Sarah Jakes Roberts: God’s Promises Never Fail!

Sarah Jakes Roberts shares a message on having confidence in yourself as a child of God, and trusting in His promise on your life!

God is saying to you today:
“Trust Me to make a way for you. Stand on My word. Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
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I feel like there’s someone in this room that if God gave you all of the steps right now, that you would feel more in control than you actually are.
When you go anyway, it is a sign to God that I don’t have to have all of the answers.
I just want to be where you tell me. I am supposed to be God.
I don’t know how you’re going to do it in my marriage.
I don’t know how you’re gonna do it in my family, but I am gonna go anyway.
And when I go, you meet me, where you told me you were going to meet me. When you go.
God meets you, someone says pastor, I wanna believe that I’m the woman for the job.
But if I’m honest, I don’t feel qualified, I’m in position, but I don’t feel qualified for the position I’m in and the position is trying to make me believe that I don’t have what it takes to make it to the other side.
And for a moment, I want to glean some wisdom from Mary that I hope can help you in the position that God has placed you in.
Because if we remember God doesn’t make mistakes.
And if He called you into that position, no matter how overwhelming the position is, it’s because He believes that you are the woman for the job.
And so our task then becomes to ask God, what is it that you know about me that would have you place me in this position.
Because if you place me in this position, then you know something about me that I don’t know yet.
And sometimes our greatest prayer should be God.
Would you open up my eyes so that I can see who I am supposed to be in your kingdom, that I would not compare myself to everything that came before me or the things coming up behind me.
But that I would trust that you placed me in this position because no one else could do it like me.
But me, Mary teaches us that the most powerful thing that any of us can do when we have this feeling is to go anywhere.
Yeah. So Mary doesn’t feel qualified, but she goes anyway.
She goes not knowing how she’s supposed to take this baby and turn it into a king.
When the angel of the Lord appears to marry, he tells Mary everything that that child is going to be, but she doesn’t receive the promise in the form that God said that it was gonna end up in God help me to say it.
There are moments when we receive something from God that doesn’t look like where it’s gonna end.
Oh, I feel like that’s a word for somebody that you’re looking at the baby wondering how the baby is gonna become king.
You’re looking at the small thing trying to figure out how is that ever gonna become the big thing God, you told me that I would be the one that would break the generational curse.
But right now I look like every other generation that came before me.
How am I gonna take this small thing and turn it into a big thing.
God, you told me that you would bless my business, but I can’t even get the financing. I need.
God says I didn’t give it to you in the form that it is gonna end up and I gave it to you in the form that would grow you up and to the person who could raise it into everything that it could be.
I feel like somebody’s gotta get that down in your spirit.
Do not despise the days of small beginnings that it started off small so that you could grow with it because when you grow with it, it grows you up.
When you grow with it, it grows you up.
And so Mary teaches us the power of going anyway.
She questions her ability initially, but ultimately, she chooses to trust God’s plan for her life.
Mary chose to just go anywhere. Sometimes you have to just go anywhere.
God gives you what you need as you go.
And sometimes we want all of the answers and God, I wanna know how you’re gonna do it.
I’m not saying I won’t go. I’m just saying, can you tell me exactly how it’s gonna happen?
And God says, I’ll tell you how it’s gonna happen when you start moving.
You see, because God is looking for someone who he can order steps along the way.
I feel like there’s someone in this room that if God gave you all of the steps right now that you would feel more in control than you actually are.
When you go anyway, it is assigned to God that I don’t have to have all of the answers.
I just wanna be where you tell me I am supposed to be God.
I don’t know how you’re gonna do it in my marriage.
I don’t know how you’re gonna do it in my family. But I am gonna go anyway.
And when I go, you meet me where you told me you were going to meet me.
When you go, God meets you, he’s calling you to where he is.
That’s why we have to go because God calls you to where He is.
And when we move in that direction, it is assigned to Him that we can be trusted because there are moments when God orders our steps, but we gotta take them first.
I gotta forgive. I gotta go anyway, I wanna stay stuck in this bitterness.
I wanna stay stuck in this pain, but I can’t stay here. So I gotta go anyway.
