Sarah Jakes Roberts - Mirror, Mirror (01/16/2026)
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In this sermon, the preacher uses the metaphor of a mirror to explain how God reveals our true identity and potential through the challenges and obstacles He places in our lives, rather than direct announcements. Drawing from Exodus 4:10–16, where Moses doubts his eloquence and ability to lead despite God’s clear call, the preacher emphasizes that God deliberately creates us with «handicaps» and limitations to draw us closer to Him and to work powerfully through our weaknesses. The core message is that we must trust God’s declaration of who we are, step out in obedience despite feeling inadequate, and recognize that He will teach, equip, and connect us as we go, turning our perceived lacks into miracles.
God Uses Mirrors to Show Us Who We Are
My subject for tonight is «Mirror, Mirror,» because when God gets ready to show us who we are, He gives us a mirror. It’s not like He just comes over the loud mic and stops us in the middle of work or in the middle of the shower and makes an announcement about who we are. He gives us obstacles. He presents challenges in our lives, and those challenges are a reflection of what He thinks about us. The only problem is, in the midst of the challenge, we don’t necessarily see that as Him showing us what He thinks of us.
More times than not, we see those challenges as, maybe He’s upset with us, or maybe He’s putting more on us than we can bear. Or maybe He just assigned this issue to the wrong person, you know, like there was a mix-up in heaven and they were giving out orders, and they picked your name for the person to go through the struggle instead of the person beside you.
Have you ever wanted to pass the issue to somebody else? They seemed much more equipped to handle being broke than I do. They’re very ingenious. I don’t personally feel like that. My calling is not to have to make ends meet. Ends should just go ahead and meet without any issue. He gives us these obstacles. We ask for strength. Then He puts us in situations where we feel weak. We ask for wisdom. And then He puts us in rooms where everyone knows more than we do.
These mirrors, these mirrors that He places in front of us, and He tells us how. I don’t know about you, but I have a word over my life. Once you have a word over your life, you’re even more excited about the opportunities that God may have for you because you recognize that the thing is going to lead to the thing. And then eventually, you’re going to have your breakthrough. But the breakthrough doesn’t always feel the way we expect it to. Often, it makes us feel inadequate and insecure. Everyone praises God over open doors, but no one really talks about how the door can be opened, but you still have to turn the knob.
Open Doors and Missing Doorknobs
And so, it’s interesting because sometimes open doors look like closed doors because you don’t know whether or not it’s open for you unless you turn the knob. Our daughter, McKenzie, um, I don’t know where she gets this from. I do watch HGTV, and I do get inspired. Pastor has come home a few times to like things that I have believed that I could do within myself because, you know, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, like retiling the bathroom floor, or I go to YouTube University. I didn’t graduate from college, but when I go to YouTube, I learn how to do all kinds of things. Like, I’m a chef. I’m a hairstylist. I’m an editor. I’m a producer. I know how to do graphics. I have Adobe Effects because sometimes you got to get it how you live. You can’t afford to be paying everybody for everything. So if you need a hair appointment, meet me after service, girl. Get you a part wig; you will be together.
So, my daughter, real talk though, if the speaking doesn’t work, I’m going to open up a beauty salon. Anyhow, stay focused. So, my daughter, who is seven years old, I guess she takes after me a little bit. We’re downstairs preparing for bed. She’s upstairs taking her shower. I hear this loud noise, and all of a sudden, I hear her yelling. So I run upstairs, and McKenzie is in her closet, and the doorknob is off of the closet. And I’m like, «Kenzie, why?» And she said, «Well, it was loose, so I was tightening it.» And she slides a Phillips screwdriver underneath the door from where she was trying to tighten the doorknob. So, as a parent, I’m supposed to stay calm because, you know, my daughter’s trapped in the closet, and she’s beginning to hyperventilate a little bit because I don’t really know how we are going to get the girl out. But I have been kickboxing, so I thought maybe we’ll have her back up, and we’ll kick the door open if necessary. The problem was the door wasn’t locked; it was open. There was just no doorknob. There was no way to access the other side.
