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hey family this is sarah jakes robertson
i am so excited about the incredible
word that you’re about to receive
they’re just a few things i want to tell
you before we dig into the word number
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into the word
i want to draw your attention the
philippians the second chapter
and we’re going to look at
verses 5 through 11 snot an unfamiliar
passage but i think it’s
appropriate for the season that we’re in
philippians 2 5 311 i’ll be reading on
the new king james translation and it
reads
let this mind be in you
which was also in christ jesus
who being in the form of god
did not consider it robbery to be equal
with
god but
made himself of no reputation
taking the form of a bond servant and
coming in the likeness of men
and being found in appearance as a man
he humbled himself
and became obedient
to the point of death
even the death of the cross
therefore god
has highly exalted
him and given him the name which is
above every name
that at the name of jesus every knee
should bow
of those in heaven
and of those on
earth and of those under the earth
and that every tongue should confess
that jesus christ is lord
to the glory of god the father
let’s pray
almighty god we counted an honor first
of all to take in your air
to take in your breath god we thank you
so much for this moment
for breadth in our body
is a sign to us
that
we haven’t seen our finest work yet
and god to have this opportunity to come
into your house to be shaped by you
we don’t live by bread alone but we live
by the words that proceed out of your
mouth
hallelujah
and so god i thank you that you’re
preparing a table for us right here
right now
and everything that everyone who is in
this room
needs
is on that table hallelujah
lord there’s stuff on the table that
you’re preparing that we need that we
don’t even know that we need we can’t
even articulate what we need
but you
the almighty the all-knowing one
you know exactly what we need
and so father i thank you for the spirit
of wisdom and revelation and insight and
knowledge i thank you for heaven’s
brilliance
to communicate god and to articulate
divine truths that would edify
that would empower
that would liberate hallelujah that
would establish and that would catapult
into this next phase and dimension of
our journey
i thank you that you’re going to do that
and father we’re praying for pastor
sarah right now
the queen of this house
god we thank you lord that your hand of
healing is on her right now
we thank you god for the progress that
she’s already made but god we’re praying
since this is resurrection sunday and
this is the atmosphere and the season of
miracles even the greatest miracle the
resurrection from the dead
we’re asking god that on today even in
this moment as she is watching
that she would feel sickness
be rebuked off of her body right now in
jesus name that that she would sense the
touch
of christ
who performed countless signs and
wonders and miracles it was easy for him
he didn’t even they weren’t even called
they were just works they weren’t even
miracles they were just works and so god
do a work god in her in honor and upon
her and we thank you god that when you
get finished with her when she comes
through this fire the fire that we
thought she had before is gonna be like
a little flame she’s going to come out
of this thing bolder brighter wiser
stronger
and her impact will be all the greater
because of this trial that she’s
overcome
and i thank you god that you’re going to
do that oh and god
may we never be the same again
bless your children god bless each and
every single one of these beautiful
souls god and god may they walk may they
have walked in one way
but leave out of here completely another
way
i pray god that even
as
when you were leading the children of
israel
out of bondage
and you brought them out with power and
grace and the enemies
that they saw on the day of deliverance
they saw again no more i pray
that the enemies to their soul the
enemies to their peace the enemy to
their purpose
the enemies to their destiny i pray
today
would die in this room
yeah i pray god that there will be
resurrection that takes place a
resurrection of dreams a resurrection of
faith
a resurrection of hope a resurrection of
peace a resurrection of promise i pray
god that some who have lost sight of the
promise will walk out of here
walk out of here with that thing soak
squarely in front of them that they will
run that everything around them will
begin to align and the winds of heaven
would back them up and push them forward
into all that you have for them in jesus
name amen amen if you receive that
prayer just give god a praise of
expectation come on give him that
expectation praise
god i don’t even i don’t even it doesn’t
have to be done i just decree that it’s
done already in you come on that’s the i
feel the spirit of god faith is the
substance of things hoped for the
evidence of things
not seen
already done
already done
already done
already done i i i love
this season
this this good friday or passover
however you do it is awesome because
good friday and passover line on the
exact same day passover started friday
and as we unpacked on our good friday
service which i will air next sunday
because you got to see it we took
communion it’s going to be incredible
but but we know that good friday really
is about passover good friday and what
took place on good friday was the
revelation of passover is amazing and
the whole lord’s supper what happened at
a seder it was at a passover meal and
and jesus ultimately said i am the
passover lamb you know the lamb that
you’ve been studying about and reading
about and commemorating for over 1300
since 1300 bc guess what i’m coming out
of the closet i am that lamb it’s
powerful you gotta listen to that
message next sunday but what i love
about the good friday and easter season
is what it does for our memory
you know what’s interesting about it is
that that the resurrection doesn’t
happen again
we’re not it’s not today is not it’s
resurrection sunday but we’re not
celebrating something that is happening
now we are tapping into something that
happened then
and the powerful thing about memory
is that when we remind ourselves about
what god did we get to experience the
power of what he did
are you tracking with me so so it is an
opportunity i mean good friday it could
be good monday
