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hey family this is sarah jakes robertson

i am so excited about the incredible

word that you’re about to receive

there’s just a few things i want to tell

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happy sunday one global

family we are so excited first of all

you know what just let us know in the

chat where you’re tuning in from i’m so

excited for the word of god today i

believe it’s a word that is going to

bring great perspective into your life

that is going to bring transformation

into your life and so really want to

dive into what the what the lord has put

on my heart and you know this really

came

from experience right there was

something that i was experiencing

and the lord really just guided me

through it and when i began to press in

about what is the word that you have

that the lord has for his people he was

speaking to me about this very thing and

so as you’re getting ready to take notes

as a sunday fun day as you’re getting

ready to take notes maybe you’re not

watching this on sunday but whatever day

it is just put a fun day next to it

but the title of my message today is

resist the resistance

resist the resistance you see i’ll take

you into what happened in my life so

normally

i wake up

at 3 20 in the morning now i’m a morning

person that’s another thing

it’s a way you know people say i’m a

morning person i’m not morning person

but just to you know make it plain if

that’s the way you receive it i’m a

morning person i am the person that if

you call me at 4 00 a.m 4 30 a.m i will

have a full-on conversation with you

laughing and everything fully present

right because i just in the morning i

just i’m full of life right and so

personally um my time that i spend with

the lord starts at 3 20 and i look at it

as tithing my time right you have 24

hours in the day 3 20 to 6 a.m it’s like

2 hours and 40 minutes

i connected i love i’m someone who just

loves numbers and scriptures and so when

i wake up at that time i connected to

ephesians 3 20 and i’m like lord you’re

able to do exceedingly abundantly in

this moment

but that’s me right and you know in my

prayer time that is a time of communion

with god um that is a time where the

lord begins to give me strategy for my

day strategy for the season of life that

i’m in when i when i have that time with

the lord i i tend to move through life

with precision with clarity with

understanding um i i can you become your

sensitivity and the holy spirit

heightens where you recognize that you

know what even though i already have a

schedule for my day you recognize the

areas where you might need to pivot

because there is something that the lord

has planned that you had no knowledge of

and so for me you know this time with

god is everything

and i went through this season where

waking up was a struggle

like it’s just not it’s not like it’s

not me you know wake getting up like and

the crazy thing i have like three alarms

for the main alarm so just in case it’s

like there’s like three other alarms to

make sure i get up

and this time around the alarms will go

off and it’s not that i’m tired when i

opened my eyes but you start having this

narrative like just just go back to bed

you know what there might be something

you just need to rest just need to just

listen to the lord just put worship

music and just you know fall back into

bed and

i knew that okay something is not right

because why is it such a struggle to

wake up at this time something that came

so

easy for me something that there were

times that it was it felt like a

sacrifice but then in consistency

something becomes developed and it

becomes your norm but all of a sudden

it was a fight

so one particular day

i woke up around it was like three

something

but the moment i woke up i remember i

recalled a dream i had during the night

so in my alarm i titled my alarms my

alarms have either like a scripture or

or a title or something so the alarm

that wakes me up for prayer it says

meeting with jesus so when i look at it

i’m like okay this is what i’m waking up

for i’m waking up for a meeting with

jesus

but in my dream my alarm goes off and

this is the dream my alarm goes off

and rather than it saying meeting with

jesus it said resistance

and i was like what what is that i said

resistance and it’s like you know do you

snooze on resistance or do you answer

the call

so the moment i saw resistance i woke up

and to waking up i’m like god what is

that because that dream troubled me i’m

like why does this title read resistance

and then now in prayer the lord began to

speak to me

about what has been going on where i was

having a difficulty waking up

and he said stephanie what you’re

experiencing is not just because

you’re tired or you need that extra 10

minutes of sleep that turns into an

extra two hours of sleep

that there is a resistance against you

waking up

because you’re in a new season of your

life

and the words that you need to hear from

me in this new season it is what is

going to establish you and cause you to

be effective in the new season that is

upon you

you see i am someone who is fascinated

by times and seasons because what i have

learned from god is that your life our

lives are locked up in times and seasons

in the book of ecclesiastes it tells us

that for every thing there is a time a

season under the sun for every activity

everything god wants to do connected to

your life every word every promise of

god for your life is connected to a time

and a season

you cannot manipulate your way to cause

a season to come sooner than it is

ordained

that is why even when you see the

scripture you see a pardon with god

certain a certain way that god moves

