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“God spent a great deal of time getting me ready,” he recalls. Jakes heard the call to preach after his father’s death from kidney disease brought him closer to the Lord. That includes prayer, Scripture reading and meeting practical needs such as health and life insurance for one’s family.Īlthough Jakes’ recent move to Dallas-which expanded the size of his congregation almost 10-fold-may seem to mark a sudden burst onto the national scene, he calls it a “misconception” to label him an overnight success.Įven as Moses had to spend years on the backside of the desert in preparation, 39-year-old Thomas Jakes has been preaching in obscurity for two decades. At his “Manpower” conferences, he stresses the need for men to live a disciplined life. “Femininity has its own fragrance,” Jakes counsels the thousands who flock to “Woman, Thou Art Loosed!” conferences. It is about God’s supernatural ability, bestowed by a Lord who is colorblind and cares about each person-a God who affirms the importance of women and equally appreciates men, a truth that Jakes believes can end the nation’s gender conflict. What is the message that has thrilled millions?

“The Lord places that gift on people for a season to change a generation.”

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Stephens Full Gospel Baptist Church in New Orleans. “He has a special gift on his life,” says the pastor of St. Morton points to the changed lives that followed Jakes’ sermon before 45,000 people at the fellowship’s mid-July convention. At his services I’ve seen kids 5, 6 and 7 (years old) getting filled with the Holy Spirit at the altar.”īishop Paul Morton, founder of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, traces this impact to meeting the needs of hurting people. His appeal extends to all ages, according to Tim Anderson, youth pastor at Potter’s House. He delivers the Word in such lightning-rod fashion that he makes you believe that all things really are possible with God. To bask in the glow of his preaching is to experience a spiritual transformation as the world’s negative atmosphere fades into mere wisps. “There’s something inside of him that comes flooding out,” says Sherman Watkins, presiding bishop of Higher Ground Assemblies, the Columbus, Ohio, Pentecostal fellowship that Jakes serves as vice bishop. But, somehow for him that doesn’t say it all.” “That’s one of the highest accolades you can give a person. “Anointed is an understatement,” says elder Stanley Miller, senior pastor of Temple of Faith in Charleston, West Virginia, which Jakes founded in 1986.

Despite his meteoric rise to fame, though, he remains friendly, humble and widely admired. He has my prayers and support.”įew pastors could move 1,100 miles to plant a church and soon fill its 5,000-seat sanctuary or place six of their books on the Christian Top 20 list between January and July of the same year.īut few pastors are like Bishop Jakes, whose seminal teaching, “Woman, Thou Art Loosed!” spawned national conferences and last year’s No. But here is a black man who is bringing blacks and whites together in mass auditoriums. “It used to be reserved for whites to get the crowds that Jakes pulls. Owens, presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ. “This is a great move of the Spirit,” says Bishop C.D. His ministry crosses boundaries of geography, race, ethnicity, class-and denomination. That excitement reaches far beyond Dallas and the Texas borders. Jakes Ministries, is his ability to provide a clear understanding of God’s Word via modern-day illustrations: “I think that gives a clarity and simplifies it so people can feel a part of it.” His gift, says Holloway Gray, executive coordinator of T.D. This day, Jakes again gets the reaction that greets him in every venue: People spontaneously leap to their feet to clap, dance, wave their hands-and shout: “C’mon, bishop! Preach it! Talk about it!”

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