Known ONE - Dr. Anita Phillips

Summary

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Episode Summary: "Known ONE - Dr. Anita Phillips"

Podcast: ONE | A Potter's House Church
Date: May 12, 2025
Teacher: Pastor Stephanie (with contributions and dialogue by Pastor Torre Roberts)
Occasion: Mother’s Day Service

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Overview: Main Theme & Purpose

This Mother’s Day episode centers on Jeremiah 1:5—"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you"—and unfolds a deeply reflective exploration of what it means to be "known" by God. Pastor Stephanie invites the congregation to shift their perspective: from making decisions based on faulty self-knowledge or trauma-driven narratives, to grounding identity, healing, and purpose in being intimately formed and known by God. Through personal stories, practical wisdom, and theological depth, the teaching emphasizes healing, motherhood, destiny, and the transformative power of God’s love—beyond both trauma and religious performance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Decisions Are Shaped by What (and Who) You Know

• [02:00–04:30]
  Pastor Stephanie explains that before we ask questions or make decisions, we’re already acting on something we "believe we know." She uses relatable scenarios (choosing an apartment, evaluating options) to expose the hidden power of our underlying beliefs and the importance of accurate self-knowledge.

  "We spend so much time making decisions based on faulty knowledge...Every decision starts with something we think we know. A lot of times we think a decision starts with a question, but decisions start with beliefs." — Pastor Stephanie [01:30]

2. "Know Yourself": You Are Formed by God, Not Defined by Trauma

• [04:34–09:29]
  Grounding her message in Jeremiah 1:5, Pastor Stephanie affirms each person's uniqueness as being handmade by God ("yatsar": to shape like a potter). She addresses the role of environment and trauma in shaping (but not making) identity, and shares candidly about her own anxieties about motherhood.

  "Trauma didn't make you. It may have shaped you, but it did not make you." — Pastor Stephanie [07:32]
  "You don't have to invent yourself. You were formed—your very personality...Ever since I was a kid, I loved colors, loved holidays. Those things...God formed in." — Pastor Stephanie [07:10]

  Pastor Stephanie and Pastor Torre illustrate how different personalities, when exposed to the same trauma, manifest unique responses—a testimony to individual God-given design.

3. God the Master Potter: Healing, Remaking, and Restoration

• [09:29–12:58]
  Building on Jeremiah 18:3-6 and Isaiah 64:8, the teaching describes God as a potter who not only forms but can also remake and reshape us, especially through healing and motherhood.

  "God will remake you...I trust the potter who formed me in the first place." — Pastor Stephanie [10:11] "Our children were formed before they were in our womb...[their personalities] came here with them." — Pastor Stephanie [10:44]

  The pastors reflect on the generational tension between parent and child—how mismatched personalities can lead to "wounding" and the importance of apologizing and allowing God to remold both parent and child.

  "It is never too late to apologize...It's life-changing in the relationship." — Pastor Stephanie [13:44]

4. Know Your History: God’s Intimate Knowledge of Us

• [15:30–23:32]
  Pastor Stephanie unpacks the significance of being "known" (yada: to know intimately, experientially) by God, emphasizing that God’s relationship with us precedes and supersedes performance or perfectionism.

  "Please stop believing that God cares more about your performance than his relationship with you." — Pastor Stephanie [16:24]
  "The will of God is not a spiritual scavenger hunt that he has you on to stress you out." — Pastor Stephanie [18:03]

  She challenges listeners to discern between anxiety and spiritual guidance by reflecting on their own "history with God"—noting the importance of bodily awareness and grounded, lived experience.

5. Know Your Power: The Mystery and Miracle of the Womb

• [24:03–36:10]
  Using scripture and biology, the teaching celebrates both the spiritual and physical significance of the womb—how it represents compassion, mercy, generational legacy, and God’s power deposited in each person.

  "I was formed and placed in a place of compassion and mercy to grow." — Pastor Stephanie [26:19]
  "Fire in the bones. Know your power...When he formed you, he put a power in you." — Pastor Stephanie [36:46]

  Pastor Stephanie discusses generational trauma ("epigenetics"), explaining through scientific study how trauma and blessing are both carried forward—yet Jesus entered fully into human flesh to break cycles and redeem us from within.

  "Jesus had to get fallen flesh from his mother. He had to be a regular human in order to have a regular human bodied God. Isn’t that phenomenal?" — Pastor Stephanie [33:44]

6. Know Your Priorities: Sanctified, Not Just Cleaned Up

• [37:22–45:16]
  Reframing sanctification not as "doing nothing wrong" but as "being set apart," Pastor Stephanie encourages recalibrating priorities (health, calling, wholeness) over simply avoiding behaviors. She vulnerably shares her own journey with pornography and addiction, emphasizing love—not fear or shame—as the true agent of sanctification.

  "You can’t hate yourself better...Sanctification is just about priorities." — Pastor Stephanie [38:55]
  "Love will sanctify you. Fear will keep you bound." — Pastor Stephanie [45:09]

  She is honest about her own healing, noting that true deliverance was possible when she realized "God cared more about me than the thing," and promising to use her own scars for the healing of others.

7. Know Your Next: Destiny, Appointment, and Birthing Purpose

• [46:02–53:23]
  As the teaching nears its close, Pastor Stephanie calls listeners to step into appointment (ordaining, anointing, purpose), rather than letting disappointment or fear sideline their calling. Everyone is invited to consider "What are you pregnant with?"—since every person is called to birth something for God.

  "Don’t let disappointment disappoint you...Every single one of us is called to mother something, called to birth something." — Pastor Stephanie [46:35, 47:42]

  She draws a vivid connection between science (wombs in the brain) and scripture, reinforcing how we are designed to "conceive" both blessing and—if we’re not careful—mischief or trauma. Listeners are warned to guard what seeds they receive and to move forward by faith, not fear.

