Protecting Your Spark x Sarah Jakes Roberts

is anybody grateful we serve an on time God does anybody know him to be someone who shows up Time After Time After Time even when the devil thought he won even when I thought the devil won we serve a God that shows up right in the nicked time I'm so grateful that Joy comes in the morning I'm so grateful that weeping endures for the night but because I serve a God who was always on time when the morning comes I get to get up again I'm so glad we serve a god who's got a resurrect

in power I'm so glad we serve a God who knows right when I need when I need it the most and I believe that God knew that this moment this gathering this meeting would be taking place at such a PIV time in your life in your journey I believe wholeheartedly that the mark of what takes place this evening what has already taken place this weekend that you're going to look back and you're going to say man God you always show up what's up [Music] [Applause] [Music] Johannesburg I've never been here before but this feels like

a homecoming I don't I can't quite explain it but I know that welcome home thank you man J don't play with me we have to be mature because grown-ups are here I just want y'all to know that I have made myself the president of the United States chapter of the Rory fan [Music] club the girls who get it get it and the girls who don't they just don't but I get it that is my friend I'm stalking her only met her twice only said hi and bye but in the spirit that's my sister God gave

me a word for you and I'm going to just go with the flow of what God gave me my text is Acts chapter 2 verse 12 y'all pray for my voice something is happening but I'm gonna get the job done I love you too last night somebody yelled they love me I was like we already go together you don't have to keep telling me y'all stuck with me understand that acts 2:2 12 12-8 so I know that most of you all are Bible scholars but for those of us who need a little Foundation I'm going

to help you understand the context of the text Jesus has been crucified resurrected he walks the Earth for 40 days and while he walks the Earth for 40 days he has encounters with his disciples and he begins to unpack for them their mission and responsibility once he ascends and takes the right hand of the father and at this point in the text they have gathered in the upper room in the day of Pentecost has fully come and Jesus tells them specifically I have a mission for you but you cannot move into that mission until you

have received power that power comes from the Holy Spirit and on the day of Pentecost when the day had fully come the power of the Holy Spirit Falls and as the power of the the Holy Spirit Falls they begin to speak in tongues and they begin to create a disturbance in what should have been an ordinary time within the culture they're creating a disturbance because they have been filled with the Holy Spirit and the people are confused trying to figure out what's happening to them that is when my text begins in verse 12 and it

says so they were all amazed and perplexed saying to one another whatever could this mean others mocking said they are full of new wine but Peter standing up with the 11 raised his voice and said to them men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem let this be known to you and heed my words for these are not drunk as you suppose since it is only the third hour of the day but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel and it shall come to pass in the last days says God that I

will pour out my spirit on All Flesh that your sons and your daughters shall prophesy I'm going to say that one more time cuz it's women's month that your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your young men shall see Visions your old men shall dream dreams and on my men's servants and on my maid servant ANS I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy Spirit of the Living God prophesy in this place pour your spirit out on us we're thirsty for it we're desperate for it some of us don't even

realize how much we need a fresh outpouring of your spirit but we're here I believe at the right time at the right the right generation at the right time in our lives to receive an outpouring that will push us completely over into the realm of our destiny God I pray for the spirit of wisdom of Revelation I pray that you spend send angels to help guard my throat through this process that you would give me strength that you would give my mind Clarity that my heart would be completely and utterly surrendered to you and that

we together would touch this room fill this room in a way that makes it so evident that you see them you know them that you're not finished with them yet so God do that thing that you do when you rest in a room ah Glory God Rest in this place as only you can in Jesus name amen I want to read to you and excerpt from a speech from Martin Luther King Jr Goes a little something like this it says we've got some difficult days ahead but it doesn't matter with me now because I've been

to the Mountaintop and I don't mind like anybody I would like to live a long life longevity has its place but I'm not concerned about that now I just want to do God's Will and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain and I've looked over and I've seen the promised land I may not get there with you but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land and I'm happy tonight I'm not worried about anything I'm not fearing any man my eyes have seen the glory

