Don't Settle for Safe X Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Applause] so my topic is indeed don't settle for safe and my text is first kings 18 and 7. i'll be reading out of the new king james version i know daddy likes the king james version but legacy does the new king james if that's all right on today first kings 18 and 7. now as obadiah was on his way suddenly elijah met him and he recognized him and fell on his face and said is that you my lord elijah and he answered him it is i go tell your master elijah is here so he said how have i sinned that you are delivering your servant into the hand of ahab to kill me and as the lord your god lives there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to hunt for you we've been looking all over for you elijah and when they said he is not here we all took an oath from the kingdom or nation that we could not find you and now you say after i've given up after we swore we would never find you now you tell me to go tell your master elijah is here and it shall come to pass as soon as i am gone from you that the spirit of the lord will carry you to a place i do not know so when i go and tell ahab and he cannot find you he will kill me but i your servant hath feared the lord from my youth was it not reported to my lord what i did when jezebel killed the prophets of the lord how i hid 100 men of the lord's prophets 50 to a cave and fed them with bread and water and now you say go tell your master elijah is here he will kill me then elijah said as the lord of hosts lives before whom i stand i will surely present myself to him today so obadiah went to meet ahab and told him and they have went to meet elijah spirit of the living god fall fresh in this place do that thing that you do when hearts come together crying out for change oh god i asked that you would begin to saturate this place that you would allow your anointing to flow like never before that you would clear a path oh god where the enemy tried to trip us up or make us stop that you would clear a path oh god in this room that hearts would start turning back towards you that families would be restored oh god that this nation would remember who was god and god alone and so i asked oh god that you would remove any nerves any fears any insecurities that would dare threaten this word and instead you would allow your spirit to overflow i am your vessel oh god and i humble myself under your mighty hand and i say have your way in jesus name amen as i was studying for today's message i recognized that obadiah was in a peculiar situation you see the king of ahab had been prophesied to by elijah that a drought would come three years before we find them in the text and the drought came and there is a severe famine in the land and obadiah is paying for the mistakes of ahab's wickedness and as obadiah is keeping this his faith it's his faith is still with him yet he's still having to live in an environment where his faith can't really work on his behalf because it's been confined by the wickedness that they have and so when we find obadiah in the text him and ahab have had a meeting and in this meeting they say listen you know there's this famine there's a drought in the land and so i want you to go to where there used to be water and i want you to look at the place where there were springs and brooks and see if there's any grass that's still alive and if there's any grass that's still alive i want you to bring it back so that we can feed the livestock because otherwise we can't continue living the way we've been living what they were doing was looking at the carrying capacity of their environment in ecology there's a term called the carrying capacity and the carrying capacity is the maximum number of a species an environment can support indefinitely so let's say for instance you are shipwrecked and you find yourself on this private island somewhere and not the private islands that we see like on the news with mansions and homes already there there's a few fruit trees and you and x amount of people and you start doing the math because you recognize that we can't just eat everything we see we've got to ration this thing out and as we ration this thing out we'll see how long how much we can eat based off of what's being produced in the land it's called the carrying capacity if we're going to be on this island forever then we can only eat one mango a day because only one mango is produced from this tree a day so if we're going to survive we can only eat this much i'll give it to you a bit different it's like when you're in relationship with a friend and you recognize that there are a lot of drama and you start looking at your nerves and seeing how many of your nerves you can ration out indefinitely and you start thinking like listen if we gonna stay connected i only have one nerve a month to give you and if you use that one nerve i might have to move you out of my environment because otherwise you're going to overdraft me [Music] it's my carrying capacity it's not that i don't want to help you it's just that i only have a certain capacity and if you exhaust that capacity then i'm going to be the one in trouble and you're not changing any way from these conversations so i might as well do what i have to do to save myself it's my carrying capacity so that's what you can tell them next time when they're like listen can we get together and talk i know you helped me last time but this time for real i'm going to listen you say you know what based on my carrying capacity i'm not going to be able to meet with you this month next month is looking a little bit better depending on how the kids are acting and how my husband's doing