Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts - The Dash Conference

hallelujah come on father the name of Jesus we thank you for everything that's said in this building from the pulpit to the door Lord we thank you for the power of agreement we thank you that miracle signs and wonders are reported on tonight we know that you're able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we could ask think or imagine we're expecting great things on tonight we're expecting a mighty boom on tonight help your way help your way your way have your way [Music] cheese's we give you great glory and honor and praise your holy and matchless name Amen did you hear that do you hear that sound Elijah told they had go eat and drink by hear the sound I hear the sound of the abundance of way can you hear it can you hear it [Applause] [Music] come on if you hear get ready for an overflow pouring out [Music] I hear the side [Music] come on help us sing [Music] I hear the sound [Music] ha [Music] did some rain [Music] [Music] anybody expecting an out bar other Spirit of God I receive it I expect dr. Poole well heaven is open that's life tonight say say [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and you did a miracle [Music] [Applause] Christina reach our hands up began to receive it [Music] I gotta make up a [Music] disclaimer right here is there anybody in here that any seed in the ground if they're everybody that you know what [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] one more time Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah come on worship the great name of Jesus there's no other name Noah in a more powerful no 11 name hallelujah [Music] Oh your name [Music] you're great sure we like to call your name see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] they say everybody say we love to call you Jesus cuz there's something about something I can't just when I say [Music] come on this is the bar smart oh Jesus come on - you know [Music] Jesus come on save [Music] wonder-working power so much [Music] so much [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] lift him up lift him up who came to lift up the name of Jesus tonight I know it's Thursday ladies what who came to lift up the name of Jesus tonight we worship You Jesus we invite you to this place so go come on every hand lifted in this place let's just say a good thing unto the Lord tonight [Music] [Music] the star-shaped find their way at the sound of your pretty oh no shame at the sound of your great name [Music] [Applause] [Music] of your grade yeah he has to ah [Music] of you [Music] worthy is the lamb that was slain for us son of God Emmanuel [Music] raise your head [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're crazy [Music] a [Music] be fine [Music] say cheese [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] say cheese [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] three team [Applause] three two [Applause] [Music] [Music] what is [Music] you're great [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my heart will sing no other name Jesus Jesus my heart will see no other cheese [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] fade away let all the other names fade away until they saw me [Applause] that all the other names [Music] until this [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Jesus takes your place Jesus take your place yeah Jesus take your place seated at the right hand of the king Jesus take your place Jesus take you today we see to above every situation every sickness twin c2 [Applause] come on let's just sing let all the other names fade away let's declare that tonight ladies let all the other nice fade until there's only your cheese let all the other you know the other nice way let all the other come on and just lift up appraising whispers there's no name that's hard cheese all the other names can set it away no one else can take your place just let everything else fade away can you put him in that place can you put him in that place when nothing else matters only what I do for Christ will last everything else will fade away hold me what I do for Christ will last everything else will fade away is that your pride and I said is that your prayer tonight let all the other names fade then everything else Lord let all the other names may just replace some with you Lord let all the other Nate hey push him all the way Jesus let all the other please take your rightful place right at the front of my heart not let all the other names till there's only Lord let all the other names come on with hands uplifted with all the other name [Music] do you know him as your waymaker sometimes let's knock you know you know that saying is easier said than done and you know sometimes it's not easy to let go of something that you may love but it's not good for you that's what Paul talks about right the things I shouldn't do I do and the things I should do it but you gotta let him be that way maker he will light a path for you the word says his word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our pathway that's why we're here in these conferences that's why we have powerful women like Sarah Jake's Roberts coming to plant a word inside of us so that word can make a way for us come on lift those hands right here miracles keep live in the darkness my god nah come on y'all we make miracle promise keep light in the darkness my god that is who you come on lift it up right here see you all the way [Music] come on tell him who he is to you my [Music] you are here moving in my words are you here to worship I were tell him you are here you are here working hi worse I worship then you help me sing that come on here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] misty [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] promises [Music] [Music] why this is how [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] sir [Music] and are against us yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is where we want this is how we know that we will always win this is how we fight this is where we know this is how we know that we will always win [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now if you can't get your freedom in a place like this do you know that one can put a thousand but you can put do you know how many women of God we got in here and so I want you to know that there are many trials that we may face there are many afflictions of the righteous but God is attentive to our cry and he will always step right in he will be there for you and if