Lock In - Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts

foreign [Music] Acts 19. verse 11. I went back and forth about a subject and I'm sure it will change and evolve as this message unfolds but for now we're going to call it lock in lock in at this point in the text Paul is at what some theologians would call the climax of his ministry he has found himself in Ephesus where he has spent so much time the most amount of time in one particular region without being arrested and having to move on they gauge that he spent between two to three years here which was remarkable because most of the time wherever he began to preach the gospel he would get ran out of town and because he wasn't finished completing the assignment that God had given him he had to move once he realized he was effective in that space he had to move but this is different because he's found a space in Ephesus where he's got capacity to pour out all that God has given him and he can do it without threat so effective is he in this that after he leaves from Ephesus he will head to Jerusalem where he will stand trial and ultimately end up going to a path that leads towards his ultimate demise of his body but not of his purpose but he's not there yet and I found this text particular The Peculiar not because Paul is even speaking or teaching in it but because of the residue of who Paul is shows up in this instance and I'm reading from the new King James version it says now God works unusual Miracles by the hands of Paul so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits saying we exercised you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches also there were seven sons of Siva a Jewish Chief priest who did so and the evil spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them overpowered them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of the house out of that house naked and wounded my text continues it says this became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus and fear fell on them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified and many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds also many of those who would practice magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all and they counted up the value of them and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver so the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed Holy Spirit we welcome you I thank you God that we're the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom I thank you God that there is freedom in this room I thank you God that you are giving me freedom to minister this message as you have laid it in my spirit God I thank you for wisdom and Revelation for insight for articulation God I thank you that you can use any part of my body any part of my story in order to deliver this message and so I offer myself as a sacrifice that these your sons and daughters may be blessed and so God I pray that you would open their hearts to receive what you have for them in this moment that there would be no distractions but that your word will go to war with what's been going to war with them and that we will learn in this moment that you see us you have equipped us and empowered us so order our steps through this word thank you God for resting in this room thank you Jesus for showing us the way lead us as only you can do in Jesus name amen amen come on child listen um you know one of the things that I have been coming to terms with I think within the last I'll say a year or two is the reality of how stressful even going through the pandemic was like life is stressful in general but then there are added variables that are often out of our control that reveal just how much stress we're constantly under there are some moments where we find ourselves feeling like I literally cannot take another thing I'm so stressed if we could just take a poll in this room how many of us would be honest enough to admit that to admit that we're at a stage where we literally don't have capacity to take anything not another thing not enough get somebody else to do it I don't even sometimes I don't even have capacity to be nice you know what I mean like it's just because right now my spirit is so bad that I don't even I need to be at home sometimes so that I can have capacity to engage with people I love Dr Jill tells me sometimes that you know sometimes you tell me I see her sometimes I won't because she says I'm not fit to engage with people right now I need a minute to make sure I'm good the reality of us experiencing stress is that for many of us we don't even recognize that we have stress or what we're carrying because we've gotten so used to having a stressed out existence even for some of our children we can see the early signs of it if we're willing to pay attention and I know many of us come from a philosophy that if you're not paying bills and you haven't gone through anything that you don't have anything to be stressed about and while that is true from your advantage point if you go back in time and realize what it was like for you to view your family coming apart for you to wonder how the meals were going to come together for you to feel that rejection and abandonment you recognize that even as a young person you were experiencing stress you just didn't have language grief but no language and we have carried it for so long that most of us have learned to override our bodies when our body begins to show us the signs that what we're carrying emotionally what we've been exposed to in our environment is now affecting our bodies there is a correlation between what happens to us the things that our responsibilities the things that we have now had to process and how it shows up in our body high blood pressure we went on tour with the black women's health imperative and one of the things that Dr Anita was sharing with those who were a part of the tour experiences that there are moments where our trauma when unaddressed and unprocessed shows up in our body so you think that you just have high blood pressure because of your diet and maybe to a certain extent is true but maybe it's also that you've been carrying that secret for so long that now is showing up in your body but when we have been conditioned to override our body when someone tells you something like listen to your body you don't pay it any attention but your body is sensitive enough to send you a message about what's happening in you and around you if you're willing to tune in I think one of the greatest plans of the enemy has been his ability to make us think that our spirituality and our faith in Jesus is simply relegated to our spirit and our mind and it has robbed us of the ability to recognize that it is also a part of our body yeah I'll give you evidence in the Bible when Jesus is looking over the multitudes and the disciples are asking him what he