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hey family this is sarah jakes robertson
i am so excited about the incredible
word that you’re about to receive
they’re just a few things i want to tell
you before we dig into the word number
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what’s up activate family you know i had
to come through let me tell you
something pastor stephanie pastor ebb
and these throwbacks have been holding
it down but i’ve been praying and i’ve
been before the heart of the lord and i
said god i’m ready to activate something
sometimes we need seasons where we take
time to just receive and reflect and to
allow god’s made to be made perfect
within us and i’ve been in one of those
seasons where i’m not so busy delivering
the word that i don’t receive a word and
that means that i am excited about a
word that i did receive because i am
beginning to allow my spirit to function
in overflow my body may be tired
sometimes my energy is depleted but
there is nothing like having a spirit
that is living in the overflow and my
prayer is that as we are together that
god would activate overflow in your life
that god would activate that more that
you’ve been waiting for that’s what i’m
going to be preaching about i’m so
excited
i need god to bring it all together
because i haven’t preached in a while
and when you haven’t preached in a while
it just lives in your head until it
comes out your mouth and you don’t know
what it’s going to sound like so please
pray for me as i deliver this word pray
that god would just make it make sense
for you and for anyone who needs it
let’s get into it family
i am in john 16.
i’m starting in verse 7.
this is the new king james version
and this is jesus before he is preparing
to go to the cross
he has spent time with the disciples
he’s performed miracles
he’s healed the sick
the blind see the lame walk
but now it’s time for him to go to the
cross
this is what we would call in our modern
colloquialisms a plot twist for the
disciples
you see the disciples thought that they
were going to be following jesus
and just being a part of jesus’s
ministry
but jesus has come to a point where he
allows them into the extra layer
and that extra layer means that their
job is done in following him
it’s time for him to go to the cross
it’s time for him to go be with his
father which means that they’re going to
be left
holding exposure
experiences
but no
leader as they have known it
my subject for those of you who like to
take notes or want to come see this
video later
is getting more out of life
getting more out of life the disciples
have experienced more
but now they’re living in the threat
that the more that they have experienced
is going to be taken away
has anyone ever been there
where you finally are living in the more
but for some reason you lose the job you
move to another city someone passes away
and the more is being taken away
the space that they are in when jesus
says this to them
is that of one
that is full of grief
because who wants to let go of more
who wants to go back to the way things
were
john 16 verse 7 begins and jesus says to
them
nevertheless
i’m actually going to go up a verse
i want to go to verse 5.
it says but now i go away
to him who sent me
and none of you asked me
where are you going
but because i have said these things to
you sorrow has filled your heart he says
you’re so sad
that i’m leaving that you haven’t even
asked where i am going
nevertheless i tell you the truth i’m
going to answer what you didn’t even ask
it is to your advantage that i go away
for if i do not go away the helper will
not come to you
but if i depart i will send him to you
and when he has come he will convict the
world of sin and of righteousness and of
judgment
of sin
because they do not believe in me
of righteousness because i go to my
father and you see me
no more
this continues and goes on and on as
jesus begins to prepare their heart for
his departure
how fitting it is that we are
coming upon easter when this originally
airs
and many of us are going to be
reflecting on the crucifixion and
resurrection of jesus christ
but for tonight for this moment that we
are together for this moment that you
are viewing the video
i want you to indulge me in imagination
and let’s pretend that you don’t know
the end of the story
let’s for a moment be the disciples
exposed to more and then losing it
wondering where do we go from here and
how do i pick up the pieces
and it is from that heart posture that i
want us to receive this word
because jesus breathes
fresh life into them
and i believe that jesus is going to
breathe fresh life into you
not after you have experienced the
resurrection not after you have
experienced what’s on the other side but
right now in the tension of the sorrow
in the tension of the loss and the
tension of the confusion
i believe god’s going to meet you
spirit of the living god we welcome you
we welcome you
to confront
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the areas within us that feel grief and
sorrow
that feel disappointment and anxiety
the inadequacy and the insecurity spirit
of the living god
have an encounter with the living
insecurity that rules my life
have an encounter with the living fear
the living doubt the living worry
