What Are Your Openings?

Sometimes you look up and find yourself just going with the flow. Allow SJR to remind you that the steps you are walking in are ordained. Start getting comfortable with being confrontational, especially when the enemy’s grips are so tight on your mind that you begin to believe that his voice is yours. It’s really not! Get out of your head and back in position where God is waiting to meet you.

We think often that the problem with what happened with Eve in the garden is when she ate from the fruit, and that is not what the problem is.
The problem started, and she told us out of her own mouth in Genesis three, she says the serpent deceived me and then I ate.
The serpent found an opening, and he
did not give her a command.
He gave her a thought I don’t have to tell you the sin.
I don’t have to tell you to betray yourself.
I don’t have to tell you to give up on your destiny.
The serpent doesn’t even have to tell you to kill yourself.
He just has to give you a that this world would be better without you winning.
I just have to give you a thought your thought life is more powerful sometimes than even your prayer life because your thought life, if you don’t get ahold of it real good, then you’ll end up in a situation where the thoughts of the enemy have taken root and produced fruit in your life.
And then when you recognize that your fault life is under attack.
You go into your prayer closet with a different strategy. God, I don’t need you to change.
I need you to help me get my head together.
I’m about to walk away from the very thing that you called me to because something got in my head.
I gotta be careful. In certain seasons because you in my head. Oh god.
The one place you can be is in my head because I’m trying to be transformed in my mind.
If I let you in my head, my mind is so alleable that it could turn in the direction of destiny, or it could turn in the direction of destruction.
And all of a sudden, I’ll go from thinking I’m called in anointed thinking that there is no use for my voice in the world.
All of a sudden, I think that I can do this.
But because you got in my head, Get out of their head.
Get out of their minds. God, we claim it back. We lay it at the altar.
Sometimes I gotta lay my spirit out. Sometimes I gotta lay my find out.
My mind is telling me that I’m not fearfully and wonderfully made.
My mind is telling me that the weapons has prospered.
My mind is trying to tell me that there is no use from it.
But Zayden, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Zayden, I served you in eviction notice.
We don’t have to wait till the end of a sermon to get you an to call.
I hear god saying I’ll call out your mind right now.
I wanna talk to somebody whose mind has been playing tricks on you.
I wanna talk to somebody whose mind has been making you think that you are not called and anointed for your destiny.
Your mind is making you believe that the gift doesn’t matter.
Your mind is making you believe that you cannot break the generational curse, but I came here to tell you.
Let this mind be in you. That was also in Christ Jesus.
I feel like going to war in this place. I got on this dress, and I’m trying to be prettied.
But I feel like going to war with the mind of some oh god, baby.
Scripture says that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
But they are mighty through god for the pulling down of strongholds.
That word stronghold actually means fortified arguments.
That means that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through god
for the pulling down of fortified arguments. Ever sixty was little.
They bit in your head that argument is so four and fight. But I came here to tell you.
I got a weapon stronger than the argument. I got a weapon stronger than what they say.
I got a weapon for that. I got a prayer for that.
I got a worship for that.
I got a Jesus for that.
I know what you said about me, but do you know what Jesus did for me? Jesus did something.
That a foul pain undo. Jesus said something.
Let’s see.
Warfare.
Warfare. Jesus.
Jesus. Okay. Oh, god.
That’s why the serpent has to get in your head.
Because if he gets in your head, he can separate you.
And if he can separate you from god, he can separate you from you.
You don’t even know who you are.
That’s why I had to attack your mind when you were young.
Cause if I started when you’re young, you may not ever out who you really are.
But I thank god
that he still closed his doors. Because even though you got me.
When I was young, Gus says I’m a close the door,
but then I’m a open the door. So I can show them anyway.
I’m a show them with an open door, who they are.
I’m a show you with an open door. What I think about you.
Your boss are not my thoughts, and I thank god for that. Do ways are not my way.
Bye.
