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hey family i’m pt

pastor toray roberts i’m the lead pastor

of the potter’s house at 1la

and denver on behalf of my wife pastor

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good morning good afternoon good evening

i don’t know where you’re watching from

but i just want to take a moment

and invite you to really allow your soul

to receive

that heaven is speaking a better word

over your life

who would you be if you just took a

moment

amidst all the words that are swirling

in your mind

words of discouragement words of fear

words of stress

and acts heaven what is that better word

assigned to my life

sometimes we ask god for the wrong

things we ask god to

help take it away but instead i think

what we should be asking is god what is

the better word

god what is the better word you have

over my marriage

what is the better word you have over my

identity what is the better word that

you have over my art

god i want to understand what your

better word is i know what stress is

saying i know what fear is saying i know

what doubt is saying

but what does the better word said i’ll

tell you the brother word says that

you’re fearfully and wonderfully made

the better word says that no weapon

formed against you will prosper

the better word says that i’ve given you

strength for this race

the better word says that if you hold on

to that mustard seed faith

that i’ll multiply it over time that

better word has been speaking

but sometimes we have to silence the

noise to tap into

the better word my prayer for this

moment

is that you would receive a better word

i love this song part of it says that

it’s rewriting

my history it’s rewriting my destiny

it’s a better word connected to who i am

and i know what the past said that my

eyes are looking forward to the destiny

that god has for me

so god we thank you that you always

speak a better word

that’s what i’m hoping that this message

will represent for you

a better word regarding your

circumstance a better word regarding

where you are in your life right now

you know i studied and i prayed and i

believe that god’s got an impartation

he wants to give us so if you’re ready

can you type it in the comments

type it in the chat room i’m ready i’m

ready i’m ready i’m ready i’m ready

i’m gonna be in matthew verse 16

chapter 16 chapter 16 verse 21

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and just to give you a little background

