The Missing Link | Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Music] I want to get right in the word if that's okay with you god we honor you your presence is so evident in this place I'm gonna be speaking out of Luke nine I'm gonna start in verse 37 this is the New King James Version and it begins it says now what happened on the next day when they had come down from the mountain that a great multitude met him this hymn is Jesus suddenly a man from the multitude cried out saying teacher I implore you look on my son for he is my only child and behold a spirit seizes him and he suddenly cries out it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth and it departs from him with great difficulty bruising him so I implored your disciples to cast it out but they could not then jesus answered and said o faithless and perverse generation how long shall I be with you and bear with you bring your son here and as he was still coming the demon threw him down and convulsed him then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit healed the child and gave him back to his father my subject for those of you who like to take notes is the missing link and so god I just I just acknowledge that this moment is about you getting a word to your people and I ask that you would stop at nothing to make that word become flesh God I submit myself over to you I surrender to everything that you have pre-designed this moment to be God bring my words my thoughts my heart into alignment with what you know this moment has the power to become and God I am believing that as you do so that that generational curses can be broken God I'm believing that as you do so that miracles can take place God I'm believing that as you do this that even demons couldn't be cast out because that's the kind of God that I serve in the same power that raised Jesus out of the grave is alive in this room and you're just searching for someone to pour it into and God I say choose me and if you do what I promise that I will turn every single moment every thought over to you in Jesus name I pray and then amen you guys can get seated and be comfortable I had I had a project that I was working on and I was working on this project and there was just one final touch that the project needed and I wanted to get that final touch but I didn't necessarily have the budget to get the final touch come on somebody it's just missing one little piece and so I did what every entrepreneur does when they need something done but don't have the means to make it happen I downloaded the software and went to youtube I do it myself the problem is that YouTube didn't take into account my skill set I was playing with adobe effects and I had downloaded it and it was on my computer but the Adobe wasn't affecting the way that it was supposed to and now I'm hours into this because I'm on a mission and I have invested and now I need to make sure that I'm actually able to produce this desired outcome and then there comes this moment when you're on YouTube University where you realize I really should have just paid somebody to do this for me because the time that I have lost in trying to do it myself I could have been using to do what I've actually am ordained to do what I'm actually supposed to be doing what I actually have talent and purpose to manifest and so for me in that instance the missing link was actually reaching out to someone who knows better than I do but still there are these moments in my life where I realize I have the tools I have the software I just haven't been able to manifest the desired outcome I know what I want I know what it's supposed to do when I get finished but for some reason I haven't been able to get that desired outcome and I think the greatest challenge that many of us will face is not recognizing that we have power and authority but how to translate that power and authority into every area of our life god help me make it plain I've got power and authority when I'm speaking but I'm trying to figure out how to have power and authority as a businesswoman I have power and authority in corporate America and what do I mean by power okay let's talk about it when Jesus sends out the disciples he doesn't just send them out he sends them out with power and authority power means that he made them a force that's what that word when you look it up in the Greek it means he made them a force I made the sciples of force I didn't just send them out into the world by themselves to cast out devils and to cure all illness I made them a force I went from being a follower of Christ to being a force I'm a follower with the force that means when I walk in the room darkness are the backup because I'm a force that means that when I grabbed my microphone when I grabbed my pen when my idea is manifest it ought to be your force did you know that you're not just a follower of Christ you are a force and when you know that you are a force you run up on things a little differently when you know that you are a force you expect a certain level of resistance because when I come in the room I either shake things up a little bit because I'm coming with the mission I'm a force I'm a force I'm a force in the industry I'm not even discovered yet but I know that I'm a force I'm a force I'm a force I'm a force in my marriage that means that I can create the kind of marriage that I know God wants me to have because I believe so greatly that he placed me in your life the things out of when I'm in your life baby things ought to get a little bit