sees and he says that the Harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few it says right before that that his bowels were moved with compassion so integrated was Jesus with his mission his faith and spirituality that it showed up in his body God help me so when we learn to override our body to not pay it attention to not listen to it we also miss out on the opportunity to receive the download that God wants to give us about the environment we're in there are people who are now raising children to listen to their bodies when they have to go hug a stranger and they don't want to they tell you don't make your child go hug that stranger if they don't want to because there's something in the child's body that is making them not want to connect with that stranger I know it's your uncle I know you've been around them forever I know you know them and trust them but their body is trying to tell them something and when we tell them to override their body we make them desensitize to trusting what God is trying to download into their Spirit your body knows how to talk to you that's why you leave some people in your head is hurting there are some people who are quite literally not good for your health anytime I leave from you I start feeling nauseous anytime I leave from you my my bones are aching I'm so tired and weary I had all this energy then one phone call with you and I need to close the curtains and get back in the bed I don't think you're good for my body [Applause] and this doesn't even mean that we have to cut them off completely it just means that I have to take you in doses you got a prescription and I'm all out of refills so you got to come back next week because right now my body can't handle being connected to you right now I'm up against a real devil and I can't fight this same devil you keep inviting in you're not good for my body right now I gotta create a boundary I'm not saying I'm gone forever I'm just saying you don't have a refill this week because I don't have capacity in my body to carry your thing and my thing and when I leave your thing my thing is heavier than it needs to be because now I'm carrying your thing and my thing and God can't even give me wisdom from my thing cause all I can think about is your thing and I need God to talk to me about my thing because my thing is eating me up alive is showing up in my body that thing is keeping me up at night it's showing up in my body I'm sorry I gotta get clarity right now because my body is trying to tell me something [Applause] bodies trying to tell me something when's the last time you checked in with your body this isn't the normal Church message that we're supposed to preach but God just kept showing me that I'm bringing your body into a place of sensitivity that sometimes we're waiting for God to speak a word not recognizing that God is speaking to the atoms in your body that I'm trying to show you where you can go by how your body responds when you're in the atmosphere if you don't feel safe and you don't feel loved and you don't feel seen and you feel like you have to shrink and then you go and you ask God God whether and whether or not I should be in this relationship God says the answer is already in your body sometimes your body knows it before you know it and that's why your body starts aching before you can even get in the doctor's office because your body is trying to tell you something I don't know who this is for but I gotta be honest God told me that this message is going to save somebody's life because that ache that you have been ignoring in your body is actually God trying to get your attention and I know we like to be Wounded Warriors where we know how to take a licking and keep on ticking but there are some Seasons where you need to take a minute and dissect this licking my back is hurting and maybe it is just that I'm getting older or maybe it's because I've been carrying that child when I should have been giving that child over to God yes I feel like my heart is having palpitations but maybe I have anxiety about this next stage that I'm moving in I gotta check in with my body cause God is trying to position my body and God cannot position my body for what I need to do in the earth if I don't listen to my body God says I'm going to send you into some rooms where if you don't check in with your body they will exploit your body they will take over your gifts they will take over your talents and your body will be screaming don't do it but because you are so needy and because you want to be loved and because you want to be adored you can't even check in with your body and the sirens are going off telling you to back away and move away this still isn't for you I feel it in my body I feel it I can't explain it I can't make any sense of it but I feel it in my body my body is telling me no my body is telling me go my body is telling me pursue my body is telling me [Music] oh God oh God I'm trying to okay forget it I'm trying to stay in my notes but let's go my body has been telling me that I'm about to move in a new dimension my body's been telling me that I'm on the brink of breakthrough I don't know I can't explain it that's why this message feels so weird but anytime I think about what God is showing me it doesn't feel distant anymore I feel so close to it that I can feel it in my body I feel so close to wholeness that I can feel it in my body I feel it's in my bones I guess that's how Jeremiah felt when he was trying to not preach and he was trying to swallow it but then he said I'm trying to not do it but the thing is that it's like fire shut up in my bones I wish I could stop growing but I'm so close to stepping into everything that God has called me to do that I feel it in my body that's why my body's been under attack because my body is moving with more power than it's ever moved in before I feel it in my body I'm gonna be okay I don't see it in my circumstance I don't see it in my bank account but I feel it in my phone the old folks used to say I got a feeling everything's gonna be all right where did the feeling come from God put that feeling in my spirit the revelation feeling God help me make sense of it but I feel like my body is telling me who to be connected with who to walk away from I felt it in my potty when you spoke a word it felt like fire shut up in my bones it felt like a river of Living Water was shrinking up on the inside of me accepting the purpose and all of a sudden they're in a patient and the creativity kept flowing I felt it in my body I'm equipped I felt it in my potty I'm ready I felt it in my body that is mine for the taking I thought it in my body that the weapon how did I know that the weapon didn't Prosper I felt it in my body cause I should have been bleeding now but all of a sudden I got more strength than I should have had how could I have strength in a season that's trying