In a culture where we are wired to move past our “now,” and into what’s next, Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts shares a powerful revelation that will help you on this life journey! “Now, Won’t let go!” is a must share message – Share with a friend and be sure to subscribe for ongoing inspiration and encouragement.

hey family i’m pastor torre

i’m pastor sarah and listen you’re

getting ready to hear an incredible word

for the lord i believe it’s going to

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i’m so excited to be sharing this

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because i believe without a shadow of a

doubt i know this to be true

that this word is specifically for you

let me tell you how i know because i was

headed in another direction when

studying last night

and it was just this morning where god

said scratch everything you worked on

last night

i have a better word to share with you

and because he has that better word i’m

trusting

and believing that it is custom made

with you in mind

so i want to invite you to open up your

bible

open up your app to really bring

yourself into alignment with this moment

i don’t want you to miss

one thing that this word has for you

and so whatever it takes i want you to

come into a space where you can receive

and then i want you to do me one other

favor while you’re receiving because we

don’t want your cup to be full and

everyone else to be empty

i want you to invite anyone you can

think of the first person who comes to

mind

i want you to invite them to be a part

of this moment

witnessing is so easy now we used to go

from door to door and some people are

still going from door to door but

given the pandemic we’ve had to alter

the way we witness but you can witness

right now

by just saying like here i don’t know if

you’re into this kind of thing but i

just felt like i wanted to share it with

you

or maybe you know someone who’s going

through a hard time invite them to be a

part of this moment

i know you’re the strong friend and

sometimes you receive and then you pour

out to others but what if we just

brought

everyone’s empty cup into an environment

where they can receive

i believe that god’s going to have

supernatural breakthrough connected to

this moment

so while you’re sending your text

message while you’re sharing the link

i’m going to tell you we’re going to be

in luke 2

luke 2 verse 49.