you don't have the strength I want you to link up with your sister but God and if I could put just one person and water to patata degree I shall be a god according to his way [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my god somebody say Jesus be a treadmill come on one more time with hands uplifted same way let's keep her [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are the new haja Homa Sitka say [Music] come on don't stop don't stop don't stop [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Laughter] praise the Lord all these days God is already medicine the building and then I'll tell you when we when we did that short film the thing that was so amazing is that we were in a graveyard and many of you have buried your dreams and God is saying that it is time to on earth vision oh you sound kind of weak to me it is time to honor vision [Applause] I shared with you last night how I was ready to quit but in Hebrews it tells us that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses that are cheering us on and God is saying don't quit your breakthrough is one prays away your breakthrough is one shout away your breakthrough is one coming into the building away your breakthrough is one breath away we didn't come out here today I know today you know we we call today slay all day because Sarah Jake's Roberts is in the building [Applause] but one thing I like about Lady Sarah is I don't care how cute she looks she can get real ugly for Jesus [Applause] [Music] so how many are you here today to hear a word from the Lord I want to share with you this letter how many of you looked in your bag and and you had that little fish necklace amen well I want to tell you on April 4th I met this man from Texas called ray and Ray walked up to me and he gave me a little fish and he said this fish is made of two nails and he said I go in my barn and and I solder two nails together one nail represents Jesus and the other nail represents us and when you put the two nails together we become fishers of men well I was so excited I said ray that is so beautiful do you sell those and he said no ma'am I mean Ray's retired he said he must be like in his late 67 he says no ma'am he said I've given out over 30,000 of these and I said ray do you think you could make a thousand I mean our women's conference is in a couple of weeks I know this is a huge request and and and you know pastor Matt he was quite angry he was like love how could you ask that man to make a thousand fish and y'all know me you have not because you ask not I told you you can't have a year of yes if you don't have a year of ass so so I said hon I mean I'm just asking you don't have to do it but raise brain was churning he said ma'am let me see what I could do and then I put my mama on it I said ma can you just stay in contact what where you know I got a lot going on and you know how mamas are right so my mother called ray she's some kind of mama Anna she asked ray for 1,200 fish hon I didn't even tell you that cuz it was embarrassing with my mother oh there she is so I got this letter from Ray and he said pastor Thompson I want you to know what a privilege it has been to make these necklaces for y'all I had a good friend come to my barn every day this week to help me make the fish because this by far is the most fish I have ever had to make at one time Sunday night I asked people to help put strings on to make it a necklace and bag them I attend a small country church six miles south of town we had 56 people show up to help [Applause] you know I know some of y'all was like I'm Anna's fish oh but you gonna wear this fish after I read this letter they were from just about every Christ following denomination you can think of it was so humbling to see the body of Christ come together to serve another part of Christ's body I make these fish out of nails to remind me how much jesus loves me and if I were the only person on earth he would take those nails just so I could go to heaven there are two nails in these fish one being you and the other Jesus and all by yourself you've just a crooked old nail but together with Jesus you can become fishers of men Matthew 4:19 jesus said come follow me and I will make you fishers of men he did not say all you preachers follow me they were just plain old people like you and I we here in small-town West Texas I'm trying to put a little twang on I'm not really good at it our praying for this conference and the change that will come not only in this generation but in the generations to come [Applause] many people here are crying out to the father until the day you're gathering ends is that amazing and I want to tell you there was a day that I was so tired and all I could do was think of Ray and those 56 people he sent me a picture of them 56 people gathered around a table just stringing fish on a necklace in less than three weeks and he sent them all to us [Applause] we have intercessors that have been praying for our conference but I'm telling you just to know that someone who doesn't even know us 56 people all different ages race religion praying until this conference ends and all I can do is give the Lord the praise honor and glory so I want to take this time and I'm gonna have sister Stephanie and Valene they're gonna come up they were last year's recipients of the dash Awards let's give it up for them there's two women that will receive the award tonight and they have no idea the the first person is Cynthia [Applause] I hope she's not in the kitchen Cynthia is she here she's in the kitchen see this is why she's getting an award she is the epitome of hospitality people have come and gone but Cynthia has remained she's like that we all have it in our kitchen you know that old oven mitt that you just can't seem to get rid of it has a hole in it and you're like yeah I'm gonna get rid of that one day but you never seem to find the time to get the oven mitt and when people come over you like try to hide that it's like burnt and has a hole in it but anyway we're gonna get her and the next person is Ola aunty is Ola Ron tea in the building no way she's in the hospital was she here yesterday no this morning I'm trying to give these awards away now we got to pray for older auntie so I wanted to give it to older auntie because in South our other location it's really hard to find volunteers or people that are faithful and committed to children and this woman served tirelessly in our children's ministry and so I mean I guess we're gonna have to go visit her oh here's fancy yeah she has no idea let's go stand to