The Ground is Shifting | Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Music] I'll be speaking from the subject the ground is shifting the ground is shifting come on somebody did you see that is shifted right now when you came up and got prayer it shifted when you walked into the room it shifted when you decided that I'm gonna make my way I don't care how many people are there I don't care how much traffic I have to go through the ground shifted when you broke off that relationship the ground shifted you thought you were just doing what she was supposed to do but she was shifting the ground so that breakthrough could happen the ground the ground is shifting so I'm speaking out of Exodus 3 verse 4 and it says so when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look this is Moses having an encounter with the angel of the Lord and he is walking the Sheep and he turns and he sees a burning bush and my text says so when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look God called to him from the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses and he said Here I am then he said do not draw near this place take your sandals off your feet for the place where you stand is holy ground moreover he said I am the God of your father the God of Abraham the god of Isaac and the God of Jacob and Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God and the Lord said I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters for I know their sorrows so I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land to a land flowing with milk and honey to the place of the Canaanites the Hittites in the Emirates and the presence and the HID lights and the jebusites now therefore behold the cry of the children of Israel has come to me and I have also seen the oppression with the Egyptians who which the Egyptians oppress them come now therefore and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt but Moses said to God Who am I Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt so he said I will certainly be with you and this shall be assigned to you that I have sent you when you have brought the people out of Egypt you shall serve God on this mountain on this mountain the same mountain where you felt unqualified the same mountain where I interrupted your rhythm and gave you a word from God it is on this mountain that I am going to prove my word to you spirit of the Living God invade this place if you don't do it God it cannot be done but if you do what strongholds could come down and chains could be broken if you do it you can change Hollywood to holy ground you can change LaBrea to holy ground you could change Martin Luther King junior Boulevard to holy ground that's the kind of God that we serve because when you step into a room it automatically becomes holy so god I am giving you full reign let there be nothing off limits that you may move in this place and send a word that changes the lives of your people so god I ask that you would give me wisdom that she would give me clarity that I would have no nerves no fear no anxiety that you would just do that thing that you do when you sit in a room so that lives can be changed for the glory of God in Jesus name Amen amen so one of my favorite things to do from time to time when it's like partly cloudy outside is to stand still in one spot and look up and when you look up when it's partly cloudy you can see that it looks like the sky is moving but those of us who understand geology recognize that it's not actually the sky that is moving it's the earth that is moving it is the ground that is moving but yet the only time we realize that the ground is moving is when we look up because our lives are in rhythm and in motion in such a way that we don't always realize that the ground underneath us is shifting and yet this is a part of life everything is constantly moving I remember playing a game as a kid we play freeze and if you could be completely still like a statue you would win the prize and the truth is we were all lying because we were all moving even though we were trying to be still because it is just the natural way that our bodies function that we're always moving our muscles are always moving our eyes are twitching everything is always in circulation and so we have a responsibility as we navigate this earth not just physically but to recognize spiritually when things are shifting to recognize in business when things are shifting there are people who study finance every single day and one small change and the stock market represents a major shift that is taking place because we recognize that everything is connected to something and so as I was studying and asking God what is it that you would like for me to say tonight because lord knows if you don't give me anything to say we won't sit appearing to look at each other so I asked out what is it that you want me to say and he told me that the ground is shifting again that um got a that the area that we have become familiar walking in is shifting and that everything is going to look the same but it's really not the same because the ground has shifted and I think it's important that we know that because there's a certain perspective that we have when we recognize that the ground is shifting I mean like the tables are turning I mean like our mindsets are shifting I try to break this down for you have you ever realized that the ground has shifted like after the fact it's like when you're talking to someone who you used to be friends with so close to and they haven't changed but for some reason you're