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hey family i’m pastor torre
i’m pastor sarah and listen you’re
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a session with you that i think is going
to be worthy of
any journal any phone note app that you
have
because today we’re going to be talking
about what women want and what
men want we thought it would be fun if
we created our own list
and then shared it and went back and
forth with one another so i have no idea
what’s on his list
and he has no idea what’s on my list and
i think that it’s going to play in so
well to how we go
into 2021. absolutely and the right
perspective
produces so many things in fact i’ll
just give you three things that the
right perspective
gives you right away the first thing it
gives you is peace
i mean the right having that expectation
the right expectation i meant
it gives you peace because you no matter
what’s happening
you’re not focused on the things that
you don’t want
you already receive this word something
good
is gonna happen to me so you have an
expectation so it’s almost like
the negative things don’t even register
the way that they normally would you’ve
got this this
expectation and the three things that
come from the expectation first of all
is peace
like i mentioned i’ve got peace because
i know that
there’s something good is getting ready
to happen i can be like jesus at the
bottom of the boat
chilling right but it’s not just peace
when i know that something good is about
to happen
it gives me patience i can i can wait i
can wait for the god thing
right you know i don’t i’m not settling
or reaching or grasping for whatever
comes my way
i have patience and then lastly
perspective right
i am called by god i’m chosen by god
all things are going to work together
for good i’ve got the right perspective
and when i realize that when you have
the right perspective
you can see and attract god things into
your life
babe i love that you shared that and i
feel like that actually plays a little
bit into my list
as it relates to expectations and what
happens when we have the right ones and
maybe what happens when we don’t have
the right ones
so did you do your homework you have
your list i got my list i’m curious to
see what’s on your list
okay so the first thing that i wrote
down for my list for what a woman wants
um i’m going to just i’m going to take a
journey because you know that’s what i
do
yes okay women if you’re with me say
okay i’m with her i’m with her okay
i feel like the first thing that a woman
wants is to
stop the questions i’ve got a better
word but i want to explain
why i said to stop the questions first
when eve was in the garden
and the serpent came up to her and said
did god really say that was a question
and i feel like that when i speak with
other women
that one of the things that i often hear
you all say to me
is that they have so many questions
about their identity
am i good enough will i be able to do
this is there something
wrong with me we have all of these
questions and so i guess a
better word would actually be assurance
but i think one of the things that a
woman really wants is to feel assured
assured in her identity assured in her
confidence
as short in how she shows up in the
world so to see
those questions as an opportunity to
really revisit with god i think is the
ultimate goal
where do we get assurance from and i
want to definitely hear your thoughts
and perspective on that
but i think our assurance can’t be built
on other people it would be so easy to
say i want
assurance from my relationship but when
we go into a relationship
needing that person to assure us then
that’s so much pressure on that person
i think the first place of insurance has
to come in our relationship with god you
know what’s crazy about eve
and the serpent having that dialogue
about did god really say
is that like eve didn’t have to go
through jesus to get a prayer to god
like we did she had direct
connection and communication with god
she could have literally been like
god did you really say but instead she
wasn’t sure and she
acted out of a place of not knowing and
i think we all obviously we know how
that story ended and so
i think assurance which ultimately comes
from god
is what a woman really needs and then
when you get it from a partner
it is just an echo of what you already
experienced from your relationship with
god
that’s so true i think that the my
take on a woman’s desire
and need for assurance is kind of tied
into
my thing like one of my things you know
when it comes to what a men want
i can’t okay i’m curious to hear that
because i
kind of feel like men don’t have as many
like insecurities or uncertainties oh my
god
oh my are you kidding me i think i think
men have more shut up
yeah my thing i wrote down it wasn’t as
elaborate but
what i have learned to want because
there’s things that
i think men want and and then the things
that
