Hope to Bloom – Sarah Jakes Roberts
A Time of reflection between you and God.
hey, you. whoever’s reading this, this is your sign. everything’s gonna be okay. you did not come this far to give up. I believe in you
“She caved into the pressure to be like everyone else and robbed the world of the wealth assigned to her truth.”
― Sarah Jakes Roberts
― Sarah Jakes Roberts
Doctor Anita, would you come up here with me for a second? Can you guys tell me you?
Welcome, Doctor Anita. I promise I’m gonna make this so fast.
Doctor Anita Phillips is um one of my sisters in the mission. My sister’s in ministry. No.
Um If I could, well, I guess I’ll give you my mic.
Um I wanna share what God told me to share with these women, but I wanted to take a minute and see if God has displaced anything on your heart as it relates to womanhood and blooming and how we tap into who God has called us to be.
So I’m gonna enjoy seeing your face when I tell you uh I’ve been thinking about dog poop.
Huh? I know it is happening. I know.
I mean, did you have a, I didn’t, I didn’t have a card but you know, I know and I’m a classy lady and this is not usually my area.
So I’m gonna ask you to trust me.
But the first time we got a dog is probably about 15 years ago, I waited till we moved into our house, house with the yard because I didn’t wanna have to clean up after the dog on the sidewalk.
So I figure we can just take it out in the yard. It can go to the bathroom.
I don’t have to clean it up and it’s gonna fertilize the grass because they say right manure is good for us, not for us, but for the ground.
And I want the ground to be fertile.
And so I had a few months with the dog and I started noticing that the dog poop was still laying in the yard.
I thought it would just, you know, it was supposed to fertilize the ground and I’m out here like, you know, because I didn’t think I’d have to clean it up, but I found out I was wrong.
Not that it’s not good for the ground, but the crap and the trash, the eggshells and the banana peels and the rotten fruit and the coffee grounds, all the stuff.
We had the trash. It actually is good for the ground, but not for a while.
It takes six months to two years for crap and trash to break down into something useful to the ground.
And so what God told me to tell you tonight is that blooms come from fertile soil, good ground and that ground has to have nutrients in it and it gets in there because the crap and the trash in our lives breaks down but not right away.
And the problem that a lot of women are having is that they’re ready to bloom, but they want, they want so much to turn their pain into purpose that they’re digging through their trash looking for their purpose.
And what God is saying is gather the trash up, pile it up over here.
The only thing you need to do to that fresh mess is keep it wet.
We just came back from a revival tour. We found out something about hope being water.
All you have to do is push it aside, Sprinkle it with hope and turn away.
Wow, that will break down in time until it doesn’t look recognizable. It can’t fertilize you yet.
You can’t speed it up by going through it every day, laying it out, spreading it out, looking for something.
So you can say, oh, I found this is gonna be what I get from my pain.
God doesn’t need your help. It’s a process just have hope over there and let the Holy Spirit show you where the soil of your heart is ready now to bloom because blooms need good soil and they need light and you’re putting the light of your attention, the light of your energy on the trash instead of the area of your heart that’s ready to bloom.
And so God said to tell you tonight that the poop and the trash that takes a while, but he’s getting ready to direct you to direct you to the area of your heart.
That’s fertile and ready to bloom so that you can put your light in the right direction.
Get your hands out of the trash and listen to the Holy Spirit.
You’re about to bloom in an unexpected area where things have changed so much.
You don’t even recognize it anymore.
God’s about to redirect your attention and so open your heart for this word before you leave tonight, you’re gonna be looking in the right direction.
God bless you. I love you pizza.
If I could get my phone and Bible, my phone and Bible, it looks like Core is gonna bring my phone in Bible.
Hey Coco. Hm.
Thank you sis.
Like I said, I, we were planning on having the woman to woman conversations and just praying and having this time of connection.
But God just gave me three things to share with you.
I promise you I won’t take too long and you guys are gonna get home and get some rest.
Um I’m in John eight. This is the woman caught in the act of adultery.
I will save my think piece about why the man wasn’t brought up and why it’s just the woman here.
It’s a whole op ed and a think piece connected to it, but I’m gonna focus on Jesus interaction with this woman.
And for those of you who may not be familiar with this moment in scripture, there’s a woman who was literally caught in the act and the Pharisees come to Jesus and bring the woman to him and throw her at his feet.
And they say to Jesus in Moses law, if, if someone is caught in the act of adultery, they should be killed.
And they wanna see how Jesus is gonna respond to her being caught in the act.
And Jesus who I love so much, how he responds to what people think he should do does something so unexpected.
Says, then the scribes and Pharisees brought to him, a woman caught in adultery and when they had set her in the mist, they said to him, teach this woman was caught in adultery in the very act.
Now, Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stone. But what do you say this?
They said, testing him that they might have something of which to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down and rode on the ground with his finger as though he did not hear.
So when they continued asking him, he raised himself up and said to them, he who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first and again, he stooped down and rode on the ground.
Then those who heard it being convicted by their conscience went out one by one beginning with the oldest even to the last.
And Jesus was left alone. And the woman standing in the mist when Jesus had raised himself up and saw that no one.
But the woman saw no one but the woman, he said to her woman, where are those accusers of yours?
Has no one condemned you. And she said no one.
Lord and Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn you go and sin no more Holy Spirit.
As our time together comes to a close.
We know that our time with you is just beginning.
I thank you God that you’re breathing into our soul a fresh.
I thank you God that more than anything we just wanna see you.
And so God, my prayer is that this would be a moment where we lock eyes with you.
And in the process of that, we lock eyes with the potential of our future, with the protection of our future, with the protection of our present.
And so God, I pray that you would give me wisdom, insight, prophecy, and all of the things that we need in order to hear from you, may I completely decrease so that all we see and hear is you.
And if you could do it in a quick work, Jesus, we’ll take whatever we can get in Jesus name.
I pray amen. You know, as I have been thinking about this concept when it relates to blooming, I recognize that one of the most powerful tools that I ever received in the process of me really understanding my identity in God and and really tapping into restoration and recovery was recognizing that so many of us think that we’re gonna have a moment where restoration or recovery or even hope comes as a result of something external taking place.
If I receive a certain phone call, maybe if I go to a certain event, maybe if I hear from a certain person, then I will finally have what I need in order to experience restoration or recovery or to move on in my life.
What I have come to realize though is that when we do that, we often rob ourselves of the ability to get permission to move on from God.
So often there are moments in our lives where God is telling us, I’m ready for you to move.
I’m ready for you to be free. I’m ready for you to bloom.
But because you’re not ready or you think you need permission, you don’t move with the speed and urgency required for you to bloom.