of the coming of the Lord 24 hours after giving this speech Martin Luther King Jr would be assassinated interesting I've heard the words before but never recognized the timeline the sequence in which it took place he says in his speech I may not get there with you that means that there was something about his mentality that understood that even though he was the Pioneer a leader of the civil rights at that time that the Civil Rights Movement could not die with him even if something happened to him he had what I would call a spark

mentality a spark mentality is when you recognize that your life Your Existence is not just about coming here and having a good time that your life and existence is not just here for you to just have battle after battle after battle but rather Your Existence is meant to spark something in the Earth the definition of the word Spark means the stimulus for an event or a process your life is the stimulous for an event or a process in other words when God created you he was starting something when God created you you you're not random

he wasn't bored he didn't just decide that we needed more people in the earth God says that there's something I want to start in the earth and so I to send someone in the earth who can start this thing that I want to accomplish in the earth you were here to start something that's why you have this desire to do something that seems bigger than you that's why you're discontent when life just seems mundane and routine and comfortable it's because you were meant to start something that's why no matter how many times you try to

give up on this idea of purpose and Destiny it just won't leave you alone it's because you were here to start something you better nudge your neighbor and tell them I'm getting ready to start something when you start something it is not something that can easily be undone when you start something it is something that raises a standard for your family for your community and for your generation I'm trying to start something that cannot be undone I'm trying to start something that changes the way that my community is seeing I'm trying to start something that

makes another woman recognize that bruised heel still crush the Serpent's head I'm not just here talking words I'm here to start something we don't get on the plane for 24 hours to come to South Africa so that you can stay the same we get on the plane because we want to start something and the reason why we want to start something is because we know what God put on the inside of you baby you are a starter I know sometimes you failed I know sometimes you may have quit I know sometimes maybe someone gave up

on you that's good news because you can start again because you were here to start something it doesn't matter how many times you failed it doesn't matter how many times they betrayed you when you are a starter you get back up again when you are a starter you take a time out but you get back up again baby I'm a starter mess with me I might start something mess with me I might change your life I'm a starter baby if I get to pray I might break something off of you I'm a starter I might

introduce generational blessings in your life because I'm a starter I know who I am in God God called me to start something when I see what's happening in the world I don't get discouraged I come alive cuz it's my son it's time for me to start something when I see some Brokenness when I see poverty it's my sign that it's time for me to start something I'm a starter never played a sport but I'm a starter never had a ball but I'm a starter I'm on the starting line baby I start stuff I'm a [Applause]

starter and I need to live with this Consciousness because when I do not know that I am a starter I will believe that it is possible for the enemy to stop what God started oh God it's going to be good in here tonight the enemy's mission is to stop you before you even get started because if you ever get started there is no stopping what God wants to do through you so I got to get you before you even get started I want to talk to some people in this room who know what it's like

to have childhood trauma to know what it's like for the devil to be chasing you from the time that you were born you didn't know why he was doing it you thought that they were just rejecting you you thought there was just something wrong with you you thought you didn't fit in the family you thought you were born in the wrong community no that's not what it was it's that the enemy was trying to stop you before you ever got started the enemy was trying to stop you before you ever received a touch from God

because he knew one touch from God would radically change your life that if you ever got a revelation and started seeing yourself the way God sees you then you would start rolling into your destiny you wouldn't just step into it God says you would take off running into your Destiny if you knew what I knew about [Music] you the enemy didn't realize though that you can stop a person but you can't stop God God help me you can stop a person but you can't stop God and because you can't stop God God can always reach

that person I want to take you back to Genesis 3 when there was a woman in the garden named Eve and that woman had eaten from a fruit and the enemy must have been rejoicing he must have thought that he had won but even when the devil thought he won God showed up in the midst of the garden and he had a question for that woman he asked that woman who deceived you he wanted to understand what happened to you while the devil was rejoicing the woman was having an encounter with God because God said

it doesn't matter what the devil did to try and stop you I know how to get you to start again and he told that woman if you would start producing even in your Brokenness if you would start producing even in your wounds if you would stop producing even though you've been hurt I promise you that this devil you see today you will see no longer if you would start pressing towards the seed anyway the devil thought he w but he was no match because there was a destiny over her life there is Destiny over your

