Nurturing Your Inner Child X Sarah Jakes Roberts

so there's been this buzzword lately and i have been obsessed with it ever since i've really understood the meaning of these words this inner child inner child i don't know if you're like me and you've heard this over and over again but there's like this movement for the inner child and we've been talking about sisterhood all month long if you're plugged into the podcast which i highly suggest that you start listening to the podcast it's just woman evolve wherever podcasts are on your google play store or your apple podcast app i want you to check out the podcast spotify as well because we've been talking about sisterhood and we've been talking about sisterhood in its many forms i had a conversation with the mother of my bonus children and our revolutionary sisterhood that is revolutionary because we both had to overcome petty in order to do it we talked to biological sisters who are transitioning into adulthood and establishing their lives and then even more seasoned sisters who are in their 70s and have seen life really progress in different stages and best friends sisterhood sisterhood that is our theme and yet i am challenged because i recognize that not everyone has had an experience with sisterhood not everyone has a sister nor have they been blessed enough to have friendships that feel like sisterhood and so as i was praying about this message and asking god what is it that i can do to help the delegation to help those connected with woman evolve to have a better understanding of sisterhood and i have to tell you everything in me wanted to have a conversation about sisterhood as it relates to our connection with other women i'm thinking about this podcast i did with a member of the delegation who met her best friends her sisters for life at a woman evolve event and we had a powerful conversation but up until that moment she didn't have any other sisters so i was digging into this subject and thinking about how can i talk about sisterhood and i felt in my prayer that god really wanted me to talk about what it means to be a sister to yourself it feels like a random impossible equation and yet with that buzzword about your inner child i cannot help but consider that perhaps being a sister to yourself is recognizing that inner child that divine woman you are trying to become and how they both live within you we talk a lot about self-sabotage and how we're sabotaging our own dreams and our own destiny how is it possible that we could have self-sabotage unless there were two of us inside of us one of us reaching for the best of us the other one clinging to the fear the warmth of our insecurities in our comfort zone and so how do we walk together i want to talk about you having sisterhood with yourself by nurturing your inner child um i've been on this journey myself with this whole inner child movement and i want to give you a definition of what it means to have an inner child and for those of you who are maybe joining us for the first time or maybe you've never been connected to woman evolved just i welcome you i'm so grateful that you've taken time to really invest in yourself woman evolve and hey you has really been cultivated and curated to be a space where we just talk about what we're going through i'm going to share with you some of the things that god is showing me it may not be a traditional sermon like you may be used to me here you may be used to hearing from me but it is something that god has given me in my prayer and devotional time and so i just want to chat it up with you the definition of inner child oxford dictionary dictionary defines it as a person's supposed original or true self especially when regarded as damaged or concealed by negative childhood experiences so the concept of an inner child is all about who you were before you had an experience that made you believe that maybe being who i am is not enough maybe there's danger danger in being who i am maybe there's complications and relationships that prohibit me from being who i am as i'm saying this there are some of you who are probably being flooded with memories you're thinking about the first time you were rejected you're thinking about the first time you were shut down right now i don't want to talk about that wounded inner child i want to talk about who you were before the freedom you possess my baby she's six and she's just now coming into this stage where she recognizes how she shows up in the world and how it can affect others she's using words like i was embarrassed and so even her at six she's beginning to understand that there are parts of me that may not be accepted there are things that i can do that could be considered wrong and i internalize them and that internalization becomes a wound but before then sis was not like that at all let me tell you something if she got upset you would know about it babies cry when they get upset they don't try and swallow it and stuff it down when they are upset you know about it when they are happy they giggle they laugh out loud when they have joy they take off running they use their voice they don't care who's around let me tell you my six-year-old is still using her voice there was someone who came to our house the other day and i told her i was standing from upstairs i could see her walking to the front door and i was like okay you can open the door and let them in because i could see who it was she opens the door she lets them in i go okay i'm gonna go get ready real fast and i'm gonna come downstairs she told the person my mom's putting on her wig she'll be downstairs in a minute let me tell you something about