If you do not know the layers of God, you will begin to convince yourself that you are in a situation on your own, not recognizing that this new situation is an opportunity for a new introduction.

I hear God saying to expect the unexpected

to not limit God to the way you saw him showing up before

because God said for this new season I've got a new expression.

What's up friends? This is your girl Sarah Jakes Roberts. We're back with another episode of the

Woman Yvesal podcast. I am your host,

SJR, and I want to let you know that I received your feedback from last week

when we were in Johannesburg. Well, we weren't in Johannesburg last week, but we played the sermon from when we were in

Johannesburg and it seemed like that message really resonated with so many of you.

And so we wanted to stay in that sermon vein, especially as we talk about woman Evolve.

When we first started thinking about what it means to surrender, we recognize that part of the reason

why we cannot surrender is because surrender feels like going through dry places through a

wilderness when I think about the children of Israel when they were leaving

Egypt and they found themselves in the wilderness the wilderness was this dry deserted place where God

drew them out to have an encounter with them. PT was speaking at the Potter's

House Dallas and he started talking about how we hear God the most clearly when we are in the wilderness

because there's no sound from outside environments.

If you think about going camping and you get far enough away from the city, you're in the

middle of the wilderness, the forest, wherever it is you are, the woods,

and you can hear nature so clearly.

It's not that nature is not making a sound when you're in the city.

It's just that the city is obscuring all of the sound because of all of the other noises and

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