Get Out of Your Way | Sarah Jakes Roberts

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Potter's House Podcast

Episode: Get Out of Your Way | Sarah Jakes Roberts
Air Date: October 26, 2025
Host: The Potter’s House
Speaker: Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts (with contributions from Pastor T.D. Jakes)

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Overview

This episode centers on persevering through challenging seasons and embracing God’s transformative process—even when it’s uncomfortable or sorrowful. Drawing on the biblical accounts of Jesus in Gethsemane (Matthew 26) and the garden of Eden, Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts encourages listeners to “get out of your way.” The core message: the pathway to God’s promises involves a process of surrender, transformation, and learning dependence on God, especially when our own will conflicts with His. Both Sarah Jakes Roberts and Pastor T.D. Jakes speak candidly about struggle, sorrow, and the necessity of spiritual growth during hard times.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Garden of Gethsemane: Relatability and Process

(Start at 01:44)

• Pastor Sarah shares the humanity of Jesus in Matthew 26, emphasizing how Jesus' sorrow and struggle make him relatable to us.
• She notes that even Jesus needed support and had moments of agony and uncertainty.
• “If I can see myself in His humanity, then I can see myself grow in the space of divinity.” (Sarah, 04:37)
• The garden moment illustrates that we all face times when our capacity is tested, and like Jesus, we need to surrender to God's will repeatedly.

2. Social Media and the Value of Process

(08:00)

• Sarah observes a shift on social media from celebrating only outcomes to sharing the process.
• This cultural change helps dispel envy and reveals that the journey to the promise is challenging and nuanced.
• Citing fitness influencers and life milestones, she notes, “I don't really want it that bad ... I want whatever you can do in the 50 minutes I’m going to give you three days a week, while I eat these cookies.” (Sarah, 11:56)

3. Promise vs. Process

(13:59 - 24:40)

• Both speakers emphasize that no one walks into promises without first enduring a process—a journey often marked by loss, growth, and change.
• Quote: “The promise don't even feel like a promise by the time you get finished going through the process.” (T.D. Jakes, 14:08)
• The process forms who we need to become to handle the promise; God is with us in both.
• Key Point: “If you do the process right, the promise won't catch you by surprise because I stayed tight in the process.” (Sarah, 20:32)
• The enemy attacks us during the process, because the promise itself—once spoken by God—is guaranteed.

4. Transparency and Intergenerational Wisdom

(22:15)

• The Church must foster transparency about struggles so that those going through hardship do not feel alone or defective.
• “We need an intergenerational church. We need people who have gone ahead of us, and we need people who are coming up.” (T.D. Jakes, 22:44)
• Sharing the real story behind the "promise" inspires and strengthens others.

5. Scriptural Promises Require Process

(23:12)

• The promise of “no weapon formed against me shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17) is linked to serving God.
• Sometimes, hardships persist because we haven’t surrendered from pride, fear, or insecurity: “Some of them weapons formed against you’re prospering because you don’t serve God.” (Sarah, 24:40)
• Surrender and alignment with God’s will are prerequisites for seeing the promise.

6. Surviving the Process

(30:38 - 35:59)

• The key to surviving is not clinging to the promise, but staying connected to God in the process.
• “The process isn't producing the promise; it’s producing the version of you who can step into the promise.” (Sarah, 33:20)
• The process transforms you into someone who resembles the “Promise Keeper,” not just a recipient.

7. Uniqueness of the Personal Process

(37:01 - 38:23)

• Your process is unique; your oil (anointing) is produced in your process—others cannot imitate or shortcut what you’ve endured and learned.
• Competition is pointless because God is crafting something unique in each person.

8. The Garden as the Training Ground

(40:31 - 44:52)

• Drawing on Genesis, Sarah contends that the garden (before dominion) is where God cultivates character and dependence.
• “You can't have dominion without dependence.” (Sarah, 42:14)
• Even enemies in your "garden" are opportunities to learn spiritual authority.

9. Facing the Enemy: Surrender and Authority

(44:52 - 50:27)

• The devil seeks to disrupt the process. The battle is ultimately God’s; our role is to seek His strategy and not confront the enemy alone or from our own strength.
• “This is God’s enemy. The only reason why it became your enemy is because you’re trying to obey God.” (Sarah, 46:12)
• Worship, surrender, and seeking God’s direction are the weapons for victory, not striving in our own strength.

10. The Crushing and the Oil: Sorrow’s Role

(56:22 - 64:07)

• The parallel between the garden of Eden and Gethsemane: new seasons require fresh oil, which comes through crushing (suffering, surrender, grief).
• Grieving and wrestling with sorrow are not signs of spiritual failure; even Jesus grieved and wrestled with God’s will.
• “When God doesn’t change the situation, He has to change you in the situation.” (Sarah, 65:33)
• “There are some moments, and Jesus shows us, where He doesn’t deliver us in the way we anticipate … He changes us.” (Sarah, 65:32)

11. Endurance, Sorrow, and Temporary Seasons

(68:45 - 75:16)

• The congregation is called to support those enduring sorrow, not just to celebrate victories.
• “God, give them grace to endure the sorrow … capacity to endure … and when they receive this capacity, they will be a model, a testimony of what God can do in gardens.” (Sarah, 71:43)

12. Fresh Oil and Pruning

(72:39 - 75:27)

• In seasons that feel like “cutting away” (pruning), God is cultivating new fruitfulness and new identity.
• Listeners are encouraged to surrender grief and preferences, trusting that God’s way and timing will yield resurrection and solutions from places of former sorrow.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “The process isn’t producing the promise; it’s producing the version of you who can step into the promise.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (33:20)

• “He wasn’t just the God of my promise. He was the God of my process.”
  — T.D. Jakes (15:04)

• “Surviving the process means that when it looks like the enemy is winning, I gotta draw closer to God.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (53:38)

• “This is God’s enemy. The only reason why it became your enemy is because you’re trying to obey God.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (46:12)

• “If I have to choose between my will and your will, at the end of the day, I did my will for a little bit. My will won’t do what your will will do.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (61:31)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Jesus in Gethsemane & Relatability: 01:44 – 08:00
• Social Media & The Process: 08:00 – 13:59
• Promise vs. Process: 13:59 – 24:40
• Transparency & Wisdom: 22:15 – 23:12
• Scriptural Promises & Serving God: 23:12 – 25:56
• Surviving the Process: 30:38 – 35:59
• Personal Process Uniqueness: 37:01 – 38:23
• The Garden & Character: 40:31 – 44:52
• Facing the Enemy: 44:52 – 50:27
• Crushing, Oil, and Sorrow: 56:22 – 64:07
• Endurance & Congregational Support: 68:45 – 75:16
• Fresh Oil & Pruning: 72:39 – 75:27

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Final Takeaways

• God is with you not only in the promise, but every step of the process, especially when it hurts or is unclear.
• The goal of the process isn’t just to “get” the promise—it’s to become more like the Promise Keeper (God) through trust, surrender, and resilience.
• Sorrow and hardship are both temporary and transformative; they are not a detour, but often the very path God uses to bring new life and impact.
• Don’t isolate yourself or feel defective in the struggle—everyone goes through their own process, and your testimony can serve others.
• In adversity, seek God’s face, not just His gifts. Let worship, humility, and honest relationship with Him sustain and guide you.

