Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God has moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: I have the honor today of introducing one of my
Speaker 1: favorite people to you, my friend, Sarah Jakes Roberts Elevation Church.
Speaker 1: We are so spoiled. Sarah and her husband Terrey are
Speaker 1: pastors at the Potter's House at One LA and the
Speaker 1: Potter's House in Denver. I don't know how they get
Speaker 1: all of that done, but they do. And she wears
Speaker 1: so many other hats. She's a pastor, she's a writer,
Speaker 1: she's a mother of six yes, I said six children,
Speaker 1: and she is daughter to the great Bishop TD Jakes
Speaker 1: that we all know and love, just to name a
Speaker 1: few of the things that she is. But she's also
Speaker 1: my friend. She is someone who makes me laugh. She
Speaker 1: sends me text messages all the time. I love her
Speaker 1: so much, and you're gonna love her too, because one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things about her is that she is
Speaker 1: a woman who can preach. A lot of women speak,
Speaker 1: a lot of women teach, a lot of women share,
Speaker 1: But this girl, she preaches. And I know that this
Speaker 1: message is going to challenge you and grow your faith
Speaker 1: in a new way. So will you help me give
Speaker 1: an elevation? Welcome to my friend, Sarah Jakes Roberts Elevation.
Speaker 1: Can you make some noise? That was okay for me?
Speaker 1: Can you make some noise for Jesus? Now? Is anyone
Speaker 1: glad to be in the tours of the Living God?
Speaker 1: You could be anywhere else, but you have decided to
Speaker 1: be in the presence. Make some noise so heaven touches earth.
Speaker 1: Make some noise until demons start trembling and change, sun breaking.
Speaker 1: Make some noise like you're gonna slay your giants so
Speaker 1: your children don't have to. Yeah, Elevation is one of
Speaker 1: the most amazing churches in the world, in the world,
Speaker 1: and I consider it an honor to be here before
Speaker 1: you guys today, I've been studying, I've been praying. I
Speaker 1: want to get right into the word, if that's all
Speaker 1: right with you. And I know you've been standing a
Speaker 1: long time, but I'm gonna be standing a longer time.
Speaker 1: Someone stretched your hands towards my feet. Amen, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in Matthew twenty six, verse sixty nine, I'm reading
Speaker 1: God of the New King James version. Yesterday I was
Speaker 1: reading the Word, and I told people to sit down
Speaker 1: and get comfortable if they would like. But then I
Speaker 1: learned that you all actually stand for the reading of
Speaker 1: the Word. So I'm gonna ask that you honor the
Speaker 1: custom of this house. Verse sixty nine begins and it says,
Speaker 1: now Peter sat outside in the courtyard, and a servant
Speaker 1: girl came to him, saying, you also were with Jesus
Speaker 1: of Galilee. But he denied it before them all, saying
Speaker 1: I do not know what you are saying. And verse
Speaker 1: seventy one continues. It says, and when he had gone
Speaker 1: out to the gateway, another girl saw him and said
Speaker 1: to those who were there, this fellow also was with
Speaker 1: Jesus of Nazareth. But again he denied it with an oath,
Speaker 1: I do not know the man. Verse seventy three says
Speaker 1: in a little later, those who stood by came up
Speaker 1: and said to Peter, surely you are also one of them,
Speaker 1: for your speech betrays you. Then he began to curse
Speaker 1: and swear I love Peter, I do not know the man.
Speaker 1: Immediately a rooster crowed, and Peter remembered the word of Jesus,
Speaker 1: who had said to him before the rooster crows, you
Speaker 1: will deny me three times. So he went out and
Speaker 1: wept bitterly. My subject, for those of you who take notes,
Speaker 1: are everything must go, Everything must go. So God, we
Speaker 1: welcome you to continue to feel this atmosphere with your
Speaker 1: word and your truth. You are the only one who
Speaker 1: can take one message and allow it to hit everyone
Speaker 1: in different ways. You are the only one who knows
Speaker 1: every need, every burden, every issue that came into this room,
Speaker 1: and you, and you alone can speak breakthrough and power
Speaker 1: and victim and healing. And so Father, we welcome you
Speaker 1: to inhabit every part of this room, every soul that
Speaker 1: came in here, because we recognize that when you do that,
Speaker 1: we are forever changed. And so we're asking that this
Speaker 1: would be one of those moments where we walk out
Speaker 1: of there and say, God, you heard me, you see me,
Speaker 1: and you know the plans that you have from me. God,
Speaker 1: I'm asking to be your vessel that there will be
Speaker 1: no nerves, no anxiety, just your spirit standing tall on me.