it could be good good tuesday next week
could be good friday again
because it’s not so much about the day
but it’s about the opportunity for us to
collectively
bring back into our consciousness the
fact that we are no longer slaves
and that there’s a power and a promise
and a covenant over our lives that is so
powerful the power that’s backing us up
is so powerful that not even death could
hold it
so really it’s not even about the day
because you have some people arguing
theologically well really it wasn’t
this day you’ve heard that before
christmas the weather who cares
it’s not about the exact day it is about
the spiritual moment and as we tap into
the spiritual moment and come into
alignment with the spiritual moment we
get to experience the resource of the
moment
are you tracking with me so that’s what
this season is about that’s what i love
about it it blesses our memory we get to
remember some things remember paul said
in romans 12 we are transformed by the
renewing of our mind
so sometimes watch this sometimes our
mind has to catch up to what our spirit
has received
don’t make me today don’t make me today
see you can have something that has
taken place to you spiritually because
of your faith but because your mind
hasn’t been activated to what took place
you are living
like a slave when the reality of it is
you’re free
because as a man
thinks so is he so my life is not the
byproduct of what happened to me
spiritually it is the byproduct of how
my mind connected to that spiritual
reality
so i can be free but be living like a
slave
are you tracking is it too early is it
too early it’s not better
[Applause]
and so and so the the season or our
memory
is activated and then what the other
thing i love about this season is that
we we get to look again
we get to look with fresh eyes
at the cross
and the resurrection and there’s
something about staring at the cross
and you may see something that you had
never seen before it’s almost like god
when you when you look at god if you
continue see the reason why we have to
stare at god is because god is so
multifaceted
and he’s so multi-dimensional
that we have to keep staring at him
because every once in a while kind of
like a diamond he’s going to turn in
such a way and show a brilliance that we
had never seen before
there’s this story can i talk to you
like this today i’ll get into the
messenger second can we just i’m just
warming up a little bit can we do this
we just it’s been a long time guys come
on i miss you
i miss you
[Music]
there’s this passage of scripture in
revelation it’s a brilliant passage of
scripture and it really speaks to what
i’m talking about right now and it and
it describes this happening that’s
taking place in heaven
and you study it’s in i think revelation
chapter 4 revelation chapter 5. you know
what i’m going to say
read the whole bible you’ll find it i
promise it’s in there somewhere
but
but there’s this account of this worship
service taking place in heaven and and
god is there and jesus is in the midst
of the throne and the 24 elders are
around the throne or whatever and
they’re just they’re worshiping their
living creatures and it’s this glorious
worship service taking place
and it says that the 24 elders
periodically fall down they’re there
night and day they don’t stop they’re
worshiping god but periodically they
fall down afresh
and then they get back up and they start
worshiping again they’re going on a
little bit and they fall down again
they’re worse than the first and i why
they keep falling down but i think that
because they’re there beholding the
beauty of the lord and they’re beholding
the awesomeness of god every once in a
while god will just turn a little bit
and like a diamond another radiant
expression of god’s beauty just wipes
them out all over again and this is
happening to beings that are used to god
and so in this season
we get to look again
we get to look at god again
we get to ponder the power of the cross
and what would happen on the cross right
and then we get the power we get to
ponder the power of the resurrection and
what the resurrection means when i when
i consider that that a man was raised
from the dead that’s crazy
and yet it happened
and so and so that’s what takes place we
get we get to look again
and and we get to look at the story
again and we get to pick up on things
that we had we may have missed because
the story is alive and we get to look at
jesus
and jesus you know they they called him
rabboni there’s one place where mary
called him rabboni which means teacher
and jesus one of the things that that i
love about jesus and one of the things
that that really sets jesus apart for me
is that he was an incredible teacher
and he still is
an incredible teacher and his life
forever teaches
i love that about that my relationship
with jesus kind of is really cool
because sometimes you know you know
something will happen to me that i think
is unfair or i feel like somebody did me
wrong or whatever and i’ll you know and
i’ll go to jesus i’m like jesus
did you just see what they did to me
this is so unfair like
and what i love about you is jesus so
real jesus doesn’t say oh you’re right
poor you
but jesus the master teacher always
takes out a mirror and flips it back
around to me
because he realizes that my growth is
not in him punishing somebody else
oh can i talk to some real spiritual
people in here
my my growth is not in jesus handling my
haters
i don’t grow by that
in fact i grow by the opposite i grow
when i bless my hater come on somebody
that that’s how i grow i become more
like jesus would i bless those who curse
me
oh y’all got real quiet on that one
you’re like i was tracking with you pt i
ain’t tracking them i’m off the track
i’m off the track come back get on the
track
no i i i grow
when jesus turns the mirror around at me
and teaches me how to reposition myself
as a result of the problem that i’m
experiencing
can i talk to some mature people
so he’s a master teacher
and this text
he’s teaching us something and what i
believe he’s teaching us in this text
is about the power of process that’s our
thought for today
the power the power
of process
and so let’s let’s look at this let’s
look at this if you’re taking notes i
want you to write this thought down and
we’re going to continue on we need to
have a process mentality
a process okay okay let’s go let’s get
into it so first of all he says let this
