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All right, so welcome to our Supernatural Hope Session,

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and it is going to be supernatural.

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It's gonna be supernatural,

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that's why we took so much time

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making sure that you guys are prepared.

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And I think that Holy Spirit has a little message for us.

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It's really not about what God has to offer us

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or what he's even inviting us to,

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it's about preparation,

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it's about, are we ready to receive it?

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Amen?

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In so many areas of life, that's gonna be the case.

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It's not about what God is inviting you to,

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heaven always has an invitation for you.

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Heaven always has an invitation for me.

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A lot of times we're not ready to receive that invitation,

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and because we're not ready to receive it,

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we can't even see it.

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We're not prepared.

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And there are lots of stories in the Bible

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about lack of preparation.

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I will tell you,

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and maybe this is already happening to you,

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I was gonna tell you guys to go ahead

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and put your hands down.

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I went ahead and lowered all of them for y'all.

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Some of you are gonna start having dreams

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that you're not ready.

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You're like someplace and you're supposed to be ready,

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maybe it's even your wedding.

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You've shown up someplace and you're just not ready

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and you just can't get it together.

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You just can't get it together.

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Some of you are gonna start having dreams like that.

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You don't know where your shoes are.

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You don't know what to do.

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You don't know where this is or that is.

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You don't know what's going on.

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Anyone?

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Raise your hand if you've started having dreams like that

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where you just can't get there for some reason.

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That's God talking to us about preparation.

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He's talking to us about readiness.

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I've been behind people in line, long lines, you guys,

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long, long, long lines.

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Whether it's at the DMV,

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whether it's in line to go in someplace,

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whether it's at the TSA line to go through security.

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And there's always someone in line that's,

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they're waiting but they're not preparing.

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And when it's their turn, they're not ready.

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They're dropping things, they're fumbling around.

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They don't know where their ID is.

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They have no idea.

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They don't even know what they need

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in order to get through whatever kind of security

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or whatever line it kind of is.

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They're just not ready to go.

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They don't have their ticket.

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They were the first person to line up to get on the plane

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when their group was called.

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But they haven't consolidated their bags.

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They have three bags instead of two.

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You know you're not allowed to have more than two.

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They announce it over the stinking loudspeaker

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like five times.

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It's against federal regulations

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to have more than two bags on the flight.

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So please consolidate them right now.

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And if you have to check your bag,

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please see us at the counter, right?

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They tell you, but they're not paying attention.

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All they can think about is whatever it is

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that they wanna do.

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And they're not preparing, they're just waiting.

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They're just waiting.

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They're waiting.

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They wanna go.

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And God doesn't want us to be like that.

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He wants us to be ready.

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He wants us to be ready.

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How bad would it be to be in a race car race

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and you don't have any gas in the tank?

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You're gonna have to go into the pit on the first lap.

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Everyone else is prepared.

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They're gonna go around lots of times

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before they have to go in and get fueled up, right?

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You gotta have what you need and you gotta be prepared.

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Okay, so I say all that to say this.

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I really want you guys to take this time

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in your life seriously.

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This is not just something like

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you just have to get through it

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so you can get to phase three

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so that you can get dating and meet your guy

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and all the stuff.

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It's about being ready for that moment.

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It's about being ready for that moment.

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I have a student right now who met her husband during COVID.

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You guys, that's when I launched this.

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I launched this during COVID if you didn't catch that.

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That's when it was launched.

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She met her husband during COVID.

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And when I tell you that we were all team Cody,

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we were all team Cody.

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All of us saw it a mile away that he was the one.

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He was so kind.

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He was so caring.

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She actually got COVID and he used to leave.

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Little gifts outside on her porch for her and bring her all kinds of things to do.

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Cause she had a badge.

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She was like sick for two weeks.

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He would bring her soup and he would bring her like magazines to read

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and different things, care packages, all the stuff y'all right.

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And everyone was like, go Cody, go Cody.

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Cause we're like, he's the one he's so great.

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She wasn't team Cody.

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And the reason why she wasn't team Cody is because she wasn't prepared

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to receive that kind of love.

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She wasn't ready to receive that type of love.

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She hadn't done her heart work.

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She was messing around doing other things and she had not really

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fully gotten prepared in that way.

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And so when love showed up, you know, she thought that's all she wanted,

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but when it showed up, she wasn't ready to receive it and she broke up with him.

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I got good news for all of you.

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Two years later, she resurfaced in my DMS and she said, Hey, guess what?

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I got back together with Cody and we're going to get married.

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I'm like, well, girl, it didn't have to take two years, but guess what?

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God will wait you out.

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If that's what you want to do.

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Who doesn't want to do that?

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Who wants to go ahead and get the horse before the cart right now,

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wants to go ahead and get ready.

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Be incident in season for all you church girls who wants that you're ready.

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You're ready.

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You got it.

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All right.

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So we want that.

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So please take this seriously.

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Check your featured section.

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Check that admin chat that I just told you about.

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This is community updates because in that I'm going to be talking about

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admin chat that I just told you about.

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This is community updates because in that I'm going to, I are one of the

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admins will tell you, Hey, you know, Monday it's always Monday, y'all 1

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PM Eastern or 8 PM Eastern, but we'll tell you what you need in order

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to be prepared for that session.

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You're not always going to need to have a worksheet done,

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but sometimes you are.

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All right, go ahead and put your scores up in the chat.

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Let's see your scores from your hope scale, your total score.

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By the way, no one has ever scored perfectly on this.

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So if you score perfectly, I'm going to call bullshit on you.

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Excuse my language.

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I'm so sorry.

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I feel like every once in a while I throw in a cuss word.

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So people don't think I'm their pastor.

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I ain't your pastor.

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Um, but I am an anointed coach.

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That's going to help you to get success in this area of your life.

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Look at all that.

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I'm going to share my screen so we can look at that hope scale together.

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Right. Go ahead and put a thumbs up.

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If you can see that.

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Can you guys see it?

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Is it, is it big?

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Tell me in the chat.

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Is it big?

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Is it.

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It's small trying to figure out.

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Okay. As long as it's readable, that's fine.

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It's when I go over it really quick.

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So any areas that's not glistening with hope that phrase comes from my friend,

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Steve Backlund is an area where we're believing a lie.

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It's areas where we're wounded areas that we need healing areas that we

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need truth applied to the lies.

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That's what the heart works all about.

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Um, and so you guys.

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Some of the, some of the answers on this might just be circumstantial.

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You're really going through something in that area, and that's just

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how you're feeling right now.

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And some of it's chronic.

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We're not going to even get into talking about that tonight, because

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this is a night of super natural hope.

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All right.

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So love life and marriage, and this is not an exhaustive list.

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You have other areas in your life besides these areas, but these are the ones

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that are really important for tonight.

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Love life, marriage, health finances, bio family relationships.

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That's your biological family, your origin, family, friendships, job, career,

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purpose, your purpose, your, the plan God had for your life.

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life, the dream he had when he wrapped her body around it and put you in your

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mother's womb, your spiritual life, your relationship with God,

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your relationship to the spiritual, all right,

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your self image and parenthood. And once again, this isn't about the kid you have.

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It's about how do you feel about parenthood?

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How do you feel kind of hoped you have that you're going to be a parent?

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What's your, you know, what is your hope around this area of your life? Okay.

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All right. So, and then the categories are one hopeless,

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it sucks. It can, or it won't ever change. Then two,

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you got a shred of hope. It might improve,

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but you're not going to hold your breath. Three is you're hopeful.

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It has a pulse. You're cautiously optimistic for you're full of hope.

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It's going amazing. It's successful and abundant. Okay. Once again,

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we've never had a perfect score on this ever.

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40 points would be your glistening with hope. You're full of hope.

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Everything is going, you know, you believe that life is for you.

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Anything that's not going well right now is going to turn around.

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It's going to be better than ever before. Your life is glistening with hope.

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30 to 39 points is you're pretty much believe that there are better days ahead

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than any that you're leaving behind,

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but you have a few battle scars that flare up from time to time.

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So you got some triggers there that need more healing 20 to 29.

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This is where most people live right here. Life hasn't been easy.

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You are afraid to get your hopes up that anything is going to change because

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you're tired of being disappointed. You're just tired of being disappointed.

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Okay. You're hanging on, but a lot of times just barely.

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And then one to 20 points, you see the light at the end of the tunnel,

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but it's definitely a train you're in danger of dying from your heart wounds.

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And you guys not necessarily naturally, okay. Physically dying,

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but just emotionally, mentally, spiritually,

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and you need a hope infusion right away. All right.

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Thanks for bearing with me. All right.

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So we had to go over that together as a group,

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because it's important that we kind of look at, um,

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where we are and maybe where we want to be.

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And a lot of us, you know,

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maybe afraid to admit because we think it's not speaking life.

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And I did the supernatural Saturday on speaking life. And I said, you know,

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that's not just painting a different reality. You know,

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you're allowed to paint a different reality.

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I've believed and it hasn't happened.

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And for all of you that go to church in the revival streams,

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you go to prophetic charismatic churches that can get exhausting.

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Let's just be honest. Every service is like, God's gonna, he's about to,

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right. And it's like, God's saying this, you know, jump through this hoop,

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or do this or sit down or rest or jump up, you know, do a jumping jack.

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And you're going to be able to do it.

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And it's just like, Hmm, man.

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And it's okay to admit that it is. It's all right to admit that.

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I personally think that, you know,

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spiritual community should be made up of a lot of different components.

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It can't just be one prophetic service after another, after another,

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and it's not just, you know,

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it's not just one prophetic service after another.

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It's not just one prophetic service after another.

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It's not just one prophetic service after another.

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It's not just one prophetic service after another,

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after another, after another, because that can get very exhausting.

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Very, very exhausting.

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Especially if you're not spiritually mature enough to understand that just

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because they're saying it.

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And just because it's anointed does not mean that it's for you.

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That's why if you scroll through the internet,

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just looking for some hype preacher to hype you up, you know,

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or looking to try to get a word from the Lord about why things are going wrong

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and what God wants you to do. You can be zigging instead of zagging.

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You're going left instead of right. You're up instead of down.

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You're all over the place because of what reason,

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because just because it's anointed and just because it's actually from the word

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and maybe it's an even like a really respected and honored, you know,

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minister of some sort doesn't mean it's for you. Just,

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I want you to say this. I want you to put your hand over your heart.

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And I want you to say, just because it's true, don't mean it's for you.

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We got to know our times and seasons, friends, just because it's true,

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doesn't mean it's for you.

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And that's going to help with some of the exhaustion because a lot of you do not

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need another word from the Lord. You do not need another word.

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What you need is you need practical application on how to walk out the

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ones you already have, how to manifest them,

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how to birth them. That's what you need.

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You don't need another one.

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You don't even need a confirmation of the ones you have.

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What you need is you need practical application of what it looks like to be in

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that process and how to reap that harvest.

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That is what you need. And I'm going to give you a little bit more time to do that.

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That is what you're going to get in this community because that's what I believe

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I'm going to give you a little bit more time to do that.

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I'm going to give you a little bit more time to do that.

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in. I believe that God, no, he never meant, he meant for the fivefold giftings

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to edify and encourage and exhort the saints to perfect them, right?

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It's that's what it's for.

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It's for the perfection of the, of the saints, but he did not mean it to tire

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them out and to exhaust them.

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That is not what God meant.

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But that being said, the word of God does tell us that the prophetic words that he

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gives to us, that they do try us.

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They do refine us.

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They do change us.

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They do mold us.

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They do shape us as we're in process of their completion.

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But if someone was pregnant, y'all, I want you to think about this, this straight

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from Holy spirit, I want you to listen up.

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If you had a friend that announced her pregnancy and they were full of hope and

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excitement about what they were carrying.

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And then two years later, they still had that baby.

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You'd be like, Oh no, something's that baby's not alive.

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Because there is a timeline to a promise of God.

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And some of you have been sitting on words from the Lord for 20 years.

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And the reason why is because no one taught you how to actually manifest that

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thing because God has his part to play.

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And that's undeniable.

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He is source and we are not him and we cannot, you know, we cannot force him and

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all the things, but I want to submit to you that when God invites you, because a

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word from the Lord is an invitation.

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Word from the Lord is an invitation.

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When God invites you into something and tells you that you can have it, he means

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for you to go ahead and take imperfect action towards that thing, not go sit in

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a waiting room, waiting for it to come.

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He means for you to start taking imperfect action.

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That is what he means for you to do, because he already told you, you could

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have it, that was the invitation.

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That was the promise.

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The promise was you can have it.

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And so now we have to start moving towards that, right?

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With the right information.

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God does not want us to sit around for 20 years saying, God told me that I had a

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husband.

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Okay.

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So we have to take that imperfect action and you're doing that.

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And that's why you're here.

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So I want to dive into supernatural hope father.

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I just pray right now that you would release your super natural hope.

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Over your daughters tonight, that they would be in dude with power from on high

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tonight, they would be infused with strength from your spirit tonight to bring

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forth the promises that have been gestating in their hearts.

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Your word tells us in Isaiah 66, that you will bring the children to the birth and

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you will give us strength.

