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hey hey
how are you I’m doing good baby I’m good
how are you I’m doing all right this
makes me I don’t know if this is I feel
nervous I don’t know how I feel about
this yeah yeah hey nerves are normal
it’s all good why what do you what do
you feel the nerves about like well I
have not gone I have you know I posted
about Sunday but I haven’t really spoken
about it since everything happened and
you know I think in the grand scheme of
things it’s not that big of a deal but
it was definitely you know
a vulnerable moment Post Sunday service
and so I don’t know I just wanted to get
on and kind of process about Sunday and
the response
and what I think you know happened in
that moment
yeah I I uh I do I think it actually was
a big deal
uh not in a big deal in the sense of
what people might think you know some
sort of uh
you know hair malfunction that’s that’s
not a big deal at all uh but I think
what is a big deal
is what God did and honestly what I
believe that he was beginning to do
um
to really change things and create a new
normal and I think that that’s
I would love for us to talk about that
because for for God to interrupt our
regular scheduled programming in the way
that God did
it’s bigger than what we think and I
think that we have to be good stewards
over really aiming to
um pack the power of what happened what
y’all think
my my you know I have been I think
mostly blown away like I think in the
moment I’m like I didn’t have the choice
like I wasn’t going to keep pulling on
it over and over again and I I knew that
what I was saying in the moment was more
important like it just it really did not
matter to me
um and I knew that like I was opening
myself up for you know people making fun
of me and it become like a meme and then
going everywhere and people you know
seeing me differently I don’t think that
I anticipated when I you know took the
wizard off and kept on preaching that it
was going to help as many people as it
did like it seems even crazy you want to
talk about God using the foolish things
of the world like the idea that someone
taking their wig off while preaching
ended up becoming something that helped
people was like not in my calculations
at all like I calculated you’re going to
be made fun of I calculated that like
it’s going to be a thing and people are
going to have a judgment and you know
maybe they don’t think you were clouding
like I was prepared for all of those
things but I was not prepared for this
idea that it was going to help people
and that people were going to feel free
and liberated and that it was going to
take the message to another level like I
thought you know I don’t want this to
take away from the message because God
really gave me a message that I felt was
worthy of everyone hearing and I’m like
Lord I just don’t want this to be a
distraction from what you have me doing
and to think that it was just like on
another level like I know that was just
a guy
yeah there is
preaching a message
and then there is becoming a message
you you you you can’t necessarily
impart what you preach
but you can impart what you become I
can’t my my children represent who I am
and I feel like
what you did
gave God
permission
and opportunity to do what God wanted to
do because God had a message that was
beyond your message
and you know we were talking and like
honestly
yes it helped people absolutely yes that
three people absolutely yes they
demonstrated courage Under Fire and
tenacity and grit like ain’t nobody’s
business yet it demonstrated selfish
selflessness
but I really feel like
an idol was confronted
and and I felt like an image in Idol a
stronghold there was a showdown between
you and an idol and a stronghold that
holds so many people down men and women
and in whatever form this Idol expresses
itself in I feel like there was a
showdown you didn’t know it you just got
thrown in the ring with the idol and
I’ll tell you what I think the idol was
the idol was the idol of
manufactured Beauty it was the I don’t
know maybe two I think it was two giants
in the ring manufactured Beauty one but
then also the idol of perfectionism like
it has to be perfect in order for me to
be presentable and accept and and what
does that look like in people’s lives
like it’s an idol it’s an idol to feel
like I’m not me if I have a malfunction
if I have a wardrobe malfunction or a
hair malfunction or whatever
you
broke an image you broke an idol
and and so it it caused me to begin to
think about like wait what does this
mean for the culture like like what does
this mean for the world like we really
have to because God doesn’t do nothing
small for God to interrupt that service
step in to take that service
which is the literally the biggest
church the biggest Sunday morning
service in the world arguably you know
uh you know 90 000 people watching live
you know I think that video itself now
is probably marching close to a million
views probably 700 000 views or whatever
why did God not do that I I think that
an idol that an image was taken down
what do you think
yeah I think I think that there’s a
level of
liberation
