A Fresh Wind X Sarah Jakes Roberts

Life’s interruptions may have led to unexpected turns but this fresh wind is here to get you back on your feet. In the symphony of change, our resilience becomes a melody, a testament to God’s glory through every twist and turn.

Stay plugged into the Woman Evolve community:

Can y’all do me a favor? The theme of this conference is recharge. Who needs to recharge?
One of the things how y’all doing over there?
I couldn’t see y’all on the side. Hey. Listen.
The thing about a recharge is most of the time when life begins to get expensive, when hope is expensive, when faith is expensive, when peace is expensive, I don’t know if you’re like me, I start holding my breath.
I’m waiting for the next phone call, the next headline, the next text message that drains me completely.
And yet we’re in an environment where our assignment is to recharge.
So I want you to do me a favor.
Would you stand for me and put your heart on your test.
Sometimes we want people to lay hands on us, but there’s something powerful about us just touching us.
And if you can for a moment, I want you to just close your eyes and take a deep breath.
In through your nose and out through your mouth.
And when you’re breathing out, I want you to imagine that you’re pushing out anxiety, fear, stress, worry, doubt, take a deep breath, and exhale, push it out.
And with your other free hand, I want you to touch the woman beside you.
Because there have been moments throughout this year where she felt alone moments throughout this year she couldn’t tell anybody what was going on in her heart.
And sometimes we think we’ll recharge on our own, but the reality is sometimes the only way we can recharge is through connection.
And if you could pour strength into that woman want you to put pressure on your hand on her shoulder.
Like, I’m pouring strength into you, like I’m pouring courage into you, like I’m pouring power, like I’m pouring the power of my testimony into your wounds.
Like I’m pouring the power of what I know god can do into your story.
And yes, I have a need, but I also have something to get because sometimes we get so drained that we forget that we too have something to give.
And you came to hear who was speaking, but god said I set someone beside you who’s got something to give you I want you to pour hope into that woman.
I want you to pour strength into that woman.
Thank you god for keeping her.
Thank you god for the days when she didn’t think she would make it, but you sent a fresh wind.
Thank you god that her best days are still ahead of her. Thank you god.
That the betrayal didn’t break her. Thank you god. That she cried, but she got up the next morning.
Thank you god. That that we’ve been really did just endure for the night. I thank you god.
For joy coming back to that woman. I thank you god for peace coming back to that woman.
I thank you god for strength coming back to that woman.
I thank you god that more announcing more, Grace, I think you got that her cup is gonna overflow.
And because I’m sitting next to her, when it starts overflowing, it’s gonna touch brokenness. It’s gonna touch my emptiness.
It’s gonna touch my shame. It’s gonna chase the devil out of my life. I thank you God.
That when 2 or 3 are gathered in your name that something starts breaking in the atmosphere, I thank you, god, that we’re about to shake up this city it won’t just be for a moment, but I think you got for a generational shift.
I think you got for a generational through. And I think you was gonna start with this woman.
God bless every woman in this room.
Bless her in the way she doesn’t even know how to communicate yet.
God bless this woman I’m sitting next to in front of behind of god.
Cindra Angels to minister to her. Sendra’s spirit to comfort her.
To break down our walls.
To remind her that it is true you will never leave her nor forsake her.
And I asked god that you would give every woman in this room the courage the vulnerability, and the sensitivity to serve every woman she’s next to.
That she would feel a little less alone and a little more recharged.
Because she sat beside you in Jesus’ name. Amen.
You might as well tell that woman she looks good.
Turn to that woman and say, girl, you do look good.
I’ve been waiting to tell you all night you smell good.
Girl, you don’t look like what you’ve been through. You look blessed.
Where you get your shoes from? Where are we going to eat after this?
You are beautiful. You’re protected. You’re gonna be okay, baby girl.
Tell her, you’re gonna be okay. No matter how old she is. She’s still baby girl to god.
Tell her, you’re gonna be okay.