life that means even though the enemy thinks that his plan will stop you God says I'm going show up and I'm going show you how to work around I'm going show you how to push through I'm going to show you how to hang on how to trust how to keep producing in spite of what tried to you because what I put in you is so Unstoppable but if you don't believe it's Unstoppable it doesn't matter what the devil does what matters the most is what you think about what happened to you and some of us

have come into agreement with the enemy's plan for our lives unknowingly because we believe the report of the enemy when he says we can't do it we believe the report of the enemy when he says we can't add value we believe the report of the enemy and now all of a sudden those of us who were born to be a spark are Buried buried with Broken Spirits buried with doubt when we see what's happening in the world we don't believe ourselves to be a solution so we wait for someone else to rise up and so

God does something from Genesis all the way up until the New Testament that I believe that he does even now for those of us who are finding it difficult to believe that we are a spark he s mirrors mirrors to help us see what he sees in US sometimes it's not actually a mirror sometimes it's a word that word is meant to hold up an identity a version of ourselves that doesn't look anything like how we see ourselves but looks exactly the way that God sees us because God's trying to spark us again he comes

to Moses with a burning bush and he gives Moses a mandate to be a deliverer context is that Moses is hiding Moses doesn't think himself to be a deliverer as a matter of fact he has disqualified himself but when God sends you a word the word is meant to hold up a mirror to let you know regardless of how you see yourself I have called you to be a starter in my game I've called you to be a starter in My Kingdom I've called you to be a spark and if you allow your spark to

be hidden you're going to put us back behind where we should not be we need some people who are willing to get on the front line who are willing to say I am a starter in the Kingdom of Heaven I wish I could tell you how I got here I just started believing what God believed about me and it put me in a position to start starting again and he comes to Moses and he says you cannot be in hiding any longer I don't know who you are in johanah ber but I hear God saying

that you cannot be in hiding any longer that I have called you to be a starter and because I have called you to be a starter you cannot be a starter and be hidden at the same time same thing to Mary he comes to Mary and he says blessed are you and highly favored are you amongst women the greeting is so high and lofty that it makes Mary afraid how can I be who you say I am but he sends the word because the word is a mirror and I need you to understand that when

we are in rooms and we're prophesying about writing books and we're prophesying about you healing the land and we're prophesying about what God wants to do in your life there are some people that hear it and it's just words but there are some people who hear it and it starts stirring up the gift of God that's on the inside of them because God's been waiting for you to get a mirror in front of you that will make you start reaching towards what he knows about you and this is what happens in text we see it

over and over and over again so what is our job what is our responsibility when we recognize that we are a spark first of all that's the first revelation that we need to receive and lay hold of I am a spark there is something in this world that I am meant to kick off there is something in this world that I am meant to start I don't you don't even have to know what it is to receive the identity sometimes that's what trips us up we want all of the details but I hear God saying

if you would just receive the identity first if you would just receive the identity then I could put the weight of the responsibility on you but you want to qualify what God has called you to do before God can even give it to you but you need to be able to qualify the reality that God did not make me random God did not make me by coincidence God put me in this Earth with intentionality and a purpose he does not make mistakes and he did not start with me so if I am in this earth

there is a task that only I can do so I got to protect this thing that God has given to me in seed form I know why my voice tried to get lost this evening because I believe that somebody is in this room and you are in seed form but I hear God saying that if this word hits that seed that somebody's going to start breaking out of that seed and when you break out of that seed I hear God saying that I'm going to give you Roots I hear God saying that I'm going to

accelerate the maturation process and you're going to go from seed to fruit from seed to fruit you won't even have to wait on the next season I don't know who I'm prophesying to but I hear God saying that you're not even going to have to wait on the season to change that you're going to go from seed to fruit immediately and you know how I know this I know this to be true for myself I can't prophesy what I don't know but what I can tell you is some kind the way I went from seed

