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when I was studying for this message I

was asking

God how is it that we started off made

in your

image but then we ended up on the spirit

level we’re made in your image but then

we ended up having to navigate the

spirit of fear the spirit of lust the

spirit of

depression Spirits I’m not talking about

fleeting emotions fear is an

emotion until it becomes a

spirit oh God help me

okay

oh the serpent distorts our image of

God and it opens up our spirit it cracks

our spirit and the enemy exploits the

cracks in our

spirit if you’ve ever had something

happen in your life that made you

question God or question what God can do

to you or through you or for you then

you you did not just arrive to that

place on your own you arrived to that

place as a result of the enemy

distorting your image of God and

sometimes our Distortion happens through

family

circles sometimes that Distortion

happens when we come into church and we

leave with church hurt because we come

into it thinking that we can have an

open spirit and then when we recognize

that the spirit that we had that was

open has actually resulted in us EXP

experiencing a wound now we have a

broken

Spirit the reason why I took the time to

separate the emotion of Fear And the

emotions of anxiety versus versus a

spirit is because you can have an

emotion without an emotion changing what

you

believe when God disrupted my message

this morning and none of it made sense

or allowed the enemy to do it and he’s

going to use it for good I don’t know

what’s going to happen we’ll see in

about 20 minutes I had to get to a place

where I said even though I have fear and

I have nerves and I have anxiety right

now I still believe that the spirit of

God has sent me into this room and so

there are some moments where I have to

trust the spirit because my emotions

could invade my spirit and now I have a

spirit of fear instead of letting the

fear just pass on by me sometimes you

got to stand in the truth and the weight

of the spirit regardless of what you

feel because say if I let my feelings

take over and drive me then I’m now

being governed by the my fear I’m

governed by my emotions instead of being

governed by the spirit and I am all for

therapy I have a therapist you do have

to work through your feelings and your

emotions but you have to make sure that

what was supposed to be a feeling does

not become the place where you reside or

you will have a spirit of Shame you’ll

have a spirit of lust you’ll have a

spirit of pornography there are spirits

out here and if your spirit is is

open the image that you’re supposed to

reflect will be

distorted for God is not giving you the

spirit of fear why does Paul tell

Timothy this because he’s about to

transition into a space of leadership

and Timothy is nervous and timid and and

what should have just been a feeling and

emotion has the potential to actually

become his Spirit but Paul reminds him

that God did not give you the spirit of

fear but he gave you the spirit of power

love and a sound mind and sometimes you

got to rebuke those spirits that are

trying to get into the cracks of the

image that you have been created in I

know it’s a little old school and I know

we don’t always rebuke things the way

that we should but when the devil starts

rolling up on you if you give him space

instead of rebuking him you will allow

the power of God to be diluted but there

is something to be said about somebody

who doesn’t mind saying Satan I rebuke

you in the name of Jesus I rebuke you

you cannot have my house you cannot have

my family I’m going to the therapist

because depression shall not be my

portion I rebuke you in the name of

Jesus cuz you don’t have to just rebuke

you can start getting active with that

thing too not only do I rebuke you but

faith without works is De I’ve got faith

that when I rebuke you I put you under

my feet so I’m going to start moving

like the rebuking has positioned me to

have my steps ordered

again get out of my spirit i d you to

yell yell it get out of my spirit get

out of my spirit get out of my spirit

fear you got to go get out of my spirit

anxiety you got to go get out of my

spirit lust you got to go get out of my

spirit shame you got to go get out of my

spirit if I was doing it in my own power

I have a problem but I rebuke you in the

name of Jesus I serve you notice in the

name of

Jesus out of my spirit out of my spirit

I may have been cracked but it won’t be

the end I may have been wounded but it

won’t be the end he makes all things new

I wish a devil would try and get through

the crack when I get

finished being in the presence of God

wherever there was a crack his presence

is going to

feel somebody’s getting ready get their

Spirit back somebody’s getting ready to

get their reflection back somebody’s

going to leave this place looking like

the image of God that you were created

to

be something God in your

spirit

oh

intruder alert intruder alert I got

what’s wrong with you you’ve been trying

to figure out what’s wrong with you I

hear God saying there’s an intruder in

your spirit it started off heartbreak

but now you don’t know what your life is

worth anymore that’s because what should

have just been a heartbreak has become

the state that you live

in and Intruder Intruder Intruder

there’s an intruder in your spirit

there’s an intruder that’s why you can’t

sleep at night there’s an intruder in

your spirit that’s why you don’t know

what to do with your life anymore

there’s an intruder in your spirit

that’s why suicidal ideation is taking

over there’s an intruder in your

spirit oh

God but you can’t stay

here you can’t stay here you got to come

into agreement about what your spirit is

supposed to look like because when you

know what your spirit is supposed to

look like you will not settle for

anything less than what your spirit is

supposed to look like I don’t want to

forgive you but I got to forgive you cuz

