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the church girl and me got happy singing

that song no fire can burn me there’s

something about being reminded about the

power that we have when God is working

down on the inside of us and I hope as

you were reciting those words that you

had in mind that thing that’s trying to

take you out because sometimes you got

to unleash your mouth on the enemy

literally if the power of life and death

is in the tongue I want to challenge you

to begin prophesying over what is

standing in your way standing in

whatever it is that God has for you I

dare you to start prophesying that it

would be moved and that it would be

rendered powerless under the anointing

of God that is working down on the

inside of you you know we had such an

incredible Easter weekend and

celebration and as I was praying and

studying

I couldn’t move out of the celebration

spirit and I’ve just been studying about

Jesus and His resurrection and the

interactions that he had afterwards and

God gave me something I want to share

with you it’s not going to be too

eloquent and he long gate it but it is a

word from God and I believe it’s going

to be helpful I’m gonna be in John 20

verse 15 and my subject for tonight is

from weeping to walking from weeping to

walking and I want to talk about how

Jesus came back after he had been

resurrected and how he interacted with

his disciples and even those who were

following him but weren’t necessarily

official disciples and I really felt

like this was important because as I was

studying and praying I thought to myself

why is it that Jesus wasn’t just

resurrected and then immediately

ascended to heaven what is it that he

had to do in between resurrection and

ascension and I wanted to study that

because there was obviously something

that the resurrected Jesus needed to

jumpstart and the people who were

following him and I found myself

studying Mary Magdalene

this is going to be verse 15 Mary

Magdalene responded a bit differently

than the other disciples after Jesus

crucifixion whereas John and Peter went

home and tried to recalibrate after the

loss of Jesus Mary Magdalene started

tending to the body of Jesus and she’s

at the tomb tending to the body of Jesus

but when she arrives there the body is

not there now she’s wondering what

happened to the body and there are

angels there and she’s having this

dialogue with the angels and the angels

aren’t giving her the answer that she is

looking for and then she starts talking

to a man she doesn’t fully recognize

that the man she’s talking to is Jesus

until he calls her by name and after

Jesus calls her by name he asked her a

question and verse 15 it says jesus said

to her woman why are you weeping whom

are you seeking she supposing him to be

the gardener said to him sir if you have

carried him away tell me where you have

laid him and I will take him away she’s

looking for Jesus where has he gone and

she thinks she’s speaking to a gardener

and jesus said to her Mary she turned

and said to him rabble night which is to

say teacher and Jesus said to her do not

cling to me so when she recognizes that

it’s Jesus she goes to touch him she

goes to touch Jesus in the way she could

have touched him before he had been

crucified but this isn’t the same Jesus

she was in relationship with before

Jesus says to her do not cling to me for

I have not yet ascended to my father but

go to my brethren and say to them I am

ascending to my father and your father

and to my god and your God Mary

Magdalene came and told the disciples

that she had seen the Lord and that he

had spoken these things to her from

verse 15 that 18 we see that Mary goes

from weeping to walking and as I was

praying I felt for

prophetically that God is doing the same

thing in so many of our lives that the

areas where we have found ourselves

weeping the areas where we have found

ourself struggling and searching that

we’re going to go from weeping to

walking so spirit of the Living God

we welcome your presence here there is

truly no one else like you and father

when you speak to us we have no choice

but to keep but to become better when

you speak to us we have no choice but to

grow and to feel your love and to have

clarity and vision and so father we

desire nothing else out of this moment

but for you to speak to us if Sarah

Jake’s Robert speaks then I may leave

someone and stray but if you speak

through me there will be no doubt that

they will encounter you when their lives

will be forever transformed father let

this not be a good time let it be a god

time let it be one of those moments that

radically change our lives we turn this

service over to you we turn our homes

over to you our cars over to you our

jobs over to you and we say father have

your way and this time we are together

leave nothing on the table and as for me

father no fear no nerves no anxiety just

your strength and your power standing

tall down on the inside of me in Jesus

name I pray amen

I was looking at this text and as I was

reading it and I told you because of the

resurrection weekend like so many of us

we have been more closely examining the

life in the death of Jesus and as a

household this weekend I have to tell

you the church girl in me was struggling

a little bit because I wasn’t in church

on Resurrection Sunday and in all of my

years from righteous to rachet I’ve

never not been in church on Sunday so I

had to overcome my my discomfort about

not being in church and I told my

children I was like you know what we

should watch we should watch The Passion

of the Christ

because I felt like if we watch The

Passion of the Christ that we would have

the perfect to Good Friday and we would

go into Sunday with the

spirit for celebration and as I was

studying this passion The Passion of

Christ and specifically that word

passion I looked it up because I always

thought that passion was about the

emotion right emotions passion is such a

sexy word right we say it all of the

time I’m passionate about my art I’m

passionate about this relationship I am

in passion passion passion but I really

wanted to study this word because in the

passion of the christ’

