Carry It | Sarah Jakes Roberts

just like that do what he wants to do in this place God told me that I'm gonna send some people into the room who've been sitting on something they need to be carrying it'll make sense if we get to the message but I hear God's saying that I'm sending some ideas and some businesses and some books that somebody's been sitting on somebody's been sitting going it they've been laying on it and I want them to know that it's time for them to start carrying it instead of sitting on what God gave them it hit me like a ton of bricks when I was studying I'm gonna get into the text it'll make sense and we'll get there and we'll pray and we'll go home John five and six this is not an unfamiliar text but I saw something when I was studying that I think is going to speak to where we are and it begins it says when Jesus saw him him is this man who has been paralyzed and sitting by the pool at Bethesda when Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time he said to him do you want to be made well the sick man answered him sir I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up but while I am coming another steps down before me and Jesus says to him rise take up your bed and walk and immediately the man was made well took up his bed and walked and that day was the Sabbath that's important because that means in order to heal him that Jesus broke some and that's important because he shouldn't be carrying anything on the Sabbath but when God calls you to start carrying what you have been sitting on it doesn't matter what the rules in the boundaries think about it it says the Jews therefore said to him who was cured it is the Sabbath it is not lawful for you to carry your bed and he answered them and he said he who made me well said to me take up your bed and walk in other words I don't have to have authority that you understand because Jesus said something to me that overrules anything that you could say so father I am asking that you would continue to sit in this room great God that you are you are living water and when we drink from your well father we never thirst again god we need to sit from your well somebody came in tired we need to sit from your well somebody came in broken we need to sit from your well and father when we sit from that well victory is our inheritance and so father we declare victory in this room because when you are in the room there is no lack god I'm asking that you would meet every need that you would identify every crack in that with your spirit you would fill us until we have been made whole ready to pick up our beds and walk as for me father you can have complete control if you want to change this message and change this text you can do just that because I am here to serve you so that these people can be made well so let there be no fear no anxiety no being in my head just your spirit your strength your power standing tall and me in Jesus name Amen so I can't remember when I was growing up and I thought that I was like grown when I turned 18 and because that's what the law says legally at 18 you're an adult what I didn't know is that you're not really an adult until you pay bills and I mean I love them not that one little Nokia bill so that you can continue to play snake on your phone you pay all of your bills and and I didn't really understand that fully until I moved out on my own and rent kept coming up short you know because I didn't have everything that you needed to have to stay there all of the time and I can remember I remember the last time I asked my mother for money because she hit me with one of those country sayings and she said only a fool buys what they want and begs for what they need hmm so did you just call me a fool your child yes she said only a fool buys what they want and begs for what they need and it was from that moment forward that my paradigm shifted on one versus need because if you are not careful you will think that something you want is actually something you need and you have to qualify your wants versus your needs do I really need that is it going to sustain my life is it going to make me better in any capacity does it get me closer to my destiny or do I just want it and until we are willing to sacrifice what we want so that we can have what we need we will always find ourselves stuck between where we are and where we could be because there are moments in life that simply require that you sacrifice what you want when we find this man at the pool laying waiting to be healed he has an encounter with Jesus and Jesus asked him do you want to be made well he says back to him I needed someone to take me over to the pool this notion of want versus need I love this because as I was reading the text it dawned on me that he had lost sight of what he really needed because he didn't have what he wanted yeah because what he needed was to be made whole but because he didn't have what he wanted he thought that he lost access to what he needed and I think that that is something that we have to be willing to really dissect in our lives as we determine the path to success in wholeness and purpose and ultimately building the kingdom is am i keeping God regulated to what I think I need in order for me to achieve what he said was down on the inside of me this man who's laying by the pool thinks he needs another to get it the only way I can have access is if another person gives it to me but what Jesus says in exchanges is so beautiful we're going