An Inconvenient Time - Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Music] i believe and i don't know if you're like me that this is not just by coincidence or happenstance but that god literally designed for us to come together in the spirit listen we don't have to be in the same room all we have to do is come together in the spirit because when we come into this spirit the spirit knows all things and the spirit meets us right where we need and so i'm praying already that the breakthrough that you've been looking for has already taken place and that this is just going to be icing on the cake that you've already got vision that you've already got strength that you've already got wisdom to run your race in a fresh new way and so spirit of the living god is going to fall like never before and when it falls it's going to meet each of us exactly where we are so let's get into this word i'm going to be in exodus 2. this isn't an unfamiliar text as a matter of fact i know because you guys are always feeding off of the word and it's so rich and abundant that for some of you this is just going to be like you could recite it word for word but i believe as i was studying that god gave me a fresh perspective and i want to share that perspective with you especially as we talk about god pushing and propelling us into purpose i'm going to be in exodus 2. i'm going to start in verse 7. like i said most of us know the story of moses and his entrance into the world after 400 years of slavery god sends a deliverer at a time when the first when the sons of the hebrew children were supposed to be being murdered he sent a deliverer whose life he would preserve so that he could ultimately bring the children of israel out of captivity so i want to dissect a little bit how moses came into the world and there are three women who played a pivotal role in his purpose and his deliverance being incubated so that it could ultimately come to fruition and he would become this hero in the faith that we know him as i'm going to start in verse 7. this is after moses mother has had him she's grown and she realized she can no longer hide him anymore because like i said earlier that the sons of the hebrews were supposed to be murdered because they were growing so strong and mighty but his mother had a clue that she wasn't going to allow this to happen to her child and so she kept him for as long as she could but the time came when it had to be out of her hands how many of us can relate to that there are moments when we do all that we can but we know that there are some outcomes that are out of our hands and so she creates this ark and she puts him in the river and she tells his sister to watch over him and she watches over him and he ends up floating to the area where pharaoh's daughter was out taking a bath and that is where we are when we pick up in verse 7 it says then his sister this is moses sister said to pharaoh's daughter shall i go and call a nurse for you from the hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you and pharaoh's daughter said to her go so the maiden went and called to the child's mother then pharaoh's daughter said to her take this child away and nurse him for me and i will give you your wages so the woman took the child and nursed him and verse 10 says and the child grew and she brought him to pharaoh's daughter and he became her son so she called his name moses saying because i drew him out of the water three women here all with a different purpose all in an inconvenient time that is my subject for those of you who like to take notes an inconvenient time father this word has been marinating in my spirit for quite a few days now and it is my prayer that you would allow this word to flow like the very river that brought moses to famous pharaoh's daughter and that as this word flows that it would meet my sisters exactly where they are that it would meet your daughters right where they are father and that it would bring deliverance to them father send a word that meets them right in the middle of their circumstances and causes them to be set free father god we know that you knew 2020 was going to be taking place exactly how it has unfolded you knew we're exactly where we would be exactly in this moment and father we know that you send a word and it does not return into you void and so father i'm asked that you that you would feel this word out that it would take on a new life and that it would breathe father fresh fresh anointing over your daughter's father and that there would be supernatural breakthrough like never before we proclaim deliverance in the name of jesus we proclaim breakthrough in the name of jesus we proclaim that it is done it is sealed in heaven and because it is sealed in heaven it must be sealed in the earth father god we come into alignment with what this moment is supposed to be and we say have your way great god that you are leave nothing on the table that the generations may benefit from what takes place in this moment in jesus name i pray amen and amen again i don't care if you're in a room full of people or somewhere by yourself i want you to say amen i want you to bring your spirit into alignment with what god already knows this word is going to be you see just because we don't have a neighbor to nudge now the way that we used to be doesn't mean that we can't come into agreement with what god is doing in the spirit as a matter of fact i want someone to get their expectation up as a matter of fact i want someone to start opening up their spirit i hear god saying that you're just one phrase away from being positioned properly that you're just one breakthrough away from being positioned properly i know you got things to do i know you're not in the most convenient situation but i hear that saying i need an inconvenient praise i want to praise from somebody that it cost you something to give it to me and i hear god saying that when you give me an inconvenient praise i can give you an inconvenient