Out of Control - Sarah Jakes Roberts

hey family i'm pastor torre welcome to one youtube channel you're getting ready to hear a phenomenal message it's gonna bless you i have a couple of quick announcements really quickly first of all if you're not subscribed to this channel go ahead and click the subscribe button so that you'll be notified anytime we go live anytime we've got something that's going to bless you number two if you want to support our ministry we do great things as you're going to experience but we also do great practical things and we can certainly uh use your support the instructions are on the screen if you want to give and last but not least my new book balance is available for pre-order now it is a game-changing life-changing book you can go to thebalancebook.com and get it and there's certain things that you will have access to just by pre-ordering so go to the website all the information is there and let's get into this powerful amazing word god bless you i'm so excited about what god wants to do tonight and activate every night has been so unique and so special and i don't doubt that this night will be exactly in that same rhythm and flow i've been studying and praying and i'm going to do something a little bit differently than i usually do usually i take some consecutive scriptures and i really kind of unpacked what i believe god was saying this time i kind of want to pick some scriptures they're all in the same chapter they're all related but there are some pivotal themes that i think are important for us to recognize so i'm going to be in psalm 51 and i just have three scriptures the first scripture is verse 6. i'm going to start with verse six then i'm going to go to verse 10 and i'm going to go to verse 13. this psalm is a prayer of repentance from david this is after the prophet nathan comes and tells david that god saw something he did i'm going to break it down for you so that you understand the power of it but first i want to start with these scriptures so verse 6 begins it says behold you desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom and then in verse 10 it says create in me a clean heart oh god and renew a steadfast spirit within me we've heard that scripture before over and over again and verse 13 says then i will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be converted to you father god there's truly no one like you and when you speak we have no choice but to understand who you are and who we are more clearly it is my prayer that this would be a moment just like that that we would create space that allows you to really permeate our thoughts our excuses our distractions and that just for a moment this would be an intimate encounter with you father i turn myself over to you and i said quite literally have your way i cannot do this without you as a matter of fact i will not do this without you and i have a feeling that when we come together that there will be no choice but for those who are receiving this word to feel your presence to feel your love to feel your peace and to fill a womb that is meant to birth the best versions of them and so father we turn this moment over to you and we say do that thing that you do when you sit in a room in jesus name i pray amen my subject for those of you who like to take notes is out of control out of control i've been thinking a lot about control especially with us being in this you know self-isolation and one of the things that i am really trying to navigate even within my own household is still having some element of control now and home are all the same space work home and school are now all this work home school and restaurants are now all of the same place and for me sometimes it can feel like things in my house are literally out of control so kind of early on in this process i realized that if i was going to make this season work for me that i needed one place that really felt organized and in control and for me that has become our bedroom and i told my husband this is the space that i want to keep clean i want to keep it organized i want this to be the place that we come into after the family room has been destroyed and the kitchen has been torn up we come into this room and this is the place of peace and so i've been very intentional about making sure that the room is clean but the way my schedule is set up i can't like make it all the way clean the way i know it's supposed to be clean so i've learned a trick and this is my trick right so make the bed if you make the bed that's like 50 of the room being clean okay so i make the bed in the morning then i take all of the things that are laying around the room pile them up in my arms throw them in the closet i'll talk to them later okay the room has suddenly gone from being chaos into being this place of peace and tranquility and organization my husband has been telling me for weeks oh my gosh thank you so much for just working so hard to keep the room clean i'm i'm a he's been picking up his stuff he's like let me get this off the floor i know you worked so hard to keep the room clean he doesn't know that the closet has all of these things piled up in it it doesn't matter the room is clean that's all he needs to know then this weekend happened this weekend i'm doing the girl's hair because now the the hair salon the restaurants the school the work the home it's all the same thing i'm doing the girl's hair i'm right in the middle of trying to finesse these cornrows when my husband asked me for something problem is what he's looking for is in the closet the closet where i've been piling things up that he doesn't know about so now i'm in a dilemma because my dilemma is i can either stop finessing this cornrow that i've been studying on youtube for hours or i can dare to let him go into the closet so i let him go into the closet because ain't nobody spend all that time on youtube to let these cornrows just fall apart so i just told him you know what it's in the closet if you look in the corner it's still in the gray bag you can find it no problem and i'm waiting i'm waiting for this moment when he comes downstairs and he's like hey what is happening in the closet i'm there and i'm waiting and i hear his footsteps coming down the steps and i do one of them big gulps and i'm like you know what whatever you know how you start preparing yourself for what you think is going to happen and so you start telling yourself what you're going to tell that person when they come listen i'm only one person we have six children i'm a chef i'm a man i'm a teacher i'm doing all of these things i don't have time to make sure everything is speaking span and do you not know that he comes downstairs and he says nothing about the mess that's in the closet not one word and now i'm really bugging because i'm like i've been spending all of this time trying to make sure that the room doesn't look a mess and you walk into a mess and don't even recognize that it's a mess and that's when i realized that all of this time i had been trying to control this atmosphere trying to make this atmosphere be something that it really was not what i lost in that moment was not really control it was the illusion of control you see i would navigate this stuff being in the closet seamlessly i would just pull the clothes that were in my dresser and i would walk around as if that issue that mess that big pile of things i needed to sort through didn't exist at all and i thought i was in control but the truth is that it was really in control of me because it was dictating how i showed up in my own house i wonder how many of us think that we are in