  "Are you pregnant with the word from the Lord? Or are you pregnant with somebody’s messy words?...What are you carrying?" — Pastor Stephanie [49:36]

  "When God brought the word to Jeremiah...He came to sow the seed in Jeremiah’s word womb. And Jeremiah turned and said, 'I can't do it. I'm too young. I'm scared.' And God said, 'Do not be afraid of their faces.'" — Pastor Stephanie [50:15]

  "All you have to do is put fear aside and say yes, for God to form something in you that was ordained before you existed..." — Pastor Stephanie [51:15]

8. Special Emphasis: A Word for Mothers and Non-Mothers Alike

• Throughout, Pastor Stephanie acknowledges the complexities and wounds of motherhood—including adoption, motherlessness, generational trauma—and offers hope, healing, and recognition to all, regardless of personal family history or gender.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Identity and Trauma:
  “I knew my trauma. I knew my mother’s story. But I did not yet know myself.” — Pastor Stephanie [06:26]

• On Parenting and Apology:
  “It’s never too late to apologize… It’s life-changing in the relationship.” — Pastor Stephanie [13:44]

• On God’s Will and Anxiety:
  “The will of God is not a spiritual scavenger hunt that he has you on to stress you out.” — Pastor Stephanie [18:03]

• On Sanctification and Priorities:
  “You can’t hate yourself better…sanctification is just about priorities.” — Pastor Stephanie [38:55]
  “Love will sanctify you. Fear will keep you bound.” — Pastor Stephanie [45:09]

• On Being Set Apart (Vulnerable Confession):
  “I used to be addicted to pornography…My sexual abuse involved being exposed to it. Fortunately, it was before the Internet…And every time I’m there for you [God said], I was like, oh my God. Because I was staring at the thing instead of looking at God. And it shifted my priorities.” — Pastor Stephanie [41:40–42:51]

• On Birthing Destiny:
  “What are you pregnant with? Because every single one of us is called to mother something, called to birth something…” — Pastor Stephanie [47:42]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Notes / Highlights | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:14 | Decisions & Self-Knowledge | Decisions shaped by beliefs, not just options | | 04:34 | Formed by God: Identity vs Trauma | "Yatsar" – God as potter | | 09:29 | God as the Master Potter: Remaking Us | Restoration, parenting insights | | 13:44 | The Power of Apology in Parenting | Healing generational wounds | | 16:24 | Known by God vs Performance Pressure | God's relationship prioritized over performance | | 18:03 | God’s Will Is Not a Scavenger Hunt | "Stop believing God is hiding from you" | | 26:19 | The Womb: Compassion, Mercy, Generational Legacy | Every womb, known or unknown, is seen by God | | 30:14 | Trauma, Genetics, Generational Healing | Science meets scripture—trauma transmitted/destiny redeemed | | 36:46 | Know Your Power, Fire in Your Bones | God's power, generational blessing and identity | | 37:22 | Sanctification = Priorities, Not Just Behavior | Practical examples, personal story on addiction | | 45:09 | Love as the Agent of Sanctification | Contrast with fear, Jesus as example of sanctification | | 46:02 | Know Your Next: Appointed, Not Disappointed | Moving beyond disappointment into ordained purpose | | 47:42 | “Pregnant” With Destiny | Everyone called to birth something for God | | 50:15 | Fear, Faith, and Conceiving God’s Word | Real talk on birthing, gender, and orchestrated destiny | | 51:15 | Closing—Are You Pregnant With God’s Purpose? | Call to action, prayer for clarity and courage |

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Conclusion:

On this Mother’s Day, the podcast offers a powerful message of hope to everyone—no matter their background or experience. Everyone is "known" intimately by God, formed for purpose, and able to be healed and reshaped for their destiny. Whether confronting the residue of trauma, grappling with parenting wounds, or seeking purpose in a new season, listeners are invited to move from anxiety and woundedness into bold, loving expectation—pregnant with the promises of God.

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End Note:
This summary omits announcements, ads, or non-content segments, focusing on the sermon’s main themes and impact.

Transcript

[Torre Roberts]

Foreign.

[Torre Roberts (Podcast Host)]

Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been to one, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to one the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Jeremiah 1:5. Preaching to you from sort of a single verse today when I say, well, God, it's Mother's Day, I think this might be my first time preaching on a Mother's Day. And so I was like, well, Lord.

[Torre Roberts]

We made it through Easter.

[Pastor Stephanie]

What you got? And when he gave me this verse, I was excited because that was not what I would have expected to hear for Mother's Day. Jeremiah 1:5. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Let's have a good old church, look at your neighbor and say, you're a known one. You're known to God. You are known. You are known. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I ordained you, a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his Word. You can be seated. Are you ready to find out how being known by God helps you know you? Because we spend so much time making decisions based on faulty knowledge, and every decision starts with something that we think we know. A lot of times we think a decision starts with a question, what should I do? Which of these options is best? How will I know what the right thing is? But decisions don't start with questions. They start with beliefs, things that we believe we know. You don't ask a question without already believing something in the first place.

[Torre Roberts]

So if you say, should I do.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Option A or should I do option B? Well, that depends on what you think you know. Do you believe that these are the only two options? If your mind is saying or your heart really is saying, I know this.

[Torre Roberts]

Is all I have to choose from.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Then you will proceed with that question. It's all about what you know in your heart. Should I take this apartment or should I take that apartment? I don't know. Well, what do you know? You know that to get to work on time, you need to be near this public transportation, and it'll take longer.

[Torre Roberts]

But I also know that this unit has a washer and dryer and it'll cost me money to go to the laundromat. So now I need to make some.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Because I know some things. And what you know answer your question. Do I want to be on the third floor or the first floor?

[Torre Roberts]

Well, I know I sleep light and somebody over top of my head making noise is going to wake me up. And when I'm not sleeping well, I'm in a bad mood. And when I'm in a bad mood, I don't produce. And this is what I know. But the first floor lets me get all the bags out the car and in at once, because I don't have to carry the eight bags on my arm up three flights of steps. So what do I know? I know that sleep matters more to.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Me than that second trip. So you already know certain things. And the knowledge that you have informs the questions you ask and the questions you ask. Then you make decisions. So what you know matters. When the decisions are difficult, when it's hard to predict the outcome, which is a lot of things, what you know about you has a lot of influence on that. And so today, as those who are known by him, I want to talk about what we can know about ourselves because we are known by God, because that knowledge is solid. So five things that you can know because you are known. Number one, you can know yourself. That verse begins with before I formed you.

[Torre Roberts]

So let's just pause there.

[Pastor Stephanie]

He formed you. You are specifically formed by God.

[Torre Roberts]

I know you've heard it said, but.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I need you to hear it again today that you are formed by God. It's so important that we're making an alarm sound. I want you to remember, every time you hear an alarm go off, I want you to be like, he formed me. Know myself.

[Torre Roberts]

Tomorrow, when that alarm goes off earlier than you want to, you'll be like.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Oh, he formed me.

[Torre Roberts]

I'm gonna mispronounce some Hebrew words for you today.

[Pastor Stephanie]

That word looks like yatsar.

[Torre Roberts]

To shape like a potter.

[Pastor Stephanie]

So that clay forming, you're actually being formed by the hand of God.

[Torre Roberts]

You are handmade.

[Pastor Stephanie]

What an incredible aspect of motherhood to have someone growing within you that God formed this deep ownership and yet this complete terror.

[Torre Roberts]

Who is this? And what will I do with them? When I saw my first positive pregnancy.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Test, I was like, yay.