this is a very a very familiar

text i was reading it and i discovered

something that i wanted to share with

you something that i think will be

helpful for where you are now

if you’re one of those people who like

to take notes

my subject for today’s message is now

won’t let go now

won’t let go sounds like a funny

sentence but i

i believe that when i’m finished that

there will be clarity connected to it

so i’m in luke 2 verse 49 like i said

this is not an

unfamiliar text jesus is about 12 years

old at this time

and he’s with mary and joseph and they

have gone into jerusalem for the

passover

them and their community have left

nazareth

they’ve gone into jerusalem for passover

and while they’re

in jerusalem they go through the feast

of passover and then they pack up and

they get ready to go home

the only problem is on their way to

making their journey back home

mary and joseph realize that jesus is

not with them

and so they go back to jerusalem and

they’re looking all

over for jesus and they finally find him

in the temple remember he’s a boy he’s

12 years old

and when they find him in the temple he

says in verse 49

why did you seek me did you not know

that

i must be about my father’s business

but they did not understand the

statement which he spoke to them

then he went down with them and came to

nazareth and was subject to them but his

mother

kept all these things in her heart

and jesus increased in wisdom and

stature

and in favor with god

and men

father we receive every good

and perfect and challenging

and convicting word that you have for us

in this moment we ask that you would

open up our heart father and that we

would leave nothing off limits to you

and as we open up our heart father it is

our prayer

that a deep revelation would come to us

that a deep peace would settle down in

our spirit

and just for a moment that we would be

one with you and that you would give

us vision on how to navigate this life

you’ve given us father i pray

that you would allow this word to flow

in the same manner that you gave it to

me

and that this word would not be like

anything that i’ve ever said before or

anything they’ve ever heard before

because it has the unique imprint of

that

now revelation god we turn this service

over to you and we say have your way

in jesus name amen

and amen can you say amen like in the

comments can somebody said amen out loud

if that was you say that was me that was

me

you can type it in the comments you can

still say amen amen

have you ever now this is a safe space

before i say this

this is a safe space okay you can be

honest

there is no judgment here you can be

honest because i’m about to put myself

out there

and i would like to believe that there

would be at least one or two people who

will go with me okay

have you ever gone to a movie

saw a movie knew that the movie was good

but also knew that the movie had all of

these different

hidden messages connected to it and

because you were at the movie this was

before the pandemic you were at the

movies with a group of people

you have to talk about the movie at the

end right

so you’re talking about the movie at the

end of the movie you’re like in the

parking lot or you’re texting your

friend because you just finished

watching the movie

and they’re talking about it because

they immediately understood the hidden

messages i saw a movie in 2019 cis was

lost

okay i left the movie theater i knew it

was good it was like there was something

about this movie

it’s good i can tell that it was

reaching into

something it was an analogy about a

thing that i didn’t understand

so i’m sitting in the parking lot we’re

unpacking this movie and they’re like

yes and i loved how he had that

representation of the past showing

up and the chained arms and and the

culture was represented and i was just

like not in my head

real slow you know how you nod your head

real slow like

like i’m tracking with you but but i’m

not tracking with you at the same time

but

i’m so far from where you are that it

ain’t no point in me even bringing up

how lost i am so imma just track

with you like this that’s exactly what

happened to me

has that ever happened to you you can

tell me say that’s happened to me that’s

me that’s me

that’s me okay so this is what i did i

went on the googles because that’s what

you’re supposed to do when you don’t

understand what happened in a movie or a

tv show

you go onto the googles and the googles

tells you everything you need to know

about what you missed

and it was in that moment that i figured

out all of the hidden messages

connected to that movie and then i

watched the movie again and the movie

made

so much more sense because i understood

the hidden message

that’s kind of how i feel about this

text that we’re dissecting today

if i’m honest when i read this text it

really

hasn’t always made sense to me in the

grander scheme

of what we know about the life of jesus

we know about

mary conceiving by the holy spirit

we know about when jesus is born we

don’t know anything about his toddler

years we don’t know

anything about how he had friends or

whether or not he had friends we don’t

know when he got his first tooth

we don’t know when he got his first word

the bible does not tell us

everything about jesus’s life

as a matter of fact the majority of the

bible focuses exclusively on jesus’s

ministry

except for this one part of the bible

when he’s 12 years old

and at this part in the bible he’s 12

years old

and it seems like a blip in the journey

because this moment is the last we will

hear

about jesus’s life until he enters into

ministry at the age of 30.