jesus has gone from the jesus who was

gathering disciples

he’s transitioned even from that jesus

who was performing miracles

and now we’re being introduced to a new

version

of jesus this is the version of jesus

that is preparing for the cross

there’s a transition that’s taken place

and i wanted to study this transition

with you in mind because i believe

that we are in another transition

and whenever we are in a transition it’s

interesting to study what god does and

who

we have to become in the middle of those

transitions and so the disciples

have to move as jesus moves and i want

to dissect this moment

between jesus and peter when jesus and

peter have

an argument verse 21 begins it says from

that time

jesus began to show his disciples

that he must go to jerusalem and suffer

many things from the elders

and chief priests and scribes

and be killed and be raised on the third

day

then peter took him aside and began to

rebuke him

saying far be it from you

lord this shall not happen to you but he

turned and said to peter get behind me

satan you are an offense to me for you

are not

mindful of the things of god but the

things

of men then jesus said to his disciples

if anyone desert

desires to come after me let him deny

himself and take up his cross

and follow me for whoever desires to

save his life will lose it but whoever

loses his life for my sake will find it

i want to talk to you today about

letting yourself go

let yourself go if you like to take

notes and you want to

put it at the top of your journal on top

of the notes in your phone

let yourself go let yourself go that’s

speaking to somebody already you don’t

even know why but it just hits you in

your core

let’s dig into this father we receive

every word assigned to this moment

we received that you four knew that we

would be in this time in this situation

in this year in this heartbreak in this

business in this deal you knew it all

and father what we desire more than

anything is the better word connected to

it

father i pray that you would give me

wisdom insight and revelation

that you would allow all of heaven’s

resources to back this word up and that

there would be a

flow that the current would be so strong

that it would meet each and every person

who hears this word

right where they are and moves them to

where they are supposed to be father i

thank you

that it is already in your will to

deliver and so we align with what you

want to do in heaven

in jesus name i pray amen

type it in the comments amen amen amen

when church is

back in person i promise you i’m gonna

be i’mma have the loudest amen ever it’s

gonna be ignorant

you know how there was always that one

person in church who talked too loud i’m

going to be

that one person i cannot wait for the

release of my vocal cords i’m loud i’m

singing all the worship songs

i got a strong amen do not sit next to

me make sure you socially distance

because your eardrums are going to need

it

you know i was uh looking at this

message i was praying and studying and

it honestly reminds me of something that

my daughter likes to do all of the time

someone i don’t know who it is bought

her this brain teaser book

for christmas and she loves brain

teasers

i mean and i do too like who doesn’t

love a brain teaser

actually pulled one for you guys i want

you all to put your mind on this one

right okay so

here we go are you ready brain teaser a

man

stands on one side of a river his dog

on the other the man calls his dog who

immediately crosses the river without

getting wet

and without using a bridge or a boat

how did the dog do it the dog doesn’t

get wet

the dog doesn’t use a bridge the dog

doesn’t use a boat

how did the dog cross the river

to pause for you to think about it right

because you’re like scratching your head

someone already googled it and has the

answer in the chat

don’t be that person okay the river was

frozen that’s the brain teaser i love

brain teasers because you are constantly

stretching your mind

trying to figure out how is it possible

that this is going to happen

and then the answer is always right in

front of your face but first

it stretches your mind and you end up

confused

but every now and then it clicks

i love brain teasers for fun i love them

for spending time with my daughter i

don’t love brain teasers for destiny

and yet if i am honest there are moments

when i feel like god gives me

a brain teaser where god speaks a word

that suggests i’m going to be okay when

i feel like i’m falling apart that feels

like

a brain teaser that god would tell me

that i can move and function and operate

in this industry and yet i don’t feel

equipped i don’t have the background i

don’t have the connection this feels

like

a brain teaser you’re healed but i feel

sick that’s

a brain teaser you’re gonna make it

through this but i feel like

