You Have More Than Enough X Stephanie Ike

hey you i'm pastor stephanie and i am so honored to be here with you all you know i am really a part of the delegation and i just want to take this moment first of all to just honor the founder of this incredible movement that is touching the lives of women all around the world pastor sarah and the fact that i get to be here with you all today is such a blessing to me you know i was spending some time in prayer and i was really just asking the lord what is it that he has to say to his daughters what is it that he has to say through me to everyone who will be listening to this and he gave me this um almost like this understanding of this concept of producing supernatural results and not just you know randomly but producing on a supernatural level no matter where you are in life or with what you have now when i think about the theme this month revolutionary reset it made so much sense to me because in order to produce on the supernatural level you also have to reset your mindset however you see yourself in this moment one thing i love about the lord is that everything we do in life you know the bible talks about how we go from glory to glory and so there is always still some thread of the natural in our performance and then he's calling us to reset how we think reset our mindset in order to produce on a supernatural level now as the holy spirit was just having a conversation with me about this it really changed a lot in how i saw even the very things that god has called me to do presently and so i believe that as we are having a conversation that is going to impact you in the same or a greater way you know i don't know if you're like me but you know i wonder if you've ever been in the position where you just feel like god has given you more vision than he has given you resources for the vision when you start thinking about the things that god has put in your heart to do the things that he has given you a creativity and strategy for but then you look at your resources and it's like god what am i supposed to do with all of this vision the vision for your family maybe the vision for your business for your community especially in the times that we are in you see for me anytime that i see the evidence of crisis it is also the truth that there is vision that god has put in his people to be an answer and a solution to the very things that we're seeing shaking up in our world but then how does it feel when you feel like man god i recognize that this idea it could have only come from you but yet you look at your resources and it seems like the math ain't nothing right but this is where resetting your mindset comes in because many times when you think about change right you don't always experience change because your circumstances changed but because your mindset changed for me a lot of times it happens in worship the very thing that i could be complaining about in one minute the moment i start to worship is like i'm full of solution the very thing that had me down and in anxiety and and all kinds of you know troubling thoughts all of a sudden i'm full of solution i'm full of vision i'm not there's no offense in my heart i'm like okay god i see how we can do this but a change in your mindset now i love there's a scripture that i just want to share with you all because it really shows me how jesus literally is the ultimate teacher and he guides us into bringing us to this place on how we can produce on a supernatural level because the reality is that whatev where you are right now with whatever you have what the lord told me to tell you is that you have more than enough everything that he has placed in your heart to do everything that he has called you to do in this season of your life that you have more than enough because you see so many times we're crippled when we have this thing of like we're crippled by god how am i supposed to execute this most times we're looking at two things what we have and where we are in life have you ever i mean covet is a perfect example during the height of the pandemic we're literally experiencing a global crisis but it did not change the demands that life placed on you it did not change the fact that you needed to still show up for work it did not change that you needed to show up as a parent it did not change that you needed to be innovative concerning your business that simultaneously while you were grieving the thing that life was still placing demands on you to produce and if you only put your trust of your potential and your abilities according to what you see then this is where we feel overwhelmed and frustration kicks in and stress takes over us because many times you will be faced with this ironic circumstance when literally you could be grieving in your life your experience experiencing loss of maybe a loved one a family member but that does not change the demands that life has placed on you and we start wondering god do i do i have what it takes do i have enough can i bring what what is what can i bring to the table like literally god i feel depleted but life has not stopped demanding from me and the lord showed me that no matter where you are in life no matter what season of your life no matter what you may be going through that in the same time that you're dealing maybe in your home there's a family crisis but it has not changed the demand the world has placed on you it has not changed the man that your job may have placed on you it has not changed the man that heaven has placed on you and if there is not language brought to this this is when we oftentimes find ourselves dealing and battling with thoughts of suicide where we're like god i don't know if i have what it takes but it's all in the mind and that is why i love the theme of this month so much about reset and even today as we talk about resetting your mindset there's a scripture i want us to read and it's in matthew 14 verse 13 to 20. and in it it says when jesus heard it now what jesus heard was