Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts - Marked By Movement

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

Our conversation surrounding the history of women who made history is far from over. In true homegirl fashion, Sarah Jakes Roberts challenges listeners to—yes—use your voice. But also…put some motion where your mouth is. After all, it takes faith to move, don't it? In this episode, she reflects on women whose stories were shaped by extraordinary resilience, like Harriet Tubman, Oprah Winfrey, and the Woman with the Issue of Blood. Each one a reminder that our role in God's kingdom calls us to embrace an identity marked by movement.

This is Sarah Jix Roberts and you are listening to the Woman Evolved podcast and I want to tell you a little known fact about me. Some of you, like very few of you, a small percentage of you may be privy to this information, but many of you are not. And I don't talk about it often, which is really remarkable because I spend a lot of time talking about different parts of my life. But I'm an actress. I would not say Academy Award winning. I cringe anytime someone makes the connections, but I had a small role in a movie once. That movie is called Sparkle. It's the one that has Whitney Houston and Jordan Sparks in it.

And I had a small one-line role in this movie. Can I tell you about it? I fly to Detroit. It's probably 2011 or 12. I think it was 2011. So I fly to Detroit to film this. very small role in this film. And, you know, my dad was like, why not try it?

My father was an executive producer on it. And he was like, why not? Just give it a shout. At this time, I'd started blogging and really just, I'd gotten to a point where I was no longer putting limits on myself. Because at first, when I started blogging, you know, I was just blogging from my heart to share my heart. And then someone invited me to speak.

And if you did ask me before I started blogging, I'm like, I never speak. I'm not a speaker. And so I was at this point where I was really just. challenging myself to try new things. So I'm on set and I said my one line and I'm thinking, all right, that's a wrap on Sarah Jake's. Oh, I was married. I was in my first marriage at the time, whoever she was.

And it was like, that's a rap on her. And so, you know, I'm thinking that that's the end. Little did I know that the cameras were actually resetting and I was going to be saying that one line over and over again throughout the day. I had no idea that when you film a movie, at least in the movie, at least in the, the way that they were filming this movie, that the director has you act out the same scene over and over again so that they can capture it from different angles. I had no idea. So here I am, my first time acting, realizing that I'm not just saying one thing one time, that I'm going

to have to learn to do this over and over and over again. I wish somebody would have told me, not before I sign up for the movie, but before I sign up for this thing called life, before I sign up for this thing called purpose. Before I sign up for this thing called marriage and parenting, that it is basically a series of you acting over and over and over again. I listen to the Brane Brown podcast. She does it episodically now or in series now, but she used to do it every week. And one of the things that she would ask her guest at the end of each episode was, what is one lesson that you keep having to learn over and over and over again? I feel like very much so, whether it is in life, marriage, purpose, parenting, that I am often charged with the task.

of having to act over and over and over again. And by act, I don't mean put on a character, but I mean force myself into a place of moving beyond my fear, moving beyond my anxiety, moving beyond my nerves in order to say yes to God. We talked last week about the history of the women who've made history. We talked about how the people who made history, particularly the women that we focused on were surjourner truth in Toronto,

Burke, we talked about how in order for them to move out of this space of silence, whether it was societal silence or the silence that comes when we experienced trauma that they had to be willing to go rogue and use their voices. I want to talk this week about what it takes in order for us to move again. Maybe it's not even moving again. Maybe it's moving for the first time for us to actually take action with our lives. It's one thing to use our voice, but what does it look like for us to begin to do the scary things, to do the things that we're afraid of, to do the things that make us feel small, to do the things that make us feel untethered in order for us to be obedient to God? I want to frame that in it being obedient to

