See Through Me - First Lady Serita Jakes [February 22, 2020]

I also want to take the opportunity to welcome our streaming audience we pray that God's blessings are going to rest upon you today we're so glad that you stopped by the potter's house to visit with us and we hope that something that we say or do will strengthen your walk in 2020 I'm so excited about your response to my home collection we I want to tell you because of your love and support I was able to exceed our sales goal in one week what they had estimated for a month so in one week in one week I was able because of your love and support I was able to exceed my sells go so you all keep praying for me because we've got some new things that are going to be coming out and because it's 2020 and I'm about to turn 65 God has so abundantly so richly so mercifully bless me and you know it after a while you'll think you know maybe I'm a little bit late or maybe it's too late for me to start something new and God said you tried this five years ago and you didn't give up and because you were able to endure the weight you can inherit the promise if you can endure the weight if you can endure the weight and I know that Hope deferred often makes the heart sick but if you can endure the weight God will abundantly bless you so at 65 I had a baby I feel like Sara and it's been very very exciting for me to launch out into the deep and we want to always keep in mind God's manual his blueprint for us there's some things in life that he has designed for us and the only way we're going to get to the end of it is as if we earnestly ask God to see us through he's the only one that knows the end from the beginning it's like a movie he already knows what the end of the tale is going to be in your life and he's going to work backwards he's going to bring everything that you thought was going to happen when it's supposed to happen at the time it's supposed to happen not before time but when you can handle it have have you all seen that commercial with the expectant mother and she's standing in the nursery and she's showing everybody she said now this is where the baby's gonna be and this is where this is going to be and then she says and this is where the manual is going to be and the person standing there shaking their head because the baby dear heart is not going to come with a manual you're going to have to figure this out on your own you would think but admittedly when I get a new appliance or anything new I will not use it until I read the manual I have to know exactly how it operates if it's a convection oven my sister-in-law got me a ninja warrior' it's a big it does so many things and brawls and grills but before I could use it I had to confer with the maker the manual and so Jeremiah one and five says before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations so you're trying to figure out exactly where your life is right now God is already saying to you I knew everything that you were going to encounter I knew everybody that was going to come into your life I knew all of the issues that you were going to be confronted with I understand you when nobody else does I believe in you when you don't believe in yourself I knew that I was going to heal you when you got sick I knew that you were gonna fall and mess up sometimes I knew that your heart was going to be broken I knew you but I still ordained you to do some significant things in your life no matter what you encounter along the way nothing will circumvent what God has planned for you but you gotta confer with the manual he's always been with you when you were a little girl sitting out in the dirt and playing and make mud pies and God was there with you then he knows the little girl secrets in you he knows the little girl that hasn't grown up in you he knows about your teenage woes he knows about the things that you're going through even as your body ages and begins to betray you God knows everything that you can't even say he already knows what you're thinking so you might as well get in touch with the manual you've got to know what the manufacturer has in mind for you we talk about 2020 being a year of vision and focus and blurred vision and people without visions we talk about all of the things that 2020 could represent but everybody in here may say the same thing but it means something different to you if we were to look in mark eight all of us want to know what are people saying about us Jesus asks the disciples who do men say that I am after you've been perspective then you look outside for validation and you want to know what do you see when you see me what do I represent when you see me what do I bring to the table what have I given when you see somebody come in the room sometimes your whole countenance will lighten up but sometimes when you see a person come in the room you realize that they suffering and because you're there you make a difference in their lives I want you to learn to value who you are and what you bring to the table because God makes no mistakes he's very intentional about positioning you where you are at the time of day that that arrives at the time of the month that that arrives he is very intentional on bringing what's inside of you out of you but you've got to check the manual if you're gonna be able to get along with people you're gonna have to learn that their point of view is not always your point of view you're gonna have to learn to look through the eyes of other people my husband told me Sarita there's always at least two sides to a story so if you want to take sides make sure you know what both sides are saying before you decide that they're wrong or they're not right to feel that way about you you've got to look at it from their point of view everybody wasn't raised like you everybody doesn't have the same values that you have so before you start