when his kind of like his second cousin first cousin i'm not sure but john the baptist was related to him but john the baptist was also a man who had such a pivotal role in the life of jesus in the life of him being revealed as the son of god so right before this moment literally john the baptist is beheaded and so it tells us that when jesus heard about the beheading of john the baptist and now he has been buried he departed from there by boat to a deserted place by himself literally jesus hears about the loss of a loved one and he responds as a human because remember jesus was showing us the way in which we should walk in our humanity that yes he is god but when he came on the earth he rid himself of all divinity so that he can model to us that you can walk the walk that i'm walking in because of the power of the holy spirit jesus was having a human moment he was grieving a loved one so jesus literally is like i just need to get away i need to step away from the crowd i need to step away from the noise i'm gonna go to a deserted place and perhaps he just wanted to mourn it says that jesus left there from the boat to a deserted place by himself but when the multitudes heard it they followed him on foot from the cities jesus is trying to find some quiet time jesus is trying to put himself in a place where no one can bother him the demands of life would not find him but they followed him in the deserted place this is what it looks like when you're trying to just take a moment to grieve this is what it looks like when you're just trying to like get your bearings back in order but life has not stopped placing a demand on you that the fact you're going through a difficult situation did not change the fact that your child woke up wanting breakfast that the fact that you're fighting with that person does not change the fact that you have a presentation due in the morning that the demands of life has not stopped and how does jesus respond in this moment he sees that they followed him the multitudes followed him the demands of his anointing followed him the demands of his purpose followed him you see many times we just think that god i just feel like people are just taken from me and using me but you have to actually shift your perspective in that moment that it's not that people are just trying to take from you but they are demanding what is in you they are demanding the anointing on your life did you know that you are anointed to be a mother you are anointed to work at that job you're anointed to be a business owner because the bible tells us that in everything that we do we should do it to the glory of god in every work that we do we should do it as though we are working for the lord every position that god has placed you in you are anointed for it and so when there are demands placed on your life it's not that people are just trying to take from you they are demanding the anointing that is upon you you see when the people came demanding from the anointing on jesus this is how he responded he looked at them and he was moved with compassion and he healed their sick now in the past when i've read about this i just you know i would just read it so quickly and i'm like okay this is great they followed jesus right and he they found him and he healed them but when you look at this especially when you're going through something when you are the strong friend that needs someone to check in on you but then you find yourself being having discernment in a room and you recognize that there are other strong friends who need to be checked on and still no one has checked upon you but you find strength in a moment where you thought that all you had was weakness jesus is trying to take a moment to grieve and there is a demand on his anointing and he flows so effortlessly he looks on the people has compassion on them and he heals their sick and the lord began to open my eyes that even in this scripture right here that the ability that he had to heal their sick did not come from where he was emotionally did not come because he just felt like you know what i can do this get rid of this people and go back to grieving but that the mindset shift how he the the reset that we see in jesus is that jesus modeled a man who did not look at his life through his abilities jesus said that i only do what i see my father do before he could even start his ministry the bible talks about how he was full of the power of the holy spirit you see you have the holy spirit because you have jesus but many times we don't tap into his power because we are still working and moving through our power but when you get to the place to say lord i don't want to see my life through my lens i don't want to see my life through the lens of my strength through the lens of my perceived capacity through the lens of my resources or the season of my life i want to see my life through your authority i want to see my life through the very things that you have said about me i want to see my life in your hands not mine you see whenever you read about everything that jesus did you would see that jesus was a man whose life was in the hands of the father when he would say i only see what i would only do what i see my father do they moved in such a beautiful partnership he recognized that i am nothing but a vessel i'm talking about jesus the man in this moment that i am a vessel for everything that the father desires for his will to be fulfilled through me and this is when the lord began to teach me about the key area in resetting your mindset that when you begin to see yourself as a vessel in the hands of god then regardless of where you are or what you have because a deserted place was not the place for miracles a deserted place was also symbolic that this is the place of grief this is the place of death but yet many of you may have heard that song graves into gardens how god can turn a grave into a garden you might see a grave from a natural perspective but the authority of god and the power of god can