Power Moves | Sarah Jakes Roberts

one church is such an incredible community I don't take it lightly even though I've honored to be a member here that you would trust me with this platform so I think you're not honor you the priest of this house thank you my topic for tonight is going to be power moves because I believe that we're ready to start making moves moves that don't always make sense to those around us moves that shake up systems and shake up structures but because of that power I was talking about earlier that we're ready to get ahead of the curve we've been prophetically just speaking about God equipping us to go into rooms and to go into meetings and places where we really shouldn't have any business we don't have the degrees we don't have the experience but for some reason God has aligned us in this season to start making power moves and so as I was preparing for my message I found something in second Kings 2 that I think if you would allow me to submit for your consideration God may have a word now as I have fell through the lattice of his Upper Room in Samaria and was injured so he sent messages and said to them go inquire of baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover from this injury before we moved to verse 3 I want to tell you how odd it is that the king of Israel would be inquiring of a false God about his healing you see because he he already knows who God is but for some reason his brokenness had him looking at other gods I wanted to judge I really really did because judging is like my thing - I'm wrong with anything but then I realized the times in my life when my brokenness had me looking for false gods instead of going to the God who I knew could really fix me you see there are times in life when we become so broken that we want to find a God we can touch as opposed to trusting a God we cannot see and these guys they come in all different shapes and sizes and sometimes you find them at the club and sometimes you find them at the workplace but one way or another we find false gods to help us cope with brokenness and so now the kingdom Israel in verse 2 of this text is looking for a false God and verse 3 continues and it says but the angel of the Lord said to Elisha at the same time that one person was looking for a false God another person was having an encounter with the real God that's important for you to recognize because you'll think that everyone is moving at the same pace as you but in reality some people are moving but they aren't going anywhere you can't confuse busyness with productivity because some of us have full calendars and it looks like we're making power moves but really all right but the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite arise go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Beelzebub the god of Ekron something for you to recognize about power moves is that power moves is going to create confrontation elijah continues it says now therefore thus says the Lord you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up but you shall surely die so Elisha departed so Elisha has an encounter with the angel of the Lord the angel of the law it says I want you to go down and meet a group of messengers and when you meet them if you go back to verse three because I want to say it verbatim he says I want you to tell them is it because there is no God in Israel I want you to confront the fact that they're searching for all of the wrong things if your power moves don't cause confrontation they may not be power moves at all you see because God's going to put you in the types of positions where you begin to make moves that break up systems and structures and the good-old-boy clubs and networks and where you have to know someone to get in the room he's going to break all of that stuff up when he gives you the word that he's giving you that's why it's important for you to know that you've got a word from God because when that confrontation comes you may be twisted into thinking that you should back up when really God is calling you to go forward and verse four it continues verse five rather says Elijah departed and this is where things get really good because they go back to the king and they tell the king and then when the messengers returned to him he said to them why have you come back because I had sent you to go do something and he knew that what he sent them to do should have taken a bit longer than it did in verse six continues and they said look here dog on the way to the road that you were told us to go we ran into a man and men came up to meet us and he said to us go return to the king who sent you how is it that Elijah had more authority in that moment than the king who had directed them to do something in the first place I hear God's saying that he's going to give you the type of authority that changes the tide that he's going to give you the type of authority where people shouldn't be listening to you but for some reason they're sitting at your feet soaking up wisdom you got to make sure you're ready when it's time to make power moves because when you have power moves you have in fluence influence over the way other people think that's why you got to be careful who you give your power to because when you recognize the power that's working on the inside of you there are going to be people drawn to your light who don't know how to respect it there's going to be people drawn to your light who don't know how to honor it so they said to him a man came up to meet us and said to us go return to the king who sent you and say to him thus says the Lord is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of baal-zebub the God of Ekron therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up but you shall surely die his messengers are telling him I know you were wondering if you were going to make it out of this thing and we got a word from the Lord that says evidently the way that fall was set up it's not looking good for you and verse 7 continues then he said to them what kind of man was it who is this who came up to meet you who broke up my system and told you these words what kind of man is it who who found a way to my messengers what kind of man was it that broke up what I was trying to do what kind