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that took place in that moment that I
didn’t anticipate it’s not what I was
preaching about but I think it’s what
God destined and I think that there is a
need I want to say for women right I
don’t I can’t speak for the male
experience but I think for women I think
that we do feel like
in order for us to be seen as powerful
in order for us to sing as someone who
was taken seriously there is a certain
way that we need to present ourselves
there’s a certain way that we need to
speak there’s a certain way that we need
to deliver even body image we need to be
we need to look away a certain way our
clothes need to fit a certain way in
order for us to be taken seriously we
have to be the total package and I think
for me what I have had to learn this is
not something that I have always been
lately had is that like the total
package isn’t about a perfect pass the
total package isn’t about having the
pedigree and the right degrees the total
package is about your heart posture
towards God and how God is able to
partner with you in the earth and I like
getting dressed up like there I have
always liked it since I was a little
girl like I like getting dressed up I
like you know showing up as the best
version of myself and having fun while
doing it but at the end of the day I
have worked to really really hard to
undo the idea that my work is connected
to my body my family my you know
platform like I really like who I am I
really do I like her and if my back is
against the wall and all I got is me I
believe that what God can do in that
moment is more powerful than anything
that I can put orange and so me showing
up as myself did it require
vulnerability for sure
um did I have a vulnerability hangover
afterwards as I was being tagged and
pictures of me and my wig cap for sure
but like when I go back to myself in
that moment I’m like I don’t I don’t
care like I don’t care about that like
this is me
and God has really given me something to
say that has nothing to do with what I
have on so like whether I have it on
whether my hair is done whether I’m just
to the nines or not like if God gives me
something to say I’m going to release it
in the moment and it may be funny to
somebody and then maybe the laugh of a
lifetime for someone else but let me
tell you one thing for sure is I know
that it’s come from God and I’m going to
release it in the earth and so
um yeah I think it gave people
permission to really be liberated from
the idea of putting on to be perfect
instead of resting in their authenticity
and believing that that’s enough
when I think about
your life
and I think about
your calling
and God God truly has called you to be a
champion treat me like a champion in the
earth when you think about you know
um one of the reasons why David was so
beloved you know was because he was a
champion you know Goliath was taunting
Israel and David was like who are you
you uncircumcised real estate he had
this courage and this boldness and I
think that that you represent you know
especially for women but I think for
some men too I think that you represent
what
people want to be but don’t know how to
be you know we we got memes all day long
you know and you know you know believe
it’s not about what you wear or it’s not
about how you you know my value is and
all that kind of stuff but who really
walks in it like who really you know and
not that it is wrong for anybody to
struggle with with walking in that and
standing in that but but but back to you
I feel like
God has chosen you to be a champion to
show people how to win to show people
how to be bold and and courageous uh I
mean there were women taking off their
wigs I mean if I was there I probably
would have ripped my skirt
I don’t know I would have done something
but you like you you you inspired watch
this
the word encourage encourage to put
courage in
and I think that you have an anointing
and it’s just really you being who you
are that literally puts courage in
people because if we can break fear uh
you know someone’s I would imagine you
share this with me I’m unqualified to
talk about what a woman’s what a woman’s
greatest fear may or may not be I’ll
admit that but from conversations that
we’ve had one of a woman’s fear woman
who wears a wig would be in a public
speaking moment or a very you know on
stage wearing a Grammy whatever some
high profile moment and their wig go off
where you face that giant
straight up you know which means that
for some people that’s not their
greatest fear anymore because they saw
you do it you walk into it you stand up
to it and you survived and not only
survive but honestly that thrived as a
result of it and so uh
I just I’m thankful for the gift that
you are I’m thankful that you are bold
and courageous because and you know you
know how I feel about about the woman
and her role in these end times like
we’ve got to get our sisters our women
our mothers our daughters our
grandmothers activated and we can’t be
activated if we’re if we’re fearful if
we don’t believe in ourselves we don’t
believe in our worth and our values so
it just makes your role in the Kingdom