God because there are many opportunities in life that have nothing to do with our faith that require us to be courageous. But I believe, as it relates to my relationship with God, that there are moments where in order for me to tap into God's vision for my life, I think this is good because I want to be foundational and talking to you all, that my ultimate desire and my desire is constantly being purified and refined, right? That feels like an episode within itself. There's a scripture that talks about the Lord giving you the desires of your heart. My life has evolved in such a way that the Lord has given me a desire to constantly just want,

want what God wants for my life. And I have to reclaim that desire over and over again because oftentimes in what I do, especially because there are metrics and opportunities and so many people who have vision for my life that I can often see my life being hijacked by someone else's vision for my life. And so reclaiming my life and saying at the end of the day, my desire is to only want what God wants for my life. That requires a certain level of surrender. And the process of that surrender, there's a need for obedience. And so when you get to a place where the only thing you want is what God wants for your life, then you also have to realize that sometimes what God wants for your life requires you to leave your comfort zone. It requires you to act out of the

character you created in order to survive. It requires you to act with a courage that isn't always natural to who you are or a meekness that isn't always natural to who you are. And that isn't always natural to who you are. I balance that because for some of us, it takes work for us to be courageous. And for others of us, it takes work for us to be meek and allow other people opportunities to step up to the plate. No matter where you are in your life, I am praying that this week's episode is an opportunity to remind you that it takes faith to move, that it takes faith to act on what God has said to you about your life and how you're supposed to be showing up in your life. When I talk about action, I mean, it may be breaking up with a partner, it may be starting a business, it may be going into ministry, it may be calling a therapist. I want you to take a moment and think about an area of your life where you are having to act outside of character, act outside of your comfort zone, act outside of what fear tells you to do and to step into a season of boldness and courage. I can tell you that for me, one of the areas where I am having to act out of,

outside of what's natural to me, it has a lot to do with leadership and me recognizing that the vision that God has given me for Women Evolve can only be expressed through me being intentional with my leadership, intentional with my words, and making some real decisions about what we can and cannot do as an organization and who is a part of that movement and what we say yes to. So I've been, I'm, I'm on set. Do you understand when I'm, saying, I'm on set. And the director is constantly like action and then looking at me. Is that anybody else's testimony that I'm basically on set?

And every time the director, and that is the good Lord, says action, it's time for me to start moving. And guess what? Sometimes I don't know the lines. Guess what? Sometimes he has to say cut. Okay, maybe too far with the analogy. But I want to talk this week about two women who know a thing or two about acting again

and again and again. We can't talk about finding the courage to act again without bringing up our queen the courageous, the powerful, the brave Harriet Tubman. Listen, you already know the Moses of the Underground Railroad. You already know that she did her thing in helping free so many people from slavery. But the history of the woman who made history, I mean, of course, she was enslaved, which is its own form of torture, capture, death, and who knows what all that she experienced and was exposed to. We know that when she was young, that she was struck in the head by some type of stone or something heavy was thrown at her that caused her to have an injury that was so severe

that she had subsequent seizures and intense headaches for the rest of her life. And so for her to even be in a position where she's like, you know what, I am going to run away. I am going to make a run for it. For my liberty, for my freedom, I am going to try and achieve what others around me were not courageous enough to pursue. And so she goes on this pursuit for her freedom.

You would have thought that when she crossed that line, that she would have been like, I made it. Thank you, Jesus. I'm not going back. She goes back again and again and again. I don't know if you all know some of the stories about Harriet Tubman, but let me tell you, when she would gather a group of people who were willing to try and run for their freedom as well with her as the guide, if anyone started feeling like they wanted to go back, like the journey was too hard, do you know that she would point a gun at them and tell them that either they keep it moving or they end right there because she was so committed to making sure that they didn't get busted. So if that person ended up going back, she realized that they would be a real. risk to those who were still on the run. And so for her, it was either freedom or you're going to see the judge. Freedom or the end. That's how intentional she was. I'm taking a class this year and the

class is Black Freedom Struggles and I'm taking it as an elective in pursuit of my bachelor's degree. And I had to do, of course, you can't talk about Black Freedom struggles without my Harriet Tubman. Please tell me why I'm sitting there reading. And some of the stories I heard before, like I knew she would hold a gun to people's head. I did not know that Harriet Tubman, she ran the first time on her own, but she was married. So once she figured out the path, she went back to try

and get her husband to freedom as well. Do you know that when she went back to get her man that he was married? Do you know, can you see, I would have been busted because I didn't risk my life to come back

and get you and you are with somebody else and refusing to come with me? They would have known that Sarah was back because the way that I would have ruined it all for everyone involved. And let me tell you something. When I made my hips back over that line in Pennsylvania, that would have been another moment where I was like, who wanted with a boss? I'm here. I'm ready to establish my life. I'm ready to figure out who I am. But she went back again and again and again. They tell a story about hair. So that put me in it. I was at a pause when I read that. But let me tell you the next thing that really had me at a pause, they said that my