control but in reality all we have done is learn to move around the areas that we need to have confronted i was studying this message and and i was praying and i just kept hearing this message about control this message about the illusion of control i was even doing a podcast the other day and we were talking about how this isolation has not just robbed us of control what it really robbed us of was the illusion that we were in control in the first place and i realized that so many of us are unwilling to let go of the illusion of control we have over our issues over our bitterness over our brokenness because we are too afraid to spend the time and develop the intimacy required to really sort through what became a mess in our life you see sometimes we talk about how people only like the highlight reel on instagram people only show their highlight reels they only show the things that make people want to celebrate them and want to acknowledge them but the truth is that the highlight reel is not just for instagram there are many of us who can only see ourselves through our highlight reel because we're afraid that if we start to look at those areas where we know we need to grow in the areas where we know we need god to touch our lives i need you to help me navigate these abandonment issues these trust issues my pride my ego we don't want to look at those things so we only look at the things that we do well and as i was preaching last week i thought about this notion of coach versus cheerleader and if it's okay i want to dig a little bit deeper into what it means to really be able to have a coach instead of just having a cheerleader because if you only look at what you're good at and you only celebrate what you do well then you will end up becoming a lesser version of who god has called you to be because the truth is you are strong not in the areas where you think you are strong but in the areas where you must allow god to step in and show you what he knows about you so you never have to be a danger to yourself again if you don't decide to start sorting through those things that are dictating how you function and how you show up and how you connect with people then what's going to happen is you're going to think that you are in control of it because you fixed your trust issues i just don't trust anybody i fixed the way that i have bitterness i learned to roll my eyes whenever they came into the room i think i'm in control of it but the truth is that it is now controlling me and i'm not going to lie to you i came into tonight with an agenda i came into tonight with the agenda of making you open the door to that part of your life to that part of your spirit to that part of your soul that you cannot bear to look at because it doesn't make you feel like a winner and it doesn't make you feel like you have it all together but i came here not to shame you but to let you know that the secret sauce to who you are the secret sauce i feel this prophetically for somebody that your creativity is laying dormant in your vulnerability and you refuse to be vulnerable and i hear god saying until you release yourself to be everything that i've called you to be not just the good things then you will be emulating someone else's work and emulating someone else's path instead of taking that unique vulnerability that god gave you and using it to channel it into ideas and creativity that can change the path that is ahead of you sometimes we don't want to look at those areas of our life where we know we need to have confrontation because we're afraid of the shame connected to it and the enemy makes us believe that because we feel shamed and we don't want to feel shame then we shouldn't address it at all but i want you to know that there is a voice past shame that if you dare to look past the shame if you dare to look past what you did and to start asking god why did i do it to look past what you feel and to start asking god show me how i ended up in this situation in the first place then he can show you how to transform it you see change shame rather tries to keep you chained i want to say that again shame tries to keep you chained but worship tries to change you your worship from that place of vulnerability is meant to change you your worship from that place of knowing where your weaknesses is you will never ever be as strong as you can be until you recognize where your weaknesses are that is in business that is in relationships that is in any area of your life you are only as strong as the awareness of your weaknesses while everyone else wants to know where you're strong when someone really wants to be in relationship with you what they want to know is where you're weak i want to know how i can serve you i want to know how i can make you better the most profitable businesses are not businesses that steady keep on producing based off of what is already working the businesses that come in and take over overnight are the ones who started looking at an area where there was a need i dare you to start asking yourself if you want to be a better friend if you want to be a better employee if you want to be a better sister if you want to be a better lover to start asking yourself where do i need someone to connect with me i hate i'm sorry hate is such a strong word but sometimes i get so frustrated because people say i want to be in a relationship i want to be in a relationship and the question i always have is why and it's like well i want to have company what you need to understand is when you want to be in a relationship you need to know the areas where you are weak so you can know what you're looking for in a partner i need someone to help me balance out how critical i am i need someone to help me balance out the way that i spend money i'm looking for a partner i can go to the movies with anybody i can netflix and chill with anybody i don't need any more company i need a partner i need a strategy and you cannot have a proper strategy until you dissect where you are weak and that's why we are constantly telling people until you learn to know yourself and learn to know who you are on the inside and love yourself you will never pick someone who was worthy of who you are because you will pick someone who makes you feel good in the places you know you are already good instead of the person who challenges you to grow and challenges you to think better and challenge you to show up in the world differently i don't need anyone to stroke my ego i need someone who can recognize that as strong as i am on this side i still have some areas of growth and development on this side and someone who is wise enough to recogni recognize that neither of those sides define who i am but it is rather the combination of them both who make me who i am you see you do no one any any promises you do no one any good when you allow them to just see your highlight reel and i want to break this notion that the only way that you can look at the areas in your life where you need growth is to see them through shame and rather to see them through the opportunity to transform our director of operations at woman evolved whenever we have something that we need to work on she doesn't call it an area of weakness she calls it an opportunity for growth we have an area where we have an opportunity for growth i wonder when is the last time you really asked yourself where is an area that i have an opportunity for growth there's nothing like listening to yourself preach and i've been listening to myself preach lately and part of the reasons why it takes me a really long time to pick out clips is because i'm just not looking to