We have these open doors, these promises over our lives. There’s nobody in our lane. Nobody can do it the way we do it. Nobody can manage it the way we can manage it. Nobody’s ever had this idea before. It’s an open lane. It’s an open door, but we can’t find the doorknob. We can’t find the investors. We can’t find the right people to be connected to. We’ve got this lane, this window of opportunity, this promise that God has prophesied over our lives, but we cannot find the doorknob.
And when we find our subject in the text tonight, we see God holding up a mirror for him. He’s been prophesied over. He recognizes that there is a call over his life, that there’s no one who can do it in that season but him. Yet, he’s struggling with the fact that he cannot find the doorknob. I can’t find my lane. Have you ever found yourself in a position where you feel like you know what you’re supposed to do? You just don’t know how you’re supposed to do it.
Moses' Doubt in Exodus 4
We’re going to go to Exodus 4:10. So let’s set the scene a little bit. God has told Moses that He has chosen him to go back and set the people of Israel free. He has shown him that the rod that he has in his hand, when he throws it to the ground, it will become a serpent, and then he can pick it back up, and it will become a rod again. He has shown him that when he puts his hand in his jacket and pulls it back out, it will have leprosy, and then he puts it back in again. He’s shown him this power that he has available to him, down on the inside of him. Yet Moses is struggling to believe that he will be able to fulfill what God has called him to do.
Then Moses said to the Lord, «Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant.» Like, «Nothing has changed since the moment you gave me the word. I thought that you were going to give me this word and all of a sudden people were going to start lining up. They were going to be ready to work with me, that doors were just going to start flinging open. But nothing has changed since you gave me this word.» Have you ever received a word from the Lord and you left this place on fire? Like, PT told us that maybe our careers were about to take off, and then you go home and make sure your phone is charged, 'cause I’m about to blow up. Has God ever told you that the relationship with your parents is going to get better, that He’s going to restore things that have been broken, and then you go back into the situation and it still feels as awkward as it was before?
Moses said, «I heard your word, but your word didn’t change me. It didn’t change my situation the way I thought it would.» Moses said to the Lord, «I’m not eloquent, neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.» So verse 10, Moses begins to make definitive statements about who he is. You have to be careful when you start defining yourself by who you are not. Moses says, «I am not eloquent.» He prophesies over his life that he is not eloquent. «I am not smart enough. I am not thin enough. I am not connected enough. I am not wise enough.» You have to be careful when you start defining your destiny by what you think you are not, specifically when God says that you can do it.
The only problem with these statements that Moses is making is that God has introduced a new identity to him, but it was difficult for him to believe that he could actually step into that identity. He was going to have to break out of his comfort zone. He was going to have to be willing to change the way he defined himself. I used to struggle all the time because I would tell people, «I’m not a preacher.» I have a message for you because preaching felt like shoes too big to fill. When you come from a family where Bishop Jakes can call a meeting and get tens of thousands of people in the room, I didn’t want to be considered a preacher. I am not a preacher. Yet God kept calling me. Aren’t you so glad that God doesn’t listen to what you say about yourself? That He’s such a master at what He does that He keeps calling us even when we don’t answer the way we should?
He says, «I am not eloquent, neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.» Verse 11 says, «So the Lord said to him, 'Who has made man’s mouth, or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have I not, the Lord? '» God says, «I know what you think about yourself because I created you. I created you handicapped. I created you with less to work with than you realize. I created you from a broken home. I created you without your father. I created you without the connections. I know you don’t have the college degree. I made you handicapped. I knew you were broken. I knew that about you. I produced an environment that would handicap you because I needed you to call me. I created an environment to make you limp because I wanted to be your crutch. I didn’t give you what I gave everyone else, but I gave them something.»
