You have to learn how to open your own business. You are supposed to have your own.
Nobody gets wealthy working for somebody else.
He encourages individuals to accept personal responsibility for where they are in life and counsels how working with that knowledge puts the power over their lives back in their own hands. Bishop T. D. Jakes displays an unabashed, colorful style that brings to mind such flamboyant showmen of the pulpit as Sweet Daddy Grace, Father Divine and Reverend Ike. His message of abundance as God's will for everyone is mindful of Johnnie Coleman of the Chicago-based Universal Foundation for Better Living. His message and method has tapped a mother lode, drawing to the conferences he holds several times a year huge, stadium-sized crowds that cross racial, economic and religious boundaries. Many who attend are regular church-goers, but a growing number seldom, if ever, could be found in a church pew.