All The More | Sarah Jakes Roberts

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my subject for today is all the more and

I’m going to be speaking from Matthew 20

and 30 so this is such an interesting

point in the text because Jesus has left

Jericho and he is headed to Jerusalem

which he will ultimately be placed on

the cross and at this time in his

journey of course I would think he would

be distracted by many many things on the

inside he had two blind men stopped him

in the middle of the road and they say

and behold two blind men sitting by the

road when they heard that Jesus was

passing by cried out saying have mercy

on us O Lord son of David

then the multitude warned them that they

should be quiet isn’t that interesting

the moment we start crying out people

want us to be quiet when we’re crying

out from our own disease our own

sicknesses our own ailments it can make

people a little bit uncomfortable you

see the reality is that some people are

only comfortable with you as long as you

are blind but the moment you start

wanting to cry out for change you mess

up the status quo as long as you’re on

the side of the road and you’re blind I

can deal with you but when you start

opening your eyes and deciding to create

change in your life as long as you’re

not willing to play stupid anymore

that’s when you become an issue and I

have to warn you to be quiet growing up

my mother had this saying she my parents

our country

and so whenever we would start maybe

judging someone she would tell us just

because you graduate don’t burn the

school house down like what we’re not in

school what are you talking about but

there’s this notion that once we get

past our struggle and we’re on the other

side of the fence that we lose

compassion we forget what it’s like to

be a work in progress we burn the school

houses down which prohibits anyone else

from going through a process and

graduating themselves and so we find the

multitude who’s following with Jesus

warning the other blind men to be quiet

I hate to draw a parallel but sometimes

when we become so religious and so right

within ourselves that when we see other

people crying out when we have an

opportunity to bring them in instead we

tell them to be quiet as if Jesus needs

us to be his security he’s already done

enough he spoke as he doesn’t have time

to take on two more blind men just sit

by the side of the road and figure it

out on your own the multitude warned

them that they should be quiet but they

cried out all the more all the more that

means I wasn’t talking to you anyway

that means that when I started crying

out for a moment I could have been

distracted by the exposure that comes

with crying out but I had to make a

decision to stay focused on who I was

talking to not the attention that came

when I cried out why is this interesting

because there are many of us who are

going to be crying out over and over

again throughout our journeys and we

have to recognize that crying out

creating change also creates exposure

and I want to know can you handle the

exposure that comes with crying out that

when you’re asking God for a

revolutionary moment in your life a

sudden change to turn this thing around

that you have to recognize that he

doesn’t always do it quietly

that sometimes your change will have an

audience and your audience will have

commentary and so it’s such an

interesting society that we live in now

because on social media whenever someone

begins to see change within our own

lives they have an opportunity to tell

us to be quiet or to discourage our need

to change they see change only when it

is comfortable for them when it is

something that they can embrace but when

you decide to be a revolutionary in your

own life when you decide to take matters

into your own hand and I’m no longer

content sitting on the side of the road

watching as Jesus passes by I want to be

a part of what’s happening you have to

recognize that you’re talking about

breaking into another dimension

and you cannot break into another

dimension without going through

gatekeepers sometimes self-appointed

gatekeepers to that dimension and it’s

on you to come to a place where you are

focused enough to not allow the

commentary to distract you from the

mission but they cried out all the more

that means that when the distractions

come you have to dig within you and say

how bad do you really want this thing

are you willing to cry out all the more

or do you want to defend your right to

be changed because you can either be

changed or you can defend your right to

cry out and if you aren’t careful you’ll

get caught up defending your right to

cry out and miss the time required to

fully change have mercy on us O Lord son

of David have mercy on us two blind men

you would think for a moment that if

they’re blind they couldn’t help it so

why are they asking for mercy because

something and they must have realized

that if you looked at my track record

you may not deem me worthy of mercy that

if you look at where I come from you you

may not even stop to hear my voice but

I’m asking if you would have mercy on me

the heart position required for a

miracle means that God isn’t interested

in hearing about all the things that

you’re going to do once you have

eyesight

once you change my life I’m going to do

this and I’m going to do that but where

are you right now in this moment do you

deserve the miracle you’re praying for

do you deserve the mercy that you’re

that you’re asking me for

mercy on us O Lord son of David they

recognize who they were talking to to

say he was the son of David in that time

it may just sound like regular scripture

talk to us but at that time it was

recognizing that he was the Messiah they

knew that though you’re about to walk

into a season in the air what some

people may be questioning who you are I

know who you are and I know what I’m

asking of you and I know I don’t deserve

it but I’m asking blind as I am and as

silent as I should be if you would find

a way to have mercy on me and the

scripture goes on to say so Jesus stood

still and called them and said what do

you want me to do for you what do you

want me to do for you they said to him