see the parts where it sounds good i'm not just looking for the parts where people i feel are going to resonate with it i look for the places where i will have an opportunity for growth people who are constantly looking for opportunities for growth will always experience growth because they're looking for ways to become better i think what happened to david is that he stopped looking for opportunities for growth in psalm 51 this is a prayer of repentance but it's connected to second samuel 12 and i if i gave you any homework it would be to read all of second samuel 12. i'm going to give you the abbreviated cliff note jerry springer version this is what happened all right so david david is supposed to be a battle david ain't that battle david is at the house kicking it david is at the house kicking it he looks out the window he sees bad sheep but bathsheba is naked for the lord okay she has given him a praise i don't know if it was appraised okay too much she is out there she is naked she is bathing david sees her david desires her david ends up sleeping with bathsheba the problem is that bathsheba is somebody else's wife not just somebody else's wife he's she's like his right hand person's wife and he sleeps with her and then she gets pregnant and his remedy for fixing this is not owning up to what he did it's ultimately having uriah killed and when he has him killed he feels like he has solved the problem that he tucked it away in the corner and no one is going to know what he did until 2 samuel 12. and in 2nd samuel 12 god sends a prophet named nathan to david and this prophet tells david tells david basically god saw what you did he uses this analogy he's so cold with it he uses this analogy and when he uses this analogy he makes david kind of wonder what he's talking about but he doesn't know that in the analogy that one of those characters is representing david you got to read second samuel 12. and when he recognizes that he's actually talking about a character trait that exists within him he realizes that he has sinned against god isn't it funny that we are sometimes able to pick out what's wrong with other people better than we are able to identify what's happening with us i always challenge people who come to me and they're talking about what someone else did i'm like but what role did you play into it because the reason why we are most of the time able to highlight what's wrong with someone else it is because it is the same area where we have a deficiency within ourselves when i'm looking at people's pictures and i'm looking at maybe their bodies and i'm looking at their hair what i'm really looking at are the areas that i see as trouble within myself to compare myself to what they look like when you start looking at someone's character traits when you start looking at the way that someone talks to somebody and it just gets underneath your skin and you just don't like it what you should really ask yourself is does that exist within me god why am i so able to see that in someone else is there something in me that looks like what i'm pointing out in someone else because when you start pointing the finger it's the old school saying when you point one finger there's three of them pointing back at you david starts pointing this finger not realizing that there are still three fingers pointing back at him first of all one of the things that i loved about this moment that nathan and david has is that it proves to me why it should say why the bible says that vengeance is the lord's you see uriah wasn't there when god ends up calling david on the carpet for what he did but that's a word for somebody who has been wondering is someone who wronged me ever going to receive the the karma are they going to receive the revenge that they should get based off of how they treat me and this is when the the bible saying vengeance is mine say if the lord is so important because god sees i want you to know this that god sees everything that has ever happened to you and sometimes we are tormented by the fact that we think that someone got away with what they did to us and i hear god saying that no one gets away with what they've done on this earth but that they are going to pay the price for it but listen they're not just going to pay the price you see we want revenge god wants transformation and that's why vengeance needs to be his and not ours because what we want is for someone to hurt the same way that they hurt us and what god wants is for the person to understand why they did it so that they will never do it again and he's about to have a radical moment with david where david is going to recognize not just what he did but why he did it and it's going to bring him to his knees i want you to be crazy enough to stop asking god to make someone hurt the way that they hurt you and to start asking god to make them change god so that they never have to hurt someone the way that they hurt you before it's too cheap to ask for god to give you revenge when he wants transformation so god i'm gonna come into alignment oh and sometimes it hurts and sometimes i have to become a bigger person to do it but god i'm gonna ask that you would bring me into alignment with how you see that person god you see them whole god you see them healed but i experienced them broken and i experienced them shattered and so father i'm asking you that you would begin to touch them so that they change so that they can be transformed we're talking about big girl panties we talk about putting on your big girl draws and start acting like someone who recognizes that it is too cheap for me to ask god to lower someone down to what i want them to experience instead god elevate them grow them up help them to recognize the implications of their actions help them to understand that you can't just treat people any kind of way father i don't want you to have them out here more broken than they already are father i'm asking you to heal the person that hurt me i'm asking you to change the person who set me back i'm asking you to help me to no longer make them a weapon but instead to use them as a tool father that you would place a testimony down on the inside of them so that they can not only be changed but they can change everyone connected to them as well and that is the type of radical prayer that we must pray when we say father i'm going to leave it up to you if you left it up to me i may wish harm on them if you left it up to me i may wish evil on them but if i leave it up to you they may actually change they may actually be transformed and i don't want to see any more darkness in this world and i don't want to see any more evil in this world so let me not add my bitterness into the mix let me not add my anger into the mix father instead i'm asking that you would help my father break that addiction i'm asking that you would help my mother recognize that she can't talk to anyone any kind of way father i tried to fix it on my own now i'm turning it over to you and i'm saying father let the vengeance be in your hands let the transformation be in your hands father it hurt me long enough now i relieve myself from the expectation of needing the same person who broke me to heal me now i'm just asking father that you would heal me and them imagine what kind of christian you would be if you stopped asking god to heal me and punish them and instead father heal both of us father make us both brand new help us both to understand who we are and how we should operate and function in the world father i don't need our destinies to be tied together for me to wish somebody well i can wish you well while i go this way