Too often we get stuck in the stage of perseverance and don’t proceed to the steps that follow; character, and hope. But how do we find the hunger that is required to move from persevering to becoming and then actualizing hope in our lives? Pastor Sarah teaches on this and more in her recent message “Hungry for Hope”. Catch the full message on the T.D. Jakes YouTube channel. Stay plugged into the Woman Evolve community: www.womanevolve.com www.womanevolve.tv Download the app from any mobile device’s app store, first 7 days are FREE! Want to support this ministry? Text GIVE to (833) 611-9066 FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIALS: Instagram: Women Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts Twitter: Woman Evolve and SJakesRoberts Facebook: Woman Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts
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this ain’t a devil issue
this is a character issue
you don’t believe you have the character
for it
you don’t think you’re strong enough to
build it
you don’t think you can take another hit
you don’t think that you have the
communication for it
you don’t think you have the talent for
it and because you don’t believe it’s
showing up in everything that you do but
I bind the spirit of disbelief in this
room in
the name in the name that is above every
name the name that is above Stout the
name that is above despair the name that
is above weariness I find it I send it
back to hell where it came from and I
say come forth in the name of Jesus I
say come forth dry bones trapos
Dry Bones Dry Bones Dry Bones trap bones
Dry Bones triples Dry Bones trap bones
I’m calling every trap on the back come
back to light shell these bones live the
prophet says God only you know God said
that by accident I expressed it and
because God has been asking your dry
bones to come to life I come to
agreement that if God asked it
yeah
that’s what Deliverance looks like keep
jumping sis I heard God say you’re gonna
jump into the next Dimension keep going
says I heard God saying you’re gonna
swing your arms and look up and they
gonna be wings I say God
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
what we’re preaching about Hallelujah
where are we going family you are the
church you are the answer that the world
needs I know you’re tired of hearing
about shootings but God says every time
you hear a headline I want you to hear
the call up underneath it the call is
saying if you don’t get in position then
we might lose another Soul if you don’t
get in position we might not be able to
save these babies you can’t know
somebody else to do it God said I’m
calling you to be a part of it I can’t
do this thing without you but my God if
you would do it with me we don’t even
need everybody one can chase one
thousand
what sixty thousand of us gonna do in
this thing they say it’s nine million
people in this country what are we gonna
do about
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it yeah
that’s all right
that’s all right
that’s all right
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Hallelujah
break loose
Hallelujah
hallelujah we’re standing under an open
Heaven said Miranda and I dare not jump
back into my notes when somebody just
got what they needed oh God if you’re
here oh God if you’re breathing oh God
if you’re moving oh God if you’re
transforming oh God if you’re changing
take
take my rejection take my abandonment
issues take this Spirit of lust up off
of me remove me from this addiction
takes a taste out of my mouth I’m
ready for it
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foreign
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Romans
Romans 5.
gives us
a formula
for hope
says
tribulation
produces
perseverance
perseverance
produces character
and character
produces hope
what makes
this formula problematic for me
sometimes
I get stuck
persevering
as a matter of fact
we have a culture
that commands
staying stuck
in perseverance
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when I’m not at my best
and I’m being petty
we call it the struggle Olympics
where everyone wants to talk about
how they’re stuck persevering
and without knowing it
we have a belief system
that tells us that perseverance is the
award
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so we don’t even have to move into
character and then to Hope
because right now perseverance is where
we build community and connection
but perseverance is supposed to be a
phase
sometimes
life
gets you stuck
and perseverance
man I’m just trying to make it
I’m just trying to make it
Jesus I don’t even know
if I can move to a space of having
character and integrity and faith and
dependability because right now my only
focus
trying to make it
I’m almost finished because y’all really
rearrange my notes but um
I enjoyed this text
with Mary and John
not just for what happens in the moment
but because I look at the full picture
of her life
I look at the moment when we find Mary
in Luke 1
and the angel of the Lord says to her
blessed are you highly favored amongst
women
he says don’t be afraid you see what
happened is that God introduced a word a
belief system
that Mary was initially afraid of
she didn’t believe that she had the
character for who the angel of the Lord
said she was
and so she battles with this Angel of
the lord it’s not the kind of battle
that we think it is she didn’t fight him
but she allowed the thoughts of her
inadequacy to have a confrontation with
the word of who God says she is
and because she has that battle
we see a different Mary when the
conversation is over in Luke 1 and 45 it
says blessed is she who believed
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when I write
my ebonics version of the Bible is going
to be blessed and she who changed her
belief system
because she was willing to change her
belief system there was a fulfillment of
the things
which were told her
from the Lord
thinking about her where she starts in
Luke 1.
but where we find her in John 19.
he says the angel of the Lord tells you
he’s going to be the king of kings and
of his kingdom there will be no end he
gives her a hope
but something does happen in Luke 2.
when baby Jesus is only a few days old
it takes him to the temple
as is the custom of that time
this hope
that went from a word
to a womb
from a womb
something she could hold
she’s finally holding on to the hope of
that word
and she takes the hope of that word into
the temple
and and one person sees the baby and
then they celebrate it and they’re like
now I can go on and see the Lord
but this man Simeon says to her
something that reveals
that there is a dark side of Hope
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Simeon says in Luke 2 34 he blessed them
and Mary
and he says behold this child is
destined
for the Fallen rising of many in Israel
and for a sign which will be spoken
against
a sword will pierce through your own
soul wait a minute
wait a minute no no no no no he’s gonna
be the king of kings of his kingdom
there will be no end you got the wrong
one he says no he is destined for the
rise and fall of many but in the process
of that hope being manifested there’s
gonna be a dark side of it and in that
dark side it’s going to feel like a
sword is piercing through your own soul
that the thoughts of many hearts may be
revealed
can I tell you something
there’s a dark side of Hope
foreign
side
required
to really access hope