Hey, I don't know if you got the memo or not, but it is 2022 and Woman Evolve is so excited to continue to bring you this monthly soul food, this monthly soul care night with you in mind. One of the things that got really placed in my heart in 2021, when we were just like in the height of the pandemic, it had become evident that things were not going to shift for a while. is that I wanted to make sure that we were doing more to serve you, not just coming to your city with tour, not just meeting with you weekly on podcasts, but how can I make sure that I am speaking directly to the hearts of the women connected to Woman Evolve through a message that God has given me?
And that is what birthed Hey You. So if this is your first time, type in the comments, say, Hey You, Hey You, Hey You. I don't know if you know this or not, but the moment you type Hey You, you are inducted into the delegation. We are so excited. to have you joining us for the first time.
And what's up to my booze that's been riding with me? I love you all so much. I can think of so many of you who have literally become just sister friends in my heart and in my life.
I don't want to start naming people because then I know that I will just get lost in the sauce. But hey, Cardi P, Shantina, Jaleesa, Jamie, Lanisha, the whole woman evolve gang. Noelle, there are so many of you.
And I just am so grateful for what God is doing. Ruthie, Deara, so many. Halima, there's so many of us. You have no idea just how much of a blessing it is to be able to do life with you. I've been praying about 2022 and what it means to woman evolve.
And last year, God gave me a radical, radical declaration. And it really didn't make sense. Because I think like many of us, I was just trying to survive.
I was just trying to make it. But God told me that this was going to be the year of the revolution, the year of the revolution, year of the revolution. I kept hearing it every single time I would pray to God about Woman Evolved.
He just kept telling me the year of the revolution. And so I've been prayerfully considering what it means to experience a revolution. Each month, we're going to... focus on how God revolutionizes different areas of our character, our identity, our spirit.
And if you're not signed up for our weekly newsletter, you want to get plugged in because we're giving out devotionals each week at womnevolve.com slash connect that is going to talk about what it takes to really revolutionize our habits, right? We're going practical, but also how to revolutionize our spirit. And this month as I was considering what it means to be a revolutionary woman, there was one woman that stood out in my mind. If you're connected with Woman Evolve, you already know that Eve is my homegirl, but when I was looking at January and considering revolution, Mary popped into my spirit. For those of you who don't know, there is this inextricable connection between Mary and Eve that I discovered when looking at Genesis 3 and 15. And for...
Most of the time at Woman Evolved, we spend a lot of time focusing on Eve. Eve is our homegirl. She knew better but didn't do better.
God still gave her a promise. And whose testimony is that if not mine? But Mary is more of an enigma to us. This Mary who seemingly has everything right going as planned. Everything is rightly aligned.
She has become our focus for the month of January. Because I want to learn more about what the revolution cost her. When studying about Mary, the words intimacy came to mind.
That there was a revolutionary intimacy that she would have to tap into in order to manifest what God's doing in her life. That revolutionary intimacy means that I'm not so much focused on the exterior, I'm not so much focused on the outcome. I'm not so much focused on the finished goal, but I'm focused on what needs to happen inside of me in order for the revolution to take place outside of me. Revolutions don't just begin with the moment that a government is overthrown.
A revolution begins when someone first starts having secret meetings. I feel that for somebody. You've been having secret meetings with Jesus.
You've been having secret meetings with the Holy Spirit. Every time you try to run away from it, there's just this secret knowing, this secret meeting. You feel like God is calling you higher.
You feel like God is calling you up. There's this secret meeting, and those secret meetings are not just so that you can stay hidden. Those secret meetings are not just so that you can have God tucked away in your heart and show up in the world as a courageous woman. That secret meeting that you've been having with the Holy Spirit is supposed to show up in your life.
and overthrow something. I wish I had somebody in this room with me because if there was someone in this room I would ask them for 10 seconds of praise for us to just thank God that revolutions are meant to overthrow something. There's something that has taken up space in your life.
There's something that's trying to be the government in your life. It's trying to dictate what you can do. It's trying to dictate what you can say. It's trying to put limits on who you can be, how you can show up in the world, but when a revolution comes A revolution comes to overthrow the previous government. And I just want you to dare to serve notice on whatever has been in control of you that a revolution is coming.