and i always wondered why it was in

there because it doesn’t really

make a whole lot of sense as far as us

understanding the ministry of jesus

beyond the fact that he was about his

father’s business

at 12 but if we’re honest like

real honest low-key

i don’t even know if i can fully say

this but like this when i read this part

of the bible

through my lenses and experiences

i know we can’t say like jesus needed a

pap house so this one i’m saying instead

like if i was 12

and i ran off from my parents i would

have been in trouble like this is not

necessarily the moment in which we see

jesus

like showing up in the way that we want

our kids to act at 12 years old

and yet he was so engrossed in his

father’s business that not only did he

run out first of all you already know

about running off from your parents in a

big crowd now let’s take a minute and

have testimony service

how many of us could have actually run

off from our parents

and then live to tell about it not many

of us and yet jesus

runs off from his parents and then when

they actually find him

jesus talked back he said why was you

looking for me

i can’t imagine thomas

or sarita jakes allowing me to have this

level of conversation with them

and yet jesus has this dialogue with his

parents

and i was trying to figure out why why

why is this part in the bible then as i

was studying more

and as i was processing my own feelings

and processing my own

spiritual walk right now and spiritual

frustrations

i took for a moment an opportunity to

imagine what it was like to be jesus

and suddenly in that moment everything

was cleared up

because when we find jesus even at 12

years old

he’s dealing with the frustration of his

reality

not matching the revelation he has on

the inside of him

jesus has a revelation that he is the

son of god but his reality

looks so different from the revelation

that he’s received

and so the moment he sees something that

connects with that revelation he

jumps on it because his reality doesn’t

match the revelation

have you ever been there where god gave

you a revelation about your life he gave

you

a revelation about your purpose i’m not

talking about something you conjured up

i’m not talking about something that you

hustled up on after you took

a course or after you saw something on

instagram i’m talking about being

emphatically clear that god said

something to you

i know without a shadow of a doubt that

god told me that i shouldn’t be in this

i know without a shadow of a doubt that

god is calling me to wholeness i know

without a shadow of a doubt

that god told me to come to this city he

told me

to start this business he moved me here

and yet this revelation

and my reality are at war

at 12 years old jesus is dealing with

the frustration of being called

the frustration of being anointed the

frustration of being talented

that with a reality that doesn’t look

like it’s going to allow him to even

tap into that side of him there is

nothing more frustrating

than recognizing that there is more in

you than your environment has room

enough to receive

i can’t even be who i want to be in this

space

because there’s not space for it they

want me to do things that aren’t even

important to me right now they want me

to show up and be someone i know that i

am not called to be

and yet for some reason this text is

here

to show us that jesus too understands

what it’s like to have a revelation that

doesn’t match your reality

as i was studying

and preparing for this message i

realized

that there are many of us who often feel

trapped

in our now now

won’t let you go

some days safe space remember i wake up

and i start to call 2021 2020 okay

because 2021 shows up sometimes looking

like 2020 and i am tired

of now not just because of the pandemic

but i’m tired of feeling like i’m

trapped in these lessons and i’m trapped

in this

frustration of having more in me than i

have the ability to release

have you ever felt trapped in your now i

want to move on to next

i want to skip this level of the game

and move to the next thing that god has

for me

i feel like i’ve learned everything i

can learn here i feel like i’ve consumed

everything i can consume here

i feel trapped in my now and i want to

move on to next but

now won’t let me go

jesus in this moment has set himself

away

from the reality of his family and of

the culture that he’s used to

because he’s trying to move on to the

next thing

but now now won’t let him go

i was studying and i realized that this

is not by coincidence that we see this

moment in jesus’s life

not only does it allow us to see that

jesus understands what it’s like to have

more in you than you have the ability to

push out of you

but it also provides us with an

opportunity to examine why god

places us in nows that don’t look like

they lead to our next

i want you to take a moment and

allow that revelation to war with your

frustration

that god can give you a glimpse of

what’s next but just because he gives

you the glimpse of what’s next it

