Adapted for Purpose - Sarah Jakes Roberts

hey family i'm pt pastor toray roberts i'm the lead pastor of the potter's house at 1la and denver on behalf of my wife pastor sarah and myself we want to welcome you to our channel and to this word i cannot wait for you to hear what god has for you in this message i want to tell you a few things really quickly subscribe if you're not already subscribed to this channel subscribe so that you can be made aware of all of the word that's coming at you week in and week out and also turn on your notifications so you don't miss a morsel that comes forth we're also grateful for you and your partnership if you are so uh compelled we invite you to support what we're doing not just our church but what our church is doing there are a number of outreaches a number of things critical necessary things that we support and we're able to do it because of your generosity so without further ado let's get right into this word god bless you i'll see you soon one of the things that i love about that song is the part in the lyrics where it says i give you everything a lot of times we forget because we're so busy asking god for things that we have something to give god to our heart our mind our being our dreams our goals and visions are all gifts to god it's our way of saying god listen this is my plan for my life but at the end of the day i only want what you have for me and so i surrender it all i surrender the way that i think my life should look i surrender the way that i think my career should go i surrender it all at your feet and in exchange god says now this is someone i can be in partnership with this is someone who i can do big things with because they don't mind laying themselves down for my own purposes and i need a reminder because we give everything in one season right and then we god gives us more and blesses us with more possibilities and opportunities and then we have to remind ourselves again that i still need to turn everything over to god when is the last time you took inventory of your life and you said you know what god i give it all to you if you're not getting the glory out of it i don't want it if you're not getting any shine out of it i don't want it because i don't want my name to be made great at the extent of losing the presence that has led me to this very moment i'm in there's always been something so special about activate i believe that whether it's me or our incredible team of leadership who is speaking on activate that there is quite literally something activated within you and so i want to give you a moment to consider what is it in my life that needs to be activated is it my hope is it my faith i want you to bring all of yourself into this moment maybe there's something within you that you don't even know whether or not it needs to be activated but you've come into a god i give you everything moment i don't know what needs to be activated maybe i think i'm doing just fine but if you know without a shadow of a doubt my faith needs to be activated on a whole nother level that my goals and my dreams need to be activated my passion and my purpose i want you to take a minute and write in the chat what is god going to activate in you tonight i want you to dare to prophesy over your own life to prophesy over your own dream your own heart your own passion and to say this is what's going to be activated because i believe that god meets us at the level of our expectation now of course i've been praying i've been studying i believe that there's a word here that's going to help you but sometimes the word needs us to come into alignment with what the word wants to do in our lives that means there has to be something in us that says god clear the way i'm ready god clear my ears i'm ready to hear god clear my mind i'm ready to listen and i believe that that's exactly what's going to take place in this moment you know i would not be me if i did not tell you it is not too late to invite someone to activate whether you are watching in south africa or you are watching in london or you are in new york or right down the street from us in los angeles now is an incredible time for you to just say you know what i don't even know why i'm sending you this and it may not even be for you but i feel like there could be something in it for you send someone this link let them be a part of this moment don't be greedy if god is pouring out the word and pouring out worship make sure that everyone's a part of it while you're sending your text i'm going to tell you my subject is adapted for purpose adapted for purpose and i'm going to be in genesis 39 i'm going to start in verse 20. now that you've gotten your text message off you've shared it on your facebook profile your twitter profile you've invited everyone to church now i want to invite you into this moment genesis 39 verse 20 and it begins then joseph's master took him and put him into the prison perhaps i should give you a little bit of background about what's happening in this moment joseph is the son of jacob and he is one of the hated the most hated brother he's got a group of brothers and he is the most hated he is the one that no one fully understands he's the youngest the bible said he was fine child and then find siblings that are the most hated you already know sometimes that it can be a struggle you know as a favorite sibling of my parents i fully understand what joseph went through in this moment i'm just kidding i'm not about the favorite part because i really do believe in my heart that i am my parents favorite even if they don't confirm or deny it but joseph is going through it his siblings do not like him they have thrown him into a pit he goes from being thrown into a pit to being captured into slavery and when he is in slavery he is then elevated and promoted what the enemy meant for evil god has used it for good and he is running the house of the king