it doesn’t fit the usual context that

I’m used to and as I was studying in the

Latin the root of the word passion is

suffering or enduring now that struck me

because now all of a sudden I understood

purpose a little bit better because I

had this new perspective on passion

you’ve heard people say it all the time

I’m looking for my purpose I’m trying to

find my purpose how do I discover my

purpose and people always say if you

want to find your purpose find your

passion because your passion will lead

to your purpose but what do you do when

you don’t feel passionate about anything

nothing overwhelms me with emotion the

way that it should in order for me to

lead to my purpose that’s when I

realized how powerful the root of the

word passion is because ultimately what

we’re being asked when were asked what

we’re passionate about is what you’re

willing to suffer for our key to finding

our passion and ultimately our purpose

lies in what we are willing to suffer

for I can tell what you’re passionate

about based on what you’re willing to

suffer for yes see this is when I

realized why I don’t have ABS I’ve been

wondering for a long time why is it that

I can’t just get my life together and

have the ABS that I know God wanted me

to have when he created me and my

mother’s womb I recognize now that I

don’t have ABS because I’m not pass

it about ABS I’m not willing to suffer

for the ABS I will stay in the kitchen

until 2:00 a.m. in the morning making

pound cake I’m passionate about the

wrong things I can tell what you’re

passionate about based on what you’re

willing to suffer for what is it that

you’re willing to suffer for I want to

see young women become free and walking

the knowledge of God’s identity of who

they are and I’m passionate about that

I’ll do that sick if I have to I’ll do

that stress if I have to not because I

don’t have anything else to do but

because I am passionate about it so

passionate that I’m willing to suffer

see we make passion seem like it’s this

sexy little thing that wakes you up in

the morning and it makes you be

empowered and it makes you confident and

it makes you walk around with your head

held high but when you’re really

passionate

you ought to suffer a little bit in

order to manifest what you’re passionate

about and if we don’t start to be honest

about what it takes to be passionate

then we will have people seeking jobs

and people seeking industries and

backing down the moment there is some

suffering involved but I wanted you to

know that you cannot have passion

without suffering you cannot build the

book and build the business and build

the family and be passionate about it

and not experience some level of

suffering and if we don’t start being

honest about the suffering connected to

our purpose and the suffering connected

to our passion then people will be

disillusioned and the moment they

experience suffering they’ll turn around

and think I must have gotten it wrong

because passion isn’t exciting and

passion doesn’t make me feel like I can

conquer anything that stands in my way

passion feels like discipline passion

feels like saying no when I want to say

yes passion feels like opening up books

and studying things that I have no point

of reference for because passion ought

to cost you something passion doesn’t

come freely passion isn’t something that

they’re handing out and giving free

samples of and the people you admire the

most did not just become passionate

without some level of suffering and we

got to be crazy enough to not be

so enamored by the purpose that we

missed that in order to manifest purpose

there has to be passion and you cannot

have passion without suffering so you’re

looking for your purpose you’re

wondering where it is you’re asking God

about your purpose why did you create me

and I hear God’s saying until you make

amends with the fact that you do not get

purpose without suffering then you will

always feel stuck I want to talk about

suffering that suffering is not

something that we are comfortable with

we don’t like suffering it makes us

uncomfortable it makes us feel like

maybe we’re headed down the wrong path

we don’t like feeling like we are

inadequate we don’t like feeling like we

don’t measure up we don’t like suffering

and so some of us only do the things

that we know we can do well because we

cannot withstand the suffering that

comes with growth and the suffering that

comes with someone telling you you don’t

have it all together and you need to

grow in this area and you need to be

stretched in this area and if you only

do what makes you feel good you will

never get to better I don’t know about

you but I found a way to love suffering

I found a way to address the areas in me

that needed to be confronted so that I

could grow and become more but suffering

it’s not meant to just have you

suffering for the sake of suffering your

passion has to have a purpose connected

to it your suffering needs to have a

purpose connected to it Mary in this