then i'll know for sure whether or not i can carry your burdens and my burdens too [Applause] it's not you it's me it's my carrying capacity so ahab and obadiah are trying to figure out the carrying capacity of samaria how much can we eat before we have to start killing our livestock but i submit for your consideration while they were looking at the carrying capacity of samaria that the lord was trying to show obadiah that his faith had a carrying capacity his faith he had figured out how to live in a drought and to only have enough faith to survive indefinitely in that drought but not to actually end the drought it's like when we recognize that our marriages aren't what they could be but we only have enough faith to maintain them on the level that they are we don't have enough faith to actually trust again and be vulnerable again we only have enough to to make breakfast and go through the motions but not to actually save things our faith our faith our spirituality ends up with these carrying capacities where we don't dream anymore and we don't push beyond the limits anymore because the last time we stepped out on faith it didn't work out the way we wanted to so we learned to live life safe even if that means living in a drought and you know what's wrong with being comfortable living in a drought is that you only attract thirsty people you only attract people who are just as thirsty as you are to be honest the only people available and in your sphere of influence are people who are comfortable living in droughts obadiah feared the lord ahab did not yet they were still in the same drought and we get fooled into thinking that just because we fear the lord that we're different than the person who lives in wickedness because until you actually start exercising that faith are you really any different than the person you're judging because your faith looks more like religion than relationship when you don't actually exercise it [Applause] in your life obadiah is comfortable living in a drought i'm not exactly who i could be but i can't risk growing because growing requires vulnerability i'm not exactly maxing out my potential but i can't really afford to step out of my comfort zone because this drought is all i've known so i'd rather stay stay in the drought i love than pray for a rain i can't handle [Applause] i'd rather stay in this brokenness because it's the way everyone connects with me it's just how i am and i know i could change and i know i could be better but it would risk shaking up what i've learned to be comfortable with and so i'd rather just stay in this drought can't go back to school i'm too old for that i can't write the book i can't step out on faith i'd rather live in this drought and hate on people who had the audacity to go looking for water sometimes people can be very hateful when they see you looking for water because they've been so comfortable living in the drought that they don't understand why you can't just be thirsty the way everybody else is thirsty but something down on the inside of me knows that there's a well available to me so i don't believe that this drought is my final answer i believe that i can step out of this drought i have enough faith to believe that i can tap into a well [Applause] i have something down on the inside of me that knows that this drought is not my destiny that this drought can dictate my destiny there's something down on the inside of me that believes that i could find some water somewhere and that's why i came into the potter's house at nine o'clock in the morning because i just happen to believe that there's a well somewhere [Applause] and i'm willing to step over thirsty people to get to my well [Applause] so obadiah is about to have an encounter that's going to stretch his faith i love in verse 7 when he sees elijah it says now as obadiah was on his way he was on his way not necessarily the lord's way not necessarily the way that he was on his way i'm trying to figure this thing out on myself i i don't have all the answers but i'm on my way sometimes you can't afford to talk to god because if you did he'd call you out of what you've been comfortable with so you learn how to live life on your way over daya was on his way he was on his way and suddenly elijah met him when he have you ever had a suddenly kind of moment where god meets you when you were on your way and he said no i'm about to detour this thing because your ways are not my ways and i got something greater for you than what you concocted back in your insecurities and so let allow me allow me to have a suddenly moment with you and so obadiah sees him and he recognizes him and he falls on his face and he said is that you my lord and elijah answers him it is i go tell your master elijah is here i didn't understand how when obadiah said is that you my lord that elijah then takes a turn and says it is i go tell your master because i thought to myself certainly with obadiah acknowledging him as a lord that he would not then tell him that he had a master but then i realized i realized daddy that you can have a lord and a master that you can come to church every sunday but when you leave this place your insecurity is your master that your bondage that the place of your bondage is really your master that you can have a lord and a master that fear fear can be your master even when the lord is your lord [Applause] elijah said yeah you may recognize me as the lord but until you tell your master that i'm here i can't really move in your life the way i need to until you tell your master that knock knock the lord just stepped into the room then your fear is always going to control you until you tell that thing