The Place of Need | Sarah Jakes Roberts

hey family i'm pastor torre i'm pastor sarah and listen you're getting ready to hear an incredible word for the lord i believe it's going to bless you i believe it's going to be timely do me a favor share the message if it moves you share the message and then also you have an opportunity to be a part of not only helping to spread this message but to be a part of our outreaches we're doing a lot of practical things to be a blessing to someone so feel free if god so moves you to use the information here in the video to support what we're doing we're being a blessing not just people spiritually we're being a blessed people practically we love you get into this message and change your life when i say hallelujah i do mean hallelujah anyhow there's something about that song i just keep hearing those words over and over and over again you're the only one who can sometimes i have a need and that need can't be filled by man it can't be filled by more zeros in the bank account but it can be filled by the king of kings by the lord of lords if that's your testimony i want you to say that's me that's me that's me i know what it's like to have a need that only god can fulfill he's the only one who can do it right now you may have a grave but i hear god saying that's what i do i turn graves into gardens no one else can do it the way that i can do it i'm the only one who does that kind of miracle and this is the moment in which we come together and we say to our god god i recognize who you are that what i need man can't provide and that what you give can only come from above you are the only one who can satisfy this need that i have that's why regardless of what i'm going through i make it my point to make sure i get in the presence of the lord because sometimes we just need a reminder of who he is not what we did not what's going to happen in the news not what we should be concerned about but sometimes i just need a reminder of who god is and when i come to that place when i am reminded of who he is listen all of a sudden my soul is settled all of a sudden my heart has peace because i remember i'm not in this grave by myself because we serve a god who turns graves into gardens if you've already been tapped off you've been topped off and you've already received just so much of the presence i just want you to type in the comments thank you god thank you god thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus you're already working thank you jesus you're already speaking thank you jesus you're already turning things around thank you jesus sometimes you got to praise him in advance do we still do that in 2020 or do we let the news determine how we respond sometimes you got to start praising god in advance thank you jesus it's already done thank you jesus you already turned it around thank you jesus for resurrection power thank you jesus that healing is my portion thank you jesus that you are my provider thank you jesus that i'll never go without because i have you on my side you're the only one who can do it and because of that i'm glad because i have access i've got access so i'm never in a grave by myself i don't know if y'all remember but pt said september is the month of breakthrough and i feel breakthrough already happening you have to understand that breakthrough happens in the spirit realm before it touches the earth and those of us who know how to praise god in advance already experienced that breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough and so it is my prayer that during our time together that that same breakthrough that i feel in this spirit that same breakthrough that jesus experienced in that grave that it would begin to sit on your house that it would sit on your situation and that that word is prophetic and that this word just seals the deal because i've been praying and i believe like never before that this is a word that you need to hear it's not too late to invite your friends to church tell them you saved them a seat just come on to youtube or facebook or wherever you're watching from because we don't want anyone to miss out on this word we want breakthrough in everything connected to us i'm going to be speaking from mark 10. i'm going to start in verse 46. i'm so excited about what god has been saying to me about how this word hit me first i've been thinking and marinating on this word just over the last couple of weeks and i i wasn't even planning to preach about it but i've just been eating on it and digesting it in my own life and i can't wait to share with you what god has been saying to me mark 10 verse 46. and my text begins it says now they came to jericho as he went out of jericho with his disciples that he is jesus as jesus went out of jericho with his disciples in a great multitude blind bartimaeus the son of timay is sat by the road begging so jesus has come to jericho when he was leaving out of jericho with his disciples there was a great multitude with him and when this great multitude is with them they are passing by the road and there is this blind man bartimaeus which literally means the son of timaeus he was sitting by the road begging and when he heard that it was jesus of nazareth he began to cry out and say jesus son of david have mercy on me then many warmed him they warned him to be quiet but he cried out all the more so jesus stood still and he commanded him to be called and then they called the blind man saying to him be of good cheer rise he is calling you and throwing aside his garments he rose and came to jesus so jesus answered and said to him what do you want me to do for you the blind man said to him rabboni that i may receive my sight then jesus said to him go your way your faith has made you well and immediately he received his sight and followed jesus on the road my subject for this sunday message is the place of need spirit of the living god when you are in the room when you are in our hearts when you are in the situation things change father we