[Torre Roberts]

And then I said, oh God, this.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Kid'S got me for a mom. I didn't think that I would be good at it because what I knew was I had heard my mom lamenting my sister's issues, her mental illness, her drug addiction, and trying to understand what was happening and blaming herself. And so I must just not be a good mother. I must not have been meant to be a mother. I should have just at that time she said, moved to California. Hilarious. We were living in New Jersey. Now I'm in California. Anyway, I should have moved to California and just did some other thing. I'm not meant to be a mother. And that script got into my core. And so when I found out I was having our first child, immediately I said, ugh, what if I don't know how to be a mother? What if I don't have what it takes to be a mother? I mean, I'm not going to be a good mother.

[Torre Roberts]

The script was activated because I did.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Not yet know myself. I knew my trauma.

[Torre Roberts]

I knew my.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Mother'S story, but I did not yet know myself. You have to know yourself. You were formed by God, specifically, individually, handmade by him, like Clay. You don't have to invent yourself. You were formed your very personality. We don't come here blank slates. If you are looking for one of the things that God formed about you, think of some of the favorite things that you can say about yourself or that other people who love you can say. Ever since I was a kid, I loved colors, loved holidays, loved love to hug people, love to draw those things that are back there before the world went wrong. What good things, beautiful things, can you find those were formed in? We give too much power to environment and to the enemy, believing that those things made us. But let me tell you this again and again. Trauma didn't make us you. It may have shaped you, but it did not make you. Did that make sense? And sometimes when we've had hardships early on, we start to feel like, I'm like this because this happened to me. I'm like this because happening.

[Torre Roberts]

No, you responded to it the way.

[Pastor Stephanie]

You did because of who he made you. And so if you were born kind of introverted, a quieter person, a more self reflective person, and you lived in a difficult space, you have may have become more. More within yourself, more isolated. It may have gone out of balance.

[Torre Roberts]

Because you responded out of what you were made of. And so the trauma May have shaped how you show up, but it didn't.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Make you that way. I was born introverted.

[Torre Roberts]

I know y' all don't believe it.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I'm deeply introverted. I know. But believe me, when I've done my.

[Torre Roberts]

Work and blessed people, I love it. As long as I'm with people, I'm good. But as soon as I get home.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I'm like, oh, my God, what just happened? I have to recover by myself. God refills me, but I'm built that way. I had.

[Torre Roberts]

My older sister was an extrovert, and so she was just out, out, out. She needed to have fun, she needed to go somewhere. She needed to get out the house, right? And so when trauma and chaos entered.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Our home, I created a little fort in the attic, and I would go there to try to find peace. And my sister climbed out the window and ran away and partied and came back late, even though she knew it was going to happen.

[Torre Roberts]

And I would be in the attic.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Trying not to be a part of what was happening. Same environment, different material. So trauma didn't make us, but it did shape us. And his glory, because he is the potter, guess what he can do? Reshape. He can reshape. And so he formed us, and then.

[Torre Roberts]

He can form us again.

[Pastor Stephanie]

That's a very important thing.

[Torre Roberts]

The Word says in Jeremiah 18:3.

[Pastor Stephanie]

6. We read Jeremiah 1:5, but Jeremiah confirms this. Again. He says, then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was making something at the wheel.

[Torre Roberts]

And the vessel that he made again into another of clay was marred in the hand of the potter. So he made it again into another vessel as it seemed good to the.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Potter, say, God, make me over. Make me over.

[Torre Roberts]

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, oh, house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter says the Lord. Look, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand. O house of Israel, God will remake you. And then sometimes in that process, it.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Feels difficult because you got to break.

[Torre Roberts]

Something and wet something and shape something and cook it. But he always makes me better. I trust the potter who formed me in the first place. Before I was even in my mother's womb, I was formed. Mothers, do your best. We have done our best.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I feel really good because of God and therapy and work to say, I am a good mother. But I've not been a perfect mother. But I've been a good mother. I am a good mother. And so. But one of the things that helped.

[Torre Roberts]

Make me Good was recognizing my children.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Were formed before they were in my womb.

[Torre Roberts]

They came here with their personalities. They came here with their preferences. And for those of you who have struggled, maybe to raise one child seem easy and another child seem hard, it's not that that child is hard. It's likely that their personality and your personality just not a good match. Some of you felt like you weren't.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Loved as much as a sibling, and it probably was just. Or it started with not being a personality match. A lot of times my moms take that personal, and then we take it personal, and it can wound us.

[Torre Roberts]

But you may have a personality type compared to your mom that if y' all met in the street, y' all wouldn't even be friends. And the stuff you do just drives her crazy. But that can cause trauma because we don't understand that. And so then, as mom and I was guilty of this early on, you try to shape the child whose personality is different to yours, from yours into you. And so my son and I have a very similar personality match. But my daughter, we are not as similar. And so I wanted her to slow down and be more careful and be nervous and be a low risk taker. But she was born to be an explorer and a high risk taker. And so I'm like, sweetheart, that's gonna be dangerous. Don't do this, don't do that. And she's just like, mm, have y' all seen that meme on Instagram? It's like, my daughter on her way to do exactly what I told her not to do. Like that. That. That boy. And so I had to learn that my daughter was formed differently. She learns by experience. I learned by other people's experience. I study people, and I'm excellent at it. That's why I do my job. I'm not a therapist. I'm not like this because I'm a therapist. I'm therapist because I'm like this. Like, I've always been like this. So I can read a situation and a pattern and be like, yeah, 10 steps down the road, that that's not gonna go well. But I could not get my daughter to see the world that way. Cause she was built to experience God. And in the process of maturing into that, she was trying to experience other stuff.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Ooh, my nerves.

[Torre Roberts]

I think Pastor Stephanie understands this a little bit. She has a strong daughter.

[Pastor Stephanie]

But I had to, as a mother, allow God to form me, to put me back on the wheel and form me into something that was better for her. That was a challenge that was a challenge.

[Torre Roberts]

And some lights are coming on right.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Now, like, that is what happened to me.

[Torre Roberts]

And maybe even a mom is listening right now in the room or online. And you're lamenting.

[Pastor Stephanie]

You're like, dang, that is what happened. And maybe I hurt my child trying to make them me because that was what I thought needed to happen instead of helping them to be them. Two things. One, you did the best you could at the time with what you had, number one.

[Torre Roberts]

And your parent likely did too, Number.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Two, moms who may be listening. It is never too late.

[Torre Roberts]

I know it's Mother's Day, and I.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Probably shouldn't say this, but mothers want to be good mothers, so I'm going to say it. It's never too late to apologize. It's never too late to apologize.