that something it is locked up in a time

until the time comes then it’s it’s

revealed then it’s released when you

think about the promised child isaac

it was always the purpose of god that

abraham would have isaac

but isaac was locked up in a season

isaac was locked up in a certain time

period connected to abraham’s life

because of what isaac would represent

not only to his generation but to

generations after him

and so this is very important to keep in

mind because

i am in i’m in a space that i’ve never

been not only do we enter when you’re

awake into a new day you’re awake into a

day you’ve never been in before there’s

a new season that i have recognized

and the lord was showing me he said this

attack

this is actually an attack

don’t play with it don’t look at it

lightly don’t just give in to the

resistance

when something is resisting you you have

to resist the resistance

because there are words that i will

download their strategy that would

unfold not all in one setting it would

unfold day by day

this is a very sensitive period of your

life that you must be led by the holy

spirit

don’t give in to the resistance so let’s

talk about resistance right what does it

mean in a very simple term it is to

oppose

right to be against and a term that i

love so much that resistance is the

attempt to prevent something by action

or argument

i love that because how many times has

have we been prevented

from doing the very thing that god has

called us to

because of this narrative that was going

on in our heads

oh you’re not worthy it’s not for you

that could never happen don’t embarrass

yourself how are you going to sustain

your family how is this going to play

out

but you have a word you know that god

has already given you released a word

onto your life but there is this

narrative that taunts you

and the only reason the voice is

amplified is because you have not

resisted the resistance

so you give into it

and you’re like you know what maybe i’m

not worthy

maybe i’m not the person for the job

maybe i cannot be the one who does this

very thing and you do not do you don’t

resist

the opposition coming against you

because catch it the enemy is trying to

prevent you

from being established in a new season

that has come upon you

you see what i’m learning about

resistance is that it is actually

likened to birth pains to labor pains

because there is a scripture

in mark 4 17 it says when opposition

comes because of the word

that there is a connection to opposition

and the word

that when there is a word of god over

your life

when there is a purpose of god to be

manifested through your life that

opposition comes

and then as i began to look at that it

dawned on me that opposition is truly

labor pains to a new season

that opposition is that you you cannot

the same way a woman cannot give birth

to a child

even when you when you’re thinking about

the natural means it is impossible

without labor pains in that same manner

it is impossible for you to step into

the purpose of a new season without

opposition

because it comes because of the word

and so how do we engage it

how do we respond to it that is what

we’re going to dive into today

because even when we look at our lord

jesus he is the model of everything he

is the model to how we should live life

how we should understand how we should

navigate through life and he is also our

lord

jesus could not step into a new season

without going through opposition

matter of fact the bible even tells us

that he was led by the holy spirit into

opposition

now can you imagine this jesus just i

mean he had one season of his life where

he was hidden

he was just going through life as the

son of joseph and mary

he was just chilling you know it was

like that’s just jesus you know i’m sure

maybe people gave him a nickname hey jay

what’s up man what’s good jay

you know i i don’t know what they call

them right

maybe he had he was cool with you know

he was just he was everyone’s god he was

just jesus he was hidden just the

regular kid you know maybe he cracked

some few jokes maybe he told a lot of

stories and they didn’t know that he was

actually preparing to tell a lot of

parables right

but jesus was undercover he was hidden

he was in a season of being hidden he

was in a season of preparation

but when jesus was about to tap into a

new season

he gets baptized all of a sudden god

blows his cover

you know the people around him during

the baptism they hear the voice of the

father

from heaven and it says this is my son

in who i am well please his cover is

revealed wait he is not just who we

thought he is

he is someone else this is the son of

god

but in order for him to step into a new

season the bible tells us that the holy

spirit actually led him into the

wilderness

and when he led him into the wilderness

it was to be tempted by satan

but satan’s antics of temptation was

really opposition now when i say

opposition i’m talking about resistance

the two words are interchangeable

it was satan’s antics to opposing

because again opposition is to prevent

you

from doing from moving in the very thing

that god has called you to if jesus gave

into any of those temptations

he would not have come out of the

wilderness in the power of the holy

spirit if he gave into any of those

temptations his purpose in the new

season would have been prevented

you see opposition is actually birth

pains

and when a new season is upon you

god is committed to fulfilling what he

has purpose to do through you

we have to see opposition properly

because here is the thing that sometimes

happens and we’re going to go into this

because as i was praying for you

i saw many feeling like in a situation

where there is opposition and opposition