Speaker 1: So that lives may be changed in Jesus's name. Amen. Amen,
Speaker 1: Now you can get seated and be comfortable. There are
Speaker 1: very few words that bless my soul as a believer,
Speaker 1: like the following three Everything must go. Those words bless
Speaker 1: me not just because of the reason that I found
Speaker 1: one studying, but when I see them on a store,
Speaker 1: it speaks to me that God is really looking out
Speaker 1: for my finances in this season, said God, I prayed
Speaker 1: for savings, and you put my favorite store on sale.
Speaker 1: How great is your mercy towards me? Everything must go?
Speaker 1: And that used to make me so excited because I
Speaker 1: knew that when I walked into the store that they
Speaker 1: would be willing to discount even further items that I
Speaker 1: had been waiting to get for a very long time.
Speaker 1: And so when I went home and I told my
Speaker 1: husband that I finally got something that I'd been looking for,
Speaker 1: I could tell him, but honey, it was on sale,
Speaker 1: and so we saved money. I didn't spend money. Now
Speaker 1: that I am a business owner, though, I realized that
Speaker 1: when they put those words outside of the store, it's
Speaker 1: not just because they want to bless my spirit. Just
Speaker 1: fascinating they actually do that because they have new inventory
Speaker 1: coming in. And because they have new inventory coming in,
Speaker 1: they have to get rid of everything that is no
Speaker 1: longer profitable so that that which is profitable can take
Speaker 1: its place. What if we as believers started to treat
Speaker 1: our life with that same level of philosophy, that we
Speaker 1: looked within ourselves and said everything must go that is
Speaker 1: no longer profitable so that that which is profitable can
Speaker 1: come in. How much powerful would we be if we
Speaker 1: looked at our bitterness and said, no, you can't stay
Speaker 1: because you're taking a place where my joy could be.
Speaker 1: What if we looked at our misery and said, no,
Speaker 1: you can't stay because you're taking up space where my
Speaker 1: purpose could be. What if we started to say, depression,
Speaker 1: you can't stay here. Joy is in your place. You
Speaker 1: got to make room, and everything must go. This is
Speaker 1: a mindset that we should have. But because we don't
Speaker 1: always have this mind and said, God creates these situations,
Speaker 1: these scenarios that force us to put that which is
Speaker 1: no longer profitable on sale so that it can be
Speaker 1: stripped away to make room for what is profitable. When
Speaker 1: we find my friend Peter in this text, he is
Speaker 1: going through that exact process Now, because we've heard this
Speaker 1: story so many times, it can be easy for us
Speaker 1: to believe that he's going to be all right in
Speaker 1: the end. But that's because we know the end from
Speaker 1: the beginning. But imagine with me being Peter in this moment.
Speaker 1: This is not the same Peter who's walking on water
Speaker 1: in front of Jesus. This is not the same Peter
Speaker 1: who is watching Jesus perform miracle after miracle. This is
Speaker 1: a defeated Peter. This Peter left everything he knew and
Speaker 1: he began to follow Jesus. He was connected to hope,
Speaker 1: he was connected to faith. He would see signs and
Speaker 1: wonders all of the time. And now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that which he knew so well he is disconnected from.
Speaker 1: And in the process of being disconnected from that faith,
Speaker 1: his change begins to occur, and he's no longer the
Speaker 1: person he used to be. I know we'd like to
Speaker 1: say that that is exclusive to Peter's experience, but if
Speaker 1: we are honest, we look back over our lives and
Speaker 1: we recognize that there are moments where I used to
Speaker 1: be so full of faith. I used to be so
Speaker 1: connected to my faith. There was nothing off limits. I
Speaker 1: had faith for my marriage. I had faith for my children.
Speaker 1: I had faith that that dream, that purpose was going
Speaker 1: to be manifest and that it was going to change
Speaker 1: the world. And now I'm just lucky if I get
Speaker 1: from day to day. I used to have faith. I
Speaker 1: used to believe that I could do absolutely anything. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, now I'm connected from my faith. What
Speaker 1: I love about this is that for Peter, his faith
Speaker 1: was taken from him. His hope was taken from him.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had hope just stripped out of your hands.
Speaker 1: I thought that things would be one way, but one
Speaker 1: phone call, one incident, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: all of my faith has been stripped away. I never
Speaker 1: thought that I would be the one going through a divorce.
Speaker 1: I thought that we would make it to the long hold,
Speaker 1: but my faith got stripped away. I never thought that
Speaker 1: I would be the one who didn't know how I
Speaker 1: was going to make ends meet. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: my faith got stripped away. When we find Peter in
Speaker 1: this text, his faith has been stripped away. And when
Speaker 1: your faith is stripped away, it changes how you see
Speaker 1: the world. It changes how you engage and how you interact.
