The Tutor & The Test - Sarah Jakes Roberts

hey family i'm pt pastor toray roberts i'm the lead pastor of the potter's house at 1la and denver on behalf of my wife pastor sarah and myself we want to welcome you to our channel and to this word i cannot wait for you to hear what god has for you in this message i want to tell you a few things really quickly subscribe if you're not already subscribed to this channel subscribe so that you can be made aware of all of the word that's coming at you week in and week out and also turn on your notifications so you don't miss a morsel that comes forth we're also grateful for you and your partnership if you are so uh compelled we invite you to support what we're doing not just our church but what our church is doing there are a number of outreaches a number of things critical necessary things that we support and we're able to do it because of your generosity so without further ado let's get right into this word god bless you i'll see you soon is anybody in need of revival as we were listening to that worship song i just started thinking about all of the areas of my life that are experiencing revival you know one of the beautiful things about revival is that it kind of creeps in right no one knows when revival is coming it comes on suddenly suddenly there's this moment where everything has shifted and everything has changed and yet if we are not careful we will bring the yesterday's rhythm into a revival season and so while we often talk about needing a revival somebody's standing in revival right now i want to prophesy over your life before we even get into the message somebody is standing in revival right now it doesn't look like it yet you don't feel it yet but i hear god saying that if you would just take a moment and recognize what i'm doing in your life that you're not thinking the way that you used to think that you're not dreaming on the same level that you're used to dreaming and yes it feels awkward and yes it feels uncomfortable and this is what revival is revival is when what was once dead comes back to life on the inside of you and there is a god-size dream a god-size vision a god-size faith that is coming back to life you my friend you are in revival and that declaration about pouring it out is exactly where i find myself in this moment god if this is revival if it's new and uncomfortable and yet i have more revelation than i've ever had before and i have more prophecy and vision than i've ever had before then i'm asking for you to continue to pour it out because i don't want my old ways to stop the momentum of revival revival has momentum when we look at the toronto blessing that revival had momentum when we look at what happened in los angeles in the 20s that revival it has momentum and sometimes the only thing that keeps us from experiencing revival that withstands the test of time is that we get in the way and so my prayer for you tonight activate is that you would not stand in the way of revival that you would find a way to say to yourself god pour it out pour it out i trust that this revival is coming from you i trust that this new is coming from you and so teach me how to stand up in the face of revival i'm praying that this message helps you to can to maintain the momentum of revival that you are experiencing if you're like it doesn't feel like revival where i am yet i want you to just grab that word like it's yours anyway because i believe that this message is going to help you walk into a season of revival to walk into the awareness and knowledge of revival how could we not be in revival after what we've gone through over the last year and some change do you think that we went through what we went through to go back to the way things were i certainly do not i believe that we've gone through what we've gone through because at the end of the day god wants to bring us to a season of revival and my job is to just serve and what god is doing in your life and that is my favorite thing to do i'm going to be in mark 6 mark 6. i'm going to start in verse 47. i'm in the new king james version my subject is the tutor and the test the tutor and the test verse 47 is going to begin after jesus has been with the disciples and they've been with the multitudes and they've had a very long day of doing what jesus has been called to do in the earth and jesus says i need a little alone time come on soul care come on jesus saying i don't have time to fool with y'all right now i need a minute by myself he says i need a little bit of self-care but you guys go ahead on i'll meet you in the next town and so the disciples are on a boat headed to their next mission and jesus has taken some time away that's where we find jesus in mark in mark 6 verse 47. and it says now when evening came the boat was in the middle of the sea and he this he is jesus was alone on the land then he saw them straining it rowing for the wind was against them now about the fourth watch of the night he came to them walking on the sea and would have passed them by and when they saw him walking on the sea they supposed it was a ghost and cried out for they all saw him and were troubled but immediately he talked with them and said to them be of good cheer it is i do not be afraid then he went up into the boat to them and the wind ceased and they were greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure and marvel god you know this word much better than i do i feel that tonight's message is meant to be prophetic that it is meant to just flow and so father i pray that you would help me to remove the idea of structure and flow and instead make myself available to be used by you in any way and capacity this