as men as we grow that we learn to want
and so i’m at a place now where
i don’t just trust what i want
automatically because sometimes we don’t
want
what’s right that’s good that’s a whole
word you feel me like there’s a pastor
that says
there’s a way that seems right unto a
man but the end
are the ways of death so i don’t trust
there there’s a part i love me
but i also suspect me yeah you feel me
because
because when you’re broken you want
broken
things you want uh in a way that broken
people want but when you’re whole
and you you you pursue wholeness and you
get whole
what you desire changes that’s so good
so like number one on my list what i’ve
learned to want is alignment um
alignment and you know we can like a
chiropractor like you want you
that too try to get that yeah
no but but alignment for me my
definition of alignment
is purpose in real time okay right
so being in my purpose in real time and
to tie it back to what you were talking
about when you said assurance
for me where i get assurance from and i
think this is where
any woman any man anybody ought to get
assurance from
is knowing that they’re right dead
center in the will of god wow i that’s
when i when i know
that i’m where the holy spirit has
instructed me to be
no matter what comes my way like that
you’ve heard the safest place to be is
in the will of god like
that’s my sweet spot it’s it’s purpose
in real time
it’s it’s alignment it is when i am in
this moment this present moment exactly
where
god foreknew and preordained me to be
yeah
right and that takes you know it and
maybe you’re like too spiritual
well no not really you know if you look
at jesus and you look at the ministry of
jesus
jesus said when he was being questioned
about his actions
he said look i’m not worried about what
you think he said i only do
what i see my father in heaven do and so
he’s basically saying
i am on earth in this moment aligned
with the father’s vision of me in that
moment
and so and so what i know through prayer
through um his word coming to me and
and the confirmation of that word what i
am in alignment when i am
right where when i’m in that jeremiah
one and five moment before i formed you
in your mother’s womb i knew you right
when i’m in that moment
that’s when i feel assurance that’s when
i don’t the questions stop and no matter
what i’m facing in that moment i’m good
that’s so good because i think sometimes
when we are in relationship with men or
we’re raising men or we’re trying to
understand men
that we’re trying to figure out where
they are at a time that maybe they’re
trying to figure out where they are
too and i think that that’s so helpful
to us who
are learning to live with men because
it’s important for us to recognize
that what our prayer should be for them
above all is that they would be aligned
perfectly
and based off of their perfect alignment
then we can engage them in a way that’s
healthy so
and you can encourage us too uh i think
that
that like even for you even with us you
know
when you speak to me about my identity
and my
calling and and you start you know maybe
i didn’t wake up in the morning feeling
like
you’re king tourette you know what i
mean but but i think that
that you have often helped me in that
uh sometimes to remind me you know no
god is doing this you know and so
sometimes maybe you know
our male counterparts our men
but sometimes just to remind no there’s
an assignment
on your life there’s a great purpose i
think can be greatly encouraging to me
okay i’m going to move on to my next i
just want to say one thing about what
you said
i love that you really empowered us to
be able to speak that over the
men in our life whether they’re our sons
or fathers or our spouses
because i think sometimes we point out
what you aren’t and where you are
not but to highlight where you are like
to really acknowledge and celebrate and
applause where you are
more than we do maybe you know the areas
where we feel like there’s still an
opportunity for growth because i think
that that assurance is just watering the
seeds of what god has already aligned
for them
so you could have said that any better
okay so my second one i’m really proud
of
because i feel like it’s something that
we don’t talk about a lot
but i feel like what a woman wants and
this is not something that i have ever
heard a woman say but i just feel it in
my core
as truth i think a woman wants joy
we spend so much time talking about a
woman being
strong talking about her being powerful
and if she is not aligned with those
things sometimes we say just forget
those things let’s be rebellious let’s
be counter culture
but joy like to not just talk about our
stresses
but to have moments of joy and there
have been moments where we’ve been in
the bed
in the middle of the night just laughing
and i wake up
better because i’ve had an opportunity
to explore
my joy and i feel like from young ages
we’re told who we should be and how we
should show up in the world