to fruit what took other people 30 years to do God says I'm going to do in 5 years because the gift that I placed on the inside of you is so urgent that I don't have time to wait for Four Seasons the earth needs it right now I don't know who you are but I hear God saying that you may be weary but you're about to be running because when you recognize that it's not going to take you as long as it took somebody else that it's not going to require from you what it took

from someone else God says I'm not going to make you sacrifice on the level that they sacrificed because they went ahead of you you get to build on top of their Foundation we need to give God 10 seconds of Praise that we're not starting it off on our own I thank God for the people who went ahead of me I thank God for the praying grandmothers I thank God that I got a prayer language I thank God that there's someone who says if you take a step I'm going to lead the way now now it's

your time to blaze your Trail now it's your time to move some things out of the way we got a generation to save we got a nation to raise somebody's got to be willing to strike something in the spirit we get ready to start something Johannesburg you ready we can ready start something I ask God for miracles we get ready to start something I ask God for breakthrough we way sort something until all have seen I got [Applause] [Music] it I want you to understand that God is serious about you God is serious about a

version of you that you haven't even met yet which is why God was with willing to protect your spark before you even knew it was there man if we had about 30 more minutes I would tell you about how God protected my spark before I even knew it was there I would tell you about the times that I shouldn't even be in this room that I should have been somewhere locked up I should have been somewhere drugged out but God had a hedge of protection around me that I could not even see cuz God says

what I put in you is tooo great to be wasted on this person and that person and this thing and that thing so yes some people walked away from me I thought they hurt me but they were really protecting me some people rejected me I thought they hurt me but they were really protecting me some people left me but they really blessed me because when you walked away from me you left me with my spark when you walked away from me you left me with my prayer when you walked away from me it made me

get on my knees and say God I don't have nobody else but you God I can't do this thing unless you do it God I need your presence every day God I need your wisdom in every way you need it you needed some of that sifting so that you could get down to the real deal you needed some of that sifting I can get up don't worry about it I'm a fighter baby I've been through hell and back baby I know what it's like to be knocked down and get back up again and I'm in

a room full of some Warriors who know how to take a licking and get back in the [Applause] [Music] game the Lord protected my spark he protected me I know him to be a keeper I know him to be a way maker he covered me he loved on me when I felt unlovable he loved me he chased me down he let nothing stand in my way and something happened when I realized what God knew about me that made me want to participate in the protection of the spark he placed inside of me it's one thing

to have God protect your spark when you don't even know it's there but there's something else to be said about coming to the realization that I want to be an active participant in bringing out what God placed on the inside of me do you know that there are people in this room who cannot even afford to be in this room but they are so invested and trying to figure out what God knows about them that they have decided I'm going to be an active participant this is not just Johannesburg in the room I started getting

tweets that people were flying in my flight just landed why would you go out of your way to be in a room like this because I know that there's something in the room that is meant to pull out the spark that's on the inside of me there are some people in this room who are more committed than they have ever been to starting a fire that cannot be contained for their family starting a fire that cannot be contained through their Ministry starting a fire that cannot be contained for their Nation and so they're protecting their

spark oh I love the sound of Deliverance I love the sound of Deliverance you got to protect your spark I want to talk to you about the philosophy of protecting your spark to protect your spark is to recognize that your spark exists in the context of the prince of the power of the air man shame depression guilt doubt fear worry all the big scary dark words have a father has a home it comes from the prince of the power of the air Darkness the enemy these are his weapons these are his tools this is what

he uses to convince you to stay in bed this is what he uses to convince you that you have no no Worth or no value these are his tools and yes I go to therapy because I have to have a tool to fight back what the enemy is trying to deposit in my life I need other tools because I recognize that the source of what I'm going through did not start with me the enemy is using it to try and stop who I am meant to become which means that if you are going to protect

your spark you have to be willing to rebel against the government that you are constantly functioning under God help me shame insecurity fear creates a government in our lives it has laws it has rules it says you can't do this you can't say that you're not good enough for that those are laws rules that we abide by so we become citizens of a king om of darkness when we obey What Fear tells us to do but your spark cannot be oppressed by that government any longer so when you come into the Revelation that your life

