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Okay, welcome everyone to Supernatural Saturday.

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If you are new and joining us for the first time, welcome.

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We're so glad to have you with us.

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Saturday is the day that we look to the Lord as a community.

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There is a current prophetic reality right now, regardless of what your actual reality

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is, whatever your circumstances in the natural are, there is a supernatural reality all around

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us and that is what we tap into on Supernatural Saturday.

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And so we look to the Lord, Father God, thank you so much for your goodness, for your grace,

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for your love for us.

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We thank you that you brought us here together to come before you, Lord, to seek your face,

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to ask and get answers, Lord.

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We thank you, God, that you have a reality for us this morning that we can step into.

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Something that is beyond our current circumstances and the facts of our life because your truth

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is always greater.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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All right.

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So I was praying this morning about, you know, what are we doing?

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Holy Spirit, where are we going?

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You know, we call shotgun, we're gonna get in the car with you and go wherever you want

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to go.

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But where is that this morning?

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And the phrase that continued to go over in my mind was the phrase finishing faith.

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And so full disclosure, I definitely have had some discouragement lately.

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And you know, here's the thing, here's what's important.

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Discouragement doesn't have to happen as a result of some sort of disappointment.

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I think that it's important for us to just acknowledge that this morning.

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A lot of times if you're discouraged, if you're feeling discouraged, a lot of people will

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be like, hey, what happened?

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And you'll be like, well, nothing really.

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And then maybe people will say you don't have the right to be discouraged because there

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wasn't something that was the catalyst of it that you can point to, right?

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But discouragement comes as a result of all different types of things.

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And so there isn't any huge thing that I can point to where, oh, this isn't working out

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or, you know, this problem is weighing on me.

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I just have felt discouraged, just period.

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And not only that, I have actually in my mind, the phrase has come into my mind several times

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a day, several times a day, y'all, yeah, I just, I just don't want to, I just feel like

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giving up.

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And you might ask, well, giving up on what?

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I don't really know.

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And so that's why I know it's spiritual.

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It's a spiritual thing.

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And a lot of times, you know, as someone who is in the place of a prophet, you know, things

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will come at me and they come at me in order for me to, um, to realize what is happening

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in the body of Christ, right?

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Not just in our community, but in the body of Christ.

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And I feel like there's a heaviness in the body of Christ.

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I feel like there's a discouragement that's weighing on people that they may not even

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know where it came from.

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They can't really pinpoint it.

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It may have been around for a while now and, you know, every once in a while they just

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feel like giving up on what?

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I don't know.

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They don't know.

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They just feel like that feeling of defeat, right?

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And so I want to go after that this morning, um, because we are not defeated.

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The word of God says that we're not defeated.

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And listen, if you're on this call this morning, you're on the mountaintop and you're singing,

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you know, the sound of music.

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That's awesome.

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And we are glad that you're there and maybe this message doesn't hit you right between

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the eyes this morning, but it might later.

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And so go ahead and take it and put it in your pocket for later for yourself and then

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intercede for your brothers and sisters today because there's a lot of people that are going

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through that.

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And so just to go ahead and take a, a poll, raise your hand.

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If at any time in the last month you have felt the way that I'm describing, go ahead

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and raise your hand.

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If you have felt discouraged, if you felt just like quitting, you felt defeat, like

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giving up, like what, what does it matter anyway?

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Or I just can't do this anymore.

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That's my favorite phrase.

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I just can't do this anymore.

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Do what?

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I don't know this, this life, this thing, and it's not like a suicidal spirit.

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I don't want you to hear what I'm not saying, but it's just like, I feel defeated.

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I might as well just go sit down and self medicate somewhere because I just, I'm not,

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I'm not going to win.

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Look at all those hands.

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That's lots and lots and lots and lots of hands.

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And if anyone knows this morning what you have felt defeated about, I don't, like I

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said, it's kind of been a very vague feeling for me.

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Go ahead and put that in the chat.

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If you know the subject of what you feel like just giving up on, let's see what that looks

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Give people a couple of minutes and I'll read this out loud for the people that will be

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watching the replay because they won't be able to see these.

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So people are like every area.

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It's so weird.

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Just feeling burnout.

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That's a really good word.

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relationships, life, weight loss, weight loss, y'all get on the scale and you weigh three pounds

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heavier and you're doing all this stuff, right? And you're like, what the heck?

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But you have to also remember if you're working out at all, that's building muscle, muscle

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weighs more than fat. I know we don't like to hear that, but it does. Getting a home so I can

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relocate, meeting my husband, distress at work, work, work, work. So many of you put the job that

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you have teaching, um, whatever job you have. So many of you put the word work. And when you,

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when, when we look at whatever we do as work right there, there has to be a reframing, right?

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Because what is work? Work is hard. The word work denotes hardship. Doesn't it going to work,

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going to work at it, going to work at hard. So we already have to have a reframe in our lives

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because if whatever you get up in the morning and you go do you call work,

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then you're doing the wrong thing. You're doing the wrong thing. Okay. It should be a vocation

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that you're going to. And the word job is just as bad as the word work. So we have to, we have to

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figure out what is it that I want to do with my one and only life? What is it that I want to do?

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Do I want to work with kids? Um, how do I want to work with kids? Cause some of y'all are teachers

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and you're like, I got to get out of here. Uh, I get it. Okay. So a lot of the industries have

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changed, especially since 2020. And it's like, okay, um, what I used to love, I don't love

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anymore. Well, what's going to make you love it again? If that's what you're called to do,

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what's going to make you love it again? What do you have to do to love it again? And these are

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questions that we have to ask this morning. Cause you guys, that's on us. That's on us.

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And I want to continue this, want to continue this strain, this, this, uh, this, this line of

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thought. But before I do that, let's go back to what I said at the beginning, finishing faith.

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So years ago, God spoke to me and he said, he said, Jackie said, I'm the author and the finisher

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of your faith. And I was like, yes, that sounds really good. He said, but he said, you notice

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I'm the beginning and the ends, but I'm not the middle. And I was like, Oh yeah, I noticed that

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he's the alpha and the Omega. That's the beginning and the end. He's the author and the finisher,

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right? But he's not the middle. Who's the middle? We're the middle. The middle is where you say,

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yes, the middle is where you get into alignment. The middle is where you come into convergence.

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The middle is where you call shotgun and you get in the car. He can't do that for us because we

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have this beautiful gift called free will. So we have to do that. We have to come into agreement.

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If we ask him to help us to come into agreement, if you're one of those people, and we're all one

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of those people that have trouble being consistent with our agreements because our feelings get the

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better of us, then guess what? You can ask God to help you feel the right things. You can ask God to

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help you to have faith. You can ask God to help you to come into agreement and come into alignment.

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One of the most favorite prayers, I think, that we pray that God loves so much is God help me.

