Unlock Your Heart - Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts

[Music] thank you feel like God's Gonna release something in this place I'm not exactly sure who came in here feeling restricted and confined but I feel the spirit of God saying that I'm going to release everything that I placed on the inside of you so that you can step into the next dimension of who you are I hear God saying that there's something in this Earth that only you can do but you've been restricted and it's time for release release release release release release release release I'm gonna move you past your excuses I'm gonna move your pastor shame I'ma move your pastor trauma I feel the spirit of releasing this place and God has given me an assignment and it's always such an incredible honor to be used to be a part of what God wants to do in your life I won't be before you long I want to be in mark 3. I'm so grateful for our Bishop can we take a minute and just thank God for the chief of this house the The Vessel think he's on that uh Midnight Train to Georgia because there's work to do in Atlanta ladies Make some noise in this place your life has been blessed by a woman you make some noise in this place Woman Thou Art loose the final chapter in the final chapter of this historic movement is going to take its final bow in Atlanta and I encourage you I know Pastor there already mentioned it but if you are not going to be a part of it virtually it is maybe too late for you to make it to Atlanta it may be too late for you to actually be in the room but I hear God saying I'll bring the room to you you want to make sure that you are plugged in to this virtual experience some of y'all gonna get more breakthrough at home than us in the room because you have to worry about your wigs sliding off you have to worry about you're going to be loose from your Spanx because you're not going to be there but I want to encourage you to use this opportunity to plug into the virtual experience as an opportunity to disciple other women to bring other women who you know have been going through and say girl just come over have it playing in the background and let God do all of the rest and so I want to make sure that you Avail yourself to this tool because I just have a feeling that God's going to lose more woman women in one year than he's been doing throughout the entire trajectory a woman thou art loose I hear God saying there's a multiplication that's going to take place connected to this experience and you want to be a part of it so proud to be a part of a church that does it for real I'm so proud to be a part of a church that does it for real woman thou art loose is not just a cute little conference The Potter's House is not pretending to put people back together I'm here to tell you that marriages have been restored that families have been reunited that businesses have been erected the generational curses have been broken because when you came into this place the Potter put his hand on you and you became a masterpiece you never thought you would be mark 3. verse 1. Jesus is doing what only he can do he's in the throes of his ministry and his Effectiveness is evident because he's got both supporters and critics critics it's how we know his ministry is effective he doesn't just have fans he has critics he has people scrutinizing he has people judging he has people waiting for him to slip up he's got an audience when we find him in Mark 3 the audience is there they want to see what Jesus will do with a certain man the Pharisees and my text begins and it says and he entered the synagogue again and the man was there who had a withered hand so they they being the Pharisees watched him closely they wanted to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath will he break a rule to heal this man will he get out of order to heal this man so that they might accuse him and he said to the man who had the withered hand stepped forward then he said to them the Pharisees is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil to save life or to kill but they kept silent and when he had looked around at them with anger being grieved by the hardness of their hearts he said to the man bump them stretch out your hand s got to get that ebonics version of the Bible going because my Jesus give it to him real Straight No Chaser you know what I'm saying and he stretched it out and his hand was restored as whole as the other my subject is unlock your heart Spirit of the Living God you see our hearts you know our heads you know our destiny and God you know exactly what it's going to take for us to break the generational curse you know exactly what it's going to take for us to raise the child you know exactly what it's going to take for us to bring the fullness of who we are into this present moment God my prayer is that in this room you would unlock every facet of what you knew when you formed us in our mother's womb God I pray that fire would return that passion would be restored and that you would send us from this place stronger more focused more vibrant than when we came in God and asked for me no nerves no fear no insecurity or inadequacy this is your moment this is your time this is your word so I pray for grace I pray for wisdom prophecy and that the fullness of the Holy Spirit would be available that you may get the glory in Jesus name amen amen amen you guys can be seated there was a young boxer in the 80s named Mike Tyson he went by Iron Mike and he swept this genre of boxing in the 80s because he fought differently than anyone else did as a matter of fact he became known as the baddest man on the planet because his fighting wasn't just about technique it wasn't just about skill it wasn't just about finesse though he had all of those things what set him apart was the way he fought with his heart he fought with his heart in a way that no one had ever seen before he fought with his heart in a way that set him apart he had an intuition because he was fighting with his heart he could anticipate the next move because he was fighting with his heart there's something powerful about having your heart in it you can have this skill you can have the technique but if you don't have the heart for it you're going to be just a little bit behind because someone with heart is anticipating what's coming next somebody with heart brings their whole Focus to it it is not uncommon in sports in cooking in relationships that people begin to back away when they feel like their heart is no longer in it something about recognizing that your heart's no longer in it my dad used to do all of this cooking he talked about it all the time and cooking chicken dinners to help with the church and smell like fried chicken and then going to his job he stopped cooking a little while ago only time I can get him to cook is if I like really put Pigtails in my hair and go back to looking like a little girl because I don't want him to just cook I want him to cook with his heart in it you know what I mean don't just slap me nothing together I want you to cook with your heart and then some of y'all I'm gonna be honest with you you still making Thanksgiving dinner