Overnight Success | Sarah Jakes Roberts
Overnight Success | Sarah Jakes Roberts
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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…….
Well, saints.
I’m gonna be in first Kings chapter three verse four.
I’m gonna read out of the new King James version and I’ve got 10 scriptures.
So you’re gonna be standing for a little bit longer. So go ahead and prepare your feet.
Verse four begins. It says, now the king went to Gideon to sacrifice there for that was the great high place.
Solomon offered 1000 burnt offerings on that altar at Gideon.
The Lord appeared in Solomon in a dream by night and God said, ask what shall I give you?
And Solomon said, you have shown great mercy to your servant David, my father because he walked before you in truth and righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you.
You have continued this great kindness for him and you have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day now.
Oh Lord my God, you have made your servant a king instead of my father, but I am a little child and I don’t know how to go out or come in.
I don’t know how to navigate being a king.
I, I have this crown but I’m not sure how to navigate it.
So God, if you’re asking me for anything, this is what I want.
He says, and your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.
Therefore, give to your servant an understanding heart to judge your people that I may discern between good and evil for who was able to judge this great people of yours, Who else can give me insight besides you, the creator.
In this speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
Then God said to Him because you have asked this thing and have not asked for long life for yourself, nor have asked for riches for yourself, nor have asked for the life of your enemies.
But have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice behold I have done according to your words.
See, I have given you a wise and understanding heart.
So there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you.
You’ll be in a class all on your own Elaine, all to yourself.
No one before you has ever seen it. No one after you will ever be like that.
And I have also given you what you have not asked both riches and honor so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.
So if you walk in my ways to keep my statutes and my commandments as your father, David walked, then I will lengthen your days.
My subject. For those of you who like to take notes is overnight success, overnight success.
God, it is so evident that you are already in this place. We welcome you.
We came here to hear from you and you alone.
And so God, I ask that this part of our service would just be a continuation of what you have already started to do and that your glory would fall in this place as only you can do that.
You would take this word and craft it to meet the needs and prayers of every person in this room that they would pull wisdom and insight for their life and areas.
They didn’t even know they need it.
But because we came into the presence of God, you filled us in places, we didn’t know we were empty and let there be overflow.
Let this just be the beginning of what you do throughout our year.
And so God, I dedicate this time, my voice, my mind, my thoughts, I dedicate it all to you.
Use me God as your vessel. Nothing is off limits and together.
I believe that lives can be changed and transformed for your glory in Jesus name. Amen.
And then you can be seated and get comfortable.
I have to tell you that um there was a season in my life growing up where um I was like the shade room before the shade room, I liked to really know what was happening in pop culture so much so that my family gave me the nickname TMZ.
Um because I could just tell them like who was pregnant, who was getting married, who was getting divorced.
And so I had this thing where I was always keeping up with pop culture.
And as a result of that, of course, I got that moniker, but I have to tell you, there is nothing that would get under the skin of celebrities more than someone saying that they were an overnight success.
And the reason why that gets under their skin is because though it appears that they are an overnight success, it’s only because you just learned about them.
No one saw the work that it took for them to even come to a place where they are a household name.
I was uh studying and there’s this comedian who was born in the late 18 hundreds and his name is Eddie Cantor.
And I just love this. I wrote it down.
It says that it takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
That is the culmination of several overnights and what you do with them that makes you successful.
And while I dare not argue with that notion, I have found a way when studying to become literally an overnight success that has a lasting legacy.
And King Solomon is gonna take us on a journey and we’ll learn from him on how we can, how we can become an overnight success.
Because on one hand, it is impossible to just become an overnight success.
But yet everything in life kind of structures in such a way that we do achieve some levels of success.
Overnight, like we go from single to married literally overnight, we go from a high school graduate to a college student.
Literally overnight, we go from unemployed to employed overnight.
We have these moments in our life where we literally have overnight success where God in his infinite wisdom creates a path and a plan that allows us to have a crown.
The only thing with becoming an overnight success is that you aren’t always sure how to navigate the crown that you have.
King Solomon. In this text has a series of overnight successes that lead us to this point in the text, his father David dies and overnight he becomes king, someone does something to upset him and overnight he becomes uh a victorious king in battle.