A revolution is coming. A revolution is coming to your doubt. A revolution is coming to your fear. A revolution is coming to your addiction. A revolution is coming to your small way of thinking.
A revolution is coming to that insecurity. A revolution is coming to that toxic relationship. A revolution is coming.
And I don't know about you, but this feels like a revolution. less like hey you and more like a secret meeting in which we're going to plot and plan on how to have that revolution take place so that you can become everything that you are meant to be. And this revolutionary intimacy happens first with us coming into alignment with what God says.
I've been studying Mary's life and for the most part I study in Luke 1. the moment where she receives from the angel Gabriel the news that she's going to carry the Messiah. But for the purpose of our conversation, for the purpose of our connection, I want to look at John 2 verses 3 through 5. I've preached this text from different angles, but for the first time I looked at it from Mary's perspective. For those of you unfamiliar, This is when Jesus performs his first miracle. Now, so many of my girls are watching.
They're like, sis, I ain't no Bible scholar. You're going to have to break it down for me. I got you, boo. So Mary receives a visitation from the angel Gabriel. The angel Gabriel tells her she's going to become pregnant with the Holy Spirit.
She becomes pregnant with the Holy Spirit, and then she goes into hiding because she's got to protect this life. She's got to protect this Messiah. The world has been waiting for the Messiah, some so that they can honor him, others so that they can overthrow him. And so she's got to protect what God is doing in her life.
That's where somebody is right now. You're just trying to protect what God is doing in your life. You're trying to make sure you stay on your P's and Q's.
You're trying to make sure that you're showing up responsibly, that there's security around what God is doing in your life. And so Mary begins to protect Jesus and the life of Jesus. And she spends most of her life. Up until this point, protecting him, there's a moment when he's 12, when he gets lost and he's in the temple.
And then we meet her again when Jesus is 30. So from the years 12 to 30, we don't really know much about what Jesus was doing. All we know is that he wasn't functioning in the fullness of who he is as the Messiah. And yet in this moment in the text in John 2, Mary is about to push Jesus out of hiding. And because she's about to push Jesus out of hiding, it dawned on me that it's not just about pushing Jesus out of hiding, but she's also about to put herself on display too. Anytime I've looked at this text, I've always thought about it being the beginning of Jesus's ministry, but it was also a moment where everything that Mary had carefully crafted came unraveled.
John 2. Verse 3 says, And when they ran out of wine, they're at a wedding, and they've run out of wine. The mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine. Jesus said to her, Woman, what does your concern have to do with me? My hour has not yet come. His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.
Spirit of the living God. What an honor it is to be able to do life with you. You are not just a God that looks over us and above us. You're not just a God that goes ahead of us or goes behind us helping us to see clearly. But you are a God who will sit right with us.
You will meet us right in the center of our core and our soul where we need it the most. And so Spirit of the Living God, we invite you into us. What better intimacy is there than that for us to experience your presence on the inside of us. God, let this be a moment where we quite literally tap into what it means to be Mary, to feel the fullness of the Holy Spirit moving and directing and shifting things that are in the inside of us.
And God, I turn this moment over. to you. I thank you for every woman connected to this message, every household, every person connected to this message, those who are listening because they finally found something that they can relate to. God bless them, bless us, and bless this word.
In Jesus'name, amen. I was studying the life of Shirley Chisholm. Those of you who are unfamiliar, we're going to pick up our little history book here for a minute. Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman in Congress and the first woman and African-American to seek the nomination for President of the United States from one of the two major political parties, Shirley Chisholm.
Graduated from school in 1946. When she graduated from college, her professors told her the moment she graduated that she should pursue a career in politics. And yet it wouldn't be until 1964 when Shirley Chisholm actually decided to run for office. In between then and the time when she graduated from college, she spent those 18 years working and caring for her family. But she specifically said...
The reason why she did not want to run for office is because she considered herself double handicapped as an African American and a woman. Isn't it crazy how we can feel called, we can maybe even feel knowledgeable and we can feel gifted, but because we feel like there is no space for us, it can keep us hidden in the area where we were meant to affect change. The only thing about this is that Shirley Chisholm did not just sit back and do nothing.