invite your presence into this moment we say have your way we invite your presence into our souls we say highlight what needs to be healed we invite you father into our finances our marriage there is nothing off limits and so father consider this our official invitation we say have your way great god that you are we did not come to be entertained we came that we may be forever changing so father i'm praying that every soul every listener that would receive this message would not just hear it in one ear and out the other but that it would take root down in their soul father and that joy and peace and hope and power would spring up like never before and produce generational fruit so father allow me to deliver this word in the way that you gave it to me no nerves no anxiety nothing keeping me from standing tall in this grace and an anointing in jesus name i pray amen there was this man who won he went on a fast this is no ordinary fast that he went on this is a fast that lasted 382 days his name was angus barbari and his first meal after going on this fast was a boiled egg a piece of toast and black coffee now that may not seem unordinary especially since pt just talked to us about fasting but there was something about this fast that made it a bit exceptional and that it lasted 382 days that's right you heard me he fasted for 382 days in the course of that time he lost 276 pounds and he literally only survived off of tea coffee soda water and vitamins 382 days this was fascinating to me because as i was studying for this message i realized that we can force ourselves to live without what we need i was thinking how if i go three or four hours without something to eat i get a little hungry if i go six to seven hours i swear i'm starving but 382 days is evidence that you can train your body to live without what you need i kept hearing that in my mind over and over again and all of a sudden it started making sense to me while we have communities where food vulnerability has been prevalent for generations after generations or or violence is just the narrative of certain cities and communities because it is possible to survive without what you need it doesn't mean that they don't need food security it doesn't mean that they don't need safety in their neighbor's neighborhoods it doesn't mean that you can't survive living in a home where there is abuse you can survive you can learn to live without what you need but it doesn't mean that you didn't need it if i could define survival at all i would define survival as training ourselves to live without what we need that's why one of the most dangerous thing that any of us can do is put someone in a position where we teach them how to survive without us some of us need to teach people how to survive without us but others of us when we are in relationship with someone or you're working for someone in a business or a corporation and and you're partnering with someone when you start to teach someone that they can survive without you what you're teaching them is how to train themselves to live without you you're teaching them how to sustain that momentum and to sustain a rhythm without you being a part of it and that is why so many of us have find ourselves surviving at a deficit you see because just because you survive 382 days without food doesn't mean that your body stopped needing food it just means that you learn to live without what you serve without what you needed just because you were able to survive without having the attention that you needed in your home as you were growing up doesn't mean that you didn't need the attention it just means that you were able to survive without getting what you needed and sometimes we have to take a moment and just thank god for the fact that we survived without what we needed sometimes we just have to take a moment and say god i thought i needed this but you taught me how to live without it i thought i needed that but you taught me how to live without it there are some survivors who are watching right now on this live stream and there were some things that you thought you needed in your life and some things that you didn't think that you could be without but god says i'm going to teach you how to survive i'm going to show you how to train yourself to live without what you needed and we master that and we come to this place where we learn to live without what we needed but the truth is that there is another step past survival when you go from surviving without what you needed to coming to a place where you recognize that i survived without it but that doesn't mean that i can continue without having that in my life yeah there's this vulnerable position of living in the place of need that none of us want to live in because after we have had to live without we don't ever want to be needy again god help me we have to force ourselves to live in the place of need because once you have survived so many things one thing after another you start to think that you can go without things you can go without connection you can go without love you can go without attention you can go without having the bare necessities of what make people people but the reality is that just because you survived without it doesn't mean that you don't need it and you have to come to a place when you come out of survivor mode where you say i made it through that season without it but i don't want to move into the next season until i address the places where i have voids until i can address the places where i have need because i don't want to keep surviving with the deficiency any longer there's this study in psychology and it's called self-determination theory and in this theory it suggests that people are motivated to grow and change by three innate and universal psychological needs those three innate and universal psychological needs are competence that means ability connection that's relationship and autonomy that is a sense of independence so what they're saying is that you need to have the universal need