God Knows Our Handicaps and Still Chooses Us
You see, because Moses was slow of speech, he was slow of tongue, but he didn’t know that the person beside him may have been able to speak eloquently but had nothing to say. Someone else, Pharaoh, may have had a throne, but he was abusing the power that he had. God said, «I know I made you handicapped. I knew that about you. I knew you didn’t come from the right family. I knew you grew up in the wrong neighborhood. I knew you were going to struggle. I knew that, and I still chose you. I still called you.»
I’m sorry I’m staying on this; I just feel like someone needs to recognize that God knows all of the reasons why you don’t think He should choose you. He knows all of the reasons why you think you’re not going to make it. Yet, He’s still calling you. He’s still luring you. He’s still saying, «I got you.» That you don’t need any other connections than Me, that everything you’re looking for is based in this relationship and your ability to hear My declaration of who you are over the insecurities that exist within your own mind.
I hear God declaring something over you that says you’re more than a conqueror. That means you can overcome your environment. You can overcome your lack. You can overcome anything I set in your path because I called you. He tells Moses there are people who are worse off than you are, and I created them. You’re slow of speech; somebody can’t see. Someone is well-connected but doesn’t feel connected at all because you can be in a room full of people and still be lonely. So you’re lamenting over the fact that you aren’t in certain rooms, and God said, «The only way I could keep your mind together is if I kept you out of that room because if I put you somewhere too soon you’d sell yourself too cheap.»
God said, «Don’t worry about what it looks like; everyone else has.» God said, «Work your handicap. Work your handicap. Work your lack. Work that thing that keeps you up in the middle of the night. Work that thing that makes you wonder whether or not you’ve got what it takes.» He says, «Work that.» At first, I was wondering how Moses could tell God that He called the wrong number. And then I realized that he was actually being more vulnerable with God than I’ve been in the past.
Could you imagine how intimate your prayer life would be and your worship life would be if you admitted to God that you didn’t feel qualified? If you could admit to God the voices that exist in your head? «I’m not sure I can really do this.» You see, we get so consumed with carrying this front like we’ve got it all together that we take our facade into our prayer life, and God can’t move in our life. I say it all the time; God can’t bless who you pretend to be. He can’t heal who you pretend to be. You have to be willing to admit that there’s something down on the inside trying to talk you out of the destiny that He’s promised you.
And you’re not going to be able to overcome that thing on your own. You’re going to have to get in your prayer closet with the Lord and start saying, «Now, I know the thing you promised over me, but for some reason, my mind is not coming into alignment. So, Lord, here’s my mind. Transform it. Here’s my mind. Conform me, oh God. Help me to recognize who I am. Give me Your eyes that I can look back over my life and realize that I didn’t lose anything in the process. Help me to recognize that you will restore everything that the locusts have eaten. I want to see myself the way You see me because You’re calling me somewhere, and I don’t understand how this broken, handicapped girl—how this broken man, how this fatherless man— is going to be a father. How this man who never saw anyone married in his family is going to be a husband. How am I going to manifest what’s down on the inside of me? How am I going to break generational curses?
God help me to understand who You’re calling me. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who am I? [Applause] Who am I really? Because I’m believing in You for something, and I recognize that I cannot stay the same and tap into that something at the same time. So I’m saying, „God, I don’t know who I am. I know what I’m good at. I know what I can pretend to be. But I want to max out this thing called life. I want to max out this thing called life in a way that sets up things for my children’s children’s children. And I need a strategy, and I can’t pretend to be like everyone else walking around like they’ve got it all together. If I have to get down on my knees in the middle of the night, then You have to break some things up in my life. If I have to come to Los Angeles on a Wednesday night at 8:00 after just getting off of work, wondering how I’m going to make my bills get met. And I don’t care what I have to go through because I need a word from the Lord. Man can’t give me this word; music can’t give me this word; the industry cannot give me this word. I can’t let opinions define me in a season when the Spirit is guiding me. So God, if You could just speak to me, just speak to me.“
Go, and I Will Be With Your Mouth
Moses was so afraid of what God was calling him to do that he said, „Before I can step into this, I want to address some insecurities I have first.“ So we know the first one—he was slow of tongue and slow of speech. „I don’t have a plan. And even if I had a plan, I don’t have a way to release the plan.“ Slow of speech; the words aren’t there. They’re not coming. The plan is not there, and I can’t even say it eloquently. I can’t even put this thing together.
