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and welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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Woo-hoo!

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It's my favorite day of the week.

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I love it.

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I hope you love it.

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And if you're new to it, welcome.

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Welcome.

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Today is the day that in our last year single community,

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we look to the Lord.

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We lean into what is the current prophetic reality

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over us individually and corporately as a movement.

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What is God speaking to us?

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Look, I didn't call myself to be a prophet

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to the single nation,

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but God called me to be a prophet to the single nation.

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And I have answered that call.

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I've said, okay, yes, let's do this.

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And so every single week,

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we gather here to hear what is God saying to us?

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What direction is he giving us?

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What encouragement is being released from heaven?

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What edification, exhortation?

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We want all of those things every single week together here

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on Supernatural Saturday.

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And Holy Spirit never disappoints, does he?

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He never disappoints.

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And so today's the first day of June.

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Welcome.

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Welcome to June, everyone.

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And June bloom is the theme over our community this month.

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So all the classes,

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all the things that we're gonna do together in June

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are all going to be focused on getting people to blossom.

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I believe that we're gonna have a very abundant summertime.

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But do you know when summer starts

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to be abundant?

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In the spring.

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And so we have these last few weeks of spring.

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I think the summer solstice is like

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near to the end of the month of June.

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And we have this time

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where if we need to do some cultivating,

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if we need to do some pruning and some weeding,

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then we can do it now.

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We can do it now, right?

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And it's important that we do that

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because in order to have an abundant harvest,

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you gotta prune.

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You have to weed.

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You have to do those things, right?

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But I don't even wanna talk about pruning and weeding today.

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I wanna talk about reaping and sowing.

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I'm gonna talk about reaping and sowing here

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for a few minutes at the beginning.

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Holy Spirit's given me a hodgepodge of ideas

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for today's call.

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And I just wanna follow after all of them.

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We're just gonna follow after the Spirit

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after each one of these little rabbit trails

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that I have written down here this morning

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and we'll see where we go.

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So first of all, there's a scripture in the Bible

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that a lot of times people use to try to scare you.

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There's a lot of those in there, right?

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The scriptures that they take

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and they try to use it as a weapon.

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First of all, I want to tell you

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that the entire Bible is a love story.

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From the very, very first word, okay, in the beginning

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to the very end, it is a love story.

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It is a love story between you and God, God in you.

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It's a love story.

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And if anyone has ever used it

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or anyone has ever put it in a context

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where it wasn't a love story, it made God look mad at you.

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He's angry, he's mean,

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he's a kid with a magnifying glass on an anthill.

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If anyone's ever used the words of that Bible

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to beat you over the head, to abuse you, to hurt you,

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then they did not do that with God's permission.

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They didn't.

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Now, I know that there's some things

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that are very confusing,

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especially in the Old Testament of the Bible,

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things that we don't understand

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because they have to do with Jewish history.

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Okay, they have to do with Hebrew history.

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And there's a lot of different things

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that they're just not contextually for you

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in this modern age that you're living in as a Gentile.

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And Paul told us that at the finished work of the cross,

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it's level playing ground, right?

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There's no longer any Hebrews or Gentiles,

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there's no longer slaves or free or even male or female.

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We're all one in Christ.

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That's good news.

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That's good news, y'all.

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Everyone has become equal in Christ.

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That's great news.

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And someone needs to just get ahold of that

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and grab ahold of it and let it get in your heart,

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let it take root, let it bear good fruit.

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But there's a lot of things in the Bible

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that you can't really apply to your modern life.

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You can read about it and it sounds interesting.

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And depending on who's teaching it,

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it can sound scary or it can sound amazing.

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The teacher makes all the difference, right?

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You can read it with the help of Holy Spirit.

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You can glean some important truths

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about other people's lives and how they lived

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and how they trusted God

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or what they did and didn't do, correct?

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But those people aren't you.

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Can I tell you guys one of my pet peeves?

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Does anyone wanna know?

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My pet peeves is when people come and they're like,

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oh, you're an Esther Jackie.

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No, I'm not, I'm a Jackie.

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I'm not an Esther. I'm a Jackie. Oh

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You're Ruth. Oh, you're you're my Naomi. No. Uh-uh. I'm not your Naomi. All right, I get it and

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Whatever is a compliment. I receive it and I thank you for it, but I'm

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Jackie and

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Yamina and Diane and Debbie and Ruth and I'm seeing well Ruth your Ruth, but you're not the other Ruth. You're this Ruth

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Alice and Gretchen

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I'm just looking at people that are right here on my front screen and it's important that we understand that and we get a hold

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Of that we've got to get a hold of that

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In fact Gretchen I have driven by a street name named Gretchen and it stood out to me

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Twice in the last week and so father whatever it is. You're trying to get to your daughter Gretchen

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She's spotlighted and highlighted by heaven and we pray Lord whatever blessings you have for her to pour it out in Jesus name

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It's important that we own our identity

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You know, I was discipled by this group of people called the Pentecostals a lot of you have heard these stories before

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But the thing with the Pentecostals is that they're always living in the past

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Right the day of Pentecost and the books of book of Acts

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They're always living in the Bible stories of the Old Testament and they're always comparing themselves

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You know, I want to dance like David danced. I want to worship like this person. I want to be

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How about we just be us

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Right because I'm gonna tell you something about the people of the Old Testament God love them God bless them

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I'm glad that they trusted God

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I'm glad that they allowed him to use their lives and they had to do that just the same way you do

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Please get a hold of that this morning. They were special people

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None of the people that are mentioned they are not special

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Okay, they were ordinary people just like you that had an opportunity to become extraordinary

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With the power of the Spirit that came upon them. We got it even better, you know, because Jesus has been crucified

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The work on the cross is finished and now Holy Spirit

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Doesn't just dwell around us. He dwells with us and in us the people in the Old Testament didn't get that that way

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That's why David

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was so crazy because he was like one of the first people that was able to reach forward and grab a hold of a

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dispensation of grace that he wasn't born in

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Does somebody hear me this morning

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We have to stop comparing ourselves first of all, they were ordinary people but here's what I want you to see

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They did not have the same type of warfare that we live in

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Yeah, there were war there was warfare there were people practiced in witchcraft and you know

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The the enemy and the legions of angels that fell with Lucifer were still busy about their demonic business on the earth

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But you guys had much lower stakes

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Okay. Yeah, there were wars and there were this and that but we live in a constant war

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The moment that you wake up your mind is in a war

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Our lives are inundated with so much evil, it's not funny and it's coming at us

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everywhere

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Everywhere because of technology because of media because of music because of you guys get what I'm saying, right?

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we're living in a swirl and not a good one and

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So before you're just like oh, wow. I just want to be like this person that lived, you know thousands of years ago

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Understand that God matched you with this time God trusted you to live in the year 2024 with all of its mess

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With all of the intrigue spiritually around us with all of the opposing forces against us God chose you he trusted you

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He matched you to live here. And so we idolize and idealize

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These people in the Bible and how amazingly spiritual they are I want to

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Right. I want to I want to propose to you that even the least

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spiritual thing that you do in the day and age that we live in is

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Just as great as what they did because we have so much more resistance

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You feel me

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So let's talk a little bit about sowing and reaping in this scripture

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And I want you guys to think about the scriptures that have been spoken over you or taught to you

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But they were taught in a way that made you afraid

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We're gonna have a June bloom y'all we're gonna have a super bloom this summer and

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This and going into the fall and going into Rosh Hashanah in

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September but in order to do that some of these rocks and these weeds in the sky

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stuff has to get moved around.

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And a lot of it is going to be that the most limiting of all the things is going to be

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some religious ideas.

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Because here's the thing, if you think God said it to you or you think God said it, period,

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then you're going to believe it, right?

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And you're going to live your life according to it.

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And maybe there are some things that you believe and you think that God said, either just in

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general or to you specifically, that are getting in your way, that are keeping you from living

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a big and abundant life.

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I mean, think about it.

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I mean, how sneaky, and remember, the enemy's sneaky, right?

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He's a sneaky one.

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How brilliant would it be for him to use the very thing that you have built your life upon

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to keep your life small, right?

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How sneaky would that be?

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And this is what happens to so many people.

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And so we want to break free from these self-imposed prisons, from these religious imposed prisons.

