Breaking Point | Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Music] I've got a message I've been praying and I've been asking God what he wants me to say and I believe I have a message for you all I'm going to be speaking from 1st Samuel chapter 1 verse 4 through 11 I paid someone to do that in every city I go to I got your venmo girl I got you after service 1/2 now then half after she accomplishes that task I don't know what the custom is here but I'm at our church we stand for the reading of the word I do not make myself totally comfortable but if you would indulge me for just a moment first samuel chapter 1 verse 4 through 11 and my text begins it says and whenever the time came for Elka Knutson make an offering he would give portions to peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters but to Hannah he would give a double portion for he loved him although the Lord had closed her womb and her rival also provoked her severely to make her miserable because the Lord had closed her womb so it was year by year when she went up to the house of the Lord that she provoked her therefore she wept and did not eat then Elkanah said her husband said to her Hannah why do you weep why do you not eat and why is your heart grieved am I not better to you than 10 sons so Hannah arose after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the tabernacle of the Lord and she was in bitterness of soul and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish then she made a vow and said O Lord of Hosts if you will indeed the affliction of your maidservant and remember me and not forget your maidservant but will give your maidservant and male child then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life and no razor shall come upon his head God we invite you to just invade this room there's nothing like being in your presence and your presence our insecurities are not just revealed they're healed and your presence generational curses are not just broken generational blessings become our inheritance God in your presence we remember we have a crown and that our scars didn't kill us and so god I'm asking that this would be a moment where your glory manifests in this place that you would look into the hearts of every woman represented in this room God and that you would pull out the gifts and be anointing that you have placed down on the inside of her God let there be overflow in this place let anointing break out like never before let healing break out like never before let there be restoration and redemption like never before and while you're at it God lets some strongholds come down because we didn't come here to play games we came here to change the world and so God if you speak a word in this room we believe that we can do just that so we give you full reign God as for me no nerves no fear no insecurity just your anointing your power standing tall on the inside of me in Jesus name and then y'all can sit down now cuz I know you see her I was my husband and I got in last night we got to the hotel and you know from LA to Miami is about a four and a half hour flight so I got up before we got on the plane and I went and worked out because I'm trying to do the right thing in 2019 and I went and worked out a head packed I packed and I was just struggling when we got on the plane I fell asleep and I had every intention once we got to the hotel of just like passing out until we had a great dinner we got up to the room and let me tell you my process ladies I have to take this wig off is that on sleeping this week there's a Brazilian somewhere they gave me this wig and I don't I want her to know her sacrifice was not in vain so I take off my wig praises Lord and then I go through my facial routine right because God wants my skin to thrive in this season and once a month Beelzebub tries to come from my pores and I don't let him have his way so I went through my skin routine and I put some little dots on my face and I put my bonnet on and I put on my shorts honey and I put on my t-shirt and I looked in the mirror and I thought wow they want you to speak about being an heir tomorrow not sure how you are gonna pull that off because if I'm honest like I don't always like feel like an heir you know sometimes I feel just raggedy it's like half put together sometimes I don't always feel feel fearfully and wonderfully made I just kind of feel like I'm just making it day-by-day and so as I was studying and praying I asked myself well when do you feel like an heir like when is that moment for you personally where you feel like you are a part of a royal priesthood and it dawned on me that I really don't feel like an heir when I'm in my day to day routine I feel like an air one my back is against the wall and I've had just that last straw where I have decided that I don't have to take that anymore like I start to feel like an heir when I get forced into my prayer closet I start to feel like an heir when I start thinking to myself wait a minute I've been in this rut for too long and this is not where I'm supposed to be there is an inheritance attached to my name have you ever had to talk yourself out of a rut and remind yourself that I've been in a better situation than this and so I have to wheel myself to get back there that's when I begin to feel like an heir and so if you guys are taking notes the subject for my message is the breaking point the breaking point I realized that part of what keeps so many of us from feeling like an heir is that we just have so much weight on us you know the kids start acting up people leave us when we never thought they'd leave us we got the promotion but we don't have the support we need to really