mind be in you which was also in christ
jesus this is the apostle paul writing
he’s talking about mental let this mind
get this mentality
and then he begins to describe christ’s
mentality let this mind be in you which
was also in christ jesus who being in
the form of god
did not consider it robbery to be equal
with god but made himself of no
reputation taking on the form of a bond
servant and coming and let me stop right
there because we have a lot of ground to
cover but if you look at this if we read
this whole thing we’re going to see
jesus embracing
not an instant gratification mentality
but a process mentality
embracing watch this embracing the power
of process
and that is so counter
to the world that we’re living in right
now because because the world that we’re
living right now we have been so
commercialized
our culture has commercialized us and
has cultivated what i like to call this
expectation of instant gratification if
it doesn’t happen like this we’re mad
no it’s worse if it doesn’t happen like
this we feel like something is wrong
if if it’s still pastor
roosevelt talked about still loading he
had a wonderful message about still
loading but but but if it just if if
it’s loading just a little bit too long
what do we say something’s wrong
you start checking your wi-fi connection
what’s going on right went back in today
anybody remember dial up i’m going to
remember dallas come on
20 minutes later you get to the webpage
but but we have there is this this
instant gratification
spirit energy expectation
that we have that actually works against
the concept of process
everything that is worthwhile has a
process
everything
from cooking
to engineering or creating something it
all has a pr or an organization an
organization that doesn’t have processes
is it is not a profitable organization
or if it is profitable it’s not as
profitable as it would be
if there were processes in place
are you tracking with me that was for
free entrepreneur get you some processes
get you some systems come on come on
that’s how you scale you can’t scale
without process anyway
let’s let’s move on because somebody’s
like you me meddling bt you’d be
meddling
and so
and so the the
reward we like we start talking about
instant gratification we talk about
rewards rewards when something happens
fast there is a reward right dopamine
everything there’s there’s a reward
right and and the reward produces joy if
you’re taking notes this is something
worthy writing down the reward produces
joy but the process produces power
i like joy
joy is wonderful i want joy but i need
power
because there are things that are going
to show up in your life in my life that
joy is not going to fix
oh you’re not really not ready you’re
not ready no they’re gonna be some
things that show up in my life well i am
going to need some power to get it up
off me
hello somebody
oh god can i take my time today
and so we need to have we need to have a
process mentality i was thinking about
the calculator right when i was being
taught
you know arithmetic in school we didn’t
you couldn’t use no calculator now they
hand you a calculator and i get it i get
it there’s an advantage of the
calculator it rewards you with the
answer quickly i get that but let’s be
honest but mathematics
exercises the mind
come on let’s be honest exercise the
mind and it gives you
nimbleness of thought
and mental stamina so there’s a
trade-off
the process i just have to get come on i
just have to get the thing out to get
the paper out you couldn’t just give the
answer because they didn’t know if you
cheated or not
come on somebody
and you think you’re getting away with
them what would they say show me your
math what does it mean to show me your
math show me your
process
[Applause]
b because because the calculator doesn’t
help you it allows you maybe it helps
you because time is money now maybe you
can try to figure it out and justify it
in some way but i need to understand
what’s going to happen when i don’t have
a calculator and i’m trying to figure
out what 37 of 1932
with 17 cents is
you understand what i’m saying
so process is everything process is
everything so let’s look at jesus
process and let’s learn some things are
we still tracking
okay so at first watch this and we’re
gonna look at it we’re gonna look at the
passage in a second but at first we see
jesus’s determination
and commitment but we’re gonna see that
it gets tried so it says let this mind
be in you which was also in christ jesus
who being in the form of god did not
consider it robert be equal with god
that’s great
you know um i mean i i can unpack it but
it’s pretty obvious you know him being
in the form of god so he was in the
beginning with god jesus was in the
beginning with god so he was
experiencing the divinity of god right
and so it says who being in the form of
god did not consider robert equal to be
equal with god he could have been it
says but he made himself of no
reputation they’re on a mission so he’s
like hey look i’m cool we’re on a
mission to redeem humanity everything’s
cool i’ll make myself of no reputation
right i’m good i don’t have to be big
bad glorious jesus i’ll make myself of
no reputation and then it says and
taking the form of a bond servant and
coming in the likeness of man so him and
god the father had a strategy to come
and to redeem things and jesus like hey
i’m with it
you got to check it out he’s like i’m
with i’m cool look i don’t have to be of
any reputation i’m gonna i’m gonna do
this father i’m gonna do this i’m gonna
do this i’m gonna do this
but then it gets really interesting
right it says in verse eight it says and
being found in appearance as a man let’s
stop right there so he made the
determination we see his determination
to do this thing and his commitment to
do this thing but it gets tried because
watch this it’s one thing to say god i’m
going to do it
it’s another thing to show up now and
you’ve got skin
you you you catch you can catch it
it’s another thing to say father i’m
gonna come down and and and be like man
so that i can redeem mankind it’s one
thing to say that it’s another thing to
show up and you’ve got aches and pains
hello
you got skin on now
and and and it’s and it’s got an
expiration date on it
you have carnality someone said it and i
believe it’s brilliant the greatest
miracle that jesus ever did was to
become man
hello somebody
so so so that posture
gets tried
right
it gets tried