i’m weaker than i’ve ever been this is a

brain teaser and yet

scripture promises us in first

corinthians 1 and 27

that god uses brain teasers god uses

the foolish things of the world to

confound the wise that’s

a brain teaser that’s why when god

speaks a word

that word is not for your brain

as a matter of fact i’m praying that

even right now in this moment

that you would eliminate your need for

your mind to make sense of what god said

and instead allow that word to hit your

spirit

god speaks in spirit what he does first

happens in the spirit realm

and then touches down into the physical

and so when you receive a word the worst

thing that you can do

is try to make sense of it with your

mind what you have to do instead

is think to yourself i’m going to allow

this to hit my

spirit i’m not going to allow it to hit

my bank account i’m not going to allow

it to hit that excel sheet

i’m not going to ask that it be put in a

contract i want my

spirit to receive this first see when

your spirit learns to receive what god

says

nothing else makes sense nothing else

matters because it moves your heart

posture into a position where your

spirit has come into alignment with what

god says

some of us get stuck because our mind is

trying to figure out what our spirit has

to receive first

i hear god saying that if your spirit

would receive it then your mind could

follow and have the creativity connected

to produce it

i’m going to say that again for somebody

if your spirit can

receive it first the strategy and

creativity that would allow it to be

manifested will

follow because your spirit received it

first when your spirit receives the

breakthrough your mind starts looking

for what your spirit has agreed to

that’s why it is so important that we

take control of our spirit

we have to be willing to take control of

our spirit

because our spirit determines the

posture in which

our mind shows up in the world

i gotta take control of my spirit that’s

why we can feel a certain

emotion and in the process of feeling a

certain emotion

we’ll know that that feeling cannot stay

because it messed with my spirit i

started feeling jealous but my spirit

didn’t agree with it

so my spirit had to kick it out when you

don’t take control of your spirit

then what should be a passing emotion

becomes the identity now of your spirit

let me say that let me say that so i

started

feeling jealous and now i let

jealous into my spirit i started

feeling angry and now i let angry into

my spirit

i started feeling less and now i have

that spirit of lust that

feeling that we should be able to take

control of we’re not able to take

control of because we don’t have control

of our spirit

that’s why we drag our spirit into

worship and we drag our spirit into

receiving words and messages from church

and we drag our spirit

into meditation because i have to take

control of my spirit

because everything in the world is

trying to not just get access to me

it’s trying to get access to my spending

is trying to get access to my spirit

because i spin from my spirit

the decisions that i make start from my

spirit and so if everyone is after my

spirit

then i have to have control of my spirit

i have to recognize what is a threat

against my spirit when is the last time

you made a decision about the type of

spirit you want to have

what type of spirit do you want to have

when you’re in relationship with your

spouse

when you’re in relationship with that

co-worker what type of spirit do you

want to bring into the room

because if you go into the room and you

wait to see what spirit is in the room

the spirit of that room will get into

you but if you decide before you go into

the room this is the spirit that i’m

going to carry it doesn’t matter what

spirit is in the room

i’ve already made a decision about who

i’m going to be i’m going to be

confident when i walk into that room

i’m going to be whole when i walk into

that room i don’t need anything

out of that room i have to have my

spirit right when i go into a

relationship

or i’ll be asking that person to

validate who i am

i’ll be asking that person to fix who i

am i’ll need that person in a way that i

shouldn’t need them

so i have to have the right spirit when

i’m dating i’m not in need of anyone to

completely me i have the right spirit

about who i

am which tells me that you would be in

addition but not a necessity because i

have the right

posture when it comes to my spirit

so the question then becomes how do i

get to a place

where i am intentional about taking

control of my spirit

first of all in acknowledging that i

have a spirit

and that spirit is up for action

someone is trying to action on my spirit

someone’s trying to

take territory and authority over my

spirit and so i live

guarded guarding my spirit

throughout the scripture we see jesus

exemplifying this beautifully

