I have the honor today of introducing
One of my favorite people to you my friend Sara Jake's Roberts
Elevation church, we are so spoiled
Sara and her husband Touré are pastors at the potter's house at one la and the Potters house in Denver
I don't know how they get all of that done, but they do and she wears so many other hats. She's a pastor
She's a writer. She's a mother of six. Yes. I said six children and
She is daughter to the great Bishop TD Jakes that we all know and love
Just to name a few of the things that she is but she's also my friend
She is someone who makes me laugh. She sends me text messages all the time
I love her so much
and you're gonna love her too because one of my favorite things about her is that she is a woman who can
Preach a lot of women speak a lot of women teach a lot of women share
but this girl
She preaches and I know that this message is going to challenge you and grow your faith in a new way
So will you help me give an Elevation welcome to my friend Sara Jakes Robert?
Elevation can you make some noise?
That one's ok for me, can you make some noise for Jesus?
The Church of the Living God
You could be anywhere else, but you have decided to be in the present make some noise Oh heaven touches earth
Make some noise
We're your Giants on your children
Elevation is one of the most amazing churches in the world
In the world and I consider it an honor to be here before you guys today
I've been studying
I've been praying I want to get right into the word if that's all right with you
And I know you've been standing a long time
But I'm gonna be standing a longer time
Someone stretched your hands towards my feet. Amen
I'm gonna be in Matthew 26 verse 69
I'm reading out of the New King James Version
yesterday I
Was reading the word and I told people to sit down and get comfortable if they would like
But then I learned that you all actually stand for the reading of the word
So I'm gonna ask that you honor the custom of this house
verse 69 begins and it says now Peter sat outside in the courtyard and
the servant girl came to him saying
You also were with Jesus of Galilee
but he denied it before them all saying I do not know what you are saying and
Verse 71 continues it says and when he had gone out to the Gateway
Another girl saw him and said to those who were there. This fellow also was with Jesus of Nazareth
But again, he denied it with an oath
I do not know the men verse 73 says and a little later those who stood by
Came up and said to Peter surely. You are also one of them for your speech betrays you
Then he began to curse and swear. I love Peter. I
Do not know the men immediately a rooster crowed and Peter remembered the word of Jesus
Who had said to him before the rooster crows? You will deny me three times
So he went out and wept bitterly
My subject for those of you who take notes are everything must go
Everything must go
So God we welcome you to
Continue to feel this atmosphere
with your word and your truth
You are the only one who can take one message and allow it to hit everyone in different ways
You are the only one who knows every need every burden every issue that came into this room and you and you alone can speak
breakthrough and power in victory in healing and so father we
Welcome you to inhabit every part of this room every soul that came in here
Because we recognize that when you do that, we are forever changed. And so we're asking that this would be one of those moments
Where we walk out of there and say God you heard me you see me and you know the plans that you have for me
God I'm asking to be your vessel that there will be no nerves no anxiety. Just your spirit standing tall in me
So that lives may be changed in Jesus name Amen
And then now you can get seated and be comfortable
There are
Very few words that bless my soul as a believer like the following 3
Everything must go
Those words bless me not just because of the reason that I found one studying
But when I see them on on a store, it speaks to me that God
Is really looking out
For my finances in this season say god
I prayed for savings and you put my favorite store on sale
How great is your mercy towards me? Everything must go and
That used to make me so excited because I knew that when I walked into the store that they would be willing to
Discount even further items that I had been waiting to get for a very long time
And so when I went home and I told my husband that I finally got something that I'd been looking for I could tell him
But honey, it was on sale. And so we saved money. I didn't spend money
Now that I am a business owner though, I realized that when they put those words outside of the store
It's not just because they want to bless my spirit
Just fascinating
they actually do that because they have new inventory coming in and
Because they have new inventory coming in. They have to get rid of everything. That is no longer profitable
So that that which is profitable can take its place
What if we as believers
started to treat our life with that same level of philosophy that
We look to within ourselves and said everything must go that is no longer profitable
So that that which is profitable can come in
How much powerful would we be if we looked at our bitterness and said no
You can't stay because you're taking that place where my joy could be
What if we looked at our misery and said no, you can't stay because you're taking up space where my purpose could be
What if we started to say depression you can't stay here joy is in your place
You got to make room and everything must go. This is a mindset
That we should have
But because we don't always have this mindset God creates these
Situations these scenarios that force us to put that which is no longer profitable on sale
So that it can be stripped away to make room for what is profitable
When we find my friend Peter in this text he is going through that exact process
now because we've heard this story so many times it can be easy for us to believe that
He's going to be alright in the end, but that's because we know the end from the beginning
But imagine with me being Peter in this moment
This is not the same Peter who's walking on water in front of Jesus
This is not the same Peter who was watching Jesus performed miracles
This is a
Defeated Peter
This Peter left everything he knew when he began to follow Jesus he was connected to hope he was
Connected to think he would see signs and wonders
all of the time and now all of a sudden that which he knew so well he is disconnected from and
In the process of being disconnected from that faith his change
begins to occur and he's no longer the person he used to be I
Know we would like to say that that is exclusive to Peters experience
but if we are honest we look back over our lives and we
Recognize that there are moments where I used to be so full of faith. I
Used to be so connected to my faith there was nothing off-limits
I had a faith for my marriage I had faith for my children
I had faith that that dream that purpose was going to be
manifesting that it was going to change the world and now I'm just lucky if I get from day to day I used to have
faith
I used to believe that I could do absolutely anything but for some reason now, I'm
Connected from my face what I love about this. Is that for Peter his faith was taken from him his hope was taken from him
Have you ever had? Hope just ripped?