breakthrough one that eyes don't understand one that people can't wrap their mind around but i can give you the type of breakthrough that radically shifts your life and so i want you to bring your spirit into alignment with the expectation of what this moment is supposed to be i feel god's stirring already and i've been praying like i said that god would just sit on this word because i don't know if you're like me every now and then i take a moment and i say wow 2020 has really been on one okay it has really really been one of the most challenging years that i know that this country this nation this world has faced for quite some time and every now and then my husband and i we sit back and we talk about just the many ways in which 2020 has been challenging and i think one of the things that i keep coming to understand is that one of the reasons why 2020 has been so challenging is because what used to be convenient and easy to do is now inconvenient simple things like go into the grocery store you could just pick up your keys and walk out of the house now you got to make sure you've got your mask and your gloves and your hand sanitizers there are some things that we were able to avoid before 2020 because it was inconvenient but 2020 has made a demand that we confront things that are inconvenient because listen if we don't confront the things that are inconvenient then we can't accomplish what must be accomplished in our households in our businesses and our churches and communities you know when my husband and i get tired of our kids i mean when we need to connect with the spirit away from the children we would just go to the movies or go and have a nice dinner that was our way of escaping the inconvenience of someone knocking on the door every five minutes but we can't do that now we're used to having an escape when things are inconvenient and i feel like one of the greatest struggles of 2020 is that there is no escape from inconvenience when they told me that we were going to be connecting like this they told me that they wanted us to push to to really push and propel you all into your purpose using god's word and i couldn't help but think about how inconvenient purpose can be you see if we think that inc that purpose is about our comfort and about things going the way that we want them to and about having an environment that doesn't require sacrifice and doesn't require us to cost uh to pay anything then we'll end up thinking that purpose comes easy we'll look at other people's life and we'll say to ourselves wow that came so easy for them but in order for me to do that i would have to be inconvenienced i would have to move i would have to relocate i would have to go back to school i would have to be inconvenienced and so we end up staying stagnant because we recognize that sometimes inconvenience costs too much but like i said if there's any gift that 2020 has given us and sometimes i promise you it doesn't feel like a gift it is the reality that inconvenience can be confronted that sometimes the only way to progress is not to avoid the inconvenience but to look at it dead on and say it must be inc it must be inconvenient but i'm going to confront it anyway it might be a struggle but i'm going to confront it anyway it may be difficult but i'm going to confront it anyway i want to talk to somebody who's been struggling with inconveniencing and feeling like just because i've been inconvenienced doesn't mean that i can't move to the next level there's got to be somebody who's watching this message right now and they're beginning to size up what they were once calling inconvenience and i hear god saying that we have to come to a place where we are willing to say it may be inconveniencing me but at the end of the day my obedience is greater than the inconvenience can you overcome inconvenience in order to be aligned with obedience when god calls you to do something when god calls you to move when he calls you to write when he calls you to start that business when he calls you to raise those children when he calls you to go into therapy are you willing to be inconvenienced to get it done you see because purpose isn't for those types of people who must have everything positioned properly in order for them to flourish purpose is for those types of people who say i'm the rose that grew from the concrete i'm the girl who didn't have all of the support and i didn't have the family structure to make things easy but what i decided is against all odds that i don't mind being inconvenienced i'll raise the children by myself if i have to i'll roll up my sleeves and go and work two or three jobs if i have to inconvenience avoiding inconvenience is a luxury there are some people who have decided it may cost i may have to get on the bus i may have to scratch some things together i may have to learn i may have to stretch i may have to break out of my shell but at the end of the day i don't mind being inconvenienced to get it done and no i may not always look cute doing it and no i may have to save and scratch in order to get it done but what is ahead of me is greater than the inconvenience that is in front of me so i'm willing to overcome this inconvenience because my obedience depends on it you see i don't know about you but i'm one of those people who recognize that inconvenience is nothing when i'm doing what god has called me to do that inconvenience is an earthly thing but nothing is inconvenient for god so when i get more of god's spirit i swell and i become someone who doesn't mind inconvenience because i recognize who's working down on the inside of me god has never been inconvenienced it never costs him anything to be god and i want to be like god so i gotta come into alignment where i decide it doesn't cost me anything to be me god if you want me to do it on this show i'll do it on this show god if you want me to do it in an empty room i'll do it in an empty room god if you want me to do it at the school i'll do it after school i