Project Gideon 2014: General Session Four with Bishop Jakes (and Pastor Chris Hill)

PROJECT GIDEON

GENERAL SESSION 4

February 14, 2014

BISHOP TD JAKES

Conversation with Chris Hill

--Pastor Chris Hill, to Bishop Jakes

--"Today I am what you trained me to be"

--7 busses and 2 planes from Denver to Dallas

--Trust is a 2 way street

--relationships are about reciprocity; can't take and not give; can't reap if you don't sow

--if you sow it, you can reap it back

--the importance of a mentor, father figure in ministry

--while he was developing his team, I loaned him my team

--what we must model in church and family relationships:  father; mentor

--Bishop:  I left early so I wouldn't be a distraction to his moment; he chased me down to check on me; he left his moment

--his heart is in the right place

--it does not have to be Saul and David

--no hidden motive or agenda; his heart was in the right place

--bible:  I will turn hearts back to the father, back to the son

--if distrust gets in between you, then all communication is gone

--to get what you need, you have to give what the other person needs

--if you sow it in, you will reap it back

--love father figure in the way he wants to be loved

--you can be yourself and still be related to your father

--having a good helpmate is real important; sometimes all you have is each other

--I have many sons

--understand; your opportunities are so much bigger than your circle

--you can be struggling in one arena; established and rejected in an area; the body of Christ is so much bigger than your circle

--if I left and you just got together, the ppl in here, just talked and supported each other

--you have no right to complain about lack of support from elders when you do not support each other

--I hope you change:  becoming more relational, less competitive; you cannot be relational if you are competitive

--no room for hatred, maliciousness

--you can disagree and not be disagreeable

--the doors you're trying to get open; 

--some of the ppl you're knocking down to get to me have as many members as I do

--connect outside of your clique; expose yourself to fresh perspective

--edify the body; not just head; every joint, tendon, body is build through connection

--you have to invest in relationships

--both of us, mutual exchange

--do not assume that what you call important is what I call important

--love is a sacrifice

--love me like I want to be loved, like I need loved

--having each other's back is important

--you will not survive if you don't say anything

--if you interconnected with ppl in this room, your calendar would be full all year; all over the world if you never left this room; some of the strongest churches n America--IN THIS ROOM

--you don't know each other; get out of comfort zone

--KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING

--some of you been plowing for 10 years and plowing and plowing; maybe that's not the place for you

--The earth is the Lord's, the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein

--Your walls can tear down the walls between Christians

--Get past the walls

--Reach more ppl, 

--I want your mind to expand

--70% of ppl on internet are non black

--I want to shatter the glass ceiling about who might love you

--color, doctrine, I call ppl, BROADENING to understand the evolution of ministry

--EVOLVING, as person and leader and minister

--Bishop's new book, get my back

--develop webpage where we can connect all year

--build relationships; fishing out of this room

--I want to go from being on the platform to being a platform for the next generation

--my heart is huge, bigger than my belly

--I want to help you win, because all you've built will die for us

--I've worked too hard for everything to go down with me

--I want this legacy to continue

--I want you to win; when you win, I win too

--You have to be excellent in eery way; orator and leader

--speaker and thinker; be excellent in every way; 

--ore than just being on stage; it's infrastructure; can you manage relationships around you

--you can't be a truce breaker and break covenant; stewards of secrets

--you will see ppl's mistakes; be mature enough to keep your mouth shut

--keep your mouth shut

--whatever was going on, 

--don't ever bit the hand that feeds you so you can entertain your boys; don't disclose information

--Some of you have great talent but you talk too much

--don't name drop; don't tell things

--your mouth can close doors for you

--this generation:  some go big and crash; we went for a life time; you have to manage relationships

--requires wisdom; shut your mouth

--some of you just getting started and you talk like ppl like a dog; you are closing doors; whatever you say gets back

--you wonder why ppl are acting funny around you; they have heard what you said

--SHUT UP,  "Finally, my brethren, SHUT UP"

--some of you have giftings but you don't have the habit to go to the next level. You must have the habits of champions

--not about impressing the fellows; you are more interested in impressing your peers

--"In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength"

--You don't have long term relationships if you have loose lips

--Some of your habits are closing your circle; only ppl you can run with are ppl who do what you are into; club to ppl; all of you have the same sickness and you hang out and preach to each other

--depending on what's wrong with you is who you hang with; porch of Bethesda

--get off the porch and get to the pool; will not make it to pool if you hang out on the porch

