Something To Prove - Sarah Jakes Roberts

hey family i'm pt pastor toray roberts i'm the lead pastor of the potter's house at 1la and denver on behalf of my wife pastor sarah and myself we want to welcome you to our channel and to this word i cannot wait for you to hear what god has for you in this message i want to tell you a few things really quickly subscribe if you're not already subscribed to this channel subscribe so that you can be made aware of all of the word that's coming at you week in and week out and also turn on your notifications so you don't miss a morsel that comes forth we're also grateful for you and your partnership if you are so uh compelled we invite you to support what we're doing not just our church but what our church is doing there are a number of outreaches a number of things critical necessary things that we support and we're able to do it because of your generosity so without further ado let's get right into this word god bless you i'll see you soon there are some worship songs that come right when you need them the most i love that song so much when it talks about god catching us where we fall and when we fall that speaks to me so much i've been sharing on my podcast lately that i've been going through this tough season and if i'm honest one of the things that i've been afraid of is to fall and yet i felt challenged to allow myself to actually fall in the presence of god to dare to not hold it all together and allow myself to come undone and something powerful happened when i allowed that moment to become my truth when i stopped resisting this need to hold it all together and finally fell out in the presence of god when i tell you i had new understanding and new clarity on what jesus meant when he was on the cross and he says why hast thou forsaken me you see when we have these moments when we feel forsaken we turn away from god we're like if god has forsaken me i'm not going to listen to the worship music i'm not going to hear the messages anymore because why has thou forsaken me but there is something powerful that happens when we turn to god and say this is how i feel this is where i am and do you know what happened not too long after that jesus says into your hands i commit my spirit that means that in that moment where i felt forsaken that i have a decision to make and i can allow my spirit to be committed to depression i can allow my spirit to be committed to my anger to my fear or to my insecurities or i can dare to say into your hands father i commit my spirit and i'm praying that as you heard that song that there was a nudging by the holy spirit that would allow you to finally fall into god's trusting hands his faithfulness his consistency i'm telling you i am being revealed i am it is being revealed to me god's consistency over and over in new seasons and stages of my life and there is something that some things that only experience can teach you but i'm praying that that worship song is just the beginning of you letting it all go and trusting that god's got you god's got you and i believe that even this word is a reflection of how god has you in mind i was praying and i was studying this morning and i got my shondo i thought my holy ghost when i was praying for this message so i hope it blesses you the way that it blesses me come on activate it's been a minute since i got to activate so i'm excited you activate you know how we get down okay so acts three let's hit it okay i'm gonna be in acts three i'm going to start with verse 11. for those of you who like to take notes or like the title this message is called something to prove something to prove i said that somebody already felt something was that you can you type in the comments it was me it was me i felt it i already felt it the moment you said it listen you know i always say this it is not too late to invite someone to church if you heard just the title alone or that worship song or something i just said a few seconds ago started resonating with your spirit it is not too late to tag your friends and say hey i think you might want to make your way to church and send them the link we want them to be a part of what god is doing don't be greedy don't be the only one who gets a word from god allow those around you to be filled up to so i'm going to be in acts 3 verse 11. now this is after jesus has resurrected and he's walked around the earth and now he has ascended to heaven the holy spirit has fallen come on pentecost sunday the holy spirit has fallen and now the disciples are out and about in the world armed with the holy spirit this is a different disciple than we see in the gospels these disciples are not just following jesus anymore they are now partakers of the divine nature of who christ is through the holy spirit and i want to study for the sake of our time together what happens when they have this impartation from the holy spirit verse 11 begins after they've had they've performed a miracle there was a lame man by the gate called beautiful and peter tells him i don't have silver and i don't have gold but what i do have i give to you in the name of jesus rise up and walk this man is healed he begins walking and now he is staying close to what healed him oh come on somebody that's a word when it within itself verse 11 says now as the lame man who was healed held on to peter and john come on something you got to be willing to hold on to what brings you breakthrough a lot of times we get breakthrough and then we go back to the same place that we used to be or we get breakthrough and we start moving away from the very thing that brought us breakthrough but this lame man has an understanding that many of us could benefit from and that is when something gives me breakthrough i gotta stay close to what brings me breakthrough there are people connected to communities for years and years and years they've been going