be successful in the job when life starts throwing weight at you it's hard to remember that you're in air going through a divorce I'm an heir but I got pregnant as the teenager I'm an heir but I feel so lonely I'm an heir but I've got this depression how is it that I'm supposed to feel like an heir 24/7 but when in reality every time I turn around is something trying to knock the crown off my head and I realized that that weight that is thrown at us is not to keep us from being an heir but it's meant to create this breaking point moment where we begin to take the weight that life has thrown at us and throw it back at life I'm on break it down becomes this moment for all of us no matter what we've gone through and no matter what we've been exposed to and what we've experienced where we decide that's the last thing you're going to throw at me I get to this breaking point and I decide that God you promised me that all things were going to work together for my good and this doesn't look like it's working together so I make a demand on the word and the promise that has been hovering over my head since you brought me into this world god I gotta see hope in this God I gotta see faith in this I make a demand on my situation to come into alignment with what God said you can't have my mind any longer you can't have my hope any longer I'm at my breaking point you didn't just register for a conference you didn't just take off time from work you didn't just make arrangements for the kids so that you could come in here and have someone entertain you you came in here because when I get to my breaking point I need something to throw back at life when it gets to throwing things at me there's some women in this room who are waiting yeah you're weightier than you think you are because you think that the fact that life got a lickin on you means that you are a lightweight but the fact that it didn't knock you out these are actually a heavy weight and I came here because I want to coach you a little bit because I'm crazy enough to believe that if we would take the stones that life has thrown at us and realized that there were really meant to knock some Giants down that we would start talking to our children differently and we would start coming in the church differently because I realized the stones didn't kill me they actually provided a weapon for me to throw something back I'd like that's why it doesn't hurt me when people walk away from me any longer because I had some things thrown at me in my life that's why it doesn't faze me when I'm leaving paycheck to paycheck because I've seen God come through in the but this is something that you get when you can't like throw some things actually when you come out on the other side you learn something about yourself you learn something about who God is you learned that if I get to comment on the name of Jesus and I start lifting my hands and worship that I can create an atmosphere for miracles to happen I learned how to throw my weight around this is what I'm saying I learned how to throw my weight around I learned to not just cry and sit back and act like he doesn't have resurrection power I learned to throw my weight around I learned that I didn't just have to sit back and watch the kids go crazy that I could start prophesying over dry bones I learned how to throw my weight around I started the business plan I didn't have the money but I started throwing my weight around because God didn't just keep me here so that I could just exist and have this routine little life and so part of the reason why I chose Hannah in this text is because Hannah's about to get to her breaking point I was looking at this text differently and it's not a unique story we've heard it over and over again but there was something about the way that I was reading it with you and mine that made me believe that there are some Hannah's in this room so in order to set this up properly we have to recognize that Hannah is at a conference every year her and her family go up to make sacrifices and offerings this is a part of their routine it's a celebration and she gets to be surrounded by people who are excited and surrounded by people who are happy but yet there's bitterness down on the inside of her which I know is very unique to people in this room because none of us would ever register for a conference but still her bitterness down on the inside of our soul none of us would just continue coming to church but still have this bitterness down on the inside of our soul Hannah is at this conference and everyone is festive and everyone is celebrating but she's got this secret and I realized that part of the reason why she is in trouble is because there is this environment that provokes her insecurities lord help me you see she doesn't feel this provocation all the time it's just something about when she gets to this place where she is provoked and I wondered why is it something about this place that just provokes her more than when she's living day to day looking at this woman with her miracle but I realized that the closer she got to the area where she could have breakthrough that the woman provokes her even more you see because it would be in this location when she finally released the bitterness and started crying out to God but before she could get to that point she had to be provoked sometimes we like to blame things on the enemy but sometimes God provokes us and provokes us until we open up our mouth and finally say I've reached my breaking point I've had enough at playing the same old song over and over again in my head and I'm tired of being envious of what I should be celebrating because I didn't get a chance to have