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This summary captures the heart, language, and flow of Sarah Jakes Roberts’ message, enriched by the spontaneous wisdom and affirmations from Pastor T.D. Jakes throughout. The episode’s encouragement is clear: Trust God in your process, embrace both sorrow and surrender, and let the garden you’re in produce fresh oil for the season ahead.

Transcript

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I've got a word I want to share with you. I'm in. Matthew 26, I have to tell you. Come on. Yeah, y' all come on now. Big Chris is gone, so in his memory. Let her rip. I remember when we first moved. And you know, I don't know if y' all know this or not, but you know, the Lord built this house, you know, through Bishop T.D. jakes. And you know, he's. He know how to string a few sentences together. And I remember the first time I was preaching, and Chris goes, that's the word. That's the word. I said, oh, I'm preaching. Preaching now. He will certainly be missed. This is a big church. I know that. And if you're maybe not as comfortable in big environments, I just want you to know that we go out of our way to make a big place feel as small and connected and intimate as possible. And, and that you matter to us, that you're not just a sea of faces, that you matter to us. There's a, a couple in my head. You're a couple I haven't met you. You sit up there week in and week out. You guys have locks. I see you guys week in and week out. And I see you guys up there. You come in, y' all get real happy when Bishop preach. But then y' all gave us a chance up in the corner. You. And sometimes you come with your daughters. I'd be seeing you all as what I'm saying, because you matter to us. And our prayer is always, God help us to see the people in this room, to not think that this is a platform or a mega church, because these are your sons and daughters and you all matter to us. And so it matters when our family experiences a loss. And it matters to us when you're going through. We love you. We really, really love you here at the Potter's house. We really do. And you're seen. You just turn to a person beside and say, I see you. I'm glad you're here. Thank you for giving the house a chance for coming again. Over and over again. I got on. All right, now wrap it up. All right, all right. That's enough fellowshipping. Okay. I don't know what this message is called. I'm. I think it's called get out of your way. But we're going to see what God says. But in Matthew 26, Jesus has gone through an interesting shift. He has performed miracle after miracle. He has gone from town to town. And for many, it is undeniable that he is the Messiah. And yet there is a shift that must take place. Place when he moves from just demonstrating his anointing to when he heads towards the cross. And as he begins to head towards the cross, he experiences what I think many of us experience when life begins to take a shift that we're not necessarily sure we have the capacity to endure. What I have been enjoying about my relationship with Jesus are all of the moments that where he's like me. I know that there are so many moments where he does things I can never do. And he walks in power and authority that I will never have. And yet what I am loving are the moments where he looks like me. Because if I can see myself in his humanity, then I can see myself grow in the space of divinity. And at this moment in the text, I think he is the most relatable to me than any other moment. And in Matthew 26, we're going to begin in verse 37, he has gone to the garden of Gethsemane. And as he is at the garden of Gethsemane, he takes his large circle of 12 disciples. And he narrows it down to just three. Because he's headed towards the cross. And when you're headed into difficult seasons, you can't always take everybody with you. He's got to boil it down to the essentials. And he's boiled it down to the essentials. Verse 37 says, and he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee. And he began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. If you're in this room and you're sorrowful and you're deeply distressed, Jesus says, I know exactly what that feels like. And he confides to them. He says, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me. Then he goes a little further, and he fell on his face and he prayed, saying, oh, my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. Then he goes back to the disciples because he wants to know whether or not they did what he asked him to do. He asked him to stay here and watch with me. And he goes to the disciples, and he found them sleeping because even the ones he thought could stick with him in a hard season couldn't even keep up with him. And he says to them, what could you not watch with me? One hour. This was just one hour of prayer and you fell asleep. Some of us can't make it in the prayer closet. Five, ten minutes. Jesus says, it was just an hour. Watch and pray. I'm gonna give you another chance to watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Then he goes back to God a second time. He says, oh, my Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your will be done. I love this because we talk about this neverthele. Not my will, but your will be done. As if he said it only one time, but he had to go back and say it again.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Lord, are you sure?

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Sure. And then he goes back to the disciples. And he came and he found them sleeping in. For their eyes were heavy, they just couldn't do it. So he left them and he went away again. And he prayed the third time, saying the same words. Lord, are you really gonna make me go through this? Lord, are you sure you can't change this situation? Is this really the world that we're living in right now? Is this really what I'm up against? Then he came to his disciples and said to them, are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand. And The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise. Let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand. Spirit of the living God, I love you. Thank you for meeting me in the area of inadequacy and weakness and allowing your strength to stand tall in me. God, I am asking for a fresh outpouring of your spirit that we would experience fresh oil for the season, that you would meet these your sons and daughters in the areas where they need you the most, God. And that you would illuminate the path that they are to take, the words that they are to speak, and the way that they can withstand the times that they are standing in. God, I ask for the spirit of wisdom, of revelation, of prophecy, of peace that even as I pour, I would receive and that you would allow me to be precise in delivering this word, God. Not my will, but your will be done. Have your way, great God, that you are. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. You can be seated. Let's go. All right. Now, I have noticed this shift in social media and the way that social media awards certain types of content. And one of the things that I recognize that is kind of counterintuitive is when we first maybe started on social media, everyone would say this is just a place where you post your highlight reel and everyone just sees the shining part of your life. And what I've began to notice is that social media has begun to shift. It's not just the place where you show your highlight reel anymore. They are beginning to reward instead process. You'll notice that there are more posts about getting ready with me or go with me as I do this than there are people just showing the fear finished outcome. I feel like that's very interesting. And honestly, in many ways I feel like it is delivering many of us from the spirit of envy, if I'm honest. Because as long as someone was just showing the highlight reel, we would think to ourselves, I want that, I want to have that, I want to do that, I want to be that. But the more that they're showing the process, it's helping us to more adequately determine whether or not we really want that thing that we see. I thought to myself, I was looking at a fitness influencer. I was like, that's it, Lord. That's the body that I want to have. I found it, Lord. Thank you. Then she showed me what she do to work out and she showed me what she eats and I realized I don't really want it that bad. I don't know if you've Ever been in that situation? I want whatever you can do in the 50 minutes. I'm going to give you three days a week while I still eat these cookies.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Lord.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Whatever you can do with that. Okay? I watched Nora Smith. Her children wanted Pop Tarts. I thought she was gonna go to the grocery store. This girl went and got wheat out the grass. She about to turn the wheat into.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Bread to make the Pop Tart.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I don't have time for that, okay?

