Come Out of Hiding – Sarah Jakes Roberts
Come Out of Hiding
It’s “the year of the revolution” and SJR kicks off the first month of the year preaching “Come Out of Hiding” during Hey You night.
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…….
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I’ve been praying about 2022 what it means to woman evolve.
And last year, God gave me a radical radical declaration and it really didn’t make sense because I think like many of us, I was just trying to survive.
I was just trying to make it.
But God told me that this was gonna be the year of the revolution, the year of the revolution, year of the revolution.
I kept hearing it every single time I would pray to God about woman evolve.
He just kept telling me the year of the revolution.
And so I’ve been prayerfully considering what it means to experience a revolution.
Each month, we’re gonna focus on how God revolutionizes different areas of our character, our identity, our spirit.
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That is gonna talk about what it takes to really revolutionize our habits, right?
We’re going practical but also how to revolutionize our spirit.
And this month as I was considering what it means to be a revolutionary woman, there was one woman that stood out in my mind.
If you’re connected with woman evolve, you already know that Eve is my home girl.
But when I was looking at January and considering revolution, Mary popped into my spirit.
For those of you who don’t know there is this inextricable connection between Mary and Eve that I discovered when looking at Genesis three and 15.
And for most of the time at woman evolve, we spent a lot of time focusing on Eve.
Eve is our home girl. She knew better but didn’t do better. God still gave her a promise.
And whose testimony is that if not mine, but Mary is more of an enigma to us.
This Mary who seemingly has everything right going as planned, everything is rightly aligned.
She has become our focus for the month of January because I wanna learn more about what the revolution cost her.
When studying about Mary, the words intimacy came to mind that there was a revolutionary intimacy that she would have to tap into in order to manifest what God’s doing in her life.
That revolutionary intimacy means that I’m not so much focused on the exterior.
I’m not so much focused on the outcome.
I’m not so much focused on the finished goal, but I’m focused on what needs to happen inside of me in order for the revolution to take place outside of me.
Revel nations don’t just begin with the moment that a government is overthrown.
A revolution begins when someone first starts having secret meetings.
I feel that for somebody you’ve been having secret meetings with Jesus, you’ve been having secret meetings with the Holy Spirit.
Every time you try to run away from it, there’s just this secret, knowing this secret meeting, you feel like God is calling you higher.
You feel like God is calling you up.
There’s this secret meeting and those secret meetings are not just so that you can stay hidden.
Those secret meetings are not just so that you can have God tucked away in your heart and show up in the world as a courageous woman.
That secret meeting that you’ve been having with the Holy Spirit is supposed to show up in your life and overthrow something.
I wish I had somebody in this room with me because if there was someone in this room, I would ask him for 10 seconds of praise for us to just thank God that revolutions are meant to overthrow something.
There’s something that is up space in your life. There’s something that’s trying to be the government in your life.
It’s trying to dictate what you can do. It’s trying to dictate what you can say.
It’s trying to put limits on who you can be, how you can show up in the world.
But when a revolution comes, a revolution comes to overthrow the previous government and I just want you to dare to serve notice on whatever has been in control of you that a revolution is coming.
A revolution is coming. A revolution is coming to your doubt. Evolution is coming to your fear.
A revolution is coming to your addiction. A revolution is coming to your small way of thinking.
A revolution is coming to that insecurity. A revolution is coming to that toxic relationship.
A revolution is coming and I don’t know about you.
But this feels less like hey you and more like a secret meeting in which we’re going to plot and plan on how to have that revolution take place so that you can become everything that you are meant to be.
And this revolutionary intimacy happens first with us coming into alignment with what God says.
I’ve been studying Mary’s life and for the most part, I study in Luke one the moment where she receives from the angel Gabriel, the news that she’s going to carry the Messiah.
But for the purpose of our conversation, for the purpose of our connection, I wanna look at John two verses three through five I’ve preached this text from different angles.
But for the first time I looked at it from Mary’s perspective. For those of you unfamiliar.
This is when Jesus performs his first miracle. Now, so many of my girls are watching.
They like this ain’t no Bible scholar. You gonna have to break it down for me. I got you boo.
So Mary receives a visitation from the angel Gabriel.
The angel Gabriel tells her she’s gonna become pregnant with the Holy Spirit.
