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I often
wonder though I see in scripture
especially in John over and over again
where John goes out of his way to say
that he was the disciple whom Jesus
loved and I often wonder to myself
whether or not John was true in his
perception not that he wasn’t someone
who Jesus loved but to go out of his way
to say he was the one whom Jesus loved
suggest to me that he felt a little bit
of favoritism in his relationship with
Jesus and while I certainly believe that
that is the birthright of any of us who
are believers we should feel like we are
the favorite one you know on the outside
looking in I do Wonder though if he and
Peter had a unique bond that has not
fully been
explored because when I look at the
dynamic between Peter and Jesus I see
over and over again how he allowed him
insight and access that he didn’t
necessarily give to the other
disciples when I look in the scripture
and I think to myself what is the most
powerful interaction between Jesus and
Peter there are so many different
moments that come to mind he healed his
mother-in-law he went out of his way to
make sure that his mother-in-law was
healed he also allowed him the
opportunity to exercise whether or not
he could walk on water we often talk
about how Peter failed at walking on
water as if we have jet skis on our feet
but the fact that Peter even had the
audacity to ask whether or not he could
do it and Jesus said if you have the
audacity to ask I’ll create the
opportunity for you to do it to me
there’s something powerful about their
relationship that he knew that he could
ask something of Jesus and that Jesus
would fulfill now maybe he didn’t keep
the faith and maybe he could have worked
harder but he had a certain audacity
that I don’t think we can underestimate
what is the most powerful
interaction perhaps it’s at the Mount of
tabar when he has the Mount of
transfiguration moment and suddenly this
Jesus that they have been following is
now dazzling white and shining and it is
undeniable that Jesus is not just a good
man he’s not just the anointed one
though they thought that he was but this
is something that you’ve never seen
before this is a glory that the world
has yet to behold and he allowed Peter
to be a part of that moment was that the
most powerful interaction
maybe maybe it was the moment where
Jesus asks Peter who do you say that I
am and when Peter responds he receives a
new name because at the end of the day
Jesus tells him that this Revelation is
what I’m going to to build my church on
and Flesh and Blood did not reveal this
to you Peter and Jesus had a
thing I like Peter and not just because
they say he had a cussing Spirit on him
cuz I am
delivered and not just because he cut
the ear off because I too am
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delivered one of my favorite moments I
think perhaps the most powerful moment
between Jesus and
Peter is in John 13 though there are
other moments in the synoptic gospel
that Al that also covers it this moment
in John 13 sticks out in my mind because
it is the end of the last
supper and Jesus has made clear his
journey toward the
cross they have had the first
communion and I imagine when I try to
depict what what it was like to be in
that room that there was a real
seriousness a real
sobriety between Jesus and the disciples
at this
moment and I think the most powerful
interaction that we see between Jesus
and Peter takes place when Peter asked
in John 13 whether or not he could
follow Jesus where he was
headed I didn’t give them this scripture
but I want to read it to you for the
sake of you fully understanding it’s in
John
13:37 and it says Peter said to him Lord
why can I not follow you now I will lay
down my life for your
sake and Jesus answered him and he says
will you lay down your life for my sake
most first of all y’all better okay most
assuredly I say to you that the rooster
shall not Crow till you have denied me
three
times to
me this is the most powerful interaction
between Jesus and
Peter not the moment where he had the
opportunity to walk on water not the
moment where he was at the Mount of
transfiguration not the moment where he
healed his mother-in-law not the moment
where he gave the Revelation this to me
is the most powerful interaction because
this is the moment in which Jesus tells
Peter something about himself that he
did not know he was capable
of this is the
moment where Jesus gives Peter insight
about Peter that Peter himself doesn’t
even know
exist we love these
moments where Jesus sees us as greater
than we see
ourselves where our future and our
destiny and our gifts and talents are
more powerful than we could even imagine
we love it when we feel like we’ve been
sleep on ourselves but very rarely do we
dig into those moments where Jesus tells
us something about ourselves that