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So one of those scriptures, and I've always heard it to the negative, is you reap what

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you sow.

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You reap what you sow, right?

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And you guys, first of all, so much scripture is taken out of context and it's just applied

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however it wants to be applied by whoever's speaking it willy-nilly.

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This scripture comes from a passage.

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First of all, no scripture is isolated.

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So I want to encourage you today that anytime, even if you love the scripture, you know,

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people love the scripture, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

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And I had that put on a t-shirt for my mom because she wanted it during, you know, her,

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you know, the last couple of years of her life when she had cancer and she was going

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through a lot of things.

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That's Philippians 4.13, right?

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But I knew it didn't mean what she thought it meant, but that's what it meant to her.

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And that's what it was.

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It was giving her strength for in that moment.

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So go ahead and slap that on a t-shirt for mom.

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But that scripture, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

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It doesn't mean that you can do all things.

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In fact, I want to propose to you that you're not meant to do all things.

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And that's going to offend a whole bunch of people, but you're not meant to do all things.

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You're meant to do what you're meant to do.

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And so many people miss out on the things that God has called them to because they're

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trying to do all things.

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And they're trying to do things that they're not gifted to do.

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And they're not called to do, but they want to do because they want some kind of significance.

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They're comparing themselves to other people, trying to sing like Sister Sally over here,

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or trying to do this or that.

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Hey, God loves all of our voices heard on high, but it doesn't mean that you need a

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microphone and a stage to sing if that ain't your gift, okay?

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And so we're not called to do all things.

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A lot of people will use this scripture to try to eat the frog.

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What's that mean?

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I'll get up in the morning and I'll say, oh, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens

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me.

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Yes, Christ gives you strength.

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The Holy Spirit empowers you to do things that your flesh doesn't want to do.

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But that scripture still doesn't mean that.

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You know what that scripture means?

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It means if you put it back in context in the passage that it comes from, it means that

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you have the strength to be content in all situations.

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That is actually what that scripture means.

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You guys, that's not sexy.

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I like that scripture like that.

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I'm like content?

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Who wants to be content in all situations?

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You're saying I can be content when I'm going through trials and tribulations?

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Because I think that's pretty much what that meant.

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I'm like, no and no, right?

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So scriptures mean different things to us at different times, but if you put them in

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context then we see what they mean.

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And this scripture, you reap what you sow.

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It actually goes, God will not be mocked.

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Whatever a man sows, that also will he reap.

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This is talking about actually sowing to the work of God.

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Sowing into the kingdom.

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You can sow to carnal and just natural things that have no spiritual significance and there

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will be a harvest, you guys.

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You know that scripture that everyone uses as an excuse not to exercise?

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Well, the Bible says that bodily exercise profits little.

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No?

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Yeah, it says that, but what it means is that it profits for a small amount of time because

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you're not going to be in this body for eternity.

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It doesn't say it's not profitable, it just says it's not eternally profitable.

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Do you guys see the difference here between these things?

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These are important things.

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A lot of people will focus only on their spirit and not their body, and you know why that's

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a mistake?

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Because your spirit can't go anywhere that your body can't take it.

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Somebody needs to hear that this morning.

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Your spirit that lives inside this body, it cannot physically go anywhere, I'm not talking

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through prayer and intercession where your spirit just flows all around the world, make

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an intercession for people.

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I'm talking about your assignment, even marriage, even walking down that aisle.

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I had a bride not that long ago who actually could not walk down the aisle because of how

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she had cared for her body and some situations in her body.

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I had another bride that on her honeymoon had a stroke because of how she had cared

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for her body.

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Now you guys, some of these things cannot be prevented and we don't even know why they

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happen and it's just warfare and it's horrible.

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But once again, your spirit cannot go where your body can't take it.

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I feel the Holy Spirit just pausing us on this, I'm going to pause here.

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God wants to get through to some of y'all that are super spiritual, but you're not very

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physical, okay?

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Take your praying that you love to do and turn it into a prayer walk.

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Walk and pray.

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Move that body.

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Move it.

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Guys, I'm going to be 50 years old in like seven months or six months, seven months,

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and I've been out of shape for a minute.

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So I started doing Pilates, the kind with like the machine, the reformer, where it's

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not like, oh, hey, if I don't want to do this, you know, this move, I don't have to

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do this move.

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No, honey, you're buckled in.

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You're going to go or you're going to die.

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You're strapped into that baby, that little torture chamber, you're strapped in there.

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And you guys, I have never sweated so much in my whole entire life.

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And I used to be an athlete.

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I used to be an athlete.

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I used to play organized sports.

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I mean, when you're 5'10", you got to do something with that big, long body.

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I used to play sports.

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And every time I show up to do that Pilates, y'all, I do not want to go.

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I do not want to go.

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I'm dreading it.

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In fact, the thing in my mind that I'm saying to myself is, you know, after just a little

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bit of time, Jackie, this teacher will be like, okay, we're done for the day.

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I'm just waiting for those words.

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Okay, we're done.

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You know how people get like the exercise high or the runner's high?

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I've never in my life gotten that.

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I do not enjoy it.

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And you guys, I would just go play sports as a form of exercise.

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But when you're almost 50 years old, there's not a lot of sports to play and there's not

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a lot of people to play with.

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Yeah, there's, you know, there's some things here and there, but I need regular everyday

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exercise and so do you.

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So do you.

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So we take these scriptures and we take them out of context.

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We apply them to what we want to apply them to, or other people apply them to us in the

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wrong ways.

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And we have to say enough with that.

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And the reason why is because, you know, the, the law heals, but the spirit gives life.

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Right?

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So we have to look at the beautiful love story, the holy scriptures, the ancient wisdom through

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the lens of love.

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We have to, we have to see what God is really saying to us.

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What does he want to communicate to us?

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What is going to be beneficial for our lives?

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So let's take this reaping and sowing scripture.

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I was talking about sowing through eternal things.

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God's not going to be mocked.

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If you sow to eternal things, you're going to reap, right?

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Remember that other scripture that says that when you give to others, it will be given

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back to you, pressed down, shaken together and running over.

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Will God give it to you?

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No.

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But will other people give it to you?

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So here's what God said to me.

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And you go, oftentimes in my relationship with God, God will not tell me answers.

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He will ask me questions because he knows that I'm the kind of daughter that likes to

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research things with him.

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Right?

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I'll have a good mystery.

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And so one day, years ago, God said to me, Hey, do you believe my scripture that what

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you sow, you will also reap?

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And I was a pretty religious person back then, y'all.

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And so immediately I think I'm in trouble because I'd only ever heard that scripture

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in a bad connotation, like parents or grandparents saying to kids, Oh, what you sow, you're going

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to reap, you know, just kind of as a threat.

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A threat to them that they better live right and so I'm like, yes, I believe that scripture

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just waiting for the hammer to come down right I didn't have the daddy-daughter relationship

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with God that I have now and he said okay, so he said so you believe that I'm not going

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to be mocked because you guys that's part of the scripture God will not be mocked what

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you so you will read and I said no God I don't I don't think that you're going to be mocked

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I don't I don't I'm not mocking you know like where we going with this God and he said okay

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he said so you so a lot don't you and I'm like well you know once again you guys a lot

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of you are seeing your lives as a tragedy like if it was a movie it would be film noir

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it would be a tragedy please raise your hand right now if you see your life as a tragedy

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you're always looking at things through a negative lens you're always expecting the

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other shoe to drop you're always wondering what's going to go wrong next I better see

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some hands up here because I know I was not rowing this boat by myself and it's hard to

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receive things from the Lord when we continue to feel like if anything happens it's going

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to be bad we've got to shift that y'all we have to that's no way to live your life is

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not a tragedy I know that there's been some tragic things that have happened in it but

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it's not a tragedy and God does not want you to view it through that lens anymore so

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we're having this conversation they said you so a lot don't you and at the time you guys

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I was struggling with panic disorder and all kinds of mental health issues I had just become

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a Christian a few years before and I was a leader in my church because that's what churches

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do they take the most messed up people and then they put them in leadership right because

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they're gifted they take the most messed up gifted people and they make them leaders come

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on in that great and that's what was going on I was hanging by a thread almost every single day

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and yet I was an outreach director of my church and so God was right I did so a lot towards the