of pharaoh at that time he's running the house of pharaoh and people are subjected to him and pharaoh trusts him so much that all pharaoh worries about is what's on his plate because he knows joseph has control of everything else but pharaoh's wife gets a little tricky and says that joseph came for us she was lying but that ain't that ain't what we talking about today okay so she's lied pharaoh's upset now joseph is being placed in prison verse 20 begins then joseph's master took him and put him into the prison a place where the king's prisoners were confined and he was there in the prison but the lord was with joseph and showed him mercy and he gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison and the keeper of the prison committed to joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison whatever they did there it was his doing the keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under joseph's authority because the lord was with him and whatever he did the lord made it prosper god i thank you for every person connected to this moment and this message i do not believe that they are watching by coincidence i don't believe that you had so much war over this war over this word unless it was because of who's listening and so father i pray that there would be no nerves no fear no anxiety within me that this would be an opportunity for you to flow holy ghost flow is only you can do and as the holy spirit begins to flow i pray that it would reach across the world that it would reach across the room that it would reach across technology and meet each and every person right where they need it the most spirit flow release your glory in jesus name amen there have been some moments as of late in which my 11 year old who is moving into the seventh grade has asked me questions about school and in the process of her asking me questions about school i find myself saying to myself over and over again i wish i would have paid attention in school i wish i would have paid more attention to these things that she's now asking me questions about because i quite literally have no idea how to help her and some of the things she's saying actually sound very interesting and i know that these are things that were covered at some point throughout my time in school and yet i don't remember them one of those things that she was talking about lately and i had to go and do my own studying just to understand it fully was adaptation in science she was speaking about how animals adapt based on their environment they adapt for instance when birds migrate to the warmth for winter it is because they don't want to be in a cold space so they adapt in order to be in a warm area i also read when studying that the thick fur on a polar bear is made even thicker in colder months to keep them warm there's this whole list of things that demonstrate how animals and plants adapt based on their environment part of the reason why i wish that i would have paid more intention in school when she brought this up is because i realize now as an adult how necessary adaptability is you see for the most part what we call adaptability is actually conformity we say things like i can go in any room and in that room i can fit in but we're not fitting in because we adapted ourselves to that environment we're fitting in because we conform to what that environment expected from the people connected to it if you read anything about leadership and business they tell you all the time about how the culture of an organization cannot be built on conformity that it is one of the things that threatens creativity and innovation when everyone has to think the same way and act the same way and yet you do have to bring a certain level of adaptability into culture because it says that this is the environment for sure but i don't want you to conform i just want you to learn how to do you in this environment i got some bad news for social media the bad news is that you don't get to just do you in any environment and circumstance that means that if you just tell it how it is at home that doesn't mean you get to just tell it how it is at work nor does it mean that you conform and become silent it means that you have to find a way to channel what it is into how someone can receive it that is adaptability not conformity and sometimes we get them confused because we are so committed to maintaining our authenticity that we miss out on the opportunity to adapt when we miss out on that opportunity to adapt we don't just lose opportunities we end up losing ourselves in the process as i was studying for this message i was thinking about why it is so easy for us to conform literally in scripture and we talked about this last week in romans 12 when i talked about let us not be conformed to this world conforming is something that is very easy to do we would all like to say that we don't conform but the truth is conforming is actually quite easy when you're around a certain group of people and you've changed your morals or you've changed your emphasis and ethics it's difficult to bring those new changes into that old environment so instead we conform it takes a lot of work to say i'm not going to conform it takes a lot of courage and a lot of vulnerability to say i'm not going to conform no wonder in romans they make it so clear that the world is out for us to conform the world is out for conformity the world says that you need to do it this way and so we try to conform even at the expense of us abandoning ourselves i cannot tell you how many people betrayed their truth for the sake of conformity because they did not want to experience rejection and yet the truth is that until we are willing to reject conformity then we will always live restless within our soul because when we conform i am not quite what i have conformed to and i am no longer who i am either and so i straddle the fence of my identity and i war with god