I say this because when I’m looking at this woman in scripture and she’s caught in the act of adultery, I could not help but think of how many times we come to a place in our life where we think we need a thing where all we really need is to give ourselves permission to no longer be confined, restricted or limited to who we once were.
Sometimes what you need is to be able to tell yourself you have permission to no longer be ashamed of who you once were.
You have permission to dream. I know you’ve never seen it done in your family again.
But just because you haven’t seen, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have permission to dream it.
There is something that happens to us when we come into a space where we realize I don’t need to be endorsed.
I don’t need to be validated. All I need is a word from God.
When I receive that word from God, that’s all the permission that I need.
I know that there are women in this room who know exactly what I’m talking about.
When I, when I say that all you need is a word from God because when God gives you a word, it trumps every other word that has been spoken over your life.
When God gives you a word, he doesn’t just give you a word. God gives you a weapon.
God’s word is a weapon in your life and the weapon is not for the haters.
The weapons are for your own insecurities.
The weapons are for the voices in your own head talking you out of your own destiny.
That’s why you have to tell the voices in your head.
I have permission to bloom from that but you’re not worthy. What are you gonna say?
How are you gonna do it? No, no, no, I have permission to bloom from here.
I have permission to grow from there. But what are they gonna say? What are they gonna think?
They’re gonna be upset with you?
No, I cannot continue to question all of the things that could be when I have a license.
I don’t know who you are in this room.
But I hear God saying that you’ve been driving around your destiny like you don’t have a license, you have a license which means that if you get pulled over by insecurity, if you get pulled over by someone’s opinion, if you get pulled over by a rumor, they have nothing to fight you with.
Because all you gotta do is dig down into your word.
All you gotta do is dig down into what God said to you and say I got a license to be here.
I know I shouldn’t be here after all that. I’ve gone through.
But my permission came when God set me up for the opportunity, I’m standing here.
We’re in this moment right now. Not because I’m qualified, not because I’m the best to ever do it.
But because God says I’m gonna give you a license for this season.
I don’t know who you are, but I want to prophesy that you would stop sitting on your license to bloom, that you would stop sitting on your license to grow and that you would activate it before it expires because God is waiting on you to make a move.
God is waiting on you to step in your authority and to step into your power and yes, you’re gonna mess up and know you’re not gonna get every think right?
But when you start moving, you start learning and you can’t start learning until you start moving.
So you’re stuck here. But God says I got every lesson you need in the movement.
I don’t know who you are. But I hear God saying that when you start moving, I start teaching.
When you start moving, I start speaking again.
When you start moving, that’s where the creativity is when you start moving.
That’s where the strategy is when you start moving. That’s where the friends are. When you start moving.
That’s where the relationship is when you start moving. That’s where the resources are.
If I give you what you want right now where you’re stagnant, it’s gonna die because everything connected to your destiny has a move connected to it.
If I give you something that’s stuck, you’re gonna be stuck dying together.
But if you’re gonna be connected to me, you gotta be willing to move. Everything God does move right now.
The earth is spinning right now. The moon is moving right now. The sun is spinning. Everything I do move.
And so if you’re not moving, you’re not moving like God.
So I gotta give myself permission to no longer be stuck here because and I’m stuck, I can’t be like God and be stuck.
So if I’m stuck, I’m being like something else.
So I need to identify what is it that I am being like what attribute have I taken on that has made me believe that I am only effective when I’m still, that I’m only effective when I’m silent.
That is a weapon of the enemy trying to keep you from understanding the power of what happens when you bloom, you may stumble but you gotta do it, you may fall but you gotta do it.
You may have to pick yourself back up but you gotta do it.
You may not be eloquent, but you gotta do what you may have to study, but you gotta do it.
If you’re waiting until you do it perfectly, you may never do it at all.
God is looking for somebody who doesn’t mind doing it, stuttering, who doesn’t mind doing it nervous.
If you don’t believe me, I’ll take you back to Moses. Moses says, God pick somebody else to do it.
I don’t have what it takes.
God says, I’m gonna give it to you as you move to start moving in the direction.
I don’t even know who this is for because it’s not what God told me to say.
And I feel like I’ve already been preaching about making a move.
But maybe there is a woman in this room who still doesn’t believe that her move can make the difference.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that if she says yes, that the generations are connected to her, maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that when she moves, that heaven’s resources back her up.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t said that when she moves, she finds her wings.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand, but if she doesn’t do it, it cannot be done.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that her family is waiting on her to make a move.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that the weapons are gonna be formed.
But God made her tough. God made her resilient. God made that woman stronger than she could ever imagine.
Maybe, maybe man that’s not that maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that when she survived what she went through that she did not barely make it, that she made out a different person.
God helped me to say it the way I hear it in my head that you think you barely survived.
God says you are more resilient than you could have ever imagined.
You think you were hanging on by a thread. It was the thread of the hymn of His.
When you decided to hang on by that thread, you pulled power and the ability out of God, but you’ll never know about the power you pour from God until you throw that power in the direction of what God has called you to do.
And so yes, girl, I’m talking to you. Hey, you, it’s time for you to plu.
Hey, you, it’s time for you to get up. Hey, you, it’s time for you to not healing.
Hey, you, it’s time for you to care for your soul with wholeness and value because babe, when you do it, it changes the way that I do it.
And when I see you bloom, I feel like I can bloom and maybe we become like Mary and Elizabeth and all of a sudden my baby is sleeping because you took the chance to leave when all you could have done was stay back in the week.
But something happened when the woman, when the woman gave herself permission to bloom, I preserved you so you could bloom.
I didn’t let it kill you so you could bloom.
If you allow yourself to die in seed form, you will never see the fullness of who God has called you to be.
So I pushed the haters back long enough for you to get a revelation of what could happen when you bloom.
Jesus man.
Jesus help the women in this room to trust that you have given them permission to not just live every day like it was the last day, but to live every day like it is the last day.
And if today is the last day, who do I wanna be?
If today is the last day, who do I wanna be connected to?
If today is the last day, what do I want? My legacy? To be.
If today is the last day, what do I wanna leave in the earth?
Man?
All Jesus does in this text is give this woman permission to bloom in spite of what other people said, in spite of what she did.
Oh God, Jesus, let me tell you something.
Uh We don’t know what Jesus wrote on the ground in this text.
All we know is that they hit him with what was written.
And Jesus says, I’m gonna write something new.
I know what was written about girls like her.
I know what was written about situations like this.
But we serve a Jesus who will write a new law that takes into account where you fail so that you have the opportunity to get back up again.
So often we read this text and we make it seem like if you don’t have a sin and if you are not the first one to have sinned and you don’t have the opportunity to cast a song, but Jesus doesn’t leave the conversation there.
He doesn’t then go send the woman back to live the way that she once lived.
He recognizes just as she does that this woman has hit a low point.