shift that into a garden you see jesus always rested he was dependent on what is the will of the father and whatever the will of god is i am only a vessel you see there is something powerful when you start to recognize yourself as the vessel and not the one that makes it happen because when you see yourself as a vessel then what god does is that he will now use you to reveal his power he will use you to reveal his vision because whatever god shows you the vision that god places in your heart is what he has purpose to do on the earth but to do on the earth through you i call this about recognizing that you are in the hands of god because biblically and spiritually hands represent authority you see when we continue to read in the scripture right jesus heals their sick and then evening comes they're with him this whole time and it says when it was evening his disciples came to him saying this is a deserted place and the hour is already late send the multitudes away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food the disciples come to jesus he's like look we've been here for a long time and now evening has come and the people are still here we need to send them away because there is no way we can feed this many people the bible records that it was at least at the very minimum 5 000 and so the disciples are kind of confused that there is no food market here there is no grocery store down the street we need to send them home right now so they could get some food but then jesus said they do not need to go anywhere you give them something to eat jesus was having a hey you moment he said hey you give them something to eat i know the place is deserted i see the season we're in i see where we are we don't have the it doesn't look like we have the resources to feed the people but he didn't miss his words he said you give them something to eat but this was a teaching moment not just an instruction because when he said that to them they said to him we have here only five loaves and two fish and he said bring them here to me and he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass and he took the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples and the disciples gave it to the multitudes jesus says you give them something to eat but he said i'm gonna teach you how you're able to do that with whatever you have place it in my hand they only had five loaves of bread and two fish i mean right now five loaves of bread might not even fit a person but five loaves of bread and two fish to feed over five thousand people jesus said i'm gonna teach you something this is how you produce on a supernatural level no matter where you are and no matter what you have place it in my hand and when you place it in my hand i will demonstrate my power through your hand when they placed it in the hands of jesus that was when it was multiplied he blessed it and he kept breaking each piece after another but when he broke it jesus did not give one of the people he gave it back to the disciples he said now you deliver can you imagine there's over five thousand people there i wonder if everyone was able to witness where the miracle came from all they knew was that the disciples were the ones actually passing out the food to the point that there was overflow you see how do we reset our mindset to produce on the supernatural level you place whatever you have in the hands of god like i said the hands of god represents authority that's why a lot of times in the bible you will see that there was a connection between the lane of hands and power being transferred many times you would hear about how jesus would lay hands on the sick and they would be healed you would hear about the apostles how they would lay hands on people and they would receive the holy spirit hands have to do with authority when jesus said place them in my hand and out of that came a supernatural result over five thousand people fed with a lunch of a little boy he is saying the same thing to you wherever you are in life and whatever you have yes there are demands on your anointing and you don't know how you can deliver see some of you well i was even praying many of you have words in this season and maybe it will come about through books that god wants you to write through scripts through music because even in the times that we are in there is a sound being released and it is a sound of fear uncertainty doubt the mind is being attacked above everything and i kept seeing words and the lord was showing me how he's planting his messages in the hearts of his daughters and how it's supposed to be delivered he will be with you but then you're questioning yourself you're like god you know what i don't really have the time i work a full-time job perhaps i only have like an hour to myself god there's so much happening in my life where am i going to find the time to deliver on this you see with the chaos that we're seeing in our world there is a solution that god has placed within you and that solution you're questioning your ability to deliver because you don't see the how you don't you you can't you can put together what you have in your hand and where you are to deliver on what god has placed within you but if you place it in his hands then he would use you to reveal his supernatural power and what does that mean because that could all sound well and good and christianese like give it to god place it in his hands and while i began to ask the lord i said god what does it look like for us to place something in your hands what does it look like one of the scriptures he gave me i just want to share that with you first was in acts 19 verse 11. it says now god worked unusual miracles by the hands of paul it was the working of god but it was done through the hands of paul now when you study about the apostle paul you will see that he was literally someone who was never afraid of what could happen to him he was never bound by circumstances that seemed to bind him the apostle paul was a man that literally he