Out of your hands. I
Thought that things would be one way but one phone call one
incident and now all of a sudden all of my faith has been
Stripped away. I
Never thought that I would be the one going through a divorce
I thought that we wouldn't make it to the long haul but my faith got stripped away
I
Never thought that I would be the one who didn't know
how I was going to make ends meet but for some reason my faith got
Stripped away when we find Peter in this text. His faith has been
stripped away and
When your faith is stripped away it changes how you see the world it changes. How you engage in how you interact?
There are people in this room who haven't really felt like themselves in such a very long time and if we retrace your steps
And retrace your history, we would find that it was all because of one incident that changed the way you saw everything. I
Witnessed something and I
saw the worst of people and when I saw the worst of people it made me stop believing in the best of them and
So now I've become a cynic
disconnected from hope
And every time I close my eyes at night, I remember that person I used to be
But as I was praying and I was pressing again, I felt like God was saying that everything must go
That everything that is not
profitable that everything that has
No
no value for what he wants to do in our life has to go that maybe just maybe as we
Filtered through our lives and we filtered through our memories and our emotions
We will recognize that we picked up some habits and some patterns and some thoughts that we shouldn't have and we're out of season
Right now where I can't go there next unless I clean out
back there
Peter is in between the cusps of walking with Jesus and becoming the rock in which Jesus would build his church
So it's not actually that he's disconnected from his faith it's not that he's disconnected from Jesus
It's just that Jesus is shifting. And as Jesus is shifting. Then Peter is having to elevate who he is as well
Sometimes God just moves on you
And it's not that he's lost. It's not that you did anything wrong
It's him saying everything must go so that everything can grow
If I don't move from where you're used to seeing me, then you'll become one of those complacent
Churchgoers, and I called you to be a kingdom agent in this world. So I'm constantly
Expanding your capacity. I'm trying to see how hungry you are to hear from me
I'm trying to see how desperate you are to get a word from me. So I'm not staying within reach
I'm trying to stretch you into the next dimension Peter. I know you're used to walking with me, but can you press in and
Show me that you have taken in what you used to want to take for granted. I
Hear guys saying this in you
I hear God saying that you were depending on faith in one arena that you thought your help came from a job not
Recognizing that he's going to be your provider
So I stripped the job away so that you can see man didn't have to write you a check that I would make a way
For you to make it anyway
I hear God's saying I had to move some people out of your life because you were beginning to worship them and I need you
To know that at the end of the day if all you have is me, but that's more than enough
There's a greater is he mentality that is coming back into your situation and I had to strip some things away
So that I could grow and increase inside of you
Everything must go
Everything must go I won't be satisfied with this message until you leave here desperate to clear out anything that's taking up
Unprofitable space down on the inside of you anytime a negative thought starts rising up until you say everything must go
God renew my mind and give me a mind like Christ. I can't afford to have this thinking thinking any longer
I'm trying to press towards the mark and I can't do it thinking like the same girl. I used to be
Everything's gotta go
Everything's gotta go every hater every doubt every fear every insecurities depression
No
authority
It's gotta go it's gotta go cuz I'm ready to grow it's gotta go it's gotta go it's gotta go it's gotta go
It's gotta go. It's gotta go. I'm gonna move on but I'm speaking to your demons. You gotta go. You gotta go
You gotta go. You gotta go. I didn't just come to church to clap my hands and walk out feeling good
I came here to wage war on Hale. You gotta let me go
You gotta let my country code. You gotta let my finances go and
Anything that's keeping me
From recognizing what he can do through me has got to clear the way
Everything everything's gotta go
Everything
So my friend Peter is in-between
Walking with Jesus and becoming the rock in which Christ will build his church but
in this moment
He's lost and he doesn't know what to think
because he's been disconnected and
So Peter, I love this because before any of this happened there at the Last Supper and Jesus says to Peter
Before the rooster crows three times. You're gonna deny me
Peter was like wow, I would never ever
You my boy. We've been rolling man
But he says I see something in you
that's got to come out of you and
It's got to come out of you in order for you to access the next dimension of who you are
and
So I have to move myself out of the way
Because if I don't move myself out of the way
Then you won't deny me and then that issue won't rise to the surface
And if that issue doesn't rise to the surface, I can't build my church on you
So god moves things out of the way so that our issues can rise to the surface and