to the same church for years and years and years they've been listening to the same preachers it's not because they they just love the person but it's because they recognize this person brought me breakthrough this ministry brought me breakthrough this anointing brought me breakthrough and i want to stay close to what brings me breakthrough because guess what i'm going to need breakthrough again we go from glory to glory to glory and if there is a ministry that continues to feed you and pour into you and i believe the potter's house at 1la in denver is that for some of you you want to make sure that you stay connected to what brings you breakthrough but that's not what i'm preaching about let's go back to this text now as the lame man who was healed held on to peter and john all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called solomon's temple greatly amazed they were so when peter saw it he responded to the people men of israel why do you marvel at this or why look so intently at us as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk the god of abraham isaac and jacob the god of our fathers glorified his servant jesus whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of pilate when he was determined to let him go but you denied the holy one and the just and asked for a murderer to be granted to you peter is calling the roll and killed the prince of life whom god raised from the dead of which we are witnesses in his name through faith in his name has made this man strong whom you see and know yes the faith which comes through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all spirit of the living god we invite your presence to fall on us afresh not in one of those ways that we've become used to or comfortable with but in a fresh way father i pray that you would fall following the hearts of every person listening and watching right now following the hearts of those who will be inspired by what someone receives i feel this prophetically that someone is not just receiving this word for them they're receiving this word to pour out to those around them and so father i pray that you would increase their capacity that they would never run dry that they would never feel like i don't have enough to pour out but because of this encounter with you father i pray that they would have overflow where they once had a deficit because that's the kind of god we serve one encounter can push you into the overflow and so i decree and declare an overflow anointing for every person watching right now father that this word would not just be for them but for every person connected to them and father i pray for me that there would be no nerves that there would be no fear that there would be no anxiety that this would be an opportunity where your spirit holy ghost that your spirit would rise up in me undeniably to the extent that lives would be changed and transformed in jesus name amen and amen again you know i need you to type amen in the comments or it didn't happen if you don't say amen in the comments the prayer didn't even happen so i need you to put it in the comments put it in the chat let's talk for a little bit family the world is beginning to open up again outside is opening up and if you live in a busy city like los angeles then you can feel that this city has opened up again when we were in the pandemic and being gangster with it and still having our services when we were going to be supposed to be allegedly locked down i can't admit to any crimes here but we would get on the highway and we would get to the building so fast there was no traffic no issues for a minute i was like look at god let me see what la would look like if some of the saints weren't here but let me tell you the saints are here and i am learning something about myself that i did not know well i knew it i just prayed that it changed during the pandemic i became so patient with l.a traffic a car would pull up beside me during the pandemic and i would be like look at them god bless them god help them to get to where they're going safely i was so full and anointed with the holy spirit now when i get into my car and i'm driving beside other cars it's like we're in this competition like you trying to get to where you're trying to get i'm trying to get to where i'm trying to get i don't have time to let you over you don't have time to let me over and then the worst thing ever happens i'm sitting in my car minding my business maybe not even rush to go anywhere car pulls up beside me and they're supposed to be driving past me like all the other vehicles did on the highway but what do they do they pull up right beside me now we're driving at the same pace down the highway and you know what it is they're trying to audition me for fast and the furious i know this in my spirit man i can tell when i am in competition with someone while i'm driving they pull up beside me they don't want to make eye contact that's how you know it's vin diesel they pull up beside me they don't want to make eye contact i got plenty of things to say what i can do now i got to hit the pedal to the metal now i got to be tyrese or somebody i don't know i'm just saying the spirit of competition is coming back to me heavily i see it when i get home and pt's trying to walk up the stairs and i'm trying to walk up the stairs now i got to walk up the stairs extra fast there is something about this spirit of competition child it won't let me go if that is your testimony and you are competitive like i am let me know i knew that this was a part of my personality because when i went to the gym before the pandemic you know i would be working out beside someone trying to mind my business you know and i would have my 15s or 20s depending on what was happening during that day and here they come get in the 30s now look at you louis armstrong minding my business and yours trying to