She becomes pregnant with the Holy Spirit and then she goes into hiding because she’s gotta protect this life.
She’s got to protect the messiah.
The world has been waiting for the Messiah some so that they can honor him, others so that they can overthrow him.
And so she’s gotta protect what God is doing in her life. That’s where somebody is right now.
You’re just trying to protect what God is doing in your life.
You’re trying to make sure you stay on your P’s and Q’s, you’re trying to make sure that you’re showing up responsibly that there’s security around what God is doing in your life.
And so Mary begins to protect Jesus and the life of Jesus and she spends most of her life up until this point protecting him.
There’s a moment when he’s 12, when he gets lost and he’s in the temple and then we meet her again when Jesus is 30.
So from the years 12 to 30 we don’t really know much about what Jesus was doing.
All we know is that he wasn’t functioning in the fullness of who he is, is the Messiah.
And yet in this moment in the text in John two Mary is about to push Jesus out of hiding and because she’s about to push Jesus out of hiding.
It dawned on me that it’s not just about pushing Jesus out of hiding, but she’s also about to put herself on display too.
Any time I’ve looked at this text. I’ve always thought about it being the beginning of Jesus’s ministry.
But it was also a moment where everything that Mary had carefully crafted came unraveled John two verse three says, and when they run out of wine, they’re at a wedding and they’ve run out of wine.
The mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine. Jesus said to her woman.
What does your concern have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.
His mother said to the servants, whatever he says to you, do it, spirit of the living God, what an honor it is to be able to do life with you.
You are not just a God that looks over us and above us, you’re not just the God that goes ahead of us or goes behind us, helping us to see clearly, but you are a God who will sit right with us.
You will meet us right in the center of our core and our soul where we need it the most and so spirit of the living God, we invite you into us.
What better intimacy is there than that for us to experience your presence on the inside of us.
God, let this be a moment where we quite literally tap into what it means to be married, to feel the fullness of the Holy Spirit, moving and directing and shifting things that are in the inside of us.
And God, I turn this moment over to you.
I thank you for every woman connected to this message, every household, every person connected to this message.
Those who are listening because they finally found something that they can relate to.
God bless them, bless us and bless this word in Jesus name. Amen.
I was studying the life of Shirley Chisholm.
Those of you who are unfamiliar, we’re gonna pick up a little history book here for a minute.
Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties.
Shirley Chisholm graduated from school in 1946 when she graduated from college, her professors told her the moment she graduated that she should pursue a career in politics and yet it wouldn’t be until 1964 when Shirley Chisholm actually decided to run for office.
And between then and the time when she graduated from college.
She spent those 18 years working and caring for her family.
But she specifically said that the reason why she did not want to run for office is because she considered herself a double handicapped as an African American and a woman.
Isn’t it crazy how we can feel called?
We can maybe even feel knowledgeable and we can feel gifted, but because we feel like there is no space for us that can keep us hidden in the area where we were meant to effect change.
The only thing about this is that Shirley Chisholm did not just sit back and do nothing.
No, when I was studying, I learned that she was still very active with the NAACP.
She joined local chapters of the League of Women Voters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, as well as the Democratic Party Club in Bedford.
That means that even though she wasn’t ready to run for politics, she did not separate herself from the idea that she could still have change even if it was just dipping her toe in the water.
But there came a moment within that 1946 graduation in that 1964 1st run for college, that she made a decision that she could not just dip her toe in the water any longer that even if she was double handicapped, even if there was no space for her, that she was gonna make a decision to dive all the way in.
And I just want someone watching to recognize is that there are moments in our lives where we can no longer afford to just dip our toe in the water.
So many of us choose to dip our toe in the water because we’re afraid that if we fully submerge that we would end up experiencing the vitriol that comes with being handicapped.
But I wanna talk to someone today who feels handicapped in an area where you feel called, you feel handicapped in an area where you also feel like you could be anointed.
You feel handicapped in an area where you also so feel like you could affect change.
And I want you to understand that the handicap does not disqualify you that the handicap is not working against you.
That God in His infinite wisdom, make sure that that handicap is actually representation the area of your life where you feel disqualified the area of your life where you feel like you only speak for a select few is exactly why God wants to move you into spaces where you are the only one who looks the way that you look.
