Sarah Jakes Roberts: Don't Settle for Safe in 2025 - Step Into Your Purpose! | Women of Faith on TBN

God told me to tell you that if you would get down in your spirit that he came for the underdogs that he came for the people who didn't mind coming from behind that he's not looking for the person who came in first place that he's the last place kind of God and that he came for those of us who felt like we've been invisible to the world because he sees us he recognizes what he placed down on the inside of you and regardless of what has happened to you in life and what has hurt you

in life he still got a treasure down on the inside of you and he can see past your Brokenness why can't [Music] you I'm going to be speaking from Luke 8 and 43 you all can be seated I am I'm just so honored to be here you know when I was growing up I never would have thought that God would give me the opportunity to speak to as many women as he has allowed me to but I know that it is nothing but his grace that has allowed these opportunities to happen so I honor him

and his presence in this room and I really believe that God wants to send you back into your homes different than you walked in here I believe that he had a Divine appointment and he placed your name on it and he scheduled an incredible lineup of speakers through Pastor Holly and I just just happen to believe that this is a womb it looks like the Dolby Theater but I think that it's actually a womb and which something is going to be birthed like never before and transformed within our lives and I just look forward to

to being a midwife if you would allow me to bring forth what God is doing in this place Luke 8 and 43 is my text I want to talk about the woman with the issue of blood it's not an unfamiliar story for those of us who have been in church but I think that I glean something from this text that is going to bless you and the text begins it says now a woman having a flow of blood for 12 years who had spent all of her livelihood on Physicians and could not be healed by

any came from behind and touched the border of His Garment and immediately heard flow of blood stopped and Jesus said who touched me when all denied it Peter and those with him said Master the multitudes throng and press you when you say who touched me but Jesus said somebody touched me for I perceived power going out from me now when the woman saw that she was not hidden she came trembling and falling down before him she declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched him and how she was

healed immediately and he said to her daughter be of good cheer your faith has made you well go in peace if I may take a topic for today it would be superpower Spirit of the Living God we welcome your presence into this room we offer our hearts our minds everything that is in us up for consideration to your anointing because we is we know that it is under your anointing that yolks are broken that generational curses must flee that we step into who you've called us to be the reality is that you've already predestined this

moment in heaven so we ask that you would bring us on earth into reality of what already exists in heaven that you would do that thing that you do when you breathe into a room and lives are changed and transformed and the Brokenhearted are healed and and you Proclaim Liberty to the captives God we're just asking that you would show us who you are in our lives and who we need to be to access your glory in Jesus name amen so when I was growing up we used to play this game I'm sure you guys

are familiar with it where we'd ask like our friends or our cousins on sleepovers like if you could have any superpower in the world what would it be and like if you live in LA it would probably be to fly right cuz you cuz traffic is just listen I'm I'm La Flare but I've got like Texas roots and come on somebody it's just a Texas thing the great state of Texas I see you over there no shade to your States or city we respect them and love them in the name of Jesus Christ something about

Texas amen okay so we would ask these questions and and I didn't realize until I moved to LA just how challenging traffic is like seriously if we could fly from one place to the other it would be awesome because Los Angeles traffic is just so unpredictable and I have such a a love a LoveHate relationship with it so I think that if I were asked that question now that I would want to be able to fly but then I had to really assessed because you know when you were younger you had to really determine why

you wanted that certain superpower and so I I was thinking that maybe as a mother and a wife that I would change the superpower from flying to like the ability to put everyone to sleep like just at home you know like Mom what's for dinner good night yes wouldn't that be awesome just if I could freeze everyone for just a minute while I like took a bath and watched Scandal I mean mean not watch Scandal I mean pray over Scandal cuz I know everyone is everyone's so saved in this room that they don't watch Scandal

