A Fresh Wind x Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts | Recharge #womensministry

can y'all do me a favor the theme of this conference is recharge who needs a [Applause] recharge one of the things how y'all doing over there I couldn't see y'all on the side hey child listen the thing about a recharge is most of the time when life begins to get expensive When Hope is expensive When Faith is expensive when peace is expensive I don't know if you're like me I start holding my breath I'm waiting for the next phone call the next headline the next text message that drains me completely and yet we're in an

environment where our assignment is to recharge so I want you to do me a favor would you stand for me and put your heart on your your chest sometimes we want people to lay hands on us but there's something powerful about us just touching us and if you can for a moment I want you to just close your eyes and take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth when you're breathing out I want you to imagine that you're pushing out anxiety fear stress worry doubt take a deep breath and exhale

push it out and with your other free hand I want you to touch the woman beside you because there have been moments throughout this year where she felt alone moments throughout this year where she couldn't tell anybody what was going on in her heart and sometimes we think we'll recharge on our own but the reality is sometimes the only way we can recharge is through connection and if you could pour strength into that woman I want you to put pressure on your hand on her shoulder like I'm pouring strength into you like I'm pouring courage

into you like I'm pouring power like I'm pouring the power of my testimony into your wounds like I'm pouring the power of what I know God can do into your story and yes I have a need but I also have something to give because sometimes we get so drained that we forget that we too have something to give and you came to hear who was speaking but God said I set someone beside you who's got something to give you I want you to pour hope into that woman I want you to pour strength into that

woman thank you God for keeping her thank you God for the days when she didn't think she would make it but you sent a fresh wind thank you God that her best days are still ahead of her thank you God that the Betrayal didn't break her thank you God that she cried but she got up the next morning thank you God that that weeping really did just endure for the night I thank you God for Joy coming back to that woman I thank you God for peace coming back to that woman I thank you God

for strength coming back to that woman I thank you God that more anointing more grace I thank you God that her cup is going to overflow and because I'm sitting next to her when it starts overflowing it's going to touch my Brokenness it's going to touch my emptiness it's going to touch my shame it's going to chase a devil out of my life I thank you God that when two or three are gathered in your name that something starts breaking in the atmosphere I thank you God that we're about to shake up this city and

it won't just be for a moment but I thank you God for a generational shift I thank you God for a generational breakthrough and I thank you it's going to start with this [Music] woman God bless every woman in this room bless her in the way she doesn't even know how to communicate yet God bless this woman I'm sitting next to in front of behind of God send your angels to minister to her send your spirit to comfort her to break down her walls to remind her that it is true you will never leave her

nor forsake her and I ask God that you would give every woman in this room the Courage the vulnerability and the sensitivity to serve Every Woman She's next to that she would feel a little less alone and a little more recharged because she sat beside you in Jesus name amen you might as well tell that woman she looks good turn turn to that woman say girl you do look good I've been waiting to tell you all night you smell good girl you don't look like what you've been through you look blessed where you get your

shoes from where we going to eat after this you are beautiful you're protected you're going to be okay baby girl tell her you going to be okay don't matter how old she is she's still baby girl to God tell her you going to be okay I feel like we could take 10 seconds and have a victory dance cuz somebody just got a little recharge just by reminding themselves that I'm not in this on my own I feel like we could take 10 seconds and just give God some praise that he interrupted the program to see

about me I want to take 10 [Music] seconds sometimes All You Need is Another Woman if you don't believe me ask Mary she went to go see Elizabeth because sometimes all you need is another woman to help your baby leap sometimes all you need is another woman's testimony to remind you that if God did it for her then that same God could do it for me sometimes you need another woman to remind you that you still have value that you still have worth [Applause] [Applause] y'all might as well stay standing for the reading of the

word God gave me a text it's in John 11 I'm going to skip through a little bit but I'm going to start in verse three I'm going to do verse 3 through six and then I'm going to drop down to verse 20 it's not an unfamiliar text you guys have been fed so well that I know you've heard it but for those of you unfamiliar this is a moment where two sisters have lost their brother named Lazarus and they are friends with Jesus it's not very often throughout scripture where we see moments where Jesus had

