Like it or not, here I come. Celebrate me or not, here I come. Take pictures of me or not, here I come.

When the water breaks and I get the opportunity and the doors open and the walls lurch and God says, "Move, I'm going from faith to faith and from glory to glory." Touch five people. Say, "Here I come. Here I come. Here I come. This is the Potter's touch. Hello, this is Sarah Jakes and you are watching the Potter's Touch.

You saw the tweets, you saw us on Facebook, you saw all of our Instagram posts and now I have an exclusive for you from last year's Meaf Fest. Join us as we take an inside look at Woman Thou Art Loose. And when you talk to women about birth, they immediately think about being mothers. But I didn't come to talk to you as mothers. I came to talk to you as babies who have outgrown the parameters of the womb that you live in. I came to talk to you as living creatures who have found restrictions in the place that you once found nurture and nourishment and found yourself in prison by narrow thinking people and narrow thinking circumstances and narrow evolving predicaments. I came to tell you that you cannot feed in one realm and stay in that realm. That if you get enough on the inside of you, you will find a discomfort in staying in the dimension that you once lived in. And I came to prepare your hearts and mind. If if if you're not prepared to go through some bloody stuff and some dirty stuff and some stinky stuff, you don't want to keep feeding on this kind of word. Because if you feed on this kind of word, it will open up your mind and open up your thinking and open up your ideas and open up your concepts until all of a sudden you are uncomfortable in what you were once comfortable in.

Some of you have already began to experience it. You're thinking on another level and it's it's causing a separation. Some of you have already begin to experience it because what used to be funny isn't funny anymore. And what you used to enjoy, you don't enjoy anymore. And what you used to be satisfied with, you're not satisfied with anymore. and all of a sudden you don't fit in the places you used to fit in and you don't even understand it and and they think you're acting funny and they think you're acting strange and they say things like you forgot where you came from. I didn't forget it. I just can't stay in it. I came Tweet that. Tweet that. I got to get out of here. I got I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here. I've got to get out of here. You tell your old twin, you can stay in there if you want to. This might be okay for you, but I got to get out of here. Even if I have to fight my way out like Jacob and Esau, I've got to get out there. If I've got to pull and tug, I've got to get out. I I I've got too much vision to stay in this rut.

It's my offering. Heaven, lay me at the throne. Leave me there alone to gaze upon your glory and sing to you the song. Hallelujah. You take me to the king. Hallelujah. Yeah. Hallelujah. Thank you. It's my offering. This is my offering. Take me to the king. Take me to the king. [Applause] Take me to the king. Take me. Take me to the [Music] king. Take [Applause] me. Take me.

1981, my brother Paul called me. I was at college. He said, "Joel, mother's sick." I had never seen my mother sick a day in her life. She was always out working in the yard, so healthy. Loved to be outside. And I said, "Paul, what do you mean she's sick? She's got the flu, something like that." He said, "No, she's really sick. My my brother was in medical school." So, I flew home. Long story short, my mom had been in the hospital for 21 days. The doctor had just told my dad that she had a few weeks to live with metastatic cancer of the liver. It's around Christmas in 1981. And as you can imagine, that was a uh difficult Christmas in our life. I mean, we grew up believing in faith and believing that God would watch over us. But you know the storms of life come to every person. There was nothing medical science couldn't do. But thank God God can do what medicine cannot do. He made our body. He can turn anything around. And my mother, it didn't happen overnight. But my mother, she fought the good fight of faith. One thing she did, and and I'm going let her tell the story, but one thing she did when I came home, my mother had put pictures of herself up all over our house from a time when she was healthy. She had a picture of her riding a a horse with a big pink cowboy hat on. Another place she had her wedding picture up and all over the house. I thought, "Why are all these pictures up of my mother?" You know what she was doing? She was creating a new image on the inside. When she looked at the mirror, she saw death staring back at her. But when she looked out at those pictures, she saw herself healthy, whole, strong, fulfilling her destiny. So, let me just encourage you. I mentioned it earlier, but you got to see yourself the way you want to be. You may be sick, but you got to through your eyes of faith. When you close your eyes, you got to see yourself healthy and strong. You may be in debt, but you got to see yourself with your house paid off, being a blessing to many others. Your children may be doing the wrong things, but you got to get a vision of them fulfilling their destiny. You got to conceive it on the inside before it'll ever come to pass on the outside. Anyway, I want you to meet my mom. Here she is today, 32 years later, still healthy, whole, strong. All right, Mom. Okay. Thank Thank you.

