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I often

wonder though I see in scripture

especially in John over and over again

where John goes out of his way to say

that he was the disciple whom Jesus

loved and I often wonder to myself

whether or not John was true in his

perception not that he wasn’t someone

who Jesus loved but to go out of his way

to say he was the one whom Jesus loved

suggest to me that he felt a little bit

of favoritism in his relationship with

Jesus and while I certainly believe that

that is the birthright of any of us who

are believers we should feel like we are

the favorite one you know on the outside

looking in I do Wonder though if he and

Peter had a unique bond that has not

fully been

explored because when I look at the

dynamic between Peter and Jesus I see

over and over again how he allowed him

insight and access that he didn’t

necessarily give to the other

disciples when I look in the scripture

and I think to myself what is the most

powerful interaction between Jesus and

Peter there are so many different

moments that come to mind he healed his

mother-in-law he went out of his way to

make sure that his mother-in-law was

healed he also allowed him the

opportunity to exercise whether or not

he could walk on water we often talk

about how Peter failed at walking on

water as if we have jet skis on our feet

but the fact that Peter even had the

audacity to ask whether or not he could

do it and Jesus said if you have the

audacity to ask I’ll create the

opportunity for you to do it to me

there’s something powerful about their

relationship that he knew that he could

ask something of Jesus and that Jesus

would fulfill now maybe he didn’t keep

the faith and maybe he could have worked

harder but he had a certain audacity

that I don’t think we can underestimate

what is the most powerful

interaction perhaps it’s at the Mount of

tabar when he has the Mount of

transfiguration moment and suddenly this

Jesus that they have been following is

now dazzling white and shining and it is

undeniable that Jesus is not just a good

man he’s not just the anointed one

though they thought that he was but this

is something that you’ve never seen

before this is a glory that the world

has yet to behold and he allowed Peter

to be a part of that moment was that the

most powerful interaction

maybe maybe it was the moment where

Jesus asks Peter who do you say that I

am and when Peter responds he receives a

new name because at the end of the day

Jesus tells him that this Revelation is

what I’m going to to build my church on

and Flesh and Blood did not reveal this

to you Peter and Jesus had a

thing I like Peter and not just because

they say he had a cussing Spirit on him

cuz I am

delivered and not just because he cut

the ear off because I too am

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delivered one of my favorite moments I