give her a round of applause [Applause] Cinthia I know you're shocked in like most women we don't like surprises but we wanted to give this award to you it's an exclamation point because you are running your race and we thank you for doing the unseen and this award dignity action strength and honor you are a proverbs 31 woman [Applause] God has not forgotten you and neither have your sisters we thank you thank you guys we have one more award to give away to this woman who came I didn't realize five years had passed she came in a season in my life where my counseling load was so heavy and God was calling me to do so many other things and and she's Cape Verdean so you know I have a special affinity towards her because she's my piece and and she's she's the gray-haired lady that is so cute that we all love mr. Beverley [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so I I just want to say to you that I knew the day was gonna happen that you had to leave and so we won't see your face in the office anymore and you know pastor Matt doesn't give up real estate and even though you were only here part-time he was like nope nobody else is sharing her office with her you have your two sometimes three days and you've been such a blessing in my life and you carried a load for me when the Lord was really really heavy and I'm gonna miss you in the office but I know your husband needs you at home and you were really like semi-retired and we pulled you out of semi-retirement and now you're really going into retirement and so I just want to tell you how much I love you and how much you blazed a trail for me it's such an amazing amazing pioneer to all of us you've worked in corporate America you ran your family and then you got married late in life and that's that's hard so I just want to thank you publicly and we're gonna miss you but we know you'll still be here and you'll be around and I just I love you and I wanted to honor you in front of all of the women and we're gonna honor you again on Sunday so I'm gonna have to keep this award I'm gonna let you take it home [Applause] so our conference the - is all about blazing a trail and leaving marks for others strong marks not weak mark strong marks for the next generation to walk upon so that they can run their race with perseverance not in weakness but in strength and so I just thank God for all of the women that are here and I thank you all for being part of my dream I can't say it enough that you can have a dream but if you don't have people to help you push the dream forth it means nothing so I'm so excited to introduce our speaker of the night [Music] [Applause] and I was so excited when when I met Sara because I saw him one of her Instagram stories she was in New York and she was at a different kind of conference you know nothing wrong with this but she was at a different kind of conference y'all following me right and so she was um you know her her husband was with her and and she was you know saying ah I forgot my edge control and I just I don't know in that moment I just fell for you you know I just I just I was like girl come on y'all y'all know edge control is everything and I'm gonna tell you how to really use it cuz my gods are too told me how to really use edge control sometimes we take these little tiny Imam she's like auntie Mona know you got to put your hand in the jaw and make it work okay so um I was so happy as soon as I you know I knew she was coming and and I said I said angel we gotta buy like a nice jar of edge control so as soon as she gets here she knows I'm her girl I got you [Applause] so after this announcement the next voice you'll hear you stand up and give her a wrong warm round of applause they men [Music] Sara Jake's Roberts is redefining what it means to be a modern woman of faith whether through her best-selling books or viral messages it only takes a few minutes of connecting with her to understand why she's become an instant favorite alongside her husband - ray Roberts she co-pastors the potter's house at one LA and the potter's house Denver with her down-to-earth personality contemporary style and revelatory messages there's no question why she's an emerging thought-provoking leader for this generation God says I want to meet you right where you are I don't want to meet your church face I don't want to meet the face that you put on put your marriage I don't want to meet the face that you put on for your mother I want to meet you right where you are please welcome [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ciao mucho we in business can you do me a favor and love on the woman beside you say girl you look good girl you smell good bring your eyebrows are done and your edges are laid where I'm so glad you here can you also help me just thank pastor Matthew Pastor Mona for allowing us this opportunity to connect thank you thank you so much pastor Mona for creating this atmosphere I thought it was a women's conference but I'm beginning to think it's like a spiritual gangster conference because I don't know what took place during worship but I was like I am overdressed I don't think I am dressed appropriately my husband is here he's the king of my heart can you all just tell me baby when you see me you see him yes do you got to acknowledge when you got you a good man cuz listen I'm not bragging because I've been there when you get you a good one you got to go in and thank the Lord for for what you've done I have a question I am just wondering who is in this room because cclp [Music] alright um when I tell you that getting to Boston was such a challenge for my husband and my family and I and then it hit me this morning got 4:30 that it wasn't even about the trip that it was about who was going to be in this room so I want to ask one more time who is this room are there some generational curse breakers who are setting their generation on fire who was in this [Applause] [Music] what kind of trailer you wanna blaze what kind of demon are you gonna send scattering what kind of angels are gonna be dispatched from heaven to go in front of you I feel like there are some crazy trailblazing generational curse and I am just glad to be here to serve you I'm gonna get right into the word I believe that God has something for you I've been praying I've been pressed and I believe that I'm in the right room I'm gonna be in Genesis 3 I want to assume that everyone in the room is a believer so Genesis it's the first book of the Bible I'm gonna be in Genesis 3 and 12 I'm reading from the New King James Version of the Bible I want to