to get into that but you can be so blinded by what you think you need that you don't even recognize that the presence is carrying the very thing you're asking for because he's standing in front of a man who could give him exactly what he ultimately wants but because he thinks he needs it in a different package he misses the opportunity all together god help me that's why we got to seek the kingdom that's why we got to be in the presence because when I'm in the presence God really qualifies what I want he qualifies what I need if you can't bring it into the presence then you got to leave it where you found it because it's in the presence that I can determine whether or not this is legitimate he goes you don't really need someone to put you into the pool you really want someone to do it okay I'm gonna read it the way I wrote it in my notes because I believe that so many of us lose sight of what we need and when this text begin Jesus asks them in what seems like an obvious question but the truth is when you lose sight of what you need you don't always have an answer to the obvious question should I go should I stay should I take the job should I not take the job somewhere along the way he lost sight of what he needed and so Jesus comes to expand the picture to remind him oh I feel that for somebody somebody needs to be reminded of what it is that you were really after when you came into this city somebody needs to be reminded of what it was really after when you got into that marriage because when you get here you can start discrediting your dream and you can start discrediting what you think you need but God comes and he expands the picture so that he can remind you the whole reason why you're lying here in the first place is because you told me that you wanted to be made well you didn't tell me that you needed a man you didn't tell me that you needed a million dollars you got around a bunch of other sick people who were laying by the pool and started thinking that the only way you could do it is if they could help you but God came to told me if no one else picks you up and takes you by this pool if no one else sees the gift that I place down on the inside of you and all you do is have an encounter with me that is more than enough I hear God's saying you've been looking for love in all of the wrong places I got everything you need standing right in front of you standing right in front of me God reminds me why I got into this in the first place God remind me why I thought my art mattered in the first place God remind me why I thought this was my purpose in the first place God remind me why I dragged myself here and got this clothes that need anybody I just wanted to be made home man that is when you can really trust that what you want and what you need can be trusted is when it's what Jesus wants to ya because the man wanted to be made whole ultimately that's what he wanted but he thought he needed someone to do it but when he has this encounter with Jesus it reminds him to get back on the same page so that what I want and what Jesus wants can be the same thing sometimes I have to take a moment to myself and I have to ask myself did you want that or does you and Jesus want that because if you want it then you can't ask God to bless it but if it is what you and Jesus want them then no weapon formed against you prosper and then every turn that rises up against you he will condemn because me and Jesus want the same thing when me and Jesus started wanting the same thing my life started changing because I was moving in the direction not of what I wanted but what would build his kingdom I showed myself trustworthy when I started doing that thing that he wanted to so as I'm studying and I'm praying and I'm looking at this text I realized how nuanced this situation is because Jesus comes up to him and a lot of the stories that we see in the Bible we see someone calling out for Jesus to be made whole and to be healed but Jesus approaches him and he was waiting for a moment when the water would be stirred up and he would have someone who would carry him that means the water needed to be stirred up and he needed someone to carry him at the same time he was waiting for this moment when everything lined up and while he was waiting for a moment God brought a moment to him it was such a sign to me that you think that it has to happen a certain way but God says I when you're ready for the healing that I have for you when what you want aligns with what I want then I will bring the moment to you I will bring the opportunity to you I will bring the idea to you when it aligns with what I want to do in the earth the moment is coming to you the moment is coming to you that's why you have to stay where you are that's why you have to keep your heart posture correct that's why you have to make sure that you're maintaining what you want because when the moment comes you got to be able to identify that this is a moment this is not just a regular encounter this is an opportunity that could propel me into the next dimension of what God wants to do in my life this moment is important because not only is it the moment in which the man will be made whole but it's also the moment that is gonna set up Jesus having a sermon with the Jews so he couldn't just pick any regular person for this moment he needed someone that would set it off yeah he had a plan he really wanted to make the Jews question what happened so that they would have an encounter with