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Truth, greater truth, heaven's reality trumps our current temporary reality or our current

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facts.

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And so it's important for us to lean into heaven and find out what is God saying?

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What is God doing?

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What's the timeline of what's happening right now so that we can do what?

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So that we can make it get into subjection to our reality?

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So we can bend it at our will?

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So that we can get into alignment to it, correct?

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Nod your head.

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Nod your head if that's right.

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We got to get into alignment with what God's doing.

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A lot of times what will happen in religion is we want God, we want to do something, then

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we want God to bless it, right?

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We want to do what we want to do based on broken information, based on broken hearts,

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okay?

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And then we want God to bless it.

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And we pray that way.

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Oh God, bless what I'm doing instead of saying, Hey God, what are you doing?

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I call shotgun.

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What are you doing?

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People always ask me, Jackie, how do you have so many supernatural experiences in your life?

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Because I'm simply a shotgun girl.

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I learned a long time ago what I'm telling you right now.

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And of course, yes, I do things according to my own will.

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We all do.

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Like this is not a, this is not a perfection destination here.

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You're always going to, you know, go back to some element of rebelliousness while you're

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still living in this skin suit.

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And then you have to say, Oh yeah, wait a second, I don't have to do this on my own.

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I don't have to, I can do what God's doing.

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I don't have to, you know, ride against the wind.

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Then you're reminded when life gets hard and you're like, Oh, this is so hard.

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I can't do it anymore.

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And then God's like, Oh good, Oh good.

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Because no one said you had to except you, right?

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It's so true.

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And we always come back to that point.

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But I'm a shotgun girl.

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A lot of times I'll just be like, Hey God, what are you doing?

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And he'll be like, I'm doing this.

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And I'm like, Oh, can I come?

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I want to go.

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That sounds super fun.

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And then sometimes I'm like, Oh, you're on your own there, God.

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I'm not wanting anything to do with that.

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And then he's like, are you sure?

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Are you sure?

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Because maybe you don't know what it really looks like.

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And so often that's what happens in life is that the thing that we want is on the other

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side of things that we don't really want to do.

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And if you're anything like me, how about if I just read my own mail this morning and

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you go ahead and listen and we see if maybe you're rowing on the same boat as I am, right?

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We do things that we don't want to do.

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We look at things and we don't want to do them or we don't want to consistently do them.

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So here's how I am.

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And this is what I wrote this morning, because we're going to talk about momentum.

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I heard the Lord say that March is a month of momentum.

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Do you believe that?

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What does momentum mean?

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It means that you can finally make some progress in areas where it's stop and start, stop and

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start, stop and start, stop and start.

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You can finally get some breakthrough and see some results in areas where it's take

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two steps forward and five steps back, two steps forward and 10 steps back.

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March momentum.

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Yesterday was March 1st.

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Today is March 2nd.

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I believe God is a God of times and he's a God of seasons.

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And I believe that there's specific anointings on different times.

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And the way that you get into that is you call shotgun for that time and season.

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By doing what?

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By praying and saying, Hey God, what are you doing in the month of March 2024?

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What are you doing in the year 5784?

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What are you doing during this month?

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The Jews are going to celebrate something called Purim, the aster feast, right?

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It's a victory.

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That's one of those celebration times.

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You know, there's a lot of things that are going to go on.

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Us Gentiles, we're going to, we're going to celebrate Easter this month, aren't we?

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I believe it falls at the very last day of the month, the 31st of March.

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We had a special leap day prayer on leap day.

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If you didn't hear that because you weren't available in the morning time because that's

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when it was, you can get the recording of that.

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It's in your groups.

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Make sure that you listen to it because we're going to go from that to this and moving forward.

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So let me read my own mail.

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I am guilty, so to speak, of trying something and then when it doesn't work, immediately

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saying that it doesn't work.

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Go to the doctor, go to the holistic nutritionist or the naturopath and them saying, okay, here,

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take this supplement.

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First of all, y'all, I'm just going to be honest with you, I don't like taking anything.

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I don't like swallowing any pills, I don't like taking anything, I don't like rubbing

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any creams on me, all right, that have hormones in them or whatever is going on.

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And I start imagining things when I start doing it.

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This doctor gave me some testosterone cream, I'm like, hey, isn't that just for men?

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And like, no, no, women have it too in their bodies and you need it, you know, it'll give

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you some energy and blah, blah, blah.

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So I rubbed it on for two days, swear to you, and then I said to my husband, I think I'm

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becoming a man.

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And he's like, what?

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And I was like, yeah, I feel my voice, my voice is deepening.

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I feel, I feel like I'm becoming, I feel aggressive.

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He's like, Jackie, it doesn't work that fast, but we believe things work to the negative

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very quickly.

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This is where I want to get to in this comment right now.

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We believe that things work to the negative very quickly, we begin to imagine all kinds

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of negative outcome or fallout from something that we might do, but we don't believe that

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things can work to the positive quickly.

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So I'll start doing something, you know, that's supposed to be good for me or whatever.

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Maybe it's exercise, whatever it is.

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And then if you don't see an overnight change, you're like, it's not working.

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It's not working.

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Whatever it is that you've been led to do, and this is what's wrong with that.

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We'll pray, we'll put things on our Jesus cares board.

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We'll ask God for intervention.

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We'll ask him for direction and then he'll give it to us.

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And it might be a very practical thing, friends.

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It might be just a thought that comes in your head or a conversation that you hear

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in passing that is what, that is the answer to that prayer that you posted on your board.

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It's an answer.

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The problem is, is that when you start to do that, whatever that thing is, a lot of

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times if there's not immediate progress or results, you believe that it's, eh, this isn't

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the answer.

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Anybody else raise your hand.

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If you have trouble with consistency when you're not seeing results, look at all those

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hands and the rest of y'all are lying because it's the human condition, it's the human condition.

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We don't want to go forward doing something if we don't think it's working, if we don't

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think it's working.

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We want to walk ourselves out of it every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

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That is what we'll do.

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And then you know what we'll do?

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Come on y'all, got to hear this because this is what's warring against our momentum.

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There's like two parts to this call this morning.

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We're talking about this, then we're going to talk about making space.

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So what we'll do when we get discouraged like that, so that's called being discouraged.

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Oh, I thought this was the answer, but it's not.

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I thought this was the answer.

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Come on, I want you to lean into that phrase right there because that, that all of us feel

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that deep in our hearts.

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I thought this was the answer, but it isn't.

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And then we feel hopeless, right?

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Then our hope takes a hit.

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We start to get discouraged.

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Our courage takes a hit.

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And then you know what we do?

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We self-medicate a lot of times.

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That's what we do.

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Oh, this isn't working.

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Then we soothe our feelings with some sort of distraction and then we go sit in the waiting

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room.

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Oh, come on y'all.

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We go sit in the waiting room.

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That's what we do.

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We go sit in the waiting room.

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Oh, well, that's not the answer.

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So I guess I'm just going to go and sit over here and distract myself so I don't have to

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feel bad.

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I'm just going to come over here and I'm going to numb myself out so I don't have to think

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about how I have this pervasive problem and how it's not, you know, the solution that

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I thought was going to finally be the thing isn't working.