not able to connect the way that you used to because because you're standing in something different now the ground has shifted I'm just standing in something differently the same music doesn't move me anymore I don't get excited about certain things anymore because the ground has shifted I'm standing and something different it takes a little bit more to move me than it did before I'm not the same person that I used to be it's not you it's me the ground has shifted underneath me I just gave somebody the words they've been looking for to cut some things off I could tell that something was different I just didn't know how to express it the ground is shifting my priorities have changed my dreams have changed my attention is focused on something different it's not you it's me it's just the ground is shifted I'm trying to build something that cannot be shaken when everything else is being shaken and it takes a certain level of dedication and commitment in order for me to do that it's not you it's the ground has just shifted from underneath me I'm counting my money differently I'm dreaming my dream differently it's not you it's me we used to vibe when I was standing on a certain ground but now that the ground has shifted underneath me what makes the ground shift a word makes the ground shift when I received a word that penetrates past my insecurities and past my fears it shifts the ground that I'm standing on the ground could shift right here in this room and you'll walk out of this place a totally different person and everything will be the same same car same shoes same life but a different me because the ground has shifted I see opportunity where I once saw let I see open doors where I once saw closed doors I see God making a way out of no way so sometimes I need to pray that God you will do nothing but just shift the ground around me that it would go from being that which I am familiar with to holy ground I need to shift this ground into holy ground and this part in our text is so interesting to me because we've got Moses who was literally about to go from standing in what is familiar to him into holy ground I really think Moses is one of the most interesting characters in the Bible he was born in a time where all of the Hebrew males were supposed to have been thrown into the river what I love about that is that he was thrown into the river but the ground shifted a little bit differently when he was thrown into the river because he had someone who had enough foresight to build a raft I'm going to still throw you in the river but I'm gonna do it with the hedge of protection around you so that it looks like I put you in danger but in reality I taught you how to navigate danger that's and so he's found though by an Egyptian so you guys know the story y'all saw the Prince of Egypt 20 years ago like I did I mean you read your word every single day I got confused but we've got this Hebrew baby who was thrown into a basket in the river and then he's picked up by the very people the very group that was looking to persecute him and I really love Moses story because time after time we see him being a stranger in familiar territory and so if I may just set up this text to give you context about where he is I want to share that at this time he has been living in Midian for about 40 years why did he move to Midian from Egypt I'm glad you asked well because one day and this is where my Ebonics version of the Bible comes together because it's gonna be a little raggedy but I'm gonna get us there all right okay so our boy Moses was born a Hebrew right but he grew up in Pharaoh's household but he knew he was Hebrew well one day he's walking around Egypt and he sees that two Hebrews are having an argument they beefing all right that's what was happening okay and so when he sees that these two Hebrews are having an argument he tries to interject like hey yo what's up like let's all get along like I'm one of you you're one of me and like we supposed to be doing better than this and they was like oh so now you want to be one of us let me back up on all for you before you kill me like you killed the Egyptian last week and Moses was like well y'all heard about that was it on the same room phonics stick with me I'm going to bless you Hey and so when he realizes that it is not a secret anymore that he killed this Egyptian and he killed this Egyptian because because he saw the Egyptian beating on a Hebrew now this is very interesting because there was something about him witnessing the Egyptian beating on the Hebrew that brought up anger down on the inside of him and we have these moments in our life where we cannot fully be Hebrew and we cannot fully be Egyptian and when we try to pick a side we don't really know what side were on until I thrust us into something I gotta break that down because it is this juxtaposition of him being Hebrew and Egyptian that he hasn't quite dealt with that ends up sending him fleeing out of the place where he was raised and it is also the juxtaposition of him being Hebrew and Egyptian that God uses to call him back to the place where he once fled because all of us are not entirely one thing and we don't know exactly which one we are until we're placed in a situation where the greatest version of us has to rise up and handle it and depending on which version rises up that determines what God has to deal with down on the inside of us at I'm um I'm gonna work this thing on out with child so Moses pleased because he is conflicted within because sometimes it is easier to run from a situation than it is to figure out