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I can't do this on my own. And he's like, oh, it's so good to hear because you weren't supposed to

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in the first place. Internalize that for a minute with me. Process that when you feel like I can't

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do this anymore. I can't do this alone. It's a good thing because you were never supposed to

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in the first place. The only thing that you will ever do kind of in your own strength is surrender.

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And he gives us the grace to do that as well. But everything that happens after that will be

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done by divine empowerment. The problem is, as we're little orphans, that's what the problem is.

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And we run off into this life trying to make things happen for ourselves, the smallest things,

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the biggest things. We do it. We lean into our gifts. For those of you that have certain talents

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and gifts, you're good at talking. You're good at figuring things out. Some of you are just good

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at figuring things out. People come to you and say, hey, can you figure this out for me? And

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you're like, yes. And you come up with some harebrained scheme for your friend to get

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whatever it is that they want. You're good at processes. You're good at troubleshooting and

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problem solving. The thing is, is that gift has now become a weakness because it's overextended

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by your orphanhood. It's overextended by your independence. What God gave you as a gift to use

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with him, you now use on your own. And the problem with that is, is that you're tired. You're burnt

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out. You're overwhelmed. But you were never meant to do it on your own. So he's the author and the

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finisher. We're the middle. We have to say yes. We have to give permission, so to speak.

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Okay. God is sovereign, and yet he's not in control. That's true. That's biblical. And so

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we have to give him permission. We have to sign that permission slip, right? We have to do that.

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And then what happens?

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He gives us finishing faith.

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And that's what I want to talk about this morning.

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We need finishing faith.

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We started on the road to whatever.

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We all started on the road.

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You guys started on the road to your spirit mate.

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That's how you got here in the first place.

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So we had the faith to start because he's the author of it.

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He gave it to us.

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And now we're kind of in the hallway, right?

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We're in between the two doors and we're like, oh, and now we need the faith to finish.

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We need the strength to persevere.

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We need what it says in the Psalms that if you do not grow weary in doing what you know

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is right, taking the road that you know is the right road, that you will what?

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You will win if you don't give up.

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God has promised us that we're going to win, but he has not promised us that we're going

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to win in our own strength.

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And this is where all of us are right now.

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And so before we go any further, I want you to write down in your little book that if

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I start feeling overwhelmed, if I start feeling discouraged, if I start feeling defeated,

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if I start feeling disappointed, then the wrong person is on the throne of my heart.

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The wrong thing is on the throne of my heart.

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I am now in control.

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I am now the master of my own soul.

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These are not things that we want in life because we are not able to get the things

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in life that we want in our own strength.

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Look, I know what I can get in my own strength.

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I'm a very go get them kind of girl.

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I am.

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I am.

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I'm either up or getting up.

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God bless me to be born with a personality where I'm always up or getting up.

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You'll very rarely ever see me negative.

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I'm always finding the silver lining.

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I'm always finding my second wind.

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I'm always pushing through.

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But that gift gets overextended and becomes a weakness when I'm not doing that in the

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spirit.

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I know what I can get in Jackie's strength.

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I know what kind of life I can have and it's not a bad life, but I only want, I want a

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life that only the supernatural can give me.

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That's the life that I want.

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I want a life that I can only get through the power of God, not the power of Jackie.

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And that's what you should want as well.

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And this is where we fall off.

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We fall off because maybe you have some kind of religious idea of what it looks like for

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God to help you and how you can qualify for that assistance.

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And these are usually unconscious thoughts.

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We don't come to God with these little things.

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We don't ask for finishing faith.

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You know, we do so much in our own strengths because we have the idea that we're supposed

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A lot of you believe God helps those that help themselves and all types of things that

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are not in the Bible.

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And then quite frankly, we don't really feel that close to God a lot of times.

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And so we don't come to him as a good father.

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And a lot of us have really screwed up ideas of what father looks like already.

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And that's always lingering in the back of our hearts.

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And so we're just do it on our own.

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We get burnout.

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And then we want to give up.

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And that's where we are.

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But God wants to help us.

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He wants to help us in every little thing.

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When was the last time that you really had a good conversation with your father?

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And I didn't say pray.

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I said, a good conversation with your father, where you just laid it out and said, hey,

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this is what I'm going through, although he knows.

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This is how I feel inside.

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This is what I need from you.

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We're always talking about healthy human relationships and a healthy human will tell you what they

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need.

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If you're in a relationship with a healthy human, they won't just expect you to be a

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mind reader.

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They won't just pout around and expect you to know what they need or what they want or

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what's missing in the relationship.

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They will use their words respectfully to let you know in an honorable way what they're

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dealing with.

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But we should do the same thing with God.

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Yes, he's God.

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Yes, he knows.

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But there are so many scriptures that say, I know what you have need of before you even

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ask.

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Yeah, there's things that follow that kind of idea.

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But then there's also scriptures that say you don't have because you didn't ask.

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And so it's important that we understand that even though God knows us and he knows us more

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intimately than we even know ourselves, he wants us to talk to him about what's in our

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heart.

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He wants us to come to him about what's in our heart and have a conversation.

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I saw a really cute movie last night.

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Some of you may have seen it, but if you haven't seen it,

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it's definitely worth a watch.

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It's a tearjerker for sure, but in a good way.

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It does, spoiler alert, it does have a happy ending,

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which is good, but it's called Ordinary Angels.

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And it's about one woman trying to help a family

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as an act of redemption for her own wrongdoings

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and just kind of to deliver her own soul, so to speak.

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And in the movie, the man in the movie, the father,

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he's been through a lot of stuff.

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And a lot of you feel like that.

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You've been walking through hell with gasoline underwear on.

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As soon as you get through one trial, here comes another.

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Adversity seems to always be dogging your steps,

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and I understand that.

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I've lived that, I get it, I understand.

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And that's kind of this man's story in the movie as well.

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His wife passes away, and his little girl's sick,

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and he's got all these bills mounting up,

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and he feels overwhelmed, and he doesn't know what to do,

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and he's also really mad at God.

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And some of you, the reason why you don't ask God for help

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is because you're actually pretty mad at him.

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You would never admit that because, oh my God,

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we're not allowed to be mad at God, but we are.

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We're mad that things didn't work out

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the way we expected them to.

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We feel like he didn't do what we asked him to,

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or even what he said he was gonna do

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through some word you received.

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There's all different reasons why we would have a block

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between us and God, a block.

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And you've been in human relationships like that.

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It's not that you don't love the person,

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but there's some kind of undealt-with business

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between you and that person,

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and it causes there to be that rift,

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that chasm between the two of you, right?

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Where you don't feel close to them.

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You might even be living in the same house with them,

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but you just don't feel that intimacy,

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or that closeness, or that vulnerability with them anymore

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because of that undealt-with situation, okay?

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That offense, that hurt.

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And we get offended at God,

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and we really do get offended at God.

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And this guy in the movie was playing that, depicting that,

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and I thought that was really great

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because so many people go through that.

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In fact, I think all people go through that at some point.