of person is it that went into the audition for one extra role and came out with the starring role what kind of man is it that went into a business meeting for one thing and came out ready to own the company you got to start expanding your mind in such a way that people start asking what kind of man is it that you just had an encounter with what kind of woman is it if you aren't in an atmosphere and people don't leave talking about you then you left nothing in the room that's good or bad this isn't the kind of season where we can afford to just be flies on the wall we've got to leave some type of impression in the room that makes people say what kind of person was that I just an encounter with what was that I just experienced what kind of man was it who came up to meet you and told you these words and verse 8 continues it says so they answered him a hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist I tried to find something so deep and spiritual about this part but I guess my antenna wasn't working that well because I'm not sure what his passion had to do with it but I will say that he just had a little bit of information about who he was but instantly he knew it was Elijah the Tishbite just a little bit of information a hairy man wearing a leather belt around his waist but could it be that his reputation had preceded him that so many people were talking about what he was doing that when he walked into a room he needed no introduction I wonder if we could begin to start doing the type of work that when we walk into a room we don't even have to introduce ourselves because our work has gone ahead of us our spirit has gone ahead of us our connections have gone ahead of us and so we get to come in and they have to introduce themselves to us because you already know what it is and verse 9 continues then the King sent him to a captain then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men so the King was so insecure about the word he received that he started sending people after Elijah the prophet it's important for you to recognize this because I need you to recognize that what you're about to do what God has for you when you step into alignment when you finally get into the proper position that it's going to create insecurities and other people and out of their insecurities they're going to start sending other rumors or distractions to chase you down because they're trying to scare you out of alignment they're trying to make you feel that loneliness is not worth the cost of destiny they're going to make you feel that you can't afford the cost of moving forward they're going to send a captain at 50 with his fifty men so he went up to him and there he was sitting on the top of a hill I loved that he was sitting on the top of the hill because you would think that if you see a captain with 50 men coming after you that you would not hide because you know we ain't never scared but like find a tree big enough to just block the shade but for some reason he was sitting on the top of the hill ready and he spoke to him man of God the King has said come down so Elisha answered and said to the captain of 50 if I am a man of God then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men and the verse tells us that fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty I think God wants somebody to know that you've been fighting the fifty men when you should have just been hanging on to the word that God gave you and just tapped into that men of God mentality or that woman of God mentality that if I am who God says I am then I don't even have to deal with this God is going to take care of it for me I hear God saying that some of you have been fighting the wrong battle that is not about the captain's it's not about the systems it's not about the corporations it's about whether or not you're the man or woman of God you've been saying you are you come in to one church you worship but do you worship when it's time for confrontation do you worship when the Warriors start coming up against you do you worship when all odds are against you and it doesn't look like you're going to make it can you worship in the face adversity if you are a man of God then let fire come down from heaven if you say I can't have the job then let fire come down from heaven and create a new way if you say I gotta move out then let God open up another door if you say this is over then God is going to open up another door if you say this is the end God said it's the beginning if you say I am a man of God if you say I am a woman of God in if I am a man of God you gotta see in verse nine that it was like the captain was trying to be a little funny when he said men of God the King has come you not my king he says man of God the King said I answered a one men and one man alone and if I am a man of God then your king doesn't matter if I am a man of God then your corporations your systems your structures your nose your negativity your rumors your opinions they don't matter if I am a man of God then no devil and hell has been formed yet no weapon could ever prosper against me if I am a man of God then bring your best shot and watch fire rain down from heaven over that situation that's stopping you watch fire run down from heaven over that obstacle that you think is standing in your way verse 10 then verse 11 says then he sent to him another captain and 50 I'm country where I'm from they say you don't believe that meat is greasy so the king said ok you burned up those but I'm gonna send another cuz maybe that was just an off situation maybe you didn't quite fully something was wrong cuz surely if I sent a captain in 50min they should have came back but the King so insecure so afraid that his position could be easily taken from him that he sent another captain of 50 with his 50 men and he answered and said to him men of God thus has the King said come down quickly so Elisha answered and said to them if I am a man of God let fire come down from heaven and consume you in your 50 men and the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men two times in a row that means it doesn't matter how many times the odds have been stacked against you that just because God got you through last time it doesn't mean that your grace