How to Prepare for the New X Sarah Jakes Roberts

I'm going to be honest and say that when I was studying I thought that when I got up on stage that I should pray that the Rapture should come you guys are a room full of pastors I would never have to speak this message and we could just go on and maybe it would be written in heaven that I caused the Rapture to come but evidently God had another plan so here we go ciao here we go there is this phenomenon that takes place in the earth it's called confluence and confluences when Two Rivers meet and become one River Two Rivers joined together and become a single Channel and in the process of them merging they become a stronger current than they were when they were flowing individually it is not lost on me that in many ways this is a moment of spiritual confluence that there are rivers flowing through the doors each time one of you comes in and that we did not come in here so that we could continue to flow in the same way we have been flowing that we came into this room because we believe that if we were able to have Confluence if we were able to take our flow and merge it with another flow that we would be a stronger flow when we got back home I'm talking about why we registered to come to this event confluences is more important than influence it has been said in business that before you can properly influence anything that first you must have Confluence you've got to go with the flow Confluence with flow and the reality is that so many of us want influence first without confluence [Applause] we don't want to understand the culture that we've been called to change we just want to get in there and lay out our rules and lay out our plans and then we wonder why we are frustrated when our plans are not working but did you study the atmosphere that you've been called to change [Applause] Confluence marriage is not one person influencing it's Confluence it's two people coming together with an idea that makes the other idea stronger as a result of being paired together Confluence is necessary in your organizations if you do not have Confluence in your organizations then they are going to be influenced by the pre-existing culture but if you have Confluence and you can take two good ideas and turn them into great ideas because we are sharpened when we are together there's something about Confluence that we must recognize if we're going to stabilize the call we can create the idea we can start the church but if we are going to be effective in our businesses if we're going to be effective in our communities if we are going to be effective in our marriages this cannot be a dictatorship this must be Confluence I have to know what you think I have to know what you see I have to understand your perspective I need Confluence because I recognize that I am stronger when I flow with you then when I'm flowing by myself we are a movement by ourselves but we're a force when we're together I wonder how different the church would be how many people would stay instead of leaving if we knew how to be confluenced instead of trying to build our own ideas of what a Christian is supposed to look like and then shun those who don't rep who don't recognize that we were never called to have a uniform we were called to be effective Jesus I want to set the stage properly because in our text we're going to see Confluence we're going to see a spiritual confluence Jesus this moment right here this moment of me standing here in spite of what I've gone through in spite of the own flow that I was going in that didn't look like Ministry at all but all of a sudden there was this moment where my flow collided with God's flow that collided with my father's foot when all of a sudden Confluence took place I think that's a word for somebody who's been wondering if the seeds they placed in their child and the seeds they place in their Community are ever going to come to fruition if I didn't say anything at all but stood here and looked you down in your face I want you to know that it is a testimony that that thing that you placed in that child is still in them I don't care how they're flowing right now they cannot deny that you put a flow in the Earth for them that before they got in trouble you were praying before that got stuck that you were worshiping I know the flow that I created before my child got lost and I'm just sitting down waiting for that flow to merge with what God told me Confluence I'm not worried when my child is flowing in a way I don't understand because I know that I got a stronger flow that's out in the atmosphere I got a chain-breaking flow that's out in the atmosphere I got a demon shaking hell trembling flow that's out in the atmosphere and I needed to see Sarah Jakes Robert she didn't have to say a word she just reminded me that separate flows merge and become a stronger single Channel [Applause] so when we find Elijah and Elisha they represent a confluence they were two separate entities but Elijah threw his mantle on Elisha and it became a single Channel and so they became one single Channel but they're about to have another another merging because Elijah is about to transition into Glory and because he's about to transition into Glory that means that the Elijah Elisha channel is about to have emerging that's going to create a Confluence that's going to go throughout all of the earth it's called a double portion anointing I promise you I studied I'm going to lay it out the way God gave it to me just be patient with me as I see this thing the way he gave it to me foreign for us to merge into one single flow we have to recognize that the first thing that happens to us the thing that we often hate the most is the end of the original flow [Applause] in order for us to become a stronger flow a single channel in tune with what God has called us to do we have to be willing to to have the end of the previous flow the end of the previous current the end of the previous Rhythm we got to be willing to let go of some things to become stronger and nobody tells you that when you start off dreaming and you start off planning and it's not until you find yourself in moments like Elijah and Elisha that we recognize I saw this so much differently that the end of the flow is just as challenging as creating the flow in the first place the end of the end of the flow as Elijah is preparing to to be taken up in a whirlwind he knows that he's going to be called home this day he's going to be called