there would be moments when you could

tell that people were pulling on him

or the spirit of fear was around him and

yet he stood

fully in the knowledge of who he was

because he had to protect his spirit i

can’t

do this and not have my spirit under

control i feel that for somebody

sometimes we want god to bless us but

the truth is god can’t bless us because

our spirit is in

under control and we’ll end up walking

into rooms and walking into

relationships and walking into

opportunities

and allowing that spirit of that

industry to get on us when we have been

called

to change that spirit

sometimes when you realize that

what should have been a feeling has now

become a spirit

you have to break covenant with that

spirit

should have been just a feeling but now

i’m constantly angry over the smallest

little things because

what was once a feeling i didn’t deal

with and now i walk around angry all of

the time

it should have just been the feeling of

sadness the feeling of depression

but now it’s a spirit that i can’t get

under get over because i

walk around with this spirit all of the

time

and yet one of the things that i want to

challenge you to do in this time

together

is to come to a place where you can

identify and break up

with the spirit that should have just

been an emotion

but now dictates your life

inadequacy insecurity feelings we all

have feelings feelings

come and they are supposed to go but

when they come and stay they become

a spirit you see and what happens is our

spirit can

shift so quickly that we don’t even

realize it

for some of you you’re watching this and

it’s like an aha moment like a light

bulb has gone off

because you realize that what should

have just been a feeling has now become

a spirit and you didn’t even realize

that it happened

your spirit can shift so quickly

that you don’t even realize that it’s

become

a stumbling block

you see we trip over our emotions you

know you’ve heard it one of your friends

have told you girl you tripping

my dude you out here a while and you

tripping

that feeling that caused you to stumble

can make you a stumbling block

because it got in your spirit

you are not supposed to be someone

else’s stumbling block

because you’re down now everyone else

who comes into contact with you

ends up down too because spirits are

contagious

and now i’ve become a stumbling block

we have to be serious about who we’re

going to be and how we’re going to show

up in the world

and it starts first with acknowledging

that there is an identity that began in

heaven

and that identity that began in heaven

does not have me being a stumbling block

it’s called me to uplift people and to

empower people and to help them

and so when i recognize that i am now

someone stumbling block

i have a responsibility to make sure

that i do whatever is necessary to get

up so that someone doesn’t stumble

because i stay

down i’m going to therapy because i’m a

stumbling block

i’m taking care of my mental health

because i’m a stumbling block

i’m getting back into the gym because

i’m a stumbling block i don’t want to be

the reason

why someone else is why someone else’s

fall

occurs so what happens in my scripture

is that peter doesn’t even realize it

but he has become a stumbling block

let’s talk about where peter is at the

moment that we find him in this text

just a few scriptures above this peter

is coming off of

the high of being commended by jesus

now he’s going from being commended to

reprimanded

that spirit of being commended can often

make us move into autopilot can we talk

about it for a minute

that moment when you realize that you’re

doing a good job i’m

i’m doing things well i’m in sync with

what god is doing in the earth

and just moments later now a stumbling

block have you ever been there

where you thought that you were doing so

well and so good at what god had called

you to do

that you had found your space in the

world that you were taking up territory

and you have been acknowledged and

validated by your peers and everyone

around you

because of the work you’re doing and now

all of a sudden i can’t find my footing

at all i feel inadequate i feel like i

don’t even have it together and so what

happens to us

is that we start becoming so impressed

by the moments that we

when we get it right that we don’t take

inventory of the future areas where we

still have

places to grow i wish i could say that

the way that i feel it

but sometimes your greatest enemy is

your success

because when you have your success you

begin to think that you are

constantly and will can and continue to

be successful

but the reality is that the thing that

moved us into a position that we were

doing well

is because we were so sensitive to what

was happening around us

and peter has lost his sensitivity i

don’t know who you are

but i feel like you’ve been trying to

