Nothing Can Stop You if God Called You

Sarah Jakes Roberts speaks at Propel on TBN’s Praise. Light the fire inside of you as Sarah Jakes Roberts speaks specifically to women on their God-given power and the victory we’ve been uniquely equipped for.

Before you accomplish the dream, there will be seeds of doubt, discouragement, can’t do it, not good enough, never going to happen. Don’t believe those lies. Turn it around and declare what God says about you. When thoughts tell you that you’ve seen your best days, nothing good is in your future. Say, “Father, You said my latter days will be better than my former days. Surely goodness and mercy are chasing me down.”

I want you to know that there is nothing that is happening in your life that is designed to take you out.
That thing is designed to be the best version of you.
My girl, my sister, you are the woman for the job.
Part of what I think God wants me to do.
I’m just waiting for confirmation is to create an Ebonics version of the Bible.
I don’t have a release yet, but I feel like it’s gonna happen before it’s all said and done in this Ebonics version of the Bible.
I would just like jump right into the story, you know, so like Genesis would just begin with Eve just going and telling us how she messed it all up for everybody, but it’s Ebonics.
So she’s got to say it in a way that we can understand.
She would be like in the West Garden of Eden. I was born.
It put out and raised by the euphrates is where I spent most of my days chilling out.
Maxing and relaxing. All cool tail, creeping little serpent came up and messed up.
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Um The only thing that I haven’t quite figured out for my Ebonics version of Eve’s story in the Bible is how I’m going to explain the beef that took place between her and the serpent.
Because in the Ebonics version, I wanna say that her and the serpent had beef, you know, um for those of you unfamiliar with beef, actually not talking about filet.
I am talking about a word that we use in some circles and culture that explains when you have a disagreement of sorts with someone.
Yeah, I would say that they had beef but I love the way the King James version puts it.
It says that they have enmity. Enmity is such incredible word.
I looked up the definition because I wanted to share it with you.
Enmity means the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something in Genesis three and 15.
God says to the serpent, I’m gonna put enmity between you and the woman and that her seed will bruise your head but your seed will bruise her, heal that word, enmity.
I love that word, enmity. I’m gonna read it one more time.
It says the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
And I don’t know about you.
But there are moments for me when I feel that enmity, I feel that opposition from the enemy.
I feel that hostility from the enemy.
It’s like I take two steps forward and sometimes he takes me 10 steps backwards.
It feels like every time I start pursuing that vision and that identity that God has for me, that he in someone who reminds me of who I used to be or the shame from who I was creeps up behind me.
I feel that hostility every time I start pressing towards the mark.
And so that enmity is such a powerful word that I don’t think that I could replace it with anything else.
But what I love is that God didn’t just say that I’m going to put the enmity against the woman from the serpent.
He says that this enmity is gonna be a two way street that the woman is not just going to feel opposed by the serpent, but that the woman is going to represent opposition for the serpent as well.
Somebody understands that what I’m saying is that when a woman steps into her purpose and when a woman steps into who she is in God, that the enemy may have some opposition, but she is opposition for the enemy too.
That means that when you register for propel and you made arrangements for the kids and you decided that you were gonna be in here by any means necessary.
I’m gonna stand in line at 7 a.m. Not because I don’t have anything else to do, but because I am opposition for the enemy and there’s a word waiting somewhere with my name on it.
I am the enemy’s opposition. I know it doesn’t look, I like it because of all I went through but I’m just dusting off the what the dirt from what I went through so that I can become the enemy’s opposition.
I’m not in here to be cute. I’m not in here to play games.
I’m in here because I’m opposition against the enemy. He’s claimed too many of my women. He’s claimed my mother.
He claimed my sister, but he can’t have me. I’m opposition. I’m your worst nightmare.
I’m gonna need a little more heat in the microphone because I need somebody to know that they are the enemy’s worst nightmare when you woke up this morning and you dressed yourself to come into this room.