is over that there's another opportunity that means that you need to let your haters know try me if you want to but she better get a fire extinguisher because when my god gets finished with me anything could happen to you judge not be anointed because I just stepped into something I just tapped into my anointing and you can tell me no but you better learn to say it nicely because if I didn't like what happened here God who was on my side will go in the battle for me two times the fire of God came down yeah just like that just like that since send your best shot just like that and verse 13 continues again he's in a third captain FNC with his fifty men and the third captain and fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and pleaded with him and said to him man of God please let my life in the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight somebody's gonna have to change the way they're talking to you somebody was talking to you like you were the tail is gonna have to start speaking to you like you are the head somebody's gonna have to put some respect on your name somebody's gonna have to start talking to you like the child of God you are people have been sleep on you they've been holding you down but I came here tonight to tell you that back to recognize that you are a child of God and because you are a child of God there's a certain protocol when you approach me there's a certain protocol when I go after something you can tell me no but you better figure out how to say it you gonna have to tell people you must not know who I am you're gonna have to forgive people in advance because some people are going to come I bet you and they're not going to recognize that they're not just talking to you that they're talking to the God in you so you won't have to forgive them in advance for sleeping on you for telling you that you weren't going to make it for telling you that you weren't good enough for telling you you weren't talented enough you're gonna have to forgive them in advance because God needs you to recognize that the day is gonna come when someone looks at you and sees you the day is going to come when you have relationships that reflect the God and you knock the insecurities around you the day is gonna come when your finances start reflecting you're giving the day is going to come when opportunities are so image you have to turn them down not chase them down the day is gonna come when your gift begins to make room for you and great people the day is coming the day is coming when you start making power moves God moves some of you have been in this thing on your own trying to create your own strategies and your own plans and I'm here to tell you it's time for real power moves not Instagram moves not moves for lights not moves for followers I mean Kingdom moves I mean like chasing darkness kind of moves I mean the kind of moves where a captain comes up on you and says spare my life let me be a part of what you're doing how can I serve your vision what can I do to give to what God is doing inside of you the captain says please let my life and the life of these 50 servants of yours be precious in your sight please vouch for me you're going to have the power if some of you are looking for someone to vouch for you and God isn't going to send anyone because he wants you to vouch for someone who looks like you once you're in the proper position that you're going to look at someone who was just like you and say I got you because I know what it's like to need someone and no one show up but first he's got to put the knee down on the inside of you he's got to put the pain down on the inside of you so that your purpose can be manifest and verse 14 continues it says look this what the captain said I love it he said look the fire has come down from heaven and burned up the first two captains he said listen Linda fire is coming down from heaven and then it's burned up the first two captains of 50s with their 50s but let my life now be precious in your sight he said I want to be on your side I want to be on your team I see what you're doing I see God is doing something in your lives God wants me to tell you that what's happening in your life is going to be like a magnet you're going to begin attracting people to you you're going to be able to attract influence and opportunities to you and people are going to be bowing at your feet asking you how they can be precious in your sight what can I do to be in your favor what can I do to tap into what God is doing in your life but let my life now be precious in your sight and verse 15 continues it says and the angel of the Lord said to Elisha go down with him do not be afraid of him and so this was very interesting to me because up until that point we had seen fire coming down from heaven I didn't understand why the angel of the Lord would say to Elijah do not be afraid I'm going to tell you right now if I could get fired to come down from heaven it's not a whole lot I would be afraid of but for some reason the next power move that Elijah would have to make what we require vulnerability because God didn't want him to start counting on the fire coming down from heaven he wanted to know if you could still hear my voice even if I accelerate you can you still hear my voice even when I show you your potential power moves manifest your potential power moves open up your eyes to things you didn't even think we're possible for you power moves show you that you came here to act but you really are a producer that you came here to be an assistant but God really needed you to run the company that you came here for one thing that you're not just a waitress that you're actually a director and I need you to see how much it takes to bring things together that God is going to use everything for your good go down with him do not be afraid why would he be afraid unless power moves confront your fears if the power moves don't make you begin to question your fears and anxiety then you're writing off the high of success of success when you need to be searching for the insecurities that come with power moves you see some of you have been thinking that you were going to make it to a certain level and it would be smooth sailing but in reality God needs you