is your moment these are your people i am but your servant and so i pray that you would fill my plate that i may hand it over to the souls that needed the most and that when we handed over father that they would not see me they would not hear my speech but that your spirit would connect with their spirit and that there would be change in transformation we honor you in jesus name amen you know you gotta type amen in the comments or the prayer didn't happen if you don't type amen in the comments nothing happens uh you know this has been i've been sharing over and over again how this has been such an interesting interesting season for my family and i and as if to just put some icing on the cake my daughter mackenzie had surgery she's fine it was minimally invasive it was outpatient but this was the first time she's ever experienced a surgery like this this was the first time i've ever had a child in surgery i've never had a child go under general anesthesia and be carted away to be under the care of a physician and so when she came out of surgery and she was groggy and i was telling her you're drunk you look drunk and you look dusty i was joking with her she had this moment even in the midst of the haze and the cloudiness of the anesthesia when she said mom thank you for taking care of me then she said it over and over again i would put on her socks and she said mom thank you so much for taking care of me i'd pat her head and kiss her on the forehead and she said mom i'm so glad you're here then i told her i was like mackenzie you keep thanking me but like this is what moms do like this is what i am supposed to do and one day you're going to have to do the same for me you got to change my diapers one day she was like girl i am not changing your diapers i'm like oh you don't know what you're ever going to have to do because what i know for sure is that as a parent and as an adult child that there are moments when the roles certainly reverse and suddenly the person who was taking care of you now needs you to help take care of them mckenzie doesn't know it yet because she's just 11. but this experience is really tutoring her for her it feels like a test but what i know is that if god is gracious and allows us to see the decades unfold together is that she's going to pull from this moment and recognize how to stand up when she's really in a test it's no different than when my mother would care for me as a child i knew what to do in that moment with my child because my mother had tutored me before of course in the context of life it doesn't feel like we're being tutored it just feels like an experience but we're actually being tutored for a test that is to come i remember when i had my daughter ella and my mother would wake up in the morning and take the older children to school and she'd come home and make us breakfast and she'd take the baby so that i could take care of myself and i was finding myself much like mckenzie saying mom thank you so much mom thank you so much and then one day she told me this is as much for you as it is for my mother because my mother did the same thing for me she was tutored on how to show up for me so that when the test came she knew how to pass it my subject for today is the tutor and the test because there is this interchangeable position that we are always experiencing when we show up in life and i wanted to really emphasize this word tutor because there are so many moments where we think we're standing in a test i'm standing in a test you already know this too shall pass it's just a test god is just testing me god is just testing me he's trying to test my faith he's trying to test my patience he's trying to test my love we use this word test so cavalierly that we miss out on the moments and experiences experiences when god is not just testing us he's actually tutoring us god is tutoring us with experiences if we don't unpack our experiences then we will think everything is a test and we will miss out on the reality that there are some things that were actually just tutoring us and when we find the disciples in this text what they are standing is in is a test but it is not a test that they have not been prepared for before the difference between a tutor and a teacher is that a tutor is only responsible for depositing information i'm not going to test you on this later i'm not going to grade you on it i'm just going to deposit this information for you let's separate these two ideas for a moment and focus on the moments when life is tutoring us when you find yourself in a circumstance or an experience that you've never been in before you have no example nothing has gone ahead of you you have to see that experience as something that is tutoring you this is not testing you oh god i feel god on this i'm tutoring you on how to handle this business i'm tutoring you on how to communicate better you don't have an example you've never been there before and yet you're standing in a moment that is making a demand on knowledge you do not have what you need to know about god is that god is never going to test you in something he hasn't tutored you for god is never going to test you in an area where he hasn't first prepared you so if you're standing in a moment that you don't feel prepared for you have to see it as an opportunity to be tutored because i'm going to be tested on this later i got this revelation a few weeks ago because i kept feeling like there are so many things coming at me from all of these different directions things on the family side things on the business side things just kept coming my direction and i felt like man i'm being tested and god says no i'm tutoring you so that you can