There are all of these series of overnight successes that kind of pave the way for him to become who he is.
And yet in the midnight hour when he is making a sacrifice to God, he gives us insight on what it feels like to be an overnight success.
I think it’s important for us to know that Solomon has a colorful entrance into the world.
Um Solomon’s father David, um in a moment of weakness saw a woman bathing outside of his window who just happened to be the wife of one of his best friends and he helped himself to her helpings.
Amen. I don’t know how much you can say in church and it’s Thursday night and I’m tired.
So I wanna play with that carefully. But he helped himself to what bath Sheba was serving up.
Amen and then bath. Sheba got pregnant.
You see, now I’m out here and I sound a little like TMZ telling this story.
My past is showing up on this stage. Wow.
So he helps himself to a bathsheba and that affair produces a son that son is Solomon.
So technically speaking, Solomon is not exactly the type of king that should be in position.
Usually kings aren’t born from affairs and when you are a king that has an unorthodox entrance, you’re not prepared for, for the position that God has for you.
Yeah, God help me.
You see when you’re supposed to be king, you’re prepped to become king.
People speak to you about how you should handle different matters.
They show you what you should wear and what you should not wear.
They show you how to engage with people who to engage with and who not to engage with.
And I just happen to believe that the reason that God gave me this message is because there are crowns in this room and there are crowns in this room on the heads of people who aren’t necessarily sure how to navigate the position they’re in.
Everybody wants to be first until they’re first and then they realize the weight and responsibility that comes with being first.
So, while everyone is celebrating that maybe you’re the first one to move out of your town and get a job in a big city.
You on the other hand know that it’s not exactly the way the Beverly Hillbillies made it seem that you could get Jacked in Hollywood like I just wanted to see the stars, but now I’m got pepper spray because I’m not sure everyone else had a 9 to 5.
You’re the only one who actually has a business and while everyone is celebrating this accomplishment, you’re trying to figure out the tax situation and what do I pay IRS and what do I pay the state of California?
And is there anything left for me to pay myself?
I was doing better when I was working a 9 to 5.
But nobody sees that because all anyone sees is your crown the first one to get married.
No one knows how difficult the marriage is and all of these overnight successes have us sometimes looking more successful on the outside than we really feel on the inside.
And so if we are gonna have an authentic conversation about what God can do to us and through us in 2019, I think it is necessary first that we identify that there are some crowns in this head and we’re trying to figure out how to navigate our crowns properly.
And so, like I said, Solomon is gonna give us an opportunity to witness what it feels like to be placed in position without fully understanding what it takes.
One of the things that I realized when studying is that God didn’t just give solo in the crown and knew that he would step into kingship.
God gave him the crown, not so that he could hold his head up in pride, but so that he could learn the power in bowing his head down with the crown.
What I’m saying is that God gave you a crown in an area where you may feel unqualified, not so that you can look good on the outside, but struggle on the inside.
But so that he could create a hunger down on the inside of you that made you lean into him like never before had God given us crowns in areas where we felt qualified, then we would have no need to connect with him.
But because he gave us a crown in an area where I don’t have any background.
I don’t have any mentor. I don’t have anyone to help me through this.
And yet I’m out here and I’m thriving and I’m kind of being successful.
But if I’m honest, I’m afraid I can mess it up.
But it is that fear of messing it up that makes you move over to the other side of studying yourself to show yourself approved.
Nothing, stresses me out like preaching nothing because like, I don’t necessarily consider myself like, you know, a preacher.
But um, but something happened when God gave me a crown and when he gave me a crown, even though I didn’t feel qualified, I couldn’t deny that it was effective.
And I realized that I had a choice to make that I could allow myself to become popular by man’s opinion, or I could allow this crown to push me closer to God because I don’t always understand the righteousness that he placed down on the inside of me.
And I don’t always understand the favor that he has given me.
But because I recognize that the favor came from him and him alone, I feel a responsibility to stay connected to him because I don’t want to be up here just tickling your ears.
I want to be up here changing your life because this thing has changed my life.
And I want to impart something down on the inside of you that makes you go out there and change the world in your respective fields.
The crown is heavy, but it’s because you don’t have to carry it on your own.
And when we realize that it changes the way we navigate, ok.