to tear me down but I'm waking up with more energy I'm waking up with more Focus I feel it in my body I feel it in my body I feel it in my body some people start running because when God takes [Music] I gotta I gotta stay connected to my body cause my body is trying to show me it's trying to direct me it's trying to Lead Me [Music] oh I knew it wasn't everybody's word but God told me if I get it in the hands of the right people God told me if I get it in the hands of the right people that they'll start listening to their body again and I heard God say it's going to take all of you to be who I called you to be that means you can't just do it with your mind you just can't do it with your hands God says you're gonna have to put your back into it then you're gonna have to step into it God says what I'm gonna do with you I'm gonna do it through your body why else with God wrap himself in flesh unless the body was a vehicle and which I will establish the Kingdom of Heaven as the word was made flesh it's what's up monsters the word wasn't just in my heart the word became a part of who I am [Music] the word is taken over my body I feel like the Revelation is taken over my body I used to be nervous I used to be insecure but I think the word is starting to take up space [Music] Hallelujah so if the enemy can get you to devalue your body exploit your body override your body then the word doesn't have a vehicle anymore because you don't trust your body to be of service for what God wants to do and most of us disconnect from my body in order to survive not recognizing that feeling it won't kill us God help me I'm out of my league I got to be honest with you God gave me this word this I didn't go to school for it I don't understand it is somebody way more qualified to preach it than me but God gave it to me and I'm gonna just give you what God gave me God told me that most of us have disconnected from my bodies and because we have disconnected from our bodies we think it has kept us safe but I hear God saying that we're moving into a season of integration that means that in order to be effective you are going to have to become one with your body again this is not which means that you cannot just be a collector cannot just keep on taking on thing after thing without having a plan for transmission [Applause] some of us are at our capacity because we've got so much that has been thrown our way I'm at capacity I don't have any room in my body for anything else I will tell you that my friend Dr Anita's here and she'll tell you she had the microphone but now I have to tell you and anything I say wrong just fight her about it just DM her about it don't even come to me with it but one of the things that she's taught me that is that when you start to feel like you're at capacity in your body that you have to release that energy out of your body we don't talk about this enough but even going outside and going for a walk you know how we relieve the capacity a buttermilk biscuit a mac and cheese we call it comfort food because what it's doing it it is comforting something that is within our body but there are other ways they're journaling and exercising and and all of these things are meant to help us remove some of the tension that is in our body because when you recognize that if I store it up then I don't have capacity for God to move through me if I store it up then I'm no longer sensitive to how God wants to use my body so I gotta find a way to make sure that this gets up off of me we use this too shall pass one like it's in the Bible and it's not because it doesn't just pass what happens is you have to have that this too shall pass mentality will you say to yourself just because I stored it it doesn't mean that I'm going to keep it I got to know that what I'm hanging on to has to pass through me in order for me to be effective at who God has called me to be that means that yes when you tell me your problems I cannot keep them I gotta pass them on to Jesus cast your burdens on to him why would I cast my burdens unto him because I have it this too shall pass mentality I want you to know that one of the greatest things you can do when you are the strong friend who was there for everyone is learn how to have a this too shall pass mentality you were not meant to carry everyone's burdens you were not meant to carry everyone's stress you were not meant to walk everybody through every trauma you got to say girl I'm gonna pray about it and by pray about it I don't mean worry with you about it for the next six months when I say pray about it that means I'm going to go into my prayer closet and I'm gonna tell God all about your problems and when I went about your problems I'm tell them all about mine too but when I close the door on that prayer closet I'm not going to pack up that baggage and take it with me see some of our prayer is not effective because we walk into the prayer closet with baggage but then we pack it all up and walk out of the prayer closet too but I hear God saying either you trust me with it or you don't I hear you calling my name but you won't actually lay it at my feet and there is somebody in this room carrying in your body what you told God you were going to leave at the altar but I rebuke it in the name of Jesus I'm coming up against you and your mentality and your idea being everyone else's savior when we got a savior who got on the cross not just for you not just for me but for every issue known to man and you are putting more on yourself than you can bear you got more on you than you can bear I know you're standing but you got more on you than you can bear I know you're still showing up at work but you got more on you than you can bear and there comes a point when you make a decision that I don't just want to be a high achiever I don't want you to be someone who looks like they have it all together I want to be someone who understands when it's time to lay it down it won't pass if you don't let it go God can't fix it if you won't let it go God can't heal him if you won't let it go God says your hands are in the way of my hands and I know you've been in there for long enough but I hear God saying there comes a point where you got to trust God with it and someone who's got to lay down the altar of being there for everyone else so that you can allow God to show up so that they can know for themselves that he's a provider so that they can know for himself that he will make a way out of nowhere you're letting them borrow your Revelation but they can't borrow your Revelation and get your results you got to know it for yourself and sometimes the only way you can know it for yourself is if I move out of the way it doesn't mean I don't love you but it means that this job is too big for me it doesn't mean I don't want to see you be well it just means I want to watch you be well on your own I want to support what