Taking Form | Sarah Jakes Roberts

hey family pastor Toure here I'm excited about this message of getting ready to watch it's gonna bless your life and there's another blessing that I pray that you be able to avail yourself to I wrote my second book called wholeness winning in life from the inside out this book is going to change your life it's all about identifying and uncovering some invisible boundaries that keep you from your potential it's a great blessing with a foreword even from our Bishop TD jakes enjoy but for now enjoy this video I've been praying and studying about just what God would have us to just sit with in this time together I won't be up here very long but I have to tell you that I got this word like in the craziest most random way we were at home in Denver and I was cooking cuz that's what I do I like to cook it's like a thing for me and I have a lot of cooking ministries I have a fried-chicken ministry I have a poundcake ministry I have a spaghetti ministry but where God has really been using and functioning in my anointing for cooking has really been chocolate-chip cookies and I have a chocolate chip anointing because here's the thing chocolate chip cookies like they just feel like everything's going to be okay I don't know what it's about that but I made myself this promise like I wanted to be the mom that made just like the best chocolate chip cookies like I just wanted them to feel like love and acceptance and just strength and courage all in the cookie is powerful and I would make something for y'all but there's too many of you so you just have to take my word for it and so I was making these chocolate chip cookies in Denver and I was really excited because we had just moved and the kids were excited because it's like a thing with us and you know that my bonus children call me my during like my dreams gonna make cookies and so it's like a thing right and so I made the cookies you know saying because that's very important I don't play with my ingredients it's a certain kind of thing I need don't mess me up because you know the enemy will try and have people when you go to the store for people that come back with stuff to try to mess up your cookies but when you have a cookie ministry you got to be you got to stand tall so I got my ingredients and I made my cookies and I put the cookies in the oven but the thing is that when I put the cookies out that wasn't the same cookies that I make in California and that was confusing for me because I did everything the right way it was like all of the exact ingredients and I mean the cookies taste good they just didn't look the way that they were supposed to look and so that's all right maybe it was the baking so just I made the cookies again and still the cookies just didn't they were flat they were spread out all thin and my ministry for cookies they're soft they're you know like firm and steadfast unshakable movie cookies but talked at the same time as steadfast as powerful and but for some reason these cookies were just not making that turn in Denver the way that they do in California so I went to Rabbi Google coz rabbi Google knows everything and I'm like Google cookies altitude Wesa and evidently there's something about the altitude that changes the chemistry in the cookies and I didn't know that but I was still functioning as if I could function the way I functioned in California but there's something that happens when you reach a new elevation that you can't just do things the way that you always did them and expect to get the same results and the crazy thing is like this would have been fine if nobody knew what they were supposed to be because the cookies still tasted fine it's just there was something down on the inside of me that said this not what it's supposed to look like they're supposed to have a certain form and so I have been like diligent and tweaking the ingredients in adding flour and changing the baking soda because I am in hit on these cookies having the same form that I know that they are supposed to have and I realized in the middle of this tweaking of the recipe that that is exactly what God has been doing with us that some of us are operating and functioning at a new altitude but we're using the same ingredients and wondering why we aren't getting the results were supposed to get and I felt like God was telling me as I was making cookies because that's the kind of God he is that he's not going to stop touching you and changing you and shaking up your life until you return to the form of who he knew you were when he formed you in your mother's womb and I felt like God was saying it doesn't matter what you have achieved up into this point it doesn't matter how good the cookies taste in Denver if they're not the way they're supposed to be then it doesn't really matter we can sometimes allow the fact that we are successful at a certain season make us stop pressing the way that we're supposed to but God said I will strip friendships away I will change relationships I will change your city I will change your location I will do whatever it takes to get you back to that form if I had a subject for today's message it would be taking form you're taking form and it feels awkward and you're not thinking the way that you used to think and you're wondering am i offer or a my own in a way that I never thought I could be on am I connected or am i disconnected and God said you're taking form you're taking form and so to start the message I want to speak from second samuel 7 and what i really want to talk about are things that