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The New Birth Church Is A Church Unto Itself Who Has A Board And It Has A Membership. How They Choose To Handle Their Leadership Issues It's Not Something That We Can Control Regardless Of Which Side You Stay On That Issue. It Is Their Church Issue And Their Responsibility And Their Response. And I'm Saying What I Always Said That We Should Just Keep On Praying For The New Birth Church Family.

-T. D. Jakes

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T. D. Jakes

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The New Birth Church Is A Church Unto Itself Who Has A Board And It Has A Membership. How They Choose To Handle Their Leadership Issues It's Not Something That We Can Control Regardless Of Which Side You Stay On That Issue. It Is Their Church Issue And Their Responsibility And Their Response. And I'm Saying What I Always Said That We Should Just Keep On Praying For The New Birth Church Family.

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Set The Goal To Harvest What's In You Rather Than Having A Car, House Or A Relationship.

The Right Thing At The Wrong Time Will Lead To Failure.

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There Are No College Courses To Build Up Self-esteem Or High School Or Elementary School. If You Don't Get Those Values At A Early Age, Nurtured In Your Home, You Don't Get Them.

When You Leave The Familiar And Enter The Unknown, Your Fear Becomes Refined By Experience And Hammered Into Tools Of Survival On The Anvil Of Anxiety.

If You Dont Like The Way Your Life Is Going, Redesign It. Redeem The Years You Lost. Restore Your Vision, Revive Your Passion For Living, And Reclaim What Was Dormant Inside Of You. I Cannot Give You The Dream But I Can Give You The Tools To Reach The Dreams You Have Inside.

The Hell Of Regret He Who Wins The Race Cannot Run With The Pack. And Once You Get Out You Can't Come Back, Because Caged Lions Don't Mate With Free Ones! If Ever You Are Going To Win, You Must Forsake The Social Construct Of The Cage And All The Cage Dwellers.

I'm Having An Amazing Time Teaching Through The Lives Of People Much Like Jesus Did.

My Father Was A Methodist And My Mother Was A Baptist.

Forgiveness Is About Empowering Yourself, Rather Than Empowering Your Past.

I Think It Is Important That We Rebuild An Atmosphere Of Forgiveness And Civility In Every Aspect Of Our Lives.

The Critic Is A Prisoner To His Own Experiences And Perspectives, Erroneously Believing His Limited Experiences Are The Sum Of All Truth

You Can Wreck Your Future Running From Your Past.

Every Major Move In My Life Was Done Instinctively.

The Greater The Battle - The Greater The Spoils.

Every Goal That You Will Ever Pursue Will Require A Plan Of Action. Whether You Are Pursuing Your Life’s Destiny Or Striving To Obtain A Particular Goal, You Must Be Able To See Things As You Desire Them To Be.

The Dream God Gives You Guarantees, No Matter What It Looks Like Now, When It’s All Over, Your Dream Will Come To Pass.

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I Think We Have To Find A Leader Who Reflects All Of Our Concerns And Not Just Some Of Them.

I Fully Intend To Preach The Word Of God To You Until There's A Difference Between How You Walk Out Of Here And How You Walked In Here.

Focus On Your Accomplishments , Not Your Failures.

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You Are No Greater Than What You Believe.

Instilling Values Of Faith At An Early Age Is Important. Listening Them Through Adolescence Comes More Important Than Teaching Because If You Haven't Instilled In Them At Early Ages Now It's Time To Listen And Get Your Report Card And Let Them Find Their Way And Then As An Adult Let Them Stand Aside.

In The Midst Of The Shopping And The Wrapping And The Arranging Of Presents Under Your Tree This Christmas, May You Not Forget The Gifts You Cannot Yet Hold In Your Hands.

When You Are Talking About Moral Issues You Are Talking About Same-sex Marriage, Which Has Been Relegated Over To The States. It's No Longer A Federal Issue And Yet, We Are Dealing With It Like It's A Federal Issue But For A Large Degree It Has Become A State Issue.

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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