REVIVAL 2026: More Where That Came From - Sarah Jakes Roberts

Summary

ONE | A Potter’s House Church Podcast
REVIVAL 2026: More Where That Came From – Sarah Jakes Roberts
Date: February 3, 2026

---

Episode Overview

In this compelling message, Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts addresses the theme "More Where That Came From" during the church’s Revival 2026. Drawing from Acts 4:23-31, Sarah explores how we can build, thrive, and pursue purpose even in unfavorable conditions. She challenges the belief that faithfulness and breakthrough require perfect circumstances, urging listeners to embrace God’s call and power regardless of challenges. The teaching is rich in personal storytelling, prophetic encouragement, and practical guidance for pressing through resistance and following through on God’s mission.

---

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Contextualizing Acts 4 and the Early Church's Struggles

• Sarah begins by setting the scriptural stage (Acts 4:23-31), where early Christians face persecution for following Jesus.
• She explains the revolutionary and risky nature of their faith at that time:

  “To be a follower, a believer of Jesus is quite literally criminal. It is a problem to believe in Jesus. It is disrupting the systems... And Jesus comes and he is a problem, and they crucify Jesus and he’s resurrected.” (03:00-03:40)

• Peter and John’s imprisonment illustrates that the conditions for spreading the gospel were anything but favorable.

2. Obeying God in Unfavorable Conditions

• Sarah personalizes the need to act in faith, recounting her own story of stepping out to claim her future home as a single mother, even when circumstances and systems (like securing a mortgage) seemed against her (08:01-09:12).
• She frames the core insight:

  “My insistence on favorable conditions exposes my lack of faith.” (11:53)

• God doesn’t require perfect circumstances; obedience itself has the power to shift environments.

3. Your Gift is Meant to Change Conditions

• Sarah urges listeners not to wait for ideal situations to use their gifts or heed God’s call:

  “If you are not careful, you will make your anointing submit to a condition that it was meant to change.” (14:10)

• Believers are meant to transform the world, not just react to its state.

4. The God Who Doesn’t Need Favorable Conditions

• Through biblical examples (Mary, Moses, Jeremiah), she illustrates that God specializes in using people whose situations seem least suitable:

  “If God cared about favorable conditions, he would have never taken a teenage virgin girl and said, ‘I’m going to use you to bring the Messiah in the world.’” (18:13)

• God’s grace and partnership surpass human qualifications and circumstances.

5. Meeting God in Any Condition

• Sarah and others in the room testify to God meeting them in their lowest, most broken states—depression, addiction, shame—not requiring them to be “put together”:

  “He met me in my worst condition. He met me and he continues to meet me.” (23:48)

• God doesn’t abandon us because of our weaknesses; He transforms us for His purposes.

6. Learning to Follow Through, Not Just Start

• Drawing from the disciples’ journey, Sarah says that Jesus wasn’t just teaching them to follow but to finish:

  “He’s teaching them how to not abandon mission when the conditions become unfavorable. They’re following him to see what it looks like to follow through.” (27:48)

• She prophesies staying power and “follow-through” over people’s callings, breaking off the “spirit of falling off”:

  “Falling off is for the culture. Following through is for the kingdom.” (29:54)

7. Addressing the Hidden Costs of Obedience

• Sarah points out that public victories often come with hidden private costs—stress, fatigue, or self-doubt. Many appear “strong in the moment” but pay a price emotionally or spiritually behind closed doors:

  “You have won in the court of public opinion. But in private it has cost you something that no one fully understands.” (39:03)

• She encourages honesty about how challenges have affected us and recognizes the need for God’s sustaining power.

8. There’s Always “More Where That Came From” in God

• Drawing from the disciples’ prayer for more boldness and Holy Spirit, Sarah declares that God’s resources never run dry:

  “Wherever there is more trouble, there’s got to also be more grace... Trouble ought to make an announcement for you that you are not running out of grace...” (43:46)

• This includes more creativity, peace, strength, or opportunity—our limitations don’t limit God:

  “Heaven hasn’t run out of resources yet... There is more where that came from.” (44:18)

9. Practical Steps in Prayer and Obedience

• Sarah identifies three key components in the disciples’ prayer as a model for us:
  1. Acknowledge who God is (His ultimate capacity, not our limitations) (48:02-49:59)
  2. Bring God’s history into your present (Recall His past acts to fuel faith for now) (51:21)
  3. Let God look at the threats and how they’ve landed in your heart (Be honest—even boldness needs to be sourced from Him, not bravado) (52:21-54:36)
• She emphasizes that only God’s words, spoken through us, have power to bring real change.

10. Binding Yourself to God in Prayer

• The Greek word for “prayed” in Acts 4, she says, denotes “to bind”; prayer is more than requests—it’s attaching ourselves to God for capacity and endurance.
• As we step out, when we feel depleted, we must “bind ourselves tighter” to God.

---

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Your gift changes the conditions. God’s word is meant to change the condition. It is not just a gift. That is a word that God spoke into you... it is meant to change the condition of this world.” – Sarah Jakes Roberts (14:10)
• “If we aren’t careful, we will begin to believe that I will obey what God told me... when the conditions look favorable enough for me to step into it. When we wait on favorable conditions, it is an indictment on our faith in God.” – Sarah (11:44)
• “I don’t care how bad you are, I don’t care how talented you are, it is going to take the power of God to break a stronghold.” – Sarah (55:16)
• “You ought to speak Holy Ghost when you walk into Ralph’s... it can’t ever be dark with you in it.” – Sarah (57:37-58:20)
• “God doesn’t need your performance. He just needs your truth.” – Sarah (21:13)
• “Prayer is the place where we bind ourselves again.” – Sarah (65:30)
• “There is more where that came from. When you experience trouble and obstacles... know that there is more grace, more power, more spirit where that came from as well.” – Sarah (69:04)
• “Remember that you serve a God who does not need favorable conditions to build.” – Sarah (69:21)
• Prophetic charge:

  “You are made in the image of God. You do not need favorable conditions... The spirit of God in you will give you wisdom and strategy... You are meant to shake the city.” (70:26-72:27)

---

Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:52 – Start of message; reading Acts 4, setup of context
• 07:57 – Sarah’s personal story about faith in unfavorable conditions
• 11:41 – Challenging the myth of waiting for perfect conditions
• 14:10 – Turning point: Your assignment is to change conditions, not fit them
• 18:03 – God prefers using unfavorable conditions and unlikely people
• 23:48 – Testimony: God meets us in any condition—story of transformation
• 27:48 – Importance of “follow through”; pushing past unfinished callings
• 39:03 – The hidden costs of faithfulness and public victory
• 43:46 – There’s always more grace, power, and creativity in God
• 48:02 – Practical steps for prayer—acknowledge God, His history, your heart
• 65:30 – The meaning of prayer: Binding yourself tighter to the Spirit
• 69:04 – Summary and final prophetic charge: You are made to shake the city

---

Final Takeaways

• God’s calling comes with provision, even in adversity. Favorable conditions are not required for obedience or for breakthrough.
• Your obedience and your gift are meant to change the environment—not wait for it to change you.
• Continuous prayer is about attaching yourself to God’s strength and wisdom, especially behind closed doors when the cost of obedience sets in.
• There is always MORE—in strength, grace, creativity, opportunity, hope—“where that came from,” so never believe you’ve exhausted heaven’s supply.
• Let your light shine in any environment, and trust that even your smallest offering can shake rooms, cities, and generations for the Kingdom.