Because if God can get you in a space where you are the only one who looks the way that you look, then you can represent more people than you realize are connected to you.
You’re calling it a handicap and God is calling you an ambassador.
You’re calling it a crippling and God’s calling you a leader.
God says, you don’t see your sheep, but I promise you they are out there.
That’s why social media is so powerful because you never know who you’re talking to.
But God says, if you would just release the word that I gave you, you’ll trust that this sheep will come back hearing your voice.
I’m reminded of scripture. I’m sorry, the scripture where it says my sheep, they know my voice and a stranger they will not follow.
That means that the shepherd has to release his voice in order for the sheep to follow.
And I don’t know who you are, but you’ve been holding on to your voice because you’re not sure anyone is connected to it.
And I hear God saying that we don’t do it for those connected to us.
We do it because we’re obedient to what God has placed on, on the inside of us.
I gotta be obedient to where God called me.
I gotta to be obedient to the movement that God has placed on the inside of me.
And I’m gonna release my sound and I’m gonna trust that God’s gonna make sure that the sound touches everyone connected to it.
Because at the end of the day, it is not my job to make sure that I become famous.
It is my job to make sure that the word is released. Once the word is released.
God makes it do what it’s gonna do when the word is released.
That’s when it effect changes when the word is released.
That’s when it gathers the hearts, when the word is released. That is when we see transformation.
I don’t know who you are, but this is the year of the revolution.
This is the year of the revolution of you.
And you’ve been dipping your toe in the water and I hear God saying that it is time for you to jump all the way in that all of us come to a time in a season in our life where we can no longer afford to just dip our toe in.
And I don’t wanna fail. So I’m gonna keep my hand in the pot over here and I don’t wanna fully commit.
So I’m gonna keep my options open over here.
And I hear God saying, you’re never gonna experience the miracle transformational power of God unless you dive all the way in.
I wish that I could tell you the way that I feel it in my spirit.
But I hear God saying that there is someone I don’t know who you are, but I’m speaking directly to you.
And I hear God saying that your fear is keeping you from diving in.
But I hear God saying that if you would dive all the way in, then I will show you how to swim in this water.
I’ll show you how to show up in that boardroom, I’ll show you how to navigate this relationship.
I’ll show you how to raise that child. You’re already counting yourself out. Come on conversations with yourself.
You’re already counting yourself out. But I hear God saying that if you would just speak what I speak over you, if you would do what I say, do, then you would recognize that it’s time for you to come out of hiding.
That’s the subject for this message.
The title of this message is come out of hiding because just like Shirley Chisholm, just like Mary, just like Moses, just like Jesus.
There comes a point in our life where the revolution of us must take place and when the revolution of us must take place, we have to come out of hiding in order for it to reach its fullness.
You cannot stay hidden and be a revolutionary.
You cannot stay hidden and break generational curses, you cannot stay hidden and be a trail blazer.
If you’re gonna do this thing, you gotta do it on display.
And yes, you’re worried and no, you don’t have it all all together.
But I hear God saying at the end of the day, it’s not about you anyway, it’s about the revolution that I wanna put on display.
I want you to be a monument of the glory of God.
I want you to be a monument of what can happen when we are obedient and lay down our lives and begin to sacrifice and you’re gonna have to do it afraid sometimes and you may even have to do it as shamed sometimes.
And you may even have to do it nervous sometimes.
But by God, you gotta do it by any means necessary because you are the vessel that God is gonna use for His glory to show up in the earth.
And no, we’re not worthy to hold his glory, but he’s gonna let us hold on to it anyway.
And no one not worthy for the places that God has called us to. But he’s calling us to it.
Anyway. What kind of God that we serve that?
He would look at the inside of us and say, I know your fears. I know your mistakes.
I know your past. I know your shame. I know your regret.
And I’m still calling you anyway, because at the end of the day, when your weakness meets my strength, it is going to create perfection.
And I wish there was just someone willing to say God, let’s collaborate, Mary collaborates with God.
And when we find her in this text in John two, that collaboration is coming to a place where she is coming out of hiding this wedding it can in Jesus’s first miracle is preempted by Mary saying to Jesus, there’s a problem here.
She nudges Jesus into position. Thank God for people who nudge us into position.
I’m nudging you right now into position.
