Here are my sermon notes for Bishop TD Jakes’ sermon Come Before Winter. From Elevation Church on February 16, 2020.

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Sermon Notes : Come Before Winter

• Don’t be jealous – be amazed.
• 2 Timothy 4:11-21
• Time is the most precious thing you have.
• God sends amazing people into your life to strengthen, shake you up
• The greatest thing you can give your son is your thoughts.
• Don’t expect people to be loyal. Always figure in a certain percentage of betrayal.
• The people you poured the most into will be the ones who disappoint you the most.
• God is always loyal when others forsake you
• the more they rock you the more God will relegate you
• you can make it on broken pieces, snatch what you have left when the enemy wants to see you drown.
• you’ve been bitten, not beaten
• God didn’t shake up the prison for me to get out, he shook up the prison for him to get in
• hell has never made a prison that God can’t break in to.
• always be feeding your mind.
• you cannot lead if you do not read
• time waits on no one
• don’t let your emotions make you so stubborn that you fail to watch the clock
• you’re not just living together, you’re dying together
• fierce urgency of now.
• you don’t have time to procrastinate 
• it takes time to be wise
• make yourself some highlights
• look for the highlights
• at the end of the day all you pay attention to is the highlights.
• the mundane events are of no consequence to the story.
• whatever you’re going to write, write it now
• don’t wait – do it now

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