become who i've called you to be you see you're not going to be able to pull from faith you're not going to be able to pull from experience you're not going to be able to pull from wisdom unless you go through some experiences that put that down on the inside of you everything is not a test there are some things that are just tutoring you to teach you how to handle it when you're standing in a situation where you don't have anyone to pull from all you have to pull from is what you've already gone through i feel god on that for somebody that i'm putting you in a situation where i'm tutoring you because there is going to be a moment where you don't have anyone to ask when you don't have anyone who you can pick up the phone and call but what you are going to have are the resources and experiences that god has already brought you through and there's going to come a moment i feel this for somebody you have been tutored for the moment you're standing in you feel like you are ill-equipped you feel like you don't have what it takes but i hear god's saying before i put you there i tutored you for this you're ready for this you're armed for this and it's time for you to pull from what you've gone through i hear god saying that you've got to stop separating your life thinking that there is no connection between all of the things that you've gone through and recognize that not only is there connection between everything you've gone through but everything you've gone through was tutoring you for the moment you're standing in right now you've been tutored for this you've been top for this you've been equipped for this and now my only goal is to understand what is it that is in my past that i can pull from that can show up in my present you've been tutored for this you're ready for this you're equipped for this if you haven't been tutored for it then you're being tutored for it right now but i hear god saying that the holy spirit's job is to tutor you for where you are to be headed the holy spirit's job is to whisper into your mind what you need to understand about this moment i'm trying to bring clarity to a moment for someone you feel like you don't have what it takes but god says if you would tap into the holy spirit then you would hear the holy spirit trying to tell you what to pull from that you've already gone through there are so many things in our past so many things in our experiences so many things that we have survived and we talk about bearing our scars but when you learn from your scars you recognize that my scars are tools to help me recognize the wisdom that i'm going to need for my present my scars serve me back first they hurt me then they serve me i want to talk about our scars for a minute first they hurt me first they wound me but then they serve me because they become the wisdom in which i build my life with i want to talk to some people who've been hiding your scars you've been hiding your scars and you don't have any wisdom because you don't recognize that the wisdom is connected to the scars and the holy spirit says i can show you how to extract the wisdom from the scars and leave the shame behind some of us don't want to confront the scars because there's so much shame connected to the scars but i hear god saying i can teach you how to extract the wisdom without taking the scars and the shame and the in the pain that came with those scars with you i can show you how to move into the wisdom and to move into the next armed with the lessons of your past your past is dangerous baby and it's not just dangerous because it can tear you down it's dangerous because god says i can use it to build it up i can use you to build up your purpose i can use it to build up your next i can use it to build up your identity and now we wonder why romans 8 and 28 comes up romans 8 and 28 talks about making all things work together that means that when i get finished working it all together you're going to see that it is working together for your good and so we have a responsibility to our experiences to not hide them or to not pretend that they did not occur but instead to confront them recognizing that this experience was a tutor and it's got a lesson that i'm going to need for my present when i find my disciples in the text in mark 6 they're on a boat in the middle of the storm most of us know about mark four when they were on a boat in the middle of a storm if i can give you homework my homework would be for you to go back to mark four and to study mark four so that you can see the moment in which the disciples are on a boat with jesus and the storm is raging and they wake jesus up and they say jesus do you not care that we are perishing and jesus says to the storm peace be still and then he says to them oh ye of little faith and just a couple of chapters later now we are in mark 6 and they are in a boat in the middle of a storm again mark 4 was the tutoring mark 6 is the test when we talk about getting insight into the character in the mind of god we recognize that first he was with them in the storm and now he's watching them from a distance in the storm sometimes we want god to be in the boat with us but the moments when god is not in the boat with us it is a sign to us that he has already prepared us for the moment we're standing in but that doesn't mean that he has turned his back on us it doesn't mean that he is not watching us it just means that he has so much so much trust in what he placed down on the inside of us that he doesn't have to be there where we can see him i wish i could say that the way that i feel it but there are some moments when we feel angry with god because we feel like god you should have been right