girl was on her way to deliver a group of people from slavery and that she was having a really bad toothache and her teeth were hurting so, so bad that she took the butt of her gun and knocked her teeth out. See, y'all playing. And still, she went back again and again. Can we talk for a moment about what it takes to keep moving in the face of heart, I know that I'm trying to break it down because I don't have notes in front of me so it's very much so giving like Homegirl teaching right now

but I am telling you I'm when if I had to do this in a paper I would it would be very polished but because it's just me and you I'm just telling it to you the way that I received it in my home girl language but let me tell you something like the courage that it took to think outside of herself the courage that it took for her to look beyond the pain beyond the heartbreak and to steal

pursue freedom not for herself but for other people that she had found a sense of purpose that was so irresistible that it was worth the pain that she had to go through in order for her to do it over and over again. A lot of us quit in the pursuit of purpose. A lot of us quit in the pursuit of obedience, not because we don't want it, but because the pain of it all, the heartbreak, the cost of it, the isolation, the loneliness of it all keeps us, it blurs our vision. And when it blurs our vision, it is difficult for us to see, is it worth it at all? If this is what it costs, if it's this level of heartbreak, if it's this level of physical strength, if it's going to require this much for me, maybe it's not worth it at all. But there was something powerful

about Harriet Tumet and that she could not let go of the vision of freedom. This is the history of the woman who made history. I'm reminded of Oprah Winfrey, the history of a woman who made tremendous history in media. Part of what was powerful about her journey is that she was fired from television. She was told that she was unfit for television news. They said she was too emotional, too expressive.

She didn't meet the typical beauty norms and standards that existed at that time. She could have taken the messages about what other people said about her, went and sat in the corner, tried to do something else, but she continued to act again. She must have had a vision

about her gift, about her talent, about what it could do in the earth, about what she could do as it related to storytelling, that made her refuse to give up regardless of what happened to her and what messages she received. You're listening to this podcast, and maybe you are in a similar situation and that you had a vision for your life, and you took a step of faith.

You acted on that vision, but it got hard, and it began to get difficult. and in the process of it getting difficult, you begin to feel like maybe it's not worth it at all for me to act again. I am hopeful that this is going to be an episode that we begin to help you understand that if you are going to be like some of these incredible women

who made history, that you have to first understand that they weren't a lot different than us. Sometimes we look at the headlines of who a person is. We look at their bio. They become legendary in our lives. And we failed to realize that on the backdrop, of the history that they made, they were women just like us, who had heartbreaks just like us,

who had insecurities and fears just like us. We don't make history because we are invincible. We make history because we refuse to let go of the vision that we believe is connected to our lives. I wish I could say that better. We don't make history because we're invincible. We don't make history because we don't have insecurities. We make history because we are relinquency. relentless in the face of it all. And to become relentless, it takes work. It takes exercise. There are some people who are born resilient, some people who just have it innately. And then there are other people who learn to be courageous because they continue to allow their faith to be combined with their works over and over and over again. The history of the women who made history is that they were

women who didn't mind acting again. So there's this thing that I learned as it related to filming a movie that I shared with you earlier, that I want you to consider as it relates to acting again and again in your life. And that is that in order for God to perfect the work that he's doing in your life, he's looking at your life from several different angles. And so what you think is you having the same experience over and over and over again is truly God capturing things from different angles. I wish I could say that real good because I feel like the analogy is better than the way that I am unpacking it. But you may feel like I'm on this circle, this never-ending circle, and it feels like I'm just going around and around and around again, and I'm not getting the

same results. It is my belief that in those moments that the Lord is developing different aspects required for our destiny, that he's preparing different parts, different players, different characters to get in position. And while it seems like we're going over and over and over again in this cycle, that the Lord is actually working things from different angles that we can't always see. I preached a message in Dallas called Settle Until Suddenly. And the point of the message was that there are some things that feel just like we're just subtly doing things over and over again, that nothing big or intense is happening in our lives. And then all of a sudden there's this suddenly moment.