compete with me have you ever thought to yourself why does it feel like i am in competition with everything and everyone around me honestly simple things like driving our car working out besides someone and god forbid getting on social media it's social media not the place where it feels like i am constantly competing with every post that i see oh they just got a car but is their car as nice as mine oh they're in a relationship but is it a good relationship oh they're enjoying being single why can't i enjoy being single some studies are proving that 10 of our thoughts have to do with comparison and competition it is no wonder that president theodore roosevelt once said that comparison is the thief of joy because if we're constantly competing and constantly comparing then when do we have time to reflect enjoy and have gratitude this spirit of competition it happens when we're in school and we graduate in a certain percentage of our classroom it happens when we are climbing the corporate ladder and we're competing for one spot amongst our other co-workers competition is all around us it is no wonder that there are sayings like the only person i am in competition with is the person i was yesterday and that is beautiful for a social media quote and sometimes it does actually work for me but if i'm honest it's difficult to compete with who i was yesterday when i'm not even sure who i was yesterday or who i am today i wish i could talk to some real people today who didn't mind saying that sometimes i do live my life trying to prove something to other people and then even in the moments where i say it's not about them that i don't even know what i'm trying to prove to myself i feel lost i feel confused i haven't even done the work to examine my life enough to determine how i can become better since yesterday and then we end up stagnant stuck and wondering how do i show up in the world after all you see it takes a certain amount of work for us to really examine our motivation for growth everyone tells us these days you got to know your why you got to know your why you have to understand your motivation for growth the only thing is that no one tells us what to do when our why is toxic what do you do when your why is about proving someone else wrong or proving someone else right what do you do when your why is about hiding your insecurity instead of healing that insecurity i think that there are some people who believe it or not are going to have to abandon their why because the truth is that your why and god's will may not be able to live in the same place your why and god's will may not be able to live in the same place so if your why is in opposition with god's will then you have to be willing to ask yourself can i live in the i don't know why to bask in god's will you see there are some of us who had to abandon the whys of our life where we thought that i needed to prove that i was better after i became a teen mom i needed to prove that i could survive after the divorce that is my why but then i had to abandon my wife for god's will because i was trying to build something that made me feel better about myself without consulting god and if we're honest a lot of us want god's power so that we can have our selfish why but god's power is reserved for his will and god's not going to give you power so that you can do what you've been called to do he's going to give you power for what he's called you to do and so until you examine your why and boiled it down to i'm doing what god has called me to do and sometimes i don't know why i don't know why i don't know why but i'm doing it anyway i don't know why god chose me to preach but i'm doing it anyway i don't know why god called me to lead but i'm doing it anyway i don't know why god kept me in this city but i'm still here i don't know why god put me in this family but here i am i don't know why every time i try to run from my car it keeps pulling me back i don't know why but i surrendered knowing why so that i could step into god's will there is something powerful fat powerful about not minding not having the answers i don't know why but i'm doing it anyway i don't know i feel like that's somebody's word the more that i say that because i hear god saying i don't know who you are but i hear god saying that you've been waiting for the why before you go and i hear god saying that if you're waiting for the y you'll never go but if you step into the wheel it won't matter whether or not you have your why because you'll have god's will the safest place in the whole wide world is in god's will even if i don't know why you chose me even if i don't know why you keep pulling on me even if i don't know why how how am i supposed to interact with these people what am i supposed to do when i get there i don't know why this is burning down on the inside of me but i'm gonna write the book anyway i don't know why this business is something that keeps coming up to my mind but i'm gonna do it anyway i wish i had a while but the truth is i want someone to know that social media will never tell you you don't have to have a why if you have god's will social media will let never let you know that you don't have to have a why if all you have is god's will and peter understands this peter understands the beauty of abandoning your why for god's will when we find peter he is a fisherman and his why is to fish to provide for his family and his community that is his why and then jesus says something crazy to him jesus says that if you follow me i will make you a fisher of men we know that peter was not the only fisherman he doesn't know why jesus chose him he doesn't know why he should be the one who would become a fisher of men and yet you have to trust god's will over your why because god will call you into some spaces and stages that doesn't even make sense but you take your i don't know with you