here with me and god is saying but i put so much in you that if i would have been right there with you then you would not have pulled on what i already placed down on the inside of you i hear god telling somebody that you don't need me to be there with you the way that you think you need me what you really need to do is pull from what i place down on the inside of you you want someone to tutor you 24 7 but all of a sudden we see jesus transition from being the tutor to the teacher because now it's time for me to test what i put down on the inside of you you have been praying and you have been preparing and you have been tutored for this moment that you were standing in right now and i hear god saying the only way that i can make you draw on it is if i put you in a situation where you feel like you're standing in it by yourself but i hear god saying you're not in it by yourself you're armed with wisdom you're armed with experience you're armed with resources you're armed with tools you're armed with knowledge i feel like somebody needs to type in the comments pull from it pull from it pull from it pull from what you've gone through pull from what you've experienced pull from what your mother taught you pull from what your father taught you i hear god saying that you got more fight in you than you realize and there are some moments where god has to fight your battle but there are some other moments where god gives you a slingshot when god gives you five smooth stones and he says you got this one i just need you to pull from what you've already got pulled from it pull from it pull from it pull from it i want to talk to your spirit from a minute because i need you to pull from what's down in your spirit i need you to pull from all of that prayer you've been praying i need you to pull from all of those messages you've received you posted it for other people to see but what about your own life you posted it for other people to experience but what about your own life i hear god saying you can encourage everyone else but you can't encourage yourself it's time for you to pull from the very thing you've been giving everyone else it's time for you to pull from that same belief that same faith that same courage that same wisdom that you believe god can do in everyone else's life but you don't apply it to your own life it's time for you to pull from it pull from it it's testing season school is out for the children but for the grown folks we don't get summer break school is out for the children but for the grown folks we got to take tests in summertime we got to take tests when everyone else is on break we got to take a test when everyone else is on vacation because god knows what he placed down on the inside of us so i'm going to put you in a position where you feel like i could be unqualified or i could be the best person ever for the job because i got something to pull from i don't know who you are but i want to prophesy over you right now that god gave you something to pull from when it came to raising that child god gave you something to pull from when it comes to keeping that marriage together i gave you something to pull from for that job you are not who your fears say you are you are not who your insecurities say you are you are not who your anxiety says you are god says when i gave you the holy spirit i gave you something to pull from and you want to talk about a well that will never run dry that's exactly what happens when we get into the flow of what god wants to do in our life he gives us something to pull from i'm standing in a moment where i need some strength god says pull from it i'm standing in a moment where i need some faith i hear god saying pull from it i need more love pull from it i need more peace pull from it how can i pull from it in the middle of the storm you've already been tutored for this somebody needs to know you've been here before you've been here before you've been nervous before you've been afraid before you've been wondering whether or not you've had what it takes before and look at you still standing look at you still moving look at you still dreaming you've been here before this ain't your first rodeo baby you've been here before the disciples the disciples have been here before i've been in a boat in the middle of a storm before and last time i was on a boat in the middle of a storm jesus questioned my faith and said i had nothing to be afraid of so now that i'm in a boat again in the middle of the storm i'm pulling from what i've gone through before and we see the disciples in the boat and they're pulling this boat forward even though the wind is blowing they're pulling this boat forward even though the waves are roaring they're pulling it forward anyway because they recognize i've been here before my text tells me that evening came and the boat was in the middle of the sea is testing this is the environment of the test the boat is in the middle of the sea and jesus is alone on land alone but still watching alone but still seeing so on one hand it feels like they're in the storm by themselves but they don't know that jesus is watching from land and my text tells me that jesus saw them straining it rowing for the wind was against them there's somebody you've been straining trying to keep this boat moving even though it feels like the wind is against you oh but i feel god's saying that there's a fresh strength that you have that you would not have had had you not survived the last storm you were in it's not that i don't see the wind it's not that i don't see the waves but i already know that god is with me it's not that i don't see the trouble it's not that i don't see reasons to be afraid