--you have to be comfortable w ppl who are strong in areas you are weak in

--Bishop:  stats, when build low income get ghettos; more effective, mixed neighborhoods; school system better; school system evolves through exposure

--you cannot evolve in area where you are under exposed

--are you mature enough tho handle the blessing

--do you have the emotional intelligence to function where your gift can carry you

--called to further the vision; when asked to speak somewhere; don't come to my church and start collecting numbers

--bypassed me and built bond with children? ; the minute you do that, tells me I brought you too high

--if you start bonding with my members, you are telling me not to call you back

--don't enter into gossip

--I've got the key to your next engagement

--need to be managed mentality; they still think as if they are under

--can God trust you with elevation? can you move into new streams of God; can you manage what you see

--all ppl are flawed

--same grace extended to you, extend to someone else and SHUT YOUR MOUTH

--if your dates are going down and down; something else you're doing, saying, being said, polluting your opportunities

--you had enough to get in the door but not enough character to maintain the journey

--character and morals are two different things

--showed up late, indifferent,

--I'm trying to mentor you; you have to have discretion; part of being professional

--character/morals so bad?  exposing sheep to wolves.  

--you can't have a boyfriend in every city

--you have to decide which desire is strongest

--you cannot be Apostle Johnson w/ sexy pictures

--I know you feel the fire; conflict inside of you; I know the struggle between sensual and spiritual; hero and human

--most ppl deeply spiritual are deeply sensual

--Light so shine before men that they see your good words and glorify  your Father

--problems with brand: doing too many things.  

--Confused audience in how you present yourself; everyone has sexy side

--every generation thinks they are endowed with super sexiness; but before we got this pot belly, we got you

--MANAGE YOURSELF

--you can't put out all of those signals; can't put your face on for preaching and pose for porn; 

--YOU MUST DECIDE WHO YOU ARE

--every one has urges; it's not just you

--I begged The Lord not to call me

--you are asking a crippled man to run a race

--you know I'm defective; you can't use me

--Lord, why don't you call oe of those good ppl; holy ppl; you know me, I'm gonna mess this up, Jesus

--I'm thinking there are ome ppl that are good

--I didn't know he didn't have any

--There's no one good but the father; all of us are infected with human nature; sinful nature

--we are all infected by sin

--we all got it; BRING YOURSELF INTO ALIGNMENT WHERE YOUR LIGHT SHINES BEFORE MEN

--in truth, you're managing the same struggles we all have; you have to manage so you can have the opportunity

--make it a little easier for your husband to be faithful;

--emotionally and physically empty

--dont' hit them at front door with problems, bills,

--don't allow them to come from clapping crowd to nagging house

--you are the keeps of his flame

--if you do nothing but keep him oiled...that's a ministry too!  

--May the power of God overshadow you; move in your giftings without guilt 

--When they come home, they want to be ministered too; don't want to come home and minister too

--your spouse needs someplace he or she can be human; 

--ppl need to hear this; if someone would've said this

--marriage is for earth, not heaven; it's for here

--marriage ministers to the man I am, not the preacher I am

--you're getting ready to go somewhere

--I believe God is taking you somewhere beyond your norm; bigger than where you came from 

--follow instincts; they will lead you to your destiny

--you may not be where you are supposed to be yet

--I walked around like I was a Bishop; they just didn't know it yet

--my instincts were somewhere I had not evolved yet

--I am inclined to lead

--My gut instinct is to lead; I had instinct before I had the opportunity

--foreshadowing of what God is going to do in your life

--unveil who you are 

--same way that Nehemiah had instinct to leave comfort of palace and go build a wall; drove Nicodemus away from courts and went to Jesus

--I know that thou art sent from God

--take your religious eyes off this text; put it away; Nicodemus part of Sanhedrin, already religious and man of faith; faith is going through evolution; Jesus is not talking to sinner; he's not a sinner; he is confused; how then can a man enter into a womb?  Jesus is talking to him about Matrix.  A Matrix is a womb through are birthed from one dimension to another

--you have outgrown the limitations of the womb you were born in

--you are constantly going from smaller womb to greater womb

--baby formed in womb; conception in the womb; baby grows in womb until it can no longer stay there; when no longer hidden, must be pushed from small space that was a blessing; blessing now a curse b/c the baby has outgrown his space; with pain and travail, he crosses from one world to the next; things developed in womb weren't developed for the womb ; need to use mouth, nostrils, ears, legs, too big for the womb

--discomfort of baby--about to be birthed into new dimension; I don't fit here

--I've never seen the next world, but my instincts say there is something beyond the world I know; birthed from familiar to unfamiliar

--I cannot stay where I start; water breaks, mother lurches, baby is pushed from one dimension to the next.