Feel like we could take 10 seconds and have a victory dance because somebody just got a little recharged just by finding themselves that are not in this on my own.
I feel like we could take 10 seconds and just give god some praise that he interrupted the program to see about me.
I wanna take 10 seconds. Sometimes all you need is another woman.
If you don’t believe me, ask Mary, went to go see Elizabeth because sometimes all you need is another woman to help your baby leak.
Some times all you need is another woman’s testimony to remind you that if god did it for her, then that same god do it for me.
Sometimes you need another woman to remind you that you still have value, that you still have art.
Y’all might as well stay standing for the reading of the word.
God gave me a text.
It’s in John 11.
I’m gonna skip through a little bit, but I’m gonna start in verse 3.
I’m gonna do verse 3 through 6.
And then I’m gonna drop down to verse 20. It’s not an unfamiliar text.
You guys have been fed so well that I know you’ve heard it.
But for those of you unfamiliar, this is a moment where 2 sisters have lost their brother named Lazarus.
And they are friends with Jesus.
It’s not very often throughout scripture where we see moments where Jesus had interpersonal relationship with people.
And yet he is friends with Martha, Mary, and Lazarus.
Lazarus has died, and the 2 sisters sent for Jesus.
They sent to him saying, lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.
And when Jesus heard that, he said this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of god that the son of god may be glorified through it.
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
So when he heard that he was sick, he dropped everything and went. Wait. No.
So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed 2 more days, in the place where he was.
Verse 20 picks up, it says now Jesus had finally made his way toward them, and it says now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming went and met him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
Now Martha said to Jesus, lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
But even now, I know that whatever you ask of god, god, will give you.
And Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.
Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day, and Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me.
Though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.
Do you believe this? And she said to him, yes, lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the son of god, who was coming to the world.
Spirit of the living god, no one can do this but you.
And so, god, I laid this moment these women, this opportunity at your feet, and I say, have your way.
I’ve studied, I’ve prepared, but none of that means anything. Nothing if you don’t breathe in this room.
And so, god, I’m praying for the gift of wisdom insight prophecy, god, that you would withhold nothing to the state that their lives may be touched, changed, and transformed forevermore.
And I thank you, guys, that this is already what you wanna see happen in heaven, and you are covenant keeping god.
So we say yes, lord. Have your way in Jesus’ name. Amen. Amen.
I don’t think that any of us have anyone who’s on social media, has missed these moments where there’s this, like, breaking news about a new chemical or a new danger that we should be afraid of.
Child. We can’t be vegan. We can’t eat meat. We can’t drink juice. We can’t have chocolate.
I mean, every time I look on social media, there’s something new that we should be warned about.
I mean, if you’re not praying over your food anymore, you have a real issue or anointing.
I don’t know. You have a real trust because I pray over my food because, lord, I don’t know what’s in it, but I am gonna eat it.
One thing about me. It’s fun to get done in.
So I have to tell you, though, in the world where all of these different news alerts are coming up about what we should be worried about and what we should or should not be eating.
I will never forget in the early 2000s when it became prevalent, the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning.
I don’t know what was happening in the eighties or the nineties.
Maybe we weren’t just as aware, maybe it wasn’t as much of an issue.
But I remember this carbon monoxide poison that that kept saying that you have to be careful because carbon monoxide is this chemical that is odorless, and it is colorless, and you cannot tell when it’s in your environment.
And there were people who were dying in their sleep, people who were sitting in their cars passing away because the carpenter monoxide cannot be detected.
It. And I think it stuck with me because I couldn’t fathom how could something so subtle be so dangerous?
How is it that it could go undetected and yet be so lethal and grateful that technology advanced in such a way that we have carbon monoxide detectors, and there’s even regulations about building homes without carbon monoxide detectors, but I have to tell you I wish that internally I had some type of detector for my spirit when there is something subtly lethal that has invaded my spirit.
I’ll be honest with you.
Most of the time, I don’t think you’re out there’s something wrong with me until there’s something wrong with me.
When I recognize that I’m no longer feeling like myself.