interpersonal relationship with people and yet he is friends with Martha Mary and Lazarus Lazarus has died and the two sisters sent for Jesus they sent to him saying Lord behold he whom you love is sick and when Jesus heard that he said this sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the Son of God may be glorified through it now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus so when he heard that he was sick he dropped everything and went wait no so when he heard that he was sick he stayed

two more days in the place where he was verse 20 picks up it says now Jesus had finally made his way towards them and it says now Martha as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming went and met him but Mary was sitting in the house now Martha said to Jesus Lord if you had been here my brother would not have died but even now I know that whatever you ask of God God will give you and Jesus said to her your brother will rise again Martha said to him I know that he will

rise again in the resurrection at the last day and Jesus said to her I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me though he may die he shall live and whoever lives and Believes In Me shall never die do you believe this and she said to him yes Lord I believe that you are the Christ the son of God who was coming into the world Spirit of the Living God no one can do this but you and so God I lay this moment these women this opportunity at your feet and I say

have your way I've studied I've prepared but none of that means anything nothing if you don't breathe in this room and so God I'm praying for the gift of wisdom Insight prophecy God that you would withhold nothing to the extent that their lives may be touched changed and transformed forever more and I thank you God that this is already what you want to see happen in heaven and you are a covenant keeping God so we say yes Lord have your way in Jesus name amen amen I don't think that any of us have anyone who's

on social media has missed these moments where there's this like breaking news about a new chemical or a new danger that we should be afraid of child we can't be vegan we can't eat meat we can't drink juice we can't have chocolate I mean every time I look on social media there's something something new that we should be warned about I mean if you're not praying over your food anymore you have a real issue or anointing I don't know you have a real trust cuz I pray over my food cuz Lord I don't know what's

in it but I am going to eat it one thing about me it's going to get done in so I have to tell you though in the world where all of these different news alerts are coming up about what we should be worried about and what we should or should not be eating I will never forget forg get in the early 2000s when it became prevalent the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning I don't know what was happening in the 80s or the 90s maybe we weren't just as aware maybe it wasn't as much of an

issue but I remember this carbon monoxide poison that that kept saying that you have to be careful because carbon monoxide is this chemical that is odorless and it is colorless and you cannot tell when it's in your environment and there were people who were dying in their sleep people who were sitting in their cars passing away because the carbon monoxide could not be detected and I think it stuck with me because I couldn't fathom how could something so subtle be so dangerous how is it that it could go undetected and yet be so lethal and

grateful that technology advanced in such a way that we have carbon monoxide detectors and there there's even regulations about building homes without carbon monoxide detectors but I have to tell you I wish that internally I had some type of detector for my spirit when there is something subtly lethal that has invaded my spirit I'll be honest with you most of the time I don't figure out there's something wrong with me until there's something wrong with me when I recognize that I'm no longer feeling like myself and usually when I begin doing the work if I

can afford to do the work and take the time to process I realized that it wasn't just something that happened in the day that it was something that maybe happened a week ago a month ago six months ago that didn't just hurt me it changed me I love in Romans 121 and2 where we talk about presenting our bodies as a Living Sacrifice and being trans transformed by the renewing of our mind and I will be honest that sometimes I spend so much time focused on the transformation part of that text that I never really look

at that renewing part for the sake of our discussion I looked up the actual definition of renewing and I was surprised to see that renewing is not making something new again renewing actually means it is an instance of resuming an activity or state after an interruption sometimes we use this scripture as if we're going to be transformed and then our mind is going to be completely transformed into something that it never was but that renewal stood out in my mind because it's talking about resuming an activity or state after an interruption so therefore it would

read do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the resuming of a state after an interruption when we look at Genesis 3 what we see when the serpent offers the fruit to the woman and then the woman offers it to the man is him actually interrupting a state that God set in motion and he recognizes that if I can interrupt this state that I set in motion then I can interrupt their identity we think to ourselves the devil's trying to take me out out it's not true the devil is trying to interrupt

your identity when we look at what has happened in our lives what made what happened in our lives so lethal is not just what occurred but it is the fourth the it's the aftertaste of who we thought we were as a result of what took place wow I thought I was this I thought I could do that I thought I could build the business I thought I could open open my heart again I thought that I could raise these children I had a state that allowed me to begin to move in the direction of what