you can expect to happen when you're taking form because if nobody tells you then you will be in this awkward season where you aren't necessarily feeling like yourself in and your situation has changed but you're not exactly losing like I am I in the right room you know when you're losing this doesn't really feel like losing it feels like new I'm I'm not winning I'm not confident the way that I was but I'm not exactly losing I feel like like I'm taking form like I'm actually asserting myself in a way that I never thought that I could assert myself before I feel like I am manifesting everything that God placed down on the inside of me and the thing is I think I'm falling in love with who God has called me to be I love that that's the thing about taking form is that God begins to reveal to you that you were thinking too low of yourself that I'll put gifts and talents down on the inside of you that would shock yourself that she'll look back over your life and you'll be like dang I didn't even know that I could do that but something happened while I started walking on water and I started believing differently and little did you know what was happening was that you were taking form you were taking form and so I want to talk about David and at this point in the text David has taken form to a certain extent he has gone from being the shepherd boy and now he's King he's had a tumultuous relationship with saw yet that didn't take away the crown and he's finally she's finally king he's living in the kingdom he's defeated Goliath like he's winning and so he's resting in his palace and it says now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all of his enemies man can we just pause there for a second rest from all of his enemies as I was praying I was asking God like man what does it feel like to have rest from all of your enemies you know like I love a good hater certainly you know like y'all haters gonna be yo congratulating when God gets finished with you your haters are gonna be your footstool come on somebody and then we dance all over the church but I was just thinking or I danced all over the church I don't know how y'all worship maybe it's just me okay but as I was praying I was thinking I was asking I'd like to have rest from all of the enemies what does that mean and God told me that you have rest from all of your enemies it's just that you replaced your enemies with calling I didn't understand that let's go deeper Lord because that's how I talked to him and I felt like God was saying that some people don't really want rest from their enemies because their enemies are distractions to their destiny and as long as you have an enemy where you're trying to control the narrative of what he or she said about you then you have no time to focus on what God has called you to do some people are praying for rest from their enemies but they don't really mean it you see sometimes we can be so excited that we have the hater that it becomes all that we talk about we talk about it so much that we aren't even creating the way that we should create because we are just so excited that we made it to such a level that we have an enemy but God says when you start to have rest from your enemies it's not that your enemies don't exist any longer you just have elevated to such a point that you don't even care what they're saying that you're not chasing down the stories anymore because the more energy I've been trying to arrest an enemy the less time I have to lay hold of my destiny I don't care if you are an enemy or a friend of me if you are against my destiny then I can't be connected to you I need a rest from my enemies and not so that I can be on cruise control and so that I can say all my life is so perfect but so that I can focus my prayer for you family is that you would get so consumed with what God has called you to do on the earth that you have rests from your enemies that you would become so consumed with what God is doing in your life that you cannot even hear the naysayers anymore I'm sorry but I hope you lose friends if they're your enemies I hope you lose opportunities enemies because I am so in love with who God has called you to be that it is most important to me not that you get to post about haters but that you get to post about new books and new movies and new deals and new relationships and what God is doing on the inside of your life rests from your enemies so David he's dwelling in this house he's got rest from his enemies all around and so in verse 2 we see that you know David gets a little bored not bored but he just is so excited about what God has done in his life that he says I want to do something for God and this is what I look this is tithes and offering this is reciprocity he has established who David is on the earth he is a king he's defeated Goliath but now David is not content to just sit in the house and just soak up all of the glory he says I want to do something for God and that's when you know you are in relationship with God when your prayer request changed from God give me give me give me and instead God what can I do for your kingdom looking I do on the earth how can I change what I see in the headlines that's when we become Friends of God we are children of God but when you become a friend of God you start asking our crazy questions like I don't want you to just bless me for the sake of blessing me so that I could post and son on Instagram I want you to bless me until the criminal justice system is changed I want you to bless me with influence so that young girls know how