Alright.
This is what happens. Right?
The serpent
separated them.
The enemy separated you with one thought.
Two thoughts echoed by people who had their own thoughts.
I still got a long way to go, so
I don’t Adam and Eve
are in the garden, and they’ve been separated.
And what they do with this separation
is what so many of us do.
They move into and avoid an attachment.
They say to themselves, I’m a just keep pushing through.
I’m a avoid who I should have been.
I’m gonna avoid what I should have done.
And now I’m a just push through.
What they call pushing through is actually
pushing away.
They got their fig leaves.
But when is walking through the cool of the garden, and he asks, where are you?
It lets us know that they were avoiding having to be in relationship with god, but they were not avoiding being in the place that god had put them.
I wish I could say that.
You see some of you are patting yourself on the back.
Because you’re still in the vicinity even though you aren’t in position.
I’m attached, but I’m not
connected the way I once was.
I’m in the marriage, but I’m not connected the way I’m just pushing through.
In the business, but I’m not connected.
I’m just pushing through, but you’re not pushing through. You’re actually pushing away.
Because pushing through requires an element of confrontation.
And if you think pushing through is how can I avoid it,
or how can I punish it?
Then you never are offered the opportunity to be secure again
because you’re pushing away and not through.
And god gave me this message.
Because he told me that we are coming into a point in the earth.
Where we need people who understand the difference between pushing through and
pushing away. God help me.
He showed me that until we’re willing to have a confrontation, with what happened to us when we were separated, that we cannot become secure enough to be in position.
Man. Everyone talks about how Martha was so busy
that she couldn’t serve Jesus. Well, Martha was so busy that she couldn’t receive from Jesus.
So busy serving that she couldn’t receive. They don’t give her enough credit, however,
for when her brother was dead. And she was the first one to come up to Jesus.
And she said to him had you been here, my brother would not have died.
She got confrontational with Jesus because is better to be confrontational than to avoid him altogether.
You see, some of us are in here, not because everything is going the way we wanted to.
We’re in here because I need to have a confrontation because I trusted you.
And I wanna understand, can you bring this thing back to I wanna understand what your next plan is for me.
Some of us came in here to celebrate.
Others of us came in here to have a confrontation because Martha says I gotta push through what I’m feeling right now so that I can have a confrontation.
With Jesus.
She’s confronting him.
Because connection is more important than separation.
And god cannot comfort what you will not confront.
Can’t fix it in the marriage.
I can’t fix it in your mindset.
I can’t fix it. In the kids. If you don’t confront it, I can’t comfort it.
I know you’re insecure, and I know you want everyone to think that you have it all together.
But I’m telling you I cannot comfort it if you are not willing to confront it because that same Jesus told Martha that your brother is going to live.
And she says, no, He’s not alive, but he could have been alive.
I know that you’re still able, and he says, listen, you dropped the gun.
If you just stay in this tension with me, you’ll see that I have a plan outside of this.
This element of confrontation
requires that we push through instead of pushing away no one Got anything done in the Bible without pushing through.
Not avoiding it. Going right up the gut of it. That’s our country.
You gotta go right up the gut of this thing.
You gotta face it head on.
You say greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
But if you don’t put that greatness in a position to be great, then how can you ever understand that greatness is working on your behalf?
You gotta push through. The woman with the issue of blood had to push through.
Blind Barta Mayis had to push through.
There are people in this room who’ve had to push through and push through.
It wasn’t that was easy, but I pushed my way through. I had to lose a few friends.
I had to have some hard conversations, but I pushed through because I believe that on the other side of push was a miracle.
I believe that on the other side of my push was god’s presence.
I believe that on the other side of that push was a new revelation and my identity and who I am in God.
I didn’t just get up here. I pushed my way through.
Somebody else may have strolled, but god I’m pushing my way. I’m pressing my way towards the mark.
It’s not easy for me to do it, but I’m pushing.