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The more that I see the process.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

The more that it changes whether or not I really want that. And it is no wonder why researchers and sociologists are beginning to recognize this in between stage, between adolescence and adulthood that they have labeled emerging adulthood. Emerging adulthood is about from 18 to 25 years old. And this is a demographic where they are no longer moving into the stages of adulthood like previous generations did. Graduating high school, going to college, getting the degree, and then going to buy a home and building a family. They're delaying some of these choices. I don't know if I'm going to go to college because I recognize that while everyone was holding the degree, the process required 20 years of paying off the debt from going to college. Some of them aren't sure that they're getting married. The agent for marriage is being pushed back more and more. You know why? Because we started telling them how hard marriage is and how you lose yourself and how. And now all of a sudden, we're delaying making decisions because I don't just want the results. I understand more about the process. It is no wonder that we are seeing a generation begin to not just accept this idea that I should long for the promise. They're asking questions about the process. If you are in a season right now of promise, then you know better than anyone that you didn't just step into the promise, that it was a process.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

That's why you don't understand why people.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Are jealous of your promise.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The people standing in a promise will.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Let you know that the promise don't.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Even feel like a promise by the.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Time you get finished going through the process.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Somebody got to tell you every now and then. Someone got to tell you, girl, you know, this is what you pray for. I didn't even know that this is what I prayed for because it cost so much for me to step into.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

It that I didn't realize I was in the promise.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

You wouldn't want the promise if you knew the process. If you understood what I lost along the way, if you understood who I had to become along the way, if you understood who Walked away from me, who I had to walk away from. If you could see the tears that I cried. You want the promise? But baby, you can't get the promise without the process. If you're standing in a promise and.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

You are allowing people to celebrate your promise without informing them of the process, you are robbing the them of the truth.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

They ought to know your process. They ought to know that I didn't just get here because I did everything the right way. There were some moments where I didn't think I was going to make it at all. But God stepped into the process. He's not just the God of my promise. He was the God of my process. He taught me how to walk this thing out. He taught me how to raise these children. He taught me how to build the life after the divorce. He taught me that I didn't have to take my own life. He wasn't just the God of my promise. Don't look at my promise. Don't be distracted by the promise. Let me tell you about the process. Let me tell you when I almost lost my mind. Let me tell you when it didn't make any sense. But God made a way out of no way. He is the God of the process. You're praising him for being the God of the promise, but I praise him for being the God of the process. That you came in the midnight hour and wrapped your arms around me when I was crying in tears that no one knew I was crying. He was the God of the process. When I didn't know whether or not I could raise the child, he gave me language on the spot. Because he's the God of the promise. When I wasn't sure who would stay or who would walk away, he stayed in the midst of it all. He is the God of the process. Oh, no. I feel like we could do better than that. I need about five crazy people who know that you know, that you know, I wouldn't be where I am right now if it wasn't for the God of the process. He was with me in the courtroom. He was with me in the doctor's office. His name ought to be on the degree. Cause Lord knows I didn't have what it took.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

But.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

But he was the God of the process. That's a word for somebody. Don't wait to meet God in the promise. God says, I'll meet you right in the process. I'll build the marriage for you. I'll raise the children with you. I'll teach you what the business school could have never taught you. I am the God of the process and I do not offer you a.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Promise without a process that I'm willing to see you through. Come on, somebody.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I'm not going to offer you a.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Promise without also walking you through the process that gets you through the promise.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I'll comfort you, I'll feed you. If you don't believe me, you should.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Ask the children of Israel.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

He says, I got a promised land for you, but I'm not going to wait for you to get to the promised land. I'm going to make sure you make your way to the promised land.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Because he's the God of the process.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

David, you going to be king.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

But before you get king, you going to be betrayed.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

And some people going to talk about you. And some people going, you're going to need a cave in the process. You're going to need some friends in the process. God says, I got people who will come to you in the middle of your. Your process. You think the people are assigned for when you get to the promise. God says, I got people who will be with you in the midst of the process. I'm trying to minister to somebody who's in the middle of the process. And you're wondering, God, I know you got a promise, but what about the process?

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God says, I'll be with you in the process too. I'mma let that marinate because the enemy.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Will make you believe that the process.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Is where you lose.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

But he doesn't know that God will step right in the middle of the process. That I'm not just a promise keeping God, I'm a process keeping God. You can't have this child in the middle of the process. You can't have their mind in the middle of the. I'm building something in them. I got Gloria time to their name. I'm gonna get with you in the process.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Oh, I don't know why that's making me so happy.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

That's making me real happy. Maybe I'm the only one in the.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Middle of the process and I don't.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Know who I'm gonna be on the other side. Quite frankly, I don't know how I'm gonna get to the other side. But one thing I do know is that God is with me right now. So the other side is guaranteed.

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

You know, I went back to school and I'm pursuing my degree and I've got. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. And a friend of mine, you know, she got onto me because she said, why didn't you tell me that you made the Dean's list. And I said, all right, that one. All right. Praise the Lord. To God be the glory. Amen. Stay focused. Amen. Listen. And I said, well, I didn't tell you that I made the Dean's list because I told you what I was making on my homework all along the way. And I told you what I was getting on the test all along the way. So I didn't tell you that I made the Dean's list because the Dean's list. I mean, I just figured you would know that I made the Dean's list because the process was so tight that the promise was guaranteed.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

If you do the process right, the promise won't catch you by surprise because I stayed tight in the process.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Oh, yeah, we gonna get the process right.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Cause that's where the enemy tries to intervene is in the process. Because he can't stop the promise. When God spoke the promise, it was done. His word will not return into him void. The only place where the promise can be disrupted is in the process. The promise depends on God. The process depends on you. So the enemy is going to wage his attack in the process.