asking god to bless my conformity and god says what i really want is your authenticity because if i can get your authenticity i can show you how to go into any room i've placed you in without losing you in the process but also not without losing the room i'll help you to keep the room i wish i could say that the way i feel it but our fear is that if we don't conform then we'll lose the opportunity but when we partner with god and god brings us into rooms the worst thing we can do is conform when we get into the room when god brings you into the room you cannot conform to the room that god has brought you in and you have to trust that god is going to teach you how to adapt into that room i'm going to show you how to do you in this room i'm going to show you how to deliver the way that you deliver in this room you don't have to conform and do it the way everyone else has done it you don't have to conform and do it the way the culture has done it you don't have to conform and do it the way that you've seen everyone else in church do it i'm going to show you how to adapt for the time in the season that i've had you in you will not lose the room you will not lose the room i don't know who that is for and i don't know who you are but i feel like you're thinking to yourself the only way i can stay in this room is if i conform to this room and i hear god saying that i am not after your conformity you got to trust me in this season because i'm going to show you how to adapt i hear god saying i'll never leave you nor forsake you i'll show you how to adapt i'm going to give you the right words when you need them i'm going to give you the right passion when you need them you don't have them right now because you don't need them but i'm going to give them to you in the right moment because i did not bring you here for you to be changed by here you're on assignment this is bigger than you when god brought you into the room it wasn't just you it was everything that god has connected to you and god needs you to learn how to bring all of yourself into the room and not to shrink i don't know who this is for this isn't even a part of my notes but i feel like god is calling some people into new rooms as the world oh god i feel this as the world is opening up you're going to be opening up and as you begin to open up you're going to be revealing new layers of yourself and you're going to be uncomfortable with those layers and you're going to be unsure of those layers but i hear guys saying the worst thing you can do is conform to what you've known or conform to what you've seen you're going to have to stand flat-footed and say i cannot conform but i also need god to show me how do i walk into the room and not lose myself or lose the room in the same process it's a lot more difficult to conform than we think that's why i love this text about joseph because this text shows us how god continues to navigate life with us do you know that you serve a god that doesn't just sit high and look low but he also shows you how to navigate the situation in the season you're in oh god i don't know who you are but you've been without wisdom you've been without strategy you've been without creativity and you've got this religious relationship with god where you honor god but you don't invite god into your process and i hear god saying if you would invite me into your process you'll see that i can show you how to maneuver how to function no matter where you are so joseph joseph is going to be our example of being adapted for purpose and this is so important for us to understand because we're about to have so many opportunities family as the world is opening up there's so many different circles we can go to we it was easy to not conform during the pandemic because it wasn't anything to conform to but now we're about to have so many options and in the process of having all of these options we're going to have to be intentional not just about who we are but who we are not you're going to have to be intentional about your time you're going to have to be intentional about your thoughts intentional about how you show up in the spaces and places you've been called to go because you were not called to conform you were called to adapt you are not called to conform you are called to adapt to the circumstance that you have been placed in joseph is going to show us how to adapt the reason why i wanted to give you the timeline of joseph's life is because i wanted you to understand exactly how pivotal this moment is in his life if you're taking notes there are three moments that i want you to write down these three moments are going to reveal to you how he became someone who learned how to adapt with god because i believe that that's going to be your testimony that you're going to learn how to adapt with god not adapt with man not conform to man's opinions not conform to man's expectations i'm going to teach you how to adapt i'm going to teach you how to adapt into that family i'm going to teach you how to adapt into that marriage you're still going to be you you're still going to have your identity you're still going to have your creativity you're still going to have your innovation but i'm going to show you how to adapt because you cannot hang on to the way that you've done you and be in this moment at the same time i'm going to teach you how to adapt says god i'm going to teach you how to show up and never miss says god and joseph is in a moment where he's constantly shifting changing and transforming but he doesn't have to do it with god and somebody needs to understand that this next dimension is not the dimension in which in which you lose yourself this next dimension is not the dimension in which you end up letting it all go this is just the addition of your life in which you begin to expand and adapt into more of who god has called you to be joseph the timeline of his life the first thing i