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kingdom a lot a lot of hours a lot of time a lot of prayers a lot of intercession a lot a lot a

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lot and so now that I see I'm not in trouble I'm like well yeah I do I so a lot he goes okay he

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said where's your harvest somebody needs to hear this this morning please tune in I said what do

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you mean and he goes well if you believe that I won't be mocked and that what you so you will

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also reap he said what's ripe in your life guys religion will teach you to so so so so so give

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give give give till it hurts but it will never ever preach a sermon to you about taking it will

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never preach a sermon to you about receiving and reaping and what's right in your life and so now

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we're gonna show up here this morning we're gonna ask for those of you that have been selling some

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of you for decades good works helping others loving on people and I know you didn't do it

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with an expectation of return because the book of love Corinthians tells us that love doesn't

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respect or it doesn't expect a return I know that you did it out of the goodness of your heart but

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it doesn't change the universal law of God that what you sow you will also reap so what's ripe

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in your life for those of you that have all that good seed in the ground and you've had it in the

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ground for many many many many many years where's your harvest what's ripe in your life I want you

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to pray that right now once you close your eyes and say God I really have sown a lot but I haven't

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reaped a lot guys my mother-in-law has a gorgeous yard but she lives in the Midwest she lives in a

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suburb in the Midwest that's overrun by deer she has the woods behind her house and the deer they

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look look her face is on the Deere's post office wall she is public enemy number one for those deer

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if she had a shotgun she would shoot them I'm telling you she's 80 years old and she has the

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most beautiful flower beds that you've ever seen but she is out there all the time trying to spray

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them down with guys it smells like it's like I don't know it's like beaver urine or something

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and it's supposed to it's supposed to keep the deer away and they're like just like just try it

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lady and they're still eating the heads off her petunias and all the things you come out there's

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all these beautiful flowers with the heads gone right the stems are there but the heads are gone

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the blossoms and you guys this is June bloom this is our time to bloom and blossom and these things

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are coming and they're raiding what we have sown right remember from the

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challenge ladies back in the day?

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What are the foxes in the vineyard?

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What is right in your life?

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God doesn't lie.

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Something's right.

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And you haven't harvested it because you're used to giving

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but you're not that great at receiving.

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And let me take it even a step further.

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You're not that great at expecting.

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You're a good little Christian soldier.

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You're out there giving and helping.

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When it comes time for you to get help, crickets.

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There's no one around.

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And the reason why is because you have not cultivated

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reciprocal relationships.

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You're always the giver.

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And the whoever else is always the taker.

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Holy Spirit's up to meddling today.

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We're in a meddle because God wants us to receive

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and he wants us to reap.

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And there are things that are rotting on the vine

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in your life that have been ripe for a really long time.

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They're ripe.

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They're ripe for the picking.

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But a lot of times we wait for the absence of opposition.

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Right?

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If my mother-in-law waited for the absence of opposition,

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she would never plant her garden every spring.

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She would never go out there and plant her flowers.

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She knows there's gonna be opposition

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and she prepares herself for opposition,

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but it does not stop her from taking action.

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There's a scripture in the Bible that says that he or she

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who regards the weather will never sow or reap.

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They won't plant or harvest.

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If you're looking at the sky,

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if you're looking at the storms and the weather,

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you're never gonna get anything done.

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If all you're focused on is the opposition,

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you're never gonna get anything done.

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There was a time in my life, friends,

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that I had gone through a lot of hard things.

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And I just wanna tell you,

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I wanna preface this thought right now with this.

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My whole life was hard.

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From the time that I came out of my mother's womb,

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my life has been hard.

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Abused all through my childhood

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in every way you can be abused.

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Abandoned, orphaned,

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sent to live in hostile environments

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like girls' homes and foster care.

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On my own, couch surfing,

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trying to find money in couch cushions.

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Couldn't work, too young to work

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without a parent's permission.

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I didn't have a parent.

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And then on and on and on, y'all.

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Bullied in school, mistreated.

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Even with all that stuff going on

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in my home and personal life,

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you think that there would be some sort of ray of light

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out in the community somewhere.

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A teacher, a classmate, something.

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But that spirit of opposition was following me.

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Hell was after me.

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And I didn't even know that

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because I didn't know God like that.

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But everywhere that I went,

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I was targeted for mistreatment.

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I ate my lunch in the bathroom.

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I did everything I could

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to just stay out of the way of people.

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And I know that's shocking

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because I am such a naturally born leader

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and I'm leading and I'm doing what God called me to do.

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But this has been hard won

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over many, many, many, many, many years of opposition.

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00:28:48.280 --> 00:28:51.040
And if that wasn't enough, when I became an adult,

478
00:28:51.040 --> 00:28:52.800
even after I met Jesus,

479
00:28:52.800 --> 00:28:57.800
I was moaned down by mental illness.

480
00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:03.280
All of the stress and all the hurt and pain

481
00:29:03.280 --> 00:29:08.280
from all of those years of nonstop stress and abuse

482
00:29:09.360 --> 00:29:13.240
turned into serious mental health issues.

483
00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:15.760
The kind that take people out,

484
00:29:15.760 --> 00:29:18.280
the kind that institutionalize people.

485
00:29:18.280 --> 00:29:20.640
The fact that I'm standing here right now talking to you

486
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.000
and I'm not in some institution somewhere

487
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:24.880
shows you that we serve a good God.

488
00:29:29.280 --> 00:29:32.560
My only other sibling from those days

489
00:29:32.560 --> 00:29:33.920
that made it out alive,

490
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.240
my older brother who's 18 months older than me,

491
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:39.240
he is mentally ill.

492
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:44.240
And I declare over his life that he will be free

493
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:46.440
and God, you will redeem your servant Jacob

494
00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:49.560
from a hand that is too strong for him.

495
00:29:49.560 --> 00:29:51.160
But my brother Jacob has suffered

496
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:53.000
with what they call schizophrenia

497
00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:54.880
since he was in his early 20s,

498
00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:58.520
all as a result of the same abuse that I lived through too.

499
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:08.000
He lives right now on my property because he's been homeless for 30 years and someone ran him over with their car.

500
00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:13.000
And so now he can't walk.

501
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:21.000
And he's here and he's a captive audience to the love of God.

502
00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.000
So we're going to see how this story ends, right?

503
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:37.000
But a lot of you are waiting and a lot of you, you know, we could open up the mic right now and we could hear horror stories of abuse and tragedy and horrible and terrible things that have happened.

504
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.000
But I say all that to say this.

505
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:45.000
If you're waiting for the absence of opposition, you don't live in a time and day when that's going to happen.

506
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:49.000
The glory days are over, y'all.

507
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:53.000
I know people are looking for world peace, but that's not going to happen.

508
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:54.000
Have you read the book?

509
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.000
Did you read the book?

510
00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:03.000
And I know there's a lot of people that are like, well, I don't believe in any theology that doesn't have a defeated enemy.

511
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:08.000
Yeah, the enemy is defeated, but a lot of human beings haven't gotten that memo yet.

512
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:13.000
And they continue to rearm a defeated enemy.

513
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:16.000
An anemone, y'all.

514
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.000
They continue to rearm a defeated enemy in their own lives.

515
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:24.000
Right?

516
00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:28.000
They're out there fighting for the wrong side, the defeated side, the side that's already lost.

517
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.000
Am I wrong?

518
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.000
So, you guys, we cannot wait for the absence of opposition.

519
00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:43.000
My mother-in-law can't wait for no deer in order to plant her garden.

520
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.000
She's got to learn how to thrive in opposition.

521
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:59.000
You guys, this message today is about June Bloom, but it's also about thriving and blossoming even in the places of transition and opposition.

522
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:02.000
You can do it.

523
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.000
You can.

524
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.000
Who's ever just walked in the concrete jungle?

525
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:11.000
You've been in the city.

526
00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:12.000
It's what I call the concrete jungle.

527
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:20.000
And you're walking through, and all of a sudden you see a crack in the cement, and there's a flower growing up out of that crack.

528
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:23.000
Anyone seen that before?

529
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:28.000
That always sends such an amazing message to me when I see that.

530
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:35.000
Why? Because I'm like, that little seed persevered.

531
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.000
In the midst of crazy opposition, it persevered.

532
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:44.000
It did.

533
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.000
It did.