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To birth them to push forth.

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And so, Lord, we declare that tonight and that supernatural hope that is, that is

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your strength, Lord.

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And so we thank you.

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They that wait upon you that expectantly prepare.

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We'll renew their strength.

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And so, Lord, we thank you that you will infuse us with that strength tonight so

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that we can birth out these miracles in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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So we're going to do some supernatural teaching right now on the area of hope.

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So you guys looked at the hope scale.

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You saw hopeless shred of hope.

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Three is hopeful and four is full of hope.

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Okay.

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And I want to, I want to give us some new definitions for that right now.

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You saw what the definitions on the worksheet are, but I'm going

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to give you some new ones.

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Okay.

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So for living at that level for, and this is where God wants all of us to live by

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faith, full of hope, why overflowing with anticipation and expectancy life is for

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you, God is with you.

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Your bags are packed.

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They're at the door.

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You're ready to go.

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You're ready to go.

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In my early discipleship, God told me to pack a bag and leave it at the door.

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I'm like, where am I going?

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He's like, you don't need to know.

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I said, what do I need to pack?

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He's like, pack a little bit of everything.

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All right, guys.

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I had a packed bag as a prophetic sign at the door.

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I'd never been anywhere in my life.

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I hadn't been past a five mile square radius of my house in over a decade.

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But God told me that I was going somewhere that I needed a packed bag.

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Right.

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I'd only been on like three planes in my entire life.

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Now I've literally been on more than 40 planes in a year.

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And so he was not kidding.

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So that's that level for life.

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You jump out of bed.

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You're like, shut.

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I gun God, where are you going? I'm going to, I'm on an adventure with you.

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My life is full of expectancy. Life is for me. God is for me. All right.

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Level three, a level three life. This is where we begin you guys.

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And I know that on the worksheet, it says we're hopeful.

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Our life has a pulse. We're cautiously optimistic about things, right?

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But level three is where get this.

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We begin to approach things with hesitancy.

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Level four, we're not hesitating. God's like, let's go. You're like, I'm here.

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Three is where we begin to approach things with hesitancy.

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We start to guard our hope.

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We start to guard our hope.

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We start to say things like, I hope so. Yeah, that would be nice.

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I hope that works out.

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We start to use hope in a way that it's not meant to be used.

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You see that? Okay.

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And then level two,

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this is where we begin to live according to what can be achieved in our own

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strength, natural, instead of supernatural lives.

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This is what I like to call plan B or plan me.

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We begin to orchestrate or build our lives around the idea that the things that

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we want are probably not going to happen.

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And responsibility starts to become a fancy word for fear or disappointment.

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At this level competition and cynicism,

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that's when it starts to set in. Okay.

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Cause you're doubtful of whether it's going to happen.

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And then you become doubtful of whether it's even worth your time anymore.

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That's when it becomes, you become cynical. You're like, is this even worth it?

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I don't even want this is where you tell yourself, you know what? I'm good.

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I'm good. Anyone else ever said that? I'm good.

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Someone's like, girl, I think you're gonna,

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you're going to meet a man soon. You're like, I'm good.

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Right.

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All right. And then let's talk about level one, level one.

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Hope is straight up foolish.

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Hope is a luxury that you cannot afford. It's foolish. It's for fools.

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People that are zealous and full of hope and, you know, idealist,

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you're like, grow up, grow up, little girl.

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Not everything happens for everyone at this level of life or this level of hope.

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I should say bitterness grows. Jealousy thrives here.

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Offense is abundant at God and others.

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I had a student once, um, she was actually a private client.

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And she was like, I'm going to go to the bathroom.

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I was like, wow, girl, you don't have any social media. I was like, proud of her.

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I felt like a proud mom. Like, wow, you disconnected girl.

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You're resting. You're off social media. That's amazing.

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And then she stopped me. She goes, oh, you know, before you congratulate me,

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she's like, I don't have social media because I'm literally a

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social media addict. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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No, I don't have social media because I'm literally that jealous of other people.

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She could not handle seeing other people, especially friends or people she went to

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high school with or college with, she couldn't stand to see them getting the

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things that she wanted or didn't have like getting married, having children, all

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the things. And so she had to get off social media because it was making her that

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and that's a level one hope.

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There's a spiritual blindness that comes at this level that prevents us from even

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seeing options or opportunities or possibilities anymore.

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We could have all kinds of options or possibilities or opportunities, but we

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wouldn't see them because when we're living at level one, we're blind.

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So I want you to look back at your hope scale and look at all the places where

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you put fours, threes, twos, and ones.

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This kind of paints it in a different light.

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Doesn't it?

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Right.

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I want to see you in the chat.

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If you had any fours, go ahead and go ahead and put up in the chat.

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Yes.

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If you had any fours, let's see the people that had fours in some areas.

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That's great.

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That's where you're full of hope.

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You're overflowing with anticipation and expectancy in that area.

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You're like, yes, life is for me in this area.

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God is with me in this area.

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Woo.

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It's good.

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Right?

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All right, now let's see, let's stop there.

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And now let's see yeses for all the people that had threes.

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And I feel like before I read this to you, you thought threes were pretty good.

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We're feeling pretty good about a three.

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That's like a B at school.

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Right.

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It's like, Hey man, that's what it's all about.

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Is that the feeling?

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That's the faith?

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it's a B, it's not an A, but it's a B, maybe even a B plus.

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Is that the optimism?

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Cause that's what you needed.

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You can just see there on the screen.

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The problem is,

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is that threes are where we actually begin to approach things with hesitancy.

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This is where we start to guard our hope.

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We don't want to not have hope in that area, but we're starting to,

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you know, that, that, that doubt is starting to set in.

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Now I want to see all the people that had to at least one area on this sheet,

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you had a two,

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take a look at that area that you had that too,

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because this is where you're now trying to do stuff in your own strength.

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If anything's going to happen in that area,

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you're going to have to make it happen. That's your mindset.

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If anything's going to happen, it's going to have to be plan B or plan me.

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And this is probably an area where you've had a lot of crap happen because you

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continue to take the wheel.

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You continue to take a hold of the pen in that area because you don't trust God.

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You don't,

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you don't have a supernatural life in that area because

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you have,

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you have so much disappointment that's setting in there. All right.

492
00:26:09.600 --> 00:26:13.600
And then let's see all the people that had at least one area with a one

493
00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:16.440
say yes. If you had a one,

494
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:20.280
and that's an area where it's just foolish to even think that this is going to

495
00:26:20.280 --> 00:26:21.120
change.

496
00:26:26.600 --> 00:26:29.280
Now you see why everyone had to do the worksheet before we started, right?

497
00:26:29.280 --> 00:26:34.200
Cause it would have just been a mess. All right. All right.

498
00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:37.200
So people had ones, they had twos, they had threes, they had fours.

499
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:41.640
And you might ask yourself, how can one person have all those variations?

500
00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:45.360
And it's because not all of those areas of your heart are the same,

501
00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:48.720
your love life, your health, your finances.

502
00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.840
You don't believe the same type of lies in all those areas.

503
00:26:51.840 --> 00:26:54.880
You haven't had the same type of trauma in all of those areas.

504
00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.680
And like I said, you're probably feeling good about those threes,

505
00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:00.640
but God wants you to live at a level four

506
00:27:02.040 --> 00:27:05.840
because it's not based on circumstances. It isn't.

507
00:27:08.080 --> 00:27:12.200
You are an overcomer and you have the ability to overcome all the

508
00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:16.080
objections to live a life overflowing with hope.

509
00:27:16.520 --> 00:27:17.520
And how do I know that?

510
00:27:18.120 --> 00:27:21.720
Because first Peter 3 15 says that we need to be ready in this world that we're

511
00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:25.840
living in. We need to always be ready to do what we need to be ready to tell

512
00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:27.600
other people why we still have hope.

513
00:27:30.560 --> 00:27:30.760
It's like,

514
00:27:30.760 --> 00:27:33.640
you better be ready to account for your hope because people are going to wonder

515
00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:35.520
how you're still living with hope in this life,

516
00:27:36.360 --> 00:27:40.520
how you're still living with hope in this world, be ready to account for it.

517
00:27:40.520 --> 00:27:42.640
Because if you have it, people are going to think it's weird.

518
00:27:42.840 --> 00:27:47.200
Hope is foreign to a world that is still aligning with a broken identity.

519
00:27:48.080 --> 00:27:49.320
That's why we have to explain it.

520
00:27:49.560 --> 00:27:52.280
That's why we have to be ready to explain it,

521
00:27:54.560 --> 00:27:57.960
to be held accountable for it. People might be like, why are you so chipper

522
00:28:00.280 --> 00:28:01.880
at work? They're like, why are you so chipper?

523
00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:03.120
Don't you know there's a recession?

524
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:09.760
Y'all, this is not what I'm about to say. I just think it's funny.

525
00:28:10.120 --> 00:28:12.640
It has nothing to do with any political affiliation.

526
00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:16.600
So please do not send me an email. Why are you so happy?

527
00:28:16.600 --> 00:28:18.400
Don't you know, Donald Trump's on the ballot again,

528
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:22.080
the world is ending.

529
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.120
Why are you so happy? Y'all I'm telling you,

530
00:28:28.120 --> 00:28:32.080
I'm deleting all of my news apps before this coming year,

531
00:28:32.080 --> 00:28:36.280
because I don't want to hear any of it about anything ever. I'm just gonna,

532
00:28:36.800 --> 00:28:40.920
I don't want any of it. Why are you so happy?

533
00:28:42.320 --> 00:28:44.960
Don't you know, gas is $6 a gallon in California.

534
00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:46.880
Don't you know we're in a recession?

535
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:49.240
Well you're actually opting out of the recession, right?

536
00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:51.920
Because your hope is in the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

537
00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:55.080
And hope is what rolls us out of bed in the morning.

538
00:28:55.840 --> 00:28:57.440
Hope puts a spring in our step.

539
00:28:57.800 --> 00:29:02.280
Hope keeps us talking about what God

540
00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:03.880
has told us.

541
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:08.520
Hope keeps us taking imperfect action toward the dream of our heart.

542
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:13.600
Hope is what will keep you taking imperfect action to prepare for what's

543
00:29:13.600 --> 00:29:18.520
coming. Hope is what keeps you preparing when everyone else said, Oh, you know,

544
00:29:19.040 --> 00:29:20.920
that's not going to happen because I have a,

545
00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:24.560
I have a student right now who's actually about to be engaged to one of my

546
00:29:24.560 --> 00:29:26.240
private clients. So she was one of y'all,

547
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.720
she was a student and she is marrying one of my private male clients. Okay.

548
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:34.760
He's about to propose to her. All right.

549
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:39.200
And people told her to give up. She's in her forties.

550
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:44.120
She has never been married and also to give up on having

551
00:29:44.120 --> 00:29:47.680
any babies. And I just got off the phone with him the other day.

552
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:50.640
And not only are they going to get engaged here in a minute,

553
00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:53.960
but they're going to get married in a few months and they're going to immediately

554
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:54.800
get pregnant.

555
00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:00.000
And you're like, well, you know,

556
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.080
Now, maybe that, maybe they will, you know, she's over 40 years old.

557
00:30:04.080 --> 00:30:07.880
You know, she doesn't, she has a 25% chance because once you start

558
00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:12.360
quoting statistics of why it can't happen, you live in at a level two sister.

559
00:30:14.080 --> 00:30:14.640
All right.

560
00:30:15.660 --> 00:30:17.600
Don't start throwing numbers at me.

561
00:30:21.320 --> 00:30:27.440
That's a really good sign that your hope tank is empty in that area.

562
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:34.040
Hope is what will keep you taking imperfect action toward the dream of your

563
00:30:34.040 --> 00:30:42.080
heart and preparing for the good that's coming, preparing for the good that's

564
00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:47.400
coming one way or another, God is for me.

565
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:48.080
Life is for me.

566
00:30:48.080 --> 00:30:49.040
The best is yet to come.

567
00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:50.280
The story isn't over yet.

568
00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:53.320
Hope will keep you out of the waiting room of despair.

569
00:30:54.560 --> 00:30:57.080
Remember there's no DMV in the kingdom, right?

570
00:30:58.120 --> 00:30:58.960
There's no DMV.

571
00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:01.320
There's no DMV for those of you that have not been in the

572
00:31:01.320 --> 00:31:02.440
department of motor vehicles.

573
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:05.800
It smells like broken dreams and disappointment there.

574
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:06.680
It's terrible.

575
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:07.520
It's a terrible place.

576
00:31:08.040 --> 00:31:08.440
Okay.

577
00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:12.320
Everyone takes a number and we don't even know if the number means anything

578
00:31:12.320 --> 00:31:16.160
because the numbers that are flashing on the screen make no sense at all to the

579
00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:18.320
number that you're holding in your hand.

580
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:21.720
And you don't know if it's ever going to be your turn.

581
00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.600
And you can't ask anyone because they don't know either.

582
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:27.800
Okay.

583
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:30.080
There's no place like that in the kingdom of God.

584
00:31:30.320 --> 00:31:31.040
There is not.