that shows up in my life
and because you are a living god i know
that if you have an encounter with those
living darknesses within me that your
light will shine so brightly
that there will be no doubt
that those fears those insecurities
those worries and anxieties are nothing
in comparison to your glory
so father let your glory fall
wherever this video is played wherever
this message is heard let there be great
glory god
and may we fall deeper in love with you
because we see
that you never leave us without a next
thank you god that this word will flow
without fear without nerves without
anxiety and that it will be anointed and
appointed to reach every person
connected to it in jesus name i pray
amen
when i was growing up i was born in the
80s but the end of the 80s so i’m more
like a 90s baby there was this movie
that came out i’m pretty sure this movie
came out in the 2000s maybe it came out
in the late 90s
google it you’ll figure it out but this
movie changed my life it changed the way
that i showed up in the world it changed
the way that i saw people and this movie
was the truman show
um i know that some of you are probably
thinking to yourself there was nothing
life-changing about the truman show and
you’re wrong you are dead wrong the
truman show had me convinced that i was
on set everything suddenly made sense i
was thinking to myself i said self wow
these people are actors they’re clowns
they’re not actually real people
the only problem is that i’m about you
know 30 plus years into the truman show
that is my life and i’m pretty sure that
this is real i’m pretty sure that we’re
not acting and that there is no set and
there is no camera somewhere going to
let me know that this is all for show
instead
i’ve begun to believe that my life may
actually be more like
like um an escape room you know
because sis is lost i am cis
sis is confused sometimes i am cis and
sis also believes that there is someone
on the outside who’s got it so much
easier who has figured it all out and is
cruising by while i am struggling
sometimes it feels like i am living in
an escape room is that anyone’s
testimony don’t leave me out here i need
you to type it in the comments me too
girl me too
i went to an escape room with our team
and i’ve gone to an escape room with our
family before
and we go into this escape room and
i’m sitting there
and i realize that it is going to be
impossible for us to figure out how
to escape this room unless we have two
fundamental beliefs
i now believe that those two fundamental
beliefs are also necessary
for us to survive the escape room that
is life and if you think about it we
started in heaven if we live right and
confess jesus as our savior we’re going
to end in heaven so we are trying to
escape this thing and make it to the
other side and that other side is glory
but we got to figure out what are the
two fundamental principles we need to
have in mind in order for us to continue
to navigate this escape room that is
life with this confusion with its hidden
doors with its plot twist with its
details that we often overlook with the
things we have to go over and redo and
those two fundamental principles are
this
one
you have to believe that there is
more
so when you’re in this escape room
a clock is not just a clock
a wall is not just a wall a book is not
just a book you have to believe in this
idea that everything in this room could
mean something important to me it could
be important to how i make it to the
next stage it could be important to how
i figure things out and the issue that
most of us have is that we’re in these
circumstances we’re in our lives we’re
in our communities we’re in our
relationships and we have given up on
the belief that there is something more
connected to the moment we are standing
in we fall into the thinking that there
is perhaps something random or
coincidental about the experiences that
we have possessed but the reality is
that there is always something more
connected to it maybe my job in this
moment at the grocery store is to be a
light maybe my job when i’m at this
facility that i work in is to make sure
that i am helping them to create better
strategies what is the more connected to
this moment
you got to believe that there’s more
some of us do believe that there’s more
we just think that the more is assigned
to other people
that for us we could just sit down and
live in this trapped space because being
trapped is better than failing at more
and so we stay
and convince ourselves
that we don’t believe that we can do any
better that we don’t believe that we can
forgive that we stay trapped in the
rooms that keep us from fulfilling our
potential because being believing in
more is expensive believing in more
requires vulnerability believing in more
means i’ve got to be willing to take
risks and to get it wrong and so no i
don’t want to be in a relationship no i
don’t want to go out for the promotion
no i don’t want to go back to school no
i don’t want to speak no i don’t want to
write the book no i don’t want to start
the ministry no i don’t want to apply
for the promotion it’s not that i really
don’t want it i just don’t want to risk
the vulnerability connected to it but i
hear god saying that if you are ever
going to discover the more that god
placed in you then you’re going to have