can come in the form of people

opposition can come in the form of

disappointment

it can come in the form of negative

destructive narratives in your own head

but that’s not you

just like i said al pastor has this

amazing saying when did you become

anti-you that’s not you

opposition can come in many ways

but you have to understand something

about opposition because when we think

it is just the the works of satan

that it is just satan trying to to shake

us up that this is satan being satan

this is actually what satan has

permission to do by god

first of all jesus was not being tempted

by satan outside of god’s sight

the holy spirit led him to be tempted

one of the things you must understand

this is aside by one of the things you

must understand by satan he’s not as

powerful as many people think he is

satan only has power according to

permission

either permission given to him by god or

permission given to him by you

satan does not operate outside of his

boundaries

and what does it look like permission

given to him by you could look like many

things but one of it is when we just

give in to the resistance

when how whatever satan’s antics or

whatever his agenda is to stop you you

believe the lie and you don’t do

anything

because resistance is an action

and if you are passive in those moments

you have given him permission to steal

to kill to destroy

to steal from you what a season actually

has for you

to take away from for you what god

purposed for you in a new season but

satan is not as powerful as you think

and here is why in the book of jude jude

is a book that literally has one chapter

just one very very powerful just one

chapter but in the book of jude and i

want you to write this scripture down

and and read it in your own time jude 1

and this is verse 6. it tells us

something so fascinating it talks about

angels who had gone outside of what they

were given authority to do basically

angels who went outside their boundaries

and as a result of this god chained them

in hell the bible said that they’re

actually chained in eternal darkness and

you know awaiting the day of judgment

but i want i’m saying this so you

understand that satan is not as powerful

as you think because if he is so

powerful that means he lives without

boundaries

but satan is also within boundaries the

first time that angels stepped outside

of boundaries god chained them up

and these angels were were connected to

you see when you go back to the book of

genesis there was a time in the time of

noah

noah for those that may not know noah

was the one called by god to build an

ark in a time there would be a flood and

to to you know save himself and his

family but in the time of noah the bible

tells us and this is in in genesis that

there were sons of god which was

referring to angels that had a sexual

relationship with the daughters of men

this was outside of their boundaries

and there were children created as a

result and these children it was an

abomination to the order of god and

that’s why we that’s why the flood came

because god needed to wipe out all of

that

but i’m sharing this with you because

the moment the first time because satan

is also an angel

the first time that angels operated

outside the boundaries that god gave

them he chained them up

but you know what satan is he’s not

chained that tells you everything that

he is still operating within boundaries

so when he opposes you

it is actually within his permission

that god has given him permission

there are things that may happen you’re

wondering why did this happen in my life

you know because god does not authorize

evil there’s some things that you know

you may have opened the door but we’re

not here to go into that but there are

some things that you might need to shut

the door because when you look at

yourself in the mirror you’re not just

looking at you you’re looking at your

family lineage you’re looking at your

mother you’re looking at your father

you’re looking at your grandparents

because you also naturally came from

somewhere

and so that is why you know when people

are familiar with the sayings breaking

generational curses that there there’s a

door that has been open in my generation

and it ends with me i am shutting

whatever permission that my grandparents

may have given but that’s a whole

another conversation why i’m saying this

to you is to recognize

that when you’re being opposed it is not

just for you to feel like a victim in

life

it is not just for you to feel like god

does not see you there is a purpose that

god has for opposition and it is a sign

of labor pains but i want us to go into

that

because the question is it’s not that

god is just trying to you know play with

us play with our emotions why is it that

god allows the enemy to oppose us why is

it that in order for jesus to start his

ministry he had to go through the burnt

pains of opposition why is it

now you know in the fitness

there is this term called resistance

training

right and it’s you know anyone who does

resistance training you don’t like it

that much first of all but resistance

training is is a is something that is so

fascinating because it is a style of

training that strengthens your muscles

and causes you to have more endurance

and here is what is interesting about it

because all of this happens when your

muscles are working against weight or

some type of force sometimes it could

even be that you’re working against your

own body weight

but that is how your muscles become

stronger and you have more endurance and

there’s a lot of health benefits to this

but in the kingdom there is also

resistance training

now in the kingdom

your muscle is your faith

because when there is resistance it is

to either or or do one of one of two