[Torre Roberts]

Anything that you can think of that.

[Pastor Stephanie]

You would have done differently is an opportunity to apologize and apologize into my children when they were younger and still if I make a mistake now transformed our relationship. And so happy Mother's Day. I gift you the power to apologize to your children.

[Torre Roberts]

I know it doesn't seem like a.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Great gift, but trust me, it's life changing in the relationship if that's what has happened in your relationship.

[Torre Roberts]

And I'm going to read one more.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Verse, Isaiah 64:8, because I made slides.

[Torre Roberts]

And I'm so proud. But now, oh Lord, you are our.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Father, and we are the clay, and you are potter and all the work of your hand. I know myself. I want you to know yourself because you are known. God, how did you form me in the first place? Take me to the purest form of me. Before I believed a lie about me, before the world misshaped me. Bring me back to my pure self. But that's never a rejection of self. You are known. You were formed by hand. Know yourself. If you can't declare anything else, it's that I was formed by hand. God, show me the purest original form of me that you made before I was even my mother's child. He said, before you, I formed you before you were in the womb. So before I was even my mother's child, he knew me. That's a big deal.

[Torre Roberts]

You're trying to work stuff out from.

[Pastor Stephanie]

What you think was the beginning. But baby, the beginning was so far before the beginning, the eternal beginning of.

[Torre Roberts]

What God had called you to do.

[Pastor Stephanie]

You can't even get that far. Before he put you in the womb, he formed you. Know yourself. Second thing that verse tells us to do, I believe, is know your history. It says Before I formed you, I knew you. You have already been known to God. That word know means yada. To know intimately, to know experientially. And it's not the only place that Jeremiah says it. In Jeremiah 12:3, he says, but you, O Lord, know me. You have seen me. Anybody feel like they need to be seen? Sometimes you just want to be seen. God, you see me and you have tested my heart toward you. Let me give you a little hack, because a lot of times we'll be like God, I just.

[Torre Roberts]

I just want to do the right thing. I just want to. I want to make sure I don't let God down. I want to make sure that God is pleased with me. I want to make sure I choose the right thing. I want to. I want to make sure that I do what God wants me to do. If you are thinking about it that.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Much, you're in pretty good shape because your heart. What does that verse say? You know, my heart toward you. Please stop believing that God cares more about your performance than his relationship with you.

[Torre Roberts]

Please stop believing that. Please stop believing that if you go left when you should have gone right and then you're going to somehow be out of the will of God and the rest of your life is going to just spiral out of control like dominoes falling. All because on April 7th at 2am you woke up and made the wrong decision. You googled the wrong term. AI lied to you. Chatgpt led you astray. And somehow you didn't do what God wanted you to do. The will of God is not a spiritual scavenger hunt that he has you on to stress you out. Please, please. We have to follow these thoughts through to the end. If I am on a spiritual scavenger hunt for the will of God to the point that I'm losing sleep trying to know the will of God, then that must mean that I believe that I in a God who would do me like this. Who is this God? When my children were hungry as little kids, I didn't take the bottle and hide it. Baby, you gonna have to find that bottle. I need you to pray. I need you to ask for direction. I need you out of how you get into school. I don't know. Did you want to find the bus schedule? I just. Everything that I have wanted for my children, I have provided a way for them to get there. We went to ballet. We spent hours at ballet practice for my film major. Some of y' all caught that. But when we spent hours. Let me. I ran my half first half marathon by training during ballet. Drop her off. Back in three hours. I was in shape, child. I need to adopt a dance kid so I can get back in that kind of condition. But everything that we wanted to see our children achieve the desires of their heart, we provided it for them. I wanted them to be people of integrity. I wanted them to know God. I wanted them to know who they were. I wanted them to remember what that meant. And so that was our will for them, and so I provided it. Please stop believing that your God is some kind of game show host, like an evil one. Find my will. Find my will. It's the Find the Will show I'm gonna say. Is it will for me to move to the east side or the west side? Is it will for me to go to this school or go to that school? Baby, you have dominion. He gave you dominion. You're allowed to make decisions. God doesn't have you just hanging off a cliff. If he wants to get some information to you and to give you direction, guess what? He will. I don't want to have you just frozen.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Honey, that is not faith. It is not waiting on God. It's anxiety.

[Torre Roberts]

And I need you to start unraveling your emotional anxiety from your spiritual information. I know it's tough, but I need you to first admit it's anxiety and stop calling it your spirit. Oh, I'm off topic. Bless God. And so. And you. How can I find my anxiety? Your history. Know your history. He knew you do. You know, you look at all your.

[Pastor Stephanie]

History with God, the moments when you can look back and say, that was definitely God, it bore the fruit of it.

[Torre Roberts]

What does that day feel like?

[Pastor Stephanie]

How did he communicate to you? What did it feel like in your body?

[Torre Roberts]

And then think about the times when you thought it was God and fruit has clearly shown. I'm not talking about the fruit. While you still in it, some of y' all ready to jump the ship. Like, this can't be God because you've been uncomfortable for a week. That's not what I'm saying. But when there has been time to pass and you can look back two years and three years and see the fruit and say, yeah, that was definitely not the God thing to do. Two things. One, remember how you felt when you made the choice.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Oh, when I was on it, my body felt like this.

[Torre Roberts]

When I was off and anxiety was.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Doing it, it felt like this.

[Torre Roberts]

You saying, trust your body instead of the voice of God. How else do you get a communication from God except you walk around in this body? I'm sorry.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Okay.

[Torre Roberts]

Because we won't need to get a communication from him when we out of this body. Because prayerfully we'll be in the presence of the Lord and we'll be talking to him face to face. But while I'm in this body, the Book of Hebrews. Okay, I don't have this in my slides, but I believe it is the.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Last verse of chapter five. It says that we grow in discernment because we have our senses sharpened by reason of use.

[Torre Roberts]

That word senses is a body word. Jesus, we was an embodied savior. There's a reason why he put on a body. And so we pay attention to all.

[Pastor Stephanie]

The things and be like, oh yeah.

[Torre Roberts]

No, that's not God. That's just. That's my anxiety.

[Pastor Stephanie]

We've been here before. Deal with that versus oh yeah, that thing. Huh? It always lines up with all the things in the Word and everything else. It's never going to not line up with the scripture. I believe God has called. Yep. I believe God said that that person's spouse is actually my spouse. No. No. It's a no. We always have scripture to put the.

