Reset for the Revolution – Sarah Jakes Roberts
Reset for the Revolution
Sis, there is a version of you that can only emerge on the other side of a revolution. Making the decision to break up with your fears looks like bringing the authentic version of who God says you are into every environment. SJR and the delegation are linking up to celebrate the launch of Woman Evolve the book.
God’s Messages
Dear Lord,
Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..
Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….
This is special. I don’t know why because I’ve released books before in the past.
But there’s something about this book that makes me feel like it is my first book.
It’s making me feel like, like I’ve never been here before.
I have a feeling that it has a lot to do with me.
Just finally feeling planted in the place that God fore knew before he formed me in my mother’s womb.
I wanna talk to you though today because as much as this is a celebration of woman evolve and I’m so glad that you are a part of it.
My goal and my intent is to really bring you into the awareness that this is a celebration for you.
Because what good is it? If only one of us makes it to the other side.
At the end of the day, I feel like we all have a responsibility to make sure that when we evolve that we don’t do it on our own.
And so tonight, tonight is about the revolution of you.
Tonight is about what God has already decided to do in your life.
And I want to congratulate you because you took the step you invested in yourself.
You dare to believe after all that you’ve gone through after all of the reasons that you have to give up, you have made a commitment to try.
Anyway. I know some of you are watching and you are on fire. You don’t need a pep talk.
You’re ready to be unleashed and then others of you are watching and you feel a little skeptical and you’re not sure sis, it doesn’t matter what brought you into this space.
I’m just glad that you’re here. I’m glad that you trusted us with your fears.
I’m glad that you’re trusting us with your faith because I believe that this is a part of a divine appointment.
I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those crazy people who happen to believe that God doesn’t do anything by accident.
And so I want you to know that we’ve already prayed.
We’ve already asked God to not just touch this message, but to touch your message, to touch what God wants to do down on the inside of you.
You’re standing in a moment that is my message.
But I want you to know that this is just God giving you a preview of what He wants to do in your life.
And it may not look like this and it may not sound like that, but he’s got something that has your name on it and your name on it alone.
And I came to set a fire down in your soul.
I came to remind you that the revolution is just getting press go until I make sure every woman is with us behind spirit.
If you’ve got that spirit, I want you to type it in the comments.
Bye generation position as sons are daughter on you.
The what you know and for someone else, the that when we coming to the revelation of our revolution, that we will see change broken, that we will see our identity revealed and purpose will come easy to us.
And so in honor of your coronation and honor of your revolution, I prayed and I asked God, what can I say tonight that would offer your daughter’s breakthrough?
And he gave me something. I’m so excited to share it with you.
I’ve been studying and praying and I just wanna offer you something to consider.
Some of you have already read the book. And so this is just gonna be icing on the cake.
Others of you are just getting started or you haven’t received your book yet.
And you know what this is gonna be.
This is gonna be preheating the oven because when God gets that book in your hands, you’re gonna have all of the ingredients that you need to transition into who God always knew that you were.
My text is Ruth four verse 13. Ruth is probably my favorite book of the Bible.
We already know that Eve is my favorite woman in the Bible.
But Ruth four and 13 is where I’m gonna begin.
Ruth and Naomi have been on a journey. I don’t wanna assume that everyone knows this story.
But Ruth is the daughter in law of Naomi and they have been on a journey, Naomi was escaping famine from her homeland but which was Bethlehem and she found herself in Moab with her husband and her two sons and her two sons married and they had these wives.
Ruth was one of them. Another one was or unfortunately, and devastatingly enough, her two sons and her husband died.
And so she took her grief and she began her journey back to Bethlehem and she could not shake Ruth.
She told Ruth gonna leave me alone, go back to where you’re from and yet Ruth would not leave her alone.
I write, I wrote a devotional all about this but there was something that I saw when reading it this time that made me want to share it with you.
So Ruth four verse 13, Ruth has found someone who is a redeemer.