and your family wants you to stop because your heart is not in it no more the potato salad don't potato no more the ratios you're not seasoning you're putting too much seasoning because your heart is not in it anymore you still know how to do it you still have the technique but your heart just isn't in it anymore somebody's gonna make this a clip and send it to somebody let it move your November's right around the corner let us step in and help you what I envy about athletes and perhaps even artists and musicians is that they have the opportunity very often to recognize whether or not their heart is still in it because there's often a demand on their heart to show up in the moment I envy this because unlike athletes or musicians who get to do this frequently most of us don't know when our heart is no longer in it because we have a routine because we're just doing it the way that we did do it when our heart was in it we got a rhythm and I'm doing the same thing as when my heart was in it and I just don't realize that my heart isn't in it anymore no I'm not as fulfilled no I'm not as focused but I'm still doing don't allow the fact that you're still producing results to make you feel that you're still producing change you can produce results but we haven't been called to Just Produce results anyone can produce results I'm here to bring transformation I'm here to make a difference I'm not here to keep status quo if I'm keeping status quo I've done something wrong when I do it from my head I maintain status quo when I do it from my heart I have New Vision I have new innovation I have new creativity I've been making him all kinds of stuff to eat because I do it from my heart baby did you know I could go French for you did you know I can make Italian for you I'm doing it from my heart I want you to see something there's something powerful about being in relationship with someone who's bringing their heart into it you you've been at the job where that new person comes in and they're all excited about what they want to do in the company because they have heart connected to it maybe we've been praying that God would give us something in our head but what we really need to be asking is God bring me back to a place where I'm doing it with my heart where I'm married from the heart where I'm raising these children from the heart where I'm preaching from the heart I don't want to have an autopilot because I don't serve an autopilot type of God I serve the kind of God that demands I do it with all of my heart with all of my soul and with all of my mind so if my head has overpowered my heart I've lost something [Applause] my head my head overpowers my heart is that just me I have a heart to start it I have a heart to write it I have a heart to step into it but the moment it's time for me to actually do it my head gets in the way very few of us recognize the moment when we lost heart teenage boy falls in love experiences his first heartbreak his head kicks in and says never trust another woman again his head over powers his heart a woman starts a business and she starts it with passion and she starts it with vision and focus but the bank tells her no and no one buys any sales and now all of a sudden what started with the heart has been sabotaged by the head I loved you when I first met you but now that I know you no no I know I believe God brought you into my life I do but now I just God didn't tell me [Applause] a child I'm raising a teenager I'll be trying to tell my head like oof don't do it you know what I mean because trying to keep my heart in it but I see why certain parents talk crazy to their children because they had sometimes your kids are talking and you want to be one of those parents I'm talking to y'all over here for a second therapy here for a minute sometimes you want to be like connected to them and I want to create space for them to express their self that's from the heart but my head when I'm tired start saying you don't have any bills you don't have to do anything but get up in the morning but my head can cause a wound to their heart that they leave my house looking for someone else to repair so I have to remind my head can always trust my head oh I feel God on this I can't always trust in my head you see it a little while ago I accepted Jesus into my heart and the only issue with most of us accepting Jesus in our heart is that we still live in our head and if we accept Jesus in our heart we got to return to living from the heart so that our heart can tell our mind what we doing our heart can tell our head what we thinking our heart can tell our head I forgave them my heart can tell my head I'm moving on my heart can tell my head no weapon formed against us will prosper my heart can tell my head you are qualified my heart can tell my head you are anointed my heart can tell my head that all things are going to work together for the good of those who are who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose my heart has something to tell my head so if I'm living from my head and I'm missing my heart I'm missing all of who I am supposed to be in the moment I hear God telling somebody you can't think your way through this one you're gonna to have to go back to your heart you can't think your way through this marriage you're going to have to do it from the heart you're not going to think your way into this business you're going to have to do it from the heart take all the courses you want to do all the studying you can get that's good for your head but God says I want your heart I want to know what's happening down on the inside of you I want you to sit in that Brokenness for a minute I want you to tell me what they did to you I want to know what's happening in your heart cause I'm not just going to sit there and mishandle your heart the way other people did when you give me your heart I am the Potter and I know how to put it back together when you give me your heart if you were to let yourself in the Lord I'll give you the desires of your heart my head told me I wanted success but my heart told me I needed wholeness my head said perform your way out of this but my heart said stand still and see the salvation of God gotta get gotta put my heart into it I'm not the best to ever do it I am not the most eloquent I have not gone to multiple seminaries but one thing you're gonna get from me is I'm gonna put my heart into this word I'm gonna put my heart into this message I'm gonna put my heart into raising these children I may not get it right and I may have to apologize but I'm gonna put my heart into it cause when I stand before the Lord I want to be able to say I did everything I could with the hearts you gave me and sometimes it was broken and sometimes it was weary but it was always at your service and sometimes it got ugly and sometimes it wanted to shut down but it was always to your service I had to go back and get it from the trauma I had to go back and get it from the pain but oh where did your heart go where did your heart go was it somewhere in the last check where did your heart go where did your passion go for that love where does your passion go for that Ministry