Genesis 32:31-32
Jacob wrestled with an angel of the Lord one night and came out of that experience with two things: the blessing of God and a limp in his walk. He limped for the rest of his life. The limp didn’t mean that Jacob hadn’t been blessed by God. It meant only one thing __ that he had a limp.
Your struggle with sin doesn’t mean that you aren’t saved in your spirit or healed in your soul. it only means that you still have a limp. And the fact is, you may never lose your limp entirely. You any learn to walk and even to skip and run. You may learn to get around so well that nothing about your limp slows you down. You may even able to get a built-up shoe that disguises the handicapped and allows you to function as through you had never been injured. You may even forget all about your limp. When that happens, and you feel no pain and no self-consciousness about it, then you are healed, even though the limp remains.
My children recently saw a man who had lost the use of his legs. They said,: why don’t you come have our daddy pray for you?”
“oh. I’m all right now,” the man said”I am healed.”
They didn’t understand what he meant, so he went on to explain. “you see, when this first happened, I was in pain all the time. I know I’m healed because it doesn’t hurt anymore.” Even though his injurious was over, his agony had continued.
Don’t let the limp fool you. You can be healed and still have a limp. The limp is only a sign that you have been through something, not that you are still struggling with something. if you can think about some insult or adversity and it doesn’t hurt anymore, you can be certain that you have been healed. If you can talk about a painful experience I your past and it doesn’t cause you to feel anger or hatred, you have been healed. If you can see the person who has wronged you or hurt you and not fel bitterness, then by God’s grace, you have been healed.
You may still have scars on your body, tell-tale sign of your predicament. You may still be divorced. You may still have a need. You may still have the “limp,” but on the inside you have been healed.
` Don’t confuse the scars with the inner work. The scars do not define the healing. What God has done in your innermost being proves that you’ve been healed.
Source: T.D.Jakes
Save the World Ministry 
thanks for the sermon. i was blessed by it.
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im challenged to look at my situations differently!!! the limp may still be there but i am healed by Gods Grace!
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YOU ARE BLESSING TO ME AND MY WIFE WITH YOUR TEACHINGS
HERE IN UGANDA WITH MY CHURCH, THANKS A LOT.
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oh glory.i see things differently now.i know how i can selfdiagnose for my healing… when i remember an incident or see a person who hurt me and i feel no resntment or bitterness; when i meet someone who cheated me and conned me;when i meet someone who used me and lied to me; when i meet someone who told lies about me and tarnished my name;when i meet one who called me names and gossipped me……. and i just feel love for them,then i know am healed…….though i still bear the limppppppppp
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Thanks for the encouraging message. Yes the limp is their but i now believe am healed. I lost my mother on the 10th of last month, she was my prayer pattner and my best friend. I know it was the will of God but i have been fighting the grief. I have been praying for my physical healing,i know God will heal me though the ‘limp’ is still visible, may the Lord continue to bless you as reach millions of souls all over the world with His gospel.
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Thank you Pastor Jakes this word was for me and i recieve it. This word helped me to move forward and i thank God for what he has birth inside of you
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T.D Jakes..im very blessed by your teachings…especially about Jacob..I dreamt about something in this fashion..and didnt know what my dream meant..now I know..Ive had so many hurts in my life..since i became a christian..now I know I have been healed..and still have a limp..but apparently I need more healing..Im a diabetic..and my vision is a little blurry..I need a a touch from the Lord…please pray for me..Thanks.
May the good Lord bless you richly in your ministery.
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i thought i was healed but i realised now that i have limp. but not because i`m not saved. there was someone who hurt me so much and everytime i see her i feel hatred, disgust and anger towards her. I pray to God to help me to get rid of those feelings. It`s like this word was meant for me, thanks so musch for touching our lives through website like these.
May God bless you ALL
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pastor, thanks for your encouraging wards, my life is a mess, sick ,very poor , orphan. pastor am so miserable, my life is full of misfotunes , but above all , i trust GOD. AND I LOVE MY GOD GOD SO MUCH , beyond the temptations and the hard ships of this world.
am saved, mine is a prayer reguest that one day God will see me through.
am diabetic , one day GOD will heal me , thats my believe. thanks alot and be blessed .
hellen .