to protect their worth I want you to bless me with influence not so that everyone can see how great I am and how talented I am but so that they can recognize that you change lives I want to be blessed so that I can be a blessing I want to be blessed so that I can be a blessing I'm over the selfish generation this selfie selfie selfie God if you're gonna do something in my life let it be so that I can touch someone else's life I want to be your hands and feet on the earth God what can you do with me what can you do with this boys what can you do with this gift that will make the world better place I'm not praying for someone else to do it I'm saying God if there's anything down on the inside of me that can shake this world upside down for your glory Lord don't do it without me I'll write a book if I have to I'll preach a sermon if I have to I write songs if necessary I forgive if I have to bitterness will have to flee because I have to do something on this earth I have to do something on this earth I have to do it I can't watch this world just go down to pieces knowing that you have called and chosen me and anointed me to do something crazy if I never see it in my bank account and I only see it in change lives that's enough for me if I never see it in what I Drive and I only see it and change lives that's enough for me and the thing is that when we seek the kingdom on that level all other things are added to us that's the peace of being a believer that's the peace of being a friend of God I don't know what kind of friends you've had but when you have a friend of God God says when you cover my back I got your back I will dispatch angels on your behalf when you pray I will answer your prayers miracles will happen because I know that I can trust you with the crown I can trust you with the crown can you be trusted with the crown David went from being the shepherd boy into the kingdom he has the crown on his head at this point he could be on cruise control but still there was something in him that said I want to build a house for the Lord it said that the King said to Nathan the Prophet see see now I dwell in a house of cedar I made it but the Ark of God dwells inside tent curtains and verse 3 continues it says then Nathan said to the king go do all that is in your heart for the Lord is with you so nathan is the prophet and he tells them listen I know you want to build this house go ahead and do it because your heart is in the right place you want to do something for the Lord and verse 4 continues it says but it happened just so you know whenever you see a but it happened there's going to be a black choice and the but it happened it doesn't always come out in our lives like in those three words it comes out in a plot twist up until this point David and Nathan are having a conversation there are two good people with good intentions talking about what they want to do for God without God good intention see that's the crazy thing is that we think that in order for things to go wrong for in order for things to not work out that it takes this evil intention on one side that it takes this malice but all it takes is for God to not be in the mix you can have two perfectly good people in a relationship trying to do the best that can but if God is not in it you will always experience a but it happened a but it happened a good job opportunity a great employee but for some reason it didn't work out because you have to ask the question was I talking about what I wanted to do for God without God in the conversation that's a heavy question because you look at your gifts and your talents and what you're good at and you say you know what I could be the Christian Nicki Minaj it's how I had it's all I could come up with it's all I have can't sing our rap okay and I could be the Christian Nicki Minaj this is my own testimony come on somebody when I was younger I wanted to be a rapper I have bars I don't know if you've ever noticed that but sometimes when the Holy Ghost can me bars take home it's a I don't have to prove it go on YouTube there's a thing you've not got bars and so I said to myself somebody's heard my bars a man all you need is to put two or three or gathered that's all I needed I had a plan for my life and I thought to myself based off of what I see I am capable of doing this is what I can offer the Lord and I live this plan for my life thinking that no I'm never going to be a speaker I'm never going to be a preacher I can't Pastor those aren't my gifts and talents I want to do something for God but I want to do it on my terms and everything I tried to do had a but it happened attached to it I thought it was going to work but it happened that I lost the job I thought it was going to work but it happened that I lost the relationship there is a but it happen that you can guarantee what happened to everything that doesn't have God's fragrance on it and so David and Nathan they got together and they had this conversation and it happened that the night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying go and tell my servant David thus says the Lord would you build a house for me to dwell in this isn't God like just so excited that that David wants to build a house and he's so honored by it he's trying to prove a point and we see that point in verse 6 when it says for I have not dwelt in the house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt even to this day but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle this was so powerful to me because at the time that David feels like I'm on cruise