And Mary starts going anyway. And so some of you are wondering, ok, I’ll go anyway.
I’ll do what God told me to do. I don’t know how he’s gonna do it.
I don’t have all of the resources that I need in order to do it. But I wanna go anyway.
And so Mary teaches us a valuable lesson and if you’re taking notes, I want you to write this down because what Mary teaches us in those moments where we have to go anyway, is that the power in going starts with you using what, you know, Mary begins to just follow the customs of the Jewish people at that time.
God gave her something that is going to ultimately deliver Israel.
But right now she doesn’t know how it’s going to become a deliverer.
And so because she doesn’t know how she’s gonna get from A to Z, she just starts working what she knows.
She knows that when I have a baby that I need to wait until my time of purification is over.
And after that, I need to go into Jerusalem and I need to present the baby.
She works what she knows while she goes.
The most powerful thing that any of us can do is activate what we know because when we activate what we know it gives God permission to show us more and to teach us more.
Imagine had even been in the garden and she simply activated what she knew.
There are things that we know about our lives that we haven’t activated yet because we don’t know what’s waiting on the other side.
But when you use what you know, it starts to lead you into the direction that God says He’s calling you towards, that means the relationship has to end.
That means that we have to have the forgiveness down in our heart.
Even though we don’t believe that the person is truly sorry.
Our forgiveness is not predicated on whether or not that person is actually sorry.
My forgiveness is predicated on the fact that I’m going anyway, that I’m not gonna stay stuck where that pain met me.
I’m not gonna stay stuck where that disappointment met me. I’m going anyway.
So Mary begins to go anyway and she’s using what she knows because learning how to go anyway and using what you know, I think is one of the most powerful things that any of us can do.
So after she’s come out of the presence, Mary begins the task of living out what God said to God said to do.
And so in the process of doing this, she is presenting this child Jesus into, to Simeon.
And I have to be honest, when I read this text, I felt like I felt like it was out of order.
Because Simian says in verse 29 he identifies with Mary and confirms with Mary what God already said about what she was carrying.
She says, he says, Lord, now you are letting your servant apart in peace according to your word.
For my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared before the face of all peoples a light to bring revelation to the gentiles.
Mary already knew all of those things that that is what she was carrying and that’s who the child would become.
So in many ways, this is confirmation for her.
But then Simeon says something that seems like it is contradicting what he just said because he says, behold, this child is destined for the fallen rising of many in Israel and for a sign which will be spoken against.
Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul.
When the angel of the Lord came, he didn’t say nothing about no swords.
Let’s see version slipping out again.
God, when you gave me the promise, when you told me what I was carrying, when you told me who I would become, when you told me I was fearfully and wonderfully made.
When you told me that all things were gonna work together for my good.
You, you didn’t tell me about the swords that were gonna be a part of the journey.
This feels like a contradiction from, from what you said.
But I don’t know if anyone else in this room has ever been in a position where God made you a promise.
But then a sword came in, the sword didn’t look like the promise and the trauma didn’t look like the promise and the bankruptcy didn’t look like the promise.
God. How am I supposed to lay hold of the promise with a sword piercing through my soul?
I felt like Simian should have given the bad news first and then the good news, I felt like he should have said all of these things are gonna happen, but he’s gonna be resurrected and everything’s gonna be ok in the end.
But for some reason, it doesn’t work like that.
He gives the revelation and the promise first and then he gives the process afterwards because it is not on Simian to remind you what the promise is, it is on us to remember what the promise is in the middle of the process.
When I was studying, all I could hear was God said, I put the butt first.
I put that thing that you thought should be the.
But at the end of the bad news, I said it first and then I started looking back over my own life and all of the moments where I felt like a sword was piercing through my own soul where I was waiting for God to say, but this is gonna work out in the end and but you’re gonna be healed and, and but all things are gonna work together for your good.
But God says, I’m not gonna repeat what I already told you.
I put the butt first and I just came to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to let somebody know that I know it took a lot for you to get into this room.
And I know you’re wondering how God is gonna work it out.
But I hear God saying, I put the butt first that when I wrote in the scriptures that all things were gonna work together for your good.
I wasn’t just talking about the people in the text.
