How To Be Content In A Waiting Season X Sarah Jakes Roberts

every time i tried to build my confidence in something that i had i always questioned whether or not it was enough but when i built my confidence on what god gave me i never had to question whether it was enough so i may not be like the best preacher and i may not have gone to all of these schools in the world but i am confident in the fact that god anointed me so when i came up here i rebuked nervousness and anxiety because that's me showing up wondering if i had enough but when i stand flat-footed and what i know god gave me you just show up differently because you're not showing up by yourself and i know that god gave me my husband and so i show up to my marriage differently and i say god you gave me this man you gave me this family you called me to this life now show me who i need to become to make sure that i make the best of it because i know you wouldn't call me to something that i wasn't capable of really bringing into submission and so i think the greatest question that you have to ask yourself is god what do you know about me that i'm still struggling to lay hold of because if i ever lay hold of what you know about me i'm crazy enough to believe that i could set this city on fire i'm crazy enough to believe that i could break that generational curse so god i need to know what you know about me why did you keep me in this world why did you let me make it to denver when no one else could why did you allow me to be in this family what is it that you know about me that i don't know about myself i'm trying to wrap my mind around while you wrap your hand around me when i should have been crazy and out of my mind when i should have been somewhere drinking and sleeping you wrapped your hands around me god what is it that you know about me watch your tongue watch your toes watch watch the tone watch your do [Applause] and a little bit of nerves isn't a bad thing it keeps you humble it keeps you humble make sure you look for it look for just a little bit of nervousness it keeps you humble it reminds you that you're not doing this by yourself and that it isn't in your own strength and it lets you know that pride hasn't gotten a hold of you if if nervousness is gone pride can rise even greater so keep just a little bit of it yeah panel do you guys have anything while you guys are answering i just want to say anything if you guys have a question they tell me if i come up any further i might lose the mic so if there are two women who want to meet me right here i'll be glad to share your question with our panelists of course well she better come on she she do what she needs to come on cause i can't go up there where she at i've got a question down here she do i've got a question over here as well sis okay well let our panelists do you guys have anything that you want to add to her did she say that she was a single mom did you say that yes yes you know something that i've been praying a lot about lately and my heart really really goes out for single moms because they carry a lot yeah but i want to tell you something that the lord showed me and that is that you are not a hagar you are a sarah and you don't have to have a hagar mentality anymore you don't have to go away and hide in a tree and put your baby on a tree and think that they have no destiny because you've been through a lot and because you're all alone you need to get up out of there because what god told hagar was he said get up i am the god who sees you god sees you when you think nobody else sees you when you're getting words from heaven and god is speaking to you that is not a hagar mentality you are a sarah you are a daughter of sarah and i don't care what kind of circumstances you've been through i don't care what kind of things have come against you i don't care what you think you're probably mom you don't have enough you've got what it takes i'm just gonna go hide and die and stay there because i don't have a future because i don't have a man let me tell you honey you are a daughter of destiny your daughter and your sons will be nation builders they will be powerful men and women of god don't think that just because you're a single mom that you don't have what it takes that your kids can't have a better future that you have to look around and say oh they're better they have a better family you are a daughter of sarah start thinking like it start speaking like it start walking in it start talking in it start being about it start being it right now so in jesus name i just want to prophesy over every every single single mom in this place and it does not my bible does not say that you are a daughter of hagar it says that we are daughters of sarah come on and your children will do mighty things in jesus name i'm sorry i'm really passionate for single moms i love you and your children have a future don't think that just because you have looked down on yourself that your children have a future they do it's powerful you don't started something sarah you done started something that's what we came to do we came to start something i like a little fire you know it tell us your name where you're from my name is jolita i'm from atlanta all right so my question is your question is a question that somebody else in this room has and if you don't speak it they won't get their answer yeah my question is how do you continue to have faith we pray i pray faith i cry i worship i think i do all the right things and it's been over a year that everything that i felt like i've been praying to get to the next level it's not coming to pass i feel like i pour into other people and i'm just like lord what is it that i'm doing wrong can you give me a sign am i doing it what is it what's next i feel like my mother is my everything i've been praying spreading fasting going to church pay my time she's been on the kidney transplant my mom is come to me and to