text is not unfamiliar with suffering

because she suffered when she had seven

demons down on the inside of her Jesus

cast those demons out of her because she

was suffering and then she started

following Jesus she starts following

Jesus because now she has found

something worth suffering for she left

her life she walked away from her friend

she walked away from her community Mary

Magdalene is one of I think three women

who are credited with

financing the ministry of jesus which

means that she allowed her finances to

experience suffering as well but she

finally found something worth suffering

for I want to talk about finding that

thing that is worth suffering for

because sometimes we don’t mind

suffering but we don’t receive salvation

in return Mary Magdalene started

suffering because she was going to

receive salvation in return when the

demons had possessed her and she was

just suffering for no reason she wanted

to be delivered from that because this

suffering wasn’t producing anything for

I reckon that the sufferings of this

present time present time is not worthy

to be compared to the glory suffering

ought to have glory connected to it if

there is no glory connected to it then

you were just suffering you’re in a

toxic relationship you’re working a job

that you know it’s bad for you you are

addicted to things you have this

suffering but the suffering isn’t

producing glory and I want to challenge

you in this season to find something

worth suffering for that produces glory

that produces salvation Mary Magdalene

is so lucky because she has found

something worth suffering for man I

wonder what your life would be like if

you finally found something worth

suffering for when you find your passion

when you find your purpose you will not

even be the same person that you are

right now I feel something prophetically

for somebody watching this message that

you are trying to find this identity

that is going to allow you to walk into

purpose and I hear God saying that you

are not the version of you who will be

walking in purpose right now that you

don’t even know what you can take oh I

feel this God helped me to say it the

way you’re giving it to me you’re saying

that you can’t do certain things and

that you I’d never be able to do that

I’d never be able to act that way I’d

never be able to sing that way I’d never

be able to preach that way to have a

family that way and God is saying that

you’re making a definitive statement

based off of who you are now

but when you find some

worth suffering for that you’re going to

become someone you never thought that

you could be that says I’m gonna give

you a vision I’m gonna give you an

encounter that is gonna make you

manifest the version of yourself who

doesn’t mind suffering I’m gonna bring

the man into your life I’m gonna bring

the woman into your life who was worth

suffering for you’re willing to suffer

over people who aren’t even worthy of

who you are but God says I’m gonna bring

someone who recognizes what’s in you and

this time when you suffer it’s going to

produce glory and this time when you

suffer it’s going to produce the next

dimension of who you are

I want to prophesy over your suffering

for a minute I don’t want to preach one

of those two messages where I preach the

suffering away I want to preach a

message to somebody who recognizes that

if I’m going to suffer everyone it go

through hell then heaven better be

waiting on the other side of me that if

I want to go through the

and the downs of life if I gotta face

cancer if I gotta face disease

face it because there’s some glory

waiting on the other side of me I gotta

walk away from you why am i walking away

cuz I’m sorry you’re just not worth

suffering for I’m sorry you’re not

working losing my mind for our own

purpose

my summer turns into glorious Jesus cut

on the growth because his suffering was

gonna turn into something you’re willing

to suffer for the wrong things but I

want to break the spirit of you

suffering for nothing right now in the

name of Jesus when he said that he’ll

cause all things to work together for

your good he means that you’re suffering

now but when it’s all said and done it’s

gonna work out for your good you’re

willing to suffer but things that don’t

give you anything you’re strung out

you’re connected to people who don’t

understand who you are you’re willing to

suffer in a way they’re gonna never

cross you to suffer and I’m prophesying

right now in the name of Jesus that you

would get a revelation about who you are

and you would get a revelation about who

– cause you defeat

and that you would stop putting your

suffer on clearance

I can’t suffer like this unless there’s

some glory connected to it I can’t risk

the best years of my life I can’t risk

my best creativity

I can’t risk what God has given me to

cast my pearls amongst wine if I’m gonna

cast my purse if I’m gonna go in the

hole it’s only because I believe that

ultimately I will reach overflow God