to believe that there is more you’re
going to have to begin to pull levers
that you would have never pulled have
relationships that you would have never
had relationships
you’re going to have to have
conversations and communication that you
would have never had before because you
believe that you that there is more
there is something powerful about
someone who has committed to a lifestyle
of looking for more i’m looking for more
i don’t mean being desperate i don’t
mean being an opportunist but i mean not
just taking any experiencing and filing
it and thinking that there’s nothing to
it i believe that there was more to the
reason that i went through whatever
heartbreak i went through god what is
the more connected to it you want to
talk about turning pain to purpose pain
to purpose comes from the belief that
there is more to this pain than me just
surviving it there is someone on the
other side of it where there’s going to
be purpose in what i’ve gone through the
pain of losing a child is terrible
someone started an organization for
mothers who were grieving because they
said i’m not just going to let pain have
the final say i’m going to look for the
more connected to the pain somebody’s
got to start looking for more again i
want you to look for the more connected
to your heartbreak look for the more
connected to your grief look for the
more when you come to this job i don’t
want to just do enough to get by i want
to see where is there an opportunity for
more because i am a sign for more i am
anointed for more anytime i finish
preaching a message i go back through my
head and i think to myself what more
could i have done because next time i
get an opportunity to share the gospel i
want to tap into the more when i’m
serving my children when i’m serving my
husband i’m thinking to myself what more
can i add to your life what more can i
do to make you feel seen what more can i
do to make you feel valued because i
recognize that part of my posture in
life is to believe in more i believe in
more i’m not able to give up and i
didn’t realize this even when i was
depressed as a teenager even when i was
depressed when i dropped out of college
i still believed in more i was
waitressing at a strip club still
believing that more i was going circling
jobs in the newspaper because i still
believed in more god i don’t believe
that this is the end for my life god i
don’t believe that the statistics are
right god i’m going through a divorce
but the divorce can’t go through me
because i’m believing for more i feel
like somebody needs to tap into the
mindset that there’s still more god
didn’t keep you alive for you to be
deduced god kept you alive because
multiplication is still possible and
when you believe that multiplication is
still possible you look at every factor
expecting more you look at every
solution expecting more you look at
every problem
suspecting more
i got to believe that there’s more to it
than this
i got to believe that they’re still
greater for me i got to believe that my
faith still has an opportunity to be
exercised i gotta believe that there’s
more to me than what i think i am i
gotta believe that there’s more than
what you say i am i gotta believe that
there’s more than who they said i was i
gotta believe that there’s more than who
i used to be i gotta believe that
there’s still more connected to my name
i got to believe that i’m still alive
because there’s more that’s why the jail
couldn’t take me that’s why the suicide
attempts didn’t work that’s why the
depression had to let go of me because
there is still more that’s why that
grief had to get up off of me because
there is still more i’m still walking
cuz there’s more i’m still preaching
because there’s more i’m still talking
because there’s more i’m still praying
because there’s more i’m still
worshiping because they’re more and
sometimes more hurts and sometimes more
feels expensive but more feels better
than going backwards so i am looking for
more
there’s more
there’s more
surviving this season that you’re in
is going to require the belief that
there is more
more in you
i don’t even mean more for you
i mean that there’s more in you
there’s more strategy inside of you
there’s more creativity inside of you
and this circumstance and the situations
that you are placed in
are not to give you more it’s to pull
out your more
so when you’re in a circumstance
and you’re in an opportunity
and you feel yourself about to shrink
i want to suggest instead that you ask
god
god if you put me in this circumstance
god if you allow this situation then
there must be more to me than i think
there is so god help me to tap into the
more i must have more patience than i
thought i had i must have more wisdom
than i thought i had i must have more
strategy than i thought i had i must
have more resources than i thought i
have i must have more i must have more
than my mother had i must have more than
my father had my sister would have never
survived this my friends would have
never stood up to this but god you place
more in me and before i give up i gotta
ask god what is the more and when you
start asking god for more heaven starts
opening up because heaven says now i can
give you what i’ve always known about
you now i can show you what i’ve been