your inner child having your child and you it's just not the math ain't nothing she didn't care about the sensitivity of it she wasn't worried about me being embarrassed because when you are free as a child you're not thinking about rejection or protection or what can i do to make sure people think a certain way about me you are just free you're watching this and maybe you're like me you have those moments where you just long to be free i long to not care about what people think i long to fully embrace the skin that i am in to apologize when necessary you don't have to convince most kids to apologize before they have pride they just apologize you don't have to convince them to say i'm sorry it rolls right off the tongue of their mouth they say i forgive you without any issue there is something to be said about who we were before i feel it appropriate to take a minute and just acknowledge the pain the grief and the fear that has been deposited into you as a result of your inner child being wounded i just want you to know that no matter how long ago it was no matter how small it may be in comparison to other stories that you have heard that your wounds matter it matters to god that you're hurting it matters to god that though you moved on and maybe you're doing better maybe it doesn't sting as much as it once did it still matters to god that that version of you was tucked inside of you my assignment for just a few minutes that we're going to be together is to talk about how we take that inner child that was pure and hope filled and bring her into the existence of where we are now so that we can be both mature and wise and aware of the world but also hopeful on an eternal level that we can have joy in the midst of it all in order to accomplish this though it's going to take revolutionary sisterhood you are going to have to be a sister to yourself there's this verse in matthew 18 3-5 and i'm going to read from the new king james version and it says jesus says assuredly i say to you unless you are converted and become as little children you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven whoever receives one little child like this in my name receives me oh my goodness do you mean to tell me that we spend all of our lives trying to become a grown-up only for jesus to say if you're really going to be a part of the kingdom of heaven you're going to have to become like a little child i want you to understand that the kingdom of heaven is not talking about if you want to get to heaven you have to become like a little child the kingdom of heaven is something that existed right there in that moment it exists right now in this moment we're not waiting for jesus to come for us to get to the kingdom of heaven our responsibility in being connected to jesus and being exposed to jesus is to create hunger for us to become members of the kingdom of heaven and yet jesus says if you're going to do it you're going to have to become like a little child how do we do this how do we become like a little child i cannot undo what has been done i cannot forget the experience that i have had and yet i have the responsibility to become like a little child so i can be a part of a kingdom that is bigger than me i feel like i should detour for just a moment and talk about why you want to be a part of the kingdom of heaven when we see the evil and the atrocity that has taken place in the world and we think to ourselves there's got to be an answer to this i'm telling you the answer is in the kingdom of heaven there is a war going on out here i feel like quoting a rap from jay-z there's a no it's kanye west there's a war going on out here that we ain't safe from murder to excellence watch the throne don't worry about it just stay focused if we recognize that there is a war going on out here we will see that there is something that is fighting against evil that the kingdom of heaven is a part of fighting against the evil that we see in the world and most of us are so neutral in our positioning that we see the evil and think that there is no answer to the evil instead of establishing our position in the kingdom of heaven as a member of the kingdom of heaven i bring light to dark places as a member of the kingdom of heaven i bring strategy where there is no strategy as a member of the kingdom of heaven i believe that we can heal the sick i believe that we can have the lame men walking again i believe that those who are experiencing housing insecurity can experience the breakthrough of being established and it happens through the kingdom of heaven it says give us this day our daily bread and then it says your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven jesus i need my daily bread so that i can understand how to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth it was not god's will for us to be battling with mental illness and yet it is a part of our reality so when we talk about being a part of the kingdom of heaven it's god how do i navigate this mental illness what is necessary for me to become someone who is not governed by the mental illness but recognizes that there is grace for this space where i feel like i am losing myself god how do i establish myself in the place of forgiveness it all happens through the kingdom of heaven if it's not a part of god's strategy the kingdom of heaven has an answer to the problem that is living outside of god's strategy the answer may be in medicine the answer may be in science the answer may be in creativity the answer may be in the sermon the answer may be in technology but those answers can all be a part of the kingdom of heaven when your mindset is my job my role