Jesus so when Jesus has this moment with the man who's laying by the pool he has the ultimate desire to give him what he wants so that he can get what he needs sometimes Jesus gives you what you want so that he can get you to where you need to be gotta say this the way I feel it when I was studying I was trying to understand what made this moment so powerful Jesus needed something that would grab the Jews attention so he goes by this pool where there are a lot of sick people and he has the intention of doing a miracle but he couldn't just choose anybody he needed someone who had something to carry as a sign of the miracle could have healed a blind man but the blind man didn't have a bed to carry he could have healed a deaf man but the deaf man didn't have a bed to carry he needed to heal the paralyzed man because this paralyzed man would then be walking around with this bed that he used to lie on and if he was going to break the rule and bless him so that he could set something off in the city he needed someone who he could bless that it would be so ridiculous and so crazy that the men who had been laying there for 38 years was now carrying the thing that he used to lay on he needed someone who was going to set something off in the city I can't just pick anybody for this miracle if that's your word I want you to grab it God wants to do something down on the inside of you that he can't just use anybody for because he's trying to set something off in this city he's trying to set something off in this industry he's trying to set something off that makes hell servus and i need to use somebody who's gonna pick up something that they were laying on I'm gonna pick up that gift that I've been sleeping on I'm gonna pick up that business that I've been sleeping on you've been telling me for years that it was time for me to get my life together but now I had an encounter with you and I'm ready to pick up that very thing that I was laying on he let that man sit there and he waited and he waited and he waited to be healed but he had to wait for a long time so that when God spoke that word when Jesus spoke that word and said rise up and take your bed and walk that he would not ask him any more questions that man picked up that bed he said you don't have to tell me twice I think that that's what's goddess they're looking for in this season I'm looking for somebody who I don't have to repeat myself that when I say up your bed and while we let you carry that man that you'll carry that music effects you'll carry that business don't ask me any question I'd let you in test but you want a slice [Music] you don't have to tell me twice you don't have to tell me twice because I've been sitting here waiting for other people to get healed I've been sitting here waiting for somebody to carry me I've been sitting here waiting for somebody to pick me up and if you tell me that I can don't cuz I will pick up this very thing that used to hold me [Applause] he needed somebody who was tired of waiting he needed somebody who was tired of watching everyone else get their breakthrough while they just sit down waiting on somebody to carry them I'm sorry they couldn't carry you but then again I'm not sorry at the same time cuz it made you desperate for word from God desperta pick up your bed and walk [Music] my subject for tonight it's carry it carry it carry it carry it this is a prophetic word this word isn't for everybody this is a word that put somebody that's been sitting on something that God told you to release a long time ago I don't expect for everyone to get happy I just need that person who's been lying on that gift who's been lying on that pin god she told me when you sent me to this city that there was something in this city for me I hear God saying this time for you to carry that thing that I gave you because the timing is coming the timing is coming he had to do it on the Sabbath cuz it would break a roof but he also did it on the Sabbath because the man would stand out on the Sabbath for carrying the bed he wouldn't have stood out if he did it on Monday he wouldn't have stood out if he did it on Tuesday it would have looked weird but he wouldn't have stood out but God set the stage for him to stand out with that thing God set they say so that it would look ridiculous for him to be walking with this thing he said the same he could break the rules he's at this age so that he could break the rule I want you to know that that I'm set in this stage right now I'm just waiting on the Sabbath I'm just waiting on the day that it doesn't make any sense for you to be healed so that everyone can see that I broke the rules to get you that healing I broke the rules to get you that breakthrough somebody in this room might be in jail some Meccano to get you here [Music] [Applause] take up your bed take up your bed and walk take up that thing that you've been sitting on that gift that talent that pursuit of wholeness that break up that addiction that's something you've been sitting on that you need to be carrying because you've been waiting for somebody to see you the man who was laying by the pool ultimately says I'm waiting on somebody to see me because if somebody sees me maybe they'll help me jesus said if you see yourself right if you see yourself the way that I see you you wouldn't need anybody to see you I must say that again until I get somebody in the back if you see yourself the way I see you you wouldn't need anybody else to see cuz you would