585
00:31:31.520 --> 00:31:33.160
There's only staging rooms.

586
00:31:34.080 --> 00:31:35.080
Those are green rooms.

587
00:31:35.120 --> 00:31:38.400
Those are rooms where you're getting prepared to walk out.

588
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:39.400
Cause it's your turn.

589
00:31:39.840 --> 00:31:40.960
You're on center stage.

590
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:44.560
You're the star and birthing rooms.

591
00:31:44.600 --> 00:31:45.320
Write that down.

592
00:31:45.320 --> 00:31:47.680
The only two rooms there are in the kingdom of God.

593
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.880
They're staging rooms where you're getting prepared for your

594
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:52.520
debut and there are birthing rooms.

595
00:31:52.520 --> 00:31:53.920
So there are prep rooms.

596
00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.120
Those are the staging rooms and there are manifestation rooms.

597
00:31:57.120 --> 00:32:02.800
Those are the birthing rooms because when God gives us a promise and I told

598
00:32:02.800 --> 00:32:06.480
you guys this in the challenge, he always gives us a process and process

599
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:07.880
is where a lot of people fall off.

600
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:09.040
This is where people fall off.

601
00:32:09.040 --> 00:32:10.480
They fall off during process.

602
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:13.040
And this is where a lot of people start to lose hope.

603
00:32:13.040 --> 00:32:14.480
They lose hope during process.

604
00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:16.720
And I'm just going to say it plainly and clearly.

605
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:20.600
And the reason why is because a lot of people, the place where they receive

606
00:32:20.600 --> 00:32:26.720
the promise didn't teach them that there was a process.

607
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:32.520
Wherever you were and you lined up in some prophetic line to get a word from

608
00:32:32.520 --> 00:32:38.080
the Lord, they didn't do enough teaching to tell you that it's not going to

609
00:32:38.080 --> 00:32:41.160
happen right when you walk out the door or wait, when you go home or that you

610
00:32:41.160 --> 00:32:42.480
have a part to play in that.

611
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.400
And there's a process involved with it.

612
00:32:46.760 --> 00:32:49.000
I remember getting words like that back in the day.

613
00:32:49.320 --> 00:32:50.760
And I just thought, oh, God said it.

614
00:32:50.760 --> 00:32:51.680
Well, he's going to do it.

615
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:53.240
And I trust him and I believe him.

616
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:56.000
And I just keep watching on the horizon for it to happen.

617
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:59.680
I was waiting, but I wasn't gestating.

618
00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:03.720
Right.

619
00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:06.880
I wasn't growing that promise.

620
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:09.720
I didn't know how to manifest that promise.

621
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.360
And so part of the reason why people fall off and they lose hope during the

622
00:33:14.360 --> 00:33:17.800
process is because they don't know they're in a process and they also don't

623
00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:23.520
know what they're supposed to be doing in that process in order to hasten the

624
00:33:23.520 --> 00:33:24.080
promise.

625
00:33:26.280 --> 00:33:29.200
You're like, well, you know, Jackie, we can't control the prophetic.

626
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:30.680
You know, it's just in the Lord's timing.

627
00:33:30.840 --> 00:33:34.240
That's not true because that's not biblical.

628
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:36.280
Let me tell you a little story.

629
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.200
I'll tell you a little story from the word.

630
00:33:39.800 --> 00:33:40.320
Okay.

631
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:43.760
There was this prophet named Elijah and he was scared of this chick named

632
00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:45.320
Jezebel and she was pretty scary.

633
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:46.000
All right.

634
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:49.720
And he was running away from her because she threatened him.

635
00:33:51.320 --> 00:33:52.160
She threatened him.

636
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.240
She said, ah, you know, I'm going to kill you, but I'm not going to kill you.

637
00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:56.840
I'm going to kill you by the end of today.

638
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:02.200
And all the other prophets he thought had been killed.

639
00:34:03.280 --> 00:34:07.360
And so he ran away and he ran into the wilderness and he was running from her

640
00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:12.520
and he was running from that spirit, that threat that she had given him long

641
00:34:12.520 --> 00:34:16.480
story short, he had an encounter in a cave and God spoke to him and said,

642
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:17.239
what are you doing here?

643
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:19.480
You're not supposed to be here.

644
00:34:20.120 --> 00:34:20.560
Right?

645
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:22.040
This is what I want you to do.

646
00:34:22.040 --> 00:34:26.120
He gave him instructions and we all want to get some really laid out,

647
00:34:26.120 --> 00:34:27.639
clear instructions from the Lord.

648
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:32.159
But the instructions that he gave him were, I want you to go and I want you

649
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:34.440
to anoint this dude named Jehu King.

650
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.440
Go and anoint him King because he's going to destroy the house of Ahab, right?

651
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:39.920
He's going to go destroy Jezebel.

652
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:41.040
So anoint him King.

653
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:44.880
And then Elijah is going to be your successor.

654
00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:46.760
So go grab him and do this and do that.

655
00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:49.920
So he gave him all these instructions to go do this stuff and he went and did it.

656
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:51.360
But that's not what I want to tell you about.

657
00:34:53.040 --> 00:34:56.400
Jehu was a captain of the army.

658
00:34:57.080 --> 00:34:57.680
Okay.

659
00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:59.680
And he was just sitting there with the boys.

660
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.320
I don't know, they're playing cards.

661
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:02.240
I don't know what they were doing.

662
00:35:02.240 --> 00:35:05.720
They were sitting up in the house doing something and the prophet

663
00:35:05.720 --> 00:35:08.040
comes in and just anoints him.

664
00:35:08.240 --> 00:35:09.560
You guys, that's a serious thing.

665
00:35:09.560 --> 00:35:11.240
When the prophet comes and anoints you.

666
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.880
And you know what happened when Jay, who got anointed, he wasn't expecting it.

667
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:16.160
Right.

668
00:35:16.160 --> 00:35:19.080
And a lot of you didn't ask for the promise that God gave you.

669
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:20.400
And you're like that.

670
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:22.660
You're like that woman who didn't ask for a child.

671
00:35:22.660 --> 00:35:25.320
She was just minding her own business, serving the Lord,

672
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:26.800
making a room for the prophet.

673
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:29.200
And the prophet said, you're going to have a child.

674
00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:32.920
She was older in her years and she did, she had a child, but then her child died.

675
00:35:33.640 --> 00:35:37.840
And so she's, you know, riding, you know, the story, it is well, you

676
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.920
know, the prophet sends a servant and he's like, what's wrong, what's wrong?

677
00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:42.040
Why are you coming to see the prophet?

678
00:35:42.040 --> 00:35:43.200
Oh, no, it's everything's okay.

679
00:35:43.200 --> 00:35:44.360
It's well, it's well.

680
00:35:44.600 --> 00:35:45.080
Why?

681
00:35:45.200 --> 00:35:47.280
Cause she was coming to grab ahold of that prophet.

682
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:50.800
She wanted to make sure nothing kept her from getting to him and saying, why

683
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.160
have you given me something that I didn't ask for just to take it away?

684
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:56.240
Who has ever felt like that with the Lord?

685
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:58.280
Why did you give me a promise?

686
00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:02.160
If you weren't going to fulfill it, I didn't even ask for this.

687
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:04.480
I was just fine.

688
00:36:04.520 --> 00:36:05.800
I was minding my own business.

689
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:08.840
And then I went and do a prophetic line and someone told me something

690
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:11.400
amazing that made my heart come alive with excitement.

691
00:36:11.640 --> 00:36:13.840
And here I am sitting here and it ain't happened yet.

692
00:36:15.200 --> 00:36:17.320
Why, why have you teased me like this?

693
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:18.320
Why have you done this to me?

694
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.400
I didn't ask for this.

695
00:36:21.520 --> 00:36:24.680
So Jay, who wasn't asking to be King, you guys.

696
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:26.120
He was a man of war.

697
00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:31.240
He was just sitting there and he got anointed as King, but what did he do?

698
00:36:32.160 --> 00:36:36.680
What did he do when he was anointed as King?

699
00:36:38.120 --> 00:36:46.680
He immediately rode out and did what he needed to do.

700
00:36:47.120 --> 00:36:49.600
He took down the house of Ahab, didn't he?

701
00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:51.640
But that's not even the part that I want to tell you about.

702
00:36:54.520 --> 00:37:01.200
That's not even the part when Ahab, when he killed Ahab, okay.

703
00:37:01.240 --> 00:37:05.080
His sons, when he killed him, when he killed them, he did not kill them.

704
00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:08.680
Where the prophetic word said that they were going to die.

705
00:37:09.640 --> 00:37:11.000
He killed them someplace else.

706
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:15.760
Do you know that Jehu picked them up and took them over to the

707
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.960
place where the original prophetic word said that they were going to be?

708
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:24.200
Are you allowed to do that?

709
00:37:27.040 --> 00:37:32.160
If God tells you that, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna, you know, I don't

710
00:37:32.160 --> 00:37:36.240
know, I'll use my example, God gave me a word years ago through this woman

711
00:37:36.240 --> 00:37:37.480
that I was going to work in television.

712
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:39.880
And I had no experience in television at all.

713
00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:43.520
And so you need to know that God gave me a word years ago that I was

714
00:37:43.520 --> 00:37:44.680
going to work in television.

715
00:37:44.680 --> 00:37:47.240
And I had no experience in television at all.

716
00:37:47.600 --> 00:37:49.640
And so, you know what my crazy self did?

717
00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:56.000
I went off of that word and I started calling every TV station in my town that

718
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:59.240
I lived in asking for an internship with no education.

719
00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:02.600
And finally, one of them gave it to me and I became the general manager of

720
00:38:02.600 --> 00:38:04.000
that television network within a year.

721
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:10.040
Are you allowed to go dump the bodies where the prophet originally said they

722
00:38:10.040 --> 00:38:12.000
would be, even though that's not where you killed them at?

723
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:13.120
Yeah, you are.

724
00:38:13.520 --> 00:38:15.320
That's a prophetic word.

725
00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:18.200
I think we think, oh, it has to be supernatural.

726
00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:21.800
You guys, God puts his super on your natural.

727
00:38:23.560 --> 00:38:26.280
He put his super on Jehu's natural.

728
00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:27.600
You understand that, right?

729
00:38:27.600 --> 00:38:28.800
Go read the story.

730
00:38:30.560 --> 00:38:34.840
Jehu was like, Hey, weren't, weren't these guys supposed to like, you know,

731
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:39.960
weren't, wasn't their blood supposed to be shed over, you know, some vineyard of

732
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:42.280
some Naboth guy that they robbed?

733
00:38:42.600 --> 00:38:43.160
Yeah.

734
00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:46.960
Go dump their bodies there and make the prophetic word true.

735
00:38:50.040 --> 00:38:51.120
You guys see it, right?

736
00:38:53.080 --> 00:38:53.800
Paula does.

737
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:56.160
She put like a bazillion little lines up.

738
00:38:58.120 --> 00:38:58.520
Okay.

739
00:38:58.560 --> 00:39:03.080
Hopefully you can see that we're allowed to partner with God in the promise.

740
00:39:03.080 --> 00:39:06.920
You're allowed to partner with him, but you guys, if you lose hope, you won't do

741
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:07.320
that.

742
00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:10.040
Hope is supernatural.

743
00:39:10.040 --> 00:39:14.480
It is the thing that causes you to take imperfect action, knowing, Hey, God said,

744
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:15.960
I can have this because this is what we do.

745
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:20.320
We get all religious and say, oh, well, you know, I can't get out of God's timing.

746
00:39:21.040 --> 00:39:23.920
God's the one that told you, you could have it.

747
00:39:25.520 --> 00:39:29.240
You can't get out of his timing because he's the one that activated you in it.

748
00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:32.120
Now it doesn't mean it's going to happen right away.

749
00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:37.000
And you might take, you might do a whole bunch of imperfect action before you get

750
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:37.280
there.

751
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:38.400
I forgot a little step.

752
00:39:38.640 --> 00:39:43.600
I called all the things, all the, the, the, the, the television that were the

753
00:39:43.600 --> 00:39:44.240
stations.

754
00:39:44.240 --> 00:39:49.720
And one of them gave me an internship, but I also took imperfect action by joining

755
00:39:49.720 --> 00:39:53.960
this like charter school and going to broadcasting school, like going to

756
00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:54.920
broadcasting school.

757
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:57.040
And it was only like, I don't know, 12 weeks long.

758
00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:58.720
Y'all, they kicked me out.

759
00:39:58.720 --> 00:40:00.240
I was like, I'm not going to do that.

760
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.120
out of broadcasting school.

761
00:40:00.240 --> 00:40:01.160
I'm not going to do that.

762
00:40:01.160 --> 00:40:02.000
I'm not going to do that.

763
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:02.840
I'm not going to do that.

764
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:03.680
I'm not going to do that.

765
00:40:03.120 --> 00:40:04.480
So it isn't perfect action.

766
00:40:03.680 --> 00:40:04.480
I'm not going to do that.

767
00:40:04.700 --> 00:40:07.840
You know why they kicked me out because they were taking advantage.