Speaker 1: There are people in this room who haven't really felt
Speaker 1: like themselves in such a very long time. And if
Speaker 1: we retraced your steps and retraced your history, we would
Speaker 1: find that it was all because of one incident that
Speaker 1: changed the way you saw everything. I witnessed something, and
Speaker 1: I saw the worst of people. And when I saw
Speaker 1: the worst of people, it made me stop believing in
Speaker 1: the best of them. And so now I've become a
Speaker 1: cynic disconnected from hope, and every time I close my
Speaker 1: eyes at night, I remember that person I used to be.
Speaker 1: But as I was praying and I was pressing in,
Speaker 1: I felt like God was saying that everything must go,
Speaker 1: That everything that is not profitable, that everything that has
Speaker 1: no value for what he wants to do in our
Speaker 1: life has to go. That maybe, just maybe, as we
Speaker 1: filter through our lives, and we filter through our memories
Speaker 1: and our emotions, we will recognize that we picked up
Speaker 1: some habits and some patterns and some thoughts that we
Speaker 1: shouldn't have. And we're at a season right now where
Speaker 1: I can't go to next unless I lean out back there.
Speaker 1: Peter is in between the cusp of walking with Jesus
Speaker 1: and becoming the rock in which Jesus would build his church,
Speaker 1: so it's not actually that he's disconnected from his faith.
Speaker 1: It's not that he's disconnected from Jesus. It's just that
Speaker 1: Jesus is shifting, and as Jesus is shifting, then Peter
Speaker 1: is having to elevate who he is as well. Sometimes
Speaker 1: God just moves on you, and it's not that he's lost.
Speaker 1: It's not that you did anything wrong. It's him saying
Speaker 1: everything must go so that everything can grow. If I
Speaker 1: don't move from where you're used to seeing me, then
Speaker 1: you'll become one of those complacent church goers. And I
Speaker 1: called you to be a kingdom agent in this world,
Speaker 1: so I'm constantly expanding your capacity. I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: how hungry you are to hear from me. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to see how desperate you are to get a word
Speaker 1: from me. So I'm not staying within reach. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to stretched you into the next dimension. Peter. I know
Speaker 1: you're used to walking with me, but can you press
Speaker 1: in and show me that you have taken in what
Speaker 1: you used to once take for granted. I hear God
Speaker 1: saying it's in you. I hear God saying that you
Speaker 1: are depending on faith in one arena that you thought
Speaker 1: your help came from a job, not recognizing that he's
Speaker 1: going to be your provider. So I stripped the job
Speaker 1: away so that you can see man didn't have to
Speaker 1: write you a check that I would make a way
Speaker 1: for you to make it anyway. I hear God saying
Speaker 1: I had to move some people out of your life
Speaker 1: because you were beginning to worship them. And I need
Speaker 1: you to know that at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: if all you have is me, that that's more than enough.
Speaker 1: There's a greater is He mentality that is coming back
Speaker 1: into your situation. And I had to strip some things
Speaker 1: away so that I could grow an increase inside of you.
Speaker 1: Everything must go, Everything must go. I won't be satisfied
Speaker 1: with this message until you leave here desperate to clear
Speaker 1: out anything that's taking up unprofitable space down on the
Speaker 1: inside of you. Anytime a negative thought starts rising up,
Speaker 1: until you say everything must go. God, renew my mind
Speaker 1: and give me a mind like Christ. I can't afford
Speaker 1: to have this sinking thinking any longer. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: press towards the mark, and I can't do with thinking
Speaker 1: like the same girl I used to be. Everything's gotta go,
Speaker 1: Everything's gotta go. Every hater, every doubt, every fear, every insecurity, depression,
Speaker 1: loose my mind. Did you know that you have authority
Speaker 1: to roll up on your own depression? Can I get
Speaker 1: a little hood at elevation for a minute that you
Speaker 1: can roll up on your own issues and say, devil,
Speaker 1: I've had enough. You can't have me any longer. For
Speaker 1: the sun is set free by God. I take authority
Speaker 1: over my mind, I take authority over my situation. Loose
Speaker 1: my child and let them go. Let go of my husband.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. He gave me power. He
Speaker 1: gave me authority, and I'm tired of acting like I
Speaker 1: don't have it any longer. It's gotta go, get off
Speaker 1: of me. It's gotta go. It's gotta go. Because I'm
Speaker 1: ready to grow. It's gotta go. It's gotta go. It's
Speaker 1: gotta go. It's gotta go. It's gotta go. It's gotta go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move on, but I'm speaking to your demons.