but i know that god is with me so i'm gonna keep growing even if it means i've got a strain i'ma keep rowing even if it means i have to do it sometimes afraid because there's something in my knower that shows me that the last time i was in a similar situation that i finally made it to land you see the enemy doesn't want you to remember your previous experiences because if you remember your previous experiences what you'll also recognize is that i survived that too and that i came out on the other side i'm not saying i didn't have a wound i'm not saying i wasn't scarred but i survived that too i love this text the text says that the wind is against them did you know that it is possible for something to be working for you and against you at the same time we talk about things working together for our good we talk about things making us stronger but what we don't talk about is in the moment it feels like it's working against me even though i know it's working for me when you're out there running on the treadmill and your heart is about to give out and you can hardly breathe your heart is saying yes it feels like it's working against me but it's also making me stronger i want to talk to what's working against you right now and i want to remind that i want to remind what's working against you that it's actually working for you that i'm actually making you stronger even as you strain somebody's got strength coming to them as they strain somebody's got courage coming to them even as they strain it's working against me but it's working for me too it's working against me i don't know how the marriage is gonna work out but i'm learning to understand that i can also be alone with god it's working against me but it's working for me at the same time i don't have the tools i don't have the technique it feels like it's working against me but i'm up on my laptop at night trying to figure out what i don't have it's working against me but it's working for me at the same time i don't know who i'm talking to but i feel like you need to know that just because it's working against you doesn't mean that it's not working for you that's how god does math and if you don't know that that's how god does math you'll think that it's just working against you but god knows who you're becoming on the inside your inner man your inner woman your inner strength your spirit is being made stronger i've prayed like i've never had to pray before the wind is against me but my prayer life is increased i've been dedicating my worship time like never before it feels like life is against me but it's also also working for me at the same time this moment in our lives this moment in our experience it's teaching us it's tutoring us it's giving us something to pull from so here my disciples are my disciples are in this moment and they're straining it rowing for the wind is against them but they keep on moving anyway they keep on pushing anyway because they know they know what they know oh god i feel like god is raising up a generation this is a prophetic word and i hope i can say it the way that it hit my spirit we often talk about the generations that came before us and how they had unshakable faith and how they were able to survive storm after storm and season after season and i feel like somebody needs to know that the baton of faith is being passed to a new generation but in order for us to take that baton of faith that we are going to have to become the type of people who can withstand storms who can withstand adversity who can withstand challenges you have all of these heroes you have all of these people you admire but you're just looking at their achievements you're not looking at what they had to survive in order to get those achievements and i hear god saying that as this next generation of leaders emerge and i don't talk i'm not just saying leaders in ministry i'm saying leaders in their communities leaders in your family that what you're going to have to be armed with is the history of god being faithful and consistent throughout the ages god has given you history the disciples have history and they are on the fourth watch of the night four nights of not giving up four nights on hanging on to that lesson that they've had before fortnite seems like a short time but i dare you to get your boat into the middle of the atlantic in the middle of a storm and see how long you can hold on before feeling like god you forgot about me their faith was increased the first night of the storm in mark four they woke jesus up they're on the fourth night and they're still straining and they're still rowing but they haven't given up yet and then all of a sudden jesus comes walking by the boat then my text tells me that jesus would have passed them by the jesus saw them working saw them straining and would have passed them by because he knew they had it jesus doesn't intervene when he knows we've got it he was going to pass them by even in the middle of the storm he didn't ask the storm to stop he didn't give them extra strength for for the boat and for rowing he was going to pass them by because what they had in that moment even if it was a strain was enough to survive the storm sometimes we want overflow but what we have to recognize is that there is enough in this strain to still get us to survival there is enough in this stretch to still get us to survival and the only reason why jesus doesn't pass them by is because they think that he is a ghost and because they think he is a ghost they cry out the disciples were able to to pull from the tutoring for the storm but now in the middle of the storm something has been introduced that they don't know how to handle and in the