realize that me and you could partner and we could do some things in the earth Jesus was getting ready to set Jerusalem on fire and I know we're not in the Bible days but this is important because we're at activator LA and I don't know who's watching maybe you're activating Chicago maybe you're activating Denver but I came to let you know that Jesus is ready to set something off in their spirit around and he's looking for somebody who he won't have to tell twice he's looking for somebody who's not waiting for somebody to see them they're just waiting for the word I'm looking for a sound I'm looking for the sound that says take up your bed and walk I think that's what tonight's message is supposed to be about this is a sound for somebody maybe I should have called it sounding the alarm because I wanted somebody to know that he's ready for you now that he's ready for you to take up your bed and walk but he's ready for you to start carrying a sign of his glory because that's what the lame man ends up carrying is glory the kind of glory you can only receive after you've been sitting somewhere paralyzed paralyzed by fear paralyzed by anxiety paralyzed by abandonment issues I've been paralyzed for too long but if he would have been healed the way that he wanted to be healed he wouldn't have been in position for Jesus to use him the way that he needed to use him to set that thing off in the city so he let him wait and he let him get desperate enough to try Jesus I gotta try something that I never thought that I would have to try cuz I'm that desperate for my healing I don't know who you are but I wanted to let you know that you don't have to be paralyzed any longer I wanted to let you know that you don't have to be stuck just because no one would care you that it's too much pressure to put on one person to be your friend and your Savior to be your lover and your Savior I'm sorry that you've been paralyzed by what happened to you I'm not trying to be insensitive but I just want you to know that just because no one sees that you're paralyzed doesn't mean that you cannot be healed from this paralysis you can be healed from this but you got to remember that it was never about someone carrying you and it was always about whether or not you wanted to be made whole you may never get that apology they may never understand the damage that happened to you they may never understand that you sat there and you waited for them to come fix what happened but that's okay because that doesn't mean that we're staying there because one encounter with God can expand your perspective and it can make you realize that I didn't need you to carry me and I didn't need someone to take me to the pool that God would bring a miracle to me for somebody this is not just the Thursday night service this is God bringing that word to them I'll bring the moment to you I wasn't searching for Jesus when I found him I just opened my eyes and I realized that he was there I wasn't searching for a ministry I just opened my eyes and a ministry was there I wasn't searching for anything but I could not see what was there until I gave up this notion of someone carrying me someone fixing me someone making me feel better someone healing what was broken down on the inside of me someone giving me some attention when I let that go and I said maybe I'm enough by myself [Applause] when I let that go and I said at the end of the day I thought I needed a person but what I really need more than anything is to be made whole I just want to be made whole but it takes you sitting there paralyzed watching the world move on around you to make you finally say within yourself I'll try Jesus I'll try your way out stop sitting on this thing and I'll try to pick up my bed and walk he got desperate I don't know man this is not the structure that I wanted the message to have but I really do feel that for somebody that God wants to give you your legs back that he wants to give you your creativity back what does it mean to try Jesus it means to think the highest thought it means to believe that when he got on that cross that he gave you another option it means that there's really healing that is available to you it means that I'm gonna start acting the way that he acts instead of acting the way my circumstance made me act I want to start a new path I want to think differently I'm tired of being depressed Jesus what would you say about this situation Jesus what would you say about this industry I'm tired of being paralyzed God speak a word about my situation I hear God saying forgive I hear God's saying you can still walk but when you walk I love this because it stands to reason I think any doctor would agree that after being paralyzed for so long his legs were probably too weak to stand up himself but when he's told to stand up he's also told to carry this bed which means that God trusted this strength that he would have when he stood up that it wouldn't just be him carrying himself but that he could handle some weight I feel that prophetically for somebody when you get back up you won't be stumbling I feel the presence of God in this place somebody thinks that they can walk again but they're afraid to stumble I want to prophesy in this room when you get back up again you will not stumble and it's been on again and off again but that season is over I rebuke the enemy and every thought that he's ever placed in your mind that made you think you always be who you used to be the blood of Jesus over