that's broken down on the inside of you that elijah just showed up with a word from the lord and that fear has no more power in this place that i'm no longer under the authority of my fear because i recognize who my lord he is somebody's got to leave this place and go tell their master you have no control over me any longer because i know who my lord is and because i know who my lord is i don't have to surrender or submit to anything other than the king of kings and lord of lords you're no longer my master fear you have no place here generational curses you have no place here depression you are not my master suicidal thoughts you are not my master brokenness over my children you are not my master i'm losing those things out of my mind failure you're not my master you have to recognize that when god places something down on the inside of you that the master that is fear tries to take it away from you and you find yourself balancing the act of knowing who the lord is but having a master a master that can't grow you will stretch you a master that confines you and limits you a master that tells you you can't do it just because no one else in your family has done it that master that master that that creeps into your mind in the middle of the night and says you better give up you better stop praying for that that blessings not for you you're not going to be able to hold on to that thing that master [Applause] that master is going to have a confrontation with faith [Applause] and obadiah must choose in this text between his lord and his master our master that fear places limits on our faith and what the lord can do so all of this time i thought that this text was about obadiah and ahab figuring out the carrying capacity of the environment but really it was about obadiah taking the capacities off of what his faith could do because if he could stop rationing out enough faith to just get by and start living in a realm of faith that says i can do all things through christ that no weapon formed against me shall prosper that everyone else can be in a drought and i still find water because that's the kind of faith i have i thought that maybe this was less about what was going on in the environment and more about what was taking place on the inside of him and verse 9 continues in my text and obadiah says to elijah how have i sinned that you are delivering your servant into the hand of ahab to kill me how have i sinned that you would choose me that you would make me stand out that you would cause me to disrupt the norm how have i sinned that you would not allow me to fit in with everyone else that i can't find any friends that i can't find a path how have i sinned obadiah saw elijah choosing him as punishment not as positioning the way you see it is punishment that nobody fully gets you and not as positioning because you were never supposed to be in that group in the first place he sees it as punishment to be chosen instead of as a reward for his faithfulness if you aren't careful you'll mistake what god is rewarding you with this punishment because we never recognize that the reward doesn't come in the way we think it does when the reward comes it tells us who our friends really are when the reward comes it shows us what was really down on the inside of us sometimes the reward means you have to lose your job to start the business sometimes the reward means that you can't be who you used to be and be who god has called you to be at the same time so he starts breaking things off of you sometimes the reward for your faithfulness feels like punishment [Applause] it feels like punishment how have i sinned that i don't have anybody who really gets me how what's wrong with me why me why me to risk my life why me to risk being hurt why me why me how have i sinned yes that i couldn't find a circle that everyone else had a mentor but i couldn't find one person to pour into me that everyone else had a daddy and everyone else had this white picket fencing and my mama had a drug pipe how how have i seen that i've been set apart and punished [Music] what did we do when our positioning feels like punishment when us being separated and isolated feels like we've done something wrong how have i how have i sinned [Music] how have i sinned he says and so obadiah he was chosen to disrupt the norm but he was going to have to be willing to be spotlighted for a moment he was going to have to be willing to see that what i'm calling you to do is not going to kill you but it is going to change you and in the process of changing you i may have to hurt you a little bit but i'm not going to hurt you any more than i'm going to bless you so though i'm slaying you i need you to trust in me because i got a plan in all of this and the first play means you had to contract your fears and you had to confront the fact that you wanted to fit in but couldn't fit in but i strategically strategically placed you in rooms where you would not fit in but so that you would have access so that when i got ready to do what i was going to do in your life you would already have access [Applause] i placed you in companies then i had you get fired from the company but i needed you to see how the business operated so that when you start your company and then between it feels like punishment but when i get finished telling your story you're going to recognize it was positioning because had i kept you where you wanted to stay you would have never manifest all that i placed down on the inside of you that you would have never created legacy the way that i have destined for you to create legacy so you have to stop seeing this season as punishment when it's positioning they're not supposed to get