think perhaps the most powerful moment

between Jesus and

Peter is in John 13 though there are

other moments in the synoptic gospel

that Al that also covers it this moment

in John 13 sticks out in my mind because

it is the end of the last

supper and Jesus has made clear his

journey toward the

cross they have had the first

communion and I imagine when I try to

depict what what it was like to be in

that room that there was a real

seriousness a real

sobriety between Jesus and the disciples

at this

moment and I think the most powerful

interaction that we see between Jesus

and Peter takes place when Peter asked

in John 13 whether or not he could

follow Jesus where he was

headed I didn’t give them this scripture

but I want to read it to you for the

sake of you fully understanding it’s in

John

13:37 and it says Peter said to him Lord

why can I not follow you now I will lay

down my life for your

sake and Jesus answered him and he says

will you lay down your life for my sake

most first of all y’all better okay most

assuredly I say to you that the rooster

shall not Crow till you have denied me

three

times to

me this is the most powerful interaction

between Jesus and

Peter not the moment where he had the

opportunity to walk on water not the

moment where he was at the Mount of

transfiguration not the moment where he

healed his mother-in-law not the moment

where he gave the Revelation this to me

is the most powerful interaction because

this is the moment in which Jesus tells

Peter something about himself that he

did not know he was capable

of this is the

moment where Jesus gives Peter insight

about Peter that Peter himself doesn’t

even know

exist we love these

moments where Jesus sees us as greater

than we see

ourselves where our future and our

destiny and our gifts and talents are

more powerful than we could even imagine

we love it when we feel like we’ve been

sleep on ourselves but very rarely do we

dig into those moments where Jesus tells

us something about ourselves that

doesn’t quite measure up to who we see

ourselves

as like I’m

loyal like I have integrity like you can

count on me this is the most powerful

interaction because Peter thinks highly

of himself as a

disciple he sees himself one who can

easily follow Jesus no matter where he

goes I don’t care how dark the road is

going to be I can be with you and yet

Jesus says that you cannot live up to

your own

intention

yeah because who we intend to be and the

impact of who we actually are sometimes

have

distance your intention and your

impact we are responsible just as much

for Our intention as we are for our

impact so it doesn’t fully matter what

you mean if what you mean didn’t come

out in the way that you delivered

it which is difficult for us to

comprehend because yes you cannot

control the way that a person

experiences you and yes they need to do

their own work but that does not give us

license to just do and say whatever we

want to say well I didn’t mean it that

way if they took it that way that’s on

them no no no you are responsible for

making sure that the way that I impacted

you the way that I said it that I can

stand by it in my intentions and in the

presence of God I am responsible for

making sure that my intention and my

impact

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align which is why relationships become

so challenging alling for

us not just our relationship with Jesus

but also our relationships with

others because there’s a certain level

of humility required for us to make sure

that our intentions are constantly

aligning with our impact as much as

possible when we’re

parenting I like that when we’re loving

on one

another I have a responsibility to make

sure that this all aligns because I

recognize that in this season of my life

in the influence that God has given me

and everyone if you know one person you

have influence that that influence could

be the very thing that makes or breaks

who God is calling them to be I am

responsible for my impact because I

never want to say or do anything that

robs you from becoming who God has

called you to be I recognize that when

you recognize that you have been the

villain in somebody’s story it changes

everyone has has been the victim and we

can shout all day about who did you

wrong but if we were really honest there

are some of us who have been the villain

in other people’s story and not because

I meant to but because I was so blind to

the way that my words come out I was so

blind to my own Brokenness that I hurt

you in the process when you become aware

that I can sometimes act in a way that

even I don’t agree with it makes you

listen differently when someone everyone

is saying the same thing that you don’t

know how to talk to people maybe it’s

nothing wrong with their ears maybe it’s

something wrong with your

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mouth and you mean

well but you’re not always doing

well

I think that Paul unpacks this in great

length in Romans

7 he

says for I do not do the good I want to

do but I do the evil I do not want to do

wait a

minute I don’t do what I want to do my

intention is not showing up in my

action I do the very thing that I don’t

want to do my in there’s a distance this

I keep on doing now if I do what I do

not want to do it’s no longer I who do

it but it is sin living in me that does

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it this word

sin when you look it up in the Greek it

means hermit it means to miss the

mark

oh I’m okay I’m G to say

this

sometimes in church not this

church other

churches we talk about other

churches we reduce sin down to maybe who

you sleeping with and whether or not you

lie but when we see sin as missing the

mark of who we are called to

be it humbles us because we recognize

each day that I wake up there are

moments where the thing I want to I

don’t do I don’t want to talk to you

crazy I don’t want to shut you out I

want to be open I want to be honest I

want to be vulnerable but the thing that

I want to do I do not do and it is sin

that is doing it in me what if we saw

those moments where we missed the mark

as not as just being human but as it’s

actually sinning missing the mark on who

God has called us to be as a partner who

God has called us to be as a parent who

God has called us to be as a leader who

God has called us to be as a friend I

know it’s not one of those sexy messages

but I’m telling you that you have to

recognize that there is a possibility

that you are missing the

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mark and if I’m missing the

mark what is it that needs to happen

within me where I do not compromise the

mark because it requires too much

communication and it requires too much

humility and requires a skill set and

quite frankly they don’t even deserve

the version of me who I would be if I

actually met the mark so now I’m meeting

their Mark instead of his Mark and they

have become my Lord instead of him my

Lord I am who I am regardless of who you

are sometimes I apologize not because

you deserve it but because I didn’t

deserve to miss the mark in that way

yeah you may have deserved that cussing

but I didn’t deserve to abandon my

mission in order to get down on your

level cuz when I get down on your level

I am no longer the

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mark and I can’t miss just because you