768
00:40:08.640 --> 00:40:12.580
You know, I grew up in the inner city and, you know, they were

769
00:40:12.580 --> 00:40:14.640
marketing to inner city kids.

770
00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:17.080
They were promising them stuff that wasn't true.

771
00:40:17.240 --> 00:40:19.080
I was in school with all those kids.

772
00:40:19.080 --> 00:40:23.920
And I started to raise a ruckus because I knew that the education that they were

773
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:28.760
getting there was not going to prepare them for work in that marketplace, because

774
00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:31.600
I was interning at the television station.

775
00:40:31.600 --> 00:40:35.960
And I knew the equipment that we were using at school was equipment that they

776
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.240
didn't have at TV stations anymore.

777
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:39.560
It was old equipment.

778
00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:44.680
So these kids were being trained on equipment that was old, that was no

779
00:40:44.680 --> 00:40:50.080
longer used in the industry, and they were not going to be able to get jobs.

780
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.440
And so I, cause I have a justice gift.

781
00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:56.760
I went off, I went off.

782
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.960
I got called into the, the, the principal's office, so to speak,

783
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:02.840
the, um, the people that run the school.

784
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:05.440
And they said, you know, we want you out of here.

785
00:41:05.720 --> 00:41:08.360
You know, they escorted me off the property y'all.

786
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:12.320
So I took imperfect action, but the good news is, is that I became the general

787
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:19.040
manager of the television station that I was interning for, and I got that.

788
00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:22.000
I got the people that ran that school fired.

789
00:41:22.080 --> 00:41:25.040
I got them fired y'all because God is a God of justice.

790
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:29.680
And then I sat on the curriculum board of that same school and decided what

791
00:41:29.680 --> 00:41:33.240
those kids were going to learn based on what was in the industry.

792
00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:37.600
Come on, y'all tell me that God will not set you up, not just for yourself,

793
00:41:37.600 --> 00:41:39.880
but for everybody else to tell me, he won't do it.

794
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:44.080
Tell me you can't because I've already lived it.

795
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:45.800
And you guys, I had no education.

796
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.800
I was not qualified at all to do any of that, but God knew that I had it in me.

797
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:51.840
And that's what he wants to show you tonight.

798
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:54.080
You guys, this is never, ever part of this session.

799
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:55.920
I never tell any of those stories.

800
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:58.040
So this stuff is for you.

801
00:41:58.280 --> 00:41:59.000
Please listen.

802
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.840
God's trying to get ahold of somebody's heart tonight and let you know that you

803
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:05.280
need to start taking imperfect action towards that promise.

804
00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:05.600
Okay.

805
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:07.640
So process is where people start to lose hope.

806
00:42:07.640 --> 00:42:09.880
We started to fall off process is not fun.

807
00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:10.360
Okay.

808
00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:12.480
You guys, I'd be lying to tell you that that time.

809
00:42:12.680 --> 00:42:13.600
Yeah, it's exciting.

810
00:42:13.600 --> 00:42:15.440
And it's an underdog story and we win.

811
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:15.960
We win.

812
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:16.440
We win.

813
00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:16.960
We win.

814
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:17.480
We win.

815
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:18.000
We win.

816
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:18.480
We win.

817
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:19.000
We win.

818
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.120
It's an underdog story and we win at the end, but it was a hard process.

819
00:42:22.120 --> 00:42:23.200
There was a lot of tears.

820
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:24.920
There was a lot of bleh.

821
00:42:26.040 --> 00:42:26.560
Okay.

822
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:27.760
All right.

823
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:32.600
So Isaiah 40, 31 is the process scripture, but those who wait upon the Lord and

824
00:42:32.600 --> 00:42:37.680
that word wait is those that expect, look for, and hope for him y'all.

825
00:42:37.720 --> 00:42:39.000
It's the word hope in there.

826
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:44.840
Those that wait, the word wait is expect, look for, and hope prepare.

827
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.560
They will gain new strength and renew their power.

828
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:51.720
Wait means to hopefully and expectantly prepare, write that down.

829
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:57.040
Wait, that word wait, as it's translated into English, the original Greek means

830
00:42:57.040 --> 00:43:02.160
to, I'm sorry, the original Hebrew means to hopefully and expectantly prepare

831
00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:05.520
for what, for the goodness of God.

832
00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:11.200
When during this lifetime, guys, God's going to be good to all of you in heaven.

833
00:43:11.520 --> 00:43:13.280
You don't need the goodness of God in heaven.

834
00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:14.560
Please say that to yourself.

835
00:43:14.720 --> 00:43:16.520
I don't need God's goodness in heaven.

836
00:43:17.680 --> 00:43:18.560
I need it here.

837
00:43:19.080 --> 00:43:20.360
I don't need to see it in heaven.

838
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:22.200
That's all there is in heaven.

839
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:25.000
I need to see it here and I need to see it now.

840
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:32.720
So this is where we start to erode our hope ever so slowly.

841
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:37.640
And a lot of times unknowingly, because we allow our hope to be attached to a

842
00:43:37.640 --> 00:43:40.440
certain timeline, a specific outcome.

843
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:44.760
And when that doesn't happen, we begin to entertain the tiniest seed of doubt.

844
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:48.640
You guys, when they kicked me out of that broadcasting school, I had no idea that I

845
00:43:48.640 --> 00:43:50.520
was going to become the GM of that network.

846
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:54.200
I had no idea that I was going to be invited to come back and sit on the

847
00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:55.800
curriculum board of that school.

848
00:43:56.280 --> 00:44:00.320
And that I was going to be able to, you know, get the, the, the, the

849
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:02.240
people that ran that school fired.

850
00:44:02.680 --> 00:44:05.840
All I felt was, Oh, I must've missed it.

851
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:07.160
God didn't call me to do this.

852
00:44:07.560 --> 00:44:09.160
Look, I'm not even supposed to be here.

853
00:44:09.160 --> 00:44:13.960
You guys, there was all kinds of part of that process where you, if you want to,

854
00:44:14.200 --> 00:44:19.880
you can start to doubt that what God has said to you is true.

855
00:44:23.520 --> 00:44:26.760
And especially if it doesn't happen as fast as you think it is.

856
00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:28.640
A lot of times people quit trying.

857
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:31.480
We quit trying.

858
00:44:32.200 --> 00:44:35.400
In fact, if I was to ask you right now, you know, when's the last time that you

859
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:39.400
took any type of imperfect action towards a promise that God has for you?

860
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:43.560
You'd probably say joining this course about your love story, but what about

861
00:44:43.560 --> 00:44:44.600
the other promises?

862
00:44:44.600 --> 00:44:49.560
When's the last time that you actually took meaningful and intentional

863
00:44:49.560 --> 00:44:52.520
action towards making that come true?

864
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.680
When God said it to you, it was already true.

865
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:58.240
And I know that you think you're supposed to wait around for the genie in the

866
00:44:58.240 --> 00:44:59.840
bottle to magically just make it.

867
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.160
manifest, but no, you are the one that manifests it.

868
00:45:03.560 --> 00:45:05.800
God's the end of the beginning. He's the alpha and the Omega,

869
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:09.040
but you're the middle. He's the end of the, he's beginning in the end,

870
00:45:09.060 --> 00:45:11.160
but you're the middle. You're the middle. You're the middle.

871
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:15.480
You got to walk it out. You got to walk it out. Okay.

872
00:45:15.560 --> 00:45:20.000
So a lot of times we begin to entertain the tiniest seed of doubt.

873
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:20.820
You guys.

874
00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:26.680
Now the opposite of love is fear, but the opposite of hope is doubt.

875
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.000
Write that down. The opposite of love is fear. It's not hate y'all.

876
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:32.280
Because hate is just part of fear.

877
00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:37.600
The opposite of hope is doubt and doubt is defined. Write this down.

878
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:42.640
Doubt is defined as uncertainty that causes

879
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:44.560
in action.

880
00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:53.680
The opposite of hope is uncertainty that causes what it causes you to not

881
00:45:53.680 --> 00:45:54.520
act anymore.

882
00:45:57.560 --> 00:46:01.080
Nelson Mandela, my favorite, my favorite quote, y'all,

883
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:06.240
you will never prepare for anything while secretly believing it's not going to

884
00:46:06.240 --> 00:46:07.080
happen.

885
00:46:09.040 --> 00:46:11.240
You guys, the proof of belief is action

886
00:46:13.600 --> 00:46:17.120
imperfect action. You can't wait.

887
00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:19.600
We just celebrated his birthday.

888
00:46:19.600 --> 00:46:23.400
Martin Luther King jr said that you can't wait to see the whole staircase before

889
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:25.240
you take a step. He can't.

890
00:46:27.680 --> 00:46:30.600
You got to take the step. The staircase will show up.

891
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:36.800
And I'm not telling you anything that I haven't had to live out. You guys,

892
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:41.760
God has made sure that I've had to live out every moment of

893
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.600
this, every moment of this.

894
00:46:46.720 --> 00:46:48.720
Right. So for those of you that, you know,

895
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:51.760
you feel like you came out of the womb with no hope because you were born,

896
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.480
you know, in the wrong place, the wrong time to the wrong people,

897
00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:57.000
on the wrong side of the street, on the wrong side of the tracks.

898
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.360
I'm right there with you, y'all. Me too.

899
00:47:02.200 --> 00:47:05.240
Me too. Okay.

900
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:14.880
So remember that hope is expectant preparation. That's what hope is.

901
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:18.040
If you wanted to find hope, if you want to know what hope looks like,

902
00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:20.120
you're like, what does it look like to live with hope?

903
00:47:20.120 --> 00:47:24.160
So if you're expectantly preparing,

904
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:30.320
you're taking action that shows that you have hope in that area.

905
00:47:33.680 --> 00:47:36.600
All right. All right.

906
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:42.520
So when we start to entertain that tiniest seed of doubt,

907
00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:48.200
we start to entertain it. You guys, it's pervasive. It grows. Okay.

908
00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:52.800
And when we start to entertain it, this is where we begin to defer our hope.

909
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.680
There's that word from that scripture, hope deferred in Proverbs.

910
00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:58.760
It makes the heart sick, but when the longing is fulfilled,

911
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:00.000
it's a tree of life, right?

912
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:03.920
Everyone loves to quote that scripture when they're sad, you know,

913
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:08.760
hope deferred, my hope's been deferred. It's making my heart sick. But you know,

914
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:10.280
when we quote that scripture,

915
00:48:10.680 --> 00:48:13.320
what we're saying is is that God's holding out on me.

916
00:48:13.520 --> 00:48:16.120
That's what people mean when they say their hope is being deferred.

917
00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:20.320
The thing that God promised me, he's also not giving to me.

918
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:25.240
He's not manifesting it. And so my hope's being deferred and it's making me

919
00:48:25.240 --> 00:48:26.080
heart sick.

920
00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:29.520
I'm brokenhearted because the thing that I've been waiting for for so long is

921
00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:33.760
not happening. And what we're saying there is we think God is deferring it.

922
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:37.360
We think God's deferring it. God's the one that's not giving it to us.

923
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:39.680
God's the one that's not allowing us to have it.

924
00:48:39.680 --> 00:48:41.320
God's the one that's holding out on us.

925
00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:44.520
But the word of God tells us that there are three things that are eternal.

926
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:47.440
Faith, hope, and love.

927
00:48:49.160 --> 00:48:51.640
There's three things that are constant and eternal,

928
00:48:51.640 --> 00:48:55.240
meaning that there's an endless supply of them available at any time.

929
00:48:57.240 --> 00:48:59.440
Faith, hope, and love.

930
00:49:01.080 --> 00:49:02.400
You guys see what I'm saying here?

931
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:06.480
So God's not holding out on you.

932
00:49:08.560 --> 00:49:09.600
He's not holding out on you.

933
00:49:09.600 --> 00:49:11.040
He's not holding out on you because you're not,

934
00:49:11.040 --> 00:49:15.600
here's the excuses that people tell themselves and religion tells you about why

935
00:49:15.600 --> 00:49:18.920
you don't have the thing that God told you a long time ago,

936
00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:19.760
that you could have.

937
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:27.280
Because you're not ready because you don't deserve it because it's not time.

938
00:49:29.720 --> 00:49:30.680
Raise your hand right now.

939
00:49:30.680 --> 00:49:34.280
If you've believed that about why you don't have whatever it is that you felt

940
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:38.800
like God wanted to give you, Oh, I'm just not ready yet. I don't deserve it yet.

941
00:49:39.640 --> 00:49:43.280
It's not time yet. It's not God's time yet. You know, God's time is perfect.

942
00:49:43.560 --> 00:49:44.920
Guys, God lives outside of time.

943
00:49:46.720 --> 00:49:49.760
The only reason time even exists is to make sure that this whole thing is cut

944
00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:53.080
short. The only reason that time even exists,

945
00:49:53.080 --> 00:49:56.760
time was instituted with the fall of man so that we wouldn't be stuck in this

946
00:49:56.760 --> 00:49:58.800
stinking state forever. You know that, right?

947
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.640
God lives in a different realm than us, outside of time.