and you go that way but i am not satisfied i'm not satisfied allowing my anger and my bitterness to control how i want another person's outcome to be and that's the kind of maturity that's the kind of spiritual maturity that we have to have when we recognize that i trust god is capable and i trust that he's able to bring awareness to every area that needs to touch from him so what nathan does when he has this moment with david as he lets david know god saw that that's a word from somebody right there god saw that god saw that i know it looks like they got away with it but god saw that i know it looks like they moved on and that they won and they were happy but i'm telling you god saw that you may not see how god deals with them but you have to know that god sees everything and you have to be confident enough with what god sees that you come to a place where you say i don't have to see how you fix it i don't have to see how you work it all out i just need to know that you saw that that's a word for somebody who's been wondering god did you see how they treated me god did you see how they broke me god did you see how they damaged me and god says i saw that i saw that and i'm going to make sure that it never happens again in my own timing and nathan has this conversation with david and he explains to david exactly what he did and the implications of what he did and i started studying and praying i wanted to understand how is it that david ended up in this situation in the first place david this valiant warrior how did he end up in a situation where he was willing to commit adultery and even murder and i realized that what happened to david is that david lost the posture of honor and instead he started feeling entitled you got to start looking at the areas where you once felt honored and start asking yourself do i now feel entitled in the place where i once felt honored when god first gave you that spouse when god first gave you that job opportunity remember when you felt honored i feel the presence of god on this when we recognize the honor connected to what god gives us we treat it differently god i honor you for what you gave me god i honor you that you chose me god i honor you that you using me you could be using anyone else but father you dare to use me god the honor what if we lost the posture of honor what if we gain the world and gain the kingdoms and gain riches and jewels and fame but we lost the honor connected to it god help us to never lose the honor connected to being a part of what you're doing in this earth david was the one who had a who was a man after god's own heart he was acknowledged and celebrated for the honor that he had connected to what god did in his life and in this moment he went from being honored to being entitled i want to challenge you especially in this season where we can be so stressed and so at our wits end and so unsure of what tomorrow holds to start looking for honor again father i'm looking for the honor that i have a job it may not be the best job i may not have the best boss in the world but father i have a job and a season where 20 plus million people are filing for unemployment father i honor that that is you honor says that i recognize that this came from you that's why giving and tithes and offerings are so important for me it's important for me because it's my way of saying father i honor you i honor that you spoke to me i honor that you gave this word to me and honor releases god's presence over your life there's somebody who's been wondering when god's presence is going to show up and i hear god saying that my presence needs a place that is befitting of the honor connected to it if you start honoring what i gave you then you will start seeing my presence showing up in your household it's going to sound crazy but when you open your eyes in the morning instead of just wondering what's on your to-do list and wondering what all you have to accomplish to take a minute and say father i honor you for waking me up this morning father i honor you that i woke up with a roof over my head that i don't even know what the weather is like outside because you provided somewhere for me to stay father i recognize that that is not happenstance and i don't ever want to start taking for granted what you gave me i remember when i used to feel honored to take this stage i remember when i used to feel honored to show up in my marriage god that is the same kind of honor that is going to sustain you for the next few years the next few decades your next is connected to how you honor your now and if you don't see any honor and now you can stop praying that god would give you next until you see the honor and what you do now until you get a heart posture that says father if you don't do anything else for me i honor the fact that you brought me this far father if i never get to do it the way that i feel like i could do it i honor the fact that you exposed me father i honor the fact that my family's still together we may be calling each other from all across the world but somebody doesn't have it and father i honor you that i got this chance to show up this morning honor releases the presence of god i hear god saying that you don't know how to pray but start honoring me you don't know how to worship but start honoring what i did in your life start honoring that i gave you that idea this isn't just an idea father it is an honor to wake up in the morning and to possess something that i know only came from you father it is an honor that i get to hear a word from you father i honor the fact that you brought people into my life in a time when i felt like i was all by myself god you brought someone into my life i want to rebuke the spirit of fear and i'm going to tell you how we rebuke it we rebuke it by honoring what god is doing now i don't care what fear is doing i care what god has been consistently doing he's been consistent throughout the years father i honor you father i honor who you are in my marriage i honor who you are in my family i feel like heaven wants to break out over your house i feel like heaven wants to break out over your depression father i forgot to honor you i forgot to place you on the throne i forgot to make room for you in the midst of all of this so father [Music] father [Music] restore me to the posture of honor where all i wanted to do was serve where all i wanted to do was love where it wasn't about whether or not someone was going to sign a check or someone was going to acknowledge me i used to show up just excited because you had been ordering my steps and taking me places that i never should have been father i honor you you went ahead of me you made my crooked path straight father i honor you i honor that there's still air in my lungs father i honor you that somebody buried their child and i hug my night father i honor you that my ends are being met right now i don't have time to worry about next week i honor you for what you did this week i honor you for what you did last month father take me back to the place of honor not need not regret not worry not fear not concern father help me to live in the consciousness of honor david felt entitled to someone else's wife and it made him lose access to god because he was no longer the person who said father i'm honored to use this slingshot to slay any giant coming against your people and so david has to do something crazy that we don't always like to do because it sounds so churchy and religious but david has to repent he has to repent because somewhere along the way he changed his mind on his position and when he changed his mind it changed his actions