I have the honor today of introducing One of my favorite people to you my friend Sara Jake's Roberts Elevation church, we are so spoiled Sara and her husband Touré are pastors at the potter's house at one la and the Potters house in Denver I don't know how they get all of that done, but they do and she wears so many other hats. She's a pastor She's a writer. She's a mother of six. Yes. I said six children and She is daughter to the great Bishop TD Jakes that we all know and love Just to name a few of the things that she is but she's also my friend She is someone who makes me laugh. She sends me text messages all the time I love her so much and you're gonna love her too because one of my favorite things about her is that she is a woman who can Preach a lot of women speak a lot of women teach a lot of women share but this girl She preaches and I know that this message is going to challenge you and grow your faith in a new way So will you help me give an Elevation welcome to my friend Sara Jakes Robert? Elevation can you make some noise? That one's ok for me, can you make some noise for Jesus? The Church of the Living God You could be anywhere else, but you have decided to be in the present make some noise Oh heaven touches earth Make some noise We're your Giants on your children Elevation is one of the most amazing churches in the world In the world and I consider it an honor to be here before you guys today I've been studying I've been praying I want to get right into the word if that's all right with you And I know you've been standing a long time But I'm gonna be standing a longer time Someone stretched your hands towards my feet. Amen I'm gonna be in Matthew 26 verse 69 I'm reading out of the New King James Version yesterday I Was reading the word and I told people to sit down and get comfortable if they would like But then I learned that you all actually stand for the reading of the word So I'm gonna ask that you honor the custom of this house verse 69 begins and it says now Peter sat outside in the courtyard and the servant girl came to him saying You also were with Jesus of Galilee but he denied it before them all saying I do not know what you are saying and Verse 71 continues it says and when he had gone out to the Gateway Another girl saw him and said to those who were there. This fellow also was with Jesus of Nazareth But again, he denied it with an oath I do not know the men verse 73 says and a little later those who stood by Came up and said to Peter surely. You are also one of them for your speech betrays you Then he began to curse and swear. I love Peter. I Do not know the men immediately a rooster crowed and Peter remembered the word of Jesus Who had said to him before the rooster crows? You will deny me three times So he went out and wept bitterly My subject for those of you who take notes are everything must go Everything must go So God we welcome you to Continue to feel this atmosphere with your word and your truth You are the only one who can take one message and allow it to hit everyone in different ways You are the only one who knows every need every burden every issue that came into this room and you and you alone can speak breakthrough and power in victory in healing and so father we Welcome you to inhabit every part of this room every soul that came in here Because we recognize that when you do that, we are forever changed. And so we're asking that this would be one of those moments Where we walk out of there and say God you heard me you see me and you know the plans that you have for me God I'm asking to be your vessel that there will be no nerves no anxiety. Just your spirit standing tall in me So that lives may be changed in Jesus name Amen And then now you can get seated and be comfortable There are Very few words that bless my soul as a believer like the following 3 Everything must go Those words bless me not just because of the reason that I found one studying But when I see them on on a store, it speaks to me that God Is really looking out For my finances in this season say god I prayed for savings and you put my favorite store on sale How great is your mercy towards me? Everything must go and That used to make me so excited because I knew that when I walked into the store that they would be willing to Discount even further items that I had been waiting to get for a very long time And so when I went home and I told my husband that I finally got something that I'd been looking for I could tell him But honey, it was on sale. And so we saved money. I didn't spend money Now that I am a business owner though, I realized that when they put those words outside of the store It's not just because they want to bless my spirit Just fascinating they actually do that because they have new inventory coming in and Because they have new inventory coming in. They have to get rid of everything. That is no longer profitable So that that which is profitable can take its place What if we as believers started to treat our life with that same level of philosophy that We look to within ourselves and said everything must go that is no longer profitable So that that which is profitable can come in How much powerful would we be if we looked at our bitterness and said no You can't stay because you're taking that place where my joy could be What if we looked at our misery and said no, you can't stay because you're taking up space where my purpose could be What if we started to say depression you can't stay here joy is in your place You got to make room and everything must go. This is a mindset That we should have But because we don't always have this mindset God creates these Situations these scenarios that force us to put that which is no longer profitable on sale So that it can be stripped away to make room for what is profitable When we find my friend Peter in this text he is going through that exact process now because we've heard this story so many times it can be easy for us to believe that He's going to be alright in the end, but that's because we know the