we just pray over Scandal God bless F Fitz and Olivia and may they just know your glory yes I'm going to keep watching to see if your glory is Manifest in the last season cuz you're a season seven kind of God and I just believe [Applause] you know okay wait I have a okay wait wait a different superpower this one is for real I want to be able to eat whatever I [Music] want whatever I mean whatever Pastor Holly whatever I want and and just have lean muscle instead of like whatever this it's not muscle

and so like what I want everyone to go to sleep or would I want lean muscle my husband and I were on a fast right well he said that he was going to started fast and I was like oh and he goes you know what should I give up I want to give up sweets and I was like that's a good idea yes give up sweets because you know I'm supporting him in the fast and and then he and then I was like oh you should give up carbs too and he was like yes yes

and then he asked me that question are you going to do it with me and and I couldn't find a scripture that didn't support me not doing it with him so I'm about eight days off of carbs and sugar and let me tell you there's nothing but the glory standing here because my attitude carbs make me happy they're carbs are anointed what God has sent them to Proclaim Liberty to the captives yes carbs will heal the brokenhearted have you ever had a cookie after a heartbreak what I'm not even sad no more yes there's something

about carbs and and sugar just feel not Splenda I mean like real the refined the one with all the articles about it you know what I read articles about carbs and I say I bind that Spirit no you have no space here I love it okay so actually think I got a superpower when I was younger I was probably 14 years old when I tapped into this superpower and it was being invisible there was this way that I would carry myself when I would walk in the rooms where I could just fade into the background

and no one had to know I was there I learned to be invisible and there was some comfort in being invisible because when you have shame down on the inside of you when anyone looks at you it's like they can see all of your secrets like they can see all of your fears and and I just wanted to be invisible I got pregnant at 13 years old TD Jake's daughter pregnant at 13 had my baby at 14 years old and all I wanted to do was be invisible I didn't want anyone to see how badly

I was hurting and breaking on the inside I didn't want anyone to know that I was so unsure of myself and unsure of being a parent at such a young young age I just wanted to be invisible and then As I Grew Older and met with other people all around the world I realized that I wasn't the only one who would learn to be invisible sometimes being a woman is like living in an aquarium it's like you can be seen but not touched things just magically happen in our world the laundry is magically done the

project is magically completed everyone sees us working but how often are we actually touched down on the inside in the core of our pain and our heartbreak because the reality is that when we have these traumatic traumatic experiences that often we get so caught up Surviving and just trying to pretend like we're okay that we never actually recover in my book don't settle for safe I I compare it to breaking a leg and instead of learning how to have a cast on it and walk again we learned how to walk with a limp that's what

happened to me when I became invisible at 14 I learned how to walk with a lip I learned to not talk about it I learned to pretend like it never happened I learned to survive but I never ever learn to recover you know what's worse than being invisible in your world is when you are invisible to yourself when you no longer tap into that pain and that disappointment and that heartbreak because it just hurts too bad to face the rejection of our past it hurts too bad to to think about how our fathers weren't there

or our parents didn't have the perfect marriage or I got pregnant at 14 or somebody touched me somebody broke me I can't bear to look at that person anymore so I've learned to be invisible even to myself self there is a a Superhero by Marvel Comics and she is the invisible woman and she got how her powers after she was exposed to a cosmic storm sometimes the storms in our life produce this invisibility these walls that exist around our hearts and exist around our men marriages and exist in the workplace and exist within our family

all of these invisible invisible Secrets pregnant at 14 and all I wanted to do was disappear what I love so much about this text in Luke 8:43 is that we have a woman who has learned to be invisible she's had a flow of blood for 12 years and that time when a woman was having her her menstrual cycle she was Untouchable but this cycle it lasted much longer than it was supposed to have you ever had something hurt much longer than it was supposed to and it seems like everyone else got over it and everyone

else moved on and everyone else is okay but down on the inside of me I've got these issues I got pregnant at 14 and and I should have been okay maybe a few months after maybe a year after but for some reason I had these issues down on the inside of me that no one could see and no one could touch I had these issues these these issues and I would come into rooms like this and I would smile and I would lift my hands but I had learned to ignore the issues when we find