why we are conflicted and it would be so easy to penalize him from running away from that situation but the reality is that we cannot always figure out who we are authentically in the environments that produced us so you think you came here for a gig or you think you went somewhere to go off to school when in reality God sent you there so that you can figure out who you are in your core I thought I'll share my own testimony I thought that I was coming to Los Angeles because I fell in love with an incredible men and his beautiful children and I did but I also came to Los Angeles because I was going to sit under this ministry and this ministry was going to awaken a gift that was down on the inside of me you have to understand that I haven't even been preaching for five years but God put me in this ministry and when I started really feeding and digesting what I was receiving from this ministry I grew and developed in such a way that I could be a teacher and a student at the same time you see because God will accelerate what he places down on the inside of you so I think we should just celebrate one more time that 18 years ago on this day that God answered a call from a man named Terry Roberts and that at birth greatness done on the inside of us because every time Hale gets nervous when people come into this building and it started 18 years ago because one man said yes and if I could just preach this life's real quick I wonder what you were setting up today that 18 years later from now we'll have an inheritance that eyes haven't seen and ears haven't heard [Applause] [Music] just real quick just real quick they saying even in my notes but pastor to Ray birthda ministry before Millennials were even in church and leaving the church but God started him 18 years before the Millennials would leave the church so that he could stand guard as they were leaving to say wait a minute I got a way to translate God in a way that you can understand I got a way that you can know God without politics and without scandals and all of these other things I found a way I wonder what God is doing in you right now that the world hasn't even taken notice of I hear that saying the ground is shifting baby that you don't even see it yet but you look back 18 years from now and though wow I thought I was just getting it for myself but I was getting it for people who are connected to me [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] if you've never been to activate Islay we make room for God to do whatever he's gonna do on a Thursday night and sometimes we let him just sit in the room for a little bit so that he can chase out fears and chase at insecurities and chase out second-guessing because the ground is going to shift whether you move or don't move but if you were dead and move with the cadence of what God is doing in the earth then you can partner with him and get ahead of the curve and get ahead of the breakdown and get ahead of the recession and when everyone else is afraid I am confident because I recognize that the ground had to shift to make room for me to taking my place you see my lane couldn't be created unless the ground started shifting God created a cry in Egypt that were coming out of the people then he the Hebrew people at the same time that Moses was somewhere minding his business I got to say that the way I studied it God produced the cry before he produced the solution which means that when we see the headlines all we see is a cry but what God is doing is producing the cry so that when the ground begins to shift that there will be a solution already being raised up so the more that the earth starts crying the more that God's people starts getting in position because we recognize that when the earth is crying out for the glory of God that it's really crying out for his sons and daughters to take their position and I came here first they might I only need ten minutes with you to say what God has already told me and I hear God saying it's time for you to take your position it's time for you to stop pretending like you don't got what you got because when you know what you got and you know who gave it to you you can walk down to the very place where you fled and say that I am that I am Sydney the word that word is that strongholds are coming down generational curses are that word is that the that's got it - yeah abuse of power will not be tolerant [Music] because the ground is shifting here and is shifting in our direction and it's going to take us recognizing that we're standing in a holy moment and you won't even realize that it is a holy moment if we're so busy taking in social media and headlines that we'll just scroll our finger at the government shutdown and think Oh Lord what is this world coming to not recognizing that the ground is shifting this is a this is a holy moment and God is looking to raise up some people who don't mind answering the hard calls the kind of calls that means you have to go into places where you once fled and look foolish and you have to go back to reintroduce yourself armed and equipped with the knowledge of who God has called you to be the ground is shifting the ground is shifting and I hear God saying it's holy ground and what keeps so many of us from recognizing the power of the holy ground we've been standing on I feel this prophetically for somebody you've been standing on holy ground the only problem is you haven't yet taking your shoes off you see God told Moses you have to take your shoes off you have to take off every piece of dust and dirt that brought you into this moment it