Lord that our eyes may be opened so

Jesus had compassion and touched their

eyes and immediately their eyes received

sight and they followed him Jesus asks

what do you want me to do for you and

they replied that our eyes may be open

you see blindness is a disease that

first takes place on the inside but is

affecting the outside and so when they

ask what when Jesus asks what do you

want me to do for you what he’s really

saying is what do you want me to do in

you what do you want me to do in you I

know you want me to change the outside

but I’m wondering if you recognize that

what you’re asking me to do for you is

going to require that something takes

place in you

and Jesus had compassion and he touched

their eyes but when he touched their

eyes something took place on the inside

of them something that they had to be

willing to protect something that they

had to be willing to preserve even as

they begin to follow Jesus because they

weren’t just following Jesus they were

also going to be surrounded by the very

people who told them to be quiet in the

first place

and I don’t know if you can worship

Jesus and give people the side-eye and

the same but one must ask how can I

follow Jesus and deal with his people

Alice how can I follow Jesus and deal

with his people you know the moment that

change is beginning to take place in our

lives that that revolutionary moment

cannot come without resistance and the

problem with most most of us who are

praying and asking God for something is

that we’re asking for a revolution but

we don’t want to have an evolution we

want a sudden change but we don’t want

to be met with any resistance and then

when we are met with resistance one of

two things either happen we give up and

become stagnant or worse we begin to

look within ourselves and feel

inadequate and insecure about what we

asked for in the first place and bigger

than just the context of this scripture

there are some people literally within

this room who are dealing with the

feelings of insecurity and inadequacy

that come when the revolution doesn’t

come when we expect it when I’m willing

to change when I’m willing to lay my

cards all out on the table now I feel

more insecure and more inadequate than I

did when I was just sitting on the side

of the road you see when I was sitting

on the side of the road I was surrounded

by people who were at least handicapped

like me and now that I tried to come out

of my own handicap I’m being told that I

should be quiet that that I don’t

exactly fit in the next level I want to

break through I want to change I want to

be different but what if I can’t do it

what are the fears that you hear after

you say your prayers what are the

questions and and decomposing that

you do after you pray and ask God to

change your life are you ready to also

evolve are you prepared to deal with

your own insecurities in your own

struggles or do you want to be healed

and then go back to where you came from

what I love about this text is that the

blind men they they received their

healing and then they followed Jesus

they didn’t receive their healing can go

back to see what everyone looked like on

the side of the road they didn’t receive

their healing and replay all of these

moments in their life something within

them realized that now that I have this

eyesight now that I am on this next

level and in this new dimension I’m

going to have to stretch myself I’m

going to have to be willing to be in

uncomfortable places I’m going to have

to be willing to follow Jesus and the

people who blocks me do you have the

humility required to really change and

to accept people right for where they

are following Jesus and still figuring

it out themselves we call this

resistance when there is revolution

warfare it’s the moment when we begin to

really step into where we’re supposed to

be in into alignment with God and then

we’re met with their resistance of

people or fears or doubts or job loss or

car loss and there’s something within us

that has to wonder am I on the right

track how can I be following Jesus and

making a change for the better and now

it appears that everything is falling

apart and though something may not

happen on the outside of you the worst

warfare is what happens on the inside of

you

when you become your own worst enemy

everyone has this concept that warfare

has to have a devil costume from Party

City and show up on your porch but it

comes in every fear that you’ve ever

entertained every insecurity that has

ever haunted you at night sitting on the

side of the road

oh Jesus son of David have mercy on us

and they are rebuked by the crowd

interestingly enough as they begin to

evolve I wondered how can you handle the

revolutions that are guaranteed to come

with life and also recognize that the

evolution is a part of the process but

how do you know who you are evolving

into and so I had to go to Ephesians 1

in 17 where we recognize that Paul is

writing a church to writing a letter to

the church in Ephesus and he’s thanking

them for praying for him and thanking

them for their support and he says that

I’m also praying for you I’m praying

that the god of our Lord Jesus Christ

the father of glory may give to you the

spirit of wisdom and revelation and the

knowledge of him that means that as

we’re evolving that maybe our evolution

shouldn’t be this idea of success in our

head but instead should be knowledge of

who God is that we should be evolving in

wisdom so that even when resistance come

it’s not met with our pride or our ego

or even our insecurities but with the

knowledge that the eyes of our

understanding would be enlightened the

eyes of your understanding that you

would understand that change must come

with resistance

and that changes a guarantee of life and

shying away from it will only do you

harm in the long run that you have to

come to a place where you recognize that

though he slay me yet shall I trust in

him though I don’t understand what’s

going on in the world around me I’ve

placed my faith and my hopes and my

desires and something much higher than

this momentary affliction and so I

thought I needed people I thought I

