Sometimes you look up and find yourself just going with the flow. Allow SJR to remind you that the steps you are walking in are ordained. Start getting comfortable with being confrontational, especially when the enemy’s grips are so tight on your mind that you begin to believe that his voice is yours. It’s really not! Get out of your head and back in position where God is waiting to meet you. ___________________________________ Watch the full “Push Through” Sermon on the TD Jakes Ministries Youtube page. REGISTER for WE23: womanevolveconference.com 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 GIVE to (833) 611-9066 or click here FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIALS: Instagram: Women Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts Twitter: Woman Evolve and SJakesRoberts Facebook: Woman Evolve and Sarah Jakes RobertsWoman Evolve TV app!
we think often that the problem with
what happened with Eve in the garden is
when she ate from the fruit
and that is not what the problem is
the problem started and she told us out
of her own mouth in Genesis 3. she says
the serpent deceived me and then I ate
oh
the serpent found an opening and he did
not give her a command he gave her a
thought
hmm
I don’t have to tell you to sin
I don’t have to tell you to betray
yourself I don’t have to tell you to
give up on your destiny the serpent
doesn’t even have to tell you to kill
yourself he just has to give you a
thought that this world would be better
without you in it I just have to give
you a thought your thought life is more
powerful sometimes than even your prayer
life because your thought life if you
don’t get a hold of it real good then
you’ll end up in a situation where the
thoughts of the enemy have taken root
and produce fruit in your life and then
when you recognize that your fault life
is under attack you go into your prayer
closet with a different strategy God I
don’t need you to change I need you to
help me get my head together God I’m
about to walk away from the very thing
that you called me to cause something
got in my head I got to be careful in
certain Seasons because
you in my head oh God the one place you
cannot be is in my head because I’m
trying to be transformed in my mind if I
let you in my head my mind is so
malleable that it can turn in the
direction of Destiny or it can turn in
the direction of Destruction and all of
a sudden I’ll go from thinking I’m
called and anointed to thinking that
there is no use for my voice in the
world all of a sudden I think that I can
do this but because you got in my head
get out of their hair
get out of their minds God we claim it
back we lay it at the altar sometimes I
gotta lay my spirit out sometimes I
gotta lay my mind out my mind is telling
me that I’m not fearfully and
wonderfully made my mind is telling me
that the weapons has prospered my mind
is trying to tell me that there is no
use for me but Satan I rebuke you in the
name of Jesus say that I served you in a
fiction notice we don’t have to wait
till the end of a sermon to get to an
altar call I hear God saying I’ll call
out your mind right now I want to talk
to somebody whose mind has been playing
tricks on you I want to talk to somebody
whose mind has been making you think
that you are not called and anointed for
your destiny your mind is making you
believe that the gift doesn’t matter
your mind is making you believe that you
cannot break the generational curse but
I came here to tell you
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let this mind be in you
that was also in Christ Jesus I feel
like going to war in this place I got on
this dress and I’m trying to be pretty
but I feel like going to war with the
without all God baby
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scripture says
that the weapons of our Warfare are not
carnal but they are Mighty through God
for the pulling down of strongholds that
word stronghold actually means a
fortified argument that means that the
weapons of our Warfare are not carnal
but they are Mighty through God for the
pulling down a fortified arguments ever
since you was little they’ve been in
your head that argument is so fortified
but I came here to tell you I got weapon
stronger than the argument I got a
weapon stronger than what they say
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I got a weapon for that I got a prayer
for that I got a worship for that I got
it Jesus for that I know what you’re
said about me but do you know what Jesus
did for me Jesus said something that a
volcano do Jesus did something
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see
foreign
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Warfare
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Jesus
Jesus
okay
oh God
that’s why the serpent has to get in
your head
because if he gets in your head he can
separate you
and if he can separate you from God he
can separate you from you
you don’t even know who you are
that’s why I had to attack your mind
when you were young
because if I started when you’re young
you may not ever find out who you really
are
I thank God that he still closed his
doors because even though you got me
when I was young God says I’ma close the