Some would even say that she’s hit rock bottom.
The thing about seed is that it has to go into the ground.
The scary thing about cus that it goes into the ground. I’m finished.
This woman, I’m finished for real.
This woman in the text is running the risk of being thrown even deeper into the ground.
Somebody’s coming, kicks her while she’s down.
Sometimes when we get kicked, when we’re down, it doesn’t even come in the form of another person.
Sometimes it comes in the form of another disappointment.
I could maybe tune out the ears, the voices of another person.
But what do you do when it comes in the form of another disappointment?
And it looks like this woman is going deeper and deeper into the ground.
But Jesus does something powerful.
When he writes in the ground, he breaks up the ground so that she has another option besides down.
If I write in the ground, I break up the ground with a word that gives you an opportunity to come up again.
My prayer for you as we talk about what it means to bloom is that you will not miss the moments when Jesus is breaking up the ground so that you have another option besides down so that you have another option besides despair.
And if you are not careful because you are the seed that has hit the ground, you will become so content with being in darkness, so content with being surrounded by pain and not seeing the light that you will miss the moment when God shakes up the ground.
That’s why we make you all connect with one another because you could be in a room this size and still hide.
But when someone connects with you, it is a reminder that you can still get pulled up again when someone connects with you.
It is a reminder that you are still seeing that you were still known when God sends somebody for you.
And so that the ground can be broken up.
And what use is it for us to be in a room this large and not recognize that the woman beside us could be at her lowest point.
And if she is at her lowest point and you are the person who God has sat beside her, then maybe you have an opportunity to tell that.
I think he’s breaking up the ground. So you have another option.
I think he’s breaking up the ground so that you can get your head straight.
I think he’s breaking up the ground so that you can begin to prophesy.
I think he’s breaking up the ground so that you don’t have to be ashamed.
Hey, you, he’s calling you, hey, you, it’s time for you to get up.
Hey, you, I’m not gonna let what they said about you define you for the rest of your life.
I don’t know who you are in this room.
But before we go home, my assignment is to let you know that the ground has been broken up, that there is still an assignment over your life.
And I know that you felt like you have hit rock bottom, but I’m letting you know that every time you lift your hands in worship, every time you bring yourself into a space of faith, even when you don’t feel like it, it’s shaking up the ground.
You don’t even have to lift up your hands in worship.
If you just get in an environment of worship, the ground start shaking and all of a sudden you recognize I’m not going down any further that God is actually pulling me up.
And if he’s pulling me up, then maybe he knows something about me that I do not know about myself.
So I’m gonna allow myself to be stretched up. I’m gonna allow myself to be spoken up to.
I’m gonna allow myself to be in connection with someone who sees me beyond what I did.
When Jesus broke up the ground for this woman, he changes the perspective that other people had about her.
He changes perhaps even the perspective she had about herself.
And I know that he does this because what he says to the woman after they’re all gone is this woman where are those who accused you?
Sometimes Jesus wants you to see that what you were afraid of.
He took care of. And if he doesn’t make you see it, then you’ll walk around still afraid thinking that at any moment, the accusations are gonna come back.
I’m talking about the accusations that say you’re not qualified, the accusations that make you feel insecure the accusations that tell you that your voice doesn’t matter.
You think that the experience was the worst thing that happened to, you know, the worst thing that happened to you were the thoughts that the experience planted in your mind.
They are accusing you from thinking that you deserve what God has assigned to your life.
They are accusing you of making you believe that you are not one who can have purpose and destiny, but woman look around, where are those accusers?
She says there are none.
And then he gives her permission in that moment after she has received the recollection and she has received the perspective of what Jesus has done for her to go.
Don’t get stuck, don’t hide yourself. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be ashamed.
Everybody’s got something you deserve to walk with your head held high, go and then he says, sin no more.
That word sin means to miss the mark says, if you don’t recognize that you don’t have to be afraid of what you were once afraid of, then you will walk around life blind.
And when you walk around life blind, you are guaranteed to miss the mark again because you have not yet reconciled that you can really walk in freedom and authority and you will find yourself continuing to fall for the same person, the same trap, the same mentality over and over and over again because I don’t really trust that I’m free.
I don’t really trust that I have permission to bloom. I don’t really trust that I can do this.
And so I keep missing the mark because if I dared allow myself to bloom, I’m afraid that I won’t need it.
But when Jesus gives you permission, he’s gonna walk with you through it, he’s gonna coach you.
He’s gonna bring people into your life who get it. He understands that you may not do it perfectly.
But doing it is better than doing nothing at all.
And it’s better than repeating the same cycle over and over again.
And so you are in this room and what I desire for you more than anything is for you to allow yourself to bloom in a new way to allow the version of you that you’ve been nurturing on the inside, that version of you that has the boundaries, that version of you that makes the time for God, that version of you that really, really decides to dedicate yourself to a version of wholeness and wellness and mental health that you’ve never seen before.
Give her permission to bloom.
That version of you is what God formed in your mother’s womb.
And when you allow yourself to stay buried and suppressed, you end up suppressing the best of who God created you to be.
And what’s crazy about that is that you can still be everything to everyone and still not be who God called you to be.
We don’t get extra credit just because we showed up for someone else.
We get extra credit when we show up as ourselves.
I don’t know about you, but I wanna keep blooming into whoever this person is that God has created.
And there are moments, I’m gonna be honest with you where I see a clip or I recall something I said and I’m like, that wasn’t even me.
And God’s like, yes it was, I’m introducing you to you because you’ve only known a version of you that you penalized a version of you that you slept on.
But there is a version of you that I preserve through it all.
And I wanna introduce you to her. I wanna pray with you.
I want to pray for my sisters who are in bloom.
I wanna pray for these tender hearts, these painful memories that thorny ground that we think is poking in pride in God, our destiny.
Um Somebody in this room afraid that there’s nothing left in them worthy of blooming.
All they’ve ever experienced was maybe rejection and disappointment and they aren’t sure that there’s anything in their hearts that is worth blooming.
Maybe you have an opportunity but you don’t know where the rain is gonna come from.
Where is the sun gonna come from? How am I going?
I believe I have something but I don’t believe that I have the environment that will produce it.
And so I wish I could bloom, but I don’t think I could bloom.
I wanna talk to somebody who’s second guessing what God placed inside of them because tonight is gonna serve as a reminder for you that you’re not in the ground by yourself.
That’s why I believe God drew me to this text because Jesus gets on the ground.
He could have said anything to the Pharisees. He could have used his words.
He could have used the spirit of God to convict them.
But why did Jesus hit the ground unless the woman was on the ground too?
And it wasn’t about the Pharisees. It wasn’t about the scribes. It wasn’t about the audience.
It was about a woman who found herself on the ground and Jesus says I can get down there too and I can write a word in the ground.