And usually when I begin doing the work, if I can afford to do the work and take the time the process, I realized that it wasn’t just something that happened in the day that it was something that maybe happened a week ago, a month ago, 6 months ago.
That didn’t just hurt me, it changed me.
I love in Romans 1212, 1212, where we talk about presenting bodies as a living sacrifice and being transformed by the renewing of our mind.
And I will be honest that sometimes I spend so much time focused on the transformation part of that text, but I never really look at that renewing part.
For the sake of our discussion, I looked up the actual definition of renewing.
And I was surprised to see that renewing is not making something new again.
Renewing actually means it is an instance of resuming an activity or state after an interruption.
Sometimes we use the scripture as if we’re gonna be transformed, and then our mind is going to be completely formed into something that it never was, but that renewal stood out in my mind because it’s talking about resuming and activity or state after an interruption.
So, therefore, it would read, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the resuming of a state after an interruption.
When we look at Genesis 3, what we see when the Serpent offers the fruit to the woman and then the woman offers it to the man is him actually interrupting a state that god set in motion.
And he recognizes that if I can interrupt this state that I set in motion, then I can interrupt their identity.
We think to ourselves, the devil’s trying to take me out. It’s not true.
The devil is trying to interrupt your identity.
When we look at what has happened in our lives.
What made what happened in our lives, so is not just what occurred, but it is the 4th, the it’s the aftertaste of who we thought we were as a result of what took place.
Wow. I thought I was this. I thought I could do that.
I thought I could build the business. I thought I could open my heart again.
I thought that I could raise these children.
I had a state that allowed me to begin to move in the direction of what god said, of what god promised of who god said I could be but then the interruption kept me from believing that again.
So don’t be conformed to what happened in your world, but be transformed by the activation, by the renewal, by reengaging with the state that you were in before the world tried to conform you.
I wish I could say that the way I feel it in my head, but I think you have to understand that there is an assignment to interrupt you from your destiny.
And as long as you think the enemy is trying to take you out, then you will think that because there was an interruption that he is now ended what god set in motion, but what we have to understand is what god sets in motion cannot be undone.
That means that no matter what happens along the way, I can make all things work together for my good, says the lord, not because everything is good, but because even if there is an interruption, I know how to take the interruption and still get you to good because that’s the kind of god you serve.
If I was at my church, I would take 5 seconds and thank god for the interruptions that should have thrown me off track, but some kind of way I’m still in position to receive the promise It’s not because I did everything the right way.
It’s not because I didn’t have low self esteem. It’s not because I wasn’t insecure.
It’s not because I wasn’t it’s not because I didn’t have suicidal thoughts. It’s just interruptions are not the end.
It just means that the divorce was not the end. It just means the pregnancy was not the end.
If you talk about me and say I don’t deserve to be in position, you talking right.
I don’t deserve to be here because I had some interruptions along the way.
But because of the grace of god. I am who I am, and the interruption didn’t stop.
It’s just an interruption.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s just an interruption. It’s just an interruption.
It’s an interruption. Yes. It’s a heartbreak, but it’s an interruption. Yes. It’s a detour, but it’s really an interruption.
Yes. You gotta go back to work, it’s just an interruption. Yes.
They let you go, but it’s just an interruption. God didn’t change his mind just because she changed your mind.
That’s why god says, you don’t have to be renewed by me changing my mind.
You have to be renewed by you changing your mind because everything I smoke over you, I still believe civil for you.
But if you don’t believe it, I can’t do nothing with you.
And the greatest threat to your destiny is what’s happening in your own mind.
What poison got in your head?
What lie did you receive as truth that has interrupted you?
And made you conform to the shape of your misery.
Made you conform to the shape of your grief.
Maybe on the outside, you don’t look like what you’ve been through.
But when I tell you that you’re fearfully and wonderfully made, do you believe it or do you resist it?
Because maybe on the inside, you do look like what you’ve been through.
