Draw it Out | Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Music] I want to get into the word and I want to get out of the way so God can do whatever it is he has decided to do in this place thank you Jesus we welcome you in this place I'm going to be in John 2 verse 1 through 10 if you are visiting at the risk of making you feel uncomfortable it is our custom to stand for the reading of the word and if your feet are able we would ask that you just be family with us today I'm going to start in verse 1 where it says on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding and when they ran out of wine the mother of Jesus said to him they have no wine jesus said to her woman what does your concern have to do with me my hour has not yet come his mother said to the servants whatever he says to you do it now there were set there six waterpots of stone according to the manner of purification of the Jews containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece jesus said to them fill the waterpots with water and they filled them up to the brim and he said to them draw some out now and take it to the master of the feast and they took it when the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and did not know where it came from but the servants who had drawn the water knew the master of the feast called the bridegroom and he said to him every man at the beginning sets out the good wine and when the guests have welled than the feet inferior you have kept the good wine until now my subject for this evening is draw it out so God we just invites you to take complete control of this room if you would have me to throw out this text and throw out these notes that would be a-okay with me because at the end of the day we came to hear from you and God there is nothing that we can do without your presence only your presence can change lives only your presence can perform miracles so god we humble ourselves under your voice God and I ask that you would meet every person who came in with the need and that you would give them clarity that you would give them vision that you would give them strength and power and focus and wisdom God that you would order their steps as only you can do take control of this place oh great God that you are and as for me I turned myself over to you let there be no nerves no fear no anxiety just your strength your power your anointing standing tall and me until chains are broken and fear bounce down because that's what you do when you enter a room in Jesus name Amen and then you guys can get seated and be comfortable if I could get a little power and the microphone that would be beautiful you know I'm soft-spoken in Jesus name I was thinking as I was coming down here that one of the best ways that I could even help us set up a parallel between what is happening in this text is to explain to you a few things about being in relationship with people and your surroundings and environment in such a way that it draws something out of you I learned this personally about two years into my marriage with your pastor pastor Tori can we thank God for pastor Tori of this house that's my man [Music] everything I am is because of him and two years into our marriage I realized that I was being more vulnerable because you know I used to be like people don't like when I say I was a thug but I was like an emotional thug I have never killed anyone I don't think it was just emotionally I just had this wall I just didn't want to let people in and all of a sudden about two years into our marriage I started getting very vulnerable and I would share my feelings and emotions and and I thought that I was doing it because I had just grown and decided to be vulnerable and I realized in the middle of pastor and I having a conversation that what was actually happening was that Petey has started leading the witness in such a way that I thought I was being vulnerable but he was really just asking questions to make me become vulnerable which is a powerful powerful gift and talent to have when we use it on our children and he uses it on me I take issue with it if Pastor Trey had not been a pastor he would have been a lawyer and so I peep game about two years into our marriage and so now when he starts asking me questions I'm like don't lead the witness that's rude when I'm ready to open up I'll open up don't start asking me no questions but he leads the witness because I realized that he's trying to draw something out of me and because he's trying to draw something out of me there is nothing that he won't do no path no Avenue that he won't take to draw something out of me and I couldn't help but think about how that reflects so greatly my relationship with God as I look back over in my life I thought that I was making my own decisions I thought that I was living life my own way but now I look back over my life and I see how each of those circumstances were set up in such a way that it would or something out of me yes so that it would draw out my insecurity so that ultimately I could confront them and overcome them God has this way of drawing things out of us and it's not always comfortable when he does that but when we look back over it we recognize that had it not been drawn out of us then we would have never realized what was in us not just the negative but the powerful the strength I don't know if I'm the only person in this room who looks back over their life and saying I know that situation didn't work out the way that I wanted to I know it broke my heart but it really actually drew something out of me because when everything was said and done and the dust had finished settling I was stronger than I thought I was I had more wisdom than I had before I lost the job but I learned how to budget it drew some responsibility out of me it drew some wisdom out of me and so in this text we see the fullness of who Jesus has been called to be being drawn out of him and God uses his mother Mary who got partnered with to bring Jesus into the world to draw something out of him this is a point where Jesus is going to go from being a miracle to performing miracles everyone wants a miracle but no one recognizes that having received a miracle we have a responsibility to then perpetuate those miracles in our life I received grace so I can give grace where I'm from they were saying I'm blessed to be a blessing culture would have us to believe that we need a miracle so that we can look good but kingdom says that I need a miracle so that I can be a miracle so that I can in some things in my community so that I can break some generational curses you see God is injured interested in healing you for