no matter what my gift or talent is no matter how god uses who i am in order to establish it my job is to make sure that something i do in the earth combats darkness that's that's what it means to be a part of the kingdom of heaven and jesus says if you're going to be a part of the kingdom of heaven you're going to have to get little like a child it's not that you don't know what you know it just means that you're not governed by it that says you're going to have to become humble enough to lose out of your mind the things that you know the boundaries that you created the things that you said you will never do the things that you say that you want to do and be open to living in the moment children live in the moment children understand the beauty of life having ups and downs and highs and lows and they don't let that define their hope and so many of us though are too big for our bridges too big to be like the little children who need to be in our soul in order for us to enter the kingdom of heaven so as your sister your sister from afar your sister from a distance i want to talk to you about what it takes to become little again because if we understand what it's like to become little again by nurturing our inner child connecting with that inner child we become more and more like those who are being tailored cut customized to be used in the kingdom of heaven maybe that needs to be some of our prayer right now some of us we should be praying god help me to get small enough to establish the kingdom that it wouldn't be about me that it wouldn't be about my past my fear but that it would be about your kingdom coming to my family your kingdom come into my marriage your kingdom come into my finances god i'm gonna have to get little to do it i'm gonna have to get hopeful to do it i'm gonna have to have joy to do it i'm gonna have to have faith and strength and belief that i can do it because this is requiring more than my history has the ability to cover so i gotta go back to square one there are three areas where i am learning to be a better sister to myself it's how i am learning to marry that inner child that inner wounded child with the woman that i desire to become it's how i'm learning to show up and be present in my life and i want to give you those three i'm going to pray with you and then i want you to go nurture your inner child in whatever way brings you joy and happiness i am learning to be a better sister to my past and being a better sister to my past i'm looking at second corinthians there's a scripture here it's not unfamiliar we talk uh in this scripture paul is talking to the church of corinth about the present sufferings that they are experiencing i specifically want to look at verse 18 the be version of this scripture where it says while we do not look at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal not looking at the things that are seen but rather at the things that are unseen i want to focus on that and i want to talk about you becoming a sister to your past part of the reason why some of us have and let me first define what that means becoming a sister to your to that past version of who you are means that you no longer cringe or have shame it means that you no longer feel unprotected wounded defensive when you consider who you used to be when you look back over the choices you made or the things that were done to you some of us are only surviving in the present because we've learned to disconnect from our past but we will never be able to thrive until we decide to be fully integrated i've got to take my past and my present and bring it together because for the glory of god i want to see who i can become when i include all of myself when god looks at you god isn't looking at you thinking i don't want that part i just want this part so it is arrogant of us to feel that the only thing that god can use are the things that we think are shiny and polished enough it is becoming like a child to say at the end of the day god here is all of who i am here are my scars here are my burns here are my wounds and yet we are not able to do this because so many of us are looking at the things that are seen when i look at my past i look at the things that i can see i see the way that i i angered others around me i see the way that i got jealous i see the way that i allowed my own pain to step in and damage a relationship i see all of these things and yet paul tells us that glory and experiencing glory has so much to do with looking at the unseen if you're going to be a sister to your past you're going to have to look at the unseen what does it mean to look at the unseen you can't just look at the results you can't just look at what happened you can't just look at the divorce the abortion the relationships that were random and didn't go anyway anywhere the way that you put yourself on clearance you cannot just look at what you can see you gotta look at the unseen and so many of us refuse to look at the unseen and so we live with regret we live with anger because we never take time to look at the unseen if you look at the unseen you will see that you were hurting when you did those things if you look at the unseen you will see that you were damaged by a comet that someone made if you look at the unseen you will recognize that the unseen was driving the scene that's powerful because if the unseen was driving the scene if you can get to the root of the unseen that was driving the scene that is in your past then you will see that the unseen glory of god can take the wheel the unseen love of god was evident even in that moment and so god helped me to see the unseen love that existed in the