want you to understand about how to become someone who adapts with god is that you have to resist the urge to conform to rejection resist the urge to conform to rejection that sounds so good and so easy but the truth is that rejection automatically demands conformity from us oh god i feel this that when we've been rejected some of us change the way we show up in the world immediately i conform to what rejection says i am i conform to what that heartbreak says that i am when joseph is thrown into the pit he could have said you know what before that moment he had two dreams he had two dreams you got to read this in genesis 37 you got to read the whole story he has one dream he tells his brothers about the dreams and they say boy you crazy angle never bow down to you then he has a second dream instead of keeping the dream to himself he tells the dream to his family again and that's when they get upset and yet he was rejected the first time and still kept showing up as the person who was rejected you see when we experience rejection we automatically think there is something wrong with us and so we change who we are so that we never have to experience that rejection again but in the training ground of purpose and the training ground of when god is really shaping you and molding you he has to teach you not to conform to rejection he has to teach you how to not give up just because someone didn't get it you have to god has to teach us how to continue to be who we are and every season regardless of who was cheering us on or booing us in the crowd because there's something about me staying in tune with who god has called me to be that i can't allow conformity to come into my life just because i've experienced rejection i want somebody watching to know that it's never too late to break the covenant you've made with conformity i want somebody to know who's watching right now it's never too late to break the covenant you've made with rejection to break the covenant you've made with shame to break the covenant you've made with your pride and your ego and lust someone's been conforming too long but i want to prophesy that even as you're watching this message that god is breaking that spirit of conformity that has allowed you to conform to a lesser version of who you are i hear god saying that i break it right now in the name of jesus and that i snatch you back i hear god saying i'm snatching somebody back in this message i'm snatching somebody back to their proper position you changed who you were because of how you were rejected you changed who you were because of the shame you changed who you were because you felt inadequate and you keep shrinking and every time you try to shrink god keeps pulling you back and i hear god saying because i'll fight on your behalf even when you cannot fight for yourself conforming to rejection is how we miss purpose i will not conform i will not conform i'm going through a depression but i will not conform i'm going through a heartbreak but i will not conform i will not change my identity based on my circumstance joseph says i'm still the one who has a dream is that anybody's testimony i'm still the person who has the dream i don't have the funding i don't have the support but i will not allow my circumstance to determine how i conform to this idea that i can still be who god has called me to be conforming conforming you have to resist the urge to conform to rejection god doesn't allow joseph's spirit to conform to rejection refusing to conform though may land you in isolation i got to tell you this because the beauty of conformity is company the beauty of conformity is that you're never by yourself because you're just like everyone else you are around but when god gets ready to shift you when god gets ready to change you when god gets ready to transform you do not be surprised if you have to do it in isolation no wonder joseph ends up in a pit i want someone to know who's in a pit right now you refused to conform but you didn't realize you were going to be so lonely you refused to conform but you didn't realize that that meant that you were going to be in a dark space and i hear god saying that this is the price that you have to pay in order to make it to the transformation there is no transformation without a pit and so yes you had to be isolated by isolation doesn't last forever when you're isolated there's some things that god gets to do with you that he can't do with you as long as you're trying to conform and sometimes god removes you from the circle so that you are never tempted to conform to the circle because god didn't know how many more rejections you could take god didn't know how many more heartbreaks you could take before you would give up all together and so i pulled you out and yet you're by yourself but you're not by yourself and yes you're alone but you're not alone because if you can see what god saw you would see that there were so many pits around you but because you were in your pitch you couldn't see that there was someone else in the pit and i hear god saying when it's time for you to come up that you're going to realize that i was raising up people who understand what it's like to have pitiful seasons that god's going to help us understand what it's like to have people who rejected us and didn't understand what to do with our gifts and our talents but we're not raised up that i'm going to raise you up as someone who doesn't even need them anymore oh god i don't know who you are but i want you to know that the isolation doesn't last forever the pitiful season it doesn't last forever and i'm praying that even as this word is penetrating your heart and penetrating your soul that you recognize that the pit has a job too that the pit the darkness the isolation is on assignment the isolation is trying to see if you'll hold on to the dream even in the dark the isolation is trying to show you that the only one