Get Out of Your Way - Sarah Jakes Roberts

3:21 I've got a word I want to share with you. I'm in Matthew 26. I have to tell you, come on, yeah, y'all, come on now. Big Chris is gone, so in his memory, let her rip.

3:43 I remember when we first moved and, you know, I don't know if y'all know this or not, but, you know, the Lord built this house, you know, through Bishop T.D. Jakes, and, you know, he's a, he know how to string a few sentences together. And I remember the first time I was preaching, and Chris goes, that's the word, that's the word. I said, oh, I'm preaching, preaching now. He will certainly be missed. This is a big church, I know that, and if you're maybe not as comfortable in big environments. I just want you to know that we go out of our way to make the big place feel as small and connected and intimate as possible. And that you matter to us. That you're not just a sea of faces. That you matter to us.

4:35 There's a couple in my head. You're a couple I haven't met you. You sit up there week in and week out. You guys have locks. I see you guys week in and week out. And I see you guys up there. You come in. Y'all get real happy when Bishop preached, but then y'all gave us a chance up in the corner, you, and sometimes you come with your daughters. I be seeing y'all is what I'm saying.

4:56 Because you matter to us, and our prayer is always, God, help us to see the people in this room. To not think that this is a platform or a mega church, because these are your sons and daughters, and you all matter to us, and so it matters when our family experiences a loss, and it matters to us when you're going through. We love you. We really, really love you here at the Potter's House. We really do.

5:23 And you're seen. Can you just turn to the person beside you and say, I see you. I'm glad you're here. Thank you for giving the house a chance, for coming again, over and over again. I got on. All right now, wrap it up. All right. All right, that's enough fellowshipping. Okay. I don't know what this message is called. I think it's called Get Out of Your Way, but we're going to see what God says. But in Matthew 26, Jesus is going through an interesting shift. He has performed miracle after miracle. He has gone from town to town, and for many it is undeniable that he is the Messiah. and yet there is a shift that must take place when he moves from just demonstrating his anointing to when he heads towards the cross.

6:22 And as he begins to head towards the cross, he experiences what I think many of us experience when life begins to take a shift that we're not necessarily sure we have the capacity to endure. what I have been enjoying about my relationship with Jesus are all of the moments where he's like me I know that there are so many moments where he does things I can never do and he walks in power and authority that I will never have and yet what I am loving are the moments where he looks like me because if I can see myself in his humanity then I can see myself grow in the space of divinity and at this moment in the text I think he is the most relatable to me than any other moment and in Matthew 26 we're going to begin in verse 37 he has gone to the garden of Gethsemane and as he is at the garden of Gethsemane he takes his large circle of 12 disciples and he narrows it down to just three because he's headed towards the cross and when you're headed into difficult seasons you can't always take everybody with you.

7:34 He's got to boil it down to the essentials. And he's boiled it down to the essentials. Verse 37 says, And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and he began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. If you're in this room and you're sorrowful and you're deeply distressed, Jesus says, I know exactly what that feels like. and he confides to them he says my soul is exceedingly sorrowful even to death stay here and watch with me then he goes a little further and he fell on his face and he prayed saying oh my father if it is possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as you will Then he goes back to the disciples because he wants to know whether or not they did what he asked them to do.

8:37 He asked them to stay here and watch with me. And he goes to the disciples and he found them sleeping. Because even the ones he thought could stick with him in a hard season couldn't even keep up with him. And he says to them, what, could you not watch with me one hour? This was just one hour of prayer and you fell asleep. Some of us can't make it in the prayer closet five, ten minutes. Jesus says it was just an hour.

9:06 Watch and pray. I'm going to give you another chance to watch and pray. Lest you enter into temptation, the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Then he goes back to God a second time. He says, oh, my father, if this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your will be done. I love this because we talk about this, nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done, as if he said it only one time. But he had to go back and say it again.

9:40 Lord, are you sure, sure? And then he goes back to the disciples, and he came, and he found them sleeping in, for their eyes were heavy. They just couldn't do it, so he left them. And he went away again, and he prayed the third time, saying the same words. Lord, are you really going to make me go through this? Lord, are you sure you can't change this situation? Is this really the world that we're living in right now. Is this really what I'm up against? Then he came to his disciples and said to them, are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand. Spirit of the living God, I love you. Thank you for meeting me in the area of inadequacy and weakness and allowing your strength to stand tall in me. God, I am asking for a fresh outpouring of your spirit, that we would experience fresh oil for the season, that you would meet these, your sons and daughters in the areas where they need you the most, God, and that you would illuminate the path that they are to take, the words that they are to speak, and the way that they can withstand the times that they are standing in. God, I ask for the spirit of wisdom, of revelation, of prophecy, of peace, that even as I pour, I would receive, and that you would allow me to be precise in delivering this word, God.