door but then I’m gonna open the door so
I can show him anyway
imma show him with an Open Door who they
are I’ma show you with an Open Door what
I think about you you’re blessing not my
thoughts and I thank God for that the
ways are not my way
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all right
that’s what happens right
the serpent
separated them
the enemy separated you
with one thought
two thoughts
echoed by people
who had their own thoughts
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I still got a long way to go so I don’t
Adam and Eve
are in the garden and they’ve been
separated
and what they do with this separation
that’s what so many of us do
they move into
and avoid an attachment
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they say to themselves
imma just keep pushing through
imma avoid who I should have been
I’m gonna avoid what I should have done
and I’ma just push through
what they call pushing through
is actually
pushing away
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they got their fig leaves
but when God is walking through the cool
of the garden and he asks where are you
it lets us know that they were avoiding
having to be in relationship with God
but they were not avoiding being in the
place that God had put them I wish I
could say that
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you see some of you
are patting yourself on the back
because you’re still in the vicinity
even though you aren’t in position
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I’m attached but I’m not
connected the way I once was
I’m in the marriage but I’m not
connected the way I’m just pushing
through
in the business but I’m not connected
I’m just pushing through but you’re not
pushing through you’re actually pushing
away
because pushing through requires an
element of Confrontation
and if you think pushing through is how
can I avoid it
or how can I punish it
then you never offered the opportunity
to be secure again
because you’re pushing away and not
through
and God gave me this message
because he told me that we are coming
into a point in the Earth
where we need people who understand the
difference
between pushing through and pushing away
God help me
he showed me
that until we’re willing to have a
confrontation
with what happened to us when we were
separated
that we cannot become secure enough to
be in position
man
everyone talks about how Martha was so
busy that she couldn’t serve Jesus well
Martha was so busy that she couldn’t
receive from Jesus
so busy serving that she couldn’t
receive
they don’t give her enough credit
however
for when her brother was dead
and she was the first one to come up to
Jesus
and she said to him had you been here my
brother would not have died she got
confrontational with Jesus because it is
better to be confrontational than to
avoid him all together you see some of
us are in here not because everything is
going the way we want it to we’re in
here because I need to have a
confrontation because I trusted you and
I want to understand can you bring this
thing back to life I want to understand
what your next plan is for me some of us
came in here to celebrate others of us
came in here to have a confrontation
because Martha says I gotta push through
what I’m feeling right now so that I can
have a confrontation
with Jesus
she’s confronting him
because connection is more important
than separation
and God cannot comfort
what you will not confront
can’t fix it in the marriage
I can’t fix it in your mindset
I can’t fix it and the kids if you don’t
confront it I can’t Comfort it I know
you’re insecure and I know you want
everyone to think that you have it all
together but I’m telling you I cannot
Comfort it if you are not willing to
confront it because that same Jesus told
Martha that your brother is going to
live and she says no he’s not alive but
he could have been alive I know that
you’re still able and he says listen you
dropped the gun if you just stay in this
tension with me you’ll see
that I have a plan outside of this
this element of
confrontation
requires that we
push through
instead of pushing away no one
got anything done in the Bible
without pushing through
not avoiding it
going right up the gut of it that’s so
country
you got to go right up the gut of this
thing
you gotta face it head on you say
greater is he that is in you than he
that is in the world but if you don’t
put that greatness in a position to be
great then how can you ever understand
that greatness is working on your behalf
you got to push through
the woman with the issue of blood had to
push through blind Bartimaeus had to
push through there are people in this
room who’ve had to push through and push
through it wasn’t that it was easy but I
pushed my way through I had to lose a
few friends I had to have some hard
conversations but I pushed through
because I believe that on the other side
of my push was a miracle I believe that
on the other side of my push was God’s
presence I believe that on the other
side of that push was a new revelation
of my identity and who I am in God I
didn’t just get up here I pushed my way
through somebody else may have strolled
but God I’m pushing my way I’m pressing
my way towards the Mark it’s not easy