I’m not just here to preach a message so that you can go back to being the same.
I’m praying that this message would nudge you into a position.
You need to thank God for friends who nudge you into position.
They say that’s not where you’re supposed to be. You’re more divine than that.
That’s not how you’re supposed to think. You’re more qualified than that.
Sometimes you need someone who will nudge you into a position who will say you can do better than that.
You need someone who will coach, who will mentor you, who will show you when it’s time to release the fullness of who God has called you to be.
You need people in your life who nudge you into position.
Yes, you need friends who will meet you where you are.
Yes, you need relationships that will meet you where you are. But you know what else you need.
You need relationships that push you a little.
You need relationships that nudge you a little because if you don’t have relationships that push you a little, then you’ll see everyone in your circle being stagnant.
But you need someone who’s just a little bit ahead of you, who’s nudging you to say you can do better than this.
You can move more differently than this.
And when we have those people who are nudging us into position, it releases divine assignments, it releases divine identity.
It releases the fullness of who we know we can be.
I want you to tag someone right now who has nudged you into position. Thank you for pushing me.
Thank you for nudging me. Thank you for growing me. Thank you for seeing myself differently than I see me.
Thank you for always thinking the best of me. Thank you for not allowing my past to define me.
You nudge me into position. Anything I do now, it’s not just because I did it on my own.
It’s because you nudged me. I’m thinking about my father who nudged me into position.
I’m thinking about my husband who’s always nudging me into position.
You need people in your life who nudge you into position.
And Mary is nudging Jesus saying your time is coming.
She’s saying that this is a moment for you to show up. This is the moment for the revolution.
I know you’ve been hiding. Who are you? I know you’ve been hiding.
I know you’ve been trying to perfect your craft. I know you’ve been trying to relax while you can relax.
I know you’ve trying to rest in peace for as long as you can.
But it’s time for you to come out of that peace and release the peace. Peace.
God says I’ll cover you sometimes in seasons of peace so that when it’s time for you to get on the battlefield, you release peace even in battle.
And Mary is trying to tell Jesus it’s time for you to release the fullness of who you are.
I don’t know who you are, but I kept hearing God saying over and over and over again.
This is the year of the revolution. This is the year where you you come out of hiding.
This is the year where everything that you have collected must be put on display.
It must be put to the test, it must be demonstrated for other people to come up behind you.
When I hear God saying that there’s a following connected to you, there’s a following connected to what I’ve done down on the inside of you.
And when Mary pushes Jesus out of hiding, it dawns on me that in order for Jesus to be in the fullness of who he is as the son of God, that the cute little story that Mary and Joseph have crafted for other people to believe must also unravel instantly.
I began wondering maybe the reason Jesus didn’t see it as his time is because it was actually Mary’s time that Mary had finally come to a place where she was ready to let her life unravel so that she can live authentically.
And the truth of who God has been cultivating her to become.
There are these lives that we weave together that look so comfortable and cute and complacent and pleasant.
And yet, if we’re honest, for really, really honest, we know that there is an unraveling that needs to happen, that our life has reached its capacity for this season.
And in order for us to step into the next season, we can’t do it keeping and maintaining the life that once was maybe just, maybe this moment is less about Jesus having water turned into wine and more about Mary coming out of hiding so that she can really, really release everything that God has forgiven her, that God has trusted her with Mary.
In this moment, as a mother is ultimately saying to Jesus, I’m ready to release you.
I’m ready to let you go. I’m ready to let my life come apart.
So that what God has given me can fully grow into what it’s supposed to be.
Revolutionary intimacy is us recognizing the moments when the unraveling must occur so that the truth of who we have grown to be can finally take center stage, the revolutionary intimacy that you have experienced, but don’t want to bring into your family circle.
Don’t wanna bring into your friend circle.
The fact that you do have an opinion, the fact that you have been struggling, the fact that you do need help.
The fact that you’re worried that you’re suicidal, that revolutionary intimacy that you have to put on display only comes unless there is an unraveling.
And I am telling you that you are not doing anyone any favors by pretending that everything is ok when it is not to let the unraveling happen so that the fullness of what God wants to do can be manifested in your life.
You can trust God with the unraveling and mary in this moment does something more intimate than any of us have ever fully acknowledged.
She says, God, I’m ready to release what you gave me.