---

Suggested Action

Reflect, pray, and declare:

• Don’t shrink your calling to fit the current condition. Instead, bind yourself to God, act boldly, and expect that as you follow through, you’ll find truly “there is more where that came from.”

---

[End of Summary]

Transcript

[Torre Roberts]

Foreign.

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 the 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.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I am in Acts, chapter 4, verses 23 through 31. I'm in the new King James Version. And you know, just because let's stand for the reading of the Word, you know, stood for everything else. Oh, child, it's churchy in here today already. No, do what makes you feel comfortable. I like to provide a little bit of context. Whenever you open the Bible, you're really entering, no matter where you open, into the middle of a story. And I have found that it has been helpful for me in my own studying to contextualize what is occurring when we enter into this text. And so, just to give you some perspective, in Acts 4, Jesus has already been crucified. After he has been resurrected, he walks the earth for 40 days. After those 40 days, he ascends. And he tells his disciples to stay right here in Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes, it will empower you to fulfill the mission that I have given you. And they wait. And the Holy Spirit has come. In Acts 4, the Holy Spirit comes and they're filled with tongues. PT talks about this on Wednesday night. This your first night of revival. Make some noise. Beautiful. They've got the replays. I highly suggest you go back and listen. But so the Holy Spirit has come. They've been filled with the Spirit. Peter begins to preach. And you have to understand this, we're at a little bit of a disadvantage when we look at scripture because we know how our. How Christianity is just kind of taking over the country and it's like just such a big deal and nobody has any problems with it. To really understand the fullness of what's happening in this text, you have to know that at this point in the text. To be a follower, a believer of Jesus is quite literally criminal. It is a problem to believe in Jesus. It is disrupting the systems. And they have very strategic systems. And they're trying to make sure that only certain religions are approved. And they're trying to keep this sect of people regulated to just not causing any issues. And Jesus comes and he is a problem, and they crucify Jesus and he's resurrected.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And they think that we've gotten rid of the problem. Now here, come here, his disciples. Like I thought we got rid of the issue, but now here they are and they're doing exactly what he did. They're healing people, they're preaching, they're causing even more problems than him.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

This is the beginning of the establishing of the church.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And we don't mean buildings, we mean people. This movement of people who believe that.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Jesus is the way, the truth and.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

The life, and that you can overcome.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Whatever is standing in your way, and.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That the kingdom of heaven is going to be greater than Rome, Rome and Greece and any other empire. They're crazy, they're delusional, and they are a problem.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And so Peter and John have been arrested, but they realize we didn't kill Jesus, we can't throw hands with them too.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

So we just gonna tell them to be quiet.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So they get out of prison and they go back to their group of people. And that's where we enter the text in Acts 4:23. And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. They'd been threatened, they'd been abused. And when they, the people they were talking to heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said, lord, you are God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them. Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, why did the nations rage and the people plagued, plot vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ, for truly against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together to do whatever your hand and your purpose determined before to be done. I'm gonna break all this down. This is the part that I want us to lean in for, though. Now look, Lord, look on their threats and grant to your servants that with all boldness that they may speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal. And that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. Don't let this stop us. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. And they spoke the word of God with boldness. Spirit of the living God, we're asking for a fresh outpouring of your spirit. We're asking that you would meet us the way that you met them, that you would look past our excuses, that you would look past our modern delusions and take us right to the heart of what matters the most to you. I thank you, God, for what you're doing in this city. I thank you that it is at the beginning of a new era and that you have selected these, your sons and daughters to be on the front line of the new foundation you are laying. God, we want to lean in closely so that we build with intention. So open our hearts for what's in this word for us. Open our spirits, God, that you may extract whatever is in us that doesn't look like you and God, as for me, I'm asking for wisdom. I'm asking for prophecy. I'm asking for peace and pace. I'm asking for no anxiety that it would just be me and you up here, God, that I would see your face so clearly, hear your voice so intently that I translate what they need to hear for such a time as this. Build your church in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. For those of you who like to take notes and you want to keep track with what I believe is the utterance, the message that God has given me, I'm calling this more where that came from. More where that came from in 2013. It's finding PT talked about where he was in 2013. In 2013, I was a single mother and I was living with my parents. I too had gone through a divorce and I had signed a book deal and I wanted to buy a home for me and my children. And though I had 1099 income, which anybody who know you got 1099 income, anytime you want to do anything traditional with 1099 income, they act like you don't have a job at all because we don't know when them tens go 99 again, you understand what I'm saying? So here I am, trying to prove.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

To them that my 10 go 99 again. I promise you.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So I submit my application. My application is in underwriting, and they.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Need to talk to some people to.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Figure out what's going to happen, right? And so while the house is under contract now, I'VE gone through this divorce. I'm deepening my relationship with God. And I'm like, I'm just going to drive by the house and pray. I'm going to claim it. I'm going to claim this house. And I would drive by the house, and it was still under construction. It wasn't completely finished. It was like in one of those master plan communities where just track homes that are all very similar, so they're just, like, throwing up houses every single day. So I'd go by the house and I'd pray over it, and I'd see people in and out of it, and I would just pray like, me and my babies are going to live in that house one day. And. And I felt the spirit of the Lord tell me, like, you really need to pray in the house. Now, what's interesting is that the house isn't mine. I'm just claiming it by faith. So I'm like, lord, how am I going to pray in the house? And it just doesn't feel appropriate that I would be praying in the house and also planning breaking and entering, but here we are. So I'm trying to figure out, how do I get into the. Not, like, how do I get into the house? Because this sounds a little bit more criminal than when I planned the message, but, you know, so I had to.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Figure out when they weren't going to be there doing construction so that I.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Could go in there and pray in the house. And I realized that if I had any shot at all, I needed to go when the weather was bad because they're building the homes. They don't go when the weather's bad because there are certain things you cannot build when there's heavy rain, because they like to build in favorable conditions. And heavy rain is unfavorable when you're pouring concrete. And so I went into the house at a time when there was heavy rain, and I got to pray in the house. But this idea of building in unfavorable conditions is what the Lord kind of laid on my heart, this idea that when we build, there is a certain condition that we like to build in when the conditions are favorable and it's easier for us, there's no resistance. There is less warfare. There are less things that we have to overcome. We're more willing to be creative when the conditions are favorable. When we feel safe, we open up with more ease because the conditions are favorable. We talk about the baby boom in history not realizing that part of the reason why the baby boom was such a boom is because it came off of the heels of the Great Depression. And during the Great Depression, there was war and economic despair. And when there's war and economic despair, people are less likely to make lifelong decisions. So coming off of the heels of that, the conditions became favorable. Manufacturing became a thing. And all of a sudden, building a family and building a life was so much easier because the conditions were favorable. When we think about the industry and how the industry has gone through some changes and some shifts and some transitions, part of that is because it became so unstable during the pandemic, it became so unstable during the strike that they weren't taking the chances that they used to take because the conditions were not favorable. And while this sounds good, when we think about building a business or building a family that we want favorable conditions, I want to challenge us as believers to not allow this idea that we need favorable conditions to build to become part of the way that we walk spiritually in obedience to God. Okay? Because if we aren't careful, we will begin to believe that I will obey.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

What God told me to say or.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Do or create when the conditions look favorable enough for me to step into it.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And when we wait on favorable conditions.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

It is an indictment on our faith in God. If you're taking notes, I feel like that's one you might want to write down. Okay, I want you to write it down the way I wrote it down when God was getting me together about it. This is what I wrote. My insistence on favorable conditions exposes my lack of faith. God, If you're going to know your God and you're going to know how the character of your God, the strategy of your God, the wisdom of your.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

God, you have to understand that you serve a God who does not require.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Favorable conditions in order to build. I'm thinking about Jesus when he was walking through a crowd and the multitudes were around him and he felt someone touch him. And he asked his disciples, who touched me.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And his disciples say, how could you ask who touched you when all of.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

These people are around you? In other words, the disciples are saying, there are so many people around you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

The conditions are not conducive to you.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Trying to do this mission.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But because we serve a God who does not care about the conditions, he goes, no, I want to know who touched me. Because my mission is more important than the conditions in which I have to function in.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Do you understand what I'm saying?