it I'm tired of it yeah she's being provoked there's something in the text that stood out to me over and over it says that a that the Lord closed her womb wasn't just that she was barren for some reason the Lord closed her room why why would God keep her from producing in the area she wants to produce why is it that everyone else got to be married everyone else got to go to school everyone else got to live out their dream but for some reason I'm barren in this one area I can't produce why God have you closed my womb and so I realized that part of the reason why God closed Hannah's womb is because he was trying to get her to open her mouth sometimes God closes our womb so that we can open our mouth yeah because there are so many of us that could be content pretending like we don't care whether or not our woman's closed or not there are so many of us who could just be content acting like we don't want it anymore I don't even want to produce in that area anymore but for some reason Hannah has this thing that keeps provoking her that keeps reminding her that you still want it that you still want to bear see that you still want to produce you still want to write the book you still want to start the business and I know you tried to give up on it because you couldn't produce it the way that you wanted to but I hear God's saying I don't know who you are that I didn't close your womb permanently I just posed your womb until you could learn how to open up your mouth so that you wouldn't start producing and think that you did it all on your own some people can win in that area without me but you baby girl you have to open up your mouth because the thing that I want to do with you we gotta be in partnership with and I don't want there to be any job that anyone did it but Leanne you so until you open your mouth your womb is gonna be closed but if I just had two or three crazy women who didn't mind opening up their mouth in the face and saying God is it's me Oh Lord and I'm standing in the need of prayer I need my child to be saved I need my mother to know the Lord I need addiction to get off for me I need to pression and let me go my womb bed may be closed but my mother's gonna be open that's better than you clapping because if you realize that your worship and that's your praise and that's your prayer pick tip the scales in the other direction you would stop sitting there looking shoot and start opening up your mouth to making hell nervous I'm gonna need a little heat in the microphone I'm gonna need a little bit more heat in the microphone cuz I'm gonna break something in this room I'm gonna need a little more heat in this room because I plan on opening up some wounds I came from Los Angeles California to be somebody's to Midway to teach you how to open up your mouth just your mouth but my thought is seen everything and turn everything but it's still here to proclaim the work of the Lord I came to open up somebody's mouth in this room because the only thing keeping you from your miracle in short silence but I hear God's saying if you would open up your mouth it's in your mouth it's in your mouth the power of life and death it's in your mouth it's in your mouth it's in your mouth it's in your mouth you think it's at the bank it's not at the bankers in your mouth you think it's in your marriage it's not in your marriage just in your mouth you think it's at the school it's not at the school it's in your mom what do you heard a prophesy over your own life it's in your mother's in your mouth in your life it's not even in your womb it's not time to hit your home yet it's time to hit your mom because if it comes out of your mouth that musics down in your heart and when it's down in your heart think I can do something with it [Music] closed mouths closed mouths don't you sit and you sitting there starving because you won't open your mouth I wanna get off that point but I feel like there's a stronghold that needs to come down out of this room it's hovering and somebody's knob and somebody's afraid to speak it because they don't want to be disappointed but she disappointed anyway so you might as well go ahead and open up your mouth and give God some glory in this place you might as well go ahead and open up your mouth and start walking on water you might as well start speaking over your situation I don't speak from where I am I speak from where I'm headed my child's gonna be saved my husband's gonna know the Lord my finances are gonna be overflowing I'm gonna be a giver I'm not gonna be a beggar I'm gonna be a giver my mind is gonna be safe depression is gonna have to let me go speaking some things over in this room I want to give you 10 seconds to speak something over your life my joy is coming back my hope is coming back my faith is on the way how do I know I just opened up my mouth I just opened up my mouth and I hear hell let's get nervous because I opened up my mouth as long as I wasn't saying anything then he had something to work with but I fight the enemy with what I speak sometimes you got to let it marinate a little bit because you've been thinking and speaking one way for a long time and if this thing doesn't get down in your spirit then it could be uprooted by your patterns and by your history but when you take a minute and let it get deep down in your soul I want you to get so deep down my soul that the divorce doesn't hurt me anymore so deep down in my soul that I'm not ashamed of the teen pregnancy anymore God I want to open up this wound God that life tried to close down and I can't do it unless that work is deep down on the inside of me because there's generational blessings connect it to my mouth god I feel this