Hope to Bloom X Sarah Jakes Roberts

Dr. Anita, could you come here with me for a second? Can you help me? Welcome to Dr. Anita. I promise I will do this very quickly. Dr. Anita Phillips is one of my sisters in the mission. My sister is in the Ministry. Not if she could. Well, I guess I'll give you my microphone. I'm going to share what God told me to share with these women, but I wanted to take a minute and see if God just put something on your heart when it comes to womanhood and flourishing. and how we take advantage of what God has called us to be, so I see it in your face when I tell you uh-oh thinking about dog poop huh, I know what's going on, I know if you had a child, I don't, I didn't have one card, but you know, I know and I'm a classy lady and this isn't usually my area so I'll ask you to trust me, but the first time we had a dog was probably about 15 years ago.

I waited until we moved. I came into our house with the patio because I didn't want to have to clean up the dog's waste on the sidewalk, so I thought we could take him out to the patio. You can go to the bathroom. I don't have to clean it. up and is going to fertilize the grass because they say that the correct fertilizer is good for us, not for us but for the earth and I want the earth to be fertile and so I had a few months with the dog and I started to notice that the dog poops.

It was still lying in the garden, I thought it was just going to be, you know, I was supposed to fertilize the soil and I'm here like I thought I was going to have to clean it up, but I found out I was wrong, not that it's not good for the soil but the garbage and the garbage the egg shells and the banana peels and the rotten fruit and the coffee grounds all the things we had the garbage is actually good for the soil but not for a while wow it takes six months to two years for because garbage and garbage decompose into something useful for the earth, so what God told me to tell you tonight is that flowers come from fertile soil, good soil and that soil has to have nutrients and they go in there because The garbage in our lives breaks down, but not right away, and a problem many women have is that they are ready to flourish, but they want to turn their pain into purpose so much that they are digging through their garbage.

For its purpose and what God is saying is to pick up the trash, pile it up here, the only thing you have to do with that fresh mess is keep it moist. We just got back from a Revival tour, we discovered something about Hope being water. What you have to do is put it aside, sprinkle it with

hope

and walk away. Wow, that will decay over time until it doesn't look recognizable. It can't fertilize you, but you can't speed it up by going over it every day. spread it out looking for something so you can say oh, I found out this is what I'm going to get out of my pain.

God doesn't need your help, it's a process, just have

hope

and let the Holy Spirit show you where he is. The soil of your heart is ready now to

bloom

because flowers need good soil and they need light and you are putting the light of your attention, the light of your energy in the trash instead of the area of ​​your heart that is ready to

bloom

and so on. God. He said to tell you tonight that poop and garbage that takes a little while but he is getting ready to direct you to the area of ​​your heart that is fertile and ready to bloom so you can put your light in the right direction take your hands out of the trash and listen to the Holy Spirit, you are about to blossom in an unexpected area where things have changed so much that you don't even recognize it anymore.

God is about to redirect your attention and therefore open your heart to this word before you leave. tonight you're going to be looking in the right direction God bless you I love you I could get my phone and the Bible my phone and the Bible looks like Core is going to get my phone to the Bible Hi Coco, thank you sister, like I said We were planning to have conversations woman to woman and just praying and having this time of connection, but God only gave me three things to share with you. I promise you that it won't take long and you will get home and recover.

Rest a little. I'm in John 8. This is the woman caught in the act of adultery. I will keep my peace to think about why the man was not raised and why only the woman is here. It's a full iPad and I think it's connected. But I'm going to focus on Jesus' interaction with this woman and for those of you who are not familiar with this moment in Scripture, there is a woman who was literally caught in the act and the Pharisees come to Jesus and bring the woman . They throw her at his feet and they tell Jesus in the law of Moses if someone is caught in the act of adultery that they kill him and they want to see how Jesus is going to respond to her being caught in the act of adultery and Jesus who I He loves so much how he responds to what people think he should do, he does something so unexpected, he says, then the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman caught in adultery and when they put her in the middle, they told him, teacher, this woman was caught in adultery in the same act now.