for me to do it but I’m pushing
not just for what I want
but what I’m pushing for is connected to
God’s presence
when we find
Jesus in the text
he is pushed through
Jesus
he was 12 years old in the temple
but Luke tells us
that when Mary had Jesus
that he grew in wisdom and stature and
favor with God and Men
you don’t get wisdom and stature in
favor with God and Men unless you push
through some things
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I have to tell you I find this
fascinating
because I think we have done such a good
job at
exalting the Divinity of Jesus
that we miss out on what makes him our
Kinsmen Redeemer
that he like you
had to grow with wisdom and stature and
favor with God
and Men
he had to push through some immaturity
Mary had to go back and get him
he had to push through understanding who
he was in the context of the world he
had to push through
18 years of something before he could
even be used he had to push through some
things
And yet when we find him in the text
this push is different
this push
is a defining push I believe God gave me
this message
because there is someone
and maybe it’s just me
standing
at one of the most pivotal pushes
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in their life
they’re having to push through in a way
that they’ve never had to push through
before
this push is different because if Jesus
pushes through this moment it’s going to
break open a damn if Jesus pushes
through this moment it’s going to
establish his ministry this is not the
same push of a 12 year old boy this is a
push of a 30 year old man this is a push
that will determine whether or not he
can be hit the Savior this is the push
that will determine whether or not he’s
qualified for the call this is the push
that will determine if the devil that
got Adam and Eve will be the devil that
got him this is the push that will break
the generational curse this is the push
I don’t know who you are but I wanted to
let you know that this is the push
that’s going to Define your family this
is the push that is going to Define how
you connect and how you engage this
is push
oh God
Adam and Eve
are in the garden with the serpent in
Genesis
Jesus is in the wilderness with Satan
and Matthew
from the outside looking in the scene
probably looks the same
but before Jesus could step into his
call
he had to fight a devil that wasn’t even
his own
cause he had to let the devil know that
you cannot use the same trick on me that
you used on them I’m not going to let
you in my head some of you are not even
fighting your own devil some of you are
fighting the devil of those who came
before you but I hear God saying you had
to fight them now so that when I release
you that devil would know as you took
your first step that this is not the
same kind of woman this is not the same
kind of man I gotta use something
different cause I’m not gonna let the
same thing that took them out
it’s not the same
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you can’t step into Destiny until you
pass the test of defeating a devil that
don’t even belong to you you cannot step
into Destiny until you pass the test of
recognizing what this is this is not
about you this is about Devils that were
here before you but baby when he would
ran into you they ran into a rock
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yes
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when Satan
when Satan ran up on Jesus
Jesus was armed
because he already knew the devil’s
tricks
I already knew he knew he wanted in his
head he already knew he wanted him to
stumble you better study that
generational curse you want to break if
you don’t study it you don’t know where
the openings are
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[Music]
you know
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Jesus
the good Jewish boy that he was
understood what happened in the garden
so before he could launch his ministry
he had to defeat
the devil that was there
before he said yes oh God
you’re right
there have been Devils waiting
for you to get in position you are right
oh hell it’s breaking loose I’ve been
waiting for you to get here said the
devil
but the devil didn’t know I was waiting
to get here too
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I was waiting to get here too I better
my word I said in my prayer I was
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for this cause the weapons of my Warfare
are not carnal but
but I was waiting
I fasted for this I prayed for this I
was waiting on you I got a word for a
cup here that you all on the way
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foreign
[Applause]
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I was
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waiting
we almost done
we gotta go
Jesus was waiting on me
I Pastor for this
I prayed for this
I already know what you do
but I already know who I am
he didn’t just run up on the devil he
had the Holy Ghost how could the son of
God
the Holy Spirit to follow on him because
even the son of God needed the spirit of
God to follow on him because the devil
he had to fight was going to require
everything he had and things he didn’t
even know he had