Bishop T.D. Jakes gives you proof positive that God not only supplies you with everything you need, but your heavenly Father wants to bless you with refreshing water that will sustain you throughout any wilderness experience.
According to Bishop Jakes, “Spiritually we must find a place where the Lord can minister to us in our wilderness-a place where He can instruct us about what to do next. The wilderness is a place of dying, where all the things that cause you to stumble in your walk with God are killed.”
Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert (Isaiah 35:6).
Find your special place in the wilderness where God will drench you in His life-giving water-you will break forth with a renewed and courageous spirit!
Bishop T.D. Jakes is the author of the bestsellers God's Leading Lady; The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lord; Maximize the Moment; The Great Investment; His Lady; Woman, Thou art Loosed (the film of which won the Best Film Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival) and He-Motions. His daily morning show The Potter's Touch and weekly broadcast The Potter's House air on Trinity Broadcasting Network and Black Entertainment Television, as well as in Europe and South America. Bishop Jakes is the founder and pastor of The Potter's House, one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation, where he leads an interracial congregation of more than 28,000 members. He lives in Dallas with his wife and five children.
I have read a lot of T.D. Jakes books, so I always love hearing from this Pastor/Teacher/Author! I read the TBN Special Edition to "God's Provision for Your Every Need." This is a very small book. Only 95 pages in length. This book talks about finding provision, strength and resources even in the wilderness season in your life. There is one chapter that specifically talks about the wilderness before the inheritance. Jakes writes about maintaining victory even through the trials. My book has a 'thoughts and reflections' section after every chapter - blank pages for me to write down my notes. Jakes encourages those going through a difficult time to learn the power of praise and worship and to develop a deep trust for the Lord's plan. I liked Chapter 6 "No wind. No rain. Just water" where Jakes talks about unexpected miracles happening without warning. My book contains bonus materials, sharing chapter 1 of Jakes books: "Woman, Thou Art Loosed", "Can You Stand to be Blessed?" and "Naked and Not Ashamed." I would recommend this book for anyone going through a hard time and in need of some encouragement!
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Excellent book. If you need to read a book that will encourage you emotionally and spiritually, this is the book for you. I have followed Bishop Jakes and his message is not only to love people as commanded by God, also help people in their time of need especially in this economy.
I was so excited when i started to read this book, i just had to share it with some friends. It has so much good stuff in it. I highly recommend it. It will help you see things differently, and so, hopefully get free to be all you were meant to be. Loved it.
For those of you who do not know this author, T.D. Jakes is an African-American preacher who is the founder of The Potter’s House, a non-denominational megachurch in Dallas, Texas. Born and raised in Charleston, West Virgina, he became a minister at the age of 25 and started a storefront church in 1982. After a few years and a continually growing congregation, he moved to Dallas, where he now resides and pastors an organization that boasts 30,000 members. His sermons are televised on such networks as Trinity Broadcasting Network and Black Entertainment Television as The Potter’s Touch. He also has a production company that publishes his many books and has produced several movies. Though claiming to be non-denominational, his teachings are actively conservative, and he has been targeted by LBGTQ+ activists as being hostile to transgender rights. This book, however, does not reflect that attitude. It is a book heavy on symbolism, most of which anyone who is not versed in the Christian lexicon will have trouble understanding. Basically, it talks about God putting water (help and encouragement) into our deserts (problems and circumstances). Though the sheer volume of this symbology can get monotonous, this is a relatively short book and so readable in spite of the repetitiveness of its theme. One thing that I did appreciate is the way that Jakes writes. He does not use large multisyllable words or theological arguments to get his point across. He writes as if he were simply sitting in front of the reader attempting to explain something, though, as previously stated, heavy in Christian terminology. This is a good book for a Christian who is going through tough times and looking for something to tell them it will get better. For anyone else, it may be something of a confusing read.
I listened to this as an audio book. It is a short book, but I enjoyed it a lot. I think I would have enjoyed it more as a paper copy that I could underline, fold pages, and go back and reread