God Handpicked You: Finding Grace in the Storm

• Divine Selection and Favor 00:00:48 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor asserts that God has specifically chosen and handpicked the congregation for their lives and assignments, countering feelings of insignificance.
• Motherhood and Grace 00:03:30 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor connects the biblical concept of being a 'favored woman' to the experience of motherhood, emphasizing that grace covers the difficulties and exhaustion of parenting.
• Breaking Generational Curses 00:12:10 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor addresses the need to break negative family patterns and narcissism by forgiving parents and choosing to become who God created the individual to be.
• Spiritual Warfare and Identity 00:14:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor identifies feelings of being stuck or bitter as lies from the enemy, urging the congregation to recognize their identity as royalty and masterpieces filled with grace.
• Grace as Divine Strength 00:17:15 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor defines grace not as a removal of pressure, but as the divine strength, favor, wisdom, and endurance provided by God to help believers persevere through difficult seasons and assignments.
• Identity and Worth 00:14:44 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor asserts that believers are royalty and masterpieces, countering the lie that they are defined by their failures or current struggles, emphasizing that grace falls on them regardless of perfection.
• God's Sovereign Selection 00:16:00 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor explains that God handpicks individuals for specific life assignments and seasons, implying that the presence of grace is tied to God's specific calling rather than human qualification.
• Overcoming Pride and Rejection 00:20:21 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor identifies pride as the root of rejection and unforgiveness, urging the congregation to delight in the Lord rather than trying to fix 'dead situations' through their own efforts.
• Generational Impact of Grace 00:33:32 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor concludes that the grace received by a mother has the power to change generations, positioning the believer as a 'chain breaker' and 'history maker' whose 'yes' shifts history.
• Grace for the Broken 00:32:45 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor lists various forms of brokenness (miscarriages, infertility, divorce, empty nesting) and asserts that grace is present in these difficult seasons.
• Breaking Family Chains 00:35:20 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor prophesies that some women are the first in their bloodline to heal, stop chaos, choose God, break addiction, and create peace.
• Personal Repentance and Commitment 00:37:30 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor leads the congregation in a verbal confession of repentance and a commitment to live righteously.

• Sermon Illustration 00:05:32 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts her personal experience of giving birth to her son without an epidural due to financial constraints, describing the intense pain, her mother's support, and the eventual need for a C-section when the baby's heartbeat was lost.
• Sermon Illustration 00:09:34 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a story about her mother visiting her during a period of rebellion and substance use, consistently praying for her and reminding her of God's love despite being rejected.
• Sermon Illustration 00:20:58 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about eating sea bass with her husband, noting the small bones in the fish. She uses this as an analogy for enduring difficult seasons where one must 'spit out the bones' and enjoy the 'juice' (the good parts) while accepting the temporary discomfort.
• Sermon Illustration 00:24:20 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Mary, highlighting that despite being ordinary, unwealthy, and overlooked by society, heaven chose her for an extraordinary purpose, illustrating that God sees destiny carriers even when the world sees only tiredness.
• Sermon Illustration 00:26:10 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares her personal testimony of being a 'sower of oats' who raised kids and was not the 'best mama' at 40, yet God knew she would shift the narrative, preach her first sermon, and become a pastor, illustrating God's foreknowledge and faithfulness over time.
• Sermon Illustration 00:27:31 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts meeting her husband at age 50 in a restaurant, describing it as a 'fairy tale' moment where he honored her, illustrating that God cleanses and prepares individuals for their purpose even after past mistakes.
• Sermon Illustration 00:34:02 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about her son Lincoln telling her to stop singing, and her playful threat to spank him, illustrating the tension between spiritual expression and family dynamics.
• Sermon Illustration 00:34:17 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references Mary's 'yes' shifting history to encourage the women in the room that their own 'yes' is also shifting history.

