Everything Must Go – Sarah Jakes Roberts
Everything Must Go – Sarah Jakes Roberts
Dear Lord,
Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..
Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….
Listen now to this message from Sarah, “Everything Must Go”:
For those of you who take notes, my subject for today will be everything must go. God.
We just ask that you would breathe into this room.
You know, every person who came into this room, every issue, they’re carrying every secret, they’re dealing with every purpose, gift and talent you place down on the inside of them only you know that.
And so God, I’m asking that you would use this as a moment to stir up the gifts that you place down on them, that you would use this as a moment to bring healing to broken hearts and healing to their bodies and marriages and families because only you can take what is breaking us on the inside and turn it around and allow it to be the momentum.
We need to go after our destiny like never before.
So spirit of the living God, we make a demand on the anointing that exists in this room that it would breathe and hear like never before that it would shake up our stinking thinking and strongholds would be broken and generational curses would be broken because that’s the kind of God that I serve.
And I didn’t come to have fun.
I came for radical change, for my family’s family, for my community, for everything connected to me.
So God do that thing that you do when you sit in a room in Jesus name, I pray. Amen.
Amen. And amen, you guys can get seated and get comfortable.
I love you too. I paid her to do that. Thank you.
So I was driving the other day in Los Angeles and I saw a sign on the building and I have to tell you that nothing makes my spirit quicken like seeing these three words outside of a store.
Everything must go. My spirit. I felt it right.
Then it was like a flashback of the anointing makes my spirit leap.
Because when I tell God that I need to save money, I don’t mean I don’t need to spend money.
I mean that things need to be cheaper so that I can buy them.
Mhm And I know he’s able to do exceedingly and abundantly no sale. I mean everything must go.
There’s a desperation connected to everything. What you mean, everything you mean?
Like everything, everything or like a little bit of things.
But no, I went into the store and, and they said that everything must go.
And now that I own a store, I realize that when I see that sign, it’s not just them trying to bless my spirit though.
It does that actually what it means is that there are new products coming in and as a result of the new products coming in, they have to get rid of the products that are no longer profitable.
So they’re trying to make space for what’s coming in that will ultimately have the most profit for their stores.
And I love this. And I was thinking as I was dissecting this text that what if we as believers chose to live our life with that mentality, if we chose to live our life in such a way that we assessed what was no longer profitable for us.
And we decided that it had to leave so that that which is profitable could begin to inhabit our spirits.
That means that we wouldn’t just be ok with our marriages being less than what God has for them.
We would demand that we brought ourselves into a consciousness of forgiveness.
We would demand that we couldn’t be depressed anymore because we realized that those feelings and emotions are not profitable for what God has for us.
And so what if we had an everything must go mentality?
Anything that is not profitable to who God has called me to be has to move out of the way because I am committed.
I am convinced that I must become everything that God saw when he formed me in my mother’s womb.
So search me oh God and let me know what is in me that is keeping me from laying hold of why you have placed me on the earth.
But the truth is that we wouldn’t live our life like that because most of the time we don’t know what is not profitable until we’re in situations that bring it out of us.
For instance, I didn’t know that I was like crazy until I was in a bad relationship.
And one night something had happened.
No need for details here and I woke up and I was like, wow, I’m about to be crazy.
I didn’t even know that that was in me until I was placed in this situation.
And I realized that I could not afford to be in a situation that brought crazy out of me.
It wasn’t profitable for who God has called me to be.
So I had to make some decisions about who I was willing to connect with because I can only have space for that, which is profitable.
But I would have never known that unless I was in that situation.
So God places us in situations so that we can discover what is in us.
And it brings all of these issues to the surface.
And when these issues come to the surface, we can find ourselves like Peter in this text.
Now, it’s important for us to realize that this is not the Peter that we’re used to seeing the Peter who had bold audacious faith to step out on the boat and dare to walk on water.
This isn’t the Peter that we see standing beside Jesus side through everything.