Oh God. That helps you to get back up again.
If you’re in this room and you found yourself on the ground, you standing, but you’re on the ground praying but you’re on the ground.
I wanna invite you to come down here and be with us other seeds, man.
Yeah. And it’s so good to know you’re not by yourself.
Want you to feel that presence of other people surrounding you on the ground.
Look at all these seats are these destinies.
I don’t know why I feel it necessary to apologize.
I’m sorry that you found yourself on the ground again.
I’m sorry that it feels like you had an experience that threw you down.
There’s nothing wrong with you.
This is life and sometimes we find ourselves doing things to ease the pain that we know is gonna lower us.
But anything is better than feeling that again.
So we sex it up, we smoke it up, we drink it up, we shoot it up, we do whatever we gotta do to not feel it.
But we know that sometimes surviving, it takes us lower.
It’s not you, it’s the pain, It’s what you’re trying to do to survive.
And still Jesus says I can get on the ground with you. I’m not judging you.
I still call you worthy. You’re still valuable. I still have plans for you.
You haven’t seen your best days yet. This is not over.
And I hear God saying, stay in it with me. I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.
But you know how to leave me and forsake me.
And I’m telling you that God is saying if you stick with me, I’m gonna show you how I use everything.
I waste. Nothing that I can really cause all of this to work together for the good.
If you could allow yourself to love me, I wanna pray with you.
I wanna first just celebrate the fact that you’re here. I want to celebrate.
Even as you came down, the ground was being broken up.
And when the ground is broken up, there’s an opportunity for more sunlight to hit that seed that God has that seed.
That is you and for it to bloom in a fresh way, it’s the Holy Spirit.
You see us, you saw it, you saw the things that we don’t like replaying in our own heads.
You saw the things that we haven’t told any of our family members about.
You saw it when they left, you saw it when I stayed, you saw it when I tried to ease the pain, you saw it when I tried to break away, you saw the cutting, you saw the frustration.
You saw the depression God, but you also see so much more than what I see.
So spirit of the living God, I pray for every woman who was at this altar that God that you would touch her eyes, God, that you would touch her eyes in such a way that she no longer penalizes herself for that one instance.
But instead that you would give her eyes to see the way that you see God, that she would see herself still fearfully and wonderfully made that she would still see herself still valuable that you would see that you kept her alive because you have plans to preserve, restore and redeem her.
I thank you God that even as she came to this altar, that chains were being broken off of her.
I thank you God that even as she came to this altar, that she was going from being a seed to taking root God, I thank you that there’s a sprout picking up from the ground.
I thank you God that there’s a bud that’s being formed.
And I thank you God that as she said, yes, as her heart moved towards you God, that you begin to give her strength and you begin to give her courage.
God. I thank you that this is not the same woman who walked into this room that this is a woman who was hungrier like never before to bloom into who you have called her to be.
And so spirit of the living God, we decree and declare that right now in the name of Jesus everywhere, where the enemy took up space, everywhere, where depression took up space everywhere where trauma has been taunting her.
We rebuke it right now in the name of Jesus and we claim it as your territory. God.
We ask that you would take up space in the darkness, take up space, the pain, take up space in the shame God and allow there to be a flag that is way that says that this girl has been restored.
This girl has been redeemed God ask the transformation of her mind.
God transform it in the way that only you can do that.
You would change the narrative that she has had about herself. God change her story teller no longer.
Is she a victim no longer? Is she damaged? Good, no longer is she worthless.
God, we decree and declare that this is a woman of worth.
I speak to the queen on the inside of her.
And I say queen a rise, I speak to the princess inside of her. And I say royalty a rise.
She is a part of a royal priesthood.
You’ve got a confidence that you wanna give her that no man, no job, no degree could ever give her.
This level of confidence cannot be shaken. This level of confidence cannot be debated.
This level of confidence cannot be argued. And so God, we lay hold of that confidence.
We demand that it become a part of her identity and as it becomes a part of her identity, God, I pray that you put her in a position to show up as the real version of who she is.
Put her in a position where life makes a demand on her integrity where life makes a demand on her value.
And God when that demand comes, I thank you.
I thank you that you’re showing the woman how to say yes, you’re showing the woman how to obey.
You’re showing the woman how to walk with her head held high.
You’re showing the woman how to change her language.
You’re showing the woman how to change the way she sees herself.
I thank you God that you are illuminating her eyes.
And when you illuminate her eyes, every woman connected to her is going to see differently because this woman started seeing differently herself.
I think you got that when you call a woman, you call a nation.
And I thank you God that there are nations at this altar.
I thank you God that there are generations at this altar.
And when this woman sees herself, it’s gonna change the trajectory of her family.
Her daughter doesn’t have a thing to worry about. Her mother is gonna experience restoration God.
I thank you that you are gonna raise her up as a general in your army.
And when she becomes a general, she’s gonna go a war with everything that went to war with her.
Doubt you better watch out, save you better back up in security.
You better get a revelation because when you let this woman survive, you let an ambassador to come through and I think you got that you’re gonna raise her up.
I think you got that. You’re gonna give her language. I think you got that.
You’re gonna give her strength and I thank you that everywhere she goes, she’s gonna see you.
And when she sees you, she’s gonna release you.
And when she releases you, she releases change into an atmosphere.
This is not a regular woman, this is a change agent. This is not a regular girl.
This is a girl who went through hell so that she could bring heaven into her family.
This is not a regular woman. I speak against regular, I speak against normal.
I rebuke it in the name of Jesus before I formed you in your mother’s womb. I knew you.
You got a personal relationship with God.
He knows something about you that made him say I need to set you apart. I need to sanctify you.
And I thank you God that you’re gonna call this woman to invade cultures and invade industries and invade systems and invade corporations.
And when she invades those corporations, she’s gonna raise up a new standard and that new standard is gonna make room for every woman that’s coming up behind her.
And I thank you God that she won’t quit. I thank you God that she won’t give up.
I thank you that angels are gonna push her back in the game when she feels like giving up.
And I thank you God that you have not left her and if you haven’t by now, then my God, you never will.
And so God, we believe you for your word and we trust you that it is so and so it is in Jesus name, seal this word, seal this word and let it take root and let it produce fruit, the kind of fruit that her babies eat off of kind of fruit that her great, great great grandchildren need off of the kind of fruit that changes her community, the kind of fruit that has seed you think when you bloom that it’s just gonna be you.
But any time something God produces bloom, there’s seed inside of the bloom that means when you bloom, there’s even more seed.
I dare you to start blooming. So you can start evolving.
And when you start evolving, you will see you were always more than just one little piece of fruit and one little seed baby.
You were an orchid. So God, we thank you.
We trust you.