doesn’t quite measure up to who we see
ourselves
as like I’m
loyal like I have integrity like you can
count on me this is the most powerful
interaction because Peter thinks highly
of himself as a
disciple he sees himself one who can
easily follow Jesus no matter where he
goes I don’t care how dark the road is
going to be I can be with you and yet
Jesus says that you cannot live up to
your own
intention
yeah because who we intend to be and the
impact of who we actually are sometimes
have
distance your intention and your
impact we are responsible just as much
for Our intention as we are for our
impact so it doesn’t fully matter what
you mean if what you mean didn’t come
out in the way that you delivered
it which is difficult for us to
comprehend because yes you cannot
control the way that a person
experiences you and yes they need to do
their own work but that does not give us
license to just do and say whatever we
want to say well I didn’t mean it that
way if they took it that way that’s on
them no no no you are responsible for
making sure that the way that I impacted
you the way that I said it that I can
stand by it in my intentions and in the
presence of God I am responsible for
making sure that my intention and my
impact
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align which is why relationships become
so challenging alling for
us not just our relationship with Jesus
but also our relationships with
others because there’s a certain level
of humility required for us to make sure
that our intentions are constantly
aligning with our impact as much as
possible when we’re
parenting I like that when we’re loving
on one
another I have a responsibility to make
sure that this all aligns because I
recognize that in this season of my life
in the influence that God has given me
and everyone if you know one person you
have influence that that influence could
be the very thing that makes or breaks
who God is calling them to be I am
responsible for my impact because I
never want to say or do anything that
robs you from becoming who God has
called you to be I recognize that when
you recognize that you have been the
villain in somebody’s story it changes
everyone has has been the victim and we
can shout all day about who did you
wrong but if we were really honest there
are some of us who have been the villain
in other people’s story and not because
I meant to but because I was so blind to
the way that my words come out I was so
blind to my own Brokenness that I hurt
you in the process when you become aware
that I can sometimes act in a way that
even I don’t agree with it makes you
listen differently when someone everyone
is saying the same thing that you don’t
know how to talk to people maybe it’s
nothing wrong with their ears maybe it’s
something wrong with your
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mouth and you mean
well but you’re not always doing
well
I think that Paul unpacks this in great
length in Romans
7 he
says for I do not do the good I want to
do but I do the evil I do not want to do
wait a
minute I don’t do what I want to do my
intention is not showing up in my
action I do the very thing that I don’t
want to do my in there’s a distance this
I keep on doing now if I do what I do
not want to do it’s no longer I who do
it but it is sin living in me that does
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it this word
sin when you look it up in the Greek it
means hermit it means to miss the
mark
oh I’m okay I’m G to say
this
sometimes in church not this
church other
churches we talk about other
churches we reduce sin down to maybe who
you sleeping with and whether or not you
lie but when we see sin as missing the
mark of who we are called to
be it humbles us because we recognize
each day that I wake up there are
moments where the thing I want to I
don’t do I don’t want to talk to you
crazy I don’t want to shut you out I
want to be open I want to be honest I
want to be vulnerable but the thing that
I want to do I do not do and it is sin
that is doing it in me what if we saw
those moments where we missed the mark
as not as just being human but as it’s
actually sinning missing the mark on who
God has called us to be as a partner who
God has called us to be as a parent who
God has called us to be as a leader who
God has called us to be as a friend I
know it’s not one of those sexy messages
but I’m telling you that you have to
recognize that there is a possibility
that you are missing the
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mark and if I’m missing the
mark what is it that needs to happen
within me where I do not compromise the
mark because it requires too much
communication and it requires too much
humility and requires a skill set and
quite frankly they don’t even deserve
the version of me who I would be if I
actually met the mark so now I’m meeting