Surely, oh God, you have blessed the righteous and healed them of their diseases today so they won't go home the same way that they came in Jesus' name. And all the people said amen and amen. I want you to know it's such a delight for me to be here with some of my favorite people in the whole world and to see so many others that I've known for so many years. Joel was telling about in 1981 when I was 48 years old. Everybody say 48. 48. 48 isn't very old to be given a death sentence. To be told that you had a few weeks to live, a tumor the size of an orange on my liver and two almonds sized ones. But surely the goodness of God, do you know what God did? He came in 48 years old. He came in and touched my body and healed me when my husband and I laid on the floor in the bedroom and he said, "God, I need her. The church needs her. The children need her. and you need her. And he said, "I cursed this cancer at the roots and I command it to wither and die." You know what it did? It obeyed the name. The name. The name. The name of Jesus. It obeyed that name. And it didn't seem like it withered and died right that very moment, but it was on December the 11th, 1981. And I said, "In my heart, I believe that that cancer withered and died." And I still say sometime, thank you, Father, that on December the 11th, I believe I received healing cancer in my body. And I just had to walk through it. And let me tell you some things that I did. It may help you. You have to seek God for yourself and see what God leads you to do. But one thing I did, I prayed for other people. I did not feel like praying for other people. I weighed 89 pounds. I was jaundest. I was wrinkled. And I didn't feel like it, but you know, I drove across town, Bishop, to pray for people because I knew when Job prayed for people, then his healing came speedily. So, I just got up and drove. Barely could get to their door, but I prayed. I did something. Do whatever you can do to to show that you have faith to live. And then I got a list of scriptures. I got all these scriptures. They're they're my medication. every day of the world. I read those scriptures. I don't leave the house without it. Like American Express, I'm not going to leave the house without it. That is my medication. That's what's kept me alive all these years. Those healing scriptures, there's about I think about 80 of them and I read them every day. And the one that's on in Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. It hadn't changed. It's been there 31 years. and it'll never ever ever change. And neither will any of the others that say, "I will restore health unto you and heal you of your wounds." So, I read those scriptures every day. I pray for people. I pray for people all the time. And I have a a class uh healing service once a quarter for autistic children. And I love that. I even have a drive-th through prayer meeting where they drive in their cars. If they're too sick to get out, I get in the car with them and pray for them. I love it. That is my life.

It really is about who you become as a woman. Who you attract is a reflection. When a man shows up in your life, he is showing you one of three things. He's showing you what's real, what's unhealed, and he's showing you a mirror to your own worth. Wow. Wow. And so when Megan took that time, I call it soul sabbatical. When you take that soul sabbatical time, soul sabbatical, soul sabbatical, when you pour into your own spirit and you expand your capacity to love and you expand your capacity to give love and receive love because you're taking the time to heal your own heart. See, I think the difference between an insecure woman and a confident woman, an insecure woman chases love. A confident woman attracts it. And so when you sit and spend the time, you attract it to you. And I still believe men should pursue. Yeah. Amen. I'm old school like that. So yeah. Amen. Yeah. I think that sometimes we um emasculate our men because we are so aggressive. But I think the Bible says that he who finds a good wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. And we want the favor of the Lord. We want to chase him down no matter who's he is. Did I say that out loud? Yeah. I didn't mean to say it out loud. I meant to say it from my heart. We devalue ourselves and cheapen ourselves by doing that. Let him find you. Be a lady at all times, at all costs. Yeah, simmer down now. Well, you know, and that's the thing. When when you are chasing and pursuing something that's not yours, then you're content to be a secret. And a woman of worth believes that she's worthy of being seen. Wow. Claimed. Wow. All of that. So, you're not content to be a backdoor secret when you know your worth. You're not. Now, that's girl talk. That's real talk. Yes, it That's girl talk. That's girl [Music] [Applause] talk.