talk about a woman that I feel has been slightly underrated Genesis 3 and 12 it says I'm gonna read through it and then we'll go back through it and we'll be out in about three hours I thought I like that cuz the way we was going in the concert I said oh they want to be here all night I'm ready Jesus Genesis 3 and 12 says then the man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me of the tree and I ate and the Lord God said to the woman what is this you have done the woman said the serpent deceived me and I ate so the Lord God said to the serpent because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go and you shall does and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel father God we thank you so much for this opportunity to not just be in a room full of other beautiful women but to be in your presence to have an opportunity to hear from you is not something that we take for granted God's you knew every woman who would be in this room you knew every song that would be sung you knew every issue she would carry into this room and yet you orchestrated for her to be here god you have a word and I am just asking that you would give me grace that you would give me wisdom and insight that I could articulate what you are saying from heaven God I want to serve what you're doing in their life so there can be absolutely positively none of me and only you standing here because that's the only thing that brings strongholds down and that's the only thing that breaks generational curses and that's the only thing that restores marriages and resurrections and that power that resurrecting power can break the chains off of these your daughter's God we didn't come to play games and we didn't come to look cute we came to blazed a trail God set us on a fire and send us in the direction of our purpose because I promise you we did not survive for no reason we survived for a purpose and on purpose in Jesus name Amen and I am just so glad this is only my second time in Boston and my first time in Boston I was still like Raggedy in my life I know you guys aren't raggedy as bishop rosio O'Neill would say you guys are saved to the bone but when I came to Boston before I was still living in raggedy and I think that it's just a testimony to how God can bring your life completely and utterly full circle you could have never told me when I was visiting before that there was a church down the road where I would be speaking at a calm for instance so I'm just grateful in spite of everything we went through to get here our hot water tank busted in the middle of the night my daughter woke up at 4:30 in the morning and I don't know about you but my first ministry is sleep oh I must fetch I almost passed out right there soon I'm anointed to sleep when people ask me what I like to do for fun I say sleep and they look confused and I'm like no trust me it's a blessing it'll change your life and I need to sleep because you know I want to be at my best and when I don't sleep I'm just not at my best my husband can function off for like three to four hours of sleep he wakes me up in the middle of the night when God is speaking to him to tell me what the Lord is sharing with him I'm like I think that's a like a A&B conversation and God wants me to see my way out of it in rest and so I was worried this morning when my daughter woke me up at 4:30 because I knew that I would be given the opportunity to speak and I wanted to be at my best I did not want to come in here the way I come in two places when I've had enough sleep my wig is not secured properly that one side of your foot is ashy your contour is not blended properly when I don't rest where I like to call myself Eve because Eve is when you like know better but don't do better because I just don't feel like it today it's like when people ask you in the store how are you doing you think well you should mind your business don't ask me how I'm doing don't tell me what kind of day to have I'm grown okay that's Eve That's not me and my best but I have to be honest and let you know she's alive in me and when I don't sleep she just springs up unexpectedly you know yeah I don't know like what my kids ask me what's for dinner I'm like I don't really have to feed you three meals a day that's a bit excessive I gave you I put money on your lunch account is plenty of cereal in the cabinet this ain't Ruth's Chris honey make it happen just get in there and just create something someone else could come in this kitchen and be eating for weeks to stop bothering me about your dinner and so I had to like I'm honest so I needed to sleep ever like all the four hours it took for me to get here I woke up I was refreshed I felt on fire for the Lord I knew that I would have all of my wig on properly I even put some curls in it for you I don't know if you see it it's all right I've been on a mission though because I really do think that Eve gets a bad rep and the more that I can show that I can relate to her the more easy it is for me to forgive Eve for eating from the forbidden fruit you see I am guilty of saying things like when I get to heaven I'm on just poor Eve over to the side and just come here let me highlight you girl you had one job he didn't ask you to work out he didn't ask you to be vegan he didn't actually be organic he said don't eat from one one Street girl just and here you are with juice running all down your lips so when guys come walking through the garden and the cool of the day was it good to you that's what I want to know was it good and so God has been dealing with me that's all right we're gonna get there I'm going somewhere I promise God has been dealing with me because he said that's not fair to just Jack up even in my heaven okay because I can think of a few times I told you not to do something and you did it anyway sometimes God has to get like on your level like on your petty level with you and I realized that out of all of the women in the Bible we have ruth and we have Mary and we have Deborah and we have Esther we have all of these incredible women that we love to celebrate but very few people like to celebrate Eve but if we're honest Eve is probably the woman we can relate to the most I know we're all registered for the conference and we have one hour we ain't never been through nothing faced but if you honest there has been some forbidden fruit that you knew you shouldn't eat that you saw red flag after red flag and you just had to have it anyway I've been on this mission this mission is to rescue Eve I want to rescue even not just the eve in the scripture I