Restructuring | Sarah Jakes Roberts

I've been praying and I've been studying and I want to share something with you that I believe God is doing not just in my life I believe it's a prophetic word and I believe he's doing it in the lives of all of us and I want to share with you what God has given me I'm going to be speaking out of the book of Joshua you're visiting for the first time it is our custom to stand for the reading of the word I'm in Joshua 2 verse 8 to lay context for the text at this

point the children of Israel are about to move into the promised land Moses has died and since his death they've had to undergo a few things but now God has raised up another leader and God has told this leader it's time for you to finish what Moses started and so before they cross over the Jordan River and into the promised land he sends two spies over to Jericho and they end up finding refuge in the home of a working woman by the name of Rahab she is what the Bible would call a harlot but what

2019 would call a sex worker and they find refuge in her home and she says something to them that hit me so deep in my spirit because God can use anybody to deliver a word and I think she's given us something to think about this is Joshua 2 verse 8 it says now before they lay down so these two spies are spying out Jericho and they're afraid that they're going to get caught because the king of Jericho has learned that they are in the city but Rahab creates a safe space for them but before they

lay down she came up to them on the roof and said to them men I know that the Lord has given you the land and that terror of you has fallen on us and that all of the inhabitants of the land are faint-hearted because of you but we have heard how the Lord dried up the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the kings of the Amorite hsihu were on the other side of the Jordan Sion and Ark whom you utterly destroyed and as soon as we heard

these things our hearts melted neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you for the Lord your God He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath Spirit of the Living God my prayer tonight is that you would fall my prayer is that you would fall with such glory and such clarity that anything that has been confusing us and clouding our mind would have to leave my prayer is that you would fall with such weight in such a glory that creativity would spring back that healing would come that cancer would have

to go that depression couldn't stay my prayer is that the King of glory would step into this room and that he would pour out a blessing that we don't have room enough to receive the kind of blessings that money can buy but generational promises bring up after that's the kind of God that we serve so father I'm asking that you would use every part of me for your glory that there would be no telling where I end and you begin because we are so in sync in this moment god I thank you for what you've

already decided to do in this place and I just ask that you bring us into alignment that there would be no distractions no fear no insecurities just you speaking a word to us your people in Jesus name Amen [Music] [Applause] I have to tell you when I was studying today I was like so nervous and so anxious I couldn't fully get my work together and the devil told me to preach what pastor Tori preached on Sunday because it was so good unto my soul I radically changed my life I wanted to throw my shoe at

you but I didn't want to have to see you or security out on them streets but I will next time you preach like that is anyone grateful for the gift of God that is on pastor Terry is right thank you baby he's radically changed my life you know I am a speaker preacher person because of pastor Trey mhm I had never really like preached before until he asked me to come preach here at the potter's house at 1 la like what was just one church then and I was about five years ago and he asked

me if I would preach on his sign and I was like Sunday's aren't really my thing but panels got you but since then he is you know really just pushed me and propelled me into my destiny in a way that I could have never imagined I've been preaching now for almost 5 years and thanks guys but I still get so so nervous and my kids will tell you like I'd be at home stressing but something happened to me that I wanted to share with you guys in 2018 I was praying I was studying and I

was supposed to be preaching and at that time I was like preaching more than I'd ever preached in my entire life and it was just making all of these different demands of me and my relationship with God and I just got to this point where I realized that if I were not intentional about changing my mind about my identity that I would literally like die that there would be a version of me that was never manifested because my fear was standing in the way so in order for me to really walk in who God has

called me to be in to walk in the anointing and the gift that he's given me I had to be willing to restructure so I want to talk to you guys tonight about restructuring because if we are not intentional about restructuring our lives there is a version of us that will not live and there is another version of us that will continue to live but that should die so if I say to myself I'm not a speaker and I'm not a preacher and I'm not going to do it if I don't restructure my mind to

embrace what God is doing down on the inside of me then I can never fully manifest the things connected to my life but all of this is a result of restructuring and restructuring is not easy and restructuring is scary and restructuring weak rot requires that we let go of everything we thought we knew so that we can figure out what we don't know God I didn't think I was a speaker I didn't think I was a preacher but you did something down on the inside of me that's making me believe that I can step into

it so god I have to restructure the and the paradigms and the rhythms that make me feel like I'm not qualified if you're calling me to do something sometimes your greatest enemy is not underneath your feet it's in between your ears it is what you tell yourself about who you are and what God has called you to do and I believe now more than ever that we are having to restructure so that we can manifest the identity and the reflection that God is holding up when he says this is who you are which means that