was symbolic that when you step into a holy moment you can't step into it the way you've stepped to everything else so I gotta be willing to take my shoes off what does that mean that means that there are experiences that have made you believe that if I step into this I may lose like I lost last time if I step into this I may be made fun of like I was before I can't step into this the way that God has calling me to because it risked too much vulnerability it risked me being my authentic self you see Moses had found a way to live authentically in Midian he wasn't worried about whether he was Hebrew or Egyptian he could just be himself but the true test of authenticity is not what you can do when you are isolated the true test of authenticity is will you still be authentic when you have to go and present yourself to where you used to be so do we only worship and live for God when we're in this environment but then when we leave we're someone else who are you really if the ground is shifting then you have to recognize that you can shift the ground but you cannot shift the ground if you are pretending to be someone you are not you can only shift the ground when you do it armed and equipped with the knowledge of who God has called you to be because it's going to take the same power that allowed a bush to burn and not be consumed for you to go into that boardroom for you to go into that relationship for you to go into that business and maintain who you are so the ground had two ships Moses had to go from walking in a familiar land into holy ground because God was ultimately going to ask Moses to go somewhere and shift the ground there and I love this because the burning bush got his attention but it is when the burning bush started calling his name that he had turn and look and he had to engage with what would have been considered dangerous but because it was calling his name that was his fire there is a fire burning and it is calling your name and it has been calling your name for a very long time it says right there music it says take the job it says you can do that make the move it says that you can do it get the help that you need there's this burning bush that has been calling your name for so long and until you respond and begin to engage with that I mean it's been burning for years I don't know who that is this isn't just no new fire this Bush has been burning down on the inside of you since you were a little boy and it's been telling you that you can do it and it's been telling you that God is going to send you but you have not yet turned and looked at that burning bush and Moses simply said Here I am I hear you calling me I hear you asking about me I hear you telling me that I'm supposed to step into this thing but so many of us are like Moses and were afraid and we say Who am I that you would send me to failure Who am I that you would send me to deliver these people Who am I that you would send me into this city Who am I Who am I Who am I and God never answers the question he just says that I'm going to be with you because it was never about who you were it was about who God is and as long as you make this thing about you you'll have countless questions about why you can't do it I feel the glory of God in this place I feel like what shifts the ground is when we recognize that we got to look up and not down I've been making this thing about me I've been making this thing about my relationships I've been trying to figure out how I can calculate this miracle how I can formulate this movie how I'm going to be able to put it together with what with what I've been working with and I hear God saying this thing was never about you I want to break the spirit of you out of this room I feel it like it's heavy in this thing like you get in your own head and start talking yourself out of the very thing that God called you to do and I want to break the spirit of you out of this room the spirit of what you say you can do this video way you think is possible I want to break the limits off of what God can do in your life I want you to remove some of the barriers off of what God says you can do yes you I've been talking to you with the drug addiction I've been talking to you with the broken home I've been talking to you from foster care I've been talking to you over and over and over again I know who you are I know where you've come from I know what you had and what you didn't have and I still chose you nobody can do this thing like you nobody can bring deliverance like you nobody they call to me [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm just trying to see who got put in this room no more running no more coaching your fears on how to talk to you no more giving someone else the power to stop you no more longing for distractions it's time to step into holy ground it's time to step into another level of surrender it's time to actually activate what God has placed down on the inside of you and God doesn't tell Moses that hey listen if you're going to do this you gotta have faith I wondered I wonder time after time again I said God like you know Abraham was the father of faith and David had so much courage and you used this guy Moses who didn't even want to be used who didn't even think that it was possible why did you use him and I feel like part of the reason why God chose Moses is because Moses didn't mind bringing his fears along for the journey that Moses didn't think that he had to have it together in a certain way before he could step into it but he said I don't feel qualified and I don't know why you're gonna