where'd your heart go where is it where is it where is it where's your heart for worship where is your heart for service where is your heart for breaking that generational curse it wasn't just a good idea it was a mandate that began in your heart and I hear God saying this one's going to happen from the heart you're gonna have to sit in that heart you don't have to allow the heart to make the difference there's a scripture that suggests to us that we cannot trust the heart because the heart is deceitful see I got somebody like she trust your heart if you want to go somewhere but the scripture doesn't just end with saying the heart is deceitful we use that as an excuse to abandon our heart says the heart is deceitful Above All Things but God says even though the heart is deceitful there is something that you can do that would allow you to be positioned to trust your heart again since the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart you abandoned what God wanted to fix so you don't live from the heart anymore because your heart deceived you but God said if you would give me your heart I'll help you to never get tricked again I help you to never let them get over you again I help you to trust yourself again I'll help you to forgive yourself again because you abandoned your heart doesn't mean that God abandoned your heart God just says if you give it to me I'll show you what's in it if you give it to me I'll show you what you've been ignoring if you give it to me I the Lord I'll search it I'll tell you where your weakness is I'll tell you how that trauma is showing up in your decisions I'll show you whether or not that dream is a dream that was birthed because you were afraid versus what I placed on the inside of you let me search your heart that's what David said when he got in trouble and he couldn't trust himself anymore he says I can't trust me but I still gotta be me so can you show me me so that I understand what I'm working with so I can create boundaries so I can recognize what's you and what's me and I can draw a line in the sand search search my heart God can tell when you're living from your head and not from your heart God can tell when you're showing up in this autopilot when you're doing what you think you're supposed to do for the sake of the children when you're doing what you think you're supposed to do because you got saved God can tell I can tell you this I know for sure in Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve are in the garden Jesus says God says who told you you were naked it's funny Adam came out he came out the way God made him he had no issue with that but then something happened to his heart that made him move to his head and now he is conscious and insecure about something he never thought of before God I wish I could say this the right way there are experiences that can make us so self-conscious that we lose focus on where we're supposed to be conscious and when we bring that version of ourselves into the presence of the Lord God wants to understand what moved you from where I placed you who told you you were naked when did you start thinking about the way that I created you instead of doing what I told you to do when did you start second guessing how I formed you instead of trusting that I made you exactly the way you needed to be formed in order to carry out what I called you to do he gave adam very specific instructions he said be fruitful and multiply he didn't say go put on no clothes he didn't say hide yourself when I come around but something shifted in his heart and when it shifted in his heart it shifted his Destiny that's why you got to get back to your heart because if you don't get back to your heart you're going to miss God if you don't get back to your heart you're going to miss Destiny you're going to be focused about the wrong things you're going to be majoring in the minor things you're going to be making it about you and it was never about you you know why Adam didn't have to worry about the fact that he did not have on any clothes because he was not called to protect himself he was called to project himself if you will project yourself and be fruitful and multiply I will protect you I'll make sure that your skin is thick enough for the thing I've called you to do you want to protect you and God wants to project you and that's why you cannot move but if you will say I trust you though he slay me yet shall I trust in him I'm going to keep on projecting I'm going to keep on producing I'm going to be fruitful in every season and I'm not going to track down every rumor I'm not going to track down every lie I don't have time for that because that would shift my focus and I don't know about you but I'm in a season in my life where I gotta be focused I'm in a season in my life where I gotta make every second count you almost have time to waste I don't I have a projection that I gotta make sure is in the Earth how else am I gonna break a generational curse unless I start projecting something different how else am I going to show that there's another way to do it unless I start projecting there's another way to do it I can't protect myself and project myself at the same time so if I have to choose I just want everyone talking about me to know I'm Gonna Keep On projecting so you might as well get some water and clear your throat cause you're still gonna have something to talk about you're still going to have something to walk watch because I'm projection this is my projection season this is my season for me to take what's in me and put it out of me I'm projecting from the heart gotta project I got to show my children something different I gotta project [Applause] I gotta project what's in my heart I am grateful that you're in my life I gotta project that my mind will keep me from allowing my mouth to open up and really affirm you in who you are in my life so I gotta project something different I can't be in relationship and protect myself from harm at the same time if I'm gonna be in it I'm gonna be all the way in it and yes she may hurt me but that's between you and God but it won't be because I left some of myself on reserve imma give you all of me baby cause all of me is all I got and your acceptance won't determine whether or not my all is enough I gotta give all of me cause I gotta answer to God I gotta give all of me cause I don't want to hold anything back I gotta give all of me cause I want my children to see it's possible I want to give all of me because when I get to heaven I want to be able to say I gave it my all I did it from the heart I did it with the Next Generation in mind I did it thinking about how you could be glorified in my life you cannot be glorified with half of who I am you cannot be glorified with the parts that I want you to use it's going to take all of you to get God's glory it's going to take all of you for you to become to move in these rooms to release that gift it's going to take all that you got baby and that may intimidate some of you because you don't think you're all is enough but remember he created Adam just as he was and he said you in this Garden naked can still be fruitful and multiply