• Pastoral Charge 00:00:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor commands the congregation to prepare their minds and bodies for the sermon, affirm their identity as 'handpicked' by God, and share this affirmation with their neighbors.
• Pastoral Charge 00:16:00 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor encourages the congregation to personally internalize and claim the reality that grace is actively falling upon them.
• Pastoral Charge 00:17:22 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor commands the congregation to recall their past traumas and recognize their own resilience and survival as evidence of God's grace.
• Pastoral Charge 00:23:55 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor instructs the congregation to write down the theological truth that God selects ordinary individuals for significant purposes.
• Pastoral Charge 00:34:48 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor invites the congregation to physically lift their hands as a sign of reclaiming their energy and strength.
• Pastoral Charge 00:36:26 ▶️ 📄
  > Lift hands in preparation for singing.
• Pastoral Charge 00:37:30 ▶️ 📄
  > Repeat a specific prayer of repentance, commitment, and thanksgiving.

[00:00:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:00:11] But listen, you're in the right place. Because you are about to be so blessed.
[00:00:16] Man, God was in this building. If y'all ever have the opportunity to come to Limitless and be in person, y'all, there's something about this house that is just full of glory.
[00:00:26] Even if you just come on a vacation. Get in this house every Sunday, 10 and 1130.
[00:00:31] And also, if you can't get in the house, let's go cooking. You can join us right here every single Sunday, 10 and 1130.
[00:00:37] share it with all your friends y'all listen to me God's got his hand on your life you have an assignment get your notebook sit your behind down clear out the noise and let me minister to you for
[00:00:48] the next few minutes I believe it's going to save you I love you so much tell your neighbor God handpicked you say God handpicked you say God handpicked you how many of you don't even want
[00:01:02] to tell nobody that you're like I didn't sit by nobody on purpose so I'm telling you God hand picked you. God hand picked you. Today's Mother's Day. How many are excited about Mother's Day? My husband asked me yesterday, he goes, what are we going to do for Father's Day? I said,
[00:01:25] we're going to love them. We're going to spoil them. But today's Mother's Day, right? He said, men always get forgotten. I said, not you, not my baby. So no man in this church is going to
[00:01:38] to be forgotten. But today is your queen's day. Amen. Today's your queen's day. So I got a sermon today. I think it's going to go both ways. It's going to go for you that are mamas. Those of you
[00:01:53] that are spiritual mamas. Those of you that want a baby. Those of you that are just visitors. Today I got a word for you. Say, give it to me, pastor. Say, come on, give it to me. Let the Lord use you.
[00:02:07] now father let this place be just full of your presence let your presence rest peace joy new beginnings sleep i come against insomnia i come against depression i come against heaviness and as i'm preaching this sermon today i pray you stir something up in us that we can't get away
[00:02:44] from. So even while we lay it in our bed at night, we like fill in your glory. In Jesus name, amen, amen, and amen. Okay. I want to go to Luke 1 28. We're going to start at Luke 1 28.
[00:03:01] Happy mama's day to all the beautiful Queens. You are a queen. So fabulous. You are so fabulous.
[00:03:10] Luke 1.28 says, Gabriel appeared to her and said, greetings, favored woman, the Lord is with you.
[00:03:24] Gabriel appeared to her and said, greetings, favored woman, the Lord is with you.
[00:03:30] There are seasons in life where you need to take this scripture and every morning when you wake up, you need to say, greetings, beautiful woman, favored by God.
[00:03:40] the Lord is with you today. So we have a choice, right? When we wake up in the morning, we have a choice to look at that mirror and hate what we see or look in that mirror and say, the Lord is with
[00:03:55] you. You are favored. Gabriel appeared to her and said, greetings, favored woman. The Lord is with you. Another translation says, grace falls on you. Grace falls on you. Motherhood is beautiful, right? How many of y'all like love being a mother? How many of you, it's the hardest job you've ever
[00:04:15] done in your life? So we love it, but it's hard, right? You don't ever get a break from it, right?
[00:04:22] It's like we go to the bathroom and we see fingers underneath the doors. You're like trying to have a moment. And them little fingers, you in the bathtub trying to have a soak and the baby's
