How To Truly Discover Purpose X Sarah Jakes Roberts

it's march and it is women's history month this month reminds me of the power connected to making history after all we do not become history makers unless we are empowered by something that is bigger than us to do something that is going to change the world or change the future for someone coming behind us and thinking about history and power we've decided to label this month revolutionary power but we want to focus on five things in specific in which revolutionary power shows up in our life so i'm doing this podcast with kadeen ellis and she's talking about her life and she's talking about her family you guys already saw the podcast i won't go into her whole story but there is this moment that stood out to me and in this moment kadeem says that she was waiting on purpose she was waiting on purpose to like hit her and to come in with the flag and announce that it had arrived not realizing that she was literally standing in her purpose and didn't even realize it it's kind of like being on a field trip with your kids or your cousins or your nieces and nephews because i know children not some of y'all's ministry yet and god bless you for it okay but you're in the car and what does the kid say over and over again are we there yet are we there yet are we there yet they ask it over and over again but the moment you pull into the garage and you are finally at wherever you're supposed to be maybe it's home maybe it's a relative's house they're knocked out in the back sleep they missed that along the journey all while they were asking are we there yet are we there yet that they were making progress and not only were we making progress when we arrived they didn't even realize it i feel like that's what happens to us when it comes to purpose we're so anxious to get there are we there yet are we there is this it when is it coming when are we going to get there and then if we aren't careful we'll look up and we'll miss the fact that this very moment we're standing in is full of purpose as you know the woman evolved team sends out a to-go plate every week it's called hour-to-go plate and it's a breakdown a devotional of different women in the bible who have demonstrated revolutionary something right this month we're talking about revolutionary power with debra deborah was the first woman judge for the children of israel and i love this narrative about deborah because it tells us about a woman walking in her power as we launch women's history month at woman evolve we're going to be sharing different aspects of deborah's story of everyday women's story but also perhaps pieces and glimpses of your story so i'm going to turn to a scripture in the bible that is about deborah's life i've got it up here on my laptop but i also you know me i like to pull it up in the word i don't know why i don't know if it just feels a little bit more oily or something when i got my bible i don't know but i just want to pull this open so in judges 4 in judges 4 and 5 they introduce us to deborah and deborah is a prophetess the wife of lapidoth was judging israel at that time and judges 4 5 says and she would sit under the palm tree of deborah between ramah and bethel in the mountains of ephraim and the children of israel came up to her for judgment i have this vision in my mind of deborah sitting underneath the tree stately and queenly owning her power owning her purpose and allowing those who were in need of her purpose to come to her isn't that a vision isn't that what we all want we want to sit comfortably in our power and our purpose waiting for those who need us to be attracted to us but you know there are some nuances in this story that i think are going to be beneficial for you if you're seeking to live a life full of power and purpose the first thing is that she's sitting debra is not anxious she's not chasing after those who may need her she's not sticking her nose in other people's situation to determine whether or not they need her to judge it she is sitting comfortably in who she is waiting for the need to arise for her to utilize the gifts and the talents that are assigned to her name so many of us want purpose but we aren't comfortable within our own skin as a matter of fact we believe that if i have purpose then i will be comfortable not recognizing that purpose is not a band-aid it is not a cozy little blanket it is not a pillow that is going to keep you nice and warm and cuddly at night purpose requires everything you have and don't have so before you embark on the journey of purpose you got to be comfortable with what you're starting with i want to talk to you the person who has a weakness who has a struggle who has an insecurity that they think purpose will heal i want to let you know this in the most kind most empathetic way possible purpose will not be your surgeon purpose will be the tool that you use in order to do surgery for other people which means instead of asking for purpose to come and make you whole and for purpose to make you feel better we have to ask the deeper question and that deeper question is why am i aching so bad for this validation or affirmation or acknowledgement or fame that i think will come with purpose how can i be comfortable with who i am now where i am positioned now so that when it is time for me to live in my purpose i don't abuse the purpose because of my insecurity i want to share some of my notes with you part of the reason why it's so important for us to find ourselves in a place of comfort when moving into purpose is because purpose is for the long haul so okay let's do an exercise right i want you to think about your life i want you to think about your life and i want you to think about the areas of your life that you feel like purpose will somehow heal it will make you feel more fulfilled and it will make you feel more valuable it'll make you feel more worthy now i want you to consider that purpose is actually the thing that may make you feel more insecure me finding my purpose me finding the thing that i believe god created me to do meant me confronting so many of my insecurities and so many of my anxieties that i still have moments now where i'm like i don't know if i can do this but before i discovered purpose i was completely fine living in my comfort zone i was just content as content can be but in order for us to go the long haul we have to know first comfort comfort teaches us where home is comfort teaches us how to live in a state of contentment it helps us to not abuse purpose because we found a way to be comfortable before it but from that place of comfort we are stretched into our purpose because purpose is for the long haul you need a balance of comfort and confrontation in order to do purpose well comfort is where we retrieve to it's where we what's the retreat to comfort is where we retreat to when purpose has been taxing purpose is not supposed to exhaust you 24 7. purpose is