Free to Become - Sarah Jakes Roberts

of um what a beautiful journey it's been God gave me something that I want to share with you and I'm calling this message

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to be a yes and um I'm going to be speaking from Mark nine verses 20-27 before I dive into this, do you? can you give me 30 seconds to thank god for the founder of this church my husband pastor taurus thank you baby you don't understand that some of us wouldn't be in church unless there was a place that echoed what god did ? he told us and that's why I believe you came to be obedient to make sure there was a place to call home we need this church in this city we need this church all over the world it is my heart's greatest desire to see your anointing multiply and I pray that See your anointed multiply through me because I am indeed a byproduct of the grace that is in your life, so I love you.

I mean that Mark 9, verses 20-27 are free to contextualize this moment in this Scripture, Jesus is Upon encountering a controversial moment, there is an argument between the scribes and the disciples and the young man who has been oppressed by a demon with an unclean spirit and he comes in at this moment because there is confusion and Jesus is like what is happening here and someone from the crowd speaks and says the summary of what is happening. There is a child here with an unclean spirit. We gave it to the disciples. The disciples did not know what to do with him and then Jesus says that they should bring the child to him and Verse 20 says then they brought him and when he saw him immediately the spirit summoned him and he fell to the ground and he was rolling around foaming at the mouth so he asked His father how long this happened to him and he said since he was a child and many times he has thrown him into fire and water to destroy him but if you can do something have compassion on us and help us Jesus told him if you can believe everything is possible to him who believes immediately. father of the child cried and said with tears Lord I think help my unbelief when Jesus saw the people coming running, he rebuked the unclean spirit saying deaf and dumb spirit I command you to come out of him and enter him no more than the spirit cried .

It convulsed him greatly and he came out of him and became like a dead man, so that many said that he was dead, but Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose. Spirit of the living God, my prayer tonight is that you may reach Him. your hands and may we arise that wherever there is something that oppresses us, something that prevents us from becoming everything that you have in mind, may this be a moment in which we remember who you are, but most importantly, who we can.

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when we partner with you God, I thank you for the greatest partnership that will ever be in our lives and tonight, father, I pray that you will partner with me, that you will fill me with your spirit, that you will allow me to fix my eyes on Jesus , that I may serve this your great people, God, give me the spirit of wisdom.

Prophecy of revelation and knowledge that there would be no gift that would not be known to me to the extent that lives would be changed. Liberation would break through and there would be joy. and the peace and the power and the healing released in this place rest in us great God who art in the name of Jesus amen amen there is a phrase that is popular in communities where people are recovering from alcohol abuse and this phrase is a uncontroversial because there are some people who believe that it is necessary for this phrase to remain in front of the person, while others fear that being constantly on their mind will ultimately serve as a deterrent, if they have ever experienced alcohol abuse or have been around someone who has gone through recovery, I would.

I've heard this phrase Once an alcoholic always an alcoholic I struggle with this phrase because on the one hand, if you've been sober and back to a place of health, then the idea of ​​constantly reminding yourself that you're an alcoholic feels like that. it could be damaging and if you ever get close to someone super safe they will tell you over and over who the son has freed it's free in fact loose your tongue don't say that anymore but I did a little bit. I have done some research into why this exists and now I understand something that I didn't understand then, the reason this phrase exists is because once the pathways of the brain have been exposed to alcohol, there is a hypersensitivity that makes even the most minimal drink send You put yourself in a spiral so when someone says once an alcoholic always an alcoholic but I've been sober for 50 years I've been sober for five months it's their way of remembering what I've been liberated from if I hold the Liberation in front of me mind then, even though I am sober, I will always remember exactly what I was freed from.

I wish I could say this the way I hear it in my head, it stands to reason that Liberation is as permanent as your practices, so the practices that are connected to someone becoming sober, the practice is connected to someone experiencing a breakthrough, they are as relevant as how often you are willing to practice them, that means you can be liberated, but at the moment you are liberated, but you no longer practice the same things. That freed you, you run the risk of going backwards and it's very easy to go backwards when you don't remember exactly what it was.