Speaker 1: You gotta go, you gotta go, you gotta go, you
Speaker 1: gotta go. I didn't just come to church to crap
Speaker 1: my hands and walk out feeling good. I came here
Speaker 1: to wage war on Hell. You gotta let me go,
Speaker 1: you gotta let my country go, you gotta let my
Speaker 1: finances go. And anything that's keeping me from recognizing what
Speaker 1: He can do through me has got to clear the way. Everything.
Speaker 1: Everything's gotta go. Everything. So my friend Peter is in
Speaker 1: between walking with Jesus and becoming the rock in which
Speaker 1: Christ will build his church. But in this moment, he's
Speaker 1: lost and he doesn't know what to think because he's
Speaker 1: been disconnected. And so Peter, I love this because before
Speaker 1: any of this happened, they're at the Last Supper and
Speaker 1: Jesus says to Peter, before the rooster crows three times,
Speaker 1: you're gonna deny me. And Peter was like child, I
Speaker 1: would never ever you, my boy, we've been rolling, man.
Speaker 1: But he says, I see something in you that's got
Speaker 1: to come out of you, and it's got to come
Speaker 1: out of you in order for you to access the
Speaker 1: next dimension of who you are. And so I have
Speaker 1: to move myself out of the way, because if I
Speaker 1: don't move myself out of the way, then you won't
Speaker 1: deny me, and then that issue won't rise to the surface.
Speaker 1: And if that issue doesn't rise to the surface, I
Speaker 1: can't build my church on you. So God moves things
Speaker 1: out of the way so that our issues can rise
Speaker 1: to the surface. And I just want you to know,
Speaker 1: because some of you got so many issues rising to
Speaker 1: the surface right now that you're ready to give up,
Speaker 1: so many memories and thoughts rising to the surface. But
Speaker 1: what I love about this is if Peter gets this
Speaker 1: out of his system, this denial out of the way
Speaker 1: one time, he never has to be the person who
Speaker 1: denied Jesus again. That if I confront what's in me,
Speaker 1: then it makes space for what's on me to reach
Speaker 1: its fullest potential. And I know that some of our
Speaker 1: families and some of us are more comfortable when we
Speaker 1: don't let those issues rise to the surface because we
Speaker 1: want to avoid conflict. But as long as it exists
Speaker 1: within you, then you are conflicted and divided. And we
Speaker 1: have to be united if we want to be powerful
Speaker 1: in the kingdom, because there's enough outside that's willing to
Speaker 1: divide us that we can't go into it already divided
Speaker 1: within ourselves. And so Jesus says, I see potential in
Speaker 1: you where I can build my church on you, But
Speaker 1: first you have to deny me so that you know
Speaker 1: what's in you. There are some things that you won't
Speaker 1: even realize are in you until you're placed in situations
Speaker 1: that bring it out of you. I didn't know I
Speaker 1: was crazy. I did, and I would have never thought
Speaker 1: it was possible for me until someone says something to me,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, I'm about to be crazy
Speaker 1: because it's in me. But once it got out of me,
Speaker 1: it taught me something about myself that I can't afford
Speaker 1: to be connected with people who bring out that side
Speaker 1: of me. And so all it took was one time
Speaker 1: for me to see what was capable for me to
Speaker 1: make a decision moving forward to make sure that that
Speaker 1: never sprung out of me again. And so when I
Speaker 1: find Peter in this text, he's in between and he's
Speaker 1: got this spirit of disconnect between him and Jesus. And
Speaker 1: it's funny because at this moment he's sitting outside in
Speaker 1: the courtyard and like so many of us do, he's
Speaker 1: thinking about what's wrong and what's not working. And this
Speaker 1: servant girl she comes up to him and she says
Speaker 1: to him, you were also with Jesus of Galilee, And
Speaker 1: it was interesting that he responded and says, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what you're saying. For me, this was a
Speaker 1: testament of how disconnected we can become from what we
Speaker 1: once knew, because the worst thing that anyone wants to
Speaker 1: be reminded of when things are not working is a
Speaker 1: time when they once were working. I know you guys
Speaker 1: don't get angry with people because you are safe, sanctified,
Speaker 1: and filled with the holy ghosts. But have you ever
Speaker 1: been having a little bit of a disconnect with your
Speaker 1: husband and then Facebook brought you a memory of when
Speaker 1: you wrote that love note on Valentine's Day and you
Speaker 1: scrolled super fast past it, like not today, not today.
Speaker 1: When this girl comes up to Peter, she reminds him
Speaker 1: of a time when he used to have more faith.