want to rescue that Eve that is down on the inside of you that you can't forgive because she should have known better but she didn't do better it's hard to leave a mark when you feel like you've been marked up it's hard to leave a mark when you feel like you're too scarred and too bruised and too broken to ever be of any use to anybody and all I want to know is what about Eve I've been filling for Eve because I recognize that when God created Eve that he had created this environment for her he had already caused the herbs to spring forth he had put the fish in the sea he separated the waters he put the heaven in the sky he had already breathed air into the lung lungs of men and gave men an opportunity to be have dominion over all of the earth when Eve came into the world there was hardly nothing for her to do and yet she was the apex of creation it is when God looked at the earth and said it is good it is so good but there is still something missing what is that something missing we need a woman in the room we need a woman on earth we need a woman here the fish aren't enough the cattle isn't enough this earth will not be as beautiful as it can be until I put a woman into the earth Adam you're doing a good job and you named all of the animals but you're still not there yet you need a woman and so he puts Adam to sleep and he pulls out the woman the only problem is the woman doesn't know where she fits in this world that has already been created before she gets there I know maybe it's maybe it's just me it's not you but have you ever felt like I don't really know where I fit it seems like everyone else has it figured out it seems like everyone else is going to be able to do it the good way and do it the right way ting yet here I am struggling with my fears and my insecurities and they're telling me that I should celebrate the fact that I am Alive but the truth is I don't know where I fit and what happens to Eve is what happens to all of us when we're trying to figure out who we are there's a hunger that's down on the inside of us and yes we could take from the things that are around us yes we could go to church yes we could join the choir but there's this hunger this deeper hunger and that hunger often causes us to eat from forbidden fruit and as a reality of that we find ourselves in a difficult situation when my text against Adam is explaining to God how he ended up eating from the fruit now when God gave me this revelation about Eve and I began to change my mind about how I was viewing her I became defensive of Eve so when I was reading this text and I saw what Adam said me and him had because Adam tells God the woman who you gave to be with me I saw tire marks all over my girl Eve's back you see when he first saw the woman he was so blown away by how beautiful he was he said this is flesh is my flesh and bone of my bone she shall be called a woman it was all one man when you saw me but when my humanity showed up now I'm all of a sudden the woman who God gave me you were celebrating me until my humanity showed up and now that you realize I'm insecure as long as I was dating and I was confident and I had everything together we were okay but when my daddy issues started springing up in their relationship when my things started popping up and I couldn't hide them anymore I kind of felt like I was in it on my own I struggled with Adam for a little bit and as I was reading it and I was asking God to just give me a perspective I recognized that maybe Adam wasn't so bad either because what happened to Adam happens to a lot of us a lot of us when something starts off a god thing and then starts feeling like a heavy thing you wouldn't be able to tell it in this room but there are many of us who shouted over certain jobs and certain opportunities and then we actually got into the workplace and we started meeting some of our co-workers and we had to ask God like I was glad when I got the job I knew it was you when I was praying but now that I'm in it I'm wondering if this was you in the first place do I have any real people in this room who don't mind admitting that God often puts me in situations that I know are him but often sometimes they feel like I don't really know that they are him has God ever front-loaded a situation so that you know that you know that you know it's him because the moment you step into it it's gonna be so hard that you're gonna need the guarantee of when you first heard the word God says I'm going to give you the blessing I'm gonna give you the opportunity I'm still here but you have to become like me in order to really lay hold of the blessing I gave you I'm gonna keep saying it until you get it the way God gave it to me because if you're not are not careful you will think that I need to maintain the excitement of when God first gave it to me and miss out on the fact that you often have to gain the maturity to keep that thing that God gave to you yeah god I know you gave it to me but when you gave it to me I didn't know what all was in it and now that I see what all is in it I'm wondering if you should have gave it to me in the first place and so God I need you to tell me who do I have to become in order to stay worthy of the gift that you just gave me God who do I have to become to raise this child who do I have to become in order to stay in this marriage who do I have to become in order to climb this ladder god I know you gave it to me there's no way I should even be in the room so I know this has your fingerprints on it but I'm asking you God because it's becoming so heavy what strength are you trying to produce in me and Adam does what we must all do and that is take that heavy thing and bring it back to God we got to be willing to open ourselves up and say I was praising you last week for this and now I got a worship you to get through it god I was praising you when I found out I could have the child but now I don't even know if the child is gonna obey me and listen and follow you the way that I followed you and so now it requires worship everything is great when we're praising everything is up is great when God first gives it to you but whether or not you are able to keep the thing God gave you is your ability to worship when that thing starts getting heavy and I feel like there are some heavy weights in this room and if you would just allow me a minute to talk to your insecurities to let you know that God did not put you in that situation if he did not have a plan to develop the type of strength necessary for you to carry the weight of this current burden that is in front of