figure out how come i don’t have my

passion anymore

how come i don’t feel like i can do this

anymore and i feel like god is calling

you to a new place of sensitivity

i feel like god wants you to understand

that even though you got it right in the

previous season

it doesn’t mean that you can use that

same formula for this season

and i feel like god wants you to come

back to a place of sensitivity

i feel like you becoming numb was the

worst thing that ever happened to you

you believing that you could function on

autopilot was the worst thing that ever

happened to you because you stopped

being the person who stopped who started

asking god what is it that i should do

with this how do i move in this next

dimension i loved last week’s message

about defined as

divine decision making because it was a

reminder that we’ve got to come back to

who we were to begin with

and i feel like that’s somebody’s word

in this season that god wants to bring

you back to where you started

i want to make you sensitive again i

don’t know who you are but i feel like

god wants to make you strong again i

want to make you powerful again

but it starts with you getting low

enough to be sensitive to what i’m doing

in the earth i want to make you

sensitive to my sound oh i feel god on

that

i’ve got a new sound in the earth i’ve

got a new way of how i’m going to do

this thing

peter was right for where jesus was but

now jesus was moving in the next

dimension

and he needed peter to come with him but

peter was going to have to be sensitive

to the new sound

i hear god saying there’s a new sound in

the earth and not everyone is going to

catch it

but the people who do catch it are going

to recognize how to establish what i’m

doing in the earth

god says can you catch the sound i know

you caught the sound

but can you catch this sound again can

you get the breakthrough again can you

get the revelation again

who do you have to become to sit at my

feet to catch this new sound

i got something new and no one else is

going to get it but you i got something

new but no one else is going to

understand it but you

man

i’m depending on you to keep your ears

open i’m depending on you

to keep your spirit open i’m depending

on you to hear

that next sound you see because what god

is doing

and what peter wants is at odds in this

text

and that’s why this is such an important

moment in our lives

because sometimes what god is doing and

what we want are at

odds and if you ever get to the

crossroad of what god is doing and what

we want

we could end up rebuking what god wants

to happen

because we are not willing to let

ourselves go

peter is going to have to become someone

who doesn’t mind letting go the identity

that he had just been commended on

you’ve just got commented on being the

one who who flesh and blood didn’t

reveal this to you

and now i have to go back to scratch i

don’t know who you

are but i hear god saying you got to go

back to scratch

you got to go back to the person who

looked at

all of these ingredients and was able to

hear what god was doing with all of

these pieces

and your creativity has been blocked and

your vision has been blocked

and you don’t understand what’s

happening because you used to be on fire

and i hear god saying that i gotta give

you a new sound

so you have to deconstruct what you’ve

built up in your own mind

and you’ve gotta let fall apart what you

think your life should look like right

now

you have to let go of what you want

i know this is not one of those sexy

messages

where we end up talking about how god is

going to give you everything you want

but family i promise you you need this

you need the kind of message that

challenges you to let go

of you because sometimes we’re hanging

on so tight to who we think we should be

and how we think things should go that

we don’t realize that we’re hanging on

to a lesser version of our identity

you’re hanging on to who you used to be

i know you feel like that now but i’m

telling you according to heaven

that you’re hanging onto an expired

version of who you are

and god says i want to give you this new

version but i can’t give it to you if

you’re still holding on to you

the only way you access this fresh

version fresh

creativity fresh knowledge fresh

strategy where it just

runs and flows it just comes off of you

just rolls off of your tongue

it’s like something you’ve never seen

before you just start putting things

together that you shouldn’t do strategy

for your money

strategy for your business the right

words to communicate with that spouse

god says i want to give you a fresh

version the old arguments we can retire

the old way of doing things they’ve

expired and i hear god saying the only

way you lay hold of this version

is if you let yourself go

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ultimately peter and jesus have an

