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hey family i’m pt
pastor toray roberts i’m the lead pastor
of the potter’s house at 1la
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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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your fears are ready for a revolution
this is the moment you’ve been waiting
for
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you’ve been praying for this
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now let’s do this work
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