and the only way to get back to who he was is to repent that is to change his mind again so that it would change his actions and as i was studying this prayer and as i was studying for tonight i felt like god was saying to me specifically that someone is not in the place of honor anymore that someone is so inundated with thoughts about where they should be and who they should become that they feel entitled to a destiny when they haven't even honored the present that they're in right now i feel entitled to more i feel like i should have more i feel like i should have i should have i should be i should be that is the spirit of entitlement it is not just ambition it is entitlement i feel entitled to something i should have it i should have it and you are so consumed with what you should have that you don't see god has blessed where you are right now this is not one of those feel good jump up and down messages this message is meant to break open your heart and to ask god am i complaining about something i once prayed about am i stressing and anxious and worried about something that used to be an honor because when you really honor something and hear me clearly honoring doesn't mean you stay trapped honor means that even when you leave you leave with honor you leave with respect because you recognize that god is watching it's almost as if david forgot that god was watching god was watching the entire time he thought that he was getting away with it but god is watching god is watching how you talk about that thing he gave you he knows that it's time for you to move on to next he knows that you're ready for more growth but he says it doesn't matter how you leave you will know that you know how to adult and you will know that you are mature when you recognize that even when i leave i leave with honor that even when i leave you don't have to worry about me betraying your secrets you don't have to worry about me talking badly about you because i know without a shadow of a doubt that god brought me into it and because god brought me into it i'm not going to dishonor it even when i'm out of it because i am protecting the honor that was connected to it in the very first place i honor what god does in my life and so david david has to get back to the place of honor where he recognizes that his actions led him away david's actions led him to be king and it was his same actions that led him to be separated to have this separation from god your actions are leading you somewhere i know it's so cute for everyone to say live in the moment you better not live in the moment hear me clearly now don't you live in the moment you mess around and live in the moment and end up five ten years down the road and don't know how you got there your actions are leading you somewhere you are not just out here doing whatever you want to do your actions have consequences and you have to ask yourself can i deal with the consequences connected to my actions you're married talking about you a flirt child you're gonna flirt your way all the way to divorce court your actions are leading you somewhere you talk about i just like to spend money and then you somewhere evicted because your actions are leading you somewhere do not live in the moment start asking god what is the consequence connected to this action because your actions are leading somewhere and on the contrary when you start building a life that you want god to bless you have to know that he is looking at your actions he's looking at how you handle what he has given you in this moment i can know whether or not i trust you by your actions your actions speak louder than your words ever will you keep telling me you want to get closer to god you keep telling me that you want to have this time so that you can build your relationship with god but your actions are telling me that you would rather be on tick tock doing challenges child your actions are leading you somewhere and if they're leading you further away from god god will always send you a prophet that says wait a minute you've gone too far wait a minute god wants to bring you back and when god sends this prophet nathan to david it's because his actions have led him astray and i just for a minute want to dissect this prayer of repentance i want you to read all of psalm 51 i got all kinds of homework for you i want you to read second samuel 12 and then i want you to read all of psalm 51 and i want you to study this prayer of repentance the first thing that david does in this prayer of repentance is that he acknowledges who god is he honors god and then he acknowledges his sin he acknowledges that he is now seeing what he did the same way that god sees it you will never have breakthrough over that lust over that addiction over your bitterness over your brokenness until you begin to see it the same way that god sees it when you see it the same way that god sees it you will see that it is keeping you from being who god has called you to be to sin means to literally miss the mark the reason why god hates sin is because it means that you miss the mark for who he has called you to be and when you start to see what is standing in your way the same way that god sees it you will not see it as a cute little issue anymore you will not see it as a little dilemma that you can tuck away in the closet and keep there and it won't affect your life anymore when you start seeing it the way that god sees it you will start recognizing that if i don't get a handle of this this thing is going to sabotage my destiny i came here to tell you something yes you are ambitious yes you have ideas yes you have creativity but you are human and that means that there is something in you that has the ability to sabotage what god has placed down on the inside of you and the greatest thing you can do yourself is to ask god to show you who you are so that i can recognize what is in me that will sabotage the very thing that i'm praying for there are some issues that i have seen pop up in my own life that i realize are trying to sabotage what god has placed down on the inside of me feelings of inadequacy feelings of insecurity and i believed those thoughts for as long as i could and then one day i got a revelation that those feelings and those the emotions were leading me astray and i started getting curious about if they were leading me astray then what were they taking me away from i came here to let you know that you got to take depression seriously you got to take those suicidal thoughts seriously i'm tired of people just living with these emotions that lead them astray and you got to start asking god god if these are leading me somewhere what is it taking me away from and i hear god saying that there is a version of you that you haven't even met yet that there is an identity that you haven't even tapped in yet and when you start to see those limitations the same way same way that i see them then you will get aggressive and you will start going to therapy and you will start going to rehab because you will become so intrigued with what it's taking you away from that you will start getting aggressive about recognizing that i won't let anything not even what's in me keep me from laying hold of what god has placed down on the inside of me i got tired of talking bad about myself i got tired of having low self-esteem and i started getting curious i want to prophesy over you right now that you would stop that you would start getting tired of you talking to yourself any kind of way and every place where you were talking negatively about yourself in every place where you were doubting what god is doing down on the inside