is a spark it is your responsibility to rebel against that government because that government will convince you to help the enemy snuff out your spark so when we quote the scripture that the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal it's because you will try and use a carnal weapon for a spiritual battle but when you recognize that projecting your spark that projecting your spark is spiritual you cannot use a carnal weapon for a spiritual matter that's why you got to pray even if you don't know all the scriptures you got to pray in the way

that only you can pray you got to trust that God will give you language as you move if you've got a Heavenly language you got to tap into it because you got to recognize that I am not going to be complicit in my own demise I'm not going to do the devil's work for him devil if you are coming after me you going to have to give it your best shot because I will no longer participate and helping you go against the destiny that God has for me I felt some oil on that some somebody's

got a break up and it ain't a person some of you need to break up with the way you have been participating and what the enemy is using to Snuff out your light I don't know who you are in this room but I hear God saying that it is time for you to break Covenant with the thing that is keeping you from the blood the thing that is keeping you from a blood Covenant I hear God saying this is not religion this is relationship and I shall have no other God before me if you're going

to be mine you going to have to walk like your mind you going to have to talk like your mind you going to have to think like your mind that means you going to have to bring every thought into captivity Oh no I got a new thing going and I cannot afford to stay in my old way of thinking I got a spark to protect I got a change to protect I got a transformation that must happen and I got a limited time to do it I don't know who you are you think you're young

you're wrong you got a limited time to get this right you got to move with a sense of urgency you got to move like you don't have tomorrow you got to move like lives depend on your yes you got to move like the kingdom depends on you you got to move like ain't nobody but you in the world I maybe wish I shouldn't have come cuz you might be counting on me baby I'm counting on you I'm counting on you to hold your Square down you got to move like there is no other option like

if I don't do it it cannot be done if I don't say yes now I don't have another 6 months I don't have another [Music] year I got to move I got to move I got to make a power move I got to make a power move I have made some doubt moves i' have made some fear moves i' have made some shame moves i' have made some moves I regreted but I'm in a season of my life that if I don't make a power move then the power of the enemy I wish I had

some people in this room who got sick and tired of seeing the devil making moves over our families moves over our generation moves over our nation I'm sick and tired of the devil having his way so God I'm giving you full permission to do whatever you need to do through me if it's a word I'll prophesy it if it's a song I'll sing it if it's a prayer I say it if it's a business I build it I came to tell territory the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by [Music] [Applause]

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] for yo Your Existence ought to be an announcement that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand when you walk into the job it ought to be an announcement that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand you got to serve notice on the enemy every time you wake up that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Johannesburg what's up baby you supposed to be the on on the front line the Kingdom of Heaven is at hands it's in your hands it's in your head it's in your heart release it into the Earth

[Applause] oh [Music] Peter Peter has a lot to work through Peter has a lot to work through cuz he's called but he's not perfect Peter has a lot to work through because he's called but he doesn't have the type of training all he has is revelation oh god oh that's so good to me all I got is revelation I can't really make it make sense to anybody else all I have is revelation I got a revelation of who God is I've got a revelation of what he can do in this industry I got a revelation

of what he can do in this family and and I can't always put it in the language but all I've got is this Revelation and Peter says I'm going to spend my life trying to unpack this Revelation cuz Jesus sparked him follow me and I will make you a fisher of men spark something in them don't even know what that is but it Sparks something in me have you ever had the Lord spark something in you I don't even know what that is but it just Sparks something in me I never even heard of it

but I saw somebody doing it it sparked something in me made me think that I'm connected in some way to what's happening you think you're here maybe you think you like me you don't really like me I'm sparking something that God wants to do on the inside of you there's something about what I do that Sparks what God can do on the inside of your life sometimes God sends something just to spark you but Peter Peter tries to walk on water and he fails Peter thinks to himself I'll never deny Jesus and he denies him