And verse 12 continues. It says, „Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth.“ He didn’t say, „I will be with your mouth, then go.“ „I can only be with your mouth if you go.“ I know you don’t have everything that you think you need. I know you don’t feel equipped and prepared, but the teaching is in the going, not in the staying. So, if you want to tap into who I’ve called you to be, if you want to understand who I’m calling you to be in this season, I’m not going to sit back and comfort you at a time when you need to be walking on water. He says, „Go! Let me see your feet move before I start investing in you. Let me see your feet move before I start bringing people into your life. Let me see your feet move. Let me see you start putting plans into action. Let me see you Googling things and learning things and putting plans together and getting out there on your own to understand some things. Let me see you go. The blessing is in the going.“
„Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.“ You’re going to open your mouth and have wisdom and knowledge you should have never had. You’re going to open your mouth in a room full of executives who should know better and know more than you, and you’re going to have ideas that they never even thought of, strategies that shouldn’t even make sense. You’re going to start raising those children, and all of a sudden, you’re going to start speaking truths to those children that no one even spoke to you. But because you were willing to go, because you were willing to break some things off of you, God said, „I’m going to fill your mouth with my words. I will be with your mouth, and I’ll teach you what you shall say.“
You don’t have to worry about what you’re going to say when you get there or how you’re going to be received. Because what Moses was really saying was, „I’m not sure that they’re going to be able to receive what You’ve given me.“ Yeah, I’ve got this list of reasons why they probably won’t be able to receive from me—because I’m not qualified, and I don’t have the proper schooling and the proper background. I’m not sure that they’re going to be able to receive it. And He says, „They’re going to receive what I prepare them to receive. All you have to do is go. He said, 'While you’re working on your feet moving, I’m going to be working on them receiving.' And all of a sudden, there’s going to be a collision with destiny, and who I’ve called you to be is going to have a divine appointment with what I’ve called you to do. And all of a sudden, things are going to start lining up. I’m going to teach you. You’re looking for a teacher, and God said, 'I’m going to teach you. I’m going to teach you by the experiences that I put in front of you. I’m going to teach you by the obstacles that I put in front of you.'
You’re not a speaker? That’s okay; I’m going to throw you on stage. You’re not a writer? That’s okay; I’m going to give you a pen and a piece of paper. You’re not a singer? That’s all right; I’m going to put you in a place where you’re in concert halls. You’re not qualified? That means nothing to me; I qualify people. [Applause] I’m going to prepare you.