doesn’t mean you’re ready to step

into it revelation does not equal

manifestation

that means that i can have the

revelation but it doesn’t mean that i’m

ready to step into it

and the greatest sign of spiritual

maturity is how i deal with the

revelation that i’m not ready to move

into yet

how do i deal with this revelation that

i’m called to the nations how do i deal

with this revelation that i’m going to

break this generational curse

how do i deal with this revelation even

though i’m not ready to manifest it and

that is when now

becomes so pivotal because while jesus

may have been thinking to himself

and you may be thinking to yourself now

won’t let me go

you don’t understand that god is on the

other side telling now don’t let them go

yet

now don’t let them go because i still

have something that i need to deposit

down on the inside of them

you see what happened is that jesus

found in the temple something that would

stimulate him

but god says it’s not ready for that

part of you to be stimulated until the

other parts of you

that are underdeveloped are able to be

developed into the maturity that you

need to have in order to manifest the

anointing connected to your life i know

i said that fast

i’m going to run it back for you one

more time because i want you to

understand

that just because something stimulates

your anointing

just because something stimulates your

talent and your gift

it doesn’t mean that it can develop you

you stimulated me you rouse that part of

me but

it doesn’t necessarily mean that you

have the tools and the ability

to develop who i am supposed to be in

god and so

god says to mary and joseph no matter

where he goes

no matter where he runs off to don’t let

him go

because now cannot let him go until he

develops into the person who can carry

the anointing connected to his name i

don’t know who you are

but i want to talk to your frustration

right now i want to talk to the fact

that you know there’s more in you but

you can’t seem to find your way out of

it

i want you to let i want to let you know

that god told now

to not let you move on to next jed i

know this

isn’t one of those messages that

necessarily make you feel good

especially when you’re ready to move on

to the next dimension

but i hear god saying that if now let

you go right now that you would mess up

next

and so you got to be willing to ask god

what is happening now

that i’m supposed to be being developed

in so that i can be prepared when next

is ready for me to go

jesus sent joseph and mary back to get

jesus

not because he wasn’t anointed not

because he was about his father’s

business and he was wrong

but because it wasn’t time for them to

let him go yet and you have to trust

who god places around you you have to

trust that if god gives them the ability

to cover you

if god gives them the ability to walk

with you throughout life

then that means that they have divine

insight on when you’re going to be ready

to go

i know they may not understand the

anointing that’s on your life

but they have wisdom on how you’re going

to navigate life

not everyone is called to your anointing

not everyone is called to your purpose

stop trying to make

everyone fit what you need them to be

and take focus on what you

are what they are assigned to you’re not

assigned to my anointing but you are

assigned to my business acumen

you’re not assigned to my anointing but

you are assigned to my wisdom you’re not

assigned to my talent or my gift but you

are assigned to my maturity

don’t throw someone away because they

don’t understand the revelation that’s

down on the inside of you

because they may have revelation on the

now that you’re standing in that will

get you to the next

connected to where you are now

now that felt like something that we

need to put in slow motion

so that you could run it back and fully

understand what your girl just said

because my purpose in sharing this

message

is for us to come to a place where we

are no longer

seduced by next

everything in our environment everything

in our culture

has wired us to look for what’s next

from the way we scroll our phones from

the way we scroll the headlines we’re

looking for next we’re looking for next

we’re looking for next because there’s

something about

the seduction of next that makes us miss

the wisdom and now

so jesus

as anointed as he was

goes back with mary and joseph

and that’s when i realized the hidden

message of this text

the hidden message in this text is that

it was more

important to god at this time in jesus’s

life

for him to understand his humanity

than it was for him to tap into his

divinity

you see part of what makes jesus jesus

is the fact that he understands our

humanity hebrews 4

and 15 says it better than i could ever

say it says for we do not have a high

priest who cannot

sympathize with our weaknesses but was

in

all points tempted as we are yet without

sin

you see if jesus rushed the process and

decided instead

that i’m going to start tapping into my