things or does both it it either gives

you it strengthens your faith or it

gives you endurance or it does both

now we’re gonna we’re gonna talk about

this right

because when we think about

when something is resisting you

it is actually revealing the strength of

your faith

when something is resisting you let’s

look at the life of jesus

in that moment

jesus has just heard a word

that hey you are the you know you are my

son in you i am well pleased he goes

into the wilderness and what is being

attacked is his very identity that he

just received he just heard oh wow jesus

i know you’ve been undercover but

remember who you are it’s like mufasa

remember you know simba you know but

but jesus has this moment then he goes

into the wilderness and his identity is

being under attack

but here’s the thing about faith being

strengthened when you’re when your faith

is tested for how strong is your faith

because faith is never about the size

it’s about the strength

that’s why jesus would say things like

if your faith is the size of a mustard

seed you can say to this mountain move

from here to there and it would move for

you

now sometimes we try to make that more

complicated than it is and we say well

when you plant the mustard seed it grows

to be one of the strongest and tallest

trees jesus said what he said you know

if jesus was here he would say i said

what i said right if jesus meant the

tree he would have told you you know if

you have the faith the size of a mustard

tree

but he said a mustard seed because it’s

literally a friend of mine i think i may

have shared this before a friend of mine

gave me mustard seeds and it is

extremely tiny

but what was jesus trying to teach us

it’s not about the size of your faith

it’s about the strength of your faith

and the strength of your faith comes

with what you understand about what you

received

because here is it the bible tells us

that faith comes by hearing and hearing

by the word of god so when you talk

about faith you’re talking about a word

that there is a word of god that has

come to you

and and you can understand why jesus

said it’s not about the size because how

many times have we received we some of

us have enough words

to i mean you know to be the president

for

three times in a row i’m just putting

this random random fact out there some

of us have enough words

to live a life of great impact to

transform the world if we need to

we’ve received so much from god about

our identity about who he is about what

we have in him but if you don’t have

understanding

it doesn’t matter how many things you’ve

written in your journal it doesn’t

matter how many promises of god you you

read every morning when before you you

go out of your day if you don’t

understand

you can never access the power of the

word

because if you’re just reading

the lord is my shepherd i shall not want

you just read it because it sounds good

wow the lord is my shepherd i shall not

what if you don’t tap into the

understanding that wait the lord

is my shepherd i am actually sheep i am

not the one

that is protecting my life i am not the

one

guiding my life i am not the one that

has that is in charge of provision for

the seasons with the visions that god

gives me the lord is my shepherd

i shall not want

that i don’t have the understanding of

lack because i am connected to the one

who is abundant in all things if you

don’t have understanding of that word

then the moment of season that looks

like lack comes upon you you start to

panic you start to complain you start to

doubt you start to say god where are you

i thought you would be with me but you

were the same person who every morning

would quote the lord is my shepherd i

shall not want

if you say jesus loves me you sing the

song yes jesus loves me yes jesus loves

me

but then the moment a person rejects you

you look at it like god rejected you

then you did not tap the understanding

of what it means to be loved by jesus

because when you know that you are loved

and validated by christ then you will

recognize that man’s rejection holds no

weight against god’s acceptance

it is not about the size of your faith

it is about the strength of your faith

now while this is so important is

because when you’re going into a new

season of your life

god is revealing to you where you are

you see sometimes we are so eager for

something new

sometimes we are so eager for the

promise we are so eager to come into a

place of manifestation not even

recognizing whether we are ready or we

are not

not realizing like wait am i actually

equipped for what is ahead

because when opposition comes

it could reveal your strength to you

and when you recognize like wait oh this

is oh god i know who i am i know what

you said about me this opposition is not

going to stop me

when you start to tap into that all of a

sudden you you gain endurance

that even if in the future something

else comes my way i have a firm

foundation of what god has said about me

you see for me in that moment where i

wasn’t waking up where it’s like i woke

up went back to bed

i was lacking understanding

that i have tapped into a new season

stephanie you can’t just go by based on

the words that god has given you in the

past there is a new season that has come

upon you and it is so critical for you

to get day by day instruction on how you

ought to move

even in general it is very critical but

the lord was showing me stephanie the

new season that i have brought upon you

you need to be equipped for it

you need to tap into what i’m going to

say to you day by day

you see opposition is actually a

beautiful thing

because when opposition comes and you

you don’t know how to resist it it is

not for you to just give in