control and I've come to a point in my life where I want to do something for God God says I'm not finished doing something in you just because you have the crown just because you've reached a certain level of success does not mean that you have become everything that I want for you to become just because I could make the cookies in Denver and they tasted good didn't mean that the cookies were at their highest potential don't let the fact that you have a crown make you forget that God isn't finished with you and so I realized as I was reading in this text that there was something significant about the tent and the tabernacle David wanted to build a house he wanted to move a structure that was unmovable to honor God and his heart was in the right place but he failed to realize that God was the most powerful when he lived in a tent and in a tabernacle in this temporary dwelling place that's when God was changing the hearts of the people of Israel that's when he was making a way for King Deva for King David it's when he was in a tent and a tabernacle a tent in the tabernacle this temporary place and I said God why is it that you can move in this temporary place but you wouldn't let David build something that was worthy of your honor and he God told me that it's because I didn't need him to build something for me I was building something down on the inside of him and I needed to stay in a tent and in a tabernacle so that he would realize that I can move when he moves what does that mean that means that God was with David when he was a shepherd boy because he was in a tent in a tabernacle you see what happens is that so many of us decide that when we've reached a certain level that we're going to build a monument to God and mark the spot where he blessed us but God says if you limit me and confine me to the place where you met me you will forget that I have been there all along that means that I was in a tent and in a tabernacle when your car was being repossessed I was in a tent in a tabernacle when your father wasn't there I was in the tent and I am the god of the tent in the tabernacle so that when life starts twisting and turning you'll know that you're never by yourself I don't need a house where I have to make people come to me you are the tent and tabernacle of God oh my god it just hit me this is a room of it's in Tabernacles when you go into those rooms when you go into those meetings they may never come into one Church but because they've had an encounter with you they've had an encounter with the ten and the tabernacle of God I may not look like what I've been through but I promise you I feel the anointing of God anywhere I go because I know that he is the god of my tent and my tabernacle God is raising up some people in this generation who recognize that they can be the tent and the tabernacle David wanted to build a church he wanted to build a dwelling place for the Lord and God said you can't build a dwelling place for me because you don't know what I'm doing this was just the beginning David had the crown but he hadn't yet fought with Uriah he hadn't yet slept with Bathsheba he hadn't buried his talent yet David was still taking form I said don't limit me to what I do just because you got one win under your belt because I can do exceedingly abundantly above all that you may ask for thing don't limit me right here you're still taking form you're still taking form that awkwardness that you feel that wondering that questioning that's you taking form that's God doing something down on the inside of you that's him awakening something you're still taking form and what I want to talk about just three things that you have to keep in mind when you are taking form when I was looking at the just taking form concept I think it's important and I didn't give them this or you guys if you're going to take know she's just got to be fast with it to take form is to develop into a distinctive entity to develop into a distinctive entity it is when God pulls you out from fitting in with everyone else and says I need to work on you differently I need to develop you into a distinctive entity there's something that I have called you to do that no one else on this earth can do the way that you do and the only way I can do it is if you begin to take form that means that I have to some things away from you in order for you to take form that means I have to change some habits in order for you to take form you've got to speak up a little bit differently in order for you to take form over are the days of just acquiescing and not saying what we mean to say God is calling us into a season where we are to activate what we know to stop getting into rooms and acting like oh it's whatever no it's not whatever I mean in here for a purpose there's no coolant it's going to be taken place there are some decisions there are some things that need to take place in this earth and because you are a distinctive entity no one can do it but you three things the first thing is be flexible they're going to put it on the screen for me so David had to be flexible because he was he had a plan to build a house for the Lord right and Nathan had endorsed that plan but for some reason Nathan was gonna have to go back and tell him that the thing that he thought he was going to do he can't no longer do if you were going to perfect your form in this process you're going to have to willing to be flexible what does that mean that means that you can't insist that God moves in your life in a way that you are familiar with you're going to have to be flexible