Back then in the biblical days, if a spouse died, if there was someone within the family line that they could marry, there would be redemption for that family that bloodline would continue.
She has found a redeemer in Boas.
And verse 13 says so Bo as took Ruth and she became his wife and when he went into her, the Lord gave her conception and she bore a son.
Then the woman said to Naomi blessed be the Lord who has not left to you this day without a close relative.
And may his name be famous in Israel and may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age for your daughter in law who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons has born him.
Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her bosom and became a nurse to him.
Father. I thank you that you’ve already decided to bless these women.
You did not create them and breathe your air into their lungs, place them in their mother’s womb to torment them.
Father. Sometimes it’s difficult to find the alignment with what we’re hap what’s happening in our life and the blessing and wisdom and strategy connected to it.
Father, it is my prayer that this would be such a moment where your will becomes crystal clear.
Our desires are purified and we have strength, father, strength to walk out the journey that is ahead of us.
Father, I submit myself to you. I say have your way.
Let there be no nerves, no fear, no anxiety, just your word.
This incredible word standing tall on the inside of me in Jesus thing. Amen.
You know, if you’re watching online, I want you to type a man in the chat because there’s nothing like having a strong Amen corner.
I know, I shared this a bit before.
But like I said, this moment in my life feels so much like, like my first time ever doing this, like the first time that I’ve ever released a book or ever spoken before, all of it feels so new, which I feel like is such a blessing because sometimes we get used to doing the same thing over and over again that we wonder if there will ever be anything new again.
And yet God has revealed to me in this moment that when we follow him, there are new ways that he’s gonna use us.
It’s the same platform, same method, but it’s gonna feel new because we’re different.
I feel that for somebody and that’s not even in my notes for some of you, the revolution isn’t gonna be that God completely changes your circumstance.
The revolution is gonna be that God changes you.
And because God changes you, your circumstance becomes new because you’re bringing that new identity into an old circumstance.
And that’s exactly what I feel like is happening now.
And that is not to discredit what happened before this moment.
My first book came out seven years ago, almost to the date of this book, seven years ago, lost and found then a few years after that, my next book came out uh colliding with destiny and dear Mary and then don’t settle for save came out.
And so this is my fifth book and yet this book feels new, which begs to reason to me that even though I was operating in my purpose, what I was doing is that I was being effective, but I had not been planted yet.
That’s something that I wanna lay to for a moment.
And if you’re taking notes, I want you to write effective versus planted.
Because a lot of times we think that the only way that we can be effective is if we are planted, we ask over and over again, what is my purpose?
What is my purpose? How am I gonna find the thing that is assigned to my life?
I’ve been doing things and I’ve helped people, but I want to find my thing when I’m building someone else’s vision, it blesses them.
But I’m wondering what my thing is and I hear God saying, don’t discredit the moments in which you are effective because effective is what we do with the time that we have been given until next is revealed.
That means that you may have not closed the big deal yet.
That means you may have not moved to that city that you know, you’re called to yet, you may not be with the group and community that you wanna be with.
But that doesn’t mean that you cannot be effective on this level.
As a matter of fact, I would beg to suggest that if you are effective on this level, I hear scripture in this, that if you are faithful over a few things that God would make you ruler over many.
Can you be excellent and effective where you are right now?
Even if you don’t know where you are to be planted? Effectiveness, effectiveness, I wanna be effective.
I don’t wanna just be rich. I don’t wanna be famous. I wanna be effective.
I want my life to mean something. I want my life to produce results.
I want my life to be connected to someone’s destiny.
There is something to be said about switching our desire and it’s difficult in a culture that constantly promotes success as visibility.
But visibility does not mean effectiveness. You can be visible but not be effective at changing lives.
And so my question to you is have you decided what effectiveness looks like for you without a vision, the people perish.
A lot of us are looking for purpose.
We’re looking on fulfillment, but we haven’t even identified what does effectiveness mean to me that’s one of the reasons why I wanted to write this book is because I wanted to walk those who are reading it through all of the different elements that keep us from pinpointing what our vision is supposed to be.