you in this Garden naked can still have dominion you in this Garden can still be everything you were created with everything you need so if you divide this and allow your head to overpower your heart you don't miss God you're gonna miss him and you're going to be envious watching somebody else who's not as talented who doesn't have as much experience who doesn't even understand the industry the way that you do but they got heart baby [Applause] bless your heart bless your heart bless your heart and not in that Texas way where we said bless your heart bless your heart in a way that you can allow yourself to live in that heart again I want to be clear that this is not an indictment or me throwing any condemnation your way for choosing to live in your head over your heart because I understand it I understand what it's like to have a heart so broken that you don't want to deal with it at all a dislocated heart the reason why I feel like it is important for us to begin incorporating all of who we are especially for this stage of Kingdom building that we are in in this last day moment that we are in is because we have to realize that the world is dealing with a broken heart everyone on the earth believe it or not is dealing with some level of a broken heart and there are few things more dangerous than having a broken heart because a broken heart leads to an open head I used to watch this show called Intervention it's about people who will have the disease of addiction and when they talk about the moment they first decided to try a drug it was usually right off of the heels of some type of broken heart we often judge people for what they do but we never really consider how it happened people in this room right now nursing addiction not because they're proud of it not because they just wanted to have a good time but because their heart was so broken that it led to an open mind generally Affairs don't just happen there's something that happens within the marriage that breaks the marriage and then the mind is open it takes something very powerful inside of us for us to have a broken heart but not allow our head to become open that means I can have a broken heart but that doesn't have to change the way I see God I can have a broken heart but you cannot have my head because if you have my head you have my hand if you have my head you have my hands you can determine what my actions are going to be when you get into my head so I have to receive the type of spiritual maturity that would allow a broken heart to not change my actions I was reading in scripture about Eve Eva's my homegirl but that's for another time in another place but Eve eats from the fruit eats from the tree and we all know this but I was reading in Genesis 3 when she begins to explain herself about how she was even in the headspace that would make her go against what God said is that this serpent planted an idea about God that broke her head that broke her heart Genesis 3 2-4 his words paint a picture of God that breaks Eve heart he says did God really say that you can't eat from the fruit and then he goes on to say ultimately that that's not really why he said it he wasn't trying to protect you he was trying to restrict you he was trying to hurt you you can't trust God anymore there are people in this room who've had their heart broken by God yeah we don't talk about that in church very often it feels like we may get kicked out now y'all know but if we're honest there have been moments where God didn't do exactly what we thought he would do and it broke my heart that you didn't save that child it broke my heart that you allowed it and now I've got a broken heart and an open mind and I'm questioning everything that I thought I knew about you and faith in my spirituality because I have this broken heart and an open head I was looking at this moment when Eve receives a different picture and it makes sense to me now that the choices we make when we have a broken heart and an open head affect our destiny for Generations but even with an open head it doesn't change what God Said ah I'm gonna close I got a broken heart and an open head and I've made some decisions that I can't reverse but we serve a God who will get down in the middle of even the messes that we have created we serve a God oh God I hear God saying I'm not a man that I shall lie and I'm sorry that you received something about me you received a report about me that was different than my heart but we serve a God who is intentional and we serve a God who doesn't mind proving himself so if you have a broken heart and an open head and you've made some decisions that you cannot reverse I want you to understand that God is not finished proving to you that you received a lie not the truth and even though you've got yourself in a mess as a result of it I know how to walk into the bar and pull you out of it I know how to reverse the curse I know how to still get you to the destiny even though your head took you on a detour I want to talk to somebody who feels too far gone I want to talk to somebody who feels like they're stuck and I want to let you know that God has the GPS coordinates for exactly where you are and he is as close as the mention of his name you better be careful calling on the name Jesus Jesus Jesus because if you are stuck and you start saying Jesus Jesus Jesus you think OnStar is something but if you think that calling on the name of Jesus is just something we do cause it's Sunday I call on the name of Jesus when I'm lost I call on the name of Jesus when I'm stuck I call on the name of Jesus because I want to get back to where I was I want to get back to what you had in mind God steps down in that garden and he says you may have made a mistake but the mistake won't make you cause I still got a vision for who you are I still got power backing you up if you throw your heart back in it I'll put my power behind it if you put your heart back in it I put Grace behind it if you put your heart back in it I'll show you how to get yourself out of this mess I'll show you how to produce anyway if you would just you better watch out who you're sitting next to somebody's about to start swinging again somebody's about to start doing it with their heart again somebody's gonna start prophesying again somebody's gonna start teaching again somebody's going to start reaching again I ran out of headspace now I got nothing but heart I got nothing but heart for this fight I gave you the heart for it I gave you the vision for it stop passing it over to somebody else stop expecting someone else to get it done they don't have the heart for it you irritated watching them but I'm irritated looking at you cause I gave you the heart close your mouth and put your heart to work close your mouth and put your hearts in the text I'm gonna do it from the heart because that's the only way it's gonna get done I'ma Do It afraid but I'm gonna do it from the heart imma Do It nervous but I'ma Do it from the heart I may not be eloquent but it's gonna be from the heart it may not have all of the Finesse but Imma do it from the heart you came to hear Bishop I get that but she got me and I'ma Do it from