and open to God doing things the way that he does it in the way that only he can do it which means that I am not so married and to my blessing coming from CAA that I forget that I can be an independent artist and still create the kind of content that changes the world that means I cannot be so married two things happening the way it happened for this person or happened for that person that I use their formula for my destiny we got to be flexible we've got to be flexible otherwise we'll be in being when other people succeed and wondering when it's going to be our turn we'll start using people as opportunities instead of seeing how we can serve what they're doing and just believing that because we're serving what they're doing that God is going to reward our hearts we got to be flexible number two is wait for confirmation when God gets ready to do something in your life he will always send confirmation you see some people just came into this room because they wanted to come to church and other people came in here because they're looking for confirmation because God has said something to me about Who I am and what I can become and I just need his confirmation because I know that with his confirmation comes acceleration I know that when God begins to confirm things that even when insecurities and fears start raging up against me that I have a confirmation to fight them with I don't know who this word is for but God wants me to tell you that this is your confirmation that I am NOT a man that I should lie that thing that I place down on the inside of you is going to come to pass you've been waiting for confirmation here it is write the book start the business do the Builder it's time for you to take that confirmation and start waging war against anything that stands in your way what does that mean that means even when I lose a job it's all right because I got confirmation that what God promised me is going to come to pass I don't fight with normal weapons I don't fight with words and pettiness now I fight with my confirmation I have depression that you can't have my money because I have confirmation that I am the righteousness of God I don't say I don't let anxiety just run rampant in my mind because I have confirmation God wants to give you confirmation if David would have just started building the house he would have started putting work in there's something that didn't have God's breath on it but because he waited for confirmation and Nathan came back and told him scratch that God wants to continue building you he didn't waste energy on efforts that didn't have God's breath on them so many times we don't want to wait on confirmation because at the moment we get the idea we want to move on it because we think we're going to be left behind but when God wants you when he purposes for you to do something in this earth he will send confirmation and acceleration you'll never lose time waiting on God to confirm it I'm going to say that one more time because we live in this society where if you don't get it get it and you don't do something then you're losing but I'm telling you that when God gets ready to do something that there will be people who have been in the game for 20 years well you will bypass because you have confirmation and acceleration because you have confirmation things that you should have you would have had to have experienced for 10 years it'll take you 10 months to do because God breathed on it when you wait on comfort those that wait upon the Lord when you wait on a confirmation you might as well get your wings ready to soar because I know when God sends the wind of my confirmation that I'm going to take off like never before I don't want to do anything that doesn't have God's confirmation on it you're cute I love you you seem like a wonderful person but if God doesn't tell me that you're supposed to be in my life I'm gonna have to let you go because everything I do I do a confirmation this is a wonderful opportunity it looks like a lot of money but if God's confirmation is a moment then I'm sorry I don't want it because I only waste energy on things that have confirmation I need confirmation in my life I wish you would start pressing into God and start saying God confirm it if you want me to do it confirm it if you want me to say it confirm it send me a word that lets me know that you are in the mix because I already tried to do things on my own I already tried to do things without confirmation I'm tired of that and if it means I just have to sit here and look stagnant while everyone else passes me by it's okay because when confirmation comes so do my wings when confirmations come so there's my win when confirmation comes people start talking about me in business rooms where they shouldn't even know my name because God has confirmed it doors start clinging open because God has confirmed that people start giving me things they shouldn't even know me but because I have confirmation I'm waiting on confirmation I'm waiting on confirmation it seems like a good idea but until he confirms it I can't move I need confirmation that's all when Pastor and I first started dating I was like you seem like a great person honestly truly you do honestly I love you but I need confirmation I need to know that God is doing this and when I tell you we received confirmation after confirmation after confirmation and let me tell you why you need confirmation because just like David in this text he hadn't yet figured out that he was going to betray his best friend and then he was going to have a situation