needed a relationship I thought I needed

this to work out for me but maybe just

maybe I just need the eyes of my

understanding to be enlightened so I’m

not charging Jesus with the crimes of

other people and I’m not charging my

destiny with the crimes of other people

maybe just maybe I have the power within

me to perceive what’s happening around

me is still working out for my good that

you may know what is the hope of his

calling what are the riches of the glory

of his inheritance in the Saints I

wanted you all to know this Sunday

morning that you have an inheritance

that you are just one touch away from

the miracle you’re praying for but the

reality is that you have to be willing

to face the resistance that comes with

it life is not a cakewalk for any of us

and we cannot break into another

dimension without breaking up something

around us you may not just slide into

home base you may be a little cut in the

little scarred and a little bruised but

the next dimension is worth it and if

for some reason we are so consumed with

this easy way out or we can be

discouraged by opinions and commentary

from other people then the greatest sin

will not be what they said it will be

how you allowed it to change

the greatest sin won’t be what they did

to you the greatest sin will be how you

allowed it to stop you all warfare wants

to do is stop you if I can get you to

quit then my job is done and how easy it

is for us to give up when things aren’t

going the way we planned

imagine these blind men sitting on the

side of the road we’re going to wait

until we hear Jesus passed by and when

we hear him pass by that someone will

cry out who could have known that the

people following with Jesus would rebuke

them before they even got the first cry

out who would have known that what you

when you moved here and and came to Los

Angeles that you wouldn’t get a gig for

six months who would have known that

your car would be repossessed who would

have known that you would have been

sleeping on the couch who would have

known that relationships would have

broke up broken up who would have known

that as you became successful that you

didn’t fit anymore and so you found

yourself a stranger in a familiar land

not exactly the person you were when you

left and not exactly sure who you’re

becoming what do you do when life keeps

calling you higher and higher and higher

and you just want to know what the next

step is I’m not saying I’m not going

Jesus I just want know where we going

I’m not saying I’m not willing to grow

I’m not saying I’m not willing to change

I just want to know who I’m going to

become I want to know that these tears

are going to mean something how foolish

of us to believe that Jesus didn’t hear

the crowd rebuking them but maybe he

wanted to know where they willing to cry

out all the more how bad do you want it

and so Paul is praying that that we also

understand what is the exceeding

greatness of his power towards us who

believes what is the exceeding greatness

of his power towards us who believe do

you believe in your cry do you believe

that what you’re willing to cry out all

the more for is worth the attention of

Jesus that it’s worth the the heartbreak

that you’re going to have to go through

that it’s worth the scrutiny that comes

with crying out yeah everybody wants to

be a trailblazer until they recognize

that people are going to have criticism

about how they blaze the trail you mean

to tell me I was the only one willing to

blaze the trail and now you want to come

and tell me the trail wasn’t straight

enough you mean to tell me that I was

the only one in my family who was

willing to take a chance who was willing

to break the generational curse and now

you’re criticizing the way I did it you

mean to tell me that I’m trying the best

I can and it’s still not good enough are

you still willing to cry out all the

more when you’re met with resistance do

you recognize the exceeding greatness of

his power towards those of us who are

willing to believe that though we are

crying out and though we are being

rebuked that what we’re praying for that

the hope of his calling for our lives is

worth

whatever we have to stand up against to

get there according to the working of

his mighty power which he worked in

Christ when he raised him from the dead

and seated him at his right hand in the

heavenly places that means the man who

has access to touching you to healing

you to changing you from the inside out

it’s it it at the right hand of the

Father what power it is it listen if

when we get to heaven and they start

passing out table cards I’m telling you

I don’t know as I feel like I could sit

beside Jesus like does he know who I am

really yet for some reason he recognizes

who we are he’s sitting right at the

right hand of our Father and he’s still

willing to give us his power to give us

access to his power to give us access to

His grace to give us access to his

anointing and we’re so consumed and

caught up with what people will think

about it that we depend on our own

understanding that we depend on our own

power and therefore find ourselves

inadequate in the face of resistance

he’s far above all principality and

power and might and Dominion

he’s far above your insecurities he’s

far above your fears he’s far above the

opinions of people he recognizes what he

placed inside of you and all he’s asking

you to do is stick with it to be willing

to cry out all the more even when you

felt like you’ve cried out as much as

you can that I’ve given I’ve given this

is all that I have if I could just tap

into another resource if you could just

recognize who you’re crying out to who

you have access to that he’s far above

all principality and power and might in

Dominion that means there is nothing

more grand than he is there is nothing

that could rule higher than he

rules and when you make other people and

other things your God you dismantle him

in your life and then you suffer the

consequences of disappointment when all

you had to do was stay focused on who

you were talking to in the first place

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we used to say growing up this is an AMD