but no one is teaching us how to have
joy
and so i think that when a woman is
having a moment of joy
whether she’s talking with her girls or
she’s having laughter or she’s dancing
silly in the living room
to let her really revel in that moment
of joy because life is so heavy
so stressful so insecure so fragile that
joy is something that i believe every
woman wants but hasn’t communicated
baby this is huge i’m actually touched
uh as a man
as you say that because when you think
about a little girl and
obviously there are exceptions to the
rule but when you think about a little
girl
they have joy yeah you know uh they run
around
they’re loud you know what i mean
they’re they’re they’re running through
the house or they’re running the
playground and they’ve got
this joy we talk about childlike faith
but but we forget
we’ve forgotten about childlike joy
and oftentimes i think what happens is
life starts happening
yeah it kills our joy yeah and and i you
know
i said it and i’ll say it again today i
think the most
oppressed and persecuted people group on
the planet is the woman
yeah is the woman and because of what
she has had to endure
she’s had to fight for her joy and to
acknowledge to be
connected enough to yourself and
humble enough to say i want joy yeah
is huge and i feel like you know as
you know particularly as it relates to
you and our daughters and and you know
my mother and my mother in love i want
to do a better job
at uh at bringing out or creating
an environment or at least doing my part
to contribute to that environment that
allows your your joy to flourish i have
to tell you i didn’t realize that my
joy had disappeared obviously i’ve
shared my story so much about having kai
as a teenager and at 13 years old
i think that i lost the right to joy
because of what i’d gone through and
then as i continued to make
you know choices that weren’t
necessarily a reflection of god’s love
for me
that i felt like i got even more
disconnected from joy
and it wasn’t until i met you and my
mother said that she saw me smiling in a
way she hadn’t seen me smile since
before i had kai
that i realized that i had been missing
joy
and there’s just something about
losing joy and not even realizing it
yeah
yeah we we lost yeah and this is not
just
for women it’s for men too life happened
to us and we lost our shout
yeah you said something powerful and
it’s so profound i don’t want us to run
past it
but you said that that life happens to
us and sometimes
we lose our right to joy
can you just talk to everyone that’s
watching
and can you dispel and debunk that lie
that says that i don’t have the right to
joy
i have to tell you as i was sharing my
story i was hoping that i wouldn’t start
crying
just because i can remember feeling like
i couldn’t smile like the other girls
anymore
because shame i couldn’t laugh like the
other girls anymore because of what had
happened to me
and there was something so powerful
about receiving god’s love
through my husband that reminded me
that i still have access to joy and
sometimes we have to do the hard work of
digging up our shame
of digging up our trauma and confronting
the areas in life that have broken
us but when i tell you sis there’s still
so much joy
that you can smell that big smile with
all of your teeth
showing and it will be real and it will
be genuine
and maybe we’re praying for all of the
wrong things maybe we’re praying for
a boo or we’re praying for a financial
breakthrough we’re praying for a degree
but what we should really be praying for
is joy and when i tell you i
hear god saying that he has joy on
reserve for you
and that all you have to do is come to a
place where you’re hungry for that peace
that can only come with joy
i’m talking about the time kind of joy
that overflows where you still have joy
from something that happened the night
before
or the week before or the year before
god wants to give you your joy back
and i feel like something good is going
to happen
to you and it’s going to be in the form
of joy your circumstance may not change
at all i’m still that teen mother
i still have those scars god didn’t go
back and erase anything and when he
erased that i had joy
but he taught me to have joy in spite of
and that’s my prayer for you sis is that
you will come to a place where you
believe and receive
that i can have joy in spite of and then
wake up
looking for that joy powerful
you know joy is our right yeah it’s
it’s our inheritance if you study this
scripture from the old testament all the
way
through the new there was joy you know
um
david the the joy of the lord is my
strength
um they would joy was a warfare weapon
when they were shouting and praising
they weren’t shouting and praising in
doom
bless jesus no no it was joy they
understood that there was
there was victory on their side and god
had a plan for them and that he was
with them that he was for them and i
believe that
this attitude of joy is going to