you I just want to talk to your fears for just a minute this isn't the part where you have to shout this is the part where you have to let the Holy Spirit do that thing that he does when he creeps down on the inside of you and he whispers I got you I heard your prayer you didn't just register for a conference you registered for strength you didn't just register to dance around you register so that I could have wakened something down on the inside of you and the only way I could awaken it is if I disappointed you you needed that disappointment in order for me to awaken strength so that I couldn't waken worship so that I could show you that there are levels to who you are there are dimensions to who I have called you to be in the only way you can get it is if there were tears streaming down your face but I came to church anyway and I lifted my hands anyway because I know that God is not a man that he should lie and I prayed for the very thing I'm crying about right now so God if you gave it to me I demand that you give me something that gives me wisdom and insight on how to maneuver it I demanded from heaven I'm not no weak person I've been through and I came back laughing so glad if you're gonna put this thing in front of me I demand that you awaken another version of Who I am if you're gonna have me flying all over the country then speak then God give me the anointing and power to break the strongholds I came to make a demand on heaven I came to stop acting like I'm okay and to start making demands on heaven God fill me up with your spirit God could affront every issue that's laying dormant down on the inside of me God don't just bring me into this room so that I can clap my hands give me something that I can leave with and go to war with God I wanna go to war with the thing that is going to war with my destiny back to me I came to leave a mark baby I came to blaze a trail baby yeah yeah it's still a god thing you just got to become more like God to take care of it it's still a god thing he's just got to grow you up to take care of it God this job you gave me I don't know what to do with they got this child you gave me I don't know what to do with it so I'm giving it back to you so you can show me how to handle me so I have forgiven Adam and Eve I'm very much for Nazz my text continues says that the Lord God says to the woman after learning that she has broken the rules the rules that she did not even know existed because she wasn't there when he gave the rule in the first place he says to the woman what is this you have done and the woman gives us insight into what has happened and I recognize that this happens to all of us and this is why we end up with strongholds in our minds in prisons in our minds and limits and boundaries when God says we can do all things through him for some reason we end up not believing that that is true and Eve tells us why when she says the serpent deceived me and I ate sounds simple but I realized that the serpent couldn't just run up on her and tell her to eat the fruit the first thing he had to do was change her mind and when he was able to change her mind he could then get her to change her diet I didn't just end up in a toxic relationship I changed my mind about who I was and then I changed my diet I didn't just change my mind about who I wanted to be I started believing that certain things weren't possible for a single mama for a Teen Mom or for a college dropout and so when I changed my mind I changed my diet and I started shrinking my dream to fit my insecurities you see the enemy doesn't just run up on you and get you to change your diet the first thing he does is he tries to get you to change your mind which is why your thought life is just as important as your prayer life you gotta be able to arrest to certain thoughts you can't just let things start running around in your mind about well yeah but I went through the divorce and nobody's gonna want me no saying I rebuke you somebody's gonna look at this and realize that that was experience that made me a better wife in the future yes I know I may have not saved different marriage but that's okay someone's gonna look at me and still see Worth and still see value I'm not going to change my mind about who God says I am just because I've been scarred and broken because he makes all things new and so God what I'm praying for instead is that you bring someone in my life who sees me the way you see me not the way he saw me not the way they saw me but the way you see me the most dangerous thing you can do is start taking control of your thoughts again because when you take control of your thoughts you change your diet and when you change your diet there are certain things that you just don't let sit anymore because I changed the way I think about myself which means that you came to sit in my face and talk crazy to me about me any longer that may have worked for who I used to be but I've started arresting thoughts I messed around and came to this conference where some girl told me that I had the ability to really start walking in that fearfully and wonderfully made thing and now I actually think I'm quite cute yes I know that I'm 20 pounds overweight but guess what honey that's more for somebody to love amen I changed my mind about how I feel about myself so I'm not going to settle any longer for forbidden fruit because I recognize that God will set a table in the presence of my enemies and only I could believe if only I could believe if only I could believe if only I could believe that the things in this word is true if only I could believe that the proverbs 31 woman is me if only I could believe that even though I didn't see it in anybody it could still happen in me if only I could believe that I could start the business if only I could believe that I can become a virtuous woman if only I could believe in me the way God believes in me then maybe the change I'm waiting to see is really waiting for me to change my mind I rebuke disbelief I came to go to war with your disbelief I'm not gonna lie when you clap it feels good but when you get quiet I know I'm effective because I want to talk to your disbelief I want to talk to the little girl that's down on the inside of you that says you're never gonna be anything I want to talk to that woman that's down on the inside of you that feels like you're damaged goods I came to talk to your disbelief what do I want you to disbelieve know that we're changing our mind that we are not leaving until our minds have been renewed I'm trying to be transformed and got the only way you