place where my hurt was help me to see the unseen grace that existed in the place where my damage was god helped me to see the unseen and not just the scene the images that keep popping in my head the abuse that keeps popping in my head god i see it all the time and i don't want to see it anymore god and yet your word in corinthians is telling me that there's a possibility that the unseen things are eternal there's a possibility that the things that are not seen are the things that could actually lead me to glory and so god help me to stop looking at what i can see and there to tap into the unseen being a sister to your past is to say i'm not looking at what you did i'm not looking at the choices you made i'm not looking at that body count i'm not looking at the way that you did what you did the drugs that you took the drinks that you drank i'm not looking at the abortion i'm not looking at what you see i'm looking at the unseen rejected abandoned girl i'm looking at the unseen voice that you never got to use in your family i'm looking at the unseen words that damaged you when you were in that school community being a sister to your past is to look at everything that took place and to say i know that this is what you've been focusing on but as the highest version of yourself as the highest version of who i am i'm gonna look at the unseen it's so funny i have this memory sometimes i just like walk down memory lane i don't know this is so weird it's just me probably but you know how you like maybe get hurt this is probably not good but whatever here we are hey you okay you get hurt and you like have to press on it to see like how bad does it hurt like does it still hurt real bad like maybe you fail and it's like you know you shouldn't touch it because it's healing but i just want to see how bad it hurts i do that with my past i'll go back over certain things and i'm like does that still hurt does that still feel like shame does that self make me cringe and in the process i was doing this the other day and there's this one memory and i ain't going to tell you all my business and told you most of them they're going to tell you everything but there's this one memory that i have and whenever i think about it i instantly feel shame i instantly cringe and the other day it popped into my head and while i was ruminating on it i almost felt tears come to my eyes because for the first time i felt the pain that i was in in that moment when i made the choice i didn't feel like the girl who got it wrong i didn't feel like the girl who did something that she is ashamed of i didn't feel like the girl who felt dirty because she did it i felt like a girl who was in pain and i went back and loved on and nurtured that version of myself that's how you become a sister to your past the second thing the second area where i want you to practice becoming a sister to yourself and is becoming a sister to your present a sister to this present moment that you are standing in and you don't need a sister for this present moment you're standing in because there is a voice that would dare tell you you don't have what it takes there's a voice that would dare whisper to you that you're out of your league that you're far beyond where you're capable there is a voice in your head that is anti-you and that voice is not a sister to you that voice is an enemy to you and yet that voice often has the microphone quite more often than the sister in you if there was a sister that was talking to you in your present and some of you have that through friendships but i want to position you to have them even when there are no friends around if there was a voice inside of you that was saying you got this i know you weren't ready for it i know you didn't see it coming but you can stay in the game i want you to know that there's help on the way i want you to know that you were built for this i want you to know that when you said yes that god had this in mind your yes was pregnant i don't know who this is for but i feel like god is saying that your yes was pregnant the moment that you're standing in that took you by surprise was included in the yes when god chose you god already knew that you would be standing in this moment and god says still i chose you because that yes was pregnant with your ability to overcome the very present moment that you were standing in you're going to have to be a sister to your present you're going to have to coach yourself through this and recognize that if i keep my heart pure if i stay focused on where god has placed me if i hang on to the promise connected to where i am then i will see the goodness of god in the land of the living i got to be a sister to my present i'm tired of being anti-me i'm tired of being an enemy to my own destiny i got to be a sister to my present and sometimes that takes work and sometimes that takes prayer and sometimes that means you're going to listen to a video over and over again not because i haven't heard it not because i didn't get it but i'm trying to retrain my mind i'm trying to renew my mind i'm trying to transform my being and it starts with my mind so i gotta be a sister to my present i'm trying to help me help me become who god has called me to be prime example luke 2 34-35 simeon is in the temple in jerusalem when mary and joseph come in with jesus i would explain who mary and joseph are but i know most of us know that even if we didn't even if we weren't raised in church mary presents jesus to simeon and simeon is so excited to meet jesus he thanks god that he kept him alive to see the messiah and then he says something crazy to mary he's talking crazy to her simeon blessed