you have to change your mind about who you are I can't be who I used to be and be Who I am becoming at the same time I got a restructure in my mind I can't do the things that I used to do and show up the way that I need to show up I got a restructure in my mind I'm not under construction I'm restructuring I'm gonna use the same pieces I'm just gonna place them differently I'm restructuring my mind and when we find the children of Israel in this text they are undergoing a

restructuring God is not demolishing who they were he is restructuring who they were feel like that that is a word thank you for saying that because sometimes we'll think that God is demolishing us that God has tearing us down to nothing but in reality what he's doing is restructuring you and so I got a dismantle what you're familiar with so that I can show you where to put those pieces and where to put those friendships and what season you need to do this and what season you need to do that I'm not messing up your

life I'm not tearing you apart I didn't bring you out here to leave you I'm just restructuring things because the way you're structured when you're wandering is different than the way you have to be structured for the promised land that structure works when you were wandering but now you're about to walk into something and you'll still have the same pieces as when you were wandering but I'm going to restructure them in a way that makes sense oh god help me I feel like I've been going through a restructuring I'm not changing but I am changing

at the same time I'm becoming more aware I'm becoming more accurate I'm becoming more intentional I didn't move my mission I didn't move my purpose I'm just becoming more focused I'm studying more I'm getting more help than I had before I don't know how to explain it I don't know if I'm the only one who's been going through this but I just feel like I'm being restructured I'm here on a Thursday night at 8 o'clock because I'm undergoing a restructuring I'm trying to figure out what to do with all these pieces I'm trying to figure

out who I am becoming God's taking some things and moving some things around them I'm being restructured for the promised because I've come to a place where I can see it now oh I feel God on this when I was wondering I couldn't see the promised land but I wondered my way into seeing the promised land and now that I can see where God was leading me all along I can see that I can't keep functioning the way that I was functioning and entered the promised land I got a undergoing restructuring I got a shift

some things around coz I see who you're calling me to be now I see what you're calling me to do now and see what my squad needs to look like I see what my finances need to look like I'm restructuring a few things yeah I'm sorry but not sorry I'm busy but not busy I'm restructuring for my breakthrough I'm restructuring for the promise connected to my name [Applause] [Music] and so in order for the children of Israel to step into the promised land Moses has to die because restructuring cannot take place unless something dies and

these aren't the kind of deaths that you end up thinking God for the separation for not in the moment anyway there are some things that you lose along the way that doesn't feel good Moses had been leading the children of Israel he'd been there with them generations they trusted him he was the one who brought them out of captivity and so in order for them to move into the Promised Land though they had to have a changing of the guard some things had to shift and be re-evaluated and it struck me that sometimes trusting God

is trusting that when you say goodbye to the good thing that it doesn't mean that you're no longer going to grow I said it trusting God means that when the good thing goes it doesn't mean that I will no longer grow that's how I wrote it in my notes and that's something for us to really get down in our spirit because there are moments when the good thing goes and we think that was my one shot and that was my own one opportunity that was the one person who was going to help me level up

that good thing left somebody and just because that good thing is gone I wanted you to know that that didn't have anything to do with your growth that if God was going to grow you that he need that good thing I'm not saying it wasn't good no disrespect to what you had to say goodbye to I'm just saying that you saying goodbye doesn't mean that that was the end of your purpose and your destiny I don't know who you are I don't know what job you lost I don't know what opportunity you lost I don't

know what deal fell through but I'm telling you to wipe those tears and get ready to still walk into the Promised Land that wasn't the only person who could lead you to next that wasn't the only opportunity that could be your breakthrough you have to say goodbye to the good things sometimes so your growth can spring up so your mind can kick in so your wisdom can show up so your creativity can be initiated the good thing left but it didn't take your growth you can still grow from this you can still change from this

you can still have access I feel that for somebody that good thing wasn't your only way to have access God said I'm the one that's come give you access and sometimes I have to take the good thing away so you don't worship the good thing so that you can trust that I wouldn't get you to the point where you could see it and not take you over the edge I feel like preaching in this place I feel like that is about to push somebody right on over the edge that I'm about to show you that

you didn't need doing that you didn't need a bank to do it bet you didn't need the studio to do it [Applause] God's got a million ways to do it I got a million ways to do this thing I could radically change your whole life with one word I speak a word and not sin smooth I took the thing I took the person but I kept you in position I kept you hungry I kept you waiting I know I took some things but I didn't take your hunger when I take your hundred you can start