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

When I say that you have a God who does not care about the.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Conditions, you need to understand that when.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

He created the heavens and the earth that it began with the darkness hovering over the earth. The conditions were not favorable for building.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

But because God knows who he is.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And God knows what he carries, he recognizes that when I speak, I shift the conditions. That's why I don't wait on the condition, because my word is meant to change the conditions. So that's why I have to be obedient, because my obedience changes the condition. If you are not careful, you. You will make your anointing submit to a condition that it was meant to change. And now there's a standoff between what God wants to do and the condition you think he has to do it in, not realizing that if I'm going to change the condition, I need to use someone who does not care what the current condition looks like. All they care about is the mission that is meant to invade the condition so that I can change what's happening in the earth. Come on, revival. Come on, revival. I came to wake up something on the inside of you that makes you think you have to ask for permission to do what God has called you to do. God's word is meant to change the condition. It is not just a gift. That is a word that God spoke into you. God. Take me back to Jeremiah when he said, before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you, I sanctified. When God put that gift and that talent inside of you, it was a word that was meant to be released into the earth. And the earth is making a demand on that word that was spoken inside of your spirit because it is meant to change the condition of this world. You are meant to change the condition of this world. You are waiting for the world to change, and the world is waiting on you to change it. You've got to recognize that this will never be easy. You've got to recognize that they're never just going to open the door, but the word will kick the door open. They'll be talking about you in ways that they shouldn't even be talking about you. But because your gift made room for you. Now you're sitting amongst people you shouldn't even be in the room with because your gift changes the conditions. Oh, can we talk a little bit? Because I feel like somebody needs to understand that your gift changes the conditions.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Oh.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, God.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I feel you in this place. Do not be confused when God calls.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

You to do something that it doesn't.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Seem like you are qualified to do. When it feels like you don't meet.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

The conditions that should allow you to.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Step into what God has called you to do.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I don't have the agent.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I don't have the background. I don't have the family. God says the conditions don't apply to you because you have my word. And if you have my word, it doesn't matter what the conditions are. Miss me with the terms and conditions on what it takes to be great in this city. Miss me with the terms and conditions of what it takes to walk in righteousness and integrity. Miss me with the terms and conditions on what wholeness and happiness has to look like. I do not subscribe to the terms and conditions of this world. I am subscribed to one who is unconditional. He does things that no man can understand. He speaks words that only he can establish.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Next time you see terms and conditions, I just want you to scroll on past those. Because if God gives you a word and God gives you a vision and God gives you insights, it doesn't matter what it took for somebody else. Your terms and conditions don't have anything to do with me. I'm going to obey my way into what God says. I'm going to move in what God has called me to do. Who would you be if you truly believe that the terms and conditions didn't apply to you, that I didn't have to play the game that everyone else played to get to where God told me to get?

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

God.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Doesn'T need favorable conditions. Take it even deeper. I think that there's something about God that prefers when the conditions are not favorable. This is really good to me. I want to talk to y' all.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Who like to play it safe.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And so you're sleeping on your gift. I want to talk to you who.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Like to play it safe because you don't want to fail. And so you have strategized your way.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Into stillness and stagnancy because you're waiting for favorable conditions. If God cared about favorable conditions, he would have never taken a teenage version.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Girl and says that I'm going to.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Use you to bring the Messiah in the world.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And yes, I know you're engaged to be married, but that doesn't matter to me because my mission is more important than the conditions. If God cared about the conditions, he would have never used Moses. Or Moses told him, listen, I'm not the best person for the job. He says, I don't care about what condition you're in. I just want to know if you will be obedient to what see. And that's another word you need to know. Because some of you are under the belief that God cannot use you because of your condition. That if he really knew everything that I'd gone through, if he really saw all of the choices I made, he would never use me. He did see it. And he says, I do not need favorable conditions to partner with you. To love you, to.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

To heal you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I want to talk to somebody who was abandoned because someone didn't know how to handle your brokenness. They didn't know how to handle your weakness. They didn't know how to handle what was shattered inside of you. But you serve a God who sent someone who would love you anyway. God sent that person who would love you anyway because he knew you need to experience a love that did not care about your condition. I hear God saying that if you make your bed in hell, I'll still be with you. Because I don't care about what condition you're in. Your family may turn their back on you. The culture may not understand you. But God says, I know who you are. And I don't care what condition you're in. You know why? Because whatever condition you're in, I can change you. I can heal you. I can transform you. If this wasn't LA and we weren't trying to impress everyone, there would be about five people in here who could testify to you that the God that they met and the person that you know had such a distance in between them. But God met them in the middle of their mess, and they don't look like anything.

[Torre Roberts]

I wish that there were about three. I wish there were about two people.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

In this room who could testify that you serve a God who did not care what condition you were in.

[Torre Roberts]

Some kind of way.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

His presence met me anyway.

[Torre Roberts]

I was broken. I was drugged out. I was strung out. I turned my back on me, but he kept chasing me down. Because he didn't care what kind of condition I'm in. I said yes, and then I said no. But he woke me up this morning and he started me on my way. Cause he doesn't care what condition I'm in.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

He'll bring me out of my mess.

[Torre Roberts]

He'll bring me out of my addiction. I come up against the spirit of depression in this room. God says, I'll get down in the middle of that depression with you. I'll get down in the middle of.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That anxiety with you.

[Torre Roberts]

See.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

God doesn't need your performance. He just needs your truth. And it doesn't matter what condition you're in. Because his righteousness and his glory and his love can transform you no matter.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

What state you're in.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And no matter how many times you've.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Had to been changed. Oh, I wish I could say that real good.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

See, you gotta understand that about who your God is. Cause I need you to know what you're working with. Because when I tell you that you're.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Made in the image of God, I need you to understand that that is why God meets you in whatever condition you're in.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

So that he can transform you into the image you're supposed to be in. So that you can build in unfavorable conditions.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

There's a sequence. There's a sequence. So he meets me, no matter what condition I'm in. Oh, no matter what condition I'm in, if I didn't say anything else. And we just took a minute and let that marinate. If we really just took a minute.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And not worship God for what he.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Did, but for the way that he met us.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

See, some of y' all didn't drink.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Your own Kool Aid.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But see, me, I remember.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, man, I remember the condition I was in.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I remember how broken I was, how.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Unworthy I was, how full of shame I was, how dirty I was, how.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Nasty I felt, how I turned my back on myself, how I said, God, I don't even want to look at the choices I made and the decisions I made. And God says, I don't know why you don't want to see it. Because I want to look at it and I want to sort through through it with you. And I want to clean it up and I want to reconcile it so you don't keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. I didn't know that I served a God who would get down in the mess with me. Maybe it's because everyone else turned their back on me that I didn't think that he would stick with me. But when I say he's been faithful, I don't mean it like a little church thing. I mean that he was faithful to me when I couldn't be faithful to him. I mean, that he was faithful to.