argument

and peter ends up rebuking god’s plan

you’re praying but you’ve got to make

sure that you are not so married to your

prayer

that you are rebuking god’s pr god’s

plan in the process

because in the middle of this

disagreement in the middle of this back

and forth

peter rebukes he rebukes

jesus because god doesn’t mind if you

argue with him

you can bring all of your frustration

all of your issues into it you can argue

with god we know that jacob wrestled

with god god doesn’t need you to act

like you’ve come into agreement or stay

away from him until you come into

agreement

you can bring your argument into your

relationship with god you just have to

be prepared for the answer

because what jesus says back to him

was what we would call cold-blooded if i

wasn’t preaching on a sunday and wanted

to sound fancy

i would say that jesus said get behind

me satan

you are an offense to me

when we get into these arguments with

god one thing i know and understand

about this moment with peter and jesus

is that at the end of the day peter was

going to find a way to submit to what

jesus was saying

but he had to be willing to come into

alignment with

the spirit in which jesus was moving

and in the process of that he had to be

willing to

allow himself to be called even

satan not because he was satan but

because he had lost his sensitivity and

now he was

interrupting and disrupting the plans

of god that was one thing but

later on in the text in verse 24

jesus responds to peter in what i

thought was a brain teaser

and in this moment it says jesus said to

his disciples if anyone desires to come

after me

let him deny himself let him deny

himself that word

deny stood out in my mind because i was

thinking about

how little we take seriously the reality

that we will have to deny

ourselves and the reason why this sounds

like a brain teaser to me

is because in the process of peter

having to deny

himself it says that he’s going to lose

his life for whoever desires to save his

life will lose it

but whoever loses his life for my sake

will find it

i want to talk to you family about this

notion that you can somehow

keep hanging on to your life

and access the life that god has for you

i was praying and as i was studying for

this message

i felt god told me so clearly that there

is

a people that there is a person

there is a family that is going to have

to come to a place

where they’re willing to lay down

their life that they’re going to have to

lose their life we think

that by looking out for what we want

that we’re protecting ourselves

but jesus tells us that the life we’re

holding on to isn’t even the life we’re

supposed to have

i’m wondering if you are willing

to move into the next dimension of god’s

identity god’s vision god’s purpose for

your life

by being willing to deny yourself

when we talk about fasting fasting is so

that our

spirit can be made strong but we are

denying what we would usually do our

normal habits our normal proclivities we

deny

because at the end of the day we want

our spirit to be made strong

as i was studying i felt god say so

strongly to me

that there is a new sound that is coming

into the earth

and as that new sound is coming that it

is going to require

us to let go of the life that we think

that we should have to let go of the

achievements the success

our own desired outcomes and instead

choose

to seek god let’s talk about what it

means to seek god

we’re talking about opening up our

spirit

we’re talking about being willing to

relinquish our plans

and to become again the person who would

follow jesus no matter

anywhere he went

because at the end of the day it is not

until we lose control that we find

out who is actually in control

i was praying about this message and

about what god would have us say to you

in this season

and it became so evident to me that even

for myself that i was going to have to

break covenant

with some of my own desires and wishes

the covenant of thinking that i have a

certain

level or measure of success that i need

to reach the covenant

that i’ve made with fear the covenant

that i’ve made with insecurity and i

would like to

invite you family for just a moment

to acknowledge and embrace

the reality that a shift must take place

peter and jesus they’re standing in a

shift

i feel god on this and peter is moving

from the person who was just

a disciple to the person who would

become

a rock he’s going to go from

following jesus to taking the helm at

what jesus came to do

because this transition that you’re

going through this transition that i’m

going through

it’s not so that we can go back to being

the same it’s so that we can step into

who we’re actually becoming

and i want to challenge you to stop

looking at the enemies that are

outside of you and instead to take

inventory on the covenants that you have

made with

sameness the covenant that you have made

with not

rocking the boat the covenant that you

have made with what you have considered

your norm

and your comfort and i want to dare you

to break covenant with that thing

because there is an even greater

covenant that god wants to reveal to you

and this covenant this covenant that god

wants to introduce you to

may require you to feel uncomfortable at

some moments

but i want to talk to somebody today who

doesn’t mind breaking up with themselves

i want to talk to somebody today who

realizes that the last time that i had

to hang on to myself

i ended up in some situations and some

circumstances that ended up holding me

back

but i promise you i don’t know who you

are but i feel this prophetically

you’ve never had to break up with the

lesser version of who you are before

but i hear god saying that if you would

just take this one chance

if you would just take this one step

it’s going to feel awkward

you’re going to feel uncomfortable it’s

not going to feel like something that

you’re used to

but i hear god saying that if you would

take this one step

then i can show you what i want to been

what i’ve been wanting to show you

i can reveal to you what i’ve had in

mind all along

jesus wasn’t just going up by himself he

said i’m looking for someone else who

would bring a cross

why do we need to bring a cross i hear

god saying because i’m not going to

leave you on that cross

but i need you to withstand the

stretching of the cross

i need you to withstand the pain of the

cross so that you can understand the