better because I just that's just the way I do what I do baby I'm a force I'm trying to help take you to the next level I'm trying to help you level up a little bit I'm a force when I come into your business and your organization I'm not coming to take I'm coming because I have something to give I'm a force everything I'm connected to ought to go to the next level because of Who I am not because of what it is I'm not surprised when you benefit from being connected to me that's what ought to happen when you are connected to me because I'm a forest yeah yeah he made me a force I wasn't a force when I was out here on my own but when I surrendered my life to the one who makes all things work together I became a force darkness became afraid of me generational curses couldn't break me I became of course I started thinking crazy thoughts like I could do all things through Christ because I'm a force I started thinking that I could change the very thing that's hating making every one of hate because I'm of course I'm crazy enough to believe that I can do it I'm crazy enough to believe that there's a place for faith in this industry I'm a force I'm a forest he ordained me to be a force and I didn't just come here to receive I came to put some order and some structure into a world that wouldn't have it otherwise so the disciples he made them a force and he gave them authority because I need you to recognize that not only are you a force but you also have authority over other forces because when a force meets a force makes you question if you're actually a force maybe I was like a baby force I was all gassed up when I got power but now my power has sent me into environments where I must be in a room full of other forces and so I'm wondering now if I can be a force in this environment and so she says I didn't just make you a force I also gave you authority and because I gave you authority that means that when I send you somewhere that you have force and authority to take whatever is against what I'm trying to do and bring it under captivity I've got Authority I've got inner authority I don't just let thoughts roam around in my mind I take authority because there is the side of me that is a force and there's the side of me that is toxic and I'm trying to make the side of me that is toxic come into captivity with the side that is a force and so I have to bring that into Authority no we're not crazy no more we stopped doing that last year girl come on and bring that into captivity I've got Authority and so he's given the disciples power and he's given them authority and the disciples are doing what Jesus has sent them out to do and things are going well and when we find them in this text they have just come down from the mountain where they witness Jesus at the Mount of Transfiguration this is where Moses and Elijah appear and they literally hear the voice of God say this is my son and whom I am well pleased and so the disciples are operating with power and authority and they also recognize where that power and authority came from the disciples are probably on cloud nine I've recognized that I've got power and authority I'm rolling with Jesus and I know that he's the one I suspected that he was before but I literally heard God say that he is the one and while they're functioning in this power and authorities something happens something happens that reveals that you can have power and authority on one level but there could be a part of you that doesn't have power and authority for your next devil at least you don't think you've got power and authority for that next devil I had power and authority for a certain kind of demon says the disciples I have power and authority for a certain type of illness as that disciples I had power and authority for a certain level of competition I had power and authority when I was back home but now I'm here and I'm not sure that I still have that same power and authority when I was single I had power and authority but now I'm trying to figure out how does that power and authority translate into this next level and the disciples are gracious enough to to be a case study for us as we study how to translate our own power and authority into the next dimension first of all imagine the disciples when the man who has a son who was just ridden with a demons cries out the crowd after they've been connected with Jesus I imagine that for them they start looking at this man whose child they could not heal and they are reminded of the things that they couldn't do while still standing with the connection of the man who told them they could do it so I'm still connected to God but this thing is coming at me that is reminding me of what I couldn't do I'm not out of the will of God I haven't backslidden I just shot my shot I just tried to shoot my shot at something and it didn't work and that would be okay if I could leave it behind but for some reason it's come back around and I wonder if it came back around because Jesus needs a demon to demonstrate not just to the man that he had the power to heal his son but to the disciples that they had the power to cast out that devil - I really hear that prophetically for someone that that's something that you thought you couldn't do is coming back around and when it comes back around it's not to haunt you or to taunt you or remind you of what you couldn't do is to show you how you're gonna do it the next time around that the first time you didn't have a tutorial but this time God is going to show you how to do it step by