This is not the Peter, we see who lost, who lost everything and decided that he was gonna follow Jesus.
This is not the Saint Peter who was crazy over Jesus and would have done anything.
This is the Peter who has lost his connection to Jesus. He was once walking with him.
But this turn of events that were Judas betrayed him and now he has been arrested, means that Peter lost his place.
He lost his position. If you will, it feels like he lost his purpose.
What do you do when you feel like you’ve lost the thing that makes you you when you feel like I used to define myself as a mother.
But now the Children are all grown up. And if I’m honest, I don’t really know who I am anymore.
I used to pride myself on having this job and I lost the job and now I don’t even know who I am anymore.
It seemed like he lost his connection to Jesus like he lost his purpose.
And so now he’s having to discover who he is in the midst of chaos because it’s not just that Jesus is gone.
It’s that Jesus is under siege, he’s under attack and he didn’t have anything to do with how he ended up in the situation.
And that’s what pains us more than anything when we put ourselves in certain situations.
It’s often easier for us to understand how we got there.
But what do you do when life does a number on you that you couldn’t help it?
And, and now some kind of way I, my heart is broken and I’m paycheck to paycheck.
I didn’t have anything to do with how I got in this situation.
And everyone is telling me to just get over it and to just move on, but no one understands that I’ve lost everything that made me who I am.
Can we have a real conversation?
Elevation Peter has lost his place and he’s sitting outside the courtyard waiting to hear what’s gonna happen with Jesus.
He’s balancing these two possibilities and one is hope because he’s seen Jesus do miracle after miracle.
He’s seen Jesus turn the situation upside down.
So there’s gotta be a part of him that is wondering, is this gonna be another one of those moments where everyone counted him out?
But Jesus comes out on the other side or the alternative is that he actually goes to the cross and, and I lose him.
I like to call this the intersection of hope and hell.
It’s where depending on what happens here.
It’s either gonna be the best of times or it’s gonna be the worst of times.
And so Peter is sitting at this intersection and he’s disconnected from who he used to be.
And I feel like that happens to so many of us in the process of life.
We get disconnected from, from who we used to be.
But I realized that what looked like something that the enemy was doing, what looked like something the enemy was doing was actually God creating a promotion for Peter and for Jesus.
God help me. Sometimes we blame too many things on the devil.
Any time our world starts getting shaken up, we start to think the enemy is doing this.
Why, why is the devil after me? Why, why is this happening to me?
Not recognizing that it is actually the divine set up that God will use to promote us to the next dimension.
Because at the same time that Jesus was bringing to the surface that which was unprofitable in Peter.
Jesus was also losing that which was no longer profitable for him.
And that was his flesh so that we could ultimately have the Holy Spirit.
And if he was gonna lose his flesh, that means that we would need a church of the living God.
And he had already designated Peter to do that. So what looked like hell was actually promotion.
It was just he couldn’t tell in the midst of it. It wasn’t that Jesus was gone.
It was just that he had moved.
And if you’ve ever had Jesus move on you, then you know, like I know that it’s not that he’s out of touch.
It’s just that he’s asking me to come up a little bit higher.
I didn’t move I just did all that I could do on this level.
And if we’re gonna go to the next level, you’re gonna have to change the way you think and you’re gonna have to change the way you act.
I didn’t move. I just wanna see if you’ll press in.
I just wanna see if you’ve got enough hunger for the thing you’re praying for because you’re praying for a level and a dimension that you can’t handle in your current form.
But if I move out the way and make you hungry, you’ll become the person worthy of the miracle you’re praying for.
I didn’t, I didn’t leave. I just moved.
I just moved because only the desperate can get it on this level.
Only those who are hungry enough can get it on this level.
You wanna be a world changer or you wanna make friends because if you’re gonna be a world changer, you’re gonna have to be willing to shed a few things that you don’t need.
You can’t be a people pleaser and a kingdom establish at the same time.