him and said to mary his mother behold this child is destined for the fallen rising of many in israel and for a sign which will be spoken against yes a sword will pierce through your own soul also wait a minute simeon is talking about jesus to mary and she knew that jesus was called to do great things she knew that he was going to be king she knew that he was the anointed one she understood what that meant in the context at the time that they were living in that he would be born with a target on his back and she said i can cover this target that's on his back i'll have him in a barn if i have to i'll sneak my way into bethlehem if i have to she knew that there was going to be a target on his back but simeon tells us that there's also going to be a target on her back so the sword will pierce through your own soul also that the thoughts of many may be revealed isn't that what it feels like when a sword is piercing our own soul generally that happens when the thoughts of many are revealed when something that was done in the dark becomes light when someone decides that this is the moment where i want you to know how i really feel about you this is the moment where i'm going to put you on blast and try to discredit everything that you've stood for there's a sword that goes through your soul in those moments and yet simeon is telling her in a present moment that swords are on the way if you're going to be a sister to your present you got to be sensitive enough to understand that swords are on the way god is preparing mary in a present moment for a future experience a sword is on the way and i believe that god prepared her in a present moment for a future experience because god understood that i'm not going to let you walk into it blindly when you walk into it you'll say this was that that god was talking about this was that that that message was talking about this was that that my friends were sharing with me about this was that when they said that marriage was hard this was that when they said that parenting was hard this was that when they said that this job was going to take everything i have and what i don't have this was that when they said this is what it takes to build a ministry god says there are going to be swords that are on the way it's not just going to be about the things that make you feel good it's not just going to be about the things that make you feel called and purposeful that there are going to be swords along the way and i don't want you to be surprised when the swords come because sometimes you'll be so surprised that you move out of position but to be a sister to your present is to begin coaching yourself now for the swords that are on the way coaching yourself now for the thoughts of many that will be revealed god is coaching mary because he understands that you got to do this for the long haul you got to make destiny run like this for a long time you got to cover for a long time and i want you to be a sister to your present by changing the way you speak to yourself and not living from a place of fear you're going to have to start binding devils you haven't seen yet you're going to have to start rebuking demons that haven't even peaked up their heads yet i feel this prophetically for someone you wait to pray when you see that there is trouble on the way but i hear god saying that you can start rebuking trouble before it even knocks on your door so that when trouble knocks on your door you'll already know there's a word over that trouble there's a word over this situation there's a word over this circumstance i spoke the word before you even got here i knew you were on the way and i bound you up what does it mean to bind up an attack that is on the way it doesn't mean the attack doesn't come it just means that when it pierces my soul it can't have my soul that when it goes through my faith that it can't have my faith and there is something to be said about a woman who understands in order for my present to start dipping its toe into my future i'm going to have to become someone who recognizes that swords are a part of the word the word came with swords the promise came with swords the destiny came with swords the manifestation it came with swords and i don't have to be afraid of a sword that i know is on the way you don't have to be afraid trouble is going to come grief is going to come pain is going to come i cannot tell you that there are not swords on the way but that doesn't mean that you don't live fully in the present i feel this the only way for you to survive the swords is if you live fully in the present man i gotta say this because i feel like god just gave it to me just because you are shrinking in the present it doesn't mean that it will protect you from the future swords just because you haven't stepped out on faith just because you haven't used your voice it doesn't mean that that is in some way going to protect you from rejection that it will in some way protect you from feeling inadequate as a matter of fact the only way to survive the swords that are coming regardless is if you allow yourself to be fully who you are to bring all of yourself into a moment so that you can live off of the strength that comes with authenticity the strength that comes with not trying to pretend that you don't have what you do have because you're afraid of it being rejected if you would get behind yourself with full strength when the swords come they're going to be coming on the most strengthened version of who you are you got to be a sister to your present it's my last one you got to be a better sister to jesus we're all children of god we say this all the time i'm a child of