would be going to a city and the holy spirit will tell him that the moment you get into this city they're going to put you in chains you're going to be imprisoned people would warn him on his way there that hey by the time you get to this place they're gonna put you in prison but that never stopped him because he recognized something about his life that i am just a vessel and whatever god has purpose to do through me there is nothing man can do to me that will stop the move of god you see we read you know the new testament has so many books from the apostle paul and the crazy fact about that many of it were written while he was in prison see yourself as a vessel this is the mindset shift when you begin to see yourself as a vessel this is what it means to walk by faith and not by sight to not walk based on what you feel you can do to not walk based on what is around you to not judge the the limitations of your life based on what you feel is your limit but to begin to say you know what lord if this is what you've called me to do with whatever i have i will i would give it to you if i have just one hour to write the book then i'm gonna sit down and believe that you can download in me and i can do in an hour what would take ten hours that you would begin to see the victory of god over everything that even though you're in a situation where you're grieving a loved one but that you would see it through the lengths of jesus's authority you would recognize that though i grieve my loved one i will see them again because jesus has conquered hell in the grave you begin to see life because to walk by faith is really to walk through the lens of life that sees the victory of christ i'm not just looking at the problem i'm going to see this through the authority of jesus that god with whatever i have i believe that you can use it in any capacity this is when you walk with expectation this is when you walk with a confidence that i have more than enough i know the vision requires so much out of me but if i can trust god with where i am then somehow he would meet my natural and make it supernatural whatever you tell me about my life whatever instruction you give me whatever it is that you have called me to build because the is that i am not the one building it it's actually you i am just revealing what you have already built that is why the bible talks about how there is nothing new under the sun everything that we saw it not only did it begin you know we talk about how every creativity began in a person's mind but even before it began in your mind it actually has its roots in the mind of god god has already seen it he's already finished it that is why we learned that he works backwards he knows the end from the beginning he's seen everything and so when he's talking to you recognize that he's talking to you from a realm of what is what he said about your family what he said about your life the anointing upon you and the demands that are placed on that anointing it is not out of reach it is not far from you it is actually within your ability and all you have to do is shift how you see yourself stop looking at yourself as the one that has to have all the answers stop looking at yourself as the one who has to explain you know what this is how we're gonna get from step a to step z see yourself as a vessel of god's finished work god i am only a vessel for what you want to produce on the earth and so with whatever you give me it is enough for you to do the next thing so i will perfect it if i have an hour of free time and that is all i can give to working on that script to building that business to to you know setting up the meeting the appointments then i would use that hour and i would believe that you would multiply its impact because you see with server guide that is outside of time and when we think about that we we look at it almost from like a negative place because it's like okay god you know you're outside of time so what i need right now you're not looking at it that way you're like it's cool ten years are going to come and go just like that and you will be just fine but the beauty of serving a god outside of time he can download to you what could have taken you 10 years to execute and because of the strategy and the vision that he would give you you can execute it in one that is why when we see the life of jesus he literally fulfilled i mean his ministry started at 30 and he was done at 33 because he was in the hands of the one who is outside of time jesus did not need 10 15 20 30 years to literally build and plant and lay the foundation of what would spread the gospel into all the earth he only needed three years begin to see yourself as a vessel of the lord's finished works and this is how you start to produce on a supernatural level you see there's a scripture that tells us that there is one who plants and there's one who waters but it is the lord that causes it to grow maybe the lord is just calling you to plant maybe he's calling you to water but he is the one that causes it to grow you don't want to trust on your ability to grow the thing because it will be limited it would be it would never reach its full potential that is why even right now one of the scriptures i believe you should meditate on always is ephesians 3 20 when it says that god is able to do exceedingly far above whatever you can ask think or imagine according to the power that works in us whatever you can ask think or imagine this is also god telling you that even as far as your imaginations could go it is not even close to what i want to do with you could you imagine that because if you ask me to imagine one of the greatest things that could happen in my life it is fascinating to think about how god could top that but god is actually it's it's also a teaching moment that no matter how far your imagination could go of what could benefit your life i actually want to exceed that the realm in which i see you we don't even have the capacity to see ourselves in and so what does