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And his little daughter, not the one that was sick,

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but the other one who's a couple years older.

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I'd say she's about nine,

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eight or nine in this movie, this girl.

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They're sitting at the mother's graveside,

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and she's like, you know,

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are you mad at God?

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To her dad, and he's like, no, kind of thing.

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And she's like, you know,

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when's the last time you talked to him?

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You guys, it was so powerful.

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When's the last time you talked to God, Daddy?

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You know, I don't know.

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Well, can we talk to him?

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You know, we don't pray anymore.

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We don't talk to God.

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Can we talk to him together?

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Yeah, I guess so.

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And then he goes to her, you start.

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And then just very conversationally,

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she was like, hi, God.

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This made me want to cry.

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Hi, God, it's me and Daddy.

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Hi, God.

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Some of y'all just need to sit down and be like, hi, God.

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Hi, Daddy.

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I'm here.

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I need to talk to you.

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And I know a lot of us don't have a representation of that

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in our real life of a father figure like that.

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I'm one of those people.

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But I will tell you,

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your heavenly father was your first father.

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And he will be your last father, okay?

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He is your father.

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And so regardless of what human example of father,

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quote unquote, you have had, you know,

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you have a good father.

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So many people be like,

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well, if I would have had a good father.

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You do.

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You do.

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And I've become such a daddy's girl.

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I have.

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Become such a daddy's girl.

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And I want that for all of you.

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Daddy's boy.

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I know there's guys on this call too.

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Sorry, guys, if I forget about y'all sometimes.

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I want you to have that type of relationship.

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That doesn't mean I always get my way.

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No, it doesn't mean everything always goes right in my life.

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No, no, it doesn't.

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But I do feel held.

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I do feel loved.

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I do feel seen and known.

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I do feel supported.

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I do feel protected.

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I do feel defended.

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I do feel led and guided.

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And I do feel promoted.

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And I do feel like

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God is helping me to do what it is that I need to do.

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And so many of us look at people

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that have come from good families

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and specifically have good fathers.

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And it seems like they're just doing better in life.

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And I feel like having a good father

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is a really important part of your identity process

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and a really important part of your success.

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And the thing is this, is that we can have that too.

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It's not too late.

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You might look at those people and say,

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well, you know, if I would have come from a good family

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or if I would have had.

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support when I was a kid so I could have followed my dreams if I would have had this, if I would

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have had that.

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It doesn't matter now.

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You didn't have that and it's still not too late for you to have whatever it is that you're

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thinking that you missed out on.

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And so let's press into that idea today.

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A lot of you that are feeling, and here's the thing, if you're feeling restless, there's

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a difference between discouragement, all right?

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The word dis, God showed me this years ago, so the word, let's take the word disappointment

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for instance.

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The word dis actually means the removal of something, right?

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And the word appoint, you guys know what that means.

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That means to select something, to appoint it, to give it authority for something, right?

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And so we're going to remove the authority from something in our lives.

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When we're disappointed, what's happening is that the authority that you've given something,

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say a new relationship, or a new job, or something that you expected to happen, a check

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in the mail from some sort of refund, whatever, that didn't show up.

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So the authority that you gave that thing to make you happy, to solve your problems,

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come on y'all.

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The authority that you gave that thing in your life to be the magic bullet of happiness,

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it now has to be removed.

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That authority has to be removed.

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It has to be dissed.

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Why?

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Because it wasn't that in the first place.

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And that's the feeling that we feel, like, oh, I expected this thing to, the authority

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that I've given this thing to be what I was missing.

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And now I feel down because that authority had to be removed because it was misplaced

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authority.

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You guys following me here?

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But guess what?

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We can't be disappointed in God because he really is in a place of authority.

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He really is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or imagine.

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By what, though?

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By the power that works in us.

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What power is that?

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I think it's a lot of different things.

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I think it's the power of hope, supernatural hope and faith.

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I think it's the power of permission.

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I think it's the power of surrender.

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Obviously, it's the power of Holy Spirit, right?

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So we have so many disappointments in our lives that lead to discouragement, that lead

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us to, you know, our courage to leave us, our boldness to leave us.

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But most times, those disappointments, those things that we were counting on happening,

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we had them in the wrong seat on the bus.

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We had them in the wrong place on the wrong throne in our heart.

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So we have to come back and we have to say, hey, why do I feel this way right now?

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What was I expecting to happen from this?

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And how can it still happen?

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How can it still happen?

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Even though this thing that I was counting on didn't happen, how can it still happen

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in my life?

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What is it that I really want and need?

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And then you come to God with that and say, hi, dad.

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Hi, God.

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This is what I want.

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This is what I need.

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Now I thought, daddy, that it was going to come this way because it's important to get

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down to what it is you really want, not the vehicle that you thought it was going to show

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up in.

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Okay?

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Like, for instance, you're like, some of you are like, I saw you put that you're getting

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discouraged in the area of your spirit mate and you're getting, you're getting discouraged.

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You're feeling like giving up, but you come to God and you're like, hi, God.

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Where's my husband?

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Hi, God.

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Where's my wife?

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No, it's important to come to God and say, you know, what's the deeper thing?

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I'm lonely.

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Hi, God.

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I'm lonely.

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Hi, God.

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I feel overwhelmed with the things I'm doing in life and I don't have a partner to help.

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This is a two person job.

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You guys got to get down to the deeper thing.

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Do you guys see what I'm saying here?

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See what I'm saying?

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Hi, God.

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I have this pain in my body and I'm discouraged by it because I'm finally, I'm finally doing

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what you've asked me to do for years and that is make time for myself and some self-care.

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I'm making time to move like you told me to.

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I'm finally doing it and now this pain is showing up and it's trying to shipwreck me.

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It's trying to sideline me.

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It's trying to keep me from being able to get healthy.

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All I want to do is be able to walk, God, and I'm finally saying yes to taking care

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of this body that you've given me and now this pain is trying to keep me from being

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able to do it. And now I feel discouraged. You guys see where I'm going with this? Okay.

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So wherever it is, whatever it is, the thing that you're disappointed about or discouraged

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about what's the deeper need, the deeper need. I want you to think about that really quick.

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Holy spirit help us see the deeper thing, the deeper need. Like the example I use about

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spirit mates. I'm lonely. I want to, I want, I'm overwhelmed. I need, I need a partner.

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I need help. Okay. So I want us to focus on what I'm asking for right now. What is the

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deeper thing? What is the deeper thing? And if you don't know what it is, ask Holy spirit

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to show it to you. What's the deeper thing? All right. Then when you got it, go ahead

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and put it in the chat. When you got the deeper thing, go ahead and put it in the chat. Lonely

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loneliness, fear. Is there a deeper thing Jill to fear? Is there a specific fear? You

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guys underneath wanting a spirit mate, sometimes the fear is dying alone. It's okay to admit

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that you can admit that to us. You can admit that to God. What's the deeper fear in the

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place of what? I'm sorry. What's the, what is the, the deeper thing underneath your

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discouragement and your disappointment? And remember, I'm not just asking the deeper thing

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on spirit mate stuff, wherever you're discouraged. A lot of you put your jobs,

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00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:31.280
a lot of you put your health. I want those deeper things. That's what I'm asking for.