I’m ready to turn it over into the world where it can be judged where it can even maybe be ridiculed where it can be criticized where it can be stretched where there can be a demand placed on it.
I’m ready to turn it over to you. God.
I’m ready to turn it over to the world and the trust that because it began with me that it was never supposed to end with me.
What a disservice it would have been had. Mary never nudged Jesus into this moment.
That means that it started between her and God and stayed between her and God.
But when God does something in your life, it’s not just supposed to stay between you and God over and over again.
We see in scripture how God wants to use the transformational existence that we have experienced so that it can be a testimony to other people.
How else can it be a testimony unless we come out of hiding.
You’re watching this message and hiding is all that, you know, you’re hiding in a room full of people, you’re the life of the party and you’re hiding.
No one knows you’re in the room and you’re still hiding because when we hide it is not something that you can see on the outside.
Hiding is something that takes place on the inside. I’m hiding my pain.
I’m hiding my confidence. I’m hiding my words. I’m hiding my virtue.
I’m hiding my worth because something happened that made me feel like I should cloak it. I’m hiding these insecurities.
All of us in so many ways are hiding.
But delegation as I was praying for myself and my own vision and my own focus, I felt like God was telling me, you know what Sarah?
There’s a another another level of uncovering that you need to experience.
There’s another level of coming out of hiding that you need to experience where you’re able to fully own and embrace every part of who you are.
Not just the parts that keep you humble, not just the parts that make you feel small, but can you embrace the parts of you that actually feel confident?
Can you embrace the parts of you that actually feel healed and restored or do you have to remind yourself over and over again of who you used to be so that you never trust who you’re becoming?
There is something happens.
There is something that happens when we take ownership of every part of us. Yes, I’m still growing.
Yes, I still have work to do. Yes. Sometimes I’m still triggered.
But my God, I’m actually proud of who I’ve become.
That’s the type of revolutionary intimacy that us broken girls don’t always talk about because we’re afraid that I won’t always be able to be her.
But I hear God saying that you’re gonna have to trust your Mary as much as you trust your eve.
If you want to know what we’re gonna focus on this year, I’m gonna give it to you quite plainly.
We’re gonna focus on a real revolution.
A revolution that can only take place in your soul so that it changes everything that you’ve ever known about yourself until it keeps changing and twisting and transforming until it becomes everything that God always knew about you.
When God looks at us, he sees our strength.
He sees our weakness and yet he doesn’t judge us higher or lower based off of what they are.
Because at the end of the day, God says, all of this makes you who you are.
My favorite part of this text is when Mary speaks to the servants and she tells the servants, whatever he says to you do it, the servants who were once serving wine to the party, those same servants, Mary says, now you’re gonna have to turn and whatever Jesus says, that’s what you’re gonna do.
There are seasons in our life when what used to serve us can’t serve us that anymore.
Whatever that pathology that used to serve you that kept you safe when you were in that home that kept you to connected to that relationship in a time where you really did need it.
It doesn’t serve you any longer and all of us have a responsibility to take what once served us and turn it to God, turn it to Jesus and say I’m only gonna serve what you tell me to serve.
What has been serving you friend. What way of thinking?
What way of being has been serving you? Is it alcohol? Does that serve you?
Does it serve you in numbing the pain?
I’m telling you whatever it is that has been serving you, that insecurity, that shrinking that being small, whatever has been serving you and keeping you safe and keeping you feeling from feeling the pain and keeping you from having to confront the issues and the darkness that is surrounding you.
I’m telling you is running out of juice, it’s running out of juice and you need it to run out of juice.
You needed to lose its power. You need for the relationships to no longer distract you.
You need for the sex to no longer satisfy you.
You need for the degrees to no longer make you feel whole because at the end of the day, you were building your healing and your wholeness and your healing on something that was gonna run out of juice.
But there is a living water that will never ever run out.
And that living water says that if you would dare ask me what to serve instead that you would find the discipline you’re looking for.
You would find the confidence that you’ve been searching for. You will find the peace that you couldn’t find anywhere.
You will find the joy that you left down on your little girl ages.
And I hear God saying that, ask me what to serve.
You ask me what to give you, ask me what you need in this season of your life.