divinity at an early age

then he would not recognize the human

nature that we all have

and why it was so necessary for him to

become our savior

that’s why you have to trust now even

when you have the frustration of wanting

to get to next

because it was much more important to

god

that you understand how to navigate your

family it was much more important to god

that you received the wisdom of working

in an industry that is completely

different than the place where he’s

going to have you land

because there are some lessons you can

only learn in

your now

so if that is the hidden message for

this text there are a few things that i

want to share with you

as we undergo the process of becoming

comfortable

with where we are now in spite of the

fact that many of us wish we could move

on

to next so in this text when jesus

is in the temple with the priests

what’s so interesting is that because of

his

immaturity at that time and i’m going to

prove to you that it was immaturity

because of his immaturity he found

himself connecting

with the priest the only problem with

that is that he was called to be the

high priest

and because of his immaturity he found

comfort in the place that he was called

to challenge

you see and that’s why god had to pull

him out of it

because if god didn’t pull him out of it

he couldn’t challenge it and be

comfortable with it at the same time i

feel like that’s a word for somebody

oh gosh i don’t know who you are but

you’ve been in some special rooms

and you’ve been in some special

environments and you have been in some

oh i don’t know who you are but i feel

this so heavily for you

you have been in some rooms that should

have been the gateway to what you saw as

next and you got close but you got

pulled back the moment you started

getting comfortable

and i hear god saying that i didn’t pull

you back because i didn’t have plans for

you and i didn’t pull you back because

the revelation was true

i pulled you back because i didn’t want

you to be comfortable with the very

thing i’m calling you to challenge

i didn’t want you to become comfortable

in the very room that i want you to

destroy

you want to be in the room and i hear

god saying i want you to break that room

open you want to be in the circle but i

hear god saying i want you to shake that

circle up

that’s why mary and joseph had to go get

jesus because he was willing to settle

in the room that was beneath him

and that’s why the relationships

couldn’t work for you and that’s why you

had to move out of that church

and that’s why you had to move to

another city and that’s why you’re upset

and frustrated because you felt like you

got so close

but god pulled you back and i hear god

saying you need to thank me that i

pulled you back

and you won’t fully understand it until

i let you go

but when i let you go you’ll see that i

pulled you back so that you could go

further than they ever could have

imagined

that’s why you had to lose the job

that’s why the business had to shut down

you’re upset that you’re back home and i

hear god saying back home was the only

way i could set you up for life

jesus had to go back home before he

could set up the kingdom

jesus had to go back home before he

could establish his identity

and i hear god saying you’re not taking

two steps backwards

you’re being pulled back like an arrow

you’re being pulled back like who i know

you are

because when i get ready to let you go

when i get ready to let you go there

will be no stopping who you are

and i don’t want you to value their

opinions more than you value the

anointing i placed on your life

jesus was in the temple asking the

priest questions

but god said i had to take you home so

that you could start asking me

questions i hear god saying you would

have gotten old answers from the old

regime

but i want you to have new answers for

the fresh thing i’m doing in your life

that’s why every time you get in the

wrong room i’ma pull you back

every time you get in the wrong

relationship i’m gonna pull you back

god says you can be mad all you want to

you can be frustrated all you want to

but you’re still my child and i still

have plans to prosper you

and i cannot be your father unless i

have the ability to pull you back

slow down slow down slow down

slow down slow down slow down i don’t

know who you are but i hear god saying

slow down slow down slow down it’s not

time yet

slow down you’re not ready yet slow down

i’m not going to let this thing die on

the inside of you

i know you got close to it i know you

were in the right rooms and at the right

time

but it wasn’t my right time and there is

a difference between the right time and

the righteous time and when you embrace

that you’ll recognize that i am not a

hater on your destiny

i am the facilitator of you

and if you trust me if you trust me with

where you are

now then you won’t be upset

when i pull you back

oh god i wanted to wait but i feel like

i gotta let you know

that there was something powerful that

happened when i read verse 52.