I just want you to know because some of you got so many issues
Rising to the surface right now
That you're ready to give up
So many
memories and
thoughts
rising to the surface
But what I love about this is if Peter gets this out of his system this denial out of the way
one time
He never has to be the person who denied Jesus again
That if I confront what's in me, then it makes space for what's on me
it reaches fullest potential and
I know that
some of our families and some of us are more comfortable when we don't let those issues rise to the surface because we want to
avoid conflict
but as long as it exists within you then you are conflicted and
Divided and we have to be united if we want to be powerful in the kingdom
because there's enough outside that's willing to divide us that we can't go into it already divided within ourselves and
so Jesus says I see potential in you where I can build my church on you, but first you have to I mean
so that you know, what's in you
There are some things that you won't even realize are in you until you're placed in situations that bring it out of you
I didn't know I was crazy. I
Didn't I would have never thought it was possible for me
until someone said something to me and I was like, wow, I'm about to be crazy because
It's in me
But once it got out of me it taught me something about myself that
I can't afford to be connected with people who bring out that side of me and
So all it took was one time for me to see what was capable
for me to make a decision moving forward to make sure that that never sprung out of me again and
So when I find Peter in this text, he's in between and and he's got this
spirit of
disconnect between him and Jesus and
it's funny because at this moment he's sitting outside in the courtyard and like so many of us do he's thinking about what's wrong and
What's not working? And
this servant girl she comes up to him and she says to him you were also with Jesus of Galilee and
It was interesting that he responded and says I don't even know what you're saying for me
This was a testament of how disconnected we can become from what we want to snoo
Because the worst thing that anyone wants to be reminded of when things are not working is a
time when they once were working I
Know you guys don't get angry with people because you are saved sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost
But have you ever been having a little bit of a disconnect with your husband and then Facebook brought you a memory of when you
Wrote that love know on Valentine's Day
And you scroll superfast past it like not today
Not today
When this girl comes up to Peter she reminds him of a time when they used to have more faith
Weren't you with?
Jesus I know everything gets falling apart right now. I feel that for somebody
Do you remember the time when you were?
Really with Jesus. I
Mean like when you really would go into your prayer closet and you would wake up
Thanking God that you just had another chance to lift your hands and worship this girl
Reminds him in the midst of his most broken moment
remember when you used to have faith remember when you were walking with Jesus and Peter says I don't even know what you're saying my
Mind can't even comprehend in its current state a time when I used to be walking with Jesus
I am denying that part of me and
When you deny that part of you you push away your very own breakthrough. I
Can't afford to to think about that time
He says I don't even know what you're saying
and and then it
continues he moves outside of the courtyard because what happens to so many of us is we try to move out of the way of
People who remind us of who we used to be
Cuz I can't afford to have anyone calling me higher when all I want to do is be broken down
where I am right now and
So he moves out of the courtyard and then he runs into another
girl
And it was at this point in the text when I realized that it wasn't just Peter running away that it was God
chasing him down
Because you want to talk about triggered if I could trigger a time in Peters mind
When he used to walk with me
Then maybe I could get him back in the mindset of what it was like to hear from me
Even if I was telling him what he didn't want to hear
Because if I can get him to remember when he was connected to me
Perhaps he could reach even further back and remember that I plan on building my church on him
So even in the of this brokenness and what seems like the end I still have a plan even in the midst of this breakdown
Somebody's been in a breakdown and I came all the way from Los Angeles
To tell you that God has been trying to get you to reach back to the promise and that lets you know that the bet
Is still on I know nothing in the circle right now looks like it's still happening, but I'm telling you
I know that I know that I know that the bet is still on
How do I know because you're still here and because he is not a man that he shall love
I don't care what this si. I don't care what your account says
I don't care what your mind is saying if he said it and spoke it over your life. There is nothing that can wage war
Against his word
And if I can get back into the position
Where I received the word where I used to hear from him then maybe he could help me navigate through this season that I'm in
Before it's all said and done in
Matthew 26, he's tried to run outside of the courtyard to avoid anyone who would remind him of
Who he used to be?