I wish I could, okay, let me explain this so often we are so busy getting over what happened to us that we get so far away from it that it's easy to come back to it because we think we're over it, so the sweet spot is to be distant enough like you can remember exactly what happened, but not be in it, but not so distant that you can remember exactly what happened. I've lost it so much from my mind that I'm starting to convince myself that I can dabble in it and not drown here so as not to stray too far from who I used to be.

You know, sometimes people tell you in an effort to stay humble, don't forget where you come from and a lot of times we ignore it, but I believe in our relationship with God that it is important that we never forget where we come from because when we forget where we come from too We forget what we have been delivered from and if we forget what we have been delivered from then we forget the power of the deliverer for the next stage of our life where we may need to be reminded that he is a deliverer, that there is something powerful in it. living in the consciousness of God as the liberator yes, he is a Healer yes, he is a Way Maker yes He blesses us beyond measure, but if I do not remember that he is a liberator then I will feel oppressed, depressed, going through something that It is frustrating me and I will think that I have no way out because I have forgotten all the other times when the liberator appeared and came out of nowhere.

I would dare say that your praise and worship is as deep as your memory that some of us worship because of what God made now some of us are worshiping because when I look back on my life I look at all the ways he appeared I looked at all the Many of you have the luxury of forgetting, but there are some of us who realize that when I say I should be dead and sleeping in my grave I'm not talking about something that is a hyperbole, I'm talking about something that is actually a fact. to kill myself I would have to be locked up I would have to be in a toxic relationship being abused but somehow there was a liberator who wouldn't let me stay in the mess I was in somehow he made a way out Nowhere if I had about 10 seconds in a Good Friday, I would let the people who have been released take a moment and thank God we still deliver it.

Someone you're sitting with may need a reminder that he still delivers. Let me tell you something. I don't know what he has got you, but I know who can put his hand on you and if he puts his hand on you, no matter what he holds you back, you don't have to let go. I tell you, I know that I am a liberator, I tell you that I know that he knows how to break the chains, how to tear down the strongholds, how to overcome the middle of that depression, you cry in the middle of the night, don.

He doesn't know what to do, he knows how to move in the dark, he knows how to get through your pain, he knows how to get through your pain, he knows how to get through betrayal, he knows how to get through disappointment, he knows how to get through job loss he knows how to move when they walk away of you he knows how to move when everything else is still I'm talking about the God I serve I know him as a deliverer I know how he can set me free from me he set me free from the way I used to be set me free from the way I used to be set me free from what I thought I needed freed me from what I wanted to be and showed me what was on my mind desire I had someone in this room who needed a release because baby, you're in the right room at the right time the delivery room the room delivery the delivery room the delivery room is not where you push something but where something breaks For you, this is the delivery room and release is not something we talk about often because we want to be sensitive to where each person is. one on their journey and we don't want to pressure them before they are ready, but without pressuring them, I simply want to illuminate the places in your life where you feel trapped and insecure and you worry that you will always be like this and you worry that you will always be tormented I want to let you know that he still delivers I want to let you know that he still delivers, he is still breaking chains, he is still performing miracles, he is still healing families, he is still restoring and redeeming, he is still showing up, he is still breaking down doors, he is still opening doors that no man can close and closing doors that no man can. open is still delivering is still foreign the goal is to make sure we stay close to the identity of Jesus as liberator.

I'll tell you how I know this is important to God because when the children of Israel walk along the Jordan River. he told them to grab a stone while it was dry while the ground was dry because he wanted them to be able to have this stone for generations to come because he understands that we have a propensity to forget once we are on the other side of an obstacle. that once we were in an obstacle, then he tells them: I want you to take these Stones as a reminder not only for yourselves but for the generations that will come through you of what I did for you, that means that if you do not know God . as a liberator then your children may not know God as a liberator, but if you receive a revelation that God is a liberator and you stay close to the Liberation of who God is, you stay close to who He is in His identity, it is something that pass on from generation to generation to someone who passes on generational wealth and I understand that someone wants to pass on generational jewelry and I understand that, but there are some of us who may not be able to pass on those things, but one thing we will pass on is a revelation of who you are.

God because if I leave behind a revelation of who God is I really don't have to leave you anything else because if you understand who God is you will have everything you need to know and I want someone in this room to know that someone may not have left you a revelation of who He is God, but God will make sure that you don't run out of what you need because God knows how to let you borrow someone else's revelation. God knows how to let you borrow someone else's revelation. Be exposed to who he is in someone else's life, not so you feel like you're left out, but so you can remember that if he did it for them, then he can do it for you, even if he starts with you.