when i read verse 52 i saw something i

wasn’t expecting to see

you see most of the fifth most of us

feel like that if i get pulled back

that i’m going to lose momentum that i’m

going to lose

wisdom that i’m going to lose my edge

that i’m going to lose my advantage

but just like jesus in verse 52 i got

pulled back but i still increased i

increased in wisdom

i increased in stature i increased in

favor with god and men

how could i get pulled back and still

increase that’s the kind of math that my

god does

my god says i’ll pull you back but i

still

increase you i’ll take you back to the

place where you belong

but i’ll still show you how to come up

higher again

you’re going to increase in wisdom and

stature

and then favor with god and men how can

i

increase in favor when i’m not moving in

the right circles

when i’m not moving in the right room

cause you got

favor with god baby and favor with god

is better than favor with men

i got favor with god cause i’m right

where he told me to be

i stayed positioned in the right place

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god’s math don’t add up

you don’t gain favor from men

by being in the room where the men are

you gain favor with men by being where

god told you to be

and that’s why you need to stop being

upset with now

and you need to start thanking god that

now won’t let me go

god i wanted to break out but now

wouldn’t let me go

god i wanted to move on to the next

dimension but now wouldn’t let me go

and now i see what now was working on

the inside of me

now i see that now was producing

something i could have never been

i didn’t want to go back to that job i

didn’t want to go back to that city

but now wouldn’t let me go and when you

finally

step into next you’re gonna thank god

that now wouldn’t let you go

that you didn’t let me birth this baby

too soon

you didn’t let me birth this ministry

too soon

your favor your favor is not gone

your grace is not gone your wisdom is

not gone

the most powerful thing i saw

was that jesus was anointed

but he still needed to increase

in wisdom and stature

did you know that it is okay

to be talented but immature

it’s normal to be anointed but not have

the wisdom to understand how to release

your anointing

it’s okay and sometimes we want to just

depend on the fact that we’re anointed

we just want to

depend on the fact that we’re called we

just want to depend on the fact that

we’re talented but i hear god saying if

you depend on that and that alone

you’re going to end up in rooms that are

beneath you

you’re going to end up in rooms that

can’t develop you

so sometimes you got to take your

anointed

talented hips

as they would say because i’m a country

girl

back to the environment

that doesn’t understand what’s in you

but that god is using to develop you

mary and joseph didn’t understand what

jesus was saying in that moment

but they knew

that they hadn’t had the opportunity

they hadn’t been granted

the permission to release him yet

let me tell you why you can trust now

and then i’m going to close

jesus became so comfortable

with now from this moment up until when

he’s 30.

he had this moment he went back home and

he was increasing

even though he was pulled back

and then we see him at the wedding at

cana

and when he’s at that wedding at cana

mary

says to him turn the water into wine

and jesus says my time hasn’t come yet

the same mary that pulled him back

is the same mary that says now it’s time

for you to go

there will be moments when now

pushes you out

and in those moments you will know

without a shadow of a doubt

that i needed to stay where god

positioned me

until i felt the release from now to

move into my next

in my scripture and i think it’s verse

51 it says that jesus

subjected to them that’s to mary and

joseph that word subjected means

he became obedient to them

even when they didn’t understand he

became obedient to the environment

that was connected with his now

i want to take a moment and i want to

pray with you

because i feel like as long as we’re

frustrated with now we cannot become

obedient

to what now was trying to develop on the

inside of us

you see at the end of the day i’m one of

those crazy people

who believe that god wastes nothing

and if i truly believe that god wastes

nothing when i am in a frustrating

moment and i am frustrated with

now i have a responsibility to not allow

my frustration to keep me from being

obedient

god i’ve been so frustrated with where i

am now

that i haven’t made the heart posture

decision to be obedient

even when i don’t understand

can you imagine being jesus

i am the son of god

and yet i’m subjected to people who

don’t even understand me

and yet he goes to those people because

those are the people that god has

ordained to develop who he is

you you’re watching this

and you are anointed and you are gifted

and you are talented and you are in an

environment that is not a reflection of

what is down on the inside of you

and you are frustrated because you don’t

understand how i can ever get from here

to there i don’t know when i’m going to

be able to use

my gift i don’t know when my gift is

going to make room for me

i don’t know when i’m going to be able

to show up and trust that i

am who god says i am and i’m dying for

just one opportunity to release it

i don’t know who you are but you’ve been

waiting god

would you just give me one chance to

release what you’ve given me

i’ve seen you do it for that person i’ve

seen you do it for this person

but i want to release what’s down on the

inside of me i want to prove that i

am who you say i am and god’s been

saying not now

not now now now won’t let you go

and so we have to assume a heart posture

not of disappointment and not a

frustration though we will pass those

heart postures on the way

where we must ultimately land

is the place of being obedient to now

because now won’t let us go

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you’re frustrated sometimes i’m

frustrated too

life is messy sometimes child

life is messy over here too

and as much as i want to move on to next

i want to skip this class

remember being in school and you’re like

i’ve learned everything i can learn

about multiplication

i’m ready to move to the next thing but

it doesn’t work that easy

you’ve got to stay and you’ve got to

complete that course you got to complete

this level

before you can even access next

and so the question is who do i need to

become

in order to make peace with now

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it starts with assuming that heart