criticizing them or judging them take a look at where they may have started all of us haven't always been saved some of us were club runners alley runners some of us have never smoked drank or chewed or ran around with those that do but there's somebody in this room that knows exactly what it feels like to be you and they will talk to you about it sincerely and earnestly talk to you about it because they want to you to know that everybody that you meet is not an enemy to you everybody's not out to get you and when we come into a setting with women is especially important for us to embrace one another I was in God's leading ladies a few weeks ago and one of the ladies made a statement about standing in the line and watching how some of the women were dressed and she was like oh my god can't you say something to them about their clothing and I said to her you don't realize that some people come to church from sometimes your mother came by and grabbed you off the pole and brought you to church and I'm telling you before you put your mouth on somebody you've got to realize that everybody has a story and it's not for us as the Saints to judge them at least they came and now when they get here you're gonna say something about what they have on them I don't think that that's what God would do but I always go back to the manual and I think show me how to love you what is your love language some people need affirmation some people need touch some people need gifts find out what that person needs from you and bit busy trying to give them what they need not what you need give that person what they need and so first Corinthians 13 and 12 talks about looking through a glass darkly which means that you can see but you can't see clearly you can see but your vision has been obscured by the experiences in your life you look in that mirror and you see your mistakes you see the things that you could have done if you had it started earlier you see the lives that you could have saved if you had just taken the time to get to know them you'll see that there are a lot of things that people go through that they refuse to even admit their reflection is what it is they've been so terrorized they've been so traumatized that they don't even want to look in the mirror anymore they don't believe their own image and it's up to us to make that person see their value this is what we need to do in 2020 help somebody else see their value their worth their hope don't be so caught up in being selfish about what you see that you don't realize that the ladies sitting right beside you can't see from day to day how she's going to make it and I feel that if we're going to really really serve God we're gonna have to take what our image says about us we're gonna have to take our vision we're gonna have to take everything that we consider so valuable and bring it to the altar and allow God to see through you if God could use your eyes if God could see your eyes if God can use your eyes to see the people the way he sees them the way that he sees you the way you want to be perceived sometimes you don't even know how to explain yourself to other people because there's so much inside of you that just bubbles up and comes to the surface and no matter how hard people preach and no matter how people tell you you're going to make it and that you're okay and I'm okay with you you have to learn to see them as God sees them you've got to learn to love them as God loves them the church is a huge Hospital a huge Hospital and those that aren't sick they don't need a physician but we came because we were willing to say I'm alien I'm hurting I want you to know that we're all different in this room but in Exodus the women were commanded to bring their image their mirrors the women were commanded to bring their looking glasses the women the women the women were asked to bring what they thought was their own reflection and bring it so that the laver that the priest would wash in would be made of the image that the women presented they took their looking glasses and it wasn't glass it was ten some of them had brass all of them had a reflection of themselves and when God got ready for the women to serve they had to bring their image their true selves their authentic selves that image that you just just hold so high in regard I'm such and such a name this knife made it through this and I've got this kind of car and I live in this kind of house your image what you see God commanded us to bring our image and let it be molded and melted till all of us look just alike you're ten my lumina for my raggedy mirror my cracked mirror my defeated image everything that I thought about myself God asked me to bring to tell me and he melted it with yours and with yours and they molded it your image with mine and hearse until it all looked the same and they filled it with water so that the men began to serve before they served they would look in our image because water is a reflection just like the original mirror yes and everybody's image was molded together and the men were able to cleanse themselves because the women gave up their image every woman that's in this room God is going to require us to be molded together until I can't tell that you're black and you can't tell that I'm not and you can't tell where I came from because of my accent you won't know who I am because I'm so intertwined with you that nothing can separate us once you give up your image you can't take it back it's forever molded into mine and that's what we are this morning we are a reflection of the manual that we read the Word of God is living water the Word of God is living water and the only way you're going to know who you are is to go back to the manual we can't say we don't have a manual the Word of God is a lamp it's a light it's a reflection it's the word over your life it's not gonna change gwenna