Can you be daring enough and bold enough to not use the usual suspects that we know will run out of Jews and instead say at the end of the day, God, I only wanna serve what you give me.
I only wanna speak what you say, speak. I only wanna think what you say.
Think I want my life to be a representation of someone who served only what Jesus gave and Jesus, if you’re telling me to serve something that feels beyond me, I’m so grateful that I serve a miracle working God.
Revolutionary intimacy. We see it with Mary.
We see it with Moses, we see it time and time in the scripture.
We see it with Jesus passing the cup.
But at the end of the day, if we don’t see it in ourselves, it’s not enough to see it in other people.
Do you know what revolutionary intimacy is?
It’s when we open up our hearts in our prayer life in such a way that we ask God to meet us right where we are.
I wanna come out of hiding.
God, I’m afraid that I can’t maintain this confidence.
I wanna come out of hiding. I’m afraid that I can’t maintain this marriage.
I wanna come out of hiding.
I’m afraid that I’m in water that is too deep and I don’t know how to swim.
I wanna come out of hiding. I’m tired of pretending. I’m tired of having this masquerade.
I’m ready for my life to unravel.
This is a grown folks message because who comes to a place where they say to themselves, I’m ready for my life to unravel.
But you can say that with confidence when you know who’s gonna help you put it back together.
I don’t know who you are, but I want you to hear me clearly.
Don’t allow the fact that may and that humanity could not help you. Put your life back together.
Make you think that God is incapable of helping you put your life back together.
I hear God saying that He can do what no one else can do.
I hear God saying that the Holy Spirit can lead you in ways that your parents couldn’t lead you that can lead you in ways that their relationship couldn’t lead you where your professor couldn’t lead you.
The Holy Spirit can lead you to ultimate wholeness and ultimate truth.
But we’ve gotta be willing to let it unravel my prayer for you sister.
My prayer for you friend is that the revolution would begin because you let your life unravel in the same way that Mary did that you would take what’s been serving you and point it to Jesus and say to Jesus instead, whatever you want me to serve, that’s what I’ll serve.
I wanna pray with you.
Part of the reason why I love you so much is that it is meant to jump start.
What will hopefully be an evening, an hour, 15 minutes a weekend, a lifestyle of you having soul care with God.
My prayer for us to at woman evolve is that we would invite the Holy Spirit into every corner of our heart.
And that when we do that, we will experience the rich love that comes from our father.
Do you know how much God loves you?
God loves you so much that even when those before you made a conscious decision to separate from Him, that he still said I will spend thousands of years trying to get back connected to my people.
You are God’s creation.
God put his very breath into the lungs of man and says I only want them to be a part taker of my breath.
God loves the very essence of who you are. Yes, you’re crazy. Yes, you’re funny.
Yes, you’re hilarious. Yes. You have an addictive personality. Yes. You over indulge. Yes. You overspin yes.
You’re still working through your scars. Yes, you’re still working through your issues.
But that doesn’t change the way that God sees you time and time again in scripture.
If you don’t believe me and you wanna do this, I want you to take the time to study scripture and see how many times the people of God tried to pull away from God and yet God was still showing up for them.
And yes, sometimes he was frustrated and yes, sometimes he was angry, but he never abandoned his people.
He never sent them into battle without giving them a warning. He continued to show up.
Even through Jesus, he continues to show up.
And even through 2022 God is still showing up so that he can be seen and projected through our lives.
I’m ready for a revolution. Somebody’s queuing the Kirk Franklin song in their head.
I hear it but I do, I want a revolution.
I want to overthrow the government of my fear.
I want to overthrow the government of my shame.
I want to overthrow the government of my inadequacy. A government is handing out laws. It’s creating boundaries.
I wanna overthrow that government so that I can experience what it’s like to have the Kingdom of Heaven in charge of my identity, the kingdom of Heaven in charge of my being the kingdom of Heaven in charge of my business, my family, my parenting, my thoughts, I wanna overthrow the government that’s been trying to overthrow the God on the inside of me.
That’s what I wanna, that’s what I wanna pray with. You.
I want to pray for those of you who are watching who are bold enough to allow this to be the year of the unraveling and the revolution.
This happens at the intersection of revolution in intimacy.
God, I thank you so much for all of the women connected to this word.
That the truth is that sometimes that word intimacy, it scares us. God.