unprecedented don’t don’t get me don’t
get me going we’ll have to wait for
women involved for the word that God has
given to me for y’all women it’s it’s
it’s
should make me make me want to give me
away
in fact one of your wig that’s how we
should have started this you should have
had your cap on and I should have had
your wig on
the planet like I whatever want everyone
to know too that like I just you know
you know take my shoes off while
preaching I do not plan on the wig
coming off becoming a thing so like
that’s everything that every week I hope
everyone see is the moment I hope you
save it and save or it because I do not
desire to have that become a part of the
demonstration of the home give us a
little bit come on baby give us a little
bit right now give us a little forward
we’re good
we’re good
no I’m proud of you baby I’m so proud uh
shout out to Sherry Shepard I think that
she did a beautiful job
um covering it uh using it look at that
so Sherry Stepford was blessed by it
and she used her platform to liberate
other people she took it off like this
thing that’s what I’m getting at it it
has a ripple effect it wasn’t just a
moment and Chardonnay we texted about it
last night it wasn’t just a moment it’s
a movement and it’s not a movement to
snatch a wig off it’s bigger than that
it’s it’s a movement
of radical self-acceptance radical
self-acceptance and being delivered
from
this mandatory it has to look like this
it has to be like this it always has to
be like that there’s a Deliverance
taking place because it’s a freaking
distraction yes look good yes look
amazing yes spend time on that but
sometimes we’re spending so much time on
that and then thinking and meditating on
that we can’t even walk fully in our
calling we can’t even use that that
Creative Energy and that creative uh
ability that cognitive power to create
something powerful in the earth baby I’m
telling you you started something and
the world is going to be better as a
result of it
yeah I mean I didn’t got started
something I didn’t know
um I wouldn’t because I wanted it’s all
him it’s all him I would not have chosen
it but
um you know I think the opportunity to
demonstrate what it looks like to be the
real deal what it means like to really
understand what what priorities matter
the most in a moment like that is
something that I’m I’m grateful to be a
part of but
um you know babe I was thinking that
like
I walked around that church like 13 and
pregnant like I got divorced and came
back to that church and walked around
after having gone to CPS to defend the
right to keep my kids like I have
experienced things that really shape
your belief and self
um your belief in God’s ability to use
you and your ability to be confident
like my confidence has been attacked
since I was a kid uh with like with real
stuff and um
I worked hard to trust what God says
about me like I worked hard to really
believe that I was fearfully and
wonderfully made in spite of what
decisions I made I worked hard to
believe that no weapon forming his new
Prosper like those aren’t just things
that I say like I worked hard to believe
in God for those things and to trust God
like
my wig falling off if that’s the worst
thing that ever happened to me in my
entire life then my life would be easy
but I’ve been in some stuff like I’ve
been in some real shaky to your core
sitting in the corner nobody wants to
hear from you you’re nasty you a hoe
like you you can’t do nothing for nobody
you don’t have anything to say like I
worked hard to to reclaim my identity
and God I worked hard for that and for
my back to be against the wall and the
things that a wig was going to keep me
from owning what I preach about from
owning the work that I’ve done like to
think that that was going to be the
thing that broke me like that’s crazy
like do you know how my stuff tried to
really break me like for real like blow
your brains out break you and then think
that it was going to come down to a wig
like no sir absolutely not absolutely
not and I want women
to take seriously what they have
overcome not in a way that makes them
feel ashamed not in a way that makes
them feel less than but in a way that
makes them realize that if God has kept
you and God has preserved you then maybe
just maybe God really believes in what’s
possible
as it relates to you taking everything
that the enemy meant for evil and seeing
that God meant it for good like maybe
he’s serious about
it and maybe that’s why you have been
preserved and maybe that’s why you’ve
been protected and so if you can look at
what you’ve gone through and said I
survived hey limping for sure wounded
scarred bruised absolutely but I’m still
here and if I’m still here
maybe I should take myself seriously too
maybe I shouldn’t see myself as
superficial maybe I shouldn’t see myself
as so fragile that I can’t show up in
the very light that I have been ordained
to live like I believe that I am called
to preach this gospel for a generation
that felt unheard and unseen I believe
I’m called to preach this gospel and I
take that thing seriously and I it
shouldn’t be me there should be other