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And now I'm going to go sit in the waiting room and wait until God decides to take a

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look at me and smile upon me.

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I'm going to sit over here until God decides to notice me until, hey, hey, until God feels

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sorry for me enough that he finally decides to help me.

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I used to do that.

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Like how can I be super pathetic?

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How can I be the most pitiful thing that ever walked the earth so that Papa God, the daddy

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in the sky would look at me and be like, all right, you pathetic.

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little pitiful thing, let me help you.

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Guys, I used to take on the posture of victim,

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hoping to win what?

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Victory.

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You do not have to take on the posture of victim

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to try to get victory.

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First of all, it doesn't work.

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I will tell you in one such instance,

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I was just laying on the ground,

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snotting up the carpet and God's like,

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hey, pat me on the shoulder.

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Hey, hey, get up.

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Get up from there.

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This isn't who I called you to be.

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This isn't who you are.

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You don't have to become a victor,

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I mean a victim, hoping that I will give you victory.

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And you guys, that was a life-changing moment.

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I would love to tell you that I never ever

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took on a victim posture again, but it's not true.

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But that was 20 something years ago

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and I have learned a lot since then.

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Have learned a lot.

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So we go sit in the waiting room

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and I wanna tell you something

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that might hurt your feelings this morning,

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but it needs to be said, okay?

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Gonna speak the truth and love to you this morning.

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Whoever's in the waiting room the longest

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doesn't mean that you're the next in line

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for whatever you've been waiting for.

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And unfortunately, this is what a lot of people believe.

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Oh, I've been waiting so long, so it's finally my turn.

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No.

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There are no waiting rooms in the kingdom of God.

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This is not the DMV.

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You don't pull a number and just simply

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because you've been waiting all day

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or waiting for 10 years or 20 years,

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you come into a group like this.

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This group is about what?

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It's about kingdom, marriage, and family.

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You don't come in and it's not like,

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oh, well, I've been waiting the longest,

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so it's my turn now.

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No, that's not the way it works.

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It doesn't work that way

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because it's always been your turn.

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Not your turn just because you've been waiting.

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It's always been your turn,

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but the proof of belief is action.

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And it will continue to be action

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as much as you don't want it to be action.

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It will be action, an imperfect action.

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And a lot of people just are not willing

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to take imperfect action

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or they don't have the grace to sustain it.

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And that's what we're here to talk about today.

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It's not just about taking a step forward.

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It's about taking another step forward

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and another step forward.

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It's about sustaining momentum.

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Momentum towards what?

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Towards whatever the desire of your heart is.

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I know we all look at each other

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and we all think different things about each other

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based on the outside, based on what you think,

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but y'all don't live in my house

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and you don't live in my life.

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And I'll tell you one thing for certain,

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even though I might seem like your fearless leader,

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I have bad days too.

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And during the last year or so,

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there's been a lot of warfare against this movement.

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You guys, this is not something that's sitting idly.

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It's moving.

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It's taking territory in the kingdom.

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I was at four airports last weekend traveling,

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had lots of little layovers.

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I was at four different airports

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in the course of going out to California

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and coming back to Austin, Texas.

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I was going out there for my daughter's engagement.

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My daughter got engaged last weekend.

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So I was coming out, going back.

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And you know, in the course of traveling

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at those four different airports,

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at those two different legs of travel,

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to California and then home to California,

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on the way to California, at two separate airports,

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people came up to me and said,

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hey, I was a student in your course

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and now I'm married because of you.

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Or I'm engaged because of you.

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What the heck?

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You guys, come on.

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And then on the way home, it happened again.

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I saw this woman getting on the plane,

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like I was already seated in my seat.

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And she was coming down the aisle

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and there was someone behind her that I couldn't see.

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And she was turning around to them and she was whispering

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and she was pointing at me.

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And I'm like, oh, what is going on?

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And then as she got up to me, she goes,

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yeah, I told you, it's her.

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And I'm like, who is it?

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I'm looking behind me, who is it?

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It's like, oh, it's me.

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Okay, who am I?

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And she's like, you, because of you, we're married.

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And then she kind of like moves aside a little bit

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so I can see her husband behind her.

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And then there's another guy behind them

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who's from Germany.

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And she's saying back to him, hey, this is her.

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It's Jackie Dorman.

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It is her.

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I thought it was her.

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You need to talk to her.

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So they had been talking to this guy

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and telling them at the airport about their love story,

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which came through me, through our movement.

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And there I was.

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buzz on their plane.

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It's just like, oh my gosh.

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And then wanted to introduce him so that he could, you know,

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get into the flow of the movement as well.

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You guys, what is that?

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That's called momentum.

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That's called momentum.

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Four years ago, when God tapped me on the shoulder

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and said, hey, I want my single sons and daughters married.

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Will you take your matchmaking gift?

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Will you take your heart work?

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And will you put them together?

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And will you help me?

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And I said, yes.

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I was getting on Mr. Toad's wild ride.

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It has been a wild ride.

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And contrary to popular belief,

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it has had a lot of uphill climbing.

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But God knew I was good for it.

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But how did he know I was good for it?

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Because we had been on smaller adventures earlier.

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Someone needs to hear this now.

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A lot of people want to be where they think you are.

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Okay, I've been married for 17 years.

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I own my own media company, not just what I do with y'all,

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but other media endeavors.

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I didn't get there overnight.

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And you know how I got there?

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I got there because I continued to partner with heaven

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and I continued to do my part imperfectly

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while believing and expecting God to do his part

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and putting one foot in front of the other.

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And there were years, friends,

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where I wasn't even putting one foot in the other.

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I was just standing.

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I was just holding my ground.

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I was just holding the line.

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I was just standing.

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Wasn't able to put one foot in front of the other.

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There were times when I took several steps back,

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but then I had to regain territory.

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Lots of times.

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And even during this movement,

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even though it's partnering with heaven,

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even though it was God doing the ask,

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there has been all kinds of diversions

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and distractions and destructions.

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There's been all kinds of things

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that have tried to blow me off course.

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There's been all kinds of warfare,

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if you prefer that word.

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There's been discouragement.

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And so when I was in the middle of that,

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and so when you show up to some airports

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and I mean, we're public.

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What are the odds of me being there at the same time

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as a success story in this movement?

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That's what is that?

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First of all, that's momentum.

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It means that this is gaining traction.

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It's picking up speed.

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It's gaining territory.

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But also it's God's kindness to encourage.

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It's God's kindness to encourage.

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What was really happening on those days?

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He was saying, don't give up, baby girl.

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Keep going.

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And I wanna speak that over you this morning.

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Don't give up.

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It's always too soon to give up.

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Yeah, you might need to pivot.

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Guys, I was born an entrepreneur.

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I started my first business when I was like nine years old.

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I came from a single mom household.

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It was by necessity.

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Invention is what?

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Necessity is the mother of invention, right?

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I need it.

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I needed to do it.

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Couldn't be eating them sweaty bologna sandwiches every day.

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Mom's not home.

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Guys, bologna sweats.

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It's so disgusting.

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Sweats.

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Just thinking about it.

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And what I know is that you have to pivot.

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You have to pivot.

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Yeah, it might've seemed like a good idea.