So Solomon has overnight, become a king. So he has position, but he doesn’t overnight have authority.
Overnight success. I became a king overnight.
But the next level after I realize that I have a crown, after I realize I have a gift, after I realize I have a talent, there is a next step.
I’m not just supposed to stop there and thank God that I have something I’m supposed to have a certain level of authority with what God has given me.
And so just prior to this text in First Kings two Solomon is um talking to his mother bath, Sheba.
And he hears this story about a man who’s ultimately trying to manipulate the fact that he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Yeah. So let me break it down the way I read it.
So if we are not careful and intentional about harnessing the gift that God has given us, then there will be people who see our crown even though we don’t see it and they will see a way to manipulate your crown for their advantage.
And so what pushes us into having authority is when we realize if I don’t protect this thing that God has given me, then someone could come and strip it away from me before I fully develop what it is.
I gotta say that I gotta say that like in the way that I really mean it, that’s why it was so important that pastor called a prayer for identity so that you can see yourself properly because sometimes the people on the outside can see you better than you see yourself and because they can see you better than you see yourself.
They see gifts and talents that can work for them, but work against you.
And so we do have a responsibility to take authority over my gift. I can’t just do anything.
I just can’t hang out with anyone. I’m taking ownership and authority. Come on 2019. What y’all talking about?
I’m taking authority over what God has given me. I’m not just gonna wait for someone to hand me something.
I’m gonna go out there and establish it myself because I don’t wanna have to bow down to the person who gave it to me.
I have to create an opportunity to exercise the authority. God has given me over my gift.
Seeing yourself properly is the greatest gift that you can ever give to stuff. It will qualify relationships and opportunities.
It will tell you who you can be connected with and who you cannot be connected with.
I take authority over my gift. I know I’ve been through some things.
I don’t have the perfect little pass, but I’m still here, which means that there’s something still down on the inside of me.
And so now like never before I take ownership and authority over what God has placed down on the inside of me.
God, I want every ounce of what you’ve given me.
God, I want every ounce of every gift and every talent that I’m supposed to push out into this earth and I take authority over it.
I’m not just gonna cast my pearls amongst one. I take authority over my anointing.
I take authority over my gift. I don’t put myself on clearance anymore.
I take authority over what God has given me. I am a child of God.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made and I did not survive through all of the things that I have gone through to get to this level and mess it up.
That’s better than y’all clapping. That’s all right.
But it’s something that changes down on the inside of you.
I, I had a moment like this myself where I realized God, you didn’t just call me to be an influencer for the sake of being in an influencer.
You’ve called me to affect something in culture.
So instead of waiting for culture to come to me, I take authority over what God has called me to do and I will invade the culture for the sake of the kingdom.
So I take authority, God, I feel that for somebody, I don’t know who that is for and I want to move past it, but I feel like it is a season for you to take authority over who you are.
I’m not gonna be dictated by what people say about me.
I’m not gonna keep apologizing for something I cannot change.
I’m ready to move forward and to take ownership over who God has called me to be.
I take authority over my voice. I don’t need you speaking for me any longer.
I take authority over my relationship with God. It’s about me and him and no one else any longer.
I take authority. I want my power back. I want my authority back.
I wanna know what me and God can do when we combine together and I can’t do that unless I take authority because no one is gonna understand your gift and talent like you and God.
And if you don’t take authority of it, then you can’t determine which rooms are for you.
Yeah. And you can’t determine which friendships are for you.
There is an ownership that God wants to give you over your voice and over your creativity that you would not create according to what culture says, but that you would create based off of what he said.
And I hear God saying, I don’t know who this is for that.
You have been adjusting your plans to fit the trends and what’s popular.
But God says, if I’m gonna do something that has never been done before and that can never be seen again, then what I wanna give you cannot be found on Instagram.
It can only be found and you take authority of what I’ve placed down on the inside of you.
I don’t know, I don’t know who that’s for but your next is in you.
It’s not around you, it’s not in your phone.
It’s not in the headlines, it’s down on the inside of you.
I gave you the idea I gave you the mission. I told you that it was gonna work.
But because you don’t see anything that looks like what I gave you working outside of you, you won’t activate what I placed down on the inside of you.
But she messed around and came to activate a, on a Thursday night.