this woman in the text Luke 8:43 it tells us that the woman had this flow of blood for 12 years and she had spent all of her livelihood on Physicians and I know all about those Physicians have you ever invested your livelihood and to someone who was supposed to fix you but for some reason they left you more empty than you were before you even met them friendships and relationships that you pour all of your hopes and all of your dreams and all of your faith into because you think that once you receive the validation

of their attention or the validation of their love that you're going to be much better afterwards but she spent all of her livelihood on the Physicians but she couldn't get any better looking for love in all of the wrong places looking for healing and all of the wrong places she just wanted to be made well the worst thing about being hurt is when you have good intentions going into it you think that if I pour enough of myself into this situation then maybe I will receive the desired outcome this woman she was searching for a

physician but she could not be healed by any what I love about this woman was her commitment to coming out on the other side of her issues though she didn't realize that she would have to go through a few Physicians she'd have to go through a few disappointments she'd have to go through a few heartbreaks maybe that's like someone in this room who's been wondering why is it that the more I try the more hurt I become maybe just maybe you're on your route to the ultimate physician that maybe you had to get so desperate

and so broken that you started searching for Jesus that it wasn't about boyfriends and friendships and degrees and bank accounts that all of a sudden you realize I've been searching for the wrong physician I thought I would find myself when I got my degree I thought I would be better once I got in a relationship I thought I would be okay but I've been searching for all of the wrong Physicians and this woman whom I just love so much she didn't mind coming from behind the text literally tells us in verse 44 that the woman

came from behind I don't know your story and I don't know what's represented in this room but I know if you're anything like me maybe your issue was different but some of us had to come from behind we didn't have the perfect lives we didn't have the perfect stories but we had a determination where we didn't mind coming from behind I just want to thank God for a moment for the women who didn't mind coming from behind I didn't mind that I didn't have all of the right friends that I didn't have all of the

right access I didn't mind coming from behind because I believe that what God had for me was greater than any obstacle that was ahead of me so I didn't mind coming from behind my life may not be picture perfect but I don't mind coming from behind coming from behind that's how I felt like I was coming from behind as a Teenage mother like I was coming from behind when I dropped out of college like I was coming from behind like I was constantly coming from behind behind I take one step forward and two steps backwards

I keep coming from behind coming from behind and there were moments where I even wanted to count myself out but for some reason I was able to pick up the pieces and try again and maybe I didn't try in the right atmosphere but I was willing to pick up the pieces from that broken heart and try again I just happen to believe that there are some women in this theater who did not mind picking up the pieces and registering for a conference and coming all the way to Hollywood California because I don't mind coming from

behind because I know what God has for me is for me and I don't care how long this issue has had me I believe that in the name of Jesus that chains can be broken off of my life and I've seen them do it in the lives of my friends and I've seen them do it for my mother and I've seen him do it for pastor Holly I don't mind coming from behind to get my blessing sometimes the thing that keeps us from getting our blessing is that we've got too much pride to come from

behind we learn to acques in our lives and to say things like we don't want it anymore because we're too afraid to come from behind I'm too old to go back to school I'll never be able to write that book I think my time is over I think my opportunity for love has faded away I don't want to come from behind because I allowed all of the disappointments from the previous Physicians to make me believe that I could be restored again but God told me to tell you that if you would get down in your

spirit that he came for the underdogs that he came for the people who didn't mind coming from behind that he's not looking for the person who came in first place that he's a last place kind of God and that he came for those of us who felt like we've been invisible to the world because he sees us he recognizes what he placed down on the inside of you and regardless of what has happened to you in life and what has hurt you in life he still got a treasure down on the inside of you and

he can see past your Brokenness why can't you I believe that God wants to show you a mirror of who you are but you've got to stop looking in the rear view of who you used to be you've got to stop looking through the lenses of the things that didn't work out and the disappointments that didn't work out and start beginning to believe that God created you for such a time as this that you were actually fearfully and wonderfully made you've got to start Believing on another level God said if you would elevate your perspective