you're doing not force you to do it and I don't want to keep pushing somebody to grow when they don't want to get dirty [Music] and I think God told me this message was Gonna Save somebody's life because somebody's sick in their body and the doctors can't figure out what it is and I hear God saying it's not what it is it's who it is and it's not just them it's who you allow yourself to be in that situation you think it's them but God's homie is you so I gotta honor her I gotta honor this body that God has given me got to connect with it I gotta trust it and I gotta take all this that I have had stored up and I gotta pass it on to Jesus there's a scripture in Philippians for that I love and it speaks to the power of transmission Philippians 4 6-7 it says be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and Minds through Christ Jesus [Applause] it speaks to the power of what happens when we take what we've been carrying to the Lord in prayer when I take it to the Lord in prayer I pour my heart out and I say God this is what I've been carrying God this is what's been stored up inside of me and when we lay it out before God most of us just stop at that point and then we miss that the second part says that the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and Minds there's something that happens you pass on your burdens you pass on what you've been carrying and then God passes you back something else when I lay it out before God a transmission takes place now all the all of a sudden where I once had the potential to be anxious I now have the opportunity to have my heart and mind guarded and to experience peace that means that when I am in prayer I am in pursuit of the things in my life which are taking up capacity that no longer have the right to be there and in exchange I am asking God to give me peace for the area where I once had anxiety that God would give me peace for the area where I once had worry that God would give me peace not just peace the kind of peace that we have for a minute but the kind of peace that guards my heart and mind why do I need a guard around my heart and my mind because if I don't have a guard around my heart and my mind I may end up engaging again in the very thing that God that I laid down in my prayer closet and so I need a guard against my own heart and mind and that's what happens when we go in prayer and now we've gone to prayer and now I've made this exchange and now I have capacity I have the ability Now to create space for what God wants to do in my life because in order for us to be infective in this season I heard God say that you're going to need to embody the revelation of Who You Are who you are in his eyes it's not part-time it's not something you're waiting to step into the two have been called to embody a word he spoke a word that brought your life into existence and if I am embodying my trauma or if I am embodying the other things that have happened to me I'm embodying stress I'm embodying other people's responsibility then I cannot embody the word that makes me effective and why I was brought into the Earth Jesus knew how to shake things off of him because he recognized it at the end of the day I have been called to embody the word and the Word was made flesh and what amongst us the reason why I chose this text with Paul is because I don't think that there is another example as thorough as the life of Paul that helps us to understand what it is like to embody the call of God on our life it seems like Paul was a peculiar choice considering he was on the other side of what God was doing in the Earth he was persecuting Christians persecuting Believers of the way he was not on our side at all and yet he has an encounter on the road of Damas on the road to Damascus Damascus that lets us know that that conversion took place and he went from embodying the belief of who he thought he should be to embodying the belief of who God has called him to be and when he moved and made this transition one of the things that he tells us in Philippians that he learned in the process of embodying who God has called him to be is that in order for him to embody it effectively that he has to forget those things that are behind that means in order for him to be effective in the call he could not keep on carrying not even the highlights of what had happened he couldn't carry what happened behind him who he used to be in order for him to be effective In This Moment he had to forget those things that were behind why did he have to forget those things that were behind because in order for him to be present in this moment he had to have a full integration of who he is right now that means that I cannot afford to keep paying for the mistakes of who I was yesterday and step into who I'm called to be now I can be worried about what I'll look like tomorrow I gotta step into this moment right now sometimes the greatest prayer that you can pray is God make me present in this moment right here I don't want to miss what this moment has for me I don't want to miss who I am supposed to be in this moment so make me present not just in my mind make me present in my body when I'm having a conversation with my partner and I'm thinking about all of the ways they got it wrong and I'm thinking of all the things things I could be doing instead of thinking about those things that are behind or thinking about what I'm going to say in the future God help me to be present in this moment so I don't miss what you're trying to do help me to be present when I am creating so that I don't miss the sound that you're trying to create I don't want to be on autopilot I want to be present in every moment I don't want to just get busy raising the child and putting them on a routine that I miss the fact that they're going through a depression that I miss the fact that they are self-harming God help me to respond in this moment help me to see it the way that you see it God says I'll take care of the future don't worry about that you stay present in this moment why else do we celebrate that he has gone ahead of us and made our crooked path straight that means I don't have to go ahead of me he's got ahead of me covered all I need to do is work where I am right now so I am forgetting those things that are behind and I'm going to work where I am right now God make me present in every way possible to what this moment demand I don't want to be stuck I don't want to be trapped and Paul manages to master this Paul Masters this so well that when my text begins it says that God works unusual Miracles by the hands of Paul starts off talking about his hands but then it says so that even his handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick I like this text about the power of him embodying so fully his call that even the things that he wore were anointed enough to heal the sick oh it's gonna get good in a minute [Applause] he was so locked into his purpose he was so locked into who he needed to be in any given moment that even when they beat and wounded him and then threw him in prison that Paul and Silas were still in the prison worshiping and singing songs because he was so locked into who he was called to be that even when he was up against persecution even when he was in the midst of a trial he still knew how to lock in with God and not lose focus he knew how to lock in with God and make sure he could tap into a praise he was so locked in that it was oozing out of his pores he was so locked in that even when they beat him all it did was produce more praise Paul was the crazy man who kept talking about suffering producing glory and how else does the suffering produce Glory unless he is fully in the suffering so that he can be fully in the glory oh God help me because I feel like I'm about to turn the corner on this thing the reason why you have to be fully present in your body is because when you're fully present even in the suffering you also get to be fully present even in the glory the fact that Jesus was so moved with compassion that he felt it in his bowels means that when he was wounded for our transgression he really felt that thing in his body that means that when the chastisement of our iniquities were upon him that he really felt it in his body that means that when they nailed his hands to the cross that he really felt that thing in his body but when he was raised up free and Victorious he really felt that in his body so much so that he told Thomas put your hands through the holes because I'm telling you I really felt Glory happening in my body I want somebody to know that it is possible to be so anointed that it bruises through your body to be so anointed that you shook the atmosphere when you walk into a room to be so anointed that when you step into this space all of a sudden the conversation must be elevated because what God has done in me before I even open my mouth you can experience it by the way I carried my body body money tells you I'm not the one my body tells you that I'm fearfully and wonderfully made my body is Hell that I went through hell and I know how to fight a devil my body tells me my body tells me my body my body makes it known my body makes it known it's happening in my body there was a woman who was so convinced that God could help her that when she heard that Jesus was in her town that he was walking through the multitude and Jesus was so in tune with his body that when this woman was walking through she had had an issue of blood for 12 years and she could feel the flow in her body but she fought within herself if I could just lock into Jesus then maybe that thing that I've been feeling would finally stop flowing and so she ran up on Jesus and Jesus was so locked in that he said who touched me who touched me and they said no that the multitude strong you how could you ask who touched you and he said I know that somebody touched me because I felt power come out of my body I felt power come out of my body but check this the woman was so locked in that when she touched him it says immediately the flow of blood stopped that means she was so checked into what was happening with her body that she knew the moment she got healed God help me God help me God help me there's something going to happen in this room when somebody touches the Hem of His Garment the woman is so locked in anybody with a flow will tell you that you can't tell when the flow starts and you can't tell when the flow stops but life had backed her into a corner so much that she had to get sensitive about her body and when she got sensitive about her body when she locked into Jesus Jesus locked into her and there was an exchange that took place because their one body touched another body one body took power from another body and now all of a sudden my body is saying this side that I'm in touch by power I'm in touch with a breakthrough this Jesus help me Jesus was so anointed that it was only him of His Garment he was so anointed that it was on his clothes he was so in touch with his body that he recognized that when she grabbed him that she pulled something from him and she was so in touch with what she needed that she knew that when she got the power it healed her I hear God saying that some of you been touching God but she didn't touch him with the Target and because she touched him with the Target in mind she knew that every moment she got healed I hear God saying that if you start taking that power and pointing it into the direction of where you need healing you'll mess around and get healed in a way you didn't think was possible you mess around and get breakthrough in a way you didn't even know was possible I hear God saying start looking for the signs in your body that I healed you start looking for the signs in your body that you made it to the other side God says you'll feel it in your body before you even denounce it to the crowd you'll feel it in your body God won't even know that you were healed until he makes the announcement that allows you to be seen cause a woman with the issue of blood knew it before anybody else did man I don't know who this is for got an accident you would give me wisdom because God told me to tell somebody that you could be healed and not know it if you don't lock into what you've been praying and asking God for God says you could be healed and not know it if you don't recognize where you need his power to show up in your life you could be healed he'll do not know it and I gotta be honest to you I prayed and I asked God for healing to break out in this room I asked God for courage to break out in this room I ask God for there to be Deliverance in this room that it would be undeniable because somebody locked in so heavily with what God was doing that they felt the power when it came out of heaven I don't think there's anything more beautiful than when somebody starts having hands laid on them but when the person on the other side once the hands laid on them there's something that happens when you lock into what the person is carrying and you recognize that they're carrying something that you need of course a miracle breaks out because when you lock in the Bible says it like this wherever two or three are gathered in my name wherever two or three locking in my name I'll be there in the midst if you lock in I'll show up in the way that you need me to if you lock in in my midst I have I'll allow healing to break through if you lock in it'll make all the difference this woman this woman with the issue of blood she mastered the art of locking in I chose this text God revealed it to me because I believe God wanted me to understand and wanted you to understand that what happened with Paul is possible for you that there is an opportunity for a fully integrated faith an opportunity to try