will never ask you to go in the hole

unless there is overflow connected to

what you’re suffering over so yes God

has called you to let go of some

contingencies some proclivities he’s

actually to let go of those and you

don’t want to let go because you don’t

want to suffer god I don’t want to be

alone God I don’t want to have to walk

this thing out on my own god I don’t

want to have to suffer is what you’re

telling him I don’t want to have to be

without passion father says if you’re

not willing to suffer then you cannot

manifest what I have for you

suffering is such a part of life that

you experienced it whether you’re

walking with God are not walking with

God but it is only when you suffer for

God that he causes all things to work

together for your good and Mary

Magdalene she’s discovered this truth

she has discovered that there are some

things worth suffering for I thought

when I was reading this text I thought

that Mary Magdalene had lost her purpose

that she had lost her passion and really

I could relate to this a little bit

because I know what it’s like to lose

your passion it’s not unusual for you to

lose your passion we lose passion when

we’re not willing to suffer for certain

things anymore I’m sorry but I’m not

willing to suffer for this type of

marriage anymore we can go to counseling

we can work and get things together but

I’m not willing to suffer for this

anymore

I’m not willing to suffer in this job

anymore my mental health is on the

decline I’m not willing to suffer in

this manner anymore and so I’m not

passionate anymore you’ve been wondering

where your passion is and I hear guys

saying that you lost your passion

because what was on the other side

wasn’t worthy of the suffering anymore

that’s when I recognized that Mary

Magdalene didn’t really lose her passion

she lost the outlet for her passion

and there is a difference between losing

your passion and losing the outlet for

your passion man we’re in this season

and so many people have lost the outlet

for their passion and what I admire so

much about Mary Magdalene is that she

was willing to see this passion all the

way down to the end she was willing to

suffer with Jesus all the way down to

the end she is one of few people who are

mentioned being at the cross when Jesus

was crucified she follows Jesus all the

way down to the tomb I have to tell you

you got to make sure that you are

connected to people who are willing to

see your passion all the way to the end

god help me you see some people are only

passionate when they’re saying Hosanna

and some people are only passionate when

you are on top they’re only passionate

with you and everything is going the way

that you wanted it to John and Peter no

shade to them but they backed up when

Jesus started to when he was crucified

and when he was placed in the tomb they

don’t follow him all the way down to the

tomb

because they stopped being passionate

when they could predict the end when

people think they can predict the end

they start backing up off of you who I

don’t know who you are but God just told

me that someone’s been thinking that

they could predict your end so they

backed away from you because they

thought they knew what the end was going

to be but because you were still

passionate in spite of the fact that

they backed away from you I hear God’s

saying that I’m gonna give you

first-hand information that I couldn’t

give to anyone else you better watch out

for somebody who stays passionate even

when it looks like it’s going down to

the end because God starts giving them

insight and wisdom that you could have

never imagined there is a mother

somewhere who’s going to visit her child

in jail everyone else has given up on

him but she says I’m too passionate to

give up on him I’m going to see this

thing all the way down to the end we’re

gonna keep preaching this message

whether or not one person logs in or

10,000

you know why cuz we’re passionate until

the end we didn’t get into this because

we liked crowded rooms we got into this

because we believed in what God could do

and I’m gonna sink this thing all the

way down to the end I’m gonna see his

glory all the way down to the end you

may have to pull me out of this room

before I give up on preaching the Word

of God because I’m passionate until the

end I’m gonna be

until somebody puts me in the grave cuz

I’m passionate uncie

am i wanna waken your passion your

passion something all the way down even

when it looks like it’s over even when

it looks like it’s breaking down I’m not

gonna leave you I’m not going first

thank you because that connected me to

you and when you’re waking my hunger and

my hunger is passionate until the end

I hear God’s saying they don’t know what

the end is gonna be here I hear God

saying that they don’t know when I’m

about to switch this thing around they

gave up on walking it out because they

thought they knew how the business was

going to end they gave up on finishing

school because they thought they knew