472
00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:35.840
This is not just a call about spirit mates. A lot of you haven't caught on yet. So I'm going

473
00:27:35.840 --> 00:27:41.680
to go ahead and tell you the secret. You know, you are here because God drew you here because

474
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:47.760
of something you wanted. You wanted a spirit mate. You want to be married. You want romantic

475
00:27:47.760 --> 00:27:53.280
love in your life. And so you saw the ad or you, you know, you heard your friend's testimony or

476
00:27:53.280 --> 00:27:59.200
whatever got you here. That's why you're here. And God has a love story for you, a human love

477
00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:06.240
story, a romantic love story, but that's not all he has for you. Oftentimes God uses the thing that

478
00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:11.120
we feel like is the magic bullet of happiness. And a lot of you still believe that that's what it is.

479
00:28:12.080 --> 00:28:17.360
Oh, if I just had that partner, if I just, you know, if I still just met that love of my life,

480
00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:20.640
well, I want to let you know something. You've already met the love of your life.

481
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:27.040
And it's not a human. Now, this is not a sermon about God should be enough for you. And you

482
00:28:27.040 --> 00:28:31.520
shouldn't want this. And you just need to know Jesus better. I don't believe that you guys know

483
00:28:31.520 --> 00:28:36.720
that I don't, I don't teach that God created us for human relationship. He is the source of love,

484
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:43.360
but he puts resources of love in our lives called people to show us how much he loves us. But you

485
00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:47.600
have already met the love of your life. And it is important that we keep the main thing,

486
00:28:47.600 --> 00:28:54.080
the main thing. Now there are elements of God that you will never understand until you see those

487
00:28:54.080 --> 00:28:58.880
elements coming through a human, because let's face it. We love God, but we want something with

488
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:06.720
skin on it. We do. And we were created to want something with skin on it, right? Adam was in

489
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:13.520
the garden and God saw that he wasn't fully fulfilled. He wasn't fully fulfilled being in

490
00:29:13.520 --> 00:29:21.840
paradise with the presence of God. Guys, he was a paradise with the presence of God. And he had a

491
00:29:21.840 --> 00:29:28.640
purpose. He was a steward of creation and it was not enough for him. God saw that he needed

492
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:34.400
something else. And he didn't just need some someone to help him steward the garden. Like

493
00:29:35.040 --> 00:29:38.720
when we say the word help me, people are like, Oh yeah, you know, it was just too big of a job.

494
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:48.320
He needed another person. No, he needed to be in relationship with his own kind. Why? Because

495
00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:55.040
God knew that that would enrich his relationship with God. And that is what good human relationships

496
00:29:55.040 --> 00:29:59.840
do for us. And sometimes bad human relationships do that for us too. They drive us to God.

497
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.920
And so God knows that you have need of that.

498
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:04.920
He does.

499
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:09.400
But you guys, it's not disconnected from the other things you have need of.

500
00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:14.880
I'm trying to show you this morning through Holy Spirit, through the power of Holy Spirit

501
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:20.480
this morning, that it's all connected.

502
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:22.760
It's all connected, everybody.

503
00:30:22.760 --> 00:30:23.760
So look at all those things.

504
00:30:23.760 --> 00:30:26.680
Look at your brothers and sisters are putting up in the chat.

505
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:27.920
What's the deeper need?

506
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:29.360
What's the deeper fear?

507
00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:32.320
What's the deeper disconnect?

508
00:30:32.320 --> 00:30:36.600
What is it?

509
00:30:36.600 --> 00:30:41.280
What is it?

510
00:30:41.280 --> 00:30:47.200
Someone put in a private message to me, the deeper need is to just be accepted for who

511
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:48.680
I am.

512
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:49.840
Wow.

513
00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:52.520
Come on.

514
00:30:52.520 --> 00:30:57.960
The deeper need is just to feel accepted as I am.

515
00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:00.920
Yes.

516
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:04.240
You guys, that's supernatural.

517
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:09.000
In relationships with people, if you have people in your life that just allow you to be where

518
00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:13.840
you are, to be messy, that accept you where you are and who you are right now, that's

519
00:31:13.840 --> 00:31:17.040
a God thing.

520
00:31:17.040 --> 00:31:18.360
That's a God thing.

521
00:31:18.360 --> 00:31:23.520
People that will just love you in your process.

522
00:31:23.520 --> 00:31:24.520
And guess what?

523
00:31:24.520 --> 00:31:29.720
You're not here in this community, but you got to show up.

524
00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:34.360
I mean, we don't, we can't love you for who you are if we don't know you.

525
00:31:34.360 --> 00:31:35.360
So you got to show up.

526
00:31:35.360 --> 00:31:36.520
You got to show your face.

527
00:31:36.520 --> 00:31:38.080
That's important stuff.

528
00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:43.840
So God wants us to know that we can reach out.

529
00:31:43.840 --> 00:31:45.360
We can talk to him.

530
00:31:45.360 --> 00:31:46.720
We can talk to him as a friend.

531
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:48.320
God wants to be your friend.

532
00:31:48.320 --> 00:31:50.760
He wants to talk to you.

533
00:31:50.760 --> 00:31:54.600
He already knows the deep, intricate workings of your heart, but he wants you to tell him

534
00:31:54.600 --> 00:31:56.160
about those things.

535
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.840
And as you talk to him about those things, he'll actually show you more about yourself

536
00:31:59.840 --> 00:32:01.880
than what you know.

537
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:06.280
You'll actually start having some aha moments about, you know, what you really believe and

538
00:32:06.280 --> 00:32:08.200
what you really want.

539
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:11.760
So sometimes you guys will show up and we think that we want a certain thing and we

540
00:32:11.760 --> 00:32:15.840
show up to God and we're like, Hey, I'm upset because I don't have this thing and I want

541
00:32:15.840 --> 00:32:16.840
this thing.

542
00:32:16.840 --> 00:32:20.720
And we have this talk, you know, my grandma, when I was little, she used to sing this song

543
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:24.600
have a little talk with Jesus makes it right.

544
00:32:24.600 --> 00:32:28.120
Now I didn't really know much of what she was talking about because I didn't meet Jesus

545
00:32:28.120 --> 00:32:29.120
when I was a child.

546
00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:30.120
I met him.

547
00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:33.640
I might have met him when I was a child and I just didn't know it.

548
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:40.600
But I really, really had a really good meeting with him when I was 22 but have a little talk

549
00:32:40.600 --> 00:32:41.800
with Jesus makes it right.

550
00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:44.680
So you show up and you have that conversation.