We need you, we need, you can’t do it without you and can do anything with.
You will receive your presence, your word and your truth.
We call it to water our soul that we may never run dry.
In Jesus. Name. Amen.
It there.
Welcome, Doctor Anita. I promise I’m gonna make this so fast.
Doctor Anita Phillips is um one of my sisters in the mission. My sister’s in ministry. No.
Um If I could, well, I guess I’ll give you my mic.
Um I wanna share what God told me to share with these women, but I wanted to take a minute and see if God has displaced anything on your heart as it relates to womanhood and blooming and how we tap into who God has called us to be.
So I’m gonna enjoy seeing your face when I tell you uh I’ve been thinking about dog poop.
Huh? I know it is happening. I know.
I mean, did you have a, I didn’t, I didn’t have a card but you know, I know and I’m a classy lady and this is not usually my area.
So I’m gonna ask you to trust me.
But the first time we got a dog is probably about 15 years ago, I waited till we moved into our house, house with the yard because I didn’t wanna have to clean up after the dog on the sidewalk.
So I figure we can just take it out in the yard. It can go to the bathroom.
I don’t have to clean it up and it’s gonna fertilize the grass because they say right manure is good for us, not for us, but for the ground.
And I want the ground to be fertile.
And so I had a few months with the dog and I started noticing that the dog poop was still laying in the yard.
I thought it would just, you know, it was supposed to fertilize the ground and I’m out here like, you know, because I didn’t think I’d have to clean it up, but I found out I was wrong.
Not that it’s not good for the ground, but the crap and the trash, the eggshells and the banana peels and the rotten fruit and the coffee grounds, all the stuff.
We had the trash. It actually is good for the ground, but not for a while.
It takes six months to two years for crap and trash to break down into something useful to the ground.
And so what God told me to tell you tonight is that blooms come from fertile soil, good ground and that ground has to have nutrients in it and it gets in there because the crap and the trash in our lives breaks down but not right away.
And the problem that a lot of women are having is that they’re ready to bloom, but they want, they want so much to turn their pain into purpose that they’re digging through their trash looking for their purpose.
And what God is saying is gather the trash up, pile it up over here.
The only thing you need to do to that fresh mess is keep it wet.
We just came back from a revival tour. We found out something about hope being water.
All you have to do is push it aside, Sprinkle it with hope and turn away.
Wow, that will break down in time until it doesn’t look recognizable. It can’t fertilize you yet.
You can’t speed it up by going through it every day, laying it out, spreading it out, looking for something.
So you can say, oh, I found this is gonna be what I get from my pain.
God doesn’t need your help. It’s a process just have hope over there and let the Holy Spirit show you where the soil of your heart is ready now to bloom because blooms need good soil and they need light and you’re putting the light of your attention, the light of your energy on the trash instead of the area of your heart that’s ready to bloom.
And so God said to tell you tonight that the poop and the trash that takes a while, but he’s getting ready to direct you to direct you to the area of your heart.
That’s fertile and ready to bloom so that you can put your light in the right direction.
Get your hands out of the trash and listen to the Holy Spirit.
You’re about to bloom in an unexpected area where things have changed so much.
You don’t even recognize it anymore.
God’s about to redirect your attention and so open your heart for this word before you leave tonight, you’re gonna be looking in the right direction.
God bless you. I love you pizza.
If I could get my phone and Bible, my phone and Bible, it looks like Core is gonna bring my phone in Bible.
Hey Coco. Hm.
Thank you sis.
Like I said, I, we were planning on having the woman to woman conversations and just praying and having this time of connection.
But God just gave me three things to share with you.
I promise you I won’t take too long and you guys are gonna get home and get some rest.
Um I’m in John eight. This is the woman caught in the act of adultery.
I will save my think piece about why the man wasn’t brought up and why it’s just the woman here.
It’s a whole op ed and a think piece connected to it, but I’m gonna focus on Jesus interaction with this woman.
And for those of you who may not be familiar with this moment in scripture, there’s a woman who was literally caught in the act and the Pharisees come to Jesus and bring the woman to him and throw her at his feet.
And they say to Jesus in Moses law, if, if someone is caught in the act of adultery, they should be killed.
And they wanna see how Jesus is gonna respond to her being caught in the act.
And Jesus who I love so much, how he responds to what people think he should do does something so unexpected.
Says, then the scribes and Pharisees brought to him, a woman caught in adultery and when they had set her in the mist, they said to him, teach this woman was caught in adultery in the very act.
Now, Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stone. But what do you say this?
They said, testing him that they might have something of which to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down and rode on the ground with his finger as though he did not hear.
So when they continued asking him, he raised himself up and said to them, he who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first and again, he stooped down and rode on the ground.
Then those who heard it being convicted by their conscience went out one by one beginning with the oldest even to the last.
And Jesus was left alone. And the woman standing in the mist when Jesus had raised himself up and saw that no one.
But the woman saw no one but the woman, he said to her woman, where are those accusers of yours?
Has no one condemned you. And she said no one.
Lord and Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn you go and sin no more Holy Spirit.
As our time together comes to a close.
We know that our time with you is just beginning.
I thank you God that you’re breathing into our soul a fresh.
I thank you God that more than anything we just wanna see you.
And so God, my prayer is that this would be a moment where we lock eyes with you.
And in the process of that, we lock eyes with the potential of our future, with the protection of our future, with the protection of our present.
And so God, I pray that you would give me wisdom, insight, prophecy, and all of the things that we need in order to hear from you, may I completely decrease so that all we see and hear is you.
And if you could do it in a quick work, Jesus, we’ll take whatever we can get in Jesus name.
I pray amen. You know, as I have been thinking about this concept when it relates to blooming, I recognize that one of the most powerful tools that I ever received in the process of me really understanding my identity in God and and really tapping into restoration and recovery was recognizing that so many of us think that we’re gonna have a moment where restoration or recovery or even hope comes as a result of something external taking place.
If I receive a certain phone call, maybe if I go to a certain event, maybe if I hear from a certain person, then I will finally have what I need in order to experience restoration or recovery or to move on in my life.
What I have come to realize though is that when we do that, we often rob ourselves of the ability to get permission to move on from God.
So often there are moments in our lives where God is telling us, I’m ready for you to move.
I’m ready for you to be free. I’m ready for you to bloom.
But because you’re not ready or you think you need permission, you don’t move with the speed and urgency required for you to bloom.
I say this because when I’m looking at this woman in scripture and she’s caught in the act of adultery, I could not help but think of how many times we come to a place in our life where we think we need a thing where all we really need is to give ourselves permission to no longer be confined, restricted or limited to who we once were.
Sometimes what you need is to be able to tell yourself you have permission to no longer be ashamed of who you once were.
You have permission to dream. I know you’ve never seen it done in your family again.