And there are plenty of reasons why we don’t even have time to work or focus on being effective because some of us are merely just trying to survive that would be effective for me.
I know that somebody’s testimony, if I could just survive this trial.
If I could just make it through this dilemma, if this storm would finally stop raging, then that would be effective enough for me.
And yet, if I can submit for your consideration, that there is something to be said about choosing to be effective.
Even if the storm doesn’t stop. Let’s define effectiveness.
Effectiveness is the degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result.
Effectiveness is the degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result.
I cannot even determine whether or not I am effective unless I have a desired result in mind.
That’s why I can’t just create randomly. I’m aiming for something.
There’s a vision that I have, there’s a vision that I’m shooting for and I will know that if, if I am effective based on whether or not I make this vision a reality, there is a desired result connected to it.
And so then we have to ask God, can you qualify my desire if my desire is to be effective?
And I can only gauge whether or not I am effective.
If I produce a desired result, then I have to ask myself, what is that desired result?
What is driving my desire that determines my results? Because I won’t lie to you.
Some of us desire a result that is based on our own fears and insecurities.
Can we go there for a moment?
I mean, tonight is about the revolution of you and the subtitle of this book says, break up with your fears.
Why would I tell you to break up with your fears because your fears can dictate your desire?
Don’t act like you have never been one of those people who said, I’m never going to do this again.
I’m never going to do that again because we experienced the pain. We experienced a rejection.
I’m never gonna try again. I’m never gonna have faith again. I’m never gonna pray again.
I’m never gonna connect with God again because I did not like the result that I received last time that I did that.
And so now my desire is based on my fears.
What I desire is to make sure that I escape ever having to feel this way again.
I’m trying to escape the famine of fear.
I’m trying to escape the famine that has that has happened as a result of me missing in different areas of my life.
I’m trying to escape. And when escape becomes our desire, then God is always gonna bring us to a point where he’s able to change our desires again.
That’s exactly what we see happening in Naomi’s life.
Naomi was effective in her desire to escape the famine. OK.
So I told you when I gave you the little background on this story that Naomi was escaping a famine that was taking place in Bethlehem.
And so effectiveness for her looked like escaping this famine.
How many of you can think of moments where you felt like effectiveness would be escape, not confrontation, escape.
So Naomi makes this decision to move from what has been happening to her.
And Ruth one and six it says, and then she arose with her daughters and daughters in law though that she might return from the country of Moab for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had visited his people by giving them bread.
So she went from trying to escape the famine that was taking place in Bethlehem.
Then experiencing such great loss that she had no choice but to go back to Bethlehem.
Because once again, when your desire is based on escape, when your desire is based on you trying to avoid something, I want to avoid failure.
I want to avoid ree rejection.
And so that’s driving me and someone has been effective in letting their fears dictate who they are and how they show up in the world.
But I hear God saying that this is the moment this is a season in your life in which you are going to break up with your fears, that your fears have been effective at dictating who you are for too long, that your insecurity have been effective and that it’s taken you down to nothing.
And now you don’t have faith in anything at all.
And now you don’t have confidence or courage to try anything at all because your fears have been effective and making you sit down.
But I hear God saying that it is time for you to evolve again.
I hear God saying that it is time for you to break covenant with the very thing that has kept you down because if you’re gonna make a new covenant to revolutionize your life, then you’re gonna have to be willing to break up with the thing that has kept you down.
I feel like somebody needs to serve fear. Notice that we don’t go together anymore.
I feel like somebody needs to serve fear.
Notice that I’m gonna have to divorce you that I wanna try this thing again.
I’m ready to write this book. I’m ready to go to therapy and get the help that I need.
I’m not afraid of seeing what’s happening down on the inside of me.
I’m not afraid of dealing with this issue that’s in my household. I’ve gotta break up with my fears.