the heart that means that if I do it from the heart there is no one who was more anointed to step in this moment except for me because God connected my heart with this moment God put your heart with that child God put your heart in that marriage no one else can do it but you so write it from the heart produce it from the heart lead them from the heart you don't have the skill so you might as well let that go do it from [Applause] heart [Applause] you got the heart for this and what's from the heart reaches the heart was from the heart reaches the heart for God so loved the word that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him when God got ready to establish a New Covenant with the Earth he put his heart into it it's only begotten son they'll know how serious I am about them because I'm gonna put my heart into it they'll understand how desperate I am to be in connection with them again because I'm going to put my heart into it my heart is the only thing that's going to get their attention my heart is the only thing that is going to release the grace that will allow them to be in Covenant with me again God puts his heart into it because heart makes all the difference so Jesus the heart of the father is with him he is on the Earth and in order for him to get the hearts of others he starts performing miracles you know why he starts performing miracles because Miracles bypass the head [Applause] and go straight for the heart I gotta perform a Miracles what one Miracle on one person will attract a multitude of belief for many people and if I'm going to get people to get out of their head I'm going to allow them to experience a miracle or witness a miracle you see you don't have to experience a miracle for a miracle to change your life other people dissect the miracle I wonder how in the world that happened for them but me I receive a miracle because if I witness God blessing you if I witness God doing a miracle in your life it changes the way my belief is set up it gets me out of my head God if I saw what you did for her and I saw what you did for him maybe I need to get out of my head and receive it in my heart how many miracles has God allowed you to see don't let them slip through your hands the miracle is supposed to be planted in your heart I got Miracle seeds in my heart not because I experience them but because I witnessed them and now I know how to pray with authority because I know who's backing me up so when I say no weapon formed against me will prosper and every tongue that rises up against me he will condemn I am not talking about something I just read I'm talking about something I've seen I've seen a tongue rise up against me I've seen the tongue rise up against you and I've seen God condemn it I've seen you keep on living anyway I've seen you keep on pushing anyway I received your Miracle you in a row with the miracle and you could look at them lifting their hands and you can look at them acting crazy or you can say that same Grace that's on a life God let it overflow in my life let me get me out of my head I think I may lose the child but if God saved they child then maybe just you looking at a miracle wait a minute by this house do you think that this little teenage mom was supposed to be sitting up here preaching to you but I want you to understand that you serve a god of Miracles and you can look at what God did for Bishop or you can start celebrating about what God can do in your life [Music] foreign I'm not just looking at Miracles I'm receiving Miracles I'm celebrating with you cause I'm receiving on my behalf I know how to celebrate your Miracle cause it helps me to see that a miracle is in my neighborhood how could you take nothing and turn it into something unless there was a miracle somewhere [Applause] miracle you just need to see a miracle well you're looking at one you just need to see a miracle where you sitting beside one you just need to see a miracle will you standing in one some preacher from the hills of West Virginia has no business sitting with Kings but you connected to Miracle you connected to a miracle anointing a chain breaking anointing and the same Grace on this house [Music] God you don't have to do it just let me see it God you don't have to change it just let me see it because if I can see it sin believe it and if I believe it I won't think myself out of it yeah just let me see what you can do with broken pieces just let me see what you can do with leftovers just let me see what you can do with the child just let me see what you can do with the broken marriage just let me see what you can do when you lose your mind just let me see what you can do with suicidal thoughts just let me see what you can do with depression do you know that guns have been jams do you know that doctors reports have been wrong I want you to know that I'm not talking about something I heard I know it for myself that somebody swallowed all the pills and woke up the next morning and someone needs to recognize that suicide is not the final say don't let your head convince you that your heart cannot be healed [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] think my way out of it God what am I gonna do I can't think my way out of it God what am I gonna say I can't think my way out of it God I don't know I don't have the business strategy what am I gonna do this head this head is not working this head won't do the math is half his head living in my head doubting in my head worried in my head and my head in my head and my head God help me take it out of my head God help me take it out of my head God help me I can't predict the future so help me to get out of my head worrying is not helping me so help me to get out of my head God I've been worshiping worry more than I've been worshiping you God I gotta get back to the Heart of Worship I gotta get back to what really matters I gotta position myself in a way that I can give you my heart and you can give it back to me and then I can run I can't run until you get me hard I can't run until you give me vision and I can't get any of those things in my head I gotta get it in my heart God what's your heart for this child what's your heart for my spouse what's your heart for this business what's what's your heart for this ministry what's your heart for it God God I want to know your heart I want to search I want to search your heart from my heart God I don't believe that you would just leave me the shattered so I gotta search your heart for what's happening in my heart unlock your heart unlock your heart and mine and my text Jesus and the Pharisees are in the synagogue they're in the place they are supposed to be but they don't have the same heart for the moment proximity is not necessarily a reflection of being on the same page synagogue and the Pharisees are all in the same place but their heart is not in the same place we all in church but not everybody's heart is in the same place [Applause] tell nobody somebody came to look for their husband somebody came to criticize somebody came to spectate that's why the scripture says where two are gathered in his name it's not just about Gathering it's gathering with the