551
00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:48.760
And as you're telling him about the things that you want and the things that you don't

552
00:32:48.760 --> 00:32:54.040
have, you start to have an understanding that that really isn't what you want.

553
00:32:54.040 --> 00:32:58.720
You start to have a deeper revelation of what you really want.

554
00:32:58.720 --> 00:32:59.840
Has that ever happened to anyone?

555
00:32:59.840 --> 00:33:02.240
It's definitely happened to me.

556
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:05.360
You're actually fixated on the lesser thing.

557
00:33:05.360 --> 00:33:10.640
You want this lesser thing and God knows because he's God that that isn't what's going to truly

558
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:11.720
make you happy.

559
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:14.120
You don't know it yet, but he does.

560
00:33:14.120 --> 00:33:16.320
And so this is where disappointment comes in.

561
00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:21.000
You've appointed that thing as the magic bullet of happiness, but God knows better.

562
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.280
He knows that if you really got that thing that you were praying for, that not only would

563
00:33:24.280 --> 00:33:29.360
it not make you happy, it might actually make you something else.

564
00:33:29.360 --> 00:33:31.040
That's not good.

565
00:33:31.040 --> 00:33:37.120
And so that is why prayers are just as important as answer prayers.

566
00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:40.280
And that's why your Jesus cares board is so important in this process.

567
00:33:40.280 --> 00:33:44.400
And for those of you that stopped using it, start using it again.

568
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:48.240
For those of you that are brand new, if you haven't got to the module where we talk about

569
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:53.120
the Jesus cares board, it's in the first two weeks of your heartwork phase one.

570
00:33:53.120 --> 00:33:55.320
So you should have gotten there by now, hopefully.

571
00:33:55.320 --> 00:33:59.480
But if you haven't, you will use your Jesus cares board because this is where you put

572
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:05.640
things into God's hands and you let him show you whether or not they're either they're

573
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.199
even worthy of your attention.

574
00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:12.320
This is where you let him show you whether or not you should even be concerned about

575
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:13.320
these things.

576
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:14.320
Okay.

577
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.120
And obviously, we don't want to bear our own burdens.

578
00:34:17.120 --> 00:34:19.920
We want to cast our cares upon him because he cares for us.

579
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:23.159
But is this something that should even be on my radar?

580
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:25.800
Because you don't just put your worries up there.

581
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:29.159
You also put your wants up there, right?

582
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:33.920
You also put the things that for whatever reason, you you want them, but you can't have

583
00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:42.199
them and you don't know why and you put them up there.

584
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:46.480
You put them up there and you let God show you.

585
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:47.800
And I've experienced this.

586
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:48.800
And hopefully you haven't.

587
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:51.159
And if you haven't, hopefully you will.

588
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:58.160
That when I have done that with my disappointments, you know, this isn't working out, God, I don't

589
00:34:58.160 --> 00:34:59.160
understand why.

590
00:34:59.160 --> 00:34:59.680
And I put it up there.

591
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.160
pretty soon all of a sudden either something works out and there's

592
00:35:05.160 --> 00:35:09.720
breakthrough in that area or I no longer care like I don't even want it anymore

593
00:35:09.720 --> 00:35:13.320
and I take it down I crumple it up and throw in the garbage I was like yeah you

594
00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:20.440
know I just that's lost its luster for me just lost its luster and not because

595
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:25.760
I'm disappointed it's lost its luster because I just see it differently

596
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:29.680
through a different lens than I did before

597
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.640
I'm gonna pray that over you right now father change our lenses clean our

598
00:35:35.640 --> 00:35:41.400
lenses clean our lenses right now I just really sensing that someone has rose

599
00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:46.400
color glasses on right now you're seeing a situation through the idealness of how

600
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:52.960
it could be instead of how it really is and so you're really pining away for

601
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:58.320
this thing to be the way that you see it with these rose-colored glasses on

602
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:03.720
and that's not the reality of this situation and it's not about oh well

603
00:36:03.720 --> 00:36:08.600
reality can change with the power of Holy Spirit no because it involves the

604
00:36:08.600 --> 00:36:13.040
free will of somebody else and the way that you're seeing this situation is not

605
00:36:13.040 --> 00:36:17.800
the way it really is and so I just pray right now that you will be able to take

606
00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:23.840
those rose color glasses off and you'll be able to see this situation this

607
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:29.960
scenario the way it really is so that you can move on with your life and that

608
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:35.240
is a word for someone this morning that is a word for someone I'm also sensing

609
00:36:35.240 --> 00:36:41.520
that there's more than one person that you see everything through the lens of

610
00:36:41.520 --> 00:36:46.360
childhood trauma you're always waiting for the other shoe to drop you're always

611
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:50.520
waiting for something to go wrong in fact you can't even get excited about

612
00:36:50.520 --> 00:36:54.320
opportunities in your life because in the back of your mind there's always the

613
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.720
nagging feeling that it's just not going to work out it's just not gonna work out

614
00:36:59.720 --> 00:37:04.680
it's not going to happen you've had way way way too many

615
00:37:04.680 --> 00:37:10.240
disappointments and because of that you know you are no longer able to get your

616
00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:15.400
hopes up about anything so you have those those glasses on that you know you

617
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.720
might even consider yourself a realist in the way of how you look at things

618
00:37:19.720 --> 00:37:28.160
well you know we'll see we'll see well God wants you to see my friend he wants

619
00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:33.920
you to see the way that he sees and so we just pray right now that those lenses

620
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:39.160
will be cleaned off that you'll be able to get excited about something without

621
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:46.080
feeling the fear of getting those hopes up that your supernatural hope would

622
00:37:46.080 --> 00:37:51.240
arise in situations that you become positive where you've been very negative

623
00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:56.960
always looking at the glass is half-empty half-empty always looking at

624
00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:03.360
things from a place of scarcity instead of a place of fullness and abundance

625
00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:10.760
life is for you life is for you God is for you we just release that over

626
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:15.160
everyone that applies to this morning so that was to give us finishing faith

627
00:38:15.160 --> 00:38:20.640
friends we can't we don't have the faith to finish he says that he does that he's

628
00:38:20.640 --> 00:38:25.960
the author and finisher so we're in the middle and we're on this ride we're

629
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:30.000
buckled in we've been here for some time and now we need that second win we need

630
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:35.360
that finishing faith we need that encouragement we need that hope to arise

631
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:41.960
we need it we have to have it we can't we can't conjure it up on our own it's

632
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:51.160
not something in our human ability it's not something that we can do yes Lord I

633
00:38:51.160 --> 00:38:55.040
want to remind everyone that we do have our monthly prophetic night tomorrow

634
00:38:55.040 --> 00:38:59.520
night and so if you've never joined us for that try to join us live if you can

635
00:38:59.520 --> 00:39:05.120
our prayer team is going to be there it's always a really great time and that

636
00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:12.640
is tomorrow night on our Sunday night activation call I see Crystal in Ohio

637
00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:19.080
her avatar is a butterfly in hope the word hope there just see it flashing

638
00:39:19.080 --> 00:39:24.560
here on the screen and that is definitely a right on time word for so

639
00:39:24.560 --> 00:39:30.200
many of you you guys I live out here kind of in the country and there's a

640
00:39:30.200 --> 00:39:36.120
very very very long winding road to get to my house it's not my driveway it's

641
00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:41.320
just the road off of the main you know the main street road that's two miles

642
00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:44.760
away then there's like a two mile kind of winding country road to get to my

643
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:49.440
house okay and all of a sudden on this country road I've noticed that there's

644
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:53.600
all these woolly bears there's all these there's all these furry caterpillars

645
00:39:53.600 --> 00:39:58.960
crossing the road right and I'm trying my best not to run them over every time

646
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:01.880
I drive that road

647
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.400
to go into town, so to speak, um, I'll have to avoid those caterpillars, right?