But suddenly moments are often built from subtle exchanges. as it relates to us getting into a space where we embrace that we're going to have to be actors in our life. We're going to have to see our lives as the scene. Let me say this better. The role that we play in God's kingdom requires us to embrace an identity of movement. That we are called to take action in the earth. That we are meant to be agents of change and transform. and we cannot do that and also be still.

I want you to consider, and this is going to be, you talk about going rogue, if we think about our life, our society and the way that it is built up, everything is like pointing to this idea of we made it, we made it, like I'm maybe going to go to school and I'll get the house and then I'll make it.

We're always looking for this place in which we settle and are established. And I feel like part of the disservice that we have in longing for this place of making it longing for this place of us being stable is that we mess out on the reality that we're actually called to be movements you are not just here to make a move and then be established you are here to embrace an identity of constant movement i can prove it to you in scripture abraham who became the father of faith is told one thing by the lord and it's in genesis 12 in genesis 12

the Lord comes to him and he says, get out of your father's house, out of your country and out of your land, to a place that I will show you. He says in order that this is the foundation for the man who would be called the father of our faith. The first thing that is required in order for him to be the progenitor of our faith is for him to make not just a move, but several moves. If you look in Genesis 12, you will see that Abraham has a series of moves that he makes. He was going to be. He was going to be a movement. He was going to birth a movement. In order for him to birth a movement, he has to first embrace the identity of being a movement. You are a movement. You are meant to change things in your community, to change things in your family. That's why it takes a move from God. When we get a

move from God, I'm thinking about, you know how they used to sell those, like, they're like toys. and they used to sell these all the time when I was a kid or you go to bed bath and beyond and you get one and there were like spheres that were hanging on these two poles and the spheres were hanging by like this clear string

like a triangle an upside down triangle with a sphere at the end and these metal spheres you like pull one and it like banged up against all of the other ones and then it like would create these little noise and you would see all of these things moving

when you have an encounter with God, it moves you. It moves you on your inside. Perhaps it is confirmation that makes you start moving on the outside. When we experience a move from God, we can't stay the same because when a move touches a move, it creates movement. It should change the way that you think. It should change the way that you show up in the world. When we look at Jesus and the disciples, he says, follow me, follow me.

That's movement. I will make you a fissure of men. If you follow me, if you start moving the way that I move, you will become a movement yourself. You were meant to be a movement. And being a movement is not meant to put pressure on you. It doesn't mean that everything has to be big and millions and thousands of impressions and billions of followers and dollars. But to be a movement is meant, I meant to move darkness. I meant to push it back. I meant to send it back to hell where it came from. I meant to move systems of oppression. I meant to move inequities that exist within my community.

I meant to create a movement. And so you have to embrace the identity of being a movement. Harriet Tubman was a movement. Oprah Winfrey was a movement. They didn't just make moves. They created paths for multiple forms of movement to be available, not just for themselves, but for others connected to them because they were a movement. In order to become a movement, you have to embrace the vision of who God says you are. And recognize that if there is a vision of who God says you are that is not far from who you are now, then it doesn't require any movement. But the gap between where you are and who God says you are, it requires a movement in your mentality being transformed by the renewing of your mind. And perhaps in your actions as well, there is a distance.

And that distance is meant to be built by faith. the distance between who you are and who God has called you to be requires faith and action. A lot of us feel like, you know, oh, if I just had enough faith, not realizing that faith and action builds faith. Faith in action builds faith. We don't get faith by just being still. Our faith is built by us taking whatever that mustard seed of faith is that we have now and throwing it in the direction of obedience. And as we throw that mustard seed of faith into the

direction of obedience, we experience growth and development that allows us to then have that action become a part of bridging the gap to who God says we are meant to become, which means that we need to have a finished product in mind. I want you to begin asking the Lord in your prayer time, who do you see when you look at me? To begin asking God, where is an area of my life where I've been still where you want me to actually begin moving? To begin asking God to give you a vision, oh goodness, I was sharing at our church on Sunday a couple Sundays ago, rather, that I'm reading a lot in one of my courses and as I'm reading

about different inequities and inequalities that exist within certain communities that I feel a burden. And it's one thing to just feel sad about it. Oh, I feel this prophetically for somebody. It's one thing, and maybe it's just for me. I'm just sharing you what the Lord is dropping in my heart as I talk to you all. But it's one thing to feel a burden for something. It's another thing to begin to ask God to help me understand what you want me to do with this burden.