So God, if I gotta go at this thing by myself, I’m with it now.
Yeah, that just answered what you were going through.
You’ve been wondering where Jesus is in the midst of it.
And Jesus is saying, where are you, where are you, do you want me to come to you or do you wanna come to me?
I’ve come down as low as I can go from this point, you’re gonna have to come on up.
And when you get to this next dimension, you’ll see why you had to go through all the hell that you went through in this moment.
It doesn’t make sense to Peter.
But when he gets on the other side, he’s gonna see that he had to allow Jesus to move so that Jesus could move.
It don’t make sense in the car so that the Holy Spirit could come so that he couldn’t just be accessible to Peter, but he could be accessible to us.
And so Peter is yet learning what we know now and as he’s waiting and trying to determine what’s gonna happen to Jesus, he’s just sitting outside of the courtyard because when life isn’t going as you anticipated, you don’t always move.
You just sit because I don’t know what to do anymore.
I’ve been sitting where the divorce left me.
I’ve been sitting where I buried my parent.
I just been sitting here trying to figure out what’s next for me.
I just been sitting, I just been sitting, we went through this issue in our marriage and I know we need to move on, but I don’t know how to move on.
So I just been sitting in this bitterness.
I just been sitting in this anger, I’m trying to let it go, but I can’t go.
I just been sitting at it. I got a problem.
I have an addiction, but the addiction has me if I’m being honest and I just been sitting and it’s time for me to move.
And when you don’t move, God sends things to move you.
So he brings this servant girl to Peter and says, weren’t you, weren’t you the one with Jesus?
And Peter goes, I don’t even know what you’re saying because you can become so disconnected from who you used to be That when someone reminds you of how you used to believe it, you can’t even comprehend it.
I know who you’re talking about, but that’s not me anymore.
Like when someone asks you to pray for them at a time that you need prayer yourself and you wanna pray and you wanna press in the way that you used to, but you can’t even connect to that part of yourself anymore.
I don’t even know what you’re saying.
Have you ever had someone speak to the person you used to be in God not knowing that you’re struggling with the pain of where you are right now.
But he always sends a reminder to us and this reminder comes through a servant girl.
She acts weren’t you with him? And he denies it. He says, I don’t even understand what you’re saying.
And so he moves out of the way because that’s what we do.
We try to move further away from the people who hold us to who we used to be in God I know that’s an uncomfortable notion for us to consider.
But the reality is that right now, Jesus is on a mission, he’s on a mission to get Peter back to the person who received a word from him.
Even when the word was something that he didn’t like, because if I can get Peter back to the word that he was gonna deny me, then I could get Peter back into the frame of mind he was in when he received the word and thought it was impossible.
Because if I can get him back to that word, I can remind him how he used to have faith that God could do the impossible that he could push back darkness in his life.
And I hear God saying that you came to a church service but he came to give you a reminder that I’m trying to get you back to the person you used to be.
I know we always wanna move forward and press towards the mark.
And I’m not saying that any of those things aren’t true.
I’m just saying that sometimes you have to press towards the mark with the heart posture that you used to have when you first got saved.
Remember when you first found out who God was for real?
Remember how you were on fire and he didn’t have to do anything for you.
All he had to do was wake you up in the morning and you would wake up with worship down in your heart hard.
And now if he doesn’t give you the car and he doesn’t give you the job, then you’re depressed.
But remember when you used to be on fire and used to say God, if you don’t do anything other than what you’ve already done for me, that’s more than enough, God, if I don’t have another zero in my bank account, but I can still access the presence of God.
That’s more than enough for me.
God, if you don’t do anything else in my career, but you allow me to still be in this earth, that’s more than enough for me.
I wanna go back to the person who needed you and didn’t just treat you like an accessory for my cute little life.
I used to need God like I like I can’t do this thing called life without you.
Like like I need it. I thought I needed a man.
And then I thought really what I need is God and what God gave me was more than a man.
He gave me this whole beautiful life and anointing.