I could do exceedingly and abundantly above all that you may ask or think the problem with most of us who have these issues is that we think too low of ourselves how can he do exceedingly and abundantly above all that you think may ask or think if you're thinking too low you think that your healing will come with one degree or one relationship one thing that'll be exceedingly and abundantly enough for me and God says what I have for you is so much greater than fixing that one little thing in your past that when I

get finished with the women who registered for this conference that I'm going to show them that they always had wings they just didn't know how to spread them I'm going to show them that they always had enough wind to carry them over obstacles they just didn't believe that they could keep up I'm going to show them who I've always called them to be this woman this woman in the text she's about to discover that she has wings wings that no one else could see she was separated and isolated from the rest of the community that

she was in but for some reason she was still determined so this woman she comes from behind and she touches the border of His Garment and immediately she was healed I love that we serve an immediately kind of God that you can ask and receive immediately but this is where things got a little interesting for me because Jesus said who touched me and everyone denied it the woman who was in the crowd who touched him denied touching him have you ever had to deny being touched by Jesus you see the woman she was ready to

receive her touch and go back to being invisible sometimes God speaks a word in our life but because we're too afraid to actually live in that word we go back to being who we used to be not recognizing that the moment we received that word we became too big for where we used to be that the moment God placed a word down in in our spirit that our territory enlarged that means everyone around us had to grow up or get out because what God was doing in our lives required a little bit more space and

if you couldn't grow with me then you can't go with me because I'm not going to deny that I just touched the him of his garments I'm not going to deny that I think I deserve better than this I'm not going to deny that I want to go after it I'm not going to deny that I have wings any longer I'm not going to deny it for you to be comfortable with your own mediocrity I have to step into who God has called me to be and I know maybe you've only known me as a

teen mom but God just called me into Ministry and so you're going to have to expand your definition of me to fit with who God has called me to be some of you are going to have to go back to your homes and reintroduce yourself allow me to introduce myself my name is the anointed and appointed vessel of God allow me to reintroduce myself I've been changed and transformed and set free allow me to reintroduce myself [Applause] I'm not the woman you used to know I'm a woman who knows how to rise and I've been

denying it for long enough but it's time for me to start walking in the fullness of who God has called me to be it's time for me to start walking in the fullness of my calling and my destiny and to stop apologizing for wanting more than anyone else wanted for some reason this woman she she stood out to Jesus she was he was in the crowd and there were so many people touching him but for some reason the way she touched him like she needed something from him I think our worship is most beautiful when

we're broken because we need we need something from him don't ever become so successful that you stop needing something from Jesus don't ever become so com able in your life that you stop needing something from him that I can't do this thing without you that I've lost friendships and I've lost relationships and it's just me and you in this thing I need you I need you somebody needs to reach up and start touching Jesus like they need him again that it's not just this robotic function that we get into worship and start lifting our hands

but we need something from him and the woman and Jesus said who touched me and everyone denied it because the woman was ready to be healed but she wasn't ready to walk just yet and Peter and those with him are like Master the multitudes there's everyone around you when you ask who touched me and this is what I love and this is what I want you to get down in your spirit because Jesus said somebody touched me for I perceived power going out of me power came out of me when someone touched me for some

reason a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years she touches Jesus and power goes out of him I wonder how many people in this room have been exposed to a superpower but they haven't quite realized yet that they've got access to strength that is beyond them so you're worried and you're stressed and you're wondering how am I going to do this thing on my own and Jesus just wants to know who touched me because there's something about identifying with the fact that you have called on a name that is greater than yours

that should give you the kind of power that should make demons tremble when you walk into a room that Darkness should start backing up when you walk into a room he wanted to know who touched me who touched me because I perceived power and the woman she recognized something in verse 47 it says the woman recognized that she was not not hidden any longer this woman who would learned to be invisible for so long all of a sudden she was no longer hidden I think the the Crux of this message for anyone who was like