--I see light: couldn't see this where I was; sounds muffled where I used to be; I'm breathing now,

--GOD IS EQUIPPING ME FOR WHERE I'M GOING; ONE SEASON TO THE NEXT

--6 years old, evolve again; what was a blessing

--going from lesser to greater; you're not going to be able to go back to the court; 

--YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN

--SOME WATER MIGHT HAVE TO BREAK, SOME BRUISING; YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN

--intellect; formed by past experiences and what you read; inform your intellect with facts; intellect is limited; always built on past experiences

--instinct; attraction to something for which  I have no point of reference

--crawling toward the water, hatched on dry ground; 

--exposure so you can crawl from where you have been

--I forget and press forward toward the mark of Christ Jesus

--I CAN'T STAY HERE; IT'S TOO TIGHT; TOO LITTLE; THINGS I THOUGHT FUNNY AREN'T FUNNY ANYMORE

I'M IN A TIGHT PLACE

--I can't run w ppl I used to run with 

--it blessed me for a season; next dimension

--SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN; I HAVE TO CRAWL OUT TO THE NEXT DIMENSION

--Crawl toward something;

--Life is a series of birthings; Death is a birthing--from one world to the next womb

--Separation from this life

--When you die, you are birthed into eternal; you will go through stages of uncomfortableness that force you to go into the next dimension; that's what makes affliction and suffering good

--If I wouldn't have been pained, hurt, bruised, THANK YOU FOR CLOSED DOORS, PUSHING

--I AM EVOLVING INTO THE NEXT DIMENSION.

--SOMEBODY'S WATER IS BROKEN IN THIS PLACE

I'M FREE ON THE INSIDE FIRST, BEFORE; IT HAPPENS INSIDE FIRST; IT DOES NOT YET APPEAR WHAT I SHALL BE

--THERE'S A GREATER PERSON, WIFE, LEADER IN ME THAN I'VE SEEN ON THE OUTSIDE

--I'M CHANGING; NEW SEASON, REBIRTHED 

--I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME

--NO MORE EXCUSES

--If I don't get it done now, 

--Stem cell can be developed into an organ; cells attracted to other similar cells to form organs; stem cell form tissue; produce daughter cells and they produce organs; heart cells start beating; they will bypass every cell that doesn't have the beat; when they find another beating cell, they instinctiely connect to cells with the same beat and form tissue and form heart; they were beating before they touched

 before they are connected

--cells are attracted to cells that have their rhythm, connect with ppl who are beating, that have your rhythm; can be productive when they touched

--heart cell and kidney cells dysfunction; CHECK YOUR CONNECTIONS AND CHECK THE RHYTHM

--stop the connection; you can only connect with nouns that are beating

--ministry teams, companions; and you'll know it instinctively

--your instincts bring you into your future

--who's in sync; you'll feel a beat that becomes a culture that forms a church that changes a community

--tied to something that doesn't have your rhythm

--things only function when you have rhythm; can't teach it; you have to know it;

--regenerate; re-gene-it; changing the culture of it;

--change it one cell at a time; just find another cell

--not always same denomination; sense the beat, rhythm; permission to make the connection; sense something

--KINDRED spirit ("kin") ; a resume doesn't tell you that

--any cell trying to graft in from outside; can't get my mantle until you get the rhythm; anointing flows without interruption from me to you;

mantle will only go to man who has my rhythm; your church, culture, organization based on the rhythm

--3 years to change the culture/beat, at least

--stop crying when ppl leave; 

--come out of your comfort zone

YOU WERE EXPOSED TO THIS FOR A REASON

--YOU ARE ONE PUSH AWAY FROM A NEW DIMENSION

--WHEN ZION PREVAILS

--FRESH ANOINTING FOR NEW PLACE AN DNEW MINISTRY

--I SPEAK A SPIRIT OF CONNECTIVITY AND BROTHERHOOD

--never gonna be the same; I CAN'T BE THE SAME AGAIN

--I NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME AGAIN; CAN'T BE THE SAME