[00:04:34] right here. Like we never get a break, you know? It's like we got to show up and be. We really can't grieve. You really can't show pain because we are really super women. But the hardest thing
[00:04:53] as I was studying this sermon today, I started thinking about how amazing women are. We don't just birth babies out of a place nothing should come out of. You ever ask God, what in the world
[00:05:17] were you thinking like why why like what it's like he's he was so intricate but then after you had that baby you can be in the broccoli aisle getting food for your family in 24 hours they
[00:05:32] say when a woman is giving birth she is closest to death than she'll ever be i remember when my son started coming i was one of those that said i'm gonna do it just natural because you know if
[00:05:43] God created me to carry a baby, then I can do it naturally. All of a sudden, I get in the hospital, and I'm like, what is going on in this body? I was like, oh, I think I want an epidural.
[00:06:04] They said, ma'am, you didn't sign up on an epidural. Now, we were broke, all right? Can you say broke. I'm talking like $399 broke. So back in the day when I had my son, you could sign up for
[00:06:17] a fast birth. That means you're going to go in, you're going to push that baby out, and it's going to be like $1,500. Totally aging myself. So you're going to have that baby. You're going to literally clean that baby up. They're going to give it to you, and you're going to go
[00:06:32] home because you broke. That means there ain't no epidural. So all of a sudden, I start feeling something working. And I'm like, oh, I said, I can't do this. And I can handle pain like big time.
[00:06:49] And all of a sudden my mother, you know, cause my mother's my rider. She runs out to the nurses and she goes, my baby is hurting. They said, well, we're going to come check your baby. Cause
[00:07:02] my mom has always been a rider. You know, now my mom is also five foot tall, 99 pounds soaking wet.
[00:07:09] she literally birthed me butt first with no epidural so Mimi ain't got a lot of grace even when I was walking through my divorce y'all know I was like she's like but did it kill yet
[00:07:24] but on this particular day her baby is hurting she goes and tells that nurse she's like oh my baby they come check me and they said ma'am you're at two I said how far I gotta go
[00:07:42] They said, baby, you got to go to 10.
[00:07:45] And if we give you an epidural right now, it's going to run off.
[00:07:49] So we're going to need you to breathe.
[00:07:52] All of a sudden, I hated everybody in that room.
[00:07:57] I thought it was everybody's fault that I was laying in that room, and I did not want whatever was about to happen to happen.
[00:08:04] I remember that doctor came in and looked at me, and he said, ma'am, he said, that thing coming out one way or another.
[00:08:11] So you can either suck it up, buttercup.
[00:08:14] and push or we're gonna have to do a c-section well i don't want no c-section 13 hours into labor all of a sudden they lost his heartbeat and they said we have to rush you in for a c-section
[00:08:33] i remember at that moment the whole room got quiet like i was gonna die that's why y'all gotta be careful who's in the room with you when you get bad results all of a sudden all the
[00:08:46] christians but you know they were the kind of christians that if it's god's will no no i don't need you in the room me i need you to know it's his will all of a sudden i looked at my mama she
[00:08:56] said everybody out and she started walking around that room something started rising in me where i realized that whatever they got to do right now god already knew and he's going to help me get
[00:09:13] through it. That's what mamas do. Mamas know when to come in and pray you out of wherever you are.
[00:09:22] There was another time that me and my husband were the party animals of the neighborhood, right? The X. And I remember my mom and dad is showing up at my house. We were already drunk
[00:09:34] at about 4.30 in the afternoon. And my mama comes knock on my door. I come look at her and say, what you want. She said, baby, you got tears coming down. Baby, the Lord wanted me to come
[00:09:49] down and he loves you. I said, girl, bye. I'm going to need you to leave. She would just pop up at my house ever so often. And I was one of those in the garage smokers, right? I didn't
[00:10:06] think nobody would see me in the garage. And I was a social smoker. This woman would come by praying in my neighborhood while I'm in there with a cigarette hanging out of my garage.
[00:10:18] She would pull up like there was nothing hanging out of my hand. And she would walk in and she'd say, baby, I just want to tell you, the Lord loves you. I know. I know he loves me. And I looked at
[00:10:30] her and I said, mother, don't come back to my house. I said, I will never, ever, ever turn my life over to Jesus. Like I love him. He knows I love him. But all this stuff y'all think we got