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I like that.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

All right.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

We got promise and we got process. The two must be seen together. You can shout over the promise. Just make sure when you finish shouting that you ask God. Now, what's the process? We do a real good job at receiving the promise, but we get a little discouraged in the process. But you have to understand that the two are connected. No process, no promise. No promise. Without a process, what you're going through is normal. This is why we need people to not just let us celebrate their promise without telling us the process.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Because when you don't tell me the.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Process, I think it's something wrong with me that I'm ready to not make it. I think there's something wrong with me.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

That my marriage is on the rocks.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I think there's something wrong with me.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

That I went into these rooms and said something stupid.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

But when you tell me the process.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

It lets me know. No, baby.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

You're gonna have some days where the marriage feels a little shaky.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

You gonna have some days where you.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Don'T know what you're talking about. I need you to share your process with me. We need an intergenerational church.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

We need people who have gone ahead.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Of us, and we need people who are coming up.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Because someone represents a promise and someone else represents a process. And I need to know, how do you stay married for 50? I need to know, how do you survive political Climates. I need to know that the same God that was faithful to you will be faithful to me. I need you to tell me about the goodness of God. I need you to tell me about the healing of God, because I need.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

To know about the process. So when we're reading scripture, it is imperative for us to have that same mentality. I'm not just here to get the promise of God. I need to understand that the promise is connected to a process. No weapon formed against me will Prosper. That's Isaiah 54:17. That's a promise. And every tongue that rises up against you in judgment, God says, I will condemn. That's a promise. But that promise is not for everybody. O so when you use it, make sure you connect the process to the promise. Because when you continue on, it says something crazy. It says, this is the inheritance. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. Okay? The promise is no weapon forming against you will prosper in everything. Tongue that rises up against you, God will condemn. But the process to getting that promise is that I got to be a servant of the Lord. Can I say something that you're not going to like? Some of them weapons formed against you prospering because you don't serve God. I tried to whisper it, so I didn't hurt nobody.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

But I don't want you to just take this scripture and think that you can use it up against anything. Because sometimes God will let a weapon prosper so that it brings you to a place of surrender so that you can become a servant of the Lord. Oh, y' all know I want to.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Be a church mother, so this right up my alley. Oh, yeah.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Some weapons formed against you will prosper until you get down on your knees and say, I've been serving for fear. I've been serving pride. I've been serving ego. But I want to be a servant of the Lord. You know how to stop a weapon in its tracks? You start surrendering in the place where you used to stand up.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Oh, yeah, I feel my voice going. Which don't make no sense, but we.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Gonna preach this word. I'm gonna need you to turn me up in the monitors.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

You can stop a weapon in its tracks. You can stop a weapon in its tracks. The moment you realize that I've been serving fear and I've been serving doubt, and I've been serving addiction, and I've been serving my insecurities.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

And the weapons that have been formed against me are prospering. That's why these relationships keep looking the same. Different person, same Toxic situation because I'm serving an insecurity. I'm not serving God. That's why the business deals won't work out, because I'm serving my pride. I'm not serving God. But if you want to stop a weapon in its tracks, I dare you to stop serving anything that don't look like God and say, you know what if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, oh yeah, you can stop a weapon in its tracks. I changed my mind mind devil I changed my mind fear. I changed my mind doubt I don't serve you any longer. That weapons gotta stop in its track. No weapon form. The moment you align yourself with God, the weapons gotta stop in its tracks. The devil thought he had me, but God sent a word for me. I came to stop a weapon in his tracks. Yeah.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

One surrender away, one cry away.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

One turn away from stopping a weapon in its tracks. I don't know who needs to hear this, but I feel the spirit of God on it. It's some weapons in your life and they've been prospering for too long because you've been serving the wrong things. But I hear God saying, if you serve me, I'll stop every weapon, every tongue that rises up against you. I'll stop it. I'll stop the rumors, I'll stop the complaining. It won't matter what they say about you. I'll stop the weapon in its track. You need to know that there's a weapon with your name on it. But if you would turn from your wicked ways and seek my.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Some of these weapons are prospering. So when I start seeing weapons being formed before I claim the promise, I make sure that I'm in the right process. Because, God, are you using this weapon to reveal to me that I got off track? You think the children of Israel knew when they weren't serving God, it happened so subtly that they just looked up and they were so serving another God. And the weapons are meant to be a sign, a warning, because one of two things are true. The weapon has formed and it's meant to bring you to your knees. Or you focusing on the weapon is a distraction because you know you in the will of God. So I want to speak for a minute to someone who sees the weapons being formed. And as far as you know, you doing everything God told you to do. Come on, somebody. Because you don't always know the will of God, but you usually know what's not the will of God. So, God, I'm doing everything that you asked me to Do. And it feels like the weapon is still prospering.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

And it feels like every tongue that.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Rises up against me is actually winning.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

God says, just wait a minute because if you're serving me, you really don't have to worry about that. Because when I said no weapon formed against you will prosper. And every tongue that rises up against you, I will condemn. I meant that thing. That means you stay focused on where I placed you and now take care of the weapons. God says, I prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies. They sitting there making weapons and you sitting there about to eat. Cuz you thought that this was gonna stop what God was doing in my life. But God told me to stay the course. I don't know who you are, but I hear God saying, stay the course. Cause you've been serving me. And I won't let the weapon come your way. The weapons gotta come in your vicinity so it can have a front row seat when I prepare the table.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Okay. All right. Okay, so. All right. So here's the thing. The promise has a process. You want to make sure the only thing you have to do is survive the process. The only thing I have to do is survive the process. Now that sounds easier said than done. Because the process be processing. You understand what I'm saying, child? That process don't take no days off like a McDonald's Open 24 7. Why? If you survive the process, forget about the promise for a minute, just survive the process. How do I survive the process? I'm glad you asked. Surviving the process requires us to stay connected to God in the process, not the promise. This is going to go up against some of the hymns we grew up singing where we was just hanging on to the promises of God. And maybe there's a season for that. But sometimes when you can't hang on to the promise of God. If you could just hang on to God. I gotta find a way to invite God into this process.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I don't even have time to focus on the. Have you ever been in the middle.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Of the process in such a way.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Where I don't even care about the promise anymore. I just need God, Lord, I just need you to get me through this. I don't even care about the promise anymore. I just need God. God, I don't care if you do it or don't do it. I need you to meet me right here, right now. The promise could be five years away, 10 years away. I don't care about the promise. I need you right here in this heartbreak. I Need you right here in this devastation. I need you right here in this dream.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I need you in the process. If you're taking notes, I want you to write this down. The process doesn't produce the Promise. Okay? The process is not producing the Promise. It is producing the version of you who can step into the Promise. The moment that God spoke the promise over your life, the Promise was set in stone. So your process is not producing that promise. It is producing the you who can step into it. Okay, I'm gonna go a little bit further and I'm gonna say this. That the process is meant to produce the A version of you that looks like the Promise Keeper. That means that this process is supposed to make you look more like God. Oh, God, help me. I want you to understand the intent of the process. The intent of the process is not so you can get. It's not so I can get, get, get, get, get.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