don't mind being inconvenienced for glory [Music] i don't mind being inconvenienced for glory [Music] and that's where we gotta live and that's why 2020 has been training us because we're going to come out of this and when we come out of this god is still going to be looking for people who don't mind being inconvenienced so you're inconvenienced but you're watching this and i'm telling you my job god told me my job was to help you face it anyway to recognize it might be inconvenient but we got to go to therapy it might be inconvenient but i gotta go back to school it might be inconvenient but i have to get it done anyway because if you can't be inconvenienced then you can't be in purpose i'll tell you why purpose and inconvenience go hand in hand you see that word purpose has been hijacked by the culture so much that some of us don't even know what purpose is is it my gift and my talents is it something that i'm good at is it something that i'm passionate about but i want you to know that the way that i believe god sees purpose is connected to deliverance that purpose is not just that thing that's going to make me rich and famous that's the culture hijacking that word purpose purpose i like to define it like this is the thing that i do in the earth that requires me to need god the most purpose is what i know allows god to work through me to set someone else free if you have a purpose and i want you to write this down and you're you're questioning what purpose is you're trying to figure out what your purpose is i want you to know i want you to see rather can you draw a line between purpose and deliverance what is set free as a result of my purpose who is set free as a result of my purpose you see because when you can see the deliverance connected to the purpose then you don't mind facing inconvenience because you recognize if i'm not inconvenienced then they aren't set free that's what happens when purpose becomes bigger than you is when you say to yourself it may cost me on this end but if it means that they're free on that end then i don't mind paying the price to be aligned with what god is doing in the earth and i believe now more than ever that god is looking for women who do not mind being inconvenienced in order to produce purpose that's why i love this text so much because this text is about three women who are living in an inconvenient time and in spite of the inconvenient time that these three women are living in god has still assigned them with a purpose and a destiny that would allow deliverance to be manifested because once again nothing is inconvenient for god god's not looking down and saying i might should wait until they're no longer in captivity and then i'll go about doing my plan god's not inconvenienced by what's happening in the world because god is greater than anything that is happening in the world and that's why he doesn't need for us to be comfortable in order for his plan to be manifested he just needs a few women or a few men who don't mind being inconvenienced these three women these are the three women that god's going to use to help manifest the deliverance that the hebrew people need three women sometimes we think we need a large army that we need several people in order to affect change that we need at least as many people on our side as there are on that side in order for us to affect change but i hear god saying that i really just need a few that's why you have to be careful when you start forcing us to do things on the internet because all of a sudden the capacity is taken off of who we could have touched and maybe we would have had five thousand but now we have access to twenty 000 because god said i'm going to take the limit off of it and even in those 20 000 women i only need one or two or three women who don't mind being an army a few you see you have to understand in order to make something like this happen it may affect 20 000 people but there's 20 people on the other end who are bringing deliverance to 20 000 people i'm reminded of romans 8 when it says that greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world that speaks to me that even if it's just me and god as the army that that's all i need to affect change for the thousands god says i only need an army a few everyone else may need a room full of thousands everyone else may need millions of people in order to get it done but when god gets ready to do something in the earth you better watch out for the people who have the least you better watch out for the people who have a few things going for them i only have a few things i hear david and five smooth stones i only have a few things working for me but god knows how to take mine few things and multiply them until they create amazing change i may only have a few disciples but jesus said i only need 12 disciples to get done what i need to get done and here we are 2 000 years later talking about what jesus did with him and 12 other people how is it that jesus has been able to touch the lives of millions perhaps even billions and it was just him and 12 disciples because god says i know how to use an army of few why am i laying this down because i want you to recognize that you may not have everything that you need that you may not have the team and the qualifications you may not have the experience that you're looking for but i hear god saying that you just need a few i just need a few i just need a few i just need a few crazy women i just need a few women who don't mind being inconvenienced i just need a few women who don't mind doing what i say do when i say do it i just need a few women who are going to bring deliverance i don't know who this is for but i hear god saying that you want to break a generational curse that has played generations of women who came behind you and you only feel like i'm just one woman i just got one idea i just got a few opportunities and i hear guys saying baby that's all you need you only need a few things i hear y'all saying i'll take it