asking me questions but somebody's still hungry after all they've been through somebody still believes ooh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] it's not over I'm just restructuring it's not over I'm just restructuring I'm trying to get you ready for the Promised Land I'm trying to make you unsacred bull I'm trying to make you unbreakable I'm trying to turn you into a nation they were the children of Israel until they cross over in that promised land when they cross over in that promise when they became a nation I used to be a slave I used to be a

wonderer I used to need validation I used to believe that when I made me who I am but I crossed over in the Promised Land [Music] [Applause] so I'm gonna just tell you that the greatest obstacle the children of Israel would have to overcome and this is what we have to overcome the children of Israel were used to being underdogs and when you're an underdog you see your deficit and when you're an underdog you're used to being counted out but I heard something today when I was studying God said you can't say greater is He

that is in me than he that is in the world and still count yourself as an underdog that the most incredible thing you can do right now is to start seeing yourself as a front-runner yeah that's heavy I know that's heavy but just wagons different when you think you're the front-runner but your confidence is different when you think you're the front-runner you know you're supposed to be in the room when you think you're a front-runner you know that if God made the way for you to be there that it was because there's something in this

room that has my name on it and I know you've been down underdog for 40 years and I know you are slaved for years before then but I hear God saying I'm bout to break that generational curse off of you I'm bout to break this notion of you coming behind off of you taking you you got to learn how to possess something you gotta learn how to own something you gotta learn how to walk into a room and take everything I put in that room for you what nothing for me and what that might sound

I'm drill I lay hold of everything [Music] [Applause] this how I know that the children of Israel were sleeping on themselves because they sent spies into the land they sent spies into the land and it took Rahab to tell them that you didn't even have to send any spies to figure out how you were going to do this that we heard you were on the way we heard you were on the way because of how you ward when you were wandering we heard you were on the way because of the victories you had when you

were wandering we heard you were on the way you didn't have to send this spy the king of Jericho heard you were in the room god help me to say this thing cuz I feel like somebody needs to know that their destiny already knows they're on the way there's somebody already waiting in the room that there's an opportunity already waiting on you to arrive we already knew you were coming I need somebody who's receiving that word to take him what's Ryan after lands Rahab Rahab says I know who you are and I know what you're

capable of and I know who your God is and I know that he's already delivered this land into your hands God is delivering territories God is delivering territories God is delivering Tara toys to the people who once saw themselves as underdogs God says I'm getting ready to position you as frontrunner and I have to restructure you now so that you can understand what I'm positioning you for you see what you have to understand is this the children of Israel got cursed into wandering but then returning to the promised land is a sign because they're returning

to the land that was always rightfully theirs but they couldn't get to the land that was rightfully theirs until they got the generational curses out of the way and their belief broke the curse and when their belief broke the curse they went from dealing with generational curses to generational promises and when God told me to study this message he told me to tell you that when he gets finished pushing you over the edge that your belief is gonna break the curse and that the windows of heaven are gonna be opened unto you and that he

is gonna pour out a blessing that you don't have room enough to receive I hear God singing get ready for overflow generational promises I hear guys saying the wholeness is coming for your family I know mental health the spinach struggle that'll pick the wrong he master on a push - over there but it puts you over the edge your Bronco win the promise I can't I can't access the promise until we break this curse and I can't break this curse until i restructure the belief system that's found on the inside of me and I came

here to restructure somebody's belief system I came here to hold a funeral for disbelief I came here to hold a funeral for second-guessing what God said I came here to hold a funeral for every depressing thought for every suicidal idea I came here to wage war with hell don't know how we did down [Applause] I changed my mind I changed my beliefs I thought I was on the way out I thought what the good thing bad that I'd side with it but I messed around a figure that I still got access I still got access

the rudeness I feel that access to break through I still still got access I may have to restructure I may have to change the way I believe but I still have access and it would be the enemies of the children of Israel who told them who they were you'll know who you are by the enemies you face [Music] the enemies they thought that they were still underdogs so they send spies into the land to scope out the way they were going to do it but when the spies confronted the person on the other side Rahab

said you ain't Onderdonk anymore we heard about who you became when you were wandering we heard about how God showed up for you we heard about how he delivered victories into your hand I don't know what giant you're facing I don't know who you're up against but I want you to know that that giant is trying to tell you who you are that fear that anxiety that opportunity that looks bigger than you the fact that you're even up against it remember when there was a time when you would have never even been up against it