[Torre Roberts]

Me when suicidal thoughts were all in my head.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I mean, he was faithful to me. I mean, a friend called me right when I needed it. I mean, the sermon came right on time. I mean, the worship song should have even been playing on my phone. But he says, I need you to know that I see you. So he met me. He met me in my worst condition.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

He met me and he continues to. To meet me. And as he continues to meet me, he then empowers Me to build the way that he builds. Because it's not just about meeting you so that you can be made whole.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

It's so that you can then take.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

What you have received and put it into the world. Oh, come on, somebody.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And what we see with the apostles.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

In Acts 4 is that we see that Jesus has set them up to build in a season and a culture and a time that is unfavorable to what they carry. I feel like God gave me this word with great intention for the landscape in which many of us are called to obey. Because if we're really honest about what we have been called to build, and we're really honest about the conditions in which we must do it, we recognize.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That what God has given us is.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Not necessarily favorable in these conditions. And so God has opened my eyes to this text.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And I believe that it is because we need to understand who our God.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Is, but also that as we are made in the image of God, that part of the mentality that we must embrace is that I can build in unfavorable conditions.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That my mission that God.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Has given me, not the mission you come up with yourself. I want to be very clear. Because if the conditions are unfavorable and you are manufacturing your destiny, you will have no protection against the conditions in which it must exist. That's why you got to know it's from God. And when God breathes on it, you have to protect it. And by protecting it, it doesn't mean keeping it to yourself.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

If you're going to protect what God.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Has given you, you use it. Oh, oh. The protection is connected to the release. Oh, that's real good.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Oh, I wish I could say that.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Like real, real good.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

If you're going to walk in what God has said, and because we're here, and because I know God has placed.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So much on the inside of you, I think the greatest inclination is to think about maybe creative projects and tasks. And I think that this certainly applies to that. But I also want you to think about your character.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I also want you to think about.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Your spiritual development and how sometimes there is a dissonance between who we know we are supposed to be and who we currently are.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And we often wonder, how do I.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Step into it without disrupting my friendships.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Without disrupting the way that everyone's always known me? Which means that what you're telling me is that you think that your identity.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

In God needs to have favorable conditions. But I hear God saying the relationships.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That are connected to that identity cannot come into your life until you step into it fully, it will change the conditions when you step into it.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So God gives me this text, and.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

When God gives me this text, I recognize that one of the greatest things.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

That Jesus teaches his disciples, you can look throughout the Gospels and he says, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

One of the greatest gifts that God.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Gives his disciples is not just teaching.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Them how to follow him. He's teaching them how to follow through.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Understand that? Okay. Oh, that's real good to me. He's teaching them how to not abandon mission when the conditions become unfavorable. They're following him to see what it looks like to follow through. When they talk about you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

He's following them. They're following him to understand what it.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Looks like, how to not abandon mission when you're misunderstood.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

They're following him so that they can understand what it looks like when someone can receive you and when someone can't receive you. He's teaching them how to follow through with the mission no matter what the conditions are. When they love you. I'm going to teach you how to follow through. When they talk about you. I'm going to teach you how to follow through. When you feel like you don't know what to say, I'm going to teach you how to follow through. God's going to teach you how to follow through. That feels like a prophetic word for someone in this room who thinks that they're going to stop, start something, and then fall off. I need you to understand that the work of the Lord is not to just get you started. The work of the Lord is to teach you how to follow through. And I want to prophesy over somebody in this room that God is not just going to get you started, but God's going to teach you how to follow through. I hear God saying that. I'm going to teach you how to land well. I'm going to teach you how to execute. I'm going to teach you how to get. Get it all the way through to distribution. You won't just have the idea. I'm going to show you how to get into the hands of people. I'm going to show you how to speak the language. I'm going to show you how to handle the lawyers. I'm going to show you how to handle the. You are going to follow through. I'm going to give somebody five seconds to really lift up the name of Jesus in this room.

[Torre Roberts]

I'm going to teach you how to follow through. I'm going to Teach you how to build the business.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I'm going to teach you how to build the marriage. I'm going to teach you how to walk in power. I'm going to teach you how to walk in authority. I'm going to give you language.

[Torre Roberts]

I'm going to give you strategy. I'm going to give you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

You will finish well. You will finish well.

[Torre Roberts]

I break the spirit of falling off. I break the spirit of falling off. Falling off is for the culture. Following through is for the kingdom. The kingdom suffered violence and the violence taken by force because the kingdom cannot be denied. The culture can change, but the Kingdom that started 2000 years ago is still following through. You better get you a kingdom idea because a kingdom idea has legacy.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Here we are 20 plus years later.

[Torre Roberts]

And one is still following through. What's up? That baby, you better recognize who your God is. He is the God of follow through. I will not just bring you here and abandon you. I want to make sure nothing is left behind. You will finish well. You will follow through. You will be everything I called you to be. You will walk in power. The ground will shake. When you wake up in the morning. You better know who your power is. Follow through.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Finish well. You're going to finish in a way you've never seen anyone in your family finish before. You're going to follow through in a way you've never seen someone follow through before. This is why Jesus tells his disciples, follow me because you gotta follow through. And if you're gonna follow through, you can't do it staying in the same company. You can't do it staying in the same mentality. You need a different mentality to follow through.

[Torre Roberts]

It's a lot of people can get started. It's not a lot of people who know how to finish. But if you're gonna finish, you're gonna have to follow me through everything. Because I'm gonna show you what to.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Speak and I'm gonna show you how to move.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

He's teaching them how to follow through.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And so the greatest gift you can give yourself is examining the things that make you fall off, Not accepting them.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Not becoming comfortable with them.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But what is it that makes me fall off? What are the habits? What are the patterns?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

What are the thoughts that make me fall off? Because that is what I bring into my relationship with the Lord. Because I'm on a mission to follow through. Thank you, Jesus. I'm thinking about when the Hebrew children are walking around the walls of Jericho and they're walking around the walls seven times and they're doing this once a day, and then on the seventh day.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

They do it multiple times.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And they walk around this wall. And it doesn't look like the condition is changing. And you have to understand that if the condition is not changing outside of you, it's changing inside of you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

When we begin to examine what makes.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Us fall off, it changes the condition within us so that we can change the conditions outside of us.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Where do I fall off?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

What makes me abandon the mission?

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

What makes me question what God said about me? Who are they? What's. What are the songs? What are the habits? What makes the me fall off? Because his word does not return into him.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Void.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

When God speaks it, it will happen in the earth. So the problem's not in the Word. The problem is in the person who's carrying the Word to ask God, what.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Is it in me that makes me drop what you gave me.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

He'll show you.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I promise you. He'll show you. He'll tell you you care too much what they think. He'll show you you got an integrity problem. He'll show you you're not getting up early enough. You can't keep the same rhythm and walk in this.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

He'll show you you need more discipline. Show me, God.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

What makes me keep dropping is because.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I ought to be hungry to follow through, Not.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Not to win. Not hungry to win. I'm hungry to be found. Faithful.