the sake of you being healed he wants your life to be a monument of his glory and of his grace so that I can perpetuate what he's done in my life I don't get up and speak because it's easy I get up and speak because God has done something for me and I'm crazy enough to believe that I can show you what he's doing in your life I'm trying to perpetuate what he's done in my life you're not just writing the movie you're perpetuating what God has done in your life you're not just writing a book you're not just in a marriage you're not just raising children you are perpetuating what God has done in your life so when you're trying to figure out what to reproduce in this earth start with what God has planted down on the inside of you because that is the only thing that is worthy of reproducing in this earth that's that's a whole word it's a whole okay it's a whole word because I don't want to recreate anyone else's success and at the end of the day only what we do for Christ is going to last that's the only thing that's gonna withstand rejection that's the only thing that's gonna withstand people not validate and yet so God what is it that you have done in my life that you saved me that I was on the edge of suicide but you ended up helping me put the gun down that I was going through depression and now I'm not battling anymore I want to perpetuate that thing in my life I want to help someone who went through what I went through to not have to go through what I went through because I came out on the other side I don't want to just look good I know I don't look like what I went through but I still go back to what I went through because there's somebody who needs to know that you can make it out on the other side I got to say that thing so that it gets down in somebody's spirit real good I want to perpetuate what you've done in my life and if you want power and you want to Authority and you want passion you can't look at the world to give it to you God gave it to you when he saved you God gave it to you when he created an opportunity for you to make it to the next dimension it wasn't for a dollar signs it wasn't for your naming on in life wasn't for Instagram it was so that you could perpetuate what he's done he's looking for a tunnel heaven is looking for a tunnel to earth and I just want to know if you're gonna begin I just want to know if you're gonna be the one that heaven can look down on and say there clear enough and open enough and free enough and flexible enough for me to use them for what I want to do in there I want to be a vessel I'm sorry that's just me that's just the way I do what I do I just want people to look at me and see him that's it and so Jesus and I really believe prophetically that you and I are going from this place of being a miracle to perpetuating and producing and performing miracles it's a miracle I'm still here it's a miracle I still have my mind it's a miracle I could forgive it's a miracle I still have joy it's a miracle I still have peace but I don't want to just rest in my miracle I want to spread this thing God I need it to ricochet throughout the earth because everybody else is making everything else ricochet I see everything else in culture moving things that can't kick that can't give God any glory so if he's going to use anybody why won't he use the one who's most passionate about what he's done in their life I'm not talking about being weird I'm talking about being real I'm not talking about being crazy I'm talking about look you can still be dope in love god I'm talking about you can still make music that glorifies God and do it for the kingdom talking about something real that this earth hasn't seen and I want to know who wants to break the norms of what it means to be traditional in church and go out into the world and say yes I love God yes I'm still flying yes I will cast out a devil yes I will review some cancer yes I will make demons go trembling and yes I can still kick it and not judge you and still love you and still look at you the way that God loves you because that's who I am and that's what he's done for me [Applause] activate activate la it's not so that we can have a 10th meeting in here and go out and be undercover in the world so that we can be empowered in here to be authentic out there so that our light can shine so bright that it makes people curious about who we are and like so they can be like what are you on like no matter what's happening at work you keep your peace you keep your joy what is that I just want to know what it is and that's what I'm gonna tell them that I know a man named Jesus and when y'all start getting on my nerves I start asking him to give me a mind like him yes I should have lost my mind yes I should have been in brokenness I should be drunk out of my mind somewhere but I met this man named Jesus I'm sorry I feel like being a church girl tonight because when I think about the goodness of Jesus and all that he has done for me my soul cries out my soul cries out hallelujah to the risen King hallelujah to the Savior to the one who saw fit to save a wretch like me I'm wretched and ratchet and he still loves me [Applause] he did something then on the inside of me I don't even know when it happened I just looked up one day and my faith couldn't be shaken I just looked up one day and I felt too anointed I felt equipped I really felt like greater is He that is in me and when fear started talking to me I started reminded me I'm anointed I've been anointed since I was being brokenness but I messed around and got awakened to that anointing and now I live my life in such a way that it's protecting the anointing that he has given me so I keep my mind clear and I keep my circle tight because I'm trying to produce miracles and I can't do it if I'm connected to toxicity all right so when we find Jesus in the text he has gone throughout and recruited disciples he's been baptized he is fully aware of who he is but he has not yet activated that into the earth in a way that it exposes who he is to the world he's a waiting to strike if you will he's waiting for the opportunity to see when he should unleash his anointing specifically he's waiting for a need that is worthy of his power so that his anointing can be exposed and so he thought that he was coming to a wedding and he thought that he was just supposed to be attending the wedding and celebrating with other people not realizing that as he was attending the wedding that it was actually going to be the moment in which his anointing is Unleashed so the wedding is running out of wine and darkness is running out of time because he's about to go from being a miracle