[00:10:39] to do, we don't got to do it. He loves me just the way I am. He's still working on me. That woman never quit praying for me. That woman said at three o'clock in the morning, when I was walking
[00:10:53] through those tough seasons of my life, she said, God would wake me up at three o'clock in the morning and me and your daddy would be laying on the floor, praying and pleading the blood of Jesus
[00:11:04] over your life. That's what mothers do. Mothers see something in their kids that they are only gifted to see. Because something happened when you carried a kid that's part of you.
[00:11:22] So even if you're walking through a season right now where you have a prodigal, or maybe your kid ain't talking to you. You know, we got this thing going on right now.
[00:11:32] The kids don't like their mamas and daddies.
[00:11:35] They're 40 years old and they're like, I'm the way I am because of my mama and my...
[00:11:39] You 40!
[00:11:41] I follow some people online and I'm like, she's like, don't come over.
[00:11:48] Good luck taking care of them kids when you get time.
[00:11:51] But the real issue is that the enemy is after our families.
[00:11:57] Now, the truth is there's some mamas that just ain't good.
[00:12:02] There's some mamas that are narcissists, which means we've got to shift the narrative and become not a narcissist.
[00:12:10] We've got to break the generational curses, and we've got to forgive.
[00:12:14] You know, you've got to know that God in heaven knew that this generational curse was going to encounter someone like you.
[00:12:26] That was going to shift the narrative and say, I refuse to be like my mama.
[00:12:31] I refuse to be like my niece.
[00:12:34] I refuse to be like my daddy.
[00:12:36] And I'm drawing a line and becoming who God created me to be.
[00:12:40] You can't walk around mad at your mama.
[00:12:44] You can't walk around mad at your daddy.
[00:12:48] Because when you have children, guess what?
[00:12:52] Huh?
[00:12:57] You marked my words.
[00:13:00] I was watching Oprah and one of her podcasts, and there was a couple on there.
[00:13:03] and both of them did not let their parents in their lives.
[00:13:08] Both of y'all?
[00:13:10] Both of your parents?
[00:13:15] Both?
[00:13:18] Mom and daddy.
[00:13:22] All of them.
[00:13:24] And now you got your own kids that don't know what a mama and papa is because you ain't dealt with your own stuff.
[00:13:33] There's going to come a day because it starts with who?
[00:13:39] Who?
[00:13:40] You.
[00:13:41] there comes a point in life when kids exemplify what they saw they gonna see how you kids don't listen to you they watch you but if you've been bad in a hell you know wheels you can change it today right this minute you can have a oh hell no moment
[00:14:12] and you could tell every demon that was on an assignment to ruin your life, to get in your spirit, to make your heart angry, to make your heart bitter. It can evaporate just like that
[00:14:24] by changing what has control over us, whether we're the parent, whether we're the kid, whether we're the employee, whatever the story is that you feel has caused you to stay stuck.
[00:14:37] That is a lie from the enemy because you are royalty.
[00:14:44] You are a masterpiece.
[00:14:46] You are full of what?
[00:14:50] Grace.
[00:14:51] It says grace falls on you.
[00:14:56] So motherhood is beautiful.
[00:14:57] Motherhood is heavy.
[00:14:59] There are women carrying babies, women carrying homes, women carrying businesses, women carrying broken hearts women carrying everybody else while secretly wondering who is carrying them some women are exhausted some are grieving some are healing some are single
[00:15:23] parenting some are waiting on prodigals some are trying to smile while silently falling apart But I come with the word from heaven today, limitless, that grace falls on you.
[00:15:43] Not because you're perfect.
[00:15:46] Not because you've never made a mistake.
[00:15:49] Not because you have it all together.
[00:15:52] But because God handpicked you for this assignment, for this life.
[00:16:00] and whatever God assigns, say whatever God assigns, he blesses. So I went a little bit further.
[00:16:17] I need to know. I'm one of those that I need to know. Grace falls. Grace follows me. Grace falls on me. What does that mean? You ever hear stuff and just think, well, what does that mean?
[00:16:33] Okay, grace follows me. Won't he do it? What does it mean? I need to know what it means.
[00:16:40] So I went and researched it. Grace falls and follows me. It means that when God calls you into a season, relationship, ministry, business, assignments, tough seasons, he doesn't send you empty-handed. Y'all hear that? He sends grace with you. What is that? Grace is the divine strength.
[00:17:15] Now, I need you to think about this. Think about the worst thing that's ever happened to you. You