he ask us to do be a vessel stop trying to figure everything out on your own stop trying to have all the answers be a vessel i know as women we always have to show up no matter what we have to show up and we have to have it together but you can let yourself go in the hands of god maybe in front of people you know you put on a good show but you don't have to put on a good show in front of god you can say lord this is all i have when my mother was in her 20s she lost her husband my father and i would never forget this she said to us when we were like in our teenage years she said literally she was overwhelmed one day not knowing how she's going to raise three kids as a single mother but she looked at all three kids and she gathered them to herself and she said god i don't know how i'm gonna do this but you do and i give them to you and literally the way god has moved in each and every one of our lives has been supernatural it was nothing based on what she had the ability to produce but what god intended to produce you see if you're listening to this right now maybe you're a single mother and you're looking at your kids as you're hearing this you're literally your kids are playing in front of you and you have that question pondering in your mind god i don't know how i'm supposed to show up for them i feel you so heavy i don't know how i'm supposed to show up for them and be a good mom and work this job and do everything that you have called me to do i it feels like i have to compromise on something how do i still get my life how do i take time for me and do all of this see yourself as a vessel because you're not just a mother to your children you're an example for what god wants to do in your life for them to model you're not just a mother you're someone that god has given responsibility over the path of their destinies it's not just you you're not in this by yourself god is with you every time you wake up before the busyness of the day kicks in and this is to every woman listening take a moment to say god how can i be your vessel today show me what it means to be your vessel whatever troubles you in life you say you know what lord i can only do what i can and trust that that is more that enough don't look at it from a place of a deficit look at it from a place of abundance because you see when i look at a seed and when a farmer looks at a seed we see two different things when i look at a seed as an individual i'm looking at the end of the fruit when you're having some seeded watermelon because it's weird that watermelons you know really don't have seeds um that well wait the ones we see this i am going in different direction but whatever you eat that has a seed when you come down to it as a consumer when you get to the seed you're looking at a finished product like you're looking at the end of something you're like okay the fruit is done the seed is what you throw away but the one who is a farmer looks at a seed as the beginning of harvest and what i'm asking you is that you shift your mindset that you reset your mindset from a consumer to the mindset of a farmer that god it's not just about what i can have right now but i am gonna plant and i'm gonna trust that you are the one that will cause it to grow i love what god is doing right now because i believe that his word is a light right now onto your path that his word is illuminating the darkness and the brokenness and he's showing you that he has never left you you see sometimes we even have resentment or anger animosity towards god because we feel like god you've abandoned me because if you are really with me then i should be moving in abundance but it's in moments like this that you recognize god never left you that he is with you right where you are but you have to shift how you see yourself you are a vessel you are a planter what you have and where you are do the best of it and look at it as seed that is getting ready for a great harvest that does not come from you but it comes from the lord whatever he has called you to do have confidence and have an expectation that he will show up don't give up your confidence don't cast away your confidence the bible tells us that in it is a great reward in your confidence there is great harvest says i love you and i'm praying for you and i know that god is going to move so mightily in your life and that just with this switch in your mindset with this reset you're going to begin to see things a whole lot different and i want to pray into that and so heavenly father we thank you for what you're doing in the lives of your daughters we thank you lord god that way they saw lack they will begin to see abundance we thank you heavenly father that you are the god of the great exchange that we give you a seed and you give us a harvest we give you our pain and you give us joy we give you our graves and you give us a garden that lord we will begin to recognize ourselves as vessels of your finished works and so i thank you for what you're doing in the life of my sister i thank you lord god that you are breaking every stronghold every bondage of the mind that wants to keep her as a victim to circumstances but even in this shift in this reset that lord she would begin to see your hand on everything and i thank you lord that you will not fail her you are within her she will not fail we love you jesus have your way amen i love how your support is what is also allowing us to continue what we do here at woman evolve you know i have planted myself here as a strong member of the delegation and what i love about the delegation is it is such a beautiful sisterhood i mean everyone shows up for each other everyone is there for each other and the reality is that even in the way that you give to this organization is how we are able to show up for women all around the world and so if god places it on your heart to give the given instructions are on the screen we love you sis god bless you

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Published: Fri Jul 15 2022