No, when I was studying, I learned that she was still very active with the NAACP. She joined local chapters of the League of Women Voters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, as well as the Democratic Party Club in Bedford. That means that even though she wasn't ready to run for politics, she did not separate herself. from the idea that she could still have change even if it was just dipping her toe in the water. But there came a moment within that 1946 graduation and that 1964 first run for college, that she made a decision that she could not just dip her toe in the water any longer, that even if she was double handicapped, even if there was no space for her, that she was going to make a decision to dive all the way in.
And I just want someone watching to recognize that there are moments in our lives where we can no longer afford to just dip our toe in the water. So many of us choose to dip our toe in the water because we're afraid that if we fully submerge, that we would end up experiencing the vitriol that comes with being handicapped. But I want to talk to someone today who feels handicapped in an area where you feel called. You feel handicapped in an area where you also feel like you could be anointed. You feel handicapped in an area where you also feel like you could affect change.
And I want you to understand that the handicap does not disqualify you. That the handicap is not working against you. That God in his infinite wisdom makes sure that that handicap is actually representation.
The area of your life where you feel disqualified. The area of your life where you feel like you only speak for a select few. Is exactly why God wants to move you into spaces. is where you are the only one who looks the way that you look because if God can get you in a space where you are the only one who looks the way that you look then you can represent more people than you realize are connected to you you're calling it a handicap and God is calling you an ambassador you're calling it a crippling and God's calling you a leader God says you don't see your sheep but I promise you they're out there that's why social media is so powerful because you never know who you're talking to but God says if you would just release the word that I gave you you'll trust Trust that the sheep will come hearing your voice.
I'm reminded of scripture. I'm sorry, the scripture where it says, my sheep, they know my voice and a stranger they will not follow. That means that the shepherd has to release his voice in order for the sheep to follow.
And I don't know who you are, but you've been holding on to your voice because you're not sure anyone is connected to it. And I hear God saying that we don't do it for those connected to us. We do it because we're obedient to what God has placed down on the inside of us. I gotta be obedient to where God called me. I gotta be obedient.
obedient to the movement that God has placed on the inside of me and I'm going to release my sound and I'm going to trust that God's going to make sure that the sound touches everyone connected to it because at the end of the day it is not my job to make sure that I become famous it is my job to make sure that the word is released once the word is released God makes it do what it's going to do when the word is released that's when it affects chains when the word is released that's when it gathers the hearts when the word is released that is when we see transformation you I don't know who you are, but this is the year of the revolution. This is the year of the revolution of you, and you've been dipping your toe in the water, and I hear God saying that it is time for you to jump all the way in, that all of us come to a time and a season in our life where we can no longer afford to just dip our toe in, and I don't want to fail, so I'm going to keep my hand in the pot over here, and I don't want to fully commit, so I'm going to keep my options open over here, and I hear God saying you're never going to experience the miracle transformational power of God unless you do. dive all the way in. I wish that I could tell you the way that I feel it in my spirit, but I hear God saying that there is someone, I don't know who you are, but I'm speaking directly to you.
And I hear God saying that your fear is keeping you from diving in. But I hear God saying that if you would dive all the way in, then I will show you how to swim in this water. I'll show you how to show up in that boardroom. I'll show you how to navigate this relationship.
I'll show you how to raise that child. You're already counting yourself out. Come on conversations with me. with yourself.
You're already counting yourself out. But I hear God saying that if you would just speak what I speak over you, if you would do what I say, do, then you would recognize that it's time for you to come out of hiding. That's the subject for this message. The title of this message is come out of hiding. Because just like Shirley Chisholm, just like Mary, just like Moses, just like Jesus, there comes a point in our life where the revolution of us must take place.
And when the revolution of us must take place, we have to come out of hiding in order for it to reach its fullness. You cannot stay hidden and be a revolutionary. You cannot stay hidden and break generational curses.
You cannot stay hidden and be a trailblazer. If you're going to do this thing, you got to do it on display. And yes, you're worried. And no, you don't have it all together.
But I hear God saying at the end of the day, it's not about you anyway. It's about the revolution that I want to put on display. I want you to be a monument of the glory of God.
I want you to be a monument of what can happen when we are obedient and lay down our lives and begin to sacrifice. gonna have to do it afraid sometimes and you may even have to do it ashamed sometimes and you may even have to do it nervous sometimes but by God you got to do it by any means necessary because you are the vessel that God is going to use for his glory to show up in the earth and no we're not worthy to hold his glory but he's gonna let us hold on to it anyway and no we're not worthy for the places that God has called us to but he's calling us to it anyway what kind of God that we serve that he would look at the inside of us and say I'm I know your fears. I know your mistakes.