meta feeling like you have an ability like if i don't feel like i have the ability to do it then it's difficult for me to have determination that's why failure sticks out in our mind especially when we experience failure at an early age because it speaks to us that we are not competent and we don't when we don't believe that we are competent then we end up not believing that we can do what we set our minds to it doesn't matter how much word you receive it doesn't matter how many times you've been prophesied over if you have experienced failure at an early phase in your life then there is something that happens in yourself that says i don't know if i'm competent to do that thing that is in front of me competency connection we need to be connected god told men it is not good for man to live alone we have to have connection that's why when we grow up in homes where connection isn't good or we grow up in social security social communities where connection can often be toxic it's detrimental to our growth because we have an innate need to feel connection i wish i could really get that down in your spirit that you didn't just want to have the good family that you didn't just want to feel safe that you literally needed it you weren't just pursuing that thing because you wanted to have success you were pursuing it because you wanted to believe in yourself so when you didn't experience the success of what you were going after it hurts you more than it hurt maybe someone else because you aren't really sure that you were competent to begin with but i want to let you know that you needed that thing it wasn't just a one it was a need and why is that important because we handle needs differently than we handle once when we recognize that this is something that i needed we go from feeling like we just wanted it and can live without it to recognizing that my confidence my growth my development depends on me having this need met i got to be able to have connection i have to be able to put my mind at something and to continue to learn the lessons until i experience success this isn't just something that i want this is something that psychologically literally science is proving that i need as i was studying over this subject this topic i just felt like god kept telling me over and over again that we are building and designing a culture that whispers to its members that you are most powerful when you need nothing but the real strength that we get when we are going to str when we are going to thrive and show up in this community means that we have to come to a place when we recognize that we actually do have needs and that there's nothing wrong with living in the place of need if we are always building and trying to get to this place where we don't need anyone all we're doing is shutting ourselves off and all we're doing is becoming an island but when we get to this place where we recognize i am not meant to live alone i am not meant to go throughout this life all by myself then something shakes down on the inside of us that allows us to qualify what it is that we need when my guy was sitting there hungry on that 381st day he recognized that i need to move into starting to eat again but i gotta qualify what i eat i can't just take on anything because i need to eat again and so i have to be careful with how i satisfy that need if you are so consistent and persistent rather that you don't need anything then that moment comes up when you find yourself being needy and you don't understand why you're being needy and i hear god saying you're being needy because you never acknowledged the fact that you had a need to begin with the thing that makes needy people needy isn't that they're bad it's not that they're evil it's the fact that they denied themselves a need for so long that they started pulling on people in unhealthy ways because they didn't recognize that it was okay for you to be in need i feel like we got to know that it's 2020 some of us are sitting up in our homes we've been isolated we don't have connection in the way that we're used to having connection and i hear god saying it's okay for you to need to reach out to a friend it's okay for you to need to get into the presence of god it's okay for you to not pretend like you have it all together and that you're taking this season like a champ it's okay for you to need somebody to pick up that phone and until we recognize that being an island serves no one but our pride and our ego then we will be trapped in a world where we could have had connection because we didn't want to live in the place of need the place of need is so powerful because if we don't start reconditioning our mind to stop building ourselves up like we're islands then we miss out on the rich opportunity to have real real connection with god if you think about it how are we mentally going to switch over from i don't need anybody but i do need god and i don't mean need god in one of those religious ways i mean i need him like i need my next meal i need him like i need water to survive to live in that place of need is so powerful and i'm afraid that if we continue to start to build idol of ourselves and idols of our own lives that we will miss out on the power of living in the place of need and that is why bartimaeus is the hero of this text for me because as i study his life i recognize that bartimaeus had learned to live in the place of need bartimaeus is a blind man sitting on the side of the road begging is what he does he's learned to live in the place of need you see there's so much about this moment in this text that is so powerful but i think the most powerful part isn't actually in the texas in the context in which this text is set in because when i looked at the context of this text i recognized why bartimaeus was so hungry to hear from jesus this text tells us that he cries out and they ask him to be quiet but he cries out all the more and so i did a little research to understand what it meant for jesus to be walking on the streets