you right now it's not supposed to make sense right now the deal's not supposed to work out right now it's all about positioning the drought [Applause] i use the drought to create the thirst so that i could get you alone so i can show you who you really are so all this time you've been resenting the drop but i use the drop to humble you because if i would have gave it to you when you asked for it you wouldn't have valued it the way you're going to value it after this drought i think somebody better turn to their neighbor and tell them the drought is over the drought is over [Applause] the drought is over i hear i hear the clouds coming i think i think the rain is on the way i think i think the drought is over i think i learned my lesson i think i understand what he was doing now i think i think the drought is over [Music] i think [Applause] i think the drought is over [Applause] you'll know the drought is over when you start feeling unqualified for the next level because it means that god is about to grow you into becoming bigger than the drought [Applause] obadiah didn't realize it because he saw what elijah was doing as punishment that he had actually ended the drought he just had to manifest it by doing it by doing what god called him to do and verse 10 continues [Applause] and it says as the lord your god lives there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to hunt for you and when they said he is not here he took an oath from the kingdom or nation that they could not find you obadiah had already made a vow with his fears but faith was coming to break it the only problem is it was going to risk vulnerability and this is the part where nobody likes to shout which is like totally a bummer for me but if i don't tell you this part you're not going to understand why god has made you vulnerable in the season where you ask for strength you're not going to recognize how when you asked for a new dimension in the next level how first you had to risk vulnerability because obadiah says i've already told ahab that we couldn't find you i vowed that i couldn't find you i made an oath i gave up already i've already given up i have a rhythm now i come to church on sunday i go to work monday through saturday and i don't risk anything other than that i've already given up on that chat i've already given up that there's anything you can do with my life i've already given up on that i made an oath that i would give up that i wouldn't try anymore i made a vow already that i wouldn't do this and so you want me to go back and change the vow that i made with my insecurities and tell them that elijah is here when i already looked all over you see i wanted to find you i wanted to believe i wanted to have hope but having hope hurt it hurt me last time i had hope it broke me last time i had hope i lost my child last time i had hope i've already given up faith hurts this level of faith hurts i have enough faith to to be in a drought but i don't have enough faith to go and tell that drought that it's over i i've already become comfortable in this drought i made a vow and now i have to go back and risk being vulnerable after i've built these walls that i love so much i got a risk opening up i got a risk for giving i got a risk looking back on my past and and saying it's okay i've already i've already been there and and obadiah thinks that he can predict the future because in verse 11 and 12 it says and it shall come to pass as soon as i'm gone from you that the spirit of the lord will carry you to a place i do not know so when i go and tell ahab and he cannot find you he will kill me have you ever tried to predict the outcome i would have faith but if i have faith i already know how this is going to play out you're going to leave me just like you did the last time you're not going to show up the way i needed you to show up in the past i'm going to be out here vulnerable for everyone to see that i actually wasn't comfortable living in the drought that i actually do want to save the marriage that i actually do want the kids to come back that i actually do want the degree and i do want the business you want me to risk being vulnerable and the moment i do i'm not going to get in college i'm not going to have the finances i'm not going to have the resources the kids aren't going to listen to me you want me to risk being vulnerable while you disappear because sometimes the spirit of the lord that we feel in the moment on a sunday disappears when it's time for us to actually walk this thing out we can be on fire in the room but when it's time to actually start acting out this faith it seems like this thing has disappeared a little bit where is the spirit of the lord when i'm in this argument where is the spirit of the lord when i reach out and i don't get the response i need it in return i already know how this is going to turn out obadiah thinks that he can predict the outcome he doesn't recognize that in praying that his situation would change that he would have to change too that means that you can't know it all and surrender it all at the same time that you can't predict the outcome and tell god to write the story at the same time god says you're going to have to be a blank canvas in this season that you can't let other people's outcome determine your outcome that just because it didn't work in the past doesn't mean it's not going to work this time i'm going to do things a little bit differently [Applause] the difference between the first time they looked for elijah and the second time that elijah appears is that the first time they were looking for it and the second time it came to them and that's why you can't rush the process because