And I think it might be because God wants to activate that vision that he’s been placing down on the inside of you.
And he wouldn’t even let the week finish until there was something down on the inside of you that was kicking like a baby saying let me out.
I’m ready, I’m ready to go. Like never before let, let me out, let me out. You can handle this.
You got the strength, you got the wisdom. You don’t need any validation.
I know you don’t have a mentor but God is all that you need.
And I hear God saying, let it out, let it out, let it out like you know, it’s gonna work.
Don’t let it out like you’re waiting to see whether or not it can be accepted, let it out.
Like, you know, when I hit the room, everything in me is gonna acknowledge that God sent me, let it out, let it out, let it out like it smells like heaven, let it out like it like sub darkness.
Let it out like it’s gonna change the culture, let it out.
Like the industry will never be the same again.
Let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out until you change.
Let it out until generational curses are broken. I gotta let it out.
I’m tired of talking about the book. I’m tired of talking about the business.
I’m tired of talking about getting clean. I gotta let this thing out.
I gotta let it out because when I let this out, I get pregnant again and I get to let something else out, I gotta get to the thing that leads to the thing that leads to the thing that shows me why he spared me.
I knew when I was coming that somebody was gonna be in this room.
I feel it so strongly that was gonna have something happen this year that so utterly blows their mind.
I literally had joy. I usually have anxiety when I have to preach.
I had joy like something was gonna happen when we all got together in this room.
Like we were going to be one another’s labor coaches and I was finally going to convince you that it was time for you to stop sleeping on yourself and that it was time for you to start pushing like never before.
And I feel like heaven is trying to back us up in this place.
And because I feel that trying to fall in this place.
I gotta make room for that thing that he does.
I gotta make room for God to invade your insecurities. I gotta make room for, invade your fears.
I wish I could get to the rest of you.
Yeah.
Is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you who?
He wants to make an overnight success.
I want to do something on the inside of you tonight changes how you approach tomorrow.
I wanna make you an overnight success.
Not that you’re gonna get the check tomorrow, but you’re gonna get my glory tomorrow.
And if you get my glory night on the 19 I where you could release Hey, saying I’m in the right place because he’s been waiting hard because God, if you oh I see what you want to do with me, then I can unleashing and our potential myself like never before La Brea.
Oh Break, right.
God wants to give out more glory.
The kind of glory that makes you pick your pin up again.
The kind of glory that makes you finally start the nonprofit, the kind of glory that makes you step into this year confidently, the kind of glory that chases darkness away, the kind of glory that changes those voices from hating and taunting you, the kind of glory that brings passion down on the inside of your soul.
I could preach a message or we could let glory fall in this place and all my themselves and saying God, I feel something but I wanna fill it over and over again.
Feeling, yeah, I want this feel like over my marriage, I want this feeling over my Children.
I want this feeling over my finances. I want this feeling over my job.
I want this feeling over everything I touch. I don’t need another check. I don’t need another opportunity.
God, I just need more of your glory. God.
If you give me more of your glory, if I can just seek your kingdom, then I’m crazy enough to believe that all other things, Anthony OK.
Solomon became an overnight success because of what he asked God to do in his heart.
He said, you didn’t ask me for riches. You didn’t ask me for your name to be great.
You asked me to do something on the inside of your heart that could help you navigate this crown that I’ve got for you.
That’s what made him an overnight success.
It’s because of what God did in his heart overnight.
He said, I want an understanding heart.
I looked up that word and that Hebrew word that was translated. Understanding means to hear.
I want a heart that hears.
I want a heart that here so that I can discern good from evil.
I want a heart that hears so I can judge properly what’s for me and what’s not, I want a heart that hears so that I can understand what’s your thoughts and what’s my past trying to be thrown in my face over and over again.
I need a heart that hears and I just want you to know that we could have a heart transplant right here in this room.
Solomon moved away from the crowds and from the noise and went to a high place called where he can make a sacrifice and while he was making a sacrifice alone by himself, God says, what is it that I can give you?
There was a divine exchange taking place first.
He had to be willing to remove himself from the voices that could keep him from hearing God’s voice.
That’s why somebody is here in this room on a Thursday night because I need to hear God’s voice.