it is for you to get back into the place

of prayer and start asking the right

questions

god who am i now

god what is the season of my life that

i’m in right now

and what does this season require of me

it brings you to the place of

recognizing that you know what something

happened in my job the other day and it

made me want to quit

if something happened at your job

that made you want to quit then do you

realize why you’re there

who put you there

you can’t just give in to the opposition

and say oh my gosh i am so stressed

people are so stressful

because the bible also tells us that we

wrestle not against flesh and blood but

against principalities and power and

there is a reason that that had to be

clarified because what principalities

and powers would normally look like is

flesh and blood

but what is influencing them is

something else

so if something happened at your job

something happened in the industry

you’re in something happened to you were

embarrassed or you were ashamed

and you think that is enough reason for

you to quit

then you haven’t tapped into what god is

doing in the season you’re in

because who put you there

it’s for you to take some time to

retreat

that god i sense that this at the only

reason that i want to come out of

position is because there was opposition

then you have to start asking the right

questions god who am i now

what have you called me to do now

what is the season that i am in and what

do you require of me in this season

opposition is actually something that is

supposed to work for you and not against

you

i want you to take some time to think

maybe you’re in a place maybe you’re

facing a situation in your life right

now that you’re just like god i i feel

like i’m about to throw in the towel

it’s not working could it be that you

just need to change your strategy

you have to recognize that opposition is

not something that happens randomly you

are not just randomly opposed the enemy

doesn’t just randomly come against you

that it’s actually alerting you that

there is a new season upon you

and god wants you to be prepared and

equipped so that he would establish you

for the purpose he called you to

that he would that you will be fortified

but satan doesn’t want you to know that

because if he can get you to give in

then he can steal from you

and so the question is how do we get to

this place

of resisting the resistance i want us to

read the scripture

in james 4 7

and it says this it says therefore

submit to god

resist the devil and he will flee from

you

submit to god resist the devil and he

will flee from you when we think about

submission

you know submission sometimes sounds

like this very

you know this concept that is higher

than that

it just seems so lofty oh so may god i

submit to you

but submission is actually very simple

submission is coming into agreement

coming into agreement first of all that

jesus is lord

that he is the lord over your life

that god i did not bring myself here

spiritually or naturally because life is

a miracle

submitting to the understanding that

there is one who has authority over how

you move and how you do life

that there is a lord who guides and

guards your life

when you realize that god i am not going

to live my life based on my own limited

wisdom

but i am dependent on you

whatever you show me whatever you

instruct me lord i will do

submission is belief

it is believing what god says about you

it is believing what god says you will

do and what you would accomplish in his

name

when you lack submission you start

fighting without you have identity

crisis

you you’re wrestling with who you

thought you are who you thought you were

with what god is saying about you

submission says god you know what i am

actually i am bringing myself

to the identity that you have revealed

about me it’s not about your feelings

it’s not about what people said it’s

about the truth and the truth is a

person the truth is jesus

when he speaks to you when he puts

desires in your heart when he reveals to

your identity your belief is how you

submit

that is why what satan attacked in jesus

was not his mission or his his

assignment it was his identity

because out of your identity is how you

flow in the purpose of god

if you don’t believe that you’re the one

to do what god showed you then

everything else doesn’t matter satan

doesn’t need to attack what you’re

called to do he just needs to attack

what you believe you’re called to do

and in so doing he attacks who you

respond to who you answer to

do you is there someone who governs your

life because when you when you come out

of the lordship of christ that is when

culture begins to define you

that is when people begin to define you

and that gives the enemy the easiest

access in

you know i was reading something that

blew my mind i was you know in the book

of genesis

and randomly never saw this before

i was just reading the moments that led

up

to

the enemy deceiving eve right because

when we talk about submit to god

right resist the resist the devil and he

will flee from you i said okay let’s

look at the first time

that satan was not resisted what

happened there

because the first story in the scripture

that satan was not resisted was with

adam and eve

and the whole thing with the with the

fruit the forbidden fruit

but there’s something so

fascinating because when you’re reading

the scriptures as it relates to god and

humanity the bible all through

it refers to him as the lord god the

lord god said this and the lord god did

this because that word lord reveals his

authority over a creation it reveals his

authority over humankind it reveals his

authority over everything it’s it’s this

beautiful relationship the lord god the