So that I can look, look, look.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

No, no, no.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

That's not the point of the process.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Because that wouldn't make it about you.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The point of the process is to.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Make you look more like him.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The Promise is just bait. That's why the people will tell you when they get the promise. That what I really got was not the thing. It's who I became in the process. I had to look like God to step into this. Do you know who I had to forgive in order to step into this? Do you know who I had to become? Do you know what I had to heal? Do you know what I had to let go of? Who I became in the process made me look more like Jesus. I don't look like the Promise. I look like the Promise Keeper.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

It's who I became. You can have what I have.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

You can go get that.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

What you can't take is who I became.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The Promise don't even matter to me. Because I know that because of who I became, I could get that again. God made me into something.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

See, if you just hook yourself, if you train yourself to be addicted to promise after promise after promise, you'll miss out on the fact that you're supposed to be becoming. And if you become, you'll never have to worry about getting because the getting will be the organic byproduct of who you became. You can take my idea, you can steal the whole recipe.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

You'll never be able to cook it the way I did. I don't want that to sound fleshy. I just know who I became in the process. Take the whole. Take all. I'll give you my ideas I'm not gatekeeping information. I'll tell you anything you want to know. I know who I became in the process cannot be imitated. You can take the idea, but you don't have the oil to produce the results because the oil was produced in the process.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Take it.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Have my ideas, have my experiences. But no matter what you take from me, just know you still gonna have to go through the process. The process is a requirement.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

This is why you are not gatekeep stuff.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Freely you have received, freely you ought to give.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Because they cannot imitate you.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

God's going to take them through their.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Own process and he's going to use.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

A little bit of what you gave and a little bit of what they go through to produce their unique results. Why would we have competition in the kingdom? We've got a unique grace and anointing. There will be never be another Sarah Jakes Roberts. And that's a good thing, because I need what God placed in you. It would be a shame to ask me to be Bishop T.D.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Jakes.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

If I'm Bishop T.D. jakes, who in the world gonna be Sarah Jakes Roberts? I'm only as if my God, who created the universe and set the Milky Way in motion and put the sun and the stars in position, needs to imitate what he's already done in Bishop T.D.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Jakes. He's got a fresh vision for who you are, a fresh anointing for what you'll do. So don't be intimidated by someone else's results. Submit to your process. Okay, I'm off track. Here we go. Oh, and I'm almost. Oh. Time. All right, listen, this will happen. I have wondered in reading Genesis 1 and 28, whether or not God gives them mandate, a mission, an identity, or if he's actually giving them a promise. In Genesis 1 and 28, he says to creation, this is when he's created them. That's male and female. He creates them. And he says to them, be fruitful and multiply. It says, fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every creeping living thing that moves on the earth. He gives them dominion over the entire Earth when he creates them. But then in Genesis 2 and 15, something unique happens. In Genesis 2 and 15 it says, Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. Now wait a minute. In Genesis 1, he gives them dominion over the entire Earth. But then in Genesis 2, he doesn't release them into the Entire Earth. He plants them in a garden. It's almost as if he's saying, in order for you to do Genesis 1 and 28 properly, I gotta start you in a tighter space.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

My vision is for you to be.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Into all of the Earth and have dominion over all the Earth. But I'mma start you in a garden because in the garden I want you to master the character required to step into the promise. The garden is where we master the character required to step into the promise. It is where God cultivates who we must be in order to step into the promise. You don't know this, but some of the people you sit next to there, they're not in the potter's house. They in the garden. I'm in a season where I'm being cultivated to step into the promise. God's given me a promise for where I'm headed. But right now, I'm not in that promise. I'm in the garden. And the garden is where you learn to dwell and abide with God. See, in order for them to have dominion over all of the Earth, they have to first understand what it means to have dependence on God. You can't have dominion without dependence. And so the garden is where I'm going to teach you how to depend on me. The garden is where I'm going to teach you how to dwell with me. The garden is where I'm going to teach you how to name things and how to move. In the garden.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Garden, I'm going to teach you.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

In the garden.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I'm going to put you in a.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Tight space where you learn my ways. If you can master dependence, you can have dominion. But I can't release you to have dominion because I don't want you to think that you can do it on your own.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

So first I got to teach you dependence. I know you're in a season where you don't want to need God, but sometimes you need to learn how to need God. So when you don't need God, you need God.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

You understand what I'm saying? I wish I could say that real good.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Sometimes God puts us in a position.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Where we need him.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

So that we.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Can learn how to need him. When we don't need him, where needing him becomes our baseline.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Where I'm not in a season where.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I'm asking for my healing, but I still want to be in the presence.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I'm not asking for a financial breakthrough. I just want to be in your presence. I want to learn how to drive, dwell with God. God. As long as you dwell with me. I don't care where you take me. I'm in a season where I'm mastering dependence. I don't want to depend on another person. I want to depend on God.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I'm learning how to depend on him. So God's trying to teach them in the garden how to prepare for what's next. I'm trying to show you how to rule. I'm trying to show you how to navigate different situations. And this is where the enemy comes in.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

This is why I know the enemy can't stop the promise.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

He finds himself in the process.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

He goes, I'm going to disrupt the.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Promise by disrupting the process. And so in the garden he interjects, in their training ground. Oh, Lord Jesus, I feel the Holy Ghost. I've always wondered to myself, why did the Lord allow the serpent in the garden? This is supposed to be the space where I learned to dwell with you. But why would you allow there to be an enemy in the place where I'm supposed to dwell with you?

