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I’m going to open up with something that
I promised the Lord I would say
everywhere I
went Jeremiah 2911 we all know the
Scripture it says for I know the plans I
have for you declares the Lord how many
of you excited about that because I have
no idea what’s going on so when God says
I know the plans I’m like Hallelujah
somebody has a plan because long before
the enemy had a scheme God had a plan
and his plan preco is his plan inco is
his plan
postco he says I know the plans I have
for you declares the Lord plans to
prosper you and not to harm you plans to
give you hope and a future see God has a
plan that’s bigger than your plan and
God has a plan that isn’t just about you
God has a plan that is about you and
every life that passes through you and
every life you contact God has a plan
that includes a now and a future and
it’s a plan for good and not for evil
it’s a plan that may be hard but it’s
not going to harm you so I want to read
you our father is saying baby girl I
have a plan don’t be afraid it is a plan
for good and not harm this plan is not
limited to you you’re now it is bigger
than the one thing my plan extends to
include your future and hopes you don’t
even know how to put words to yet I’ve
got this God says I’ve heard their
voices I’ve heard their schemes I’ve
heard their Whispers I’ve heard the
enemy’s plans against you but none of
that matters their words are like dust
Blown Away by the wind of God’s spirit
it is is the word of the Lord and his
plan that will prevail in your life it
is the word of the Lord that will endure
forever he blows away the vain words
like chaff and laughs at the treachery
of the enemy he will use the obstacles
that the enemy meant to stop you as a
vehicle of
preparation his plan will prosper your
soul bless the work of your hands and
cause the legacy of your life to thrive
may be weeping for a moment but there is
laughter in your future dare to hope his
plan uses the enemy’s scheme for your
benefit all right I’m listening to
Pastor Sophia preached this incredible
word last night and I watched as some of
you came running down opened your mouth
and declared but then I also watched as
some of you actually didn’t know what to
say you’d been silenced you’d been
attacked you weren’t sure that God had a
plan you weren’t sure that the things he
whispered to you preco it’s the promise
postco and some of you didn’t use your
voice so I’m going to tell you a little
story about something that I think is an
epidemic right now in the body of Christ
so I have my birthday I just got I just
turned 63 on June 6
Hallelujah my husband turned 64 on June
2nd and John makes a really big deal
about his birthday so basically we have
the eve of John B then we have John B’s
birthday then it becomes John B’s
birthday week by the time it’s my
birthday we’re just tired and when John
turned 60 it was a really really big
deal he invited all these friends to
come play golf with him I was pre
preaching I was preaching in California
I had to catch a super early flight
landed in Denver at 6:00 a.m. they had
already packed my clothes which is
frightening if your husband’s color
blind and I showed up at the golf place
and he says take Phil and Dana to the
spa and I was like yes sir so I’m
walking Phil and Dana to the spa and
Phil says I’m so excited about getting a
massage and his wife said oh I’m so
sorry I forgot to tell you all the
massages are taken you’re getting a
facial he was like what he’s like I I
don’t want a facial and in my heart of
hearts I said I do I do I’ve been
sleeping in my makeup for two weeks now
I want a facial and Phil turned to me he
said do you want the facial I said yes
Hallelujah and so I go to the spa they
put me in a fluffy robe and Dana goes
into this steam room which with my my
hair you do not you do not go into steam
rooms and so I go into the dry area and
there’s this beautiful view of the
mountains I walk up to the mountains and
that is when I noticed two women sitting
in high back chairs I hadn’t seen and
they looked at me like back away you’re
not with us and you know you have to
listen to them because you’re all
walking around in robes without bras on
so you just can’t you you just can’t
stand up for yourself so I just backed
away and I sat in a chair and I watched
this young girl come up and she did the
exact same thing she came to the window
the two grumpy Spa goers shamed her away
she turns around looks at me and starts
crying I’m like okay how do how do I
know her why is she crying is she one of
my boys ex-girlfriends nope she’s blonde
she’s
blonde and she opens up her arms and she
has has a copy of without rival in her
arms so I stand up give her a full
frontal hug pre-co and I asked her to
sit down with me she tells me that her
friend had entered her into a contest
where she could you know like win books
and she had won without rival girls with
swords and I think lioness AR rising and
she said I I’m just in this incredibly
rough place in my life and I said okay
well tell me what’s going on she said
well I’m I’m newly married and I just
moved from Dallas Texas to Houston now
you guys would not understand that but