648
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:09.720
Like a video game, because there's so many of them.

649
00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:12.320
And I noticed that it's that season.

650
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:19.480
It's that season where they're doing what they are headed towards the cocoon.

651
00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:21.040
That's what they're doing.

652
00:40:21.040 --> 00:40:23.480
They're eating like the hungry, hungry caterpillar.

653
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:29.760
They're getting ready to head towards the cocoon where they're going to be transformed.

654
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:33.040
And you guys, I live in an area where you've never seen so many butterflies.

655
00:40:33.040 --> 00:40:37.120
In fact, we're on the migration path of the monarch.

656
00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:42.560
So there's a certain time of year where if I sit outside on my front porch, um, you know,

657
00:40:42.560 --> 00:40:47.860
especially in the morning time or in the evening at dusk, there'll be thousands of monarchs

658
00:40:47.860 --> 00:40:49.360
that are just flying over.

659
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:51.400
It looks like a swarm of something.

660
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:52.400
You're like, what is that?

661
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.400
It's butterflies.

662
00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:59.120
Butterflies just flying and migrating and doing whatever it is and going wherever they

663
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:00.480
go.

664
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:03.800
And I don't know if that's because I'm in Texas and you know, they, they winter, they

665
00:41:03.800 --> 00:41:07.080
winter in Mexico, they're wintering in Cancun.

666
00:41:07.080 --> 00:41:11.960
I'm not really sure because I didn't look it up except to know that we are on the migration

667
00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:17.160
path and my eyes attest to that because I see them.

668
00:41:17.160 --> 00:41:24.480
And a lot of you are in those different stages of, um, of chrysalis in the, in that transformation

669
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:25.480
process.

670
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:29.880
Some of you are in air and you're just in seasons of abundance right now.

671
00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.480
You are, there's just so much abundance.

672
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:34.760
You're like that, that woolly bear that's just eating.

673
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:40.280
There's just nonstop opportunity and abundance and you're just flying high and it's great.

674
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:44.120
And you know, you're going to be headed towards a time of stretching, but you're not there

675
00:41:44.120 --> 00:41:47.440
yet and enjoy this time.

676
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:50.280
You guys were, it's important that we enjoy every season that we're in.

677
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:51.840
That's the finishing faith.

678
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:57.960
We got to enjoy the seasons that we're in, not always pining away after the next one.

679
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:01.920
There is sweetness and we'll do a whole different supernatural Saturday on this.

680
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:05.920
There is sweetness in every season, right?

681
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.480
There is, there's sweetness in every season.

682
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:13.840
And so then you're going and in, and then the people that have gone past that stage

683
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:18.320
and they're in that stage where, you know, they're beginning to prepare to go into that

684
00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:20.480
transformation stage.

685
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:24.960
Some of you are, you know, in the thick of it, of that transformation stage.

686
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:26.400
You feel like you're being torn apart.

687
00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:33.720
You feel like you're being completely, you know, uh, down to mush.

688
00:42:33.720 --> 00:42:38.120
For those of you that have read the first couple of chapters of the heart work, you

689
00:42:38.120 --> 00:42:40.160
know, that's what happens in those cocoons.

690
00:42:40.160 --> 00:42:41.160
It's goo.

691
00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:42.960
It's caterpillar goo.

692
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:48.200
And I don't know how old I was when I heard that and finally realized that that was happening.

693
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:54.440
It was a long time ago and I was like, Oh, that's not, that's not cool.

694
00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:59.720
But it's important that we understand that those transformation spaces, they don't just

695
00:42:59.720 --> 00:43:02.000
make you a better version of yourself.

696
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They make you a difference, a different, a whole different self.

697
00:43:07.040 --> 00:43:10.840
You know, a butterfly is a caterpillar is going into the cocoon, one species, and it's

698
00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:12.080
coming out another species.

699
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There's a complete transformation that's taking place.

700
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Everything has changed, right?

701
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Everything has changed.

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And so a lot of you are in the thick of that where you're, everything is just kind of falling

703
00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:28.720
apart so that better things can fall together.

704
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And then some of you are in that place where you've been through that and now you it's,

705
00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:37.360
you've been transformed, but you're not quite soaring yet, right?

706
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:43.240
You're not because you're still kind of beating yourself, beating your way out of that cocoon.

707
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:47.480
And we all know that when butterflies are coming out of the cocoon, that's what strengthens

708
00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:48.480
them.

709
00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:53.720
You know, that struggle of coming out of that place of transformation is what strengthens

710
00:43:53.720 --> 00:43:55.480
them and helps them.

711
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You know, the child, when it's coming out of the birth canal, the struggle to be born

712
00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:06.120
where it's pushing and it's coming, you know, that is important for the child.

713
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That's important for the baby.

714
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We can give C-sections now and we do, but those babies that come out C-sections, there's

715
00:44:14.620 --> 00:44:16.180
a lack of strength there, right?

716
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It's not that they don't gain it and they gain it quickly, but the children that come

717
00:44:20.380 --> 00:44:25.060
through the birth canal, there is something that they have that the ones that have been

718
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delivered C-section do not.

719
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Now not for the rest of their lives, but for those moments after birth, right?

720
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For those first couple of weeks and, you know, maybe months after birth.

721
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And then there's those of you that you're on the other side, you're not the living in

722
00:44:41.540 --> 00:44:46.060
the abundance of the caterpillar state, you know, just fat, dumb and happy.

723
00:44:46.060 --> 00:44:50.620
You're not in that place, but you're, you're soaring, you're flying high in the spirit.

724
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You have a supernatural focus in life.

725
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You know, you feel like you have come into a place of convergence with the things that

726
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God has spoken.