how the end was going to be but I hear

God’s saying nobody knows the end but

him and nobody will know what he knows

unless they’re willing to stick it out

to the end I’m in this thing for the

long haul I used to say all the time I’d

never be in ministry and then I had an

encounter with God and now I don’t see

there’s no way I could not be in

ministry I could be working at a grocery

store and I would still find a way to

try and minister to somebody because

there are some encounters that you have

with God that makes you say I don’t care

have this thing shifts I don’t care how

we connect changes I’m in this thing all

the way down to the end you see they

don’t make them law you’ll know more

they make people who are to fair-weather

and they back away when things are

looking for somebody I’m gonna see this

thing on me out to the I wish to down on

the inside of you that you would get

home enough and bold enough to start

heaven the enemy you’re gonna have to

chase

you will have to chase me down to the

grave I don’t know what God is gonna

change it but I know that I’m gonna be

there when he does I don’t know what God

is gonna change it but I’m gonna be here

when he does I feel something on that

I feel something on that when God

changes this thing when God sets this

thing I’m gonna be I’m gonna be here as

a witness cuz I know it’s gotta change I

know it’s gotta change this child this

child has got to know God I know it’s

got to change this marriage ain’t gonna

break me forever I know it’s got to

change so I’m not gonna sit back and

just let whatever happens happens imma

follow this thing all the way down to

the end and if I go to my grave God will

know that I never gave up on his word

that I showed up everywhere he told me

to be and that I did it whether or not

people would be there to applaud it or

whether people would understand it

because he saw me all the way down to

the end God you saw me drugged out you

saw me sexed up you saw me all the way

down to my ends and then you kicked in

and now there is nowhere I will go that

doesn’t have your footsteps leading the

way Mary Magdalene she couldn’t just go

back I gave my life to this because he

gave me life and what kind of person

would I be if I turned my back on what

gave me life just because I think is

headed towards the end I’m more loyal

than that

when you get me and when God brings us

together you’re gonna be stuck with me

forever I’ma be in your comments forever

I’m gonna be chasing you down forever

because when God brought us together

he gave me an assignment to see you to

the end and I can see you to the end and

not even be in your realm cuz I’m

praying for you cuz I’m believing in you

because I know that God has plans for

you and I won’t be happy until you’re

walking in those plans with confidence

my job my mission in life is to see you

to the end Mary Magdalene she recognizes

that she’s got to see this thing to the

end even while weeping because seeing

things to the end means that you have to

suffer sometimes she loses she loses

Jesus you see her passion needs an

outlet and that’s why she’s taking care

of his dead body but now her passion

doesn’t have anywhere to go and as I was

studying God told me that there comes

this moment between the end and the new

beginning where it feels like your

passion doesn’t have anywhere to go and

that is the moment when you step from

passion into purpose when you go from

weeping to walking and Mary Magdalene in

this text she starts off weeping because

she has lost the outlet for her passion

I feel this for you you’ve lost the

outlet for your passion and you’re

wondering if this means that you got to

go back to who you used to be that you

have to go and face a life that you

walked away from and I hear God’s saying

that if you’ve followed me all the way

down to the end and you feel like you’ve

lost the outlet for your passion it’s

because I’m getting ready to push you

into purpose you see her passion at this

point was just about witnessing what

Jesus was doing

and now she’s about to go from

witnessing what Jesus was doing to

walking out who Jesus was yeah there’s a

shift happening in her life and she

starts off in this text she’s weeping

but when this text is over she’s walking

and then she’s talking and then she has

become the manifestation of everything

that she had been exposed to there are

some seasons when you cling to people

and then there are other seasons when

you manifest what you have been clinging

to she had been clinging to Jesus and

now Jesus says don’t cling to me anymore

he breaks her rhythm have you ever had

Jesus break your rhythm a rhythm that he

started I didn’t mind you breaking my

rhythm when you were breaking me out of

the toxic relationship I don’t mind you

breaking my rhythm when you were

breaking me out of that job that made me

put myself on discount I didn’t mind you

breaking me out of my rhythm when

addiction was coming off of me but Jesus

has broken her out of a rhythm that he