and i'll multiply it that's why god isn't afraid of a few because god can take a few things and multiply it until it becomes a great thing you're looking at a few things right now i started preaching just a few years ago and yet god breathed on that preaching and now it's been multiplied throughout the earth it's not because i'm so good it's because god knows how to multiply a few if that's your word i want you to grab it i want you to grab it i want you to grab it i want you to grab it i know something about a few i know something about having to go through some things in order to be inconvenienced for breakthrough i know about bringing deliverance with an army of you there's somebody watching this and i hear god saying you and god are the only army you need i hear god saying that if you stay in line with me you won't need the studio to write the check you won't need the big name to endorse who you are all you need is god working down on the inside of you and you willing to be inconvenienced to get it done somebody's been up till two and three o'clock in the morning researching things that they don't have no business looking up being through going through what they've gone through but i hear god saying that somebody who doesn't mind being inconvenienced do you know what it means to open up the windows of heaven to pour you out a blessing you don't have room enough to receive it means that god said i will inconvenience myself to bless you so when god gets ready to bring deliverance to the hebrew children he uses three women he uses three women an army of few to bring deliverance to many an army of few we may be few but we are mighty i'm thinking about gideon in his army there are an army a few and here we are just like in exodus in an inconvenient time and yet deliverance is still necessary in an inconvenient time if we sit back and let the inconvenient time dictate who we are in the earth then we have discounted who god is in the earth but when we come to a place where we say to ourselves it may be inconvenient on the earth but it's already done in heaven then we position ourselves to be the bridge to allow what's happening in heaven to invade the earth that's why there are some conversations that will literally be beneath us because at the end of the day i'm focused on making sure that heaven touches earth and these three women these three women who god uses in this inconvenient time they are just an army of few but these three women play a pivotal role in bringing deliverance i want to tell you about these three women because i believe that these three women one of them or perhaps you're all of them are down on the inside of you and i think it's important that you recognize the divine identity that god has given you in an inconvenient time i studied these women because i recognize that purpose is going to cost us something this year that for god to propel us into purpose means that we're going to have to be willing to become someone in an inconvenient time and when i studied these women i wanted to see who they were in an inconvenient time because like i said i believe that there is a version of them down on the inside of you these three women moses is mother moses sister and pharaoh's daughter these are the three women that god uses in three different functions in order to manifest deliverance three different women three different functions one goal and that is to bring deliverance let's talk about moses's mother in exodus two and two my bible tells me so the woman conceived and bore a son and she saw that he was a beautiful child she hid him three months so she knows that as a male child he's supposed to be murdered but she saw that he was a beautiful child in an inconvenient time and so she made the decision to hide him moses's mother her purpose in an inconvenient time was to birth and nurture deliverance okay that's good to me at first when i was studying this i was saying to myself that her role was to birth deliverance in an inconvenient time you see there are some of you watching and god has been telling you that it's time for you to birth but the time isn't inconvenient and so i admired this woman because she birthed in an inconvenient time but as i studied a little bit more i realized that it's not enough to just birth in an inconvenient time if you're not going to nurture it you see there are a lot of people who can birth ideas they can birth vision but you have to be willing to nurture that thing that you birth or you could end up killing it so she births and she nurtures moses who will be deliverance your your purpose has to not just be birth but you have to nurture it you have to tend to it you have to sacrifice for it in this time can you imagine what it was like to be moses's mother with a male child she had to change the way that she functioned and who she allowed into her home and who she allowed to stay out of her home because she recognized that she was trying to nurture something that shouldn't be able to exist i feel that for somebody that if you're going to birth this purpose that it may not be able to be birthed in the environment that you currently have set up and you'll end up birthing something but don't have the environment to nurture it properly and i hear god saying that if you're gonna birth this vision if you're gonna birth this non-profit if you're to birth this degree if you're going to birth this business if you're going to birth this promotion i don't know who i'm talking to but i know god's been speaking to some of my sisters if you're going to birth it i want you to think beyond birthing it i want you to start thinking about what is it going to take to nurture it who am i going to have to become what is my environment going to have to look like in order for me to nurture it that's one of the greatest lessons that i've learned in business sometimes i would just start something and i thought it was enough to birth it but it's not enough to birth it if you can't nurture it it's easier