choose me but God I'm gonna go anyway and the more that he walked the more room he gave God to show up and the whole people of the Hebrews the Israel the children of Israel were placed on his shoulders the shoulders of someone who didn't feel like they had it together but they knew without a shadow of a doubt that they had a word from God I want to offer us an opportunity to recognize and receive that the ground has shifted in our life I want to dare you to see your life with a new level of consecration to take what you do each and every day so seriously that you have no choice but to take off your shoes and say god I cannot afford to walk into this day carrying the residue of yesterday but God if you were created me a clean heart that if you would purify my hands if you would allow me to become what you had in mind as I step into this day I will recognize that every situation every opportunity every relationship is holy ground and it is holy ground because you are with me and if you are with me anywhere we step is holy anything we connect with has got to be holy and that takes intentionality to say I'm not just in Hollywood I'm not just in Minnesota I'm not just in Atlanta I am standing on holy ground this is not the kind of decision that my bank account can tell me what I can do this is not the kind of decision that a job can tell me whether or not I can handle this is the type of situation that only holy ground can dictate and trying to build a life on holy ground and if you know that one of the only things that has kept you from really stepping into holy ground are the experiences of yesterday that you carry with you into each new opportunity until you literally self-sabotage a blessing that what God wanted to give you freely door after door after door they don't just close in my face I just do something that I know I shouldn't have done but because I didn't see myself worthy and because I didn't see myself able to finish I decided to back out before I could mess it up but because I'm stepping in the holy ground I recognized that this is going to stretch me and this is going to stretch my faith and this is going to stretch my identity and this is going to stretch everything I ever thought I knew about myself but I'm really ready to be stretched because staying the same size has not been working for me and if there is anybody in this room who has decided that it's time for me to answer to this stretching season I want to give you 10 seconds to send up a praise to God so that he knows that someone has just made them part holy ground I've just made my mind holy ground I've just made that job holy ground I got a forgive i got a release i gotta let go because i'm making room for a holy ground i used to have all kinds of ground but now i only have room for a holy ground there's a there's a battle i gotta fight i can't do it from where i'm standing if you're here and you just want to receive some prayer on how to take your shoes off you don't have a question about where the holy ground is you just don't know how to break the rhythm you see God broke Moses's rhythm in order to create this burning bush and we have to know because he was hurting the flock that Moses had taken this path before he was very familiar with this wilderness but there was something about him being familiar with this wilderness that could have made him believe that he wasn't standing on holy ground I'm just standing where I've always been but he had to be willing to have the right perspective and to see it properly that God if you have brought me into this place that looks familiar but there's something here that is out of place there's a burning bush that keeps chasing me down no matter where I go then that means the only thing that I have to do is learn how to take my shoes off and step into what this moment represents and if you are constantly haunted and taunted by the ideas of what if and I want to but if I do and it doesn't work then I'm leaving something good in order to settle for something unknown but yet when you close your eyes and when you have a long time you know without a shadow of a doubt that this thing has been burning and no matter what it cannot be I'd like you to meet us here at this altar [Music] I want you to step into holy ground I want you to step into it step into it step into it the ground is shifting underneath me there's nothing more beautiful than an altar call because we leave where we are standing and step into the next dimension of who God has called us to be we respond to what God has done in a room what he's done in an atmosphere it was Moses's response that released God's direction when the bush was burning God could have easily told him this is what I want you to do but first he called him and then Moses responded when Moses responded it gave God permission to release the direction and God has been waiting for you to respond and not just respond with your lip service but to respond with the heart posture to respond with a real shift that says I recognize what this moment is God is serious about you he has not preserved you for nothing he did not keep you alive and keep you in your right mind when everyone else was going crazy for no reason at all he has preserved you for a purpose and it wasn't so that you could get comfortable and live a life that you enjoy it was so that he could raise you up into a deliverer you're a deliverer you are a deliverer there is a people assigned to you there are so many people in need of a touch and it doesn't matter how many followers the next person has those followers are