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:17:22] thinking about it? I shouldn't have to go back there, Pastor Kim. Go! Now, I need you to do this.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:17:32] I need you to realize you made it. Did it hurt? Yes. Did it take your peace? Yes. Did you want to quit? Yes. Did you quit? Maybe, but you're still here, which means that grace is that divine
[00:17:56] strength that makes you persevere. It makes you push. Something happens in every single one of us when we know we're encountering something, whether it's court, a ticket, addiction, prodigals, an ex that you thought you knew but you didn't, a job you hate. Every one of us have
[00:18:29] something in us that when we think, I can't do this, you somehow do it. You somehow make it.
[00:18:39] That's grace. So grace is the divine strength, favor, wisdom, and endurance and covering you need to do what you're called to do. So even when you feel unqualified, even when you feel nervous, even when you feel stretched, even when you feel stupid, even when you feel under pressure,
[00:19:01] even when you feel like you're losing your mind, the assignment itself carries the grace for it.
[00:19:10] So the statement is really saying, y'all ready for this? Stop worrying about whether you're enough.
[00:19:18] stop worrying whether you're too late stop worrying whether you can make it stop worrying about down the road if God assigned it he already attached the grace to what he gave you the grace to what huh make it through it so why are you still sitting on the sideline why are you still
[00:19:53] talking about it. Why are you still beating yourself up over it? Why? Because he says, my grace is sufficient for you. In your weakness, he is what? He says, delight yourself in the Lord and he'll give you what? So if you ain't getting the desires of your heart, what you doing?
[00:20:21] Huh? What you doing? You're not delighting yourself in the Lord because you're trying to give CPR to dead situations. Because rejection hits our pride. We don't want to forgive because we're prideful. We don't want to get up because we're prideful. I know that, Steve. Because that
[00:20:45] means it's related to me. What's going on with them is none of my business. What's going on with me is everything. So I got to watch my heart, my spirit. And my husband was eating a sea bass the
[00:20:58] other day, I think white fish, something. And it had little bitty bones and I just kept watching him eat. And I thought, what a hard meal that this whole huge fish with eyeballs, you can't even eat
[00:21:16] a big fork of it. Cause you, sometimes you go through seasons where you got to, the feast looks good. The fish looks good. It's laid out and cooked perfectly. The marriage looked perfect.
[00:21:38] the kids were great you sacrificed your whole life for them for them to be so ungrateful yeah the fish was still good but there were some bones in it because he's patient he sat there
[00:21:59] now my baby is a slow eater anyway I am the kind that I like to eat and get out but I have learned to love his company that night. I had to look at him and realize this is going to
[00:22:21] be two hours. So what did I do? I sat in the uncomforter that I don't like because I knew it was just a season. This was just temporary. And so you got to realize that everything in life
[00:22:40] It's temporary.
[00:22:41] And sometimes you got to spit out the bones and you got to enjoy the juice.
[00:22:50] Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.
[00:22:55] So it also means wherever God sends you, his grace gets there first.
[00:23:02] So even when you feel unprepared, heaven already equipped you for your...