I know your past. I know your shame. I know your regret and I'm still calling you anyway because at the end of the day when your weakness meets my strength it is going to create perfection and I wish there was just someone willing to say God let's collaborate.
Mary collaborates with God and when we find her in this text in John 2 that collaboration is coming to a place. where she is coming out of hiding. This wedding at Cana, Jesus's first miracle, is preempted by Mary saying to Jesus, there's a problem here.
She nudges Jesus into position. Thank God for people who nudge us into position. I'm nudging you right now into position.
I'm not just here to preach a message so that you can go back to being the same. I'm praying that this message would nudge you into position. You need to thank God for friends who nudge you into position. They say that's not what you're supposed to be. You're more divine than that.
That's not how you're supposed to think. You're more qualified than that. Sometimes you need someone who will nudge you into position. who will say you can do better than that.
You need someone who will coach you, who will mentor you, who will show you when it's time to release the fullness of who God has called you to be. You need people in your life who nudge you into position. Yes, you need friends who will meet you where you are. Yes, you need relationships that will meet you where you are, but you know what else you need?
You need relationships that push you a little. You need relationships that nudge you a little because if you don't have relationships that push you a little, then you'll see everyone in your circle being stagnant. But you need someone who's just a little bit ahead of you, who's nudging you to say you can do better than this. You can move more differently than this.
And when we have those people who are nudging us into position, it releases divine assignments. It releases divine identity. It releases the fullness of who we know we can be. I want you to tag someone right now who has nudged you into position.
Thank you for pushing me. Thank you for nudging me. Thank you for growing me. Thank you for seeing myself differently than I see me. Thank you for always thinking the best of me.
Thank you for not allowing my past to define me. You nudged me into position. Anything I do now, it's not just because I did it on my own. It's because you nudged me.
I'm thinking about my father who nudged me into position. I'm thinking about my husband who's always nudging me into position. You need people in your life who nudge you into position.
And Mary is nudging Jesus, saying your time is coming. She's saying that this is a moment for you to show up. This is the moment for the revolution. I know you've been hiding.
Who are you? I know you've been hiding. I know you've been trying to perfect your craft.
I know you've been trying to relax while you can relax. I know you've tried to rest in peace for as long as you can. But it's time for you to come out of that peace and release the peace.
God says, I'll cover you sometimes in seasons of peace so that when it's time for you to get on the battlefield, you release peace even in battle. And Mary is trying to tell Jesus, it's time for you to release the fullness of who you are. I don't know who you are, but I kept hearing God saying over and over and over again, this is the year of the revolution. This is the year where you come out of hiding. This is the year where everything that you have collected must be put on display.
It must be put to the test. It must be demonstrated for other people to come up behind you. And I hear God saying that there's a following connected to you.
There's a following connected to what I've done down on the inside of you. And when Mary pushes Jesus out of hiding, it dawns on me. That in order for Jesus to be in the fullness of who he is as the Son of God, that the cute little story that Mary and Joseph have crafted for other people to believe must also unravel.
Instantly, I began wondering, maybe the reason Jesus didn't see it as his time is because it was actually Mary's time. That Mary had finally come to a place where she was ready to let her life unravel so that she can live authentically in the truth of who God has been cultivating her to become. There are these lives that we weave together that look so comfortable and cute and complacent and pleasant. And yet if we're honest, if we're really, really honest, we know that there is an unraveling that needs to happen.
That our life has reached its capacity for this season. And in order for us to step into the next season, we can't do it keeping and maintaining the life that once was. Maybe, just maybe, this moment is less about Jesus having water turn into wine and more about Mary coming out of hiding so that she can really, really release everything that God has given her, that God has trusted her with. Mary, in this moment as a mother, is ultimately saying to Jesus, I'm ready to release you.
I'm ready to let you go. I'm ready to let my life come apart so that what God has given me can fully grow into what it's supposed to be. Revolutionary intimacy is us recognizing the moments when the unraveling must occur so that the truth of who we have grown into be can finally take center stage. The revolutionary intimacy that you have experienced but don't want to bring into your family circle, don't want to bring into your friend circle, the fact that you do have an opinion, the fact that you have been struggling, the fact that you do need help, the fact that you're worried that you're suicidal, that revolutionary intimacy that you have to put on display only comes unless there is an unraveling.
