Everything Must Go | Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts

I have the honor today to introduce you to one of my favorite people, my friend Sara Jake's Roberts Elevation Church, we are so spoiled. Sara and her husband Touré are shepherds at the Potter's House in One La and at the Potter House in Denver. I know how they do all that, but they do it and she performs many other tasks. She is a shepherd. She is a writer. She is a mother of six children. Yes. I said six children and she is the daughter of the great Bishop TD Jakes, who we all know and love. Just to name a few things she is, but she's also my friend.

She is someone who makes me laugh. She texts me all the time. I love her very much and you will love her too because one of my favorite things about her is that she is a woman who can preach, many women talk, many women teach a lot. of women share but this girl She preaches and I know this message will challenge you and grow your faith in a new way. So, will you help me give an Elevation welcome to my friend Sara Jakes Robert? Elevation can you make some noise? That's fine with me, can you make some noise for Jesus?

The Church of the Living God You could be anywhere else, but you've decided to be in the present make some noise Oh, heaven touches the earth Make some noise We are your giants in your children Elevation is one of the most amazing churches in the world In the world and I consider it an honor to be here before you today. I've been studying. I have been praying. I want to go straight to the word if that's okay. And I know they've been standing for a long time. time But I'll be standing longer Someone stretched your hands towards my feet.

Amen. I'm going to be in Matthew 26 verse 69. Yesterday I was reading the New King James Version. I was reading the word and told people to sit down and make themselves comfortable if they wanted to. But then I found out that all of you actually stand up for the reading of the word. So I'm going to ask you to honor the custom of this house verse 69 begins and says now Peter sat outside in the courtyard and the maidservant came to him. He approached and said, You were also with Jesus of Galilee, but he denied it in front of everyone, saying, I don't know what you are saying.

Verse 71 continues, and when he had gone out to the door, another girl saw him and said to those who were there. This one was also with Jesus of Nazareth but again he denied him with an oath I don't know the men says verse 73 and a little later those who were there approached and told Peter surely. You are also one of them because your word betrays you. Then he began to curse and swear. I love Pedro. I don't know, men immediately a rooster crowed and Peter remembered the word of Jesus. Who had told him before that the rooster crowed?

You will deny me three times Then he came out and cried bitterly My theme for those taking notes is

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go So God we welcome you to Continue to feel this atmosphere with your word and your truth You are the only one who can take a message and allow it to reach everyone in different ways. You are the only one who knows every need, every burden, every problem that came into this room and you and only you can speak of advancement and power in victory in healing, and for that, father. We welcome you to inhabit every part of this room, every soul that came here because we recognize that when you do that, we are forever changed.

And so we're asking that this be one of those moments where we come out of there and say God, you heard me, you see me, and you know the plans you have for me. God, I ask you to be your vessel so that there will be no nerves or anxiety. Only your spirit is upright in me So that lives can be changed in the name of Jesus Amen And so now you can sit and be comfortable There are very few words that bless my soul as a believer like the following 3 Everything must go Those words bless me not only for the reason that I found one studying, but when I see them in a store, it tells me that God is really taking care of my finances in this season, say God, I prayed for savings and you put my favorite store. sale How great is your mercy toward me?

Everything had to go and that made me so excited because I knew that when I walked into the store they would be willing to discount even more items that I had been waiting for for a long time. So when I went home and told my husband I finally got something he had been looking for. He could tell him. But honey, he was on sale. And so we save money. I didn't spend money Now that I'm a business owner, I realized that when they put those words outside the store It's not just because they want to bless my spirit.

It's fascinating, they actually do it because they have new inventory on the way. and Because they have new inventory on the way. They have to get rid of

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. That is no longer profitable So that what is profitable can take its place What if we, as believers, began to treat our lives with the same level of philosophy that we look within ourselves and said that everything that is no longer profitable must disappear for that? what is profitable can come in. How powerful would we be if we looked at our bitterness and said no? You can't stay because you're taking that place where my joy could be.