I gotta break up with my anxiety.
I to do whatever it takes to make sure that it’s no longer effective in controlling who I am.
I hear God saying that it’s time for you to snatch your identity back.
I hear God saying I gave you free will, which means that you’re waiting on me to move.
But I’m waiting on you to move.
I’m waiting for you to come to a moment where you decide I’m same old and over again.
I’m ready for have to start waking me up to the new thing that he’s doing in my life.
I’m breaking up with your fear. I’m breaking up with your anxiety. I’m breaking up with your shit.
I’m ready to revolutionize my life.
Like God create team everything that I went through and for the Yeah, I’m sorry, fear but we gotta break up.
I’m sorry fears, but we gotta break up.
This is exactly what happens for Naomi when she realized that the famine has taken control of her life and now she’s lost too much trying to escape the famine.
She heard a word that God had sent bread to Bethlehem.
And Naomi decides that if I can’t have my sons back my life back.
If I can’t have my joy back then God send me to the place where you’re sending bread place where the not saying that her designer switched and that’s when the revolution for his bread.
Oh I wanna be where the bread is.
I wanna be where the breakthrough is. I wanna be connected to where the power is.
I wanna be connected to where the anointing is.
Naomi said I gotta take myself back back to where, back to where the bread is.
She heard, she heard that God was sending bread.
She’s not in the position where the bread is but she heard that God was sending bread.
I don’t know who you are.
But God said, if you don’t hear anything else, let this moment be a testimony to you that God still sends bread.
Did you know that God still sends bread?
Give us this day, our daily bread give us this day the wisdom that we need for this day.
God still given creativity. God, still given passion. God still giving breakthrough. God’s still doing.
Miracle God says, I’m still sending bread, but I gotta be positioned for where the bread is.
That’s why this woman evolve.
community is so important because every single day I see a testimony from someone that reminds me that God is still sending bread.
You’re reading this book, you’re gonna be holding this book and this book is gonna be a testimony to you that God still sends bread at 13 years old while I was rubbing my pregnant stomach.
God says I still send bread when I was going through a divorce and moving back home with my two Children.
God says I still send bread. The revolution happens when we come to a place.
When we decide God, I wanna be where the bread is.
The bread may not be in my comfort zone.
The bread may not be in the place where I feel like the biggest person in the room and the smartest person in the room.
And sometimes we think that the bread is connected to us having it all together, but we need bread the most when we don’t know what to do with next.
Some of you, you’re watching this message right now and it’s not that you haven’t wanted to revolutionize your life.
You just didn’t know what to do with next. What do I do?
God, what do I do with what I have left?
How can you create a revolution out of all of this grief?
How can you create a revolution after all of this disappointment?
And yet Naomi moves into the direction of where the bread is.
You know what I love about? This is in Ruth one and six.
She says that she heard that he was sending bread and then you know what?
She does not too long after that, Ruth calls her Naomi and she says, don’t call me Naomi, call me Mara for the Lord has dealt with me bitterly.
And when this happens, it was assigned to me that God can still give bread to the bitter.
He can still give bread to the bitter. He can still give bread to the disappointed.
A lot of times we think that when we go back into an environment and that’s what happened, Naomi goes back to Bethlehem and they’re expecting a version of her that who doesn’t exist anymore.
And a lot of times we beat Naomi up because in this moment we feel like she should have had faith and she should have shown up as who she was anyway.
But can I talk to someone for a minute?
Who understands what it’s like for life to change your name.
Everyone is expecting this version of her that doesn’t exist anymore.
And Naomi had the courage to say I am not who you think I am anymore.
The revolution depends on your transparency and your authenticity.
I’m gonna need your vulnerability. God is not impressed by who you pretend to be.
You can know all of the scriptures.
But at the end of the day, if you are walking around like you aren’t bitter, then it doesn’t matter how many scriptures, you know, bitter is not an indictment, frustrated is not an indictment, disappointed is not an indictment.