god i'm a child of god does it show up in your dna does it show up in the way that you speak to others or yourself does it show up in the way that you reflect jesus if we're going to be a better sister to jesus i want to be a sister to jesus i don't just want to be one of those religious people who come to church and lift my hands i want my dna to look like jesus when someone has an encounter with me i want them to feel like they had an encounter with jesus which means i gotta do a lot of inner work to make sure that my dna doesn't look like my shame that my dna doesn't look like my pain that my dna doesn't look like my ego my pride i want my dna to look like jesus there's this moment in scripture where jesus's mother and brother come to see him and they say hey jesus you know your mother and your brother are here and jesus says to them who is my mother who are my brothers and he stretched out his hands towards his disciples and he says here are my mother and my brothers for whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother if you want to be a better sister to jesus it comes with aligning with the father's will and in order to know more and more about what is god's will god my prayer starts off my morning prayers that god you are the creator of the universe you hold the sun in place you are the very movement in the ocean you have formed the mountains you are strength you are wisdom you are strategy i have to make sure that i position god properly sometimes we call god father and for some people that's a complicated word and so i remove any complications any daddy issues out of the title and instead i just call him god and i don't dare to try and imagine the face of a man because that would be once again shrinking god but i see just myself shrouded by this cloud this fire this energy this creation that is god for me and i sit down and i put god on high and then after i do that prayer i begin to think about god who were you that you would breathe your air into my lungs god who were you that you would create your son that you would shrink yourself into human form and allow jesus to walk the earth so that i could have a demonstration of how to unleash the god that is down inside of me god i want to be more like you to be more like jesus is to recognize that my dna came from god and that dna is love john 13 and 35 says jesus said by this all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another so god you are the great i am and jesus is the teacher the model the bridge that allows me access to god so when i follow jesus i'm not just following a church i'm not just following a religion i'm following a way of being and jesus says if you you will know that you are following the way of being properly when people know you by your love because that love doesn't come from you to be a better sister to jesus is to live from a place of abundance man jesus talked about if somebody slap you on one side give him another cheek he says but i say to you who here love your enemies do good to those who hate you bless those who curse you and pray for those who spitefully use you that's great jesus talking crazy how could i do any of those things i cannot do it with this dna i cannot do it with the dna that came from humanity i cannot do it with the dna that came from my shame i can't do it with the dna that comes from my pride but if i set my hope and set my standard on having the dna that looks like god i can do these things you know why i can do them because i recognize that there's nothing that someone can do to me that can take away from my identity jesus knew who he was on the cross on the cross he said forgive them father for they know not what they do they thought they were taking something from jesus but they didn't realize jesus has something that you cannot take i am love and because i live in the place of love i live in the place of abundance i'm not afraid that you're going to take something from me that i can't get back i'm not afraid that you can waste my time i'm not afraid that you're going to hurt me i'm not afraid that you're going to make me angry i'm not afraid that you're going to break me i'm not afraid of being shattered because i am connected to jesus and because i am connected to jesus i recognize that living from a place of love means that there is nothing that you can do to me that god cannot restore there's nothing you can do to me that jesus cannot make the difference with and so yes i move with wisdom but i do not move with fear because i am not afraid of losing my life because i have eternal life through jesus if you're going to have eternal life through jesus you can't be selfish about what's left god says you can give it and you can give it freely because i replaced anything you give somebody has been having a security wall over what they have left they've got security guards in the spirit realm protecting what's left of who they are and i hear god saying that you can remove the security i am the great i am and i will restore what has been broken i will redeem what has been lost and i'm going to do it because i love you i'm not going to do it because you deserve it i'm not going to do it because you earn it i'm not going to do it because you wake up and you read your bible every day and you're a good little christian i'm going to do it because i love you and because i love you i want you to stop living like you are so fragile and living like you cannot show up in the very life that i have given you i want you to live boldly with courage and i want you to be fearless because i am love says god and my perfect love can cast out your fear and that's been my assignment