Speaker 1: Weren't you with Jesus? I know everything is falling apart
Speaker 1: right now. I feel that for somebody. Do you remember
Speaker 1: the time when you were really with Jesus? I mean,
Speaker 1: like when you really would go into your prayer closet
Speaker 1: and you would wake up thanking God that you just
Speaker 1: had another chance to lift your hands and worship. This
Speaker 1: girl reminds him, in the midst of his most broken moment,
Speaker 1: remember when you used to have faith? Remember when you
Speaker 1: were walking with Jesus, and Peter says, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what you're saying. My mind can't even comprehend in
Speaker 1: its current state a time when I used to be
Speaker 1: walking with Jesus. I am denying that part of me.
Speaker 1: And when you deny that part of you, you push
Speaker 1: away your very own breakthrough. I can't afford to think
Speaker 1: about that time, he says, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: you're saying. And then it continues. He moves outside of
Speaker 1: the courtyard because what happened to so many of us
Speaker 1: as we try to move out of the way of
Speaker 1: people who remind us of who we used to be,
Speaker 1: because I can't afford to have anyone calling me higher
Speaker 1: when all I want to do is be broken down
Speaker 1: where I am right now. And so he moves out
Speaker 1: of the courtyard, and then he runs into another girl.
Speaker 1: And it was at this point in the text when
Speaker 1: I realized that it wasn't just Peter running away, that
Speaker 1: it was God chasing him down. Because you want to
Speaker 1: talk about triggered. If I could trigger a time in
Speaker 1: Peter's mind when he used to walk with me, then
Speaker 1: maybe I could get him back in the mindset of
Speaker 1: what it was like to hear from me, even if
Speaker 1: I was telling him what he didn't want to hear.
Speaker 1: Because if I can get him to remember when he
Speaker 1: was connected to me, perhaps he could reach even further
Speaker 1: back and remember that I plan on building my church
Speaker 1: on him. So even in the middle of this brokenness
Speaker 1: and what seems like the end, I still have a plan.
Speaker 1: Even in the midst of this breakdown. Somebody's been in
Speaker 1: a breakdown, and I came all the way from Los
Speaker 1: Angeles to tell you that God has been trying to
Speaker 1: get you to reach back to the promise and to
Speaker 1: let you know that the bet is still on. I know,
Speaker 1: nothing in the circle right now looks like it's still happening.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you I know that. I know that,
Speaker 1: I know that the bet is still on. How do
Speaker 1: I know? Because you're still here and because he is
Speaker 1: not a man that he shall live. I don't care
Speaker 1: what the sets say. I don't care what your account says,
Speaker 1: I don't care what your mind is saying. If he
Speaker 1: said it and spoke it over your life, there is
Speaker 1: nothing that can wage war against his word. He set
Speaker 1: the ocean in motion, and it's still rocking at the
Speaker 1: same beaf. He put the sun in the sky and
Speaker 1: it hasn't fallen out yet. All he did was speak
Speaker 1: a word, and it was true. And if I can
Speaker 1: get back into the position where I received the word,
Speaker 1: where I used to hear from him, then maybe he
Speaker 1: can help me navigate through this season that I'm in
Speaker 1: before it's all said and done. And Matthew twenty six,
Speaker 1: He's tried to run outside of the courtyard to avoid
Speaker 1: anyone who would remind him of who he used to be.
Speaker 1: This is the part that got good to me. In
Speaker 1: verse seventy three, he says a little later, those who
Speaker 1: stood by came up and said to Peter, surely you
Speaker 1: are one of them, for your speech betrays you. That
Speaker 1: thing was good to me. Child, Listen trying to say
Speaker 1: it the way I thought it, because I'm at elevation
Speaker 1: and I can't afford to be confused on this stage,
Speaker 1: so y'all bear with me. They said that there's something
Speaker 1: about the way you're speaking that lets me know that
Speaker 1: you were once with Jesus of Golilee. They're talking about
Speaker 1: his accent. They're talking about the way the cadence that
Speaker 1: he begins to speak, that even though he was he
Speaker 1: was departed from him, even though he was no longer
Speaker 1: connected to him, that what was around him ended up
Speaker 1: getting in him and began to change the way that
Speaker 1: he spoke, Which means that even when he tried to
Speaker 1: change his mind, he couldn't change his spirit. That he
Speaker 1: had been around Jesus, but Jesus had gotten down on
Speaker 1: the inside of him. That means that even though you've
Speaker 1: got one side of your mind trying to deny, there's
Speaker 1: another part of your spirit that knows who you are.