their Mark instead of his Mark and they
have become my Lord instead of him my
Lord I am who I am regardless of who you
are sometimes I apologize not because
you deserve it but because I didn’t
deserve to miss the mark in that way
yeah you may have deserved that cussing
but I didn’t deserve to abandon my
mission in order to get down on your
level cuz when I get down on your level
I am no longer the
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mark and I can’t miss just because you
missed there are some people I don’t
want to be even
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with I’m sorry I don’t I don’t want to
be on your level I tried that it didn’t
work for me I don’t want to be on your
level I didn’t like who I was I don’t
want to be on your level it left me
bitter I don’t want to be on your level
it left me angry I don’t want to be on
your level the generational curse can’t
get broken if I stay on your level
they’ve been doing this in my family for
Generations God has called me to a
different Mark so yes I’m sorry that I
abandoned myself and yes I Repent God
because I missed the mark when I went
off and I read them for Filth but I came
home dirty because I missed the
mark
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Paul doesn’t just leave us there in
Romans 7 he tells us in Romans
8 that yes it is sin dwelling in
me I am missing the mark because of the
sin that is dwelling in me but in Romans
8 and2 he lets us know for the law of
the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has
made me free from the law of sin and
death that means that though I have
missed the mark because sin is dwelling
in me there is also something else
dwelling inside of me and the spirit of
God dwelling inside of me is going war
with the sin that is living inside of me
you can’t tell it but you’re sitting
next to somebody in a war zone because
the sin that is dwelling Within Me is at
war with the spirit of God that is in me
and I just wanted to let you know that
you may be in the midst of the battle
but the spirit of God does not lose and
sometimes God allows that sin to come to
the surface so that the spirit can get
it on the front line cuz if you get your
sin on the front line and you release
the spirit of God over that sin now God
can go to war with the thing that’s
going to war with your destiny now God
can go to war with the thing that’s
going to war with your family yeah bring
it out bring it out bring it out cuz I
got filled with something that’s bigger
than the sin dwelling within
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[Music]
me the spirit of God that’s why I don’t
want to just be in a room with the
spirit I got to lift my hands and
receive it that’s why I don’t want to
just be around the spirit that’s why I
say things like fill me up until I
overflow cuz I recognize that there is
some stuff in me that’s got to get out
of me if I’m going to be who God has
called me to be I realize I got some
abandonment issues I got some rejection
issues I got a pride demon to
fight and I can’t do it on my
own some of y’all sing fill me up you
singing a song
I’m making a request to God fill me up
god Till I overflow I want to run over
if I could sing I’d run you out of this
building cuz we would take about 10
seconds to ask God to fill us up until I
overflow cuz I got sin dwelling in me I
got pain dwelling in me I’m carrying
generational sin this sin didn’t even
start with me I got my great grandmother
sin down on on the inside of me but I
got a spirit of God that can chase it
out of my
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[Music]
bloodline it’s going to overflow it’s
going to overflow you get filled with
the spirit sometimes I lift my hands I
don’t even feel like it I’m tired I’m
depressed I’m worried but I lift my
hands cuz the spirit makes utterance on
my behalf when I can’t say a word I just
lift my hands cuz it’s all I got and
it’s all I
need this is a job for the spirit this
is not a job I can think my way out of
this is not a job I can play my way out
of this is a job for the spirit this sin
is a job for the spirit this addiction
is a job for the spirit this less is a
job for the spirit now when the spirit
gets finished with me I might be in
rehab when the spirit gets finished with
me I might be in therapy but no matter
where I go it’s got to start in the
spirit cuz the spirit’s going to finish
this
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[Music]
thing cuz I got to be free I got to be
free I can’t do it bound I can’t do it
in bondage God say some of you I can’t
promote you cuz I’m going to be
promoting a bound version of you and
where you go you got to be free to
create you got to be free to think you
got to be free to speak truth to power
and if I send you in there bound up
you’ll mess around and compromise when
I’m calling you to set a new standard