You may not have gotten it from your inheritance, but God says I am going to include it in your destiny because I will do it through you. I want to talk to some pioneers in this room who have never seen it done before. They've never seen someone surrendered to God before, they've never seen someone live a life of purpose before and sometimes you feel isolated and sometimes you feel like you're alone in this, but God says yes I'm going to start. through you I will ensure that it is sustained through the generations because you allowed it to remain close to the Revelation that you understood, if we can remain close to the identity of God as a liberator, we will never experience the notion that there is no way out, There are some people who end up feeling that I will always be plagued by this insecurity, always plagued by this fear, always plagued by this confusion, and if I am always plagued, then I will also always be restricted, there is nothing more. more limiting than the notion that things will always be this way maybe just maybe I will always feel this pain I will always struggle with this addiction If we are honest in this room within ourselves, not even out loud, there are times when we worry Will I always be?

Thus, when we meet this father in the text, he is dangerously close to believing that there will never be a way out for his child. His son has been plagued by this unclean Spirit since childhood. Look, if you are a parent, then you will understand that from the moment you have a child you are thinking about all the things he could

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, all the things you want to see him do on earth and in the world, nothing prepares you for him. moment when you realize that that person you're supporting that person you gave birth to may not be able to be after all and it just takes a little time for something to happen for us to think it's going to happen forever we went through a struggle for six months Lord TeYou have forgotten about me all my life.

Where are you? What is this? I have hurt you? You imagine watching a child for years go through a struggle and you wonder within yourself if things will always be like this even to come to an agreement. That this is how things will always be, there are people in this room who didn't even realize account, but because you stopped fighting for change, you came to terms with the same thing that is trying to destroy you, the same thing that is trying to restrict you, the same thing that is trying to limit you, sometimes we receive a word from God, we let it Here, we are ready to fight whatever comes our way, ready to go to war, ready to get over it, ready to get the therapy. make the tools take our phone number block it get off social media start the business I read someone's email right there you received a new Revelation again but then life happens and we lose that revelation we lose the momentum which loses the required focus and eventually You only have a limited amount of trying and failing and trying and failing before you think this must be the way things will always be, even though the father receives this Revelation that there is a man called Jesus and his disciples. who may have the ability to change the way things have always been, so when we enter spaces of faith and people no longer feel safe, they lose the opportunity to have a revelation of Jesus as we know him in this text because that cannot happen to people and because it cannot happen to people, they cannot obtain the Liberation that would radically change their lives because if they ever had that opportunity to have a revelation of who Jesus is, they would recognize that no matter what are happening. through there is a solution in seeking the Holy Spirit there is a solution in surrendering your life there is a solution and you don't have to change anything about yourself in order to hold on to that Revelation in fact you better come as you are Jesus says that We'll figure out everything else.

What if this man had said I can't take him to Jesus because he has these unclean spirits and he hasn't been cleansed yet and he hasn't? He still doesn't have a perfect little appearance, if he had, he would have missed his breakthrough. I want to congratulate someone who walked into this room knowing that their lives are not together, but I'll go anyway because if I get in the right room, if I go through the right person, if I'm under the right leadership, then I'm crazy enough to believe that. God can do the rest I want to congratulate you sister for being here with your baby because I hear God say that when you get your breakthrough, you will also hold his breakthrough in your arms.

I want to give you some hope in this place that what God is going to do through your life will echo throughout your lives and when you're done echo throughout your lives. In life I hear God say that she will never know the pain that you knew, she will never know the failures that you knew, she will never know that trace and rejection that you knew because you set out to get to the place. of your own healing and I want that to be the word of another person in this place, that if you could get into the right atmosphere where I hear that miracles are happening.

I hear the tide is turning. I hear that God is doing something new. In fact, if God has done something new in your life, I want you to take just 10 seconds to make some noise now. If you are waiting for the tide to turn in your life, I want you to hear the praise of someone who understands that the time can change because if you meet the right person, you could let yourself go. If I know what God is doing in his life, you better be careful who you're sitting next to because the clock might start spinning on a Friday night in Los Angeles. time can start turning before you even raise your voice, before you raise your praise, because you're sitting next to someone who heard God say it's a turning of the tide.