I was talking about the people who would hear my voice and follow what I said to do.
That means that at the end of the day, the bed is still on at the end of the day, the promise is still yes and amen.
That means that no weapon formed against you will prosper. I’ll put that in there first.
I know you’re looking at the weapon, but I’m telling you it won’t prosper.
I know you’re looking at the depression, but I’m telling you the joy of the Lord is your strength.
I know you’re looking at the struggle.
But I’m telling you that when it’s all said and done though, he slays you, you can trust in him.
I put the butt first. That means that you gotta start telling your situation.
I know what it looks like, but I know what God said first and I’m hanging on to what God said first in the middle of what’s taking place.
I don’t let the middle shake me. I remember what God said first.
God said, I was fearfully and wonderfully made. God said that I was gonna make it to the other side.
God said that his spirit would overtake me and it would show up right on time. I put the butt.
I put it first. I put it first.
So don’t let this idea of the promise going through a hostile environment convince you that the promise doesn’t exist anymore because that hostility remember is a two way street.
And when we go silent, when we feel that hostility, it is one of the most dangerous things that we can do because then that hostility becomes a one way street.
And we start feeding off of the images of our past and the statistics about women like us and girls like us because that hostility is a one way street.
But all I wanted to do when I came here was to open up that other side of the street again and to give you permission to really be propelled for sure to give you permission to really be activated again, to give you permission to get back in position and recognize that God is still working in the midst of everything that is happening, that our God is still in control and that He is looking for a few good women.
I know they did a movie about a few good men.
But I’m telling you, according to Genesis three and 15 that he is just looking for a few good women who wouldn’t mind letting hell know you picked the wrong woman.
You picked the wrong family, you picked the wrong marriage, you picked the wrong child.
This hostility is a one way street.
I’m so sick and tired of the devil telling me who I can be and what I can do.
You don’t have no power here. When my savior got on the cross, this hostility became a one way street.
It’s a two way street baby. It’s a two way street.
And I wanna prophesy that when you leave this place, that eyes haven’t seen and ears haven’t heard what God is gonna do down on the inside of you.
Not so that you can look good, but so that he can look good.
I’m looking for women who don’t mind making their life my stage, I’m looking for some women who don’t mind making their marriage.
My stage, I wanna be your stage.
I want to be a stage for the glory to fall.
I want to be a stage for the spirit to fall.
Everyone else can be scared when they read the news that just makes me go harder because I recognize that everything the enemy is trying to use for evil, that my God is going to turn it around for good.
How do I know it for sure.
Because he picked a few good women from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to go to war with him as only they can do.
And that’s why it had to be you because he needed a woman who would get so angry and get so tired of having their back up against the wall that when everyone else would lay down and last she would wake up one morning and say, you know what devil I’ve had enough of you playing with my mind.
I’ve had enough of you playing with my finances. I had enough of you playing with my marriage.
I wish I had some women in this room who didn’t mind saying I don’t mind going to war with the devil.
I’m not afraid of darkness because I carry the light.
I’m not afraid of dying of flavor because I am the salt of the earth. I need some women.
Just one or two of you really?
Because one of us could chase 1000, 2 of us could chase 10,000.
I wonder if 100 of us got together in this room and decided that the days of women being oppressed and silent are over that.
I’ve got something to prophesy over these dry bones and I won’t close my mouth until everything that God has put in me comes out of me like fire, shut up in my bones.
They gonna make me preach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I promise I wasn’t gonna preach.
But now I’m starting to feel like it’s some devils in this room and I came to run some devils out of Florida.
I came to run depression out of Florida.
I came to make a woman get back in position and they take her rightful place as a woman who has victory over the enemy.
I got victory over that. I’ve got victory over addiction. I’ve got victory over cancer.
I’ve got victory over everything that’s been happening in my family. I’ve got victory over suicidal thoughts.
I got victory over that. I know it doesn’t look like victory. I’m telling you where it’s gonna end.
You’re looking at the middle, but I’m listening to what God said first.
God said, I was gonna come out of this. God said that this thing wasn’t gonna take me out.
I’m prophesying because I don’t care what the middle says.
I care what God said first.