but i love the way that he
responds it says and then
being found in appearance as a man he
finds himself as a man
he humbles himself i love that
and i i’ve experienced something like
that
can i tell you a story
i i was uh so we
this was over a decade ago easy you know
maybe 15 years ago i was going back and
forth to the uk to london in particular
because there were there was a community
out there that was really resonating and
responding with my teaching and so i
would go out there i would go out there
and and i would i would i would i would
minister there and uh and so
what’s crazy is you know like the
internet can be tricky sometimes
because i normally stay at this this
particular hotel but there weren’t any
rooms or something like that and so i
went online and there was this really
cool flat in central london
hello i mean it was cool like the
pictures online were like amazing it was
like had a courtyard you know what i
mean and just all modern appliances and
it just looked and you know cameras can
be very tricky
so i get all the way to london and i’m
like yeah you know and i go and i get
the keys to my flat and i walk in there
and i promise you the flat i if i walked
in the front door right here
that was the back door
and it was like this wide and oh no no
it gets worse it gets worse
so you know london is cold particularly
certain times of the year my come on you
let let’s be i love your country your
city i i do but it gets cold and um and
they had they didn’t even have central
heating in that thing
they had this little it looked like
um
this little portable heater thing
and it looked like an accordion it just
kind of it was just this little
like radiate what is it called
radiation with a radiator whatever it
was it wasn’t radiating nothing those
[Applause]
and let me tell you what i said and i’m
like oh
no
i’m like oh i’m getting out and i just
and i was getting ready to get on the
phone and call my assistant and try to
figure something out and i’m telling you
i heard the voice of the lord say
humble yourself
i was like
how could you say that to me jesus
but i heard the voice
so loud
and so clear
and jesus was like
humble yourself here’s the thing i had
the resources to make a move
i had all that but it wasn’t about that
he was teaching me something
because in my estimation i thought that
i could not do that
that this was too small for me to fit in
literally it was so different from what
i was used to and the lord said
humble yourself
so i took a deep breath
and i looked at the little janky o
radiator
and i said for the next five days it’s
me and you kid
and i went and i sat the moment that
that happened my friend was a pastor
there his name is pastor errol
text me
and said hey i hear you in town mate
and i said yeah he says come stay with
me
and i went to his really nice place on
the south side of london it was amazing
it was a test
i feel that that’s for somebody that
that
that’s just somebody
it was a test
if you if you exalt yourself
you’ll be humbled
but if you humble yourself
you’ll be exalted i i’ve gotta i’ve
gotta move on
so jesus humbles himself
and in doing so he submits himself
to a process
and this it was the process of this call
if you take your notes write this
thought down
every calling has a process
every calling every calling
has a process
and when we submit to that process
we access
the power
there’s power in your calling i feel it
a lot of us are looking for power
and maybe you i don’t know how you
define power but but but for me power is
the ability to move through life with
grace
to move through life with grace
with divine enablement right to move
through life in such a way that every
door that is yours must open
to move through life in such a way
that when god speaks to you and he gives
you clarity and he gives you a vision
and he gives you a purpose right
you all you have to do is show up that’s
what i’m talking about i’m not talking
about powerful you know i’m trying to be
powerful
you know come bow to me no that that’s
that’s something else that’s weakness
actually dressed up like power because
that’s ego
hello somebody
self-made
and
self-needed
that’s weakness
real power is to say i’m a servant
and so with the favor that i have with
the grace that i have with the ability
that i have with the opportunity that i
have with the time that i have
i’ma serve somebody with it
how do i know jesus is modeling this
okay so if you want power to move the
ability to move through life of grace
grace meaning divine enablement
then you gotta align with your calling
everybody’s called
jesus taught he said many are called
only few are chosen
and we think that that means that oh uh
uh some people are called and some
people are chosen we almost think that
that has to do with categories
well some people are called and some
people are chosen no that’s not what
that means
he says many are called but only few are
choosable
i would
i believe this is the heart of god i
would that everyone that i call i can
choose
but not all want to submit
to the process
and it’s those who are willing to submit
to the process of the call
that get chosen
are you tracking with me hey
y’all quiet i love him when y’all quiet
what is good
can i go further
the the power
is in the calling and the one who called
you is faithful to perform what god has
called you to
he’s faithful
he doesn’t call us and then leave us to
our own abilities
no no no no he invites us
to his ability
in fact that’s what call in that passage
of scripture romans 8 28 where it says
that all things work together for good
to those who love god and those who are
the called according to his purpose that
word is a greek word literally means an
invitation
so the calling is an invitation to god’s
power and that’s why to run from your
calling is ridiculous
because if i’m running from my calling
i’m running from the very thing that i
was created for and i’m running from the
resources that are assigned to my life
i’m leaving my inheritance when i run
for my calling
there’s an inheritance assigned to my
life and you don’t have to die to get it
there’s an inheritance set up in the
universe right now for each and every
single one of you if you would humble
yourself pursue your calling there are
resources in the heavenlies and heaven
backs up callings
[Music]
i promise you heaven does you don’t have
to be qualified you don’t have to have
gone to the right schools you don’t have