and see what we have to know is that before jesus even steps on the scene before john the baptist is born in and it becomes the forerunner of jesus that the jews at that time had experienced 400 years of silence 400 years of god not speaking 400 years of being handed over from one captive to the next captive to from one oppressor to the next oppressor this is 400 years without hearing a word from god so when jesus is finally here and he's starting to preach about the kingdom of heaven being at hand this is so powerful because it is the time in which bartimaeus recognizes that that season of oppression is over see what makes the gospel good news is that the good news is that the kingdom that cannot be overthrown has finally been established so when he hears that jesus is walking past him he recognizes that this is my time to cry out for something i may never experience again you see he was on the side of the road begging other people for change he was begging them for money he wasn't asking them to heal them because you got to understand what some people can give you and what some people cannot he asks people to give from what they had not from what they could not give but when he recognized that jesus was coming he knew that i have an opportunity to ask for something that i may not be able to ask for anything else like this ever again i have a need that only god can fulfill i have a need that only god can give i have a need that can only come from jesus and so while everyone else wants me to be quiet i recognize that i've been talking to you for every single day and i've been sitting in this same spot as you walk by every single day but there is something that is about to shift in my atmosphere because i sense that there is someone who's coming who can fulfill the need that i couldn't even tell other people about do you ever know what it's like to have a need that other people cannot fulfill and then you get into the presence of god and when you get into the presence of god you can let it all out because i had a need my friend couldn't give we went out to dinner but i still came home empty i'm in a relationship but i still feel empty this emptiness can't be fulfilled by man you can only give me a little bit of company you can only give me a little bit of change but when the king of glory comes in i have an opportunity to ask for something that man could never give me he cries out he cries out have mercy on me jesus he cries out god see me the way that only you can see me and that's why that's why you can't let other people dictate your volume because other people will tell you to be quiet and other people will tell you to just deal with it and other people will tell you this is just your life and you just gotta sit back and take it and other people will tell you that it's never gonna happen for you and other people will tell you that your dream is too big but when you get to talk to someone who understands what you're asking for you see no one else understood what he was asking for i don't have the power to heal you i can only give you change but there's something about being in relationship with someone who understands what you're asking for and i hear god saying you've been asking me to give you change but i want to give you healing you've been asking me to upgrade your situation but i want to give you healing i want you to ask for something worthy of my anointing i want you to ask me for something worthy of my glory ask me ask me for something a man can't give you ask me for something your father couldn't give you ask me for something that you can't beg for ask me for something you can't hustle up on you gotta know who i am and that's why it's so important it's so important that bartimaeus calls him son of david we know a version of jesus that we got introduced to after the cross but bartimaeus sees him as the answer to a prayer we saw the thorns and then we saw the crown bartimaeus only sees the crown in this moment he says you are the king of kings you are the lord of all lords you are the son of david you are the one we have been waiting for 400 years of silence and god is speaking again and i know that he sees him properly because he says have mercy on me that word mercy that word mercy means compassion you don't ask someone who understands for compassion he sees jesus so properly that when he asked him for something the first thing he says is could you just for a minute my big god step into my small situation this thing i'm asking for is so small compared to who you are and so the first thing i want to do is i want to recognize who you are and i want to ask you to have compassion on me he doesn't know like we know that jesus is going to get on the cross and compassion for us is what he does all he does is stand in awe of being in front of the king of kings and he was only able to accomplish this because he had mastered living i live in the place of need i live in the place of need so well that i didn't ask man to give me what i needed from god i didn't even bother with that could you imagine living in a place the awareness of what you need i don't mean denying yourself what you need but living in the awareness of what you need so you can qualify who can give you what bartimaeus was able to qualify who could give him what because he lived in the place of need i am a person and i have holes and i have voids and i have emptiness and so if i don't recognize that i'm living in this place of need i may sabotage myself by just taking on anything instead of qualifying what any what it is i need from the person i am connected with so when he has this moment when jesus when jesus is passing by he asks jesus have mercy on me son of david and what i love about this text is it doesn't say that jesus cried out back to him what my bible says is that jesus stood still and he commanded him to be called we're talking about a blind man he doesn't recognize what's happening around him all he knows is that he cried out for jesus and in the midst of him crying