every time they try to get a new appliance or a new phone you got to get a new manual this one does not need to be updated we don't have to update this one we don't have to get the newest and the best or the finest because the Word of God is sure and he's not going to change his mind about the purpose that he has in your life the vision that he has for your life sometimes we get a little blurry in our vision sometimes we're trying to see through tears sometimes we're trying to see through fears but the manual the book the book stands sure any question that you have in life look in the table of contents and you'll find that your name has been written in the manual everything that you want is in the manual if you don't know how to operate it you gotta read it you gotta study it you got a hold on to it and know that it's not gonna be updated what he said yesterday stand sure what he's saying about you whether it takes five years or twenty five years is up to you if you don't read the manual everybody wants the quickstep everybody wants to get it quick and easy and fast but if it's not written in that book you're gonna break it you're gonna break it and it will become abuse it's not intended to be used that way your life is not intended to be used by anybody but God only God knows you he said even before your mama knew you I knew you I understand you I want to be number one in your lives and it's all through the pages of a book it says Sarita it says Cammie it says John oh look there's Cynthia oh there's Chiron look look there's Belinda all in the book all in the it's all right here in the manual so why are we just kind of floating around like we don't know what to do and we don't know how to act we don't know what to say when God is already giving you your script he told you you can do all things if it takes five years I can do it don't lose your focus now don't lose your focus the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy your vision don't lose your focus even if you can't see it clearly keep looking keep looking don't give up don't you dare give up don't you don't you don't you give up don't you don't you give up hold on hold on hold board steady yourself this is going to get hard it's gonna get hard it's not gonna be easy all the time but it's worth it stay focused stay focused pain comes stay focused stay focused God will see you through God will see you through God will God will see you through he's closer than a brother when your mother and your father forsake you the Lord say I'll pick you up stay focused stay in the wind of God stay in the arms of God our minds play tricks on us some of us are on medication some of us are overly medicated some of us need medication to stay focused when the people come in service and they're disruptive stay focused don't let anything obstruct your vision a lot of people are distractors and they'll try to stand in front of you so you can't see but you got a people around well sometimes you gotta give them a friendly little shove don't obscure my vision don't put your foot on my if you don't want to walk forward please step aside cuz I gotta go through God wants to see us through twenty twenty twenty-one should the Lord tarry twenty-two it's gonna stay right in your face until you say yes like for you to stand right now and I just want you to just look around you just logo and all the images in this room all of the images we've got young babies we've got mature babies we've got white babies brown babies yellow babies all of us make up a fragrant garden um for the Lord nobody is more important than you no one is more significant than you no one can do what you do but you and the whole creation is moaning and groaning and waiting for you to manifest the real you you've had to fake it for so long that you don't even know who you are anymore you just let anybody tell you who you are just anybody can get in your ear and change your whole demeanor because you don't know the manual because you don't know yourself you are exactly who God says you are you are exactly what God said you could be all of the ingredients are churning around inside of you everything you need is already inside of you what more can he do how many different ways can he say it you are the beloved of God you are the righteousness of God you are all together lovely every follicle on your head is number two he's written your name in blood and then he said if you want to know how to operate your gift look in here it's full of you he talks about kings and poppers he talks about women with issues he talks about women that can only drag themselves in the room to just touch to him he talks about little girls that died and he reaches over it says damsel arise when did that little girl that acted so jubilant die what came and took you joy where nothing's funny homes not home life is not worth living I just come to the church and go home and I come to the church and I go home I come to the church never realizing that everything that you needed you could have at home if you just look in the man you are if you would just see yourself in these pages somebody's lost away somebody can't see a thing what happened to your focus what happened to the real reason we come to the house of God did you forget that you're just as sick as the person that you're trying to win just because you have arrived don't burn the schoolhouse down don't make it hard for me to get mine because you got yours already it's just taking me a little bit longer but though the vision teri wait for it though the vision teri is wait for it for in the end it shall speak and not lying everything God promised you is on the way thrown your way you could almost reach up and pull it on in from here he's teasing you with it it's playing peek-a-boo with you can you see it can you feel it it's coming your way tell somebody don't give up