my wiggas stop will tell me about it [Applause] I don't care y'all don't think this is my hair do you [Applause] I really don't care because none of this is really necessary because I recognize what is really necessary if the wigs stay on or not if the shoes stay on or not I know what I'm really here for I understand that I came here to lock in on something so you can make the memes and make the videos at the end of the day one thing I know for sure is that me and God locks in on a word and if this is a distraction then let it fall off because at the end of the day I believe that I am called to bring breakthrough in this room and if I'm in the way if the Breakthrough then move me out of the way because what I want more than anything is for him to have his way so I'm 10 on what God wants to do in this place and if Miracles are gonna break out then little wigs follow if Miracles are gonna break out then let the shoes come out if Miracles are gonna break up you'll think I need this I don't need this I do it cause it makes me look good but at the end of the day I know what's good I know that if he goes before me I know that if his Spirit Breeze in this room Holy Ghost Holy Ghost Holy Ghost I came for power I came for breakthrough I came so somebody could get healed I came so somebody could experience those Wonder working power of God I heard that God is still performing Miracles so I asked God to let me be a part of it and I don't care if I gotta be embarrassed if you get the glory at the end of the day see don't let it fool you [Music] [Applause] it's not that deep it's not that deep the worst thing you can do is make it about you but God is trying to use you if you make it about you when God is trying to use you you'll miss the moment when Glory can come through you [Music] so I I'm locked in I'm locked in I'm locked in let's go what's up we've been in a fight before now wait a minute when we've been in the fight before do we or do we not have to let a few things snatch off so that we can show them at the end of the day about it for real I don't care what it takes I gotta make it to the other side I don't care what it takes do you think the woman with the issue of blood cared about her hair do you think the woman with the issue of blood cared about what she looked like the woman all right I'm about to take it off [Applause] it ain't never it ain't never [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] God says sometimes you need to see it from the platform so you can do it with your platform it ain't always gonna be cute it ain't always gonna be pretty but one thing's for sure it's gonna always be God and I don't care what they say about me I care that he gets the glory when it's all said and done [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] all right [Applause] Paul [Applause] she took her wig off too to get out of here listen Paul [Applause] Paul didn't my God Paul didn't mind doing what it took [Applause] in order to be who God needed him to be in any given moment and it made it look so easy that the priest the Jewish priest thought I can just do what he did I can just say what he said and it'll have the same results but they didn't have his revelation so they could not have his results [Applause] the power of the revelation of who you are to be in the Earth requires that you embody it with such Trust that you don't care what it looks like to other people [Applause] [Music] that you embody it with such confidence [Applause] that even those who knew one version of you have to get known to that have to get used to this new version of You Paul knew how to embody this thing I don't know who you are but I promise you one of the things I heard God say to me is that we have to embody the thing that we're talking about because God told me I'm going to start whispering my truths in your body [Applause] it's gonna be in your body stop talking to people it's gonna be in your body God says you're gonna feel my love in your body you're gonna feel my healing in your body you're gonna feel breakthrough in your body I'm gonna put it in your body the strength is going to be in your body the creativity the path you're supposed to take God says check in with your body because I'm going to start showing you by the way you feel God says I'm making you more sensitive than you've ever been [Music] and if you've made a habit of overriding your body then you'll miss who you are supposed to engage with who you're supposed to walk away from you'll make it a mind game this isn't a mind game this is a full body game this is a full body game if you don't believe me ask Jesus it was a full body game yes I know you said this body is going to perish and one day it is but right now God is using that body and God wants you to honor that body and check in with that body the last thing I say is this when The Magicians of the time heard what happened God help me to say it the revelation that Paul received was so powerful that it was oozing out of his pores so powerful that it created imitators but because the imitators didn't have that Revelation that evil spirit was able to jump on them Paul was famous in hell Jesus I know Paul I know but who are you you don't have no power to back up the thing you're trying to do if you had some power I would back up off of you I hear God saying that when it's all said and done I don't want you to be famous before man I want you to be famous in hell I want the demons to know your name I want the devil to know your name everyone's understand that that power you got was not just an encounter it was a powerful lifestyle [Music] and where there is no power [Music] there will be a principality and when the demons let him know that he didn't know who they were they ran away and hid I want us to be like Paul but I want us to admit when we're more like the Jewish exorcists when we are borrowing someone else's Revelation and expecting their results you got to make it personal I need my own revelation [Applause] so that I can have the results that have my name on them because if I can get my own revelation then I won't be envious of someone else's results [Applause] The Magicians got a revelation after this because they understood that Paul's God that Jesus was so powerful that he was able to do something when he wasn't even in the room he was able to the enemy the devil the demons were able to recognize the strength of his power even when he wasn't working even when he wasn't present to make it happen and The Magicians even understood that it is worth me locking into who Jesus is so that I can experience the real thing I want to talk to somebody who's got counterfeit tools [Applause] maybe you don't call it magic maybe you call it something else but you believe that it has power and because you have divided up what you think has power I I'll take this because I think it has power I'll take