that would make anybody sad and then she
said I lost my home church and and I you
know I’ve got a new job and I’m just not
sure about anything and so I you know
again I’m I’m like thinking this sounds
like an adventure I’m like this is
exciting you’re in a new season and she
said I’m just afraid I might miss God
and I looked at her and I said you know
I’ve I’ve watched the enemy use the fear
of missing God to freeze people for
decades and so I prayed with her got a
facial was magic it’s the last time I
had one I got a facial and then I went
back to my hotel room and I began to
think about how many times I have heard
pure-hearted s sincere people afraid of
disappointing God of missing God and I
heard the Holy Spirit say tell my
daughters I’m a really big
Target where can you look and not see
the handy work of
God what can you not hear that does not
mention his name if you look at the
mountains you see a refuge that is
higher than I if you look at the stars
you see a covenant keeping God who puts
them into the heavens with his
fingertips when we feel the wind of
God’s spirit we are reminded of the Holy
Spirit God is not trying to trick you he
is not trying to withhold something from
you God wants you to understand that the
god you can’t miss hasn’t missed a thing
David said in Psalm 139 you have me in
behind
and before that’s great that God’s in
your past and he’s going to be in your
future but he doesn’t stop there he says
and you lay your hand upon me God is
intimately connected with you in this
moment and he says such knowledge is too
wonderful it is high I cannot attain it
he’s saying I I can’t understand it but
he’s also saying I can’t earn this this
God who hems me in behind and before and
lays his hand upon me well Lisa you
don’t know what I’ve done I don’t care
what you’ve done I know what’s been done
for you and I know that the mercy of God
is new every single morning every single
morning we have a
reset and it says that his goodness
follows us we supposed to be moving M
forward and so many people are afraid to
take the first step because they’re
afraid they’ll take a misstep but I’m
going to tell you the only mistake you
will make is taking no step you need to
take a step forward and sometimes the
bravest thing you can do in a time like
this is just begin just begin because
see a lot of you buried some
dreams that you had prec
Co and when you bury something you think
it’s dead and God is saying it’s time to
unearth those dreams and plant them
because when you plant something it’s
different than burying it burying it you
don’t tend it you don’t have the
expectation you walk away but when you
plant something you water it you tend it
you watch for it God is saying take
those dreams out dust them off because
God’s greatest War Fair against the
enemy’s nightmare is his dream for his
daughters so I’m going to talk to you
about identity and then this afternoon
I’m going to talk to you about truth so
John and I have this incredible
privilege of traveling the world and
John does jet lag way better than me uh
he’s like I just pray and I fall asleep
and I’m like I don’t even want to hear
it I take 12 milligrams of melatonin and
then I’m drugged but anyway so John and
I went to South Korea and we went there
for such a short time we did carry on
only like we landed did a press
conference got up the next morning spoke
spoke spoke then got on a plane and like
flew back and I was working on a
manuscript at the time and I was trying
to get it done and I fell asleep at my
laptop and I woke up eight pages later
of the letter T I had to press the
letter T and it just G like this just
went like this I thought you know
anything I write right now is probably
going to be heresy so I’m just G to take
a nap so I I grab my dog and I I lay
down on my bed and as just as I’m
falling asleep I hear I don’t love my
children equally like what did I bring
home a blast me Spirit from South Korea
God you have to love us all the same or
it wouldn’t be fair he said same implies
that one of you is
replaceable he said I don’t have love
for my children I am love for my
children he said I don’t love my
children equally I love them
uniquely and I jumped up and I looked up
the word unique and it means that there
is no other there is no rival for your
place in the heart of God God says
unique means Soul s o l e representative
of it means prototype it means that you
are the beginning and the end of you and
what’s happening is we have have gotten
so confused about our identity do I have
any mothers of more than one child here
wave at me if you have more than okay
you’ll understand this so I remember
when I had my first baby I was so in
love with Addison I was like I I need to
have five I need to have five more I
just love these babies but then I get
pregnant with Austin and I began to
panic why because I loved Addison so
much I thought I was going to have to
cut the love I had for him in half and
share it equally with stranger baby from
the sonogram and I don’t know how I felt
about stranger baby who look like an
alien and so I began to be weird near
the end of my pregnancy like I should
have only had one and now I’ve got to
share my love but you know what happened
