Ref.: Sermon by Pastor TD Jakes
Father God,
I am so thankful that I do not earn Your presence because I have faith, because I know that You show up when I am faithless. And I also know that just because I may have some doubts, that doesn't mean I have no faith. I pray that the Truth would help me starve my doubts and feed my faith. Father, help me to look inside myself and know that I am two different people. Help me to see that here is a difference between the person I appear to be on the outside, and the one who is in trouble on the inside. There is a twin inside of me that is in trouble. Help me because I will not be whole until I can get both sides of me to be in agreement. Because if I am in trouble on the inside, it will eventually affect my outside. And I know that You will not over look one to get to the other. Nobody knows the person inside of me, I'm not sure that I even really know who that person is. And the real problem is that nobody wants to take the time to get to know who I really am. But it is up to me to get to know who I really am deep down inside, to connect with the hurting person who is in trouble, so I can heal and become a whole person. I not only want to deal with me and my issues, but I want to take what I learn by ministering to myself and use it to really get to know other people. Because real ministry is not dealing with the outside of a person, real ministry is dealing with the inside of a person. I realize, Lord, that how I behave at home behind closed doors is more important to than how I behave in front of people.
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