[Torre Roberts]

To live my life in such a.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Way, a way that I made the.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Sacrifices necessary to follow through, even if it meant giving up some of the.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Things that I thought would bring me.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Pleasure but no growth. What are we willing to sacrifice to follow through? My apostles in the text, they have stepped into the fullness of their identity as disciples. And they are learning now that while they were following Jesus that they're going to have to pull from some of those lessons that he exposed them to, because now it's on them.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

It used to be on somebody above.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Them, but now it's on them the same way it's on you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That we used to be counting on.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Someone else to open the door, to pave the way. And now those people are gone or they're retired or they're established.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And now it's on me to do this.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I'm in this city on my own. It's on me to do this. I got a dream that no one else can understand. It's on me to do this. And the apostles have realized it is on me to figure this out. And they have come into the council and they've been Threatened. They've been beaten. What I love about this text, and I almost called it behind closed Doors, is that the apostles stand up to the test in the moment when they are talking to the council and they're asking what happened, and they say at the end of day, listen, all I know is he once was blind. Now he can see Jesus is the one.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Like, we've been following Jesus.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Like, they're standing 10 toes down on healing this man. And they stood up to it. And the council says that they could tell that they had been with Jesus.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And they couldn't do anything about it.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So they just let them go. And then what happens is when they get into a safe space and they're behind closed doors, we see for the first time that it cost them something to stand up to it. Oh, I wish I could say that real good, because in the moment, they were able to have the confidence to have the words and to have the strategy. But it wasn't until they got behind closed doors when they were with their friends, when they were in a sacred space, that they were able to say, they threatened me, that it got tight, that it was hard, that it was difficult. And I feel like that that was the invitation that the Lord wanted me to create in this space. It's not necessarily that you all have had issues standing up in the big moments sometimes it's that we don't process how much it cost us to stand up to the test behind closed doors. Oh, I wish I could say that. The hidden cost of greatness, the hidden cost of being strong in the moment and resisting and being strong and standing 10 toes down, that hidden call sometimes isn't revealed until you're behind closed doors. And they get behind closed doors and they tell everyone that what happened to.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Them and depending on which angle you.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Look at the text, I think is very unique. They could have been excited about what they went through because it meant that.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

They were following Jesus.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And it means, like, oh, my gosh, we're just like Jesus.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

They're trying to persecute us. We're doing things the right way. Or they could have been like me.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Where it's like, I stood up to.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

It, but I'm tired and I'm nervous.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And they said some things that really shook me.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But I feel like no matter how.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

You play it, no matter what perspective you look at it from, that there's a reality here that they stood up to something that cost them behind the scenes in ways that they never really got a chance to unpack. Oh, God, help me.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

To say this real good.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I felt prophetically as God was giving me this text, that there are people in this room, and maybe you're watching online, who have gone through thing after thing after thing and you have won in the court of public opinion. But in private it has cost you something that no one fully understands.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That from the outside looking in, it.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Looked like it came easy.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But if you could let someone behind.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Closed doors to see that. I closed the deal, but it took.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

A bite out of my confidence.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

That yeah, it's out there, but I'm not sure I'll be able to do it again. That I'm in the city and I look like the hero, but I don't.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Know how long I'm going to be.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Able to stay here or who I'll have to become in order to stay here. That I got the family and the.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Ministry, but I'm tired.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Because greatness has a hidden cost. And they led us into this hidden cost because they're trying to finish following through, but they're a little weary. That's what I see in this text, is that they're weary. And I wanted to figure out. As powerful as Acts 2 is, the beauty of Acts 4 to me is that when they pray, it proves that there is more spirit from where the first feeling came from. Oh God, help me to say it so good. I think Acts 2 is beautiful. That day of Pentecost, when that sound came from heaven, I love it so much. But there's something about Acts 4 where they were in a condition where they weren't waiting the way they were waiting before and they'd actually stepped into the fierce nature of their obedience. This is what it is. God, thank you. They are finally realizing that in order to step into the fullness of my identity that it is not going to be smooth sailing. That's all. Thank you, Jesus. It hits them for the first time that this is really going to cost something. This is going to cost more than I'm sure that I have to pay and the conditions are not favorable and.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

There'S going to be a target on.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Our back if I continue in this obedience that it is not going to be easy for me. And behind closed doors when they are.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

With like minded people, they finally let their mask down so that they can say in a group of people who are on the front lines like them that this is going to cost something. But instead of just sitting there and complaining and sitting there and wondering whether or not they have what is it takes, they do something crazy. They start praying again. They start praying because they realize that they have a mandate to finish and they cannot finish in their own strength. One, I'm about to bring it home because I feel God helping me. They recognize that if I am going to do this, I cannot do it by myself because there is more to more trouble where the trouble came from that got Jesus on the cross. And when they realize that there is more trouble, they also realize that that means there also must be more grace. Because wherever there is more trouble, there's got to also be more grace trouble. Ought to make an announcement for you that you are not running out of grace. You are not running out of power. You are not running out of stamps, stamina. You are running into a deeper well. I want to talk to somebody who gets scared easy when things get hard. I need you to understand that hard is a part of destiny. That hard is a part of the course, that trouble is a part of the path. But where there is trouble, that you have a God who says, I can pour out more of my spirit.

[Torre Roberts]

I can give you more strength, I.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Can give you more wisdom, I can can give you more strategy. The same spirit that got you into this is the same spirit that will see you through it.

[Torre Roberts]

I hear God saying that you got.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

To live knowing that there is more.

[Torre Roberts]

Where that came from. I don't know who feels like you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Running out of creativity.

[Torre Roberts]

I don't know who feels like they're.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Running out of strength.

[Torre Roberts]

I don't know who feels like they're running out of peace.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But I need you to understand that the peace didn't start with you. The strength didn't start with with you.

[Torre Roberts]

That it started from heaven.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And heaven hasn't run out of resources yet. The sun is still burning, the earth is still spinning.

[Torre Roberts]

The ocean is still in motion. Because what heaven sets in order cannot be undone. There is more where that came from. I hear God saying that.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I still got a strategy for this industry.

[Torre Roberts]

I still got a strategy for your family. You got well once you can get well again. You got sober once you can get sober again. There's more where that came from.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

There's more peace where that came from.

[Torre Roberts]

There's more power where that came from. You are too young to be talking about. Your best days are behind you. You are too young to be talking about your best. Creativity is behind you. Do you know who your God is? He hasn't run out of creativity yet. Do you know who is working on of you? Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. I don't care how great they are outside of you. Greater is still on the inside of you. There's still more power. There's still more language. There's still more creativity. It may change formats, it may change content, But I hear God saying that it will not change my need to invade culture with a message that is on the cutting edge of transformation.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

There is more.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Huh?

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

There's more where that came from. I just want you to speak more in atmosphere. Say it again. More. Like you're pulling it down from heaven.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

More.

[Torre Roberts]

More.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

More.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

More, more. There's more where that came from.

[Torre Roberts]

God says, I still got more.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I want to give you.