conversation and you may see your way

out and every name that is named not

only in this age but also in that which

is to come so Paul is saying that you

may know every devil around you now but

when I break you into this new dimension

there’s going to be new Devils there’s

going to be new people who are rebuking

you there’s going to be new people who

don’t understand you there’s going to be

new people who just don’t get what your

calling and purpose is and I’m telling

you that I’ve already gone ahead of you

I’m not telling you that it’s not coming

I’m not telling you that you’re not

going to have to withstand the

resistance of other people I’m just

telling you that I’ve already gone ahead

of you and yes I’m even greater than

that you see the reality is that once we

defeat one devil that’s the same devil

we want to play over and over again

because I know where your weakness is to

peace and then the knees and you out

like a light but how can we grow and

evolve and face new devils without

having discouragement we have to

remember that our evolution requires

that we come back to this text where we

remember that he put all things under

his feet he put all things under his

feet so if he’s holding you in his hand

and you see something headed your way

you have to recognize that it’s already

under his feet

that even that the worries that you

think could consume you even the pain

that you think is on the way that it’s

already under his feet so though you

will be met with resistance though you

will look into the distance and see so

many areas where warfare could take you

under in so many areas where doubt and

failure and unsuccess and generational

curse could take you under if you would

only but remember who’s holding you that

you’re going to step over the very thing

that you felt like could tie you down

and gave him to be head over all things

to the church which is his body the

fullness of him who feels all and all

who fills all in all so when the blind

men are sitting on the side of the road

and they’re crying out to Jesus they’re

not asking him to do anything

necessarily new within them but they’re

asking for that you would give me full

function of what you’ve already given me

and that when I received full function

of what you’ve already given me I’m

asking that you help me protect it from

the people who would wish to strip it

away from me that you would teach me to

understand that when I walk into the

fullness of who I am that there will be

many people who try to lessen me and I’m

hoping that you help me to recognize

that with revolution comes evolution and

I have the power to change and that I

don’t have to be discouraged by the

naysayers or the criticism or the

warfare

we knew the other day PT was outside and

I want to tell this story before he gets

up to speaking in because I feel like it

could change a little we were outside or

going outside of our back yard in

economy zifang it’s a rattlesnake

outside I was like stop

he is I’m not playing there’s a

rattlesnake I was like now when he tells

the story he’s going to say that there

was a rattlesnake that he grabbed it by

his bare hands that he shook the rattle

off himself and then he bit the head off

and suck the poison out of his leg and

then caught enough to put on Instagram

in reality I called the fire department

let him out and did their thing

but we knew that when he stepped on the

rattlesnake that it was bigger than just

a rattlesnake being in our place of

comfort we knew that we were stepping

into a new dimension as a family and as

a ministry and as a congregation and

that where we see comfort that there’s

even an opportunity in that for

rattlesnakes to sneak in but you know

what the incredible thing about

rattlesnakes are they tell on themselves

and if you would just be willing to stay

focused on who called you and who you’re

talking to

then you would know his voice so clearly

that when the rattling of other people

come that you would know that that’s not

my father speaking that’s a rattlesnake

trying to distract me from what he’s

calling me to do and I could either be

distracted by the rattlesnake and take

my time in my attention to fighting a

rattlesnake or I could call someone

who’s been called to handle rattlesnakes

and I could stay focused on making my

house a home and pulling out all that

God placed inside of me and bringing it

to its fullest potential sure the crowd

rebuked them but they were willing to

cry out all the more I want to know if

there’s any other more people in here

today if you would just stand with me as

I prepare to close I have to tell you

that this message

I had to preach it to myself first

because I have obviously had so many

revolutionary moments in my life within

the last year alone

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changed my life came to Los Angeles

tried to find my way within this

community and and help and add and be

quiet and and figure out who I was here

and then our lives you know just by

natural you know because of who we are

in the platform in which were one we

recognize that our lives you know kind

of become news and I could I commented

back to somebody on Instagram and it’s

like twelve blogs about it because you

know sometimes in my mouth like if I’m

hungry and then when I comment because I

hadn’t had my breakfast and so I was

alone but I had to realize that as all

of these revolutionary moments happen in

our life that there’s going to naturally

be resistance and I have to tell you

that for a moment I felt like maybe I

shouldn’t do this anymore maybe I

shouldn’t make any more noise maybe I

shouldn’t draw any more attention to

myself maybe I can’t handle the

attention that comes with being a voice

and crying out maybe it’s not for me

because my attitude is so bad sometimes

when I’m hungry

and so when Petey and I found out a few

months ago that we are expecting the

baby I didn’t want to tell me

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but I didn’t want my miracle or my