I hear God say he is never a chain breaker. I hear God say they know. They themselves heard God say that they shook off the devil so if you sit next to them there could be an earthquake that spits that devil out of you. I want to preach in this place. I hear God say that Jesus is on a mission, he is on a mission in this text and he is on a mission tonight he is on the same mission the mission has not changed the mission is to take you back to a place where you are no longer restricted where you are no longer oppressed not so that you can simply be free but so that you can be free to become all that God knew you could be so that you can be free to create so that you can be free to love so that you can be free to forgive so that you can be Freedom moved with power so that you can be free to move with authority and that's why he had to raise hell in the kitchen and make you believe that you had nothing to work with because if I make you believe that you have nothing to work with never put it to work, but if you get crazy enough to start putting it to work anyway, I hear God saying that someone is entering his season of becoming, someone is entering his free system.

I hear God say that the tides are about to turn in someone's life and what used to oppress you is about to start respecting you because you found a way to free yourself when God's anointing falls on your life the demons have no more remedy that shiver I have to respect that oil I may have thought it matters for a minute Maybe I thought I had it for a second, but when the oil flows, I have it. What used to oppress you is now what has to respect you because I received a revelation about who God is and now, when I want.

I speak a word that I decree is to sing the Earth and it is established I had no power because my power had been stripped but Jesus restored my power and now where I was once powerless I have authority to tread on the heads of snakes. I have authority over cancer I have authority over depression I have authority fear fear I have authority for this I'm not just made for it I don't do it just because I studied it I do it because God gave me the authority to write this book God gave me the authority to preach this message God gave me the authority to raise these children, that means that any example that is presented to me later runs into some Authority Jesus has to move What is blocking the child from becoming in order to grow? he has to move.

What is preventing the child from becoming so he can walk in power? it has to be removed it has to be removed you came to the Good Friday service and I wanted you to know that something is on the cross tonight because something has to be removed so that you can become just to be undone so that you can become if your undoing has no If you are converting there is no undoing then you are not pretending but anyone who has been converted understands that I had to undo before I converted so I could tell where God sent me, you can pretend undone all you want but the real ones know that I had to undo some things before I could walk in something I had to undo from my lower self. -esteem I had to under fear of insufficiency I had to undo the imperfection I had to undo the sin I had to undo less and it hurt and I felt like I was on the cross but God said it was the only way the only way I become Like if I undo it and I have some things I need to undo in order to be free, if I don't undo it I'll keep going back.

Many of us skip. I want to go from being oppressed to being converted, but the intermediate step is ruin so that I don't come back and when I was praying and asking God what we are going to do tonight God told me that I needed someone to understand that you can be delivered in such a way that never go. back I don't mean that I don't mean that I don't mean that you can be delivered in such a way that you never smoke again that you never drink again that you never have sex with them again that you never go back to who you used to be and I know that you can be like the father who said Lord, I believe, but help my unbelief.

I want you to know, oh God, he kind of touched me. The father says: I want to believe that you can do it. There is a part. of me who does not believe Lord I believe but help my unbelief Jesus does not even respond to what he said Jesus performs the Liberation of the child ask Jesus why you did not recognize what the father said about his unbelief because I want to help people understand how you move from a place of Lord, I believe, but I help my unbelief and Jesus said I responded with what I let him see, what I let them see was my way of showing him that even when you don't believe it.

It doesn't mean he can't do it. I hear God say pay attention to what you see because your next level of faith is connected to what God allows you to see, so every time you see something you have two options and you can allow it. disqualify yourself or you could allow your faith to increase because every time I see that he still delivers, every time I see that he still shows up, every time I see what he is doing for someone else, I am reminded of what he can do for I, the Lord. , is helping your unbelief through what it allows you to see.

