Made For This | Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Made For This | Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
God has already set a pattern for your life. It’s woven right into the fabric of creation, as Genesis 1 and Matthew 10:16-20 explain. He speaks, things respond, He evaluates, and then He calls it good. That’s the rhythm we’re meant to live by! Yet, we often get stuck between God’s plan and the enemy’s confusion.
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[Music] I was in Genesis 1 and as I was looking in Genesis 1 I couldn’t help but notice that the creation story in Genesis 1 is a story told in a pattern about patterns the Oxford dictionary defines a pattern as a repeated decorative design or an example for others to follow so when we look at Genesis 1 there is a literary structure somewhere between poetry and Pros that tells us a story but uses a rhythmic pattern not only is the story told in this rhythmic pattern but the creation itself is a pattern being
created and this pattern that is being created is an example for every other day to follow so when God makes the Seas he’s creating a pattern and that pattern is how the sea is going to function not just on creation day but for every day after it it is a pattern inside of a pattern it’s really interesting because when we start off Genesis 1 and it says in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth it really is just a simplified explanation of an elaborate pattern that God put together thank God
for astronomy we have a little bit more insight into what God created when he created the heavens and the Earth what we know now is that when God created the Earth he put the Earth on an axis and when the earth is on the axis it’s spinning and then not only is it spinning on that axis but it is rotating three planets from the Sun in an orbit so when we talk about God creating the heavens and the Earth what we’re saying is that God really created a pattern for the Earth and that pattern is that the Earth will be on this axis
it’ll orbit around the sun it’ll be inside of a galaxy that is 100,000 light years in diameter and over 10,000 light years thick and that pattern has not changed because when God creates a pattern he doesn’t change his mind that pattern that he created when he created the heavens and the Earth is still the pattern that we are standing in right now all throughout Genesis 1 we see this pattern over and over again the pattern in the text but also the pattern in what God creates when I was studying I recognize
that the pattern goes a little something like this God speaks it what what he speaks to obeys or responds God sees it or evaluates it then God confirms that it’s good let’s look at Genesis 1 when we look at Genesis 1 chap 3 through 4 then God said God said it let there be light and there was light it responds and God saw the light that it was good God saw the light he sees it he evaluates it and then he determines that it was good that’s that pattern God speaks it it responds God evaluates it God says it’s good the same thing
happens again in Genesis 1 I think it’s verse 9 we see God says it it responds once it responds God evaluates it and God then says it’s good Genesis 1:9 it says then God said let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear here and it was so God said it it was so God called the dry land Earth and the Gatherings together of the water he called seas and God saw it and it was good that dry land is still called Earth today and the Gathering of the water is
still called the Seas today because that pattern hasn’t changed when God creates a pattern he doesn’t change his mind Genesis 1 verse1 God said let the Earth bring forth grass the herb that yields seeds and the fruit trees that yields fruit according to its kind and whose seed is in itself and on the earth and it was so God said it it was so the Earth brought forth it responded it responded to what God Said then God sees it and says that it’s good grass is still growing trees are still producing fruit because when God sets a pattern in
motion he doesn’t change his mind when God speaks a word Isaiah 55 lets us know that the word will not return into him void but it will accomplish that for which it was sent to do it says it’s going to prosper because when I speak a word that thing must be executed and it’s not that it just must be executed I’ve got to call it good God doesn’t just speak a thing and then move on God says I got to make sure that what I spoke is what I see and what I see has got to be good that’s a word for
somebody because I want you to understand that God’s pattern is to make sure that everything lands on good that’s why people say if it’s not good it ain’t over because when God gets finished it’s got to be good he’s going to cause all things to work together for the good he said it in the Old Testament he says it again in the New Testament because his people need to understand that part of my pattern is to make sure it turns out good [Applause] I got a pattern Great Is Thy Faithfulness I got a pattern sometimes