that because it has power you can't even really experience the power of Jesus because Jesus has been diluted by all of the other things that you believe have power but I want to give you an opportunity to lock in for real I know you think that sex has power I know you think the crystals have power I know you think that the Witchcraft has power I hate it but if we gonna be real we might as well be real I know you think it has power but I hear God saying that I've got more power than all of those things but you didn't lock in with me and because you didn't lock in with me you feel like you needed a counterfeit but I hear God saying you got the real deal baby and when God gets finished with you the real deal shows up everywhere [Music] and I'm crazy enough to believe that there's still power in the name of Jesus and this is not the kind of power that is religious it's not the kind of power that is about rules it is a full body experience [Applause] where you become more and more like Jesus for real because the spirit of God fills you the spirit of God touches you the spirit of God empowers you propels you leads you directs you and what I want for you more than anything on this Pentecost Sunday is for the spirit of God to take up residence in your life and for you to lock in with the spirit of God like Paul did in a way that shows up in your body like Jesus did in a way that shows up in your body and oozes through your pores I want to pray with you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I want to pray for somebody who's been having a hard time locking in they've experienced pain betrayal distrust Pride nerves started achieving and got further and further away from the thing that put me in the position to have success in the first place but I need to lock in I need to get real about this thing again I do believe that we are in the end times and as a result of being in the end times we can't afford to straddle the fence any longer we gotta lock in all the way we got to be aligned for real I got to be all of who God has called me to be and I got to take care of my body to do it I gotta take care of my mind to do it I Gotta Lose My Pride in order to make it happen I gotta lock in but the truth is sometimes it's difficult to lock in because we've been carrying so many things that have kept us burdened but before we go I want to create an altar in this place where you can lay down what you have been carrying pour your heart out before the Lord so that the peace of God which surpasses all understanding can guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus you're going to need the Holy Spirit to get it done you're going to need to be a version of yourself that you never thought possible to get it done but you can do it that's why you can feel it in your body that you can do it that's why it won't let you go because you can feel that it's possible I wish I could go to sleep at night but I feel it in my body I'm on the brink of something I feel it and God's Gonna Get You to the finish line and then you're gonna get in the race again and he's going to carry you from glory to glory to glory to Glory [Applause] if you're in this room and you don't know Jesus I promise you that it is the best decision I've ever made you may know church but if you don't know Jesus I promise you that you need to try Jesus you may have heard a sermon but if you don't know Jesus I'm telling you there is a difference from having an encounter in church and having a personal relationship with Jesus to understand the love of God poured out through his son Jesus is one of the most identity change transforming things decisions that you could ever make and I want to invite you to be in relationship with Jesus if that's you I want you to meet us at this altar when I tell you that Jesus knows how to take what's been burdening you what you've been carrying it and show you how to transform it into what he can use Jesus can save you from the things you don't know how to walk away from Jesus can save you from the voices tormenting you in your mind Jesus can save you out of darkness and into light there is no one like Jesus I promise you if you just try him once if you say I want to wake up every day and I just want to be in relationship with Jesus because Jesus passes his attributes onto me he passes his character on to me there's a transmission that takes place I give him my weakness I give him my sin and in exchange he gives me wisdom he gives me love he gives me Grace he gives me mercy I'm in relationship with Jesus I don't just go to church I'm in relationship with Jesus this is not the highlight of my spiritual week the highlight of my spiritual week is when I'm in my prayer closet by myself it's when I'm driving in my car and Jesus is telling me you know I'm gonna take care of that Jesus is telling me you know I already got that covered that can only happen through relationship ah [Music] Jesus you said once that you only do what you see your father in Heaven do Jesus you knew how to lock in Jesus even on the cross you looked up and you said father why have Thou forsaken me you were so locked in with Jesus that you could even share with Jesus you could even share with God when you were experiencing burden and pain and disappointment you didn't allow the pain to make you turn your back on God Jesus you knew how to lock him God here at this altar here in this room are those of us who are trying to lock in we want to be more like you Jesus we want to understand who we are in the Earth and why you allowed us to survive thing after thing we want to know why you place value on our lives we want to lock in with you we've been locked in with our pain long enough we've been locked in with addiction long enough we've been locked in with trauma long enough we've been locked in pursuing love for long enough God we want to lock in with you we want to lock in with Jesus so that we can become more like you because I want my life to mean something in your kingdom I want the works of my hand to mean something in your kingdom and so father we turn our eyes towards you and we say we see you and we know you see us and what a gift it is to be seen by God I pray that you would give them Focus like they've never had before God I pray that you would remove the distractions that cloud their Vision the moment they get momentum in their spirituality then something comes in and distracts it we speak a hedge of protection over them in the name of Jesus we rebuke the distractions that are keeping them from stepping fully into who they are called to be God we come up against their own desires their own desires that are tripping them up and God we pray that you would allow them to lose the taste out of their mouths for the very thing that keeps pulling them backward God I thank you that you're changing appetites at this altar I thank you that you're changing