948
00:50:03.640 --> 00:50:05.680
We are ones that live in the time realm.

949
00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:06.520
Why is that?

950
00:50:06.520 --> 00:50:09.720
Because we don't want to live in this cursed state forever.

951
00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:13.360
There's an expiration date here, thank God.

952
00:50:20.640 --> 00:50:22.480
So don't ever say that to yourself again.

953
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:24.280
Oh, well, it's not God's timing.

954
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:25.720
It's not God's timing.

955
00:50:25.720 --> 00:50:27.400
It's not God's timing.

956
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:29.120
Don't ever say that to yourself again.

957
00:50:29.120 --> 00:50:31.120
Oh, well, it's not God's timing.

958
00:50:31.120 --> 00:50:32.520
You know what God's timing is?

959
00:50:32.520 --> 00:50:35.400
Is when you actually believe that he told you

960
00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:38.320
you can have it and you go pick it up at will call.

961
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:42.360
And yeah, it might not be easy to get to will call.

962
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:43.760
You might have to, you know,

963
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:47.280
go through some caves to get there and different things.

964
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:50.120
But God told you, you can have it.

965
00:50:50.120 --> 00:50:51.480
And God's not lying to you.

966
00:50:53.720 --> 00:50:55.520
So some of you are like, well, I don't deserve it yet.

967
00:50:55.520 --> 00:50:56.800
Well, yeah, you're never going to deserve it.

968
00:50:57.200 --> 00:50:59.000
You're not going to ever deserve the promises of God.

969
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.360
So if you've been punching your little time clock,

970
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:03.040
doing ministry and serving other people,

971
00:51:03.040 --> 00:51:04.120
hoping that one of these days

972
00:51:04.120 --> 00:51:06.480
you're going to have enough points to earn a husband,

973
00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:07.320
you aren't.

974
00:51:08.160 --> 00:51:09.720
You're not going to get enough points.

975
00:51:09.720 --> 00:51:10.920
You're not going to get enough tickets

976
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:12.000
from the skee ball machine

977
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.240
to go and get a husband at the store.

978
00:51:18.120 --> 00:51:19.600
That's not the way this works.

979
00:51:20.600 --> 00:51:21.520
And some of you,

980
00:51:21.520 --> 00:51:24.400
you've been waiting a whole long time for partnership.

981
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:25.760
God promised you partnership.

982
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:29.800
And now, you know, you're in your golden era of life.

983
00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:30.960
So like, when is it time?

984
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:32.560
You're going to meet him in the old folks' home?

985
00:51:32.560 --> 00:51:33.640
Is that what's going to happen?

986
00:51:33.640 --> 00:51:36.640
And like, literally, why does that make sense?

987
00:51:38.120 --> 00:51:39.480
So we're never fully going to be ready

988
00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:40.840
for anything that God wants to give us.

989
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:42.560
That's what I'm trying to get across to you.

990
00:51:42.560 --> 00:51:44.640
I know I'm being a little antagonistic on purpose

991
00:51:44.640 --> 00:51:46.280
because I'm trying to get you to think

992
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:48.120
about how stupid some of this stuff is.

993
00:51:48.120 --> 00:51:51.520
Religion is stupid and we have to stop listening to it.

994
00:51:51.520 --> 00:51:54.200
Jesus died to set us free from religion.

995
00:51:54.240 --> 00:51:55.880
You will never be fully ready

996
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:59.040
for anything God wants to give you.

997
00:51:59.040 --> 00:52:00.600
He gives us stuff to grow into,

998
00:52:00.600 --> 00:52:02.480
just like you buy your children shoes

999
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:04.320
and clothes to grow into.

1000
00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:09.240
And you have to be willing to take the beginning stages

1001
00:52:09.240 --> 00:52:10.880
of whatever that thing is.

1002
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:13.080
Every promise has the beginning stages

1003
00:52:13.080 --> 00:52:14.160
of what it looks like.

1004
00:52:15.080 --> 00:52:17.040
Guys, I've had some type of business

1005
00:52:17.040 --> 00:52:18.840
for years and years and years.

1006
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:23.320
My businesses haven't always been, you know,

1007
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:26.120
reaching the audience that God wanted me to reach.

1008
00:52:26.120 --> 00:52:28.800
There were not, there were lots of times

1009
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:31.680
of not despising small beginnings.

1010
00:52:32.680 --> 00:52:34.800
A lot of us, we think that the promise

1011
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.880
is supposed to just be born 18 years old.

1012
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:39.560
You guys, when you give birth to the promise,

1013
00:52:39.560 --> 00:52:43.520
it's still gonna just be in its infant stage.

1014
00:52:43.520 --> 00:52:46.040
You gotta nurture it so it can grow.

1015
00:52:46.040 --> 00:52:47.320
You gotta grow it.

1016
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:49.400
And sometimes it's gonna grow at an accelerated rate

1017
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:51.080
and sometimes it's gonna grow a little slower

1018
00:52:51.080 --> 00:52:52.320
and sometimes there's gonna be seasons

1019
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:54.920
when it accelerates and grows faster.

1020
00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:57.880
And then sometimes it feels like it grows a little slower.

1021
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:01.800
I believe that all of you are in accelerated time

1022
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:04.160
for your love story and that's why you're here, okay?

1023
00:53:04.160 --> 00:53:05.760
Cause you're at a tipping point.

1024
00:53:10.680 --> 00:53:13.200
Some of you expect that baby to come out potty trained

1025
00:53:13.200 --> 00:53:14.840
and cook in its own food already.

1026
00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:17.960
That's not the way that works.

1027
00:53:21.680 --> 00:53:24.400
So sometimes we don't see what God's trying to give us

1028
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:26.400
in the area of the promise he gave us

1029
00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:29.800
because we don't recognize it because it's not fully formed.

1030
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.160
Sometimes it's just the ingredients of the cookies.

1031
00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:34.040
It's not the actual cookies.

1032
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:36.280
Make sense?

1033
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:39.840
God gave you a promise and you're expecting it

1034
00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:42.840
to show up fully formed and that's why you don't recognize

1035
00:53:42.840 --> 00:53:44.840
that God's giving you the ingredients

1036
00:53:46.120 --> 00:53:47.400
for the final product.

1037
00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:50.440
So belief looks like action on things

1038
00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:51.840
that can't be seen yet.

1039
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:57.080
You guys see how God is using me

1040
00:53:57.080 --> 00:53:58.920
to transform the lives of women,

1041
00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:01.880
but what you don't see is 26 years of ministry.

1042
00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:04.760
Conferences, guys, I used to have a conference call

1043
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:06.520
called the wake up call with Jackie

1044
00:54:06.520 --> 00:54:09.040
and you had to have at least one person live

1045
00:54:09.040 --> 00:54:10.600
with you on the conference call.

1046
00:54:10.600 --> 00:54:12.480
And this is back when that was the only technology

1047
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:13.320
that was available.

1048
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:14.840
I've always been a media girl,

1049
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:17.280
always using the latest technology.

1050
00:54:17.640 --> 00:54:20.240
Back when conference calls were the thing,

1051
00:54:20.240 --> 00:54:23.760
my husband had to sometimes dial in and listen to me,

1052
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:27.720
preach the word because there wasn't anyone else on there

1053
00:54:27.720 --> 00:54:30.040
and the conference call wouldn't even record itself

1054
00:54:30.040 --> 00:54:32.040
unless one other person was on.

1055
00:54:32.040 --> 00:54:34.880
So my husband had to get on and listen to me,

1056
00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.080
do the wake up call with Jackie

1057
00:54:37.080 --> 00:54:39.080
and then I would be able to have the recording

1058
00:54:39.080 --> 00:54:40.480
to put out on social media

1059
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:42.400
and then people would listen to the recording.

1060
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:44.760
But sometimes not even one person would show up to that.

1061
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:46.080
Do you think that stopped me?

1062
00:54:46.240 --> 00:54:47.360
I wanna give you a guess.

1063
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:48.200
It didn't.

1064
00:54:49.160 --> 00:54:51.160
Here I am.

1065
00:54:51.160 --> 00:54:52.080
And why is that?

1066
00:54:52.080 --> 00:54:54.720
Because God has given me a supernatural gift of hope.

1067
00:54:55.760 --> 00:54:56.600
Right?

1068
00:54:56.600 --> 00:54:57.920
It doesn't mean that I never get discouraged.

1069
00:54:57.920 --> 00:54:59.000
It means that I never,

1070
00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:01.000
doesn't mean I don't ever get discouraged.

1071
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.500
I'm not going to get down, but I'm either, you know, I'm either up or getting up.

1072
00:55:05.700 --> 00:55:09.900
So the conference call, the wake-up call with Jackie, real life unplugged was

1073
00:55:09.900 --> 00:55:11.500
another ministry that I had for women.

1074
00:55:11.800 --> 00:55:12.500
Wow.

1075
00:55:12.900 --> 00:55:15.000
Was another ministry that I had for women.

1076
00:55:15.200 --> 00:55:17.500
Y'all I've been doing this for a really long time.

1077
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.600
So what I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get into your head

1078
00:55:23.600 --> 00:55:27.200
right now is that scripture that says hope deferred makes the heart sick.

1079
00:55:27.500 --> 00:55:29.600
God doesn't ever defer your hope.

1080
00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:31.900
You defer it.

1081
00:55:33.700 --> 00:55:37.700
And when you defer it, it makes your heart sick.

1082
00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:38.800
It breaks your heart.

1083
00:55:39.100 --> 00:55:43.900
And when our hearts are sick, when we're feeling brokenhearted and sad because

1084
00:55:43.900 --> 00:55:49.300
of missed expectations, and really just the, the fear of abandonment that God's

1085
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.700
not going to show up, that he's not going to do the things that he said, what

1086
00:55:52.700 --> 00:55:56.900
happens when hearts are sick, hearts that are sick, start looking for medication.

1087
00:55:57.000 --> 00:55:59.500
And this is where plan me starts taking shape.

1088
00:56:00.500 --> 00:56:01.600
I didn't get what I wanted.

1089
00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:03.400
I didn't get it when I wanted it.

1090
00:56:03.500 --> 00:56:05.100
I didn't get it how I wanted it.

1091
00:56:05.500 --> 00:56:08.700
I don't recognize the ingredients to what I want that are sitting right in front

1092
00:56:08.700 --> 00:56:12.800
of me, ready for me to mix together and start making a batter because it didn't

1093
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:18.500
show up in the shape and form that I wanted it to, when I wanted it to.

1094
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:22.000
And if God's not going to give it to me, I'm just going to go get it for myself.

1095
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:23.500
I'm not going to get it when I want it.

1096
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:27.300
And if God's not going to give it to me, I'm just going to go get it for myself

1097
00:56:27.300 --> 00:56:29.800
and I'm just going to, or I'm just going to give up on it altogether.

1098
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:34.100
And you'll know when you get to this place, because you'll start speaking

1099
00:56:34.100 --> 00:56:35.300
the language of disappointment.

1100
00:56:35.300 --> 00:56:37.500
And here's what the language of disappointment sounds like.

1101
00:56:37.700 --> 00:56:38.600
I don't care.

1102
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:39.900
It doesn't matter.

1103
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:41.500
I didn't want it anyway.

1104
00:56:41.700 --> 00:56:43.500
Oh, well, it is what it is.

1105
00:56:43.700 --> 00:56:46.700
I guess God doesn't want me to have blank.

1106
00:56:50.100 --> 00:56:51.300
That's what it sounds like.

1107
00:56:52.300 --> 00:56:54.600
That's when you've got to the place where your hopes deferred.

1108
00:56:56.500 --> 00:56:58.000
So what does the word defer really mean?

1109
00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:00.900
You guys, it means to put off to a later time.

1110
00:57:02.200 --> 00:57:06.100
When we defer our hope, what we're saying is that it's not safe for me to hope

1111
00:57:06.100 --> 00:57:10.400
for this thing anymore because I don't want to be disappointed anymore.

1112
00:57:10.900 --> 00:57:13.600
And so I'm going to self-protect and the way I'm going to self-protect is I'm

1113
00:57:13.600 --> 00:57:14.900
going to postpone my hope.

1114
00:57:15.900 --> 00:57:17.400
I'm going to suspend my hope.

1115
00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:24.000
And I'm going to wait for more information before I believe that this

1116
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:24.700
is going to happen.

1117
00:57:24.700 --> 00:57:26.200
I'm going to wait for proof.

1118
00:57:28.100 --> 00:57:29.800
That this is going to happen in my life.

1119
00:57:32.300 --> 00:57:32.900
Right?

1120
00:57:33.100 --> 00:57:36.600
The word suspend means that we're just going to wait on making a decision or

1121
00:57:36.600 --> 00:57:38.000
taking action here.

1122
00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:41.500
And so what we do friends is we wait to partner with hope.

1123
00:57:41.600 --> 00:57:46.800
We defer it until there's evidence hard proof that is safe to get our hopes

1124
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:48.000
up again.

1125
00:57:50.500 --> 00:57:51.400
That's what we do.

1126
00:57:55.200 --> 00:57:56.200
We defer it.