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Whatever it was that you wanted to do.

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Not just business things, but other ideas.

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Anything that you wanted to do.

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Maybe you wanted to get sent.

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I just looked at a picture from a wedding

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that just happened recently.

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And it was a young couple that got married

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in their early thirties.

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And one of the maid of honor,

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one of the bridesmaids,

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one of the most important people in the wedding party.

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I don't remember what position she was holding.

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She's a spiritual daughter to me.

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And also a success story of mine.

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And she sent me a picture of the wedding

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and of the people at the wedding.

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And you guys, I got so sad

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because I'm working with a doctor right now

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to try to get my health in order

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and my husband and we're both doing it.

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And she sent me this picture

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and you guys, all the people in the picture,

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there were about 10 women in this picture

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and they were all young.

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They're all like in their late twenties,

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maybe 30 years old.

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And all of them were objectively overweight,

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unhealthily overweight.

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And what I realized is that warfare doesn't always come

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in the packages that you think it does.

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It's not always a little devil

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that shows up your front door with a little red suit on,

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a little pointy tail and horns.

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Oftentimes the enemy's weapons of destruction that come against us are very everyday, nonplussed things.

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Every single day things.

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And one of the enemy's mass destruction methods is our food system in America.

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And for those of you that live outside the country that are on the call, I don't know what your food systems are like, but I went to Italy last summer.

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And I didn't have any digestive problems, even though I was eating pasta and bread and things that I would never touch in America.

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I didn't have any digestive issues I didn't feel bloated in Italy. I didn't feel.

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I lost weight there. I lost several pounds being there. And why? Because you walk a lot, but also because of the food.

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The food's just different and I can't explain it because I'm not a scientist or a chemist.

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I just know that our food in America is full of garbage.

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And it's causing problems.

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Maybe it's your diet that you've tried to gain momentum in. Your health you've tried to gain momentum in.

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And it feels like it's stop and start, stop and start. But what I have learned in my life is that you have to pivot.

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But you can't pivot too quickly. So there's a tension that you have to hold there.

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So hear what Holy Spirit's saying to you individually while I'm talking. You've got to tune in.

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What is Holy Spirit highlighting in your own heart?

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The things that you've stopped and started. Maybe you stopped too early. Maybe you tried to pivot too soon.

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Oh, this is not working. Let me try this.

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I joined this. I joined this fitness model, whatever it is. Faster way to fat loss.

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Whatever. Octavia, a gym, a CrossFit gym, whatever you did, but you quit too early.

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You didn't even quit. You pivoted too early. Like, oh, this isn't working. Let me go over here and do this one.

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You guys, success is about consistency.

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It's way too soon to say something isn't working.

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It's way too soon. You've got to actually give it a chance to work.

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You do. And you have to trust that if it isn't the right thing, if it's not the right match for you,

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if it's not the right thing, that after you put some consistency behind it and you continue to pray into it

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and ask God to order your steps, that you're going to see a clear pivot.

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That God's going to let your road diverge towards a different direction.

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But here's the thing you need to hear. And if you don't hear anything else this morning, please hear this.

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I cannot direct feet that are not walking.

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When I get in the car and I start moving, my GPS suggests course changes.

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It suggests to me changes of course as I'm on my journey.

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It does not suggest that while I'm just sitting there parked in my driveway.

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But when I put the car in drive and I begin to move down the route that I've decided to take,

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that is when I get directed different directions or I get directed elsewhere.

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It's true, right?

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God is great to direct you. He is faithful to direct you.

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You're just not moving.

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You're not moving.

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You're not.

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I know that people are like, well, the Bible says be still and see the salvation of the Lord.

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You guys, that's not what that means.

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It means that you're not operating in your own strength. It doesn't mean you're not moving.

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It means that you're moving in from a place of rest, not from a place of striving.

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It means that you know that you're not the hero of the story, but God is.

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Many of us are waiting for God to come and be the captain of our ship.

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Our dreams pull into port and we're waiting for permission to get on those ships.

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We're waiting for God to be the captain of those ships so that those ships can get moving towards whatever it is that you're dreaming of.

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But that's not the way this works.

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You are the captain of your soul. You are the captain of the ship.

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The ship actually can't leave without you because you're the captain.

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You

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God is the God of the wind and the waves. He is the God of the journey.

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He will help you get to your destination. He will put the wind in your sails,

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but you have to get behind the wheel.

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That's why that whole Jesus take the wheel. Jesus has been given a lot of

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wheels y'all and he's like, what do you want me to do with this? I'm Jesus.

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I know why people are saying that they're basically saying take control and you guys,

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that's not a bad prayer, but you can do what I'm saying right now and you have to do what I'm

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saying right now in a posture of supernatural surrender. This is not about taking control

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of your life, but it is about taking control of your life. It's about taking responsibility

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and accountability. Look, I just saw this morning before I got on here. Oh y'all,

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if I have a pet peeve, it's this because why? Because it kept me suffering and in waiting rooms

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that are not in the kingdom. Let, let me ask you a question.

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If there's no waiting rooms in the kingdom and you're sitting in one, then where are you?

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Y'all think about that. If there are no waiting rooms in the kingdom of God,

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and you've been sitting in a waiting room for years, you got to get up and go look at the

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label on the front door of that waiting room. Where the heck am I right now?

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So just this morning, I stalled this meme that one of my good friends posted on Instagram. I love her

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and she's going through a hard time. And you guys, when you're going through a hard time,

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that is when it's really tempting to just make up theology. That's not true.

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To try to describe and explain why you're suffering.

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That's what we do. And so her little meme that she put up said something like,

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if it's God's will, it's going to happen and nothing's going to stop it. Y'all, that's not true.

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It's God's will that none should perish, but all should come to everlasting life.

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Do you think that's going to happen?

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I don't want hell to be populated by anyone, but you think that there's going to be people

489
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that go to a devil's hell? Yes, there are. That's not God's will. So how in the world did that happen?

490
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.920
The whole sitting down and saying, well, it's God's will. And if it's his will,

491
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:47.760
then he'll make a way. And if it's his will, then nothing can stop it. And it can happen.

492
00:27:47.760 --> 00:27:53.680
That is a passive posture that we take on because of hurt and disappointment.

493
00:27:55.120 --> 00:27:58.800
That's a passive posture.

494
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:10.800
You have not been created to live passively. How do I know? Well, case in point, Ephesians 3.20.

495
00:28:10.800 --> 00:28:18.560
To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask, think, or imagine by what?

496
00:28:19.360 --> 00:28:22.720
The power that works in and through you.

497
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:29.520
What is that saying? It's saying, hey, you know what? God's going to blow your mind

498
00:28:30.080 --> 00:28:36.880
when you get moving. When you start following after the spirit and not the flesh,

499
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:42.560
God's going to blow your mind. Guys, there's a reason why it says to follow after the spirit.

500
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:47.120
It doesn't say to just sit and stoke and marinate. Some of y'all pray a lot,

501
00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:55.520
but you don't take any action. Faith without works, without action, is dead religion.

502
00:28:58.320 --> 00:29:02.480
There's a lot of people that have faith in God. There's a lot of people that have faith in heaven,

503
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:05.760
but they don't have any faith in earth. They don't think anything's going to happen here.