blessing to become something that I

wanted to hide from people because I was

afraid of what people would say or what

people would think or what would be

written now sometimes you have to be

courageous because not everyone’s going

to understand the miracle you’re praying

for it and once you receive it they’re

not going to really feel like you

deserve it and you’re going to find

yourself trying to not be who you could

fully be because you’re afraid of what

people will say

and as we undergo this constant cycle of

revolution and evolution and revolution

and evolution I have to remind myself of

the prayer that Paul told the church in

Ephesus that any enemy that comes up

against us is already under Jesus’s feet

that I understand the hope of his

calling for my life that I understand

the greatness and coward that exists

within us and I won’t let opinions and I

won’t let people I won’t let real life

rob me of that and I believe that there

are people in this room who have stopped

living stopped evolving because they

were afraid of who they were going to

become they were afraid that they may

not fit anymore they stopped praying for

their miracles because people told them

to be quiet and I believe that we have

an opportunity at this altar to have a

moment of prayer where we get our fight

back where we would recognize we were

never meant to live for the people we

were to serve them but we’re living for

him and if he’s directing our past then

surely he’s already gone and made a way

for us and I want to reunite you with

the king who sits on the right hand of

the Father

who says you can do all things through

Christ who strengthens you that you can

withstand the crushing and the

disappointments of life that you can

withstand the rumors and criticism

because the hope of his calling is so

much greater than that I want to remind

you of who you are not what you’ve done

not the shame or pain that you’ve

experienced I want to remind you about

the potential that exists within you I

want to remind you that you have the

power to break into another dimension

but you have to recognize that you’re

not breaking into another dimension with

your own wheel and with your own

strength but that you have an unlimited

resource available to you and we want to

connect you to that resource if this is

you would you come in and pray with us

it’s so important that you recognize

that it’s not just you when you’re not

in it on your own that we all get

discouraged and we all have to have this

war within ourselves and as we battle

within ourselves every now and then we

need someone to remind us that we’re

fighting the wrong devil that the devil

you’re fighting has already been

defeated that you have destiny that

awaits you and if you get caught up in

this momentary affliction with the devil

that’s already been defeated you you’re

wasting time but I’m here to tell you

restoration as possible that God is

willing to place you right in the place

where he originally saw you if only you

are willing to let go of your own sword

and allow him to fight for you

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and so as we pray for our healing as we