Moses in the law commanded us that such was a Stone but that you say this they said proving it that perhaps they had something to accuse him of but Jesus crouched down and wrote on the ground with his finger as if although he did not hear them, when they continued asking him, he got up and told them : He who among you is without sin, let him first throw a stone at him and again bow down and write on the ground, then those who heard it. condemned by their conscience they came out one by one starting with the oldest to the last and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the fog when Jesus got up and saw that no one but the woman saw anyone but the woman that he He said to her, woman, where are those accusers of yours, no one has condemned you and she said no one, Lord, and Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn you.

Go away and sin no more. Holy Spirit, as our time together comes to an end, we know that our time with you is just beginning. I thank you God that you are breathing into our soul again. I thank you God because more than anything we just want to see you and that's why God, my prayer is that this will be a moment where we look into each other's eyes. you and in the process of that we set our eyes on the potential of our future with the protection of our future with the protection of our present and so, God, I pray that you give me wisdom, insightful prophecy and all the things that we need in To know about you, I can completely decrease so that all we see here is you and if you could do it in a quick job, Jesus, we will take everything we can get in the name of Jesus.

I beg you, amen, you know, as I've been thinking. About this concept as it relates to Flourishing, I recognize that one of the most powerful tools I have received in the process of truly understanding my identity in God and truly taking advantage of restoration and recovery was recognizing that many of us think that I am going to having a moment where restoration, recovery or even hope will come as a result of something external happening. If I get a certain phone call, maybe if I go to a certain event, maybe if I hear from a certain person, then I will finally do it.

I have what I need to experience restoration or recovery or to move forward in my life, what I have realized is that when we do that, we often deprive ourselves of the ability to get permission from God to move forward, so we often There are moments in our lives where God tells us I'm ready for you to move I'm ready for you to be free I'm ready for you to flourish but because you're not ready or you think you need permission, you don't You don't move with this speed, you see and you have the urgency necessary for you to flourish.

I say this because when I look at this woman in Scripture and she is caught in the act of adultery, I can't help but think about how many times we come to a place in our lives where we think we need something where all we really need is to give ourselves permission to do it now. Not being confined or limited to who we once were, sometimes what you need is to be able to tell yourself that you don't have permission not to do it. You will no longer be ashamed of who you once were, you have permission to dream, I know you have never seen something like this done in your family again, but just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean you don't have permission to dream it there.

It's something that happens to us when we come to a space where we realize that I don't need to be supported, I don't need to be validated, all I need is a word from God, when I receive that word from God, that's all permission. I need I know there are women in this room who know exactly what I'm talking about when I say that all you need is a word from God because when God gives you a word, it takes precedence over any other word that has been spoken over your life when God He gives you a word He not only gives you a word God gives you a weapon The word of God is a weapon in your life and the weapon is not for those who hate the weapons are for your own insecurities the weapons are because the voices in your own head dissuade you from your own destiny that's why you have to tell the voices in your head I have permission to bloom from that but you are not worthy what are you going to say how are you going to do it that no I don't have permission to bloom from here I have permission to grow from there but they're going to say they're going to think they're going to be mad at you no I can't keep questioning all the things I could be when I have a license.

I don't know who you are in this room but I hear God say you've been driving around your destination like you don't have a license you have a license which means if you get it you're stopped by insecurity if you're stopped by someone's opinion yes a rumor stops you they have nothing to fight you with because all you have to do is go deeper into your word all you have to do is go deeper into what God I told you and I said: I have a license to be here. I know I shouldn't be here after everything I've been through, but my permission came when God prepared me for the opportunity.