to have the right relationships all that
stuff is wonderful but that is not the
requirement for for for the grace that
comes when you get called
just say yes i feel that for somebody i
want to break every lie and adequacy off
of somebody i want to break every lie
that that makes you feel insecure that
makes you not enough you are enough i
feel god before god put you in your
mother’s womb he knew you he ordained
you he set you apart he made you
powerful there’s something about you
that this world needs and not even the
gates of hell can prevail against you in
your calling where am i called people
call people make some noise in this room
uh-huh
i don’t care what he said to you i don’t
care what she said to you i don’t care
what groups you got kicked out of if you
are called you cannot be stopped
you’re gonna move through life with
grace
oh i feel it i feel something stern come
on don’t stop praising i know i got a
little bit more teaching to do but i
feel like something is getting ready to
butter
something’s getting ready to break in
this room ah
feel it come on this is resurrection
sunday you better get back on your
square ten toes down baby let’s go after
this thing come on come on call people
let’s go come on let’s go don’t be
waiting for nobody to co-sign you
they’ll be waiting for nobody to endorse
you you endorse you say i’m called baby
my calling is my calling card and it
will work in every door god puts in
front of me
come on five more seconds of
hallelujah i’m called baby
i’m called baby
i’m called baby
i’m called i’m called i’m called
i may not be this but i’m called i may
not be tall but i’m called i may not be
slim but i’m cold i may not be rich but
i’m cold i mean i have hair right on my
back but i’m calm i may not have a
six-pack but i’m cold i may have grown
up on the rough side but i’m called
every door that no man can open up oh
baby
carl
how you going to do it by my calling
how’s it gonna happen by my calling i
don’t have any investors but i’m called
come on somebody i don’t have any
startup capital but i’m called
i’m called
what does that mean that means goodness
and mercy
is following me right now i feel it
goodness
and mercy
is following me
goodness and mercy is following me grace
and power is following me to back me up
pushing me forward covering me
call
and call
my calling got me here
i didn’t have any pastors or leaders or
i just met my father-in-law who was
absolutely wonderful but i just met him
eight years ago
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i’m called
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psalm 1 and 3 i want to speak it over
you
blessed is the man that walks not in the
counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the
path of sinners that sits in the seat of
the scarf
but in god’s law he meditates day and
night for he shall be like a tree this
is the prophecy
he shall be he she
they shall be a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that brings forth its fruit in its
season whose leaf will not wither and
whatever they do shall prosper what
because you’re called i speak that over
you right now cup your hands like you’re
getting ready to receive something i
speaking i decree it right now in the
name of jesus christ everything you do
will prosper
your leap is not gonna wither
you’re not gonna fade you’re not running
out you are on your way up baby i don’t
care who told you no go after it get up
again not gonna
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i’m trying to get back here because we
got ground to cover
but i hear god saying somebody needs to
go back on to that door and start
knocking again
knock again with new faith
knock again with new revelation
knock again with new understanding
because maybe
just maybe
in this season if you’re not hard enough
and with enough faith it’s going to open
thank you jesus
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thank you lord
we feel your presence god we just want
to worship you just for a second
we feel your presence god
you’re talking to us god
you’re stirring up something that’s in
us god something was laying dormant on
the inside of us but we feel the fire
that was shut up in our bones coming
back
dead bones
are rising even right now dry bones are
coming together even right now
i feel it
i know it
i know it
i know it when i sense it
you were supposed to be here
this is not going out i know we had
hundreds of people that couldn’t get in
so we gave them the stream so they’re
watching it outside right now you were
supposed to be here this message is not
going around the world it was you you
were chosen to be here for this he knew
who was gonna be in the room
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i just want to be a good steward
over this moment
because i don’t know where you’re at or
what you’re going through but i want to
give you everything that god gave me
we got more ground to cover but i feel
something
thank you lord
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never the same again
never the same again
and so because
jesus submitted
to the process
and didn’t break character
you’ve never broke character
god did two things for him
the first thing that god does for him
is it says in verse 9 it says therefore
god
highly exalted him
god highly
exalted him
if you’re taking notes here’s a thought
to write down
when you’re submitting to a process
for every dip
that the process requires there will be
an elevation
somebody got to catch that
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see there’s some people in here right
now
and you thought you were going down
because you submitted to a process
because you dipped
but god will never allow a dip in
purpose
if there wasn’t an impending elevation
oh god help me
today yep yep for for every dip
for every dip
you hear me for every dip it’s almost
like the stock market if you if you
follow the stock market
there are dips
there are dips sometimes deep dips
but if you track it over 20 years what
are you going to see it always trends up
that’s how purpose is
that’s how the calling is
that’s how the process is
if you look at it over time if you look
at your life
and some of you some of us have been
through some crazy stuff
and the evil one likes to give us to
focus on what we’ve been through to walk
around bruised but if you sometimes take
a step back and look you will see that
your life actually trended upwards in
spite of that