of you that he would replace it with curiosity i hear god saying i want you to be curious again that i want you to be curious about who you are and i know failure failure comes and it makes us believe that we can't be curious anymore but i hear god saying that it will be your curiosity about what i can do through you that will unlock the healing that you need for the insecurities that plague you god i'm curious that out of all the people who could have been alive in this season you chose me father why is that of all the people who could have been in this room why did you choose me father i'm curious about why you placed me in this marriage i'm curious about why you chose me to raise this child while you chose me to build this business god i'm curious it's not a burden anymore i don't feel like it's just something that i have to do anymore now i'm curious that every time i tried to run away you kept pulling me back and every time i tried to push you away you kept pulling me in father i'm tired in front and i'm finally curious i dare you to start asking god what is it that you see what is it that you know god i'm gonna keep serving and i'm gonna keep showing up and i'm gonna keep humbling myself until i figure out what it is that you place down on the inside of me and then when you figure it out make sure you go the extra step to worship and honor god because he showed you something about you that you never knew was down on the inside of you don't be one of those leopards who get healed and forget to turn around i dare you to be that one crazy leopard that says before i can live in this celebration of what god said i gotta be a church man for a minute i gotta be a church girl for a minute and i gotta say first give an honor to god who is the head of my life who saw me when i didn't see myself who placed me in rooms i had no business being in father i honor you [Music] david david he he honors god and what god did for him and then he acknowledges he comes into agreement with god god i'm in agreement with you that this relationship is less than me father i'm in agreement with you that this mindset is paralyzing me i'm in agreement with you i hate it i don't want to live with it any longer i don't want to accept it any longer i come into agreement with god i come into agreement with god about the way that you have been living your life i come into agreement with god about the way that i've been thinking about this listen i had to start preaching and i kept saying god i don't feel qualified god i don't know if i can do it and god says you will never have power until you come into agreement with what i see and i messed around and came into agreement with god and i said god has an anointing over my life i didn't understand it at first but when i couldn't trust my own thoughts i decided to trust his thoughts i started to say his ways are not my ways his thoughts are not my thoughts and so if i got to choose between my thoughts and his thoughts between my ways and his ways i'm going to choose his ways father i come into agreement with what you say about me i am fearfully and wonderfully made father i do have the power to walk away from this father you're making all things work together for my good i'm not talking about just quoting scriptures i'm talking about literally coming into agreement father i want to prophesy somebody's watching this video right now and they have so many doubts and so many fears that they cannot come into agreement with what you have said about them father i'm asking right now in the name of jesus that you would remove it right now that you would remove every limitation that you would remove every paradigm that's keeping them from coming into agreement i rebuke it in the name of jesus i rebuke it in the name that is above every other name i rebuke it and i send it back to hell where it came from it's only standing in their way because if it ever got out of their way they would get a revelation about who they are they would get a revelation about who you have called them to be and they would wage war on hell you think it's about you i hear the enemy saying that you are the greatest threat to his kingdom and if you ever get a revelation about what god placed down on the inside of you then rivers of living water would start flowing out of you i came here to let somebody know that the rivers are flowing i came here to let somebody know that the drought is over i feel the river coming i feel the river coming somebody better get into the flow the flow is what god is doing the flow is what god is saying and david recognizes he says i gotta get back in the flow i gotta get back in the flow of what god is doing i saw myself slipping away and i don't wanna be anywhere but in the presence of the lord so i gotta change my mind so i can change my actions i feel that for somebody i don't know who you are but i hear god saying you gotta get back in the flow you've been in the flow of fear you've been in the flow of anxiety you've been in the flow of being paralyzed and not moving and i hear god saying that you were never supposed to be in those flows that it's time for you to get back in the flow of who i called you to be pride's gotta let you go eagles gotta get up off of you i'm getting back in the flow if that's you i want you to drop me a comment i want to know who's getting back on the flow on the live stream i want to know who's getting back on the flow on facebook you better watch out devil i'm getting back in the flow you better watch that depression i'm getting back in the flow you better watch out i'm calling my therapist i'm getting my health together i'm getting back in the flow the flow the flow the flow the flow i got somewhere to go so i gotta get in the flow i have someone to become i gotta get back in the flow i gotta grow i can't grow unless i'm in the flow this is why this is why they say david is a man after god's heart he didn't always have a hold of god's heart but when he realized that he was out of the flow of god's heart he did whatever was necessary to get back in the flow fear is not in the flow pride is not in the flow ego was not in the flow and so he says to himself in verse six very quickly i'm gonna say this i'm gonna close verse six says behold you desire truth in the inward parts truth that word truth in the hebrew it means stability says god part of why i need to get back in the flow is because my inward parts they're not stable my inward parts are only stable when i'm aligned with who you are he acknowledges in verse six that what god wants for you god wants you to have stability in your inward parts he wants you to be confident he doesn't want you to be shakeable he doesn't want you to hear one thing and lose it all he wants you to trust him he wants you to know that he's not a man that he shall lie he wants to give you those things he wants you to have stability i know your mother couldn't give it to you i know your father couldn't give it to you i know the relationship didn't give it to you but god is the one who wants to give you stability and you will thank god that no person could give it to you because when god gives you stability no man can take it away from you if a relationship gives you stability and it leaves then you will be undone but when god gives you stability it can never be taken away from you psalms 51 and 6 says behold you desire your truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom you're going to give me stability because in the places that i've been keeping hidden you're going to give me wisdom god's not going to make you figure this out on your own god says if you let