11:32 not my will but your will be done have your way great god that you are in jesus name amen amen you can be seated let's go all right now I have noticed this shift in social media and the way that social media awards certain types of content. And one of the things that I recognize that is kind of counterintuitive is when we first maybe started on social media, everyone would say, this is just a place where you post your highlight reel. And everyone just sees the shining part of your life. And what I began to notice is that social media has begun to shift. It's not just the place where you show your highlight reel anymore. They are beginning to reward instead process.

12:29 You'll notice that there are more posts about getting ready with me or go with me as I do this than there are people just showing the finished outcome. I feel like that's very interesting. And honestly, in many ways, I feel like it is delivering many of us from the spirit of envy, if I'm honest. Because as long as someone was just showing the highlight reel, we would think to ourselves, I want that. I want to have that. I want to do that. I want to be that. But the more that they're showing the process, it's helping us to more adequately determine whether or not we really want that thing that we see. I thought to myself, I was looking at a fitness influencer. I was like, that's it, Lord. That's the body that I want to have.

13:15 I found it, Lord. Thank you. Then she showed me what she do to work out. And she showed me what she eats. And I realized I don't really want it that bad. I don't know if you've ever been in that situation. I want whatever you can do in the 50 minutes I'm going to give you three days a week while I still eat these cookies. Lord, whatever you can do with that. Okay, I watched Nara Smith. Her children wanted Pop-Tarts. I thought she was going to go to the grocery store. This girl done went and got wheat out the grass. She about to turn the wheat into bread to make the Pop-Tart. I don't have time for that, okay? The more that I see the process, the more that it changes whether or not I really want that result. And it is no wonder why researchers and sociologists are beginning to recognize this in between stage between adolescence and adulthood that they have labeled emerging adulthood.

14:17 Emerging adulthood is about from 18 to 25 years old. And this is a demographic where they are no longer moving into the stages of adulthood like previous generations did. graduating high school, going to college, getting the degree, and then going to buy a home and building a family, they're delaying some of these choices. I don't know if I'm going to go to college because I recognize that while everyone was holding the degree, the process required 20 years of paying off the debt from going to college.

14:52 Some of them aren't sure that they're getting married. The age for marriage is being pushed back more and more. You know why? because we started telling them how hard marriage is and how you lose yourself. And now all of a sudden we're delaying making decisions because I don't just want the results, I understand more about the process.

15:12 It is no wonder that we are seeing a generation begin to not just accept this idea that I should long for the promise. They're asking questions about the process. If you are in a season right now of promise, then you know better than anyone that you didn't just step into the promise. That it was a process. That's why you don't understand why people are jealous of your promise. The people standing in a promise will let you know that the promise don't even feel like a promise by the time you get finished going through the process. Somebody got to tell you. Every now and then someone got to tell you, girl, you know this is what you prayed for. I didn't even know that this is what I prayed for because it cost so much for me to step into it that I didn't realize I was in the promise.

16:07 You wouldn't want the promise if you knew the process. If you understood what I lost along the way, if you understood who I had to become along the way, If you understood who walked away from me who I had to walk away from if you could see the tears that I cried You want the promise but baby you can't get the promise without the process If you're standing in a promise and you are allowing people to celebrate your promise without informing them of the process, you are robbing them of the truth. They ought to know your process. They ought to know that I didn't just get here because I did everything the right way. There were some moments where I didn't think I was going to make it at all, but God stepped into the process. He's not just the God of my promise He was the God of my process He taught me how to walk this thing out He taught me how to raise these children He taught me how to build the life after the divorce He taught me that I didn't have to take my own life He wasn't just the God of my promise Don't look at my promise Don't be distracted by the promise Let me tell you about the process Let me tell you when I almost lost my mind Let me tell you when it didn't make any sense but God made a way out of no way. He is the God of the process. You're praising him for being the God of the promise, but I praise him for being the God of the process. That you came in the midnight hour and wrapped your arms around me when I was crying tears that no one knew I was crying. He was the God of the process. When I didn't know whether or not I could raise the child, he gave me language on the spot because he's the God of the promise when I wasn't sure who would stay or who would walk away he stayed in the midst of it all he is the God of the process oh no I feel like we could do better than that I need about five crazy people who know that you know that you know I wouldn't be where I am right now if it wasn't for the God