I'm here right now. Not because I'm qualified, not because I'm the best to ever do it, but because God says I'm going to give you a license for this season. I don't know who you are but I want to prophesy that you would stop sitting. your license to flourish that you would stop sitting on your license to grow and that you would activate it before it expires because God is waiting for you to make a move God is waiting for you to step into your authority and step into your power and yes, you are going to mess up and You know you're not going to do everything right, but when you start moving, you start learning and you can't start learning until you start moving, so you're stuck here, but God says I have everything. lesson you need in movement I don't know who you are but I hear God say when you start moving I start teaching when you start moving I start talking again when you start moving that's where creativity is when you start moving that's where creativity is strategy is when you start moving that's where the friends are when you start moving that's where the relationship is when you start moving that's where the resources are if I give you what you want right now where you're stuck is going to die because everything connected to your destiny has a movement connected to it if I give you something that is stuck you are going to be stuck dying together but if you are going to be connected to me you have to be willing to move everything that God moves right now the Earth is spinning right now the Moon is turning moving right now the sun is spinning everything I do is moving so if you're not moving you're not moving like God so I have to give myself permission to not be stuck here anymore because when I'm stuck, I can't be like God and be stuck, so if I'm stuck, I'm being like something else, so I need to identify what it is that I'm being, what attribute I've assumed has made me believe. that I am only effective when I am still that I am only effective when I am silent that is a weapon of the enemy trying to prevent you from understanding the power of what happens when you flourish you may stumble but you have to you may fall but you have to do it you may you may have to get up but you have to do it you may not be eloquent but you have to do it you may have to study but you have to do it if you are waiting until you do it perfectly you may never do it God is looking for someone who doesn't mind doing it stutter who doesn't mind doing it get nervous if you don't believe me I'll take you back to Moses Moses says God pick someone else to do it I don't have what it takes God says I'll give it to you as you move to start to move in the direction I don't even know who this is for because that's not what God told me to say and I feel like I've already been preaching about making a move, but maybe there's a woman in this room who still doesn't believe that her move can make a difference.

Maybe there is a woman in this room who doesn't understand that if she says yes, that the generations are connected to her, maybe there is a woman in this room who doesn't understand that when she moves, the resources of heaven support her. , maybe there is a woman in this room who doesn't understand that. when she moves he finds her wings maybe there is a woman in this room who doesn't understand that if she doesn't do it it can't be done maybe there is a woman in this room who doesn't understand that her family is waiting for her to make such a move maybe there is a woman in thisroom that does not understand that weapons are going to form but God made her tough God made her resilient God made that woman stronger than she could ever imagine Maybe this maybe a man who is not that maybe there is a woman in this room that doesn't understand that when she survived what she went through she didn't just make it she distinguished a different person God helped me say the way I hear it in my head that you think you barely survived God says you're tougher than ever You would have imagined you think you were holding on by a thread it was the threat of the Hem of His Garment when you decided to hold on to that thread you drew power and ability from God but you will never know about the power you drew from God until you throw that power in the direction of what God has called you to do and so yes girl, I'm talking to you hey you, it's time for Blue to hate you, it's time for you to rise up and you, it's time for you to start healing, he hates you, it's time to May you take care of your soul with fullness and courage because honey, when you do it changes the way I do it and when I see you bloom I feel like I can bloom and maybe we will become like Mary and Elizabeth and suddenly my baby is sleeping because you you only have the chance to leave when all you could have done was stay back and wait for something to happen when the woman when the woman gave herself permission to flourish I preserved you so that you could flourish I didn't let it kill you So that you could flourish, If you allow yourself to die in seed form, you will never see the fullness of who God has called you to be, so I pushed back your haters long enough for you to get a revelation of what could happen when you bloom, Jesus.

Jesus helps the women in this room trust that you have given them permission not only to live each day as if it were the last day, but to live each day as if it were the last day and if today is the last day, will who do I want? be if today is the last day who do I want to be connected to If today is the last day what do I want my legacy to be if today is the last day what do I want to leave on Earth oh yeah man everything Jesus does in this text is give this woman permission to flourish despite what other people said despite what she did oh God Jesus let me tell you something we don't know what Jesus wrote on the ground in this text the only thing we know is that they hit him with what was written and Jesus says I am going to write something new I know what was written about girls like her I know what was written about situations like this but we serve a Jesus who will write a new law that takes into account where you fail so that you have the chance to get back up so often we read this text and make it seem like if you don't have a sin, then if you're not the first to have sinned and you don't.