you can call on is really god that's the only one who can hear me in this season and when you come out of the pit you'll understand and recognize that my relationship was with god was strengthened not because everyone got me not because everyone understood not because i thought the thing and the thing became real but because i learned how to trust god in the pits that first thing is resisting the urge to conform and like i said earlier it's never too late to break the covenant that you've made with conforming i reject it i reject it so that i can move so that i can be moved and positioned properly into a space of adaptability or i can be who i am but with an extended expanded identity that allows me to work and walk in any room without fear i hear god saying that the core of who you are works anywhere that you place it but the adaptability of bringing who you are into that room takes walking with god so god helps joseph to resist the urge to conform and then he ends up in isolation and then the second thing that i want you to write down about adaptability and how god partners with us in the ability to adapt is god helps joseph adapt to manifestation god helps joseph adapt to manifestation this was so good to me because when we see at the beginning of genesis 39 joseph is now standing in what looks like exactly what he dreamed it stood out in my mind though that when joseph was in the pit something shifted and changed because just moments before that it doesn't talk about god being with joseph we know that god is always with us but it doesn't emphasize that god is with joseph the only time that we see emphasis about god being with josephus joseph it begins in verse 13 in chapter 39. and in chapter 39 it is emphasized in a moment of manifestation and i wonder to myself what does this mean about god's character and our ability to partner with god and then i realized that manifestation is not always the time for celebration once again this is going to be counter culture this isn't going to be something that is often talked about but anyone who has ever had their dream job come true anyone who's ever had their dream vision of their life come true you recognize that the manifestation is actually a little bit more scary than actually dreaming about it because when you get in position what you're afraid of is i don't want to mess this up when you get in position you realize that i'm not as qualified as i thought but here we see god saying i'm going to help you to adapt in the time of manifestation god helps joseph to understand that even though i've placed you in this position where your dream has become a reality i haven't left you our role in our relationship with god is not just about those moments when our dream becomes a reality god says i'm going to be with you in the long haul i'm not just here to help you get to your destination i'm here until you come back to me and that means that every season in your life you can still call on me and when you are standing in the moment of manifestation it's going to be scarier than the moment when you are just dreaming about it because when you're just dreaming about it you don't have any idea of the pressure connected to it but there is pressure connected to manifestation if that's for you i want you to type it in the comments that's my word that's my word but i got news for your pressure i got news for that thing that's been telling you you're going to lose i've got news for that voice in your head that's telling you you're never going to make it you're not creative enough you're not smart enough you're not strong enough you're not wise enough that you didn't just step into manifestation by yourself if you had to do it on your own you would be afraid but because you stepped in the manifestation with god you don't have to worry about who you need to be in this space because god's teaching you and tutoring you it's like having an earpiece device that no one can see when god steps you into manifestation he says i'm going to give you the words i'm going to give you the tools you're not in manifestation by yourself you don't have to be afraid to lose it and i want to come against imposter syndrome right now in the name of jesus if god has called you into that space you are not an impostor you are the only person who could stand in that room you are the only person who can stand in that marriage you're the only person who could raise that family you're the only person who could build that business there is no one else more qualified than you to do what god has called you to do so all you got to do is step into it and when you step into it don't step into it with false confidence when you step into it don't step into it trying to drink the kool-aid of what everyone else has done and don't you dare conform you step into it and adapt in such a way that says it was my prayer that got me into this room it was my anointing that got me into this space it was my belief that i was going to break a generational curse that got me here and now that i'm standing in the generational breakthrough i won't stop now i don't know who you are but i hear god saying it's time for you to roll up your sleeves and go even harder than you've been going hard before just because you've gotten to a space where you've distanced yourself from the generational curse doesn't mean that that's the end god i wish i could say that the way that i feel it but i feel like god is saying that just because you broke the generational curse doesn't mean that there's not still a generational blessing for you to reach to you got to keep going you got to keep flowing you got to keep growing you got to keep moving because there's more for you to do [Music] you're in the manifestation but you're not by yourself you're in the manifestation but you don't have this but you're not in it by yourself don't plan a manifestation that requires you to cut ties with god when