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:23:12] Or, I don't think he's got an assignment for me.
[00:23:19] I think he's in Cabo San Lucas, probably on his second margarita.
[00:23:27] He don't drink.

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:23:31] But it feels that way, especially when we've done everything right, when we showed up, when we were responsible.
[00:23:40] And now we've got to sit with somebody while they spit the bones out.
[00:23:44] And we've got to sit in peace.
[00:23:47] And you've got to talk to yourself, even when you want to get up and you want to go do what you want to do. Sometimes you got to die to your flesh.
[00:23:55] Listen to me. Write this down. God's grace, say God's grace, chooses ordinary women slash people for extraordinary purpose. What does that even mean? Let's look at Mary. Mary was not famous.
[00:24:20] she was not wealthy she was not highly favored or popular in society yet heaven chose her and some mothers feel overlooked invisible unappreciated but heaven sees you maybe you're in a season where you're looking at everyone bosses and you're taking care of your family maybe you've laid
[00:24:49] your dreams down. Maybe in your spit the bones out season, God sees you. It's all the way you choose. It's the way you process. Heaven sees what people overlook. The world may only see a
[00:25:17] tired mother, a struggling woman, a woman doing her best, but God sees a destiny carrier. Do you hear me. God sees a chain breaker. God sees a nurturer. God sees a warrior. God sees a history
[00:25:34] maker. Listen, what judges, let me, let me remind you, judges 612, the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, mighty hero, the Lord is with you. God always calls greatness out before you see
[00:25:49] it yourself. Man, I'm so glad I didn't believe all those people. I'm so glad that he thought I was worth saving. That when I wasn't the best mama, because I was out here sowing my oats,
[00:26:10] a kid raising kids, that God knew at about 40 years old, I was going to start shifting the narrative. He knew at about 42 years old, I was going to preach my first sermon. He knew at about
[00:26:21] 42 years old, I was going to start a new generational blessing in our family of women preachers. I was going to carry my mother's mantle. I was going to begin to walk into pastoring.
[00:26:31] He knew five years later I was going to step into the pastor of this church and I would be able to win millions of people to God.
[00:26:42] He knew it. He knew God was going to let me meet a man in St. Regents that was going to love me well so that I could do what God's... I wanted him at 30 i wanted him at 40 so i just did what i wanted to do guess what after i and thought i
[00:27:19] burned he said i'm gonna clean you up i'm gonna let you spit out some bones and then at 50 years old i'm gonna let you walk in a restaurant and you're gonna meet somebody's gonna love your
[00:27:31] lights out that's gonna honor you it's gonna feel like a fairy tale because i am the god of fairy tells. Listen, he hadn't forgot about you, but some of you forgot about yourself. Some of you
[00:27:48] quit on yourself. You got to, if you got to tell yourself that every day of your life, if you got to walk around your house every day, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Everything's coming
[00:28:22] back to life. Whatever you got to do. I'm being a hater. I don't need nobody. Yes, you do. Superwoman needed her band? Or was that Wonder Woman? Even Tarzan needed a Jane. Even Superman needed a
[00:28:52] Robin. Am I right? But y'all know what I'm talking about. I'm giving y'all weight. Write this down.
[00:29:11] Grace doesn't mean the assignment is easy. Mary had grace on her life, but she still had to survive.
[00:29:23] She had to survive criticism. She had to survive misunderstandings. She had to survive fear.
[00:29:28] she had to survive uncertainty she had to survive pain and baby girl had all the receipts and she kept her mouth she let her fruit speak for itself some of y'all can't even handle your
[00:29:49] kid not talking to you in a season some of y'all can't handle your auntie lying about you some of y'all can't handle them subliminal messages on social media you know one thing I learned about people. Everybody has an opinion just like, um, but it's up to you to know who you
[00:30:13] are. You can't make people love you. You can't make people celebrate. You can't make people believe something different about you. So let them talk and give them something to talk about your peace and your glow up. So grace does not remove pressure. Grace gives you strength
[00:30:35] under pressure and some of y'all survived seasons you should have collapsed in you cried but you kept going you felt them contractions but you kept on going you might have screamed and everybody two counties away heard you but baby you kept going you might have had a meltdown but you
[00:30:55] melted right back into position you don't look like what you've been through baby what you have survive people in your family that's talking about you would have died but you made it you broke but you still showed up you lost pieces of yourself and you still kept everybody else
[00:31:19] alive you've got to have been made peanut butter sandwiches when you didn't have no food for yourself you would turn romaine noodles into papados by putting hot dogs and some tony sassery couldn't tell them kids it wasn't good second corinthians 12 and 9 says my grace is all you
[00:31:43] need my power works in your weakness god said you thought you survived because you were strong but really my grace carried you for such a time as this mothers carry things before the world ever
[00:31:57] sees mary carry jesus push that baby out in hidden seizes mothers are often the unseen glue holding everything together. But God sees your sacrifice. Psalms 56 and eight says, you keep track of all my baby. He has counted your tears and he's put them in a bottle. But you know what
[00:32:30] God can't do? Vindicate you as long as you hold on to it. Grace falls on broken women, broken men.
[00:32:45] And mother's day is not joyful for everyone. Some women are grieving miscarriages, prodigal children, broken relationships infertility mothers they lost dreams that didn't happen the way they planned but grace still falls there too grace falls in hospital rooms grace falls in divorce court
[00:33:05] divorce court grace falls in empty nesting grace falls in foster homes grace falls in blended families in waiting seasons in grief because grace is not just for perfect stories grace is for wounded hearts. And here's my last point. God is especially near to women carrying silent pain.
[00:33:32] The grace on a mother can change generations. Baby, you are a generational. You know, I want to sing. It won't always be. He rolled his eyes. My son Lincoln said, stop singing. No, it won't
[00:34:02] always be like this. As you stand up on your feet. And then he acts like he don't know it.
[00:34:11] So he don't have to play it. I'm going to spank you. I am old enough to be your mama.
[00:34:17] So y'all listen, Mary's yes shifted history. Your yes is shifting. And every woman in this room, that's a mama and you are tired lift up your hands if you say pastor kill i'm getting my
[00:34:48] steam back some of your mamas won't lift your hands because you don't want nobody to know you're tired it's okay my kids ain't even at home and i'm tired my kids are a whole grown-up and i'm
[00:35:03] tired let me prophesy over you as i close some of you are the first healed woman in your bloodline the first woman to stop the chaos and i'm prophesying over you the first woman to choose
[00:35:20] God, the first woman to break addiction, the first woman to build healthy love, the first woman to create peace. That's grace. I need you to put your head on your heart and say, I have beautiful
[00:35:38] grace. From this moment on, my story is shifted. Oh, I thought I had seen some good days, but my best is starting today and I hear the Lord saying grace falls on you today you are not failing you are carrying more than people know and God says the same grace that
[00:36:08] sustained you yesterday will strengthen you tomorrow let your hands up I'm gonna sing that