process of them not knowing how to handle it they cry out i was reading this and i was thinking to myself can you imagine straining and rowing all right god i remember last time i'll keep straining and i'll keep growing even in the middle of the storm but that ghost that goes hit a little different okay you didn't prepare me for this ghost you didn't prepare me for the unknown you didn't prepare me for what i thought was dead to come back to life after all isn't that what a ghost is when something is dead that we feel has come back to life when the shame we thought we had killed when the insecurity we thought had died starts coming back to life in the middle of a storm the storm is one thing but the ghost is another i don't know how to handle the ghost i thought this ghost was dead i thought i'd finally overcome that i thought i'd finally gotten to a place where i had control of my mind where i had control over lust where i understood where my integrity holes were i thought i'd overcome this and now i'm in the middle of the storm and i could handle the storm but the ghost is trying to tell me that i can't handle the storm the ghost is trying to remind me of who i used to be the ghost is trying to make me think that it's not actually dead it is the ghost that could that took them off of their game for somebody you're listening to this message and it's not even the storm that is coming after you it is the ghost the idea that what i thought was dead is not actually dead that maybe that low self-esteem is still there maybe that insecurity is still there maybe that neediness is still there maybe that brokenness is still there it's not the storm that's trying to take me out it's the ghost that's trying to take me out and i hear god saying that sometimes you need to see a ghost because the ghost reminds you of what has actually died i wish i could say that the way that i received the revelation but there are two ways to look at a ghost one way is to say it's coming back to life one way is to say that it's haunting me again it's taunting me again but another way to look at it is to say that this ghost is already trying to show me what i've survived this ghost is trying to remind me of what i've overcome when jesus starts walking on the water they are afraid at first but then when they realize that it is jesus and he gets on the boat with them they realize that what i'm calling a ghost is actually a testimony what i'm calling a ghost is actually evidence that i've already survived this storm before what i'm calling a ghost what the the ghosts that have been haunting you in this season the ghosts that i keep showing up in your life are trying to show you that you were once inadequate you were once deficient but you got into your prayer closet you deepened your spiritual roots you went to therapy you got the help that you needed and you overcame this ghost in the past so the next time the ghosts of your past start talking to you i want you to tell that ghost i thank you for being a testimony every now and then the ghost of my past starts showing up and it tries to tell me that i don't have what it takes it tries to tell me that i'm too inadequate to take the position that god has called me to but what i see in that moment is god reminding me of what i've already survived your ghost is a testimony your ghost is trying to show you what god has already pulled you through that ghost is trying to remind you that you've been here before that ghost is trying to remind you that if you overcame this then you can overcome that and now when the ghost tells me that you're a teen mom you don't have any business ministering i say to the ghost i am a teen mom and that is exactly why i'm ministering because if i overcame that then god could put me in a position to help someone else overcome what they've gone through that ghost is in your cheering corner that ghost is working for you it don't even realize it's working for you i hear god saying that if you could change the tone of the ghost then you will see that that ghost is anointed to show you that you have survived storms before jesus gets in the boat with the disciples he was going to pass them by but when they realize that it's him and he tells them you don't have to be afraid it's me he says be of good cheer it is i the god of my ghost the god of my ghost is you in the middle of the storm is you trying to show me that after about survived before it's you trying to help me see my own strength i could have ended it there but as i read a little bit further i saw that jesus gets into the boat with them and the wind ceases and then it says they were greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure why were they greatly amazed in themselves they weren't just greatly amazed at the fact that the wind stopped and the storm stopped because they've already seen that before what i think as i was reading this text is that they were greatly amazed in themselves for how they stood up to this storm how they stood up to the test how they used their previous experiences how they used the tutoring of their past for the test in their present jesus i'm glad you're in the boat but i'm amazed in myself that you were willing to pass me by because you had so much faith that i had it i feel like somebody needs to know that you are not always going to feel insufficient oh god that you're not always going to have this false humility that you are going to come to a place where you are greatly amazed in yourself at who you have become because you were led by the spirit of god man whoever you are just feel like that as you're hearing these words that there are tears streaming down your face because the idea