God Said of what God promised of who God said I could be but then the interruption kept me from believing that again so don't be conformed to what happened in your world but be transformed by the activation by the renewal by re-engaging with the state that you were in before the world tried to conform you I wish I could say that the way I feel it in my head but I think you have to understand that there is an assignment to interrupt you from your destiny and as long as you think the enemy is trying

to take you out then you will think that because there was an interruption that he has now ended what God set in motion but what we have to understand is what God sets in motion cannot be undone that means that no matter what happens along the way I can make all things work together for my good says the Lord not because everything is good but because even if there is an interruption I know how to take the interruption and still get you to good because that's the kind of God you serve if I was at

my church I would take 5 seconds and thank God for the interruptions that should have thrown me off track but some kind of way I'm still in position to receive the promise it's not because I did everything the right way it's not because I didn't have low self-esteem it's not because I wasn't insecure it's not because I wasn't depressed it's not because I didn't have suicidal thoughts it's just interruptions are not the end it just means that the divorce was not the end it just means that the pregnancy was not the end if you talk

about me and say I don't deserve to be in position you talking right I don't deserve to be here cuz I had some interruptions along the way but because of the grace of God I am who I am and the interruption didn't stop it's just just an interruption I don't know who needs to hear this but it's just an interruption it's just an interruption it's just an interruption yes it's a heartbreak but it's an interruption yes it's a detour but it's really an interruption yes you got to go back to work but it's just an

interruption yes they let you go but it's just an interruption God didn't change his mind just because you changed your mind that's why God says you don't have to be renewed by me changing my mind you have to be renewed by you changing your mind because everything I spoke over you I still believe it's possible for you but if you don't believe it I can't do nothing with you the greatest threat to your destiny is what's happening in your own [Applause] mind what poison got in your head what lie did you receive is truth that

has interrupted you and made you conform to the shape of your misery made you conform to the shape of your grief maybe on the outside you don't look like what you've been through but when I tell you that you're fearfully and wonderfully made do you believe it or do you resist it cuz maybe on the inside you do look like what you've been through and it's hard for me to believe that your promises are yes and amen because on the inside there's this odorless C colorless poison of Doubt of Shame and you know what's crazy

about most of us in this room is that that poison didn't just enter when that thing happened six months ago it didn't just enter when I just went through that breakthrough for most of us in this room that poison entered when we were little girls and now everything that has happened to us since then just affirms the poison that was inserted when we were a little girl that maybe we don't have what it takes maybe we aren't smart enough maybe we aren't worthy maybe we aren't valuable that poison that is within us the only way

that we can properly get it out as if we come back into agreement about what state we we are supposed to be in because when you come into agreement with your condition you make your condition your identity you've never heard anyone say I am cancer they say I have cancer but I am not my condition but when we are ashamed when we are depressed when we are anxious we allow that condition to become our identity I think one of the most powerful things I ever heard a therapist say is to say I am feeling whatever

that is fill in the blank instead of saying I am it because just that little bit of Separation helps me to understand that this is something I am passing through it helps me to not be conformed to what's happening in my world and it helps me to more easily say I may have a depression but I am the righteousness of God and because of who I am this condition cannot dictate or Define me for the rest of my life I am going through something but I am not what I am going through because my identity

is rooted in who I am in Jesus I'm sorry but I am the righteousness of God yes I may be going through a divorce but the divorce is the condition it is not my identity I am who God says I am and I can do what God says I can do and I can be whoever God puts me in position to be not by my might not by my power but it is by his spirit and if his spirit is in Me Greater is he who is in me than he who was in the world

and that means that even if it is in the world it doesn't have to get inside of me this is just an interruption I was going down this Rabbit Trail once I recognized that that renewal was about resuming a state and I had to look up the difference between an interruption and A disruption an interruption I'll give you an example is you know I gentle paren is my heart posture is to Gentle parent my reflex you know what I mean I'm the only one no don't do that you know and as a gentle parent that's