But just because you haven’t seen, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have permission to dream it.
There is something that happens to us when we come into a space where we realize I don’t need to be endorsed.
I don’t need to be validated. All I need is a word from God.
When I receive that word from God, that’s all the permission that I need.
I know that there are women in this room who know exactly what I’m talking about.
When I, when I say that all you need is a word from God because when God gives you a word, it trumps every other word that has been spoken over your life.
When God gives you a word, he doesn’t just give you a word. God gives you a weapon.
God’s word is a weapon in your life and the weapon is not for the haters.
The weapons are for your own insecurities.
The weapons are for the voices in your own head talking you out of your own destiny.
That’s why you have to tell the voices in your head.
I have permission to bloom from that but you’re not worthy. What are you gonna say?
How are you gonna do it? No, no, no, I have permission to bloom from here.
I have permission to grow from there. But what are they gonna say? What are they gonna think?
They’re gonna be upset with you?
No, I cannot continue to question all of the things that could be when I have a license.
I don’t know who you are in this room.
But I hear God saying that you’ve been driving around your destiny like you don’t have a license, you have a license which means that if you get pulled over by insecurity, if you get pulled over by someone’s opinion, if you get pulled over by a rumor, they have nothing to fight you with.
Because all you gotta do is dig down into your word.
All you gotta do is dig down into what God said to you and say I got a license to be here.
I know I shouldn’t be here after all that. I’ve gone through.
But my permission came when God set me up for the opportunity, I’m standing here.
We’re in this moment right now. Not because I’m qualified, not because I’m the best to ever do it.
But because God says I’m gonna give you a license for this season.
I don’t know who you are, but I want to prophesy that you would stop sitting on your license to bloom, that you would stop sitting on your license to grow and that you would activate it before it expires because God is waiting on you to make a move.
God is waiting on you to step in your authority and to step into your power and yes, you’re gonna mess up and know you’re not gonna get every think right?
But when you start moving, you start learning and you can’t start learning until you start moving.
So you’re stuck here. But God says I got every lesson you need in the movement.
I don’t know who you are. But I hear God saying that when you start moving, I start teaching.
When you start moving, I start speaking again.
When you start moving, that’s where the creativity is when you start moving.
That’s where the strategy is when you start moving. That’s where the friends are. When you start moving.
That’s where the relationship is when you start moving. That’s where the resources are.
If I give you what you want right now where you’re stagnant, it’s gonna die because everything connected to your destiny has a move connected to it.
If I give you something that’s stuck, you’re gonna be stuck dying together.
But if you’re gonna be connected to me, you gotta be willing to move. Everything God does move right now.
The earth is spinning right now. The moon is moving right now. The sun is spinning. Everything I do move.
And so if you’re not moving, you’re not moving like God.
So I gotta give myself permission to no longer be stuck here because and I’m stuck, I can’t be like God and be stuck.
So if I’m stuck, I’m being like something else.
So I need to identify what is it that I am being like what attribute have I taken on that has made me believe that I am only effective when I’m still, that I’m only effective when I’m silent.
That is a weapon of the enemy trying to keep you from understanding the power of what happens when you bloom, you may stumble but you gotta do it, you may fall but you gotta do it.
You may have to pick yourself back up but you gotta do it.
You may not be eloquent, but you gotta do what you may have to study, but you gotta do it.
If you’re waiting until you do it perfectly, you may never do it at all.
God is looking for somebody who doesn’t mind doing it, stuttering, who doesn’t mind doing it nervous.
If you don’t believe me, I’ll take you back to Moses. Moses says, God pick somebody else to do it.
I don’t have what it takes.
God says, I’m gonna give it to you as you move to start moving in the direction.
I don’t even know who this is for because it’s not what God told me to say.
And I feel like I’ve already been preaching about making a move.
But maybe there is a woman in this room who still doesn’t believe that her move can make the difference.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that if she says yes, that the generations are connected to her, maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that when she moves, that heaven’s resources back her up.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t said that when she moves, she finds her wings.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand, but if she doesn’t do it, it cannot be done.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that her family is waiting on her to make a move.
Maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that the weapons are gonna be formed.
But God made her tough. God made her resilient. God made that woman stronger than she could ever imagine.
Maybe, maybe man that’s not that maybe there’s a woman in this room who doesn’t understand that when she survived what she went through that she did not barely make it, that she made out a different person.
God helped me to say it the way I hear it in my head that you think you barely survived.
God says you are more resilient than you could have ever imagined.
You think you were hanging on by a thread. It was the thread of the hymn of His.
When you decided to hang on by that thread, you pulled power and the ability out of God, but you’ll never know about the power you pour from God until you throw that power in the direction of what God has called you to do.
And so yes, girl, I’m talking to you. Hey, you, it’s time for you to plu.
Hey, you, it’s time for you to get up. Hey, you, it’s time for you to not healing.
Hey, you, it’s time for you to care for your soul with wholeness and value because babe, when you do it, it changes the way that I do it.
And when I see you bloom, I feel like I can bloom and maybe we become like Mary and Elizabeth and all of a sudden my baby is sleeping because you took the chance to leave when all you could have done was stay back in the week.
But something happened when the woman, when the woman gave herself permission to bloom, I preserved you so you could bloom.
I didn’t let it kill you so you could bloom.
If you allow yourself to die in seed form, you will never see the fullness of who God has called you to be.
So I pushed the haters back long enough for you to get a revelation of what could happen when you bloom.
Jesus man.
Jesus help the women in this room to trust that you have given them permission to not just live every day like it was the last day, but to live every day like it is the last day.
And if today is the last day, who do I wanna be?
If today is the last day, who do I wanna be connected to?
If today is the last day, what do I want? My legacy? To be.
If today is the last day, what do I wanna leave in the earth?
Man?
All Jesus does in this text is give this woman permission to bloom in spite of what other people said, in spite of what she did.
Oh God, Jesus, let me tell you something.
Uh We don’t know what Jesus wrote on the ground in this text.
All we know is that they hit him with what was written.
And Jesus says, I’m gonna write something new.
I know what was written about girls like her.
I know what was written about situations like this.
But we serve a Jesus who will write a new law that takes into account where you fail so that you have the opportunity to get back up again.
So often we read this text and we make it seem like if you don’t have a sin and if you are not the first one to have sinned and you don’t have the opportunity to cast a song, but Jesus doesn’t leave the conversation there.
He doesn’t then go send the woman back to live the way that she once lived.
He recognizes just as she does that this woman has hit a low point.
Some would even say that she’s hit rock bottom.
The thing about seed is that it has to go into the ground.
The scary thing about cus that it goes into the ground. I’m finished.
This woman, I’m finished for real.
This woman in the text is running the risk of being thrown even deeper into the ground.