me and has been wondering how they are going to go back into their homes with this new knowledge and this new revelation of not only who God is but who they have the potential to become is to recognize that they are no longer invisible what I love about this text is though the woman was invisible to everyone else by all accounts because she was Untouchable because she could not be held and touched and no one could sit after her she was Untouchable in her community but you know what I love about her that she was

not invisible to herself she was aware enough to recognize that she had an issue that was too great for her and that she needed to call upon a name that could heal her immediately and I don't know how many of you have been going throughout your worlds and going throughout your marriages and your workplaces and maybe you feel invisible to everyone else but I want to challenge you before we leave this theater to start being visible to yourself again to start being present in your life again to start being so in touch with yourself that

when your husband or your friends ask you how you're doing you say I'm not doing okay but I'm going to get there that you would start to stand in the truth of where you are and who you are and not pretend to be what everyone else needs but instead be who you are so that the real transformation of God can begin to take place in your life because he cannot bless who we pretend to be his grace and anointing only meets us right where we are and there was something about this woman where she did

not mind recognizing that she had issues not for the sake of just saying this is how I am and this is how I'm going to be but she recognized that there was something working down on the inside of her that was also working against her 14 years old I got pregnant I went through a series of what could only be called ratchetness just Google it it's a thing it's not excellent but God's Gra amen toxic relationship after relationship broken abuse Physicians after Physicians trying to become better but it wasn't until I identified that there was

something functioning down on the inside of me that was birthed in Brokenness and and birthed in low self-esteem and insecurities that I was able to really access who God has called me to be there are people in this room just a few thousand maybe but I actually think that there are millions of people represented in this room because there is a destiny assigned to your life in that Destiny May begin in your home it may be on platforms like this but what is most Paramount for you to remember is that we cannot realize that Destiny

until we recognize that we must be visible to ourselves she Rises not by her own strength not because she did everything the right right way not because she has this white pigged fence and everything worked out the way that it was supposed to she Rises because she didn't mind coming from behind and touching the Hem of the Master's garment because she didn't mind pulling power from the name of Jesus so before I get ready to close allow me to speak power into your situation allow me to speak Jesus down to your insecurities allow me to

speak Jesus down to those generational curses allow me to speak Jesus down to the Teen Mom Jesus Jesus I don't know about you but I come from the old school church where we start calling on the name of Jesus and things start to tremble and and things start to shift and transform in our lives I speak Jesus into that marriage I speak Jesus into your finances I speak Jesus over the lives of your children I speak Jesus I speak Jesus I speak Supernatural power I speech overcoming power I speak chains breaking in the name of

Jesus Jesus I know this is a theater but if for a moment we could turn it into an altar and we could start to recognize what happens when women come together and touch the hym of His Garment I know this is a theater and you didn't come to have church I know we got all dressed up because we wanted to be friends but I dare you to start calling upon the name of Jesus I dare you to start coming from behind I dare you to speak Jesus into that relationship Jesus Jesus Jesus I can't have

these issues anymore Jesus Jesus Jesus heal my marriage Jesus Jesus Jesus save my children Jesus Jesus Jesus heal my broken heart Jesus Jesus save my country Jesus Jesus save my community Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus I Need You Jesus I can't I can't do this thing without you Jesus Jesus I need your anointing every day Jesus I need your spirit to be on me Jesus Jesus Jesus teach me how to talk teach me how to walk teach me how to be that woman I never saw Jesus Jesus Jesus show me me

how to finish strong show me how to finish strong Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus help me to forgive myself Jesus help me to forgive others Jesus Jesus Jesus on my own I can't do it I tried I went from physician to physician but Jesus Jesus if you would join me I need to pull power out of Jesus I need to pull power out of Jesus my strength isn't enough Jesus Jesus Jes Jesus Jesus I need you I need your arms around me transform my mind make me different break this thing off of me pull this thing

off of me Jesus Jesus Jesus give me strength give me wisdom Jesus heal me cure me Jesus touch my family Jesus touch my children Jesus Jesus Jesus I want to be a part of your kingdom Jesus Jesus I want to feel like a princess Jesus Jesus restore my innocence Jesus Jesus give it back to me Jesus I haven't been perfect I haven't done everything the right way but Jesus Jesus they tell me you make up the difference they tell me that your strength is made perfect in my weakness Jesus here is my weakness I'm broken