And it’s hard for me to believe that your promises are yes in a man because on the inside, There’s this odorless cutter colorless poison of doubt, of shame, And you know what’s crazy about most of us in this room is that that poison didn’t just enter when that thing happened 6 months ago.
It didn’t just entered when I just went through that breakthrough for most of us in this room.
That poison entered when we were little girls.
And now everything that has happened to us since then just affirms the poison that was inserted when we were a little girl.
That maybe we don’t have what it takes. Maybe we aren’t smart enough. Maybe we aren’t worthy.
Maybe we aren’t valuable. That poison that is within us, the only way that we can properly get it out is if we come back into agreement about what state we are supposed to be in.
Because when you come into agreement with your condition, you make your condition, your identity.
You’ve never heard anyone say I am cancer.
They say I have cancer, but I am not my condition.
But when we are ashamed, when we are depressed, when we are anxious, we allow that condition to become our identity.
I think one of the most powerful things I ever heard a therapist say is to say I am feeling whatever that is, fill in the blank, instead of saying I am it because just that little bit of separation helps me to understand that this is something I am passing through.
It helps me to not be conform to what’s happening in my world, and it helps me to more easily say, I may have a depression, but I am the righteousness of god.
And because of who I am, this condition cannot dictate or define me for the rest of my life.
I am going through something, but I am not what I am going through because my identity is rooted in who I am in Jesus.
I’m sorry, but I am the righteousness of god. Yes.
I may be going through a divorce the divorce is the condition. It is not my identity.
I am who god says I am, and I can do what god says I can do, and I can be whoever god me in position to be, not by my mind, not by my power, but it is by his spirit.
And if his spirit is in me, greater he who is in me, than he who was in the world.
And that means that even if it is in the world, it doesn’t have to get inside of me.
This is just an interruption.
I was going down this rabbit trail, once I recognized that that renewal was about resuming a state.
And I had to look up the difference between an interruption and a disruption.
An interruption. I’ll give you an example is, you know, I gentle parent. Ish.
My heart posture is to gentle parent.
My reflex You know what I mean? I’m the only one. No. Don’t do that.
You know? And as a gentle parent, that’s my identity.
You see, I own that. Speak those things that are not. I’m reaching for it. Alright.
As a gentle parent, when my kids interrupt me, I’m like, you know what?
I know that’s important to you, but if you don’t take no And then I can go back to speaking because it was just an interruption.
But a disruption is if they were to come into whatever was happening and not just say that they need my attention but start slamming things down and acting crazy because now, see, a disruption means I can’t just go back to speaking the way I was once speaking.
I’ve shifted into somebody else now.
Because now I got to say, excuse me for a minute, and then you got to 5 I like a five finger grab.
Amen. And pull you into another room and just help you to remember that I’m new to this.
I’m not true to this. And if you ever An interruption means you can just pick up where you left off, but a disrupt and changes the trajectory.
And I recognize that part of the task of the enemy is to allow for interruptions to look like disruptions.
This interruption is disguised as a disruption, and that is where we are when we find Martha in the text.
Martha is in the midst of an interruption disguised as a disruption.
She doesn’t exactly know how she ended up in this situation.
But one thing she knows for sure is that life as she knew it is over.
So you have to understand that Martha didn’t just lose what she was praying for.
She lost what was a part of her identity.
Martha Mary Lazarus, they were this trio of siblings, and they we see them eating together and connected and even having the same friends.
And there are some losses in our life that are not so easy to release.
Because they are a part get over.
It’s because in order to get over it, I would have to release that part of me that is connected to that job, to that child.
To this role, this interruption disguised as a disruption has overwhelmed her so much that she has now gotten been out of shape.
You have to understand that Martha is a girl who is into protocol.
She’s so into protocol that when Mary was sitting down worship and she said she needs to get start serving.
She’s very by the book, but she goes and chases after Jesus before Jesus could even get to her That’s how we know that whatever she went through has her acting god of character because no longer is she waiting for Jesus to come to her.