end from the beginning But imagine with me being Peter in this moment This is not the same Peter who's walking on water in front of Jesus This is not the same Peter who was watching Jesus performed miracles This is a Defeated Peter This Peter left everything he knew when he began to follow Jesus he was connected to hope he was Connected to think he would see signs and wonders all of the time and now all of a sudden that which he knew so well he is disconnected from and In the process of being disconnected from that faith his change begins to occur and he's no longer the person he used to be I Know we would like to say that that is exclusive to Peters experience but if we are honest we look back over our lives and we Recognize that there are moments where I used to be so full of faith. I Used to be so connected to my faith there was nothing off-limits I had a faith for my marriage I had faith for my children I had faith that that dream that purpose was going to be manifesting that it was going to change the world and now I'm just lucky if I get from day to day I used to have faith I used to believe that I could do absolutely anything but for some reason now, I'm Connected from my face what I love about this. Is that for Peter his faith was taken from him his hope was taken from him Have you ever had? Hope just ripped? Out of your hands. I Thought that things would be one way but one phone call one incident and now all of a sudden all of my faith has been Stripped away. I Never thought that I would be the one going through a divorce I thought that we wouldn't make it to the long haul but my faith got stripped away I Never thought that I would be the one who didn't know how I was going to make ends meet but for some reason my faith got Stripped away when we find Peter in this text. His faith has been stripped away and When your faith is stripped away it changes how you see the world it changes. How you engage in how you interact? There are people in this room who haven't really felt like themselves in such a very long time and if we retrace your steps And retrace your history, we would find that it was all because of one incident that changed the way you saw everything. I Witnessed something and I saw the worst of people and when I saw the worst of people it made me stop believing in the best of them and So now I've become a cynic disconnected from hope And every time I close my eyes at night, I remember that person I used to be But as I was praying and I was pressing again, I felt like God was saying that everything must go That everything that is not profitable that everything that has No no value for what he wants to do in our life has to go that maybe just maybe as we Filtered through our lives and we filtered through our memories and our emotions We will recognize that we picked up some habits and some patterns and some thoughts that we shouldn't have and we're out of season Right now where I can't go there next unless I clean out back there Peter is in between the cusps of walking with Jesus and becoming the rock in which Jesus would build his church So it's not actually that he's disconnected from his faith it's not that he's disconnected from Jesus It's just that Jesus is shifting. And as Jesus is shifting. Then Peter is having to elevate who he is as well Sometimes God just moves on you And it's not that he's lost. It's not that you did anything wrong It's him saying everything must go so that everything can grow If I don't move from where you're used to seeing me, then you'll become one of those complacent Churchgoers, and I called you to be a kingdom agent in this world. So I'm constantly Expanding your capacity. I'm trying to see how hungry you are to hear from me I'm trying to see how desperate you are to get a word from me. So I'm not staying within reach I'm trying to stretch you into the next dimension Peter. I know you're used to walking with me, but can you press in and Show me that you have taken in what you used to want to take for granted. I Hear guys saying this in you I hear God saying that you were depending on faith in one arena that you thought your help came from a job not Recognizing that he's going to be your provider So I stripped the job away so that you can see man didn't have to write you a check that I would make a way For you to make it anyway I hear God's saying I had to move some people out of your life because you were beginning to worship them and I need you To know that at the end of the day if all you have is me, but that's more than enough There's a greater is he mentality that is coming back into your situation and I had to strip some things away So that I could grow and increase inside of you Everything must go Everything must go I won't be satisfied with this message until you leave here desperate to clear out anything that's taking up Unprofitable space down on the inside of you anytime a negative thought starts rising up until you say everything must go God renew my mind and give me a mind like Christ. I can't afford to have this thinking thinking any longer I'm trying to press towards the mark and I can't do it thinking like the same girl. I used to be Everything's gotta go Everything's gotta go every hater every doubt every fear every insecurities depression No authority It's gotta go it's gotta go cuz I'm ready to grow it's gotta go it's gotta go it's gotta go it's gotta go It's gotta go. It's gotta go. I'm gonna move on but I'm speaking to your demons. You gotta go. You gotta go You gotta go. You gotta go. I didn't just come to church to clap my hands and walk out feeling good I came here to wage war on Hale. You gotta let me go You gotta let my country code. You gotta let my finances go and Anything that's keeping me From recognizing what he can do through me has got to clear the way Everything everything's gotta go Everything So my friend Peter is in-between Walking with Jesus and becoming the rock in which Christ will build his church but in this moment He's lost and he doesn't know what to think because he's been