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in spite of that
and so for every dip there is an
elevation
here’s another one to write down
sometimes the process watch this will
temporarily take you low
so that it can permanently set you high
that’s where patience comes in
right
jesus was temporarily taken to the
lowest of lows
but the scripture says that god
highly exalted him
so he exalted him watches and the
elevation will always be greater than
the dip
always are we tracking
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and so god
does two things
he highly exhausts him i do want to show
something
and i think this is an important point
process has levels
processes levels
if you look at jesus let’s just look at
real quick it says if we go back to
we’re almost done by the way if we go
back to verse 8 it says in being found
in appearance as a man he humbled
himself so the process required that he
humble himself and became obedient right
and that word obedient literally means
it has the idea of listening intently
so he humbles himself that’s part of the
process but it he’s going to level up in
just a second and he became obedient to
the point of death that’s another level
so he humbled himself to his
circumstances but then to become
obedient to death is another level
so process has as has levels and
actually it even goes to another level
it says it says so he humbled himself
level one let’s just call him level one
and then he humble and he becomes
obedient to death that’s level two right
and then it says and even death on the
cross that’s level three
so sometimes we we we stop when the
process requires
more so in other words we’re good with
level one
i come to church
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level two is consistently
starts getting a little shaky
and tithing is level three oh heck no
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and what i’ve learned is at every level
there’s an elevation
so so i can’t god might be able to
choose you on one level but can’t choose
you in another level
because it all has to do with your
willingness to submit to the process
let’s keep going we’re almost there
we’re almost there so he does two things
he because jesus
submitted to the process and didn’t
break character god highly exalts him
the second thing he does is he gives him
a name
and this this this is important and
we’ll land right in here
he gives him
a name
did you know
that your name is not your name
your name
your parents give you a name
and then god gives you a name
the name that your parents give you
prayerfully is honorable they felt good
about you and so they probably named you
wonderful anybody named wonderful in
here
they probably named you something
wonderful
that’s all great you know i’m sure there
was love in you know in in the name that
they came up
for they came up with for you
but but but the name that your parents
gives you is different than the name
that god gives you because your parents
weren’t there when you were formed
that’s jeremiah 1 before god says before
i
formed you in the belly you thought it
was mommy and daddy getting
that was the process
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but that was not the original
god caused them to come together
because there was something in his mind
concerning you that he needed to see
produced in the earth
and there was something in those two
coming together
and producing you
that had everything to do with what god
wanted to do
are you tracking with me
so so
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process i
see this is where i need my wife sarah
to come just
pull me in you know this is normally
when she’s like reel it in
reel it in
the point that i’m making is that god
gives you a name
and it’s different
your parents weren’t there they love you
and you sweet they have all these
memories of you
and just so cute and sweet
you know all that kind of stuff and
that’s wonderful
but they don’t understand the divinity
that’s on you
they might be praying for it
but they don’t understand it deeply and
that’s why when god is calling abraham
who
coincidentally is the father of faith
for all the three big faiths
what does he tell him he says
get out of your father’s house
and out of your country and away from
your family
and to a land that
i will show you
so here’s what he’s saying he’s saying
essentially
you will not find yourself in your
father’s house
you will not find yourself in the
environment that has always known you as
that
and it’s not that it’s even a bad
environment they love you
you know
they love you it’s all wonderful but
sometimes watch this their love of you
or their love for you will actually keep
you from what god has for you because
they don’t want you to take the risk
they don’t want you to take the chances
they don’t want you to step up they love
you so much
you’re like make it biblical it was
peter and jesus
jesus is like hey i got to go to the
cross and do my thing that’s why i came
and peter’s like no you won’t you will
never do that peter like raised up on
jesus like his chest you know
start talking with his chest i will
never let that happen jesus rebuked him
and he said get behind me seek out from
satan
like you better jesus jesus rolled up a
little you better get behind me
he says you savor the things of man
not the things of god showing that there
was a distinction between the way god
sees a thing and how god would hallow a
thing
and how we as humans would handle it
so you got a name
and and and i have six amazing kids
six amazing kids
but i’m not sure that i know all their
names
i i know the name that we gave them
but i have to be honest
and say i i don’t know
that i might have some clues
but i don’t know the name so i have to
create a little space
so they can find their name
you hear me
and
and you have a name
isn’t it interesting
it says that god highly exalts jesus
and gives him a name after
he submits to
a process
which meant that even jesus
didn’t come here with his full name
well that’s message of theology i don’t
really care though
israel
was not born with his name
he was born jacob
jacob
hello
but after he went through a
process
of wrestling
with himself and with god
he got his name
here is why your name
is important
until you discover your divine name and
i’m talking about identity you’re like
what is my name what i don’t know what
it is is it is it moses
when i say name
