're trying to promote your guy. And I'm trying to promote my guy and she's trying to promote her guy. So whatever we've got to do, we've got to pass large roll dice. We've got to come into agreement or we won't have Unison. Sing it again in Unison. Sing it in Unison. That's the way you want your life to sound.

16:41That's the way you want your insides to sound. That's the way you want, when you lay down at night, that's the way you want to go to bed at night. When you get up in the morning, that's the way you want to get up in the morning. You want to be at peace with yourself. To be at peace with yourself is to be at one with yourself. Not yourself trying to do this, well your other self is trying to do this, and I'm trying to be this, but I'm trying to be that. No, no, no. You want to be at one with you. That's Unison. I got one more thing to show you and I'll be done. The problem with my illustration is that the Bible does not use the word Unison. It says that they are with one accord. There is a difference between a cord and a note. Everything that we just showed you in Unison is multiple people singing one note, but that one note is not accord.

17:41It's a melody. And when you come together as a team with people, everybody doesn't have the same range. And see, we got some parameters up there. We got altos up there. We got tenors up there. And even though they all sang in Unison, it was difficult for them to do it because they don't all have the same range. So somebody struggled to sing that in the key of C in Unison. They had to compromise being at their best because it really wasn't within their range to reach Unison. Come on with me, somebody. Your problem is that you're trying to get your team to have Unison because the synergy of your ability having worked by yourself historically creates the idea that everybody can sing your note.

18:41So you forced me into acting like you in order to be on your team because you have no appreciation for my range. The difference between a C note and a C chord is that a C chord allows me to sing in harmony with the key of C, but do it within the context of my range. So that means that harmony means I can be different as long as I fit. I know you didn't come from music class, but I'm after something. Now, in the key of C, there are no sharps or flats. And the reason that they sounded so bad before was that they started singing sharps and flats in the key of C.

19:42You cannot sing sharps and flats in the key of C, and it still be the key of C. When the person on the piano hit the note C, that meant that you cannot do B flat, you cannot do A flat, you cannot do G flat, all of those notes are not lawful in that key. In order to have harmony, and you're going to be in form a chord, you can hit a C, you can hit a E, you can hit a G, and now you got a chord. There are different notes that harmonize to produce a certain sound. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So what I'm telling you is, while I appreciate the distinctiveness of your differences, you must understand that you cannot be so different that you violate my purpose. Touch your neighbor and say, you got 10 days to get into. You got 10 days to get into. You got to take your unique range and ability, but it's got to fit within the complexity,

20:48or where I'm trying to go, or we're not going to get from heaven, what we want from heaven, if we don't have the right sound on earth that we need to make. Come on somebody, tell your neighbor it's all about sound. It's all about sound, it's all about pitch, it's all about sound. You can't, you can't sing it right if you don't hear it right. The reason the pianist plays the key of C first is because they can't sing any better than they can hear. There are some folks that can't sing, not because they don't have vocal chords. The problem is not in their throat, the problem is in their ear. If you don't hear right, you can't make the right sound. Come on somebody, give me five more minutes, I'm going to walk you with this. Glory to God, glory to God. I'm going to explain to you why so many people had to fall off and fall out and walk away and to search you and leave you

21:50because God is getting ready to bring you into your 50th day experience with God so you can get with one of chords. And will the day of Pentecost was fully come and they were in one place. They had gotten rid of their Judasis. They had stopped their disagreements. They had recognized their ranges. They had appreciated their distinctions and they were with one accord. The Holy Ghost said, I can't come and make a sound from heaven until you make the right sound on earth. But when you make the right sound on earth, I can release the sound from heaven. When they were with one accord, slap your neighbor and say suddenly, there came a sound from heaven. God said, I want to release my sound in your life, but I'm waiting for you to be with one accord.

22:56And as soon as you get with one accord, I'm going to release a suddenly blessing. Swap your neighbor and say suddenly. That's how fast your life is going to turn around. That's how fast your situation is going to turn around. That's how fast God can heal your body. That's how fast God can bring you out. That's how fast God can break that curse. That's how fast God can turn it around. That's how fast God can restore your joy. That's how fast God can give you your house. That's how fast God can bring you out. When the day of Pentecost was fully come and they were in one place with one accord. The word accord is the musical term. It means that when they finally came in harmony with their purpose and their destiny, when they finally came in harmony with what God had called them to do,

23:59when they finally came in harmony, and recognized Judas from Judas, when they finally came in harmony, understood the purpose of women in the kingdom, when they finally came in harmony, recognized who they were in Christ Jesus. God said, that's what I've been waiting for. And as soon as you get with one accord, now I'm going to roll back the heavens. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven. I don't know who I'm preaching to today. But God said, he's ready to make the sound. He's ready to release the healing. He's ready to release the blessing. He's ready to open up the door. He's ready to make the way. He's ready to move the mountain. He's ready to release the glory. But he's waiting on you to be with one accord. Ah, I got to stop there.

24:59It's been a real joy to have the opportunity to pour into your heart the Word of God. When you are in harmony with God, He empowers you to be in harmony with purpose and with people. And even how to deal with problems is so important. So it's such a... You're never going to live in a world that has no problems. Not 2015, not 2016, not 2017. Everything's going to have problems. If you don't want to have problems, you have to go into grave. As long as you're on this side of the grave, you're going to deal with stuff. You can deal with it without it overpowering you. That's what leadership is all about. That's what responsibility is all about. Take charge of it, handling it. Join me this year at our International Path to Leadership Conference. Let me show you how to make the best of even bad situations. April 30th, who made the second, I want you to be there and your team or cluster in nucleus of people that you rely on, that you delegate to in your life, bring them to. Even if you have not been appointed to a position yet, but you feel it bubbling on the inside

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27:59That's not me. I got to be myself. You are out of tune. You are out of tune. You are out of tune. You will not get there going your own thing. You will only get there when you run them. But what God has created to you. This is the Father's touch me.