18:18 of the process. He was with me in the courtroom. He was with me in the doctor's office. His name ought to be on the degree because Lord knows I didn't have what it took but he was the God of the process. that's a word for somebody don't wait to meet God in the promise God says I'll meet you right in the process I'll build the marriage for you I'll raise the children with you I'll teach you what the business school could have never taught you I am the God of the process and I do not offer you a promise without a process that I'm willing to see you through. Come on, somebody. I'm not going to offer you a promise without also walking you through the process that gets you through the promise. I'll comfort you. I'll feed you. If you don't believe me, you should ask the children of Israel.

19:19 He says, I got a promised land for you, but I'm not going to wait for you to get to the promised land I'm gonna make sure you make your way to the promised land because he's the God of the process David you're gonna be king but before you get king you're gonna be betrayed and some people gonna talk about you and some people go you're gonna need a cave in the process you're gonna need some friends in the process God says I got people who will come to you in the middle of your process you think that people are assigned for when you get to the promise God says I got people who will be with you in the midst of the process. I'm trying to minister to somebody who's in the middle of the process. And you're wondering, God, I know you got a promise, but what about the process? God says, I'll be with you in the process too. I'm gonna let that marinate because the enemy will make you believe that the process is where you lose but he doesn't know that God will step right in the middle of the process that I'm not just a promise keeping God I'm a process keeping God you can't have this child in the middle of the process you can't have their mind in the middle of the process I'm building something in them. I got glory assigned to their name. I'm going to get with you in the process.

20:45 I don't know why that's making me so happy. That's making me real happy. Maybe I'm the only one in the middle of the process. And I don't know who I'm going to be on the other side. Quite frankly, I don't know how I'm going to get to the other side. But one thing I do know is that God is with me right now. So the other side is guaranteed. You know, I went back to school, and I'm pursuing my degree, and I've got, praise the Lord, thank you, Jesus. Amen. And a friend of mine, you know, she got on to me because she said, why didn't you tell me that you made the dean's list?

21:40 And I said, all right, that one, all right, praise the Lord. To God be the glory. Amen, stay focused. Amen, listen. And I said, well, I didn't tell you that I made the dean's list because I told you what I was making on my homework all along the way. And I told you what I was getting on the test all along the way. So I didn't tell you that I made the dean's list because the dean's list, I mean, I just figured you would know that I made the dean's list because the process was so tight that the promise was guaranteed. If you do the process right, the promise won't catch you by surprise because I stayed tight in the process. Oh yeah, we're going to get the process right because that's where the enemy tries to intervene is in the process because he can't stop the promise. When God spoke the promise, it was done. His word will not return into him void. The only place where the promise can be disrupted is in the process.

22:36 The promise depends on God. The process depends on you. So the enemy is going to wage his attack in the process. Oh, I like that.

22:58 All right. We got promise and we got process. The two must be seen together. You can shout over the promise. Just make sure when you finish shouting that you ask God now, what's the process? we do a real good job at receiving the promise but we get a little discouraged in the process but you have to understand that the two are connected no process no promise no promise without a process what you're going through is normal this is why we need people to not just let us celebrate their promise without telling us the process. Because when you don't tell me the process, I think there's something wrong with me that I'm ready to not make it. I think there's something wrong with me that my marriage is on the rocks. I think there's something wrong with me that I went into these rooms and said something stupid. But when you tell me the process, it lets me know, no baby, you're going to have some days where the marriage feels a little shaky. You're going to have some days where you don't know what you're talking about. I need you to share your process with me.

24:20 We need an intergenerational church. We need people who have gone ahead of us. And we need people who are coming up because someone represents a promise and someone else represents a process. And I need to know how do you stay married for 50 years? I need to know how do you survive political climates? I need to know that the same God that was faithful to you will be faithful to me. I need you to tell me about the goodness of God. I need you to tell me about the healing of God because I need to know about the process. So when we're reading scripture, it is imperative for us to have that same mentality. I'm not just here to get the promise of God. I need to understand that the promise is connected to a process.

25:19 No weapon formed against me will prosper. That's Isaiah 54 and 17. That's a promise. And every tongue that rises up against you in judgment, God says, I will condemn. That's a promise. But that promise is not for everybody.