somebody's passing on pain because they haven't opened up their mouth passing on insecurities to sisters and children because they haven't opened up their mouth and because you won't teach her how to talk to that devil that Devils talking to her because you won't teach her how to talk to that broken heart how to talk to that addiction how to take care of your business God stop that thing is taken ring y'all sit down we just talking just talking so hannah has come up to the tabernacle and the place that marks the spot where she is supposed to meet God and year after year that's what my text says that she comes up to this place year after year but she never ever has a moment where she confronts God about what she feels he failed to do in her life so her and God have this relationship where she plays her part and she shows up for him but she never confronts God about her closed year after year you would have thought that at some point she would have had a confrontation with God and I know that doesn't sound like Mike right to have a confrontation with God but sometimes you need a confrontation with God so you don't have distance with God I'm God there's we got beef we can't believe you took my mother from me I can't believe that I'm the one struggling when I used to have it all together I can't believe that it's me I'm the one in Nita I need to talk to you God I can't just keep coming to church and acting like I'm okay I need to talk to you about some things that haven't gone right year after year after year she has come to this spot where she is supposed to meet God but she does not meet God he just is there and so part of the reason why we must open up our mouth part of the reason why that breaking point is necessary is because that breaking point allows us to breathe what's down in our heart my text says and Samuel that she was she had bitterness of soul she's got some bitterness down on the inside of her and if we are going to be in a relationship with God we cannot just give him my praise we also have to give him my worship and the way that we give him my worship is not just lifting our hands and singing our song but it's also offering him my bitterness and offering him my pain because I need my pain to be exposed to the anointing that is only produced in worship because if I can get my pain in the presence of God then I could walk away with purpose if I could get my bitterness in the presence of God then I can walk away with clarity but as long as that we have this off-limits relationship where I don't talk about the way that you disappointed me and I don't talk about the way that you let me down then I have become religious because I'm not really in relationship with you and part of the reason why we cannot be in relationship is because we are still penalizing him for what we think he didn't do that he was supposed to and so because I asked you to do something because I thought that you would protect me because I thought that something like this would never happen to me I feel like I can no longer be vulnerable with God anymore because when I put myself out there it hurt too bad and I got wounded but Hannah is at her breaking point love your neighbor and say I'm at my breaking point I'm off my breaking point I'm at my breaking point I'm at my breaking point this is how I know the Hannah was at her breaking point because the second thing that she did after she realized that she was being provoked by peninnah is she broke away from they so you know it's when you know you about had it kind of be a little I don't know if I can be ratchet yet I wait until next year you see I just invited myself to next year's conference so raggedy that's how you know I'm the cousin now honey I see y'all next year who bring the potato salad okay listen Hannah breaks away from the celebration she she broke away from they she broke away from that which could distract her from her pain she broke away from that oh I feel that for somebody she broke away from that which could distracts her from her bitterness she broke away from praying for other people more than she prayed for herself she broke away oh I feel that for somebody when you really get to your breaking point you won't want to be distracted any longer you'll want to get alone in a room with you and your brokenness so that I can produce some healing people will start saying you're acting funny no I'm not acting funny I'm working on me I was trying to get my life together I had to break away from them because they were making me feel like I was okay when I wasn't because they were making me feel like I could celebrate when I really couldn't know how to break away from day I'm at a Women's Conference on a Saturday night do y'all know where I used to be on a Saturday night I had to break away from Dave oh because they wouldn't let me get home and they wouldn't let me call out for God and they kept me from my miracle I broke away from them I got a breakaway I got a break away from them I got a break away from everything that's distracting me from calling on God I got a break away from everything that's distracting me from starting the business Oh 20:19 you looking for me I'm working on me baby I had to break away from day I had to break away from day I had to break away from the toxic relationship I had to break away from everything that made me put myself on clearance I had to break away from me while I break away cuz I needed to get face-to-face with God I needed to know why is it me that you kept alive I need to know why is it me who had to go through what I went through and I couldn't do it as long as I was being everything to everybody for the first time in my life I wanna be something