disconnected and So Peter, I love this because before any of this happened there at the Last Supper and Jesus says to Peter Before the rooster crows three times. You're gonna deny me Peter was like wow, I would never ever You my boy. We've been rolling man But he says I see something in you that's got to come out of you and It's got to come out of you in order for you to access the next dimension of who you are and So I have to move myself out of the way Because if I don't move myself out of the way Then you won't deny me and then that issue won't rise to the surface And if that issue doesn't rise to the surface, I can't build my church on you So god moves things out of the way so that our issues can rise to the surface and I just want you to know because some of you got so many issues Rising to the surface right now That you're ready to give up So many memories and thoughts rising to the surface But what I love about this is if Peter gets this out of his system this denial out of the way one time He never has to be the person who denied Jesus again That if I confront what's in me, then it makes space for what's on me it reaches fullest potential and I know that some of our families and some of us are more comfortable when we don't let those issues rise to the surface because we want to avoid conflict but as long as it exists within you then you are conflicted and Divided and we have to be united if we want to be powerful in the kingdom because there's enough outside that's willing to divide us that we can't go into it already divided within ourselves and so Jesus says I see potential in you where I can build my church on you, but first you have to I mean so that you know, what's in you There are some things that you won't even realize are in you until you're placed in situations that bring it out of you I didn't know I was crazy. I Didn't I would have never thought it was possible for me until someone said something to me and I was like, wow, I'm about to be crazy because It's in me But once it got out of me it taught me something about myself that I can't afford to be connected with people who bring out that side of me and So all it took was one time for me to see what was capable for me to make a decision moving forward to make sure that that never sprung out of me again and So when I find Peter in this text, he's in between and and he's got this spirit of disconnect between him and Jesus and it's funny because at this moment he's sitting outside in the courtyard and like so many of us do he's thinking about what's wrong and What's not working? And this servant girl she comes up to him and she says to him you were also with Jesus of Galilee and It was interesting that he responded and says I don't even know what you're saying for me This was a testament of how disconnected we can become from what we want to snoo Because the worst thing that anyone wants to be reminded of when things are not working is a time when they once were working I Know you guys don't get angry with people because you are saved sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost But have you ever been having a little bit of a disconnect with your husband and then Facebook brought you a memory of when you Wrote that love know on Valentine's Day And you scroll superfast past it like not today Not today When this girl comes up to Peter she reminds him of a time when they used to have more faith Weren't you with? Jesus I know everything gets falling apart right now. I feel that for somebody Do you remember the time when you were? Really with Jesus. I Mean like when you really would go into your prayer closet and you would wake up Thanking God that you just had another chance to lift your hands and worship this girl Reminds him in the midst of his most broken moment remember when you used to have faith remember when you were walking with Jesus and Peter says I don't even know what you're saying my Mind can't even comprehend in its current state a time when I used to be walking with Jesus I am denying that part of me and When you deny that part of you you push away your very own breakthrough. I Can't afford to to think about that time He says I don't even know what you're saying and and then it continues he moves outside of the courtyard because what happens to so many of us is we try to move out of the way of People who remind us of who we used to be Cuz I can't afford to have anyone calling me higher when all I want to do is be broken down where I am right now and So he moves out of the courtyard and then he runs into another girl And it was at this point in the text when I realized that it wasn't just Peter running away that it was God chasing him down Because you want to talk about triggered if I could trigger a time in Peters mind When he used to walk with me Then maybe I could get him back in the mindset of what it was like to hear from me Even if I was telling him what he didn't want to hear Because if I can get him to remember when he was connected to me Perhaps he could reach even further back and remember that I plan on building my church on him So even in the of this brokenness and what seems like the end I still have a plan even in the midst of this breakdown Somebody's been in a breakdown and I came all the way from Los Angeles To tell you that God has been trying to get you to reach back to the promise and that lets you know that the bet Is still on I know nothing in the circle right now looks like it's still happening, but I'm telling you I know that I know that I know that the bet is still on How do I know because you're still here and because he is not a man that he shall love I don't care what this si. I don't care what your account says I don't care what your mind is saying if he said it and spoke it over your life. There is nothing that can wage war Against his word And if I can get back into the position Where I received the word where I used to hear from him then maybe he could help me navigate through this season that I'm in Before it's all said and done in Matthew 