[Torre Roberts]

I hear God saying, open up your mouth wide and I'll fill it. You got more capacity. How am I gonna do it? God's gonna give me more. How am I gonna build it? God's gonna give me more. How am I gonna sing it? God's gonna give me more. How am I gonna balance it? God's gonna give me more. I serve a God of exceedingly and abundantly. He does above all that I could ask for or imagine. He's gonna give me more. Everywhere that's told of my seat tread, he's gonna give me more. I'm gonna have more territory. I'm gonna have more authority. I'm.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Yeah, this is why. This is why you need the Spirit of God, because the Spirit of God increases your capacity. Don't do this by yourself.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Don't do this by yourself. You need the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God gives you capacity. If you want to make more room.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

For the Spirit of God, you've got to be obedient to what the Spirit says.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Your obedience stretches your capacity. Do you understand? Your obedience stretches your capacity.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So you cannot be in disobedience and ask God for more because you haven't.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Even done anything with what is occupying the space that I want to fill. And God says, I can increase your.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Capacity when you obey.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

So I see the disciples doing something.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

When they pray in this text that I want you to do. Next time you pray, I'm gonna say this. We're gonna get out of here. When they begin to pray, they are.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Intentional about one identifying who God is.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Okay.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

All right, y' all take notes, and.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

We out of here. Okay, you ready? I'm gonna give you just a few things. He goes.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

When he begins to pray, they go, lord, you are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea and all.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

That is in them. This is acknowledgement of who I'm talking to. Oh, I know who I'm talking to.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

So when I talk about me not having capacity, I talk to the one who has ultimate capacity.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, you understand what I'm saying?

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

If we aren't careful, sometimes we deduce God down to our capacity.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And like, Izz is here and I know, you know, we a friend of.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

God, but like, we need to be, you know what I mean? Like, we need to also remember that he can be our friend and the master of the Universe at the same time. And sometimes I need to know him as friend, but also sometimes I need to know him as the master of the universe. Because when I see him as the master of the Universe universe, it shrinks my problems. And when my problems are shrink, it elevates my mentality and my ability to strategize through my problems. Oh, I gotta see my problems the way that God sees them. How is the Master of the Universe looking at this industry? How is the Master of the Universe looking at my situation? Is he stressed? Is he concerned? Does he feel like the enemy's going to win and wickedness is going to take over? There is no way in heaven that my God is sitting on the throne and looking down here discouraged. When he knows that there are people who are willing to step in authority, power and obedience to what he has called to happen in the earth. Because we serve a God who can work all things together. He doesn't have our discouragement and disappointment. So they magnify him.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

They magnify him. I gotta make you bigger than the threats.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I gotta make you bigger than this opportunity. It's a big opportunity, but you still bigger than the opportunity. I gotta make you bigger than this issue because that's who you are.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

They elevate him and then they go through this, this history.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

They pull from the Old Testament. This is hundreds of years between when David said this.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

They pull from God's history.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

They magnify him. But then they say, lord, like you are the same one through David who said, why did the nations rage? If you pay attention to what he's.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Saying in this text, he's saying, you seen this kind of thing before when.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

People lined up to, to wage war.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Against what you wanted to happen in the earth. See, what's new to you is not new to him. We keep saying things like, I've never seen anything like this in my day and age.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Well, you, well, you wouldn't have.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

You know?

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

You know what I mean? Like, if you live through the civil rights area, you've been like, oh, this.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Reminds me me, you know what I mean, this is only unique to you.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Because this is the small window that you have been exposed to. But when you bring in God's history.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Into your present situation, you can find.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Moments in history where there were new technological advances, where the culture shifted, where things changed and the kingdom remained.

[Torre Roberts]

Where.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

His word didn't fail. So not only do I magnify him, I bring in his history. Because my history is so short that.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

It'Ll make me quit.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But his history is so long that it'll bring me comfort and peace even.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

When I'm standing in uncertainty.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Because he knows the end from the.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Beginning, they bring in his history. What I found most beautiful about this text, though, is when they say, now, Lord, look on their threats. I found this to be so beautiful because we know for sure that the Lord is everywhere. So he saw their threats.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But when I was reading this, I'm.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Thinking to myself, they're not asking the Lord to just hear the threats. They're asking the Lord to look at how their threats landed in me. Because this is prayer. This is prayer. So when I say, now, Lord, look on their threats, I'm asking you to look at how the threats are impacting me. Oh, that's good. This is not me praying, asking you for something. This is me praying that you would see how the threats of this time, this culture, this era, is impacting my heart. This is how honest we got to be with God. If we're going to follow through. We got to be honest that the threats are getting to us. Oh, yeah, that. And I know in a time and age, and this isn't just exclusive to this city, that we never want anyone to let them see us sweat. So how does that show up and us denying that things have really gotten under our skin, that they've made us nervous, that they've made us afraid, that I'm wondering if my gift is still sufficient, if it's adequate, is there a space here for it anymore? If I have what it takes? Now, Lord, look upon these threats and then they say, and grant your servants that with all boldness that they may speak your word. Look at the threats, how they've landed in my heart and how they are threatening to change my language. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. And they are so committed to their words being his words that they can't.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Just let anything be in their heart.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I can't just let anything be. See, some people want to write their words, and some people want to write their songs, and some people want to build their life. But I want to build something that is a reflection of who God is.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And if my words, words are going.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

To be his words, then my heart has to be his. And I got to be honest about what's gotten in my heart that has threatened to change my language. He says, I. I want my words.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

To be your words. When I open my mouth again, I want to make sure that it is not tainted or intimidated by what I have just been exposed to. I got to speak speak with boldness, and I cannot speak with boldness out.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Of my own experiences.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

The only way I can speak with boldness is if my words become your words. I want to speak your word to my generation. I want to speak your word to the people who I have been called to. I want to speak your word into this culture, into this city. I want to speak your word into my partner. I want to speak your word into. It has to to be your word. I've built things with my own word. I've created things with my own word. And while other people celebrated, I could barely sleep at night because I knew that my word didn't have any power. If you are going to push back darkness, I don't care how bad you are, I don't care how talented you are, it is going to take the power of God to break a stronghold off of something, someone's mind. If you want someone to consume what you put out in the earth and for it to heal them and to set them free and to deliver them, you have to insist on your word and his word having the same sound.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Let me tell you, and I am.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Not selling you a dream.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Oh, I feel this so strongly.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I need you to understand that part of your identity as a member of the kingdom of Heaven is to wage war with hell. Do you understand what I'm saying? That there are people who are from cities like yours, who have had experiences like yours, who are chained and in strongholds, oppressed in their minds because of belief systems that got to them before the good news could. But God has put a word on the inside of your mouth. And if you let this city and you let this industry punk you out of the language that God put on the inside of you, you will be allowing your anointing to be submitted to darkness. But I rebuke you, Devil, in the name of Jesus. I rebuke it right now. Who the Son has set free is free.

[Torre Roberts]

And.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And we need some people in this city who are willing to speak with boldness what God has given them. If you think this world is going Upside down. And you sit back and watch it. You ought to be indicted with those who are doing the bad. Because you sitting back in idleness when you could be producing and creating puts you on the other side. You ought to be speaking Holy Holy Ghost when you walk into Ralph's. You ought to be speaking Holy Ghost when you go to cvs.

[Torre Roberts]

You ought to be checking on the poor and helping the immigrant. You ought to be making sure that the light of this world is shining. I don't care how dark they say the world is getting, it can't ever.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Be dark with you in it.

[Torre Roberts]

Who's got your light? What's on the inside of you? Don't let somebody convince you that just because it's small, it doesn't matter. You ought to ask God what he could do with a baby born in a manger. Nobody was checking for Jesus, but nobody knew that that little baby born in a manger would turn things right side up. God says it don't have to be big, but it needs to be bright. It don't need to be loud, but it needs to be bright. You better learn to let your light so shine. Let it shine in the apartment, Let it shine in the cubicle. Let it shine on the. You gotta practice shining. You want to wait till you get on stage to shine, Baby, you better learn to shine when ain't nobody looking. You ought to shine so bright that somebody turns around and who is that shining? Who is that speaking? Who is that healing? Who is that in the mail room? Who is that in the. You better stop. Y' all didn't turn the lights on in here. Somebody turn the lights on during revival.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

PT Throw the light up. We throwing the light up. We about to let the light shine. Is this what we doing when we go into our city?