534
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.000
God won't be mocked, friends.

535
00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:00.000
Whatever you've sown, and a lot of you have a lot of good seed in the ground.

536
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.000
You've sown to your betterment.

537
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:05.000
You've sown to your family's betterment.

538
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:07.000
Yeah, you didn't see that harvest right away.

539
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.000
You didn't see it at all, maybe.

540
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:11.000
The prayers that you've prayed over people.

541
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.000
You guys, I prayed for my brother for 26 years.

542
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:19.000
And then I got the phone call in November that he got ran over by a car.

543
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.000
He's being life-flighted to the hospital, and he was going to come live at my house.

544
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:30.000
Now, y'all, when I was praying for 26 years, that was not the answer to prayer that I was waiting for.

545
00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:38.000
Now, there are plenty of times when I have not known where on earth he is, and I have worried about him.

546
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:45.000
I've worried if he was okay, or if he was alive, or what was going on in his life.

547
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.000
Because remember, we grew up together in that crap storm of life.

548
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:58.000
And then we were separated when I was about 13, 14 years old, and we haven't ever been together since.

549
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.000
But he's here now, and he's living on my property.

550
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:06.000
And yes, that was not necessarily the answer to those prayers that I wanted to see.

551
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000
But you know what? The story's not over yet.

552
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.000
So many of us check out because we ask God what's ripe in our lives,

553
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:18.000
and we go and look at the field that's ripe from all the seed that we planted,

554
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:20.000
and it doesn't look anything like what we planted.

555
00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.000
So we're like, oh, I'm not sure about this.

556
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000
Start reaping it anyway.

557
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.000
Start gathering it anyway.

558
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:33.000
You may have put a whole bunch of years into college,

559
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:36.000
and now you're doing something that's not even anywhere near your degree,

560
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:41.000
and you have no understanding at all of why God opened this door.

561
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:48.000
Because he's the Lord of the harvest, friends.

562
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:51.000
He's the Lord of the harvest.

563
00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.000
All the way back to Jesus' earthly life,

564
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.000
the harvest fields have been rising,

565
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.000
the harvest fields have been rising.

566
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.500
But there's just been a shortage of laborers.

567
00:35:05.500 --> 00:35:08.820
The Bible even goes on to say, and I hear Holy Spirit saying this now, is that you may

568
00:35:08.820 --> 00:35:17.100
plant and plant and sow and sow, and God may actually have you go reap someone else's harvest.

569
00:35:17.100 --> 00:35:23.500
The Bible talks in several places about going and living in houses and drinking from vineyards

570
00:35:23.500 --> 00:35:25.980
that you did not build and you did not plant.

571
00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:31.980
Oh, I feel Holy Spirit all over that, y'all.

572
00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:40.180
Like a bucket of ice water just got dumped on me.

573
00:35:40.180 --> 00:35:41.180
So what does that tell me?

574
00:35:41.180 --> 00:35:45.100
That tells me that you also have to be willing to receive what you did not earn and you don't

575
00:35:45.100 --> 00:35:46.100
deserve.

576
00:35:47.100 --> 00:35:58.100
Oh, let's go to the, Jesus, let's go to the scripture about the workers and the 11th hour

577
00:35:58.100 --> 00:35:59.100
workers.

578
00:35:59.100 --> 00:36:00.620
There were people that labored and labored and labored.

579
00:36:00.620 --> 00:36:05.580
They had all kinds of sweat equity into that harvest in that vineyard.

580
00:36:05.580 --> 00:36:10.660
And then the master shows up before the last hour of the day.

581
00:36:10.660 --> 00:36:13.620
And there's a bunch of people standing around idly.

582
00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:15.980
They haven't put any sweat equity in.

583
00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:17.860
They haven't done anything.

584
00:36:17.860 --> 00:36:23.220
In fact, they haven't even gotten a chance to do anything because no one saw any merit

585
00:36:23.220 --> 00:36:24.220
in them.

586
00:36:24.220 --> 00:36:27.020
You know, all the skilled workers that knew what they were doing, they were the ones that

587
00:36:27.020 --> 00:36:30.420
were hired and they were the ones that were out there doing the job.

588
00:36:30.420 --> 00:36:35.220
But here's amateur hour, everyone's standing around at the 11th hour because these are

589
00:36:35.220 --> 00:36:36.220
not people.

590
00:36:36.220 --> 00:36:38.640
They were undesirable in some way, shape or form.

591
00:36:38.640 --> 00:36:39.640
They got there late.

592
00:36:39.640 --> 00:36:40.700
They didn't have good work ethic.

593
00:36:40.700 --> 00:36:41.700
They didn't know what they were doing.

594
00:36:42.020 --> 00:36:46.220
But the master came out and said, oh, hey, all of you, if you get out there now and work

595
00:36:46.220 --> 00:36:52.380
for the last hour, I'll give you the same reward.

596
00:36:52.380 --> 00:36:54.820
You know what that tells me?

597
00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:58.740
It tells me that God doesn't need professional Christians anymore.

598
00:36:58.740 --> 00:37:02.700
There's a lot of people, they've gone to seminary and if you're going to seminary, bless you.

599
00:37:02.700 --> 00:37:07.340
If you've got all of the, all of the, you know, credentials and all the different things

600
00:37:07.780 --> 00:37:12.260
to be a Christian, you've gone to all the classes and all the schools of ministry.

601
00:37:12.260 --> 00:37:13.260
You know, that's wonderful.

602
00:37:13.260 --> 00:37:19.740
I'm glad that God had you so into that and you will reap a harvest.

603
00:37:19.740 --> 00:37:27.020
But the only criteria, the only qualification for this is that you love, that you follow

604
00:37:27.020 --> 00:37:31.860
Christ and that you're willing to love.

605
00:37:31.860 --> 00:37:35.660
And I think a lot of times the professional Christians lose sight of the main thing.

606
00:37:35.660 --> 00:37:39.260
You've got to keep the main thing, the main thing.

607
00:37:39.260 --> 00:37:43.220
And so a lot of times God just wants to send the unskilled people out and see what happens.

608
00:37:43.220 --> 00:37:46.540
You guys, I've been on outreach teams with people that have done outreach for years and

609
00:37:46.540 --> 00:37:48.060
years and years and they know how to do it.

610
00:37:48.060 --> 00:37:51.940
I used to be an outreach director and they can do it down pat and they know exactly all

611
00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:56.460
the protocols and they know how to stay in order and not do anything that's outside the

612
00:37:56.460 --> 00:37:58.900
word of God, et cetera, et cetera.

613
00:37:58.900 --> 00:38:03.740
But then every once in a while you get a zealous newbie on the team and they have some supernatural

614
00:38:03.820 --> 00:38:04.820
encounters.

615
00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:05.820
And you want to know why?

616
00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:10.060
Because they don't know all the rules of why they can't.

617
00:38:10.060 --> 00:38:11.580
I love those people.

618
00:38:11.580 --> 00:38:14.940
They're loose cannons and sometimes you're cringing when they open their mouth and they're

619
00:38:14.940 --> 00:38:20.340
talking to someone, but somehow the power of the Holy Spirit falls on that person anyway

620
00:38:20.340 --> 00:38:23.020
and you're like, wow.

621
00:38:23.020 --> 00:38:26.020
And you know what that proves more than anything else?

622
00:38:26.020 --> 00:38:29.220
Because it ain't about us.

623
00:38:29.220 --> 00:38:31.620
It's not about us.

624
00:38:31.620 --> 00:38:33.060
It's about him.

625
00:38:33.060 --> 00:38:34.060
It's about his goodness.

626
00:38:34.060 --> 00:38:38.220
It's about his desire to reach people and to love people.

627
00:38:38.220 --> 00:38:42.060
And if we'll get out of the way, he can do it through us.

628
00:38:42.060 --> 00:38:46.740
One of my most favorite quotes of all time is preach the gospel and if necessary, use

629
00:38:46.740 --> 00:38:47.740
words.

630
00:38:47.740 --> 00:38:48.740
Right?

631
00:38:48.740 --> 00:38:56.020
So you guys stop looking at the opposition.

632
00:38:56.020 --> 00:39:00.220
Stop looking at the deadness of your own womb, Sarah.

633
00:39:00.340 --> 00:39:01.340
You're not Sarah.

