A Woman’s Worth X Sarah Jakes Roberts

Alright, sis, this one’s for you. You ever feel like you’re holding on tight, just trying to keep it all together? Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts is here to remind us that surrender isn’t just about letting go — it’s about opening up, stepping back, and making space for God to work through you, not just in you. __________________________________________________________________________ Stay plugged into the Woman Evolve community: www.womanevolve.com www.womanevolve.tv download the app from any mobile device’s app store, first 7 days are FREE! Want to support this ministry? Text WEGIVE to (833) 611-9066 FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIALS: Instagram: Woman Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts Twitter: Woman Evolve and SJakesRoberts Facebook: Woman Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts

I have a little a little something to

say to

you just a little message a little snack

we’ll be out of here in 10 minutes I

promise 10 preacher minutes which is

like Lord let it be 10 minutes they

y’all want so bad for me to be up here

for another

hour that’s what preachers do 10 more

minutes then it’s 10:30 we stomach is

growling I believe this is going to be

something real fast okay um thank you

guys for coming out tonight I hope

you’ve enjoyed yourself um as I was

praying and asking God what are some

things that I can just deposit into

their hearts as we navigate what it

means to be a Gateway um God gave me the

topic A Woman’s Worth A Woman’s Worth

and I started looking on just chat GPT

to understand

like what are some traditional way that

A Woman’s Worth was measured and valued

and they told me that A Woman’s Worth

once came down to first of all the list

was so long I was like no wonder women

are tired honey we’ve been trying to

check all these boxes they said it was

nurturing there’s loyalty to her family

and community that it was chassity and

Purity humility and modesty resilience

and hard work wisdom and resourceful and

moral Integrity all all of those things

you got to be resilient but you got to

be humble you got to work hard but you

also have to be modest you need to have

wisdom but you also need to know how to

play it small just in case your wisdom

is intimidating to other people you got

to have moral Integrity you got to care

for others even if it means not caring

for yourself I literally when I got

finished reading the list I thought to

myself no wonder so many of us feel

depleted feel exhausted from trying to

check all these boxes I don’t know if

you’re still in this room room but

there’s a a few women in here and they

brought their babies and their babies

were crying I want you to know you are

welcomed here we love you I don’t care

how much the baby

cries the fact that you took the time to

come out and be in this environment girl

you are not getting on nobody’s nerves

we get it okay we give them a little

sugar maybe I don’t

know but we love you and I’m glad that

you’re here it’s hard it’s difficult to

be a woman in this world and trying to

check all of these boxes and figure out

who you are and God and I realize that

what happens to so many of us when we

realize just how expensive it’s going to

be for us to try and check all of these

boxes we start trying to to save

ourselves and not in the way that Purity

culture talked about when we were young

girls we start saving our effort saving

our energy even saving our discipline

like I will become this when I get there

but right now because I don’t have the

energy to do it I’m just going to save

that part of myself I’ll be loyal again

but I’m not going to be loyal until the

right person comes into my life because

I got to save and make sure that they’re

qualified because I’ve experienced so

much heartbreak or disappointment that I

don’t think that I could bear to extend

that much energy that much loyalty that

much love that much kindness again and

before we know it little by little we’re

walking through life on low power mode

you know how when you’re trying to save

your battery but this time we’re trying

to save our heart we’re trying to save

our spirit we become the master of our

own soul and our own faith in Matthew

16:25 says for whoever desires to save

his life will lose

it but whoever loses his life from my

sake will find

it and so I was wrestling with this

notion of we got to be wise I have to be

able to protect myself I just can’t be

out here letting people get over on me I

have to show some level of discretion I

can’t just throw myself at something and

experience heartbreak and disappointment

again and I saw this clip on social

media I literally saw it today on Tik

Tok and Morgan Debon was talking to Fawn

Weaver and they were talking about

creating generational wealth and when

they were talking about creating

generational wealth Morgan says that

most people fall for the misnomer that

in order to create generational wealth

you need to save but saving is not how

you create generational wealth investing

is

when we invest then we’re able to

position our money to be in a position

to

multiply I think the same principle is

true about us hoarding parts of

ourselves saving parts of ourselves

waiting for the right opportunity for us

to release the fullness of who we are

that as long as we’re saving ourselves

from future heartbreak saving ourselves

from future disappointment that we are

cheapening our existence with half

version of who we

are not recognizing that it is going to

take the full weight of our identity in

order for us to become whoever God has

called us to be in order for God to

teach us whatever God is trying to teach

us he can’t do it with half a version of

who we are so much like what Dr Anita

said we have to be willing to bring all

of ourselves to the table maybe it’s not

bad maybe there’s something about me

that I’ve come to accept that isn’t in

alignment with God how do I offer myself

quite literally as a living sacrifice so

that I am not saving parts that God

wants to use in this season of My Life

the more that we save ourselves from

future heartbreak what we don’t realize

is that we’re building these walls but

saying that we want to be a

Gateway we can’t be a Gateway and build

walls we can’t protect ourselves and

call God our protector we can’t allow

ourselves to be the one who was doing

the providing and also ask God to be the

provider at the same time time and so

sooner or later we have to be willing to

get ourselves out of the way there’s a

woman in scripture and it is in Matthew

verse

26 verse 13 it’s not unfamiliar it says

