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I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

T. D. Jakes

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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Levels Restore Someone Successors
I’m not particularly political. I’m not particularly denominational. I’m not worried about any of that.
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Denominate Political Worried
Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.
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Crisis Face Obstacle
Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
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Bird Elude Mother Nest
Success is never an accident it’s always on purpose.
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Accident Purpose Success
I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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People Think Validation
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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Forgiveness Strong Thinking
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
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Authority Influence Reign
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
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Age Father Sick Suffer
You can’t have healing without sickness.
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Heal Patience Positive Sickness
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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Christian Easter Sunday
I think it’s important that when you’re bringing something to the table that you’re sure has value, that you don’t diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.
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Important Opportunity Thinking
I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
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Color Country Excellence People
So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God’s sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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Done Purpose Way
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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Give God Mean Sweat Understand
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
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Education Morning Teacher

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

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I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

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