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

And God revealed to me that part.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Of the reason why he had to allow that is because if you learn to dwell with me appropriately, I'll show you how to have dominion over your enemies. I wish I could say this real good.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

But you're not getting any prizes for overcoming an enemy that's not in your territory. I'd have to allow the enemy in your territory so that you can even.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Received the instructions on how to have.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Authority over the enemy.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Oh, I wish I could say this real good.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I hear God saying, eve messed up because she focused on the enemy when she should have focused on me. Because if she would have asked me in her dwelling, what do I do about this serpent, I would have told her, you don't even have to worry about that serpent. You got dominion over the serpent, but we too busy facing off with the enemy that we don't realize we got power over the very thing that now has power over us. But I came to reverse the curse in the name of Jesus. Wherever there is an enemy running rampant in your life that God has given you power and authority to overcome, I release divine authority in the name of Jesus. Stop talking to the enemy and turn your face towards me. God, God, what do you want me to do about this enemy? There's an enemy in my camp, there's an enemy in my marriage. I'm not going to attack the enemy without going to the one who knows.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Oh, God, I'm going to say this, and I'm going to close. Ish. You got to Realize that this is not your enemy. You want strategy, how to defeat the enemy. But this is really not your enemy.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

This is God's enemy.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

You understand?

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

This is not your enemy. The only reason why it became your.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Enemy is because you're trying to obey God.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

And when you obey God, you get their enemies.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Oh, God, I wish I could say this real good.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Well, you know this because you got friends.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Friends where?

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

You know, if I decide to be friends with you. Your enemies are my enemies.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

They don't make friendships like that no more. But when I was growing up, you.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Couldn'T just be friends with me and be an enemy if I was your friend.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

We had the same enemies. When you became a friend of God, you took on his enemies.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

So if you want to defeat God's enemy, you got to talk to God, not his enemy. You don't have enough power, enough strap, enough authority to go head to head with the enemy until you get a word from God. But if you get a word from God, God will give you everything you need to go up against the enemy that's in your camp. And in the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, every tongue, every tongue. The enemy's tongue and the demon's tongue are going to confess that he's God.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

So I gotta talk to God about how to handle this enemy.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I want to break the generational curse, but I can't do it by facing a generational curse. I gotta talk to God who understands how to curse God there in the first place. Because he'll show me how to uproot it from the very soil that it began with. I gotta talk to God. I don't go head to head with the enemy unless I have a word from God. And when. When I have a word from God, no devil in hell can stop what the Lord has placed on my tongue. I receive the power of life and death. When God gives me a word, I will speak to that mountain move. And it will move out of that way. I will tell that devil no. And he will be under my feet. I know who my God is.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Give me a word for this enemy. Give me a word for this insecurity. Give me a word for this fear. Give me a word for this addiction. I'll give you a word. I call you whole. I call you healed. I say no weapon formed against you.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

If you spot an enemy in your camp, don't get comfortable sleeping with the enemy. Start talking to God. Who do I need to become to rise above what the enemy is trying to plant in my garden?

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Oh, I know some of y' all ready to go. But, baby, I'm gonna preach this word.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Until I say everything God told me to say.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I hear God saying that the enemy is trying to plant in your garden. But by the blood of the lamb, nothing he plants in your garden will be able to take root and produce fruit. I bind it in the name of Jesus. No devil in hell, no demon known to man will plant where God has set up camp. Get out of my house. Get out of my garden. Get out of my family. Get out of my bloodline. I see you, devil. You have no power here. You have no authority. In the name of Jesus. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Get out. Get out.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Out of my garden, out of my finances, out of my bloodstream, out of my mind. Not my marriage, not my child, not my garden, not my ministry, not my family, not my nation, not my church.

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[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

The enemy is going to be present. Don't wish him away. Rebuke him away.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The enemy is going to be present.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

But God's not worried about the enemy, because God understands he has power over the enemy. We're worried about the enemy because we.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Don'T know if we have power over the enemy. But my power doesn't come from my own mechanisms. My power comes from God. So if it looks like the enemy.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Is winning, my relationship with God is failing. Surviving the process means that when it looks like the enemy is winning, I gotta draw closer. To God. Cause ain't no way he defeated death.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Ain't no way he defeated sin.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

For the enemy to have the ultimate victory. So you want to know my strategy for the enemy, my worship. I know you're thinking, what is it about singing a song that's going to help me? No, I'm not talking about singing a song. That's one expression of worship. But if that's all the worship you get, that's probably why I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're watching. Because worship is not just when I sing a song. It's when I open my heart to God. Sometimes with no music and no worship leader and nothing but the song that's in my heart and I say, God, I worship you. You know better than I do.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

You know the end from the beginning, God, you knew I'd be in this moment. God, you still allowed it to.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

So I turn my focus to you is when I shift my focus to God and I magnify the Lord.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Because the enemy looks big. You better stop watching them headlines. The headlines getting bigger and bigger and bigger. So you gotta magnify the Lord with me. Cause God, sometimes I can't see you.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I know we in a room with.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

All the church people who do all.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

The things the right way and never have moments where they don't see God. But some of us have moments where we have to magnify God because it just don't seem big enough for what I'm facing.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Worship is when I make it my.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Intention to magnify the Lord. And when I magnify the Lord, I can tell what's a threat and what's not. When I magnify the Lord, the Lord gives me language. He tells me when to be silent and he tells me when to speak. When I magnify the Lord, I have peace. That has nothing to do with what's happening in this world.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I gotta magnify.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

So. So the. The only way that they have dominion in the earth is if they master the garden. And mastering the garden is where they learn to be made in the image of God. And now more than ever, our process is to look more like the Promise Keeper. Oh, our process is to insist by any means necessary that I draw close to God even in the face of adversity. Is anybody watching what's happening in the world? I was praying about this message and God gave me the word. He said, grief. Because life is changing right in front of our eyes. And life as we knew it, it's not coming to an end. We have arrived. We are in a new frontier, and some of us don't know where we fit. We don't know how to show up in this new frontier, but we're not going to find it in the world. The world's not going to tell you how to show up in the world. You got to ask the creator of the world, how do I show up in this world? And I was struck by the garden in the Old Testament and how it parallels to the garden in the New Testament and this place where God is cultivating the identity of Adam and Eve in the Old Testament. We see Jesus walk into this garden where he's transitioning, and life as he knows it is coming to an end. And he feels sorrow because this won't be the same world. And everything you've known about me, Jesus knows, is changing. And so he walks into the garden and he takes his disciples with him. I love that he took his disciples with him because he's got some things he needs to teach the disciples about the moments in life that require gardens. There are some moments in life that require you to submit yourself to a garden before you step into the promise. You got to go through the garden, and you may miss this if you think of a garden as a place where things just bloom and come to life. Because the garden is not just the place where things come to life. A garden is a place where things die. In order for the plant to even take root, the seed coat must die. John 14 said. Put John 14 on the screen for me. It says that in order. Unless the seed hits the ground, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