but the fact that I'm going toe-to-toe with this thing and I know that God brought me too it means that it's got to come down can I tell you something David never called himself an underdog we did that David knew that there was something down on the inside of him that no one else could see I only looked like the underdog to everyone who was fighting the battle but I knew something about myself that made me stand up to that giant and I came here to change what you think about yourself because there's some times

that you wouldn't even be up against if greater is He that is in you couldn't take that bad boy out I wouldn't even be up against this unless I had what it takes it wouldn't even be a burden on my soul to try and break through what's held generations of my family down it didn't even bother other people in your family the way that it bothers you that's just you're goin toe-to-toe with it they didn't have to go toe-to-toe with you have you ever been so we thought this don't get on your nerves the way

it gets on my nerves it's not Mexican on everybody's nerves boo it's let to get on your nerves cuz God anointed Judah to Penn God great shooter do that thing I put you in the moon so you could shake the room up [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] my mission tonight is to serve as maybe the spies who went out and scoped out the land I need you to know they're waiting on you on the other side I need you to know that the promised land your promised land everybody in here has a different promised land

everybody in here has been assigned to a different industry I just want you to know that you're not going to take them by surprise that when you walk in the room I feel this prophetically for somebody I don't know who you are that when you walk in the room they're gonna say I've been waiting on somebody like you I've been waiting I've interviewed a lot of people I've seen a lot of scripts I've seen a lot of portfolios and somebody saying I met a lot of women I but I've been waiting on somebody like you

somebody who understood territory this was the kind of land that could produce fruit for generations that the generations after generation I was looking for somebody who knew how to be a slave and break out who knew how to wonder and find their way they're waiting on you they're waiting on you to restructure they're waiting on you to believe again they're waiting on you they're waiting they're waiting on you generations are waiting on you they're waiting on you they're waiting on you to own your identity they're waiting on you to really believe that greater is He

that is in you than he that is in the world the bank is waiting on you the mortgage is waiting on you the lawyers are waiting on you they're waiting on the real you the you who understands the beauty and restructuring there was a process that the children of Israel had to go through some things had to die and they had to be okay with the dying and then they had to be willing to have their whole function their whole system restructured and I hear God saying don't give up in the restructuring don't lose your

belief in the restructuring don't change your mind in the restructuring and there are some people who have gotten so far out they they can't even go back to who they used to be and they can't even go back to where they used to be so you have to surrender to the restructuring I surrender to the restructuring I surrender to the goodbyes I surrender to the hellos God I surrender to the new level of belief I need to have I surrender I surrender to that I don't know how I'm going to do it because I have

plenty of reasons to not believe but I don't have anywhere to go but to surrender and I've gotten too close to the promised land to just pack up my toys and go home so god I surrender I surrender to the restructuring god I trust you God I trust that you wouldn't allow me to just get a window view of what you're going to do that you wouldn't just leave me here my integrity my courage my vulnerability you're making demands of me but I surrender to that and I believe that on the other side of this

surrender that not only will I access the promised land but that I'm going to access a version of me that I wasn't even sure existed I didn't know that this was in me and I don't know what is in me seal but I have to keep restructuring if I'm ever going to find out I want to pray with you you're in this room and you are straddling the line of either everything could fall apart or it could actually really work this time [Applause] [Music] everything could literally turn into rubble but there's also this chance that

it could all work out in a way that if I'm honest actually scares me because it is so unknown and so foreign to Who I am [Music] that I almost would rather stay stagnant then make a decision I want people here who are making a decision that I'm going to surrender to the restructuring I'm going to surrender to it God I'm gonna finally start acting and talking and walking like the person I know you've been calling me to be I'm gonna stop crying over what I lost in the process it doesn't mean that it didn't

have value it doesn't mean that it didn't hurt it just means that it's dead and you're still here so you gotta keep living and stop acting like you are the one who died in the process the relationship died it wasn't you the job died it wasn't your gift in your talent you lost the opportunity but she let the opportunity take your gift and talent that thing died but what's in you that God placed in you it can only grow [Music] [Applause] but you need the right atmosphere and the most important atmosphere that you can cultivate

starts with your ability to believe which means that when disbelief begins to start speaking to you and rearing its face in your life that you have to be willing to tell disbelief I don't believe like that anymore the children of Israel couldn't access the promised land because there was still too much disbelief amongst them but when that generation that had disbelief died they were finally able to enter into the Promised Land belief broke the curse and you gotta believe differently and sometimes that restructures our life so that we can believe and what cannot be taken