She doesn't get a chance to make hers, but Jesus doesn't leave the conversation there, doesn't send the woman back to live as she once lived, and recognizes, as she does, that this woman has reached a low point in life. sometime. He would even say that she has hit rock bottom. The thing about seeds is that they have to go into the ground. The scary thing about seeds is that they go into the ground. I'm done with this woman. I'm really done with this woman in the text. she's running the risk of being thrown even deeper into the ground someone comes to kick her while she's down sometimes when they kick us when we're down it doesn't even come in the form of another person sometimes it comes in the form of another disappointment Maybe she could turn off her ears of someone else's voices, but what do you do when it comes in the form of another disappointment and it seems like this woman is sinking deeper and deeper into the earth, but Jesus does something powerful when he writes on the earth he breaks the earth so that she has another option besides below if I write on the earth I break the earth with a word that gives you the opportunity to re-emerge my prayer for you as we talk about what it means to flourish is that you will not miss the moments when Jesus is breaking the earth so that you have another option besides going down so that you have another option besides despair and if you are not careful because you are the seed that has fallen to the ground you will become so content with being in the dark so content with being surrounded by pain and not seeing the light that you will miss the moment when God shakes the earth that's why we make all of you connect with each other because you could be in a room this size and you're still hiding, but when someone connects with you it's a reminder that you can still Being lifted up again when someone connects with you is a reminder that you are still seen, that you were still known when God sent someone for you and that the ground can be divided and what good is it for us to be in a room that big and not recognize that the woman next to us might be at her lowest point and if she is at her lowest point and you are the person that God has sat next to then maybe you have the opportunity to tell that woman.

I think she is breaking the ground so you have another option. I think she's breaking the ground so you can straighten your head. I think she's breaking the ground so you can be. starting to prophesy I think he's breaking the earth so you don't have to be ashamed hey he's calling you hey you it's time for you to get up hey you're not going to let what they said about you define you for the rest of your life I don't know who You are in this room, but before we go home my task is to let you know that the ground has been broken, that there is still a task on your life and I know that you felt that you have hit rock bottom, but I let you know that every time you raise your hands hands in worship, every time you enter a space of Faith, even when you don't feel like it's shaking the ground, you don't even feel it.

You have to raise your hands in worship. If you just walk into a worship environment, the ground starts shaking and you suddenly recognize that I'm not going any lower, that God is actually lifting me up and if he's lifting me up, then maybe he knows something about me that I don't. I know about myself, so I'll allow myself to stretch. I will allow myself to be strong. I will allow myself to be in connection with someone who sees me beyond. What I did when Jesus opened the way for this woman, he changes the perspective that other people had about her, he changes maybe even the perspective that she had about herself and I know that he does this because what he says to the woman after What are they, this woman left, where are those who accused you?

Sometimes Jesus wants you to see that what you are afraid of, he took care of it and if he doesn't make you see it, then you walk around in fear, thinking that at any moment the accusations are going to come back. I'm talking about the accusations that say you're not qualified accusations that make you feel insecure accusations that tell you your voice doesn't matter you think the experience was the worst thing that ever happened to you it didn't happen to you the worst thing that happened to you were the thoughts the experience planted in your mind they are accusing you of thinking that you deserve what God has assigned to your life they are accusing you of making you believe that you are not who can have purpose and Destiny but woman look around you where those accusers are she says there are none and then he gives her permission at that moment after having received the memory and having received the perspective of what Jesus has done for her to go to don't stay stuck don't hide don't be afraid don't be ashamed everyone has something you deserve walk with your head held high see and then say don't sin anymore that word sin means missing the mark says yes If you don't recognize that you don't have to be afraid of what you were once afraid of, then you will walk through life blindly and when you walk through life blindly, you are guaranteed to miss the mark again because you haven't come to terms with it yet.