But if it dies, it produces much grain.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Grain.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The garden is not just the place where things come to life.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

The garden is the place where some things die. And Jesus goes into the garden because he's trying to let the disciples know. In order for me to move into this next step of the process, there's something in me that's got to go first. Gethsemane is a. A garden where there were olives. It's where they produce oil. And in order for oil to be produced, there must be a crushing of the olives. And Jesus is in this garden and he's praying. You know what I love about this? All of the people who make you believe that you can only come to God when everything is going well and you feel. Feel good about yourself. Jesus debunks this because God can handle your sorrow. You understand that? I don't need you to pretend that you are in agreement with me. I just need you to bring your disagreement to me, to bring your conflict to me.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

I know you won't always agree with.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

The things the way things need to be. You won't always agree agree with my will. My will and your will may find themselves in conflict. Sometimes God says, don't just fall away from me because my will and your will didn't align. Draw closer to me and let's wrestle for a minute. He wrestles with the Father because I don't want to have to go through this. He wrestles with God because he realizes that there's something in me that's standing in the way of what you want to do, oh, Lord. And Jesus refuses to allow for there to be something in him that's in the way of what God wants to do. You see, most of us are willing to just accept the fact that there's something in us that doesn't align with what God wants. But he insists on getting into alignment because he recognizes that if I have to choose between my will and your will, at the end of the day, I did my will for a little bit. My will won't do what your will will do do. Your will has multiplication connected to it. Your will has salvation connected to it. Your will is the only will that won't just give me the glory. It'll give everything connected to me the glory. You understand what I'm saying? You would settle for just you getting the glory. But God says, your life is not just about you. And he takes the disciples with him. And he says something to the disciples that I thought was very interesting. He tells the disciples, watch and pray lest you fall into temptation. What is their temptation? Jesus recognizes that they're going to have a moment themselves where their will and God's will may not necessarily align. But I'm going to model for you what it looks like to say yes to God in the midst of. Of sorrow.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

To say yes to God even if.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

It means facing something you never wanted to face.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

To say yes to God and allow that yes to God.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

To produce oil, you're going to need oil in this season.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

The kind of oil that won't work. Your oil, your old oil, won't work.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

For this next season. Oh, God, help me to say it real good. The oil that Jesus was using when he was healing the sick and he was healing the blind and he was allowing the lamen to walk, that oil.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Was for that season.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

But for this next step into his destiny, he needed a fresh kind of Oil. And in order to get the fresh oil, the only thing he had to do was get himself out of the way. What is himself himself is this idea of, I need it to be this particular way. You're in this room and maybe you're facing something that isn't going away. And you prayed about it, and you asked God to take it away. And you asked one time and he didn't do it. And you asked two times and he didn't do it. And you asked third time. And it has become increasingly clear this ain't going nowhere. I'm really gonna have to walk through this. This is really what our world is going to look like. This is really. I'm really going to go through this divorce. I'm really going to have to build this. I'm really going to go through this. This health scare. This is me.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

We talk about all the times where.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God delivers us, but there are some moments, and Jesus shows us where he doesn't deliver us in the way that we anticipate. When God doesn't change the situation, he has to change you in the situation. And it is okay to grieve the facts that the situation isn't changing, while also submitting to the fact that I'm going to change and rise to the occasion of the situation. Jesus is rising to the occasion, and he's teaching the disciples how to do the same. I believe that what the disciples had to watch and pray for then applicable to us now that there are people in this room. And God has called you to enter into a season that feels a bit sorrowful. And one, I want to give you permission to feel that sorrow, to feel that frustration. And I know in church we like to shout and dance over the blessings that are coming, all that stuff. And y' all can do that next week, right now, in this moment, even if it's not your season, I'm wondering, can we hold space for someone who's going through a season of sorrow that they'd rather not face? Because even Jesus in this moment didn't want to face it alone. And can you imagine if Jesus didn't want to face it alone? There are some of us in this room, and it feels like we're facing it on our own. I dare you to just touch somebody close to you because they're in the garden, maybe you're okay, but they're in the garden. God didn't change the situation, so he's changing them in the situation. And there's a grief connected to that, a sorrow connected to it. And they're tempted to pull away.

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Be like the disciples and close their eyes and fall asleep until it's over. But if they fall asleep, they gonna miss the oil. They fall asleep, they gonna miss the glory. Right now in this moment, God has orchestrated for them to not be alone in the garden.

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

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[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

And Jesus, he prays because the spirit is willing. But the flesh is weak. In this moment in the garden, he insists on getting out of the way. The only thing that our brothers and sisters in this room and those of you watching online are going to have to do is find a way to get out of the way. Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Don't let your pride, don't let your grief keep you from moving forward. You gonna have to get out of the way the way you wanted things to be. You're gonna have to lay this down in the garden. Can we bury here in the garden? I know you want it different. I know it hurts. But Jesus knew something about the Father that you gonna learn. That he doesn't just cause us to go through sorrow for sorrow's sake, for the joy that was set before him. He endured the cross. He gives us capacity to endure the sorrow. Because he knows on the other side of the sorrow, there will be glory. This season is just going to be temporary. This is temporary sorrow. I'm not saying it don't hurt. Not saying it's not confusing. But I'm saying it's temporary sorrow. God, give them grace to endure the sorrow.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

God, give them capacity to endure the heartbreak.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God, give them capacity to still bring change.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

In that industry, God, give them the capacity to endure the betrayal.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God, give them the capacity to endure. And when they receive this capacity to endure, God, they will be a model, a testimony of what God can do in gardens. Spirit of the living God, fall fresh in this place. God, we've been running on fumes for far too long. Lord, we need fresh oil for this season of our lives. We need the kind of oil that.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Only is produced by crushing.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God, we feel the crushing, but we didn't know there was oil connected to this.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

God, I speak oil over my brother.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

I speak oil over, over my sister.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

God, that you would help them to remember that the crushing is but temporary, but the crushing is the only way that it produces oil. God, the kind of oil that breaks generational curses. The kind of oil that gives them power and authority to speak to devils. God, they've been praying for oil. They just didn't know that the oil came in the process. God, we speak right now in the name of Jesus. Jesus, that they will receive strength in the middle of this process. That they will receive power in the process. I thank you, God, that you were cultivating on the inside of them identity and character and perseverance.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God, I thank you that you don't leave them in the garden, that you develop them in the garden, that you.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Teach them in the garden. God, I thank you for being the master gardener. That you know exactly how much sun I can take, that you know exactly when I need watering, that you know exactly how fruitful I will be. Somebody's in this room and they're in their pruning season and they can feel.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

God is cutting them away, but he's cutting them away so that they can produce more fruit.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

And the only thing standing in between.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Them and more fruit is the way they view this moment in their lives. And so, God, I'm praying for fresh eyesight, for fresh perspective. That right now, in this moment, that they would surrender their will, that they would grieve their will, that they would grieve their preferences and that they would rise just as Jesus did, recognizing that their time is at hand. God, I ask that they would no longer be compliant with division. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I cannot say I want the will of God while also being resentful that God didn't give me my will. God, help me to make peace with the fact that it didn't go my.