But she’s gotten so benign in shape that she’s running up on Jesus telling Jesus, had you been here this would have never happened to me She’s gone to confront Jesus, and some of us are so churchy and so afraid of rejection and abandonment because we’ve been rejected and abandoned by other people.
That we don’t just run up on Jesus and say, this is what you could have done, should have done, because we don’t feel like we have the right to say, this is what I expected from you and yet Martha shows us that sometimes the greatest gift that you can give yourself is to get out of character so that you can take Jesus your truth There is coming a time where those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth, and some of us have spirit mastered, but truth not so much.
And so we bring him who we think we are supposed to be instead of saying, god, I wanted you to save that child.
God, I thought that you would give me that job. God.
I thought that things would work out differently because it’s a need to hear your truth.
Worship is when we create a space for his presence and your truth, to come together.
What is the truth that you won’t even utter to yourself?
What is the truth that makes you distance yourself from Jesus?
Cause I don’t want him to know that I’m disappointed, and I feel like I’ll be less of a Christian, but the truth is that Jesus already knows what’s happening inside of you, but there is something powerful about the word of your testimony hitting his presence.
So that he can tell you what’s on his mind too. Oh, god.
What I learned in this exchange between Martha and Jesus is that while Martha was giving Jesus a piece of her mind, that Jesus gives her a piece of his mind.
Jesus helped me to say it the way you gave it to me.
If Jesus would have shown up when Martha wanted him to, it would have protected her from the state and condition that she was in.
But because he had an ultimate plan for him to get the glory out of what happened, oof, he had to show up at a time that would allow both of them to experience glory.
Oh god. Sometimes we’re praying for god to show up in a way that will make us feel like, god, you got the glory.
But we don’t know the definition of what is glory in god’s eyes.
And sometimes what is our gain is not god’s glory.
And so god has to allow you to experience loss, not so that you can stay devastated, but so that you can stay in detention long enough to see that I have a plan that still ends in glory, and it may not be in the way that you anticipated.
But when you experience my glory, you’ll be able to say god I didn’t see how you were gonna do it that way.
I thought it was too far gone. I thought it would never happen for me.
But, god, now that I see your glory is better than again. I’m glad you made me wait for it.
I’m glad you made me sit back.
I’m glad you got to show me a version of you that I never knew existed.
She knew Jesus has friend, but she was about to see him as one who could resurrect after 4 days.
Oh, god. Help me. I feel like preaching in this place.
Martha thought she knew who god was, but something was about to happen in her life that was gonna make her know without a shadow of a doubt.
Who god is. I hear god saying, there are some women in this room and you have been thinking about who god is.
I think you are Rahila. I think you are a waymaker. I think you are a provider, Gus.
Oh, but if you say in this tension, what you’re thinking is about to become what you know because I’m about to show up in your life in such a way that you know for sure I am Mahila.
Oh, no. I’m not talking about something I heard. I know for sure that you take broken pieces and turned them into ministry.
I know for sure that nothing’s too far gone.
I know for sure I once thought it, but now I know for sure.
I once heard someone else talk about it, but now I know for sure.
My great grand that said it, but now I know from myself. God doesn’t have any grandchildren.
God says there’s a new knowing I wanna bring you to.
I thought that you could do something with the second half of my life, but now I know for sure that the second half can really be better than the first half I thought for a minute that I could maybe get this degree, but now I know for sure that you have gone ahead of me.
I hear the saying that I was waiting for you to walk into this room because I thought that you were gonna start a business.
But god says, I’m gonna make sure for you that I’ve already gone ahead of you, and the business is already set up with your name on it.
I hear god saying that I’m already going ahead so that you know what you’ve been contemplating.
Oh, I wish I could say that real good because if I could say that real good, we would move into a posture of assurance that even when it looks like it is the end, I trust that it is only an interruption.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve pinged for god’s glory.
So even in the mister devastation, I’m thinking to myself, lord, how are you gonna get the glory out of this?
Because one thing I know for sure is he will not rest until he gets the glory.
He will not rest until it is known without a shadow of a down.