I need my heart to hear a word from God, but it wasn’t just that He, he made a sacrifice and in the process of Him making a sacrifice, the windows of heaven opened up and said, ask what I shall give you.
And so I wonder if tonight, if we’re supposed to open up our hearts in such a way that we can make a sacrifice.
This was not even what I was planning to do.
I still got three smooth points down in my text, but I don’t think that we can move into 2019 unless we clear the path until we ask God to confront everything that’s in our heart that is keeping us from taking this crown and walking with it boldly, with authority and wisdom and discernment.
And I think that I’m in the right room. No.
And so I want to offer you an opportunity to just lift your hands and make a sacrifice.
It doesn’t have to be loud, it doesn’t have to be noisy.
This is an intimate encounter between you and God.
I wanna give you an opportunity to acknowledge that I’m in a position that I don’t always know that I feel qualified for.
Got, I feel like a child sometimes that I don’t know when to go and when to come, I’m trying to navigate this thing called life.
And everybody’s looking at me, I’m surrounded by people.
I’m the only one in my family who’s done it this way.
I’m the only one in my community who’s had this opportunity and nobody knows that I’m struggling to just hold on.
Nobody knows that I’m struggling to know which deal to sign and which deal not to sign.
And I just, I just want to make a sacrifice.
And as I make this sacrifice, God, I ask that you would open my heart and changed me from the inside out man.
I just want to hear the sound for a moment of worship ascending to heaven.
The first thing that Solomon had to do was lift up a sacrifice, the sacrifice of praise, the sacrifice of worship.
I know it’s a little old school.
But if I just had two or three prayers and two or three worshipers, who wouldn’t mind saying God, I exalt you, God, I exhaust you.
God. I place you back on the throne. God, not my success, not my career, not my friendship.
God, I place you back on the throne. There is no one else like you, God. You are my healer.
You are my provider, not the job. God, it’s you. You’re the one who gave me the gift and talent.
I gotta make a sacrifice of praise.
I gotta make an offering to the king of kings before I can ask for anything at all.
First, I gotta make sure that I know who I’m talking to. I’m talking to a healer.
I’m talking to a provider. I’m talking to a way maker. I’m talking to a miracle worker.
I’m talking to the one who has come through, have to take the time and God, I wanna place you back where you belong.
God, I place you on the throne of my heart. God, a man broke my heart.
But I place you back where you belong a drug. I place you back where you belong. God.
You are the only comings and my wings.
God, you are the only one of ordering my steps. God, you and you alone are excellent.
I call you mighty. I call you wonderful. I call you counselor. I call you a lawyer in the courtroom.
I call you a doctor in the hospital. Is that too churchy for you else?
Jehovah Jara. I resources.
What? Let me hear it.
Let me hear the sacrifice of praise.
Let me hear alignment.
You want your creativity, you need the creator, you want power, you need the all powerful God.
Let us get uncomfortable worshiping you that it wouldn’t be a 12th praise where we wait for somebody else to come up.
But that we would just for a moment, get a little undignified that we would just for a moment give you all of our attention.
All of our worship go every heart, God for every heart that’s open.
I asked that you would give them wisdom and understanding for every heart that is dared to trust you again after disappointments for every heart that has decided that something is happening in this room that I cannot deny.
And so I surrender to the spirit that is working in this place.
God can confront every heart, confront every disappointment, confront every fear, confront every pain.
My parents couldn’t do it.
My friends couldn’t do it. The job didn’t satisfy me.
I feel like it can only come from you.
I feel like it can only come from heaven.
God, I don’t want another relationship unless it looks like you.
God. I don’t want another opportunity unless it looks like you. God.
I’m tired of arguing and cutting people up with my words. God help me to take control of my tongue.
I’m tired of having ideas and letting them flee. God, I want to bring something to manifestation.
God, I’m tired of being wishy washy. I wanna be somebody that other people can count on.
I wanna be the one that helps establish a new in my family and I can’t do it unless I do it with you.
So God, I’m giving you everything. Nothing is off limits. No decision, no mistake, no achievement, no accolade.
I’ll go back home if I have to. If you tell me I’ll still be in your will.
If you’ll tell me I can birth everything you placed on the inside of me, make room in this place.
I just wanna let the spirit set in this place for a minute.
I’m gonna pray.