three times I was studying as we were preparing for tonight and I wanted to go back to the scripture in Luke when Jesus informs Peter that the enemy has asked about him oh y'all God is so good to me and the Lord said Simon Simon indeed Satan has asked for you oh there is no greater privilege on Earth than the devil asking about you I know some of y'all scared of that but I'm telling you if the devil's not asking about you you not doing [Applause] nothing Satan is asked about you Satan wants to get

his hands on you but he because he desires to sift you as wheat man I want to be famous in hell I'm going to be honest with you I want the devil to wake up thinking about me cuz every time I open my mouth I take something out of the enemy's Camp I'm from Old School church girl from Dallas Texas we used to sing a song about going into the enemy's camp and taking back what he stole from me I wake up every day trying to figure out what I can get back from the devil

he tried to take so much from me that I wake up every morning think you ought to be thinking about me cuz today I'm going to do something that reclaims some of my territory today I'm going to do something that snatches another woman out of the grips of Hell tonight I'm going to do something that saves my family from more heartbreak tonight I'm going to do something says Simon Simon Satan has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat but I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail oh it's so

much in this text I wish Jesus would have said but I stopped him but he didn't say I stopped him he said I prayed for you he said I prayed for you that your faith should not fail I'm not going to stop the sifting but I am going to pray for you I'm just so glad that we serve a Jesus who sits on the right hand of the father making intercession on our behalf because even when the enemy asks for my name I got somebody praying for me in a realm I cannot see Simon Simon

I want you to know Sarah Sarah I want you n lady n lady I want you to know that that the Satan has asked for you he's asked to sift you as weat but I am praying for you that your faith would not fail you think you on your last leg you are wrong there is a man making intercession on your behalf you think you in here because your friend convinced you to come you think you're in here on your last leg you ain't even on your last leg baby you're just getting started because you

are a starter somebody's praying for you you didn't have the parents to pray that's all right there is a man named Jesus praying on your behalf I don't have no friends Jesus prays for me I don't have no spouse Jesus prays for me I don't even know what's coming but I know Jesus is somewhere making intercession on my behalf oh God I thank you that when I didn't have the the words that you said my name anyway I'm praying I'm praying for you even in the sifting I'm praying for you even in the Weeping I'm

praying for you even in the depression I'm praying for you even in the Weeping I'm praying for you even in the divorce I'm praying for you with the cancer I'm praying for you I'm praying that your faith won't fail [Music] [Music] I got seven minutes my God said I pray for you that your faith should not fail then it says and when you have returned to me strengthen your brethren oh this and the King James version it says when you have converted when you have converted back to me there's going to be a moment where

it looks like the sifting has done its job because you're going to feel separated and disjointed one part of you is going to feel that spark another part of you is going to feel like you're drowning the sifting is going to feel like it's working but when you have re turn to me when you have converted back to me which means that my prayer doesn't mean that you won't have moments where you feel like you're falling apart but I already know the end from the beginning and if you can maintain your faith even in the

separation you're going to return to me and when you return to me you're not going to return to me broken you're not going to return to me fragmented when you return to me you're going to be stronger than ever you're going to be so strong that you strengthen your brethren I don't know who you are but I hear God saying that when this separation season is over for you when you return to God you're not going to return with a limp you're going to return with more strength that you had before you went through the

sifting in the first place maybe this is why Jesus prayed for him because Jesus understood if he can withstand the sifting he's going to be stronger than he was before the separation stronger than you were before strong enough to Str strengthen your brethren and when we find Peter in my text his faith has withstood the sifting oh God and he is ready to step into the fullness of what God knew when he told him follow me and I will make you Fishers of Men We in Acts two and the day of Pentecost has fully come