for me I wanna figure out what's done on the inside of me I wanna figure out what my anointing is I want to figure out what my gift is I'm breaking out I'm breaking out I'm breaking out I don't run in the same circle anymore I'm running to God I'm breaking out I'm breaking out I feel that prophetically for somebody you've been wondering what your theme is for 2019 and I hear God saying that you're breaking out from everything that you used to know work so that you can have an encounter with who God says you are I'm breaking out like never before I'm breaking out until everything in me comes out of me I'm breaking out I'm breaking out I just keep hearing that over and over again I'm freaking out I'm breaking out of it I'm breaking out a depression I'm breaking out of this toxic relationship I'm breaking out of this toxic friendship I'm breaking out of this mode that everybody else wants me to be so far that I don't even know who I am I break him out of it I gotta find my lane I gotta find my car I gotta find my purpose I was made an heir that means there's a kingdom somewhere that has my name mourning and I'm gonna find where that Kingdom is it should times this it should time sis it's your time sis get your hearts together get your mind together we're getting those things that are behind sis it's short time is short time is short time it should time not in Oh cute Church way but because you're going to roll up your sleeves and start doing the work I reached my breaking point I can't be this way no longer I can't take this way no longer I'm tired of it I'm just looking at the spirit of heaviness coming up off of our sisters do you know what could happen if we all reached our breaking point do you know what we could do in this world if we all reached our breaking point do you know what we could do to the criminal justice system if we all reached our breaking point do you know what we could do to homelessness if we all reached our breaking point do you know what we could do to depression and mental health if we all reached our breaking point you've been waiting on God God been waiting on you God was in the same spot for Hannah year after year after year but it was on her to reach her breaking point and I was shot about two or three crazy this person's with me oh I feel the presence of God in this place this mindset it's with me no more two forces no more teen pregnancies no more addiction it's gonna end I reached my breaking point I reached my breaking point I'm ready to birth something for real I'm ready to do something that changes this world for real let me tell you my last point is y'all ready standing up Hannah finally goes into the temple and she begins to pour out her bitterness she didn't just praise her way through she started with where she was and then my text it says very very quickly you can keep standing in my text she pours out her bitterness and then she says she says to the Lord she says Oh Lord of Hosts if you will indeed look on the affliction of your maidservant and remember me and not forget your maidservant but will give your maidservant a male child then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life she says Lord take my sorrow and turn it into seed and if you turn my sorrow into seed I'll give the fruit of it Boxey maybe God waited to open her womb because she wanted a baby for her sake she wanted a baby to prove to other people that she could have one but when she started desiring to have a baby so that she could give it back to God then God could trust her with seed and the problem that girls like us me and Hannah maybe you have is that one we've had sorrow we want our sorrow to end so that we can prove everyone that we made it to the other side but God is not interested in my ego he doesn't care about our pride he he doesn't operate in that you want me to take your sorrow and turn it into seed and uh God wants to know what am I gonna give back for how I changed your life and I made a promise to God when I was in the middle of one of the most toxic seasons of my life when I reached my breaking point I said God if you would just help me to make peace with who I've been then I promise I'll help every woman I can touch every woman I can in any way that you want me to I didn't ask God for a platform I did ask him if I could be a preacher I didn't ask him for social media influence I said God I will help any woman to keep her from going through what I went through got taking my sorrow and turn it into seed and when I did that all of a sudden these women from all over these crazy beautiful scarred imperfectly perfect women said she's me that's that's me up there and I just wonder how many lives are attached to your sorrow but because you haven't poured it up and asked God to turn it into seed you've just been angry with him you've just been frustrated with him you've just given up on his ability to transform and so you don't know that there is a woman that there is a life that there is an organization that there is an idea in the middle of that sorrow that this world so desperately needs and if you are in this place I do not count it as coincidence I have never preached about Hannah before I've never seen this text this way where a woman had reached her breaking point and was ready to turn her sorrow into seed but I believe that I am in the right place at the right time and I recognize that this altar call is not going to be for everyone but there is a woman in this place who has so much sorrow down on the inside of her that even daring to have faith feels like pain and there is a woman in this room whose womb has been closed for so long that she's not even sure that she believes it can