my ident idty you see I own that speak those things that are not I'm reaching for it all right as a gentle parent when my kids interrupt me I'm like you know what I know that's important to you but if you don't take no and then I can go back to speaking because it was just an interruption But A disruption is if they were to come into what ever was happening and not just say that they need my intention but start slamming things down and acting crazy cuz now see A disruption means I can't just

go back to speaking the way I was once speaking I've shifted into somebody else now cuz now I got to say excuse me for a minute and then you got to five I like a five finger grab amen and pull you into another room and just help you to remember that I'm new to this I'm not true to this and if you [Music] ever an interruption means you can just pick up where you left off but A disruption changes the trajectory and I recognize that part of the task of the enemy is to allow for

interruptions to look like disruptions this interrupt ition is disguised as a disruption and that is where we are when we find Martha in the text Martha is in the midst of an interruption disguised as a disruption she doesn't exactly know how she ended up in this situation but one thing she knows for sure is that life as she knew it is over so you have to understand that Martha didn't just lose what she was praying for she lost what was a part of her identity Martha Mary Lazareth they were this Trio of siblings and they

we see them eating together and connected and even having the same friends and there are some losses in our life that are not so easy to release because they are a part of our identity that's why people wonder often like why can't you just get over it's because in order to get over it I would have to release that part of me that is connected to that job to that child to this role this Interruption disguised as a disruption has overwhelmed her so much that she has now gotten bent out of shape you have to

understand that Martha is a girl who is into protocol she's so into protocol that when Mary was sitting down worshiping she said she needs to get up and start serving she's very by the book but she goes and chases after Jesus before Jesus could even get to her that's how we know that whatever she went through has her acting out of character cuz no longer is she waiting for Jesus to come to her but she's gotten so been out of shape that she's running up on Jesus telling Jesus had you been here this would have

never happened to me she's gone to confront Jesus and some of us are so churchy and so afraid of re rection and abandonment because we've been rejected and abandoned by other people that we don't just run up on Jesus and say this is what you could have done should have done because we don't feel like we have the right to say this is what I expected from you and yet Martha shows us that sometimes the greatest gift that you can give yourself is to get out of character so that you can take Jesus Your Truth

there is coming a time where those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth and some of us have Spirit mastered but truth not so much and so we bring him who we think we are supposed to be instead of saying God I wanted you to save that child God I thought that you would give me that job God I thought that things would work out differently God says I need to hear your truth worship is when we create a space for his presence and your truth to come together what is the

truth that you won't even utter to yourself what is the truth that makes you distance yourself from Jesus cuz I don't want them to know that I'm disappointed and I feel like I'll be less of a Christian but the truth is that Jesus already knows what's happening inside of you but there is something powerful about the word of your testimony hitting his presence so that he can tell you what's on his mind too oh God what I learned in this exchange between Martha Marth and Jesus is that while Martha was giving Jesus a piece of

her mind that Jesus gives her a piece of his mind Jesus helped me to say it the way you gave it to me if Jesus would have shown up when Martha wanted him to it would have protected her from the state and condition that she was in but because he had an ultimate plan for him to get the glory out of what happened o he had to show up at a time that would allow both of them to experience Glory oh God sometimes we're praying for God to show up in a way that will make

us feel like God you got the glory but we don't know the definition of what is glory in God's eyes and sometimes what is our gain is not God's glory and so God has to allow you to experience loss not so that you can stay devastated but so that you can stay in the tension long enough to see see that I have a plan that still ends in glory and it may not be in the way that you anticipated but when you experience my glory you'll be able to say God I didn't see how you

were going to do it that way I thought it was too far gone I thought it would never happen for me but God now that I see your glory is better than my gain I'm glad you made me wait for it I'm glad you made me sit back I'm glad you got to show me a version of you that I never knew existed she knew Jesus as friend but she was about to see him as one who could resurrect after 4 days oh God help me I feel like preaching in this place Martha thought she

knew who God was but something was about to happen in her life that was going to make her know without a shadow of a doubt who God is I hear God saying there are some women in this room and you have been thinking about who God is I think you are a Healer I think you are a way maker I think you are a provider God says oh but if you stay in this tension what you thinking is about to be become what you know cuz I'm about to show up in your life in such