with Bathsheba life is going to get so tough and so hard that's the only thing you can fight with is that confirmation when you move out to this city because you had confirmation and then you get out of here and you don't have nothing to work with that confirmation is what keeps you going the next day that confirmation that no I know God told me to be here may not be working out the way that I thought I would but I know I'm no god I prayed about it I gave it to the Lord and he gave me confirmation sometimes the only thing you'll be able to fight with this confirmation my father tells this story about living in this house in West Virginia cos you know when I was born we were on food stamps and God is radically changed our lives but my dad said that he would walk into this house that is it's called a shotgun house or y'all country enough to know what a shotgun house is some of y'all not country enough shotgun go right through the house if you were to utilize weaponry of that nature I'm not saying my father has a shotgun moving on here's the thing he said that he would wake up every morning and tell that house you lying on me can you imagine the power of that he had a confirmation down on the inside of him that even when his outside didn't look like what God called him to do that he would wake up everyday and say you're lying to me it's somebody who needs a loved one to their bank account say you lying to me it's somebody who needs a call their management say you lying to me because there's a confirmation connected to everything I do and I know that God wouldn't get me this far and leave me I don't care what I feel like right now depression you're lying on me the question you cannot have anxiety it's not gonna work friendships are lost them there's nothing wrong with me there's just a confirmation hanging over my life and you were lying on me no weapon formed against me will prosper I'm not going to get out here and lose I'm not gonna lose my mind I'm not gonna get out of here and embarrass myself you lying on me you lying on me I'm talking about arresting thoughts and bringing them into obedience you're lying on me I'm not just gonna go out like that you you lied on me because God said something to me and I know when God says something to me so I gotta be flexible because I'm not gonna lie it's not working out the way I thought it would I gotta be flexible but I know that there's a confirmation connected to it wait for confirmation and number three just three things don't get comfortable don't get comfortable David has the crown he has every right to be comfortable at this point because everything that God told him had been manifested little did he know that that was only one level of the manifestation but in order for manifestation to continue you have to be willing to enter into a new state a vulnerability you cannot afford to get comfortable as I was writing my notes I literally wrote when you've been through a lot you can find yourself waiting to get to a place of peace and stability the truth is that when you begin to follow God's plan for your life you may end up in a tent in a tabernacle forever it's him I know nobody like that y'all didn't shout over that y'all want me to read it again did y'all hear it or y'all just y'all just wasn't excited about that Wow [Applause] it's true though when we were growing up there was this idea that we were going to make it to a certain level and there was going to be a white picket fence and and we would finally be on cruise control and everything would be fine but I'm telling you from the high end to the low end that when you do what God has called you to do that you are committing to walking on water in every season of your life so don't get too comfortable David was that such a peculiar place in this story because though he had manifested the crown there was still struggle waiting for him sometimes God gives you the crown before you recognize the cost of the crown sometimes he gives you the crown before you recognize the cost David's character would change dramatically he would have he would be presented with opportunities that he would have never had to have been faced with if he would have stayed in the field with the lamb but for some reason when God put this crown on his head it unleashed a whole new dimension to him there are some of you who are praying to get into rooms that you don't even realize the cost of getting into them not just the level of success I'm talking about the level of character you have to have to be in these rooms I'm talking about the things you have to say no to in order to get into these rooms I'm talking about the cost of the crown and so at this season right now God is helping you to take form on the level that you're at so that when you get to where he's called you to be that you will have the strength to keep the crown on your head even when it comes at a cost David thought that he was just going to be king but the reality is that God was purposing for the Messiah to come through his bloodline but he had no idea how big that was going to be but what he did know is that he was committed to hearing and listening to God every step of the way when we get into this position we say I gotta take form by any means necessary I can't stay the way that I've been I gotta change I've gotta unlock another dimension of Who I am I got a person to the things of God differently you have to know that you are taking form I was preaching at the nine o'clock service and I feel like God wanted us all to know and it just hit me at that service that