your life when he steps into a room he closes doors that doors that no man you're not just getting up again I'm gonna put some weight on you I'm gonna let you carry something imma trust you with weight imma trust you and influence I'm I trust you with that marriage I'm address you with that family I put some weight on the [Music] God sees you he sees you if you're here and you just have been paralyzed you know you're gifted you know you have purpose you know that there's something bigger and better for you but I'm paralyzed by fear I'm paralyzed by failure and I can't move the moment I try to move I get flooded with these thoughts and ideas that I'm not going to make it can you meet me down here at the altar but don't just come bring your bed with you because when you come down to this altar you're not going back the same way you went rise take up your bed and walk this is a sign I'm gonna see a victory [Music] [Music] not going to be lost not gonna be afraid I prophesied this over my life I'm making a declaration gonna give my mind back I'm gonna get my strength back I want my legs back I want my confidence back yeah so when the paralyzed men and Jesus came into alignment about what he really needed and what he really wanted it gave space for that miracle to take place I think that when we don't know the steps to how God's going to do something that we just have to come into agreement that he's going to do it so when we sing that song that I'm going to see a victory there's somebody who's thinking oh I don't really know how that's going to happen because I don't really have the resources and I haven't had the job you we're not talking about the practical we're not talking about the logistics of it we're talking about what's going to happen when it's all said and done because I am a child of the Most High God and when God set me down in this earth it was not so that I can lose so I come into agreement with what he says I come into agreement with who he says I I'm gonna see a victory in my marriage I'm gonna see a victory in my business now he's gonna do it oh that's none of my business [Music] I want you to think of that thing that you need victory in and I want you to tell that thing don't just sing a song tell that thing [Applause] now do me a favor and sing it on behalf of the person beside you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] can you help me the song says you took what the enemy meant for you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's got a history I've taken what the enemy meant for evil and turning it around for good I said he's got a history I've taken what the enemy meant for evil and turn it around [Music] I'm not talking about something I heard about I'm talking about something I've experienced with my own life [Applause] and that same power it's still turning things around for good today I want to pray that spirit of fear off of you I want to rebuke it in the name of Jesus I want to pray that spirit of paralysis off of you have you sitting on the thing you ought to be carrying I want to pray that thing off of you I want to pray until it stirs up the gift of God down on the inside of you I want to pray until heaven starts overflowing and touching down on everything connected to you I wanna pray until glory touches down on LaBrea do I have any worshipers in this house who help me make it wake up heaven I got something to say [Music] spirit of the Living God your power your glory your perspective God that's what we desire God because if you impart your power in this room then everything that's holding us down would be broken off in the name of Jesus so far that I'm asking for your power to fall on top of fear until it breaks into a thousand pieces I'm praying for your glory to fall over anxiety until it breaks into a thousand pieces got a Mexican for your glory to follow or suicidal thoughts brakes I'm gonna bind the spirit of Sue in the name of Jesus Suicide Prevention Week and three of us that garden so I wanna prophesy [Music] you know who the Sun is set free is free indeed that means that there is no more room for your love and my fear to live in the same place so I cast out every fear that's in this room I cast it out in the name of Jesus and I ask for an impartation of your glory to fall in this place like never before God uproot the thoughts that haunt us at night god help us to forgive ourselves for who we used to be so that we can lay hold of who we are now God we're praying that we would become so consumed with your love and your glory and your power that when the enemy tries to make us believe that we'll never overcome and that will never see victory that we will place him back under his under our feet where he belongs father thank you for these your sons and daughters who have come down to this altar each of them carrying their own beds as a sign that they will no longer lie or sit down on the thing they ought to be carrying so God I'm praying that you would give them the strength to carry the weight connected to their name that they would understand that the goal was always wholeness not perfection because if the goal was perfection there would be no need for wholeness but we are made whole when we take our weaknesses and we turn them over to you so father we're not just at this altar we're here for a divine exchange God whatever you see weakness wherever you see insecurity wherever you see anxiety wherever you see fear God let there be a divine exchange touch