missed there are some people I don’t

want to be even

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with I’m sorry I don’t I don’t want to

be on your level I tried that it didn’t

work for me I don’t want to be on your

level I didn’t like who I was I don’t

want to be on your level it left me

bitter I don’t want to be on your level

it left me angry I don’t want to be on

your level the generational curse can’t

get broken if I stay on your level

they’ve been doing this in my family for

Generations God has called me to a

different Mark so yes I’m sorry that I

abandoned myself and yes I Repent God

because I missed the mark when I went

off and I read them for Filth but I came

home dirty because I missed the

mark

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Paul doesn’t just leave us there in

Romans 7 he tells us in Romans

8 that yes it is sin dwelling in

me I am missing the mark because of the

sin that is dwelling in me but in Romans

8 and2 he lets us know for the law of

the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has

made me free from the law of sin and

death that means that though I have

missed the mark because sin is dwelling

in me there is also something else

dwelling inside of me and the spirit of

God dwelling inside of me is going war

with the sin that is living inside of me

you can’t tell it but you’re sitting

next to somebody in a war zone because

the sin that is dwelling Within Me is at

war with the spirit of God that is in me

and I just wanted to let you know that

you may be in the midst of the battle

but the spirit of God does not lose and

sometimes God allows that sin to come to

the surface so that the spirit can get

it on the front line cuz if you get your

sin on the front line and you release

the spirit of God over that sin now God

can go to war with the thing that’s

going to war with your destiny now God

can go to war with the thing that’s

going to war with your family yeah bring

it out bring it out bring it out cuz I

got filled with something that’s bigger

than the sin dwelling within

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[Music]

me the spirit of God that’s why I don’t

want to just be in a room with the

spirit I got to lift my hands and

receive it that’s why I don’t want to

just be around the spirit that’s why I

say things like fill me up until I

overflow cuz I recognize that there is

some stuff in me that’s got to get out

of me if I’m going to be who God has

called me to be I realize I got some

abandonment issues I got some rejection

issues I got a pride demon to

fight and I can’t do it on my

own some of y’all sing fill me up you

singing a song

I’m making a request to God fill me up

god Till I overflow I want to run over

if I could sing I’d run you out of this

building cuz we would take about 10

seconds to ask God to fill us up until I

overflow cuz I got sin dwelling in me I

got pain dwelling in me I’m carrying

generational sin this sin didn’t even

start with me I got my great grandmother

sin down on on the inside of me but I

got a spirit of God that can chase it

out of my

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[Music]

bloodline it’s going to overflow it’s

going to overflow you get filled with

the spirit sometimes I lift my hands I

don’t even feel like it I’m tired I’m

depressed I’m worried but I lift my

hands cuz the spirit makes utterance on

my behalf when I can’t say a word I just

lift my hands cuz it’s all I got and

it’s all I

need this is a job for the spirit this

is not a job I can think my way out of

this is not a job I can play my way out

of this is a job for the spirit this sin

is a job for the spirit this addiction

is a job for the spirit this less is a

job for the spirit now when the spirit

gets finished with me I might be in

rehab when the spirit gets finished with

me I might be in therapy but no matter

where I go it’s got to start in the

spirit cuz the spirit’s going to finish

this

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[Music]

thing cuz I got to be free I got to be

free I can’t do it bound I can’t do it

in bondage God say some of you I can’t

promote you cuz I’m going to be

promoting a bound version of you and

where you go you got to be free to

create you got to be free to think you

got to be free to speak truth to power

and if I send you in there bound up

you’ll mess around and compromise when

I’m calling you to set a new standard