there are some people who have been coming to church and they've been logging under YouTube and they've been receiving this word after word after word and they're wondering if they've made it to that other side that other side where you don't back to slide into who you used to be where you don't go back where you are resisting the gravitational pull and I felt it at the nine o'clock service and I feel it deeply here for this 11:00 a.m. service I want you to know that you have resisted the gravitational pull of your past and that you are not going back to who you used to be what am I saying I'm saying that you have taken form I'm saying that gone are the days where you were insecure and broken and unsure of yourself stop penalizing yourself where our person you used to be and start falling in love with who God has called you to be you have been receiving word after word after word and I'm telling you that that word has taken root and produced fruit in your life you've made it to that other side I'm not saying that you've arrived I'm just saying that you've made it to that other side that devil that you defeated that devil that you're chasing that you're running from that devil has lost his grasp on you that addiction that you outran as well as his grasp on you that toxic relationship that you thought you'd never get out of is lost this hold of you I'm telling you that you're stronger because of what you went through I'm telling you that you're not going to repeat that thing over and over and over again in your life because you have taken form and when you have taken form there is a confidence that ought to come to you that I'm never going to go back to being that old shape I know you were in love with some broken girl but I'm telling you that I've warmed up I manned up I leveled up on you I'm sorry I took form I didn't change I just decided to start believing that I was everything that God has called me to be I'm taking form do not be surprised when you start taking form and your circle starts changing because in order for you to take form it's got to push some things out of the way and it's going to draw some things closer to you so this is honestly it's really a season where you have to be sensitive to what God is doing and how he's going to do it that waiting for confirmation is real because you are in the season where your decisions have weight they have weight these are destiny decisions everything is a destiny decision and when you look at things through that lens how does this connect to what God has called me to be then there's a certain peace that you can have we're not living randomly family that's not our thing we don't live randomly and you may have to serve notice on some people who you used to live randomly with that I don't just do random things I'm starting to ask questions like but why are we doing that and who are we going to become as a result of doing it why am i listening to this and Who am I going to become as a result to listening to it I need to know that this thing is building me up and not tearing down what God is doing in my life because God is on the move and I got to move when he moves I don't want to build a shrine to where I used to meet him and miss the fact that he's moving in a tent and a tabernacle I have to understand how I can stay connected to him would you come play as I prepare to close I feel like that God has been shifting and shaking up things in our world and as a result of this shifting and shaking it's made a lot of us uncertain uncertain of who we are uncertain of what our gifts are uncertain of who we can become and God said I only needed you to become uncertain so that you could be insecure but so that you could be a blank canvas again because when you become a blank canvas again then I can show you the next level of what I've called you to do don't be so married to your idea of where you're going to land that you miss that I still have Heights for you to soar there's still something for you to accomplish and don't let temporary success blind you from that work you're still taking form and taking form is supposed to make you feel uncertain it's supposed to make you feel insecure it's supposed to make you press into God on a whole nother level because you're not sure what tomorrow holds but you know who holds tomorrow so in order for me to take form I gotta stay connected to him I gotta understand what he's doing in this season and I can only do that when I am engulfed constantly in his presence would you all stand with me as I prepare to close perhaps as I've been speaking you've said man that's it that's exactly what I didn't do maybe there's somebody in this room who didn't wait for confirmation and they ended up in situations and relationships and opportunities that cost them and you want to have the kind of patience that allows you to wait for God's confirmation would you meet me at this altar I didn't wait for confirmation I moved so fast that I missed out on what I thought God wanted me to do but I want to do it differently this time maybe as I've been speaking you've been in this awkward staging and you've been battling thoughts thoughts that you were losing thoughts that you were wrong not recognizing that you were really taking form not recognizing that God had elevated you see the thing about just the analogy with the cookies is that I didn't realize that the fact that I was on another level meant that I had to change the way that I functioned maybe you've been on another level and at first you were so excited about getting on the level