1127
00:57:56.300 --> 00:57:57.600
We suspend it.

1128
00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:05.300
We postpone it until there's hard proof that it is safe to get our hopes up

1129
00:58:05.300 --> 00:58:05.800
again.

1130
00:58:07.700 --> 00:58:11.300
The problem with this is that it makes us heart sick.

1131
00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:14.800
When we defer, when we push our hope away and say, you know what?

1132
00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:17.900
I'm not going to, I'm not going to want this anymore until it's safe to

1133
00:58:17.900 --> 00:58:18.400
want it.

1134
00:58:18.600 --> 00:58:21.000
I need proof that this is really going to happen in my life.

1135
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:22.100
I need hard proof.

1136
00:58:22.700 --> 00:58:26.700
And until I get hard proof that this is actually going to happen to me during

1137
00:58:26.700 --> 00:58:27.800
this lifetime.

1138
00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:29.000
I'm going to postpone.

1139
00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:30.300
I'm going to suspend my hope.

1140
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:31.300
I'm going to push it away.

1141
00:58:31.300 --> 00:58:32.500
I'm going to defer it.

1142
00:58:32.700 --> 00:58:34.400
And then what does the scripture say?

1143
00:58:34.600 --> 00:58:36.700
It says hope deferred who defer to God?

1144
00:58:36.700 --> 00:58:37.500
No, you did.

1145
00:58:39.100 --> 00:58:39.900
You pushed it away.

1146
00:58:39.900 --> 00:58:40.900
You suspended it.

1147
00:58:40.900 --> 00:58:45.800
You want hard proof that it's true before you grab a hold of it with both

1148
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:46.500
hands.

1149
00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:50.500
It starts to make us sick in our hearts and broken hearts go looking for

1150
00:58:50.500 --> 00:58:51.300
medication.

1151
00:58:51.700 --> 00:58:55.200
And when you look for medication friends that causes even more issues.

1152
00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:57.700
You start watching Netflix.

1153
00:58:57.700 --> 00:58:58.900
You start binging movies.

1154
00:58:58.900 --> 00:59:00.000
You're trying to escape.

1155
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:01.300
Escapism is a real thing.

1156
00:59:01.300 --> 00:59:01.800
Y'all.

1157
00:59:03.400 --> 00:59:07.200
You come home from work and you right now a friend of mine is is living with

1158
00:59:07.200 --> 00:59:07.700
a roommate.

1159
00:59:07.700 --> 00:59:11.700
All she does is she comes home from her job and then she collapses into the

1160
00:59:11.700 --> 00:59:12.500
couch.

1161
00:59:12.700 --> 00:59:16.300
She orders some DoorDash and she just watches Netflix all night.

1162
00:59:17.200 --> 00:59:19.800
And my friend is a real go-getter and my friends like, hey, you want to do

1163
00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:20.200
this?

1164
00:59:20.500 --> 00:59:21.600
You know, you want to go for a walk?

1165
00:59:21.600 --> 00:59:22.000
You want to do this?

1166
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.200
She's like, no, I don't want to do anything.

1167
00:59:23.200 --> 00:59:24.000
But this what is that?

1168
00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:25.600
That's a broken hearted person right there.

1169
00:59:26.700 --> 00:59:29.900
That's a person who just wants to self-medicate and some of you might be

1170
00:59:29.900 --> 00:59:32.000
self-medicating with entertainment.

1171
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:35.300
You might be self-medicating that broken heart and that deferred hope with

1172
00:59:35.600 --> 00:59:37.600
with with some kind of drugs.

1173
00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:42.400
With some kind of alcohol with pornography with some other crazy

1174
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:43.300
distraction.

1175
00:59:47.100 --> 00:59:47.700
Right?

1176
00:59:49.500 --> 00:59:51.800
Yeah, you've never heard it put this way, but this is scripture.

1177
00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:53.100
This is what the scripture is saying.

1178
00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:57.800
So next time you tell someone that your hope is deferred and it's making you

1179
00:59:57.800 --> 00:59:58.600
heart sick.

1180
00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:00.000
I want you to stop in that.

1181
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.500
moment and say, do I mean, am I talking about God?

1182
01:00:03.500 --> 01:00:05.840
Cause we're always, it's an indictment against God.

1183
01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:09.520
When we quote that scripture, because we think that he's deferring our hope.

1184
01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:11.400
He's the one that's postponing it.

1185
01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:14.400
He's the one that's suspending what we're hoping for.

1186
01:00:14.520 --> 01:00:17.520
He's the one that's making it take longer than it should.

1187
01:00:18.080 --> 01:00:19.720
And he's hurting us.

1188
01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:24.240
He's breaking our hearts with this weight that we've been put in.

1189
01:00:24.240 --> 01:00:30.120
You know who, you know, you know who the people are that, that never notice how

1190
01:00:30.120 --> 01:00:35.600
long the wait is people that are busy doing something else that's important.

1191
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:43.160
Preparing for when it comes getting ready for when it comes guys, I was so busy

1192
01:00:43.160 --> 01:00:47.600
getting ready for my daughter when I was pregnant with her, other people laying

1193
01:00:47.600 --> 01:00:51.240
around moaning and complaining about, you know, I can't wait till this baby's born.

1194
01:00:51.240 --> 01:00:51.960
I was busy.

1195
01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:57.520
I was busy getting ready for what was going to happen.

1196
01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:02.520
Psalm 43, five says, Hey soul, you guys.

1197
01:01:02.520 --> 01:01:03.600
And it's always the soul.

1198
01:01:03.640 --> 01:01:06.320
Remember we're spirits that live in bodies that possess souls.

1199
01:01:06.600 --> 01:01:08.480
And it's that heart part, that soul part.

1200
01:01:08.680 --> 01:01:11.640
It's always that part where the bad info is getting kept.

1201
01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:13.360
That is where hopelessness lives.

1202
01:01:13.520 --> 01:01:17.000
It lives in the soul part because it's rooted in all the bad information

1203
01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:18.200
from all of your heart boxes.

1204
01:01:18.200 --> 01:01:18.680
Okay.

1205
01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:23.840
So Psalm 43, five is saying, Hey soul, why are you restless heart?

1206
01:01:24.120 --> 01:01:25.680
Why are you so sick?

1207
01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:28.960
And then what does David say next hope in God?

1208
01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:35.840
Do you see that he's talking to that place in him?

1209
01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:36.720
That's restless.

1210
01:01:37.120 --> 01:01:37.920
That's sick.

1211
01:01:38.160 --> 01:01:39.880
That's been waiting for the breakthrough.

1212
01:01:40.120 --> 01:01:41.080
And he's asking it.

1213
01:01:41.080 --> 01:01:42.200
Why are you so sick?

1214
01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:43.400
Put your hope in God.

1215
01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:47.320
Don't defer your hope, put it safely in the right place and activate it.

1216
01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:49.760
Because remember faith, hope, and love.

1217
01:01:50.120 --> 01:01:52.240
There's an unlimited resource of them.

1218
01:01:52.240 --> 01:01:53.320
They're eternal.

1219
01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:55.360
They're limitless.

1220
01:01:55.600 --> 01:01:59.080
And so if you don't have hope, if you're not living at a level for hope,

1221
01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:00.840
it's not based on circumstance.

1222
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:04.760
It's based on, you need to ask God for supernatural hope.

1223
01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:09.920
Loss of hope leads to doubt that leads to uncertainty.

1224
01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:11.240
That leads to inaction.

1225
01:02:11.360 --> 01:02:14.320
That leads to unbelief that leads to dead religion.

1226
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:16.280
I'm going to read that again.

1227
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:18.720
This is what God told me.

1228
01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:22.440
He said, when people lose hope that leads to doubt, because remember

1229
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:23.760
the opposite of hope is doubt.

1230
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:24.960
It leads to doubt.

1231
01:02:25.160 --> 01:02:28.920
And then doubt leads to uncertainty that leads to inaction.

1232
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:33.200
That leads to unbelief that leads to dead religion.

1233
01:02:34.360 --> 01:02:38.440
You guys, I get my nails done at the Asian nail place and they're Buddhists

1234
01:02:38.680 --> 01:02:42.360
and they have little statues of all kinds of Buddha gods all over the

1235
01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:45.200
nail place everywhere.

1236
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:49.560
And every once in a while, if I come in at the right time of day, there's like

1237
01:02:49.560 --> 01:02:54.320
some food with the little statue, like a little, little plate of food sitting

1238
01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:55.440
in front of the little statue.

1239
01:02:55.440 --> 01:02:55.800
Right.

1240
01:02:56.040 --> 01:02:59.640
And one day I came in and it literally had a little package of McDonald's

1241
01:02:59.640 --> 01:03:01.240
French fries sitting in front of the Buddha.

1242
01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:06.240
And as she was doing my nails, I started getting tickled.

1243
01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:10.440
I started getting tickled by this, these little, this little package of French

1244
01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:11.840
fries in front of the statue.

1245
01:03:12.120 --> 01:03:13.480
And finally, I just couldn't take it.

1246
01:03:13.840 --> 01:03:16.200
You know, my nail girl spoke really good English.

1247
01:03:16.200 --> 01:03:18.520
And I was like, Hey, what's up with the fries?

1248
01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:20.600
I just got to ask what's up with the fries.

1249
01:03:21.040 --> 01:03:23.080
And she's like, Oh, it's a, it's a food offering.

1250
01:03:23.680 --> 01:03:25.040
And I was like, okay.

1251
01:03:25.240 --> 01:03:29.920
I said, so I said, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but does it ever eat the

1252
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:30.360
food?

1253
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:33.600
And she just started laughing really hard.

1254
01:03:33.600 --> 01:03:34.760
And she's like, of course not.

1255
01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:35.600
Why y'all?

1256
01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:36.760
Cause it's dead religion.

1257
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:41.880
Those people have lost hope that there's any God listening to them.

1258
01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:46.320
What happened?

1259
01:03:48.240 --> 01:03:55.160
Hope was led to doubt led to uncertainty led to unbelief and led to dead religion.

1260
01:03:55.520 --> 01:03:58.400
And, you know, we can all say, Oh yeah, you know, Buddha's not real.

1261
01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:01.680
And you know, they're worshiping false gods, but you guys, Christians do this

1262
01:04:01.680 --> 01:04:02.040
too.

1263
01:04:02.160 --> 01:04:06.440
You know how many Christians go to church and they do not believe a lick that God's

1264
01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:07.560
going to answer their prayers.

1265
01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:09.960
They're just going through the motions.

1266
01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:11.120
It's just dead religion.

1267
01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:14.360
It's just dead religion.

1268
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:16.120
That's all it is.

1269
01:04:17.120 --> 01:04:21.760
They'll buck and shout and get all excited about whatever the preacher saying, if

1270
01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:26.200
he's super hype and it's good or whatever, but they will walk out of there and their

1271
01:04:26.200 --> 01:04:30.720
actions will tell you that they do not believe at all what they were, you know,

1272
01:04:30.720 --> 01:04:32.600
screaming and shouting about in the church.

1273
01:04:32.600 --> 01:04:36.920
Tell me I'm wrong because you can't, I was discipled by the Pentecostals.

1274
01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:37.840
I know what's up.

1275
01:04:39.760 --> 01:04:41.200
I know what's up.

1276
01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:49.160
You can say that you believe something, how you want to, but your actions will

1277
01:04:49.160 --> 01:04:50.200
tell a different story.

1278
01:04:54.880 --> 01:04:55.440
It's true.

1279
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:56.760
It's true.

1280
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:01.200
It's tight, but it's right.

1281
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:02.760
All right.

1282
01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:04.600
It is, it is, it is.

1283
01:05:04.600 --> 01:05:06.040
So it leads to dead religion, you guys.

1284
01:05:06.040 --> 01:05:09.240
And we don't want to be in dead religion because faith without action is dead.

1285
01:05:09.600 --> 01:05:11.600
Faith without action is dead.

1286
01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:13.080
Faith without works is dead.

1287
01:05:13.080 --> 01:05:14.520
And that word works is action.

1288
01:05:14.520 --> 01:05:17.240
Faith without action is dead.

1289
01:05:18.080 --> 01:05:21.120
Faith without hope is dead religion.

1290
01:05:21.160 --> 01:05:21.880
Write that down.

1291
01:05:22.080 --> 01:05:24.440
Faith without hope is dead religion.

1292
01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:26.800
You see it all the time.

1293
01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:29.640
Powerful faith without hope is dead religion.

1294
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:34.560
It's powerless traditions that actually breed fear and disconnection from God.

1295
01:05:34.720 --> 01:05:38.600
You guys, those people that go to church with, they have faith.

1296
01:05:38.720 --> 01:05:42.160
They believe that God is, but they do not believe that God is going

1297
01:05:42.160 --> 01:05:43.880
to do anything for them in this life.

1298
01:05:44.240 --> 01:05:46.240
It's all going to happen in the afterlife.

1299
01:05:46.760 --> 01:05:47.400
Okay.

1300
01:05:48.240 --> 01:05:50.120
It's all going to happen in the afterlife.

