In his latest book, Reposition Yourself, bestselling author T.D. Jakes shares insights that will help readers adjust to the many changes that life brings. This is a shrill wake-up call to take charge of your life now. Not only does it confront areas where subtle passivity or even poor choices may have stifled the reader's creativity, but it also instructs how to manage change and maximize life now. Using wisdom collected from his more than thirty years of counseling and working with everyday and high-profile people, Jakes covers financial, relational, and spiritual creativity and shows how adapting to transitional moments in your life is the path to an enriched existence filled with contentment at every stage.

Reposition Yourself offers reality-based plans for those seeking to make the years ahead even more productive. Jakes accepts the inevitability of change, teaching how to embrace and expect it rather than fear it. Mixing both sacred and secular insights, he shares a unique blend of practical and pragmatic steps coupled with the sage wisdom of Scripture for which he is noted.

This new book is without question a makeover for the soul. It gives you permission to succeed and the how-to's necessary to position yourself for the limitless potential that comes from making minor adjustments in your thinking and plans. Jakes believes there is nothing more important than your next decision. Before you make another choice, this is a must-read!

ISBN: 0399153632
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
Pub. Date: April 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

ISBN: 0425181634
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: October 2001
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Synopsis
"Every moment that you live is an irreplaceable resource with a limited supply." —T. D. Jakes

How do we measure this time called life? Some people think a person's life can only be measured by the longevity of his days. Others measure people's lives by the amount of material possessions they have attained or the success they have achieved. But when we stand in the face of eternity, real success is calculated by more than riches alone. It doesn't matter how long we live or how much wealth we've gathered: What matters is how well we live. What is important is how we fill in the blank that comes between the first and the last day of our lives.

In Maximize The Moment: God's Action Plan For Your Life, T.D. Jakes, author of the No. 1 bestseller The Lady, Her Lover, And Her Lord and many other inspiring volumes, offers a way for men and women to maximize their potential and fulfill the divine plan that God has for them. With the clear, down-to-earth style that has become his trademark, and an ability to cut through commonplace generalities, Jakes offers a message for creating balance and fulfillment in life.

"One of life's greatest tragedies," says Jakes, "is to arrive at the end of your journey and realize you could have done more, laughed harder, played more intensely, and lived more vivaciously if only you had taken the day by the throat and steered it the way you wanted it to go, if only you had made a conscious decision about what you wanted to do." Now Jakes helps us make the conscious decisions that will allow us to maximize the moments of our lives.

Drawing on his experiences as a preacher, author, motivator, and entrepreneur, Jakes teaches practical, hands-on principles that reveal the keys to personal success available to each and every one of us if we know where to look.

In Maximize The Moment, Jakes shows us how to:

1. Minimize liabilities, plan for the unexpected, face the inevitable, enjoy the ecstasies of life, and endure life's disappointments.
2. Release ourselves from damaging relationships and debilitating fears, and move beyond our painful pasts.
3. Courageously face and conquer obstacles that may stand in our path to success.
4. Recognize and utilize our God-given potential to its fullest.
5. Set goals and develop strategies so that we may be all God wants us to be and fulfill the plan He has for us.

In this guide to an abundant work, home, and spiritual life, Jakes illustrates how the sum of our lives lies in the choices we make. For those of us who choose wisely, life will be rich and rewarding. Those who fail to choose with a plan in their head and God in their heart will surely falter. Maximize The Moment shows us how by prioritizing our goals and making the most of our precious time on earth, we can hold fast to a vision of crossing life's finish line, knowing that we have run the race with bold integrity.

He-Motions: Even Strong Men Struggle
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As husbands, fathers, sons, workers, and leaders, sometimes men feel overwhelmed. Now Bishop T.D. Jakes comes to their aid with a guidebook to help them understand their own emotional selves and find biblically inspired direction toward being the men God wants them to be. Also a complete source for women who seek to comprehend and care for the men in their lives, He-Motions helps decode men's often baffling behavior and offers insights that will bring greater intimacy and healing to relationships. This book has brought clarity and hope to men, helping them strengthen their relationships. T.D. Jakes is the prism through which we can learn about contemporary American religion...one of America's most important preachers. (Shayne Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Houston)

Daddy Loves His Girls
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In this celebrated book, Bishop Jakes masterfully discusses the sensitive issues that have haunted the hearts of many women. His writing carries with it the healing touch of a strong medicine, gently applied, yet powerfully effective. A new, large print edition of a phenomenal bestseller with more than one million copies sold.