a way that you know for sure I am a Healer oh no I'm not talking about something I heard I know for sure that you take broken pieces and turn them into Ministry I know for sure that nothing's too far God I know for sure I once thought it but now I know for sure I once heard someone else talk about it but now I know for sure my great grandmother said it but now I know for myself God doesn't have any grandchildren God says there's a new knowing I want to bring you to I

thought that you could do something with the second half of my life but now I know for sure that the second half can really be better than the first half I thought for a minute that I could maybe get this degree but now I know for sure that you have gone ahead of me I hear the bank saying that I was waiting for you to walk into this room because I thought that you were going to start a business but God says I'm going to make it sure for you that I've already gone ahead of

you and the business is is already set up with your name on it I hear God saying that I'm already going ahead so that you know what you've been contemplating oh I wish I could say that real good cuz if I could say that real good we would move into a posture of assurance that even when it looks like it is the end I trust that it is only an interruption I don't know about you but I Fe for God's glory so even in the midst of Devastation I'm thinking to myself Lord how are you

going to get the glory out of this cuz one thing I know for sure is he will not rest until he gets the glory he will not rest until it is known without a shadow of a doubt that my hands were all over that girl that my hands were all over that child I don't know where you're struggling in this room but I want you to understand that if it ain't Glory it ain't finished if it ain't Glory it's not done if it ain't Glory don't stop pressing if it ain't Glory don't stop reaching because

God says I want to allow it to end there's going to be glory after this touch your neighbor and say there's going to be glory after this shake your neighbor and tell her there's going to be glory after this there's going to be glory tell her you ain't seen nothing yet you ain't seen nothing yet there's going to be glory after this buckle up baby girl there's going to be glory after this keep crying your tears your tears are watering the seeds of Glory you got to know there's going to be glory after this I

know you're scared but there's going to be glory after this I know you're worried but there's going to be Glory Glory Glory Glory I'm sorry I'm a Church Girl and there would be some moments in the church service where you couldn't say nothing at all and you would hear somebody in the back saying Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory God glory over my house Glory over my finances Glory over my health Glory over my business I'm not telling you how to do it I'm just asking For Your Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory

Glory over this heartbreak Glory over this grief glory on top of depression glory on top of anxiety glory on type of Doubt glory on top of worry Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory Glory his glory not my glory not their Glory I want the glory of the [Music] Lord the recharge is in the glory the recharge is in a fresh revelation of what's possible over your situation what we see Martha receiving her exchange with Jesus is not exactly what she wanted I could read on and tell you how Lazarus was raised from the

dead but I enjoy this text so much because God gives her a fresh revelation if we aren't careful we will think the recharge is in when I get what I ask for the ultimate recharge is when I get a fresh revelation of who God is Martha said had you been here my brother would not have died he said I didn't come so he did die but now you're about to see me as the resurrector I could have been the Healer but I decided and said to be the resurrector I could to save the child but

I got to bring a Ministry out of that child so now you're about to see how I make a way out of nowhere I could have gave you what you asked for but you would have been praising what you got instead of recognizing who gave it to you so maybe what you really need is a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit May maybe what you really need is a fresh revelation of who God is maybe what you really need it's not an answered prayer but a prayer answering God God I started reducing you down to

Performance and when I reduced God to Performance when he didn't perform the way I wanted him to I had to back away from him but there are some of us who have decided I'm going to be in relationship with God which means I'm I'm going to see why you said no I'm going to see why you think I'm strong enough to stand up to this room to stand up to this heartbreak cuz God knows something about this that you don't know God knows something about this next stage of your life that you don't know and

there's nothing scarier than not knowing some of us are drained from things that haven't even happened yet I'm drained playing out outcomes of what could happen instead of being present enough in the moment to release our need for control I am convinced that I'm entering into my church mother era and I don't know how it happened I'm too young to be in my church mother era but there are certain things that they used to say when I was growing up that's just making more and more sense they used to say anyway you bless me Lord