1301
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:51.480
That's where it's going to happen.

1302
01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:54.760
They don't have any hope that anything's going to change right now.

1303
01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:57.520
Because faith without hope is dead.

1304
01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:00.520
Faith without action is dead.

1305
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:03.840
So powerless traditions that breed fear.

1306
01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:05.440
Okay.

1307
01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:06.400
So we do the same thing.

1308
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:08.320
The Buddha and the fries, we do the same thing.

1309
01:06:08.600 --> 01:06:12.640
Ephesians 3 20 says to him, who was able to do exceedingly abundantly above all

1310
01:06:12.640 --> 01:06:18.600
we can ask, think, or imagine by the power that what works through us in us.

1311
01:06:18.640 --> 01:06:20.000
What is the power that's working in us?

1312
01:06:20.200 --> 01:06:23.040
The power of Holy spirit, but it's also the power of hope.

1313
01:06:23.080 --> 01:06:23.600
Why?

1314
01:06:24.160 --> 01:06:27.960
Because he can only do exceedingly abundantly through the power that works

1315
01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:35.160
in us, if you believe it, if you receive it, faith, okay.

1316
01:06:35.160 --> 01:06:35.880
Write this down.

1317
01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:38.800
Faith is trust in what God has already done.

1318
01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:40.960
So why so many people have faith.

1319
01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:42.560
They know that God is real.

1320
01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:47.080
They have faith that he sent his son and his son died and that

1321
01:06:47.080 --> 01:06:48.120
they have eternal life.

1322
01:06:48.120 --> 01:06:51.240
Now, faith is trust in what God has already done.

1323
01:06:51.240 --> 01:06:55.840
Trust in what God has already done, but hope is trust in what God's going to do.

1324
01:06:59.600 --> 01:07:02.040
Through who Ephesians 3 20 through you.

1325
01:07:03.600 --> 01:07:08.680
Faith is trust in what God's going to do through who, through you.

1326
01:07:09.600 --> 01:07:10.720
Ephesians 3 20.

1327
01:07:11.600 --> 01:07:13.360
So faith is trust in what God already did.

1328
01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:16.360
And hope is trust in what God is going to do through you because

1329
01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:17.800
God is always doing a new thing.

1330
01:07:18.160 --> 01:07:19.920
Is it already done from the finished work of the cross?

1331
01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:20.400
Yes.

1332
01:07:20.680 --> 01:07:21.720
Is it yet to come?

1333
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:22.400
Yes.

1334
01:07:22.760 --> 01:07:25.520
What's the middle you he's the author and finisher.

1335
01:07:25.520 --> 01:07:28.160
Who's the middle you he's the start and he's the end.

1336
01:07:28.160 --> 01:07:29.400
Who's the middle you.

1337
01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:34.960
The middle is you and your hope.

1338
01:07:39.160 --> 01:07:44.840
If faith is the evidence of things hoped for, but yet still unseen, come on y'all.

1339
01:07:44.920 --> 01:07:46.440
What do you think that scripture means?

1340
01:07:46.720 --> 01:07:53.720
Faces faith is the evidence when you are, when you were at court, you cannot prove

1341
01:07:53.720 --> 01:07:55.760
something's true unless there's evidence.

1342
01:07:56.240 --> 01:08:01.000
What is the evidence of things hoped for faith?

1343
01:08:01.200 --> 01:08:05.960
Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, but yet still unseen.

1344
01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:07.680
Jeremiah 29, 11.

1345
01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:11.520
I know the plans, plural, you guys, you couldn't mess with the plans of God,

1346
01:08:11.520 --> 01:08:13.680
even if you tried, because he just has another one.

1347
01:08:13.680 --> 01:08:15.280
He has plural plans for you.

1348
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:18.600
And I don't care how many plans you have messed up with your deferred hope.

1349
01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:20.640
God has a new plan for you tonight.

1350
01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:24.279
He wants to put your feet off the path of pain and put your feet back on the path

1351
01:08:24.279 --> 01:08:29.680
to him off the path of pain, back on the path to him, the plans that God has in

1352
01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:31.920
Jeremiah 29, 11, they are not yours.

1353
01:08:32.160 --> 01:08:33.000
They are his.

1354
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:35.040
They are not your plans.

1355
01:08:35.040 --> 01:08:35.760
They are his.

1356
01:08:36.080 --> 01:08:41.760
I know the plans that I have for them, who you to give you what got to give you

1357
01:08:42.040 --> 01:08:46.120
to give you what got to get to this part of it, guys, do you know that the original

1358
01:08:46.120 --> 01:08:51.319
translation of this says to give them a hope and a future, but the actual

1359
01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:53.760
translation is to give them the future.

1360
01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:56.399
They're hoping for, Oh, what's.

1361
01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:01.520
I know the plans that I have for them says the Lord to give them

1362
01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:03.640
the future they're hoping for.

1363
01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:04.800
Let me ask you a question.

1364
01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:08.240
If hope is tied to your future, what future are you hoping for?

1365
01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:13.160
Because God just said his plan is to give you whatever it is that you have hope for.

1366
01:09:13.160 --> 01:09:14.319
What do you have hope for?

1367
01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:18.840
What do you have hope for?

1368
01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:25.760
The future you're hoping for is the actual original Hebrew.

1369
01:09:26.279 --> 01:09:29.960
For those of you that are asking what translation, that's what it's translated

1370
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:32.840
as saying to give them the future they're hoping for.

1371
01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:34.399
Okay.

1372
01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:34.920
Okay.

1373
01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:39.399
Hopeful expectancy is the breeding ground of miracles.

1374
01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:41.439
Hopeful expectancy.

1375
01:09:41.479 --> 01:09:42.040
What is that?

1376
01:09:42.040 --> 01:09:48.520
That's the word weight from Psalms 43, five day that weight hopeful expectancy

1377
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:50.960
is the breeding ground of miracles.

1378
01:09:52.680 --> 01:09:54.080
It's the breeding ground of miracles.

1379
01:09:57.840 --> 01:09:59.240
So I'm going to activate you tonight.

1380
01:10:00.320 --> 01:10:01.840
We've lost some things friends.

1381
01:10:01.880 --> 01:10:05.040
And I believe that heaven's lost and found is open guys ever

1382
01:10:05.040 --> 01:10:06.280
going to lost and found at school.

1383
01:10:06.280 --> 01:10:10.240
You lost your backpack or your thermos or left your coat on the bus.

1384
01:10:10.240 --> 01:10:11.660
And your mom threatened your life.

1385
01:10:11.660 --> 01:10:15.200
If you didn't find it because she didn't have enough money to buy you another one.

1386
01:10:16.200 --> 01:10:18.280
I'm, I'm pretty sure that was just my childhood.

1387
01:10:18.280 --> 01:10:18.600
Right.

1388
01:10:19.040 --> 01:10:23.840
Um, but you went to the lost and found at school to see if it was there, right?

1389
01:10:24.640 --> 01:10:26.840
Unless some other squirrely kids stole it.

1390
01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:30.920
And heaven's lost and found is open.

1391
01:10:32.200 --> 01:10:36.960
So wherever you lost your hope, God wants to show you where it

1392
01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:38.920
was lost and let you find it again.

1393
01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:42.080
And it's probably going to be based in a trauma where you lost it.

1394
01:10:42.840 --> 01:10:44.000
You lost it in a trauma.

1395
01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:47.840
Something happened and it was like the last straw.

1396
01:10:48.400 --> 01:10:51.680
It was the thing that caused you to defer your hope and your heart got sick.

1397
01:10:52.120 --> 01:10:52.800
You're like, Nope.

1398
01:10:53.360 --> 01:10:56.120
If it doesn't work out this time, we make internal vows.

1399
01:10:56.120 --> 01:11:00.080
If this doesn't work out, if that doesn't happen, I'm going to try one more time.

1400
01:11:00.080 --> 01:11:04.040
And, you know, if this, if this isn't it, then I'm done.

1401
01:11:06.080 --> 01:11:09.280
And maybe you just haven't had hope in one of these areas, the one or the

1402
01:11:09.280 --> 01:11:12.920
twos and even the threes, you haven't had hope in those areas in a long time.

1403
01:11:12.920 --> 01:11:17.760
If you're really being honest, you don't even know when the last time you really

1404
01:11:18.200 --> 01:11:24.560
you really took any intentional action towards abundance in that area of your

1405
01:11:24.560 --> 01:11:30.480
life, because you've just kind of given up that that's ever going to be for you.

1406
01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:33.560
Some of you have motherhood all over you.

1407
01:11:35.240 --> 01:11:38.080
Now I know we're women and people think we're automatically mothers.

1408
01:11:38.080 --> 01:11:38.760
I get that.

1409
01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:41.720
And I do believe that the divine feminine has a nurturing

1410
01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:44.000
aspect that is unparalleled.

1411
01:11:44.480 --> 01:11:51.600
But some of you are called to really mother children in your home from

1412
01:11:51.600 --> 01:11:56.440
infancy or from childhood up, and you haven't gotten married yet, or you were

1413
01:11:56.440 --> 01:11:57.920
married and didn't have any children.

1414
01:11:57.920 --> 01:12:01.160
And, you know, and what you're doing is you're sitting around and waiting

1415
01:12:01.160 --> 01:12:04.280
for some man's sperm to show up, or you're sitting around and waiting for

1416
01:12:04.280 --> 01:12:10.560
some man's paycheck or partnering to show up, go ahead and take imperfect

1417
01:12:10.600 --> 01:12:16.560
action towards that mothering desire and go take some foster classes,

1418
01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:18.240
go take some adoption classes.

1419
01:12:18.240 --> 01:12:19.960
You know how many children need parents?

1420
01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:24.800
Y'all I lived in foster homes where people had no business

1421
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:26.160
taking kids into their home.

1422
01:12:27.240 --> 01:12:29.760
They were just doing it for the money and they did not have any

1423
01:12:29.760 --> 01:12:31.720
gift to be raising anybody.

1424
01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:37.640
There's so many children out there that they just want a mom.

1425
01:12:38.880 --> 01:12:39.920
They just want a mom.

1426
01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:42.400
They just want a dad.

1427
01:12:45.360 --> 01:12:47.840
If you want it, what are you waiting for?

1428
01:12:48.480 --> 01:12:49.800
Stop waiting for a man.

1429
01:12:49.800 --> 01:12:51.560
You don't have to wait for a man for that.

1430
01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:55.960
You're like, well, I don't want it to ruin my chances.

1431
01:12:55.960 --> 01:12:59.520
You know, maybe, maybe a guy wouldn't pick me because, you know, I have an

1432
01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:02.360
adopted child, then he's not your guy.

1433
01:13:04.200 --> 01:13:08.960
Cause if you're telling me that God's giving you a desire to foster or adopt,

1434
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:14.000
you guys are the ones I'm talking to, then your person will have that desire

1435
01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:18.080
to, or at least their heart will be softened when they see you doing it.

1436
01:13:18.400 --> 01:13:20.000
And they'll be willing to be part of that.

1437
01:13:29.240 --> 01:13:31.320
So let's go find our lost hope.

1438
01:13:31.480 --> 01:13:34.000
Go ahead and go ahead and close your eyes.

1439
01:13:35.280 --> 01:13:36.200
Let's close our eyes.

1440
01:13:39.120 --> 01:13:41.440
Oh Lord, we thank you for this word tonight.

1441
01:13:41.440 --> 01:13:43.160
And we receive it with gladness.

1442
01:13:43.240 --> 01:13:44.880
We know that you're talking to us.

1443
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:45.960
We know that you love us.

1444
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:48.600
We know that you want us to live at that level four of hope.

1445
01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:50.320
And we can't do that on our own.

1446
01:13:51.280 --> 01:13:52.520
We can't do that on our own.

1447
01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:56.240
We need a super natural refilling of hope from heaven.

1448
01:13:57.280 --> 01:14:00.560
And so we're showing up at heaven's lost and found, and we're asking you to

1449
01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:06.040
restore our lost hope to us in areas of our love life, our future marriages,

1450
01:14:06.040 --> 01:14:11.760
our health, our finances, our bio family relationships, our friendships,

1451
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:15.600
our jobs, our career, our spiritual life, our relationship with you, our

1452
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:22.800
self-image, the hope to be mothers, the purpose of why you even brought us

1453
01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:26.480
here to this earth realm in the first place, we need our hope restored.

1454
01:14:27.520 --> 01:14:31.720
We want to walk around with our, our hearts overflowing with hope.

1455
01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:36.240
We want people to ask us why we're so full of hope.

1456
01:14:38.680 --> 01:14:42.400
We want people to ask us why we're so bold and we have so much courage and

1457
01:14:42.400 --> 01:14:47.400
why we just have so much belief and why we take so much action on things, just

1458
01:14:47.400 --> 01:14:52.480
knowing that it's going to work out to our good somehow, some way we want to

1459
01:14:52.480 --> 01:14:56.760
live at that level of hope that's noticeable for others.

1460
01:14:57.600 --> 01:14:59.960
And so wherever that trauma is rooted, wherever we.