And I am telling you that you are not doing anyone any favors by pretending that everything is okay when it is not. to let the unraveling happen so that the fullness of what God wants to do can be manifested in your life. You can trust God with the unraveling and Mary in this moment does something more intimate than any of us have ever fully acknowledged. She says, God, I'm ready to release what you gave me. I'm ready to turn it over into the world.
where it can be judged, where it can even maybe be ridiculed, where it can be criticized, where it can be stretched, where there can be a demand placed on it. I'm ready to turn it over to you, God. I'm ready to turn it over to the world and to trust that because it began with me, that it was never supposed to end with me.
What a disservice it would have been had Mary never nudged Jesus into this moment. That means that it started between her and God and stayed between her and God. But when God does something in your life, it's not just supposed to stay between you and God. Over and over again, we see in scripture how God wants to use the transformational existence that we have experienced so that it can be a testimony to other people.
How else can it be a testimony unless we come out of hiding? You're watching this message and hiding is all that you know. You're hiding in a room full of people. You're the life of the party and you're hiding.
No one knows you're in the room and you're still hiding because when we hide, it is not something that you can see on the outside. Hiding is something that takes place on the inside. I'm hiding my pain. I'm hiding my confidence.
I'm hiding my words. I'm hiding my virtue. I'm hiding my worth because something happened that made me feel like I should cloak it.
I'm hiding these insecurities. All of us in so many ways are hiding. But delegation, as I was praying for myself and my own vision and my own focus, I felt like God was telling me, you know what, Sarah? There's another level of uncovering that you need to experience.
There's another level of coming out of hiding that you need to experience. Where you're able to fully own and embrace every part of who you are. Not just the parts that keep you humble.
Not just the parts that make you feel small. But can you embrace the parts of you that actually feel confident? Can you embrace the parts of you that actually feel healed and restored?
Or do you have to remind yourself over and over again of who you used to be so that you never trust who you're becoming? There is something that happens when we take ownership. of every part of us. Yes, I'm still growing.
Yes, I still have work to do. Yes, sometimes I'm still triggered, but my God, I'm actually proud of who I've become. That's the type of revolutionary intimacy that us broken girls don't always talk about because we're afraid that I won't always be able to be her, but I hear God saying that you're going to have to trust your Mary as much as you trust your Eve.
If you want to know what we're going to focus on this year, I'm going to give it to you quite plainly. We're going to focus on a real revolution, a revolution that can only take place in your soul so that it changes everything that you've ever known about yourself until it keeps changing and twisting and transforming until it becomes everything that God always knew about you. When God looks at us, he sees our strength, he sees our weakness, and yet he doesn't judge us higher or lower based off of what they are, because at the end of the day, God says, all of this makes you who you are.
My favorite part of this text is when Mary speaks to the servants, and she tells the servants, whatever he says to you, do it. The servants who were once serving wine to the party, those same servants, Mary says, now you're going to have to turn and whatever Jesus says, that's what you're going to do. There are seasons in our life when what used to serve us can't serve us that anymore. Whatever that pathology that used to serve you, that kept you safe when you were in that home, that kept you connected to that relationship in a time where you really did need it, it doesn't serve you any longer.
And all of us have a responsibility to take what once served us and turn it to God, turn it to Jesus and say, I'm only going to serve what you tell me to serve. What has been serving you, friend? What way of thinking, what way of being has been serving you? Is it alcohol? Does that serve you?
Does it serve you in numbing the pain? I'm telling you, whatever it is that has been serving you, that insecurity, that shrinking, that being small, whatever has been serving you and keeping you safe and keeping you feeling from feeling the pain and keeping you From having to confront the issues and the darkness that is surrounding you, I'm telling you is running out of juice. It's running out of juice and you need it to run out of juice. You need it to lose its power. You need for the relationships to no longer distract you.
You need for the sex to no longer satisfy you. You need for the degrees to no longer make you feel whole. Because at the end of the day, you were building your healing and your wholeness and your healing on something that was going to run out of juice. But there is a living water that will never, ever run out. And that living water says that if you would dare ask me what to serve instead, that you would find the discipline you're looking for.