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to you and shown you and then here's the good news and the bad news is that

728
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regardless of what season you're in there's there's sweetness that's the

729
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good news and this isn't really bad news but it's just the reality that we'll

730
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continue to cycle through all those cycles in different areas of our lives

731
00:45:17.120 --> 00:45:21.840
for the rest of our lives on earth there will always be an area of

732
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transformation that's happening sometimes simultaneously to a

733
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transformation of to a to a season of breakthrough there's always something

734
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that we're being refined in and that's why it's really important that we begin

735
00:45:35.560 --> 00:45:42.680
to enjoy the process because the process is the point you have to enjoy your life

736
00:45:42.680 --> 00:45:46.920
right where you are and for those of you that are discouraged about your weight

737
00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:50.760
you know I'm right there with you I gained 50 pounds my mom passed away

738
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:56.040
seemingly overnight and seemingly for no reason nothing in my life had changed as

739
00:45:56.040 --> 00:46:00.960
far as habits were concerned obviously I'm almost 50 years old so my hormones

740
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:05.000
do play a role I understand all that so if you're gonna start posting in the

741
00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:09.000
comments all kinds of tips for me trust me I've heard them all but here's the

742
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:13.600
thing that I realized I have to just love myself at every at every interval

743
00:46:13.600 --> 00:46:18.480
of life you know a lot of you are holding back on loving yourself until

744
00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:22.920
you get to a place where you feel like you're worthy of love

745
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.040
and whether that's some addiction that you're dealing with okay whether it's

746
00:46:27.040 --> 00:46:31.880
you know you're holding your own feet to the fire of you know oh well I got to do

747
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:35.520
this better I have to manage my time better I have to do this better it could

748
00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:39.520
be your fallen prey to something that you don't want to do you continue to

749
00:46:39.520 --> 00:46:43.720
make the same life-controlling behavior mistake over and over and over again

750
00:46:43.720 --> 00:46:48.960
whether it's looking at porn or whether it's you know eating your emotions it

751
00:46:49.200 --> 00:46:54.320
doesn't matter whatever it is and you're not gonna love yourself in those messy

752
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:58.000
spaces and that's where you're going wrong and I understand that you don't

753
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:01.360
have the love to love yourself but that's where the finishing faith comes

754
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:06.160
in you're like well Jackie how does that have to do with this it has to do with

755
00:47:06.160 --> 00:47:11.040
it because you're coming to God you're saying you know I'm asking you to give

756
00:47:11.040 --> 00:47:17.200
me the faith to believe in myself I'm asking you to finish my faith to believe

757
00:47:17.240 --> 00:47:21.360
in the goodness that has been inside of me because you said that there's no good

758
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:26.280
thing in me except for you so you're in me and regardless of what mistakes or

759
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:30.480
decisions I'm making that means that there's still good in me and I'm going

760
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:35.200
to I'm gonna maximize on that I'm gonna optimize on that I'm gonna choose to

761
00:47:35.200 --> 00:47:39.400
look at the best version of myself so that I can become the best version of

762
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:46.200
myself right we have to have finishing faith to believe in ourselves we have to

763
00:47:46.200 --> 00:47:51.400
so I made a decision that you know what I'm gonna treat myself as good as I can

764
00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:56.000
I'm gonna eat as healthy and clean as I can I'm going to move and by the way

765
00:47:56.000 --> 00:48:00.160
that example of hey I'm moving I'm trying to do what you've instructed me

766
00:48:00.160 --> 00:48:03.800
to do God but there's pain in my body that's keeping me from it that's my

767
00:48:03.800 --> 00:48:09.760
example all of a sudden what I'm trying to really get after you know health

768
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:16.480
healthy lifestyle as far as moving and prioritizing moving I hurt my foot I

769
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:20.920
have some kind of plantar fasciitis so when you think of me pray for me my foot

770
00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:27.880
was not injured and yet it is not good and because of that it's trying to keep

771
00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:33.400
me from being able to do what it is that is in my heart to do and so regardless

772
00:48:33.400 --> 00:48:39.720
of that what I've decided is is that you just have to love yourself where you are

773
00:48:39.720 --> 00:48:43.000
and here's the other thing that I want to say to someone and probably more than

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one someone you know degrading yourself and berating yourself never really

775
00:48:47.200 --> 00:48:53.520
brought any kind of significant change did it it didn't in fact the problems

776
00:48:53.520 --> 00:48:56.840
that you are beating yourself up over you probably still have them because

777
00:48:56.840 --> 00:49:05.360
that is not how change comes change comes through love that's how change

778
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:09.280
comes and so if you really want to see yourself have breakthrough in that area

779
00:49:09.640 --> 00:49:14.320
you have to ask God to help you to give you the love to love yourself with first

780
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:22.680
of all all right because you don't have it and that's fine but he can give it to

781
00:49:22.680 --> 00:49:28.000
you this is part of that finishing faith you know if Jesus died for you then it's

782
00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:31.080
important that you have the faith to understand that you must be really

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worthy I want you to say that over yourself if Jesus died for me now I know

784
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:40.520
you die I know you know that he died for humanity but you need to personalize

785
00:49:40.520 --> 00:49:44.400
that because it says that he died for you it says he saw you when he was on

786
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:50.240
the cross he saw you when he was on the cross he died for you and as you as you

787
00:49:50.240 --> 00:49:55.680
on the cross and so you need to internalize the truth that if he died

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00:49:55.680 --> 00:50:01.800
for me then that must mean that I'm worthy

789
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That must mean that I'm valuable.

790
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That must mean that I'm important, right?

791
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You guys, for so many of us, the breakthrough lies right here.

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I know these are simple concepts, but you have to ask God to help you to believe them,

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to give you faith to believe that they're true, the finishing faith to believe that

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they're true.

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Because with that kind of faith, you're going to come to God.

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Doesn't the scripture say that without faith, it's impossible to please God?

797
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But why is it impossible to please him?

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00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:36.480
Because if you have faith, then you're going to come to him and believe that he is a rewarder

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00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:42.120
of those that seek him, right?

800
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So without faith, you're going to try to do it on your own.

801
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:47.460
You're going to constantly be in your own strength and your own power, leaning into

802
00:50:47.460 --> 00:50:51.640
your own gifts, trying to accomplish what you cannot accomplish in the flesh because

803
00:50:51.640 --> 00:50:53.560
it has to be done in the spirit.

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But with faith, you're going to be able to come to your father, even as a hot mess express,

805
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:05.080
and believe that you're worthy of love, that you're worthy of notice.

806
00:51:05.080 --> 00:51:06.680
You're worthy of attention.

807
00:51:06.680 --> 00:51:07.680
You're worthy of help.

808
00:51:07.680 --> 00:51:08.680
Yes, Lord.

809
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All right.

810
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I know it's tight, but it's right.

811
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I know you all are quiet and I know you're processing, but at the same time, I believe

812
00:51:19.240 --> 00:51:21.320
that this is getting deep into your heart.

813
00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:25.200
There's so many nuggets this morning from Holy Spirit.

814
00:51:25.200 --> 00:51:28.720
Obviously none of this plan, none of it written down, all of it just downloaded from the spirit

815
00:51:28.720 --> 00:51:34.360
realm and something for everyone.