I'm not perfect but you are and if I could partner with you if I could just touch the Hemm of your garment if I could just come from behind Jesus I just happen to believe that I could be made healed and Not only would I be made whole but Jesus you would do it in such a way that everyone saw that I was healed it wouldn't just be my secret anymore but you would say to the world who touched me and all of a sudden there would be a light on on me and my family

and you would be lifted up in such a way that people wanted to know how I got saved and how I did it and I would tell them it was Jesus it was Jesus it was Jesus it wasn't me it wasn't me I just got desperate enough that I couldn't do it I need you I want every person standing up we're going to lift our issues to Jesus we're going to lift our burdens to him we're going to cast our yolks onto Jesus we're going to live in the fullness of who he's called us to

be we're going to be healed we're going to be hold something's going to happen in this room that Generations after Generations after Generations are going to benefit from something's going to happen in this room that changes the definition of Womanhood in our society something's going to happen in this room but it can only happen for those who are desperate enough to say I can't stay this way any longer I can't stay this way any longer everyone else was crowding Jesus but only one person pulled from him you can be in a room where Jesus is

and never access the power that is available to you that won't happen in this room because we came into this room hungry and desperate to touch the him of His Garment [Music] Jesus Jesus on behalf of every woman and every issue and every Destiny and every calling represented in this room we invite you not into our highlight reel not into the things that are going well but we invite you into that issue that's been flowing down on on the inside of us that issue that has flowed into our marriages and and maybe even flowed from

our mother or flowed from our communities or flowed from from church hurt whatever that issue is God we offer you that issue and we ask that you would give us the strength to recognize that we've already overcome it that we've been paying a sentence for something that you already covered that we've been living guilt and unforgiveness for something that you've already redeemed and restored in our life so God I ask that you would awaken my sisters to the beauty of knowing who you are that you would awaken my sisters to the beauty of knowing who

they are that they would start walking in the confidence and fullness of being anointed and appointed to being fearfully and wonderfully made that you would awaken them to the knowledge that they've got power working down on the inside of them that greater is you that is in them than he that is in the world God awaken these your daughters to the crowns that have always been on their heads to the crown that was on their head when they were going through a teen pregnancy to the crown that was on their head when they were being

touched and abused that still the crown was there they just didn't even realize it so God I ask that you would help us to polish our crowns crowns and place them back on our heads where they rightfully belong that we would walk like the queens and princesses we are that we would access the inheritance that is being a part of your kingdom and that we would do so with such confidence that our households are changed that our families are changed that our communities are shaken oh God that we would be a light that we would

lift you up so high that we would draw so many people to you because we re recognize the power of a transformed lives God we offer you all that we are in this moment and I speak altitude let them rise I feel the spirit of God I feel the wind blowing in this room I feel I feel you rising in this room she Rises oh God she Rises oh God she Rises oh God like wings of eagles I see your Rising oh God flying over who she used to be flying over her mistakes and her

and her pain and flying into the destiny you have for her oh God she Rises she Rises she Rises she Rises and I rebuke and I declare and decree no anything that would ever dare to pull her back down again oh God let her live at this altitude and go from glory to glory to glory to glory to glory never looking back and always recognizing that she's not in this thing on her own because there is a superpower that is the name above all names that is greater than any weapon ever formed in jesus' name