Cover Girls
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Renowned pastor Bishop T. D. Jakes knows the struggles of real women, the disappointments that rob us of confidence and hope, and the losses that make us wonder whether it is worth going on. Now the bestselling author of Woman, Thou Art Loosed brings that compassionate insight and deeply felt wisdom to a powerful first novel about four very different women confronting the biggest challenges of their lives....

COVER GIRLS Michelle, Tonya, Mrs. Judson, and Miz Ida. African-American, white, rich, poor-they seemingly have nothing in common. Yet every day they face the complex realities of twenty-first-century urban life as they try to balance their needs with their belief in God.

Michelle, a driven career woman and survivor of abuse, swears she'll never again be used by people close to her. She's determined to take control and call all the shots-no matter what the cost...

Tonya knows what it's like to have a happy marriage shattered by unimaginable tragedy. She feels her faith is the only thing she can count on-until a hard choice forces her to gamble on someone she never thought she could trust...

Mrs. Judson believes her wealth, influence, and successful business can protect her against all harm. Then a family scandal threatens both her hard-earned reputation and the values she's made the center of her world...

Miz Ida has dedicated her life to God and giving others a shoulder to cry on. Soon she'll need all her faith to help herself and these women at last find themselves-and each other.

A novel about coming to terms with the past, discovering who we truly are, and recognizing the unexpected joys, friendships, and small miracles that reveal God's all-encompassing love, this book shows us the many paths that stretch before us at every season of life. Honest, inspiring, and unforgettable, COVER GIRLS proves that T. D. Jakes is not only a gifted preacher, but a born storyteller.

Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment
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In this empowering book, based on his bestselling video series, T.D. Jakes shows readers how to use Christian principles in the workplace, using faith as the key to happiness and productivity. Bishop Jakes explains how people can rise above petty conflicts, turn obstacles into opportunities, and let God do His work in their lives every day-even when they're coping with complaining co-workers or difficult bosses.

The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord
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T.D. Jakes has emerged as one of the most prolific spiritual leaders of our time. He is pastor of one of the largest churches in the country, CEO of a multimillion dollar empire, the host of a television program, author of a dozen bestsellers, and the producer of two Grammy Award-nominated CDs and three critically acclaimed plays. In 2001 Time magazine featured Jakes on the cover and asked: Is Jakes the next Billy Graham?

T.D. Jakes draws on extensive research, including interviews with numerous friends and colleagues of Jakes, to examine both Jakes' rise to prominence and proliferation of a faith industry bent on producing spiritual commodities for mass consumption. Lee frames Jakes and his success as a metaphor for changes in the Black Church and American Protestantism more broadly, looking at the ramifications of his rise—and the rise of similar preachers—for the way in which religion is practiced in this country, how social issues are confronted or ignored, and what is distinctly "American" about Jakes' emergence. While offering elements of biography, the work also seeks to shed light on important aspects of the contemporary American and African American religious experience.

Lee contends that Jakes' widespread success symbolizes a religious realignment in which mainline churches nationwide are in decline, while innovative churches are experiencing phenomenal growth. He emphasizes the "American-ness" of Jakes' story and reveals how preacher like Jakes are drawing followers by delivering therapeutic and transformative messages and providing spiritual commodities that are more in tune with postmodern sensibilities.

As the first work to critically examine Bishop Jakes' life and message, T.D. Jakes is an important contribution to contemporary American religion as well as popular culture.

Help! I'm Raising My Children Alone: A Guide for Single Parents and for Those Who Sometimes Feel They Are Single
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ISBN: 1591859581
Format: Paperback, 224pp
Pub. Date: May 2006
Publisher: Strang Communications Company

Related Links

T.D. Jakes Ministries
http://www.tdjakes.org/