You would find the confidence that you've been searching for. You will find the peace that you couldn't find anywhere. You will find the joy that you left down in your little girl ages. And I hear God saying that, ask me what to serve you. Ask me what to give you.
Ask me what you need in this season of your life. Can you be daring enough and bold enough to not use the usual suspects that we know will run out of juice and instead say, at the end of the day, God, I only want to serve what you give me. I only want to speak what you say speak. I only want to think what you say think. I want my life to be a representation of someone who served only what Jesus gave.
And Jesus, if you're telling me to serve something that feels beyond me, I'm so grateful that I serve a miracle-working God. Revolutionary intimacy. We see it with Mary.
We see it with Moses. We see it time and time in the scripture. We see it with Jesus passing the cup. But at the end of the day, if we don't see it in ourselves, it's not enough to see it in other people. Do you know what revolutionary intimacy is?
It's when we open up our hearts and our prayer life in such a way that we ask God to meet us right where we are. I want to come out of hiding. God, I'm afraid. That I can't maintain this confidence.
I want to come out of hiding. I'm afraid that I can't maintain this marriage. I want to come out of hiding.
I'm afraid that I'm in water that is too deep and I don't know how to swim. I want to come out of hiding. I'm tired of pretending.
I'm tired of having this masquerade. I'm ready for my life to unravel. This is a grown folks message because who comes to a place where they say to themselves, I'm ready for my life to unravel.
But you can say that with confidence when you know who's going to help you put it back together. I don't know who you are, but I want you to hear me clearly. Don't allow the fact that man, that humanity could not help you put your life back together make you think that God is incapable of helping you put your life back together.
I hear God saying that he can do what no one else can do. I hear God saying that the Holy Spirit can lead you in ways that your parents couldn't lead you. They can lead you in ways that their relationship couldn't lead you, where your professor couldn't lead you. The Holy Spirit can lead you to ultimate wholeness and ultimate truth. But we've got to be willing to let it unravel.
My prayer for you, sister, my prayer for you, friend, is that the revolution would begin because you let your life unravel in the same way that Mary did. That you would take what's been serving you and point it to Jesus and say to Jesus instead. Whatever you want me to serve, that's what I'll serve.
I want to pray with you. Part of the reason why I love Hey You so much is that it is meant to jumpstart what will hopefully be an evening, an hour, 15 minutes, a weekend, a lifestyle of you having soul care with God. My prayer for us at Woman Evolve is that we would invite the Holy Spirit into every corner of our heart and that when we do that we will experience the rich love that comes from our Father. Do you know how much God loves you? God loves you so much that even when those before you made a conscious decision to separate from him, that he still said, I will spend thousands of years trying to get back connected to my people.
You are God's creation. God put his very breath into the lungs of man and says, I only want them to be a partaker of my breath. God loves the very essence of who you are.
Yes, you're crazy. Yes, you're funny. Yes, you're hilarious. Yes, you have an addictive personality. Yes, you overindulge.
Yes, you overspend. Yes, you're still working through your scars. Yes, you're still working through your issues. But that doesn't change the way that God sees you.
Time and time again in scripture, if you don't believe me and you want to do this, I want you to take the time to study scripture and see how many times. The people of God tried to pull away from God, and yet God was still showing up for them. And yes, sometimes he was frustrated. And yes, sometimes he was angry, but he never abandoned his people. He never sent them into battle without giving them a warning.
He continued to show up. Even through Jesus, he continues to show up. And even through 2022, God is still showing up so that he can be seen and projected through our lives.
I'm ready for a revolution. Somebody's cueing the Kirk Franklin song in their head. I hear it.
But I do. I want a revolution. I want to overthrow the government of my fear.
I want to overthrow the government of my shame. I want to overthrow the government of my inadequacy. A government is handing out laws, it's creating boundaries. I want to overthrow that government so that I can experience what it's like to have the kingdom of heaven in charge of my identity, the kingdom of heaven in charge of my being, the kingdom of heaven in charge of my business, my family, my parenting, my thoughts. I want to overthrow the government that's been trying to overthrow the God on the inside of me.
That's what I want to do. That's what I want to pray with you. I want to pray for those of you who are watching, who are bold enough to allow this to be the year of the unraveling and the revolution. This happens at the intersection of revolution into intimacy.
