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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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amen <3
Thank God for using you to help me