me in i'm going to give you wisdom i'll show you how to walk away i'll show you how to build the business i'll show it to you i'll give you wisdom that 51-6 that part of his repentance is letting god into those inward parts because he recognizes i need wisdom on how to handle this i need wisdom on how to recover from what i did i need wisdom on how to walk with my head held high after all that i've gone through i need wisdom god i need you to speak to me and then verse 10 what i love so much about verse 10 and we quote this scripture all the time creating me a clean heart oh god and renew as steadfast spirit within me that word create is not like create that we see in genesis this word create means to cut back that means that he gave god permission to cut him back into a clean heart what if the only way you can get back to having a clean heart is if some things are cut away are you bold enough to give god permission to cut you to heal you are you hungry enough to say god i don't care if it hurts if it means that it's going to heal me i don't need you to be my feel-good genie i don't need you to be my feel-good doctor what i want more than anything is for you to show me what you've seen in me then he says renew a steadfast spirit in me your spirit is supposed to be steadfast and he says to take me back i'm reminded reminded of jeremiah when it says before i formed you in your mother's womb i knew you god breathed a steadfast spirit in you it wasn't shakeable he says take me back to that and then lastly verse 13. he says then i will teach after i've gone through this process sometimes we want to teach before we've gone through the process but i hear god saying that your testimony is most powerful when you can give someone else tools he says then i will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be converted to you i'm reminded of revelation 12 and they overcame by the word of their test by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony what is this all about sometimes we feel like when we are in control of our different idiosyncrasies when we feel like we have them figured out and tucked away neatly where they don't show up in our life we think that we have our lives under control that's just like david in this text he kind of thought that he'd gotten away with what happened and then this prophet comes and he lets him know i know you think you're in control but you're really out of control and if you really want to be in control then you got to be out of control and let god take control and so he has to repent for trying to manage things himself and instead create a space where he can be out of control so god can be in control when i came to this place and my walk with god i realized that i had spent so long trying to be in control of how people saw me of how people experienced me but it wasn't until i decided you know what who i am is who i am and how i speak is how i speak and my truth is my truth when i decided that i didn't want to be in control anymore that's when god took over i changed my mind and then it changed my actions my prayer for you in this season is that you would be hungry for a change of mind so that god can change your actions that you would be bold enough to open up the closet of your soul and see what patterns have accumulated what character traits have accumulated that have not come from god and that you would ask god not so that you can feel ashamed but so that you can be transformed to see them and to show you what he can do with them in his hands my goal and my agenda for this moment simply and purely is to bring you to a place of surrender and i believe that as you open up your heart to getting back in that place of surrender that god is going to give you so much truth so much wisdom so much revelation that you won't be afraid any longer someone's been battling the spirit of fear and i hear god saying that he's got wisdom for your fear he has strategy for your fear but we got to be willing to first honor who he is then come into agreement about how he sees fear god has not given me the spirit of fear i come into agreement that anything that hasn't come from god can't stay into my life god didn't give me this spirit of anxiety i come into agreement with what god wants for my life and then my actions have to look like what i come into agreement with and when your actions come into agreement then you're going to be restored you're going to be renewed and you are going to be unshakable but it starts with you first being out of control i want to pray for you tonight you're watching this message and you pride yourself on your ability to be in control i don't let anything get to me i don't let anything shake me i'm in control i'm in control are you in control or is god in control you see the thing about god is he's not going to fight you for control he gave us free will you can do it however you like but i'm telling you that your life will be so much more hard and challenging than it has to be when you insist on being in control there's something we say at my house whenever things are like out of control we're like there's nothing we can do about it and that's the truth and there's nothing i want to do about it because if i do something about it i may mess it up but if god gives me insight on what i am to do about it then i never have to question what i have to do next or what the outcome will be because i allowed him to give me wisdom instead of me forcing my life to fit into this pretty little box that makes me comfortable so i want to pray for you you need a mind change you need a spiritual shift and i believe that it starts with you first honoring god i feel that that as you shift him where he belongs that he's going to shift you as well when we honor and we worship we grab ahold of god but it's not because we bring god down to us it's because he pulls us up to him and right now no matter where you are in your house in your car at the job within yourself i want to challenge you to create an altar an altar of honor i'm going to pray with you but i want you to pray from that altar i want you to bring an offering to that altar god i want to bring my fear to this altar i want to bring my shame to this altar father i've been functioning in my pride and my ego and now all of these things are coming in my direction and i can't keep my walls up any longer people are going to see that i'm actually human that i'm actually vulnerable i want you to take that pride to the altar i want you to take it to the altar and we're going to honor god from the place where you feel like you are in control and we're going to honor god from that place because when we honor him we give him permission to be in control and then what i'm going to pray is that you would come into agreement with what god sees when he sees those areas of your life and that as you come into agreement with what god sees that you're also going to come into agreement with god's power to break it i feel the spirit of god on that when we come into agreement with god when we come into relationship with god i see it the same way you see it you don't think that you can break that thing off of your life because you're looking at it from your perspective but when you come into it with god's perspective you also get god's power and god's going to give you the power to break mindsets and addictions and relationships and ways of being that you were never supposed to be in and i hear god saying that it is going to be easier than you think it is that you think it's going to be hard and you think it's going to be challenging and that's why you haven't done it but i hear