beauty of the resurrection

because when you lay your life down for

god if you lay your life down for what

god wants to do in the earth

god doesn’t keep you down i hear god

saying that the glory that he has for

you the glory that is assigned to your

name

eyes haven’t seen it ears haven’t heard

it and i’m looking for someone who

doesn’t mind saying

i will break up with now i’ll even go on

to the cross

i will deny myself because at the end of

the day i want you

over me i want your glory over my way i

want your plan over my plans

yes i want to be a good friend but more

than a good friend

i want to be a good disciple more than

just being a good disciple

i want to be a great rock that you can

build on so i may have to shake up my

world a little bit

i may have to shake up my norm a little

bit but at the end of the day

god i’m curious

i’m curious about life after the cross

god i will withstand the cross because

i’m curious about life after the cross

this text makes a promise that whoever

loses his life for my sake

will find it how do i lose my life and

find it because the life that you’re

going to lose is not the life that you

should have had in the first place

i have a greater identity for you i have

a greater confidence for you

i have a greater spirit a greater

courage a greater breakthrough awaits

you

that life is time for you to shed i

don’t know who you are

but i feel like you’re stepping out of a

life that doesn’t fit you anymore

and as you’re stepping out it hurts a

little bit

as you’re stepping out it breaks a

little bit but i hear god saying i got

something for you next

that’s going to make you realize aha you

had me all alone

aha you knew where i was going all along

and somebody somebody is stuck

in between to lose your life and to find

your life

somebody’s trapped between to lose your

life and define your life

and i hear god saying that this is a

prophetic word for you

that you’re about to step in to define

your life you don’t exactly know what’s

happening you feel like you’re in the

dark

you feel like you’re in a cave i let my

life go but i don’t know how to find my

life

i hear god saying that the light is

coming back on again

i don’t know who you are but i hear god

saying you’re feeling around in the dark

but when i flip the light on you’re

gonna see that i had you all along

that division was there all along

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don’t let the dark scare you don’t let

the ambiguity scare you

don’t let the uncertainty scare you to

go and pick back up that old life that

you laid down

i hear god saying let that life stay

where it is let that comfort stay where

it is

i need you to let yourself lose control

a little bit i know last time you lost

control you felt like you lost yourself

but this time when you lose control

you’re in my control

there are some moments where it is

perfectly fine to be out of control

why would i ever want to be out of

control because i know who is in control

and when i know who is in control i

don’t need to hold on to my control

anymore

i hear that saying you’re finally at a

stage in your life

where you can trust me to be in control

let yourself go let your dreams go

let that insecurity go let your idea

purpose go

cause i want to give you something

i want to give you what you’ve never

seen

but you’re gonna have to lose you in the

process

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and that’s scary for someone who fought

so long to find themselves

this isn’t one of those messages for

people who know they need to come out of

a life

this is a message for someone who has

found a life that they love

but you can’t see anymore and because

you can’t see anymore you don’t want to

let the life go

and i hear god saying if you want to see

again you got to let it go

if you want to create again you got to

let it go if you want to breathe again

you got to let it go

i hear god saying that i’m not trapping

you i’m not suffocating you

i’m just waiting to hear the sound of

you letting your life go

so that the windows of heaven can open

up the windows of heaven want to open up

over your life

i hear the blood gates i hear the sound

of abundant rain

and it’s coming to pour water on that

seed that god placed on the inside of

you

everything god promised you will come to

pass everything i said

is still in the works but it doesn’t

work for this life

everything that god promised you

some promises cannot be fulfilled if you

stay in this

life this life has got to go

that shrinking has got to go that

insecurity has got to go

that idea of needing validation has got

to go that pride has got to go

that ego has got to go you’re high off

your own supply so there’s no need for

me to add to you

but if you would let that thing go i can

give you a high that you’ve never had

before

i can give you a grace you’ve never seen

before greater anointing

fresh wind fresh fire fresh creativity

fresh power

god says i got it on reserve it’s what i

do but i can’t give it to you

i got to give it to what i see

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god blesses what he sees

it’s time for you to give god

the ultimate sacrifice

god you can have it all

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if it means i have to move if it means i

have to downsize

if it means i gotta walk away if it

means i gotta be lonely for a minute

god i’ll lay down my life god if it

means that i gotta be the freshman

and i feel like i’ve been in the

master’s program over here

god says will you let it go

but what if i get it wrong will you let

it go

what if it works and i’m successful can

you

lay your life down

can you just have enough faith

that if you lose it i’m gonna help you

find greater

family that was my only mission my only

mandate

was to try and convince you

in the beauty of letting your life go

i am reminded every time that i have the

opportunity to share what god says to me

the power of what happens when you let

your life go can i be honest with you

this is not supposed to be my life

this is the life that i found

when i let my life go

you’re not supposed to know my name that

wasn’t my life

not supposed to be watching this sermon

that wasn’t my life

you’re staring at the life that i

found when i let my life

go i wonder what you’re gonna find

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i wonder what’s waiting on you