634
00:39:01.340 --> 00:39:03.980
You're whoever you are, but I don't know who I'm talking to.

635
00:39:03.980 --> 00:39:07.820
So put your name in the blank.

636
00:39:07.820 --> 00:39:09.500
Put your name in the blank.

637
00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:11.060
Say that over yourself right now.

638
00:39:11.060 --> 00:39:13.220
Stop looking at the deadness of your womb.

639
00:39:13.220 --> 00:39:14.220
Put your name in.

640
00:39:14.220 --> 00:39:15.220
Why?

641
00:39:15.220 --> 00:39:19.660
Because it's not just about a natural womb that births babies.

642
00:39:19.660 --> 00:39:22.340
It's about a spiritual womb.

643
00:39:22.340 --> 00:39:28.540
It's about the womb of potential, your potential that God coded you with.

644
00:39:28.540 --> 00:39:36.140
He hardwired you with when he wired you in your mother's womb.

645
00:39:36.140 --> 00:39:39.100
It's not dead.

646
00:39:39.100 --> 00:39:45.740
In fact, I propose to you that there's a very ripe harvest ready now.

647
00:39:45.740 --> 00:39:49.940
You just don't see it because you might be looking in the wrong field.

648
00:39:49.940 --> 00:39:52.940
You might not be looking at all.

649
00:39:52.940 --> 00:39:57.660
You might have some blind spots.

650
00:39:57.660 --> 00:39:58.660
God wants you to be fruitful.

651
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.440
He wants you to be blessed to be a blessing.

652
00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:05.160
He wants all those things for you.

653
00:40:05.160 --> 00:40:09.800
Guys, I used to hate to fly, I fly all the time now, and I'll just be honest, the reason

654
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:14.720
why I hated to fly is because I was a control freak, and I'm not a pilot, I'm not flying

655
00:40:14.720 --> 00:40:20.720
the plane, I have to trust someone else to fly the plane, and I didn't like that.

656
00:40:20.720 --> 00:40:21.720
I didn't.

657
00:40:21.720 --> 00:40:26.520
I was a massive control freak back then, and the reason why is because I, you know, I didn't

658
00:40:26.520 --> 00:40:29.960
know God well enough to trust him.

659
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:34.720
And one day I was sitting in the plane, and I was just situating myself in the seat and

660
00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:41.040
just planning to have a big old panic attack when God said to me, you know you're not on

661
00:40:41.040 --> 00:40:42.040
this plane, right?

662
00:40:42.040 --> 00:40:48.680
And I was like, okay, God, you see that I'm stressed out.

663
00:40:48.680 --> 00:40:51.240
I don't got time for these little games.

664
00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:56.320
Jackie, you see you're not on this plane right now, and I'm like, no, I don't see that, God.

665
00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:02.000
I'm on a metal tube, 35,000 feet in the air, and he said, no, you're not.

666
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.080
He said, you're in me.

667
00:41:07.080 --> 00:41:13.040
You're not on this plane right now, you're in me, and nothing can remove you, nothing

668
00:41:13.040 --> 00:41:15.800
can hurt you, nothing can harm you.

669
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:21.000
Guys, that shifted everything for me from that day forward.

670
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.960
It shifted everything for me.

671
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:29.720
But here's the thing about flying, and I think this is important to this call.

672
00:41:29.720 --> 00:41:35.120
Those huge planes, and I think common sense also gets in our way when we fly, because

673
00:41:35.120 --> 00:41:40.160
we're like, how in the world is this big heavy thing in the air?

674
00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:44.600
And the way that it's in the air, and if none of you have ever looked into this, this is

675
00:41:44.600 --> 00:41:51.040
important for your life too, because one year, my year for the word was fly.

676
00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:55.320
You guys, that was one of the most opposed years I've ever had, and I'm like, what gives,

677
00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:56.320
God?

678
00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:00.320
You said I was going to fly this year, and yet there's been so much opposition that's

679
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:01.320
keeping me grounded.

680
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:02.640
He's like, well, that's on you.

681
00:42:02.640 --> 00:42:04.720
What do you mean that's on me?

682
00:42:04.720 --> 00:42:10.280
The only way that an airplane can fly, Jackie, is because of the opposing forces.

683
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:17.240
The only way that that heavy, large airplane full of potential, full of people can get

684
00:42:17.240 --> 00:42:21.760
from one destination to another is because of the opposing force of gravity.

685
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:28.640
The very thing that's trying to keep it down is what causes it to rise up.

686
00:42:28.640 --> 00:42:33.880
Come on, somebody get a hold of that right now.

687
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:39.960
I was allowing the opposition to basically freak me out and to keep me from even trying,

688
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:47.600
without understanding that the presence of opposition was the exact evidence that I was

689
00:42:47.600 --> 00:42:53.560
going to fly, because without opposition, you're not going to fly.

690
00:42:53.560 --> 00:42:56.320
If there was no gravity, y'all, things would just be floating around.

691
00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:57.960
Nothing would be able to be directed anywhere.

692
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:02.800
There'd be no flying.

693
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:08.120
So with the power of Holy Spirit, think of that as a jet engines on that plane, propelling

694
00:43:08.120 --> 00:43:13.320
it forward with gravity nipping at its heels.

695
00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:18.600
It's that propulsion forward and the gravity and the exact design of the flaps of the plane

696
00:43:18.600 --> 00:43:23.640
that cause it to be able to rise and soar.

697
00:43:23.640 --> 00:43:33.360
I propose to you that your design, the way that God created you, plus the opposing forces

698
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:41.520
that try to keep you from doing what God created you to do, powered by the Holy Spirit

699
00:43:41.520 --> 00:43:45.600
is a recipe for flight.

700
00:43:45.600 --> 00:43:46.600
For soaring.

701
00:43:46.600 --> 00:43:55.400
But a lot of us, once again, we won't do it because of the opposition.

702
00:43:55.400 --> 00:44:01.640
I'm going to give you a couple minutes to think about this.

703
00:44:01.640 --> 00:44:03.440
I want you to think about this really quickly.

704
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:06.280
I want you to ask God, what's right in my life?

705
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:11.280
And I want you to also ask him what has been keeping me from even asking that question

706
00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:13.560
and also from moving forward.

707
00:44:13.560 --> 00:44:15.880
I want you to ask him, what are the opposing forces?

708
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:21.600
What's the gravity?

709
00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:35.040
Can you repeat those questions again, Jackie, please?

710
00:44:35.040 --> 00:44:36.600
What's right in your life?

711
00:44:36.600 --> 00:44:37.600
You got to harvest.

712
00:44:37.600 --> 00:44:39.400
You've been selling.

713
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:40.920
Where does God want you to reap?

714
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:43.160
Remember, it might not be your field.

715
00:44:43.160 --> 00:44:44.440
It might be a whole different field.

716
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:47.000
It might be a whole different area than what you sowed in.

717
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.280
Ask the question, what's right in my life?

718
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:51.360
Where do you want me to reap?

719
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:59.120
And then also ask him, what opposing forces, what opposition has been shutting you down

720
00:44:59.120 --> 00:45:00.040
and keeping you from moving forward?

721
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.800
Even trying to fly.

722
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.000
Name it.

723
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:30.940
Inhale.

724
00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:32.260
Gully.

725
00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:33.880
Exhale.

726
00:45:36.120 --> 00:45:37.640
Inhale.

727
00:45:37.640 --> 00:45:39.180
Gully.

728
00:45:39.180 --> 00:45:40.880
Exhale.

729
00:45:46.640 --> 00:45:47.820
Tuple.

730
00:45:48.440 --> 00:45:49.940
Inhale.

731
00:45:49.940 --> 00:45:51.200
Gully.

732
00:45:51.200 --> 00:45:52.420
Exhale.

733
00:45:52.420 --> 00:45:53.520
Gully.

734
00:45:53.520 --> 00:45:54.660
Gully.

735
00:45:54.660 --> 00:45:55.580
Inhale.

736
00:45:55.580 --> 00:45:56.620
Gully.

737
00:45:56.620 --> 00:45:57.440
Exhale.

738
00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:58.340
Gully.

739
00:45:58.340 --> 00:45:59.180
Inhale.

740
00:45:59.180 --> 00:46:00.020
Gully.