You are human. You will have permission to be all of those things.
So don’t pretend that you aren’t when you are.
And Naomi, Naomi takes her bitter self where the bread is.
Oh, I feel God on that.
God, please allow the women watching this message right now to recognize that they can come to you just as they are.
God says, sometimes they can’t reach and stretch for me.
So I have to get down and flesh. That’s why he came down and flesh.
I have to come down and flush so I can get to them.
It doesn’t matter how low you are, it doesn’t matter how depressed or discouraged you are.
God said if you call on me, I will come down in the depression.
Don’t wait until you come out of the depression. Don’t wait until you come out of the grief.
I can meet you right where you are and Naomi is evidence of this.
So Naomi makes her way back to the place where God is giving bread.
I wanna talk to you for a moment about making sure that the right thing is leading you.
You see Naomi was being led away by the fear of famine.
When this text first begins and ruth one, the fear was leading her.
The fear was driving her and the revolution will not begin as long as fear is driving your decisions.
It’s not until she makes the pivot and then the pivot what she decides instead is that I’m gonna allow my desire to be connected to God.
My desire to be where the bread is to drive me and lead me.
And so when we find Naomi in this text, she’s standing in a revolution and she doesn’t even know it.
I want to talk for a moment about why the revolution is necessary in Genesis three and 15.
And you guys know if you don’t know, you’re getting ready to know when you finish reading this book.
Eve is my number one home girl in the Bible hands down. I rocks with her. OK?
But what happened in Genesis three and 15 when God gives the curse to the serpent, what he says to him basically is that in order for her to overthrow what took place in this moment, it’s gonna require a revolution.
You see because what happened in that moment?
Was really this power grab and God was trying to make sure that he maintained his power in the garden.
But the enemy came with his sneaky deceptive ways and he took the power away from God.
And now the serpent thinks he thinks that he has power. The serpent thinks that he has power.
Depression thinks that it has power, disappointment thinks that it has power. Darkness thinks that it has power.
But what it doesn’t know is that a revolution is a prerequisite for walking with God, which means that anything that thinks it has power over you that is not God has to be rendered to a revolution.
A revolution must take place. A revolution is a necessary component of God’s strategy for every life.
If you’re taking notes, I want you to write that down.
A revolution is a necessary component of God’s strategy. For every life.
Every life will have a revolution connected to it because of what happened in Genesis three and 15, the serpent had the upper hand.
But when Jesus got on the cross and put death to death in anything that stands in opposition to you have having access to God, a revolution had begun, but it is on us to step into and walk in the authority and power and knowledge that the revolution has already begun.
And so when we begin to live with the consciousness of a revolution, what it says is that anything that has power in my life that doesn’t look like God will have to come into submission to the revolution.
Let me define this for you.
A revolution is a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
Oh I feel God on this.
A revolution is a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
Some of you have been trying to overthrow what has been taking place in your life, but you have not introduced it to a new system.
And that’s why you end up in that same cycle over and over again and you’re thinking to yourself, but I remove that relationship.
I remove that insecurity. I moved to a new city.
Why am I still dealing with the same thing over and over again?
And it’s because a new system hasn’t been introduced?
And I hear God saying that you gotta know what the new system is so that the revolution can be effective and the new system has already been laid out.
If you would go back to scripture, that new system says that I’m gonna start walking in the consciousness that I’m fearfully and wonderfully made.
We’re not talking about having a revolution for the sake of having a revolution.
We’re talking about the generations depending on us introducing a new system.
What is the new system that God has assigned to your name?
What is the new system that is connected to the breakthrough? That you have assigned to your name.
I hear God saying that this book isn’t gonna just help you overthrow what’s been in control of your life.
I’m gonna help you introduce a new system. There’s a new way of you showing up in the world.
There’s a new way of you thinking. Those insecure thoughts are gonna be overthrown.
I wanna prophesy over somebody in a moment that there have been some things in your life that have been raining over who you are reigning over, how you show up in the world.