God, I thank you so much for all of the women connected to this word. God, the truth is that sometimes that word intimacy, it scares us. God, what does it mean to be seen?
What does it mean to be loved? What does it mean to have our worth and our value fully seen with all of our scars and our missteps? And yet, God, we're willing to step out on faith.
And dare to give life to the words that we whisper in the recesses of our heart. To say, God, I'm afraid. To say, God, I want to be healed. God, I want to see myself the way that you see me.
God, change my vision. Chastise my heart. Convict my actions. God, I want to literally repent. I want to change the way that I think, God.
And so I repent, Father, that I have allowed other governments to have control when you should have had control all along. This is a moment of surrender, woman evolved. This is a moment of sacrifice, woman evolved, where we lay down what has once served us.
where we lay down what has made us comfortable and instead say, God, I only want what you want for me. And so God, all of us from all over the world, I hear Africa building an altar. I hear the UK building an altar.
In Australia, they're building an altar. In China, they're building an altar. In France, in California, in Texas, in New York, in the DMV in Chicago, they're building an altar, God, so that we can lay down the very thing that once served us so that it can begin to turn its face towards you.
God, we lay it down and we allow ourselves to be seen. God, if there is a facade, if there is a mask, if there is a way of being that we have had for years that is keeping us from really trusting you with what you've given us and trusting what you have given us, then God, we ask that you would remove it right now in the name of Jesus. Father, I pray that you would unravel lies, that you would unravel shame, that you would unravel addiction, that you would unravel pride, and you would unravel ego, God. Allow it to unravel in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, let it unravel so that the name of Jesus can be shown strong in our lives, oh God, so that we can say this area where I was once hiding is now a place where light resides, God.
Allow your light. to shine first on us and then through us because we dared to come out of hiding. God, if there's someone watching right now and they don't know Jesus as their Savior, they don't know the ultimate hope that we have in the life of Jesus, God, I pray that this would not just make them curious, but that this would afford them an opportunity to make a decision.
God, for those of them making that decision right now, I just thank you for Jesus. I thank you for making him who had no sin all of their sin, all of my sin, all of my weakness, all of my limitation. And I don't mean my past weakness or their past limitations or their past sins or my past sins.
I mean the present sin that we experience every single day where we fall short. God, I thank you that Jesus makes up the distance. And I believe that, that Jesus makes up the distance.
And God, they want to believe that as well. So I thank you that they're making a decision to trust that Jesus makes up the distance. Father, if they truly believe that, allow that to show up in the way that they show up.
Allow it to be expressed in the way that they think, in the way that they act. That because I'm stretching after Jesus, I don't have to run away from my fears anymore, my insecurities or my anxiety, because it's already been defeated. Seal this word, God, as only you can do.
Allow it to take root. produce fruit that cannot be hidden. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Family I told you If you don't say amen in the comments, it didn't happen. So I want you to type amen and amen. I want you to seal this word.
I want to offer you an opportunity to sow into Woman Evolved. When I say that this is the year of revolution, I mean it for Woman Evolved as well. I am praying like never before that God would bless this ministry to give in ways that we weren't able to give before. And we've been able to do so many phenomenal things for women transitioning from prison for women who are transitioning from domestic violence situations, women fighting breast cancers, moms who needed help over Christmas, sending laptops to children so that they can show up for school.
We've done so many things this year, but if I can let you in on my revolutionary God-sized dream for Women Evolve, I want us to actually have housing in different cities for women who need practical help actually evolving. And I want to ask you to consider sowing into this God-sized dream with me. I'm connected with some partners. I'm looking at real estate. We're going to do everything that we can to save up and set up these women who actually need help to start the revolution.
And they're going to be able to do it because some sisters came alongside them and says, you're not going to do it alone. So the instructions are on the screen. Partner with me. Sow into this word.
Sow into it by praying. Sow into it by giving if you're able to. God, bless the seed that's going into the ground.
God, help us to find the right cities. God, help us to find the right apartment communities. But most importantly, help the women to find us, God. And may we do this, not just one time, but may there be multiple, multiple communities where women feel safe enough to let down their masks, to unravel, and to be helped, healed, and restored because the delegation in Woman Evolved said, no woman left behind.
I love you all so much. Hey, you is a thing. We're doing it every month.
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