I, I may get to one more point, but just for a moment, it’s important to saturate in presence because you wanna be able to identify, you want an understanding heart so that you can know good from evil.
Well, you can’t do that unless you spend so much time in the presence that when you’re out and about you can say that ain’t the presence.
I know what the present feels like.
I know what it feels like when I have a word from God and a word from man.
And so I just wanna take a minute to let his presence saturate this place. It feels like peace.
It feels like glory. It feels like I can actually make it.
It feels like I’m more than a conqueror. I feel victorious. I feel like I can actually do it.
I feel like my heart might actually be ok. I feel like I might actually go and find the counselor.
I feel like God is giving me divine enablement in this moment to do exactly what he’s called me to do.
And so I have to soak up this presence so that it can overflow into everything I touch because I wanna produce glory.
The goal is to take this and multiply it into everything you do, which means that we have to have moments where we spend it so that it can be multiplied.
And I believe that if we choose like King Solomon to make a decision night after night, after night, I want that that’s for somebody every night before you go to bed.
I want you to be praying into not what you want, not what success you wanna see, not what you want your bank account to look like, but for what you want God to do on the inside of your heart.
I dare you to start praying that every single night and I promise you you’ll look up one night and the very thing you were crying over, you’ll be laughing over and thinking child.
Remember when I used to think that that thing was going to stop me and now I realize that it was actually just preparing me so that I would never have to go through that level of foolishness again.
Child. Do you remember? I wanna have a moment at the altar.
I have incredible points. Maybe pastor will allow me to speak again soon.
But I just, when I have a moment for people who felt like they couldn’t really press in, even in this moment for people who wanted to, there’s a part of you that really want to lift your hands or part of you that really want to pray.
But for some reason, you couldn’t fully press in and you don’t know what that is, but you recognize that there’s some type of blockage.
I don’t know if it’s God disappointed you in some way.
I don’t know if you feel like it’s impossible for someone who’s gone through what you’ve gone through to ever lift up a praise the way other people have.
But I wanna offer you an opportunity to confront whatever that is that has been keeping you from laying in to what God has been telling you to do.
And I believe that as we have this moment at the altar that it is going to be symbolic of you, walking through, breaking through whatever that blockage is.
Listen, my husband and I, we’re real people.
We know what it’s like to have God disappoint you to pray for something and hope for something and then not turn out the way that you wanted it to and yet you’re still here because there’s something down on the inside of you that’s still waging war against that darkness and negativity and that doubt and those fears and I want to offer you in the presence of God and in the presence of these, your brothers and sisters.
Nobody in here is perfect. Trust me because we’ve all found a way to press in to this room.
But I just wanna offer you an opportunity if that’s you. Would you meet us down at the altar?
That’s you. No shame, no condemnation.
Everybody here wants to see you win. Your win is my win.
Nobody here is a holy roller who has it all together.
But we do come together and we encourage one another and when we come together and encourage one another, our strength becomes multiplied.
Maybe you’re here and you used to, I used to know how to like really pray and really mean it.
But now I, I think I’m kind of becoming religious.
I just come out of obligation, but I haven’t really been able to release myself to trust again.
I buried someone, someone disappointed me, someone let me down and I haven’t been able to really let myself go again.
I wanna invite you down because I don’t believe that we can go into this year pretending like we’re ok when we’re not, I don’t believe that we can keep asking God to give us things when we haven’t given him our heart fully, I’m gonna wait a little minute because y’all didn’t let me preach.
So I got time. We could be here all night child. It ain’t nothing to me.
But it is important to me as your pastor that everyone has an opportunity to offer their heart as a sacrifice.
Maybe you feel like God hasn’t given me anything to rejoice about in a really long time.
So this idea of praise and worship, I don’t really feel it like that. I wanna see you too.
I want God to do something that only he can do in the supernatural real that would allow for an impart and breakthrough to take place.
I’m gonna ask pastor to come and pray because he is the shepherd of this house and we are under his leadership and direction and his guidance and because he is the chief of this house, he is the one who goes to war for us in the spirit realm.
Night after night, after night, I know it for myself.
I’ve seen him up praying for everyone attached to this ministry.
And sometimes you need a greater anointing than yours to help you break through what’s keeping you black.
Um What an incredible word can we just take a minute and, and receive that word?