What would happen if we looked at our misery and said no? I can't stay because you're taking up space where my purpose could be. What would happen if we started saying depression? You can't stay here. Joy is in your place. You have to make space and everything has to go. This is a mentality that we should have, but since we do not always have this mentality, God creates these situations, these scenarios that force us to put up for sale what is no longer profitable so that it can be stripped and make room for what is. is. profitable When we meet my friend Peter in this text, he is going through that exact process now because we have heard this story so many times that it can be easy for us to believe that He will be okay in the end, but that is because he knows the end from the beginning But imagine me being Peter right now This is not the same Peter walking on the water in front of Jesus This is not the same Peter who was watching Jesus perform miracles This is a defeated Peter This Peter left everything he knew that when he began to Following Jesus was wired to hope he was wired to think he would see signs and wonders all the time and now suddenly what he knew so well he is disconnected from and in the process of being.

Disconnected from that faith, the change in him begins to occur and he is no longer the person he used to be. I know we would like to say that is unique to Peter's experience, but if we are honest, we look back on our lives and recognize that there are Times when he used to be so full of faith. He used to be so connected to my faith that nothing was forbidden. I had faith for my marriage. I had faith for my children. I had faith that that dream, that purpose was going to manifest that it was going to change the world and Now I'm lucky if I succeed day by day.

I used to have faith. I used to believe I could do absolutely anything, but for some reason now, I'm connected in my face to what I love about this. Did they take away Peter's faith and take away his hope? Have you ever had it? Has hope just been broken? Out of your hands. I thought things would be one way, but one phone call, one incident and now suddenly all my faith has been stripped away. I never thought I would be the one to go through a divorce. I thought we wouldn't make it long term, but my faith was stripped away.

I never thought I would be the one who didn't know how I was doing. to make ends meet, but for some reason my faith was stripped when we encountered Peter in this text. His faith has been stripped away and when your faith is stripped away, it changes the way you see the world. How do you engage in how you interact? There are people in this room who haven't really felt like themselves in a long time and if we retrace their steps and retrace their story, we'll find out that it was all because of one incident that changed the way they viewed everything.

I witnessed something and I saw the worst in people and when I saw the worst in people it made me stop believing in the best in them and now I have become a cynic disconnected from hope and every time I close my eyes on the night, I remember that person I used to be But as I prayed and pressed again I felt God saying that everything must go That everything that is not profitable that everything that has no value for what he wants to do in our life has to go, maybe just maybe as we filter through our lives and filter through our memories and our emotions, we will recognize that we picked up some habits, some patterns and some thoughts that we shouldn't be having and that we are out of season right now, where I can't go there unless I clean up back there, Peter is on the cusp of walking with Jesus and becoming the rock upon which Jesus would build his church.

So really, it's not that he's disconnected from his faith, he's not. that he is disconnected from Jesus. It's just that Jesus is changing. And while Jesus is changing. So Peter also has to elevate who he is. Sometimes God just moves on you and it's not like he's lost. It's not that you've done something wrong. It's him saying that everything must go so everything can grow. If I do not move from where you are accustomed to seeing me, then you will become one of those complacent parishioners, and I called you to be an agent of the kingdom in this world.

So I am constantly expanding your capacity. I'm trying to see how hungry you are to hear from me. I'm trying to see how desperate you are for a word from me. So I won't stay within your reach. I'm trying to take you to the next dimension, Peter. I know you're used to walking with me, but can you push through and show me that you've accepted what you used to take for granted? I hear guys say this about you. I heard God say that you depended on faith in one area and that you thought your help came from a job that did not recognize that He was going to be your provider.

So I took your job away so you can see the man. I didn't have to write you a check to make a way for you to make it anyway I hear God say I had to cut some people out of your life because you were starting to worship them and I need you to know that at the end of the day if everything What you have is me, but that's more than enough. There is a larger mentality that is returning to your situation and I had to let go of some things in order to grow and increase within you.

Everything must go Everything must go I will not be satisfied with this message until you leave here desperate to clean up anything that is taking up Unprofitable space inside you every time a negative thought begins to arise until you say everything must go God renews my mind and give me a mind like that of Christ. I can't afford to keep thinking, I'm trying to move towards the brand and I can't do it thinking like the same girl. It used to be Everything has to go Everything has to go every enemy every doubt every fear every insecurity depression No authority It has to go it has to go because I'm ready to grow it has to go it has to go it has to go it has to go It has to go.