over the last [Music] few weeks is really becoming a better sister to jesus that i wouldn't live with the fear of rejection that i wouldn't live with this need to be approved that i wouldn't live with this fear of messing something up or not getting it right but that i would just live from a place of love that would make me humble enough to say when i'm wrong that would make me convicted when i need to change that would help me repent when my thoughts have gotten too much like my thoughts and not like the thoughts of christ i'm working on being a better sister to jesus this is what sisterhood is when it is turned inward revolutionary sisterhood is not revolutionary because of who we have on the outside it's revolutionary because of the sister we decided to be first to ourself i want you to dare to be a sister to your past love that girl embrace that girl don't be angry with her don't be ashamed with her anymore one second one minute 10 years 15 years 20 years is too long to be upset with the woman you once were see the unseen that she went through the pain that she never whispered everyone saw the outcome but no one saw what was happening inside that produced the outcome her innocence was not stolen it may have been lost maybe it was buried but god says it's not gone your innocence your purity your love god says i still got it but it is unseen so i got to start seeking out those unseen things by being a sister to my past be a sister to your present stand in this moment boldly confidently not because the swords aren't coming but because you know the swords are coming and you will survive them anyway the swords are coming but you were chosen anyway the sun the swords are coming but you can still carry this assignment that god has given you when god chose you god knew which swords were headed your direction and still said she's the woman for the job be a sister to jesus let your dna look like the dna of jesus let it be filled with love and compassion without fear of loss or rejection because you can survive that too let it be pure where you see everyone as an opportunity to demonstrate god's love to allow yourself to say you know what i forgive you i don't have to hold you hostage to who you were i don't have to hold you hostage to who you used to be i forgive you that doesn't mean that i have to walk out life with you but it does mean that i cannot allow myself to become bitter just because you didn't do better i'm going to move on and keep my heart pure because i want to be like jesus and this anger in my heart this resentment in my heart it doesn't feel like him don't allow it to take up residence when it was just supposed to pass by i want to pray with you friend i want to pray for you my revolutionary sister you have always been such evidence to me that god loves me that god holds a space for you and community and connection god thinks of us and you are the evidence that god had me in mind revolutionary sisterhood is the work of nurturing our inner child it is how the woman in us shows up with joy again and confidence because we became like a child on the inside with the body and knowledge and mind of a woman on the outside holy spirit i hear you calling our little child our inner child god to a place of rest i just have images of little children in a closet tucked in darkness and god i see you stooping down on our level [Music] and saying you can come out now you're safe you can come out now the storm is over [Music] that inner wounded child that struggled to survive her childhood struggled in teenage years god allow us to bring that inner child out and god as that inner child begins to bask in your presence god i pray that you would restore to us the joy of our salvation that you come back for the lost sheep that lost version of who we were because we belong to live in wholeness and completeness god and as you call out that inner child god for my sister i just pray that joy would be her portion that strength would be her inheritance and that she would be hungry again not hungry to prove who she is but hungry to just experience life hungry to laugh out loud hungry to be loved in every circle that she's in hungry to show up as a light so that the kingdom of heaven can be established god may we desire to be in divine relationship with you in a way that shakes the earth in a way that changes things in our community in a way that breaks generational curses jesus we receive you as our savior the savior and following your life and following your model and example we will be saved from our darkness and so god i thank you that for the first time many are just opening their hearts to jesus some are returning back and god i just asked that you would be with them in this moment that as they connect with jesus that they will recognize that there is no sin no limitation nothing that they have experienced that has separated them from the love of god thank you jesus that we're hungry to be more and more like you please receive us as your ratchet ghetto little sisters because we are here struggling okay but because you'll have us we'll take our place and will allow you to take our rags and turn them to righteousness in jesus name amen

Channel: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Views: 321,890

Keywords: sarah jakes roberts, sarah jakes, pastor sarah, pastor sarah jakes, woman evolve, sarah jakes roberts 2019, sarah jakes 2019, Sarah Jakes 2020, Sarah Jakes 2021, Sarah Jakes Roberts 2021, ONE, Woman Evolve Podcast, Hey You, Hey You Sarah Jakes Roberts, Inner Child, Sisterhood, Healing

Id: mTRNpuF7yIQ

Length: 43min 48sec (2628 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 18 2022