elevate you those of you who are
watching this this
when you get your joy back i feel like a
momentum is going to come back to you
i feel like you’re going to operate at a
different
level and you’re going to begin to
attract people and i believe
that strength is going to come the joy
of the lord is my strength i believe
there’s going to be a strip that comes
to you
that gives you the the force
the momentum the velocity to seize the
things that god has for you in this new
year
you may have to practice joy too i’ve
been spending time with ella in the
evenings
and usually we just like watch a movie
but it’s like the pandemic and it’s like
we
we’ve seen all of the movies all of the
tv shows and so now i’m on youtube and i
look up like dance videos or workout
videos for us
and there’s this like dance freeze thing
that we do
where you dance and then you freeze and
like you know dancing with a
four-year-old like you know if you
told me to like post up old me in a club
somewhere and dance maybe
but like dancing with a four-year-old
forces you to have joy because you’re
just like
bouncing around and jumping around and
it feels silly and it feels like i’m too
old for this but when i got finished i
was smiling just at how i had allowed
myself to be free in that moment i saw
it
i came in there and i had kind of a
rough day
i was tired i came in there they would
dance and stuff like that i got my
little two-step here
i got in on that joy have to break out
of your comfort zone to discover where
your joy lives now you may have to
practice it but it is worth it yeah
that’s powerful and and uh
i’ll jump into my next one um i want to
be
excellent at communication i know
that’s like not the type of thing you
think a guy would say but i wanna yeah
cause like don’t you guys like not talk
and you’re so hard to understand
you know i mean we’re all different you
know but i but i just like
you know i’m reading these books and i’m
seeing
what being a good communicator what
it brings out in the people in my life
from you to the kids or whatever um
you know empathy i mean i’m studying
empathy i want to be a master
at empathy and there’s so much more to
like empathy than than just being
oh you know it’s deep it’s about being
present
and and listening and creating a space
for people to share and so
so as a man and even when i’m thinking
about you know
i really i could have like wept at this
this this moment right now when you
talked about joy and how i felt like i
lost my right to joy and
and i just feel like i just want to be
a gift to the people that are in my life
i want to be a gift to you
i want to be a gift to the children and
for me i want to be what i’ve
learned and want to be is excellent at
communication
i love the way that i guess god just led
us to do this because
i think that a lot of times when we
think about what we want
we think about what we want from someone
instead of what we want to
be in the world and i feel like that’s
so important because as you were talking
about communication for me
as your wife it helps me to understand
that as you’re venturing
into creating these environments for
more in-depth communication i already
felt like you were doing a great job
but you’re going deeper it helps me to
honor your effort
and i think that we have an opportunity
when being in relationship with people
who are growing and becoming to honor
the effort as you venture into the new
and so i just want to ask as you know
excellent communication is one of your
things is that what you want to receive
too you want to have more
excellent communication like do you want
us to explore
with communication the way that you’re
because my honey he really is taking
this seriously with the communication
like if the if mckenzie’s 11 if she’s
like
walking around the house because you
know how these preteens are they walk
around the house like they pay all of
the bills and have such a hard time
and instead of us being like girl you
ain’t paying no bills you shouldn’t have
anything to stress about we’re like
trying to ask her to communicate more
like oh what’s life like on your level
and he’s like how did that make you feel
and what did that communicate to you
about who you
are in the family so is that how you
want us to do you i mean
i don’t know because exactly but let me
take
i got to take you back to something you
said because it was powerful and you
just you talked about
want and and ultimately that it’s not
about
necessarily what you want from
but what you want for and that’s
powerful i’m even thinking about
relationships
and i remember and you know this but you
may not know the story but
um when i was single and i was praying
for mrs roberts
i uh i wrote down some things i wrote
down a list
uh and it was two less the the the at
the top of the list
it was what i wanted her to be and then
the bottom of the list and i think that
the bottom of the list might have even
been