504
00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:10.240
They think it's all going to happen there. And so they pray continuously to God,

505
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:14.000
but they don't have any breakthrough here in this current reality.

506
00:29:16.560 --> 00:29:20.640
We can't live like that, you guys. There's a whole world that's watching

507
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:25.280
to see whether or not the God that we serve and that we confess is real.

508
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:29.200
And he wants to be real through your life.

509
00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:39.040
Do you think that it does God any anything? Do you think that it does God any benefit for you?

510
00:29:40.560 --> 00:29:42.400
To live a victory list life.

511
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:53.520
Seriously, God's kids on the earth, broke, busted, disgusted, disappointed.

512
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:59.840
People think we're fools walking around like God is great, but your life is.

513
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.000
not great it's a hot mess express you're like well people will see the perseverance

514
00:30:06.800 --> 00:30:12.320
in in tribulation and in trials people will see the patience that i have and they'll see

515
00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:18.320
how i continue to worship god and say that he's good even though he's not being good to me what

516
00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:28.560
no people don't want any of that like oh yep if i follow this jesus that she follows this

517
00:30:28.560 --> 00:30:33.280
what your co-workers saying man if i follow this jesus that she's following man i can be

518
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:41.600
i can be uh broke let's see i can be sick i can be single and unhappy about it let's

519
00:30:41.600 --> 00:30:55.120
see what else can i have what no it does not behoove god for you to not live a victorious life

520
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.240
god's not holding out on you please say that over yourself god's not holding out on me

521
00:31:01.520 --> 00:31:05.280
god wants me to prosper even more than i want to prosper

522
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:13.680
but i have to get the correct theology about what is his part and what is my part

523
00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:21.680
and when i begin to do my part what he will do for me what he will do for me

524
00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:32.160
god's will doesn't just happen it doesn't just it doesn't just happen we have to follow after

525
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:36.880
the spirit so that we won't what fulfill the lust of the flesh what's the lust of the flesh

526
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:42.320
the lust of the flesh and stuff that keeps you stuck that's where all that self-medicating lives

527
00:31:42.320 --> 00:31:46.240
that's where all that procrastinating and distraction lives the lust of the flesher

528
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:52.640
just let me stay comfortable let's let me stay comfortable you guys misery is a comfort zone

529
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.440
misery is a comfort zone

530
00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:04.640
some of you are like man i haven't been comfortable in years but you are you're

531
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:08.320
comfortable in your misery you get up every day you know what that day is

532
00:32:08.320 --> 00:32:12.000
going to look like because you lived a thousand days before it exactly like it

533
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:22.960
and you're not just disappointed but you're also lightweight mad at god you might not admit it on

534
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:26.960
this phone call but you are because you think he's holding out on you because you think he likes

535
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:31.920
other people more than he likes you because you see other people getting blessed and hey don't

536
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:37.360
get it twisted there are people that don't seemingly do anything to move forward themselves

537
00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:40.880
that all of a sudden just get some kind of breakthrough but i'm going to tell you something

538
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:45.360
about that that you're probably not going to like it's not sustainable

539
00:32:46.320 --> 00:32:50.960
whatever breakthrough you saw someone doing when they were just laying around in the waiting room

540
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:56.720
and mourning and depressed and negative and then you saw them get like this whoa

541
00:32:57.840 --> 00:33:00.960
this amazing thing happened to me it's not sustainable

542
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:08.560
who they were in that waiting room two minutes before that breakthrough happened

543
00:33:08.560 --> 00:33:11.760
is who they're going to be two months after the breakthrough happened

544
00:33:11.760 --> 00:33:13.360
two months after the breakthrough happened

545
00:33:15.600 --> 00:33:20.720
it's not sustainable god wants to help you become someone

546
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.960
who not only can have the breakthrough but can handle the breakthrough

547
00:33:30.080 --> 00:33:36.880
sustain it back in the 80s there were a lot of groups a lot of music groups a lot of bands that

548
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:43.680
we called one hit wonders what does that mean it means that they did not come up through the ranks

549
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:48.960
of playing the clubs and playing in the bars and playing with each other for years and years and

550
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:54.880
learning each other's skill sets and talents and coming together as a cohesive group they just got

551
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:58.960
together they got a little earworm that they produced you know those songs you can't get out

552
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:06.240
of your head and then they they they somehow topped the charts they made it in that top 100

553
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:11.440
they got a top 100 hit maybe even a top 10 hit but then you never heard from them again

554
00:34:13.040 --> 00:34:16.800
that's why it's called a one-hit wonder so they got the breakthrough but the breakthrough wasn't

555
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:22.080
sustainable let's take a look at why because i i was curious about that i feel like god put that

556
00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:26.480
on my heart years ago kind of look take a look into that because he was saying to me because

557
00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:31.920
i wanted you guys i wanted the opportunity back back in the day i wanted the opportunity i thought

558
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:35.679
that i was just waiting on the opportunity i was just waiting on the open door and this is

559
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:41.280
the year of the open door but some of y'all the door's gonna open you're gonna trip over the

560
00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:47.840
threshold and go fly and face first into the opportunity because you ain't ready for it

561
00:34:48.560 --> 00:34:54.000
and that's what my job is and holy spirit's job threw me today to get you there so i studied this

562
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.920
one-hit wonder phenomenon and what i saw that after the fame and the

563
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:07.760
fortune of that influence came because of that hit, they couldn't handle it.

564
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:12.720
They couldn't handle it. Why? Because they barely knew each other. The band members that were

565
00:35:12.720 --> 00:35:17.040
playing together for that song, they started fighting with each other. They didn't prefer

566
00:35:17.040 --> 00:35:21.040
one another. They all wanted to be the star. So they started infighting. They started fighting

567
00:35:21.040 --> 00:35:24.960
with their manager if they had one, but a lot of times they didn't even have one.

568
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:29.520
And so picking a manager when you're up and coming that believes in you is completely different

569
00:35:29.520 --> 00:35:35.360
than picking a manager or publicist or any other type of person like that when you're already

570
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:39.440
kind of lightweight famous. Because those people are like wolves, right?

571
00:35:41.120 --> 00:35:45.360
They're not out for your good. They're not believing in some up and coming band and

572
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:51.120
putting in all of the elbow grease with you. No, they want to now ride the gravy train with you.

573
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.280
So they were attracting the wrong representation. They were infighting with each other.

574
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:04.960
All of the excess of the fame and the money was causing addictions and other bad behaviors to

575
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:09.840
rise up out of nowhere. Seemingly, that's what happened to those bands.

576
00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:17.920
And let's just face it. It was a one-off. They didn't even really have the talent because

577
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:23.840
they hadn't been playing long enough together to actually produce or sustain another hit.

578
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.280
Some of them made other music, but you've never heard of it because it sucks.

579
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.680
You guys, God doesn't want us to be a one-hit wonder. How do I know that? Because in Proverbs,

580
00:36:35.680 --> 00:36:43.280
it says that God's increase, his promotion, his prosperity comes without sorrow. That just simply

581
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:48.000
means this. God wants to give you all kinds of stuff, but he wants you to be ready for it.