816
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.440
Little nuances, something for everyone.

817
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:41.560
So I want you to go ahead and put in the chat what you got out of this morning.

818
00:51:41.560 --> 00:51:42.760
What spoke to you?

819
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.920
What do you know was a word for you this morning?

820
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:53.680
What area of this Supernatural Saturday talk was directly aimed at your heart?

821
00:51:53.680 --> 00:51:54.320
Let's see those.

822
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:22.320
Yes, Jeannie, he is the love of your life and he wants to share you with a man.

823
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:35.440
Yes, look at all that beautifulness.

824
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:39.520
You guys really read this for those of those listening and replay.

825
00:52:39.520 --> 00:52:45.360
So many people having breakthrough and self-deprecation in areas where they don't feel seen or don't

826
00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:51.280
feel like they're worthy of attention, self-medicating disappointment and discouragement.

827
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:58.480
The rose-colored glasses really stuck out to Brittany and Karen.

828
00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:02.480
Becoming a daddy's girl, becoming a son.

829
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:06.240
Lots of people, the rose-colored glasses, that just hit you.

830
00:53:06.240 --> 00:53:08.480
Yes, we're the middle.

831
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:09.480
We're the middle, y'all.

832
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And it's good.

833
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:12.320
You just, you're only the middle.

834
00:53:12.640 --> 00:53:17.520
When you try to be the beginning or the end, when you try to take it all on in your power,

835
00:53:17.520 --> 00:53:18.560
I'm just the middle.

836
00:53:18.560 --> 00:53:22.720
One of my favorite things to say, in fact, I thought about getting it tattooed on my

837
00:53:22.720 --> 00:53:26.960
body so I remember it, is because I have a tendency to forget about it.

838
00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:28.400
Because you guys, I'm actually an orphan.

839
00:53:29.200 --> 00:53:30.800
I mean, like, I'm not an orphan.

840
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:31.920
I'm a child of God.

841
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:34.320
But I mean, like, I, that's my experience.

842
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:35.680
That's my earthly experience.

843
00:53:35.680 --> 00:53:36.480
I was orphaned.

844
00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:39.200
So, and a lot of you have that experience too.

845
00:53:39.200 --> 00:53:40.480
You didn't have a mother and father.

846
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:41.840
You know, I was sent to live in a girl's home.

847
00:53:41.920 --> 00:53:43.040
I lived in foster care.

848
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So I, those tendencies die hard.

849
00:53:45.520 --> 00:53:46.320
They really do.

850
00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:50.000
And so I'm always trying to just kind of make it happen for myself.

851
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.960
But my favorite thing to remember is John 15.

852
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:53.920
I'm just a branch.

853
00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:54.800
I'm just a branch.

854
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:55.680
I'm just a branch.

855
00:53:57.120 --> 00:53:58.800
And that goes along with you're the middle.

856
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.160
Those are, those are very similar concepts.

857
00:54:02.160 --> 00:54:03.120
I'm just a branch.

858
00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:05.200
He's the vine.

859
00:54:05.200 --> 00:54:06.480
I'm just the branch.

860
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:10.080
I can't make anything happen in my own strength, but I still got to show up.

861
00:54:11.040 --> 00:54:12.480
What's a vine without a branch?

862
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:15.040
You guys, I know that people are like, well, God doesn't need our help.

863
00:54:15.040 --> 00:54:16.640
That's biblically not true.

864
00:54:19.040 --> 00:54:20.640
Especially when it comes to your own life.

865
00:54:22.560 --> 00:54:24.800
To him who's able to exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask,

866
00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:27.040
think, or imagine by the power that works in you.

867
00:54:27.600 --> 00:54:29.280
You are an important part of the equation.

868
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.640
The end and the beginning and the end don't even get connected unless there's a middle.

869
00:54:35.600 --> 00:54:38.000
The middle is what connects the beginning and the end.

870
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:41.760
The branch is what connects the vine to the fruit.

871
00:54:43.600 --> 00:54:46.400
Someone needs to get ahold of that idea, including myself.

872
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:50.640
God needs us to bear fruit in the earth.

873
00:54:51.600 --> 00:54:53.760
That process can't happen without us.

874
00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:55.600
We are the middle man.

875
00:54:56.480 --> 00:54:57.840
We are the middle y'all.

876
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.080
Whoa, you are the middle God needs you

877
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:10.600
And why does he need you because that's how he designed it. This is God's idea. It's God's idea

878
00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:15.920
It's God's idea and yes, Tammy

879
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:21.840
You can have parents in the home and still be orphaned and still feel neglected and uncared for. Amen. It's true and

880
00:55:22.560 --> 00:55:28.260
You guys those I have to do it myself if it's gonna get done that I have to do it

881
00:55:28.260 --> 00:55:33.740
I have to figure it out a lot of you feel like God just thrust you into the earth and said good luck kid

882
00:55:33.740 --> 00:55:35.740
I hope you make it

883
00:55:36.340 --> 00:55:43.260
God showed me years ago that that was my mentality and that's not true. We are cared for we are loved we are held

884
00:55:43.980 --> 00:55:46.700
protected defended provided for but

885
00:55:47.740 --> 00:55:49.940
we have to allow that process and

886
00:55:50.900 --> 00:55:55.020
Remember that we're just the middle when we try to be the beginning or the end when we try to be divine

887
00:55:55.180 --> 00:55:57.180
That's where everything goes wrong

888
00:55:59.260 --> 00:56:01.260
All

889
00:56:01.300 --> 00:56:03.900
Right y'all thanks for joining me this morning

890
00:56:05.460 --> 00:56:07.460
Thanks for joining me y'all

891
00:56:07.460 --> 00:56:13.700
Yes, Olga said even when God came to earth. He still needed Mary to give birth even though it was supernatural

892
00:56:14.220 --> 00:56:16.300
She was the middleman woman

893
00:56:18.900 --> 00:56:23.060
So good guys, we're gonna continue this powerful goodness tomorrow night on

894
00:56:23.580 --> 00:56:27.580
Our time together in the prophetic we won't continue it exactly like this

895
00:56:27.580 --> 00:56:33.940
It'll be more like words of knowledge and wisdom prophetic words all kinds of you know, things being released

896
00:56:33.940 --> 00:56:37.100
I hope that you can come live. If not, we will record it

897
00:56:37.180 --> 00:56:42.500
We do record that Sunday night session so that people that cannot be there for whatever reason get to

898
00:56:43.220 --> 00:56:47.660
Listen in and if you do listen in you you will hear something even if you weren't there in

899
00:56:47.860 --> 00:56:52.700
In person you'll hear something that's directly for you because that's the way the prophetic works

900
00:56:52.860 --> 00:56:55.540
All right, go with God. Have a supernatural

901
00:56:56.180 --> 00:56:58.180
Saturday. Love you all. Bye