out for jesus jesus was responding he just couldn't see it but he trusted that jesus would respond to his cry you're maybe watching right now and you feel like you've been crying out not recognizing that god is facilitating for that answer to come your way but you can't see it because of where you are positioned and finally he throws aside his garments he rises and he comes to jesus and when he gets to jesus he says your faith your go your way your faith has made you well i feel like verse 52. i feel like verse 52 was almost like another pop quiz as i was studying this text i saw that he says jesus says go your way your faith has made you well and immediately he received his sight and followed jesus on the road but he followed jesus on the road that really stood out to me because i think to myself if i would have been blind as this man was blind and jesus finally gives me my sight back i would want to go back to where i used to be to take in all of the things that i missed because there's something about me finally being healed that makes me want to go back to where i used to be so i could relive those moments i don't know who this is for but i feel this prophetically you want to take a healed version of you into a place where you once were blind and i hear god saying you're not called to do that that this healed version of you has to be willing to move into the unknown the same way bartimaeus did in this moment that moving into the unknown means that even though you're healed you can't go back to where you once were that now like bartimaeus you have to follow jesus that place of need made me recognize that bartimaeus realized that just as vulnerable as he was when blind he was just as vulnerable when healed there we go again searching for this place of arrival where we think that if i could just get this one breakthrough if i could just have this one thing fixed and cured in my life then i could go back and live in a world that feels familiar and comfortable to me but there is something about healing and there's something about experiencing god's power that helps us understand that the only way this truly works is if i stay connected to the original source which means i never leave the place of need he thought that he needed him just to heal his blind eyes but it turned out he actually needed him because he was going to need to walk with him so that jesus could show him how to maneuver in a world where he could see but that he had been touched by god you see sometimes we have to understand that the most powerful thing that we can do is not just ask jesus to give us something that we can apply to our own dreams but to ask jesus to give us something that makes us a better follower of jesus you see that very thing that bartimaeus was asking for is the thing that jesus ends up giving him that helps him to be a better follower of jesus he could have followed him while blind but he asked jesus for something that would make him more powerful when following him i wonder if we're asking jesus for the right things or if we're asking jesus for things that will just help us feel better and things that will help our world to function better or are we being crazy enough to ask jesus for things that will make us better for your use jesus allow me to become better for your kingdom i don't want to take my dream and apply it to your anointing i want to be touched by god so that i have no choice but to follow you there are some radical breakthroughs that take place in your life when you go from being in a grave and into a garden where you make a decision that god i'm so far out here that i know it wasn't me who brought me out here on my own i want to prophesy right now that that's going to be your testimony that you're going to come to a place in your growth and you're going to place come to a place in your development that you stop asking god for one-off blessings and one off miracles and you start asking god for the types of things that keep you in relationship with him god i need to let go of this thing i need to let go of this relationship i need to let go of this addiction but i'm not just asking you to take it from me i'm asking you to exchange one need for another need i feel that for somebody i feel the spirit of god on this word for you you've been asking god to just take it away from you and i hear god saying that you need to ask me to exchange it for my power you need to ask god to take that addiction and exchange it for your anointing to take this relationship and exchange it for my anointing i hear god saying there's something on the other side of this blindness there's something on the other side of this brokenness there's something on the other side of this pain and i want you to be crazy enough to just stop asking me to take it from you and start asking me for the divine exchange bartimaeus that i want to be healed jesus says i got something better for you i got an exchange that's going to make you fit for my use i've got an exchange that's gonna help you walk with me stop asking me for a one-sided deal i don't know i don't know who you are i don't know what you've been asking for or what you've been asking god to move out of your way but i hear god saying that you have to understand that i've got a full blessing for you that i'll open up the windows of heaven and give you a blessing you don't have room enough to receive and right now you're asking for something you got room to receive and that's why i can't answer you but when you start asking me for something i don't have room enough to receive that you'll see my power show up and i'm not talking about the things that we hustle up on i'm talking about breakthrough it's one thing to say break the relationship it's another thing to say god give me my heart back so i can give it back to you it's one thing for you to say god put me in the room it's another thing to say god put me in the room so that i can show them that it's always been you behind the scenes that says i need you to complete the