741
00:46:00.020 --> 00:46:00.840
Exhale.

742
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:01.680
Gully.

743
00:46:01.680 --> 00:46:02.520
Inhale.

744
00:46:02.520 --> 00:46:03.340
Gully.

745
00:46:03.340 --> 00:46:04.200
Exhale.

746
00:46:04.200 --> 00:46:05.020
Gully.

747
00:46:05.020 --> 00:46:06.040
Inhale.

748
00:46:06.040 --> 00:46:07.400
Gally.

749
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:08.240
Exhale.

750
00:46:08.240 --> 00:46:09.060
Gully.

751
00:46:09.060 --> 00:46:09.900
Inshale.

752
00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:10.740
Gally.

753
00:46:10.740 --> 00:46:11.560
Inhale.

754
00:46:11.560 --> 00:46:12.400
Gally.

755
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:13.240
Exhale.

756
00:46:13.240 --> 00:46:14.060
Gally.

757
00:46:14.060 --> 00:46:14.900
Inhale.

758
00:46:14.900 --> 00:46:15.740
Gally.

759
00:46:15.740 --> 00:46:16.580
Inhale.

760
00:46:16.580 --> 00:46:17.400
Gally.

761
00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:18.240
Exhale.

762
00:46:18.240 --> 00:46:19.080
Gally.

763
00:46:19.080 --> 00:46:19.900
Inhale.

764
00:46:19.900 --> 00:46:20.740
Gally.

765
00:46:20.740 --> 00:46:21.580
Exhale.

766
00:46:21.580 --> 00:46:22.780
Gally.

767
00:46:22.780 --> 00:46:23.840
Gally.

768
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:24.660
Inhale.

769
00:46:24.660 --> 00:46:25.740
Gally.

770
00:46:25.740 --> 00:46:26.560
Exhale.

771
00:46:26.560 --> 00:46:27.400
Gally.

772
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:28.240
Inhale.

773
00:46:28.240 --> 00:46:29.060
Gally.

774
00:46:29.060 --> 00:46:29.900
Exhale.

775
00:46:29.900 --> 00:46:30.720
Gally.

776
00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:31.560
Inhale.

777
00:46:31.560 --> 00:46:32.400
Gally.

778
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:33.220
Inhale.

779
00:46:33.220 --> 00:46:34.060
Gally.

780
00:46:34.060 --> 00:46:34.900
Exhale.

781
00:46:34.900 --> 00:46:35.740
Gally.

782
00:46:35.740 --> 00:46:36.560
Inhale.

783
00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:37.400
Gally.

784
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.240
Exhale.

785
00:46:38.240 --> 00:46:39.060
Gally.

786
00:46:39.060 --> 00:46:40.100
Inhale.

787
00:46:40.100 --> 00:46:40.940
Gally.

788
00:46:40.940 --> 00:46:41.760
Inhale.

789
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:42.600
Gally.

790
00:46:42.600 --> 00:46:43.600
Exhale.

791
00:46:43.600 --> 00:46:44.440
Gally.

792
00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:45.260
Inhale.

793
00:46:45.260 --> 00:46:46.100
Gally.

794
00:46:46.100 --> 00:46:46.940
Exhale.

795
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:48.280
Gally.

796
00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:49.100
Inhale.

797
00:46:49.100 --> 00:46:49.940
Gally.

798
00:46:49.940 --> 00:46:50.760
Exhale.

799
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:51.800
Gally.

800
00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:52.640
Inhale.

801
00:46:52.640 --> 00:46:53.480
Gally.

802
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:54.320
Exhale.

803
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:55.140
Gally.

804
00:46:55.140 --> 00:46:55.980
Inhale.

805
00:46:55.980 --> 00:46:56.800
Gally.

806
00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:57.620
Exhale.

807
00:46:57.620 --> 00:46:58.460
Gally.

808
00:46:58.460 --> 00:46:59.300
Inhale.

809
00:46:59.300 --> 00:47:00.120
Gally.

810
00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:01.020
Exhale.

811
00:47:01.020 --> 00:47:02.200
Gally.

812
00:47:02.200 --> 00:47:03.460
Inhale.

813
00:47:03.460 --> 00:47:04.300
Gally.

814
00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:05.400
Exhale.

815
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:08.240
Inhale.

816
00:47:08.240 --> 00:47:11.560
Gally.

817
00:47:11.560 --> 00:47:12.400
Inhale.

818
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:13.720
Gally.

819
00:47:13.720 --> 00:47:14.540
All right.

820
00:47:15.640 --> 00:47:16.740
Right, so first let's share

821
00:47:16.740 --> 00:47:18.200
what's ripe in our lives.

822
00:47:18.200 --> 00:47:19.900
Go ahead and put that in the chat.

823
00:47:21.860 --> 00:47:23.140
I'll read some of them out loud

824
00:47:23.140 --> 00:47:25.500
for some people that'll be watching and replay.

825
00:47:27.140 --> 00:47:27.980
What's ripe?

826
00:47:30.500 --> 00:47:31.500
Joy is ripe.

827
00:47:32.940 --> 00:47:33.820
Teaching is ripe.

828
00:47:33.820 --> 00:47:34.660
Career is ripe.

829
00:47:34.660 --> 00:47:37.360
Creativity and ingenuity is ripe.

830
00:47:38.980 --> 00:47:40.940
Relationships.

831
00:47:40.940 --> 00:47:42.440
Relationship with your children.

832
00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:44.180
Financial breakthrough.

833
00:47:44.180 --> 00:47:45.140
Your time is ripe.

834
00:47:45.140 --> 00:47:45.980
Your love is ripe.

835
00:47:45.980 --> 00:47:47.140
Your career is ripe.

836
00:47:49.020 --> 00:47:50.660
Okay, Rachel, I want you to pray.

837
00:47:50.660 --> 00:47:53.860
You don't know what's ripe in your life, but God does.

838
00:47:53.860 --> 00:47:56.820
You guys, this is where a lot of us get very frustrated,

839
00:47:56.820 --> 00:47:58.060
and this is why this should become

840
00:47:58.060 --> 00:48:01.400
part of your regular prayer, okay?

841
00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:04.140
I don't use these exact words when I'm asking God about this,

842
00:48:04.140 --> 00:48:07.140
but I might start using these exact words.

843
00:48:07.140 --> 00:48:09.540
But a lot of us are trying to harvest things

844
00:48:09.540 --> 00:48:12.660
that are not fully developed yet, right?

845
00:48:12.660 --> 00:48:15.100
We're trying to harvest what we want to be ripe.

846
00:48:15.100 --> 00:48:16.940
We want that thing to be ripe,

847
00:48:16.940 --> 00:48:18.580
and so we put all of our eggs in that basket,

848
00:48:18.580 --> 00:48:21.080
put all of our time and energy into that thing,

849
00:48:22.580 --> 00:48:24.180
and it's not ripe.

850
00:48:24.180 --> 00:48:25.940
For instance, that's one of the reasons why,

851
00:48:25.940 --> 00:48:28.500
it's just one of the reasons why this movement's

852
00:48:28.500 --> 00:48:31.460
no longer called Married in 12 Months or Less,

853
00:48:31.460 --> 00:48:33.300
and it's called Last Year Single.

854
00:48:34.140 --> 00:48:35.580
Because Married in 12 Months or Less

855
00:48:35.580 --> 00:48:37.700
puts all of your focus on married, married,

856
00:48:37.700 --> 00:48:39.400
married, married, married, married,

857
00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:41.300
but God showed me very early on

858
00:48:41.300 --> 00:48:43.140
in the first two years of this movement

859
00:48:43.140 --> 00:48:47.140
that there were other things that people needed to focus on

860
00:48:47.140 --> 00:48:49.860
in order to get to that ripe harvest.

861
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:53.660
There were other things that were ripe right now

862
00:48:53.660 --> 00:48:55.840
that would actually lead them eventually

863
00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:56.980
to that ripe harvest,

864
00:48:56.980 --> 00:48:59.260
and that's why it's called Last Year Single.

865
00:48:59.260 --> 00:49:02.700
Because yes, we are working on our relationship skills,

866
00:49:02.700 --> 00:49:04.820
specifically romantic relationship skills,

867
00:49:04.820 --> 00:49:07.100
but we're working on so many other things.