thinking about you i’m trying to show
you that there’s more of god’s spirit in
you than there is the spirit of grief
then there is this spirit of insecurity
then there is the spirit of doubt then
there is the spirit of worry
i’m not saying it’s not there i’m just
saying that god’s got more i’m not
saying that depression isn’t real i’m
just saying that god’s got more than
depression god’s got more than anxiety
god’s got more than fear god’s got more
than ego god’s got more than pride god’s
got more i know you got a lot on you i
know you got a lot of shame i know
you’ve got a lot of worry but i’m
telling you that god still got more
grace god still got more mercy god still
got more anointing and i believe in
god’s more i believe in god’s more more
than i believe in my pain i believe in
god’s more more than i believe in this
circumstance i believe in god’s more
more than i believe in the
fractures
the tears and
the pain and the stripping
i still believe that god’s more
is more powerful than all of that
because i’ve seen gods more
show up in my life
i gotta believe that there’s more and i
gotta believe that there’s an escape
that when it feels like the walls are
closing in on me
god i believe that there’s an escape for
this
god i’m stressed i’m overwhelmed i’m
concerned god i believe that there’s an
escape
for what i’m feeling in this moment
god i gotta believe there’s more at all
times
and i gotta believe that there is an
escape at all times
because when i am armed with that belief
that there is more
and that there is an
escape i will not allow myself to stay
stagnant and restricted
in spaces that feel like they are
suffocating me
mindsets and emotions that
tempt me into believing that they are
suffocating me
i cannot tell you how many times
i have found myself in a spiral of shame
a spiral of doubt a spiral of worry and
i turned on a worship song and actually
listen to the words and i was reminded
that there’s still
more
and that itself
brought me to a place of escape
no wonder then we see the disciples
in this moment with jesus
and jesus is trying to prepare them
for a darkness they have never
experienced
jesus is trying to prepare them
for a place they’ve never had to be in
before
and this is the station that they are in
because they have been exposed to more
they have experienced jesus functioning
in the fullness of his anointing in the
fullness of his identity
and yet they’re about to lose that
and their fear is though they have been
exposed to more
is that things are going to go back to
the way they were
but jesus he gives us such insight into
how god deals with us
jesus decides to let them know
that help is on the way
god i wish i could string this together
the way i felt it in my head
before jesus departs from the disciples
he recognizes that he’s leaving them
wide open
he’s leaving them stretched out more
stretched out than they’ve ever been
more exposed than they’ve ever been
we’re talking about fishermen we’re
talking about people who had no desire
within themselves to go traveling from
city to city performing miracles no
desire to tread upon the head of
serpents no desire to be anointed and
now all of a sudden they weren’t looking
for more but more found them that’s
somebody’s testimony right now
they weren’t looking for more
they weren’t out trying to hustle up on
more
isn’t it crazy how god finds those who
are not looking for it and then gives
them a grace and an anointing that they
don’t even know what to do with
more finds them more found moses
more found david moore
finds the disciples
the crazy thing about it all is that the
disciples weren’t even looking for more
they were totally content in their lives
we’re talking about fishermen we’re
talking about regular men of the time
they weren’t looking for an anointing
they weren’t looking for the opportunity
to trample upon the head of serpents
they were perfectly fine in their lives
but more found them jesus comes up to
them and says follow me and i will make
you fishers of men do you know what that
ex that what that reveals to me about
the mind of god and how god flows
through the earth is sometimes more
finds you so that it can pull up the
more that is in you when you have an
opportunity that is on your lap that
feels like more than you can handle i
don’t have the resources i don’t have
the education i don’t have the style or
the eloquence in order to step into this
more and yet more found me anyway you’ve
got to be willing to ask god what is it
about me that you’re trying to pull out
me maybe there is something in me that i
don’t quite understand more found the
disciples and more is finding you more
is coming right up to your doorstep more
is making a demand on you and that’s why
you were stressed and that’s why you
want to quit because you never thought
that you even needed more and now you’re
in a situation like the disciples where
more found you and you can’t give up on
more let me tell you something about the
god that i serve god is so good that he
says taste and see that the lord is good
that means that if you get a taste of
the more that is connected to god you’ll
never go back to who you used to be god
knew that if the disciples just had an
encounter with jesus if they just tapped
into the more connected to their
identity that they would never go back