but you can't be the same person you once we're you can't be as open as you were before you can't trust everybody the way that you did and so now you're saying god I need you to show me how to function at this altitude you got me here and I'm excited but I'm not sure that I can stay here because things aren't working out the way that I thought they would God said I've just been waiting on you to partner with me so that I can show you the exact ingredients you need to win on this level maybe you're hearing as I've been speaking you you're like I'm not I don't really do the church thing I'm not religious you know a friend brought me but as you were speaking something was awakened down on the inside of me I want to invite you down to that you can receive what we know to be true and that is that as we looks back over our lives that there were moments where we felt the most lost but we recognized that we were really just taking form I love this because as I was studying I was thinking about just my own life and how if God didn't move in a tent in a tabernacle that he would have never been able to reach the 13 year old girl who was pregnant he would have never been able to reach that woman who was abused he would have never been able to reach me if he didn't move at it in a tent in a tabernacle what am I saying I'm saying that God will meet you right where you are that's what that means the fact that he will be and it's him in a tabernacle means that I need the ability to meet people right where they are there are some people who will never come in here but because you are his tent in his tabernacle they will have an encounter with God and that thing is real God wants for us to be free he wants for us to be free free and the knowledge of who he's called us to be free to function with confidence in rooms where we would have shrunk in the past but that only comes with the knowledge of recognizing that we're taking form and that we're not forming and creating this thing on our own but that God has gone ahead of us and he's made the crooked paths straight that his hand is over our lives so even when things aren't working out the way that we think that they should that they're going exactly the way he wanted them to because we're in his hand and we are taking form that's what we've been doing in this season and that's what we are going to continue to do would you lift your hands as I begin to pray we lift our hands as a sign of surrender we lift our hands because it's saying God here we are mold me change me transform me I surrender I surrender everything that doesn't have your name on it I surrender everything that's hurting me but makes me feel good I surrender everything that makes me feel insecure I surrender right now in the presence of God I feel the Spirit of God hovering in this room this is our moment of surrender Heavenly Father I thank you for my brothers and sisters these your sons and daughters represented at this altar I thank you that in this season have changed that you are really building them up in ways that can't even see I think you got that strength is coming to them I think you got that clarity is coming to them they think they're confused but really they're just getting their minds clear they think they've lost their strength but really you're just building them up god I thank you for what you're doing in this season in their life that they are drawing closer to you and as they draw closer to you the real version of who they are are being manifest and so God we ask that you would open our hearts to change that you would make us just make us flexible Oh God that we may become all that you have called us to be so that we can do supernatural things in this earth god I rebuke the spirit of heaviness that could be hovering oh god i review depression that could be making them think that they're too far gone and that they've lost all i rebuke it right now in the name of jesus and i declare a victory over their lives Oh God victory over everything that they touched Oh God that they would come to recognize that in you that cannot lose and you that cannot lose with you that they can do all things Oh God that the impossible is possible because greater is you working on the inside of them than anything that could ever be outside of them God strengthened omocha strengthened em Oh God in your spirit in your knowledge let there be an increase in overflow Oh God may weapons that are being formed right now drop in the name of Jesus Oh God may you begin to despair aside and declare victory over their lives in the name of Jesus I rebuke dry bones and I say you must live Oh God I rebuke depression you must plead I repeat generational curses I rebuke comparison right now in the name of Jesus I rebuke comparison my journey is not the next person's journey so that I act that you would give me the confidence to be authentic for real to be genuine for real to recognize that I don't have to win the way that everyone else went to win but because you have sent me a partner anointed and appointed me that there are only things that I can do in this earth God awaken their divine identity in this earth and may they function in it with confidence and with the ability knowing that you've already set them apart in Jesus name [Music] hey my friend I pray that that message blessed your life it blessed me for sure I want to also encourage you to pick up wholeness winning in life from the inside out this book is gonna change your life god bless you I'll see you next time

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