I'm about to wrap up but this moment in the text was so beautiful to me because we see Peter after the sifting we see that Peter after the sifting is someone who takes leadership in Acts one and replaces one of the missing disciples we recognize that part of what Peter needed to overcome in order to step in the full manifestation of what God knew about him would require that he engage with people who may have known him as a failure before who may have known him as a quitter before I know here you guys probably

do everything the right way child maybe the people out there but some of us cannot step into the full manifestation of who we are to be in God because it feels like the sifting worked it feels like the separation was effective and so we can't move we can't get over who we became oh I wish I could really spend time with you I would tell you about the moments I became someone I wasn't even proud of I tell you about the moments where I surprised myself Peter says I'd never deny Jesus somebody said I'll never

do that again I'll never touch that again I'll never drink that again I'll never do that again and then we do the very thing that we thought we'd never do and yet some kind of way Jesus says that spark that I started in you it didn't die when you quit it didn't die when you started doubting yourself that spark I put in you is still there that spark when I first called you that spark when you were so hungry to obey me is still there you still that person I still see what I saw in

you oh God he sent his son to die on the cross because I still see in the world what I saw in the world when I created the world I still see it God doesn't give up on what he sees because what he sees we don't see we give up on what we see God doesn't give up so good is our God that for his own goodness he forgets our transgressions I don't even see that and you're blinded by who you were blinded by what you done blinded by who did it to you so much

so that you can't see what God [Music] says but God still sees it I still see you as fearfully and wonderfully made I still see you as anointed we don't have to get into the semantics of whether you deserve it or not my grace is sufficient for you I'm just telling you I still see it if I didn't see it you wouldn't be here but your breath your breath is a promise that he still sees it and there is nothing more powerful than seeing Peter step into what God sees oh and Peter steps into what

God sees oh after he failed after he messed up after he denied Jesus he still steps into it what a God what a God what a God what a God God what a God what a God that you would order my steps from the place of my missteps we talk about God ordering our steps as if we took all of the right steps but Gus says wherever you are wherever you misstepped I can order your steps from right there I can order your steps from the relationship I told you you shouldn't be in I can

still order your steps from there I can order your steps from The Pride that you found yourself in I can still order your steps from there I can order your steps no matter how lost you are I can still order your steps and I've watched God order my steps steps I was afraid to take steps that made me feel small and we see Peter oh I don't have no more time we see Peter take this step and and acts to and some people are amazed that they're speaking in tongues and other people are confused and

some people think they're drunk which means there's this chaos happening and some people get it and some people don't and some people hate it you can't wait to step into it for the coast to be clear by man you got to step into it when your spirit is clear last night when I Was preparing I asked God what is the word for Johannesburg tonight and the word last night was Rebel so I asked God what is the word for Johannesburg tonight and the Lord told me the coast is clear the Lord told me the coast

is clear the Lord told me that the devil you saw today that you will see no more God told me the coast is clear God told me it's time for somebody to start moving in the spirit with fresh fire and fresh anointing God told me it's time for somebody to light it up to blaze the trail to say yes or no B God told [Music] me that you'll know the coast is clear not by what waiting for the noise around you to stop not by waiting for someone else to say now it's your turn you'll

know the coast is clear when you finally got rest in your spirit about who God has called you to be oh I wish I could say that better than I said it right then God says I want to give you rest in your spirit because as long as the coast is clear inside of you it doesn't matter what's happening outside of you you're in this room and the coast is not clear inside of you you don't have rest in your spirit you don't have peace in your spirit grief worry pressure expectations can I do it

should I quit can someone else do it your spirit hasn't been at rest in a long time I've been praying for you that your faith would not fail cuz I know it's on the other side of finally coming to a place where your spirit is at rest I'm always asking God like antagonistic questions I probably get on his nerves low key like God why why should I try and convince them that it's worth the vulnerability it's worth the pain it's worth the confrontation and God told me you know full well because your spirit will finally

be at rest so many people have heard my testimony I share it all of the time but I have to tell you that my spirit has had more rest in the last 12 years than I could have ever imagined I thought that I would always torment myself thought I would always be the first person to have something negative to say about me I told myself that it was making me strong that if I hate on myself it won't hurt when someone else hates on me if I doubt myself then it won't hurt when someone else

doubts me I was doing the devil's work for him but something happened in the sifting something happened in the shaking where I took a chance on stepping into God's vision for my life and the more that I stepped into God's vision for my life the more rest I got in my spirit your obedience brings rest your obedience brings rest your obedience brings peace because there is no safer place to be than in the will of the Lord and I'm not just talking about doing something I'm talking about existing and being and breathing in the presence