To begin asking the Lord, this is something that's breaking my heart in a way that doesn't seem to be breaking the heart of other people. Give me a vision for what I can do. in response to where I am hurting or where I feel a burden. Give me a vision for this. God, you've placed this partnership on my mind. You've placed this inequity on my mind. You've placed this gap in the world on my mind. There's a gap in the world that exists between how people are treated and how people are showing up and what I believe is possible for them. And anybody can spot a gap, right? Anybody can say, hey, this is a problem. But Lord, give me a vision for the solution. Maybe there's something happening in your life right now. And you know what's wrong. You know you could be doing better.

You know you in sin. You know that you're falling short. But you don't have a vision for what life can look like on the other side of it. So you continue to fall in that same trap over and over again. I want you to begin to pray and ask God for the vision. You may have heard this scripture before. If not, if you're kind of new to faith or dabbling in faith, there's a scripture that people use all of the time, and it's like write the vision and make it plain. Out of context, it sounds like you can just write down whatever vision you want, and if you write down that vision, then that vision will become your reality. But guess what? That's not what the scripture means. The scripture is actually in reference to writing down the vision that the Lord has given. It's in Habakkuk 2.

It's in chapter 2 verses 2 through 3, and the Lord is answering to this providence. It says, write the vision and make it plain on tablets that he may run who reads it for the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it will speak come on talking about voice i didn't even one i wasn't planning on using this verse but man when we talk about losing our voice i just feel like there's a connection there between us writing down the vision that god is maybe the courage to use your voice is connected to the vision that god gives you and allowing the vision to speak to you and allowing the vision to speak for itself. I don't know what that is, but it feels like it's hitting something somewhere for somebody.

I want you to dig into that. Maybe the courage to use your voice is directly connected to you asking God for this vision. Maybe you're in a season right now where you feel like you're all out of vision, so you're all out of things to say. If you are all out of things to say, if you are all out of things to do, ask God for a fresh vision. you are too young, too talented, too gifted, to be at a stage of your life where you feel like you're all out of gas. If you're all out of gas, it means that you have ran that vision to the place

where you no longer have anywhere else to take it because you don't have a vision for what's next. Begin to ask God for a vision for what's next, a vision that will be so undeniable, so irresistible, that you are willing to overcome whatever obstacles are in the way of you, making that vision a reality. We are moving towards something. We are not moving randomly. And if you're going to find the courage to try again and again and again, it will be because the vision of where you are headed is worth whatever fear, anxiety, nerves, insecurities

you have to overcome in order to do that. God's given me this vision for woman evolve. And in the process of, I went through a season where, honestly, I didn't have a vision for women evolved. I was observing it. I was looking at what it was. I was understanding what it meant to people and understanding where it was effective and whether or not that connected to my passion and where I felt like it was connected. And I have spent women evolve as eight years old. And in the process of it being eight years old, I've had moments where I had vision for it. And then for some reason, it fell apart, whether I didn't have the right team members or I didn't have the right strategy or structure to fulfill the vision. I got sick one time and I had to take some time off. The vision just continued to fall off.

But even though the vision fell off, it didn't disappear, I would have moments where I would have to go back to the drawing board of prayer, not to write up a new vision, but to ask God to show me what this is again. Can I tell you something, even in your relationship with God, you have an opportunity to do this? I've had moments where I question my faith, where I question is God, God, are you real? You know, is it God or is, you know, is it God in Jesus? Is it God or Jesus? Are there many paths? I've had these questions myself. I, you know, I'm going to keep it a thousand with you. Like, I haven't always been this person who faith came easy for. But I realize that I can ask God those questions. God, give me a vision for what it looks like to be in relationship with you. Who will I have to become? What will I need to believe? What will I need to know about you in order to embrace who you are? Give me a vision of your. your goodness. I keep hearing that God is good, but Lord, help me to see your goodness, help me to see your faithfulness, help me to see your righteousness. And when you begin to ask God those types of questions and you begin to pray those types of prayers, it is important that you write it down. And whether that's on paper in your phone or just on the tablet of your heart to allow what God

shows you to mark you. Because when what God shows you marks you, it changes you. And when it changes you, it changes the way you show up in the world. No long, and let me tell you something, if you have been marked by fear, you've been marked by shame, you've been marked by trauma like I have, it changes you too. So you've been marked by something. There's no way that you make it to this stage of your life and not end up being marked by something. You've been marked by something.