Spirits at this altar I thank you that you're healing them right here at this altar I think you they don't have to wait six months I think you they don't have to press through a crowd I thank you that you are as near as the very mention of your name so on this Pentecost Sunday We Gather on one Accord and we say Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus and when we speak your name we believe that we pull power for the issues that are flowing in their life when we speak your name we believe that we pour power over their circumstance when we speak your name we believe that demons tremble when we speak your name We Believe depression has to flee when we speak your name we believe that crystals have to drop that magic has to run away when we speak your name witchcraft had to go Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus and the name that is above every other day we speak Gaelic in their bodies healing in their minds healing over their insecurities healing over their self-image healing over their self-esteem healing over their marriage healing over their families in the name of Jesus if I said it in my name you'd be in trouble but because I said it in the name of Jesus I know there were two or three again that that he's in the midst Jesus if you're in the room let me to him this is if you're in the room let me touch we just want to touch your power has a Target God I pray that this would not be an ending [Music] but that it would be a new beginning I thank you God that as they go throughout their week [Music] that you will give them wisdom on creating an environment that doesn't change their ability to lock in I thank you that you're giving them boundaries so that their power isn't deluded I thank you for wisdom and strategy I thank you for breakthrough I thank you that somebody feels the healing in their body I thank you that when somebody goes to the doctor the next time the very issue that sent them in there is going to be gone and they won't know why but we'll know it's because I've messed around and locked in with my body my poured power out of heaven and when I pulled power out of Heaven it lowered my blood pressure and changed the cholesterol cancer had to get out of the way I believe he still does Miracles I believe that your joints are working together I prophesy in the name of Jesus that the cells are working as God's design that the tissue is being revealed that when there was a tear the dances I will perform surgery I prophesy it in the name of Jesus let your power and save their body the way you did it with the woman at the issue of blood God I thank you that you're causing the blood clots to move I think you did the Hemorrhage and you're stopping I thank you God that your power makes the difference we don't just want your power for what we do God we want your power for who we are God we want your power to dwell in US we want your power to move us propellers to heal us and guide us thank you God for the opportunity to realign [Music] thank you for the soundtrack that will continue to Usher us into your presence thank you for the friendships that will continue to Usher us into your presence thank you for turning the hearts of those who are called to us towards us and I thank you God that as you do it that ultimately you are preparing the body for your return [Applause] as we prepare our bodies you prepare the body so let us start with us and overflow into everything connected to us seal this word God is only you can do allow it to take root and to produce fruits generational fruits in the name of Jesus amen can you celebrate god with me boots out [Applause] can I tell you we're gonna go right before you leave though if you are visiting this church I'll be honest we are crazy I am preaching without a wig but we love God we love each other and we love you and we don't even know you yet if you want to make this church your church home can you please join me down here to the left our pastors ministers and Elders will be here to meet you we want you to make this place home we want you to find your way in community here we want you to feel the love of God and to receive confirmation for what God is doing in your life at this church please join me down here to the left are pastors and ministers I promise you we've got incredible Ministry for your children incredible Ministry for your youth there's so much going on at The Potter's House if you're a member of this church can you make some noise if this church has blessed you we want you to experience what Jesus is doing through us as the hands and feet of Jesus and can I tell you when you join this church we want your ideas to we want to know what you carry your gifts and talents we don't want you to fit into this church we want our church to fit around you and so as you're coming please know that we don't want you to be anything other than yourself God can take care of what needs to be changed what you need to do child we just want to know how we can partner with serving what God is doing in your life can you thank God for our new family our new cousins hey cousins hey family keep coming ciao [Applause] Bishop probably going to tell me I can't preach on Sundays no more unless my wig is extra secure I don't want to be a distraction come on guys less than we're gonna go home I love y'all [Applause] I don't know what you're up against this week some of our kids are out of school we need prayer for real our pantries need prayer our budget needs prayer we need wisdom that God will show us how to see them we need balance we need patience some of us are finally going to write the book some of us are finally going to get to therapy some of us are going to really lock in in a fresh new way so Holy Spirit you know what tomorrow holds you know what this week holds I thank you God that though it may take us by surprise it won't take you by surprise so God we trust that you will show us who we need to be in every moment of this week that when we get ready to respond the way that we would usually respond that we would fill it in our body to just wait be patient hear us out God I thank you that as our body is communicating to us that you will fix our ears our heart and mind to respond God I pray for protection over these your sons and daughters my brothers and sisters may no harm come towards their dwelling May no harm come to their finances God opened our eyes that we will recognize the moments when it is you and you alone who have shown up for us thank you God that you're going to empower us thank you God that you're going to give us rest thank you that you're going to stretch the finances thank you for patience and peace thank you for victory until we meet again I love you family have an incredible week [Music] thank you

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Length: 76min 26sec (4586 seconds)

Published: Sun May 28 2023