while you walk when we find peter in the text he has stopped protesting god's will for his life i really do believe that peter has become one of my favorite characters in the new testament bible and it's not just because he was a little gangster and would cut somebody's ear off there are allegations of him even being a little bit of a cusser i don't know i'm just saying peter has become one of my favorite people in the bible and i think it's because he didn't mind getting back up again even when he didn't know why if you heard the message i preached a few weeks ago called glory days then you know that he ended up being separated from jesus after he denied him but jesus still called him back to him and when we find him in the text peter has moved from someone who doesn't know why but is in god's will anyway to someone who doesn't care why yeah there are levels to this thing there is i don't know why but i'm going to be in god's will anyway and then there is i don't care why oof i'm praying that someone gets an i don't care why revelation down in their spirit because i don't care why is even better than i don't know why because in order to say i don't know why but i'm going to do it anyway it means i'm going to take my skepticism into this next dimension but when you get to this place where you say i don't care why it means that there is nothing that can come up against me any longer because i am so convinced of who i am in god i am so convinced in what god is doing down on the inside of me that i don't even care why he's using me i just want to make sure that i make myself still available for how he uses me i don't care why he chose me i know that he knows i got pregnant at 13 and had a baby at 14 and i don't care why he keeps putting me in this position i don't care why he keeps giving me this influence i just pray that god teaches me to use it with humility and passion so that lives can be changed and transformed i feel like somebody needs to get i don't care why down in their spirit i don't care why he blessed me and not someone else i got to stay focused on why he gave me what he gave me i don't care why he pulled me out of my city but everyone else got stuck because i've come to a place where i just trust who god is i don't have time to compare myself anymore i don't have time to see if i measure up to other people's opinions anymore i don't care why here i am god send me i don't care why wherever you tell me i'm going to go i don't care why i just know that i want to be where you're moving i don't care why but i want your glory to fall wherever i am i don't care why anymore i feel like that's somebody's word right here you've been trying to run for so long and i hear god saying i need you to get a i don't care why in your spirit because as long as you're wrestling with god you cannot build with god and god is looking for somebody who doesn't mind building with him god's looking for somebody who doesn't mind having not having all of the answers and still moving in the direction that god has called them to move in anyway i don't care why you chose me but here i am peter's gotta i don't care why in his spirit and i think he got that i don't care why spirit when he realized that it was all riding on him now jesus has ascended to heaven and when jesus ascends to heaven after he's walked the earth the glory the power of the glory to invade the earth is resting on just a few people who are willing to say i'll take a piece of that when you come to the realization like peter has that everything is riding on me that god's ability to move in the earth is riding on me then you walk a little bit differently when you have decided to partner with god because if you don't do it then the industry will never see god's glory reflected in his people if you don't do it then god's glory will never be reflected in your family everything is riding on you i'm not trying to put pressure on you i'm trying to put glory on you everything is riding on you anything that god is going to do in the earth he's going to do through people everything is riding on you this doesn't mean that you got to find your own resources oh no baby this doesn't mean that you gotta hustle up on it on your own this means that you got to be so connected with god that you recognize that i don't wake up and have time for foolishness i don't wake up and have time for games i don't wake up and have time for second guessing because god's glory is riding on me if god's going to invade the earth he's going to do it through my art if god's going to invade the earth he's going to do it through my marriage if god's going to invade the earth he's going to do it through how i raise these children if god's going to raise the earth he's going to do it through this church he's going to do it through this community he's going to do it through this business god's betting on me and i'm a sure thing baby because i know how to lay down my life it's riding on you god's glory is riding on you god's glory will have you doing crazy things god's glory will put you in some situations that you should have never been in because god says i can count on you in that room i can count on you with that brand i can count on you with that business i can count on you with that child everything is riding on you if you turn your back on god you then turned your back on everything but if you turn towards god you'll never need anything from anyone else because god's gonna make sure that you are equipped with everything you need it's all riding on you and peter's got this realization he's got this revelation that this thing is riding on me now so i don't have time to deny him i don't have time to play around i don't have time to pacify other people's thoughts and opinions and i don't have time to sugarcoat anything because it's all writing on me and when we find peter in the text he is about to