What does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to be loved?
What does it mean to have our worth and our value fully seen with all of our scars and our missteps and yet God, we willing to step out on faith and dare to give life to the words that we whisper in the recesses of our heart to say God, I’m afraid to say God, I wanna be healed.
God, I wanna see myself the way that you see me.
God change my vision, chastise my heart, convict my actions. God, I wanna literally repent.
I wanna change the way that I think God.
And so I repent Father that I have allowed other governments to have control when you should have had control all along.
This is a moment of surrender. Woman evolve.
This is a moment of sacrifice, woman evolve where we lay down, what is once served us, where we lay down, what has made us comfortable and instead say God, I only want what you want for me.
And so God, all of us from all over the world. I hear Africa building an altar.
I hear the UK building an altar in Australia. They’re building an altar in China.
They’re building an altar in France, in California, in Texas, in New York, in the DMV, in Chicago, they’re building an altar, God so that we can lay down the very thing that once served us so that it can begin to turn its face towards you, God, we lay it down and we allow ourselves to be seen God.
If there is a facade, if there is a mask, if there is a way of being that we have had for years, that is keeping us from really trusting you with what you’ve given us and trusting what you have given us.
Then God, we ask that you would remove it right now in the name of Jesus.
Father, I pray that you would unravel lies that you would unravel shame, that you would unravel addiction that you would unravel pride and you would unravel ego.
God allow it to unravel in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, let it unravel so that the name of Jesus can be shown strong in our lives.
Oh God. So that we can say this area where I was once hiding is now a place where light resides.
God allow your light to shine first on us and then through us because we dared to come out of hiding God.
If there’s someone watching right now and they don’t know Jesus as their savior.
They don’t know the ultimate hope that we have in the life of Jesus. God.
I pray that this would not just make them curious, but that this would afford them an opportunity to make a decision God for those of them making that decision right now.
I just thank you for Jesus.
I thank you for making Him who had no sin, all of their sin, all of my sin, all of my weakness, all of my limitation.
And I don’t mean my past weakness or their past limitations or their past sins or my past sins.
I mean the present sin that we experience every single day where we fall short.
God, I thank you that Jesus makes up the distance and I believe that that Jesus makes up the distance and God, they wanna believe that as well.
So I thank you that they’re making a decision to trust that Jesus makes up the distance. Father.
If they truly believe that, allow that to show up in the way that they show up, allow it to be expressed in the way that they think in the way that they act that because I’m stretching after Jesus.
I don’t have to run away from my fears anymore, my insecurities or my anxiety because it’s already been defeated.
Still, this word God is only you can do allow it to take root and produce fruit that cannot be hidden in Jesus name.
I pray amen. Family.
I told you if you don’t say amen in the comments, it didn’t happen.
So I want you to type Amen and amen. I want you to seal this word.
I wanna offer you an opportunity to sow into woman evolve.
When I say that this is the year of revolution, I mean it for woman evolve as well.
I am praying like never before that God would bless this ministry to give in ways that we weren’t able to give before.
And we’ve been able to do so many phenomenal things for women, transitioning from prison for women who are transitioning from domestic violence situations, women fighting breast cancers, moms who needed help over Christmas, sending laptops to Children so that they can show up for school.
We’ve done so many things this year.
But if I can let you in on my revolutionary God size dream for woman evolve.
I want us to actually have housing in different cities for women who need practical help actually revolve actually evolving.
And I wanna ask you to consider sewing into this God size dream with me. I’m connected with some partners.
I’m looking at real estate. We’re gonna do everything that we can to save up and set up these women who actually need help to start the revolution and they’re gonna be able to do it because some sisters came alongside them and says you’re not gonna do it alone.
So the instructions are on the screen, partner with me. So into this word, so into it by praying.
So into it, by giving, if you’re able to, God bless the seed that’s going into the ground.
God, help us to find the right cities.
God help us to find the right apartment communities, but most importantly, help the women to find us God.
And may we do this not just one time, but may there be multiple, multiple communities where women feel safe enough to let down their mask to unravel and to be helped healed and restored?
Because the delegation and woman evolve said no woman left behind. I love you all so much.
Hey, you is that thing. We’re doing it every month coming out of hiding. Experience the revolution.
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I love you and I’ll see you next month.