He has to go. I'm going to move on but I'm talking to your demons. You have to go. You have to go, you have to go. You have to go. I didn't just come to church to clap and leave feeling good. I came here to wage war on Hale. You have to let me go. You have to leave my country code. You have to let go of my finances and anything that prevents me from recognizing what He can do through me has to clear the way. Everything, everything has to go. All. So my friend Peter is in the middle, walking with Jesus and becoming the rock upon which Christ will build. his church but right now he's lost and he doesn't know what to think because he's been offline and then Peter, I love this because before all this happened there at the Last Supper and Jesus says to Peter before the rooster crows three times . .

You're going to deny me. Peter said, wow, I would never do you, boy. We've been rolling, man, but he says I see something in you that has to come out of you and it has to come out of you so that you can access the next dimension of who you are and so I have to come out. out of the way Because if I don't get out of the way Then you won't deny me and then that problem won't come to the surface And if that problem doesn't come to the surface, I can't build my church is in you So God gets things out of the way so that our problems can come to the surface and I just want you to know why some of you have so many problems coming to the surface right now that you are ready to give up.

So many memories and thoughts come to the surface. But what I love about this is that if Peter gets this out of his system, this denial out of the way once, He will never have to be the person who denied Jesus again. That is if I confront what is in me. , then make room for what's on top of me, it reaches its full potential and I know some of our families and some of us feel more comfortable when we don't let those issues come to the surface because we want to avoid conflict, but as long as it exists within of you then you are in conflict and divided and we have to be united if we want to be powerful in the kingdom because there is enough outside that is willing to divide us and we cannot enter already divided within ourselves and that is what Jesus says.

I see potential in you where I can build my church on you, but firstYou have to do it, I mean, so you know what's in you. There are some things that you won't even realize are in you until you find yourself in situations. That brings that out of you. I didn't know he was crazy. I never would have thought it was possible for me until someone told me something and I thought, wow, I'm about to go crazy because it's in me. But once he got out of me, he taught me something about myself that I can't afford to be. connected with people who bring out that side of me and all it took was one time to see what I was capable of making a decision and moving forward to make sure that never comes out of me again and so when I find Peter En In this text, he's in the middle and he has this spirit of disconnection between him and Jesus and it's funny because right now he's sitting outside in the yard and, like many of us, he's thinking about what's wrong and what's not. works.

And this servant girl comes up to him and says you were also with Jesus of Galilee and it was interesting that he responded and said I don't even know what you're saying for me. This was a testament to how disconnected they were. We can become what we want to snoop around in. Because the worst thing anyone wants to remember when things don't work out is a time when they once worked. I know you don't get mad at people because you are saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit. But have you ever had a bit of a disconnect with your husband and then Facebook brought back a memory of when you wrote that love know on Saint's Day?

Valentine and you spend it super fast as if it weren't today Not today When this A girl approaches Peter and reminds him of a time when they used to have more faith Weren't you with you? Jesus, I know everything is falling apart right now. I feel sorry for someone. Do you remember the time when you were? Really with Jesus. I mean, like when you actually went into your prayer closet and woke up thanking God that you just had another chance to raise your hands and worship this girl. She reminds him in the midst of her most broken moment, remembers when you used to have faith.

I remember when you were walking with Jesus and Peter says I don't even know what you're saying. My mind can't even comprehend in its current state a time when I used to walk with Jesus. I am denying that part of me and When you deny that part of yourself, you reject your own advancement. I can't afford to think about that moment. He says I don't even know what you're saying and then he continues, leaves the yard because what happens to a lot of us is we try to get out of the way of people who remind us of who we used to be because I can't afford to don't let anyone call me louder when all I want to do is collapse where I am now and then he leaves the yard and then runs into another girl And it was at this point in the text that I realized that it wasn't just Peter running away, but that it was God pursuing him.

Because you want to talk about triggered, if I could trigger a moment in Peter's mind when he used to walk with me Then maybe I could get him back into the mindset of what it was like to hear from me Even if I told him what he didn't want to hear Because if I can make him remember when he was connected to me Maybe he could go back even further and remember that I plan to build my church on him. So even in the midst of this brokenness and what seems like the end, I still have a plan even in the midst of this breakdown.

Someone's been in a meltdown and I came from Los Angeles to tell you that God has been trying to get you back to the promise and that lets you know the bet is still on I don't know anything in the circle right now it looks like it's still on foot passing, but I tell you, I know that I know that I know that the bet is still on How do I know? because you are still here and because he is not a man she will love. I don't care what this is. Yeah. I don't care what your account says.