582
00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:53.280
And I don't want you to hear your authoritarian mother or father in that message that I just spoke

583
00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:58.720
saying, oh, well, you can't do it yet. You're not ready. You're not mature enough. You haven't

584
00:36:58.720 --> 00:37:06.320
cleaned your room long enough. Some of you all came from families that gave you open-ended

585
00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:10.400
promises, meaning they said they would do something for you, but they never told you

586
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:14.800
what you had to do to get it. And you always weren't ready. You always hadn't done

587
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:17.440
and you always weren't ready. You always hadn't done

588
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:21.600
something long enough, but they never told you what the length of time was going to be.

589
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:26.640
And that's very discouraging.

590
00:37:29.520 --> 00:37:34.640
It's very discouraging when your parent says, yeah, well, if you keep good grades, you can

591
00:37:34.640 --> 00:37:39.280
have X, Y, Z, but they don't tell you how long you have to keep good grades. And not that you

592
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.760
wouldn't continue to keep good grades, but you go and you believe them at their word and you keep

593
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:49.600
good grades. And then that thing that they've told you you can have, you're never good enough

594
00:37:49.600 --> 00:38:02.240
for it yet. Just shoot me. That is a horrible feeling. Raise your hand if you had that in your

595
00:38:02.240 --> 00:38:07.680
life. A boss in your life dangling the carrot of promotion saying, oh, you're doing such a great

596
00:38:07.680 --> 00:38:10.960
job. You know, we're going to promote you someday, but someday never comes.

597
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:20.560
Guys, that's called manipulation. People use those tactics to keep us doing what they want us to do

598
00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:25.760
because there's some promise of some future reward that never comes. I want to tell you,

599
00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:33.440
that's not God. God is not a carrot dangler. God doesn't dare, King Dela, he doesn't dangle carrots.

600
00:38:34.080 --> 00:38:38.000
Yeah, I almost said Kangal derrits. He doesn't Kangal derrits y'all.

601
00:38:42.080 --> 00:38:48.400
He doesn't. And he doesn't have this elusive will that's just going to happen

602
00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:53.280
regardless of what you do. It's just not true. It's not true.

603
00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.320
And I know that the saying is never too late makes all of us feel better, but it's not true.

604
00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:05.280
Now, as long as you're breathing on the earth, does God have promises for you? Does he have

605
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:10.080
promotion for you? Does he have breakthrough for you? Does he have provision for you? Yeah,

606
00:39:10.080 --> 00:39:16.160
he does. And if you miss out on something because it was timestamped and it did have an expiration

607
00:39:16.160 --> 00:39:21.760
date, you can receive a different version of it. What do I mean by that? Let me give you an example.

608
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:28.960
Say that you really had a passion for ballet when you were young, but you allowed yourself to

609
00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:33.520
but you allowed people to discourage you and tell you weren't good enough. And then you just kind of

610
00:39:33.520 --> 00:39:39.040
fell off and you quit. You quit dancing. You quit practicing. You quit taking lessons or,

611
00:39:39.040 --> 00:39:45.680
you know, whatever. And now you're in your fifties. Well, you're not going to be a ballerina.

612
00:39:46.640 --> 00:39:51.840
Okay. You're not. I mean, I guess there could be like a crazy creative miracle and you could.

613
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:59.120
So I should never say never, but probably not. But that love for ballet, that love for dance.

614
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.280
I can take that and channel that into something else

615
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.000
that has to do with dance and ballet

616
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.600
and choreography or something.

617
00:40:09.600 --> 00:40:11.880
God can take what was timestamped

618
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.760
and maybe had kind of an expiration date on it.

619
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:19.360
He can take it and he can still let you use it

620
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:20.760
to do something amazing.

621
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.480
He can do that.

622
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:25.640
Some of you, you know, you never had a child

623
00:40:25.640 --> 00:40:27.200
and maybe you're in your fifties and sixties.

624
00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:29.600
And of course I'm talking to the ladies

625
00:40:29.640 --> 00:40:30.800
because for whatever reason,

626
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:33.040
God still lets them men be shooting,

627
00:40:33.040 --> 00:40:37.000
shooting some, you know, I don't want to get crass,

628
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.160
but they're not shooting all blanks.

629
00:40:39.160 --> 00:40:40.520
Let's just put it that way.

630
00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:43.400
Could still maybe have a baby.

631
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.520
I mean, look at Mick Jagger and all them.

632
00:40:45.520 --> 00:40:48.560
I'm sure there's some medication involved in that.

633
00:40:48.560 --> 00:40:50.280
But at the same time,

634
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.720
they definitely are siring and fathering.

635
00:40:52.720 --> 00:40:54.560
I said, let me just say siring children

636
00:40:54.560 --> 00:40:56.880
because I'm not really sure they're fathering anybody.

637
00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:57.760
Not judging them,

638
00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.880
but I'm not sure how much parenting is going into that.

639
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.520
All right.

640
00:41:02.520 --> 00:41:07.000
But ladies, it seems to be,

641
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.520
and for those of you that are still believing

642
00:41:09.520 --> 00:41:11.880
for a biological child and you're in your fifties,

643
00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:15.800
maybe even 60, listen, I never say never.

644
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:17.000
God can blow all of our minds.

645
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:18.280
God can do anything.

646
00:41:18.280 --> 00:41:22.080
But once again, that's probably not what's going to happen.

647
00:41:22.080 --> 00:41:25.760
But your love for children

648
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:30.760
can absolutely still do something great.

649
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:32.120
You can still love children.

650
00:41:32.120 --> 00:41:33.760
You can still mother children.

651
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:34.720
You can adopt children.

652
00:41:34.720 --> 00:41:36.400
You can foster children.

653
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:37.640
You can marry into a family

654
00:41:37.640 --> 00:41:40.480
where there already are children that need to be fostered,

655
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:42.680
need to be adopted, need to be just parented

656
00:41:42.680 --> 00:41:45.840
because they belong to the person that you're marrying.

657
00:41:48.520 --> 00:41:49.960
You can have it still.

658
00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:51.600
Basically, that's the bottom line.

659
00:41:51.600 --> 00:41:52.840
It may look different.

660
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:54.640
There might be a kind of different version of it

661
00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:55.680
that you're going to have,

662
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:57.720
but you can still have it.

663
00:41:58.640 --> 00:42:01.120
So we have to gain momentum this morning, friends.

664
00:42:02.200 --> 00:42:03.640
It's time for us to gain momentum.

665
00:42:03.640 --> 00:42:04.480
What is momentum?

666
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.200
It's just the force that keeps something moving forward.

667
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:12.680
And friends, from this time, this call,

668
00:42:12.680 --> 00:42:14.320
through the month of March,

669
00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:16.960
I believe that God is going to give us

670
00:42:18.040 --> 00:42:21.960
the supernatural grace, the ability from heaven,

671
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:23.880
that wind at our back.

672
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.480
In fact, I wrote down on my paper here,

673
00:42:26.200 --> 00:42:27.040
catch the wind.

674
00:42:27.040 --> 00:42:29.480
We're going to catch the wind this morning.

675
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:30.360
We're going to catch the wind.