you get there you need to have a manifestation that is so big and so great that even when it is realized that i'm still going to need god in order to maintain this thing i'm still going to need god in order to sustain this thing and so many of us have these dreams where we want to finally make it to a place where we no longer need to pray the way that we have been praying and that's exactly why god doesn't meet us at the level of our hunger god says i wish you would have a dream that would require you to stay in relationship with me in order to maintain it i wish you had a dream that would require for you to still get down on your knees and pray in the same way that you prayed to get into the room until you have something like that then this is just transactional and i'm trying to be in relationship but i want to talk to somebody tonight who came to activate because they want to activate a god-sized vision for your life you want to activate a god-sized dream for your life a god-size goal god i'm going to need you to break this thing god you got me into the room god you help me to get funded god you gave me the contract and now i need you to help me actually deliver on the thing i said i could do god i said i could step into this marriage god i said i could step into this family i said i could step into this business i said i could step into this leadership and now that i've stepped into it i need you to help me to keep on stepping keep on stepping keep on stepping i'm trying to keep on stepping i'm trying to not lose i'm trying to keep moving i'm trying to keep building i got to keep on stepping everyone else can stay stagnant but as long as there's air in my lungs i got to keep on moving i gotta keep on pressing i'm trying to blow the roof off this thing i'm trying to change an industry i'm trying to change a generation i'm trying to change everything my community has ever seen so i gotta keep on pressing and i can't press without power and i don't have power without anointing and so i need heaven's resources to back me up joseph has heaven's resources backing him up and god says i'm going to put you in the palace i'm going to align you with pharaoh i'm going to make your dream a reality but you're going to need me in order to keep it within reach last and final thing i'm almost finished the last thing that we see god helping joseph with as it relates to adapting for purpose is god helps joseph to adapt to prison that's the part that's not sexy everything else was real sexy yes teach me how to adapt to my dreams coming true teach me how to adapt to the moment in which i'm standing in the manifestation of everything that i ever thought could happen in my life teach me how to do that but what do you do when you have a prison season this is different than the pit because when joseph was in the pit there was no expectation of him when joseph was in the pit his dream was just a dream it had not become reality he had not tasted that i could actually do this and now he's standing in a prison that doesn't look like anything that he's ever gone through before the lie the lie is that once your dream and your vision is manifested that you'll never ever experience a dark moment again the lie is that once you step into manifestation that that is the only place you'll ever land but as you keep going as you keep growing as you keep pressing what you learn is there are some prisons along the way how do i go from being the person who was in the palace to now someone who feels like i'm in a prison the marriage started off a palace now it feels like a prison the job started off at palace it felt like the only place i would ever want to be now it feels like a prison how do i how do i reason how do i come to a place of hope and faith and optimism when what was once the palace now becomes a prison and it would have been one thing had i never been exposed but i've been exposed to who i can be in a better environment i've been exposed to who i can be when all of the cards align but what do i do when the jobs aren't rolling in when the money isn't coming and i no longer feel like the person who had the power now i feel like a prisoner is there anybody watching tonight who once felt like you had power but now you feel like a prisoner i'm bound by shame i'm bound by regret i'm bound by second guessing i went from being so confident but now i feel like i am a prisoner god teaches joseph how to adapt to prisons not to avoid it but how to adapt not to run from it not even how to escape because if we're honest that's what we want when we find ourselves in prison seasons what we really want is for god to show me how to escape this thing god doesn't teach them how to escape he says i'm going to teach you how to adapt i'm going to show you how to live on this level i'm going to show you how to continue to show up even though you feel restricted i'm going to show you how bound can't stop the anointing i'm going to show you how restriction doesn't stop the growth i'm going to show you how you can still adapt even when you feel restricted i don't have all of the tools i don't have all of the resources i feel restricted i feel like i'm in a prison but you still have a dream even in a prison you still have a vision even in the prison that's why we see joseph doing exactly what he did in the palace when he is in the prison people are still subject to his command people are still saying exactly what he tells them to do people are still showing up and trusting his authority because the prison doesn't stop the authority the prison doesn't stop the anointing and i don't know who i'm talking to but your circumstance has changed but god told me to tell you that the circumstance doesn't change the anointing that the circumstance doesn't change the gifting and the greatest gift you can give god in this season is not asking him to take you out of the circumstance but show me how to adapt even