to know that if you're going to continue to go from glory to glory to glory that these power moves are going to make you afraid they're going to make you question yourself they're going to make you wonder if you really have what it takes it's going to make you wonder if your plan was too crazy and too far-fetched to begin with power moves confront your fears and you can't count on the success you had in the past the only thing you can count on is the voice of God you see because the angel of the Lord is what gave him the authority to go down with him and to not be afraid so he arose and went down with him to the king and then he said to the king thus says the Lord because you have sent messengers to inquire of baal-zebub of the god of Ekron is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up but you shall surely die it was the same message that he told the messengers on the road in the first place this is interesting because some of you have been wondering if you can lose if you're going to lose your core when you make your power moves you're wondering if you're still going to be sharp enough and good enough and creative enough when you make it to the next level if you were just good for one arena but not actually good for the next arena these power moves are making you wonder if your message is really special but Elijah had the same message for the King as he had for the messengers his core remained the same even in the mists of trials and tribulations what we do here from week to week is not about you getting Grammys or Oscars or bonuses or salaries it's about making sure you have the same core message when you're with the messengers and when you're with the king and if you stand with me as I prepare to close because I want to confront some course in this room I want to confront some misconceptions and some issues and some insecurities that come with making power moves if you don't have to leave please stick could you put my list on the screen please because I want you all to recognize the three things that power moves you to see we're so often used to making power moves as in decisions but the type of power that I'm talking about moving inside of you as the power of God working down on the inside of you and I need you to know that as his power moves that it's going to move you to some confrontations and it's going to move you to your potential and it will to move you to your fears and I just happen to believe that there are some people in this room who have been wondering if they have what it takes to really let power move through them to finally come to a place where they take their hands off of their life and they stop trying to create strategies and trying to create opportunities but to trust God in such a way that he can move through you what I love about this text is that one could say that Elijah should stay in his lane that what was going on really didn't have anything to do with him but he didn't recognize that as long as God was telling him to do it that he was in his lane that means that as long as God is your driving force that there is no such thing as your lane there's only what the voice of God told you to do that means you don't have to be relegated to only being one thing that you can do as many things as God says that you can do so you don't have to answer your critics about why you're doing this now or while you're doing that now everyone's not going to understand your power moves but if you don't understand them if you don't understand your power moves if you don't understand what God is doing in your life and why he's doing it then you leave your life susceptible to other people's influence to other people's direction in other people's guidance that's why we got to get your core right and we want to have a moment at this altar where we take a moment to inspect our course it's easy to say Amen in this room but when you're given the choice outside of this room to choose fear over faith to choose toxic relationships over loneliness to choose a higher paycheck in exchange for your integrity or your morality to place yourself on oxygen when God has been trying to reserve you when you have those opportunities outside of this room I need to know that you're going to make power moves and the beauty of this room is that the amens echo which is a sign that you're not the only one who's struggled with making power moves in the past that you're not the only one who's had to take a moment to figure things out for yourself and to ask God to help you center yourself again there's some of you in here who've known for quite a long time that there are certain things you need to be doing in your life but you are afraid that will it would take you out of your comfort zone that it would isolate you that you would lose friends that you would lose relationships that you would begin to look weird that you would have to quit your job that you would have to get a job I don't know your life I'm just saying that some of you have been holding back your progress trying to negotiate with God and I'm here to tell you that he hasn't changed his mind about you but he's waiting to see if he can trust you with fire can I trust you with the type of fire that makes you untouchable to your enemies can I trust you with fire and then trust you to go into areas where people may not like you can I trust you with fire like Elijah and then trust you to follow a captain who could easily overtake you can you trust the hedge of protection that I've had over you some of you need to recognize that that hedge of protection has been to your entire life but I really do believe that as we step into 2017 which pastor has told us over and over again is going to be the year of alignment that alignment is going to be less about finding God and more about finding you that is going to be more about you making the types of decisions that bring you into alignment regardless of who you lose and what you lose in the process some of you are going to have to start from ground zero because everything you've built up into this point was false and it's shiny and it looks good and it gets lots of likes but you've lost your soul in the process you don't even know who you are anymore those are not power moves if it causes