676
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:31.480
In fact, there's a song,

677
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:34.440
I think it's by the Helzers called Catch the Wind.

678
00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:37.840
Melissa and Jonathan Helzer, go look it up,

679
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.520
listen to it after we get off this call.

680
00:42:40.520 --> 00:42:42.000
I don't really know what the lyrics say,

681
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:44.440
but I know it says catch the wind, right?

682
00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:45.840
I'm going to catch the wind.

683
00:42:47.640 --> 00:42:49.520
And so we're going to catch that wind of momentum.

684
00:42:49.520 --> 00:42:51.200
For some of you, it's going to be a second wind

685
00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:53.080
because you feel gutted.

686
00:42:53.080 --> 00:42:55.360
You feel like you've been punched in the stomach

687
00:42:56.240 --> 00:42:57.080
and you lost the wind.

688
00:42:57.080 --> 00:42:59.040
Has anyone else ever lost your wind?

689
00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:01.680
Once I was in gym class, I was in elementary school

690
00:43:01.680 --> 00:43:04.200
and we had to run like the 60 yard dash.

691
00:43:04.200 --> 00:43:05.360
Remember the 60 yard dash?

692
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:07.400
And y'all, I got some long legs, okay?

693
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:08.560
I can run.

694
00:43:08.560 --> 00:43:11.960
I mean, not anymore, but I could run.

695
00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:14.960
And I ran, I was running so fast,

696
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:17.560
fast as my skinny little legs could carry me.

697
00:43:17.560 --> 00:43:20.680
And then someone like wasn't paying attention

698
00:43:20.680 --> 00:43:23.040
and they moved out into the line of the race

699
00:43:23.080 --> 00:43:25.480
and they knocked me down when I was running that fast.

700
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:28.120
And I was laying on the ground and I couldn't breathe.

701
00:43:28.120 --> 00:43:29.080
Why couldn't I breathe?

702
00:43:29.080 --> 00:43:32.920
Because I did what people call, I lost my breath

703
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:35.160
or I got the wind knocked out of me.

704
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:38.800
I got the wind knocked out of me.

705
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:40.160
And some of you that's happened too.

706
00:43:40.160 --> 00:43:41.640
So Father, we just pray right now

707
00:43:41.640 --> 00:43:43.520
that everyone on this call that feels like

708
00:43:43.520 --> 00:43:44.680
they have lost their breath,

709
00:43:44.680 --> 00:43:47.280
that the wind has been knocked out of them

710
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:48.720
and they cannot catch their breath.

711
00:43:48.720 --> 00:43:50.760
Lord, we pray that you would put breath

712
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:52.480
in their lungs right now.

713
00:43:52.520 --> 00:43:55.240
You are the breath in their lungs right now

714
00:43:55.240 --> 00:43:58.360
that you would fill them full of a second wind God.

715
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.120
If they're exhausted, if they're tired,

716
00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:01.680
if they feel like giving up,

717
00:44:01.680 --> 00:44:03.600
they feel like they can't go another step,

718
00:44:03.600 --> 00:44:07.080
that you would give them a second wind right now.

719
00:44:07.080 --> 00:44:10.480
Fill them full, full of your anointing,

720
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:14.680
full of your grace, full of your presence in Jesus name.

721
00:44:14.680 --> 00:44:17.360
So we're gonna go forward with momentum

722
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:20.360
and we're gonna try and we're gonna keep trying,

723
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:22.280
but we're not gonna quit this time

724
00:44:23.080 --> 00:44:25.000
because there's gonna be that supernatural force

725
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:26.280
that's pushing us forward.

726
00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:29.160
And if we have to pivot, then we'll pivot.

727
00:44:30.240 --> 00:44:34.600
That means when you have tried one course of action

728
00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:37.960
for a significant amount of time

729
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:39.360
and you're seeing progress,

730
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:42.200
but not the progress that you want to see,

731
00:44:42.200 --> 00:44:46.160
then you will see a different option.

732
00:44:46.160 --> 00:44:49.600
You will see a different little road

733
00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:51.280
diverging off of your road.

734
00:44:52.160 --> 00:44:54.720
But you guys, you have to go down the road

735
00:44:54.720 --> 00:44:58.280
you're already on in order to see the options.

736
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.480
You have to, you're not going to see the options. You have to gain some momentum.

737
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:12.080
And you can only gain that by going forward, even if it seems like, yeah, you know, I don't really

738
00:45:12.080 --> 00:45:17.360
think this is going to be the answer. Go ahead and do it anyway so that God can course correct you.

739
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:22.720
A lot of us won't take even one step until we have the perfect plan laid out.

740
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:27.280
Until we know exactly that we know that we know that we know that it was God and

741
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.960
you know, and he sealed it, signed his name on the dotted line,

742
00:45:31.520 --> 00:45:35.440
sent an angel from heaven in a dream that confirmed it. No, y'all.

743
00:45:37.600 --> 00:45:44.480
You have to just be willing to just go forward in faith, believing that if this is not the perfect

744
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:49.120
course of action, if this is not the course of action that's going to lead to the breakthrough

745
00:45:49.120 --> 00:45:56.480
that I want, that God is going to lead me on the way. He is going to lead me on the way. He is

746
00:45:56.480 --> 00:46:10.960
faithful to lead me on the way. Faithful. Let's just rest in that for a second.

747
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:24.080
Yes, just receive that.

748
00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:29.920
Hmm. He is faithful.

749
00:46:34.240 --> 00:46:38.160
It's a scripture in the Bible and I put it in my book, The Heart Work, and it just says,

750
00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:42.960
take my feet off this path of pain and lead me back to you.

751
00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:47.600
Yes, Lord.

752
00:46:48.160 --> 00:46:50.160
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

753
00:46:56.160 --> 00:47:06.160
It's time friends. So God has a part to play and he is not a deadbeat. He is always willing to

754
00:47:07.040 --> 00:47:09.040
play his part and to keep his promises.

755
00:47:11.520 --> 00:47:14.560
But there's something that is stronger than the will of God.

756
00:47:16.240 --> 00:47:22.960
And that is the will of man, your will. God has given us this beautiful gift called life and along

757
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:32.160
with it, the beautiful gift called choice. We have a say, we have a choice, we have what we

758
00:47:32.240 --> 00:47:38.080
have a say, we have a choice, we have what a lot of people call free will.

759
00:47:40.160 --> 00:47:47.760
And your will trumps God's will every day. If it's your will to be defeated,

760
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:51.440
if it's your will to give up, if it's your will to go sit in the waiting room,

761
00:47:52.160 --> 00:47:58.720
then that is what will happen. Will God continue to send messengers like this message today to try

762
00:47:58.720 --> 00:48:08.640
to woo you to the better part? Yes, he will. He's faithful. He loves us. He wants good things for us

763
00:48:08.640 --> 00:48:17.360
more than we want good things for ourselves. So it's time for us to surrender our will to

764
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:21.440
God's will, but not in a passive way. We're like, okay, God, I surrender to you. And then

765
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:25.440
you go sit in the waiting room and you just wait for God to do it all. But you surrender your will

766
00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:33.440
as in, God, I want this thing in my life. I'm not even sure if I should want it, but I do want it.