[Torre Roberts]

Boundaries on a situation. But don't turn your Bible into your charm and suing book because you're holding on to a scripture so hard trying to control a situation. I don't want you to just lay down your crystal and pick up your Bible with the same energy. I'm not here for you to come and be like, oh, you were using your. You were using your crystal and your tarot cards to help with your anxiety. Now you don't have those. So now you're like, give me a scripture, give me a scripture. Give me a scripture. I want you to know God so that when you pick up His Word, you are in connection with him as you read His Word. It's very difficult to understand the nuances of the words of someone you've never had an experience with, never met, never spoke to.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I'm off topic again.

[Torre Roberts]

Know your history. But here's who knows all your history.

[Pastor Stephanie]

From eternity to this moment. God knows your history. Before he said, before I formed you in the womb, I know you. He knows you. That is a covenantal deep love knowing.

[Torre Roberts]

Now I know you.

[Pastor Stephanie]

So often, especially if we struggle with anxiety, we imagine God seeing us negatively because that's how we see ourselves. But don't let your view of you and your voice imitate God's voice. If it is not loving, it is not God and He is not hiding his will from you to mess up your path in this life. And even if you make a decision that maybe wasn't the most expedient decision based on the knowledge you have, I am a living witness. God is the master editor.

[Torre Roberts]

He will reroute and rewrite that thing so good, you'll be like, that had to happen. This had to happen so this could happen. So this happened. No, it didn't, baby, but that's okay. God is that good. Good at his job. Ain't nobody been an editor like an editor. Let him be the head of your writer's room. I promise you he will fix it.

[Pastor Stephanie]

It's the heart that he's after, not the products.

[Torre Roberts]

Please don't let this life you live.

[Pastor Stephanie]

That'S so product focused, get you confused. All right, let me keep going because my time is ticking.

[Torre Roberts]

Number three. He pointed out that I formed you. Before I formed you, I knew you. But where did he put you?

[Pastor Stephanie]

In a womb. Happy Mother's Day. Thank you. Wombs.

[Torre Roberts]

Hey.

[Pastor Stephanie]

It's a thing. One man wombed man. We are created equally in splendor as women, given dominion equally. You go back to Genesis 1:26 and 1:27. There's nothing in there but they. And God made them in his image and gave them them dominion and told.

[Torre Roberts]

Them to be fruitful and multiply. This distinction that we constantly make between.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Men and women is a part of the fallen world.

[Torre Roberts]

And so when God punished in Genesis 3 because of the Fall, when He punished, he punished the man in one way. He punished the woman in one way. But one of the things that happened was sin disrupted our relationships. So it says in Genesis 3, that she would desire him and he would want a lord over her. And this is a toxic situation. And so we need to stop trying to say that that was somehow God's will. This was a result of the Fall.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Another message. Another message.

[Torre Roberts]

My women who were at woman last.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Month heard me teach about that. So in the womb. In the womb, man. Jeremiah's mother is not identified. And so often mothers are overlooked. We don't always get seen. We don't always get the credit. Some of you may have been adopted. Maybe your mom knew that she could not give you the life she wanted you to have. And so she is a womb unknown to you. But before he formed you, he knew you. He knew you. And so even if you are grieving that and you're desiring that information, I pray that God brings it to you if it is good for you and in a way, in a time that is healthy for you, when you are ready for it. In the meantime, you are known. Your history is known. Your power is known. In the womb is about knowing your power. Where was I formed? A womb. And I love this womb. The Hebrew word for womb that I'm not going to pronounce. You want to try that one, Pastor Stephanie? I'm going to make it up. Womb.

[Torre Roberts]

That comes from the same root word.

[Pastor Stephanie]

As compassion or mercy. Doesn't that justify motherhood so well in its highest form that I was formed and placed in a place of compassion and mercy to grow? If you didn't have that experience with your mom, the Spirit is here to give you a corrective experience. But for those of us who did have that experience, you were taken care of. You came in a space of compassion and mercy. You were born into the arms of love and connection and value and safety. We know how powerful womb is. And something powerful happened to Jeremiah in this womb. Psalms 1:39, 13:15 for you form my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb. You've been covered from the beginning.

[Torre Roberts]

I will praise you, for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Where were you made in compassion and mercy?

[Torre Roberts]

Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well my frame, how I'm made. My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret. And I love this part because our body is made from the ground, we are the earth.

[Pastor Stephanie]

You skillfully wrought me in the lowest parts of the earth. That's a womb. Reference Ecclesiastes 11:5.

[Torre Roberts]

As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Her who is with child.

[Torre Roberts]

So you do not know the works of God who makes everything. I have these other verses.

[Pastor Stephanie]

One I never want.

[Torre Roberts]

I never study Scripture and just get one verse and stop if I can't find it in 2, 3, 4, 5 other places, then that word is not being properly interpreted because I don't see it being said over and over again. So Jeremiah didn't just say this in the beginning about the womb, but he said it in another verse. He said. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones. Where were the bones knit in the womb. And so the fire that he was ordained to carry, when God was knitting him in the womb, womb based on how he formed him when he knew him before he was here, power was attributed to you in the womb. Will you get the power of God more in your life? Yes. Will you follow the ghost? Yes. But there is a power attached to your formation.

[Pastor Stephanie]

And it's shut up in your bones.

[Torre Roberts]

You know what else is going on in bones? DNA history is in those bones. Everything you came from is in those bones. Generational blessings are also in those bones. There's some generational mess in those bones. There's some epigenetic issues. Yes. We know that trauma can travel through the body, particularly of women. For as far as right now, studies are showing us as much as 14 generations of trauma. You think my black brothers and sisters been scared of dogs for eight generations for no reason? We just started getting dogs in the house two generations ago, them at dogs was in the backyard on a chain, and you know it. Am I lying? And we'll run out here. Black people, so scary. Stop talking bad about your own people. Excuse me, rest of my people, but I'm just talking to my people right now. Stop. Ask a question. If your ancestors had a trauma memory of running through the woods in the dark with six Dobermans chasing after them, you don't think that memory and you'll be like, oh, the past is behind me. It has been scientifically proven that memories from past generations can be in our actual DNA. I don't have time now, but some of you have heard me teach about a study done on mice where they exposed the mice to the smell of cherry blossoms and shocked them at the same time. When those mice had babies, the babies were born with a fear response to the smell of cherry blossoms. And then they flipped it and took the children of the traumatized mice and put babies in with mice that had not been traumatized to see if somehow the mice were teaching the babies to be scared of the scent. And when those babies were adopted by.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Other mice, they still had the fear of that smell. This is one of many studies that they've done on how trauma is actually transmitted linked to our genetics. So you may have memories that you don't even realize. You may have fears that are not from your experience.

[Torre Roberts]

And then they had another generation of those mice born. So you got the shocked mice. Their babies born scared of descent.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Their babies were also born scared of that scent, even though they weren't shocked. So those were three generations.

[Torre Roberts]

They did another study with a worm as a long thing.