introduce what has been imparted into him when i was first studying i thought to myself peter's going to introduce himself to the world around him but that minimizes what actually happens in this moment what happens in this moment is that peter introduces what has been imparted into him did you know that when you are in connection relationship or building with someone that you're not just introducing yourself you're introducing what has been imparted into you you see that's why relationships start to get tricky the more vulnerable we get because now i'm imparting some of my childhood insecurities i'm imparting my brokenness you get me but you also get what has been imparted into me there's self-doubt that has been imparted into me there's brokenness that has been imparted into me there are negative thoughts that have been imparted into me when you come into connection with someone you don't just receive who they are on the surface you receive everything that has been imparted down on the inside of them and now what has been imparted inside of them is imparted inside of you and that's how we have generational curses but baby peter has found out that when the holy spirit falls that that's an impartation too and when the holy spirit falls the holy spirit has something to prove and what the holy spirit has to prove is that anything that has been imparted in you that doesn't look like god has got a depart so that what god has imparted in you can take root and produce fruit somebody needs to run that back and play it over and over in their mind because there have been some things that have been departed into your life that cannot stay in your life and the only way to get it out of your life is to receive an impartation of the holy spirit if you're hungry for it i want you to type hungry in the comments hungry in the comments because i want heaven to know that someone's hungry for the holy spirit i want heaven to know that someone's hungry for some spirits to depart out of them i've got some impartations that need to depart so that god's glory can be imparted in my life i've got some brokenness that needs to depart so god's holy spirit can come into my life and allow for there to be wholeness where there was once brokenness wherever there is a need god says i've got an impartation that can fix that peter's been walking with jesus but he wasn't just walking with jesus he was receiving an impartation if you walk with me i'm going to impart something to you if you walk with me i'm going to give you power if you walk with me i'm going to give you vision if you walk with me i'm going to give you creativity if you walk with me i'm going to give you clarity you got to be careful who you walk with because whoever you're walking with is imparting something down on the inside of you do i want what you carry do i want what you have to give or have you done the work to cleanse your soul in such a way that anything that's in you that shouldn't be imparted god is pulling out of you there's somebody listening right now and i want you to know that it's time for you to pull away so you can get pulled up it's time for you to pull away so you can get pulled up you cannot afford to keep connection with people who have an impartation that causes you to be destructive when god is trying to build you up that's somebody's whole word right there i could say the benediction peter has walked with jesus long enough that the holy spirit has proved something in him and now the holy spirit is going to prove something through him the holy spirit has something to prove the holy spirit has something to prove and so when we see peter in this text when it begins in verse 11 he's got the evidence of what has been imparted into him which is the healing of the lame man walking beside him but he's not finished yet i don't know who you are but i hear god saying that was just the beginning that i am not finished yet don't be so caught up in what you did well that you miss out on what god can still do with what you have left peter is a bad boy baby because he's received this impartation from the holy spirit and he says i've got something else to say people are gathering all around and they're saying how did this happen and this was the lame man and now he's walking and peter says why are you looking at me as if i did this on my own i know the god that i serve and the jesus who i walked with and it was through faith through that very jesus that i walk with that allow this impartation of healing to take place in this lame man i wish i could say it the way that i feel it in the spirit but i hear god saying that it is going to change the way you communicate the same peter who was denying jesus just days and months ago is now the same peter that is challenging everyone else around him to open up his eyes and recognize what this is i hear god saying oh god i don't know who you are but i feel like this is your word god has been showing you things that no one else can see but you god has been showing you visions that no one else understands but you you say it and you sound crazy you speak it to someone and you start to feel crazy yourself but i hear god saying you hold on to the vision because there's going to come a time when you start speaking out what i gave you and it's not going to sound so crazy anymore because it's not just going to be what you speak it's going to be in the evidence of what you do god's getting ready to give somebody evidence not so that your name can be great not so that you can look good because the holy spirit has something to prove and he's going to prove it with you he's going to prove it through your creativity he's going to prove it through your passion he's going to prove it through the work of your hands the holy spirit has something to prove in you and then through you in you and then through you in you and then through you in you and