now don't give up don't give up you just just just don't give up right now if you give up right now you gonna have to repeat the cycle but if you start where you are stop where you are don't wait for the battle stop now it's already on how do I know what's in the book how do I know what's gonna happen cuz he's daddy I didn't know it I couldn't feel it I didn't think it was gonna happen but I held on I held on to sickness I held on to death and consequences I held on cuz it's my vision it's yours God did it and you can access it whenever you get ready if you just look in the bar it's in there it's in there there Vince it's the open book test baby just open when did it with me what you say I'm broke women wait a minute hold on wait a minute of the cattle on a thousand Hill below God don't lose your focus [Applause] everything you did you're not getting along at home when when man will put a word on it wait a minute wait wait wait liver Berber women oh oh wise woman builds her house but the foolish woman tears it down without it's in the book ha ha ha it's in the book oh it's in the book and if you need it God said if you like anything ask me don't act your neighbor don't let your neighbor if you wanna know the real deal ask me I'm tired a proper lioness I'm tired of a CSA read it for yourself know it for yourself oh god you gotta know that you know that you know that every gift that came from above the operation instructions are right in front of you and he said Lo and with you always even when you can't film me that's on you cuz I'm here I'm right here don't give up Oh 23 years 24 however long we've been in Dallas the same word the same word you don't change is there when I'm right is there when I have to say Lord what page well what page we're not gonna cry ourselves to sleep any more tears obscure your vision and you can't see well you teary-eyed your vision is blurry weeping and do it or not but it's morning [Music] it's morning it's morning [Applause] weep no more it's okay it's okay wipe your eyes dust yourself off and try to get it hurts Sarita I know I know how it hurts but dry your eyes just a temporary pain it'll pay but you got a B he doubled you gotta be whole you gotta see your way clear don't give up [Music] Chrissy don't don't give up stay the course it's gonna be alright nezzie sometimes you got this lead people where you haven't been yourself I don't know how to do this it's in the book I don't know how to raise this kid it's in the blood I don't know how to be married to this man it's in the book dry your eyes weep no more only the strong [Applause] you gotta be tough you gotta be resilient and you gotta be unapologetically bold enough to approach the throne of grace and find mercy and grace to help whenever you need it don't be so satisfied I got this no you don't he's got this it's in the book the baby didn't come with the manual my husband said he was intimidated to raise Dexter he said cuz he's got that thing and it's stronger than mine he said I don't know how to raise this baby oh so you are a royal priesthood what a holy nation what that you should proclaim the glorious gospel of Jesus what we don't know how to raise no King [Music] that's his King if you don't know you don't know but babies you connect somebody the omnipotent the omnipresent let him watch over you give up your image right now and start to worship Him for sake who you think you are and ask him show me a [Music] scale I dare you to ask it who do men say that I have who Who am I who whose am I [Music] 2020 my vision corrected I just it give me my focus back I want my vision back I need to focus I want it back I used to seek you God and then I got so great that I knew you I got too familiar that I didn't even go back one out of ten came back to say thank you to God for what he done 1 out of 10 are you that one would you be that one would you be that one [Music] would you be that war give up your way it's not gonna work it's not intended to work it's not gonna work until you look at the manual and operate it properly you've done it your way so many times and got it wrong as many times but this morning you're not going to get any more than you give give and it shall be given unto you if you give Him praise he'll give you more if you give Him praise he'll give you more if you give them worship he'll give you more he'll give you more to thank him for and you'll be able to tell him how good he is and how great he is and how wonderful he is and how marvelous he is but you're not telling him anything that he does not already know he's altogether lovely he knows that if you would just slip your hands up for just a moment please Lord you know I'm a fool without you but with your help Laura show me who I am I need you to use my eyes to see people the way you see them and I need you to let people see me the way you see me I need you Lord to help us link arms so that you can see us us us us through not a selfish prayer I want to be able to link arms with my beaten and broken sisters and God we know that you will take us through whatever however whenever wherever we say yes in Jesus name hug your sister [Music] hugger so he's gonna see us through he's gonna see us through he's gonna see us through he's gonna see us through he's gonna see us through he's gonna see us through I don't know what's around the corner but he does and he'll see us through we don't know how long we have on this earth so it would behoove us to be nice steer through somebody you not speaking to timeout get your focus back see us through diseases and pestilence all over the lands oh my god we need him to see us through afraid to get on a plane afraid to drive a car afraid to walk God will see us through [Music]

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Length: 52min 46sec (3166 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 24 2020