you just sing the song but then there comes a moment when you know the song to be true because every time I thought that what I was looking at was going to be bad some kind of way it ended up on good there’s no reason why some of us should even be in this room but for some reason God kept making sure that it landed on good I didn’t do everything the right way I don’t know all of the right people there’s no reason you should even be jealous of me honey because the same God that did it for me I know he can do it for you there ain’t
nothing special about me it’s just the way that God works he has a way of making sure that everything lands on good if it ain’t good it ain’t over I want you to prophesy to somebody just nudge them and say if it ain’t good it ain’t over if it ain’t good it ain’t over I know you may be in the midst of a struggle but I want you to know that if it ain’t good it ain’t over I want you to understand that if God is in it and it’s still bad then God is not finished because he doesn’t know how to stop on
bad he doesn’t know how to stop on I spoke it he makes sure that what I spoke becomes what I see and that what I see becomes good oh I feel my help coming I have a God who checks his results I have a God who doesn’t just speak it and move on he spoke it 10 years ago if it hasn’t happened yet don’t give up because he doesn’t leave you with what he spoke to you he makes sure that what I spoke becomes what you saw that’s a good word I like that cuz sometimes I start struggling when things start looking bad
and then I start thinking that God’s left me and I started thinking that God’s moved on to somebody else cuz I see somebody else’s situation turning out for good and I see somebody else’s relationships working out for good and I think to myself God I think you forgot about me but God has a pattern God see if I was just working with a random God I’d be a little concerned but because I know how my God works I understand that if it is not good then God is going to evaluate it Cain why are you upset if
you do not go back will I then not find a sacrifice and call it Worthy don’t give up just because what I evaluated doesn’t look like what I wanted I’m going to give you another chance I don’t know who this is for but I want you to understand that if God didn’t say it was good it doesn’t mean that God doesn’t still want to work with you to get it to good you may have messed up in your past but if you’re still here I need you to understand that your being here is a sign that it can still get to
good God says I’ll teach you God says I’ll show you how to do it God says don’t worry about what anyone else did I know how to evaluate your results and get your results to good oh I thank you yeah God’s word it has a pattern he announces it executes it evaluates it it’s good you going to get a word today maybe you already been walking around with a word your job is to make sure that you execute on the word God has given you and then it’s not enough to execute then you got to submit yourself a Living
Sacrifice you got to say God I did the best that I could but but I’m also offering myself up for evaluation because if there’s anything in me that is keeping good from coming out of me I want you to fix it I want you to convict me I want you to change me I want you to transform me because I know you got to get to good and I want to get to where you going so if there’s something in me that’s not good enough I thank God for the holy spirit that you will change me and transform me until I can get to good
with you we are the only Creation in Genesis one that doesn’t look like what God started in the creation story Genesis 1 says that we’re going to be made in the image of God oh I wish I had my time I’m going turn to it anyway amen Genesis 1 126 I got a real Bible cuz I’m I’m save saved y’all got digital Bibles that’s the starter kit I brought my real Bible can I tell y about this Bible and then I’ll get back to my message I won this Bible at Vacation Bible School in 1996 here at The Potter’s
House and then I lost it cuz I didn’t care about it then one day I was divorced and in my parents house single mom two kids and I was cleaning out one of their closet look at this Bible from 96 I think I’m going to read it here I am with my 966 Bible like I’m super saved like I had it the whole time oh cuz sometimes when God do something in your life it’ll look like you had it the whole time oh yeah we going to have fun today I feel it in my spirit Genesis 1: 26 it says so God created man in his own
image and in the image of God he created him male and female he created them then God blessed them and God said them be fruitful and multiply fill the Earth and subdue it have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth and God said see I have given you everything that I created I gave it to you he creates man he looks at everything he created he evaluates it and he says that it’s good but we don’t look like that pattern that God created in
Genesis 1 some of us should have dominion over things that have dominion over us some of us are letting things rule over us that we should be ruling over why is it that we don’t look like that pattern that God created in Genesis 1 because in Genesis 3 the serpent comes in and Satan understands that it is to his benefit for him to rule over us as opposed to us ruling over him and so the serpent recognizes that if I want to change this outcome I have to change the pattern God help me if I want to change the outcome of