to who you used to be oh god i feel the
spirit of god on this thing that if more
would not have dropped on your lap i
don’t know who i’m prophesying to but
i’m a drive down your street for a
minute if that moral would have never
dropped in your lap you would have never
figured out what god knew about you but
because that more dropped on your lap it
gave god an opportunity to show you what
he’s always known about you i know
you’re tired i know sometimes you feel
unstable i know you’re wondering lord
what are you going to do with these
broken pieces that i have what are you
going to do with all these random
experiences and god says i’m going to
show you the more that i placed in you
there’s more there’s more there’s more
there’s more there’s more there’s more
there’s more than your past there’s more
than your pain there’s more than your
community there’s still more you’ve
achieved so much in your life and yet
there’s still more there’s still more
grace there’s still more anointing and
because you were sleeping on you i had
to bring more to wake you up because you
didn’t believe in you i had to bring
more to break you up more is trying to
shake you up more is trying to break the
way you’ve been thinking about yourself
so that you can receive god’s thought
about your life god says my thoughts are
not your thoughts my ways are not your
ways do you think that means your
thoughts are better noble it means that
god’s thoughts are more which means that
if god drops more on your life it’s
because god thinks more of you than you
think of yourself and you need to thank
god that he never changed his mind about
you i still think more about you after
the divorce i still think more about you
after the pain i still think more about
you after the addiction i still think
more i know everyone else gave up on you
but god still thinks more of you i know
everyone else is turning away from you
but god still thinks more of you and
that’s why more keeps finding a way to
you you’re watching this message
and i want you to understand something
that i am on assignment tonight that god
told me to activate the more that means
that i am driving down your street and i
am prophesying over your life because
you don’t believe in more anymore but i
hear god saying that he’s got more for
you that he sees more in you that there
is more for you to do
don’t let more intimidate you
let more invigorate you let it change
the way that you show up let it change
the way that you think if you let more
intimidate you then you’re going to miss
that god is calling you to more because
god believes in you
more
i’m calling you out of that relationship
because you’re better than that
i’m calling you out of that shame
because you’re better than that
i’m calling you out of that city because
you’re better than that because i put
more in you you’re not better than
anyone else but you are better than who
you’re acting right now there’s more in
you
so i’m convicting you
so that you transition
out of the shrunken state that you’ve
been living in
and embrace the more
that god has allowed to drop into your
lap
jesus recognizes that the greatest
threat to his mission on earth is if the
disciples give up just because they’re
going through a chat through a tragic
season
this is the moment where the disciples
could give up
where they could say to themselves i
followed jesus
i saw what he could do but that doesn’t
apply to me
and now that he’s gone i’ve got nothing
to work with
instead jesus leaves them with something
powerful to marinate on
jesus tells them
that though i am leaving
i’m sending you help
and when it’s all said and done you’re
going to be glad that i sent you the
help
you’re going to be glad that i left you
you’re going to be glad that i’ve
departed from you because what i’m going
to give you in exchange is more powerful
than me being here with you
this is what jesus says in the bible can
you believe how ridiculous that must
have sounded to the disciples
man i feel great grace on this message
the disciples are already living in more
and jesus says that when it’s all said
and done
if you survive this sorrow
that even the more that you are
experiencing right now
is not going to be anything compared to
the more that’s on the way
that’s a word for somebody who feels
like they have maxed out that they’ve
gone as far as they can go that they
have achieved as much as they can
achieve with the history that they have
and the tools and the resources that
they have had
that word is that if you were still here
if you were still alive if you were
still in pursuit of god’s word over your
life
then there is still more for you to
experience
and you will be grateful
that the sorrow you were currently
experiencing
had the more
waiting on the other side
what jesus says to the disciples in this
moment
is that i’m going to send you help
the king james version says i’m going to
send you a comforter
when i look this word up in the greek
what i saw
was that the word that they translated
into helper a comforter
actually means advocate
we know this advocate as the holy spirit
that means that what jesus ultimately
says to them is that i have to go
i have to leave you
so that the holy spirit can come and
advocate
for you
so that you can step into what you’ve
already been prepared for