you can't hustle up on this thing that god is trying to do in your life you got to just make sure you're in the right place at the right time because it's going to come right into you being in the middle of your way it's just going to appear out of nowhere it's just going to appear in your finances it's just going to appear in your household it's just going to appear on 6777 west keys boulevard somebody's going to get a release somebody's going to get a word from the lord that just appears i thought i was just coming to a regular sunday service but i think a word just appeared down in my spirit i think something just shook up my fear i think something just shook off chains [Applause] i feel strongholds coming down i hear chains breaking i hear somebody going back to the place where they used to be in bondage and coming back freeer than they ever realized i hear children coming back home i hear marriages being restored i hear business meetings somewhere talking about people who are sitting in a church service i hear i hear shaking happening it's shaken it's shaking it's shaking somebody's capacity is stretching somebody's starting to dream again somebody's starting to believe again somebody's starting to tap into the power of god like never before somebody's starting to believe that they really are who god said they are somebody starting to believe that no weapon formed against them shall prosper somebody's starting to believe that their past can't divine them somebody's starting to believe again i hear marriages being restored something's god has interrupted your normal programming to let you know that the drought is over that the bed is still on that you can break out of your comfort zone [Applause] that you can tap into you're unstoppable you can't predict this outcome this isn't going to work out the way it worked out in the past don't let your past experiences pave the road of your present because i want to do a new thing in your life and i can't do a new thing if you're still holding on to the old thing i can't do a new thing if you're still holding on to the old thing i know you couldn't find me before but what does before have to do with now i i got something different for you this time you're not going to turn out the way your daddy turned out you're not going to do it the way your mother did it what i have for you is for you and just because you've never seen anybody do it doesn't mean that you can't do it as a matter of fact it is a sign that you must do it because if you've never seen anybody do it there's a lane somewhere with your name on it and that lane is reserved for you and you alone that lane can't nobody mess with you in that lane can nobody knock you off your course in that lane competition doesn't matter when you're in that lane there's a lane with your name on it somebody just found that lane i can feel it in the room somebody just found their lane i can feel it in the room somebody just found their lane somebody just took their faith off cruise control [Applause] [Applause] i have more to say i just want somebody to worship god for being in their lane because it doesn't seem like this moment is going to pass which means somebody's got to sow a seed in this environment and see the praise in this environment and see the worship in this environment because somebody just found their lane somebody who thought they couldn't move anymore just found their lane somebody just recognized who they are [Applause] somebody realized the only thing that's keeping the water from coming is what you believe the only thing that's keeping the drought in place is what you believe and if you would dare change what you believed in the drought would be over if you would dare change what you believe is possible for your life then the drought would be over everything you have in your life right now is the result of what you believe god said if you elevate your thinking i'll do even better than that i do exceedingly abundantly above all yeah yeah you see obadiah was riding off of the wave of what he had done with the prophets when he hid a hundred prophets in two different caves he thought that he had had enough faith in the past that there would be no need for him to stretch his faith any further but he that began a good work down on the inside of him said you can't afford to play it safe in this season you can't afford to have the kind of faith that keeps you safe in this season you need to have the kind of faith that starts shaking things up in your environment you need to have the kind of faith that starts demanding that the hand of god is on your children the enemy doesn't want somebody to get this message because if they get this message their children's children's children are going to be saved if you get this message down in your soul the way you're supposed to nothing's going to be able to stand in your way in this same city where there was a drought for obadiah and the people of israel thousands of years later a man named jesus would walk into samaria and he would tell a woman sitting at a well that you have a drought in your life that you don't even know about and while you may give me water from this whale i have the kind of water down on the inside of me that would cause you to never thirst again [Applause] and if you drink from this water a spring would come up from the inside of you and you would never ever be in drought again if you understood the power that was available to you then out of your belly would flow rivers [Music] rivers [Music] rivers the kind of rivers that made sure your children never had a drought the kind of rivers that would make sure generational curses were broken off of your family