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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