So all of a sudden, we have a new perspective on the things that are happening in our lives. Things that were once making us feel inadequate are now teachers. What is this lack teaching me? Is it teaching me to make the best out of where I am before You can elevate me to the next level? What is this brokenness trying to teach me? And verse 13 continues. It says, „But he said, 'Oh my Lord, please send by the hand of whomever else You may send.'“ He said, „No, listen, for real, for real, I’m not the one. God, isn’t there someone else that You can use? I mean, You created everybody. Isn’t there somebody else more qualified than me? I’m ready to give up; I’m ready to quit. I think someone else could do it better. They could do it faster. They’ll get there before me.“ So I’m not going to pursue it at all. He says, „Please send by the hand of whomever else—whoever, whoever else can do it, not me, okay?“
God’s Anger and the Gift of Aaron
Verse 14 continues. It says, „So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses.“ I wanted to understand why God got angry with Moses, and I think it’s because Moses wasn’t trusting what he was saying he was capable of. Not angry like, „I’m going to strike you down,“ but angry that you don’t believe the word I said about you. You don’t believe that I’m not a man that I should lie. You don’t believe that I wouldn’t bring you this far and leave you. His anger was kindled towards Moses because „I’ve called you to something, and you don’t believe that I’m going to follow through. You’re questioning my credibility, and I have a history of following through. I don’t understand why you would question what I’ve called over your life. I don’t understand why you would talk me out of blessing you. Why would you talk me out of revealing a deeper dimension of who you are? As if I don’t know you? As if I don’t understand what you’ve gone through? As if I haven’t seen you be broken? I was there when the tears fell out of your eyes, and yet I’m still calling you in, and I’m a little bit angry now because I feel like you’re not trusting me. You have more faith in your insecurities than you have in the God who created you, and I’m trying to figure out [Applause] why you don’t trust me.“
So He says, „Fine. Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.“ And verse 15 continues, it says, „Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.“ I want to hold on right there for a minute because God brings along someone to help him fulfill what He’s called Moses to do, right in the middle of Moses questioning whether or not he was capable and telling God to choose someone else that he sends a word through someone else.
Now Aaron, he’s Moses’s oldest brother. He’s his older brother. He should not be serving Moses. But in God’s divine wisdom, somehow He’s chosen to do things out of order. He’s made the older serve the younger. And that gave me so much hope and so much promise because I’ve been thinking that things had to happen the way it happened for everyone else. I’ve been thinking that if I was going to become Oprah, I should have started about five years ago. But God does things out of order because He’s unpredictable like that. So God said, „There’s someone in a superior position to you that’s going to start serving your vision because I’m an out-of-order kind of God. That I’m going to bring an Aaron into your life who’s going to have the humility and wisdom to speak on your behalf when you don’t feel capable of speaking yourself. That they’re going to give you divine strategies.“
And see, this is so promising because most of us are not surrounded by errands who have the humility to see the greatness down on the inside of us and not be intimidated by it. We attract people who want to be us to us, and they serve us by trying to overthrow us or deter us. They see our handicap as their advantage, not as their ability to come alongside and help us. So we end up in a room full of people trying to be us, and we’re praying for one Aaron. „God, if you would just send me one person who’s not trying to sink the ship. If you could send me one person who understands I have a gift but I don’t necessarily have the structure. That I’ve got a weapon but I don’t know how to handle it. That there is a grace and anointing on my life. If you could send me someone who’s not intimidated by my potential because they’re so confident in who they are that they get joy out of seeing me come up. If you could just send me one Aaron to hold my arms up while I try to wrap my arms around who you’ve called me to be.“
I believe that God is going to start bringing strategic connections into your life. But I will tell you like my husband says that you cannot have the right people in place if the wrong people are there. That means that you’re going to have to start distancing yourself from people who you know are not actually helping you progress. That you’re going to have to start distancing yourself from people who are occupying space but not adding anything to the environment.
„Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.“ And verse 16 continues. It says, „So he shall be your spokesman to the people, and he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.“ So, He’s preparing Moses for leadership—leadership that Moses doesn’t even feel qualified to handle.
Practicing Leadership with One Person
So Moses distances himself, and now he has Aaron in the way. But little did he realize that God was still preparing him for leadership. He just didn’t throw him in the way that he said He was going to do. He brought Aaron first for him to practice leadership. He gave him one person before he gave him thousands. „What are you doing with your one person?“ Or are you so upset that it’s only one person that you don’t see the benefit in pouring into them the way God has poured into you? What are you doing with your one person? Your circle of influence is so small it could be a period child. And you want a platform; you want more followers and more people to influence.