them having dominion and them subduing then I have to change the pattern you want to break generational curses and all you look at is the outcome but if you want to change the generational curse you have to be willing to look at the pattern that creates the curse in the first place the serpent understands that my best shot is changing the pattern and so Satan introduces his own pattern oh if you taking notes I want you to write this down because this is the same pattern that he uses today it starts with the question did God really
say look at the J toos in God’s pattern it starts off with a declaration it starts off with an announcement in the enemy’s pattern he questions the announcement did God really say o I feel my help coming did God really say that you couldn’t eat from this fruit did God really say that you were going to be the one did God really say that it was possible for you to do the thing that God said you could do and now where you should have had a word where you move moved into execution you’ve moved into
confusion and God’s pattern we go from announcement to execution in the enemy’s pattern we go from question to confusion now I’m confused about what God Said now I’m confused and so I can’t execute immediately because now I got to figure out maybe the timing was wrong maybe maybe it wasn’t for me maybe he was talking to someone else maybe it’s not my time maybe I heard him but maybe I misheard him maybe it was for someone else and now I have confusion when I should have had execution he
questions then you’re confused and now you’re executing from a place of confusion Eve the woman says she looks at the fruit and she sees that it’s one desires to make one wise and now she’s executing from a place of confusion sometimes us executing from a place of confusion is not necessarily what we do sometimes us executing from a place of confusion is that we do nothing at all and when we should have been responding when we should have been obeying now we’re executing [Music] procrastination now we’re operating in
Disobedience now we are in sin which that Greek word means hermity it means to miss the mark which means when I should have been executing I’m doing nothing at all and I have missed the Mark I have sinned against God because I didn’t execute the thing that he told me to do I allowed my confusion to stay in the way of my execution and now I’m isolated I’m separated because the moment she eats from this fruit she’s separated from God because when we miss the mark when we sin when we’re disobedient we always
separate ourselves from God and so now this is the pattern that humanity is stuck in between I’m stuck in between God ‘s pattern of announcing executing evaluating and saying it’s good and the enemy’s pattern of question confusion execution and isolation I’m stuck between two patterns oh has anybody ever been stuck in between two patterns I know y’all y’all real super saved so you’re probably watching online cuz everyone in here here is really on God’s pattern but me and you and the
people watching online we know what it’s like to be stuck between two patterns where I want to be faithful but I never had an example I’m stuck between two patterns where I want to stop drinking but I can’t stop drinking because I keep needing this Escape I’m stuck between two patterns I want my marriage to have a different outcome but my marriage is stuck between two patterns you yell I shut down and now we can’t have no healing I’m stuck between two patterns I want to save the money but I’m stuck
between two patterns I want to fix my heart but I’m stuck between two patterns I want to have a handle over less but I’m stuck between two patterns I want to think right and have my mind clear but I’m stuck between two patterns I’m stuck between two patterns God why is it that I can’t do the thing that I want to do is what Paul said because I’m stuck between two patterns there’s a law on the inside of my body and that law is sin and I’m stuck between two patterns that that I want to do I don’t do I’m
stuck between two [Applause] patterns Firehouse I want you to know that you’re not the only people stuck between two patterns that is grown folks in this room stuck between two patterns I want you to understand that you’re not the only one that knows that I should do right and I shouldn’t talk like that and I shouldn’t think like that but it’s hard for me to break that pattern because I’m stuck between two patterns older generation we have a responsibility to the upcoming generation to let them know you’re not
the only one to be stuck between two patterns but thanks be unto God who always causes us to [Applause] Triumph yeah I’m stuck between two patterns Paul says so I find this law at work although I want to do good I want to do good I want to be in the pattern that lands on good I want that I want my heart to be pure I want my mind to be pure I want to be focused I want to land on good but every time I want to do that evil is right there with me it won’t even give me a running chance evil is right there with