sentence [Music] what if what if you've been praying in incomplete sentences [Music] what if you've been asking god for half of what he can do and what you really have to do what you really need to do is to start asking god for things that only he can do god i need you god i need you i want i want to experience your power so strong in my life that it gives me no choice but to follow you god i learned how to live without the father i learned how to live without the mother i learned how to survive the community i train myself to live without what i need but father now i'm asking you to give me those things that i needed god i needed to feel loved god i needed to feel wanted god i didn't just want it i learned to live without it but the truth is that i really needed it but i didn't get what i needed but i don't have to stay empty in the place that i was empty do you know what happens when god gives you what you learn to live without doesn't necessarily mean that the father reappears or that your life can be rewinded and you get to act it out all of all out all over again what he does is this he gives you his spirit where there was emptiness he says i can't change that brokenness that you experience from other people i can't change that pain that you experience from other people but what i'm saying is that place where you were empty i can give you my spirit and my spirit can fill you in such a way that it stretches your capacity that thing that man would have given you it may have just topped you off but when i give you my spirit you experience overflow [Music] what i want for you more than anything is to become comfortable living in the place of need and recognizing that acknowledging my needs doesn't make me needy god i'm in need i'm in need of your touch i'm in need of your power god who i am is so small compared to who you are i need you i need you i need you son of david have mercy on me look at me and look at me with compassion because god i i need you and when he gets into relationship with god he knew who he was talking to when he knew what he could ask for i just can't get over this that bartimaeus wasn't just asking for healing from anyone who would come by he knew that there were limits on what someone could give him and you got to know that there are limits on what people can give you but when there was a moment for him to really get in front of god he understood who he was talking to the goal is not to become god the goal is to need god my goal is to wake up every day and identify the area of my life where i need him we want to wake up and thank god that we don't need him in x y and z and sure there's a praise connected to that god god i didn't need you to put a roof over my head today i thank you for that but the true growth doesn't come when we check off all of these boxes where we no longer need god it's when we live in the awareness of how desperate we are to stay in connection with him this is 2020 and so much of our life has changed so much of our ability to connect has changed and yet you're watching this message because you've made a decision in your life that i need god i need them if i have to do it online i need them if i have to do it in the empty room i need them i need them i need them never lose your need of god live in that place thrive from that place and don't make your pursuit about escaping the need for god but living in the comfort of knowing that i don't even want to know a version of me that doesn't need god i tried her she sucked but i want more than anything is to be like bartimaeus where i say okay god you did that but i gotta stay connected with you because i don't know what else i'm gonna need and you are the only one who can fulfill anything that comes up i wanna pray with you you're watching this message god and needing is hard for you it makes us feel vulnerable i don't want to need people i don't want to need anything because i've learned to train myself to live without what i needed we have these moments in our life that break us so tremendously that we say i'm never going to need that again so we're living behind these walls of being okay of being satisfied but the truth is that god still sees your need he still sees that area where you wish you could have received love when you wish you could have been affirmed where you wish you could have been communicated he still sees that just because you trained yourself to live without it doesn't mean that you didn't need it i don't know who you are but i just felt god say i'm sorry you didn't get what you needed from where you wanted it but just because you didn't get it from where you wanted it doesn't mean that you can't still have access may not come from where you want it but god says i can still give you what you need you may not have a father's love from your father but i can give you a father's love from your pastor from your uncle i can give you a father's love you can open up that bible and i can give you a father's love some people go into the bible and we're all searching for something different somebody needs their mother in that word somebody needs their father in that word somebody needs community in that word but i hear god saying whatever it is that you feel like you learn to live without that i've got it stored up in heaven for you and i want to prophesy right now that the enemy would stop haunting you and taunting you because of what you didn't have and that you would come to a place where you were so fulfilled in your relationship with god where you say my mama didn't give it to me but god had it on store in heaven and when he opened up the windows of heaven he restored a version of my life that i never thought was possible my siblings couldn't give it to me my school wasn't able to provide it for me but god held it on reserve for me i hear god saying that i kept notes on everything that you lost i kept notes on everything that was left behind everywhere you're empty i've got a record for in heaven and i've got blessings and i've got