assuredly I say to you wherever this

gospel is preached in the whole world

what this woman has done will also be

told as a memorial to her this woman if

you read the whole context and some of

you may be famili amiliar with it has

this expensive oil and she begins to

take this expensive oil and pour it out

on Jesus and those who are watching are

trying to figure out why would you take

this expensive oil and waste it they

don’t understand that what she is doing

is something that only her and God can

understand and that only because her and

God have an understanding is she being

obedient to what this moment requires I

want you to understand that there may be

moments in your life where God calls you

to pour in a season where other people

would prefer that you save where God

calls you to pour in a moment where the

culture says you should hold back you

shouldn’t give yourself you shouldn’t

love again you shouldn’t try again you

shouldn’t create again but there may be

instances where it literally doesn’t

make sense for you to bring the fullness

of who you are into that industry it

doesn’t make sense for you to bring the

fullness of who you are into that

Ministry it doesn’t make sense for you

to keep on loving and keep on forgiving

after all of the things that have been

done to you but when God tells you that

this is a season for you to pour out

even when other people will say but

would rather you saved you have to be so

locked in with God that you say I’m

going to pour if it only makes sense to

me in Jesus that’s okay because what is

more important to me than saving is

being in alignment with who God has

called me to be I have to be locked in

with who God has called me to be even if

what it looks like I am doing is a waste

I don’t know who you are but there have

been moments in my life where other

people would have given up on praying

where other people would have given up

on pursuing what God had placed on the

inside of them where other people would

have given up on their creativity but

for some reason I wish I could explain

it God told me to keep pouring to keep

pressing to keep pressing and to keep

pushing and I believe that it is because

God understood that what I was doing in

the moment was partnering with what God

wanted to do in the Earth this is not a

woman who was just pouring oil for oil’s

sake this is a woman who says I have to

partner with what God wants to see

happen in the earth even if the Earth

doesn’t understand what’s about to

happen to it oh I wish I could say that

better cuz I want to talk to some people

in this room who have a vision and a

seed on the inside of them that doesn’t

make sense to anyone but them I hear God

saying that you have to be willing to be

who I have called you to do in any given

season because what I am asking of you

is requiring partnership because you are

going to prepare the world for what I am

going to do the world is looking at what

has been done but God says I am looking

for some people who will prepare the way

for what I am going to do I am looking

for some people who are ahead of their

time this was a woman who was ahead of

her time she was a Gateway because she

was standing in the Earth on one side

but she was standing in Divinity on the

other side and because she was standing

in Divinity on one side she was able to

do something that only made sense to her

and Jesus but in time would make sense

to other people you want to be a real

gateway to your sister you got to do

that you want to be a Gateway for your

family you got to do that but if you are

not a gateway to Heaven none of those

other things will matter God’s got to be

able to whisper something in your ear

and Know that heaven can touch Earth

through you God’s got to be able to tell

you to do something and know that you

will respond with

obedience our job as Believers is not to

be people who are just better than the

other people in the world our job as

Believers is to be a Gateway that makes

Jesus so irresistible so undeniable that

people start wondering what is behind

that gate what is allowing you to have

unlimited resources and I want to talk

to somebody who has been saving their

energy you have been saving your

creativity you have been saving your

heart thinking that I can’t bear to go

through another thing again I want you

to understand that you serve a god of

abundance that you can go through this

world world as the full version of who

you are because no man can take anything

from you that God cannot restore back to

you I hear God saying that if you don’t

get over what you lost you’re going to

miss what I can do with what you have

left what you have left is designed to

be multiplied and unless you let me have

it I can’t multiply it you can save it

but I hear God saying a better use of

what you have left is if you would

invest it into what I’m doing in the

Earth because if you invested into what

God is doing in the Earth then God says

I can multiply it you’ve been having a

saving mentality I hear God saying that

you need to think like an investor that

if I invest my resources into what God

is doing if I invest my creativity into

what God is doing if I invest my time

into what God is doing God will make

sure that I lack nothing God will make

sure that nothing is wasted God will

make sure that the right people see me

God will make sure that the right people

understand the gift God will make sure

that the right people are here and that

the wrong people are taken away God will

make sure that I’m protected God will

make sure that my heart is restored I’m

not a Savor I’m an investor God takes

care of me because I bring all of me to

everything God has called me to do it

may not look like enough in this moment

but wait until I invested into what God

is doing in the earth I hear God saying

that when some of you get finished

investing all of who God has called you

to be that there will be generational

breakthrough I hear God saying that what

is assigned to your life has the

assignment of multiplication and I hear

God saying that if you would invest

it invest your ways into my ways invest

your words into my words invest your

heart posture into my heart posture so

that I can multiply

it partner with

me help

me touch this Earth through

you oh

I don’t know who this is for but I hear

God saying you got to choose the

side and most of the time when we talk

about choosing a side we think that we

have to choose between this thing or

that thing and I hear God saying that

you’re going to have to choose between

you and

him whose side are you going to be

on are you going to be your