of the Lord so you're in this room and your your spirit hasn't had rest there are many things that I cannot impart some things God did not give me to give but the spirit of rest I want you to receive that so much cuz there is nothing you can do if you cannot do it from the spirit of rest be anxious for nothing everything I'm going to do in your life says God I'm going to do it from the place of rest I hear God saying don't worry about it don't be afraid don't start thinking

about down the road don't start thinking about 10 years down the road God says right now in this moment I want to give you rest right now in this moment I want your peace to be still your peace has been on the move I want your peace to be still Prince of Peace yeah let it out wherever your doubt your worry your pain whatever you want to call it is taking up place where your peace is supposed to be I want to give you five seconds to just scream it out yell it out cry it

out whisper it out just release it release it release it release it in the presence of the Lord release it release it release it release it release it release it release Let It Go Let it go Let it go Let it go you can't hold on to it any longer Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go let it go and in the last days I'll pour out my spirit on All Flesh somebody needs to bring their flesh to the surface somebody came with their cute Church face but I want to

give you 5 Seconds to let that doubt to let that worry to let that fear rise to the surface because your doubt needs to have a confrontation with his glory because your pain needs to have a confrontation with his glory because your pain needs to have a confrontation with his power let it out let it out let it out let it out let it out let it out let it out like this is your only shot let it out let it out let it out like if I don't release it right here it may hold

me hostage like if I don't release it right now my child might carry this weight like if I don't release it right now my community might carry this weight release it like it's a generational curse like I'mma let out of yell my daddy couldn't yell I'mma let out scream my mother couldn't let out I'mma let out some pain that my grandmother had pin up generational breakthrough generational breakthrough it begins with you generational breakthrough out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water out of your belly out of your belly your belly stir up the

gift of God on the inside of [Music] you rivers rivers rivers I got to go I got to go I got to go I got to go I got to go I got to go rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers rivers where there was a drought God says I'm going to bring Rivers where there was pain I'm going to bring River Spirit Spirit of the Living God God release your peace in this place God let a settling come to these your sons and daughters an establishing Satan I rebuke

you devil I rebuke you I claim these my brothers and sisters as members of a royal priesthood God I thank you that you're not done touching them God I thank you that you're not done changing them and transforming them God I thank you that you're not finish resting on them and so God I pray that they would feel your presence in a way that they have perhaps never felt before that the power of your love that the strength of your grace that your joy would rest on them in a fresh new way God and I

thank you that you've got Rivers flowing from them Rivers they cannot see so God I pray that from this day forward that they would never lose out of their mind that which you have said about them God I pray that you would uproot the spirit of Torment the spirit of Shame the spirit of guilt that has haunted them ever since that day you know what day it is and God I pray that in exchange that you would help them to see that goodness and mercy has been following them may they turn in the direction of

your goodness and their and your mercy may they change their minds bringing thoughts that are not like you into captivity let this be in them which was also in Christ Jesus that they would humble themselves and Obey recognizing that no other way but your way will bring them the peace that they never had I thank you God for a reclaiming for a redefining and then for a releasing May everywhere their feet tread God experience your backup and I thank you God that they get to do it in community can you put your hand on the

person beside you God I thank you for the person they're touching this person who's in their region in their vicinity in their family God I thank you that you have orchestrated for us to not do this Kingdom thing alone and so God as they are touching that person I pray that they're pouring strength into that person that they're pushing faith into that person I thank you God that you dispatching angels on behalf of the person they are touching and I thank you God that as you dispatch angels that you were strengthening them that you're filling

them with your spirit and that they will remember the weight of what it felt like to be connected to a community that has decided that their spark cannot die so we plead the blood of Jesus over the person we're touching we decree and declare right now in the name of Jesus that they will not be forsaken because we have never seen the righteous forsaken I thank you God that their seed will not be begging for bread and I thank you God that as they are touching that person that it's like they're receiving a touch from

you let healing flow through their hands let strength flow through their hands may they experience your love and never let it go in Jesus name I pray amen