That demon started trembling because I didn’t want you to get a revelation about who you are.
But I came to set somebody free in this place.
You are his greatest threat.
A woman who knows who she is and God is the enemy’s greatest threat.
I know that I went through some things that may have bruised my heel but you still better be afraid of me.
It wouldn’t have looked like it when I was 13 years old and pregnant, but I was the enemy’s greatest threat.
It wouldn’t have looked like it when you were going through divorce, but you were the enemy’s greatest threat.
It wouldn’t have looked like it when you were struggling with that addiction, but you were the enemy’s greatest threat.
You are his opposition.
And that is why there will always be war over what a woman can put in the earth because a woman knows how to take a seed and turn it into a person.
She knows how to take a seed and turn it into a nonprofit.
She knows how to take a seed and turn it into a business.
It wouldn’t even make sense if you saw the seed.
If you saw what some of these women had gone through, if you would have seen the seed that started Christine Cain, you would have never believed that it would turn into propel.
But she’s a woman who recognize that I am the enemy’s greatest threat and I don’t know about you, but I feel like it’s about time for the enemy to start understanding that that enmity is a two way street that you’re not just gonna keep attacking me and you’re not just gonna keep depressing me and you’re not just gonna keep oppressing me that I don’t care how I have to do it or who I must become or what I have to go through to make it to the other side.
There’s gonna come a point in time where you are opposing me, not because of what I went through, but because of what is still yet to come out of me still something that must come out of here.
And I asked myself, I said, God, why is it that the enmity couldn’t be between the serpent and the man?
Why did it have to be the woman?
This notion that we are the weaker vessels, then why not put the stronger vessel up for the fight?
But when I study my word and I look at the character of God and I believe wholeheartedly that he makes no mistakes.
It means that when he put enmity between the woman and the serpent, the woman and the enemy, that it wasn’t just a fair fight, that it was a fixed fight that he didn’t put us into this position because he thought that a loss was even possible that he put us in the position because he knew the win would be guaranteed.
That means that not only is it fair, which means that if you roll up your sleeves and you be who God has called you to be and you start trusting what he says about who you are and what you can do in the earth that the fight is gonna turn in your favor.
I hear God telling somebody you’re the woman for the job. I know what the doctor said about the cancer.
But I hear God saying you’re the woman for the job that I put you in a fight that was already fixed, that I put you in a fight that you were bound to win.
I know the child is acting crazy. I know they’re cutting up on the job.
But you want a woman for the job.
If you don’t hear anything else, I say in this place, I want you to know that there is nothing that is happening in your life that is designed to take you out.
That thing is designed to be the best version of you.
My girl, my sister, you are the woman for the job.
When the enemy tried to make me feel nervous, I told the enemy you can’t have my mind today because I’m the woman for the job.
I’m gonna do flat footed what God has called me to do because I’m the woman.
I’m the woman for the job. I’m the woman for the job.
Somebody’s gotta start prophesying over that situation that’s trying to tell you you’re not gonna make it, honey.
I’m the woman for the job. I’m gonna raise that child anyway. I’m gonna start that business anyway.
I don’t care what the bank said. I don’t need a bank. My God shall provide all of my needs.
I’m the woman for the job, baby.
I’m the only one who can do what I do the way that I do it.
And you, you’re the woman for the job.
You’re the woman for the job.
I wanna rebuke depression trying to make you believe that you’re not the woman for the job.
I wanna rebuke suicide. Trying to make you believe that we would be better without you. I bind you, Satan.
You have no power here. And when you attack my sister, you attack me. I’m the woman for the job.
I know how to warfare for the woman who can’t war for herself.
I’m the woman for the job.
So when we talk about positioning and the way that life has the tendency of putting us in positions that we don’t always feel qualified for.
I can’t help but think about Mary and how God saw that she was the woman for the job.
Even though Mary initially didn’t believe that she was the woman for the job. Man.
I can relate to that.
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.
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