[Pastor Stephanie]

14 generations. So this 14 fallen flesh.

[Torre Roberts]

See, those animals, they teach. They don't teach us something about how we're made in the image of God. They teach us something about the fall and what happened to the fall. We're born in this Messy flesh. That's why Jesus had to put on this kind of body so he could truly have a human experience. He had the same fallen body that we have. Jesus body was not perfect. If Jesus body was perfect, they wouldn't have been able to murder him. His body was destructible. He had emotional pain, he cried, he got mad. He did the things, all the human things. He was hungry until he was resurrected. He an incorruptible body. That body could not be murdered. But the body he put on was a fallen body. He was not genetically related to Joseph, but he was related to Mary, because where else could he get fallen sinful flesh? God can't make that. Oh, I'm messing with y' all today. Oh, my God. Oh, I'm messing with a lot of theology, a lot of doctrines. This is why some of you, if you grew up Catholic, you know that the idea of immaculate concept deception is not about her having been a virgin. It's about the belief that Mary herself was sinless. That somehow her body was completely unaffected by the fall. She was sinless, which is the only way that they could figure that she had a sinless baby. But, baby, that just undermines the miracle of Jesus. His mama didn't have to be sinless. He came out sinless. He came out sinless in his heart. His heart and his blood was pure. But that body, that body was like our body. That's why Jesus was able to be tempted in the wilderness. How could the enemy tempt him to turn stones into bread when he was hungry? If he didn't feel hungry, how could he tempt him with pride to say, bow down and worship me and I'll give you all the kingdoms of the world, baby? If he didn't have it in him to want to do it, it wouldn't be tempting. You can't tempt me with something I don't like. You can't tempt me that way. If you come and bring me a cuisine. Listen, you come and bring me some. The indigenous cuisine from a jungle in a country I never heard of before. And it's still alive. And I'm looking at it. I am sure it is a delicacy for somebody and I respect that. But as for me in my house and my touch of the tism. Restrictive eating patterns, I don't like to taste new things. So it's hard to tempt me with new food. I gotta be starving. I mean. I mean. And I'll be like, I'll be all right. I'll be like, you can't tempt me with something that there's nothing in me that desires it. So in order for Jesus to actually have been tempted, something in his human body had to be attracted to the temptation in the first place. Or else he didn't win a war for us, he just was play acting. Did he rescue us? Did he defeat sin? Did he defeat flesh? Or was he just going through the most? And so his body was like our bodies, fallen.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Not about the sin behavior, but sinfulness.

[Torre Roberts]

The fact that we get sick, the fact that we die, the fact that we get jealous, the fact that we.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Behave all because of our propensity, the way that we are living in fallen bodies. Jesus had to get that from his mother. He had to get it. She had to be a regular human in order to have a regular human bodied God. Isn't that phenomenal? Phenomenal.

[Torre Roberts]

Phenomenal. Mothers are incredible.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Mothers are carrying seeds of generations.

[Torre Roberts]

From the moment that the woman in the garden fell, the Bible says that Jesus, God had a plan, and that plan was Jesus. And that the serpent would bruise her children's heel, but that her seed would bruise his head. That means at that moment the genetic material that would be wrapped around Jesus was in her ovaries. You know why? Because when a woman is born, she has every egg in her body that she will ever have. Men produce sperm regularly, but women are born with all of their eggs. So when I was in my mother's womb, my daughter and my son were in me. And when my mother was in her mother's womb, I was in her ovary and my kids were in that egg. And do you see what I'm saying? It's all there already. That's why Matthew chapter one points out all the mamas in Jesus line. Because the mamas matter. Because that's how the seed moved down the line. And so it went from Tamar to Rahab to Bathsheba. All of the women in Matthew's one Jesus, great, great, great great grandmama, his great great grandma, his great great grandma, all the way down the women down to Mary, who was also a member of the house of David. Joseph was a member of the house of David to fulfill the prophecy. But because there has been so much imbalanced amount of masculine interpretation, let me.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Say it that way.

[Torre Roberts]

Because the theology has been written through the lens of men. That doesn't make it wrong. It makes it incomplete, complete. When you overdo an element and you don't bring in the other elements. And so a man looks at that and says, Joseph as the father Fulfilled Jesus's prophecy that he would be born to the house of David. They're not walking around saying it was fulfilled because it was Mary. They were gonna say it was fulfilled because it was Joseph. But guess what? It was both.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day.

[Torre Roberts]

The first mother carried Jesus.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Genetic material, the flesh that would be ripped off for us. Our redemption. Up front, every one of you has things male and female.

[Torre Roberts]

I'm off.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Okay. Are you enjoying this word? Because I'm like.

[Torre Roberts]

I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. I love the Bible.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Okay. And I love biology, man.

[Torre Roberts]

All right.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I'm supposed to read some scriptures because I got slides.

[Torre Roberts]

I did that. I did that. Oh, I read that one. All right. So fire in the bones. Know your power.

[Pastor Stephanie]

That's what my point. Know your power. When he formed you, he put a power in you. See God for what that power is and ask him to fill you continually. Continually. I love the Pastor Charles opened altar last week about being filled with the Holy Ghost, that that brings power. Jesus promised that when he left, he would leave us not alone, but a counselor, a comforter, but also that when the Holy Ghost came upon us, we would have power. And it shows up as fire on the day of Pentecost and was fire in these bones. Oh, my God. We need the power of the Holy Ghost. All right, all right, all right. Know your power.

[Torre Roberts]

Next one.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Know your priorities. He said, I formed you before you.

[Torre Roberts]

Were in the womb.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I knew you. And then it says, I sanctified you. So how is it that someone who God formed by hand before he was even in his mother's body need to be sanctified? Well, that's because we have the wrong field definition of sanctified.

[Torre Roberts]

If you grew up in church, you was sanctified. Was you not doing nothing wrong? So, like, we didn't. We weren't allowed to listen to secular music. I grew up at old school. Like, if my father heard the Jackson 5 coming out your room, it was gonna be a bad day for you. I used to hide cassette tapes under my mattress.

[Pastor Stephanie]

My very first one, Public Enemy. It Takes a Nation of millions to hold us back.

[Torre Roberts]

Y' all don't know nothing about that. Shucks. Leaders of the new school. I had that thing tucked. Tucked underneath my mattress so my dad wouldn't see it. But on the occasion that I would give my life back to Jesus for.

[Pastor Stephanie]

The 12th time.

[Torre Roberts]

I would come home and immediately throw away all my secular music tapes because that was me being sanctified.

[Pastor Stephanie]

But sanctification is more than me not doing something. The word sanctification actually means to set apart, to make holy. And so you have to know your priorities. You have to know what I don't touch and where I place myself for the use of God. Sanctification is just about priorities.