when I gave birth to Austin a whole new
portal of my heart opened up and the
things I love about Austin are very
different than the things I love about
Addison and then I had Alec and the
things I love about Al are different
than the things I love about
ardan I cannot
quantify my love for my children but I
actually understand that I have a unique
love for each and every one of them and
unique is better than equal God’s love
is not some pie you cut up and make sure
it everybody has the same size peace
God’s love is complete God says I have
already past tense loved you with a
Everlasting Love and drawn you with my
loving kindness God has an
everlasting
NeverEnding love for you that is the way
God looks at us we serve a God who is
the god most high he is the god most
high who has no rival who has no equal
and if we serve a God who has no rival
and no equal then it would stand to
reason that we his children should not
be
Rivals we need to stop it we need to
stop
it I love what Tim Keller said he said
we want someone of ultimate Glory loving
us not just love in general what we need
is the ultimate Assurance of who we are
ultimate Assurance of our worth we need
someone like that loving us like that we
need someone we think the world of
thinking the world of us we need the
praise of the
praiseworthy but comparison does have a
poll to it
comparison we look at each other I don’t
know maybe I’m the only woman that has
been at the beach and ask her husband so
are my thighs smaller than hers or the
same size my husband’s like no no we’re
not even having this conversation I
can’t win that
conversation comparison will actually
always cause you to lose because either
it will blow you up with pride and you
know what that sets you up for fall or
it will isolate you with insecurity and
keep you from the people that God wants
to connect you with see God doesn’t love
male more and female less and God
doesn’t love black more and white less
and God does love love Asian more and
black less God loves each and every
tribe of people uniquely God entrusts
each of us with innate talents that we
were given to Bring Him worship and when
I compare myself or measure Myself by
other people I am diminishing what God
is asking me to be and to
do Paul said in 2 Corinthians 10:12 not
that we dare to classify or compare
ourselves with some of those who are
commending themselves but when they
measure themselves by one another and
compare themselves with one another they
are without understanding we have a
generation with a ton of information and
epidemic of understanding
they have knowledge but no wisdom we
have an abundance of sex and a lack of
intimacy we have comparison and contrast
we have lust of other things we’re
looking at what everybody else is doing
what everybody else has and we’re
missing what God is asking us to do do I
have any Millennials or genz here can I
get you to stand up Don’t Be Afraid
don’t be afraid they’re always like oh
man is she going to yell at them no okay
I’m not first of all I want to say I
love Millennials I gave birth to four
Millennials so I love you guys and I
love
jenz okay look at
me I have
Millennials and genz come up to me all
the time and they say things like I know
that God has his hand on my life for
something
significant and I’ll say that’s amazing
and they’ll say but I have no idea what
it is
well I’ll tell you why you will never
discover who you are in the presence of
people you discover who you are in the
presence of God and the enemy has tried
to pull this generation out of the
presence of God where God would whisper
who you really are not who you’ve been
not who others see you as but who you
are becoming God has pulled a generation
apart for reconstruction
I don’t know if you know this but
there’s history and time and according
to history and time I was born in
1960 and that is the end of the Prophet
generation and I am speaking to the
Millennials because you are called the
hero generation and God is asking you to
recover your strength and stop being
criticizing and start prophesying God
wants to anoint the lals to prophesy and
then here’s the really exciting thing
after the heroes there comes a rebirth
of Art and beauty and that is the genes
the creatives that take what has become
so ugly and renew it to be something
beautiful something lovely something God
breathe I love that next year’s
conference is beauty because God makes
all things beautiful in his time all
things so go ahead and sit down I’m
going to tell you another reason why you
don’t know what you’re called to do is
because you’re called to do something
that has never been done before and when
a generation is called to do something
that has never been done before you need
to stop looking at what everybody else
is doing Lo stop looking at what’s been
done and lift your eyes and say heaven
what do you want to
do we cannot classify or compare
ourselves with some of those who are
committ mending themselves I don’t know
if you’ve noticed this but the humble
brag on social media social media photos
best angle just gave $30 million to
orphans humble bre no listen that’s it
that’s your that’s your whole reward
we’ve got to be people who send some