to performing miracles he's about to go from being of the of the heavens and in earth to establishing the heaven on earth so at the same time I love this text because I just saw it so clearly the wedding is running out of wine and Jesus the true vine the true vine has put darkness on notice guy help me Jesus what's he saying in the wedding is running out of wine the environment that would produce Jesus anointing was beginning to have a need the need came before his anointing was unleashed he created the need before he unleashed his power a lot of us want to unleash our power but we don't have the need yet and so we just want to unleash the power to show that we're powerful but God says I've got to create the need because if I create the need and your power meets the need then it will send out an echo into the earth so be patient I know you're anointed I know you've got your disciples I just want you to stay ready to strike at any given moment you know what you got to do to stay ready how you got to be ready to strike at any moment at any moment God could call upon my anointing so I wish in my life in such a way that I'm ready to strike at any given moment god I don't know when you're going to do it I don't know when the phone is going to I don't know when I'm gonna get the finances but when you stay ready you don't have to get ready so I stay prayed up I stay waiting for you to tell me god is this the opportunity God is this the relationship because I'm ready to strike because I feel fire shut up in my bones and I don't want to waste my fire on someone else's opportunity I want to unleash my fire where it's gonna have the most impact I'm waiting to strike somebody needs to let hell know I'm waiting this strength I'm not just sitting down Twitter let my thumbs I'm waiting to strike I'm waiting for God to say now it's time I feel that for somebody you've been waiting for a confirmation and God said you've been ready and I'm telling you now I'm ready for you to strike I'm ready for you to unleash it I'm ready for you to meet the need that you've been looking at that's not for everybody but that is for somebody it's time for you to strike it's time for you to strike you're in alignment I got you in the right city you're in the right room you're connected to the right people and I hear heaven saying now is the time for you to strike and unleash the fullness of your anointing not just this baby infant sized version of who you are but the fullness of who you are my husband and I we preach Jesus we Holy Ghost field listen if we could shout we would tear - searched up and we are talking to mainstream industry about our Jesus we didn't have to shrink we didn't have to act like something we weren't we didn't have to just no inspiration and universe in the energy we preached Jesus doors still open we prestigious and the network called us we were sitting at home minding our holy ghost business and the network called us you can do this thing for the kingdom and still bust the doors open in the culture yes I'm here no I'm not going nowhere because he's ordering my steps we've been waiting to strike we've been waiting to strike they say reality we said we can't do reality because we want to make sure we preserve our integrity so we passed up chance and we passed up opportunities but that was okay with us because we understand the fullness of our anointing can't just be unleashed in any environment it needs to be unleashing an environment that recognizes who we are and what we carry and if you don't get it that's cool cuz imma carry it by myself I'll do my own stuff if I have to we'll log up in here on a Thursday night and set Hell on fire because I don't need nobody else's help to do it I'm me with or without you what's up LA [Applause] kind of way in here tonight and I don't even come here to play with char tonight but I'm just trying to let you know that he is not a man that he shall live you don't have to pretend to be anybody else to activate this city for his glory I'll do it flat-footed preaching the King of Kings and the Lord of lords and I watched doors swing open on my behalf I watched him pave the way where he said it was over don't don't start with us tonight okay all right i'ma just get to the point because I see that my three points and my stanza and my haiku is not gonna hit it tonight cuz y'all came to be activated [Applause] [Music] so Jesus is waiting to strike and God uses Mary to tell him this is where it's supposed to happen and there are water pots laying around and he says take the water pots and fill them with water he says to take what you already have lying around and fill them with the resource you already have I'm gonna do the miracle with what you already have lying around and a resource that can never run dry I kept wondering to myself why is it that of all the things that could have ran out that they ran out of wine I know child I was like Lord the Saints gonna think I'm saying to drink wine first of all don't try me and don't send me no letters that is not what I'm saying tonight I wondered they could have run out of meat they could have run out of bread they could have run out of anything why is it that they ran out of wine and I realized that they had to run out of wine because wine is something that cannot be easily replaced that wine can only be produced in seasons that it takes time to replace wine and so he had to use wine because he wanted to defy human knowledge and human reasoning and he wanted to use what they already had laying around and a resource that could never never run out to replace the wine and he says to them fill the waterpots with water to the brim and Mary says whatever he says do it and they fill the waterpots with water this is when I realized that the most powerful character in this story besides Jesus was the servants who knew that there was no wine but filled the water pots with water you see because it would be the servants who would take the water and give it to the master of the feast it would be the servants who would then have to put their neck on the line when everyone else is asking for wine and all they had was water when everyone else was asking for us to be naked on Instagram we were the ones who started putting up scriptures we were drawing I'm drawing from water you see not everyone that gets to draw from more wine not everyone gets to just go out and get more wine some people in this room have been drawing from water I didn't have any resources I didn't have the family that everyone else had I've been drawing from water and everyone is asking me for wine I've been drawing from water I've been drawing from water and I