That my hands were all over that girl, that my hands were all over that child.
I don’t know where you’re struggling in this room, but I want you to saying that if it ain’t glory, it ain’t finished.
If it ain’t glory, it’s not done.
If it ain’t glory, don’t stop If it ain’t glory, don’t stop reaching because god says I won’t allow it to end.
There’s gonna be glory after this.
Touch your neighbor and say there’s gonna be glory after this.
Shake your neighbor and tell her there’s gonna be glory after this. There’s gonna be glory.
Tell her you ain’t seen nothing yet. You ain’t seen nothing yet. There’s gonna be glory after this.
Buggle up, baby girl, there’s gonna be glory after this. Keep crying your tears.
Your tears are watering the seeds of glory. You gotta know there’s gonna be glory after this.
I know you’re scared, but there’s gonna be glory after this.
I know you’re worried, but there’s gonna be Chloe, Chloe, Chloe, Chloe. I’m sorry.
I’m a church girl. And there would be some moments in the church service where you couldn’t say nothing at all, and you hear somebody in the back saying, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory.
Got glory over my house. Glory over my finances, glory over my health, glory over my business.
I’m not telling you how to do I’m just asking for your glory.
Clorry over this heartbreak.
Clorry over this grief. Clorry on top of depression. Clorry on top of anxiety.
Glory on type of town, glory on top of worry, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, woman.
Not that, Gloria.
I want the glory of the lord.
The recharge is in the glory.
The recharge is in a fresh revelation of what’s possible over your situation.
What we see Martha receive in her exchange with Jesus is not exactly what she wanted.
I could read on and tell you how Lazarus was raised from the dead, but I enjoy this text so much.
Because god gives her a fresh revelation.
If we aren’t careful, we will think the recharges in when I get what I for it.
The ultimate recharge is when I get a fresh revelation of who god is.
Martha said, had you been here?
My brother would not have died. He said, I didn’t come so he did die.
But now you’re about to see me as the resurrector.
I could have been the healer, but I decided and said to be the resurrector.
I couldn’t save the child, but I gotta bring a ministry out of that child.
So now you were about to see how make a way out of no way.
I could have gave you what you asked for, but you would have been praising what you got instead of wreck recognizing who gave it to you.
So maybe what you really need is a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit Maybe what you really need is a fresh revelation of who god is.
Maybe what you really need. Is not an answered prayer, but a prayer answering god.
God, I started reducing you down to performance.
And when I got to performance when he didn’t perform the way I wanted him to.
I had to back away from him, but there are some of us who have decided I’m gonna be in relationship with god, which means I’m gonna see why you said no.
I’m gonna see why you think I’m strong enough to stand up to the room to stand up to this heartbreak.
Because god knows something about this that you don’t know.
God knows something about this next stage of your life that you don’t know.
And there’s nothing scarier than not knowing.
Some of us are drained from things that haven’t even happened yet.
I’m drained playing out outcomes. Of what could happen.
Instead of being present enough in the moment, to release our need for control.
I am convinced that I’m entering into my church mother era, and I don’t know how it happened.
I’m too young to be in my church mother era.
But there are certain things that they used to say when I was growing up that’s just making more and more sense.
They used to say, anyway, you bless me, lord. I’ll be satisfied.
I don’t know how this is gonna play out.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do with the finances.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do with the family. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with the business.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do without the job.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do without this part of my identity, but any way you’re blessing it on.
If you just bless me with enough strength to stand up to it tomorrow, less me with enough peace to walk through this pain.
I’ll be honest with you. Sometimes I want the big blessing.
I think to myself, the recharge will come with the big blessing.
I’ll be recharged if I close that deal.
I’ll be recharged if this child finally gets it together. That’s when I’ll be recharged, but sometimes the recharge comes.
In those small moments where god says make your way to faithful central.
You may not leave.
Knowing what’s gonna happen in your body, you may not leave knowing what’s gonna happen with that child.
