Stripped Down to Everything - Touré Roberts

1:07:51 for coverage. And there's no other way to get you to your fighting weight than for him to start shaking stuff. Testing. He even shook Isaac. to shake Abraham, he was shaking Isaac. He was stripping, watch this, he was stripping Abraham of Isaac.

1:08:23 He said, you love that boy, huh? You pray for that boy, you like that boy, you love that boy, you love him real good, don't you? Yeah, he's cute too, good little boy. You love that boy, huh? Let me hold that. Let me hold that real quick. Let me hold that real quick. Let me hold that real quick. I'm going to need that. I'm going to need that. It wasn't that the Lord thought that there was anything wrong with the blessing. and that's why of course the Lord is not a murderer but look at what he said you got to study when you get a chance Genesis chapter 22 I believe read your whole Bible you will find it he says after he says okay he's going to do it he tells him not to do it and then he says he says he said now I can trust you now I know you will withhold nothing from me now go and be blessed blessing I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you Thank you.

1:09:23 and Abraham goes on to be the father of faith. Some of you are just in camp, getting down to your fighting weight. Be not weary in your well-doing. On due season, you will reap. You don't give up. A couple things really practically.

1:09:47 Every time I teach now, I take my notes, and I put them on my sub stack so that you can go back and you can listen to the message, the audio, you can watch the video, and you can go to the sub stack. I create that resource so we can stay connected. You can keep chewing on it, and they'll put a QR code up there. You can do that there. I want to pray for some people. Here's where I'm at. If this spoke to you, Okay. I want you to identify what may be being stripped right now.

1:10:25 And you think it's the enemy, but it may not be the enemy. Or if it is the enemy, God is using the enemy. like he did with Job, to ultimately get Job to tenfold. The reason why God would allow Job to go through is because God was looking at the tenfold return. Study it. Job came out of that thing tenfold. So God was looking at the tenfold from the start. It wasn't fun It wasn't sexy and he went through this process Of being stripped And formed watch this he came out of there Thinking differently he came out of there Knowing He said I had heard of you By the hearing Of the ear Oh but now my eyes See that's knowing That's knowing I want you To think about I want you to identify what's being stripped.

1:11:29 And I want you to bring it to the altar. What idol, what have you been covering yourself with? What is God talking to you about? And we're going to bring that idol and we're going to lay it at the altar, no matter what it is. I want you to refrain if you're in a camp. And if you're not in camp, you will be. You will be, because we all need it. I want you to refrain, but I don't want you to see it as punishment. I want you to see it as pruning. back to the text two scenarios they look the same they both look like loss but only one was the other was preparation God getting you ready getting you to your fighting weight oh here's another reason why God wants to get you to a place where you're not moved by blessing or breakdown.

1:12:37 It's because God is getting ready to put some, and this is for who it's for. God is getting ready to put you in a situation, in an economic situation through business that is significant, and he needs for it to not change you. money changes you especially when you start moving in seven eight nine ten figures changes you and so for some of you this has to happen because of the opportunity that's getting ready to come your way and even in the way that you i feel this is prophetically for somebody and even in the way that you negotiate a person who is not desperate a person who is not like oh my god oh my god over some resource they negotiate differently today.

1:13:34 they show up in the business transaction much differently. There's a posture, there's a pace, there's a calmness. and that's why God's got to establish he's got to settle you because there are things coming your way that will carry you away if you haven't been stripped down to everything this is not about what is it's about what's next but God doesn't prepare you for the fight at the time of the fight he pre-prepares you so I need you to reframe this is not punishment this is pruning this is preparation

1:14:24 and I want you if you have been wrestling with this I want you to stop fighting this process. Surrender to it. God's got you. You're safe. He knows where you are. Trust his heart. Know that it's temporary, and it will happen and work and all be resolved if you don't quit. If you're here and you don't know the Lord, and you want to know God, you're here, watch this and you feel uncovered maybe you feel naked and ashamed I want us all to stand if we can it's a holy moment we're almost done we'll be finished in seven minutes if you're here and you don't know the Lord and you feel uncovered and you feel ashamed. God loves you for real.

1:15:23 And watch this. And he is not the one that is making you feel ashamed. There's someone here, and you're struggling with addiction. and God says I'm going to break it today I'm literally going to break it if you give it to me maybe that's your idol maybe that's what's being shaken He says, if you surrender, I'll take it. That's you, come meet me here. That was very clear. I was very clear from the Lord. I just want you to come. Just get down here. You've been wanting to be free. Now is the moment of opportunity. And all you got to do is say, God, I give it to you. And it's going to break right here at the altar during prayer. I'm going to open up your heart to the Lord Jesus. You're watching via live stream. This is for you. This is not just the room. You're in the room.

1:16:16 If there's something you need to lay down, put it right there in the feed. God, I'm laying down this, this addiction. Alcoholism is harming me and my family and my future. Lord, I'm giving it to you. I smoke dope can't help it well here's what's in your power to surrender it and give it to him come into agreement with God about it stop wrestling stop justifying it come into agreement and God's going to break it says if we confess our sins confess confess homo logeo same speak speak the same thing if I confess If I come into agreement with my words about that, God says he is faithful and just, not just to forgive, but to cleanse. God says, I'll cleanse you. I'll clean you up.

1:17:08 Now you are clean by the word that I've spoken to you, says Jesus. If you're here and you know the Lord, you're in relationship with the Lord, but you need to come back home. Come here. Come here. Come here. Meet us here at the altar right now. Come on down. You need to come back home. Come back home. now is not the time to not be in the ark this is an ark we're grateful I want to pray well Father I was obedient to the word you gave me to speak and your word will not return until you void but it will establish that for which you sent it thank you God that your word is more than revelatory and instructional. It's anointed to produce what the word is. So as your sons and daughters are coming into agreement with this word, I thank you, God, for the breakthrough that is happening in their hearts and their minds and their spirits and their souls in real time.

1:18:15 I thank you, God, that your hand is on each and every one of these, your sons and daughters, to bless, to manifest breakthrough, to give peace, to deliver, to uproot, to impart, to strengthen, to heal, to cleanse. It is upon them. They are set apart. And I thank you, God, that you're setting, I see this in the spirit, I want to describe it. You're setting a clear path forward. before there was obstacles, but I hear God saying, I'm clearing, I'm going ahead of you, and I'm making your crooked path straight. It is not behind you. It is before you. It is in front of you, and I am freeing you to walk. It's almost like the woman caught in the act of adultery. She was caught until Jesus said, go.

1:19:08 in go there was it was not just you go in your own strength in go he was making a way for her to move forward delivering her from the bondage from being literally trapped in that moment by her accusers go and sin no more go I got go I've made a way for you to walk it go go I've made a way for you to walk in victory. I thank you for your precious love for your precious people. I thank you for the sovereign work you've done in their hearts and in their minds. I thank you that they'll never be the same again. This is not an upgrade. This is not an evolution. This is an emerging. And I thank you that the gates of hell cannot stop it, cannot slow it, cannot quench it.

1:20:02 This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. I want you to repeat after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I feel it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your word, which you spoke to me, I receive it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine, all of my weakness, all of my limitation, all of my shortcomings, every way I missed the mark, you placed in his body nailed it to the cross and put it to death. And as he was raised up, free and victorious on the third day, because I'm in him, I'm raised up too.

1:21:09 God, I trust you with this season. You will not leave me nor forsake me. You will walk with me you will talk with me you will protect me and you will keep me I love you Lord now I surrender