started because when you go from glory

to glory to glory God will always change

the rhythm of the way you walk she’s

moving into this next stage of glory and

in order for her to move into the next

stage of glory Jesus has to break her

rhythm in this season of your life you

don’t cling to me you’ve done all the

clinging you can do you’ve done all the

gleaning you can do now it’s time for

you to start walking out what you

witnessed man God says I exposed you

whoever you are I exposed you for years

you’re ready for this moment I exposed

you on purpose I shook up your whole

life to expose you Jesus shakes up Mary

Magdalene’s whole life to expose her to

what can happen when you allow God’s

power to work through you God has shaken

up someone’s life he’s shaking it up

completely and he exposed them to things

that they were just kidding

with witnessing I feel this for you I

don’t know who you are you got high off

of witnessing it alone you aren’t one of

those people who said Oh God make me

like that you aren’t one of those people

who said God pushed me into the

forefront you were satisfied just

witnessing and there are some people God

will always use the most unlikely

candidates to walk out his will because

they were just satisfied witnessing I

was just satisfied serving I’m thinking

of that message serve it up Mary

Magdalene was just satisfied serving but

Jesus says it’s time for you to move

from just witnessing to walking when

Jesus breaks your rhythm he doesn’t take

you back to what was he takes you into

what you could have never imagined when

Jesus breaks her with rhythm he says to

her do not cling to me for I have not

yet ascended to my father but go that

was so good to me as I was reading he

says do not but go do not but go do not

but go some of us get so upset when God

says do not that we stop listening and

we shut down because we don’t understand

why we would be rejected and we don’t

understand why we couldn’t go the way

that we want it to go and while we

couldn’t connect the way we wanted to

connect why couldn’t the relationship

work out why didn’t the drive work out

why didn’t the degree work out why

didn’t I get into the school why wasn’t

I able to move into the next city why

god did you say do not and you shut down

and get upset because God said do not

but God says if you didn’t if you

wouldn’t have gotten upset and you would

have kept listening then you would have

seen that there was a but go connected

to the do not and I want to talk to

someone who was dealing with the fact

that God said no God doesn’t just say no

he doesn’t say no and then period

there’s always gonna be a but go

connected to anything that he says no to

and I hear God saying it’s time for you

to put your listening

years back on that I wasn’t finished

speaking to you I wasn’t finished

revealing myself to you I wasn’t

finished showing you who you could be in

this season I had to say no I had to say

don’t do it because you were bringing an

old rhythm into a new season and you

weren’t wise enough to recognize it yet

so I had to break your heart so that I

could show you the magnitude of who I’ve

called you to be you’re upset because I

said do not you’re upset because the

engagement was called up you call it off

you’re upset because the church isn’t

what it was supposed to be and I hear

God saying I understand why you wanted

that rhythm I understand why you wanted

it to be that way but God says I’ve got

a but go connected to it I want to talk

to somebody tonight who doesn’t mind

staying to listen to hear what God is

going to say next it takes somebody

crazy to believe that God is never just

going to leave me out of know that he

may have just paused me but he didn’t

stop me can you imagine if you were one

of those people or knew one of those

people who couldn’t stand to hear no

you’re one of those people and you don’t

like to hear no you don’t like to be

rejected you don’t like to hear that

your rhythm is off you don’t like to

hear that your attitude is wrong you

don’t like to hear that you’re showing

up in a way that isn’t conducive to what

God wants to do in an atmosphere and

sometimes we can’t handle no because we

are in such need of validation and

affirmation that when we hear no we hear

that we are wrong not what we did was

wrong and so now anytime someone tells

us no we walk away and we get in our

feelings but God says if you would have

stayed in that situation long enough if

you would have stayed in that

relationship and at that job long enough

you would have seen that I was trying to

grow you into someone who could go maybe

the most powerful thing we can learn to

do has not asked everyone to be our

cheerleader and acts some people to be

our coach I need someone to coach me

through this may be why our

relationships aren’t working out and why

it’s so hard for us to receive

the the growth that we need to receive

is because we’re looking for people who

will be outward cheerleaders and God