So I dug through my ashtray. My goody today changed my life. I thought I knew it all. Quick to ride him off. Look like he was lost till I heard him speak. Yeah. Now I've heard the voice before. I knew that it was yours. Had you love me more than I can believe. People judge from what they see. But Lord, you see the heart. [Music] If we had your eyes, I have realized that this is not the world. It is only a world. I submit to you that that that birth and death are the wonder twins of divinity. That in scope one is no different from the other. that in reality, God says that we should cry when they are born and rejoice when they die because God understands that birth and death are labors together with him to push you from one world. You'll get it when you get home. Just keep thinking on it. Just just the baby dies out to the world it's in. can't can't live. Death in the scriptures is separation. The baby is separated from the world it lived in. Pushed pushed out of it. The gone gone from the world it lived in. To to to be absent over here is to be present over there. You can't be here and there. You You can't be there and here. If if you're going to go there, you can't stay here. So the moment the baby shows up here, he's absent there. And death stands over in the corner says, "Same [Applause] thing. To be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord." So birth stands over there and says, "I am transportation into the next dimension." And death stands over here and says, "So am I." But the text is not talking about the birth over here or the birth over there, but the many births that happen in between. [Applause] Stay with me. Galatians says, "My little children in whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you." And we as Christians often use the term born again. But we should say born again again and again and again. Because if you look back over your life, every so often, every so often, every so many days or situations or circumstances, you find yourself in a world that's too small and too tight and too limited. And you have to go through a birthing process from one dimension to get into the next dimension. and and you are being born again and again you get comfortable and as soon as you settle all in and say now I got my life all nice and neat and I finally got it just the way I want it and oh I've arrived and I've reached my destination and then you look around and the water breaks in the situation and the world begins to lurch and all of a sudden You have to recreate yourself and find yourself starting all over again. You were sure yourself over here, but now you're a student again over there. You knew how to do this, but now you're learning again how to do that. And you are born again. And if you look at this text literally, you lose the power of the text altogether because Ezekiel isn't really talking to us about birth at all. He's talking to us about the trauma of transition. The trauma of transition. The absolute trauma of transition. Not the trauma of the mother, the trauma on the traveler who dares to transition to the next dimension. Can I go deeper? This child gives me an illustration that that is symbolic of an experience I had when I was in Kenya in the bush out in Kenya as the women began to talk to us about giving birth in the desert in the in the dry sand. It was inconceivable to me to give birth without nurses and waiting rooms and and music and and machines and and and and and and needles and stethoscopes and and and and and and all they said, "No, we we we we have our babies out here in the dirt, in the sand, in the heat." I thought, "Oh, God." In perilous environments, traumatic circumstances, we give birth wherever the water breaks. You don't get to position yourself into a comfortable, nice, neat, air conditioned room and have room service served to you to give birth. It happens where it happens. Touch somebody and say, "It happens where it happens." I'm going to change where I change. I'm going to transition where I transition. Ready or not, here I come. Like it or not, here I come. Celebrate me or not, here I come. Take pictures of me or not, here I come. When the water breaks and I get the opportunity and the doors open and the walls lurch and God says, "Move." I'm going from faith to faith and from glory to glory. Touch five people. Say, "Here I come. Here I come. Here I come." And I don't know, but the Lord told me that he was going to bring women in here tonight who are in [Applause] transition. Shake hand with somebody. Say, "I'm in transition." The hardest thing to do, the hardest thing to deal with, the hardest thing to manage, the hardest thing to put up with is transition. The thing we hate the most is transition. We hate it because it takes us out of our element. It takes us out of our comfort zone. It takes us out of the place where we are secure and sure. And we've learned how to manage and control everything. You cannot control everything when you are in transition. It is what it is. It happens like it happens. I can't get my hair done and do it. I can't be pretty about it. I got to come out any way I can. I'm in transition. I can't meet with the board or talk to the committee or get everybody to approve it. When my water breaks, get ready. Here I come. If it's under a tree, if it's under a bush, if it's against the wall, when the water breaks, that's my sign. Here I come. Touch your neighbor. Say, "Move." Don't move a muscle. We're coming right back.

Woman Thou art loosed at Megapest ignited the hearts of women from all over the globe. Enjoy all the exciting moments of this conference and receive insightful teaching. God is going to let your water break and you are coming into the next dimension. God took our brokenness and made something beautiful. God is not mad at you. He's madly in love with you. God will direct the winds of the storm to blow you to where he wants you to go. Grace is available to all of us and that he's waiting for us to see ourselves the way he sees it. He will come through for you. Nothing happens until you take a step. There has to be a breaking in our lives in order for the oil that's on the inside of us to come out. He's about to move you from the back of the to the front of the line. Order the seven message woman at loose conference today on CD or DVD when you visit our website or call 1800 Bishop 2. The prayer that you're trying to articulate, he already understands the condition that you can't find the words to describe. God already knows. for helping us reach others with your gift of any size. You will receive stuck at a crossroads on CD. Just visit our website or call 1800 Bishop 2 to get yours. I don't want religion. I want relationship. I want connection. I want to be hooked up with the one who died for me. I want the power of God to break loose. And when your gift is $70 or more, we will give you all three lifealtering messages from Crossroads, your path to resurrection, power, and life on DVD. You can put me out of the building, but you can't put me out of the kingdom. Jesus paid it all. However, when your gift is $170 or more, we will add this unique amplified topical reference Bible to the Crossroads DVD and the blessing of grace promise cards. I lifted up and I looked down. Mom was in one room. You were in another room yelling at God. I think that it is the brevity of life itself that makes every second so important. And I think that heaven is for real. Not only reminds us about heaven, but it reminds us about earth as well. That whatever you want to say to someone, you should say it now. And when you love someone, you should love them now. Because so many times we bury inside of ourselves things we would like to say thinking we'll have another day. And I have learned from personal experience that tomorrow is not promised to. We need to get him in surgery right away. The pain that I suffered watching my son that close to death. We're in trouble here. He's much worse. Will you call some friends and pray for him? The hospital staff said that your son was not expected to survive. Use the word miracle. Your son had a near-death experience. He saw things that I can't really explain. [Music] Use me for your service, for your glory. Take me to the king. Yes. Take me to the king. I want my way to please you. I want my way to [Music] please yeah. [Applause] Yes. Behold your face. Thank you for your saving grace. You're [Music] in. You're [Music] in. Take me to the king. Hallelujah.

As if the momentum of women thou art loosed is not enough. Hearing the transformation that takes place in the lives of the women after they leave is what really excites me. They go back into their homes, their cities, their offices, and they set that place on fire for God. I want to invite you to bring your match and join us next time. Thank you so much to Aaron's Army and the Bishop Circle for your continued support of the ministry. Please know that we are constantly praying for you as we endeavor to embark heaven with our prayers and our righteousness for God. Thank you so much for watching and I hope you'll join us next time. [Music]

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