I'll let you see some multi-million dollar deals. I'll let you see some restored families. I'll let you watch someone build a family. I'll let you watch someone start a marriage. I'll let you watch someone who's out of business and write a book and you'll wonder God, why are you letting me watch it? God says because I'm helping you build. your faith because when I talk to you I want you to have a reference book of who I am and what I can do so that you can fight that unbelief with a revelation and a testimony, you tell me that I care, but when I look at the history of what my God can do I have evidence that he can appear at the Midnight Hour I have evidence I have evidence I have evidence I have evidence I can't argue with you I have evidence I can't explain it to you, but God told me He was going to do it and then He showed me He knows how to do it no connections no finances no family no support I've seen her with less I've seen them do more with nothing thank you yes, yes, the father says something to Jesus that he didn't tell the disciples when he explained to them what was happening with the boy, He tells the disciples that this is happening to him and he is shaking violently, it is a complete list of things read. your whole Bible is fine, I studied you have to do yours, but he says something in our text that reveals to us that he completely understands what he is facing, he tells Jesus in this text that he is not only tormenting him, not only It is tormenting him. but he is also throwing it into the fire and even into the water he is trying to destroy it.

He uses that word destroy, that lets me know that this isn't just something that's embarrassing because other people can see it, it's not just something that's inconvenient because he. does not act well in public this father recognizes that what is blocking this sun becomes something that is destined to destroy him so many times we think it is just a nuisance when we come to terms with What is blocking us we think it is just a part of life without realizing that it is actually trying to destroy you trying to destroy your destiny trying just because someone else can live with it does not mean that it is not on the task of destroying you do you understand that the father recognizes that this Spirit has a mission to destroy that word destroy means to reverse what has been built when we have our problems, our struggles that we have normalized or have become insensitive to and we are willing to live with them, we do not understand that we are sleeping with the enemy that everything with the that we are willing to live actually has the mission of destroying us.

I believe this Revelation is what made the difference when Jesus performed the miracle because the father understood and saw the unclean Spirit the same way Jesus did until you begin to see what is holding you back as something that is on a mission to destroy you, you will never access the kind of power that will make sure it can never come back because we can't ask God to expel something we still want to keep, so you have to do it. Be honest about what you are getting out of it and you have to break the Covenant and be willing to go through the pain of letting it go.

Something happens in this text that reminds me a lot of why many of us never fully walk in Liberation. I'm shutting down the spirit that's plaguing this child that's tormenting him and shaking him and making him act like a fool when Jesus goes to set him free he says he convulses a lot now we're limited in our perspective because we know who Jesus is and I know that whatever is happening , you can trust it, but if you thought for a minute about being outside, looking at the Liberation looked a lot like destruction, oh, convulse, tremble, faint.

God told me that many of us don't experience Deliverance because it looks so much like destruction I'm going through this pain when I let it go that I'm experiencing this loneliness when I let it go if I'm going to feel pain I just want to be set free I don't want to go through the process of pain I don't want to go through loneliness I don't want to go through losing the Circle of Friendship I don't want to go through losing my identity I don't want to go through the process of pain I don't want to go throughbecause of loneliness I don't want to go through losing the Circle of Friendship I don't want to go through losing my identity I don't want to I want to return to a different city.

I don't want to go through this Liberation process and that's why we give up in the middle of that moment because it seems like it wasn't worth it, but Jesus knew that they could. just wait until the end for them to see that he would go from convulsions to looking like he was dead and then resurrected. It's Good Friday, foreign family, even before Jesus gets to the cross, you're allowing this boy to go through something similar to what he will go through will go through great pain he'll look like he's dead and then Jesus lifts his As he rises again , it struck me that the father reached a stage where he knew what he was, he knew the damage he was causing, but he still didn't have enough faith to really make a difference and yet he had the opportunity to associate with someone so I can borrow their faith, the beauty of our relationship with Jesus is that we are not always going to have enough faith for the mission ahead of us, we are not going to have enough faith to start this business, not on my own.

I will not have enough faith to begin this journey toward wholeness on my own. I may not have enough faith, but when I admit that I don't have it and allow myself to associate with the one who is more faithful, he makes God bless you family, well, I just believe and know that word ministered to you as it always does. Remember to subscribe so you can continue experiencing this ritual. We will send you a reminder if you wish to sow in this ministry that we are reaching. people like you know all over the world and we need your help and support not only to bless people spiritually but practically in all the ways we give instructions on the screen, sow in this and may the Lord bless you abundantly in all the senses.

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