[Torre Roberts]

We letting our light shine? When we move throughout this industry, we letting our light shine. We're trying to push back darkness. God says, this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. I don't care who likes it. I don't care whether or not it makes sense. God gave me something that cannot be denied. And it's going to shine, baby, shine. Shine, baby, shine.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And if you sick of me now.

[Torre Roberts]

You ought to see what happens when God gets finished with me. Because there's more where that came from. There's more power where that came from. More where that came from. Who are you? What will you mark this city with? How will you change your generation? Are you waiting for them or are we waiting on you?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Let this Be a prophetic symbol of.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

What God has called you to do.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

In dark spaces. I don't know who you are in this room. Oh, God, I feel you so strong. But you've been going through a dark season. You've been going through a dark season, and nobody knows it. But God wants you to know that the darkness didn't kill the light that's inside of you. And I hear God saying that, as a matter of fact, that that darkness will be the fuel that allows your light to burn. Just let me finish with it, says God. Let me transform it. Let me heal it. What we see the disciples doing when they make this insistence, they're trying to figure out how to shine in spite of what's happening to them. Them. God told me to tell you, la, that this is your responsibility. This is your mandate to find a way to shine. Anyway, can I tell you this? Not only I'm going to say this, we're finished. Not only did they want this insistence, y' all can turn the lights off.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Like. Like keep them on, but turn them off.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

You know what I mean?

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Like, keep them on inside you, but also save your battery.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So gotta make sure you can get.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

To your Uber tonight. It's a powerful moment. I'm sure they caught it. We'll replay it. Save your battery. Here we go.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Are you ready? When they ask not just for his words, the prayer continues. And they ask him for his hands. Says that with all boldness that they may speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal your hand, that I don't want it to just be my hand. I want it to be your hand. When I was reading this text, I almost called it the ties that that bind. Because I recognize that what the apostles are doing in this moment is they stepped into what God told them to do. They stepped into what Jesus required of them. And when they stepped into what Jesus required of them, they realized how taxing.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

It was going to be.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And many of us believe that when we activate our faith that it will make it easier to walk in faith. Everybody laughing. He was like, yeah, I stepped out on faith, and faith got hands.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Why would faith do me like that? You know what I mean?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Faith has hands. I thought.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

You know what I mean?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

We think that it's gonna make it easier. But stepping out on faith requires you to be tighter. You got to be tighter, more tightly tied to who God is, more tightly tied to the spirit of God. Which is why it's no surprise to me that the apostles had this moment and they stepped out and in the executing, we get a little far because we're stepping into it. It loosens that tie a little bit. And then behind closed doors is where we have the opportunity to complain, celebrate, or tie tighter. When we get behind closed doors, that should be the moment where we tie ourselves tighter. I'm not saying you don't celebrate. I'm not even saying you don't complain or do all of that. That. But just make sure this, when it's finished, that you tie yourself tighter again, tight, tighter to the spirit. Because I gotta follow through that word prayer, it says. And when they had prayed, that word prayer, literally, it's a unique word in the Greek because it's not the word that is usually used for petition. It literally means to bind. It means to bind. And when they had bound themselves again, the place where they were assembled together.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Was shaken.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Because they bound themselves again. I need you to make a practice of binding yourself to the spirit. Not just tying. Right. A binding. Y' all know about binding agreements. You know, there's agreements like, you know, let's do lunch and then there's that binding agreement that you gotta get on legal zoom for. Because if I mess this one up, you may own my house. That's how tight you gotta be. This is a binding agreement. And prayer is not just the place where we can make our requests known. Prayer is the place where we bind ourselves again. And look at how they did it. I gave you the strategy. They binded themselves again, together again by. Look at the threats in my heart. Look at your history and who you are. And now make my words. That's how. That's how bound I want to be. That your words are my words.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

That when I stretch out my hand.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

To heal, and you have healing, it's in the bones. You've got a healing work to do called to heal some things that have been broken not just within you, but within what's around you. Not just on big platforms, but God, how can you use my hands to heal today? How can you use my words to heal today? Today? Because now it's. Now it's not in the far off. Let's live like the dream may not happen. Hear me that all I have is my witness today.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Because if not, I will keep delaying the healing.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I will keep delaying the responsibility of.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Who I'm supposed to be today. And if I can be who I am supposed to be today, I won't.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Have to worry about tomorrow. Because I put it in motion.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I wasn't waiting for the award to heal. I healed along the way. I wasn't waiting to be a blessing.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

When I made it.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I was a blessing along the way. I was blessing even when I wasn't sure when my blessing was coming. I've been a blessing along the way. I want to be found faithful. I wasn't waiting till I looked at good, until everyone else could see my success. I had a successful spirit along the way. And it says that when they bound themselves, the place where they were assembled, and this is assembled, that Greek word. I looked it up again.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Assembled said to lead together. The place where they were called to lead together was shaken. One. This is revival. And to be honest, I wasn't sure what the Lord would have me add to what has been an incredible weekend of prophecy that's going to continue through Sunday.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

But I feel the Lord told me.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

To tell you these things in specific, that there is more where that came from. Please, please write this down in your heart, in your spirit. Spirit, there's more where that came from. When you stumble upon brilliance, when you stumble upon opportunity, do not be fooled into believing that that was the last shot or that the spots are getting limited. You must believe that there is more where that came from. When you experience trouble and obstacles and persecution, and you will do not be surprised. Jesus spent three years having disciples follow him through unfavorable conditions. Remember that you serve a God who does not need favorable conditions to build. Just as there is more trouble where that can from and there will be, know that there is more grace, more power, more spirit where that came from as well. Bind yourself. Insist on being so connected to the Spirit of God that we can't tell where you end and he begins.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

It's not something we turn on and.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Off that it is a legitimate lifestyle. They prayed together in the place where they were assembled. The Lord told me that you who are in this city at this time, in this city have a path to choose similar to the apostles, where you can be discouraged, where you can look at it and say, you know what? I don't know that I have what it takes to follow through in these conditions. Or you can do as the apostles did and behind those closed doors, let the Lord see where it's impacting you. But also recognize that when the Lord has called you, when he has assembled you here together, that you are here to lead. You are made in the image of God. You do not need favorable conditions. You don't need them.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

You may want them.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

We all do, but you don't need them. You are more resilient than you know the spirit of God in you will give you wisdom and strategy. Trust him says the place that they were assembled together was shaped, shaken when they prayed in this way. God told me that you were meant to shake the city. This is not hype, that you were meant to shake the city. So you need some of these systems to be unreliable so that when they shake, they can come all the way down. You need things to be unpredictable. The structures cannot be solid because they are meant to come down.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

And there are people who are already.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Chipping at the foundations at the basis. And if each of us do our part on our level, then the place that we are assembled together can be shaken. I want to challenge you, perhaps even in this moment, to have an encounter similar to what the apostles had, in which they dared to open their mouths and begin to pray. And I want to offer you this opportunity to consider the threats that got under your skin. And as I said, I know we've talked a lot about the city and the industry, and I think it's just part of being here. But I recognize that outside of living in this city, that there are other threats to our wholeness, to our relationships, to our faith, to our family, to our health, threats that we're navigating, that if we're honest, they've gotten into our heart a little bit and they're shaking our faith. And we want to speak God's word over that area of our lives. Can we have a moment of prayer in here? That's you. I just want you to open your.