to birth it than it is to nurture it it's easy to push out an idea it's easy to start a website but when it's time to fulfill those orders and it's time to meet those customers demand that's when you start to nurture what you have birthed you're watching this and i want you to look beyond birthing your purpose and ask god do i have the proper environment to nurture it god help me to understand the environment required to nurture this purpose this is how you know it was purpose though because this scripture makes sure to tell us and to that she looked at this male child and she saw that he was a beautiful child that word beautiful actually doesn't mean beautiful in the way that we're used to defining it it actually means good it was a hebrew word that was translated beautiful but it was good i love this about this woman because it means that she looked at this hebrew child and she saw good where someone else would have saw loss and that's how you know its purpose is because someone else would have looked at that child and said oh god i'm going to lose you but this crazy woman who god is using to nurture deliverance looks at it and says this is a good thing i want you to look at that business and i want you to be able to say when i look at it do i only see the loss that could occur or do i see it as good in spite of the environment that it has to exist in in spite of the inconvenient time that i have to bring it forth in can i look at it and see it as good when someone else would have seen it as loss because when you see it as good there are some things that are too good to let go when you see it as lost you may end up sacrificing it you may end up surrendering it but this woman she looked at moses she looked at this child and she said you are too good to let go you've got too much going for you for me to just let it go and i feel like that's what god has been birthing down on the inside of you that anointing because it's not just a gift or a talent that purpose that god is incubating and nurturing down on the inside of you is too good for you to let it go man i feel this prophetically for somebody that you've been going through the motions and every time you try to get this purpose off of the ground you're inconvenienced by by one law or one by one barrier or the other and i hear god saying more clearly than ever that this thing is too good for you to let it go and that's why you can't release it the way that you want to release it you want to quit the job you want to walk away from the ministry but every time you get ready to walk away you feel god pulling you back and i hear god saying that's because i'm trying to tell you it's too good to let go that anointing is too good for you to walk away from that grace is too good for you to abandon i hear god saying it may be inconvenient but that doesn't mean it's not good that's the word that he's been trying to say we think because it's inconvenient that it means it's not good and i hear god saying that just because it's inconvenient doesn't mean that it's not god just because it's inconvenient doesn't mean that i can't use it anyway as a matter of fact it needed to be inconvenient in order to be a deliverer why would god send deliverance to something that's already been set free in order for there to be deliverance it's got to be in a tight space and it's got to feel too tight and you got to feel like you're losing it and you got to feel like i'm crazy for signing up for this thing and god says that's how you know it's positioned properly for breakthrough because when you become who i've called you to be every barrier that's been closing in on you you're gonna stretch with one good stretch and when you stretch everything is gonna be broken it's small right now it's heavy right now you're tired right now but i hear guys saying i put you in a tight spot so you can break out of that box so when you break out you don't just deliver yourself you deliver everything connected to you i hear god saying keep nurturing keep nurturing it it's going to grow keep nurturing it's going to develop keep nurturing help is on the way help is on the way i'm going to send somebody who understands what it is that i place down on the inside of you and i hear god saying it's only going to work it's only going to work if it feels like it's threatened it's only going to work if all hell breaks loose i know this is crazy and it's not even in my notes but i hear guys saying it's only deliverance if there's war against it it's only deliverance if it feels tight it's only deliverance in order for there to be breakthrough it's got to feel small but it's too good to let go it's too good for you to walk away i want to move on but i feel like this is speaking to someone this is too good of an opportunity this is too much anointing this is too much power there's too much possibility for you to pack up your toys and go home i hear guys saying i know you were hurt before i know you're scared to bring it out but i hear god saying that you got a nurturing you got to let me help you so that i can deliver it because this one is different there were many hebrew sons who were born in that time and some of them didn't make it but this one is different this isn't like the other ones this isn't like the last time this isn't like that time that made you shut down before this one is different and it's too good for you to let go so moses's mother has to readjust everything in an inconvenient time to hang on to something that's too good to let go god this ministry god this marriage god this child this child is driving me crazy i don't know what to do with them god but there's too much good in it to let it go there's too much good in it for me to let it die god i may have to be on my last and i may have to pull some things that i've never had to work with before but this thing that you're doing down on the inside of these your daughters god is too good for them to let go if that's your word i don't know who you are if that's