767
00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:38.240
And I don't really know how to get it, but I'm just going to take this course of action that's

768
00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:44.960
right in front of me right now. But I'm giving you permission to course correct me. I'm giving

769
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:52.000
you permission to change the desires of my heart as I move forward. You guys remember this thing?

770
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.120
And I'm going to get into the details of what it was because it would be too long of a story,

771
00:48:55.120 --> 00:48:59.760
but I really, really, really wanted it. I wanted it, man. I wanted it. And I started

772
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:05.120
taking action towards it. I started walking towards it. I started doing the only thing that

773
00:49:05.120 --> 00:49:11.440
I knew to do that practically could lead me there. And as I was doing it, I was doing exactly what

774
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:15.920
I'm telling you to do. I was putting it before the Lord. This is what you guys can even do in

775
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:18.960
your dating life. You're like, I'm not sure if this is the person. Just continue to put it before

776
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:23.600
the Lord. Every time before you go on a date, put it before the Lord. Don't try to cut and run. Don't

777
00:49:23.600 --> 00:49:28.720
try to figure it out yourself. Just start, keep moving forward to yes, until it's a no. And if

778
00:49:28.720 --> 00:49:34.720
it's a no, it will be a hard pass and it will be for a reason. And you will understand the reason.

779
00:49:34.720 --> 00:49:42.160
It won't be like, oh, I guess God just said no. What? No, that's authoritarian parenting.

780
00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:48.640
You can't do it. Why? Because I said so. Guys, that's not what God's like. He's not like that.

781
00:49:48.640 --> 00:49:52.000
We don't always understand his ways because they're higher than our ways and his thoughts

782
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:56.240
are higher than our thoughts. But at the same time, we're told we can have the mind of Christ.

783
00:49:56.240 --> 00:49:59.840
So I kept moving imperfectly forward. And guess what started happening?

784
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.640
I started actually not wanting this thing anymore.

785
00:50:05.600 --> 00:50:06.840
As I was moving forward,

786
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:10.040
the desire to have it started to lessen and lessen

787
00:50:10.040 --> 00:50:12.600
until eventually I just really didn't care

788
00:50:12.600 --> 00:50:13.720
whether it happened or not.

789
00:50:13.720 --> 00:50:15.400
It wasn't out of disappointment.

790
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:17.240
See, a lot of you stop caring about something

791
00:50:17.240 --> 00:50:19.640
you really used to care so much about,

792
00:50:19.640 --> 00:50:21.160
but you don't stop caring about it

793
00:50:21.160 --> 00:50:23.360
because God is removing that desire

794
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:24.560
because you gave him permission to

795
00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:26.880
and replacing it with something superior.

796
00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:28.080
You're losing the desire

797
00:50:28.080 --> 00:50:29.840
because you're getting disappointed.

798
00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:31.200
You're losing hope.

799
00:50:31.200 --> 00:50:32.240
There's a difference.

800
00:50:32.240 --> 00:50:33.600
I wasn't losing hope.

801
00:50:33.600 --> 00:50:36.840
I was actually losing desire

802
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:39.080
because God said, if you delight in me,

803
00:50:39.080 --> 00:50:41.160
I will give you the desires of your heart.

804
00:50:41.160 --> 00:50:42.280
But you know what started happening?

805
00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:43.920
I started having desire to do something

806
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:45.920
that was very similar to this thing,

807
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:48.480
but just kind of different in a different vein.

808
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:51.040
And the doors started opening for that other thing

809
00:50:51.040 --> 00:50:52.600
as I was moving forward,

810
00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:58.560
as I was allowing God to give me momentum.

811
00:50:58.560 --> 00:51:00.280
And all of that momentum led to me

812
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:01.880
being right here with you today.

813
00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:04.800
So whether you love what your season's like,

814
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:06.160
or you hate what your season's like,

815
00:51:06.160 --> 00:51:09.080
you can move forward in that season

816
00:51:09.080 --> 00:51:11.400
towards something different.

817
00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:12.840
You can.

818
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:15.360
And so we're gonna catch the wind.

819
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:17.920
But it requires pruning, you guys.

820
00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:19.760
And I wanted to have a bigger conversation.

821
00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:22.320
Maybe we'll have that next week

822
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:24.320
because we're not even to the first day of spring yet.

823
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:27.480
So maybe we'll save that supernatural Saturday

824
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.640
I'm pruning for a time that we have together

825
00:51:30.640 --> 00:51:33.960
here in the coming weeks.

826
00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:36.040
Because we need to,

827
00:51:36.040 --> 00:51:38.360
God says that he'll make our path straight.

828
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:39.800
He'll clear our path.

829
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:43.000
And we have a part to play in that, okay?

830
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.240
And so we have to be willing to make room

831
00:51:45.240 --> 00:51:47.320
for the things that we say that we want.

832
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:48.960
And we can do that spiritually,

833
00:51:48.960 --> 00:51:52.040
mentally, physically, emotionally.

834
00:51:52.040 --> 00:51:54.040
We can do it supernaturally,

835
00:51:54.040 --> 00:51:56.240
and we can also do it practically.

836
00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:58.520
And so we're gonna talk about those things.

837
00:51:58.520 --> 00:52:01.520
I feel like I'm gonna do a whole supernatural Saturday

838
00:52:01.520 --> 00:52:02.480
on pruning,

839
00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:04.720
because a lot of people just really don't know

840
00:52:04.720 --> 00:52:07.760
how to implement that spiritual practice.

841
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.600
It's very powerful.

842
00:52:10.600 --> 00:52:12.560
And I want you to know the reasons why.

843
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:17.800
All right, all right, all right.

844
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:18.640
Yes.

845
00:52:18.640 --> 00:52:20.400
So Father, we thank you for the word

846
00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:22.360
that you've given to us today.

847
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:25.800
If you're someplace where you could just start walking,

848
00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:27.280
I just want you to start putting one foot

849
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:29.080
in front of the other,

850
00:52:29.080 --> 00:52:31.400
walking around your kitchen like I am right now,

851
00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:32.520
your living room.

852
00:52:33.640 --> 00:52:35.960
Just can start to just move.

853
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.360
If you're not somewhere you can move

854
00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:39.240
because you're at work,

855
00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:41.840
just start to move a part of your body.

856
00:52:41.840 --> 00:52:43.800
Maybe just start to, you know,

857
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:49.160
move your foot or move your hand or wave your hand, move.

858
00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:55.280
I want you to feel the movement of heaven right now.

859
00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:57.920
The movement of heaven.

860
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:03.480
I once had a pastor that would say that, you know,

861
00:53:03.480 --> 00:53:06.880
the movement of your body is to express the spirit

862
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:08.400
that lives inside of it.

863
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:14.920
Your body exists to express the spirit

864
00:53:15.160 --> 00:53:19.120
that lives inside of it, right?

865
00:53:19.120 --> 00:53:21.280
And your spirit is a spirit of change.

866
00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:22.920
Your spirit is a spirit of innovation.

867
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:24.560
Your spirit is from heaven.

868
00:53:25.560 --> 00:53:27.240
And it wants to move.

869
00:53:27.240 --> 00:53:31.720
It wants you, your body to take it where it wants to go.