lord god the lord god the lord god the

lord god the lord god but when satan

threw the serpent

came to eve

he did not say did the lord god say

all he said was did god say

and it looks like something so subtle

but it was actually effective

because depending on how eve would

respond

first he just started off with did god

say all along he was referred to as the

lord god but in that moment did god

really say

and eve responds well god

because now he’s just a being

he’s not the one i submit to so i can

create

my own

narrative

actually you know what matter of fact

it’s not about what he said no more i

want knowledge i want wisdom i am gonna

do the thing he said we should not do

because the reason i obey him is because

i am submitted to him but you see after

that ordeal i want you to read this it

is very fascinating it will blow your

mind

after that ordeal you know after the

fall of man and sin enter the world and

all of this when eve has her first child

she praises who the lord

because now she has restored her gaze

back on you know what we messed up he

said the lord has given me a son not

just god the lord has given me a son

when you when you see god as lord it is

not just someone that is just ruling you

know the world from far up it’s it is

someone who you’re accountable to you

recognize the authority he has over you

are you submitted

because whatever area in our lives we

don’t know how to resist the enemy is an

area that is being revealed

that requires submission

what do you believe about yourself

how are you living we sometimes think

that humility it is to is to dumb down

your identity that is not humility at

all if god says you’re great and you

want to act like you’re mediocre you are

not doing god a favor

that is not humility

humility is to come in agreement with

what god says about you and to live from

that posture

how are you living your life you see

this word convicted me in many ways

because it also put a mirror in front of

me

because it’s one thing to say something

but do i have understanding of what god

has also said about me

do i have an understanding of what he

has revealed about me

you see family don’t be so quick

to make a decision

simply because there is opposition

don’t be so quick to decide in a pat in

a position of passivity that you’re just

passively allowing whatever happens you

know what this person is annoying me you

know what um there’s a voice in my head

telling me i’m not the one you know what

my past is just too messed up what does

god say about you

and what i’m learning about the lord

when you come before him with a humble

heart

when you say god you know what i want to

be

what you see what you know what you knew

not even what you know now what you’ve

always known about me

because the lord said to jeremiah before

i formed you i knew you god i want to

know what you’ve known about me

because i want to live according to that

i don’t want to keep acting like i am

not who i am

and when god gives you a word sometimes

because you’re not familiar with being

you

you might need to create strategy around

it

you might need to you might need to you

know what maybe take some acting classes

so you learn how to act like you

that that word becomes your blueprint

okay what would this person do

what would stephanie actually do you

know we have this saying what would

jesus do but sometimes you also have to

ask yourself what would i do the real me

not this um counterfeit version that i’m

over here portraying

what would the me that jesus called

would do

how would that version of me respond

what would that version of me create

what would that version of me bring

forth to this world what would stephanie

what would what would jeremiah what what

would you do

insert your name there if i right now

put it in the chat

put some things in the chat according to

what god has said about you that you’re

supposed to do that the real you would

do and this counterfeit version of you

is trying to lie its way

for you to not believe that you are who

you are

you see another thing you must

understand about satan is that he is a

liar

he is not just someone that tells lies

his nature is to lie

in the book of john there was a moment

where jesus was speaking about him and

he says when he lies he speaks of

himself

by nature he is a liar

and that is why it makes so much sense

why the bible says that he comes he

appears as an angel of light everything

he does is a lie

and that is why he’s able to deceive so

many even even when you look at the

times we’re in right now in society with

the advancement of new age all of it why

why is it so attractive because it is a

lie

it is this idea that all of this can

happen you don’t need to submit you you

don’t need

why would you need to give into an

authority you can do everything by

yourself

why are people lured into this lie

because it sounds good it looks good it

seems like it would empower you satan is

a liar

it is his nature it is his form it is

his makeup he does not know there is no

truth jesus actually said about him

there is no truth found in him

and why is that important for you to

recognize

because everything that he tries to

intimidate you about

it’s a lie

there is no truth in him

that voice that is telling you you will

never make it

if you make the move to that city you

are going to crush your family

that what what do you think you’re about

to do it is not going to happen for you

that people are going to laugh at you

that voice is the voice of a liar

that is what he does best it is to lie

there is no truth to be found in it

and jesus will never speak to you like

that

so whenever that narrative comes up

whenever you’re experiencing opposition

by the way of an argument

know that it is a lie