25:39 So when you use it, make sure you connect the process to the promise. Because when you continue on, it says something crazy. It says, this is the inheritance, this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. Okay? The promise is no weapon formed against you will prosper, and every tongue that rises up against you, God will condemn. But the process to getting that promise is that I got to be a servant of the Lord Can I say something that you're not gonna like? Some of them weapons formed against you prospering because you don't serve God. i tried to whisper it so i didn't hurt nobody but i don't want you to just take this scripture and think that you can use it up against anything because sometimes god will let a weapon prosper so that it brings you to a place of surrender so that you can become a servant of the lord oh y'all know i want to be a church mother so this right up my alley Oh, yeah.

26:47 Some weapons formed against you will prosper until you get down on your knees and say, I've been serving fear. I've been serving pride. I've been serving ego. But I want to be a servant of the Lord. You know how to stop a weapon in its tracks? You start surrendering in the place where you're used to stand up. Oh, yeah. I feel my voice going, which don't make no sense, but we're going to preach this word. I'm going to need you to turn me up in the monitors. Yeah. You can stop a weapon in its tracks.

27:22 You can stop a weapon in its tracks. The moment you realize that I've been serving fear, and I've been serving doubt, and I've been serving addiction, and I've been serving my insecurities, and the weapons that have been formed against me are prospering, that's why these relationships keep looking the same. Different person, same toxic situation, because I'm serving an insecurity. I'm not serving God. That's why the business deals won't work out because I'm serving my pride. I'm not serving God. But if you want to stop a weapon in its tracks, I dare you to stop serving anything that don't look like God and say, you know what? If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, oh yeah, you can stop a weapon in its tracks. I changed my mind, devil. I changed my mind, fear.

28:16 I changed my mind, doubt. I don't serve you any longer. That weapon's got to stop in its tracks. No weapon. The moment you align yourself with God, the weapon's got to stop in its tracks. The devil thought he had me, but God sent a word for me. I came to stop a weapon in its tracks.

28:37 Yeah. one surrender away one cry away one turn away from stopping a weapon in its tracks i don't know who needs to hear this but i feel the spirit of god on it it's some weapons in your life and they've been prospering for too long because you've been serving the wrong things but i hear god saying if you serve me i'll stop every weapon every tongue that rises up against Thank you. I'll stop it I'll stop the rumors I'll stop the complaining It won't matter what they say about you I'll stop the weapon in its track You need to know that there's a weapon with your name on it But if you would turn from your wicked ways And seek my Some of these weapons are prospering.

29:49 So when I start seeing weapons being formed, before I claim the promise, I make sure that I'm in the right process. Because God, are you using this weapon to reveal to me that I got off track? You think the children of Israel knew when they weren't serving God? It happened so subtly that they just looked up and they were serving another God. and the weapons are meant to be a sign, a warning, because one of two things are true. The weapon has formed, and it's meant to bring you to your knees, or you focusing on the weapon is a distraction because you know you're in the will of God.

30:50 So I want to speak for a minute to someone who sees the weapons being formed. and as far as you know you're doing everything god told you to do come on somebody because you don't always know the will of god but you usually know what's not the will of god so god i'm doing everything that you asked me to do and it feels like the weapon is still prospering and it feels like every tongue that rises up against me is actually winning god says just wait a minute because if you're serving me you really don't have to worry about that because when i said no weapon formed against you will prosper and every tongue that rises up against you I will condemn. I meant that thing. That means you stay focused on where I placed you and I'll take care of the weapons. God says, I'll prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies. They sitting there making weapons and you sitting there about to eat because you thought that this was going to stop what God was doing in my life.

31:46 But God told me to stay the course. I don't know who you are, but I hear God saying, stay the course, because you've been serving me, and I won't let the weapon come your way. The weapon's got to come in your vicinity, so it can have a front row seat when I prepare the table. Okay. All right. Okay. So, alright, so here's the thing. The promise has a process. You want to make sure the only thing you have to do is survive the process.

32:53 The only thing I have to do is survive the process. Now that sounds easier said than done. Because the process be processing. You understand what I'm saying?

33:14 Child, that process don't take no days off. Like a McDonald's, open 24-7. Why? If you survive the process, forget about the promise for a minute. Just survive the process. How do I survive the process? I'm glad you asked. Surviving the process requires us to stay connected to God in the process. Not the promise. this is going to go up against some of the hymns we grew up singing where we was just hanging on to the promises of God and maybe there's a season for that but sometimes when you can't hang on to the promise of God if you could just hang on to God I got to find a way to invite God into this process.