things into the Eternal realm we got to
be people who do some things in secret
we’re not playing to the audience of
many we are playing to the audience of
one and so we need to play to that
audience not to the other audience
because the other audience can love you
one day and hate you the next okay so
we’re not going to compare ourselves
theer Roosevelt said comparison is the
thief of
Joy I know this to be true maybe you
don’t do this in the UK or other
countries but go to the movie with my
husband watch the fake husband kiss the
fake wife and I think to myself when was
the last time my husband kiss me like
that he never kisses me like that
anymore it’s just it’s just not
happening anymore was happy going into
the movie kind of lean away from him a
little bit we’re leaving the movie
theater he’s like what’s the matter I’m
like you know what’s the matter no he
has no idea what’s the matter he has no
idea that I’m comparing him to Thor he
has no idea that that
happened but what happens is I can
either lose my joy in that moment or I
can grab that man and I can kiss him the
way I wish he would kiss me so I’m
either going to have a good night or I’m
going to have a bad night comparison is
not your
friend competition is not what the
children of God do the strongest woman
in the room lifts others not holds them
down John 5:44 says how do you expect to
get anywhere with God when you spend all
your time jocking for position with each
other ranking your Rivals and ignoring
God we need to stop ranking Rivals you
guys seriously the body of Christ I
think everybody either needs a spanking
or a nap they are all like angry with
each other what did you say that
everybody’s attacking each other
backbiting devouring one another we need
to stop it because there’s way more that
unites us than what divides us and the
world out there looks at us and thinks
we’re crazy and sometimes I think we’re
crazy crazy but God is in the process of
washing his bride with the water of the
word rivalry will rob you unless you
turn it around because rivals in your
life will either best you or bring out
the best in you Pharaoh is the one who
made Moses famous God will take things
that look like an attack and you need to
decide what your response is going to be
to that are you going to allow it to
destroy you or are you going to allow it
to build strength in your life Galatians
519 says it is obvious what kind of Life
develops out of trying to get your own
way all the time repetitive Loveless
cheap sex a stinking accumulation of
mental and emotional garbage frenzied
and joyless loneliness oh wait no grabs
for happiness trinket Gods magic show
religion paranoid loneliness cutthroat
compet ition all consuming yet Never
Satisfied wants a brutal temper an
impotence to love and beov divided homes
divided lives small-minded and lopsided
Pursuits The Vicious habit of
depersonalizing everyone into a
Ral have you watched what’s happened on
social
media people are being
depersonalized people are like you’re
not no I depersonalize you I cancel you
I don’t care about you I’m going to be
quick to judge I’m going to be slow to
listen I’m going to be quick to wrath
everybody slapping everybody
depersonalizing people into Rivals
uncontrolled and uncontrollable
addictions ugly parodies of community I
could go on this isn’t the first time
I’ve warned you you know that if you use
your freedom this way you will not
inherit the king kingdom of God well
people are like well that’s okay I’ll
just live in the suburbs I’m sorry if
Paul is saying I’m going to warn you
let’s take heat let’s take heat I’m
going to close out with a story I skip a
couple things I’ve given the people
they’re going to panic back there uh I’m
going to close out with a story since
this conference this is a conference
around
speaking I’m going to tell a little
story I’m going to
paraphrase the story of our mother in
faith how many of you know that Sarah
was
crazy now let’s talk about this hey take
my hand Maiden have a baby with her I’ll
raise how many of you would do that no
none of you would be like yeah here have
her none of you would be that crazy and
then when she gets pregnant would you
beat her would you beat a pregnant
person no you would never do that kind
of thing Sarah was a little bit crazy
but God had woven a promise with Abram
and Sarai and God comes to Abram I think
it’s in Genesis 17 and he begins to tell
him that he’s going to make a nation not
out of Ishmael but out of Isaac not out
of Hagar the handmaiden or the Bond
woman but Sarah the promised woman and
then God does something so beautiful he
takes a letter from his own name and he
makes Abram Abraham then he takes a
letter from his own name and he makes
Sarai Sarah he made Abraham’s seed and
he made Sarah soil Sarai was a masculine
term Sarah is a feminine receptive term
he was like okay this is what’s going to
happen and he says a year from now I’m
going to come and Sarah is going to have
a child and then we fast forward to
Genesis 18
verse 9 and these angels come walking
and Abraham sees them it’s like hey hey
hey guys just stay here I’ll make a
little Feast for you but he is under
promised and overd delivers he kills a
lamb he has Sarah make this incredible