go back into your prayer closet

and say god who am i

who am i really

god give me strategy to be me

reveal to me how i can become me

what are the actions i should take

you see when you’re becoming you

some things might not feel natural

some things might not it might not feel

natural to you in the beginning

but when you press in all of a sudden

it’s like you start realizing that oh my

gosh this is actually this fits you know

this this action fits who i am

but in the beginning it might not feel

natural to you

but the more you press into god the more

you come before the lord and say god i

am not what i feel about myself i am not

what people said about me i want to be

everything you’ve called me to be what

you tap into in that moment is what we

call grace

a divine enablement

for you to become you

to really tap into your true nature

to become everything god says about you

to think like you to desire like you to

live like you

you see we have to come into a place

where we do not desire anything less

than truth

you know when you think about the nature

of you

it reflects the nature of christ

maybe you found yourself in a lot of

compromising situations and maybe you

like a lot of compromising situations

it’s nothing to be you know

feel shame about

but let it something should convict you

because when you know that this is not

me

you know chasing after sex or relying on

drugs to feel some kind of connection it

is not me

god who am i

and god give me the grace to become me

because this is not my nature

this is not this is not my form

you will not find you know a dog eating

grass

you know why because it’s not his nature

and as much time as he puts his nose in

there but it’s not to eat the grass is

to find a spot to do his business

because it is not his nature to do that

so who are you

and what does this season of your life

represent

and what does it require from you these

are questions that you should ask in the

presence of god and you know what

happens when we submit

the bible says now through this

submission we are able to resist the

devil

because when you submit and tap into

this understanding and you believe god

at his word then when satan comes

against you say no that’s not me

and i am not going to give in

to your agenda i am going to live

according to god’s will for my life and

what i love so much about that passage

is how it ends

it says resist the devil and he will

flee from you

that word flee is is very fascinating

it’s not just resist the devil and he

will take a stroll away from you or he

will leave you is that he would flee

from you there is a quickness for satan

to come to to remove himself from your

presence when you discover who you are

because to flee means that i need to

remove myself from the place of danger

do you know it’s dangerous for you to

walk this earth as you

the bible tells us that all of creation

is eagerly awaiting the revealing of the

sons of god

sons of god is everybody this is just

about position not about sex

all of creation is waiting for you to be

you

and the moment satan knows that you have

become you it is a dangerous territory

for him because now you are walking in

light

the bible says that light and darkness

have no relationship and satan can only

rule where there is darkness

when he steps into the light his the the

he how powerless he is is actually

revealed he flees from light

it is dangerous to him

when you tap into you

he flees from you

when you tap into you he will test you

to see do you really know who you are

but when you tap into the truth of god’s

word about you

oh you are a force to be reckoned with

it’s not to say that he will not try

some other times because in the bible

when you read about jesus in the

wilderness the bible tells us that when

you know the satan departed for him

looking and waiting for another

opportune time but another opportune

time speaks to seasons

i’m gonna wait for another season of

your life because jesus’s life again had

to deal with seasons

there was a season for him

to be revealed and there was a season

for him to go on the cross

and so before the season came that’s why

no one could touch him no matter how

much people wanted to kill him they

wanted to stone him they wanted to

arrest him jesus would say my time has

not come for this

he said that with intention

that there is a season of my life marked

by god and no matter the intention of

man you cannot bring me into a season

that

when it’s not it’s time

so when satan was looking for another

opportune time it’s not that he’s just

waiting around for you to you know trip

somewhere no he says i’m going to wait

for the next season of your life

because humans we are creatures of habit

the moment we get into a rhythm we want

to stay in the rhythm

the moment we know one thing of our life

our life is like an onions there are so

many layers to it

and so satan knowing that well you know

what these people are creatures of habit

they would rather just stay in one thing

that is why there was a scripture when

the people try to make jesus king

a natural king

and and for me reading that i don’t look

at it like it was just the people i

think it was the enemy trying to tempt

him do you want to stay in this season

where you are just you know

ruling you are healing people and the

people love you do you want to stay in

it or are you willing do you really want

to enter a season of being crucified

being rejected right now jesus you’re

the man the bible talked about how his

fame spread across the earth

everybody wanted to have a piece of

jesus jesus where are you we’re coming

to find you gee oh jesus is in the

wilderness we’ll go to the wilderness we

have no food of water that’s okay jesus