says I want to be your coach and I’ve

brought people into your life who see

what I place down on the inside of you

and they’re not going to cheer every

time you do something there will be some

seasons where they say do not but it’s

only so you can go and this is when Mary

Magdalene she recognizes that I started

off weeping what I thought I lost I

started off in passion but now God has

shifted me into purpose you’re watching

this message and as I was praying I

don’t know I never know who God has

created a message for I just know that

my job is to deliver it but as I was

praying over this message what I felt

more than anything is that if we are not

careful that we will stay stagnant

because we’ve lost passion and we will

think that there’s something wrong with

us because we’re not overcome with

emotion god I used to have all of this

excitement and I used to be set on fire

when it was time for me to get up and do

X Y & Z

but now it feels like suffering and I

hear guys saying that you cannot have

passion without suffering so if you’re

really going to win in this season that

what you must do is lay out every

project lay out every friendship lay out

every relationship and say to yourself

what am I willing to suffer for what is

the glory connected to this suffering

I’m raising these children and it feels

like suffering sometimes but when I see

them begin to walk into who God has

called them to be and to walk with

confidence in a world that tries to tear

them down then I recognize that my

suffering produced glory in my marriage

when I have to admit that I’m wrong when

I have to

admit that I could have done things

better when I realized that something I

did hurt my husband I suffering a part

of me wants to give up but I recognize

that if I give up that my suffering

won’t produce glory so my partner is

worth suffering for because when I

suffer for my partner it produces glory

in our marriage this job this called

this purpose this ministry that God has

given me it costs so much there’s so

much spiritual warfare connected to who

you are and the suffering the suffering

is enough to take you out but the only

thing that is more powerful than the

suffering is you watching this message

and getting set free and delivered and

I’ll suffer for it over and over and

over again you got to ask yourself is

this worth suffering for and if it’s not

you have to ask God well then what would

make it worth suffering for if I was

treated with the honor and value that I

know that God has for me then it would

be worth suffering for can you deliver

the glory connected to my suffering if I

was in a job that allowed me to change

the world without reducing my morals

then then I would say up until 2 o’clock

and then I would go out of my way

because the glory is worth the suffering

here God’s saying stop suffering for

things that are beneath you and only

suffer for what will produce my glory

Mary Magdalene she figured this out and

she found what was worth suffering for

but then she had to move from witnessing

to walking it out that’s where someone

is tonight God says I’m going to start

pushing you to start walking out what

you’ve witnessed someone is qualifying

what they’re willing to suffer for

someone else needs an outlet for their

passion

I hear guys saying start walking out

what you’ve been exposed to you don’t

need someone else to start the Bible

study you don’t need someone else to

write the book I hear guys saying now

it’s time for you to walk it out

Jesus is not resurrected and then

immediately ascended because he needed

to jumpstart the ministry of his

disciples and that was worth him coming

back down to earth for felt like some of

you are about to receive a jumpstart I

feel that for you

hallelujah I want to pray for you I want

to pray that God would bring another

outlet for your passion that he would

jumpstart you that he would remind you

of the joy connected to following him

that he would show you that even though

you lost the outlet that it doesn’t mean

that you lost a purpose I’m just gonna

allow you to reveal this purpose and to

manifest this purpose in a new form

that’s one of the things that was in my

notes I didn’t even get to get into it

but what happened is Mary Magdalene I

thought she lost God when she was

looking for his body in the tomb she

didn’t lose God she just lost access to

God as she knew him and sometimes we

leave we lose access to God as we knew

him but we don’t actually lose gun which

means that we have to be willing to

connect with God in a new way you didn’t

lose God we didn’t lose our ability to

connect with God we just lost access to

him as we knew it which means now I have

to experience Church differently and now

I have to experience worship differently

I got to try a new worship song I got to

try to experience Church in a different

way I got to try to lift up my hands in

a new form because I will not allow

myself to just live in the place where I

have lost access I’ll search for him if