I don't care what your mind says if he said it and spoke it during your lifetime. There is nothing that can wage war against his word. And if I can get back to the position where I received the word where I used to hear from him, then maybe he could help me navigate through this season I'm in before it's all said. and done in Matthew 26, he tried to run out of the courtyard to avoid anyone who reminded him of who he used to be? This is a part that God understands me in verse 73. It says a little later those who were there came up and said to Peter surely.

You are one of them because your speech betrays you. That thing was good for me, girl, listen. Trying to say it like I thought it because I'm on an elevation and can't afford to be confused in this scenario. So everyone be patient. with me? They said there is something in the way you speak that lets me know that you were once with Jesus of Galilee. They're talking about his accent. They're talking the way he starts talking. moved away from him even though he was no longer connected to him, what was around him ended up entering him and started changing the way he spoke, meaning that even when he tried to change his mind he couldn't change his spirit that had been around Jesus But Jesus had sunk inside him.

That means even if you think you have a side of your mind trying to deny it. There is another part of your spirit that knows who you are, that someone's praying grandmother changed the way you spoke, that someone made a mistake and connected with Elevation and changed the way you speak. I know you say your life is over but your speeches betray you. because you still got high in church limping but she's still here. Did you still take drugs to go to the presence of God? I know you told everyone else it was over, but your speeches betray you.

I think you have more hope than you're letting go. I think you have more faith than you would allow us to believe. Your speeches betray you wherever you go. Your speeches betray you. It is saying that you are still chosen. It's saying they're still calling you. He is saying that no weapon formed against you will prosper. It is saying that your heart will be healed. I know you say you're giving up, but you're still writing those songs. As if you were waiting to be discovered one day. I know you said you surrendered but your speeches betrayed you.

And because your speeches betrayed you, I can say that you've been walking with Jesus and he got into you and this. It is the moment that makes Peter begin to cry because at that moment he is reminded that Jesus said what happened. I didn't think he was into me. I didn't think it was possible, but he knew me better than I know myself, and while I'm sitting here having a pity party, he sent these people to remind me that even though he was going to deny it, he would eventually come. align myself with him And when I aligned myself with him again That would not be so that I could once again be the disciple who followed Jesus But so that I could be the rock upon which Jesus built his church That's better than Everyone applauds, but it's okay because What I'm talking about is acceleration.

We are praying for things to go back to the way they were. But God is planning to take what was and speed it up to what he said it would be. Even better than all of you clapping Because I want you to know that there is a generational blessing connected to you breaking that generational curse. That's even better because if they understood that when they were done going through this, no one in their family would ever have it. to go through this again You would start praising God for your children's children Because Revelation wanted to make you think acceleration was impossible But they didn't want you to know about the god I serve So they sent a message through my friend Peter letting you know that you are still a rock that this earth will have to reckon with and there is liberation connected to you And all of this happened when Peter was in his most broken state All of this took place when Peter felt least connected to Jesus, I thought that while Peter was crying, the Heaven rejoiced.

It seems like an oxymoron, but the moment that denial occurred and he rose from it, the moment he had hit rock bottom, I can't go any lower than this. And God said. That's great because the lower you are, the deeper your base can be and I'm trying to put some weight on top of you and I can't add that weight to a weak version of you. I must add that weight to the humbler version. Who you are I have to add that weight to the most broken version of who you are, so the deeper you are broken, the greater that foundation will be.

Why do you need a great foundation? Because there are great heights connected with your name and if God had blessed you when you wanted him to bless you you would have flirted with pride and ego and you would have thought that you were doing something to earn yourself where you are but he wanted you to do it. Being so disconnected from where you once were That when he picked you up there was no doubt in your mind that if it hadn't been for the grace of God That he was on my side. I know who I am and I know where I am has nothing to do with who I am because I'm crazy and I'm friends and all my peers and he chose to use me anyway.

I know he had to change his mentality. that everything must go and when I despaired For more of him and nothing of me. That's when I became the vessel he could use I know who I am I don't deserve it I couldn't have earned it But still the reckless come on someone the reckless love of God chased me He chased me It takes me from the yard to outside the yard and He reminded me that you were with Jesus before he formed you in your mother's womb. I knew you. You were with me, you belong to me and don't let this world make you think that you are no longer part of me.