I wanna, I wanna pray for you.
But before I do and I didn’t even plan on doing this. Oscar is so good to see you.
That, that’s, that’s my friend. II, I know, he’s the shy person ever, but I just want you to come up here real quick.
He’s, he’s part of our family and you don’t see him much. He, he serves in his church.
We love him so much. And I didn’t even know you were here.
I got a call, um, when I was, I don’t even think I had, oh, I just finished having surgery so I’m all bandaged up.
I’m in and out of hospitals and then I get a call.
He had an accident on his job and literally a piece of metal went right into his eyes and he had to have emergency surgery.
I’m like, God, you talk about disappointing, you know, I’m my God.
Wait a minute, like not Oscar like, you know, I mean, not anybody but certainly not Oscar but, but to see you here standing strong and tall and looking good.
I just bless me. Thank you, love you very much.
So I just wanted to praise God for that.
What a word, what a word.
I just felt the spirit of God speaking through Pastor Sarah and it was like God was shaking you out of your slumber.
You know what I mean? He was like, you know, because it is possible for you to be in a new season, a new dimension and not feel like it, like, just feel straight up yucky.
You know what I’m talking about? If that word was for you, holler at me real quick.
Just, yeah, that’s, that’s the love of God. That’s the love of God.
It’s the love of God to see you and to come for you and to come for you and say, listen, I’m, I’m right here and you’re like, but I can’t, I can’t really reach you.
I can’t really feel you. Ok? You know what? Well, I’m gonna wait, I’m gonna divert a message.
I’m gonna stretch out a message. I’m gonna do whatever to get to you.
This is the God that we serve.
So I’m just gonna pray a prayer that seals what I believe is taking place in your heart.
I believe there’s some things that are shifting.
I think that there’s some things that, that by the time you leave here, you’re gonna pronounce them dead.
I sense that there’s just a pronouncement that you have to make.
God has already got ahead of you and dealt with some things, but sometimes death in life is in the power of the tongue.
And, and so there’s certain things that God has already killed, but we’re not speaking like his dead and we’re still living in the past of it and the residue of it and all that kind of stuff.
And so what I believe God’s gonna do tonight, we’re gonna pray and I, I just believe what he’s gonna do is, is you don’t remember in Isaiah chapter six when, when Isaiah saw the Lord to study, when you get a chance for the first time.
One of the first things that happens was coal, a coals of fire from the altar of God were taken by the angels over to Isaiah to touch his mouth, to purify his mouth.
So in the moment of transition, the moment of you moving to the next level, there will always be a purification of your tongue, a purification of your mouth, the purification of your language.
And so it’s already done.
But I think that when you say it, when you say it or I feel it, I jump down and lay hands on every single one of you.
When you say it, I sense it. I sense it.
When you say it, it’s gonna break when you say it. Thank you, Jesus.
When you say it, when you say I should give him strength to say it.
Let the redeem of the Lord say so do me a favor and open your mouth and just say so in your own way, whatever it is, say it is finished, it is over.
It is mine. Whatever your testimony is, whatever your declaration is, I want it to come out of your mouth right now.
Declare it. I don’t worry about who’s looking everybody in here. If you watch our, I feel God.
If you’re watching me a live stream, I dare you.
I dare you to open out and say it is over who God says, I am.
Say it. You’re gonna break it. When you say it, you’re gonna break it.
When you say it, open your mouth and say what needs and no.
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Come on, say it. No, no, no.
Come on, say it. Come on. Say it.
Yeah, it’s your Yeah, me. Say it.
I Yeah, of the righteousness of God.
Labor speak ros I let it come out of your mouth tonight and watch.
Yeah, I dare some crazy people to be crazy enough.
See, that’s why He said, listen, if you have faith, you will be able to say to that mountain.
You better catch what God is saying in this house.
He didn’t say wish the mountain. He didn’t say wheel the mountain.
He didn’t even say pray the mountain.
He said, say it mountain, start talking to it.
I am healed. I am free. I am blessed.
I am healthy. I am wealthy. I am chosen. I do have favor.
It’s gonna work.
I feel God it’s gonna work.
Last thing, there’s some things, there’s something I feel the holy ghost for some of you in here right now.