34:14 I don't even have time to focus on the process. Have you ever been in the middle of the process in such a way where I don't even care about the promise anymore? I just need God. Lord, I just need you to get me through this. I don't even care about the promise anymore. I just need God. God, I don't care if you do it or don't do it. I need you to meet me right here, right now.

34:48 The promise could be five years away, ten years away. I don't care about the promise. I need you right here. this heartbreak I need you right here in this devastation I need you right here in this dream I need you in the process If you're taking notes, I want you to write this down. The process doesn't produce the promise.

35:18 Okay? The process is not producing the promise. It is producing the version of you who can step into the promise. the moment that God spoke the promise over your life, the promise was set in stone. So your process is not producing that promise. It is producing the you who can step into it. Okay. I'm going to go a little bit further, and I'm going to say this, that the process is meant to produce a version of you that looks like the promise keeper. That means that this process is supposed to make you look more like God. Oh, God, help me.

36:17 I want you to understand the intent of the process. The intent of the process is not so you can get. it's not so I can get get get get get so that I can look look look no no no that's not the point of the process because that would make it about you the point of the process is to make you look more like him the promise is just bait that's why the people will tell you when they get the promise that what I really got was not the thing it's who I became in the process I had to look like God to step into this. Do you know who I had to forgive in order to step into this? Do you know who I had to become? Do you know what I had to heal? Do you know what I had to let go of? Who I became in the process made me look more like Jesus. I don't look like the promise. I look like the promise keeper.

37:13 It's who I became. You can have what I have. You can go get that. What you can't take is who I became. The promise don't even matter to me because I know that because of who I became, I could get that again. God made me into something. See, if you just hook yourself, if you train yourself to be addicted to promise after promise after promise, you'll miss out on the fact that you're supposed to be becoming. And if you become, you'll never have to worry about getting. Because the getting will be the organic byproduct of who you became. You can take my idea. You can steal the whole recipe.

38:08 You'll never be able to cook it the way I did. I don't want that to sound fleshy. I just know who I became in the process. Take all of it. I'll give you my ideas. I'm not gatekeeping information. I'll tell you anything you want to know. I know who I became in the process cannot be imitated. You can take the idea, but you don't have the oil to produce the results because the oil was produced in the process Take it. Have my ideas. Have my experiences. But no matter what you take from me, just know you still gonna have to go through the process. The process is a requirement. This is why you ought not gatekeep stuff. Freely you have received.

39:05 Freely you ought to give. Because they cannot imitate you. God's going to take them through their own process. And he's going to use a little bit of what you gave and a little bit of what they go through to produce their unique results. why would we have competition in the kingdom we've got a unique grace and anointing there will never be another sarah jakes roberts and that's the good thing because i need what god placed in you it would be a shame to ask me to be bishop t.d jakes if i'm bishop t.d jakes who in the world gonna be sarah jakes roberts i'm only 2 As if my God, who created the universe and set the Milky Way in motion and put the sun and the stars in position, needs to imitate what he's already done in Bishop T.D. Jakes.

40:04 He's got a fresh vision for who you are, a fresh anointing for what you'll do. So don't be intimidated by someone else's results. submit to your process Okay. I'm off track. Here we go. Oh, and I'm almost, oh, time. All right, listen. This is what happened.

40:35 I have wondered, in reading Genesis 1 and 28, whether or not God gives them a mandate, a mission, an identity, or if he's actually giving them a promise.

40:58 In Genesis 1 and 28, he says to creation, this is when he's created them, that's male and female, he creates them. And he says to them, be fruitful and multiply. He says, fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every creeping living thing that moves on the earth. He gives them dominion over the entire earth when he creates them. But then in Genesis 2 and 15, something unique happens. In Genesis 2 and 15, it says, Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. Now, wait a minute. In Genesis 1, he gives him dominion over the entire earth. But then in Genesis 2, he doesn't release them into the entire earth.

41:53 He plants them in a garden. It's almost as if he's saying, In order for you to do Genesis 1 and 28 properly, I gotta start you in a tighter space. My vision is for you to be into all of the earth and have dominion over all the earth, but I'm going to start you in a garden.

42:18 Because in the garden, I want you to master the character required to step into the promise. The garden is where we master the character required to step into the promise. It is where God cultivates who we must be in order to step into the promise. You don't know this, but some of the people you sit next to, they're not in the potter's house. They're in the garden. I'm in a season where I'm being cultivated to step into the promise.

43:07 God's given me a promise for where I'm headed, but right now I'm not in that promise. I'm in the garden. And the garden is where you learn to dwell and abide with God. Oof. See, in order for them to have dominion over all of the earth, they have to first understand what it means to have dependence on God. You can't have dominion without dependence.