And so it taught me that when I seek the kingdom of God, that he will really will add all those other things to me.
And sometimes we get so comfortable in our little Christian lives that we see, we cease to stop needing God.
And so they’re trying to get Peter back back to where he used to be.
And he moves out of the way because he’s not ready to go back to who he used to be.
Because when things aren’t working, the last thing you wanna do is focus on when it, when things used to work.
Because a reminder of when things used to work makes you feel like you’ve lost something.
And at this time, they’re trying to take him back to when he was walking with Jesus, but he doesn’t wanna go there because he feels like it’s gonna cause him too many issues and too much frustration.
If you remind me of when I was walking with Jesus, and now I can’t access him, then I’m gonna be upset.
It’s just what happens to us when people try to remind us of who we used to be before the pain met us.
And we think we can’t afford to go back to being that person who had hope that we can’t go back to being that person who had faith and thought the best of people because people showed us the worst of them.
And now we think it’s easier to think the worst because the last time I had hope I was disappointed, it cost to be vulnerable in a world determined to divide.
So when we find Peter, he’s moving away from the servant girl.
But I love this because no matter where you run, you can’t hide.
Another girl saw him and says to those who were there, this fellow also was with Jesus of Nazareth.
So Peter has this internal conflict going on where he doesn’t wanna remember or claim the fact that he knew Jesus.
But the reality is that people could still look at him and see that he had been with Jesus, which reminded me that no matter what is going on on the inside of me, that there is a cloak that goes ahead of me and because there is a cloak that goes ahead of me in spite of the internal conflict that is within me, it speaks to the turmoil that is around me and says that she’s already been set aside.
It reminds me of Jeremiah one and five where he said, I set you apart, I sanctified you.
I ordained you. So even when I don’t feel set apart in a room full of people because he said he set me apart.
When I walk into a room, I look set apart, Peter is set apart.
God helped me to help these people understand that no matter when they are in the midst of issues, no matter what they are fighting and going up against that, they can try to distract themselves from you, but that you have already decided that they are, are bought with a price.
And because you decided that you were gonna serve me, it only takes one confession for him to get inside.
It only takes one time for you to open up your heart and for him to get inside.
And when he gets inside, he doesn’t let you go.
And everyone can see that you’ve got a halo over your head. God help me.
I’m coming, I’m coming in verse 73.
This is the part I love it says and a little later, those who stood by came up and said to Peter, surely you are one of them for your speech betrays you.
There’s something about how you exist that lets me know you’re not of this world, in spite of the fact that of you trying to pretend like you are of this world.
There’s something that keeps setting you apart and God keeps blowing your spot up.
Can I be a little hood at elevation?
God keeps putting the spotlight on you because you’re trying to fit in, in a time where He needs you to stand out and every time you try to fit in, he does something to let you know that you’ve been separated and you’ve been asking yourself, what is it?
I’m doing everything that they’re doing. But for some reason, it’s not working for me.
And I hear God saying your speech has betrayed you that you have prayed for things and you have sought me for things and no matter what you try to do to pretend like you don’t want them anymore.
I’ve already set that aside for you.
So I’m not gonna let you turn your back on the promise that I already have on reserve with your name on it.
I feel the presence of God shaking things up in this place and reuniting you with the passion you used to have for what God placed down on your heart.
I know you got disappointed. I know things didn’t go the way that you wanted them to.
But I hear God saying and I still have it on hold for you and I just want you to know no matter where you go, no matter what you do.
Everything you try to do that doesn’t look like that is gonna fail until you get back into alignment with what I have for you.
Your speech is gonna betray you.
You are a chosen child of God and you cannot do anything but serve this kingdom and I will do whatever it takes to bring you back into alignment.
People who don’t even know you will start to wonder how you made it, how you made it out here when you’re supposed to be over there.
Yeah, God, God remind us of who we used to be.
God, remind us of how we used to feel. God remind us of when we thought that it was possible.