can transform me is if you get ahold of my mind sometimes I'm my own worst enemy God teach me how to love myself God teach me how to worship who you call me to be God showed me that my purpose didn't die when the pain and met me God showed me how to change my mind about Who I am I really want to believe that I'm fearfully and wonderfully made I really want to believe but when they say that they don't know what happened to me when they say that I'm pure and virtuous that he makes all things work together for for the good of those who love them they don't know what happened to me I used to sit in church services and I would clap my hands and worship and they would say certain things and I would just know that it was for the person beside me because I didn't think the person knew what happened to me because if you knew what happened to me you wouldn't say those types of things with me but then something happened it happened when I hit rock bottom it happened when my life was shattered and broken into where I finally said I don't really have anything else to lose so god I'm turning my life over to you and maybe it's just for a week maybe it's just for another day but I'm gonna live my life like I believe what they've been saying all along and when I started doing that I experienced a restoration and a power and a Grace and an anointing that had evidently been there the entire time but because I changed my diet I couldn't feed that anointing that was down on the inside of me what I'm telling you is that whatever you feed is gonna live and some of you need to start prophesying over your life like the issues never happen like the hurt didn't kill you some of you need to start prophesying over your pain like there's a purpose buried somewhere down under here and I'm gonna find it I'm not gonna quit until I find it and every tear I've cried is watering the seeds of my purpose so God says to the surface after the woman admits that he changed her diet he curses the serpent and he says to the serpent you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust this is the part that really made the serpent nervous and I know this is for somebody because I feel my voice is going but what the devil don't know is that I would use my husband as my interpreter and we will go to war together cuz that's the kind of crazy we are he tells the serpent your biggest issue was not that I'm cursing you to the ground and that you're gonna slither around he says your biggest issue was not the fact that you were going to be eating dirt he says the thing that you need to be most afraid of is the enmity that I'm gonna put between you and the woman God give me straight your biggest issue is the woman that's got tears streaming down her face right now your biggest struggle is going to be the woman who feels like she messed it up for everybody your biggest issue is that you just picked a fight with the woman and when you pick a fight with the woman you go to war with the community and when you got a war with the community you cannot win because you got to tell me God listen is it I'm gonna put enmity between you and the woman and he says in between your seed and her seed yeah yeah I know it looks like you won temporarily but what I'm telling you was long-term that woman is not to be messed with that that woman is gonna burn something through her life that is gonna make hell nervous that it's gonna kill death itself your biggest issue is some woman out of Boston Massachusetts who's gonna put together a conference and get together another few hundred crazy women he'll either be nervous when you register for this conference because he just got one step closer to go in the war with the kind of who recognizes that I had to be Eve I needed to be because Eve received a promise I needed to be a teen mother because being a teen mother made me a warrior he says I'm gonna put enmity between you and the rum woman he shall bruise your head and you are gonna bruise his heel you're gonna change the way she walks temporarily she's gonna walk with some lip for a little while you're gonna bruise her heels gonna hurt it's gonna change the way she walks throughout the city it's gonna change the way she walks throughout the church I'm gonna let you know you gone bruiser here I'm gonna let you know I had to let you know sis that your heel is bruised you didn't get out of this thing perfect you were supposed to be bruised a little bit you were supposed to be crushed for a moment I got to tell you sis he was supposed to bruise your heel but what he didn't know is that bruised he'll still crush Serpent's head but I will take this bruised heel and I will go in the direction of any devil that comes in my way and may be bruised but it will still crush a serpentine and maybe bruise but it's still got Brahmas connected to it it may be bruised but it's still gonna write a book it may be bruised but it still go start a business I'll get married Bru's tails they'll crush Serpent's heads bruised tails still crush Serpent's head I wish I had somebody who believed it in this room who believed that even when my bruised heel I'm powerful even with my lip I can go to war with the devil I hear he'll get nervous and somebody picks up their bruised heel you still got power you still got wonder-working power you still got hair crushing power you still got generational curse breaking power you still gotta help kids nervous power you cell got demon trembling power you still got save your daughter power you still got save your marriage power you still go to school power and your heel bros were not broken I see you still standing I see you still fighting I got on that plane for your heel I got on that plane for your heel cuz this brew still needs your bruised deal because this world needs for you to recognize that the fight is Peaks even with your lip [Applause] somebody wants me to keep speaking but somebody else needs to take a minute and thank God for the weight that came with their bruised heel somebody needs to take a minute and thank God that I was easy because when I wasn't even taught me that certain things couldn't kill me when I was even helped me to realize that the forbidden fruit might hurt me but I know how to take a lickin and keep on tickin she's not a part of you somebody's gotta rescue Eve if you're gonna be okay I need your heel I need the weight that came with your brokenness to crush the head of the serpent my life my ministry would have no power if I wasn't first pregnant at 13 years old my life my ministry would have no power if I wasn't first divorced