your word i want you to settle into a truth that it's okay for it to be inconvenient and it's okay for it to be harder than anything you've ever done before [Music] it's okay for you to not know how it's going to survive to know that god is going to help it survive because there's help on the way you just birth it you just nurture it don't just have the idea nurture the idea and help is going to come when you need it it's not time yet she hid this child for three months before she needed help that means there was a time period when it was just her and the child when it was just her and the purpose when it was just her and what god was doing and she nurtured it until help came and when it was time for her to let it go and that meant that didn't mean let it go as in letting it die but time for her to allow it to have a new chance of survival because there is this moment when it goes from being just you nurturing and birthing an idea to when you have to realize that this is too big for me and i need help and i need support so that it can survive see that is the crossroad of purpose that a lot of times we don't make it to and sometimes when it gets too big we think it's too big and i'm supposed to quit and i hear god saying no it's too big now you have to give it the best chance of survival and moses his mother says it's too big for me to hide to myself it's too big for me to keep down on the inside of me now i have to give it the best chance of survival so she makes an arc and the bible says that she uses bulrushes and she uses asphalt and she pitches this tent because at the end of the day i've got to give it the best chance of survival there will come a time in your development there will come a time in your purpose where you realize this is too big to stay down on the inside of me anymore so now i need to give it the best chance of survival that means i may have to plug into my word in a different way it means i may have to register for an online conference but what's happening down on the inside of me i have to give it the best chance of survival and moses mother gives moses the best chance of survival that first woman her first purpose was to birth and nurture deliverance the second woman moses sister her responsibility and this is the responsibility of some of you watching is to protect deliverance in exodus 2 and 4 it says and his sister stood afar off to know what would be done to him her purpose was to protect deliverance in an inconvenient time sometimes we spend so much time talking about birthing and nurturing purpose that we discredit one of the most powerful roles in purpose and that is protecting the deliverance that means you may not be birthing it but you are qualified to protect it not everyone is meant to birth and nurture some people come along so that they can protect what god is doing in the earth i know how to protect deliverance protection is different than just watching you see his sister wasn't just watching from afar she was protecting him from afar the difference between watching and protecting is i'm only watching until something tries to intervene with the deliverance if something tries to intervene with the deliverance then it is my job to activate the anointing that god has given me to protect what god is doing in the earth that's why i said some of us have all of these roles some of us may just have one of them but all of us in some way ought to be able to connect to these three women because his sister was called to protect deliverance i believe wholeheartedly that each of us should have something in our life that we consider as our role to protect what god is doing in the earth i'm protecting the purpose of what god is doing in the earth i'm protecting the deliverance of what god is doing in the earth what's unique about this instance with moses sister whose purpose was to protect deliverance is that she didn't know that what she was protecting would ultimately deliver her talk about serving your way up you see in that moment she didn't know who moses was going to be we have the beauty of hindsight because we've heard this story so many times but in the moment she was just protecting what god is doing i want to make sure that it stays safe i want to make sure that nothing no weapon formed against it will prosper that is my role that is my position in this is to make sure that i protect that deliverance that if anything comes up against it that i will intervene but little does she know that the very thing that she is protecting would ultimately deliver her that's a word for somebody who has been protecting people's vision over and over again that you think that you're just protecting their vision but god says i'm making sure that everything that you protect ultimately gets into a position where it can deliver you that very thing that you've been serving i hear god saying is how you're going to end up getting your breakthrough there are some people who hustle their way up there are some people who connect their way up there are some people who do whatever it takes in order to get a come up but i hear god saying there is a special anointing for people who serve their way up i believe it and i've said it over and over again that when god gets ready to do something in the earth that he uses servants he doesn't use the people who have the big egos he doesn't use the people who have pride they are a god all unto themselves i like to use people who know how to serve their way up i like to use people who understand that my job my purpose here on the earth is to make sure that glory touches down on the earth and when glory touches down on the earth that's all that matters to me his sister's role was to watch and protect the deliverance and to trust that while she was protecting that god was watching and the last one the last person the last woman that we see in this role in this story is pharaoh's daughter and pharaoh's daughter oh my god i feel this there's an anointing on this i don't know who you