hear God say if you draw from water I'll turn it into wine that if you draw it out I'll draw out the one that's better than y'all fully understand because the sir had to be willing to draw from the water and serve it to the master knowing that it started with water but trusting that somewhere along the way that Jesus was going to turn it to one all I came here to tell you on this great Thursday evening in Los Angeles is that you've been drawing from water and I hear God's saying if you keep drawing I'm gonna turn it into a miracle if you keep drawing I know you don't have it the way you want to I know you don't feel like you are connected as you should be but I'm telling you I'm drawing something out of you and I want you to keep drawing so I can keep drawing the more that you draw the more that I pour yeah he said draw some out now draw it out now I know it looks like water I know it looks like what you're working with isn't enough to satisfy the need god help me I know I know these last few weeks haven't been easy I know the demand that's been on you and I know that keep asking for joy and they keep asking for forgiveness and they keep asking for peace in the middle of the storm but they don't know I'm not drawing from wine I'm drawing from water which means I don't even have what you're asking me so I'm just praying that somewhere along the way when I draw from the water that he's gonna turn it into wine and somewhere along the way the servants decided to listen to what he said and they took it to the master of the feasts and he tasted the water that was made wine but the servants who had drawn the water knew that it didn't start as wine snack on starters wine wine is a spirit it is what creates life in a party some what have you believe some not me make sure y'all his mama and grandmothers know that because I'm not saying that that's what it is but I'm saying it was the absence of a spirit that gave the spirit in Jesus room to be unleashed and so when they started drawing from the water he transformed it in the middle of it and all I was doing as I was praying and asking God what it is that you want me to say to your people tonight and what it is that you want them to know above all it was that I know you're drawing from water I know that you're drawing from something that doesn't seem like enough but I hear God saying for you and from me and for everyone watching that I have you drawing from the water because I have a plan to do something miraculous but I can only do it if you're willing to serve the water and trust that it's going to turn into wine you see the servants that will taste the water and wine first they didn't taste it they didn't give it to lower-level people they took that thing that they knew was water and still served it to the highest person at the feast so because they had so much trust and what God said that he was going to do that he just believed at the moment it touches their lips that they're gonna see one where I once saw water I know the idea isn't fully fleshed out I know the business plan is and all the way together but I hear God saying that if you trusted that I gave it to you and you're going do exactly as I say - I'm telling you to serve it to the highest person in the room don't go to your friends circle on this one go to someone higher who's not connected to your feelings or emotions but who's going to tell you the truth so that they can tell you just how excellent it is I hear God's saying that somewhere in the midst of the struggle that you forgot how special your anointing is and that he is going to create scenarios and situations that demand that you draw it out so that he can show you that you and him are a winning combination draw it out god help us to draw it out and to serve it like we trust that it's going to turn into what you said it was God helped me to draw out every idea every plan every mission every concept God helped me to draw out peace help me to draw out forgiveness help me to draw it out of water God because I don't really have it to give I feel the presence of God in this place that life has been demanding something out of you that you don't even know if you have it to give and God says I'm not asking you for the finished product I'm asking you for what you have now because if you will give me what you have now then I can take care of the finished product I want it on your level right now discombobulated and disorganized give it to me right there on that level broken and shattered that's it I want you to draw it out now because when there's for you to serve it it's going to go through the process of transformation and before I put you in a room that's bigger than you a miracle is going to touch that idea I feel the presence of God in this place for somebody who's been wondering and believing that God is going to take there not enough and turn it into more than enough and I just want to prophesy in this place to everyone who has been feeling like they've been drawing from water that life has been ahead of them and they can hardly keep up I want to prophesy in the name of Jesus that guy he would give you the strength to draw from what you have to pull from the resources that you have laying around God open our eyes right now in the name of Jesus that we will see waterpots waiting to be filled that we will see water where we once saw Berenice so that we can see your miracle working power take place in our lives God you've been asking from many of us more than we have to give but it is so that you can show us that the more that we give the more that you feel and so God we surrender in this moment to who you have called us to be to the identity that you have declared would be ours from the day that you formed us in our mother's womb and God I ask that you would give us trust in you that you would give us faith in you like never before and that you would take every single idea that exists in this room every passion every purpose every desire and that you would transform it in a way that only you can do our prophesy acceleration acceleration God where it would take why seasons to come into being right that she would take water and do with it overnight what it took years for others to accomplish because our heart was in the right place and because our trust was where it would need to be God we receive every part of this word that is for us and we ask that it would take root and produce fruit in our lives like never before now can't we worship for just a minute can we worship [Music]

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Length: 34min 4sec (2044 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 12 2018