Somebody’s coming, kicks her while she’s down.
Sometimes when we get kicked, when we’re down, it doesn’t even come in the form of another person.
Sometimes it comes in the form of another disappointment.
I could maybe tune out the ears, the voices of another person.
But what do you do when it comes in the form of another disappointment?
And it looks like this woman is going deeper and deeper into the ground.
But Jesus does something powerful.
When he writes in the ground, he breaks up the ground so that she has another option besides down.
If I write in the ground, I break up the ground with a word that gives you an opportunity to come up again.
My prayer for you as we talk about what it means to bloom is that you will not miss the moments when Jesus is breaking up the ground so that you have another option besides down so that you have another option besides despair.
And if you are not careful because you are the seed that has hit the ground, you will become so content with being in darkness, so content with being surrounded by pain and not seeing the light that you will miss the moment when God shakes up the ground.
That’s why we make you all connect with one another because you could be in a room this size and still hide.
But when someone connects with you, it is a reminder that you can still get pulled up again when someone connects with you.
It is a reminder that you are still seeing that you were still known when God sends somebody for you.
And so that the ground can be broken up.
And what use is it for us to be in a room this large and not recognize that the woman beside us could be at her lowest point.
And if she is at her lowest point and you are the person who God has sat beside her, then maybe you have an opportunity to tell that.
I think he’s breaking up the ground. So you have another option.
I think he’s breaking up the ground so that you can get your head straight.
I think he’s breaking up the ground so that you can begin to prophesy.
I think he’s breaking up the ground so that you don’t have to be ashamed.
Hey, you, he’s calling you, hey, you, it’s time for you to get up.
Hey, you, I’m not gonna let what they said about you define you for the rest of your life.
I don’t know who you are in this room.
But before we go home, my assignment is to let you know that the ground has been broken up, that there is still an assignment over your life.
And I know that you felt like you have hit rock bottom, but I’m letting you know that every time you lift your hands in worship, every time you bring yourself into a space of faith, even when you don’t feel like it, it’s shaking up the ground.
You don’t even have to lift up your hands in worship.
If you just get in an environment of worship, the ground start shaking and all of a sudden you recognize I’m not going down any further that God is actually pulling me up.
And if he’s pulling me up, then maybe he knows something about me that I do not know about myself.
So I’m gonna allow myself to be stretched up. I’m gonna allow myself to be spoken up to.
I’m gonna allow myself to be in connection with someone who sees me beyond what I did.
When Jesus broke up the ground for this woman, he changes the perspective that other people had about her.
He changes perhaps even the perspective she had about herself.
And I know that he does this because what he says to the woman after they’re all gone is this woman where are those who accused you?
Sometimes Jesus wants you to see that what you were afraid of.
He took care of. And if he doesn’t make you see it, then you’ll walk around still afraid thinking that at any moment, the accusations are gonna come back.
I’m talking about the accusations that say you’re not qualified, the accusations that make you feel insecure the accusations that tell you that your voice doesn’t matter.
You think that the experience was the worst thing that happened to, you know, the worst thing that happened to you were the thoughts that the experience planted in your mind.
They are accusing you from thinking that you deserve what God has assigned to your life.
They are accusing you of making you believe that you are not one who can have purpose and destiny, but woman look around, where are those accusers?
She says there are none.
And then he gives her permission in that moment after she has received the recollection and she has received the perspective of what Jesus has done for her to go.
Don’t get stuck, don’t hide yourself. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be ashamed.
Everybody’s got something you deserve to walk with your head held high, go and then he says, sin no more.
That word sin means to miss the mark says, if you don’t recognize that you don’t have to be afraid of what you were once afraid of, then you will walk around life blind.
And when you walk around life blind, you are guaranteed to miss the mark again because you have not yet reconciled that you can really walk in freedom and authority and you will find yourself continuing to fall for the same person, the same trap, the same mentality over and over and over again because I don’t really trust that I’m free.
I don’t really trust that I have permission to bloom. I don’t really trust that I can do this.
And so I keep missing the mark because if I dared allow myself to bloom, I’m afraid that I won’t need it.
But when Jesus gives you permission, he’s gonna walk with you through it, he’s gonna coach you.
He’s gonna bring people into your life who get it. He understands that you may not do it perfectly.
But doing it is better than doing nothing at all.
And it’s better than repeating the same cycle over and over again.
And so you are in this room and what I desire for you more than anything is for you to allow yourself to bloom in a new way to allow the version of you that you’ve been nurturing on the inside, that version of you that has the boundaries, that version of you that makes the time for God, that version of you that really, really decides to dedicate yourself to a version of wholeness and wellness and mental health that you’ve never seen before.
Give her permission to bloom.
That version of you is what God formed in your mother’s womb.
And when you allow yourself to stay buried and suppressed, you end up suppressing the best of who God created you to be.
And what’s crazy about that is that you can still be everything to everyone and still not be who God called you to be.
We don’t get extra credit just because we showed up for someone else.
We get extra credit when we show up as ourselves.
I don’t know about you, but I wanna keep blooming into whoever this person is that God has created.
And there are moments, I’m gonna be honest with you where I see a clip or I recall something I said and I’m like, that wasn’t even me.
And God’s like, yes it was, I’m introducing you to you because you’ve only known a version of you that you penalized a version of you that you slept on.
But there is a version of you that I preserve through it all.
And I wanna introduce you to her. I wanna pray with you.
I want to pray for my sisters who are in bloom.
I wanna pray for these tender hearts, these painful memories that thorny ground that we think is poking in pride in God, our destiny.
Um Somebody in this room afraid that there’s nothing left in them worthy of blooming.
All they’ve ever experienced was maybe rejection and disappointment and they aren’t sure that there’s anything in their hearts that is worth blooming.
Maybe you have an opportunity but you don’t know where the rain is gonna come from.
Where is the sun gonna come from? How am I going?
I believe I have something but I don’t believe that I have the environment that will produce it.
And so I wish I could bloom, but I don’t think I could bloom.
I wanna talk to somebody who’s second guessing what God placed inside of them because tonight is gonna serve as a reminder for you that you’re not in the ground by yourself.
That’s why I believe God drew me to this text because Jesus gets on the ground.
He could have said anything to the Pharisees. He could have used his words.
He could have used the spirit of God to convict them.
But why did Jesus hit the ground unless the woman was on the ground too?
And it wasn’t about the Pharisees. It wasn’t about the scribes. It wasn’t about the audience.
It was about a woman who found herself on the ground and Jesus says I can get down there too and I can write a word in the ground.
Oh God. That helps you to get back up again.
If you’re in this room and you found yourself on the ground, you standing, but you’re on the ground praying but you’re on the ground.
I wanna invite you to come down here and be with us other seeds, man.