[Torre Roberts]

And if you get your eyes off of what you can't do and you put your eyes on what's important.

[Pastor Stephanie]

It would be a lot easier. It could be like, hey, I need.

[Torre Roberts]

To stop smoking so much.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I ain't even gonna say smoking what?

[Torre Roberts]

I'm just saying stop smoking so much.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Weed cools vapes. And if I look at the priority that God has a call on my life and I want to be able to preach for four hours if he needs me to, without.

[Torre Roberts]

Oh, so you ain't thought about it like that. But them lungs is not doing as good as they could be doing. It ain't even about like, well, is it a sin for me to just take this one puff? Is it two puffs? Is it sin at four? Uh, is it good for your temple? Because he has a call in your life. He ordained you. He forms you. He put power in you. And now God might want you. And out here preaching, when we go out into these streets of Los Angeles, when the revival gets to the level that I believe it's going to get, and people are pressing to get in the building and they can't hear, so you're out there encouraging them and praying for them and giving them words, because the line is five blocks down the street and you can't hardly run down there because, is your temple ready? Because if I recognize that this temple is meant for some God destiny, I. I will set it apart from things that undermine it. So it's not about the thing, it's about the priority. I got priorities, baby. What you mean I'm about to spend X number of dollars on this pound of wheat? Are you crazy? I'm about to sow that money because when I sow that money on Sunday morning, God is going to return it to me. I have priorities. It's not about what you shouldn't be doing. The enemy keeps you focused on what you shouldn't be doing. Religious people keep you focused on what you shouldn't be doing. And all you do is do it again because you're staring at it. So you're going to do it again because you can't hate yourself better. You can't stare at the thing and be like, I can't do it. I should do it. I hate myself. I should do it. You gonna do it? I can tell you one of the turning points in Deliverance for me in an area of my life was do it.

[Pastor Stephanie]

So what? Stay with me.

[Torre Roberts]

I have fallen in this area so many times.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I got tired of wrestling with it.

[Torre Roberts]

And so one day I was like, I could wrestle with this for the next three days and then do it and be stressed, or I could just.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Do it now and get it over with. I'm a logical person. And that moment was a turning point for me because it opened the door for the Holy Spirit to minister to me, to that he cared more about me, healing me, than the thing.

[Torre Roberts]

Because as I was calculating how many times I had tried to resist this.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Y' all like, what is it? What is it?

[Torre Roberts]

What is it?

[Pastor Stephanie]

Pornography. I used to be addicted to pornography. It happens to women, too. My sexual abuse involved being exposed to it. Fortunately, it was before the Internet. My God. Jesus.

[Torre Roberts]

Every time I hear somebody talk about Internet pornography, I'm like, whoo. Thank you for the blood in a different era, because that accessibility is horrible. I'll let everybody get some water. Y', all okay? Somebody just got delivered. They're like, she said that and smiled.

[Pastor Stephanie]

And some of y' all just got delivered.

[Torre Roberts]

I had a lot of sexual issues from my sexual abuse. And I'm so healed today. I'm so happy for God. But I found out that when I.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Was trying to predict the number of.

[Torre Roberts]

Times I had fallen into it and.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Then felt bad, and then none of.

[Torre Roberts]

God, and he's mad at me. And then the thing while I was calculating that, to decide whether it was worth the three days of stress to then fall or just get it over with and fall now so I can.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Move on for the three days. Anybody ever been there?

[Torre Roberts]

Yes. See, I know I'm talking.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Good. Cause it's quiet. And I got to hurry up because I'm over time. And so. So what God said to me during my calculations was, and every time I'm.

[Torre Roberts]

There for you, I was like, oh, my God. Because I was staring at the thing instead of looking at God. And it shifted my priorities. So now sanctifying myself wasn't about stopping doing something. It was about setting myself apart. Because this God who loves me this much, has a life for me. There's things he wants to call me to do, and I want to be able to stay in front of people on a day like today. See, in that moment when God gave me that revelation, he saw you, and he saw you, and he saw you not because you're Addicted because maybe you are, but because he knew. He called me to your life. And how could I preach this word about his revelation if he didn't give me a revelation about who he was? And so in every dark moment, my ministry has been birthed. And I promised him that, like when he resurrected Jesus, when he healed me, I would show you the spirit. Holy holes in my hands. Oh, some of you want to get better, but you don't want nobody to know. You want them to heal you, but you don't want to have no story to tell. But I promised I would say, oh, no, it's me. Come here. I know how you feel. You trying to stop that substance. I've been addicted to alcohol. Come here.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Because I'm set apart. Sanctified myself.

[Torre Roberts]

That didn't make me holier than you. It got me to make my priorities what they needed to be. Set your sight on things above. I started looking up at what my priorities were, and that's how I found sanctification. And some of you need some help, and that's fine, too. Go to Twellebrate Recovery. Go to aa, go to Co Dependence Anonymous. Go to therapy. Get the help that will help your body work. Why wouldn't you go and get the tools that would reduce the war? Stop playing. I'm just over. Why wouldn't you produce the war in you? I thank you, though, when there's ways for you to get help to make the war less difficult. God has given us all kinds of healing tools.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Okay. Sanctified.

[Torre Roberts]

I'm saved.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Sanctified because. Not because I do better than you, not because I'm holy than you. But I keep my priorities. I keep my priorities. Do you know what will sanctify you? Love.

[Torre Roberts]

Fear will keep you bound.

[Pastor Stephanie]

I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. But love will sanctify you.

[Torre Roberts]

You know how I know? Because guess who had to be sanctified?

[Pastor Stephanie]

Jesus.

[Torre Roberts]

The man who never sinned. He never did anything. An act of sin to repent for had to be sanctified. How do we know? John 17, verse 17 through 19. Jesus prays for us. Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself that they may also be sanctified by the truth. I'm preaching the truth to you. Let the truth sanctify you. That you are loved, that you are known, that you were formed before a womb. You were born in compassion. You had power from the beginning. And so now put your priorities in a place that will allow you to.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Get to the fifth thing that you need to know. Know your next Know your next Know yourself. Know your history. Know your power.

[Torre Roberts]

Know your priorities.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Know your next the the last thing he says in Jeremiah 1:5 that we should all carry is I ordained you. That word means to appoint, to give. And let me give you a quick word on appoint. Don't let disappointment. Don't let being disappointed disappoint you.