26, he's tried to run outside of the courtyard to avoid anyone who would remind him of Who he used to be? This is a part that God gets me in verse 73 He says a little later those who stood by came up and said to Peter surely. You are one of them for your speech betrays you That thing was good to me child listen Trying to say it the way I thought it cuz I'm at elevation and I can't afford to be confused on this stage So y'all bear with me? They said that there's something about the way you're speaking that lets me know that you were once with Jesus of Galilee They're talking about his accent They're talking about the way the cadence that he begins to speak that even though he was he was departed from him even though he was no longer connected to him that what was around him ended up getting in him and Began to change the way that he spoke Which means that even when he tried to change his mind he couldn't change his spirit that he had been around Jesus But Jesus had gotten down on the inside of him That means that even though think you've got one side of your mind trying to deny. There's another part of your spirit That knows who you are that somebody's praying grandmother Changed the way you spoke that somebody messed around and got connected to Elevation and it changed the way you speak I know you say that your life is over but your speeches betraying you because you still drugged yourself in the church limping But she's still here. You still drugged yourself into the presence of God? I know you told everyone else it was over but your speeches betraying you I think you have more Hope than you're letting going I think you have more faith than you would allow us to believe your speeches betraying you everywhere you go your speeches betraying you It's saying that you're still chosen. It's saying that you're still called. It's saying that no weapon formed against you will prosper It's saying that your heart is gonna be healed I know you say you're giving up but you're still writing those songs. Like you're hoping one day you're gonna get discovered I know you said you gave up but your speeches betraying you And because your speeches betraying you I can tell that you've been walking with Jesus and That he got in you and this is the moment That makes Peter begin to weep Because he is reminded in that instance that Jesus said this what happened. I Didn't think it was in me. I didn't think it was possible, but he knew me Better than I knew myself and While I'm sitting here having a pity party He sent these people to remind me that Even though I was going to deny him That I would ultimately come back into alignment with him And when I came back into alignment with him That it wouldn't be so that I could go back to being the disciple that followed Jesus But so that I could be the rock in which Jesus built his church That's better than y'all clapping but that's alright because what I'm speaking about is acceleration That we're praying that things will go back to what they were But God is planning to take what was and accelerated to what he said it was going to be It's still better than y'all clapping Because I want you to know that there's a generational blessing connected to you breaking that generational curse That's still better because if you understood That when you got finished going through this that no one in your family was ever gonna have to go through it again You would start praising God for your children's children's children Because Revelation they wanted you to think that acceleration was impossible But they didn't want you to know about the god I serve So they sent a message through my friend Peter letting you know that you're still a rock that this earth is gonna have to reckon with and There is deliverance connected to you And all of this happened when Peter was in his most broken state All of this took place when Peter felt the least connected to Jesus I Reckoned that while Peter was weeping that heaven was rejoicing Seems like such an oxymoron but the moment that that denial occurred and it lifted off of him The moment that he had reached rock bottom I can't go No lower than this And God said that's great because the lower you are the deeper your foundation can be and I'm trying to put some weight on top of you and I can't add that weight to a weak version of you I gotta add that weight to the most humbled version of who you are I gotta add that weight to the most broken version of who you are so the deeper you've been broken the greater that Foundation is going to be why do you need a great foundation? Because there are great heights connected to your name and If God would have blessed you When you wanted him to bless you you would have flirted with pride and Ego and you would have thought that you did something to earn where you are But he wanted you to be so disconnected from where you once were That when he pulled you up there was no doubt in your mind that had it not been for the grace of God That on my side. I know who I am and I know where I am has nothing to do with Who I am because I'm crazy and I'm Buddies and all of my peers and he chose to use me anyway I know that I had to get a mindset that everything must go and when I became desperate For more of him and none of me. That's when I became the vessel that he could use I Know Who I am I don't deserve it I couldn't have earned it But still the reckless come on somebody the reckless love of God it chased me down It chased me down It takes me from the courtyard to outside the courtyard and he kept reminding me that you used to be with Jesus before I Formed you in your mother's womb I knew you You used to be with me you are from me and don't let this world make you think that you're not a part of me any longer I'm trying to get you back To what our first new one I saw you And in order to do that We have to let go Of what has been imposed upon us? What our emotions and our experience would have us to believe and so here we are Offering ourselves as a living sacrifice a Further presence of God in