then through you you want it to go through you but i hear god saying i can't go through you until i get in you you've got a vision for outside of you but i need to focus on what's down on the inside of you first peter didn't just go from being a fisherman to becoming someone who healed the lame man he had to walk this thing out i need you to understand how the holy spirit deals with you how the holy spirit communicates how the holy spirit leads you and guides you so that when i finally unleash your hand to go out into the world you understand how to take orders from the holy spirit and not from men i got some for you i got some for you i don't know who you are this is the kind of message that makes me wish we were all in the room together because i feel like there's an impartation that could take place in this room but i hear god saying as soon as i started studying this message and as soon as i started seeing things click i heard god saying i got something for my people i got a fresh outpouring for my people i got fresh fire for my people i got something to give you the holy spirit's got something to prove to the world the holy spirit had something to prove to that depression the holy spirit had something to prove to that insecurity the holy spirit had something to prove to that generational curse i don't have anything else to prove to man but the holy spirit's got some things that it wants to do in the earth and it's got something to prove something to prove something to prove something to prove your mother couldn't do it but the holy spirit can do it your father couldn't do it but the holy spirit could do it the job's never going to get it done but the holy spirit can do it the holy spirit says i got something to move god does not give us the gift of the holy spirit so that we can stay stuck and stagnant god gives us the gift of the holy spirit because the holy spirit has something to prove and what you have to ask yourself is god what is it that you want to prove through me using the holy spirit what is it that you want to do through me using the holy spirit i don't want to do it in my own strength i don't want to do it in my own power i want something that heaven has to back up behind me because this is something that only god could do and if you don't believe me just watch because i've been in my prayer closet long enough peter's got something to say he recognizes who he is he recognizes who he's talking to and he walks up on them bolder than he's ever been there's a boldness coming to you there's a courage coming to you and it's going to start with the holy spirit falling fresh on you when i was a little girl in church we used to have what could only be called tearing services and it was for people who wanted the holy spirit it was for people who wanted to be baptized with the holy spirit it was for people who wanted fresh power and fresh anointing not just so that they could build a brand not just so that they could build a platform but they recognize if i don't get the holy spirit then i'm going to have these other spirits tormenting me if i don't get the holy spirit then if this insecurity is going to eat me up alive if i don't get the holy spirit then these abandonment issues are never going anywhere if i don't get the holy spirit then i'm going to be walking around rejected when i've already been accepted in a royal priesthood i need the holy spirit to fall on me afresh and i felt like god gave me one thing and one thing only for you activate and what god wanted me to let you know and it is time for you to activate a new revelation of how you and the holy spirit partner in the earth that old thing don't work no more that old thing doesn't have any power anymore peter can't just follow jesus anymore he's got to step into something and when he steps into this moment he has to step into it with the knowledge that he's backed by the holy spirit he tells us in our text after he reminds them of where this power came from that this didn't come from me it started with god this didn't come from me it started with jesus and then he tells them and his name threw faith in his name faith in his name i believe in the name of jesus i believe that when i speak the name of jesus that demons tremble i believe that when i speak the name of jesus that hell gets nervous i believe that when i partner with jesus and i walk into the earth the darkness has to back up off of me i believe that when i prophesy the name of jesus over my life that there is no sickness there is no disease not even death itself can take me out of here because jesus is walking with me and i only go from glory to glory to glory don't worry about me when i'm in the grave i'm going to be somewhere up in heaven because i believe in the name of jesus it is through faith in his name that your child is going to be saved it is in faith through his name that that business that that idea is going to get up off of the ground it is it is in faith in his name that we see change and transition and miracles happen yes the faith which comes through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all see he first had the presence of god so that he could understand how to navigate the presence of men the presence of corporations the presence of co-workers the presence of bosses the presence of the criminal justice system you're not equipped to handle the presence of the outworld of the world systems until you can handle the presence of the ultimate authority because when you have the presence of the ultimate authority when you walk into the presence of those other world systems you recognize what you carry and you pour out what's been imparted into you from the holy spirit baby you got a holy spirit dream this ain't no regular kind of dream i don't know who i'm talking to but this ain't no regular kind of dream that's why you can't find anything that looks