step I'm going to show you what you didn't think you had but I gave you power and authority for this kind of devil I'm in a new arena I'm in a new league and I feel like that new league is trying to bring up my own insecurities I'm in a new dimension and I'm throwing everything I've got added that I think I have I'm throwing at it but for some reason I'm not seeing the desired outcome that I want to see I've got the same software that earned me the right to fight on this level but when I throw my punches it's not working the way that I used to I know everyone is out here making it happen and they don't have any issues but there are some of us who have graduated to the next level and it doesn't feel like a celebration it feels like I'm throwing my best shot but for some reason it's not taking the punch like it needs to I'm not seeing any traction I'm not seeing the wind the way that I want to and it keeps coming back around and every time it comes back around I think that I'm going to fail the way that I felt the last time and I came here on a Thursday night in Los Angeles to tell you to get ready get ready get ready because when it comes back around this time you're not going to have to cast it out on your own that Jesus is going to be right beside you telling you how to throw the punch how to handle the meeting who you need to book and who you don't need to book who you need to be in relationship with and who you don't need to be in relationship with it's coming back around it's coming back around it's coming back around get your game face ready it's coming back around coming back around get your license is coming back around this is a prophetic message for somebody it's coming back around you didn't lose you just needed a little more help you didn't lose you just needed to know I gave you power for that too I gave you authority for that too it's coming back around it ain't over it's not over yet you just weren't the person you were supposed to be so that you could cast that thing out so that you could lay hold of what God said it was supposed to be it's coming back around I feel that I want to move on I got three more points but I just want you to know that it's coming back around I want to go to war with the thoughts that tells you that you missed your opportunity I rebuke that right now in the name of Jesus Satan you are a liar and no fault that you plan can never prosper over the truth that God is given you're going to get another shot you're gonna get another chance and this time it's gonna fall to the ground and that had the noise issue to tread upon serpents I came to fight tonight wanna live in the fight for your destiny our with that I got some power for that may not have no money I may not have no connections but I do have some power for that I may not know everything I need to know but I got some power for that I got some wonder working power I got some demon chasing power and I'm gonna learn how to translate this power into everything that God says has my name on it and that's why I'm here and that's why I keep diggin in the word and that's why I keep worshiping cuz I gotta figure out how to make this power echo I'm trying to make it echo in my life I'm trying to make it echo in my finances I'm trying to make it echo in my marriage I'm trying to make it echo down to my children I'm trying to make it at going to the rocks cry out [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I gave you power and I gave you authority and that's why you're even in the situation that you're in right now and it's going to take that same power and that same authority to go from being a beginner to a master on this level you got to stay connected to the power you got to stay connected to the one who puts you in the position you got to stay connected when Jesus says oh you perverse in a faithless generation he says that this isn't the demons problem this is your problem because you don't have enough faith you have power and authority but you believe that your power in authority has limits and I'm telling you that the thing that takes the limits off of your power and authority is a fresh wave of faith and I hear God say I'm handing it out tonight who wants some more thing who wants some more faith who wants some more faith I need faith to unleash the next dimension of my power I need faith to get this budget together I need faith to get this project financed God you gave me the opportunity now give me some more faith so I don't disappoint you when you place me in the room god I'm tired of talking about it I wanna be about it and you have called me into this generation with this moment I want you to point me in the direction of my payment so that I can cast it out I cast out every demon cats out there depression talking up cast it out that's the kind of [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] just like that just like that that thing is still in you that fire is still in you take it with you everywhere you go take it with you and everything you create take it with you when you decide to love again that's power and authority and that only comes from God [Music] Jesus says first this is a faith problem secondly he says perverse I looked that word up and it means to turn from what is right and the antonym of perverse is agreement so it stands to reason that if the disciples wanted to cast out this new level of devil that they were going to have to have faith to do it and they were going to have to come into agreement that it could happen because sometimes