Speaker 1: That somebody's praying grandmother changed the way you spoke. That
Speaker 1: somebody messed around and got connected to elevation, and it
Speaker 1: changed the way you speak. I know you say that
Speaker 1: your life is over, but your speech just betraying you,
Speaker 1: because you still drugged yourself into church limping, but you're
Speaker 1: still here. You still drugg yourself into the presence of God.
Speaker 1: I know you told everyone else it was over, but
Speaker 1: your speech just betraying you. I think you have more
Speaker 1: hope than you're letting go on. I think you have
Speaker 1: more faith than you would allow us to believe. Your
Speaker 1: speech is betraying you. Everywhere you go, your speech is
Speaker 1: betraying you. It's saying that you're still chosen. It's saying
Speaker 1: that you're still called. It's saying that no weapon formed
Speaker 1: against you will prospered. It's saying that your heart is
Speaker 1: going to be healed. I know you say you're giving up,
Speaker 1: but you're still writing those songs like you're hoping one
Speaker 1: day you're going to get discovered. I know you said
Speaker 1: you gave up, but your speech is betraying you. And
Speaker 1: because your speech is betraying you, I can tell that
Speaker 1: you've been walking with Jesus and that he got in you.
Speaker 1: And this is the moment that makes Peter begin to weep,
Speaker 1: because he is reminded in that instance that Jesus said
Speaker 1: this would happen. I didn't think it was in me.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was possible. But he knew me
Speaker 1: better than I knew myself. And while I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: having a pity party, he said these people to remind
Speaker 1: me that even though I was going to deny him,
Speaker 1: that I would ultimately come back into alignment with him.
Speaker 1: And when I came back into alignment with him, that
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be so that I could go back to
Speaker 1: being the disciple that followed Jesus, but so that I
Speaker 1: could be the rock in which Jesus built his church.
Speaker 1: That's better than y'all clapping. But that's all right, because
Speaker 1: what I'm speaking about is acceleration. That we're praying that
Speaker 1: things will go back to what they were, but God
Speaker 1: is planning to take what was and accelerated to what
Speaker 1: he said it was going to be. It's still better
Speaker 1: than y'all clapping, because I want you to know that
Speaker 1: there's a generational blessing connected to you breaking that generational curse.
Speaker 1: That's still better because if you understood that when you
Speaker 1: got finished going through this, that no one in your
Speaker 1: family was ever gonna have to go through it again,
Speaker 1: you would start praising God for your children's children's children.
Speaker 1: It's still better than y'all clapping. Because hal never wanted
Speaker 1: you to know this revelation. They wanted you to think
Speaker 1: that acceleration was impossible, but they didn't want you to
Speaker 1: know about the God I served. So they sent a
Speaker 1: message through my friend Peter, letting you know that you're
Speaker 1: still a rock that this earth is going to have
Speaker 1: to reckon with, and there is deliverance connected to you.
Speaker 1: And all of this happened when Peter was in his
Speaker 1: most broken state. All of this took place when Peter
Speaker 1: felt the least connected to Jesus. I reckon that while
Speaker 1: Peter was weeping, that Heaven was rejoicing seems like such
Speaker 1: an oxymoron. But the moment that that denial occurred and
Speaker 1: it lifted off of him, the moment that he had
Speaker 1: reached rock bottom, I can't go no lower than this.
Speaker 1: And God said, that's great, because the lower you are,
Speaker 1: the deeper your foundation can be. And I'm trying to
Speaker 1: put some weight on top of you, and I can't
Speaker 1: add that weight to a weak version of you. I
Speaker 1: got to add that weight to the most humbled version
Speaker 1: of who you are. I got to add that weight
Speaker 1: to the most broken version of who you are. So
Speaker 1: the deeper you've been broken, the greater that foundation is
Speaker 1: going to be. Why do you need a great foundation?
Speaker 1: Because there are great heights connected to your name. And
Speaker 1: if God would have blessed you when you wanted him
Speaker 1: to bless you, you would have flirted with pride an ego,
Speaker 1: and you I would have thought that you did something
Speaker 1: to earn where you are, But He wanted you to
Speaker 1: be so disconnected from where you once were that when
Speaker 1: he pulled you up, there was no doubt in your
Speaker 1: mind that had it not been for the grace of
Speaker 1: God that was on my side. I know who I am,
Speaker 1: and I know where I am. Has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with who I am because I'm crazy and I'm unreliable,
Speaker 1: but he trusted me anyway. I know who I am.
Speaker 1: I don't deserve to be on safety elevation. But he
Speaker 1: saw past all of my insecurities and all of my fears,
Speaker 1: and he chose to use me anyway. I know that
Speaker 1: I had to get a mindset that everything must go.