[Torre Roberts]

Heart.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

In your own way. To begin to ask the Lord to.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Look at the threats, to look at the fears. Fear of failing, the fear of security, success.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

The fears that I may not have.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

What it takes.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

The exhaustion, the weariness, the fear that the best days are behind me.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Lord, look at the threats, the threats to my health, God, my mind, God, the anxiety, the pain, God, the threats to this gift, to these talents. Lord, I've been strong for everybody else, but if I'm honest, the threats are real. I don't believe in the gift anymore. I don't know if you're ordering my steps. I don't know if I can say.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

No.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

If I can say yes. But I really, really, really want to see your kingdom come. And I want to know you for myself. God, some kind of way I lost you.

[Torre Roberts]

You.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Maybe you never knew me.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

But I.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Hear you calling me and I say yes, find me the real me behind the walls, behind the excuses. I invite your presence.

[Torre Roberts]

Presence.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

You are the creator of the universe.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And you Know me by name.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

You know every hair that's on my.

[Torre Roberts]

Head.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

Every thought that's in my mind. You know the pain, you know the scars, you know the dreams. You know me.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And you know what standing up to.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

That took from me, God, I survived it, but it cost me something. I'm showing up, but it cost me something. Look at how it changed me. And grant me your servant. Boldness.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Boldness, God, for rooms that are bigger than me. Boldness.

[Prayer Participant / Worship Leader]

For an industry where I don't know anybody potent.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Boldness to be the man I've never seen before. Boldness to be a woman that I've.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Never seen before, God, I'm going to need boldness. I'm going to have to become somebody I've never seen. God, grant me your servant. I want to serve what you're doing in the earth and I can't do it in my own strength. God, give me boldness, boldness, boldness that my words would become your words, God. I spoke from a place of place of fear. I've spoken from a place of pride. I've spoken from a place of shame, God. But make my words your words. May holiness invade my mouth, God. May holiness invade my heart, God. Whatever got in my heart, God, heal it, God, expose it, God. Help me to take the steps necessary to experience a transformation of the heart, God. I got sucked up. I got caught up, God. But I'm ready to change. I want to be transformed, God. Allow me to experience a transformation of the heart so that it changes my language. God, I know you're able and I know you're willing. I know you want to do it for these, your sons and daughters. So I'm asking for refresh, outpouring of the spirit to fall in this room, God, that it would permeate their hearts in a brand new way, God, that they would have an encounter with you that places them right at the feet of Jesus. God, I'm thanking you for miracles breaking out in this room. God, I thank you for healing breaking out in this room. God, I thank you for heart transplants taking place in this room. What the enemy meant for evil. God, I thank you that you're turning it for good. God, I thank you for hearts being healed. I thank you for wickedness going down the fleeing down down the road. God, I thank you for darkness being pushed back in the name of Jesus. Wherever there is a stronghold, wherever the enemy has allowed for chains, generational chains to be in their hearts, I break it right now in the name of Jesus. No longer will they speak from the place of fear. No longer will they speak from the place of depression. But I decree and declare right now that revival is coming to their hearts. I decree and declare right now that revival is coming to their language. I decree and declare right now that revival is coming to their hearts. Revival is coming to their minds. Revival is coming to their creativity. And I thank you God that they're going to open up their mouth wide and you're going to fill it with fresh new ideas. I thank you for putting them on the cutting edge.

[Torre Roberts]

I thank you for knowing more about.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Them than they know about themselves.

[Torre Roberts]

I thank you God for a fresh outpouring. God, I speak overflow.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

In the name of Jesus, break every dam in this room until rivers of living water begin flowing out of them. I thank you for generational blessings that it won't just start with them, but.

[Torre Roberts]

There are some things that are going.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

To end with them right now. In the name of Jesus, I thank you that the battles they are facing.

[Torre Roberts]

Will be a battle that they slay.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

For every member of their family coming after them.

[Torre Roberts]

I thank you that they will be the blueprint. I feel that prophetically, just as the.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Apostles were the blueprints.

[Torre Roberts]

I thank you that this is is.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

A gathering of blueprints.

[Torre Roberts]

That this is a gathering of skeletons. That this is a gathering of a new framework. And I thank you God that old things have passed away.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Loose that man and let him go.

[Torre Roberts]

Loose that woman and let him go. I thank you God for fresh fire. I thank you for fresh identity. I thank you for a fresh release.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

I thank you for new minds and new new thoughts. I thank you for new ideas and new way creativity.

[Torre Roberts]

They haven't seen their best days yet. And when they stretch out their hands, and when they stretch out their hands, everything they touch will be healed.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Everything they touch will be transformed. Everything they touch will bring breakthrough.

[Torre Roberts]

Everything they touch will be a brand plucked out of the fire. I dare you to touch person sitting next to you. I dare you to just touch them. Let that healing power flow through this room. Let the grace of God flow through this room. I dare you to begin prophesying over them.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

God.

[Torre Roberts]

I thank you that everything my neighbor.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Touches going to be healed.

[Torre Roberts]

I thank you for every dream that's on the inside of them is going to come to fruition. I thank you God for the gift that you placed on the inside of them. And that no one weapon in hell that is formed against them will prosper. I plead the blood of Jesus over them. Dispatch angels on their behalf. I ask you God, where the enemy has taken territory in their mind, that you would step in and raise up a standard. I thank you for no creative blocks. I thank you that they'll walk in the overflow. I thank you that they will own businesses. I thank you that they will open doors for other people. I thank you that they will show their siblings what healing looks like. I thank you that they will show their parents what anointing looks like. I thank you, God, that they will be the goodness of God in the land of the living. I thank you, God, that they will stay in this city. And I rebuke every devil that keeps them up at night, making them believe that their best days are behind them. God, I ask right now that your voice would be loud in their ear. That it would drown out the voice of doubt. That it would out the voice of fear. And God, I thank you that when the city starts shaking that they'll still be standing. That when the city starts shaking that they'll start building. I thank you, God, for five year strategies and ten year strategies because this city's going to shake. And God, when it shakes, they'll still be standing. Because he that began to work in them is going to see it through the days of Jesus Christ establishing them. Staying power. I speak staying power. Power over this church saying power over this city, saying, power over your family. Staying power. And God, while we're prophesying, I thank you for global anointings being released. I thank you God, that what happens in this city is going to go around the world until all have seen and all have heard about God as I know him. Introduce yourself to them. Throw your weight around in their lives. Throw your anointing around in their lives. Show them what you put inside of them. Give them the courage to release it. And God, I thank you for systems coming down. I thank you for people in power who have a heart to do what you called them to do. God, shake it up until they're the last man standing. And then help them to bring up somebody else. Because I'm not just here on my own. It's an army coming behind me. And I gotta make sure everybody behind me eats on the level. I'm eating so God, change my appetite until everybody with me gets hungry. For what you're doing in the earth, I thank you, God, that it is so. And so it is. Now take five seconds in this room, seal it with your praise. I need somebody radical in this room. Shake this city with your praise. Shake this city with your praise. Are you going to wait till it's done. Or are you going to believe because he's spoken? It's already done.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I'm finished. I just.

[Co-Speaker / Encourager]

Just one more time.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I want you to shake the city with your praise.

[Torre Roberts]

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. 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, Terre 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 call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.