pray for our own healing like the two

blind men sitting on the road not only

will we find our all the more again but

we’re also going to follow him we’re not

going to stay where our miracle left us

we’re going to place ourselves in a

position where we need another miracle

because we know that’s the only way to

fully grow and that’s the only way to

fully change I’m going to hand it over

to Pastor but I want to just ask one

more time if there’s anyone out there

who isn’t already at this altar who’s

searching for they’re all the more who

feels like at some point I lost my fight

and and I wish that that I could change

this trajectory I’m on but I feel like

I’m too far gone and I just want you to

know there is no such thing that all the

more is still accessible to you but it’s

depending on you to cry out this is your

opportunity to cry out all the more to

have an encounter with Christ that can

change your life that if you were

willing to step out of your comfort zone

and step into your all the more that you

are one touch away from a miracle one

touch away from a breakthrough one cry

away from change but you have to be

willing to not be worried about what

people will say or think when you come

because you’re going to say and think

whatever they’re going to say or think

anyway and if you make them ruler and

give them dominion over your life and

over your destiny you’re going to always

be seeking their approval but I’m here

to tell you you’ve already been called

that you already have a place and the

world literally the world is crying out

waiting for you to step out of your fear

and step out of your insecurity and find

your all the more again so that we can

all as a family combine and point our

attention to bring

in his kingdom here on earth to being

his representatives to living a life

that is bigger than ourselves but that

is focused on following him wherever we

may go thank you all very much

credible credible I’m so proud of you

here making this decision those of you

are watching as it relates to the snake

in our backyard as an interesting point

to note for me the victim of the vicious

anaconda size rattlesnake attack so I

walk out I’m going somewhere I walk out

my backyard

to enjoy the garden that the Lord has

given to me it is nighttime and it’s so

peaceful so quiet out there that I

didn’t expect anything to happen within

two steps I step on something and I’m

like and I have on shorts on and I’m

like what this doesn’t feel like grass

nor does it feel like concrete and I

look down and I see the head of this

snake and I jump and I leap and I and I

twisted and turned did some really fancy

car trail and then this thing starts

round I’ve never heard a snake rattle

before it was so loud and intimidating

it literally just the the rattle the

sound of the rattle filled the backyard

right I made out never even if I hear

that sound again it’ll kind of freak me

out or whatever right and then

ultimately Sara called the fire

department the fire department came out

it’s kind of tricky because I thought

that you take the snake and put the

snake in the steel container and take

the snake on nope

they came in there with one of those

snake grabbers it’s a lengthy thing and

you grab

the snake and they came in with the

shell one like what are you gonna do

this jungle you know dig in my backyard

and they literally beheaded the snake

right in front of me I couldn’t believe

it and I’m like I don’t know if you

supposed to that but I feel okay

I feel all right about it

they take the snake’s head put it in one

thing is separate it from his body

entirely and carry it off so so so now

here’s the point here’s the point and

I’m like yeah but the point is at first

I begin to be intimidated by my backyard

watch this and goes away now the very

seat see there are two ways to look at

what happened in the backyard one thing

can be to focus on the fact that there

was a dangerous rattlesnake there

another way to look at it is that God

once again has proven that no weapon

formed against me shall prosper and you

might be here today

even at this altar right now and there

was a snake in your backyard of peace

and maybe you were not so fortunate

enough to leave your backyard without a

snake bite but you did survive

it’s the same thing and there were so

many lessons in this thing and for me it

was boy don’t be intimidated about going

in that backyard that I gave you I get

now you better be careful watch your

steps but go back in it I gave it to you

and I believe there’s some people in

here today and you’ve been through some

stuff you’ve been bitten or you’ve been

scared and you’ve been intimidated and