i don’t know but i know god knows

and i know that if you would come into

agreement

and stop trying to force your will over

god’s will your way

over his way that he will reveal it to

you

he doesn’t reveal it before you let your

life go let me give you some insider

information spoiler alert

if you’re thinking to yourself i let my

life go when he tell me you

you both both time same time same time

same time

you ever had somebody you’re playing

when they like same time

same time you don’t get the same time

same time god

because god is invested in sacrifice

and it’s not a sacrifice if you already

know what you’re getting in return

that’s a trade a sacrifice is

i don’t know what i’m going to get in

return

i don’t know how this is going to shake

out i don’t know who i’m going to be

on the other side of this

i’m going to let myself go

and into the womb you go

i want to pray with you

i want to pray that god would open your

heart

to let your life go

he would remove the barriers and

obstacles and trials

and triumphs that keep us

trapped and that you would be willing to

pick up a cross

and let yourself bleed a little

for glory

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father i thank you for every life

represented in this room

not just this room but the rooms that

are watching this message

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god i thank you that the life that you

see for them

is beyond the life that they have right

now

and yet father we find it difficult to

surrender and sacrifice our life

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and yet in this moment father as i was

speaking as i was preaching

someone felt convicted to stop

holding on to what they’re good at

to stop holding on to their comfort to

stop holding on

to what makes them feel good

and that they are daring to feel unsure

and uncertain again

because we trust you father restore

their trust in you

make them hungry to want to know more

about who you are

and how can we know more about who you

are unless we are willing to be in

relationship with you

and how can we have relationship if

there is no trust

father i thank you that you’re bringing

trust back

that you’re returning them to a place

and a space of faith

father i pray that you would make them

uncomfortable

that that one place they used to fit

would start agitating them and getting

on their nerves

so much so that they start saying god i

know i heard you i heard you i heard you

i know you’re ready for me to move

father bless them bless them with

strength bless them with vision bless

them with creativity bless them with

comfort

and assurance that when they lose their

life for your sake they’ll find it

god help us to deal with the lonely

nights and the nights where the

questions

are just so busy in our mind that we

don’t know what to do father

silence the whisper silence the noise

and help them to understand

that even in the valley that you’re with

them and especially at the mountain

you’re with them

because the comfort that i have in all

of this is that you will never leave me

nor forsake me

so father i receive the good and perfect

gift of your presence

i receive the good and perfect gift of

your will father i allow you to take

total control

not just over my atmosphere but over the

atmosphere of every person connected in

this

message father send your word great god

that you are

send your presence great god that you

are until it breaks them out of that

life

until it breaks them out of that fear

until it breaks them out of that comfort

until they have no choice but to

surrender we lay it all out father and

we say

have your way we won’t move unless you

say move

we won’t go unless you say go and father

we trust and believe

that you are a good and faithful father

i’ve seen you be faithful in my life

and i know you’ll be faithful in their

own so i decree and declare

that it is already done in heaven and

that the same god that brought me into

finding my life

is the same god that’s going to bring

them into finding their own

exceedingly and abundantly great

abundance is coming to your life

life and life more abundantly is coming

to your home

it’s coming to your heart i speak

breakthrough in the name of jesus

and i rebuke every principality every

stronghold every demonic stronghold

that has taken president over your life

i rebuke it in the name of jesus

that oppression was assigned to the old

life but it has no room in the new life

so when we lay down that old life may we

lay down every fear

every anxiety every depression every

every issue and every struggle

and when we’re raised up may it stay in

the ground

i believe that it is so father and so it

is

seal this word as only you can do in

jesus name i pray

family the hard work of laying down your

life

yields a beauty that you cannot even

fathom

and i don’t believe that god would

expose you not just to this message but

to this

life of mine if he didn’t want you to

realize that he’s still doing it

may we start with sacrifice and may we

stay there until he finds us

and we find the plan that he had for us

all along family we love you

you know we love you we’ve got an

exciting week next week it’s easter

cannot wait for easter but on good

friday we’re going to have communion we

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