we have faith but we don't know if it's actually going to happen but I hear God saying that the missing link got a mess my whole message outline up but here we are I hear guys saying that the missing link is more faith and agreement so I didn't just come here to preach tonight I came here to come into agreement with you yeah that's why we're in the body of believers because where two or three are gathered in his name there he won't be in the and I just want to know if you can grab your neighbor and say I'm coming into agreement we're gonna activate the next dimension of glory I'm coming into agreement I'm adding my face to yours no weapon formed against you is going to prosper Oh what God says every time [Music] can I hear the sound can I hear the sound of more faith and agreement then give me 10 seconds I want to hear you coming to agreement I want to hear that next level shout me down in this place shout me down in this place your power is riding on it let he'll hear you let he'll hear you let them demons tremble let the enemy get nervous [Applause] there's a missing link there's a missing link but I just found it there's a missing link but I just found him I had faith for the last dimension and I tried to make that faith and meet this dimension but God says increased responsibility increased faith God says increased opportunity increased faith and I'm coming into agreement new level new temple new sera new level a new temple no me if everything else is leveling up I'm leveling up too if everything else is going to the next dimension I'm going to the next dimension - I'm not gonna bring my old ways into this new opportunity I'm too grown for that I've been through too much hell for that I gotta bring the next version of me into alignment [Applause] activate activate activate the next version of Who I am activate the next level of faith required got activated [Applause] [Music] and don't allow my own disbelief to stand in the way of exercising the power and authority that you've given me you gave me power you gave me authority and I've used it I know it works and because you are not a man that you allow I don't believe that you would bring me into this next level and not allow that same power and authority to show up here too and so what I'm saying is that there is some faithless perverse things in me keeping me from that power and authority if I'm honest I don't fully believe I can do it if I'm honest I don't fully believe that I deserve it if I'm honest I'm pursuing it but I think someone else deserves it and the truth is that if that demon is standing in front of the disciples then the disciples have the power they just have to believe that they have the power over this type of demon let me tell you one thing cuz y'all and guy I'm not gonna lie y'all I messed up my whole sermon not even lie about that alright but I do want to say one thing and if you just give me verse 42 very quickly verse 42 is when Jesus says to the men to bring your son here Jesus is operating in his power and in his authority that has no cracks there there are no issues no no insecurities and Jesus's power and authority and in verse 42 it says and as he was still coming the demon threw him down and convulsed him and threw down the little boy and convulsed him and then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit I thought to myself that the demon must have known when it was approaching Jesus that it had to throw itself down when it got in the vicinity of true power when they got in the vicinity of true Authority Jesus didn't even have to go to ward the way the disciples probably thought they were going to have to because there was something about that demon heading in the direction of Jesus what to say every tongue shall confess in every knee shall bow so when the demon got into the vicinity of Jesus had automatically got in position for Jesus to ultimately crush its head and to kill what was killing the little boy and to bring forth what it was supposed to be in the first place I don't know who this is for but I hear God's saying that you're not even gonna have to fight the way you think you're gonna fight that the moment that you lay hold of this next dimension of faith that the opportunities are going to fall at your feet and all you're gonna have to do is finish them off all you're gonna have to do is decide how you want to do it not if not is it going to be possible but how do you want to do it that something is going to fall at your feet that would have made other people have to roll up their sleeves for but because you were operating in your power and authority it just fell at your feet that's a good word that's a good word cuz somebody's been feeling behind that's a good word cuz someone hasn't been feeling like they have enough strength that's a good word cuz somebody just got their faith and they got their power back and I hear God saying save your power I'm the latest one down at your feet save that Authority I'm the latest one down at your feet save it for when you don't have me on your side save it for when them depressing thoughts start coming at you but I'm gonna throw some things down at your feet just because you finally leveled up that's a good word that's a real good word that's the word for me I'm getting full all by myself cuz I see some opportunities that I've been hiding and I need a little more backing or so I thought but God just told me he's gonna throw it at my feet God just told me that I don't have to worry about it that it's coming for me I've