oftentimes
when we lose access to
our mentors or we lose access
to those who were leading us
it can make us feel like we are
incapable of fulfilling the mission or
mandate
that is ahead of our lives
it can make us feel incapable
of completing or stepping into what we
have been exposed to
god help me
because we have experienced
exposures
to ways of thinking and being that are
often so far beyond us
that it feels like the only way we can
get there is if i have this person with
me
but jesus says i did not expose you
so that you can then go back to thinking
the way that you once thought
jesus says not only did i expose you but
i believe that it is possible for you to
become what you have been exposed to
and for every area where you feel
incapable of becoming what you have
exposed to i’m going to send my spirit
to advocate so that you can have backup
and belief and trust within yourself
that someone else is advocating within
you
the holy spirit is an advocate
that means that when i can’t make up the
difference
when i can’t figure out the more that
the holy spirit is working on my behalf
to help me advocate for the more where
is the more in this i have to tap into
the holy spirit to experience the more
i need the holy spirit to access the
more i need the holy spirit to advocate
for my mindset i need the holy spirit to
advocate for my prayer life i need the
holy spirit to advocate for me why do i
need an advocate because sometimes the
situations of life have silenced me
the fears have silenced me the doubt and
the worry is taking over in my mind it’s
competing for stage time competing for
air time and yet the holy spirit is
advocating on my behalf advocating to
get fear out of the way advocating to
move depression advocating to get
anxiety to clear its head the holy
spirit is advocating on my behalf and
sometimes when you don’t know what to
pray at all you just need to pray that
the holy spirit would have an encounter
with you holy spirit i need you to rest
on my life holy spirit i need you to
rest over my fear holy spirit i need you
to come into this darkness holy spirit i
need you i need you i need your spirit
to get more out of life
i don’t mean to get more things i need
to see the more holy spirit touch my
eyes
holy spirit touch my mind
holy spirit heal my heart
i need an advocate that is greater than
the war that has taking place within me
i need an advocate that can speak the
words that i won’t speak i need an
advocate to help me
understand how to get through this
escape room that is life
holy spirit
is what jesus says is going to allow the
disciples
to become what he always knew was
possible within them
i was praying and studying for this
message
and i felt like god was saying to me
that the holy spirit is on assignment
again
but that we aren’t always clear about
the prayers that we need to be praying
for the direction that we need from the
holy spirit
and god told me that there are going to
be people who are watching this message
and
maybe you’re like the disciples
and you have found yourself in a
sorrowful season
sorrow is such a complicated word
because though it obviously alludes to
sadness there’s a heaviness connected to
sorrow
sometimes we wouldn’t call it sad
sometimes we wouldn’t call it depression
we would just if we’re honest
admit that there’s a heaviness connected
to how we feel
and jesus says
i want you to understand that this
heaviness
is going to have some
holy spirit advocate
that is going to help you lift the
weight of the heaviness
i want to pray with you family
i want to pray for those of you
who the moment i said heaviness
it felt like your heart shattered in a
thousand pieces
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because you would have never described
what you’re feeling as
heaviness
i’ve got a lot of responsibilities now
it’s not
sorrow it’s
heaviness
but maybe it is sorrow
i want to give you permission to feel
what you feel
because jesus doesn’t chastise them
for being sorrowful he doesn’t punish
them he doesn’t roll his eyes and walk
away from them he doesn’t remove his
word or his promises or his grace or
anointing
because they feel heavy
jesus wrestles
with their heaviness what
an amazing savior we have
that when we feel sorrowful and we feel
heavy
that he’ll wrestle with the heaviness on
our behalf
the disciples went into
this weekend the good friday and
the resurrection sunday with an
undeniable heaviness
and heaviness because they felt like
they were losing more
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i feel like i’m
jesus
i don’t know who you are but i want you
to know i love
you and i want you to know that more is
not slipping through your fingers
that you didn’t just get out here
to be turned away
and to go back to the way things were
your capacity has been stretched by what
you have been exposed to
you will never go back to being the
person you are again
no more than a rubber band that has been
stretched to capacity goes back to its
original shape or form
will you go back to who you used to be
after you have been exposed to more
now being exposed to more and stepping
into more are two different things you
got me there
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but i also want to let you know that god
doesn’t expose us to more to then