god saying when you come into agreement with how i see it you won't have any choice but to change it because you will recognize that that is an area that is keeping you from seeing the glory of god i want to prophesy glory over every area right now where you feel like there's a stepping stone that you have to overcome there's glory waiting on you on that next level then god's going to give us a clean heart we're going to give him permission to cut it away and then we're going to be monuments of his glory and we're going to reach back and pull someone else up in the area where we were once struggling so get those things if you got them and you feel comfortable type them in the chat room god i'm bringing my fear to the altar god i'm bringing my pain to the altar god i'm bringing my anxiety to the altar father i'm bringing it to the altar and i'm not just pleading with you i'm going to honor you over those things the spirit of the living god father we honor you father you are a waymaker father you are a healer there is no one else like you father you are my provider father you are my healer you are a miracle worker father you are though you are there for those who are brokenhearted father i prophesy right now that from the place where these people are feeling lack from the place where these people are feeling like they are disconnected from you from the place where they feel all of these emotions that are keeping them from laying hold of who you call them to be that if they would allow you to rise to the top then everything else would be drowned so father i'm asking that your presence would begin to invade their atmosphere right now father let your glory fall like never before spirit of the living god and you are a living god you cannot be bound you cannot be buried you cannot be killed you are a living god who breathes and has a being father let your spirit fall let it fall in a fresh new way i speak the spirit of the living god over every sacrifice father let it die so new life can come above father let it die some new life can be resurrected father i speak to every principality i speak to every chain i speak to every demonic influence that has been waging war over these your sons and daughters and i prophesy in the name of jesus that you have no more power that you have no more ability to control them i speak to shame you've got to go i speak to pain you've got to go bitterness you cannot stay the spirit of the living god is moving like never before and it is stirring up the gift of god that is down on the inside of them father we come into agreement that this is not just you this is standing in the way of who you have called me to be this is standing in the way of the kingdom you've called me to establish and father i hate my sin i hate this insecurity i hate this fear i hate this addiction i hate what it's doing to my family i hate what it's doing to my mind i hate it father and because you hate it too i asked that you would strip it from its power that you would strip it of its ability to control me i don't want to be addicted anymore i don't want to be lost and insecure anymore i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it and i come into agreement with you father that this was never supposed to be my portion that this came from the father of all lies so i send it back to hell where it came from loose your hold off of them in the name of jesus lose your hold off of their mind loose your hold off of their path lucid right now in the name of jesus i bleed the blood of jesus over them the blood of jesus that covers them the blood of jesus that heals them i bleed the blood of jesus and i speak breakthrough i speak breakthrough i speak breakthrough i prophesy breakthrough i hear god saying that somebody's laid hold of this message and you're never gonna have to fight that devil again that god's gonna give you strategy that you used to be afraid of that devil and i hear god saying you're going to start going to war with that devil you're going to start talking back to that devil you're going to start telling that devil you can't have my mind you're going to tell that devil you can't have my marriage you can't have my child i hear god saying your courage is coming back i hear god saying your power is coming back that you've been silent too long unleash your mouth unleash your mouth unleash your mouth and speak god's truth god's name it has power god said release my power when you don't have power release my glory when you don't have glory release my truth when you have questions don't just sit back and take this and live with it [Music] pull it out so he can see it pull it out so he can change it pull it out so he can transform it i hate this thing that's keeping me from you when you start to hate it then you can ask god to give me a clean heart cut it out of me cut it back father father we give you permission to cut us into purity to cut us oh father how can we be in covenant with you unless we are willing to be cut father we bring ourselves into covenant with you cut out my pride cut out my ego father i come into covenant with you and i don't want one of those covenants that don't cost me anything father i'm willing to give you even the things that once made me feel good father i'm saying you can cut it away if it means i can be in covenant with you and so father the goal of this message is to not leave feeling like lions but allowing ourselves to be lambs father make us tender make us vulnerable father give us the power to say i need you i don't trust myself i don't trust the way i think i don't trust the way i believe father i need you give us a heart like david's in this moment and father the only way i want to move is if i move with you and when you have transformed me father then then i'll go back and i'll tell everyone else that you saved a wretch like me father we repent father we change our mind so that we can change our actions we only want actions that lead us closer to you so father remove from us anything that doesn't look like you we give you permission to have your way in our lives so that we can grow and become everything that you've called us to be but most importantly so that we can experience you in every area of our life when we give you full reign father we get to experience you and what we want more than anything is to experience your glory i don't want to experience fear i want to experience your glory i spend enough time with shame i want to experience your glory i spend enough time with god i want to experience your glory father my pride is keeping me from your glory my egos keeping me from your glory father i just want to be in your glory god i could spend a lifetime in your glory that's why i gave my life to you father i want to experience you afresh and so father let this sermon end but their transformation begin may their altar not stop burning just because the video has ended but may it burn with even more fire because they found something else to lay down at your feet father help us to never run out of things to lay at your feet that you would constantly search us so that we may lay down what's keeping us from connecting to you father it is my prayer that you would allow this word to be one that sticks for a long time that it changes the way they see you and see themselves that they would never be distant from you when they could be intimate with the knowledge of who you are in every season seal this word allow it to take root and produce fruit in jesus name amen

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Length: 66min 48sec (4008 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 03 2022