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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

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
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
Success is never an accident it’s always on purpose.
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Accident Purpose Success
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
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
A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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Children Men Produce
God’s grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
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Act God Grace Mercy
You don’t know how much you’ve grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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Encores Grown People Trouble
If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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Inspirational Life Positive
Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
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Insecure Need Poison
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
I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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People Think Validation
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
We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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Authority Faith God Pray
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
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Giving Step Think Understand

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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