[Torre Roberts]

Some of you have been disappointed. It didn't come through when you wanted it to. It changed the way you didn't want it to, and you feel disappointed. You can have the emotion, but don't let it get you off of you. Your appointment that God has ordained you for you need to know your next, and in that you're going to have to go to God. Jeremiah 20:11 9:11. You all know this one for I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Ephesians 2:10 we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good work. What am I deign to do good work for good work, which God prepared when beforehand, because he knows your history that we shall walk and Romans 8:28 we know all things work together for good. To those who love God, love will get you there. To those who are called according to his purpose and so the question is, what are you pregnant with? What has he formed and placed in your womb? Physically? Not necessarily, but I am pregnant. I'm having triplets. I'm pregnant with so much from God.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Are you pregnant today?

[Torre Roberts]

What are you pregnant with? Because every single one of us is called to mother something, called to birth something. Men and women, he called us to.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Conceive the thing that he gave to us.

[Torre Roberts]

But we have to be very careful that we don't conceive it of our own mind. Psalm 7:14 talks about mental and moral evil being conceived. It says, he travailed with iniquity and conceived mischief and bring to our Father falsehoods. Don't do that. Job 15:35 Some people conceive mischief. If somebody is whispering to you, talking to you, speaking against God, speaking against your faith, speaking against this house, your leaders.

[Pastor Stephanie]

It's mischief, and I have the authority to stand here and say it. It's not love, it's mischief. To conceive mischief and bring forth vanity, their belly Prepares deceit.

[Torre Roberts]

James 1:1415 talks about not getting pregnant with the wrong thing it says, but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. And when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. So every one of us is meant to be pregnant with something. And let me prove it to you. Show me the slide with the picture in it. That is your brain.

[Pastor Stephanie]

And in the middle of your brain, there is an organ called the cerebral ventricles.

[Torre Roberts]

There's cerebral spinal fluid flowing through them. Every single one of you, male and female, has this brain with those ventricles in the middle.

[Pastor Stephanie]

What do that look like?

[Torre Roberts]

There is an actual womb in your brain.

[Pastor Stephanie]

In your brain.

[Torre Roberts]

Isn't that phenomenal? So when my Bible says they conceive a thing, they conceive a thing. They conceive a thing. You say, oh, God is just a figure of speech. He said, watch me, baby. It's not just a figure of speech. I put an actual womb in your brain to reinforce the fact that I can impregnate you with the seed of a word that will actually birth the destiny that you have. Are you pregnant with the word from the Lord? Are you pregnant with somebody's messy words? Are you pregnant with somebody's trauma words? Are you pregnant with somebody's divisive words? What are you carrying? What are you about to birth? Or have you received the Word, word of the Lord into a place of love?

[Pastor Stephanie]

Is he making love with you because you cannot get pregnant with his things when you are afraid. When God brought the word to Jeremiah, he tried to. Hey, I'm giving you the call of a prophet. I'm ordaining you to be a prophet. He came to seow the seed in Jeremiah's word womb.

[Torre Roberts]

And Jeremiah turned and said, I can't do it. I'm too young. I'm scared.

[Pastor Stephanie]

And God said, do not be afraid of their faces.

[Torre Roberts]

Fear was about to cause him to.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Not conceive his calling as a prophet to the nations.

[Torre Roberts]

And so God had to help him. Was the fear of sin. No. But God spoke to him. He said, do not be afraid of their faces. And he said, take. Take the rod of almond tree. I ain't got time to teach y' all that. The amygdala in your brain, which helps control fear. The word amygdala is actually Latin for almond, because that's what it looks like. And so he said, take the rod of an almond tree. Take control of this fear and conceive.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Do you know who else couldn't conceive Scared Mary. And that's the last verse that I'll read To you because it's Mother's Day. So we'll read the mother of Jesus. And Mary said, Luke 1:30.

[Torre Roberts]

He said she got the word from him. I'm not gonna read the whole passage. The angel says that she's gonna bear the Lord. She's like, how can this happen? I'm still a virgin. And she was scared. And the angel said to her, do.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And until they cleared the fear, she could not conceive. But when she heard that, she said, be it unto me. All you have to do is put faith fear aside and say yes, for God to form something in you that was ordained before you existed, ordained before this womb. I'm already pregnant with a whole bunch of stuff. Are you? Stand to your feet. I want every one of you pregnant. Every one of you pregnant. God wants to birth new things. He knew you. He formed you. He set you apart, prioritized you, empowered you, ordained you to know yourself, to know your history, to know your power, to know your priorities so you can know your next. Does anybody need help with what their next is? I want to pray for your next who's pregnant.

[Torre Roberts]

I see a lot of pregnant people who wants to get pregnant by the Lord in their mind, child, that's the only pregnant I'm gonna ever be again.

[Pastor Stephanie]

But I want that especially for our mothers. Look what you've done. Look how God has blessed you. Look what it is means to be a woman, to deeply understand this, but also men. Don't miss what God puts in scripture that's talked about from a feminine point of view, as if it doesn't apply to you. You'll miss a whole lot of the Word. And you didn't know you had a womb in your brain. And so we are. He gave them dominion. Don't miss a word from the Lord because it is an a feminine or a masculine presentation. He made them in his image. Amen.

[Torre Roberts]

Father, thank you.

[Pastor Stephanie]

Thank you for how you made us. Thank you for knowing us. Thank you that we are known to you. And because of that, we can be known to ourselves and to others. Father, I rebuke confusion out of every mental wound in the name of Jesus. And I ask you to make their minds good ground. Make their hearts good ground. Your word says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. What happens in our hearts conceives things in our minds. So, Father, give us pure hearts, clear minds. In the name of Jesus. Father, I thank you.

[Torre Roberts]

I plead the blood over the things.

[Pastor Stephanie]

That you have ordained for them to carry.

[Torre Roberts]

I plead the blood over their name next.

[Pastor Stephanie]

God, I thank you for what is in them that is even called to be a part of the advancement of this movement in this city. I'm so honored that you connected them here. God, let us all nurture what you're growing inside of us. And if there's one here who doesn't know Jesus, just slip your hand up. If you want to know Jesus, if you want to know this Jesus, this.

[Torre Roberts]

God that puts one wombs and brains.

[Pastor Stephanie]

And transforms lives, just wave your hand at me if you said this is my day to give my life to Jesus. Grab your purse, your wallet, your whatever you got with you and come on down here if you don't mind.

[Torre Roberts]

We don't want to pray for you. We want to love on you. I wake up in the morning hoping I'll be a part of somebody coming to know Jesus.

[Pastor Stephanie]

So please feel come and see us.

[Torre Roberts]

And then I'm going to dismiss the rest of you because we got a.

[Pastor Stephanie]

People outside that need to get in. Happy Mother's Day. Go make some flowers.

[Torre Roberts (Podcast Host)]

Hey family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call T H E C A L L E D with myself, Ture Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the called Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.