amen I love you I'm going to read my text and then I'm going to pray I'm in Luke 2 verse 27 I'm going to read from the new King James version and I'm just going to let God have his way so my text begin to says so he he this he is Jesus and Simeon so Jesus is Just Born to the Virgin Mary and she is following the customs and rituals of that time and she is presenting him in Jerusalem they make it to Jerusalem and they are presenting him to Simeon and so he that

he is Simeon came by the spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the Child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the law he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said Lord now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared before me which you have prepared before the face of all people a light to bring Revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your People Israel and Joseph and his mother marveled

at those things which were spoken of him then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother behold this child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel and for a sign which will be spoken against yes a sword will pierce through your own soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed God I want to thank you for our opportunities like this opportunities to be in your presence and amongst your people and so father you and I have spent time communicating and me receiving your perspective on the women in

this room my prayer God is that you would flow through me that there would be nothing that stands in your way no nerves no fear no anxiety just your strength your power your Rich Revelation about women in this season and generation that it would flow and that it would break chains in this room that it would give new identity in this room that it would give us power like never before Lord let your glory fall as only it can do that our lives may be radically changed in jesus' name amen had to pray to get

the Jitters off so I am part of the reason why this is going to be a little awkward is because of all of my father's children I was the least likely to be in Ministry and and um because I thought the Bible was boring which Lisa already told me I was boring it wasn't the Bible it was me it's fine um but part of my mission in life is to make it less boring for people and so I like to share Ministry in a way that is relatable 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 going to 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 in telling us how she messed it all up for everybody but it's ebonic 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 pulled out out and raised by the Euphrates is where I spent most of my days chilling out maxing and relaxing all cool till creepy little serpent came up and messed up my groove SE bonx it's going to be amazing it's going to take off you guys should pre-order it on Amazon right now sell like hot cakes um the only thing that I haven't quite figured out for my ebonics version of Eve 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 want to say that her and the serpent had beef you know um for those of you unfamiliar with beef actually not talking about filt I am talking about a word that we use in some circles in culture that explains when you have a disagreement of sorts with someone yeah I would say 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 3 and5 God says to the serpent I'm going to 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 going to 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 sends 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 going to 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 registered for Propel and you made arrangements for the kids and you decided that you were going to be in here by any means necessary I'm going to stand in line at 7:00 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 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'mma 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 demons 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 in 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 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 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 recognized 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 understand understanding that that enmity is a two-way street that you're not just going to keep attacking me and you're not just going to keep depressing me and you're not just going to 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 going to 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 you 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 going to 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 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 are the 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 birth 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 cuz I'm the woman for the the job I'm going to do flat footed what God has called me to do cuz I'm the woman I'm the woman for the job I'm the woman for the job somebody's got to start prophesying over that situation that's trying to tell you you're not going to make it honey I'm the woman for the job I'm going to raise that child anyway I'm going to 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 want to rebuke depression trying to make you believe that you're not the woman for the job I want to 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 attacked my sister you attacked me I'm the woman for

the job I know how to work fair 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 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 want to 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 place 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 anyway 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 Mary 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 going to 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 going to end oh I feel like that's a word for somebody that you're looking at the baby wondering how the baby's going to become king you're looking at the small thing trying to figure out how is that ever going to 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 going to 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 the in the form that it's going to end up in I gave it to you in the form that would grow you up into the person who could raise it into everything that it could be I feel like somebody's got to 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 anyway sometimes you have to just go anyway God gives you what you need as you go and sometimes we want all of the answers and God I want

to know how you're going to do it I'm not saying I won't go I'm just saying can you tell me exactly how it's going to happen and God says I'll tell you how it's going to happen when you start moving be 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 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 going to do it in my family but I am going to go anyway and when I go you meet me where you tell 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 a sign to him that we can be trusted because there are moments when God orders our steps but we got to take them first I got to forgive I got to go anyway I want to stay stuck in this bitterness I want to stay stuck in this pain but I can't stay here so I got to go anyway and Mary starts going anyway and so some of you are wondering okay I'll go anyway I'll do what God told me to do I don't know how he's going to do