posture of obedience

and jesus shows us how to do with this

blip in his life that doesn’t even make

sense

given what we know about his life in its

entirety

but it’s almost like god wanted us to

know 2 thousand

plus years later that we do not serve a

high priest

who doesn’t who is unable to sympathize

with who we are and where we are

jesus knows exactly what it’s like

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to have a revelation without the reality

to support it

and he shows us how to humble ourselves

to our reality and to be obedient to be

so obedient

that we’re not even focused on next when

next arrives

isn’t that what happened at the wedding

at canaan he was so

focused on where he was now that he

didn’t even see that next had arrived

that’s what i want for you that’s what i

want from me

i want to become so obedient so immersed

in what is happening now that when next

knocks on the door

i don’t even see it coming

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so i want to pray with you i want to

offer you an opportunity

to first give god your frustration and

your disappointment

and to give god who you became as a

result of that frustration

are you bitter are you depressed did you

give up on god

are you living outside of the will of

god have you become desensitized to who

you’re supposed to be in righteousness

and holiness

because you feel like god disappointed

you and so now you’ve given up all

together

you see because i know that god that

jesus was able to come to a place where

he

submitted to his now because he was

increased even

when submitted that means that you

cannot increase

unless you submit to now you rebel

against now and you won’t get the

increase in wisdom and stature and favor

with god and men

but if you submit to now then you’ll get

all of those things that god has stored

up for you

and trust me you’re going to need wisdom

and trust me you’re going to need that

maturity

and trust me you’re going to need that

favor with god and then why

because now won’t last always and when

god gets ready to release you into your

next

you want to be positioned properly with

the right wisdom

with the right maturity with the right

heart heart posture with the right favor

and so i’m going to pray with you that

god

would allow you to release who you

became

as a result of not having the right

environment that you thought you needed

so that you can maximize the environment

that god gave you

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father we offer you our heart

and if we’re honest our heart hasn’t

always been full of joy

peace and purity when it comes to you

if we’re honest our heart has been a

little bit dirty because i’m frustrated

that you haven’t moved the way i thought

you would

i’m frustrated that you won’t release me

in the way that i thought you should i

lost my trust somewhere along the way

and so father first of all i want to say

i’m sorry

i’m sorry that i didn’t trust you i’m

sorry that i didn’t believe you i’m

sorry that i gave up in the middle of my

development process

and father what i’m asking you to do is

to help them

come into alignment with obedience

even when now doesn’t look like what

they have in mind

god i ask that you would touch every

person watching right now

you know their circumstance you know

their situation you know exactly

what they need and yet you know what’s

keeping them from

manifesting what you’ve placed down on

the inside of them father i pray

that you would clear their minds and

open their hearts

so that they can find the seed buried in

now

and when they find that seed father i

pray that you would allow them to become

so engrossed in watering that seed and

maximizing that seed and cultivating

that seed

that they don’t even see next when it

taps them on the shoulder father

allow us to see what you have hidden the

hidden messages in our now

so that when we look back over our life

we recognize that you were weaving

things together even when we were

frustrated even when we were confused by

the we repent

we change our mind about where we are we

repent for the sins we committed on the

way

and we ask that you would bring us into

alignment with holiness

with righteousness and with obedience

that we would become obedient to your

word

even when it doesn’t make sense to us we

surrender our will to yours

and we say make us sensitive

make us sensitive to how you’re moving

make us sensitive to how you want to

release this how you want to use us

and allow our greatest concern to be

making sure we are aligned with you

above all other things

in jesus name i pray amen

family if that was your word i just want

you to say amen amen

amen i want you to grab that prayer amen

amen

amen all in the chat it’s all in the

chats let it flood in let it flood in

i think that this is one of those

messages that you may have to marinate

on a little bit

but if you remember nothing else i want

you to understand

that even when now is frustrating even

when now won’t let you go

that now has been anointed and ordained

to develop what god has placed down on

the inside of you

so get your shovel lose the tude

and start digging for what god placed in

here now

you