is in the wilderness but there was

another season of his life

where people the people that ran to meet

him the people that the moment they

heard jesus is in town everybody’s

looking for jesus jesus healed my baby

jesus just kissed my you know my

daughter’s forehead jesus just do

something there was a season where he

was scorned and rejected nobody was

looking for him matter of fact people

were denying him

it is in that new season that satan says

this is another opportunity because when

you’re when you transition into the

different seasons of your life you are

vulnerable for a time

because now you have to learn who am i

now

what have you called me to do lord now

what does this season require of me now

what do i have to be willing to endure

now and so a position

should always be assigned to you

of labor pains

it is the beginning of child birth

it is the beginning signs of a new

season that is coming upon you a season

ordained by god for your life

to do mighty things through your life

i want you to recognize that you have to

expect opposition

you have to expect it

to not expect it is to live in ignorance

you have to expect opposition number one

and number two you need to recognize

that it is nothing more than labor pains

there is something god is doing with you

and he’s showing you i’m bringing in you

into a new thing the bible says that

behold there is a new thing do you not

know it don’t you perceive it are you so

caught up in your old routines that you

don’t see the new thing that god is

doing in your life

and family finally submit to god

believe what he says about you

believe what he says you will do

and act like you know

live from that place

make decisions like you not a

counterfeit version

anything that does not mirror what god

showed you is counterfeit

whether it feels natural to you it’s not

come to the place and say god give me

the grace to be me

and i want to pray into that

that we will tap into a grace a divine

enablement to become who we truly are

you see family and as i’m praying if

you’re watching this and maybe you

haven’t given your life fully to christ

you’re watching this and and exactly

what i said you know what you’re one

foot in and one foot out because you

have tapped into this lie from the enemy

that you don’t really need jesus

you don’t look at jesus as lord you just

look at him as an amazing prophet

one of the greatest leaders to ever ever

walk the earth he was amazing he he

built an organization that’s how

sometimes people refer to him jesus was

just like if you want to think about who

he was such a businessman

he was all that but he’s also our lord

and savior

when he was crucified he did it for all

of humanity because all of humanity came

from him

he is the source of everything he is the

source of all creation

and as you are listening to this message

you know that there there is a version

of you that you’re living in and it

feels counterfeit to you

it doesn’t even feel like it’s really

you but you don’t know how to tap into

the more that is connected to your life

you don’t even know how to tap into you

you’ve been reading books and you’re

wondering god you know how do i not even

god but it’s like how do i discover my

purpose how do i discover who i am how

do i do this it starts with submission

god i’m here

i recognize that i am not the shepherd

of of my life i am sheep and you are the

shepherd i recognize that i don’t have

the capacity to guide my life i don’t

have the wisdom to lead myself god i

need you

if you’re watching this and maybe you

need to dedicate your life to the lord

or you need to rededicate your life to

him in the chat right now just put here

i am

god here i am

lord god here i am

you are not just god you are my lord god

you are the one i submit to

here i am

and i’m gonna pray for and while i pray

for i’m gonna also pray that god will

give us the grace

to tap into who we truly are who he’s

called us to be for this season

and from that place of of agreement from

that place of understanding what god has

assigned to us for the places he has

sent us

that we would resist the resistance so

family pray with me

heavenly father we thank you lord god

we thank you for this word that has gone

for it

lord god i just commit everyone who is

saying here i am right now they’re

saying lord jesus i need you

that i have looked at you as a great

prophet a great teacher a great leader

but lord i want to submit to you as my

lord

i i don’t want to just call you a a

friend i want to call you lord

jesus have your way

in my life

heavenly father i thank you that even as

they’re saying these words that jesus

have your way in my life i give you my

heart i give you my mind i give you

everything lord that it is your will not

my will that i want to follow

because your will is my truth

heavenly father i thank you that you see

their hearts

and i thank you lord god that you will

commune with them

that holy spirit you will come into

their lives and you would make their

heart your home

i thank you lord jesus that you would be

a teacher you will be a friend and that

you would show yourself as lord that you

would give them instructions for their

life you would give them a vision for

their life you would show them the

version that you have always known

we thank you lord

have your way in and through them and

lord i pray for the grace

i pray for your divine enablement

that we would live out who we truly are

that we would walk in who we truly are

that we would we would embrace who we

truly are that we would desire on the

level of truth

we would come into the our actions our

words our speech it will reflect our

truth

in the mighty name of jesus we thank you

lord

we seal this

in jesus name

amen

amen

hallelujah