longer than that top of the list and
that was who i was going to be
for her and to her and i think that
in a dating scenario or a you know just
even having a desire to
have a mate or whatever i think that
it’s important we oftentimes we have our
list but i think it’s important and i
think what god honors even more than
your list about who they are or what
they need
to have is who you’re going to be to
them because that person on the other
side
of your desire or on the other side of
your future relationship
is god’s child and so it’s almost like
if you’re just this is what i want
it’s almost like you’re you almost want
to take away from something where i
believe that
that all of us have the capacity to add
value and add something in relationships
babe as you were saying that i thought
how crazy would it be if those of us who
are in
marriages or relationships took the time
to
write a list like that now like what do
i want from my spouse now
and who do i want to become to my spouse
now just to revisit that
because i think there’s something so
powerful and reminding one another like
where we are now and what we need from
our marriage and our union in this
moment
absolutely okay so my next one she’s
done a phenomenal job of doing but i
think it’s something that every woman
wants
is a healthy environment you know i
think that even when we look at eve in
the garden she was first created in this
environment that was completely finished
unlike adam who was there as things were
being built
when eve came in everything had already
been set in
motion and so i think that speaks to a
woman’s
want and desire to have a healthy
environment
and of course we don’t always receive
that sometimes our childhood homes are
broken
sometimes our family dynamics are
complicated and so we don’t always have
that healthy environment
but i think that we bear the scar of not
having that healthy environment until we
feel like we can create an environment
that reverses that curse
and so i feel like a woman who doesn’t
have a sacred environment because that’s
ultimately what
the garden of eden was and i believe
that that was god’s intention for
every woman is to have an environment
that is sacred
so that she can understand how sacred
she is
because i think our environment is a
reflection of our self-worth
science and psychology proves this and
so if we are going to see ourselves as
sacred i think it first starts in the
environment that cultivates us
and so i think a woman wants a healthy
sacred environment
that’s powerful and and i will continue
to do my part
to do that i also think it’s important
to learn how to
cultivate a healthy inner environment
because sometimes you’re not going to be
able to always control your outer
environment you should as much as
possible
um you know and and there are certain
points that you get to life
in life where you can choose your
surroundings so to speak
not everyone can choose their
surroundings not everyone can
necessarily choose
where they live what the community they
live in or whatever
but what you can choose is your inner
atmosphere
your inner environment the environment
of your thoughts
uh what thoughts you tolerate and what
thoughts you reject at the door
um i was thinking the other day your
your mind is a gate
your heart is a gate and you have to man
those gates and so
you know sometimes you know we may have
to go into places or environments that
we don’t want to go into
we may have to be subject to situations
or
or surroundings that don’t necessarily
reflect where we’re headed
but what we can control what we can
control
is our inner atmosphere i love that so
good
um that inner environment i think speaks
so much to your book wholeness so like
if you need tools on creating what that
healthy inner environment looks like
this is
um this is a shameless plug because i’m
trying to help you out sis all right
um i definitely think that you should
get the man’s book um wholeness by toure
roberts
you got a great book too that touches on
that too it’s funny we
and it’s a shame we haven’t read each
other’s books
so we can say that i should tell the
truth like we have this thing like why
would you
you know a lot of them okay we read our
first books
no no let’s just tell the truth here we
read our first book she read
purpose awakenings
[Laughter]
it’s a shame but but what i’ve come to
discover
is wholeness and don’t settle for safe
are actually
very very similar um like almost some of
the same things
just in different language so get her
book too to be fair
we were basically writing around the
same time and the last thing you want to
do when you finish writing is read
something else
so it’s hard it’s but i but i was a part
of the process you were
and i love it so much and your thoughts
and i’m in the book
i’m in the book so that’s that on that
and that’s on mary had a little one
[Laughter]
where the money resides
[Laughter]
oh wow this is taking into account all