I'll be Satisfied I don't know how this is going to play out I don't know what I'm going to do with the finances I don't know what I'm going to do with the family I don't know what I'm going to do with the business I don't know what I'm going to do with that the job I don't know what I'm going to do without this part of my identity but anyway you bless me Lord if you just bless me with enough strength to stand up to it tomorrow bless me with enough peace to walk through

this pain I'll be honest with you see sometimes I want the big blessing I think to myself the recharge will come with the big blessing I'll be recharged if I close that deal I'll be recharged if this child finally gets it together that's when I'll be recharged but sometimes the recharge comes in those small moments where God says make your way to faithful Central you may not live leave knowing what's going to happen in your body you may not leave knowing what's going to happen with that child but if you can leave with a fresh

[Music] wind a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit to comfort you to give you strength to give you peace to clear the haze that doubt and worry and grief has had you living in I was reading baby they say the only way to get rid of carbon monoxide in the house is to open up windows and doors to let ventilation [Applause] in a fresh wind to get the poison that has crippled you in your spirit I'm sure my time is up but I just want to say that a fresh wind doesn't come just because you

came to a conference you can get a fresh wind in the car you can catch a fresh wind and an Uber I feel sorry for about 10 to 15 Uber drivers who come to faithful Central cuz you're not just picking up a woman you picking up a fresh wind a fresh wind is when we open ourselves up to God no matter where we are no no matter who we're with when we open up our hearts to God and we say God I need you God had you been here I don't think I would have been

in this torment but still I believe still I believe that you are the resurrection and the life still I believe that if you speak a word things can change god what the women in this room need more than anything is a fresh revelation of who you are if that's you will you stand with me I'm closing I'm closing oh just for a minute can I ask for no music there's something powerful about hearing somebody pressing towards a fresh wind I want to take 30 seconds and give you space to create your own wind some of

you don't have big gust of winds anymore some of you your hearts are broken but you got to enough wind to get in this room even if all you can say is God I need you I don't even know what happened to me God I'm scared I'm a little worried Jesus this grief is so heavy on me but I still lift you up I'm opening my heart to you God you see wind is contagious and when one woman breaks [Music] open it gives another woman permission to do the same just for a minute no clapping

Holy Spirit she needs you I just hear powered by wind somebody's been powered by doubt powered by fear of repeating a generational curse powered by work work work work work so I don't have to sit in this misery powered by anxiety but right now holy spirit we invite your rest God you don't want who we pretend to be those who worship you must worship you in spirit and in truth the truth is many of us are entering into a stage of life we didn't want or don't know how to handle and yet you promised that

you would never leave us nor forsake us so we make room for your wind we make room for for your presence to not just push us but to heal us to comfort us to call us your own broken and we're still yours touched but we're still yours riddled with wounds and yet we're still yours and holy spirit when you sit with these women it is my prayer that they would come to know Jesus Jesus as a friend Jesus as a savior Jesus as a companion and as they begin to know you Jesus I also pray

that they would begin to know themselves that you would reintroduce them to who they were before the interruption that version of themselves that you knew before you formed them in their mother's womb that you would bring them back into that knowledge and I thank you God that that version of them she's confident that version of them she is Anointed that version of them generational blessings are all that she knows that version of them knows you as father and Mer mother that version of them only needs you I thank you God that the interruption was not

a disruption and that your promise over their life and the anointing that is over them is still present help them to tap into that anointing help them to tap into that identity and to never let it go and as they hold on on to it God I thank you that they're going to teach generations to do the same I thank you for the intergenerational blessing of this church serving as a sign that the generation can have anointing after anointing after anointing and that these women are opening up the floodgates of Glory over their family over

their bloodline over their community and that's why that Interruption had to come because the interruption was trying to keep them out of the game but I thank you that because we received a recharge that we have been renewed and because we have been renewed we can be released and when we are released we will not do it in our own wind but we will have the wind of the Holy Ghost pushing us and I thank you God for that wind pushing them all 2023 and pushing them all 2024 and pushing them for Generation after generation

after generation I thank you God that my great great great great great grandchildren are going to ride on this wind so it is in your name Jesus so it is in your name Jesus we dedicate this moment to you in jesus' name [Applause] [Music] amen