This is a part that God gets me in verse 73
He says a little later those who stood by came up and said to Peter surely. You are one of them for your speech
betrays you
That thing was good to me child listen
Trying to say it the way I thought it cuz I'm at elevation and I can't afford to be confused on this stage
So y'all bear with me?
They said that there's something about the way you're speaking that lets me know that you were once with Jesus of Galilee
They're talking about his accent
They're talking about the way the cadence that he begins to speak that even though he was he was
departed from him even though he was no longer connected to him that what was around him ended up getting in him and
Began to change the way that he spoke
Which means that even when he tried to change his mind he couldn't change his spirit that he had been around Jesus
But Jesus had gotten down on the inside of him
That means that even though think you've got one side of your mind trying to deny. There's another part of your spirit
That knows who you are that somebody's praying grandmother
Changed the way you spoke that somebody messed around and got connected to Elevation and it changed the way you speak
I know you say that your life is over but your speeches betraying you because you still drugged yourself in the church limping
But she's still here. You still drugged yourself into the presence of God?
I know you told everyone else it was over but your speeches betraying you
I think you have more Hope than you're letting going
I think you have more faith than you would allow us to believe your speeches betraying you everywhere you go your speeches betraying you
It's saying that you're still chosen. It's saying that you're still called. It's saying that no weapon formed against you will prosper
It's saying that your heart is gonna be healed
I know you say you're giving up but you're still writing those songs. Like you're hoping one day you're gonna get discovered
I know you said you gave up but your speeches betraying you
And
because your speeches betraying you I
can tell that you've been walking with Jesus and
That he got in you and this is the moment
That makes Peter begin to weep
Because he is reminded in that instance that Jesus said this what happened. I
Didn't think it was in me. I didn't think it was possible, but he knew me
Better than I knew myself
and
While I'm sitting here having a pity party
He sent these people to remind me that
Even though I was going to deny him
That I would ultimately come back into alignment with him
And when I came back into alignment with him
That it wouldn't be so that I could go back to being the disciple that followed Jesus
But so that I could be the rock in which Jesus built his church
That's better than y'all clapping but that's alright because what I'm speaking about is acceleration
That we're praying that things will go back to what they were
But God is planning to take what was and accelerated to what he said it was going to be
It's still better than y'all clapping
Because I want you to know that there's a generational blessing connected to you breaking that generational curse
That's still better because if you understood
That when you got finished going through this that no one in your family was ever gonna have to go through it again
You would start praising God for your children's children's children
Because
Revelation they wanted you to think that acceleration was impossible
But they didn't want you to know about the god I serve
So they sent a message through my friend Peter
letting you know that you're still a rock that this earth is gonna have to reckon with and
There is deliverance connected to you
And all of this happened when Peter was in his most broken state
All of this took place
when Peter felt
the least connected to Jesus I
Reckoned that while Peter was weeping that heaven was rejoicing
Seems like such an oxymoron
but the moment that that denial occurred and it lifted off of him
The moment that he had reached rock bottom I can't go
No lower than this
And God said that's great
because the lower you are the deeper your foundation can be and
I'm trying to put some weight on top of you and I can't add that weight to a weak version of you
I gotta add that weight to the most humbled version of who you are
I gotta add that weight to the most broken version of who you are
so the deeper you've been broken the greater that
Foundation is going to be why do you need a great foundation? Because there are great heights connected to your name
and
If God would have blessed you
When you wanted him to bless you
you would have flirted with pride and
Ego and you would have thought that you did something to earn where you are
But he wanted you to be so disconnected
from where you once were
That when he pulled you up there was no doubt in your mind that had it not been for the grace of God
That on my side. I know who I am
and I know where I am has nothing to do with Who I am because I'm crazy and I'm
Buddies and all of my peers and he chose to use me anyway
I know that I had to get a mindset that everything must go and when I became desperate
For more of him and none of me. That's when I became the vessel that he could use
I Know Who I am I don't deserve it
I couldn't have earned it
But still the reckless come on somebody the reckless love of God it chased me down
It chased me down
It takes me from the courtyard to outside the courtyard and he kept reminding me that you used to be with Jesus before I
Formed you in your mother's womb
I knew you
You used to be with me you are from me and don't let this world make you think that you're not a part of me
any longer
I'm trying to get you back
To what our first new one I saw you
And in order to do that
We have to let go
Of what has been imposed upon us?