home and so he is dealing with the process of his life changing and I realize that he is rejecting you guys are Bible scholars you know the text better than I do I realize that when he is pushing Elisha away that he's having to deal with the fact that Elisha is not going to be connected to him the way that he once was that their flow is ending and I wonder how many pastors and how many leaders are in this room who are having to deal with the end of the flow as they once knew it I thought as a PK that that maybe we were being rejected that maybe we didn't understand fully where we fit and now I realize that my dad couldn't fully tell us where we fit because he was trying to figure out where he fit the flow that he knew was ending and he was becoming a stronger flow and sometimes when you're becoming a stronger flow you don't know where people fit you're not even not even your wife not even your best friend not even your children I answered the call I know that this is what God has called me to do I just didn't know that it was going to cost so much for the flow to end [Applause] Elisha has been with Elijah he served him he took care of him he was there when he called fire down from heaven he saw him perform Miracles he saw him prophesy he saw him stand in front of kings and yet this is a different flow that he's about to see Elijah in this is a different flow and it is not lost on me that in this room as we stretch ourselves and prepare to lay hold of what God has called us to really create an impact that some of us are going to have to have people be in our lives even if we don't know exactly where they fit and we're going to have to be honest and vulnerable enough to let them come even when we don't know where we're going [Applause] husbands wives businessmen I'm trying to flow in another realm I'm trying to flow with more strength I'm trying to flow with more Focus I'm trying to make an impact in my life I'm trying to make an impact I want people to know that I was here and the only thing about that is that I just don't know where you fit anymore [Music] Elijah rejects Elisha over and over again he said stay in gilgack for the Lord is sending me on to Bethel and he says no I'm going to go wherever you go and then they get to Bethlehem he says stay in Bethel for I'm going on to Jericho he says it over and over again and I realize that loyalty is not manipulation loyalty is a character trait because Elisha decided when I was going to serve you that I was going to serve you whether you were flowing in a direction I understood or flowing in a way that I didn't fit I'm going to be with you whether you like it or not because that's who I am and that's what I'm called to do in your life so even when you don't know where I fit that's okay because I know where I fit I'm supposed to be there praying for you I'm supposed to be there covering for you you've been wondering and waiting for somebody to tell you where you fit God said if you're really called I won't have to tell you where you fit you'll just be there anyway if you're really called I'll never have to tell you that I need you you'll see that I need you before I open my mouth where are my real people in this room not the people looking for a come up not the people looking to be seen the people who are saying I'm called to you [Applause] honey our life is changing our ministry is growing I don't know where I fit but what I do know is I'm called to you honey our business is booming it's taking off I don't know where I fit but what I do know is I'm called to you I used to be the secretary now it doesn't make any sense for me to be that but guess what I'm still called to you I am your wife I am your husband and when God called you he called all of us I will not forget the moment when I felt the glory following this marriage and I will live until I see the glory fall again foreign PKS they weren't rejecting us they just didn't know that the flow was going to change the Rhythm I'm trying to heal something in this room I know what me being here represents I know why God had me do it in this season I know that somebody needed a sign that they weren't going to lose their child I need somebody I knew that somebody needed help because they had been Lost in Translation and they've been trying to help their families understand that I'm not really changing I'm not really trying to be Shady I'm not trying to reject you I just don't know who I am in this flow I just don't know who I am in this season [Applause] and so I'm asking those of you who recognize that the way he used to flow was coming to an end I'm asking you to let us be there anyway I'm asking you to not push us away even if you don't know what we can do even if you don't know where we fit I'm asking that you just allow us to be along on the journey and I'm asking those of you who want the attention and the acknowledgment for being called to recognize that it's not about that anyway that what it's really about is making sure that when they look over beside themselves that they see somebody who could be with them whether they've reached that next level of flow or not that it's important that they look over and see someone who's not judging the pace in which they're flowing because they recognize just how much strength it took for them to flow in the first place [Applause] it is the end of the flow you will know when you are coming to the end of a flow when you experience what Elijah is experiencing he's got Elisha pulling on him and he's got heaven pulling him up [Applause] he's got one thing pulling him this way and he's got another thing people want to be pulled up but they don't want to be pulled on so I had to tell you that if you're not being pulled on then don't worry about being pulled up because you're not doing enough on this level for us to even pull you up I'm being pulled on and I'm being pulled up at the same time that's how I know it's time for me to go to the next level because I feel like I can't do enough to get to the next level so God has to pull me up to give me more width and more depth so that I can lay hold and have resources to take care of what's pulling on me you're supposed to be being pulled on that's a part of it I hope that's validation and confirmation for somebody that you are supposed to be being pulled on and pulled up at the same time

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Length: 17min 2sec (1022 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 30 2022