Not just for what I want.
But what I’m pushing for is connected to god’s presence.
When we find Jesus in the text, He is pushed through Jesus.
He was twelve years old in the temple.
But Luke tells us that when Mary had Jesus,
that he grew in wisdom and stature in favor with god and men.
You don’t get wisdom and stature in favor with god and men unless you push through some things.
I have to tell you I find this fascinating.
Because I think we have done such a good job at exalting the divinity of Jesus.
That we miss out on what makes him our kinsman redeemer.
That he, like you, had to grow with wisdom and stature and favor with god and men.
He had to push through some immaturity. Mary had to go back and get him.
He had to push through understanding who
he was in the context of the world.
He had to push through eighteen years of something before he could even be used.
He had to push through some things.
And yet when we find him
in the text, this push is different.
This push is a defining push. I believe God gave me this message.
Because there is someone, and maybe it’s just me standing at one of the most pivotal pushes
in their life.
They’re having to push through in a way that they’ve never had to push through before.
This push is different because it Jesus pushes through this moment. It’s gonna break open a damn.
If Jesus pushes through this moment, it’s gonna establish his ministry.
This is not the same push of a twelve year old boy.
This is a push of a thirty year old man.
This is a push that will determine whether or not he and be the savior, this is the push that will determine whether or not he’s qualified for the call.
This is the push that will determine if the devil that god had and Eve will be the devil that got him.
This is the push that will break the generational curse. This is the push. I don’t know who you are.
But I wanted to let you know that this is the push that’s gonna define your family.
This is the push that is gonna define how you connect in how you engage this this push.
Oh, god. Adam and Eve,
are in the garden with the serpent in Genesis.
Jesus is in the wilderness with Satan and Matthew.
From the outside looking in the scene probably looks the same.
But before Jesus could step into his call, he had to fight a devil that wasn’t even his own.
Because he had to let the devil know that you cannot use the same trick on me that you used on them.
I’m not gonna let you in my head. Some of you are not even fighting your own devil.
Some of you are fighting the devil of those who came before you, but I hear god’s hand.
You had to fight them now.
So that when I release you, that devil would know as you took your first step
that this is not the same kind of woman. This is not the same kind of man.
I gotta use something different, because I’m not gonna let the same thing that took them out.
It’s not the same. You can’t step into destiny.
Until you pass the test of defeating a devil that don’t even belong to you. You cannot
set into destiny until you pass the test of recognizing what this is. This is not a out too.
This is about devils that were here before you,
but maybe when they ran into you, they ran into a prop.
Yes.
When Satan when Satan ran up on Jesus, Jesus was armed because he already knew the devil’s tricks.
He already knew he wanted in his head. He already knew he wanted him to stop.
You better study that generational curse. You wanna break. If you don’t study it,
you don’t know where the openings are.
You know?
Jesus, the good Jewish boy that he was understood what happened in the garden.
So before he could launch his ministry, he had to defeat the devil that was there before he said yes.
Oh, god. You’re right.
There have been devils waiting for you to get in position. You are right.
Oh, hell is breaking loose. I’ve been waiting for you to get here, said the devil.
But the devil didn’t know I was waiting to get here too.
I was I was way to get here too.
I’ve been in my word.
I’ve been in my prayer.
I was
I’ve been waiting for this
because the weapons of my war there are not carnal, but they are ninety three.
I was waiting.
I faxed sit for this. I prayed for this.
I was waiting on you. I got a word for it. Got here that you are on the way.
I was was waiting.
We almost done. We gotta go.
Jesus is waiting on me. I passed it for this.
I prayed for this.
I already know what you do, but I already know who I am.
He didn’t just run up on the devil. He had the Holy Ghost.
How could the son of god lead the Holy Spirit to follow him?
Because even son of god needed the spirit
of god to fall on him
because the devil he had to fight was gonna require everything he had.
And think he didn’t even know he had.