God before disappointment met us before pain ever got a hold of us.
God remind us of when I really felt like I could do it.
Remind me of when I really felt that faith stirring down on the inside of me.
God remind me of when I thought that you could actually do miracles.
God remind me of when I used to lift my hands in worship. And I really felt your presence.
God remind me of who I used to be in the spirit.
Because if I can remember who I used to be in the spirit, I could shake some things up on earth.
I could stop complaining about it and start changing it. I could stop wondering who was gonna do it.
And I would say God send me because I’m on fire.
Like never before God reunite me, reunite me with that version of me that you decided I was gonna be when you placed me in my mother’s womb.
God take me back. I don’t wanna go any further until you take me back.
Peter couldn’t go any further until he went back cause I gotta live.
I gotta live in a certain space.
If this is gonna work, if I’m gonna make it, if I’m gonna be promoted, if I’m gonna go to that next dimension, I gotta live in a certain place.
So it stands to reason that I am the most effective and the most powerful when I’m in the place where I feel connected to Jesus again.
So I have to go back in my mind to who I was when I felt the most connected to him.
What were my practices? Who were my friends?
What don’t I have now that I had back then what Peter had back then that he didn’t have in that moment is he had a word.
I had a word. I didn’t necessarily think the word was for me, Peter.
When Peter received the word that he was gonna deny Jesus, he thought not me, child.
That word is not for me.
But sometimes we throw away words that aren’t for us in the moment, but therefore who we’re going to be.
And I feel like there’s a word that you lost somewhere in the process.
But if you can go back to that place and grab that word, that you’ll have clarity on what’s next.
Because if he could go back into that place where he caught that word that he was gonna deny Jesus, then maybe just, maybe he could also remember that the reason why it seems so implausible to him in that moment is because he was the same person who Jesus was going to build his church on.
That means that one word was connected to another word and neither of those words had been manifest, except one word was actually being manifest in that moment, which means that the next word was just one reach away.
There have been prophetic words spoken over your life from this very stage that you thought weren’t for you in the moment and that maybe God had just forgotten.
But I hear God saying, if you go back to that place in your heart, where you were.
When you receive that word, then you will see that there are other words connected to it and everything must go.
That means that everything that’s in you that doesn’t believe has to go so that there is space within you for those words to now come alive.
God, I feel the presence of God in this place.
I hear God saying that the waiting season is over, that it is time for you to get off of the sidelines that you have cleared out everything that you needed to clear out.
That fear doesn’t have you anymore.
That anxiety has let you go, that you have hit rock bottom and you ought to rejoice, you ought to rejoice because rock bottom is the perfect foundation for him to build his church.
Some people come to church, some people are at church.
Everywhere you go, you’re gonna see my king because I hit rock bottom and rock bottom taught me that I can rise up again.
And since I have been risen like another man named Jesus, I wish the devil would try to remind me of who I used to be.
When I know for a fact that he didn’t just save me for any old reason.
He saved me to make darkness tremble. He saved me to break generational curses.
He saved me to shake up something here on the earth and I will not be satisfied until this earth is making good sound that looks like heaven.
So it’s not just business for me. It’s Kingdom.
It’s not just a book, it’s Kingdom, it’s not just a marriage, it’s Kingdom, it’s not just family, it’s kingdom.
Everything I touch has to look like heaven. I’m a church baby. Everything I touch has to look like heaven.
I take my finances seriously because it has to be in order like heaven and anything that’s keeping me from that has to get out the way everything, everything must go, everything must go.
I want you to get a little gangster elevation.
I want you to start looking down on the inside of you and saying what is in me that is keeping me from laying hold of the anointing that God placed on my life because I’m gonna get a little gangster with it.
It’s gotta go. There’s no room for you anymore. I’m sorry, depression.
We’ve been friends long enough but there’s no more room for you. You and me any longer.
I gotta go to therapy. I need some counseling. I’m in trouble addiction. We’ve been friends long enough.