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:36:26] I want you to sing it from like your toes I just need to turn around

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:37:16] and you'll see you gotta see yourself being shifted everybody needs to hear this today

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:37:24] you Jesus

[00:37:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:37:30] everybody repeat after me say Lord I repent I've ever thinking that I could mess up my life because you have always been champion in my life so today and for the rest of my life
[00:38:29] I'm going to get up if I fall I'm going to get back up again and I'm going after think that you promised me let me do right let me live right and father if there's any
[00:38:50] sin in my life expose it so i can release it so i can let go of it so i can do what you call me to do and live in peace say lord thank you that my best days are now come on as you said say i walked
[00:39:12] in one way but i'm walking out another i'm walking into this season i'm walking into decent in jesus name amen amen and amen and y'all better love y'all see we got coffee and all kinds
[00:39:39] of stuff out there for you okay because we love you you are our hearts man we we think about them

[00:39:47] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:39:47] all the time don't we baby you know a lot of us a lot of mothers have gone on but if you have a sister and she's like your mother now because i have eight sisters they all think you're your
[00:40:05] mom when i when we couldn't go anywhere my mom couldn't care anywhere but my sister did i love that so it's mother's day even for your sisters out there yeah because when the mother is gone

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:40:19] it's time for you to step up and be that mother and man we see you we see you mamas yes we see You TTs, Kikis, Poo-Poos, Pop-Pops, Lollies, whatever they, and T.

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:40:37] It's all in you.

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:40:38] Yeah.

[00:40:39] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:40:39] You're every woman.

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:40:40] You're amazing.

[00:40:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:40:42] You are every woman.
[00:40:43] It's all in you.

[00:40:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:40:45] You know I want to sing right now.
[00:40:47] Whitney Houston?
[00:40:48] Every woman.

[00:40:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:40:51] Y'all ready to give?