Feast they lay it all out and in verse n
it says the men said to him where is
Sarah your wife and he said in the tent
one of them said I’m coming back about
this time next year when I arrive your
wife Sarah will have a son Sarah was
listening at the tent opening just
behind the men Abraham and Sarah were
old by this time very old Sarah was far
past the age for having babies Sarah
laughed within herself an old woman like
me get pregnant with his old man of a
husband I like the message version God
said to Abraham why did Sarah laugh
saying me have a baby an old woman like
me is anything too hard for God I’ll be
back about this time next year and Sarah
will have a baby Sarah lied she said I
didn’t laugh because she was afraid but
he said yes you did you laughed okay I
want to break that down a little bit
first of all if somebody knocks on my
front door they’re not going to say to
John where is Lisa your wife wife
because they would John would be like I
know she’s my wife the only way they’re
going to pair those two of those
together is if they’re making a point if
it is a stranger they’re going to be
like where’s your wife because they’re
going to think I’m the weakest link to
sell me something or if it’s a friend
they’ll be like where is Lisa but the
idea that the angels are saying where is
Sarah your wife means that Abraham and
Sarah had forgotten they were husband
and wife they were living together like
brother and sister and I know that to be
true because it was just a couple weeks
and he puts her in the tent of aimc and
says oh she’s just my
sister and why was Sarah listening in on
a
conversation that God wanted her to be
part of let’s just be honest about this
Three Angels show up at your house oh
I’m not going anywhere I’m not going to
be hiding behind the door listening I’m
going to FaceTime everybody I know in if
my kids aren’t in the house everybody
will now be in it’ll be a zoom call with
the
angels but Sarah was suffering from
something that a lot of us suffer with
and that is because we have made a
mistake we think we are a mistake
and if you think that you are a mistake
I’m here to tell you that you are
mistaken and a lot of people think oh no
it’s been too late I’ve been too bad or
I’m too young or I’m too old or I’m
divorced or I’m single or I’m married or
I’m Barren or I have too many children
that is the language of a Bond woman
that is not the language of a daughter
of promise and if you think beautiful
friend that you can blow God’s plan for
your life I’m here to tell you you’re
just not that powerful because Sarah
tried to mess it up and God was like I’m
going to tell you a year from now Sarah
is going to hold a promise in her
hands so what do you want a year from
now to look
like what do you want to see different a
year from now see a a year from now
everything can just be the same or a
year from now you can begin to open your
mouth and speak and believe what you’ve
heard and see the manifestation of God’s
promise on your life some of you are
believing for a child some of you are
believing to be married some of you are
believing for a restoration in your
marriage some of you are believing for
Recovery of Dreams some of you are
believing for a healing all I know is
God is saying don’t laugh at my promise
only believe can you stand to your
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feet I want you to
say I am a daughter of
God oh no you need to be louder than
that I am a daughter of the most high
God I am
woven in
wonder I am w woven without rival I
serve the most high God he is the one
who wo me for this moment in time I
identify with him not with my struggles
not with my past I lay hold of the
promises of God no matter how impossible
they look I believe that God is well
able it’s not about me it’s about him
and I receive his love I receive his
forgiveness I receive a change of name
see some of you have allowed the enemy
to put labels on your life that limit
you you need to take those labels off
you need to listen to what the spirit of
God is calling you because he’s calling
you by name I’m going to close with this
I I used to be okay with limits I used
to be okay moving in areas that weren’t
controversial or or weren’t a problem I
used to be okay with people saying women
were the last to be created and the
first to be deceived I used to be okay
with them saying women are always
gullible women are always bent towards
sin I used to be okay with some of those
labels because I had been stupid and I
had sinned but then I had
granddaughters and I thought if anybody
comes and tries to put that nonsense on
my babies I will take them down to the
ground you will not put those labels on
my daughters and my granddaughters I
don’t know what label you’ve come in
with but I’m telling you right now that
God is doing a new thing and it looks
nothing like the old thing God is doing
a new thing he’s pouring out his Spirit
on his sons and his daughters that we
would prophesy and this is a house that
celebrates your prophetic voice so leave
behind a season of barrenness leave
behind a season of wilderness leave
behind the season of death and step into
a season of Dreams in jesus’ name amen
and amen