But you gotta go because I’m on assignment and I messed around and came to church and got my marching orders and now I realize that there’s a battle for me to fight and I’m the perfect candidate because I’ve been through hell and I’m still here because been through hell and I still got a smile on my face.
Hell, I’m sorry, you gotta let go. Of me. Anxiety. I’m sorry, I gotta go somewhere.
I’m sorry, the divorce did hurt me but I gotta get up again.
Everything must go, everything must go, everything must go. I’m a king’s kid, baby.
And there’s an inheritance attached to my name.
I’m not Patty caking with the devil no more.
I’m tired of you. Have you ever got tired? Ok.
Now, I feel like a church girl but here we are.
My father’s bishop Jason, I’ve been doing church my whole life.
So I just wanna let you know right now that we’re tired of patty caking with the devil and placating our fears and insecurities and living our lives bound and broken and then chains when he died so that we never had to be broken again.
And here I am sick acting like I don’t have access to a serum that can radically change my life.
And I want every sickness, emotional and spiritual.
I want it out of me.
I’m desperate, I’m desperate to get it out of me because I know it’s taking up space for his grace.
Shane’s gotta let me go because I know it’s taking up space for his anointing to be used through me.
And so anything that’s here and me, I’m gonna offer my stuff as a living sacrifice.
You guys can stand.
I’m about to close when Peter realizes when the rooster crows that everything that Jesus said was gonna happen was happening.
He weeps. I think he weeps because he didn’t think that it was in him to deny Jesus.
And he found out that it was and he was shocked by that.
But I also think that he was weeping because in that moment, in his most broken moment, he was aligned with exactly what Jesus said was gonna happen and nothing beats alignment, even with, even when we’re aligned in pain.
And I know that while Peter was weeping, that heaven was rejoicing because he had finally been broken down enough for him to be the foundation for Christ to build his church.
Had Peter had the church built upon him before he denied Jesus.
He may have flirted with pride.
He may have thought that he had done something I’ve been so loyal and I stood by Jesus through thick and thin and so of course, he built his church on me.
I’d been there, but God built his church on broken people.
And I know you don’t want the Brokenness and I know you don’t wanna go through the trials and the struggle.
But I’m telling you that that is what makes the foundation for God to build upon you because you will look within yourself and you will say I didn’t get here because I earned it.
And God knows I don’t deserve it.
But still you took a broken little girl who never thought that she would amount to anything and gave her a platform to share her story also that he could get the glory at the end of the day.
And I’m wondering what glory is attached to your pain.
And I’m wondering what glory is attached to your Brokenness.
And as you’re weeping and as you’re crying, I wonder if heaven is looking down and smiling because they recognize that this floor that you feel like you’re at right now will be the last time that you were ever on this level.
You gotta catch that prophetically if it’s for you, if it’s not for you just celebrate for other people.
But if you know that I can’t go any lower than this, that I have become someone.
I never thought that I would be.
You ought to rejoice because heaven is saying now you are in the perfect space for me to build upon you like never before.
If you’re man is the most broken it’s ever been.
You ought to rejoice because it can’t get any lower than this.
I know that we don’t like to celebrate when we feel like we’re losing.
But what if every time you lose? Heaven is winning?
Because now you are perfect for me to mold now you are perfect for me to use.
I don’t have a job. I don’t have a man. My issues and struggles are coming to the surface.
God says that’s good because I’m gonna take that thing from you.
And when I take that pain from you, what I’m gonna give you and instead it’s gonna be purpose and power, wonder work and power, coworking power change, throwing power.
I do of your.
Can I give you 30 seconds to worship?
Can I give you 30 seconds to lift up the name of Jesus over your circumstance, Jesus.
I was denying your power but now I bring your power over my circumstance.
I bring your over my situation. I speak Jesus over my Children. I speak Jesus over my finances.
I speak Jesus over my career. Jesus Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Jesus.
He is a name of Jesus.