I have to Mary Magdalene she searches

for God God I’m searching I’m searching

I’m searching where are you I’m

searching I’m searching I’m searching

God show up

god I need you I need you I need an

outlet for my passion I need to

understand

who I need to be in this season father I

followed you all the way down until the

end god please don’t tell me it’s gonna

end like this please don’t tell me that

this is how the story ends and God says

it’s not how it ends this is how the

story changes and so I’m gonna pray that

God would open your eyes mmm that you

would recognize that even as you’re

asking him where he is now that you’re

literally talking to him that he hears

every question that you have that he

hears every every doubt and fear and

concern that is in your mind and that he

has a purpose for you he just need it to

break your rhythm so father it is my

prayer that every one who needs this

message would take just five seconds and

opened their hearts father that they

would open their hearts to a new rhythm

that they would be like Mary Magdalene

and that they would be curious to learn

and understand how do I interact with

you now and that father like never

before that you would awaken the passion

of these your sons and daughters that

you would help them to realize that they

were passionate about something that

doesn’t exist any longer but that

doesn’t mean that that’s where their

passion ends that as a matter of fact

they’re about to begin walking in

purpose like never before

spirit of the Living God phone no matter

where they are awaken them like never

before

that their eyes would be open that their

souls would be open that they would

recognize

that you still have worked for them to

do father we need a jump start father we

need to be reminded that you are bigger

than the moment we are standing in that

you have work for us to do that will

outlast the moment that we’re standing

in so father it is my prayer that you

would wipe away every tear that you

would help us to recognize that weaving

may endure for the night but joy is

coming in the morning just like that

you’re gonna go from weeping to walking

just like that you’re gonna go from

heartbroken to heal just like that

you’re gonna step into who God has

called you to be just like that your

passion is coming back

I’m prophesying over your creativity

right now in the name of Jesus

I’m prophesying over your health in the

name of Jesus I hear God saying that

it’s time for you to get back in the

game I hear God’s saying that it’s time

for you to stop weeping over what has

died

so that you can see what has come alive

there

down on the inside of you I hear God say

that it is life and life more abundantly

and that it is available to whoever will

keep listening when I say no that I

wasn’t finished talking

don’t interrupt me with your complaining

don’t interrupt me with your pain I’m

not finished with you yet

I’m not finished leading you I’m not

finished protecting you

I’m not finished guiding you I still

have work for you to do it’s so the

first thing you have to do is to make

yourself open to hear open to receive

and that you would allow yourself to

stay in position even when it feels like

you may have been rejected I want you to

repeat after me Father thank you for the

ability to connect with you Father

forgive me forgive me for giving up

forgive me for walking away forgive me

for not staying until the end

father I’m ready to get back in the game

allow me to open my heart to you

and to break covenant with anything that

doesn’t look like you father I turned my

life over to you and I say I only want

it your way

in Jesus name Amen

listen family I love you guys so much

and I believe that God is going to

continue to give us wisdom and

revelation that is going to see us

through this season but most importantly

he’s going to give us passion in the

middle of this pause your passion is

coming back to you embrace it I dare you

to start writing again to just start

creating again to just get back even

though you thought it was the end I

didn’t think the record deal was coming

I didn’t think the book deal was coming

so I stopped working towards it and I

hear God’s saying pick the pin back up

get the degrees back out get the

application together that I still have

work for you to do and I want you to be

there when I shift things because there

is some first-hand information that God

can only give to people who walk things

out the entire way listen we love you so

much

we’ve got communion on Saturday we’ve

got another powerful message from our

senior pastor on Sunday if I were you I

would not miss one thing that God is

releasing God at this house every week

God has something for you something that

is gonna radically help you build your

life an unshakable life unshakable in

faith unshakable in purpose and it

starts with you plugging in locking in

and making sure that you don’t miss a

single beat we love you

you

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