I'm waitressing at his strip club and the moment I wondered why God would have me fall so far behind why is it that I was the one who had to go through all of this and I recognized that there were other women waiting on the other side helping me cheering me along so that I could recognize that your heel has been bruised so that he could blind the enemy when you finally lifted up and said though he slay me yet shall I trust in him that he's gonna make this thing work together I'm crying and I'm wounded right now but I'm still his God didn't throw Eve away and he didn't throw you away either I came to rescue your Eve I need her this generation needs your Eve in this message those of you your theologians you know that this is a foreshadowing of the coming of Christ that means that when God tells the serpent that her seed is going to crush your head he's saying that Eve is actually pregnant with the woman named Mary and that when Mary actually comes first to come comes forth that she's going to give birth to a man named Jesus that means that the woman Eve who was the gateway of sin also paved a way for the Gateway of divinity I don't know what you've gone through in your life your fears and your insecurities or your experiences became a gateway for sin or damage just flat-out missing the mark but I came to tell you that he writes the end from the beginning which means that Mary actually existed before Eve which means that God knew when he told the serpent that her seed is gonna end it for you he knew exactly what he was talking about so while everyone was going through a depression at my house in Dallas in 2002 God had peace in the midst of the storm because he knew that one day she was gonna be at the - conference I know it doesn't look like it right now but one day she's gonna come out on the other side of him tonight I have shown you Eve tomorrow I will introduce you to your Mary but I cannot introduce you to your Mary until you take a minute and grabbe's and say Eve I love you even Oh buddy understood what happened to us but us and I've moved on and I've grown up and and it may look like I have it all together but every night before I go to sleep I still remember that Eve it's haunting me and taunting me and I'm telling you that I need you to rescue her I need you to love on her I need you to tell her that it's gonna be okay because that is the only way that we can release Mary can we have a moment of worship in this room can we have a moment of intimacy in this room can we offer Eve up to God the same way Adam did and say god this childhood that you gave me it broke me God that relationship that you gave me it hurt me but I need to operate to you because I want to know how it turns out in the end God here is my Eve my brokenness my whispers my fears my insecurities the thing that's keeping me from leaving a mark and blazing a trail is the fact that I'm marked up but I want to believe that every mark is your masterpiece and so God here is my surrender you can have every part of me I want you to touch every part of me I want to stop cringing when I hear my own story in my head I want to love myself I want to rescue Eve I'm tired of penalizing her for for the mistakes that she should have known better but she didn't do better I'm tired of being my own worst enemy I'm tired of being divided down on the inside God here help me to rescue them and I can only do it with your power spirit of the Living God you know exactly what we're offering up in this moment memories that we haven't shared for decades things that just happened to us last week addiction molestation rape God all of it is in this room cancer rejection abandonment issues God is all in this room and that's beautiful because it means that it's all in your presence and so god I ask that you would open up the walls that we've learned to build so that we can function and that you would cause us to come to a place of unity within our selves God do it for my sisters that they can understand that you love every part of who they are not just the parts that look good and and smell good but the parts that hurt them the most God I ask that you would awaken down on the inside of them the power connected to their pain and because I know that we have had more practice hating that part of ourselves and loving does God I also want to rebuke strongholds that exists within their minds Satan I rebuke you like God said in Genesis 3 you have no power that the seed that is done on the inside of this woman I feel the presence of God I don't know who you are or what you've been wrestling with but I promise you that we're going to speak a prayer in this room and God is gonna impart power that has always been down on the inside of you suicide I rebuke you depression I rebuke you anxiety you have no power here we didn't just come to beat you we came to go to war with hell let my sister go by the blood of Jesus the wonder-working power of Jesus you want to talk about a great name a name that is greater than any issue we've ever experienced a name that is greater than any pain that we've ever experienced God we sent you back on the throne of our hearts we are going to stop worshiping our mistakes and instead worship the one who makes all things work together God I changed my mind god I changed my mind god I changed my mind god I change my mind I'm fearfully and wonderfully made I changed my mind I'm a virtuous woman I changed my mind hey I changed my mind save not changed my mind you can't worry you can't have me depression because I want to be free for real I want to be free for real God let me never forget this moment where I believed in a way I haven't believed in years that all things can work together for my good let this become my new normal and as I walk it out and as the enemy tries to tempt me may I drag him into the reality of this truth that my past is no longer a weapon that's why we rescued Eve because until we rescue Eve our past is a weapon but when we rescued Eve our past is no longer a weapon it is a tool that is used for us to create Mary God released divinity down in the place where we experienced the most pain so that fruitfulness can come forth and anointing can be birthed generational curses will be broken children will be saved businesses erected books written from the very place that I couldn't stand to feel anymore that's resurrected power that's the kind of thing that changes lives that's the kind of thing that crushes the head of a serpent in Jesus name [Applause]

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Published: Tue Jan 01 2019