Bishop Jakes: "You Came in the Middle of My Movie"

Bishop Jakes emphasized the need for our understanding of THE PROCESS.

He warned that many in this generation expect everything to be BIG and come easy. But that's not how it goes. You have to work for everything. And there's a process to go through.

"You all came in the middle of my movie," he said, "when I was driving a Bentley. You weren't there in the beginning, when we were selling ribs just to keep the lights on in our house."

Again and again, he warned us that it is very dangerous to think that we could or should ever skip the process.

He stressed the reality of the cost of ministry. Ministry affects everyone and everything in our lives. We make mega sacrifices to do it, and he admonished us to think twice before getting into the ministry if we weren't prepared to count the cost.