everybody around because i'm like why does she have to suffer with certain things in life and we're praying we're fasting i'm doing the things that i feel like i should do to reach my heart to god like god you know my heart desires can you just help me just help me lord like what is it i don't want to hold this and i want to i'm laying it all down every day to you before my feet hit the floor going my knees hit the floor so lord what is it like how do i keep the faith how do i keep going how do i keep trusting and believing didn't i say it was a question that a lot of people can anybody give her an amen the bible says that hope deferred makes the heart sick and often times when we're waiting on god to deliver us or deliver his promises to us we get in a state of just feeling heart sick heartbroken like it's not going to happen for me god you're blessing everyone around me why not me but do you not know that god can save the best for last that your latter days will be greater than your former days and that no matter who's getting blessed that blessing doesn't have your name on it god has a blessing with your name specifically tailored for your situation but while you're waiting govern your attitude you say i'm praying i'm fasting but it's almost as though it's frantic you're gonna have to learn to rest in the promises of god his promises are yes and amen and he's not going to change his mind about his promises but he's going to change your mind about how you wait on those promises when we wait consider it if you go to a restaurant and you're serving and you serve with gladness and gratefulness no matter how the client treats you it is your responsibility how you wait on them you're serving the king of kings and he is not short of his promises so if you wait on the lord and be of good courage it's not easy you get discouraged sometimes even when your promises are raining down you get discouraged sometimes but wait on the lord and be of good courage how may i serve you how may i ask would you like more water ask god how can i serve you better not for what you're going to give me but for what i can give you okay we have a question yes my question is about infertility and i feel like the lord was just speaking to me through those two women that just asked a question but my issue is i've been married to my husband for a long time we've been together for over 20 years i'm 46 now and we have no kids i have a lot of nieces and nephews and i love them and i pour it to them like it's like one of the panelists said for five years she didn't have kids what did you do during that time eventually you did but what if you didn't which is yeah you know you can always have hope but you have to be a realist as well in certain situations absolutely absolutely and and first and foremost i want to say that i feel your pain i've been there i've cried a lot of tears and and i know we're going through because infertility is a diagnosis that brings a lot of pain it really messes with your mind and your self-worth i felt stuck with my diagnosis and i felt that my husband should leave me i should divorce my husband because he's probably feeling stuck with me i had suicidal thoughts i want to kill myself because i said i can't provide i can't i can't do what a woman is supposed to do i felt less like a less of a woman so i know what you're going through and i went through a lot during that time i went through some form of depression and i went through a round of ivf and it failed i was 25 years old and the round of ivf i was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome endometriosis and then low egg quality and nothing survived i was a terrible ivf experience and it was at that point where i kind of went face to face with god and i was upset with god i'll be honest because i'm like lord i asked you for something you didn't give it to me and i'm your daughter and you're supposed to give me the desires of my heart what is this all about the lord just comforted me and spoke to me and he's just said i got you i got you and you are a powerful woman you're not just a woman and what i placed inside you don't always think that it has to be a child what i placed inside of you is cultivating through your pain it's being nurtured through your pain and there's something inside of you that when you can't have children you think your womb is empty but let me tell you you have a spiritual womb as well and you are a birther because you're a woman and you have a womb and there are things in there that god is using and let me tell you i you know i finally had my son and i was so thankful that god gave me my son and there was breakthrough there and i said god why did you wait so long why'd i have to go through all this only to finally have a son and the lord told me because your son needed the mother of today not the mother of five years ago girl you better talk something so there's something inside of you that needs the woman that has been through the pressing that has been through the crushing that has been through the pain that you can speak to this generation in a motherly fashion that no other mother can yeah because you carry something that not many others have carried and let me tell you it's that moment where you're just saying god i'm yours i surrender and that's what i did i just surrendered completely to him it's like shadrach meshach and abednego i'm in the fire and if god delivers me great but even if he doesn't even if he doesn't burning alive has got to be one of the worst ways to go but they still said even if he doesn't i will still serve you and there is a destiny and a purpose over your life and don't get your identity wrapped up in birthing children because you are birthing spiritual things love you

Channel: Sarah Jakes Roberts

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Length: 14min 12sec (852 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 14 2022