same heart posture [Applause] they're gathered in the synagogue but they don't have the same heart Jesus wants to just fulfill his mission of creating this new covenant and the Pharisees want to see whether or not he will break the law they watching him he's looking for an opportunity for a miracle if I had it in me to preach three hours I would take a detour here and talk about the man with the withered hand who was caught in the crossfire of Jesus trying to prove a point some people got a miracle because they reached for it like the woman with the issue of blood some people got a miracle because they called for it like blind Bartimaeus but some of us got a miracle cause we were just caught in the crossfire he's just trying to prove a point break a rule to give you a miracle that doesn't make any sense the man was fine living with the withered hand but for some reason Jesus had a point to prove I am the point that Jesus wanted to prove I didn't ask for anything he did I didn't call for it I didn't know to pray for it but he was trying to prove a point through my life some of us [Music] oh I got caught in the crossfire of Jesus trying to prove he could use anybody I got caught in the crossfire of Jesus trying to prove it doesn't matter what your past has been all that matters is that I still got destiny I got caught in The Cross by Jesus trying to prove that grief doesn't have to be the end okay I got in the cross for pieces trying to prove that you can rebuild after destruction I got caught in the crossfire you're right it wasn't supposed to be me you right I have no business being here but some kind of way I got caught in the crossfire I was just in the right place at the right time and Jesus said I got come she got caught in the crossfire foreign [Applause] for another time this man is caught in the crossfire of Jesus trying to prove a point to the Pharisees they were just watching to see what he would do and Jesus turns to them and he asked them a question that they cannot answer unless they consult with their heart Jesus gets angry in this text not because of what they said they didn't give the wrong answer they didn't give an answer at all [Applause] the key to unlocking your heart it's not about saying the right things it's in saying something you know why we lock our hearts down because if I allowed out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks if I really open this heart you may hear my disagreeance you may hear my disappointments so I stay silent we like to talk about the Pharisees like it to them but the truth is it's in US because we choose to stay silent instead of opening our heart instead of allowing it to be released we stay restricted and confined Jesus gets upset at their silence which helped me to understand that the only way that they could stay in their position the only way that they could stay in their head is if they allowed themselves to not consult their heart that means that had they opened their mouth if they had begun to have dialogue that Jesus the anointing the power the grace that was on Jesus could have enlightened them in such a way that they abandoned the law and recognized that he was there to fulfill it and they too could begin living from their heart again but they were too afraid too restricted to open their mouth I want to talk to someone in this room who has been playing the quiet game afraid that if I open my mouth if I'm honest about where I am if I'm honest about what I think that maybe it'll be dishonoring or maybe I'll lose all control if I open my mouth and finally let it out then maybe just maybe everyone will see that I'm not holding it together the way that I am supposed to but I hear God saying I need you to fall apart I need your rules to fall apart I need your regimen to fall apart this is going to sound crazy but I even need that marriage to fall apart because the marriage that it was is not the marriage that it could be because you were too busy trying to hold it all together when marriage is supposed to be the place where you let it all out I need you to go to war with that child so that you can see the trauma that's underneath there so that you can see the acting out is abandonment so that you can see the molestation I need you to allow them to have room for them to express themselves so that we can get to the heart of the matter the Pharisees couldn't open their mouth so Jesus just performed the miracle anyway but we don't have to be like the Pharisees we can open our mouth even if it may not be what God what we think what we think what we think God wants to hear I know for many of us culturally we don't say nothing because if I say it it may be what you don't want to hear may be too much I don't know how to finesse it I don't know how to dress it up but the secret place is the one place where you can come naked it's where you can come Raw it's where you don't have to worry about hurting anybody's feelings because God is not this emotional being that is going to be offended by your truth God says if you would finally admit it I could heal it because I've been knowing that you were feeling that way all along he asked Adam Where Were You Who told you you were naked not because he needed to be brought up to speed but because there's something powerful about confession if you confess it with your mouth I am reminded of a woman named Hannah first Samuel 1. and our heart was full of grief she could not produce and the pain of not being able to produce was Haunting her and taunting her and just like in this moment with the Pharisees we receive insight into what it takes for us to be in relationship with God in such a way that we receive space and capacity and room to live outside of our head she begins to pray from her heart from the grief that was in our almost called this message pour your heart out [Music] I believe family that one of the greatest gifts and we know this one of the greatest gifts that we give God is not our gifts it's not our talents it's our heart and I don't know if you're like me and you've been sensing that God is calling us into a destiny moment that is bigger and greater and requires more demand and more knowledge and more skill than any of us can really Gather in order to step into the moment and if you're like me you've been trying to think your way into it but as I was studying for this message I heard God say so clearly just do it from your heart but I felt like God needed to know what was in my heart if I do it from my heart but I'm bitter I do it from my heart but I'm afraid and God says I can clear that out if you'll pour it out if you pour your heart out in my presence if you will dare to open your mouth and let me in if you'll dare to make space for who I am and what I can do in your life it won't happen unless you pour your heart out and if you pour your heart out I will refill it I refill it with peace I refill it with joy I refill it with creativity this is why when we remove ourselves from living in our head and there to live in our heart we can't even have shame any longer shame is a mind game it's penalizing you for something that you did but God is more interested in why you did