been chasing after it but it's chasing after me I've been going after it but it's coming after me I'm bout to throw some things down at the feet of some crazy spirit filled faith filled believers and all I want to know is who's got enough strength to pull up their feet and shred on serpents who has enough wisdom [Applause] yeah thank you Jesus for going ahead of us and showing us who we have the potential to become because the disciples saw the way Jesus did it it unleashed their ability to do it and because we get to see how Jesus did it it unleashes your ability to do it too I have to be honest this isn't the kind of message that you just receive and then go back to the way things were there's a level of expectation that you have to leave I wanted to impart something in this room and that is expectation that I'm going to be okay expectation that I'm gonna get it anyway expectation that I've got power and authority and if you don't get anything else about a new level of expectation that partners with your power and authority no good thing will he withhold I want to pray with you I still have 12 minutes left but you guys really you guys really did a number on this one but I want to pray for people who have been feeling like there's just a missing link there's a missing link it's not like what I'm doing isn't working it is working but it's just there's just this missing link I just don't feel the way that I'm supposed to feel I'm on this next dimension and in this new level but it's not I'm not having the feelings that I thought I was going to have and I hear guys saying that the only thing missing is that next level of faith and for there to be agreement that this is not a phase this is your new normal Jesus didn't give the disciples temporary power in temporary Authority I gave you power and authority that has the ability to multiply and increase as the situation requires and your situation is requiring another dimension of power and authority and I'm telling you you're not empty is down in you you just have to have faith for that next dimension of power and authority and that God is going to give you strategy on how to translate the power and authority that got you in the room to help you consume the whole building I don't just want to sit at the table I want to have the whole building declaring that God can take a little nobody who never had it together and place them in situations and opportunities and relationships and organizations that they were never supposed to be in but because they exercise this crazy level of faith that they took a broken vessel and made it whole for everyone to see if that's you and you know I've been dealing with this missing link I want you two to stand and just lift your hands and worship I got a a missing link somewhere a missing link and I realized that I am actually the missing link that I haven't thrown my full face at this issue I haven't thrown my full agreement that this thing is gonna work out I just kind of backed away when it got scary I backed away when it seemed too consuming but I'm ready to go at it again and I'm bringing the best of me into the situation not the childish immature version of who I used to be I'm done with that I'm trying to be a next version I want to be mature this time around I want to listen this time around I want to have the experience from last time to help guide me into how to navigate at this time and so spirit of the Living God as you demonstrate it to the disciples that the same power that Jesus had to cast a demon out is available to each and every one of us who surrender God we turn ourselves over to you God first of all we want to ask for forgiveness because we didn't fully trust the power and authority that you've given us I didn't fully trust that you could do it with someone like me and the door opened and if I'm honest I got scared because I didn't feel qualified to walk in it but God you gave me another shot at it and I want to walk into the room the right way I don't want to carry my fears I don't want to carry my insecurities so god I'm asking that you stripped me down from every faithless and perverse thing that exists down on the inside of me god I turned myself over to you every thought that the enemy has planted uprooted right now in the name of Jesus every mistake that is chasing me God break its legs right now in the of Jesus I'm trying to outrun my past with new faith I'm trying to outrun who I used to be with new faith I'm trying to run into the next dimension of Who I am God I am part faith right now into this room God I'm asking for that same anointing in that same power to permeate this place Oh God there are demons and devils that are assigned to our anointing God send us in the direction of where those demons are and dare us to unleash that power in the industry Oh God in our marriages oh god over generational curses God make us the change that we want to see until everything bounce down and proclaims that that person that person was different and I think it's because of where they came from so connect us back to our Creator connect us back to you fill us with more faith more wisdom more strategy more insight that we may run our race to knots grow weary because we recognize you didn't bring us into this opportunity to embarrass us or to hurt us but to demonstrate what you placed in us God we surrender to this process and Jesus name Amen [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 39min 26sec (2366 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 14 2018