not supposed to deplete you you got to do purpose for the long call deborah said what i'm not going to do is sit underneath this sun what i'm not going to do is stand up all day if i'm going to be in purpose i'm going to find a way to make sure that i'm comfortable you need comfort and confrontation and so first let's master the art of comfort let's get comfortable where we are and then let us not shrink when it is time for us to confront the fears inadequates inadequacies and insecurities that make us feel like i can't be in purpose this beautiful dance of comfort confrontation produces purpose that goes the long haul so i never want you to be in a position where you are regretting where you are now or grieving where you are now find comfort in it find joy find a way to celebrate it and then also when those moments come for you to speak up when those moments come for you to put out a new idea when you have to build that website when you have to expose your gifts and talents to other people those are the moments where it's going to feel like confrontation i don't want anyone to see this area of deficiency i don't want anyone to see this area of weakness those are the areas that help you to strengthen your power and purpose i love that kadeem had to work through so much to get to a place where she finally found purpose to me that is such a testimony to what we must all go through in order to find ourselves positioned in a place of purpose we have moments where it's scary but then we're comforted by those who god has brought into our life for a season there's one more scripture i want to share with you and this one i think is going to be very helpful because it just underscores the idea of finding finding comfort with where you are before you are introduced to why you are did you hear that you got to find comfort with where you are you got to find comfort with who you are before you figure out why you are i'm going to prove it to you in the new testament jesus comes up to simon peter simon peter's fishing minding his business and jesus says to him follow me and i will make you fishers of men now it seems like a simple sentence but what if peter would have been hating being a fisherman what if he's like i hate fishing i hate sitting out here i hate waiting on something to catch the hook i hate pulling in the net i hate everything about my life because it doesn't seem meaningful he would have missed the bridge that would lead him to purpose jesus had to trust not just in who he was calling simon peter to be but also trust that he could build from who peter was in that moment because peter had a healthy consciousness on who he was in that moment when jesus says i'm going to make you a fisher of men he was able to take that next step it was still new it was still foreign he was still going to have to become a student again but he was equipped with the foundation of knowing i have had comfort in this life before i have found a way to be content with who i am right now and if god says i'm going to take who you are right now and i'm just going to demonstrate it and and allow it to be seen in a different area a different arena then i'm going to trust that even with the awkwardness even with the uncomfortableness that god wastes nothing who you are right now wherever you are right now is purposeful you my friend are there yet you're here you're exactly where you need to be for this moment everything god's going to do in your life and through your life he's going to do it with the pieces that you have right now so my prayer for you my hope my earnest expectation is that you would lean into the power that exists in this moment the power that reveals your strength the power that reveals your insecurities the power that reveals how god is developing you and if i can just tell you one thing you don't have to be envious of other people and purpose you don't have to be jealous you don't have to feel like you've been forgotten okay a lot i've got one more scripture i want to share with you okay it's in peter it's in peter 2 and 1 and it says therefore langistad all malice all deceit hypocrisy envy and all evil speaking as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word that you may grow thereby if indeed you have tasted that the lord is gracious i love this part right because and it just goes on and on you have to read it to get the full context but i love this idea of language side malice deceit hypocrisy envy and all even eaten all evil speaking and becoming as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word that means that if i'm envious if i am hypocritical if i am deceitful if i am evil speaking then there is a part of me that is malnourished when it comes to living a spirit-led life and if i'm going to fix that malnourishment i'm going to have to become like a babe that means i'm going to have to sit from the word little by little until the envy that is in my life helps me to develop into someone who can be happy for other people who don't who doesn't see other people's success as my competition or my setback okay so we're not going to be envious we're going to find a way to be comfortable with where we are comfort doesn't mean we don't have dreams comfort doesn't mean that we don't still see opportunities for growth it means that we don't hate where we are while maximizing where we are at the same time fall in love with your present this is your purpose this is the only purpose you have right now god's going to do the rest and he's going to use where you are for the rest so miss nothing i want to pray with you god i thank you that we have access to power power that is beyond us power that is greater than us because lord knows that we need it it takes power for us to continue to show up in spaces where we don't always feel enough it takes power for us to show up in spaces where it seems like we've reached our peak but yet there's still more in us god my prayer is that for everyone who's under the sound of my voice that they would come to a place where they realize that this present moment is full of your glory this present moment is meant to birth the best version of who they are god help them to be settled here to not be so afraid of losing it or missing it that they realize that this is it and if they work now you'll work out the rest forgive us god because we've been regretting and maybe even talking negatively about where we are now that is no longer our portion we will be like babes drinking from the well and milk of faith that tells us all as well all things work together and i am exactly where i am supposed to be in jesus name i pray amen family i've got so many other things i want to share with you about revolutionary power grab a friend head on over to we tv stay on we tv and journey with us we've got power to unfold

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Length: 15min 12sec (912 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 04 2022