even now father touch even now father where there's fear God touch where there's anxiety God touch God where their sphere touches only you can do remove it God in the name of Jesus let your power begin to flow down on the inside of these your sons and daughter break chains in the name of Jesus may they never be this right chase generational chains let it be broken right now somebody came carrying their mother's bed but they're going back with generational blessings break it right now [Music] Laurie flowers only it can win got me Senor and they made a call about who they wanna be in your so father am asking for decline impartation of glory let it flow from our Pelican let it flow from his mind let it flow and touch everything and let there be overflow garden the kind of overflow that touches he'll set free and delivers until they pick up every everything that they've been sitting on and release it for your glory God still this word repeat after me Heavenly Father thank you for Jesus thank you for making him who had no sin all of my weakness all of my fears all of my limitations you placed in his body and nailed it to the cross and when he was raised free and victorious I was raised up to no fears no anxiety no pressure just freedom I want that freedom back I'm grabbing that freedom I'm activating that freedom I'm unleashing that freedom and so the world has seen your glory manifested through my fears and through my pain have your way in my life fill me with your spirit and to the overflow hallelujah have you received the word from the Lord tonight has the word draw near to you I just want to add to this prayer one small thing one small thing in that particular passage Jesus brings the word and that man accepted it as truth and when he accepted it as truth that meant that any other truth or any other reality that was present was no longer present and there is this this this there's this grace that I'm gonna pray over you and the reason why I asked you if you'd heard a word from God that wasn't just like I'm trying to hype you up because God has drawn near to you tonight and what you have to do is you have to understand that God is truth and what God brings you a word he's bringing you a word of truth which means that you there is no other alternative reality it is so and that's why that's why the man just that's why he got up he there was no other choice because God brought him truth and so the woman of God Pastor Sarah said tonight carry it and I'm gonna pray that there is an unusual grace because there is it's in the room an unusual grace for you to receive it as it is for something in your spirit to just say it is so and I'm not going back to what was I don't care what you walked out care what circumstance you are in before you came in here and got that word I want I want see something's gonna happen today something's gonna happen tonight we're that alternative reality disappears and all you know is what God spoke are you tracking with me so all I want you to do is I want you to take what God spoke to you I want you to just get it in your spirit right now God might have spoken and I believe for many people it was just this one thing this one thing but if it's more you grab it but that one thing that God spoke to you and said it is so enough is enough it's over I want you to take that and we're gonna pray and believe that at the receiving of that truth every other reality would disappear and you will never go back to the outfield God and you'll never go back to it again [Music] so I can't tell you what he said to you and what he was speaking concerning again only you and God know that but what I can tell you is you just have to accept and once you accept it you walk it's as simple as that I'm not even trying to stir you up with a bunch of faith it's bigger it's spiritual it's higher than that you don't have to believe your way into no no it's easy it's easy it's a decision to believe this is my truth and it's gonna break out just like that and it's gonna break off just like that and it's gonna start up just like that this is my new truth so I want you to get that truth I don't want you to grab it close to your heart and grab a close to your mind I don't want you just close your eyes for a second because sometimes in order to step into a new reality you have to close your eyes from the reality that you're in I don't want you to close your eyes and I want you to in your heart in your mind what God spoke accept it as truth God says I'm not a man that I should lie if I've engaged you if I've encountered you I'm not playing with you I'm not tickling your fancy I'm God I am truth everything that consists consists because I spoke it so if I have spoken to you and he has because how could she know where you were unless God shoulder so I want you to take it and just allow it to be just allow it to be you don't have to fight for it just allow it to be true fifteen seconds of allowing it to be true the thing that God spoke to you allow it to be true say a man about it that means it is so Allah let it be according to your word let it be allow it to be and the moment that it becomes in your heart and in your mind the healing is there the breakthrough is there the clarity is there the open door is there seal it Jesus and your wonderful name amen amen [Applause] in this place tonight come on you can do better than that you got a new normal [Music] you

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Published: Fri Sep 13 2019