You want to look like everyone is hopping on the train to see what’s popping, but you can’t properly influence the one person in your circle. They didn’t like that. I apologize. God says, „You’re waiting for the people to come to be a light.“ And God says, „I want to see if you’ll shine. If it’s just one person, one audience that you’re waiting for the accolades and the achievements. You’re waiting for what man calls success to define your success.“ But what if I tell you you’re successful with Aaron? You’re successful with one—one song written that nobody’s heard. It’s not on the radio, but you’re still successful because you actually branched out of your comfort zone and decided to start stepping out on faith.
What if I told you that moving to L.A. was a success for you? That making it this long was a success for you? That opening the building was a success for you? That writing out the business plan was a success for you? That heaven was applauding each time you took a step because you were closer than you were before? What if I told you you’re already in alignment? That you’re already on the path towards what God has called you, but you don’t think you’ve made it unless you’re at the end goal? And God said, „You’ve made it because you brought yourself into alignment. That you shook off your fears, that you shook off your hesitation, that you broke out of generational curses, that you decided that you had to be better than what you came from, that you decided that legacy was necessary for your life, that you decided that you were a part of a kingdom that no one else could see but that was working even when no one could understand it, that you had warriors backing you up, angels backing you up. So you took the leap of faith.“
And no, you’re not there yet, and yes, I still have work to do, but I’m further along than the people who decided to play it safe. I’m further along than the people who didn’t answer the call. I’m further along than the people where I came from because I wasn’t afraid to let my faith do the talking. I wasn’t afraid to not have the words because I believed that God would bless me when I started going. I wasn’t afraid to be in a room full of people who knew more than I did because I realized that meant that I could be a sponge and that I wouldn’t have to go through what they went through because I had the wealth of their experiences in front of me. I didn’t mind looking silly for a moment. And that’s what made me successful.
Wasn’t my bank account. Wasn’t my followers. It wasn’t shoes and cars and clothes and what everyone else thinks makes you successful. It was my obedience. It was my unwillingness to die. It was my unwillingness to die with anything left on the inside of me that I asked God to pour me out on earth to pour out every gift and every talent and anything else that He could use for His glory. And because of that, I became successful. Even if you don’t see it yet, trust me, heaven is applauding because they know what it took for me to become who I am. They knew what I had to overcome.
„So he shall be your spokesman to the people, and he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.“ And my last verse says, „And you shall take this rod in your hand with which you shall do the signs.“ I’m getting ready to close, but I want to talk about this rod in your hand. What looks like a stick to everyone else, what is supposed to help you with your handicap—this rod that was in Moses’s hand—that God had a secret with Moses that no one else understood but he and Moses. And that was that this rod was actually a miracle. That this rod that would turn into a serpent if I threw it on the ground, that I could pick it back up, and it would turn into a stick. That I could stick it down in the water, and it would part the seas—this rod, this nothing, this piece of nothing that everyone counted out, this piece of nothing that no one could see potential in but me. This piece of nothing, this gift that I have, this rod, this one thing that was keeping me stable when all hell was breaking loose.
The Rod in Your Hand Is Your Miracle
I had this one rod, this one truth, this one belief; I had this one rod that I was hanging on to—that rod is your miracle. Don’t lose the rod, the passion, the hunger, the desperation. God said, „I’m going to send you, and I’m going to bring connections into your life. But what you have to keep with you is the rod that will be a sign. I’m going to work through what everyone else has counted out. I’m going to work through unexpected things to bless you. That when everyone else sees a rod—see, I need you to keep it as a rod, and don’t tell anyone what it’s capable of because they’re going to see soon enough that what they were calling a rod was actually a secret weapon; that what they thought was nothing was actually something that I had anointed to go with you. God has anointed mentalities, ideas, and doors that have your name on them.