But the question is whether or not what you have been marked by is something that you want to continue to live by. or do you want to invite the presence of God to mark you, to change you, to allow the Spirit of God to be revealed in you and around you in such a way that it changes the way that you move? Let me tell you something. They out here, they're making crazy moves out here. The kind of moves that keep you up at night,

the kind of moves that scare you, the kind of moves that could convince you or make you believe that there's no place for you. But I believe that the antidote to what we are experiencing in the world as it relates to wickedness, as it relates to crime and debauchery, is directly connected and combated by those who are willing to make the kind of moves that allow the glory of God, the kingdom of God to be revealed in the earth. I love the story of the woman with the issue of blood.

I see so many beautiful things about her story, but I cannot get over the fact that as we're talking about acting again and again and again, that we have a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years. years. She had spent everything she had on doctors and nothing worked, but she kept trying. She acted again and again and again. Her condition made her socially and spiritually isolated, but she carried a vision for what her healing could look like. She carried a vision that she would not allow to fall to the ground. She carried a vision of what it would look like for her to be free and delivered, and she did not let that vision go. She believed that if she could just touch the hymn of

Jesus garment that she would be healed and that belief made her act again. You know what? I hope I can say this well because I didn't write this in my notes. But as I'm talking about the woman with the issue of blood, I'm thinking about my own life and, you know, I had my own issues and my own struggles. And when I got pregnant as a teenager, you know, I'm like, I had a vision for a white picket fence life that would fix this pain and this trauma. I felt like that'll be how I know I made it when I can still have a marriage, when I can still have a family life, when maybe I'm still in the suburbs in some way, when I defy some of the statistics that are associated with teen pregnancies, then I don't know that I'm safe. So I had a vision for my life and I was acting

towards that vision. The only problem is that I was acting towards that vision and I was willing to make that vision happen by any means necessary. So the marriage wasn't healthy, but it's okay because I had to pursue that vision. And, you know, maybe I didn't have the best choices myself as it related to my emotional regulation and what I was doing in the marriage as it related to my mouth was on fire. Because, honey, you know, he may have been cheating, but I was letting him have it. Like, he probably just knew it wasn't going to be no respect happening over. here so I might as well go find somebody who's going to try and love me and respect me because she

thinks the absolute worst of me. And so I certainly had a role to play in creating more damage and more negative voices in his head because I was certainly giving a mouthful. That's not the point. The point is this. I wanted the vision by any means necessary. If you're going to do this kind of work, I want you to consider not asking God for a vision for your outsides, but to start with asking God for a vision for your insides, to ask your God, like the Psalm said, to search your heart and to reveal anything in you that it doesn't align with who God says you are. And to ask God to give you a vision, maybe you pop off at the mouth like I did. Maybe you got a little hot tamale mouth situation.

It got a little spicy around these parts for me. And maybe that you, like, Lord, help me to have a vision for what my words can do in the life of someone else. to have a vision for the type of relationship that will bring out the best in me and the best in the person I'm connected to to help me have a vision for the way that I'm going to parent or a vision for my career and a vision for school and a vision for integrity.

I used to lie, lie, lie, trying to people please and make everyone like me and manipulate and I just wanted a vision for what it would look like to live a life of integrity. And so I say that to say that we skip a lot of steps when we start asking God for a vision for our end without asking God for a vision for the present.

What would it look like for you to ask God for a vision for your present? And trust that the vision, because you're trusting God, the vision for your present is directly connected to the vision for the future. And so this woman with the issue of blood, she had a vision for her present. And until she mastered that vision of her present, she wasn't asking for anything else. Her vision was to make sure that she experienced that healing. And so she pushed through the crowd. She pushed through rejection.

she pushed through the possibility of humiliation, and Jesus responded to her faith. Now, what good would it have done for her to have faith but at home? I have faith, but my faith has been put into action. I have faith, but I'm not doing anything that would allow my faith to be multiplied. What's amazing is that the history of the woman who made history is that her faith wasn't built in the moment that she touched the hymn of the garment. Her faith was built before she actually did the thing that led to her healing. Why is that important?