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

And let someone else's life be a reminder to me that even when it doesn't go my way, it doesn't mean that you don't get your way. And when you get your way, your way is better than my way.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

God, I'm praying for right now that you would give them the spirit of.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Prophecy, that they would see into the.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Future and on the other side of this moment, that they would see resurrecting power. So, God, right now I pray for every person who's under the sound of my voice, whether they're watching it now or catching it later. God, I speak resurrecting power right now in the name of Jesus, that the same place you feel sorrow is the place where God will bring a solution. Did you hear that? The same place you feel sorrow is the same place where God's going to birth a solution. And this solution will not just be for you. This solution will be the salvation of many. I thank you, God, that this is not a person, but this is a seed. And I thank you, God, that because they are a seed, that even when they fall to the ground, they are not buried without hope, they are buried in so that they can produce fruit. I thank you, God, that resurrecting power is their inheritance.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

So, God, allow them to receive.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Your.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Vision, your will, your way, and to submit to this moment of gardening, knowing that it's meant to draw them closer to you. And we rebuke the enemy who's trying to intervene in the process and trying to pull them away in the middle of the process. God, I pray right now that they would feel your presence so heavily, that they would feel your presence, God, even when they leave this room, that your presence would surround them. And I thank you, God, that there's going to be a hunger on the inside of them like never before.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

God, I'm praying right now that they.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

Would hunger and thirst for righteousness in a way they have never hungered before.

[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

Because the only way they will survive.

[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

This time is if your righteousness is on the inside of them. And so I thank you, God, that they're going to seek you and your righteousness. And as your word promises hallelujah, that all other things will be added unto them. Thank you, God, for this word. Do with it what only you can do. Allow it to take root and produce fruit. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Family, Amen. I know there's many of you here at this altar, but I have to say, if you're here and you don't know Jesus, can you come down for a second? We just want to pray for you. If you're here and you don't know Jesus, you sat through this message. And you thought to yourself, man, there are some assurances that were spoken in this room that I want access to. There are some promises in this room that I want access to, but I don't know that I have them. Because I haven't made that decision. I haven't made that commitment. I want you to meet me here at this altar. We're going to pray. We're going to get out of here. If you're here, just come as fast as you can. Wave at me so I know you're coming. If you're here and you don't know Jesus, but you want to dedicate your life to the Lord, come down to the altar. Hey, welcome, welcome, welcome. Come on, family. We can do better than that. Our family's getting bigger. Come on. Our family's getting bigger. Heaven is rejoicing. Our ministers are here. They want to pray with you. You're here and you don't know Jesus. You want to get to know him. He already knows you. But you want to make that commitment. I want to confess that you are my savior. I believe that you died for my sins. And because of you, I have new life. Please make your way. We'll wait for you. Other people may have to go, but we here at the Potter's house, it's a few of us who will wait for you. Come, come, come. If you're here and you're looking for a new church home and you say, you know what? I like this church. They got a special kind of crazy that I enjoy. We would love to be your pastor. If this is your church. Make some noise. Listen, there are so many incredible places here in the Metroplex. So many people, places online where you could be logged in. But we're partial to what God is doing here at the Potter's house. And we would love to make you a part of our family. Our pastors are here at the left. If you want to meet them and love on them and hug on them, maybe you got to go. You can hit the QR code on the screen and the QR code will give you instructions on how to get plugged in. If you're watching online, you can be a member, too. We love our E members. Can you help me? Thank God for our E members. We love you. I see your messages. I see you guys commenting on my post. If you're watching for the first time and you're like, you know what? I don't live there. I wish I could, but I don't. Let me tell you, you can join online. Our E Member is just the same as being in house. We love you just the same. We pray for you just the same. And we believe that the same grace and anointing that's on this house will reach you no matter where you are. Can you help me? Again, just thank God for all of those who are watching online. Our ministers are here. They're praying the prayer of salvation for those who are giving their lives to the Lord. Can we just thank God for that? We got some new brothers and sisters. Can you stand with me? We're going to close. Thank you, Jesus. Is anybody glad they made their way into the house this morning? I'm glad I made it, too. I'm always grateful that we get to encounter and experience Jesus together. Listen, this week, we don't know what's going to happen, but we know who holds this week. I said we know who holds this week. Never forget that even if you feel alone, that you're not alone, that God's presence goes ahead of you, it's with you, it's behind you, surrounding you every single step of the way. And we plead the blood of Jesus over you. The blood of Jesus that repels sickness and disease. The blood of Jesus that comforts us in the time of our greatest need. The blood of Jesus that walks with us and talks with us. We ask that angels would be dispatched over your household, angels dispatched over your finances, over your mind, over everything that you will touch your hands to. We ask that heavens, revolution, resources would back you up. We ask that if there's anything that's happening in your world that isn't of God, that God would highlight it immediately and give you strategy on how to evict it. We thank you, God, for opportunities to draw closer to you, that this was just the beginning, but church really begins when the benediction closes. And I thank you, God, that everywhere the soles of their feet tread, God, that you'll give it to them. May they walk in power and authority, recognizing that they are ambassadors of the kingdom of heaven. Wherever they go, may their light shine so bright that it makes others curious about who their God is. And I thank you, God, that you're going to protect them, that you're going to lead them, that you're going to guide them and that it will be undeniable that you are with them every step of the way. May the Lord bless and keep you. May he make his face to face, shine upon you and be gracious towards you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom. Shalom in Jesus name. We'll see you on Wednesday. Family.

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[Pastor T.D. Jakes]

You look the same.

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[Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts]

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