Speaker 1: And when I became desperate for more of him and
Speaker 1: none of me, that's when I became the vessel that
Speaker 1: he could use. I know who I am. I don't
Speaker 1: deserve it, I couldn't have earned it. But still the
Speaker 1: reckless come on somebody, the reckless love of God. It
Speaker 1: chased me down. It chased me down. It chased me
Speaker 1: from the courtyard to outside the courtyard. And he kept
Speaker 1: reminded me that you used to be with Jesus before
Speaker 1: I formed you, when your mother's wom I knew you,
Speaker 1: you used to be with me. You are from me,
Speaker 1: and don't let this world make you think that you're
Speaker 1: not a part of me any longer. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get you back to what I first knew when I
Speaker 1: saw you. And in order to do that, we have
Speaker 1: to let go of what has been imposed upon us,
Speaker 1: what our emotions and our experience would have us to believe.
Speaker 1: And so here we are offering ourselves as a living
Speaker 1: sacrifice of the other presence of God in this place
Speaker 1: that it's time for us to remember constantly that I
Speaker 1: am a living sacrifice. I hear God saying that it's
Speaker 1: time for us to return to the heart posture of worship,
Speaker 1: where I wake up each and every morning and I
Speaker 1: open myself up in such a way that I say, God,
Speaker 1: there's nothing off limits, not this bitterness, not this brokenness,
Speaker 1: because bitterness feels like warmth when you're afraid of trusting
Speaker 1: other people. But you need other people in order for
Speaker 1: you to make it in this thing called life. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be willing to trust again and
Speaker 1: open your heart up again. You're gonna have to believe
Speaker 1: that He makes all things new. And so Peter became
Speaker 1: new in that moment when he was reminded of what
Speaker 1: God said when he was reminded of what Jesus said
Speaker 1: about him, And all I wanted to do when I
Speaker 1: came here is remind you of what Jesus has said
Speaker 1: to you, and to remind you that, no matter how
Speaker 1: did connected, you may feel from that word that he
Speaker 1: promised you that you're gonna make it, that your heart
Speaker 1: is going to be healed, that your children are going
Speaker 1: to be saved, That there is a lane that he
Speaker 1: is cultivated that only you can feel. That you don't
Speaker 1: have to be jealous of anyone else's success or anyone
Speaker 1: else's envy. That I promise you I still got you.
Speaker 1: And all I'm waiting for you to do is give
Speaker 1: me full rain to the inside of you so that
Speaker 1: I can make space for what I want to pour
Speaker 1: into you. I hear God say in your capacity is
Speaker 1: about to increase in a way that you never thought
Speaker 1: was possible. And I had to increase your capacity, so
Speaker 1: I had to break you down so that I can
Speaker 1: make more room. That's really good. I feel that for somebody,
Speaker 1: I had to increase your capacity, and I did it
Speaker 1: through breaking you down. Now you're stronger than you ever
Speaker 1: thought you would be. I know it doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: it because you're in your most broken moment. But I
Speaker 1: feel strength coming back to you. I feel resources coming
Speaker 1: back to you. There are people having conversations about you,
Speaker 1: not for you. You are right now, but the you
Speaker 1: He's called you to be, that person is still down
Speaker 1: on the inside of you. And as long as you
Speaker 1: have breath in your lungs, as long as your heart
Speaker 1: still has to beef, then there is a greater version
Speaker 1: of you yet ahead. And when you decide that everything
Speaker 1: that's in me that's keeping me from reaching the next
Speaker 1: version of me has to get out of the way
Speaker 1: because I'm not gonna live in this world and to survive.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna live in this world like a kingdom kid,
Speaker 1: like somebody who understands that he's funk a wired and
Speaker 1: brought me into existence. God, please reintaxt me to the
Speaker 1: word Syna, help me to see who I am again.
Speaker 1: Zina can't do this thing called life without you, your strength,
Speaker 1: your wisdom, your power, your grisp, your mercy, your anointing.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing strong enough to bort the your
Speaker 1: souf of my life. I submit myself to you, Oh
Speaker 1: pressss God, that you are have your weigh in my life.
Speaker 1: Is only you can do until day starts falling off
Speaker 1: of me. N tell team and starts backing off of me,
Speaker 1: until my past take hold me any longer. Everything must go.
Speaker 1: Everything must go, everything, everything, everything, everything. It's gotta let
Speaker 1: me go. It's gotta let me go. I gotta get
Speaker 1: my mind back in the game. It's gotta let me go.