assigned to their destiny what you need to be worried about are where the followers are that are assigned to your destiny and we can't figure out who that is until you start following after your destiny you see sometimes we get it mixed up and we want followers but we don't have a destiny so I don't even know where I'm leaving you to go but when you mess around and surrender to God he says now I can reveal to you what your destiny is and now I can give you the influence required for you to break open the doors that are needed for you to be the deliverer you've been called to be and so we're going to build some big people not just pastor and I we we are going to build some big people we our sound team our musicians are security our media team we're not just here because we want to create an environment we're here because we want to build big people and we'll do whatever is necessary to create an environment so that big people can be built I wonder how you're going to build big people in fashion how you're going to build big people in the entertainment industry how you're gonna build big people and music build big people and nonprofits why god did you send me because I needed someone who was a builder I knew someone who wanted so the Hebrew and Egyptian who can speak Ebonics and then turn on their AT&T boys like hello how may I help you today I needed someone who understood of both cultures [Music] there are some people only you can meet can we just lift a hand or both hands as if we're saying to God Here I am Here I am Here I am God it's me it's me it's me Lord I'm standing in the need of prayer God is me the old folks used to say not my brother not my sister but it's me Oh Lord I'm not coming on behalf of my friends I know how to pray for my friends better than I know how to pray for myself sometimes but this time it's me God if I can just be selfish for just a minute and say God I need you God I want you God I hear you calling me like never before and I'm finally ready to say Here I am God you are the father of Abraham Isaac and Jacob God you are the Almighty you are excellent above you there is no other i exalt your name in this place god you know our in from our beginning you caused all things to work together for our good god you've been a hedge of protection when bullets were flying you've been a hedge of protection when daddy's were leaving you've been a hedge of protection when we were in universities you've been a hedge of protection when we were drunk and high out of our mind it was you all along and god I finally recognized that through it all you saw me through it all you ordained me you sanctified me you anointed me O God you set me apart I recognized that my life is not random nor was it a coincidence God have set these your sons and daughters apart for such a time as this God in this year of 2019 I want to speak prophetically over the people who you have given my husband and I to Shepherd through the wilderness and I want to speak prophetically o God that every dream that you place down on the inside of them not only have you preserved it but you will accelerate it that as we step into this here I am moment that the ground is shifting up underneath us right now spirit of the Living God unleash your glory in this place wherever there's a burning heart God let there be met with glory let it be met with a greater and launching go God I want to speak to principalities and powers that have been chasing after them since they were little children I rebuke you in the name of Jesus I rebuke you in the name above all names I speak the blood of Jesus off for their lives I speak that wonder-working resurrect erasing resurrection raising power of Jesus over their lives spirit of the Living God fall fresh in this place we need a fresh fire Oh God we need a fresh perspective on who you are creativity of our minds fresh strength as we walk into X God if you cannot do it it cannot be done but God is specializing they are possible so that we ask for your wonder working miracle working power to fall down on this place and when your glory false let it drown out every fear and when your glory Falls let it drown out every whisper and when your glory Falls let it roll out every insecurity God let your glory fall until we step into our mix with confidence let your glory fall until we recognize that we never had it had to have it all together we just had to be willing to move when you said move give us strength God to move away from who we were away from the way we used to think and into the vision that you were set before us repeat after me Heavenly Father Here I am I'm not running I'm not scared well maybe a little scared but I'm still here and this bush has been burning and calling my name and I'm ready to turn it into holy ground help me to shake the dust of my past off of my feet help me to remove the memories of failures and shortcomings out of my mind uproot it rebuke it and in its place give me power give me wisdom give me strength consume me with your love and release me into the next dimension of your glory so that I may see my own deliverance my family's deliverance my community's deliverance and my world's deliverance thank you for Jesus thank you for making him who had no sin all of my sin all of my weakness all of my limitations you placed in his body and nailed it to the cross and when he was raised free and victorious I was raised to I received that power I released that power over and over in my life in Jesus name [Music] you

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Published: Fri Jan 18 2019