i’m talking about
your divine identity
and your divine identity has respect in
the universe
oh i wish somebody would catch what i
said
when you say universe what are you
talking about i’m talking about
everything that god made
the universe is the created thing
everything
that
has been created is created and will be
created responds to god’s truth
and it will respond to you you’ve seen
it romans 8 19
for the earnest expectation
of the creation eagerly awaits for the
revealing of the
children of god
and notice it didn’t say the revealing
of christians
because you can be a christian and not
have your name
and walk in your name
no we’re talking about
can we talk like this today
we’re talking about
the divine
name
it says that all of creation the earnest
expectation of creation the earnest
expectation of the universe is waiting
on you to be you
oh god i feel it
the universe needs you to be you
if you become you wars may cease
if you become you poverty may leave
if you become you whole nations might
walk in a new
dimension of economic development if you
become you
so so
he gives him a name
and my question is what’s your real name
do you know
do you see the value in finding out who
you truly are i’m not talking about your
your stage name your brand is
whatever
that’s cool we all got that stuff we
work it and all that kind of stuff but
that ain’t nothing
the only reason why i even have a
quote-unquote brand is because i’ve
submitted to the process of my call
so the brand is just a tool
come on somebody
it is just a cloak and a tool
that allows me to get in places where my
call can show up
are you tracking with me
what’s your real name
and what are you willing
what process are you willing to endure
to discover it
put some speck on my that takes a whole
that takes it to a whole nother place
put some speck on my name let me tell
you something your real name already has
some speck on it
it’s already got some speck on it
who’s going to find your real expect i’m
sorry see again i need sarah
last thing i’m going to say we’re down
here we’re done we’ll pray
we’re gonna go have a nice easter dinner
it says in verse 11 this is interesting
let me read it again
it says therefore god has already
exalted him and giving him a name which
is above every name that at the name of
jesus every knee should bow those in
heaven and of those on earth and of
those under the earth i like that
that feels like past present future
of those in heaven
that’s eternal
those on earth that’s present
and those under the earth that’s past
died past
past present future right your your
divine name is eternal past present and
future has anyway that’s that’s two
that’s too deep
it says in verse 11 watch this so he
gives him a name
and his name has respect everywhere
and when you submit to the process
and you walk in your name your identity
your identity is going to have respect
ever i feel that and some people in this
room your name’s going to have respect
in nations
and that’s why you have to be willing to
submit to the process because the
process might send you to another nation
i’m prophesying to somebody
trying to move on but i’m prophesying
you you you might be why isn’t it
working here maybe you’re not where
you’re supposed to be
because i’ve got to submit to a process
abraham had to leave okay that was just
catch it that’s where you write it down
and don’t pretend like you didn’t hear
it
because i didn’t elaborate
if we caught you in your spirit just
write it down say you got me you got me
and lastly it says
that the name of jesus every knee should
bow
those in heaven of those on earth have
those under the earth and that every
tongue should confess that jesus christ
and that every tongue should confess
that jesus christ is lord to the glory
of god the father that was heavy because
not only does he give him a name he
exalts him he gives him a name but
others couldn’t deny his name
it kind of extended out
so so when you’re when you’re walking in
the power of your name you’re not even
going to have to say your name
you’re just going to show up and others
are going to confess your name
so this speaks to your impact your
impact
on others your identity the truth of you
is going to have an impact on others and
your name is going to be
undeniable and is going to be connected
to generations
and will ultimately bring glory
to the father all because
you did not despise the process
but you embrace the process
i think that there’s some people i’m
done i think that there’s some people
and you’re either in a process
and it is painful and confusing because
it doesn’t feel good if it doesn’t feel
good it must not be god
who told you that
who told you that good friday i’m sure a
good friday didn’t feel good to jesus
nor those who loved him and those who
were watching him and those who were
experiencing him suffer
wasn’t good
but as pastor stephanie said the other
day when we were on live she said good
is qualified not by the moment but by
the outcome
the outcome
sometimes
the process doesn’t feel good but it
produces good
and so there might be some in this room
right now when you’re in you’re in a
process and you maybe you didn’t maybe i
just gave language to where you’re at
because it’s challenging and it’s
difficult and it feels sacrificial and
it’s and it’s confusing because it
doesn’t feel like or look like or seem
like what god promised
so maybe i’m just giving languages
process
and if you would submit to the process
trust god sometimes when you can’t see
god’s hand you have to trust his heart
you’ve got to trust his heart
i know god loves me
i know god is for me
and if i’m in it that means that god has
already pre-qualified
my exit
and not only that but he’s already
searched me and he searched my inside he
searched my capacity
and he has said you can withstand it
and he also has said
the latter
will be greater so much so
that you won’t even be able to compare
what it costs you to get there with
there
are you tracking with me
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you’re in the process
for others of you god is calling you to
a process
he’s calling you to a process he’s
calling you to a level of sacrifice
some process
and
i was going to say there’s no other way
but let me explain i guess there is
another way but if but if you go another
way then you can’t be you
and if you’re not you who are you
god has something in his mind
some in his mind he didn’t just