away and that is his word and his promise God I believe you God I believe the same God that did it for her can do it for me I believe that you are no respecter of person I know there's a lot of us here at the altar but if there's anyone else who knows that I need to surrender to the restructuring I want to ask you to come down I know sometimes ultra moments can feel strange and they require vulnerability but shall we all be invulnerable up in here tonight and there is something I promise

you about responding when God speaks to you that sets a new rhythm for your life God when you speak I move God when you send a word I move God I'm practicing my new restructuring now I wouldn't normally come to an altar call usually I pack up and leave by now but I'm practicing something different I want to respond when you speak to me and I want this to be my new normal because Pastor Sarah may not be preaching one day and I still want to be able to hear from you and I want you

to know that you can trust me to move when you say move and to let go when you say let go I want you to lift your hands like you're receiving grace for the restructuring like you're receiving tools for the restructuring like the windows of heaven are open and they're pouring down new mindsets and new mentalities and new identities and you don't want heaven to miss you heaven if you're in the room there's a burning heart somewhere for you to fall heaven if you're in the room I'm the one who you need to touch like

generational promises are going to be opened up over this space father God I thank you that you look past our excuses and that you look past our comfort and you push us into who we're supposed to be god I thank you that no one is in this room by coincidence but that this is a divine appointment with you and so father I asked wherever there is a hand lifted in a heart open that you would have a radical encounter with these your sons and daughters god I'm praying that as they surrender who they used to

be and as they surrender their disbelief that your spirit would begin to fill them up like never before father God I'm asking for the kind of belief that led Jesus all the way to the cross I'm asking for the kind of belief that led him to the cross because he knew he would be resurrected again father we're walking to our cross cuz there are some things unless that cannot be resurrected that must I and father as we walk to that cross I see generational chains being broken I see generational curses coming down by the guidance

we want to this cross that our great-grandchildren come with us that I'm mother and I father that I grandma God let them be the one that raises affirmation of righteousness that raises affirmation spirit I battle Wow restlessly Mitel hell it's not we're coming as snacks back everything that belongs [Music] got that came to the officer cuz they're going back for what they came for God I'm coming back to who you are God I'm coming back to who you called me to be God I'm coming back for my promises God I may have been distracted I

may have drifted away but God I'm coming back like never before else gotta let go of you I rebuke depression right now in the name of Jesus I rebuke suicide in the name of Jesus I rebuke pride in the name of Jesus I believe the blood of Jesus over your life because what the blood is there is victory we're the bloodiest greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world where the blood is there's confidence where the bloodiest this breakthrough I plead the blood of Jesus over your dream I plead

the blood of Jesus over your marriage I plead the blood of Jesus over your music I plead the blood that walks in the areas where they could have been counted out but come out with victory father allow this word to take root and produce fruit God you are the god of acceleration so I don't even need an ax wait another season for fruit you could produce fruit tonight you can produce fruit tomorrow you can produce fruit next week God let this be the kind of word that produces fruit Amenia I'm talking about changed minds I'm

talking about changed patterns I'm talking about change relationships talking about addiction having a let's [Music] leaving you behind [Music] we give you full permission and full license to restructure our lives until it looks like everything you had in mind when you created us repeat after me Heavenly Father thank you for Jesus thank you for making him who had no sin all of my bondage all of my weakness all of my limitations and all of my losses you placed in his body and nailed it to the cross and when he was raised free and victorious I

was raised up to and because he dwells in me greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world I rebuke fear I rebuke anxiety I rebuke pain attributes struggle because greater is he that is in me then he that is in the world have rebuked fear a rebuke intimidation because greater is he that is in the world [Music] unleash my talents [Music] and send me [Music] let him hear you here you in the board room here you in the a dressing room let him hear you at Fashion Week you won't

see me I'm coming for you baby average stress in my life you gonna have to see me you're gonna have to see me I'm not backing down no more I'm not afraid anymore I'm gonna get those generational promises I'm gonna own that house I'm gonna own that business I'm gonna send my family free you don't have to see me Promised Land [Music] I believe without a doubt that as you restructure your life and you allow God to only place people and opportunities and relationships that he is qualified in your life that he's going to give

you the strategy and the discipline to walk into that next dimension of who you are with confidence and that they're going to be waiting on you the underdog season is cancelled baby you were front runner [Applause] [Music] you