43:37 And so the garden is where I'm going to teach you how to depend on me. the garden is where I'm going to teach you how to dwell with me. The garden is where I'm going to teach you how to name things and how to move in the garden. I'm going to teach you in the garden. I'm going to put you in a tight space where you learn my ways. If you can master dependence, you can have dominion. But I can't release you to have dominion because I don't want you to think that you can do it on your own. So first I got to teach you dependence. I know you're in a season where you don't want to need God, but sometimes you need to learn how to need God. So when you don't need God, you need God. You understand what I'm saying? I wish I could say that real good. Sometimes God puts us in a position where we need him so that we can learn how to need him when we don't need him. Where needing him becomes our baseline.

44:32 Where I'm not in a season where I'm asking for my healing, but I still want to be in the presence. I'm not asking for a financial breakthrough. I just want to be in your presence I want to learn how to dwell with God God as long as you dwell with me I don't care where you take me. I'm in a season where I'm mastering dependence I don't want to depend on another person. I want to depend on God. I'm learning how to depend on him so God's trying to teach them in the garden how to prepare for what's next I'm trying to show you how to rule I'm trying to show you how to navigate different situations and this is where the enemy comes in this is why I know the enemy can't stop the promise he finds himself in the process He goes, I'm going to disrupt the promise by disrupting the process. And so in the garden, he interjects in their training ground.

45:30 Oh, Lord Jesus. I feel the Holy Ghost. I've always wondered to myself, why did the Lord allow the serpent in the garden? This is supposed to be the space where I learned to dwell with you. But why would you allow there to be an enemy in the place where I'm supposed to dwell with you? and God revealed to me that part of the reason why he had to allow that is because if you learn to dwell with me appropriately, I'll show you how to have dominion over your enemies. I wish I could say this real good, but you're not getting any prizes for overcoming an enemy that's not in your territory. I'd have to allow the enemy in your territory territory so that you can receive the instructions on how to have authority over the enemy. Oh, I wish I could say this real good. I hear God saying Eve messed up because she focused on the enemy when she should have focused on me. Because if she would have asked me in her dwelling, what do I do about this serpent? I would have told her, you don't even have to worry about that serpent. You got dominion over the serpent. But we too busy facing off with the enemy that we don't realize we got power over the very thing that now has power over us but I came to reverse the curse in the name of Jesus wherever there is an enemy running rampant in your life that God has given you power and authority to overcome I release divine authority in the name of Jesus stop talking to the enemy and turn your face towards God God what do you want me to do about this enemy There's an enemy in my camp. There's an enemy in my marriage. I'm not going to attack the enemy without going to the one who knows. Oh God, I'm going to say this and I'm going to close-ish.

47:32 you got to realize that this is not your enemy you want strategy on how to defeat the enemy but this is really not your enemy this is God's enemy you understand this is not your enemy the only reason why it became your enemy is because you're trying to obey God and when you obey God you get their enemies oh God I wish I could say this real good well you know this because you got friends where you know if I decide to be friends with you your enemies are my enemies they don't make friendships like that no more but when I was growing up you couldn't just be friends with me and be an enemy if I was your friend we had the same enemies when you became a friend of God you took on his enemies so if you want to defeat God's enemy, you got to talk to God, not his enemy. You don't have enough power, enough strategy, enough authority to go head to head with the enemy until you get a word from God.

48:40 But if you get a word from God, God will give you everything you need to go up against the enemy that's in your camp. And in the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, every tongue, every tongue, The enemy's tongue and the demon's tongue are going to confess that he's God. so I gotta talk to God about how to handle this enemy I want to break the generational curse but I can't do it by facing a generational curse I gotta talk to God who understands how to curse God there in the first place because he'll show me how to uproot it from the various soil that it began with I gotta talk to God I don't go head-to-head with the enemy unless I have a word from God and when I have a word from God no devil in hell can stop what the Lord has placed on my tongue I have received the power of life and death when God gives me a word I will speak to that mountain move and it will move out of that way I will tell that devil no and he will be under my feet I know who my God is God Give me a word for this enemy Give me a word for this insecurity Give me a word for this fear Give me a word for this addiction I'll give you a word I'll call you whole I'll call you healed I say no weapon formed against you If you spot an enemy in your camp, don't get comfortable sleeping with the enemy.

50:28 Start talking to God. who do I need to become to rise above what the enemy is trying to plant in my garden oh I know some of y'all ready to go but baby I'm going to preach this word