relationships and i've got opportunities on standby so that you can experience so that you can experience fullness where you once felt lost if you're watching this i don't care where you are i want you to take a moment and consciously open up your heart i want you to consciously open up your mind and i want you to allow god's presence into that place of need that you would open up your heart in such a way that you stop asking man for what they can't give you validation affirmation confidence peace love joy kindness forgiveness stop asking man to fix you that you would open up yourself for a moment allow yourself to be needy god we need you we need you we need you we need you we need you we need you this world is so much bigger than us we need you this disease is so much bigger than us we need you this ministry grew beyond what i could imagine i need you god this life is so difficult i need you i need you i need you i know it's not popular to say that we need anything in 2020 but god if it could just be me o me o me o lord standing in the need of prayer i would just take a minute to say father i need you to touch my heart i would say father i need you to help me to deal with this stress father i need you to help me pursue this dream and i lose my mind in the process father i need you to break this addiction i need you i need you i need you i need you not just until the message is over i'm not talking about a lifetime of need i need i need i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you i need you if that's you type it in the comments i need you i need you i need you our heaven is watching the comments i need you i need you i need you heaven is watching to see what comes out of your lips i need you i need you i need you it's not my mother this time i need you it's not my sister this time i need you it's not my brother this time i need you i need you in my life i need you in my relationship i need you in my finances i don't want someone's borrowed anointing i don't want someone's borrowed relationship i need you i need a lifetime of being connected with you i want to follow you i want to walk with you where you go i go your people shall be my people i'm trying to ride for you the way you roll for me so father first of all we thank you that when we call upon the name of jesus that you are faithful god you are so faithful you will deliver in areas where we didn't even know we needed it [Music] you're watching this message and you're not even sure if you are a christian i want to invite you to make a decision you're watching this message and it's been a long time since you've even been in church or received a word from god i want to invite you to invite jesus into your life it's been a while since i lived in the place of need when you meet new christians they are so excited because they know just how much they need jesus i want to invite you to be one of those new christians oh and those old christians sometimes they live so long as christians that they forget what it's like to be a new christian i want to invite the old christians to come back to the place of need father we need you more than we need anything else god we need you more than we need the next president more than we need the next celebrity more than we need the next star god we need you more than we need the next job more than we need the next relationship father we need you and so with our hearts open and our vulnerability expose god we bring ourselves to the place of need and we just humble ourselves in front of you father and we say we recognize that there is no one like you god you are the king of kings you are the lord of lord jesus we thank you that you would come down to earth that you would make yourself of no reputation so that we could experience compassion father it is my prayer that your spirit would meet each and every person exactly where they are their cars their homes their living rooms their kitchen it matters not father your presence and your spirit there is no distance father gather us in your presence and help us to be comfortable with those places where we felt empty so that we can make room for you to fill us father fill them fill them fill them fill them fill them with your spirit father fill them with your power god give them faith god increase their faith that they may receive this healing and receive their breakthrough so that they can walk with you with confidence that they never have to be empty again father we receive this word and we act that it would take root god in our lives and that it would change the way we walk that we would no longer be pursuing a place where we have no need but that we would be comfortable recognizing that we live in the place of need but we are also connected with the ultimate provider thank you god for this word thank you for every person watching god thank you that they gave their life to you father that they accepted you jesus as their lord and savior allow them to live with the power of that confidence and let nothing and no one take it from them in jesus name i pray amen i want you to take this word and i want you to chew on it one of the things that i love the most about receiving a word that really strikes me down to my core is just stealing it with worship and that's what we want to do with you before we go about our life i promise you you're watching this you need to experience a moment of worship where you can take this word that you received and open yourself up and say god this is me showing you the best version of who i am who i was before the message started has now just been transformed and so god i just want to seal this new place with worship so family let's worship together we can't wait to see you on thursday on saturday on sunday god's going to continue to move and we're going to walk this thing out together in jesus name you

Channel: ONE | A Potter's House Church

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Length: 50min 39sec (3039 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 13 2020