I'm trying to take you back to the first time I saw you. And in order to do so, do we have to let go of what has been imposed on us? What our emotions and our experience make us believe and that is why here we are Offering ourselves as a living sacrifice an additional presence of God in this place That it is time for us to constantly remember That I am a living sacrifice I hear God say that it is It is time for us to return to the heart posture of worship where I wake up every morning and open myself in such a way that I said God.

There is nothing off limits Not this bitterness nor this brokenness Because bitterness feels like warmth when you're afraid to trust other people, but you need other people to be able to succeed in this thing called life, so you're going to have to be. willing to Trust again and open your heart again. You're going to have to believe that he makes all things new and so Peter became new in that moment when he remembered what God said. He remembered what Jesus said about him and all he wanted to do when I came here is remember. of what Jesus has told you and to remind you that no matter how disconnected you feel from that word that he promised you that you will achieve it That your heart will be healed That your children will be saved there is a lane in which it is cultivated that only you can feeling like you don't have to be jealous of anyone's success or envious of anyone else.

I promise you I still have you. And all I'm waiting for you to do is give me free rein inside you so I can make room for what I want to pour into you. I hear God say that your capacity is about to increase in a way you never thought was possible. And I had to increase your capacity on the side that breaks you down to make more room. That's really good. I feel like for someone I had to end it with a sharper Ability and I did it by breaking you. You are now stronger than you ever thought you would be.

I know it doesn't seem like it because you are at your most broken, but I feel the strength returning to you. I feel the resources coming back to you. There are people who have conversations about you, nothing about who you are right now, but the person who called you to be that person is still inside of you, and as long as you have breath in your lungs, as long as your heart is still beating. then there is a greater version of you still ahead and when you decide that Everything in me that is stopping me from reaching the next version of me has to get out of the way You have to let me go You have to let me go I have to get my mind back in the game.

You have to let me go. I have to fight for my marriage again. The anguish has to let me go. I must be okay because you walked away from me. I must forgive you. I have to let it go. He has to go. It has to disappear because it prevents me from knowing it. It stops me from having this bigger thing in me. He has to go. Yes that's fine. Can I give a person in need 10 seconds to worship? make a divine exchange with heaven. Ask God to make space for Time inside. I know you're ready to have your brunch.

But if I could give that person who needs it 10 seconds Maybe 30 seconds To raise my hands and worship and profess with my mouth That I no longer want to fall in love with this pain I want to discover the purpose behind this heartbreak. I want to know why you kept me alive God, I want to know why I'm still in this. I want to know why I still have passion. I should have given up. Everyone else rejected my eyes. Let those passionate about your kingdom come to the criminal justice system? I tell him passionately that you collected comments in the industry that he is, please, please give me a divine exchange.

Of your spirit Let it tear down my walls Let it stop every thought that is not a reflection of who you are God I need your spirit to forgive God I need your spirit to break addiction. I can't do it alone. I tried and I've still been inthis, but if you could say a word situ spirit would breathe into me I'm crazy enough to believe it would push away Generational curses that would help me forgive I'm crazy enough to believe you're still in the miracle business and some people I need see him. I need it to be a miracle.

I want to look at my soul and wonder how I got over it. How did I get over you leaving me? It will be by the grace of God, how I overcame the loss of my Family and I will say it will be by the grace of God and not only did he overcome me but he restored everything I have lost in the fight Although I can get my life back I thought the cancer would I had carried her, but I look back upon my soul and see that the cancer lay upon me join Me For me With the spoken spirit of the Living God We need you The next dimension of you I know who you used to be and that was great for who I used to be But I need to know who you are now So I can be everything I need to be now And so, God, I ask you to begin to fill us with fresh fire Fresh fire Yes, fresh fire and may that fire consume everything in us that is not profitable For the version of us that you called us to be God, fresh fire.

Let it fall from the sky. Not next week or a year from now, let fresh fire fall right now if I had two or three people who were willing to call upon the sky for fresh fire. I don't even need everyone to do it. We can do it on your behalf. Fresh fire in my bones. Be still in my bones God, let it consume every part of me I need a fresh fire, oh God I want to burn for you like never before I want my marriage to burn for you Let my family burn for you.

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