are pharaoh's daughter's role was to sustain deliverance we've got birth and nurture deliverance we've got protect deliverance but pharaoh's daughter her role was to sustain the deliverance let's go to exodus two and six it says when she opened up the ark she saw the child and behold the baby wept so she had compassion on him and said this is one of the hebrews children this is important because she recognizes that this is someone who has set deliverance in motion and she had an opportunity here and that opportunity would have been that she could have turned that hebrew child in to the authorities and said that this is one of the ones that you've been looking to kill but instead she created an environment to sustain the deliverance that started before her why do i feel like this is important because there has been deliverance that has occurred in your family and if you are not careful it may not have started with you but it will end with you see you can't look at what god has done in your family and just say that that was good for the other generations when we look back at our family we ought to be looking back and saying god what is the grace and the anointing that worked out well for my family that i want to make sure echoes throughout the next generations sometimes we focus so much on the generational curses that we let the generational blessings fall to the ground and i know everything hasn't been perfect and i know perhaps there are some things that we want to break off of our families but there are some things that we ought to say to ourselves i will not let that thing in with me there is an anointing on my father and my mother's life and when i see them function in that anointing and i see the breakthrough that comes through them when they surrender themselves to god there is a part of me that says this has got to stay in the earth my husband and i we talk about it all of the time when we see some of the great heroes of faith who are alive in our generation pass on we say to ourselves that this has got to stay alive in our generation and i hear god saying that the breakthrough that we're going to have for the next generations will be dependent on how well we carry the breakthrough that we're already standing in i hear god saying you don't realize it because that breakthrough existed before you took your first breath but the fact that you are standing where you are standing is the fact that god is because god has delivered the generations that came before you and i just need an army of a few women who say to themselves i still got some generational curses to break but i have some generational blessings that need to be sustained i've got some generational blessings that i won't let fall to the ground we used to say things like back in my grandmother's day that wouldn't happen but i hear your grandmother saying from heaven that it could have been back in her day but it could be today if there would be one person who said i won't let it die on my watch i wish i had a few grace girls who would look back over what they've seen in other generations and would say to themselves i'm going to make sure that stays alive i'm going to make sure integrity stays alive i'm going to make sure breakthrough stays alive my job is to sustain what happened before me i hear civil rights leaders saying black lives do matter and i need someone to make sure that they carry on this baton i hear someone saying that it does matter that we have a place where we can come and encounter god and i need someone who will carry that baton serving the community and helping people less fortunate than ourselves matter and we can't let that thing die with us if i just had one or two that's all i need because all god used was three crazy women who didn't mind saying if god is going to be delivering anything connected to me you can use me in an inconvenient time god help me be the one who sustains what's already in the earth i hear somebody i feel like somebody needs to make sure that the anointing that's on your family's life stays in the earth your family has an anointing connected to them your generation has an anointing connected to them i know they got some problems and some issues but there is an anointing connected to this thing and if you're so busy looking at what went wrong you won't see what went right and that anointing will fall to the ground and hell will be glad because you didn't realize that they had a few things going for him my family had a few things going for him and i'm gonna take that few and multiply it until there's breakthrough i'm gonna take that few and i'm gonna make sure it is sustained in the earth [Music] that's exactly what pharaoh's daughter does she makes sure that deliverance doesn't end with her it didn't start with you but it might end with you if you're not intentional about saying this needs to stay in the earth this breakthrough this servanthood this anointing this spirit of community has got to stay in the earth generosity it's got to stay in the earth giving and giving and giving i'm sitting up here preaching and i'm thinking about how my husband tells a story about his grandmother who would just give give give give and now i see my husband and he's constantly giving giving giving that's a generational anointing that has been sustained through his actions what are you going to sustain that has already been placed in the earth my assignment was to talk to you about purpose about god pushing and propelling us into purpose but i feel like i would be doing you a disservice if i didn't take the time to let you know that purpose is most powerful in an inconvenient time but it is not impossible in inconvenient times did you hear that purpose is not impossible in inconvenient times purpose is not impossible in inconvenient times you're watching this and tears are streaming down your face because it feels impossible because of the times we're in how can i birth and nurture this deliverance in this inconvenient time moses's