it than what you did so God says if you could get out of your mind and get into your head I could make sure it doesn't happen again shame is not insurance that it won't happen again shame is just insurance that you will stay low but when you give God your heart God says I can heal your heart in such a way that you recognize why you ended up in it in the first place family I feel like the only way that we can really begin this next week the only way that we can really be positioned to move with prophecy to open our mouth and declare a thing and establish it in the Earth it's not going to be from what we remember it's going to be from how we align our heart if you're in this room and you've been dealing with what I would call a dislocated heart somewhere along the way you just you got faint-hearted somewhere along the way you got discouraged you got disappointed and now you've been showing up but you're not doing it from the heart I want to tell you how to get back to doing it from the heart I want to position you to help you to get back to living and breathing and creating and innovating and establishing from the heart is connected to your mouth the heart and the mouth have connection and if you would begin to open your mouth and you would be able to find your heart what does that look like looks like crying out crying out to God foreign to the Lord Lord I want my heart back God I need to receive all of who I am to show up in this marriage to show up in this family to show up in this ministry to show up in this business I need all of who I am you don't realize it because you think you're still walking straight but the truth is you're walking with a limp because you're depending on your mind when you're supposed to walk with your heart and mind your heart and mind [Music] in first Samuel chapter one it doesn't even say that Hannah was praying audibly adjusted she was moving her lips as you make your way to this altar as you come to a space where you acknowledge that you've reached the limit on thinking I don't know what to think anymore I think I'm just gonna have to be well I had to do it from the heart you're going to see lips just moving somebody May Cry Out someone else is praying from their heart but there is a desperation when you want your heart back when you want to unlock your heart so you can feel again when you want to unlock your heart from the grief from the despair I need to unlock this heart God can't unlock it for you only you can unlock your heart by opening your mouth Lord I'm sorry I've been gone too long God I'm sorry I lost Focus I don't even know why I do this anymore God where is my heart am I still playing a game that you're calling me out of God my heart isn't in it anymore I wanna understand where it is and I don't want to just keep showing up and performing in this routine and with this regimen if you're moving my heart to somewhere else I don't know who you are in this space but you've been in the same industry for a very long time and your heart is no longer in it and you think that there's something wrong so you're trying to push your way through it and I hear God saying no I'm moving your heart to something different and you're not going to have lost anything from the time that you had I'm going to incorporate that into your next I hear God saying that you gotta open up your heart you got to open up your heart to the possibilities that I'm not done yet you got to open up your heart to the possibilities that I have not wasted anything you want it to end here but I hear God saying I'm just beginning [Music] after all isn't that what the Pharisees got in trouble for they thought that what happened with the law was the end they didn't realize it was just the beginning [Music] we open our heart by not being married to the way we think things have to be God I like it I love it but if you're calling me to something else God help me to move my heart in that direction God if I'm supposed to stay here help me to discover the passion in being in this position [Music] this is something we pray for my heart we don't reason it with our head for just 10 seconds I'd like to offer someone the opportunity to have a Hannah moment to dare to begin to use their mouth to unlock their heart it can be as simple as I don't know what to say but I felt something In This Moment [Music] feel like you're still calling me feel like maybe you could still use me [Music] I feel like I could still break this generational curse I feel like maybe just maybe I am the man for the job I just don't have the heart for it God give me the heart to be the husband God give me the heart to be the leader God give me the heart to step into this position of authority God give me the heart to not shrink any longer but to allow my big heart to step into this big moment you've had a big heart for a long time people have commented for years about how big-hearted you are and now you're standing in an opportunity that is as big as the heart that God has given you don't you dare shrink don't you dare back down I hear God saying release all of your heart into this moment it's more than enough it's time for you to finally step into the reality of what I've always known about you I had you playing in the small league so that you can exercise your skills and your talents but now I've got a gift and an opportunity that is the size of the heart that I've been giving you I hear God saying don't talk yourself out of it don't think yourself out of it be yourself into it be yourself through it be yourself and every stage and every dimension of it [Music] be you in the boardroom be you in the interview be you at the office be you at the bank don't think about it just be you just give them your heart just tell them your passion just tell them why no one else is more qualified than you it's not because of what's on the resume if you only look at the resume you'll miss the best part of being in business with me the best part of being in partnership with me is the heart that I bring I couldn't tell my husband all that he was gonna get when he got me but I told him I'd change your life cause I know about this heart that you get when you get me I recognize the heart that I have for this [Music] foreign [Music] because when we do it with an open heart Damon's tremble hell gets nervous it's your heart holds the power [Music] if you're in this room and you want to receive Jesus in your heart and you're saying to yourself I want to experience that transformation I want someone to sit with me and sort through the pieces I want that salvation I want to invite you to join us at the altar as well there is nothing that has happened in my life that has been more powerful than finally not just saying the prayer but actually committing my life to the life of Jesus I want my life to look like your life I want my heart to look like your heart God thank you for Jesus I want to pray with you I want to pray for those of you who are making a commitment to start living from the heart again [Music] I want to make a commitment for those of you who have decided that I'm not going to be so consumed with protecting my heart myself my reputation