But they did not know that the moment that you clicked on this button that you were gonna be entering the revolution.
I hear God saying I can overthrow it right now. If you let me, I overthrow it right now.
If you open your heart, I’m trying to talk to somebody. Shame, you gotta go.
It’s time for me to walk in the work of who I am. Me being insecure has got to go.
It’s time for a revolution. Do I have just two or three women need all thousands of you to get on board with this?
I just need a few crazy women who have decided to wage war who have decided to overthrow the government that has dictated the loss of what is possible in your life.
Do you know what it means to overthrow a government?
When we overthrow a government, we overthrow the laws connected to that government.
Fear has been trying to tell you that you can’t do what God has told you to do, trying to tell you live within certain boundaries.
But I hear God saying when you overthrow the government of fear, when you overthrow the government of depression government is going to step in who is came to do.
I’m sorry, but you gotta go, I’m sorry, but you gotta go.
It’s not you, it’s me. I decided that I wanna walk in who God has called me to be.
I’ve decided that my identity is more important than my past.
I’ve decided that what God says is more important than what the statistics say. I’m sorry.
But I go, I’m about to apply for this job.
The make sure that my heart is right. I’m about to raise these Children.
I got a generational curse to pray. My Children are gonna understand what it feels like to be loved.
My business is gonna understand what it means. Shit, do it. But a revolution is coming.
Yeah, coming.
My boy of I’ve got to step into this because while you’re counting on someone else to do it, someone else is falling short and it’s not until all of us get crazy enough to believe that me with my broken past, me, with my crazy self, me with this depression, me with this bitterness.
I feel like I can to a revolution. You may not be ready to go full fledge yet.
But I hear God saying if you would just dip your toe in the water, I just need one woman to the revolution.
Is it you, is it you is it you is it you is it you as a youth.
Hold it down for your corner, hold out your family.
And there is enough Brokenness and there is enough darkness for all of us to get on our square and chase a few 1000 demons.
If one can chase 1002 can chase 10,000.
I wonder what an army of women could do if we came together and decided that it’s not gonna happen on my watch.
I wonder what an army of us coming together could do if we decided that I’m gonna revolutionize Brokenness in women.
I’m gonna revolutionize shame in women as women I raise and instead that a see what I’m worth in.
All it takes is one woman.
All it takes is one woman. All it takes is one woman.
All it takes is one woman.
One woman crazy enough to say yes, one woman crazy enough to believe in breakthrough.
I’m the only woman in this organization who believes that change can happen. That’s all right.
All it takes is one woman. I’m the only woman in my family who believes that breakthrough can happen.
That’s alright. All it takes is one woman. I wanna talk to your fears for a minute.
I’m trying to overthrow the government of your fear. I ain’t even gonna lie to you.
Sis, I came to start a revolution on the inside of you. I’m not even gonna lie to you. Sis.
I came to start a fire down in your soul.
One woman, one woman, one woman, one woman, one woman, one woman can change the world. One woman, one woman.
God said I need one woman. I need a woman. I need a woman.
What and what you, which woman will unlock the door so that everyone can come through which one woman will unlock the door so that everyone, male and female can come through.
Everyone is connected to one woman.
Everyone begins from the body of a woman.
And yet the woman is a gateway or the woman is the tunnel.
That’s why there’s enmity between the serpent and the woman.
Because if I can get the woman, there will be no multiplication.
If I can get the woman, there will be no environment for us to develop and flourish.
There have been plenty of women who knew how to raise young men, not because they knew how to do it, but because they decided God, I’m gonna need your help to do it.
And they’ve raised men who’ve gone on to change the world because it all started with one woman.
What you do? Woman will not just revolutionize your life.
It has the power to revolutionize every life since you’re the gateway, since you are the beginning, not the end.
It starts with you, Naomi, Naomi thought she was coming to her ending when we find her in this text, this is not the end.
This is the beginning for her.
And the reason why I chose this text out of this whole story.