of you being greatly amazed in yourself feels so foreign and distinct and yet it's hitting your spirit in a way you can't fully describe when god says i know the thoughts i have towards you those thoughts are not the same thoughts that plague your mind and there's going to come a moment when your thoughts towards yourself and god's thoughts towards you look the same and in that moment you're going to be amazed that you finally abandoned the paradigm of doubt the paradigm of fear the paradigm of worry that has shaped everything that you've ever done the disciples are greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure and they marveled at this moment where the experiences of my past finally served in my present circumstance this is a full circle moment if ever there was one this is a moment where the disciples are able to say god i thank you for how you gave me enough to pull from and when i finally pulled from it and applied it i saw my life change i was studying for myself first and as i was studying for this message one thing that i felt very clearly is that what i have been calling a tough season was really a tutoring season what i've been calling rough what i've been thinking i i don't know if i can make it through this that i was willing to throw in the towel and i was just being tutored and that this is the season this is the moment this is the time in which god equips us so that he can pull from us later i'll say it like this this is the moment in which we are receiving deposits from heaven the positive creativity deposits of structure deposits of innovation and it feels so burdensome and it feels so heavy because i didn't realize how much i lacked but god says i'm going to make a demand on what i'm placing on you in this season and you're going to mentor someone through the very thing you're struggling through right now it's gonna be a test but you're gonna pass it and you may have to strain to pass it you may have to cry to pass it you may have to wait four nights in the middle of a storm to pass it [Music] but the tutor says you've got what it takes to pass the test i want to pray with you family i have to tell you this morning when i was preparing for activate i didn't know i didn't know what god was going to do with this word it didn't make any sense to me on paper i just felt all of these different things in my heart and in my mind but one thing i heard so clearly is that some of us are being tutored we're receiving deposits the positive faith the positive strength the positive strategy the positive connection and then others of us are being tested and those of us who are being tested have to recognize that god's not putting us in a test that he hasn't tutored us for first i want to pray for both of us whether we're being tutored or being tested because either way we are not without god's grace covering and anointing and some of us are straining but still rowing and others don't have enough faith but i believe that as we've come together and god pours out his spirit that he's going to allow us access to something to pull from for some of us it's going to be a memory a reminder for others it's going to be a fresh deposit god i thank you for every every person under the sound of my voice right now god i thank you that we recognize that life is an amalgamation of experiences and some of them make sense and some of them do not father for the experiences that we have pushed to decide thinking to ourselves i don't know how you're going to make any sense of that or it feels like i lost time that i didn't have anything to deal from deal with in those moments that you are setting us up for us to realize that it is in the examination of those experiences that you were going to teach us what those moments were depositing in our spirit god i thank you that as i've been speaking right now that someone has come come to terms with what this season is and as they've come to terms with what this season is they're getting renewed strength we need renewed hope renewed passion recognizing that i'm being tutored for what is to come or i'm being tested but i am not without resources father i pray that you would bring to our remembrance every experience that has prepared us for the moment we are currently standing in and that suddenly where we felt deficiency we will suddenly feel like we've got everything we need to stand up to it give us this day our daily bread that's what your word promises and that's what we believe and father i come against the spirit of torment right now and i speak against ghosts that are trying to whisper to us that we're headed backwards when we know that those ghosts are only a testimony of how we can move forward i ask that you would restructure the way that we see our lives that we will not see a series of failures but rather a series of lessons meant to show us how to move forward we receive your holy spirit your sweet guidance your sweet presence let it meet us in the areas where we need it the most and guide us to the place that you have in mind not our goal not our vision not our plan but only what you have for us may we breathe it in hold it in close and then exhale any doubt that stands in the way thank you god for this time with you let it marinate let it produce fruit and may the generations that come benefit from this shift that took place in this moment in jesus name amen activate family we love you so much if this is your word i want you to play it over and over again i feel like there's going to be something fresh and new that hits you each time make sure you leave nothing on the table we'll see

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Published: Fri Jun 25 2021