be open and I am here to tell you you don't have to believe that it can be open you just have to open up your mouth and say it hurt me you just have to open up your mouth and say there's bitterness down on the inside of me if you are in this place and you know without a shadow of a doubt I need to have a confrontation with God I need to have a hand a moment where I pour out my bitterness so that he can turn my sorrow into seed I want you to get as close as you can to this altar I want you to get as close as you can there's sorrow down on the inside of me nobody even knows fully all of the things that I've gone through but sometimes I have these memories of what hurt me and what broken me and what tried to shake me and I'm ready to get this sorrow out of me i'm i'm tired of breathing in the poison of my past I'm ready to get some healing done on the inside of me I've reached my breaking point I'm too young to be feeling like this I'm too old to be feeling like this like that broken little girl whose daddy wouldn't stop touching her I got some sorrow down on the inside of me and if I don't confront this thing it's gonna take me out spend the house get as close as you can I love ultra close because there's something about walking away from the place I was standing and responding to what God has done down on the inside of me there's something about opening up my heart and saying God it was me you were talking to I wish I had some worshipers who can help me assure it the presence of God I wish I had some people in this room who can help me create an atmosphere we need soy yo ladies casitas going in the ground we need water ladies casitas going in the ground somebody's sorrow was turning to see some morning is turning into joy somebody's wind is turning on the Prophet I just want you to lift up your voice I just want you to lift up your voice I just want you to begin to share with God how you've been feeling and how you've been hurting and how you've been broken I want you to be honest with God that that thing that I said I was okay with that thing actually hurt me that thing that I've been trying to move away from God it's really got a hold of me I just want you to open up your mouth and have a confrontation God how could it be me who has cancer how could it be me who doesn't have the job could it be me whose husband loves them god I just want to open up my mom that have a confrontation because wherever you pour our sorrow God is gonna give seed whatever you pour out pain God is going to get perfect God why was it me who went through the teen pregnancy what was it me that went through the heartbreak why is it that I'm the one that's bad I want to have a confrontation with you God because I'm in the right place for you to do some radical transformation down on the inside of me [Music] god you are alive and well God just still doing miracles God just still raising people from the dead you're still taking broken pieces and making it masterpieces God you're still doing miracles God you're still breaking chains God just still pulling down strongholds even in when Jesus got on the cross it just started perpetuating on that same power that raised Jesus from the cross let's just touchdown Miami Florida you know touch every sister represented in this room the resurrection power would start touching our brokenness that resurrection propane Spirit of the Living God the tallest of kings [Music] wherever there's a heart got place to crap God only you know the things that these women have gone through God you are the only one who knows where their womb has been closed and yet you sent this word because you know that each and every last one of us needed and so God the first thing we do is we ask for forgiveness because we have been holding you hostage in our life because we could not believe that you can make this work together for our good but God we reached our breaking point on a Saturday night and we say God if you are still in the business of doing miracles if you are still in the business of making all things work together then God don't pass by my sister God don't pass by my doorstep god I want you to invade every part of me every broken piece every hurting piece but I give you full authority to get back on the throne in my life help me walk my way out of this in the name of Jesus the club every day [Music] freedom over hard and we proclaim that if you turn this sorrow into seed that we will dedicate the work of our hands to everything you're doing in this earth God if I'm gonna be in hair I'm gonna be a part of the right Kingdom I'm gonna take my position back in your kingdom point me in the direction of darkness I will prove to darkness that you pick the right one baby because I went through hell and came on the other side so seal this word seal it god so my insecurities can't take it so my fears can't strip it away so temptation can't take it away from me God let this be a life-changing moment let it be a mind-changing moment so that when I go back into my sphere and I go back into my world that I'm going back arms with my promise and arms with my seed repeat after me Heavenly Father thank you for this working for this world I receive it I believe in activated in every area of my life there is no more room for a false version of Who I am take my crown I take my position and I claim Authority open my life I am who you say I can't do what you say I can do take my seat and letter produced harvest for generations after generations after generations after generations and Jesus name [Music]

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Length: 46min 54sec (2814 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 19 2020