870
00:53:31.720 --> 00:53:33.040
Your body is the vehicle,

871
00:53:33.040 --> 00:53:35.800
the only vehicle that your spirit will get to ride in

872
00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:37.560
on this earth.

873
00:53:37.560 --> 00:53:41.080
And so remember your spirit is not wanting

874
00:53:41.080 --> 00:53:42.880
to just sit around and do nothing.

875
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:46.360
You're a change agent.

876
00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:50.040
Your spirit wants to create change for you and for others.

877
00:53:50.040 --> 00:53:52.120
Your spirit wants to reform.

878
00:53:52.120 --> 00:53:53.240
It wants to go places.

879
00:53:53.240 --> 00:53:54.680
It wants to do things,

880
00:53:54.680 --> 00:53:58.040
but your body has to be willing to go there as well.

881
00:53:58.040 --> 00:54:00.640
So Father, we thank you that you're willing.

882
00:54:00.640 --> 00:54:03.200
You are here to make us willing,

883
00:54:03.200 --> 00:54:06.320
to be made willing in the day of your power.

884
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:07.200
We are willing, Lord.

885
00:54:07.200 --> 00:54:09.680
We come to you to be willing,

886
00:54:09.680 --> 00:54:12.520
to be made willing in the day of your power.

887
00:54:12.520 --> 00:54:14.240
Show us that you're a good father.

888
00:54:15.160 --> 00:54:18.400
Show us that you're not an authoritarian parent,

889
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:19.960
that you're not gonna do it for us,

890
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.720
but you are more than willing to do it with us,

891
00:54:23.720 --> 00:54:26.560
that you are desiring for us to partner with you.

892
00:54:26.560 --> 00:54:27.640
As your word says,

893
00:54:27.640 --> 00:54:31.000
every day your eyes are roaming to and fro

894
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:31.840
throughout the earth,

895
00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:33.800
looking for someone to partner with,

896
00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:37.480
looking for someone to put your power on and through

897
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.240
to show this world what it is that you are like.

898
00:54:42.240 --> 00:54:44.240
So Lord, we want to be those people

899
00:54:44.240 --> 00:54:47.800
that you choose to work in and through.

900
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:51.000
We want to be those people whose lives show people

901
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.320
what heaven looks like,

902
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:54.800
that our marriages show people what heaven looks like,

903
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:57.280
that our parenting shows people what heaven looks like,

904
00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:00.120
that our jobs and our vocations and our bank accounts.

905
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.200
and our lifestyles and our kindness and our love

906
00:55:03.200 --> 00:55:05.440
show people what heaven looks like.

907
00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:07.440
We want to show people what it looks like

908
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:09.680
to be a son and a daughter of God.

909
00:55:09.680 --> 00:55:11.380
We want to step into the scripture

910
00:55:11.380 --> 00:55:13.020
that says that all of the earth,

911
00:55:13.020 --> 00:55:15.480
all of creation is groaning and travailing,

912
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:17.020
waiting for what?

913
00:55:17.020 --> 00:55:18.920
Us, waiting for the revealing

914
00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:20.720
of your sons and daughters in the earth.

915
00:55:20.720 --> 00:55:24.100
So Lord, reveal us, reveal us, reveal us.

916
00:55:24.100 --> 00:55:25.520
Anything that's keeping us back

917
00:55:25.520 --> 00:55:29.260
from being able to move forward in faith.

918
00:55:29.260 --> 00:55:31.800
We walk by faith and not by sight.

919
00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:34.160
We walk by faith and not by sight.

920
00:55:34.160 --> 00:55:37.400
And the proof of faith is movement.

921
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:39.240
The proof of faith is works.

922
00:55:39.240 --> 00:55:42.080
The proof of faith is action.

923
00:55:42.080 --> 00:55:44.200
The proof of belief is preparation.

924
00:55:44.200 --> 00:55:45.980
And so Lord, we just declare that right now.

925
00:55:45.980 --> 00:55:48.920
We release that right now over all of us,

926
00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:50.980
over our hearts, over our minds.

927
00:55:50.980 --> 00:55:53.620
Whatever's keeping us back from trying again, Lord,

928
00:55:53.620 --> 00:55:57.260
we pray that you would break that off with your grace,

929
00:55:57.260 --> 00:55:58.860
with your empowerment from heaven

930
00:55:58.860 --> 00:56:00.960
and get us moving forward again.

931
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:02.600
Moving forward again.

932
00:56:02.600 --> 00:56:06.640
Catch the wind, catch the wind, catch the wind.

933
00:56:07.700 --> 00:56:08.760
Story's not over yet.

934
00:56:08.760 --> 00:56:10.440
The story's not done, friend.

935
00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:12.900
The story is just getting started.

936
00:56:12.900 --> 00:56:15.200
God has so many more things for you

937
00:56:15.200 --> 00:56:17.040
in this world and in this life.

938
00:56:17.040 --> 00:56:20.040
So many more plans and purposes for you.

939
00:56:20.040 --> 00:56:22.440
God's plans and purposes are still intact.

940
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:25.680
Failure doesn't rob you of the plans and purposes

941
00:56:25.700 --> 00:56:27.380
and the potential of God,

942
00:56:27.380 --> 00:56:28.880
but it has robbed you of confidence.

943
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:31.140
So right now we release confidence over you.

944
00:56:31.140 --> 00:56:34.220
Confidence that whatever you've been in,

945
00:56:34.220 --> 00:56:36.440
whatever messes that have been made,

946
00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:39.560
that you can step forward and step out of those things.

947
00:56:39.560 --> 00:56:42.180
And you can step into the finished work of the cross

948
00:56:42.180 --> 00:56:43.820
where there's grace and there's mercy

949
00:56:43.820 --> 00:56:46.200
and there's momentum for your life.

950
00:56:46.200 --> 00:56:47.420
In Jesus name.

951
00:56:47.420 --> 00:56:48.260
Yes, Lord.

952
00:56:48.260 --> 00:56:49.100
Let it be so.

953
00:56:50.460 --> 00:56:51.600
All right.

954
00:56:51.600 --> 00:56:52.440
Woo.

955
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:53.540
I love y'all.

956
00:56:53.540 --> 00:56:54.860
I bless you.

957
00:56:54.920 --> 00:56:56.120
It's an amazing Supernatural Saturday.

958
00:56:56.120 --> 00:56:57.980
Remember, child's play Saturday.

959
00:56:57.980 --> 00:56:59.820
Go be a child.

960
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Go be a child.

961
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There's so much breakthrough that comes

962
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when we do simple things

963
00:57:03.520 --> 00:57:07.760
and we begin to enjoy the life that God has given us.

964
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:09.660
Joy rises, hope rises.

965
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And remember, kids think they can do anything.

966
00:57:11.700 --> 00:57:13.160
I mean, literally anything.

967
00:57:13.160 --> 00:57:15.440
They're always faking belief and pretending

968
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:17.400
because nothing is telling them

969
00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:19.140
that that's not possible for them.

970
00:57:19.140 --> 00:57:21.240
So go get into that heart posture

971
00:57:21.240 --> 00:57:22.840
and see what the Lord will do.

972
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Love y'all.