this place That it's time for us to remember constantly That I am a living sacrifice I Hear God saying that it's time for us to return to the heart posture of worship Where I wake up each and every morning and I open myself up in such a way That I said God. There's nothing off-limits Not this bitterness not this brokenness Because bitterness feels like warmth when you're afraid of trusting other people but you need other people in order for you to make it in this thing called life so you're gonna have to be willing to Trust again and open your heart up again. You're gonna have to believe that he makes all things new and So Peter became new in that moment when he was reminded of what God said he Was reminded of what Jesus said about him and all I wanted to do when I came here is remind you of what Jesus has said to you and To remind you that no matter how disconnected you may feel From that word that he promised you that you're gonna make it That your heart is gonna be healed That your children are going to be saved that there is a lane that he is cultivated that only you can feel that you don't have to be jealous of anyone else's success or anyone else's envy that I Promise you I still got you. And all I'm waiting for you to do is give me full rein to the inside of you So that I can make space for what I want to pour into you I hear God's saying your capacity is about to increase in a way that you never thought was possible And I had to increase your capacity side that breaks you down so that I could make more room. That's really good I feel that for somebody I had to end sharper Capacity and I did it through breaking you down. Now you're stronger than you ever thought you would be I know it doesn't feel like it because you're in your most broken moment, but I feel strength coming back to you I feel resources coming back to you. There are people having Conversations about you nothing you you are right now But the you he's called you to be that person is still down on the inside of you And as long as you have breath in your lungs as long as your heart still has the beat then there is a greater version of you yet ahead and when you decide that Everything that's in me that's keeping me from reaching the next version of me has to get out of the way It's gotta let me go It's gotta let me go I Gotta get my mind back in the game. It's gotta let me go. I gotta fight for my marriage again The heartbreak has gotta let me go. I gotta be okay that you walked away from me I gotta forgive you. I gotta let it go. It's gotta go. It's gotta go cuz it's keeping me from knowing him It's keeping me from having greater this in me. It's gotta go If it's okay Can I just give one person who needs it 10 seconds to worship? to make a divine exchange with heaven To ask God to make space Time on the inside. I know you're ready to get your brunch. But if I could just give that one person who needs it 10 seconds Maybe 30 seconds To lift their hands and worship and profess with their mouth That I don't want to fall in love with this pain anymore I want to find out the purpose behind this heartbreak. I want to know why you kept me alive God I want to know why I'm still in this thing. I want to know why I still have passion I should have given up everyone else rejected my eyes Have passionates in your kingdom come in the criminal justice system I tell her passionately you picked up comments in the industry that he's please please Give me a divine exchange Of your spirit Let it break down my walls Let it arrest every thought that's not a reflection of who you are God I need your spirit to forgive God I need your spirit to break addiction. I Can't do it by myself. I tried and I've still been in it But if you would speak a word if your spirit would breathe down on the inside of me I'm crazy enough to believe that it would push away Generational curses that it would help me to forgive I'm crazy enough to believe that you're still in the miracle business and some people need to see it I need to be a miracle. I want to look down at my soul and wonder how I got over How did I get over you leaving me? It will be because of the grace of God how did I get over me losing my Family and I will say it will be because of the grace of God and not only did he get me over but he restored Everything that I've lost in the fight Even though I can get my life back I thought cancer had taken it, but I look back over my soul and I see that cancer was lying on me join Me For me With 1z spoken spirit of the Living God We need you The next dimension of you I know who you used to be and that Was great for who I used to be But I need to know who you are now So that I can be everything that I need to be now And so god I ask that You would begin to fill us with fresh fire Fresh fire Yes, fresh fire and that fire let it consume anything that is in us that is not profitable For the version of us that you called us to be God, fresh fire. Let it fall from heaven Not next week not a year from now let fresh fire fall right now if I had two or three people Who are willing to call down on heaven for fresh fire? I don't even need everybody to do it. We can do it on your behalf Fresh fire down in my bones. Shut up in my bones God let it consume every part of me I need a fresh fire, oh God I wanna burn for you like never before I want my marriage to burn for you Let my family burn for you. Fresh fire fallen from heaven. Elevation make some noise! Let heaven know you're hungry for it. Matthews make some noise. eFam make some noise Call fresh fire over your situation until demons start trembling and hell gets nervous I need a fresh anointing. Hey, thanks for watching the Elevation Church YouTube channel if you enjoyed this message Take a minute. Click the subscribe button on your screen that way you won't miss a single video and if this ministry has Impacted you and you'd like to partner with us to continue to reach others You can click the link in the description below to give now. Thanks again for watching and don't forget to subscribe