It's important because we have to recognize that her backdrop required her beginning to build her faith. And yours will too. As you begin to lean it, and it just so happens that what she wanted and what God wanted were the same things, you're going to have to get to a place where you begin to build your faith perhaps in secret. And by building your faith, that means doing the things that, no one saw her going to the doctors over and over again. But her faith was being built by her obedience. And sometimes doing the same thing over and over again can make your faith be diminished

when you don't get the results. Some kind of way her faith was not diminished. She still had faith for it regardless of how many times she experienced her rejection. That is incredible faith that she kept acting even in the face of rejection that she continued to try. I think that more than anything, the reason why I'm so, passionate about us getting to a place where we embrace the reality that we are going to have to be a movement in the earth is because I believe that God has a burden for the earth. And if you're going to act over and over again, you have to realize that it is going to require not just faith, but it's going to require something that is sustaining you. And what sustains us in those moments where we need to act over and over again is a burden for what we believe God wants to do in the earth. through us and the earth in us during our time here on the earth, it has to be a burden.

It can't be something that we treat cavalierly or casually. It has to be something that we see as a necessity. And when I think about God and if you want to know more about them, I highly suggest you open up these good old scriptures, I want you to consider the burden that he carries for healing, for restoration, for freedom and deliverance. He has a burden for these things. We see time and time again through Scripture where Jesus was moved with compassion

when he saw the multitude hurting because he had a burden for people. I want you to begin to ask the Lord for a burden, a burden to be healed, a burden to be restored, a burden to be delivered, the faith for you to do it, and then to ask God for an opportunity

for you to act on faith, for you to allow your faith to be multiplied by your obedience. I am at a stage in my life where I am having to examine and re-examine who I'm going to be in the earth and the mark that I want to leave on the earth. And in the process of doing that, I realize that it requires me to go rogue in ways that often make me feel vulnerable. But feeling vulnerable is not the same thing as being gun covered.

having to act in a place where you have uncertainty doesn't make you inadequate. It makes you a student. Having to act in a place that requires you to trust other people and to reveal yourself to other people is the most Jesus-like thing that you can do. Jesus came to earth because he was on a mission. He had a movement. And he realized that being on that mission was going to require. him to submit, to surrender, to be courageous, to be bold, to be obedient, to be vulnerable,

to be humble. And I believe that it's going to require the same things from us. So I want to challenge you to consider the vision that God has for your life and to embrace that it's going to be one that requires a series of movements, a series of saying yes to things that may be difficult and hard, a series of overcoming opinions that are going to be thrown in your direction that don't always align with who God says you are or what God said you can do. A series of heartbreaks maybe that will require you to take the time to heal before you act again. It's my prayer that something has been said throughout this podcast that makes you realize that the history of the women who made history was a history that wasn't always easy.

It's a history that often required them to challenge themselves in ways that maybe they didn't feel like they were prepared for. And you're going to have to do the same. I believe that every woman has an opportunity to say yes to God in a way that requires her to say no to the things that have made her comfortable. No matter where you fall on that spectrum, I just want you to know that I'm thinking about you. I'm holding space for you. and I am embracing this reality for myself. As we begin to embrace the reality that we are movements, I am praying that we will be like our sister,

the woman with the issue of blood, who found a way to keep moving anyway, not because it was easy, not because there was no rejection, but because at the end of the day, she had a vision of healing that aligned with what God wanted for her life that she could not give up on.

Hopefully for us, it won't be 12 years, but even if it is, may we say the vision is worth the weight. Lord, I thank you for those who are listening to this podcast for the plan that you have for their lives. Lord, sometimes it feels like that plan is beyond us. Sometimes we're exhausted by the trying, the stretching, but we recognize that as we try, as we stretch as we grow, that you meet us in the midst of it all. And so, Lord, I'm praying for a fresh outpouring of your spirit, that you would allow your spirit to rest on these, your sons and daughters, that it would fill them with fresh vision, with courage, with a vision for their insides that gives them fuel for the vision you have for their outside. May we follow

your lead and never turn back in Jesus' name. Amen. I'll see you next week. Evolve.