you to lose your own power your own confidence your own grace wisdom and strength those are not power moves I'm here to offer you the kind of power that takes you from the back of the classroom to the front of the classroom that takes you from being the tail and makes you the head that makes you stand out a little bit but ultimately it's only so that God can be exalted I want to offer you the kind of power that says you don't need the degree you don't need the connections you don't need the experience all you need is a word from me you don't have to hustle your way up on a blessing I've got blessings stored up for you in heaven I just need you to come into the kind of alignment where you truly begin to believe that all things are possible for you if this message is speaking to you and you know that you've had some issues with your core you don't have to wait for us to invite you down as a matter of fact I would dare say but if you would begin to step out of that comfort zone that if you would begin to admit that you need God to help you that as you're walking this way that he's going to meet you there's a as he sees your feet moving that his voice is drawing out plans for you in heaven God's been waiting on a sign that you're ready that you heard him and that you're ready to move and that you don't care what you lose in the process because you want to start going into rooms and saying if I am a man of God if I am a woman of God then let this opportunity be for me if I I'm a woman of God then let this relationship work out if I am a woman of God then strip away anything in me that's not of you if I am a woman of God then let your light shine through me in such a way that the world takes notice if I am a man of God then let weapons start dropping right now in the name of Jesus if I am a man of God then let fire breeze down from heaven on anyone that would dare come up against my destiny if I am a man of God pave away ordering my steps I want to tap into my heavenly identity I want to tap into who God has called me to be I want to know I want to know who I am I want to know what I'm capable of I want to know that there's power down on the inside of me I want to know that I'm more than my mistakes that I'm more than what happened to me that I'm more than these curses that I thought were around me I want to know that I am a man or woman of God I want to know that there's more to life than what's hurt me I want to know that there's more to life than what's in my bank account and what's on my Instagram feed I want to know that there's something deeper waiting for me and I'm ready to turn my life over like never before so that I can make the type of powermoves that build monuments for God not for people to look at now for people to approve of not that make my flesh feel good but make my spirit week I want to make the kind of power moves that says when life is shaky I know on the solid rock I stand I'm going to ask pastor to pray into this and I don't want you to think just because the altar is for that you don't have to come because surely the prayer is going to reach you there but I'm telling there's something about moving there's something about moving there's something about getting out of your seat there's something about a power move when you've been making life moves when you've been making world moves when you've been making flesh moves there's something about a power move that says devil you can't hold me down no more negativity you have no place in my life depression you have no place in my life right now when you move into this alter I hear you rebuking the Devourer of the enemy I hear you rebuking anything that would come up against you when you came down to this altar I heard chains breaking down in hell I heard generational curses breaking I heard Destiny's happening I heard doors opening opportunities being created for you some of you have been wondering how you're going to fit into certain situations and God wants you to know I'm going to create a situation just for you pastor would you pray and it is I want you to take 30 seconds and let that word speak to your heart clearly just 30 seconds and in your own worship in silence and I want that word to just speak to you what did God say to you thank God say about you that God tell you to do father you have spoken you've spoken to your children by name my name not the name perhaps as some thought they had but by their divine name you shall no longer be called this you shall be called man of God you shall be called woman of God we thank you for the name changes the identity changes the situational changes the prospective changes that have happened in this house tonight Abraham never went back to being Abram Sarah never went back to being Sarai Israel never went back to being Jacob when you define your sons and your daughters that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it I am who you say I am and so father I thank you that this word is branded Oh glory to God and the hearts in the minds in the souls of these your children never to be the same again and I'll add prophetically Romans 8:19 says all of creation is eagerly awaiting for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God that means that means that things that you could not see before as a result of this revealing of you say God has revealed to you who you weren't he's raised up a mirror and says this is who you are you can't be revealed to the world until first you are revealed to you and their things they're things that you have that you didn't know you had because you didn't know who you were god I thank you for doors that are going to open god I thank you right now that that emails are going to come in to prove that there were things locked up tied up in the absence of identity that will be present now I thank you God just like the text said that people who once saw you one way will not help but to see you another way I thank you God that this divine favor in this room now I want you to repeat after me I am and say it according to your madness or your womanís I am a man of God I am a child of God and from this day forward I am what I am in Jesus name Amen god bless you love you so much you

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