Yeah. And it’s so good to know you’re not by yourself.
Want you to feel that presence of other people surrounding you on the ground.
Look at all these seats are these destinies.
I don’t know why I feel it necessary to apologize.
I’m sorry that you found yourself on the ground again.
I’m sorry that it feels like you had an experience that threw you down.
There’s nothing wrong with you.
This is life and sometimes we find ourselves doing things to ease the pain that we know is gonna lower us.
But anything is better than feeling that again.
So we sex it up, we smoke it up, we drink it up, we shoot it up, we do whatever we gotta do to not feel it.
But we know that sometimes surviving, it takes us lower.
It’s not you, it’s the pain, It’s what you’re trying to do to survive.
And still Jesus says I can get on the ground with you. I’m not judging you.
I still call you worthy. You’re still valuable. I still have plans for you.
You haven’t seen your best days yet. This is not over.
And I hear God saying, stay in it with me. I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.
But you know how to leave me and forsake me.
And I’m telling you that God is saying if you stick with me, I’m gonna show you how I use everything.
I waste. Nothing that I can really cause all of this to work together for the good.
If you could allow yourself to love me, I wanna pray with you.
I wanna first just celebrate the fact that you’re here. I want to celebrate.
Even as you came down, the ground was being broken up.
And when the ground is broken up, there’s an opportunity for more sunlight to hit that seed that God has that seed.
That is you and for it to bloom in a fresh way, it’s the Holy Spirit.
You see us, you saw it, you saw the things that we don’t like replaying in our own heads.
You saw the things that we haven’t told any of our family members about.
You saw it when they left, you saw it when I stayed, you saw it when I tried to ease the pain, you saw it when I tried to break away, you saw the cutting, you saw the frustration.
You saw the depression God, but you also see so much more than what I see.
So spirit of the living God, I pray for every woman who was at this altar that God that you would touch her eyes, God, that you would touch her eyes in such a way that she no longer penalizes herself for that one instance.
But instead that you would give her eyes to see the way that you see God, that she would see herself still fearfully and wonderfully made that she would still see herself still valuable that you would see that you kept her alive because you have plans to preserve, restore and redeem her.
I thank you God that even as she came to this altar, that chains were being broken off of her.
I thank you God that even as she came to this altar, that she was going from being a seed to taking root God, I thank you that there’s a sprout picking up from the ground.
I thank you God that there’s a bud that’s being formed.
And I thank you God that as she said, yes, as her heart moved towards you God, that you begin to give her strength and you begin to give her courage.
God. I thank you that this is not the same woman who walked into this room that this is a woman who was hungrier like never before to bloom into who you have called her to be.
And so spirit of the living God, we decree and declare that right now in the name of Jesus everywhere, where the enemy took up space, everywhere, where depression took up space everywhere where trauma has been taunting her.
We rebuke it right now in the name of Jesus and we claim it as your territory. God.
We ask that you would take up space in the darkness, take up space, the pain, take up space in the shame God and allow there to be a flag that is way that says that this girl has been restored.
This girl has been redeemed God ask the transformation of her mind.
God transform it in the way that only you can do that.
You would change the narrative that she has had about herself. God change her story teller no longer.
Is she a victim no longer? Is she damaged? Good, no longer is she worthless.
God, we decree and declare that this is a woman of worth.
I speak to the queen on the inside of her.
And I say queen a rise, I speak to the princess inside of her. And I say royalty a rise.
She is a part of a royal priesthood.
You’ve got a confidence that you wanna give her that no man, no job, no degree could ever give her.
This level of confidence cannot be shaken. This level of confidence cannot be debated.
This level of confidence cannot be argued. And so God, we lay hold of that confidence.
We demand that it become a part of her identity and as it becomes a part of her identity, God, I pray that you put her in a position to show up as the real version of who she is.
Put her in a position where life makes a demand on her integrity where life makes a demand on her value.
And God when that demand comes, I thank you.
I thank you that you’re showing the woman how to say yes, you’re showing the woman how to obey.
You’re showing the woman how to walk with her head held high.
You’re showing the woman how to change her language.
You’re showing the woman how to change the way she sees herself.
I thank you God that you are illuminating her eyes.
And when you illuminate her eyes, every woman connected to her is going to see differently because this woman started seeing differently herself.
I think you got that when you call a woman, you call a nation.
And I thank you God that there are nations at this altar.
I thank you God that there are generations at this altar.
And when this woman sees herself, it’s gonna change the trajectory of her family.
Her daughter doesn’t have a thing to worry about. Her mother is gonna experience restoration God.
I thank you that you are gonna raise her up as a general in your army.
And when she becomes a general, she’s gonna go a war with everything that went to war with her.
Doubt you better watch out, save you better back up in security.
You better get a revelation because when you let this woman survive, you let an ambassador to come through and I think you got that you’re gonna raise her up.
I think you got that. You’re gonna give her language. I think you got that.
You’re gonna give her strength and I thank you that everywhere she goes, she’s gonna see you.
And when she sees you, she’s gonna release you.
And when she releases you, she releases change into an atmosphere.
This is not a regular woman, this is a change agent. This is not a regular girl.
This is a girl who went through hell so that she could bring heaven into her family.
This is not a regular woman. I speak against regular, I speak against normal.
I rebuke it in the name of Jesus before I formed you in your mother’s womb. I knew you.
You got a personal relationship with God.
He knows something about you that made him say I need to set you apart. I need to sanctify you.
And I thank you God that you’re gonna call this woman to invade cultures and invade industries and invade systems and invade corporations.
And when she invades those corporations, she’s gonna raise up a new standard and that new standard is gonna make room for every woman that’s coming up behind her.
And I thank you God that she won’t quit. I thank you God that she won’t give up.
I thank you that angels are gonna push her back in the game when she feels like giving up.
And I thank you God that you have not left her and if you haven’t by now, then my God, you never will.
And so God, we believe you for your word and we trust you that it is so and so it is in Jesus name, seal this word, seal this word and let it take root and let it produce fruit, the kind of fruit that her babies eat off of kind of fruit that her great, great great grandchildren need off of the kind of fruit that changes her community, the kind of fruit that has seed you think when you bloom that it’s just gonna be you.
But any time something God produces bloom, there’s seed inside of the bloom that means when you bloom, there’s even more seed.
I dare you to start blooming. So you can start evolving.
And when you start evolving, you will see you were always more than just one little piece of fruit and one little seed baby.
You were an orchid. So God, we thank you.
We trust you.
We need you, we need, you can’t do it without you and can do anything with.
You will receive your presence, your word and your truth.
We call it to water our soul that we may never run dry.
In Jesus. Name. Amen.
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- Priscilla Shirer | SHARE the DreamTháng tư 12, 2023