things have come from the peaceful place

and God is saying go back in go back in

to that place I bless you with if that’s

you and you know it’s you

and the fear of the rattlesnake being

present again or biting you again two

ways to look at it one way is the way of

oh my god this happened to me the other

way is I survived that thing God

protected me and he allowed me to

overcome it and it’s just a choice just

a simple change in paradigm but it has

everything to do with whether or not you

will put yourself back in a position to

be prospered again if that’s you you

know I’m talking to you I want you to

come and meet me here at this alt as

well you’re a part of that prayer you’re

part of that prayer you shrunk back you

put yourself out there and you shrunk

back come on give God praise for what

he’s doing I love it I love it I love it

I love it going back in that back yard

we had a great time in our back yard

yesterday didn’t wait go back in that

back yard

let’s pray family Almighty God we thank

you so much for this rich revolutionary

right now life-changing word that you

have sent us we receive it it was for

all of us and father we thank you that

you have not given us the spirit of

timidity you haven’t given us the spirit

of fear but of love we are loved by you

and therefore can love power even power

to tread upon serpents and scorpions and

over all the power of the enemy and a

sound mind the ability to think clearly

the ability to walk in the knowledge

even to walk with the mind of Christ

that we might walk in wisdom and

knowledge and insight and understanding

the eyes of our understanding being

enlightened we thank you that this is

our portion that this is our cup that

this is our inheritance and father some

of us have been intimidated by snakes

and perhaps it even in some cases bitten

by snakes in the garden

that you blessed us with but we survived

and we have been seeing it wrong we’ve

been seeing it like oh my god it was

terrible but it was really just the no

weapon form shall prosper promise being

unfolded right in front of our eyes how

can we be overcomers if we never

overcome anything

so father where there are those who

looking at it the wrong way and as a

result of a false perception of the

situation have shrunk back and have

withdrawn themselves from the promised

land

even the promised land of perspective

even the promised land of mental

environment today we boldly with the

Sermon step back in to that land that

once troubled us believing that if you

took care of us then you took care of us

again and again and again and again and

again and over and over and over and

over again so we declare our new

beginning today we declare our new

beginning today we declare restoration

today we decree that the bets are still

on that they’re still on and you are

restoring the years that the locusts

have eaten god this day restoration is

mine and we decree what comes to us must

come back seven fold

may it be perfected and perfectly

completed those things that you promised

us we love you we thank you now do it in

our hearts and no more going back

no more going back forgetting what’s

behind us and reaching forward to those

things that are ahead of us we’ll press

toward the mark the upward it’s always

upward every level every dimension

upward regardless of where we’ve been

upward upward upward we’ll keep going

upward we’ll press toward the mark on

the upward call of God in Christ Jesus

please repeat after me

Heavenly Father I thank you for your

love I’ll thank you for your grace

I thank you for your goodness God I

received this word it was for me it is

me and I am it God I thank you for Jesus

thank you for making him who had no sin

no weakness to become all of mine all of

my shortcomings all of my defeat all of

my limitations you placed in his body

nailed it to the cross put it to death

but when you raised him up high and

victorious and gave him a name which is

above every name and place all things

under his feet because I am in him I too

AM raised up seated in heavenly places

in Christ Jesus and all things are now

under my feet I receive that right now I

let go of yesterday I loosed the past I

loosed the pain I’m full of faith and

full of the spirit and I’m going after

everything that belongs to me I’m going

back in the garden this time with more

authority

in Jesus name Amen amen amen amen amen

amen

love you so much may the Lord bless and

keep you may make his face to shine upon

you and be gracious to you may he lift

up his countenance over you and grant

you Shalom Shalom in Jesus name

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