right back to let me let me bring you
back
it’s on me right yes it’s me all right
so
so um what i’ve learned to want
is impact i’m at a place now
where i want to make a difference
i want my life in my family
in my marriage in our community in the
world social media whatever i want to
have impact and it’s funny because we
were having this conversation on
clubhouse the other day
about the difference between impact and
influence
and a lot of people now like they want
influence i want to be
influential but i would rather have
impact because i’ve seen a lot of
influencers that aren’t having
a real impact on society got millions
and gazillions of
followers or or impressions or what have
you but they’re not having an impact so
as a man what i’ve learned to want and i
think that
i think that most men won’t have it may
not they may not want to change the
world necessarily
but they do want their efforts to be
meaningful
and uh and and sometimes even
acknowledged that
is really really good i feel like it
plays a little bit into what my next one
is too
but that idea of being impactful you
know
i think women want that too i think that
we want it in a different way though so
i’m going to
go into mine what i had as
my thing that i believe a woman wants is
fruitfulness
and that fruitfulness that i defined it
as is evidence that my sacrifice
yielded a worthy result wow
and i feel like that is connected to
impact for sure
but for a woman in order to be fruitful
even in the natural there’s such a
sacrifice
and that sacrifice yields this
incredible result
you know if we’re blessed enough to make
it to that final place
we have this incredible human being and
we say everything that we went through
was worth it because i’m holding you
but i think the way that that shows up
outside of the natural
in our efforts in our education and our
efforts in our business and our efforts
and our relationship
is that women are willing to sacrifice
give you literally most women i’m
generalizing
i’ll give you the shirt off of my back
i’ll deplete myself
fully but i want to know that this
sacrifice yielded a worthy result i cook
almost five nights out of the week at
home
and when i make a meal that is like
supernatural
like they’re speaking in tongues like
for me
that is amazing because it’s generally a
sacrifice to make something that good
and ciao
if i miss the mark and it is not good i
am
wounded deeply because it was such a
sacrifice i’m like we could have just
ordered pizza
but i’m like sacrificing to try and make
this incredible meal and when it doesn’t
work out i’m frustrated
but i think that that plays out in so
many different areas of our life whether
we’re going to school
or saving financially whatever that is
we’re sacrificing but what we really
want to know is the is this going to be
fruitful
but honey i think i don’t even think i
think that that’s how it’s supposed to
be because
you know if you look at the way god set
it up he said be fruitful and multiply
the way that god set it up is is that
with all
labor and effort there should be a
reward
now the challenge is sometimes the
harvest doesn’t show up in the place of
the sacrifice
and that’s where we get frustrated you
know like
my mom you know my mom raised me and my
mom was praying
and and i was strained you know how does
that work like what
you know see the sacrifice of prayer
is creating or it seems like it’s
creating a strayer
you know and so you know for the longest
of times my mom is praying
for me and you know and i’m just wild
and just living my life and just being
you know crazy and all that kind of
stuff doing a lot of dumb stuff
can i say dumb i’m sorry dr robin i’m
sorry
okay but you know but but what happened
was
those prayers were not missed and those
tears weren’t missed
because all of what has happened in my
life of the last 20 years i’ve been
walking with the lord
were in those prayers and so sometimes
where it gets frustrating
is i’m expecting for the harvest to show
up here
but the harvest is going to show up in a
way over there and oftentimes it’s
greater
than what you would have even known to
to pray for so i think that we are
right and for example like you you
brought it back to your cooking first of
all
if you have not experienced
the cooking and the baking of
sarah jakes roberts
i’m not even quite sure you’re alive no
it is it is amazing and you know full
disclosure the other night
you made something new and
i didn’t say anything i you know i just
that was the problem
no you didn’t say no no you actually i
did say something at first i said oh
fancy right i said i said oh fancy this
is fancy
and and and that uh it was a little
different
for me a little different and that was
fine you had this other other dish
set aside and here is the thing i just
received
your intention like okay yeah that
you know didn’t turn out the way that
you expected or i expected that’s fine
but what i received your sacrifice
wasn’t in vain i received