But if you can leave with a fresh wind, A fresh wind of the Holy Spirit.
To comfort you, to give you strength, to give you peace, to clear the haze that doubt and worry and grief has had you living in I was reading, baby.
They say the only way to get rid of carbon monoxide in the house is to open up windows and doors to let ventilation A fresh wind to get the poison.
That has crippled you in your spirit.
I’m sure my time is up.
But I just wanna say that a fresh wind doesn’t come just because you came to a conference.
You can get a fresh wind in the car.
You can catch a fresh wind. And then Uber.
I feel sorry for about 10 to 15 Uber drivers who come to faithful central because you’re not just picking up a woman.
You’re picking up a fresh wind A fresh one is when we open ourselves up to god no matter where we are, no matter who we’re with, when we open up our heart to god, and we say, god, I need you, god, had you been here?
I don’t think I would have been in this tournament, but still I believe Still, I believe that you are the resurrection in the life still, I believe, that if you speak a word, things can change god.
What the women in this room need more than anything is a fresh revelation of who you are.
If that’s you, will you stand with me? I’m closing. I’m closing.
Just for a minute, can I ask for no music?
There’s something powerful.
About hearing somebody pressing towards a fresh wind.
I wanna take 30 seconds and give you space.
To create your own wind.
Some of you don’t have big gust of winds anymore.
Some of you, your hearts are broken, but you got enough wind to get in this room.
Even if all you can say is god I need you.
I don’t even know what happened to me. God, I’m scared.
I’m a little worried. Jesus.
This grief is so heavy on me, but I still lift you up.
I’m opening my heart to you, god.
You see wind is contagious.
And when one woman breaks open, It gives another woman permission to do the same.
Just 4 minute. No clapping.
Holy spirit she needs you.
I just hear powered by wind.
Somebody’s been powered by doubt.
Powered by fear of repeating a generational curse.
Powered by work, work, work, work, work so I don’t have to sit in this misery.
Powered by anxiety, but right now, Holy Spirit, we invite your rest.
God, you don’t want who we pretend to be.
Those who worship you must worship you in spirit and in truth.
The truth is many of us are entering into a stage of life we didn’t want or don’t know how to handle.
And yet you promised that you would never leave us nor forsake us.
So we make room for your wind.
We make room for your presence to not just push us but to heal us, to comfort us, to call us your own, broken, and we’re still yours.
Touched, but we’re still yours. Riddled with wounds and yet we’re still yours.
And Holy Spirit, when you sit with these women, It is my prayer that they would come to know Jesus.
Jesus has a friend Jesus as a savior, Jesus as a companion.
And as they begin to know you, Jesus, I also pray that they would begin to know themselves that you would reintroduce them to who they were before the interruption.
That version of themselves that you knew before you form them in their mother’s womb, that you would bring them back into that knowledge.
And I think you got that that version of them she’s confident.
That version of them, she is anointed.
That version of them Generational blessings are all that she knows.
That version of them knows you as father and mother, that version of them. Only needs you.
I thank you god that the interruption was not a disruption.
And that your promise over their life and the anointing that is over them is still present.
Help them to tap into that anointing. Help them to tap into that identity.
And to never let it go.
And as they hold on to it, god, I thank you that they’re gonna teach generations to do the same.
I thank you for the intergenerational blessing of this church serving as a sign that the generation can have anointing after anointing after anointing.
And that these women are opening up the flood gates of glory over their family, over their bloodline, over their community.
And that’s why that interruption had to come because the interruption was trying keep them out of the game.
But I thank you that because we received a recharge that we have been renewed, And because we have been renewed, we can be released.
And when we are released, we will not do it in our own win.
But we will have the wind of the Holy Ghost pushing us.
And I thank you God for that win pushing them all 2023 and pushing them all 2024.
And pushing them for generation after generation after generation. I think you got that.
My great, great, great, great grandchildren are gonna ride on this swim. So it is in your name, Jesus.
So it is in your name, Jesus. We dedicate moment to you in Jesus’ name. Amen.