And if you have time, I suggest that you read the entire book of Ruth.
But the reason I chose this story is because Naomi is standing in a revolution and she doesn’t even realize it.
Her daughter in law Ruth has given birth to a son.
New things, exciting things, incredible things are happening around her, but it hasn’t gotten in her yet.
Did you know that you can be standing in a revolution and not even see it.
These women, these women that they don’t even name, they come up to Naomi and they say something powerful.
They say bless be the Lord who has not left you this day without a close relative.
And may his name be famous in Israel?
And may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age for your daughter in law who loves you who is better to you than seven sons has born him.
These women said, hey, hey girl, you’re standing in a revolution.
Hey girl, hey girl, the grief had to let you go.
Hey girl, hey girl, you got something to be excited for again.
Hey girl, this is not the end.
I feel like God gave me the responsibility to let you know, to awaken you to the fact that you are already standing in the revolution of you.
This is not something that is about to happen. This is not something that could happen.
This is something that has already occurred.
Sis don’t miss it after all.
Isn’t that what the women say in this text? They say, sis don’t miss this moment.
And Naomi did something that you’re gonna have to do says in verse 16, that Naomi took the child and laid him on her bosom and became a nurse to him.
We talk a lot about what they say. They, they don’t wanna see you win.
They don’t wanna see you be great.
But every now and then God uses they to let you know that He’s still with you.
These women, they served as notice to Naomi that it happened.
We say all the time the revolution will not be televised.
I want you to know though that the revolution will be publicized because when God does something in your life that points back to him and him alone.
That’s his way of saying, I’m gonna get the glory out of this in my mind.
What I heard these women saying to Naomi is, hey girl, this is your moment.
God ignored you. I know most of the time we want God to hear us.
But there are a few people who understand that sometimes the greatest gift that God gives us is that he ignored us.
Naomi said, call me bitter for the Lord has dealt with me bitterly a child.
I don’t even think about that right now because I know how this story ends.
I should say, I know how this story begins. It’s gonna begin again.
It’s gonna begin again. I wanna pray with you. I wanna talk to you.
Naomi is standing in the begin again moment of her life when God restores and redeems, what we’ve lost doesn’t always mean that we get back what we lost.
But he does give us something that feels greater, greater in a different way than what we lost.
This doesn’t mean that she didn’t miss her husband. It doesn’t mean that she doesn’t miss her sons.
But God, you gave me this daughter in law and this grand baby that I didn’t even know to pray for.
God says I’ve got some things I wanna give you that you wouldn’t even know to pray for.
And it’s all buried in the shambles of what you have left Naomi’s life.
It lost its structure, her husband, her sons, her life lost its structure.
Do you know what it’s like for your life to lose its structure? I don’t have this thing.
I was counting on anymore. I was counting on this job. I was counting on this marriage.
I was counting on going to school. I was counting on that loan. My life has lost its structure.
But just because something has lost its structure. It doesn’t mean it’s lost its strategy.
We could tear this building down and this building will lose its structure.
But the wood that erected this building with the right strategy, this building could come back and it may be different than it was, but it’ll be standing again.
That’s my prayer for you, sis for those of you who feel like I’ve lost the structure, God, where is the strategy in my shambles?
I hear God saying we can build again for those of you who are too afraid to believe that the revolution can come to you.
I want you to know that the revolution is already here. Can you open your heart and let it in?
Everything shifted for Naomi when she made a decision to herself to move where the bread is my prayer for you friend is that you would wake up each day and ask God, where is the bread?
Where is the bread in this day?
Where is the peace that will allow me to make it through this day?
Where is the strength that will allow me to make it to this day?
You see the thing is that Ruth didn’t know it but she was moving to where the bread was in Bethlehem.
But Ruth was gonna be the bread that Naomi needed.
That means all along the way all through her destitution, all through her fear, all through her anxiety.
She was traveling with bread and didn’t even know it.