Speaker 1: I gotta fight for my marriage again. The heartbreak has
Speaker 1: gotta let me go. I gotta be okay that you
Speaker 1: walked away from me. I gotta forgive you. I gotta
Speaker 1: let it go. It's gotta go. It's gotta go because
Speaker 1: it's keeping me from knowing him, it's keeping me from
Speaker 1: having greater It is in me. It's got to go.
Speaker 1: If it's okay, can I just give one person who
Speaker 1: needs it ten seconds to worship, to make a divine
Speaker 1: exchange with Heaven, to ask God to make space down
Speaker 1: on the inside. I know you're ready to get your brunch.
Speaker 1: But if I could just give that one person who
Speaker 1: needs it ten seconds, maybe thirty seconds to lift their
Speaker 1: hands in worship and profess with their mouth that I
Speaker 1: don't want to fall in love with this pain anymore.
Speaker 1: I want to find out the purpose behind this heartbreak.
Speaker 1: I want to know why you kept me alive. God.
Speaker 1: I want to know why I'm still in this thing.
Speaker 1: I want to know why I still have passion. I
Speaker 1: should have given up. Everyone else reached my idea, but
Speaker 1: I still have Passionates in your kingdom, come into criminal
Speaker 1: justice system. I still have passion. Is in your kingdom,
Speaker 1: come into their industry. God hees, please please give me
Speaker 1: a divine exchange of your spirit. Let it break down
Speaker 1: my walls. Let it arrest every thought that's not a
Speaker 1: reflection of who you are. God. I need your spirit
Speaker 1: to forgive. God. I need your spirit to break addiction.
Speaker 1: I can't do it by myself. I tried, and I've
Speaker 1: still been in it. But if you would speak a word,
Speaker 1: if your spirit would breathe down on the inside of me,
Speaker 1: I'm crazy enough to believe that it would push away
Speaker 1: in generational curses, that it would help me to forgive.
Speaker 1: I'm crazy enough to believe that you're still in the
Speaker 1: miracle business, and some people need to see that. I
Speaker 1: need to be a miracle. I want to look down
Speaker 1: at my soul and wonder how I got over How
Speaker 1: did I get over you leaving me? It will be
Speaker 1: because of the grace of God. How did I get
Speaker 1: over me losing my family? And I will say it
Speaker 1: will be because of the grace of God. And not
Speaker 1: only did he get me over, but he restored everything
Speaker 1: that I thought that I had lost in the fight.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know I could get my last back.
Speaker 1: I thought cancer had taken it. But I look back
Speaker 1: over my soul and I see that cancer was lying
Speaker 1: on me. That I can still have joy in the
Speaker 1: missing my pain. I look back and say the voce
Speaker 1: was lying on me. I can still have joy after heartbreak.
Speaker 1: I almost lost my mind, but I'm still here and
Speaker 1: it's because of the grace of God. And I made
Speaker 1: space for him. And when I made space for him,
Speaker 1: he made space for me on this thing card of
Speaker 1: Hey and I am a living witness that no one
Speaker 1: non't dreaming, no life could ever go to war with
Speaker 1: what He's spoken. Spirit of the Living God. We need you,
Speaker 1: the next dimension of you. I know who you used
Speaker 1: to be, and that was great for who I used
Speaker 1: to be, but I need to know who you are
Speaker 1: now so that I can be everything that I need
Speaker 1: to be now. And so God, I ask that you
Speaker 1: would begin to fill us with fresh fire. Fresh fire, yes,
Speaker 1: fresh fire, and that fire. Let it consume anything that
Speaker 1: is in us that is not profitable for the version
Speaker 1: of us that you've called us to be. God, fresh fire,
Speaker 1: let it fall from heaven, not next week, not a
Speaker 1: year from now. Let fresh fire fault right now. If
Speaker 1: I had two or three people who were willing to
Speaker 1: call down on heaven for fresh fire, I don't even
Speaker 1: need everybody to do it. We can do it on
Speaker 1: your behalf. Fresh fire down in my pone, shut up
Speaker 1: in my bones. God, let it consume every part of me.
Speaker 1: I need a fresh fire. Oh God, I want to
Speaker 1: burn for you, liking them before. I want my marriage
Speaker 1: to burn for you. Let my family burn for you.
Speaker 1: Fresh fire falling from heaven. Elevation makes some noise. Let
Speaker 1: Heaven know you're hungry. Forward, Matthews, make some noise. Email
Speaker 1: makes some noise. All press fire over your situation until
Speaker 1: demon start trembling and Hell, get snun of this. I
Speaker 1: need a fresher noisy. Well. I hope you enjoyed the
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