in this environment god i never thought i'd have to go through this with my children that doesn't mean that i'm going to give up all together but i want you to show me how to adapt in this environment how do i adapt we've seen churches and so many businesses over the last year and a half adapting to the environment do you know how much strength it takes to say i'm not going to shut the doors i'm going to learn to grow and adapt even in this circumstance and environment what you've been seeing play out in the streets and play out in your community is now about to play out in your spirit because someone has been restricted and imprisoned for too long imprisoned by fear imprisoned by failure imprisoned by second guessing imprisoned by lust in prison by pride and i hear god saying that i'm about to show you how to allow the divine version of you to adapt even though you aren't free the way that you want to be free yet i wish that i could say it the way that i hear it but just because you're bound just because you're working through something just because you're growing through something it doesn't mean that god can't still use you what we have to be willing to say and do is god how can you use me with this restriction god is not looking for those people who have it all together and are not in difficult circumstances god is looking for those who are willing to allow his grace his glory his mercy to show up regardless of the circumstance my favorite part of this scripture when we started in verse 20 is actually verse 21 it says but the lord was with joseph and showed him mercy and he gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison the lord was with joseph and showed him mercy i'm still with you and i've still got something for you to see even in prison i still want you to see my mercy even when you're restricted i want you to see my mercy do you know that sometimes we can get so upset that we have found ourselves in a dark place all over again that we miss the opportunities where mercy is still showing up what is mercy it is the loving kindness of god that god you're still being kind towards me yes i lost the job but somehow i still have a roof of my head that is the mercy of god that i wasn't really qualified but still somehow you keep putting me in position it is the mercy of god that you continue to allow me access don't miss his mercy can you still see it can you still see it if you can still see it i want you to write in the comments i can still see it i can still see it i can still see your mercy i can still see your mercy i'm still alive i've still got air in my lungs i can still see your mercy i still know where the kids are i can still see your mercy see if something happens when you let hell know that i can still see god's mercy is the sign to hell that i'm still in relationship with god and i can still see how god is moving in my life i can still see your glory in my life i can still see your kindness showing up in my life god i thank you for saving my mother god i thank you for helping my father god i thank you for helping us to get through this disease god i thank you for allowing the business to survive over this pandemic it's not where i want it to be yet i'm not in the black yet i haven't signed a big deal yet but i haven't gone under either and i've seen so many other people who went under so god i can only attribute it to your kindness being with me running after me chasing after me everywhere i go i see the goodness of god all over me even in the prison i see your goodness even evicted i see your goodness see that's the kind of thing that hell doesn't want you to say because hell wants you to get so upset that you found yourself in a prison that you don't still see god's goodness but all i need to know is not that my circumstance is okay but that i still have access to god because if i still have access to god i believe that this momentary affliction is just temporary that there is a glory that is connected to this moment so i gotta hang on to god so i can see the glory i'm going through the chemo but i'm hanging on to god i'm going through the process but i'm hanging on to god i'm going through the divorce but i'm hanging on to god why am i hanging on to god when everyone else would have let him go why am i hanging on to god when everyone else said that i should just quit i'm hanging onto god because i recognize that that is the only way i'll ever see glory again i'm hanging on to god i'm not healed yet but i'm hanging on to god i'm not where i need to be yet but i'm hanging on to god because this prison can't have the best of me i don't know who you are but i feel like fighting on your behalf i feel like going to war i feel like becoming the demon bully i wish i had about two or three people with me because if i had about two or three people with me i believe that we could chase a few demons up off of our brothers and sisters because i feel like set letting somebody know that the prison can't have your mind the prison can't have your hope the prison can't have your faith the prison can't have your joy the prison can't have you the prison can't have you blood washed marked by the grace of god the prison can't have you i come against depression right now in the name of jesus the prison can't have you i come again against despair right now in the name of jesus the prison cannot have you i come up against anxiety right now in the name of jesus the prison cannot have you the prison cannot have you god gave me a word because the prisons got to let you go god gave me a word because god needed someone to know that the prison cannot have the final say that god's glory can still reach into the prison if this is your word i want you to type that's my word that's my word that's my word because you've been living in a prison for so long you thought the prison is all that there would ever be but i hear god saying not my child not on