like what god has called you to do this ain't no regular kind of marriage that's why you couldn't have any marriages around you to taint your idea of what marriage was supposed to look like this ain't no regular child this ain't no regular family this is a holy spirit dream and what starts with this spirit has to end with the spirit don't allow your flesh to take over with what began in the spirit i know you're confused but you gotta release your why i know you don't know what's gonna happen i know it's uncertain but you gotta release your why this is a holy spirit dream this is a faith action and when you walk this thing out you can't turn it around you my friend have to present your body as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable this is romans 12 verse one through two it's not an unfamiliar text but it's when paul says i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice holy acceptable to god that is to say god here i am a sacrifice i'm not trying to prove anything to anyone else i'm not trying to prove anything to myself i just want to be in your presence anything in me father is a living sacrifice to you burn it away if you have to build it up if you have to comfort it if you have to but everything i have is yours present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to god which is your reasonable service but then verse 2 tells us and do not be conformed to this world don't shape and shift your way into the room don't shape and shift your way into the family but allow that living sacrifice version of you to never be conformed somebody you were once a living sacrifice and you started conforming because it didn't fit for where you were going and you started conforming because you didn't want people to be ashamed and you didn't want to be embarrassed and so you began conforming i hear god saying present yourself again present yourself again god's present has presence hasn't gone anywhere present yourself again then it says be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove that you may prove you are evidence what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god proving to the world what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god the world doesn't always believe that the good and acceptable and perfect will of god can look the way that we know it can look the world doesn't always believe that the good and acceptable and perfect will of god can change the way you see yourself that the good and acceptable and perfect will of god can change how you identify that the good and acceptable and perfect will of god can chase out your insecurities can chase out your low self-esteem you are supposed to be proof which means that the holy spirit has to get in you because the holy spirit has something to prove about what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of god if you're in sin it's time to come out if your brokenness is driving the car it's time to put it in the backseat the holy spirit has something to prove and i know this isn't everyone's word but i just want to talk to that one for a minute the holy spirit has been nudging you and pushing you and urging you to do crazy things going to therapy is a crazy thing for somebody but the holy spirit has been nudging you to do it the holy spirit has been nudging you to leave the only relationship you've ever known and to be alone but the holy spirit has been nudging you to do it and you don't know why i don't have my why you don't need it the holy spirit has the why god has the why and if you don't move then the holy spirit doesn't get to prove through you but there is somebody listening who has made a decision that i'm going to allow the holy spirit to prove what it needs to prove done on the inside of me i'm going to allow the holy spirit to do the work that only the holy spirit can do down on the inside of me this is where i am this is my word and as i was studying for this word i came to the realization that i'm going to have to constantly live in the place of i don't know why but i trust god i don't know why but i want to figure out what the holy spirit is trying to prove i don't know why but here i am god send me i want to pray for somebody who knows that there are in they are in a season in their life and which they need to present themselves as a living sacrifice for too long you've been doing things your way for too long you've been second guessing what god says for too long you've been talking yourself out of what the holy spirit has been trying to do in you for too long you've been married to your way and your way only and as i was speaking as i was praying over you for this message i felt god say that the holy spirit has something to prove but you got to let go of what you're trying to prove i hear god saying that you can show up without the anxiety that you can show up without the fear you can show up without the second guessing because it's not about proving yourself it's about observing as the holy spirit proves what's happening down on the inside of you be patient with yourself be kind with yourself because as the holy spirit is proving it's doing it from the place of love not condemnation it's doing it from the place of understanding and empathy not rejection and abandonment i want to pray with you first of all i want to pray for those of you who have not taken the step to accept jesus as your lord and savior our gateway to the holy spirit our ability to have god's voice moving and talking and leading and guiding us is only available to us because of jesus who saw himself from the heavens looking down on earth and wrapped himself in flesh and came down here so that we could have someone who understands our plight but still reaches for the divine nature anyway and it is through his death burial and resurrection that we all have the ability to be partakers again we are reunited with god