What our emotions and our experience would have us to believe and so here we are
Offering ourselves as a living sacrifice a
Further presence of God in this place
That it's time for us to remember constantly
That I am a living
sacrifice I
Hear God saying that it's time for us to return to the heart posture of worship
Where I wake up each and every morning and I open myself up in such a way
That I said God. There's nothing off-limits
Not this bitterness not this brokenness
Because bitterness feels like warmth when you're afraid of trusting other people
but you need other people in order for you to make it in this thing called life so you're gonna have to be willing to
Trust again and open your heart up again. You're gonna have to believe that he makes all things new and
So Peter became new in that moment
when he was reminded of what God said he
Was reminded of what Jesus said about him
and all I wanted to do when I came here is remind you of what Jesus has said to you and
To remind you that no matter how disconnected you may feel
From that word that he promised you that you're gonna make it
That your heart is gonna be healed
That your children are going to be saved that there is a lane that he is
cultivated that only you can feel that you don't have to be jealous of anyone else's success or anyone else's envy that I
Promise you I still got you. And all I'm waiting for you to do is give me full rein to the inside of you
So that I can make space for what I want to pour into you
I hear God's saying your capacity is about to increase in a way that you never thought was possible
And I had to increase your capacity side that breaks you down so that I could make more room. That's really good
I feel that for somebody I had to end sharper
Capacity and I did it through breaking you down. Now you're stronger than you ever thought you would be
I know it doesn't feel like it because you're in your most broken moment, but I feel strength coming back to you
I feel resources coming back to you. There are people having
Conversations about you nothing you you are right now
But the you he's called you to be that person is still down on the inside of you
And as long as you have breath in your lungs
as long as your heart still has the beat then there is a greater version of you yet ahead and when you decide that
Everything that's in me that's keeping me from reaching the next version of me has to get out of the way
It's gotta let me go
It's gotta let me go I
Gotta get my mind back in the game. It's gotta let me go. I gotta fight for my marriage again
The heartbreak has gotta let me go. I gotta be okay that you walked away from me
I gotta forgive you. I gotta let it go. It's gotta go. It's gotta go cuz it's keeping me from knowing him
It's keeping me from having greater this in me. It's gotta go
If it's okay
Can I just give one person who needs it 10 seconds to worship?
to make a divine exchange
with heaven
To ask God to make space
Time on the inside. I know you're ready to get your brunch. But if I could just give that one person who needs it
10 seconds
Maybe 30 seconds
To lift their hands and worship and profess with their mouth
That I don't want to fall in love with this pain anymore
I want to find out the purpose behind this heartbreak. I want to know why you kept me alive God
I want to know why I'm still in this thing. I want to know why I still have passion
I should have given up everyone else rejected my eyes
Have passionates in your kingdom come in the criminal justice system
I tell her passionately you picked up comments in the industry that he's please please
Give me a divine exchange
Of your spirit
Let it break down my walls
Let it arrest every thought that's not a reflection of who you are
God I need your spirit to forgive
God I need your spirit to break addiction. I
Can't do it by myself. I tried and I've still been in it
But if you would speak a word if your spirit would breathe down on the inside of me
I'm crazy enough to believe that it would push away
Generational curses that it would help me to forgive
I'm crazy enough to believe that you're still in the miracle business and some people need to see it
I need to be a miracle. I want to look down at my soul and wonder how I got over
How did I get over you leaving me? It will be because of the grace of God
how did I get over me losing my
Family and I will say it will be because of the grace of God and not only did he get me over but he restored
Everything that I've lost in the fight
Even though I can get my life back
I thought cancer had taken it, but I look back over my soul and I see that cancer was lying on me
join
Me
For me
With 1z spoken spirit of the Living God
We need you
The next dimension of you I
know who you used to be and that
Was great for who I used to be
But I need to know who you are now
So that I can be everything that I need to be now
And so god I ask that
You would begin to fill us with fresh fire
Fresh fire
Yes, fresh fire and that fire let it consume anything that is in us that is not profitable
For the version of us that you called us to be God, fresh fire. Let it fall from heaven
Not next week not a year from now let fresh fire fall right now if I had two or three people
Who are willing to call down on heaven for fresh fire? I don't even need everybody to do it. We can do it on your behalf
Fresh fire down in my bones. Shut up in my bones
God let it consume every part of me
I need a fresh fire, oh God
I wanna burn for you like never before
I want my marriage to burn for you
Let my family burn for you. Fresh fire fallen from heaven. Elevation make some noise!
Let heaven know you're hungry for it.
Matthews make some noise. eFam make some noise
Call fresh fire over your situation
until demons start trembling and hell gets nervous
I need a fresh anointing.
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