mother taught us how to do that how can i protect this deliverance in an inconvenient time it's inconvenient for me to be watching and nurturing and protecting what god is doing and someone else how can i do this i would rather just go home and worry about myself why do i have to protect what god is doing it feels so inconvenient and i hear god saying that's possible in an inconvenient time if you don't believe me go look at what i did with moses sister god how can i sustain this legacy of generosity and faith faith faith like my grandmother had faith like my great-grandparents had faith like like the people in my community had god how can i keep the faith in spite of all that's happening in the news and happening in the world god how can i have the faith of those people who've came before me and i hear god saying it is possible to sustain deliverance if you don't believe me just look at what i did with pharaoh's daughter you see the bible is so rich because it shows us about god's history it teaches us about the character of god it shows us his rhythm and how he shows up in the earth since you're watching this and 2020 has been nothing if not inconvenient every time we turn around what we used to be comfortable with has been shifted and changed in some way and yet the fact that you're even receiving this message is possible that purpose is possible in inconvenient times first baptist glen arden has gone through great lengths to create this environment for you and even us here in los angeles we've gone through great lengths to make sure that this gets to glenard and so that we can make sure that the mission of the kingdom is not halted because of an inconvenient time we may be limping we may be hobbling and we may be tired getting it done but we have stayed in our position of purpose my prayer for you is that you would maintain your position even in inconvenient times i want to pray for you i want to pray that you would assume your identity as a daughter of the most high and that as you assume that identity no matter how old or young you are that you would do so with the knowledge that inconvenient times that's an earthly thing that's a fleshy thing for god though what we call inconvenient is slight work for him you serve a god who looks at what we call inconvenient and says that's nothing it's never a matter of whether or not god can only a matter of if it's in his plan if it's in my plan it's already done and if it's not in my plan you gotta trust my plan has taken into account what you really need in this moment and i've got a plan for that that supersedes what you need i want to pray for you if you can i want you to cup your hands like you're receiving something if you can't just open your heart but i believe that god is going to pour out fresh vision fresh strength fresh power fresh hope fresh faith that he's going to allow his spirit to just rest on you in a fresh new way and some of you you need it so by so bad it's so dry down in your spirit so empty so broken so hurting so many questions but i hear god saying i am the god of inconvenient times i am the god of brokenness and i am the god of disappointment and i have a plan through the midst of it all [Music] father my prayer [Music] is that our hearts would be open to receive this connection with you god wherever there is a woman with her heart open and her hands cupped father i pray that you would pour out your spirit just like you promised in joel that you would pour out your spirit oh god and that we would begin to prophesy over these dry bones that are in our soul these dry bones that are in our spirit father we need to breathe life again father and because you are life itself it is my prayer that you would begin to breathe like never before over every woman who's watching this message that the wind of god would meet her down in the depths of her soul and that when the wind blows it would blow away fear it would blow away anxiety it would blow away isolation i come against depression in the name of jesus i send the wind of god the breath of god over every person who is depressed right now in the name of jesus i call forth the spirit of god that's down on the inside of you and i speak overflow i speak increase in the name of jesus so god i speak that you would allow your promises to stand up in them like never before for your promises god are yes and amen father i'm coming back for my sister i want to be like moses sister protecting what you're doing down on the inside of her and i intervene in the spirit realm father over every principality over every demonic threat over every darkness and depression and i say loose your hold in the name of jesus i say loose your grasp in the name of jesus who the son has delivered my god who he set free is free indeed so father let your spirit break every chain pull down every stronghold and may she rise up and take her position in an inconvenient time as the woman for the job ask me breakthrough i speak power i speak fresh anointing i speak creativity coming to your house coming to your car coming to your marriage coming to your finances we decree it in heaven and so it must happen on the earth in the mighty name of jesus we pray may every grace girl watching this receive it let it take root and let it produce fruit in jesus name i pray amen and amen again for our best first baptist church glenarden we love you we're with you in the spirit you're stuck with us and there's nothing you can do about it i want to make sure that you allow this word to replay in all of the words you receive this week and let it replay and let it become your new identity walk into this thing let it push you let it propel you let it take you to the next dimension of god and we're gonna look back on 2020 and realize that we were birthed in a season that was inconvenient and we'll remember that forever and ever i love you i can't wait to be with you again god bless you you

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Published: Fri Aug 06 2021