the intention of that hard work and
effort and you still had a backup
over here on the side because i didn’t
trust the recipe so i did have a backup
but you see the point though babe
the point is if you worked hard if you
sacrificed sometimes you may not
see immediately the evidence of it but
in the bible even says this in all
sacrifice there’s profit
yeah yeah babe that’s so good uh did you
finish your whole dinner
yeah we’ll talk about impact and then
yeah right oh i got one more oh you
didn’t
wait i think because that was three
alignment
uh impact excellent community oh i do
have one more
okay but i think it’s on you right you
started first
i did fruitfulness and sacrifice
trust you yeah all right all right i got
you all right so then i’m women want to
be trusted
okay all right oh that’s true you’re
right you’re right okay all right
so so my last one my last one is
and we’re talking about what we what i
have learned to want as a man
uh for me is that every gift and every
opportunity
be unlocked like i have
my my great i know you’re not supposed
to have fears i’m just being honest with
you but my my greatest fear
is to die with potential and
and and there’s so much to me and
there’s so many doors that
that uh i mean i am dimensionally
expense i’m dimensionally
increased in the 20 years i’ve been
walking with god
so what i mean by that is that before i
hooked up with god i thought that there
was only one dimension to me and that
was business
right and i felt like okay this is it
i’m great at business
i’m going to do business i’m do business
well i had no idea
that there was ministry i had no idea
that there were books i had no idea that
there were entertainment companies
plural i had no idea that that we’d be
partnering and
you know and all the things that that
are in store and so for me
and i think that that that enlightenment
conscious men feel the same way i just
want
more than anything that every gift is
unlocked and
every opportunity is is
walked into that’s me that reminds me so
much of this idea something good is
going to happen to you
because that unlocking i think has so
much to do with how we
show up in the world and when we show up
in the world with that expectation i
believe that we are
able to unlock what’s in us so that
those dimensions can be unfolded
i am i’ve loved this conversation so
much
and i think what i love the most about
it is that
constantly throughout these lists that
we had for one another
that i could feel goodness already
happening to people
you know i think that a part of us
probably wanted for this to be very
structured and fancy but it
ended up being full of joy and fun and
love
and so i’m just grateful babe i think we
should pray absolutely
um this has been awesome this has been
fun and one of the things the lord
taught me
is pay attention to what you see so if
you’ve seen in our interaction or heard
something
that is something that you desire or
something or is confirming something
that you already
have uh it’s god saying that this is
what
i’ve got for you you know that there
have been so many things i’ve learned
to pay attention to what i see because
oftentimes god reveals something
either in word or or in even a visual
image
you know a life a blessing sometimes
it’s something uh
physical you know sometimes it’s
something in the natural
but i always pay attention to what i see
and what i hear what i experience
because you know why would god be
showing me something
if he wasn’t giving me a glimpse of
things perhaps to come
so uh yeah let’s pray you you started
you finish it yeah
well father we just thank you so much
for
these few moments that you allowed us to
share here
and we thank you god for all who are
watching
something good is going to happen to you
and i believe that
it’s starting even right now i thank you
god that you’re shifting perspectives
and you’re cultivating an optimistic
expectation in the lives of your
daughters and all who are watching lord
that will yield
great fruit hallelujah and god you’ve
said
something you’ve shared something in our
interaction our exchange
something has been revealed and it is a
foreshadowing
of the minimum of what you’re going to
do in the lives of those who are
watching
so i pray god that that those truths and
those ideas and those confirmations
would take root and ultimately spring up
and bear fruit in the lives of those who
are watching father
before we head out i also just want to
add one more thing
god as we’ve read in your word that
you’re pouring out your spirit
i pray that you would pour out your joy
that your joy father would meet every
one of my girls who are watching right
now
and as that joy is poured out that they
will realize that they were looking for
strength
in areas where they didn’t even need the
strength we needed strength to come from
our joy
father preserve the joy that you have
stored up for us
and pour it out in jesus name jesus
thank you amen
you