868
00:49:07.100 --> 00:49:08.980
And for those of you that don't show up,

869
00:49:08.980 --> 00:49:11.700
you don't come to PATH sessions if you're in phase three,

870
00:49:11.700 --> 00:49:15.300
you don't show up to your coaching in phase one and two,

871
00:49:15.300 --> 00:49:16.740
you don't dig deeper,

872
00:49:16.740 --> 00:49:18.980
and you're only focused on where's the men at,

873
00:49:18.980 --> 00:49:21.420
where's the women at, then you're missing out.

874
00:49:21.420 --> 00:49:23.060
Because that might not be ripe in your life,

875
00:49:23.060 --> 00:49:25.620
and here's the thing, it may never be ripe

876
00:49:25.620 --> 00:49:30.160
until you focus on some other important things

877
00:49:30.160 --> 00:49:32.180
that cause that harvest to bloom.

878
00:49:35.020 --> 00:49:37.620
So, so many of us, including myself in the past,

879
00:49:37.620 --> 00:49:39.520
I could tell you story after story

880
00:49:39.520 --> 00:49:42.260
about how I had a prophetic word from the Lord,

881
00:49:42.260 --> 00:49:44.280
and instead of really understanding

882
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.280
the timeline of that prophetic word,

883
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:48.040
the anatomy of that prophetic word,

884
00:49:48.040 --> 00:49:50.160
because I wasn't taught how,

885
00:49:50.160 --> 00:49:52.240
I just assumed that if God was saying it,

886
00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:54.540
then he was doing it, and he was doing it now.

887
00:49:56.440 --> 00:49:58.920
Raise your hand if you've ever heard from the Lord,

888
00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:01.120
whether it was in your own private practice.

889
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.520
time or a word that was spoken in a in a sermon or someone who gave you a word

890
00:50:04.520 --> 00:50:09.440
over your life and you just expected that it that was a right now that was a

891
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:15.840
right now word no that was an invitation to preparation when God gives us the

892
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.000
word he gives us a process I know I say that a lot but I'm gonna continue to say

893
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:25.200
it because that was a game-changer in my life that was a game-changer in my life

894
00:50:25.200 --> 00:50:28.880
because I had a lot of prophetic words and a lot of prophetic promise over my

895
00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:32.560
life and I was very frustrated with the Lord because I felt like he was holding

896
00:50:32.560 --> 00:50:38.440
out on me I felt like he was you know a false promiser because I'm gonna be

897
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:42.080
honest with you when I was a child and I still lived at home with my mother my

898
00:50:42.080 --> 00:50:46.160
mother was the kind of person she didn't want to be this kind of person I know

899
00:50:46.160 --> 00:50:49.080
sometimes I say some negative things about her but I want you to know that

900
00:50:49.080 --> 00:50:54.400
she had so much potential and she got to live out some of it but not all of it on

901
00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:57.560
this earth and I want that for you I want you to live out all of your

902
00:50:57.560 --> 00:51:01.320
potential but she was a kind hearted person but you know she made too many

903
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:06.040
people promises and then she couldn't deliver on those things and

904
00:51:06.040 --> 00:51:11.360
unfortunately her children were the last people that she delivered for she

905
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:15.160
delivered for the men in her life and she delivered for the people that for

906
00:51:15.160 --> 00:51:22.560
whatever reason they're there they were more significant to her and in the

907
00:51:22.560 --> 00:51:26.800
brokenness that she was living in so my mom would say a lot of things she

908
00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:31.400
wouldn't follow through so I was used to growing up in an environment where

909
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:36.080
people did not keep their promises people said one thing and then they

910
00:51:36.080 --> 00:51:41.920
never delivered on it they never did it they never made good on it and so when I

911
00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:47.320
became a believer even though obviously I became a new creature in Christ we

912
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:53.480
have to continue in his word to know the truth and be set free right we continue

913
00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:57.840
to renew our mind to be transformed and there were lots of times when God would

914
00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:01.040
say things to me and if it didn't happen right away I was like he's just like my

915
00:52:01.040 --> 00:52:07.520
mom you know but here's the thing about God y'all he's not a man that he should

916
00:52:07.520 --> 00:52:11.960
lie he's not a human being which means that I know all the reasons why my mom

917
00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:16.520
never made good on her promises because in her human ability she wasn't able to

918
00:52:16.520 --> 00:52:24.760
please 50 people at one time but God is God and if he says it he can also do it

919
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:28.880
not about what God can do is about what I believe he can do and he can do it he

920
00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:33.600
can do all things in fact there's lots of evidence that once God says that it's

921
00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:41.240
already true remember how he made the world said let there be light and there

922
00:52:41.240 --> 00:52:44.880
was light so when God promises you something and he says it and it's

923
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:48.800
established that's another thing friends don't just run off with the word

924
00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:56.640
like a bird with a french fry don't just run off yeah I hear an echo so I'll say

925
00:52:56.640 --> 00:52:59.560
it again don't just run off with the word from the Lord like a bird with a

926
00:52:59.560 --> 00:53:03.800
french fry let that word be established the Bible says through the mouth of two

927
00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:08.040
or three witnesses let a word be established wait for some confirmations

928
00:53:08.040 --> 00:53:12.080
of that word especially if it's a big word a crazy word I'm not gonna tell you

929
00:53:12.080 --> 00:53:15.920
the full story but I got a word from the Lord during prayer and I thought it

930
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:21.800
was crazy and I I went to my my pastors at the time they were just standing there

931
00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:25.320
you know they were talking to people and then they started talking to me and I

932
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:29.840
just felt a prompting in my heart to say it out loud to them like hey you know I

933
00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:34.760
was just praying and I felt this and guess what they disagreed with it they

934
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:38.800
didn't feel like it was from the Lord and while in the moment I was just kind

935
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:46.040
of like well who asked you anyway oh wait I did sometimes you have to be you

936
00:53:46.040 --> 00:53:49.400
have to be willing and the thing is is that they're very Kingdom people they're

937
00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:53.040
very spirit-led people they weren't trying to shut me down because they

938
00:53:53.040 --> 00:53:59.640
didn't want me to have the word you know you obviously don't have wise counsel

939
00:53:59.640 --> 00:54:05.680
with people that are not wise the Bible says in a multitude of wise counsel there

940
00:54:05.680 --> 00:54:09.560
is safety and some of you don't got the kind of community that you need around

941
00:54:09.560 --> 00:54:14.160
your life and that's what we're trying to do here for you and last year single

942
00:54:14.160 --> 00:54:18.280
until you can have that in person we want to be that for you here okay but

943
00:54:18.280 --> 00:54:21.880
there's a process there's a timeline there's an anatomy of a promise and so

944
00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:28.280
instead of just one and off half-cocked with it you have to allow God to mature

945
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:35.680
it okay and add to it but the initial promise is an invitation for you to

946
00:54:35.680 --> 00:54:38.920
begin to pray into it remember when the angel showed up to Mary I mean y'all

947
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:42.920
she had an angel it was pretty legit it's pretty much hey this is a legit

948
00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:47.040
word this angel is here he's saying that I'm gonna be the mother of the Messiah

949
00:54:47.040 --> 00:54:50.520
that we've all been waiting for miss you act for all these years that's a pretty

950
00:54:50.520 --> 00:54:55.960
heady word for a little teenage girl but it says that she said okay be it done

951
00:54:55.960 --> 00:55:01.160
unto you unto me according to your will God

952
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.800
She put it back in God's hands of,

953
00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:03.880
hey, if this is you, be it done unto me.

954
00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:05.840
And then it says something very important.

955
00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:08.320
It says, and then she pondered it in her heart.

956
00:55:11.120 --> 00:55:13.080
Guys, that's that marination process.

957
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:16.040
Where we begin to pray over it.

958
00:55:16.040 --> 00:55:17.960
A lot of people will receive their words,

959
00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:20.840
their instructions, they'll receive an invitation

960
00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:23.080
for preparation, and that's all they'll do.

961
00:55:23.080 --> 00:55:26.320
It'll just be some fun thing that they heard God say to them

962
00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:28.400
through somebody else or a sermon,

963
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:29.440
something they journaled,

964
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:30.880
but they don't do nothing with it.

965
00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:33.280
The proof of belief is action.