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I have long evaded the Lord feeling to proud to admit I needed Him. I was one of those people who believed that whether God exist or not had little do with my life. But with each passing day, each success, each failure, there was always an emptiness that I could not ignore. I reached a stage where I feeling suicidal because nothing seems to make sense at all. Today I accepted Jesus as my savior.
Coming back home from the bishop’s office I decided to play encouraging music and guess what the first song was? TB Jakes was singing it doesn’t matter who you are or where you have been; that it wasn’t about what you have done but what He has been through. I feel so accepted by myself and the entire universe. Suddenly my life feels meaningful.
Thank you God for your being there.
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am blessed an built up
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I might have been bitten by a snake BUT i am still alive when i look back at so many things that happened in my life i only know that i coundnt have made it on my own,.I am where i am because of God’s grace and mercy,He is so faithful to me.I know now that i can do all things through Christ who strengthen me.I am very blessed by your teachings
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thanks,bishop may God richly bless you..i may limp in the wilderness but i’m going forth..
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i just want 2 thank God by sendind de bishop 2 bless us with de sermons.
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i now see things in a different way and dimension.I have never heard this message antwhere else, this will be mu 1st time and i’m greatly blessed by it. Now i know that i have a limp!
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God bless you bishop and i’m greatly blessed by this message.
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I’ve never been enriched all my life like this. God bless you bishop Jakes for this revelation. Now i know that i have a limp even though God has blessed me.
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thanks you bishop jakes for god bless you.
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Jesus Christ is the focus of Christian healing ministries that are freeing people from the pain associated with unhealthy lifestyles. There is no limit on the healing power of Jesus Christ.
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Thanks so much Bishop for this wonderful word. I have realized that I am healed in Jesus name. Amen.
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U never seize to aamaze bless God for a servant as u
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God Bless you and your family
I started looking online for encouragement for a friend when I ran accoss the message above. This message is for me I have a limp and prayed and moved pass it this November 2010 but I needed to understand it, why i don’t know but it was time to truely let go and move forward. Thanks for the many prayers and blessing you send to god for those of us you never see or will never know please keep on sending message and blessing in god name.
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Wow…what a revealation and many like these that bishop Jakes continues to bless our lives with! I thank God that we can be nourished,fed,built up and encouraged in God’s word that we so need in these turbulent, perilous times.God bless you bishop and it is my prayer that God will continue to extent the borders and sphere of your influence to millions and even billions more people across the world. People are dying and hurting without Christ and are in need of answers, guidance and direction in their lives! And its so great that someone like bishop Jakes does that so well to make known the intricate secrets of the kingdom of God and that touches eternity. Moce (farewell) from the beautiful paradise isles of the Fiji islands.
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When I see the person that hurt me so bad n I’m nt bitter anymore I know i’m healed though the scars will remain there it is just the symbol.
Wow! Thank you for ur insipiration Td….
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Plz help me in pray to Our Lord Jesus Christ to reunite me and my wife Lanjai Rongmei from separation. Kindly pray to God to create love in my wife heart for me once again so that she come back to live with me. I believe Our Almighty Lord will bring us together once to live for His Glory Name through all of your prayer. Thanks
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this is awesome guys….I m have failed some other time but m not a failure
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God bless you bishop
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PRAY FOR MY CHILD &WIFE HIV+
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I bishop. I need your teachings every day in my phone.
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BLESSED SERMON
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The limp. Through his struggle with God, he got a limp. His reminder that he was through something. Wow. Thanks.
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I thank God bcoz nw dat evn tho i stl hv ths scars and strugl wth thm in ma lyf bt ma soul is hld..thnk u bshp
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THank u for posting Bishop can u please pray for my family my daughter jen was in an accident father and sis were killed on new years she is paralysed but i beleive she will walk again she is deprresed has four kids 8 n under i live far n dont have adaquite transportation to help thank u for ur prayers
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