And though everyone else may be counting them out, maybe even yourself, you counted them out. You thought, „I don’t know how I’m supposed to open this door; I don’t know how I’m supposed to use this rod to help save thousands of people.“ And God said, „It looks like a rod to you, but what it actually is is an opportunity for me to show myself strong. He said, 'Don’t be afraid of the rod. Take that with you. Take Aaron; take your rod. Even take your insecurities.' He didn’t heal those insecurities on the spot. He said, 'Bring those too, because the more that you go, the more you’re going to realize that those insecurities had no control over you. So I’m not even going to address those. I’m going to let my work speak for itself. I’m going to let the work that I do through your life drown your insecurities until you recognize that you were always capable of what I said you were capable of. You just didn’t believe it. You were destined to win. Amen.“
The only thing standing in your way is what you believe about yourself. The only thing standing in your way are the false relationships that you refuse to break off. The only thing standing in your way is that you resent the rod that He wants to use as your miracle. So you’re handicapped? So am I. So your life hasn’t been perfect? Neither has mine. Yet He still has called you and set you apart. He still decided that there is a work that only you can do on earth. And the reason why I know that is because you just took a breath. And that breath is a promise that there’s something that only you can do here on earth. So it doesn’t matter who tries to imitate you or who it looks like gets there first; none of that matters.
You’re worried about that? God isn’t worried about that. God is worried about what you’re going to do with the air He put in your lungs. Are you going to spend it trying to convince Him that you’re not ready, that you’re not capable, that you don’t have enough to work with? Or are you going to use it to go, to go and be teachable, to go and risk being vulnerable, to go and risk looking crazy, to risk looking like you don’t have it all together? Are you willing to go and allow Him to teach you as you go? What are these obstacles in front of you trying to show you about yourself?
Altar Call and Closing Prayer
You can stand with me as I prepare to close. We have an opportunity in this room to help someone begin to see themselves correctly. If you don’t have to go, please don’t go because this is going to be a moment of transformation for someone. See, for you, this may just be a message on a Wednesday night, but for somebody else, their destiny just got back on track. Their passion just came back to them. Their creativity was just reignited. This may just be a message for someone, but for someone else, this is divine confirmation that they cannot quit. This is divine confirmation that the bed is still on. This is divine confirmation that God is not finished with them.
This is a moment like no other because someone was about to turn their back on their destiny, and they were going to settle for safe, but they are willing to risk being uncomfortable to become unstoppable. If this message was speaking to you and you want to touch and agree at this altar that God would begin to open your eyes to who He’s called you to be, that He would begin to reveal to you the identity that exists of you in heaven, that you want to begin to cry out and worship to Abba Father because you need to understand what it is that you’re calling me to and who do I need to be to lay hold of it. If this message has been speaking to you—when you have a list of insecurities so long that you’re not sure how you can overcome them in order to have the destiny that God has been prophesying over you since you were just in your mother’s womb—I want to encourage you to come to this altar.
Because when two or three are gathered, He’ll be in the midst. And when you leave this place, you’re not leaving by yourself. You’re going to be on the go. But you need a teacher to come with you. And that teacher cannot be your insecurities. It cannot be your doubts and your fears. No, this teacher has to be one who calls you higher. And the only way He can call you higher is by identifying low points in your life. But God says, „I did not reveal those low points to make you feel inadequate or for you to feel disqualified. I identified them so that you could come up and you could be prepared to have the type of character to maintain what I’ve called you to be. I wasn’t trying to break you; I wasn’t trying to make you give up. I wasn’t trying to make you quit. I was trying to make you understand that I plan on using that very handicap for My glory. I plan on using that very handicap to break generational curses off of your family. I plan on using that brokenness to reach back and touch a soul that looks much like yours.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who am I after all? Who am I? And I believe as you begin to lift your hands and worship, that God is going to begin speaking to those insecurities. Don’t worship from a place of pride. Worship from that place that feels inadequate. Worship from that place that feels disqualified. Because when we ask the Spirit to flow, we don’t want it to flow on our pride. We don’t want it to flow on who we pretend to be. We want it to saturate those insecurities. We want it to drown our fears. We want the Spirit to begin to overflow and saturate those things that talk us out of who God has called us to be. Pastor, would you pray?