protector are you going to be the

planner of your life are you going to be

the judge and the jury

over your own past and your own mistakes

or are you truly going to believe that

he can cause all things to work

together are you going to be your God or

him because coming into environments

like this and worshiping it only works

if you’re really going to lay you down

and say I pick up what you say about me

God I don’t always believe that I’m

fearfully and wonderfully made but I’m

going to invest my self-esteem into your

word I’m going to invest my confidence

into your word I don’t always feel

qualified but I’m going to invest all of

who I am into this

moment and the more that you

withhold the less change you

see you didn’t put in much so you can’t

get back

much but when you dare to put in

something that cost you

something a real

sacrifice a sacrifice so heavy

that other people look around and say I

can’t

believe that you would sign up for that

again I can’t believe that you keep

showing

up when you are willing to sacrifice

because you have a word from

God about what your life is supposed to

look like about what God wants to do in

the earth and how he’s going to use you

to do

it you give with

ease because you recognize that what

you’re giving is not yours

anyway that God gave me this

life God gave me this opportunity God

gave me this gift this Talent this

second chance God gave me this capacity

to create to speak to write to sing God

gave this to

me and it would be one thing if God

didn’t assign his anointing he didn’t

assign his plan to it but God told me

there was something in me connected to

what he wanted to do in the earth and so

my my

obedience is not about the

outcome oh God I wish I could say that

better and my obedience doesn’t have to

make sense to other

people me and God understand what this

is the disciples they’re talking about

this

woman how could she do it how could she

pour out this oil Master you should say

something to her and Jesus says

assuredly I say to

you that wherever this gospel is

preached in the whole

world that what this woman has done will

also be told as a memorial to her

there’s something to be said about Jesus

saying so deep is this understanding

that she and I have that it won’t even

make sense to you but it’s going to

travel throughout the world what I’m

doing in This Woman’s life that is going

to travel throughout Generations

wherever this gospel we talking about

this woman right now and this happened

over 2,000 years ago wherever this

gospel is preached what this woman did

what she was willing to sacrifice what

she was willing to surrender will be

told when the story of your life is

told it will not be about what you

did not in

heaven Heaven’s not not impressed with

what you

did Heaven’s not impressed with who you

knew Heaven’s not impressed with your

Awards or your

accolades When Heaven talks about your

story they’re going to want to know what

you laid

down let it be

costly let it be something that really

cost you

something maybe there was addiction

maybe there was a relationship that you

didn’t want to let go

of maybe there was a dynamic about who

you are that you liked but you knew it

wasn’t pleasing to God you have to be

willing to lay down something that means

something to

you otherwise we’re living life on the

surface and we’ve been called to go

deeper we’ve been called to be a

Gateway so we got to clear the

way there’s a worship song that we want

to sing even as we close and perhaps you

take this word and allow it to sit with

you I want you to consider as you

reflect on this evening and some of the

things that were said and

felt God what is it that you’re asking

of

me God what is in my

life that I’ve been trying to hang on to

is it my pride is it my

ego is it what brings me

pleasure and is it standing in the way

of me being a

Gateway I’ll tell you when we were at w

many VA we were I was supposed to be

preaching about

surrender and God told me that you can’t

really talk about surrender without

talking about

grief and the hardest thing for me was

to figure out how do I start this

conference where everyone’s probably

very

excited and make it a memorial

service and yet I knew that I had a

responsibility to build an altar for

someone to lay something

down in a similar way I’m asking you to

no longer be engaged with the work of

saving and protecting

yourself of being the master of your own

fate and your own

destiny and and to lean into the

possibilities of what surrender looks

like for

you and as you lean into that

possibility I believe that your story is

going to Echo throughout your bloodline

throughout your community throughout

another sister’s

life that there’s someone who’s going to

be hanging on to something that you’re

letting go of in this

moment and when God allows you to

encounter that person you’ll be able to

tell them I know what it’s like

to have to let go of that dream to let

go of that

timeline to have to trust God with this

season of your life but I am telling you

that you’re not letting it go you’re

just investing it that what’s on the

other side of you throwing this in the

direction of what God has for you and

the plans that God has for this Earth is

going to blow your mind in such a way

that you can’t believe you were hanging

on to something so small that God turned

into something something so

lifechanging we’re going to worship with

you family I want to thank you for

coming out

tonight for spending your evening with

us the last heyu of the Year God we

offer you another

surrender we say here we

are we’re not waiting until the top of

the year to give something

up but even as PT said in his podcast

that we’re ready to lay some things down

right

now that we’re willing to throw all of

who we are and all of what we

possess into the direction of your plans

for the Earth God help us to see it

clearly God it may break our heart to

let go of it it may cost us friendships

it may cost us

Comfort but God we recognize that this

is an investment

and because you are a good good father

we know that you see everything that

we’re laying down God breathe on it as

only you can

do thank you Holy Spirit for comforting

them in the place of their longing in

the place of their grief thank you God

that you never asked for it to be

easy but you still said yes to the

Cross as we take on our own

cross we ask that you would be glorified

in in every way possible that we would

look back and see that it hurt us but it

also birthed us have your way great God

that you are in jesus’ name amen

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