I know what my spirit is supposed to

look like I’m mad at you but I can’t be

mad any longer cuz I got to maintain

what my spirit is supposed to look like

I can’t be who I’m supposed to be in the

earth without the right spirit

it’s in your

spirit it’s in your

spirit the power and the

problem living in the same

spirit so the

mirror you can’t even see yourself

anymore you had these

Visions you had these

hopes you wanted to break generational

curses you wanted to write a book that

would help someone who had gone through

what you’d been through you wanted to

introduce wholeness into your family you

wanted to take care of your body but we

can’t just keep taking blow after blow

after blow until it starts to affect our

spirit and you’ll know that it broke

your spirit when it changes what you

believe I can’t believe on that level no

more cuz my spirit got

broken it wasn’t just a heartbreaking

change what I believe it wasn’t just

grief it changed what I

believe it’s not just a disease it

changed what I believe I’m not just

going through with a kid now I don’t

believe that I’m the right parent for

the job I’m questioning myself this

thing broke my

spirit oh

God

God God says to

Sarah you going to Bear Child your old

age and she

laughs because I can’t even believe on

that

level cuz being Barren for so

long has made it impossible for me to

believe that I can produce after this

much

emptiness so much so that God can send a

word for you and you reject the very

word God sends for you because you don’t

see yourself the way God sees

you

have you ever had

God send a word for

you that if you’re honest you don’t have

the spirit to

match come on

man if we were to be honest and we got

to be honest cuz that’s the only way we

really experience transformation this

isn’t just playing church we got to be

real about this thing

I don’t

know if I have the

spirit for where you’ve called

me because I already feel

lonely and I already feel

afraid and it looks like if I continue

going down this journey that there’s

only more loneliness more betrayal more

isolation and I don’t think I’m strong

enough to be who you’ve called me to

be but you you keep calling me to be it

anyway I wish one of us could just give

up but he’s too faithful to give up so

you got to grow

up you have to grow

up you’re going to have to grow into the

person who can be who God says you can

be and I don’t mean growing by

pretending I mean growing by in the

spirit realm you say God I don’t have

the spirit for it but I heard that if

you dwell inside of me that you can

increase the capacity of my spirit so

God when I say fill me up to I overflow

I mean let me overflow until I have

enough capacity for the Overflow and

then let me grow some more so I have

capacity for that overflow

flow when

Jesus Calls the

disciples he says to the

disciples follow me and I will make you

Fishers of Men oh

God I

almost called this message made for

this there’s so much I was so I was just

in my own world and this

text I thought maybe this is the text

maybe I need to leave with this one

because there was so much about this

when I hear follow me and I will make

you fishes and men for some reason I’ve

always heard that as a

question like he gave them an option but

it was a

command he commanded them to move in a

lane that they were unfamiliar

with and when he commanded them to move

into that lane he doesn’t say follow me

me and you will be a fisher of men he

says follow me and I will make

you I’m going to make you into what I’m

calling you

for I’m going to make you into you’re

not you’re right you’re not there you’re

right you may not have the spirit for it

you’re right you may not have the

technique you may not have the skills

but when I get finished making you

you’ll be everything that you need to be

when I get finished making you you’re

going to know how to cast out the Devils

when I get finished making you you’re

going to know how to balance the books

when I get finished you got to make a

marriage we get married but then you got

to build a marriage you don’t just raise

kids you got to make these children you

don’t just start the business you got to

make a business and guess

what when God makes you into

something sometimes he uses failure to

make

you

the disciples he told them to cast out a

devil it wouldn’t come out he said why

couldn’t it come out he says this time

kind only comes out by fasting and

praying and it seemed like they failed

but in reality he was making them by

allowing them to

fail is it failure or are they the tools

that God is using to make

you into who God has called you to be

and if you give up when you fail then

you’ll never be made into who God has

called you to be so you got to have

enough humility to stay in the making

even when it looks like you’re failing

to stay in the making even when it means

you got to apologize you got to stay in

the making even when it feels like I

don’t know what I’m doing I got to stay

in the making cuz he called me to this

and I believe that he’s calling me to

make me not to make me look good not to

build my ego not to make other people

jealous of me you see you can’t have the

culture of the world and the culture of

the kingdom when God is made making you

into something because you want to be

made into an ego you want to be made

into an idol and God’s trying to make

you into a disciple and when God makes

you into a disciple you got to humble

yourself and you got to be willing to

look a little crazy and you got to be

willing to look like you don’t have it

all together and you got to be willing

to look like your kids are crazy and how

could I be saving everyone else and my

kids aren’t together you got to be

willing to look like a fool because he

uses the foolish things of the world so

you can look good or you can mess around

and get foolish with this thing and

allow that failure to make

you into a better

husband and a better

parent give me the

spirit the spirit for this

thing