And I hear God saying that when you move to the place where the bread is, it’s not just so that you can be filled.
It’s so that you can become bread. Why must we become bread?
Because no woman, no woman, no woman will be left behind from this movement.
I need to get my life together. I need to pick up my pieces.
I need to sort through my past.
I need to erect these shambles because I made a commitment to not just revolutionized my life, but to revolutionize the life of every woman connected to me.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any woman left behind.
So I sat down and I wrote this book and I sat down and I cried these tears and I sat down and I asked God to only allow what he gives me to flow through this computer screen because I don’t want any woman left behind.
You’re thinking of a woman right now who you feel like should be connected to this message.
Don’t wait for the message to get to her. You become the bread that she needs in her life.
Don’t wait for the message to get to Him. You will become the bread that he needs in his life.
God says, I will equip you and I will empower you and I will give you strategy to not just feast but to become the bread that this world so desperately needs.
We’re off to the races from here. From this point forward, we got a world to win.
We got a generation to save. We’ve got a sister to get up off of the ground.
I told them in the book launch team and I’m telling it to you right now.
There are women right now who are on their last leg. They’re feeling like giving in.
They are depressed, they are addicted.
They are struggling to believe that life can exist after divorce, after abortion, after job loss, after bankruptcy.
And I hear God saying they don’t even know that we’re coming for them.
They don’t even know that we’re on our way.
They don’t even know that the revolution is being publicized so that they don’t get left behind.
The revolution is being publicized so that they don’t get left behind since I’m gonna need you to get on your square since I’m gonna need you to take your position because we’re gonna do this thing and we’re gonna do it for the glory of God.
No woman will be left behind as long as we make sure we are in our position so that you would fall in the name of Jesus.
Don’t just fall in this fall in the household, in the living rooms of every woman watching right now.
God, you can fall in her car. If she opens her heart, you can job.
If you, if she opens her heart, find that we’re asking for your spirit to fall because we’re ready to do the work.
We’re ready for our healing. We’re ready for our breakthrough, God, we’re ready. We’re ready for Bren.
We’re ready for bread.
We tried to feed off of what hurt us for too long.
We’re ready for everlasting life and everlasting bread so that we can become bread.
Father received. First receive, first hour apology.
God, we repent, we repent for allowing fear to be the government in which we live our lives, shame, anxiety, depression, grief, sorrow, been our government for too long.
Father. When we ask for a revolution, what we’re really asking for is that you would overthrow the systems that have kept us bound, but don’t just overthrow it.
God give us insight on the new system.
We wanna be effective in producing the desire to result.
And that desire to result is to be aligned with your version, your identity, your reflection of who we are.
So father, we receive, we receive this word that the revolution is closer than we think we receive this word that we can be an active participant in our breakthrough.
We receive it God and we thank you that as we receive this word, that we will become this word.
And as we become this word, Father, we will become bred for another woman. God.
I thank you for women who are connected to the women who are a part of this moment.
God, I thank you that you’re helping them to just keep hanging on until we get to them.
God, we’re on our way for our sister.
We’re on our way for our cousin, on our way, for our mothers, for our sons, for our father.
We’re on our way. Maybe we couldn’t save our family member, but the nonprofit is gonna make sure no one else has to suffer the way that we do.
Maybe we couldn’t save our family, but we’re gonna make sure that we show up in the world that make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Not that same devil, not that same devil, not that same breakdown, not that same curse. God.
Give us strategy on how to make sure we reach every woman who needs a breakthrough.
God, let it begin with this book.
Bless this book as you’ve already done, bless every woman who holds it in her hand.
May it become a tool in which she builds her life and discovers perpetual breakthrough in Jesus name.
Amen. This friends, I love you. I love you more than you know.
And I thank you for trusting me with your shambles, trusting me with every piece of your heart.
I wholeheartedly believe that it is only up from here.
So let’s do this work.
- Healing the Soul of a Woman | Joyce MeyerTháng ba 28, 2023