You can truly walk in freedom and authority and you will find yourself continuing to fall for the same person, the same trap, the same mentality over and over again because I don't really trust that I am free. I really don't trust that I have permission to flourish I really don't trust that I can do this and that's why I keep failing because if I dare to allow myself to flourish I'm afraid I won't achieve it, but when Jesus gives you permission, he is going to walk with you through this he's going to train you he's going to bring people into your life who understand it he understands that you may not do it perfectly but doing it is better than doing nothing at all and it's better than repeating the same cycle over and over again and then you're in. this room and what I want for you more than anything is that you allow yourself to flourish in a new way to allow the version of you that you have been nurturing inside of you that version of you that has limits that version of you that makes time for God that version of you that truly decides to dedicate yourself to a version of wholeness, well-being and mental health that you have never seen before give it permission to flourish that version of you is what God formed in your mother's womb and when you allow yourself to remain buried and repressed you end up suppressing the best of who God created you to be and the crazy thing about that is that you can still be everything to everyone and I still don't know who God called you to be we don't get extra credit just because we show up for someone else we get extra credit when we show up for We present ourselves as ourselves.

I don't know about you, but I want to continue to blossom into whoever this person is that God has created and there are moments where I'm going to be honest with you where I watch a clip or remember something I said and I think it wasn't even me and God says yes, it was. I'm introducing it to you. because you have only known one version of yourself that you penalized a version of you that you slept with but there is a version of you that I keep through all of this and I want to present it to you I want to pray with you I want to pray for my sisters who are in bloom I want to pray for these tender hearts, these painful memories, that thorny terrain that we believe is pushing our destiny. um, someone in this room fears that there is nothing left in them worth blooming.

Have you ever experienced maybe rejection and disappointment and you're not sure there's anything in your hearts worth blooming maybe you have a chance but you don't know where the rain is going to come from where the sun is going come from how I'm going I think I have something but I don't think I have the environment that will produce it and so I wish I could blossom but I don't think I can blossom I want to talk to someone who I'm doubting what God put inside of them because tonight will serve as a reminder to you that you're not alone on earth, that's why I think God drew me to this Texas, because Jesus falls to the ground and could have said anything.

To the Pharisees he could have used his words, he could have used the spirit of God to convince them, but why did Jesus fall to the ground unless the woman was also on the ground and it was not the Pharisees, it was not the write? It wasn't about the audience, it was about a woman who found herself on the ground and Jesus says I can go down there too and I can write a word on the ground, oh God, may I help you get back up if you are in this room and you found yourself on the floor you are standing but you are on the floor praying but you are on the floor I want to invite you to come here and be with us other seeds strange man T I just want you to feel that presence of other people surrounding you on the floor look at everyone these seats all these destinations I don't know why I feel it's necessary to apologize I'm sorry you found yourself on the ground again I'm sorry you feel this way you had an experience that knocked you down there's nothing wrong with you that's life sometimes we find ourselves doing things to relieve the pain that we know is going to take us down but anything is better than feeling that again so we sex it we smoke it up we drink it we inject it we do whatever we have to do to not fill it up but we know that sometimes surviving it takes us below pain is not used it's what you're trying to do to survive and yet Jesus says I I can be on the ground with you I'm not judging you I still call you Worthy, you're still valuable I still have plans for you You haven't seen yours yet best days This is not over and I hear God say stay in it with me I will never leave you or forsake you but you know how to leave me and forsake me and I tell you that God is saying if you stay with me I will show you how I use everything I don't waste anything I really I can make all of this work for good if you allow yourself to love me I want to pray with you I want to first just celebrate the fact that you are here I want to celebrate even when you came down the earth was breaking and when the earth breaks there is an opportunity for more sunlight hit that seed that God has that seed that is you and let it bloom in a fresh way so that the Holy Spirit sees us, you saw it.

You saw the things we don't like to repeat in our own heads. You saw the things we haven't told any of our family members. You saw it when they left. You saw it when I stayed. You saw when I tried to alleviate the situation. You saw the pain when I tried to separate you saw the cut you saw the frustration you saw the depression God but you also see much more than what I see so Spirit of the Living God I pray for every woman who was on this altar that God you would touch her eyes God that you would touch our eyes in such a way that she would no longer be penalized for that case but that you would give her eyes to see as you see God that she would see herself still fearfully and wonderfully made so that she would still see herself still valuable so that you see that you kept it alive because you have plans to preserve it, restore it and redeem it.

