because when I look back over my own life I see all of these times where I knew better but I didn't do better and all of this time I've been accusing Eve as if I live on some type of high horse that allows me to look down on others who should have made a different choice not realizing that I myself have found myself in positions where I knew better I knew I should have left the relationship alone I knew I shouldn't have spent the money but I did it anyway and I had to pay the
consequences if you think about it when Eve came into the world she had this innocence about her she had never known pain everything was set up in such a way that she only could flourish and the moment that she ate from that fruit it was like a part of her died so I guess God wasn't like ly when he said if you eat from the fruit that you will surely die because there was a part of her that she could never access again because she ate from the fruit I call that casket that casket that
follows us into our relationships into our worlds and to our societies and cultures we're all carrying a casket we're carrying this moment that forever shifted how we saw the world we're carrying this moment that forever changed our ability to be innocent and carefree because pain met us and when pain met us it changed us it would be one thing to just have a casket but Eve has to deal with the issue of carrying a casket and a curse yeah that part of her died and it wasn't enough for it to be dead but now she's
dealing with the curse attached to the casket let me make it plain For You Free Chapel it's like you end up in a bad relationship and the bad relationship changes the way you see every other man after that relationship the relationship was the casket but you're shifting perspective was the curse the abandonment that we suffer as children that makes it difficult for us to be vulnerable to other people the abandonment was the casket but the curse was that we couldn't let anyone else in yeah in a room this size there's probably thousands of caskets and
curses attached to our lives and so as I have been diving into the story of Eve I recognize that in many capacities each of us have an eve that is attached to our name I love it because when God gives the curse to Eve and to the serpent he tells the serpent that he's going to put enmity between the woman and him and that ultimately he's going to Slither around on his belly and he's going to eat dust and he's going to be cursed more than all of the beasts but he tells him your greatest
issue is not going to be that you're on your belly your greatest struggle is that there's going to be enmity between you and the woman how do I know that that was going to be his greatest struggle because the word continues in Genesis 3 and15 and it says that she is going to have her heel bruised by the serpent But ultimately her heel her seed would crush his head that's powerful that gives hope in the middle of caskets and curses that there's a cross yeah even though she's probably in the most broken moment in her
life the most shame-filled moment in her life in the middle of those cracks in the middle of that pain there was this promise that God inserts that when it's all said and done it may look like the enemy won this moment but when everything is said and done I'm going to give the woman a seed and when she produces that seed is going to crush the head of the serpent so never sleep on a woman who has a casket and a curse because she also has a seed attached to her name the enemy's greatest threat
is going to be the fact that that bruised heels still Crush Serpent's head and that has been the foundation of me seeing women and Eve differently and so when when I find this little girl in this text I couldn't help but see her like Eve a little girl who had lost her innocence and who was on her deathbed and I was studying and when the text continues I think it's important for us to realize that when her father first meets Jesus the little girl is not dead yet that when her father first has an encounter
with Jesus that he says my daughter is sick because you don't just turn off you don't just die there is this slow fading of your hope this slow fading of your healing this slow fading of your purpose God help me because I know I'm in the right room when jarus comes up to Jesus his daughter is just sick for the sake of this conversation I want to submit to you that jarus and the daughter are one unit there's one part of jarus his daughter who is sick but there's another part that's fighting to be healed
and it's important for us to realize because if we don't realize that then we will think that there's only one part of us and that's the part of us that's been hurt and that's the part of us that is sick but there's also another part of us that is fighting to be healed and when he's fighting for his daughter he has to contend with the fact that Jesus is in great demand and and he comes up to Jesus and he says Jesus my daughter needs a healing can you please come to my house and the
daughter is sick and she goes from sick to dead she goes from sick to dead and you know what happened in between her going from sick to dead Jesus was healing other people I felt like wow this has got to be training ground for what it feels like to be a woman because there are so many moments where parts of our dreams and our desires go from just being sick to dead because we were trying to make sure other people were healed some of us put our lives on the back burner and it started off
a dream that we would do eventually and now we don't even know if we can even pull it off any longer our dreams have gone from sick to dead I wanted to go back to school but I had to get the kids through school so now my dream is gone from sick to dead I wanted to eventually build my life and buy a house but I had to help support my mother so my dream has gone from sick to Dead And so when we meet jarus in the text his little girl has gone from sick
to Dead And in the verse in the verse when it begins there's a man who comes up to jarus and says don't worry the teacher anymore your dream is dead there's always going to be another voice trying to convince you to not go after the healing that you need there's always going to be another voice that tries to convince you that that it's not going to work out the way that you want it to but I came here to prophesy to somebody that that voice that has been haunting you and taunting you and tormenting you
and I and I believe this for somebody I don't know who you are that that's not even the voice that you own that's a generational voice that talks your mother out of some things and talked your sister out of some things but I hear God saying that that voice is going to stop talking with you that when you kill that voice that it will be the last time it ever takes stage because I want to talk to some women who want to kill some things so that their daughters never have to do it again I
want to talk to some women who know what it's like to be crying themselves to sleep at night but who have decided these will be the only tears that women cry who are connected to me because when I break this thing off of me it's going to break off of everything connected to me I serve a God who heals restores and redeems and I came here to be a redeemer for everything connected to me you're going to have to turn me up in the microphone cuz I'm not leaving this stage until they hear me in
the lobby you're going to have to turn me up in the microphone because I'm not leaving until hell gets nervous I came to set Georgia on fire I came to do something for God that only he can do I came here to remind you that that little girl is still down on the inside of you and God has kept you here because there is a purpose attached to her name turn me up in the microphone I feel like going to war with the devil I'm sorry I tried to be cute I tried to be dignified
I appreciate the opportunity but I'm not me unless I go to war with the devil I came to go to war with your depression I came to go to war with everything that's going to war with you I came to prophesy over some dry bones I came to stir up the gift of God that's down on the inside of you I'm here for the little girl who lost her dreams I'm here for the little girl who thought it could never be her I hear him coming for your children's children's children I hear him coming for
your finances I hear God saying I'm a saturated and you've been asking cow I hear God saying you're the gate if you would open yourself up I'll saturate everything connected to you not realizing that often times God will leave you down to no other option so that you will know it was a miracle when it happens if God would have kept your dream alive when it was just sick then you would have thought that it just got cured and maybe it turned the corner but God let that thing die and sometimes we can be so
upset that God let it die that we stop praying for him to bring it back to life that child is in jail so I stopped praying that you could touch them that that part of me it died that part of me that thought that I could do anything it died when they touched me it died when they left me it died when I lost the job that thing is dead and I stopped praying when it died and I feel like it's time for some of you to start bothering the teacher again to not just come
to church cuz it's a good look but to come to church because I'm trying to bother the teacher about something because I refuse to believe that it's really dead God you didn't give me this child you didn't give me this Vision you didn't give me this dream you didn't give me this marriage you didn't give me this opportunity you didn't give me this second chance for me to sit back and watch it die so God I don't care what man says statistics May count me out my age May mean something to the world but I
serve a God who is a miracle worker he is a way maker I've seen him do it for me time after After Time After Time After Time and if it's theread to everybody else that doesn't change my prayer life because I realize that if God killed something it's only because he had something better or because he's going to bring it back to life