rivers of living life [Music] obadiah didn't realize that he finally had backup because elijah was there because elijah was in the building he was no longer the only person who feared the lord and i want you to know that two thousand years ago your backup got on a cross [Music] and they stretched him wide [Applause] and they hung him high [Applause] so that when you were in a drought in 2017 rivers would be available to you i wish you would open up your mouth and make a way for rivers to start flowing from the inside of you i wish you would open up your mouth and let a spring come up down on the inside of you i wish you would open up your mouth and declare that the drought is over and declare that the drought is over that your children are coming home that your marriage is saved i dare you to open up your mouth and declare that the drought is over devil you have no place here devil it's your hands off my children that's what i declare right now in the name of jesus and the name that is above all names that this drought is over that this ground has come to an end [Music] [Applause] do you know who your lord is do you know who your lord is the drought is over you gotta stop being comfortable in this drought you gotta dare to get uncomfortable you gotta dare to break outside of your comfort zone you can't afford to play it safe any longer you gotta risk something in this thing [Music] your faith has got to put a down payment on your destiny your faith has got to put it down payment on this thing you got to work for this thing you got to have faith for this thing you can't just sit back and be passive you got to believe in this thing you got to believe that what god has for you is for you you got to believe this thing you got to believe that your best days are ahead of you you got to believe that you haven't lost anything behind you that you need it for god to push you forward you gotta believe this thing [Applause] [Applause] [Music] and what i saw in the text is that the moment obadiah went and told ahab that elijah was here that ahab went and met elijah the master went in submitted to the lord i dare you to start telling your finances and to start telling your marriage and to start telling your children and to start telling your workplace and to start telling your school that elijah is here that the lord just showed up in the darkest scariest most insecure places of my life that i just received a word from the lord that i'm no longer in bondage anymore that you're no longer my master any longer because the word just showed up and because the word just showed up my freedom was attached to it my victory was attached to it i can overcome because i received a word i can tap into something because i received a word i'm not afraid any longer life threw your best shot at me i just received a word that i'm unstoppable i just received a word that no weapon formed against me shall prosper i just received a word that i don't have to settle for safe any longer that i can have the kind of faith that pulls my community out i can have the kind of faith i need that faith i need faith like that you need faith like that you need the kind of faith where it doesn't matter who's president you need the kind of faith where it doesn't matter what the bank says you need the kind of faith where it doesn't matter what the bank account says you need the kind of faith that doesn't matter what statistics say you need the kind of faith that says bar sales can't hold me back you need the kind of faith that says i don't care how anyone else has done it i got rid of my carrying capacity as it relates to my faith i'm not rationing it out any longer like i'm never going to get any more because i found a whale sitting on top of a whale that says that i can drink from a fountain that never runs dry so i have faith for the impossible to become possible in my life because i found that whale that was sitting on top of that whale and a place where there was a drought in samaria all of a sudden living water sprung up thousands of years later and even in this city even in this room rivers are flowing rivers are flowing where there was a drought i see rivers flowing [Music] i want to have a moment at this altar for people who are tired of playing it safe they want to have the kind of faith that helps them to believe that they can overcome anything that happens to them in life if you don't have to leave please don't leave because rivers are flowing and if you go one way and the river is flowing another way you may cause a drought in somebody's life if you don't have to go please don't go because i see rivers flowing to the altar right now i see rivers upon rivers i see children being saved coming to the altar right now i see a river flowing like never before i see rivers rivers are flowing rivers are flowing rivers are flowing somebody just stepped into the water somebody just stepped into the water rivers bless your name savior [Music] bless your name savior rivers rivers rivers obadiah had to get out of his comfort zone just like those of you who are coming to the altar you're going to lay your master down at the altar and you're going to walk away with your lord those of you who are coming to the altar are going to come back different than you were before you're going to recognize that you've had backup all of this time that you thought you were in this thing on your own but there was a backup plan 2 thousand years ago when you just received access to the rivers the rivers the rivers are flowing [Music] i hear the rivers [Music] i see the rivers drowning your insecurities i see the rivers drowning addiction i see the rivers i see the rivers i see the rivers