I thank you Godbecause even when she came to this altar, the chains were being broken from her. I thank you God that even when she came to this altar, she was going from being a seed to taking. root God I thank you because there is a sprout poking out of the ground I thank you God because there is a sprout that is forming and I thank you God that while she said yes while her heart moved towards you God that you begin to give her strength and you begin to give it value God, I thank you that this is not the same woman who walked into this room, that this is a woman who is hungrier than ever to blossom into who you have called her to be and therefore Spirit of God alive.

We decree and declare that right now in the name of Jesus in all the places where the enemy took space in all the places where depression took space in all the places where trauma has been mocking her we rebuke him right now in the name of Jesus and we claim it as your territory God we go out to her take up space in the darkness take up space in the pain take up space in the shame God and allow a flag to be waved that says this girl has been restored this girl has been redeemed God spoke transformation of her mind God transform her in the way that only you can do that you would change the narrative she has had about herself God changed her Narrator she is no longer a victim she is no longer a damaged good she is no longer useless but God we decree and I declare that this is a valuable woman.

I speak to the queen from within her and say that the queen is coming. I speak to the princess within her and say that royalty arises. She is part of a royal priesthood that you have. a confidence that you want to give him that no man no job no title could give him this level of confidence cannot be shaken this level of confidence cannot be debated this level of confidence cannot be discussed and that is why God, we hold on to that trust that Demands May it become a part of her identity and as it becomes a part of her identity, God, I pray that You will put her in a position to show up as the true version of who she is.

Put her in a position where life demands of her. its integrity where life demands its value and God when that demand comes I thank you I thank you that you are showing the woman how to say yes you are showing the woman how to obey you are showing the woman how to walk with her head held high you are showing women how to change their language you are showing women how to change the way they see themselves I thank you God that you are lighting up their eyes and when you light up their eyes every woman connected to them is going to see differently because This woman began to look different herself, I thank you God that when you call a woman you call a nation and I thank you God that there are nations on this altar I think you have that there are Generations on this Altar and when this woman sees herself she will change the trajectory of your family your daughter has nothing to worry about her mother is going to experience restoration God I thank you that you are going to raise her as a general in your army and when she becomes a general she will go to war with everything she went to war with her down, you better be careful, save your best Becca insecurity, you better get a revelation because when you let this woman survive, you let an ambassador pass. and I think you have to raise her, I think you have to give her language, I think you have to give her strength, and wherever I go, she's going to see you, and when she sees you, she's going to let you go, and when she sees you, she's going to let you go. let go, it will set you free change into an atmosphere this is not a normal woman this is an agent of change this is not a normal girl this is a girl who went through hell in order to bring heaven to her family this is not an ordinary woman I speak against the normal I speak against the normal I rebuke him in the name of Jesus before he formed you in your mother's womb he knew you you have a personal relationship with God he knows something about you that made him say: I need to separate you , I need to sanctify you and I thank you God because you are going to call this woman to invade cultures and invade industries and invade systems and invade corporations and when she invades those corporations, she is going to raise a new standard and that new standard will make room for every woman that comes after her and I thank you God because she will not give up.

I thank you God because she will not give up. I thank you because the angels are there. I am going to push her back into the game when she feels like giving up and I thank you God that you have not left her and if you have not found her my God you never will and that is why God we believe you for your word and we trust you that it is so and so it is in the name of Jesus seal this word seal this word and let it take root and let it produce fruit the kind of fruit your babies eat the kind of fruit your great-great-grandchildren need the kind of fruit that changes your community the kind of fruit that has a seed, when you bloom you think it will only be you, but every time God produces something, it blooms, there is a seed inside the flower, that means that when you bloom, there are even more seeds.

I dare. that you begin to bloom so that you can begin to evolve and when you begin to evolve you will see that you were always more than a piece of fruit and a little seed baby you were not an orchid so God we thank you we trust you we need you we I need you to not be able to do it Without you and I can do anything with you we receive your presence your word and your truth we call it to water our soul so that we never dry out in the name of Jesus, amen.