TD Jakes - Before You Know It

...all of that is great, all of that's important, but none of that has anything to do with my subject. It's just a thing that I noticed on the way to my subject. Because when Peter goes through the gate, they walk down the street, he and the angel. He said one thing that made me preach this sermon. He says, "I came to myself". And I thought, "You mean all of that happened and you didn't even realize what was going on". He says, "I was out before I knew it. I was healed before I knew it. I was out of debt before I knew it. I was wealthy before I knew it. I was free before I knew it".

See, the last time I saw "he came to himself", it was about the prodigal son. You remember that? And the Bible says, "He came to himself". The prodigal son came to himself, having been intoxicated off of his own sins and excesses. He came to himself to recognize who he was and thereby he was liberated, but Peter was liberated before he knew it. The prodigal son knew it and therefore he was liberated, but Peter was liberated before he knew it. And I came to realize that most of the time that God does the most amazing things in your life, they're done before you knew it. That you have walked it out before you know it, that you have gotten over it before you know it, that you are free from it before you know it, that you are whole before you know it, that you're not afraid anymore before you know it, and you can't even tell anybody what really happened because God did it so smooth...