drowning bitterness i see the rivers drowning anger i see the rivers drowning suicidal thoughts i see the rivers i see the rivers i see the rivers drowning bondage right now in the name of jesus i see the rivers the strongest power on earth the rivers the rivers the rivers are flowing in this room [Music] can't you hear can't you hear the sound of the rivers pushing you out of your comfort zone demanding that you no longer play it safe insisting that you come into alignment with who god has called you to be requiring you to face some demons and to face some struggles but promising you you don't have to do this thing on your own because there's a backup plan there's a river [Music] springing whoever drinks of this water will thirst again but whoever drinks of the water that i shall give them will never never they'll never be in a drought again if you drink from this water you'll never be in a drought again because you'll recognize that even a drought is your servant that even the drought is just a temporary thing because there are rivers available to you i wish you would lift your hands and begin to worship like you just stepped into the river like a well just sprung up down on the inside of you like change is taking place while you're at this altar that while you're here that your families are being saved that while you're at this altar with your hands being held up that the rivers are touching your homes that the rivers are touching your cities that the rivers are touching your children that the rivers are touching your finances that the rivers are touching business deals right now the rivers the rivers where there was a drought there was a river i want you to get that place of drought on your mind right now now see the water rushing over that thing see the blood covering that thing rushing down right now in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] you can worship your way out of this drought your worship is the key [Music] hallelujah yes jesus i speak jesus to your drought jesus jesus jesus jesus in that dry place jesus jesus jesus in that broken place jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus let there be a flow like never before jesus let there be a flow like never before open the floodgates of heaven oh god open the floodgates of heaven and let there be a glow that changes the way i see things let there be a flow that shows me who i am [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] the name above all names the undisputed champ the greatest of all time the name that is above all names we speak restoration right now in the name of jesus we serve notice on every drought every weapon every enemy every devil right now in the name of jesus the drought is over there will be no lack in the name of jesus we speak overflow spirit of the living god fall fresh on our drought let there be increase like never before we declare and decree by the name of jesus that the drought in our life is over that who the son is set free is free indeed and so we are no longer bound by who we used to be but instead we step into all you have called us to be no longer will we settle o god for we have tapped into unstoppable let there be rivers oh god rivers flowing out of your people oh god rivers rivers not just one drop oh god but let there be a river like never before oh god help us to recognize what you're doing in this season that you're not punishing us you're positioning us that you're not punishing us you're preparing us help us to recognize that all things are working together for our good so we can trust you [Music] help us to not be comfortable living in a drought when you've called us to have overflow help us to recognize that we're not in this thing on our own so give us the strength to disrupt the norm and to not be afraid of who we lose in the process give us the strength to disrupt the norm and to not be afraid of being uncomfortable because we recognize that every good and perfect gift comes from you when it happens outside of our comfort zone so break every chain that's kept us comfortable pull down every stronghold that's kept us from maxing our potential and release us oh god into the places of wickedness where our light can shine so bright oh god that all have seen and all have heard that glorious things happen for those who surrender to you in jesus name listen that's what that's all don't settle for safe is about and for some of you i'm going to meet you outside and this book is going to give you practical tools on how to not settle for safe but others of you need to sow a seed in this river because when the spirit of the lord moves the way he just moved in this room there's an opportunity for you to reap not just for you but for your children's children some of you are going to reap harvest in areas where you didn't even recognize there was a drought i want to give us an opportunity to sow a seed and this is not any ordinary seed i want you to write on your envelope the place of the drought i want you to sow a seed in the place of drought so when the river comes and covers that seed that you're going to reap a harvest in the place where there was once lack this isn't for everybody this is for people who recognize that this drought cannot determine their future i'm going to give our professional ministry technicians an opportunity to prepare [Music] for this drought coming to an end and i'm going to ask for our bishop to come [Music] and pray [Music] for the rivers that are going to flow as a result to the commitment that you made in this moment

Channel: Sarah Jakes Roberts

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Length: 61min 15sec (3675 seconds)

Published: Tue May 03 2022