people more qualified other people more
eloquent other people who get it better
than I do but this is what God is using
and I’m committed to not letting God
down or choosing myself over him
you’re so humble
I’m not what
what no you are you so you’re so humble
I wish you could see you the way I see
you foreign
but I wish uh
it is at the very minimum what you just
described
at the very minimum and maybe it’s good
maybe God hides
the fullness of who a person is from
that person to keep them in a humble
place but you’re more than a preacher
you you are God’s Revolution
you are God’s Revolution
to bring about
the the full expression of God’s image
uh without the woman being we’ve seen
the power and the glory of the man you
know you know Hallelujah and we thank
God for the men you know but we haven’t
seen the full glory and the full power
of the woman of God we’ve seen the full
power and the Flash wouldn’t say full
but we’ve seen we have a healthy
uh
uh representation
of the the man of God but the woman of
God we haven’t seen her fully yet and so
you’re more than a preacher you you
you’re an activator God has anointed you
to be an activator of what I believe is
one of the final pushes of the spirit
and that is to bring the woman into her
rightful place
right
I mean rightful place in the kingdom and
and so it is going to be hard and the
government’s going to throw everything
at you but what can the devil do
would someone who will take everything
he throws
and throw it right back through him and
cause it to be
you know you talk about lemon and
lemonade but what what what what what
can the devil do to a person who will
take whatever he throws and sling him
right back at him and keep on going
you’re forced baby and I’m proud of you
and I’m I’m praying for you and I think
that I mean you look at these comments
in here you know what I mean like it’s
it’s true so you know you can I’m not
gonna just let you be a preacher you
know you we thank God for every preacher
uh but I’m not covering just the
preacher I’m covering a movement and uh
and I’m proud of you and you keep
um you keep showing up you keep showing
up all right you keep standing up to
whatever is throwing your way and uh and
I’m a fool with you the Long Way forever
yeah you really don’t have a choice
because I’m crazy
because you’re crazy
record it show it in court officer and
show it in court you crazy
I don’t know I just um
I want women to trust what they have on
the inside
and um
yeah
navigation crazy they crazy everybody’s
crazy I know I already told them
something happened to me they already
need to know that you it ain’t no love
for you after I’m gone
thank you they already know
um
but I do want to thank everybody who I
see y’all
I’ve read a lot of the comments I’ve
screenshot a lot of them definitely had
that vulnerability hangover where I
opened my mentions and just saw me in
the wig hat and was like ah really what
just happened but then I just remembered
who I was in the moment was like forget
it Let It Go but
um so many testimonies so many people
who were touched and blessed by that
moment which it just sounds crazy to me
that God used that moment and is using
that moment the way that he’s used it
but I’m grateful for your love your
support for those of you throwing wigs
off with me
leaving comments and two
as you go into your lives
um trust what you carry trust what you
carry and and if you can dress it up
dress it up but if you’re not able to
dress it up and all you got is what you
hear trust that it’s enough more than
enough someone said I took my wig off
and tagged you in it Sherry Shepherd
thank you
thank you thank you thank you for using
your platform to show solidarity and
what was a really vulnerable moment I’m
potentially embarrassing if I did not
have the Revelation that I had about it
but
um I appreciate The Sisterhood that has
been activated it does make me excited
about when we evolve because you know
I’m I’m a suffer from when women come
together and decide to not be defined by
who they’ve been or what they have but
rather what’s inside of them so I’m
excited about that but I do want to
thank you guys fighting for me in the
comments and going off on folks and
pointing people back to the message so a
lot of people went on the message and
was like I couldn’t see that wig slip
and now I’m crying can’t see that
Whistler but God is speaking to speak
into yourself
um I’m grateful if this proves nothing
else at all I will just say this and
then and I’m out of here
um
I will say this
um
the very statement that like God is
using the fact that I took my wig off
to help free
hundreds of thousands of people is a
testament to what God can do with
something that doesn’t seem important
and if you’re watching this and you have
an idea you have a gift you have a
talent you have a call and it just
doesn’t seem important
um
trusted
trust what God can do with it trust what
can happen as you lean into it and as
you lean into it just know that God
whatever God’s Gonna Do With It guys
want to be responsible for the results
you’re just responsible for the
obedience and
um
and I love you and that’s it
all right