me in my inner being I Delight in God’s law but I can see that there’s another law at work in me it’s Waging War oh I want to talk to somebody who’s got a war waging on the inside of them there’s a war waging on the inside of me inside of my mind and it’s it’s making me a prisoner I want to talk to somebody who is a prisoner of a pattern I want to talk to somebody who feels stuck in the same cycle over and over again I can’t get my head right I can’t get my money right I can’t get my
family right I’m stuck in a pattern and I want to take you to verse 25 oh God I feel my help coming Paul says thanks be the God who delivers me no no no let me take it to 24 24 says what a Wretched Man I am who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death where am I going to get my help from who’s going to help me who’s going to deliver me how do I get out of this pattern and verse 25 says thanks be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ Our Lord so then I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s
law but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin but thanks be to God who delivers me why does Paul say thanks be to God who delivers me I’m stuck between two patterns but for some reason Jesus delivers us from this back and forth this pattern of being stuck between two different ways of being because Paul understands Covenant God help me because Paul understands Covenant Paul understands that I can be stuck between two patterns by myself but because I am in Covenant with Jesus that which I cannot do on my own I got back
up in Jesus to get the job done oh y’all I feel like preaching in this help I need you to turn me up in the monitors cuz I don’t want to lose my voice halfway through this message Paul says because I am in Covenant with Jesus it won’t be by my might it won’t be by my power but by the spirit says God that I’m going to be able to be delivered from these two patterns I need you to understand the power of Covenant the power of Covenant means that that which you cannot do in your own strength
because you are in Covenant with God if you turn to God and say God I don’t want to be stuck in this pattern anymore and I tried it in My Own Strength but God I need some help that Jesus says that’s what I came for I came that you would be delivered from sin I came that you would be delivered from destruction I came that depression would have to back up off of you I came so that anxiety would have to leave you alone I am in Covenant with God you think having Jesus in your heart is about being a good judgmental
Christian no baby when I got Jesus I got back up in the spirit when I got Jesus I got to pray prayers that I couldn’t pray on my own I couldn’t even come to the throne of grace but because of Jesus I can do things that I shouldn’t be able to do because I am in Covenant with God I’m in Covenant with God when you’re in Covenant with God no weapon formed against you will prosper when you are in Covenant with God though he slay me yet shall I trust in him when you are in Covenant with God he’ll make your
enemies your foot stol when you are in Covenant with God he’ll cover you even when you made a mistake when you are in Covenant with God demons start trembling when you are in Covenant with God generational patterns are broken it ain’t nothing but a covenant baby it ain’t nothing but a covenant baby I am in Covenant with God how do I know the child is going to be saved cuz I’ve never seen the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging for bread I am in Covenant with God Covenant he’s a covenant keeping
[Applause] God I’m in Covenant and Covenant gives me access to power and Covenant helps me to tell sin you got to leave me alone Covenant is going to break the addiction Covenant is going to save the family Covenant is going to change your name Covenant is going to prepare you for the flood Covenant is going to do you like Abraham and move you into new territory you going to get out of your father’s house and into a land that he will show you cuz I’m in Covenant with God when you’re in Covenant with God you start doing
things that don’t make sense to other people but my Covenant ain’t none of your business I’m in Covenant with God I move where he tells me to move I speak what he tells me to speak Covenant will have you looking for Goliath Covenant will have you talking to a burning bush Covenant will have you paring a Red Sea Covenant will have you move to Dallas Texas Covenant will have you up in the middle of the night in South Africa watching online cuz I’m in Covenant with God I had to get up this morning I’m in Covenant with God I had
to break up with you I’m in Covenant with God I had to go to therapy I’m in Covenant with God I’m in Covenant I’m in Covenant I pay my tithes on the first and the 15th cuz baby I ain’t got time to be playing everything in my house is in Covenant with God you better watch your mouth when you talk to me my mouth is in Covenant with God my mind is in Covenant with [Music] God don’t forget the covenants don’t forget the Covenant that you’re not in it on your own that all of the Heaven’s