arbitrarily create you and your life is
just like kind of like whatever no
there’s great intentionality in
everything about you
and everything about what you’ve
experienced and everything about what
you’ve gone through and all that kind of
stuff all that is by design even what
you hate
about your journey
somehow is working together for good
romans 8 28 god says
that he causes all things to work
together for good that word work
together is one word it’s the greek word
center gale and it’s where we get our
english word synergy
there is a synergy
between everything in your life good
challenging and indifferent
and when it all comes together it is
synergized to produce good
this is the god we serve
i want to pray for you
i want to pray for you
you receive that word is that resonating
is that it hit me hitting the spot a
little bit
yeah
i know i’m getting it for me
god loves you and he’s for you and he’s
got you
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and jesus modeled it
jesus modeled the power of process
and we’ve got to get back to celebrating
process
the instant gratification
spirit
has no regard nor respect for process
and that’s a mistake
and i pray it’s something that our
generation will fix
it’s a mistake
quick does it mean good think about it
in our culture and our mentality right
now fast means good
we want everything fast the faster the
better that’s not true
it can be true in some areas but it
cannot be a fundamental
perspective
i pray for you father thank you so much
for this moment i get to spend we get to
spend together with you and
with your sons and daughters who have
gathered here
in this moment god to hear thank you for
what you shared and what you made us
feel and know and understand
and i pray it would take root and bear
fruit
even as we asked in the beginning that
we would never be the same do it
got to thank you for what you’re doing
in our hearts and in our minds god and
our souls and our bodies and our lives
god we know it’s good for us thank you
for our church god thank you that we’re
back home
after two years away lord god you kept
us you preserved that’s god and and uh
lord i i don’t even want to say we’re
back home god i feel like we’re forward
home we’re forward home and we’re going
forward and from glory to glory and
dimension and dimension seal this in the
hearts and the minds of your people god
may they have may they not miss one
thing i pray against distractions that
will come and try to take this word or
try to twist this word or whatever god
but what you said you said
and what we heard we heard and what we
received we received
and give us the strength that you gave
to jesus
we humbled himself and submitted himself
to that process so we can do the same
that you might
raise us up and give us our name
so much so that others god will be drawn
to us confessing and it will all be to
your glory
now i want to pray for some people some
people here who may not know you yet
but even in this time together you’ve
introduced yourself to them yes you have
and you’ve touched them in a place that
a man cannot touch
you have made it
quite clear that you know their life
and you know their pain you know their
uprisings you know their downsides you
know their struggles
because i have never met them before
but by the spirit even as we prayed in
the beginning
you said some things that only a god who
knows their insides
would know
you’ve touched them
and i believe you’ve touched them
as a drawing point
to draw them to you not religion
but to a real true relationship
with you rabboni and the teacher
that you will teach us everything we
need to know in life that you will never
leave us no forsakens that your spirit
will guide us
and i thank you god that in this moment
they’re making a decision
now while we’re all praying and our
heads about and our eyes are closed if
you’re here
and you feel like god touched you in a
unique and profound way and you want to
open up your heart to that experience
not just in this moment but that ex that
experience that presence that god that
person that touched you
can go with you forever and guide you
forever if that’s you nobody’s looking i
just want to connect with you if you’re
here and you say pt god touched me and i
want to say yes to god i want you to put
your hand up so i can see you want to
come into greece bless you i see you i
see you all over this world i see you i
see you i see all over this room i see
you i see i see you all over this room i
see you i see you i see you and i agree
with god i agree with god i agree with
god i agree with god concerning your
life i agree with god i agree with god
that you will know god i agree with god
that you be filled with the spirit of
god i agree with god that he will teach
you and he will lead you and he will
feed you i agree with god that you will
move through life with grace but you
will move through life with power but
you will move through life with his
presence i agree with god that as you
submit to the process god is going to
exalt you i don’t care how low you go
god is going to lift you up i agree i
agree with god that god is going to
reveal to you your true identity that
you’re going to walk in something
different that you’re going to talk in
something different and the gates of
heaven are going to open up over your
life and god’s gonna talk to you and
god’s gonna walk with you and god’s
gonna empower you and god’s gonna heal
you and he’s gonna be your best friend
and he’s gonna be a friend that sticks
closer than a brother and he’s gonna be
your deliverer and your savior and your
wisdom and your god i agree that all
these things are happening in your life
right now
and i want the room to repeat after me
dear heavenly father
i thank you for jesus
thank you for making him
who had no sin
no weakness
no limitation
i thank you for making him
all of my weakness
all of my limitations
all of my shortcomings
all of my brokenness
you put on his body
nailed it to the cross
and once and for all
put it to death
but on the third day
you raised him up
and because i’m in him
i’m raised up too
and i’ve got a name
in the heavenly places
and god i thank you
that you’re revealing
my new name
and my new identity
to me
and i will submit
to whatever process you invite me into
that i might walk
in the power of my calling
now fill me with your spirit
and empower me
for the great purpose
of my life
in jesus name
amen amen amen amen
hallelujah
hallelujah