it I don't have all of the resources that I need in order to do it but I want to 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 at 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 going to 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 teach us more imagine had Eve 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 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 going to stay stuck where that pain met me I'm not going to 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 Simeon 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 depart 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 fall and rising of many and 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 bonic version slipping out again God when you gave me the promise when you told me what I was carrying when you told told me who I would become when you told me I was fearfully and wonderfully made when you told me that all things were going to work together for my good you you didn't tell me about the swords that were going to be a part of the journey this feels like a contradiction from from what you said 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 and 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 promise with a sword piercing through my soul I felt like Simeon should have given the bad news first and then the good news I felt like he should have said all of these things are going to happen but he's going to be resurrected

and everything's going to be okay 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 Simeon 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 butt at the end of the bad news I set 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 going to work out in the end and but you're going to be healed and and but all things are going to work together for your good but God says I'm not going to 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 going to work it out but I hear God saying I put the butt first that when I wrote in the scriptures that all things were going to 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 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 got to 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 was going to 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 3 and15 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 want to prophesy that when you leave this place that eyes haven't seen and ears haven't heard what God is going to 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 want to 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 cuz 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 at having their back up against the wall that when everyone else would lay down and lie 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've had enough of you playing with my marriage I wish I had some women in this room who didn't mind say saying I don't mind going to war with the devil I'm not afraid of Darkness cuz I carry the light I'm not afraid of dying a flavor because I am the salt of the earth I need some women just one or two of you really cuz one of us could Chase 1,000 two of us could Chase 10,000 I wonder if a 100 of us got together in this room and decided that the

days of women being oppressed and silence 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 going to make me preach in Fort Lauderdale Florida I promised I wasn't going to 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 then 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 doesn't look like Victory I'm telling you where it's going to end you're looking at the middle but I'm listening to what God Said first God said I was going to come out of this God said that this thing was going to take

me out I'm [Applause] prophesying cuz I don't care what the middle says I care what God Said first and the most power ful thing that ever happened to me it's when I was six or seven years ago I decided that even though I got pregnant at 13 had my son at 14 even though I dropped out of college even though I was waitressing at a strip club even though I did all of these things that were supposed to disqualify me the most powerful thing that ever happened to me is I went back to what God

Said first I stopped looking at where I was in the middle and I zoomed out of the picture and when I zoomed out of the picture all I could see was when I was formed in my mother's womb to where he promised me that I was going to make it to the other side what is the other side the other side is when his glory can be manifested through my life and I realized that I could not stay zoomed into to where I was and let Glory glory be manifested through my life at the same

time so I had to make a decision to clear the way for Glory to clear the way for his anointing to fall to clear the way for him to show up that's why Eve is really one of my favorite women in the Bible because Eve found a way to clear the path for the seed that was meant to bruise the head of the serpent to be birthed I love that Eve wasn't concerned with whether or not she would see the seed all she was concerned with was setting the promise in motion so Eve has Cain

and Abel and they had beef but she did not allow the fact that Cain and Abel did not look like the seed that would bruise the head of the serpent to keep her from still producing she chose to keep on producing even when the thing that was supposed to be the seed or could have been the seed died she said if that seed didn't work then there must be another seed if I had time I would preach a message called Throw Another seed at it cuz there are moments in life when the first seed doesn't

look like the seed that is supposed to be the seed and we shut down all together when God really just wanted you to throw another seed at it Eve throws another seed at it through Seth and Seth becomes ultimately the first line of redemption that would lead us to Jesus so all Eve decided to do really was not focus on whether or not she would see it but whether or not she could do something that would just set it in motion that's my prayer for you activate is that you would not be so consumed with

whether or not you are the one who actually pulls everyone over to the other side that you would not be so concerned with whether or not your business that is just starting offl becomes a Forbes company right now you you're thinking too big that you have to work what you know until you get to where God said you would go so the only thing that I want you to focus on is setting something in motion if you set it in motion God will do the rest