my watch not if i got a word that can still reach their spirit the prison can't have you a prison can't have you god doesn't let the prison have joseph god is still with him god is still showing him mercy god is still showing him favor broken-hearted but still favored confused but still favored overcoming doubt but i'm still favored because where you are is never an indication of where you land where you are right now feeling stuck feeling lost feeling like i'll always be restricted with a big dream where you are is not an indication of where you'll land but where you are is all that you have in reach and so you have to be willing to ask yourself if i can't get to what i see what can i do with what's in reach oh god what can i do with what's and reach these are the resources i have this is the money that i have these are the friends that i have this is the relationship that i have i don't want to sit up here lamenting what i don't have i want to know what i can do with what's within reach and what joseph does with what's in reach is just brings that same anointing that same adaptability that had him in the palace into the prison it says and the keeper of the prison committed to joseph's hands all the prisoners who were in the prison whatever they did there it was his doing the keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under joseph's authority which was so interesting because in genesis 39 and 4 it says this was before he was in the prison it says so joseph found favor in his sight that's pharaoh's sight and served him then he made him overseer of his house and all that he had he put under his authority the same grace in the palace the same grace in the prison because joseph learned to adapt to the anointing for wherever he was all i wanted you to know is that when it comes to purpose when it comes to stepping into who god has called you to be stepping into your identity your divine identity identity stepping into that role stepping into that position that you know god has breathed on that conformity is not the answer don't become everything you've ever seen ask god how do i bring me into this circumstance in a way that adapts what i carry for what the environment needs how do i adapt the essence of who i am for what this environment needs wherever you are you are needed there you are not just there riding off of someone else's favor someone else's favor may have gotten you into the room but that was really god's favor flowing through them wherever you are that is where you are supposed to be but don't allow yourself to now take it into your own hands in your own control instead ask god how do i adapt who i am in you for the room and the season and circumstance i'm in i want to pray with you i want to pray that god would break covenant with where you have conformed and that he would give you courage to step boldly into your god-given identity and from that place that god would teach you to trust him no matter where you are to trust god in every room and every season we hear paul say in the new testament to the jew i became as a jew to the greek i became as a greek it doesn't mean that he changed who he was it meant that he found a way to adapt who he was so that he could reach who he was called to you are called to people who will require you to adapt not be inauthentic but to adapt this world needs what you carry and yet you're so busy conforming to what you've seen that no one is feeling the space that you're supposed to feel we rebuke that spirit of the living god this word has confronted so many people who have been too afraid to admit that they are flirting with conformity it has confronted so many people who have decided to conform to rejection and conform to their shame and conform to their regret and yet father you will say in your word do not be conformed to this world father we ask for forgiveness because we have been conforming for love conforming for validation conforming to feel proud of ourselves conforming so that we can feel confident and father we ask for forgiveness because we recognize that even as we conformed we were still empty even as we conformed we were still unfulfilled father i pray a special blessing over every person watching who has decided to break covenant with where they have conformed father i pray that you would not just close the door to conformity but that you would seal it allowing them to not ever go back to conforming again and as you seal that word seal that door father i pray that you would then bring them into this strength and courage that adaptability requires father that you would make us sensitive enough to not just step into something and take it on in our own strength but that we would recognize that it is not by might nor is it by power but only by your spirit that we will stay in the rooms where you send us and so father i pray for as a fresh outpouring of your spirit a fresh outpouring of your anointing your fresh outpouring of your vision and that as your spirit pours god that you would give us wisdom on how to convert our essence for the rooms and the roles and the communities and paradigms that you've placed us in god i thank you that this is a word from heaven and that it is reaching the hearts of those who need it the most i pray that they would listen to it over and over and over again until they dare to be bold enough to be authentic and dare to be bold enough to adapt only for purpose in jesus name i pray amen family you know i love you so much and it's always such a joy when we get to activate together i don't know about you but i'm praying that god would continue to activate my adaptability because i got things to do you feel me can't wait to see you guys soon stay plugged in here you don't want to miss what god's doing in this house

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Length: 51min 10sec (3070 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 18 2021