1461
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:01.200
lost hope in these areas.

1462
01:15:01.200 --> 01:15:03.120
I pray that you would allow that to be seen,

1463
01:15:03.120 --> 01:15:05.560
to be revealed and healed right now.

1464
01:15:05.560 --> 01:15:06.560
Just whisper it to us.

1465
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:09.280
Tell us you lost hope.

1466
01:15:09.280 --> 01:15:11.080
This is the day that you lost hope.

1467
01:15:12.160 --> 01:15:13.800
This is the time that you lost hope.

1468
01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:16.960
This is the circumstances that made you go ahead

1469
01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:17.780
and give it up.

1470
01:15:17.780 --> 01:15:21.840
This was the thing that came and caused your hope

1471
01:15:21.840 --> 01:15:25.400
to be deferred, for you to suspend it,

1472
01:15:25.400 --> 01:15:27.680
for you to postpone it,

1473
01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:30.000
for you to think that hope was no longer safe

1474
01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.080
to have in this area anymore after this circumstance

1475
01:15:33.080 --> 01:15:35.480
or this event or this situation,

1476
01:15:35.480 --> 01:15:38.860
because you just didn't, you couldn't take the hurt anymore.

1477
01:15:38.860 --> 01:15:43.860
You didn't wanna live through the disappointment anymore.

1478
01:15:45.280 --> 01:15:47.880
You stopped getting your hopes up right here.

1479
01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:49.200
This was when it happened.

1480
01:15:50.360 --> 01:15:52.880
Show us that, reveal it so you can heal it, Lord.

1481
01:15:55.120 --> 01:15:56.840
Show us that that wasn't the end,

1482
01:15:56.840 --> 01:15:58.400
that the story is not over yet,

1483
01:16:01.040 --> 01:16:03.480
that we don't have to let that thing that happened,

1484
01:16:03.480 --> 01:16:06.560
that word that was spoken, that lie that was told,

1485
01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:09.040
that doesn't have to be a stumbling block for us anymore,

1486
01:16:09.040 --> 01:16:13.240
that we can grab a hold with both hands to your promise,

1487
01:16:13.240 --> 01:16:14.840
and we can start walking it out

1488
01:16:15.860 --> 01:16:18.560
and believing that you are going to order our steps

1489
01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:21.920
as we move, in Jesus' name, amen.

1490
01:16:21.920 --> 01:16:23.600
So if anyone heard anything or saw anything,

1491
01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:24.780
go ahead and put that in the chat.

1492
01:16:24.780 --> 01:16:26.600
If you wanna share something that you saw,

1493
01:16:27.240 --> 01:16:28.840
go ahead, you can unmute yourself.

1494
01:16:32.160 --> 01:16:33.240
No, we're ending a little late,

1495
01:16:33.240 --> 01:16:34.960
but we started late with everyone

1496
01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.120
having to get their worksheets done, so.

1497
01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:43.800
All right.

1498
01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:48.360
I would just, I hear lead us not into temptation

1499
01:16:48.360 --> 01:16:50.400
and the temptation being doubt.

1500
01:16:50.400 --> 01:16:52.640
I hear that all the time and you echoed that.

1501
01:16:53.640 --> 01:16:55.180
Awesome, yes.

1502
01:16:56.840 --> 01:16:59.660
Yes, you guys, we make the choice

1503
01:16:59.660 --> 01:17:01.560
of whether we're gonna defer our hope.

1504
01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:04.840
We make the choice of whether we're gonna postpone it

1505
01:17:04.840 --> 01:17:06.440
or suspend it.

1506
01:17:06.440 --> 01:17:08.560
Because remember, we don't walk by faith.

1507
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:11.280
I mean, we walk by faith, we don't walk by sight.

1508
01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:13.720
We don't.

1509
01:17:16.080 --> 01:17:18.200
That means that we don't have to see

1510
01:17:19.160 --> 01:17:21.360
how it's gonna work out.

1511
01:17:21.360 --> 01:17:22.920
God said it's gonna work out,

1512
01:17:22.920 --> 01:17:25.120
so we just have to start moving towards it.

1513
01:17:27.400 --> 01:17:30.400
All right, so some of you, you were in relationships,

1514
01:17:30.400 --> 01:17:31.800
you thought that was gonna be the one

1515
01:17:31.800 --> 01:17:34.080
and then that one didn't work out.

1516
01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:38.840
You're like, that's it, I'm not gonna try again.

1517
01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:41.200
Business partners stealing from you, look at all that.

1518
01:17:41.200 --> 01:17:42.960
Because you guys, it's not just about the love story,

1519
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:46.120
it's not just about the romance with a man.

1520
01:17:46.120 --> 01:17:48.000
It's also about all kinds of other things

1521
01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:49.200
that you've lost hope in.

1522
01:17:49.560 --> 01:17:51.920
When you lost your son, multiple losses.

1523
01:17:54.080 --> 01:17:56.160
Some of you guys have had some locusts

1524
01:17:56.160 --> 01:18:01.120
come through your crops, eat them all up.

1525
01:18:03.120 --> 01:18:06.320
Had years where it felt like everything went wrong,

1526
01:18:06.320 --> 01:18:07.520
nothing went right.

1527
01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:14.760
And you guys, I'm not gonna lie to you,

1528
01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:15.960
I'm not gonna lie to you,

1529
01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:17.280
I'm not gonna lie to you,

1530
01:18:18.280 --> 01:18:21.080
those are those locust years, right?

1531
01:18:21.080 --> 01:18:24.080
But Joel tells us that he won't just restore

1532
01:18:24.080 --> 01:18:25.120
what the locusts have eaten,

1533
01:18:25.120 --> 01:18:27.520
he'll restore the time that was lost.

1534
01:18:27.520 --> 01:18:30.200
Some of you need to, in this hope lost and found,

1535
01:18:30.200 --> 01:18:32.200
you need to grab a hold of the time.

1536
01:18:35.120 --> 01:18:36.880
You know God can bend time, right?

1537
01:18:37.960 --> 01:18:40.200
Because remember, he doesn't live in time.

1538
01:18:41.400 --> 01:18:42.240
What does that mean?

1539
01:18:42.240 --> 01:18:43.840
That means that what you might think

1540
01:18:43.840 --> 01:18:46.440
is gonna take 10 years to rebuild,

1541
01:18:46.440 --> 01:18:48.560
God can let you rebuild it in 10 months.

1542
01:18:51.280 --> 01:18:53.040
And a lot of times we won't even start

1543
01:18:53.040 --> 01:18:54.680
because we think it's gonna take too long

1544
01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:56.560
and what's the point, right?

1545
01:18:56.560 --> 01:19:00.240
We're like, ugh, I don't wanna start over.

1546
01:19:00.240 --> 01:19:02.120
You're not starting over.

1547
01:19:02.120 --> 01:19:03.880
Who said anything about starting over?

1548
01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:05.840
There's no such thing as starting over.

1549
01:19:09.440 --> 01:19:11.760
Are you gonna unlearn all the lessons that you learned?

1550
01:19:11.760 --> 01:19:12.760
How can you start over?

1551
01:19:12.760 --> 01:19:15.200
You're not gonna start over.

1552
01:19:15.200 --> 01:19:18.360
You're gonna start again and God's gonna accelerate you.

1553
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:28.240
Failed engagements.

1554
01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:33.680
Guys, we've had people, they had the dress,

1555
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:36.200
they had the venue, they had all the deposits down

1556
01:19:36.200 --> 01:19:37.480
and then the guy broke up with them.

1557
01:19:37.480 --> 01:19:39.480
We have those people in our community.

1558
01:19:41.040 --> 01:19:43.800
And what I can say about that is you dodged a bullet.

1559
01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:47.840
Better lose some money than lose your life, right?

1560
01:19:47.840 --> 01:19:50.200
Being married to someone, losing years of your life,

1561
01:19:50.200 --> 01:19:53.000
being married to someone who's not gonna treat you right.

1562
01:19:57.560 --> 01:19:58.400
Okay.

1563
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.000
So good, so good, so good.

1564
01:20:13.180 --> 01:20:14.020
All right.

1565
01:20:14.980 --> 01:20:16.500
Well, some of you may not have seen anything

1566
01:20:16.500 --> 01:20:18.260
in Heaven's Lost and Found

1567
01:20:18.260 --> 01:20:20.100
about how your hope got deferred,

1568
01:20:20.100 --> 01:20:21.980
but I believe that God's gonna speak to you

1569
01:20:21.980 --> 01:20:23.380
in the coming days.

1570
01:20:23.380 --> 01:20:24.780
He's gonna speak to you in dreams.

1571
01:20:24.780 --> 01:20:26.460
He's gonna speak to you in all different ways

1572
01:20:26.460 --> 01:20:27.420
that he speaks to us,

1573
01:20:27.420 --> 01:20:29.660
and you're gonna start to notice things.

1574
01:20:29.700 --> 01:20:31.120
You're gonna start to think about things

1575
01:20:31.120 --> 01:20:32.640
that you haven't thought about in years,

1576
01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:33.980
and that's gonna be God showing you,

1577
01:20:33.980 --> 01:20:36.380
hey, that's the place, that's the time

1578
01:20:36.380 --> 01:20:38.620
when you let go of believing

1579
01:20:38.620 --> 01:20:42.180
that this was gonna actually happen for you

1580
01:20:42.180 --> 01:20:45.220
or that good could come out of this.

1581
01:20:45.220 --> 01:20:48.400
Romans 8, 28, that I could turn this to good for you.

1582
01:20:49.900 --> 01:20:51.740
This is where you stop believing that,

1583
01:20:51.740 --> 01:20:54.940
and he's gonna help bring back your hope in that area.

1584
01:20:54.940 --> 01:20:55.780
Amen?

1585
01:20:57.500 --> 01:20:59.060
Amen.

1586
01:20:59.060 --> 01:21:00.540
All right.

1587
01:21:00.540 --> 01:21:01.380
All right, friends,

1588
01:21:01.380 --> 01:21:03.380
I hope that tonight was supernatural for you.

1589
01:21:03.380 --> 01:21:05.020
It was definitely supernatural for me,

1590
01:21:05.020 --> 01:21:08.020
and love y'all, and let's see,

1591
01:21:08.020 --> 01:21:12.900
your next live session will be Supernatural Saturday,

1592
01:21:12.900 --> 01:21:15.320
and of course, we have Sunday Night Activation.

1593
01:21:15.320 --> 01:21:19.980
You guys, Sunday Night Activation is not normally recorded,

1594
01:21:20.900 --> 01:21:23.340
but we do have that, and if it, let me see,

1595
01:21:23.340 --> 01:21:24.980
is it, it's not the last,

1596
01:21:24.980 --> 01:21:27.620
is it the last Sunday of the month yet?

1597
01:21:27.620 --> 01:21:28.460
Anybody?

1598
01:21:29.300 --> 01:21:32.060
Yeah, this coming Sunday's the last Sunday of the month,

1599
01:21:32.060 --> 01:21:34.100
and that means we'll have a time of prophetic,

1600
01:21:34.100 --> 01:21:35.520
a prophetic night.

1601
01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:38.740
So come Sunday night, that'll be a prophetic night,

1602
01:21:40.540 --> 01:21:43.100
and so those are your next two things.

1603
01:21:43.100 --> 01:21:45.460
So go ahead, whatever week you're in of the heartwork,

1604
01:21:45.460 --> 01:21:49.080
make sure that you're diligent, do your work,

1605
01:21:49.080 --> 01:21:51.500
make space for that processing time.

1606
01:21:51.500 --> 01:21:53.100
Don't mail it in.

1607
01:21:53.100 --> 01:21:54.220
Make sure that you're prepared

1608
01:21:54.220 --> 01:21:56.100
because God does wanna bless you,

1609
01:21:56.100 --> 01:21:57.780
and he also wants to bless you

1610
01:21:57.780 --> 01:22:01.340
with things that you are ready to receive, all right?

1611
01:22:01.340 --> 01:22:03.620
So let God get you ready to receive.

1612
01:22:03.620 --> 01:22:05.060
Supernatural, you guys, the calendar,

1613
01:22:05.060 --> 01:22:06.740
we showed it you where it was today.

1614
01:22:06.740 --> 01:22:09.460
It's in your JackieDorman.com portal.

1615
01:22:09.460 --> 01:22:10.300
It's right there.

1616
01:22:10.300 --> 01:22:12.020
It's also tagged in the featured section

1617
01:22:12.020 --> 01:22:13.060
in your phase one group.

1618
01:22:13.060 --> 01:22:14.380
It's also in the guide section

1619
01:22:14.380 --> 01:22:15.700
of your phase one Facebook group.

1620
01:22:15.700 --> 01:22:18.380
It's all of those places, and so please go there.

1621
01:22:18.380 --> 01:22:19.540
That's where you can find the links

1622
01:22:19.540 --> 01:22:21.180
and the times to everything.

1623
01:22:21.180 --> 01:22:22.020
Love y'all.

1624
01:22:22.020 --> 01:22:22.840
See you soon.

1625
01:22:22.840 --> 01:22:23.680
Bye, everybody.