that I cease to project all that you've placed inside of me [Music] Spirit of the Living God thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you that you chased down one heart that you'd leave the 99 just to wrap your arms around one heart God I thank you thank you thank you that you put your heart into the world that you knew that if you put your heart into it that you would teach me how to put my heart into it to God I thank you for every household every heart every dream every gift that is at this Altar and God I thank you that you want to do our hard work on the inside of them God I thank you that you want to give them a heart transplant as only you can do God I thank you that those childhood memories that broke their heart didn't destroy their heart God I thank you that you still want to see them be put back together God I thank you that you still want to see them experience Deliverance God I thank you that the generational curse is going to be broken because it's going to be broken from the heart God I thank you that they're going to establish a New Covenant and the New Covenant is going to happen from the heart God I thank you that they're going to release Authority that they're going to release power because they're going to release is it from their heart so God they are at this altar with a heart offering to you because they recognize that if they give their heart to you that you will give them the desires of their heart God I want to praise you in advance for new desires coming their way God I want to praise you in advance for New Vision coming their way God I praise you in advance that you're going to give them the desire to serve you're going to give them the desire to speak and where they once felt afraid they're going to feel desire God I thank you that you are equipping them with heart you are equipping them with power God I thank you that you are in their heart and because you are in their heart there is not a devil in hell there is not a demon known to man there is not a generational curse that cannot be broken that cannot be destroyed God I thank you that they gonna throw their heart at it God I thank you that they're going to walk with courage because they're walking with the fullness of their heart God I thank you that their days of shrinking our heart over [Music] somebody's heart is coming back to life where you were once pain-hearted I hear God saying that you're walking out of here with a transplant where you were about to give up where hell was about to throw a party and rejoice that somebody's getting their heart back somebody's getting their courage back I hear God saying that service is going to be over but the fight will just be beginning and if you thought Mike Tyson was something you better see how you come out of this thing swinging I don't know about your heartbreak but I know about the God that will put your heart back together and I tell you that he's going to give you endurance he's going to give you strategy he's going to give you Innovation and he's going to get it from your heart a mentor can't do it a man can't do it but Jehovah Jireh is my provider and he's going to give me everything I need in my heart where it cannot be stolen in my heart where it cannot be uprooted in my heart where I can allow it to touch my children in my heart I thank God for atmosphere is being changed because I release my heart I thank God for Industries being changed because I release my heart God I thank you for my family coming to know who you are because I release my heart my heart I got my heart back I got my heart back I'm reaching for my heart again I'm reaching for my heart I got a heart for this marriage I got a heart for this city I got a heart for this community I got a heart to see it done well I got a heart to see it change I got a heart to see it transforms if you still got heart you still got power if you still got heart you still got access to Vision if you still get hurt you still got a way out of nowhere God says the strategy is in your heart God says the implementation is in your heart God says if you get your heart together I shoot you forward [Music] certainly it is true what is from the heart reaches the heart and you have reached into our hearts today and we're reaching back God please give your sons and your daughters an impartation of their heart wrapped in your heart that they will no longer be dissuaded foreign that they will no longer nurse the heartache but that they will stand by and experience it being healed we thank you God that this is just the beginning and that because of what you've done in this room today in these hearts [Music] I'm sorry I just keep getting vision of what God's going to do because your heart is finally in the right place I just keep getting anticipation I think your faith is building my faith and I'm just getting excited about what God's going to do when our heart is in the right place God I thank you for marriage is healed God I thank you for children being raised in health and wholeness God I thank you for restoration for joy I thank you for joy somebody's gonna have joy again [Music] I'm not just fighting and scrapping I'm not just waiting on the battle I'm gonna give you your heart and that heart's gonna have joy in it you're gonna do it with joy you're gonna do it with confidence you're gonna do it with courage because you recognize that the battle was never yours it was always the Lord's all I needed to do was show up for the fight cause the fight has been fixed so y'all can fight all you want to but I'm rejoicing because I know there's Victory on the other side of this and so God I asked that you would still this word is only you can do let it take root and produce generational fruit and may we birth a generation of people who do it from the heart because their hearts are connected to you in Jesus name amen can I hear just the sound of praise can I hear a sound of victory can you do it from your heart that's like one of those autopilot Church Praises but just for a minute can you allow your heart to receive what God did in this place can you allow your heart to Rejoice because it's coming back to life can you allow your heart to receive that resurrected power that allows it to beat again that allows it to pursue again that allows it to see again heartbreak is not the end that station is not the end come on you gotta lift up the name come on you gotta lift up the name that was above every other name your heart has been hanging on to one name but there is a greater name there is a greater Kingdom and I want to give your heart 10 seconds to soak it up soak it up soak it up soak it up soak it up I gotta practice this thing [Music]

Channel: T.D. Jakes

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Keywords: td jakes, faith, wtal, woman thou are loosed, megafest, potters house, bishop jakes, pastors and leadership, pastors, leaders, instinctbishops, village, #unlockyourheart, #sarahjakeroberts, #truth, #honest, Mark 3:1-5 (NKJV), how can i heal my heart, how to discover your passion and purpose

Id: mXMl8lVcwZQ

Length: 75min 32sec (4532 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 18 2022