because of the way jesus walked the earth we are reunited with the holy spirit because of jesus sacrificing his life and by faith through him are we able to receive the holy spirit and allow it to work in us and then through us then i want to pray for someone who's got to present themselves as a living sacrifice that they have to lay down their thoughts and their concerns and their worries and their fears so that they can come to a place where the holy spirit can move without limitation and restriction and barriers the holy spirit's got to move without bumping into your insecurities and getting shut down the holy spirit's got to move without bumping into your fears and getting shut down it can bump into it but it's got to be able to move around it and somebody's blocked somebody's flow has been blocked because the holy spirit can't get beyond you so holy spirit have your way holy spirit have your way god as i was preaching this message someone realized that the holy spirit can't even work through them because the holy spirit's not finished working in them and if this is you i want you to bring to mind those thoughts that come into your mind when the holy spirit is trying to push you you know those thoughts those insecure thoughts those dirty thoughts those nasty thoughts i want you to bring them into the presence of god because they're not your little secret anymore i'm bringing you into the presence of god because i want the holy spirit to fall over these voices that have been in control of my mind for too long father i pray that for every space where there is a barrier where there is an obstacle where there is a thought that is standing in the way of your holy spirit being able to work in us that you would rebuke it right now in the name of jesus i plead the blood of jesus over that thought because when i plead the blood of jesus over that thought that thought is reminded that death has been conquered that thought is reminded that it has that it cannot have the victory over what jesus has already done i plead the blood of jesus over your mind i plead the blood of jesus over your actions i plead the blood of jesus over that second guessing and that anxiety that keeps you from moving i plead the blood of jesus over it because i recognize that where the power of the blood is that nothing can stand against it that where the power of the blood is there is no principality no demon nothing in hell can stand against what god is going to do and so i plead the blood of jesus both over your sin your flesh and hell because sometimes it is our flesh god this isn't even something that the enemy sent this is our own flesh our own human nature keeping us from partaking in what you have for us and so father we present ourselves as a living sacrifice anything in us you can have we surrender anything in us that needs to be changed father i pray that your holy spirit will begin to touch it and i want those who are watching i want you to take note of how you feel when the holy spirit hovers over that thought i want you to take note of how you feel when the holy spirit hovers over that heartbreak because there are going to be moments when the holy spirit hovers and you begin to feel healed and you begin to feel joy and you begin to feel like it doesn't matter i'm a little bit more resilient than i think i am you're going to feel courage when the holy spirit hovers and i want you to cling to what happens when the holy spirit hovers like the lame man who stayed with peter and john cling to the holy spirit as it hovers over your brokenness i thank you god right now that the holy spirit is moving all over the world that the holy spirit is receiving breakthrough all over the world that is happening in africa it's happening in germany it's happening in australia it's happening in arkansas it's happening in happening in new york it's happening in atlanta holy spirit flow holy spirit go holy spirit break out everywhere and holy spirit as you break out allow it to be first intimate intimacy and then lead us into the path that is ahead of us father for those of them who are watching and making the decision to receive jesus as a lord and savior father i pray god that they would recognize that through salvation that they have a chance for all sins to be washed away and for them to walk in a newness a new identity a new way of being that can only come from you father i thank you that this word is just the beginning just as it was just the beginning for peter that this word this message is going to take root and produce fruit and as it does so may we remember to stay out of the way so that the holy spirit can continue to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god in jesus name i pray amen amen amen amen seal this word amen amen amen amen i don't know if you're like me i'm kind of a church girl so i just have to throw it out there and say it anyway there are some words that shake us to our core there are some words where we say you know what god this was for me i cannot deny it you read my mail and there is something about sowing a seed in that environment because that seed says this is the spot where i want for roots to be taken and for fruit to be produced and so if this is your word i want to at least extend the opportunity for you to connect your seed with your need this is by no way obligatory it doesn't mean that the word didn't hit your core if you don't do it but there are some people who said this is my word and i want to give you an opportunity to sow into it family we love you we thank you for walking things out with us like the lame man with peter and john the potter's house that want to lay in denver we cherish the opportunity to serve what god is doing in your life and we count it an honor to do life with you we'll see you next time you

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Published: Fri Jun 11 2021