There are things, there’s something that is hanging in the balance.
Hey, right now it is in your estimation in the natural.
It is neither yes nor no. It’s hanging in the ballot.
And I hear the Lord saying according to what you declare, it will be the only reason why it is suspended in the realm of not yet is because it is waiting to be swayed by the power of the breath of God that is on the inside of you and when you, and you declare it in heaven.
Oh Yeah.
Oh Yeah, this is in your mouth.
Victory, right it in your mouth.
Wow, you, it’s sick done here.
We’re done here. It’s in your mouth.
You’re saying God, where is it? I’m looking for it. God, where is it? Where is it?
I can’t see it. You know why you can’t see it? Because it’s in your mouth.
You’re gonna see it when you open your mouth and let it out like pastors.
How do I let it out?
I open my mouth, I open my mouth.
There you go. You’re gonna talk your way into it. You’re gonna shout your way into it.
You’re gonna declare your way into it. You’re gonna speak your way into it. That’s how it’s gonna happen.
You’re gonna speak it until you see it. Are you tracking with me? That’s gonna be normal.
No negativity coming out of your mouth. It’s gonna follow me.
Fight on in the land of the living.
I’m going to see and the mighty now here is my, he will fight.
Where is it?
How was your overnight?
Where is overnight it in your mouth?
I’m giving you a wise and understanding heart.
Why? Because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Are you hearing me?
God as you seek him and as you humble yourself before him, he’s gonna put it in your heart so you can speak it out of your mouth.
Are you tracking with me? So father, that’s what we’re praying. That’s what we’re sealing here tonight.
That’s what we’re sealing here tonight, that we’re approaching you.
And we’re saying like Solomon, I am but a child and I don’t know how to go out nor to come in.
I’ve never been this way before. I’ve never seen this day this moment before. This is new.
So God, I need you to order my steps in your word.
Your promise is that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and God, I won’t move.
I will stay frozen like a mannequin until you say go. Are you tracking with me?
Because I wanna walk perfectly. I wanna walk circumspectly.
I don’t want to miss anything in this season and I don’t want to be tripped up because I’m tripping.
So I’m gonna wait, I’m gonna wait for you to lead me beside the still waters.
I’m gonna let you be a lap to my feet and a light unto my path.
And because we’re praying that and not asking for riches and not asking for the head of my enemies.
In other words, I’m walking in love and forgiveness. Hey, we ain’t talking about haters.
We’re not where we’re too busy. Loving to worry about haters. Are you tracking with me.
We love haters, haters, we love you. You validate what’s on me?
I’m not asking for the head of my enemies.
I’m not asking for rich.
I’m not even asking for long life because all those things come with you.
Why would I ask for all the things I get when I have you, you’ll fight my battles, you’ll prosper my life, you will leave me and guide me.
Why would I ask for that?
And as you do that, I thank you Lord God.
That as we cry out for these things, you’re gonna give us a wise and understanding heart.
We’re not gonna walk in ignorance.
We’re not gonna walk in blindness, we’re gonna walk in victory. We’re gonna walk in truth.
We’re gonna walk in power, we’re gonna walk in and watch this worship.
You know why I don’t like Siri?
Sometimes let me tell you why I don’t like Siri.
Sometimes I like to use Siri like the voice dictate.
You know, I like, you know when you, she speak, you know you speak and she says, and every time I say worship and I’m sending a text to my staff and I’m saying, you know the worship and it always comes out worship.
You know what I’m talking about? Like Siri ain’t saved. We gonna get Siri save in Jesus name Siri.
She gonna be the Lord. I’m telling you her and Alexa and all of them come on somebody.
But, but, but she always says warship. And then I thought about that.
I’m like worship does make you a warship because God is not a war boat, a warship because God has taken you in deep waters.
And as you worship in those deep waters, he’s going to war against everything that stands against you.
Yeah. So see this in the hearts and the minds of your sons and daughters.
Today, we receive this word tonight. We receive every second, every ounce of this word we receive God.
What was released in this house tonight?
Through the words of our pastor Sarah God, we receive every single point, every ounce what was deposited.
Lord God will never be stripped away from us.
We’re gonna walk in something new.
- Resting in the Faithfulness of God – Dr. Charles StanleyTháng năm 1, 2023