restrict us for more
that this moment with the disciples is a
sign that when god exposes you to more
it’s because he’s preparing you to step
into more
if you have been struggling with that
step into more
then i want to remind you that you have
an advocate through the holy spirit
that the holy spirit is waiting to help
you
and comfort you
and advocate for you
in a way that jesus himself said i
cannot do
but if you allow the holy spirit the
trifecta of god the son and the holy
spirit if you allow this trifecta to
work on your behalf you won’t even need
jesus to show up in the way that he once
showed up because you will be so
thankful that jesus left you with the
holy spirit jesus says i’m passing the
baton
the holy spirit has strategy
the holy spirit has peace
the holy spirit has the ability to lift
that weight up off of you
and that’s what i feel like i’m called
to pray for
somebody you’re watching this message
and you’re like i don’t even believe
that i’m a christian i don’t even know
if i believe in jesus
but i know what you’re saying when you
talk about that heaviness
the holy spirit can meet you
right where you are
and when the holy spirit gets finished
working
there will be no doubt that the jesus
that is in me
reached down into your spirit and became
a part of
you so i want you to receive the prayer
to receive what god is doing in this
space
because when you receive the truth of
god
when you receive the truth of being seen
in the truth of not being alone
then it presents an opportunity for you
to also press in closer
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to jesus
and understanding what it means to be
a believer
i’m not even going to call it a
christian
but i believe
that when i call upon the name of jesus
i believe
that when jesus sent the holy spirit
that he sent me help
that he sent me an advocate that he sent
me a comforter and i feel that comfort
right now
holy spirit
what a beautiful spirit you are
wrapped in peace overflowing with love
filled with mercy what a beautiful
spirit you are holy spirit
how excellent you are holy spirit
we glorify your name holy spirit
there’s truly no spirit like you i’ve
been battling depression but there is no
spirit like the holy spirit holy spirit
i believe that when you fall the chains
break holy spirit i believe that when i
call upon your name that you can reach
into the shores of africa that you can
reach into the coast of the uk that you
make it all the way to new york holy
spirit i believe that you can be
everywhere and right here all at the
same time holy spirit i ask that you
would expand your arms
and wrap them around every soul
that has been feeling the heaviness that
comes with
more
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more responsibility more weight
more stress
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more grace
more peace more help
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more comfort for a moment holy spirit
can we be the one
who needs the help
holy spirit for just a moment can we be
the one that needs the comfort
holy spirit we welcome you
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into our hearts into our sorrow
into our heaviness into our grief and we
receive
that your spirit is greater than the
spirit of sorrow
your spirit is greater than this spirit
of heaviness
we’re praying for a divine exchange
that’s all that jesus does in the text i
know i’m supposed to be praying but
that’s all that jesus does in the text
he tells the disciples i’m going to make
an exchange
my presence for the holy spirit
but you’re going to have to release your
sorrow of from losing me
so that you can make room for the holy
spirit
so just like our big brother jesus
we receive a divine exchange
and we say here is our heaviness here is
our sorrow
we receive
the holy spirit as our comforter
we receive the holy spirit as the guide
that will go ahead of us
that will lead us to truth
that will convict us until we become
righteous
that will convict us of our sins holy
spirit you have full permission
to make our sin uncomfortable
holy spirit you have full permission
to remove the opportunities for sin
to remove the opportunities that make us
miss the mark you have full permission
to radically shape and change our lives
so that we look more like what god had
in mind so that we can become more like
jesus holy spirit change us from the
inside out holy spirit hold us in the
places where we are most broken holy
spirit hold us together while we hold
everyone else together holy spirit
breathe fresh life into us
and help us to
walk with knowledge
to be transformed by the renewing of our
mind
because we no longer see ourselves as in
it on our own
or in it by ourselves
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but whenever we feel isolated god
we will be reminded of this word
and of the holy spirit that will never
leave us
never forsake us
and is always available to guide us
order our steps
give us the strength to take them and
the peace to walk away from where we are
now
whether that’s a mental walking away
emotional walk going away or physical
walking away
god give us strength to do the right
thing
so that we can get the more
that you have assigned to our life
in jesus name i pray
amen family
amen
you