966
00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:35.480
And the smallest increment of action

967
00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:39.160
that you should be taking over that thing is prayer.

968
00:55:40.640 --> 00:55:44.720
At the very least, you should be praying over your promises.

969
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:49.680
Every prayer session, you should be praying over things

970
00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:51.800
as Holy Spirit leads you.

971
00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:53.520
Not begging God for those things,

972
00:55:53.520 --> 00:55:56.440
not badgering God with those things.

973
00:55:56.440 --> 00:56:00.040
Although there are times when we have to ask God,

974
00:56:00.040 --> 00:56:01.320
is there not a cause?

975
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:03.680
He's asked you to get involved

976
00:56:03.680 --> 00:56:05.200
in some social ill in the earth

977
00:56:05.200 --> 00:56:07.000
where you see people dying around your feet

978
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:08.400
every single day.

979
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:10.520
Sometimes you don't need his permission

980
00:56:10.520 --> 00:56:15.160
because it was already given to you with the word.

981
00:56:15.160 --> 00:56:17.080
Now you just need to take action.

982
00:56:17.080 --> 00:56:20.280
Imperfect action, yes, but action nonetheless.

983
00:56:20.560 --> 00:56:22.560
You just have to take action

984
00:56:22.560 --> 00:56:25.480
and let God drive that car once it gets in gear.

985
00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:28.920
The Bible says that we know which way to go,

986
00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:30.280
but then God orders our steps.

987
00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:33.320
We know which way we've proposed in our hearts to go,

988
00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:35.040
but then God orders our steps.

989
00:56:35.040 --> 00:56:37.240
And sometimes that's just what you gotta do.

990
00:56:37.240 --> 00:56:39.800
In fact, I will tell you that I feel like you always

991
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:42.640
have to take some kind of action, even once again,

992
00:56:42.640 --> 00:56:45.080
if you don't feel comfortable doing something imperfectly,

993
00:56:45.080 --> 00:56:47.560
like physically active towards it,

994
00:56:47.600 --> 00:56:50.840
then definitely be praying towards it.

995
00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:52.560
Don't just put it in some dusty journal

996
00:56:52.560 --> 00:56:54.280
that you'll read five years from now and be like,

997
00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:57.000
oh yeah, I remember when God told me that.

998
00:56:58.120 --> 00:57:00.280
What's right in your life?

999
00:57:02.720 --> 00:57:05.760
All right, so now I wanna see the opposing forces.

1000
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:08.040
My family's words are the opposing forces.

1001
00:57:08.040 --> 00:57:09.320
I'm estranged from them,

1002
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:12.200
but I still hear their hurtful words.

1003
00:57:12.200 --> 00:57:14.600
Okay, we can't replace Alexandria.

1004
00:57:14.640 --> 00:57:16.840
We have to replace.

1005
00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:20.200
You have to get around people who are going to call you

1006
00:57:20.200 --> 00:57:22.960
by your name that God has given you.

1007
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:27.960
Beloved, lovely, good, fearfully and wonderfully made.

1008
00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:30.560
You gotta get around people that are gonna bless you

1009
00:57:30.560 --> 00:57:31.800
and not purse you.

1010
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:34.320
So you can't erase what your origin family said,

1011
00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:39.320
but you can replace those words with life-giving words.

1012
00:57:39.520 --> 00:57:41.000
So I'm gonna pray for you.

1013
00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:42.320
I'm gonna pray for you.

1014
00:57:42.360 --> 00:57:45.640
You can't replace those words with life-giving words

1015
00:57:45.640 --> 00:57:47.160
that you speak over yourself

1016
00:57:47.160 --> 00:57:50.440
and that you put yourself in community to receive.

1017
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:52.880
You gotta do that, all right?

1018
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:55.280
Loneliness, anxiety, hopelessness,

1019
00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:57.040
getting into action over promises,

1020
00:57:57.040 --> 00:57:59.800
fear, negative words, people-pleasing,

1021
00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:03.160
was-beens words, when I would teach.

1022
00:58:03.160 --> 00:58:06.560
True, true, myself, fear, family.

1023
00:58:06.560 --> 00:58:09.600
A lot of people getting tripped up by family.

1024
00:58:10.600 --> 00:58:12.320
You guys, family in the Bible,

1025
00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:14.680
God says God takes the solitary, the orphan,

1026
00:58:14.680 --> 00:58:16.920
and he places them in family.

1027
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:21.120
That's not talking about biological origin family.

1028
00:58:21.120 --> 00:58:23.480
That's talking about the family of God.

1029
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:26.960
And so a lot of you, you need that peace.

1030
00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:28.640
You don't have that peace in your life,

1031
00:58:28.640 --> 00:58:30.920
and you need to be praying for that peace

1032
00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:32.320
because you need a spiritual community.

1033
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:33.680
And this is one for you.

1034
00:58:33.680 --> 00:58:35.000
And please show up.

1035
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:37.160
We wanna speak into your life.

1036
00:58:37.640 --> 00:58:39.720
Once a month, last Sunday of the month,

1037
00:58:39.720 --> 00:58:40.800
we have a prophetic time

1038
00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:43.960
when we really, really start speaking encouraging

1039
00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:46.400
and exhortative words over each other.

1040
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:49.680
But we really want to be that family for you,

1041
00:58:49.680 --> 00:58:52.000
but you have to have in-person family too.

1042
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:53.000
By the way, announcement,

1043
00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:56.200
we just opened a new single city in San Francisco.

1044
00:58:56.200 --> 00:58:58.680
So we have a new one in San Francisco.

1045
00:58:58.680 --> 00:59:01.240
We have another new one, it's fairly newer,

1046
00:59:01.240 --> 00:59:03.440
in Jacksonville that's opening up.

1047
00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:05.400
That's, of course, Florida.

1048
00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:08.360
And I feel like there's one more.

1049
00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:12.640
I'll have to think about that for a second.

1050
00:59:12.640 --> 00:59:15.200
But places where you can gather together in-person,

1051
00:59:15.200 --> 00:59:17.960
get to know people, do life together.

1052
00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:20.920
Also, friends, we're gonna have Heart Connect.

1053
00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:22.840
We're gonna start having it every single week,

1054
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:26.000
a time you can come in, be put in small groups,

1055
00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:27.240
bury each other's burdens,

1056
00:59:27.240 --> 00:59:29.280
seize the stairs boards with each other,

1057
00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:30.880
rejoice over each other's wins,

1058
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:32.880
do some other fun, prophetic things together

1059
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:34.760
in small group community.

1060
00:59:35.120 --> 00:59:37.520
Get to know people in the community, both men and women.

1061
00:59:37.520 --> 00:59:39.360
We're gonna try to start having that every week,

1062
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:42.440
but this month in June, we're gonna have it at least twice.

1063
00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:43.960
And those will be on Thursdays.

1064
00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:46.320
Two Thursdays this month, we'll have Heart Connect.

1065
00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:48.920
Then we'll have all of our teaching and education classes

1066
00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:50.400
on Tuesdays this month.

1067
00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:51.680
We're gonna have love seats.

1068
00:59:51.680 --> 00:59:53.040
We're gonna have love story.

1069
00:59:53.040 --> 00:59:54.960
We're gonna get to hear love stories

1070
00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:57.640
from a bunch of couples that met and married

1071
00:59:57.640 --> 01:00:00.080
or got match made by me or they're super.

1072
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.880
for natural stories that are going to fill you full of hope

1073
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:04.600
and show you that if it happened for them,

1074
01:00:04.600 --> 01:00:06.960
it surely can happen for you.

1075
01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:10.200
We're also gonna have a past session on finances.

1076
01:00:10.200 --> 01:00:13.960
Some of you, this is why, this is what's going on.

1077
01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:15.700
The opposing forces that are keeping you

1078
01:00:15.700 --> 01:00:18.800
from living in abundance from the ripeness in your life

1079
01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:21.840
is all of these financial problems and debt

1080
01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:24.240
that are stealing it before you ever even get

1081
01:00:24.240 --> 01:00:26.320
to do anything with it.

1082
01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:28.200
And so there's gonna be one on finances,

1083
01:00:28.200 --> 01:00:31.280
some practical things and some supernatural things

1084
01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:34.400
that help you become the lender and not the debtor

1085
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:36.400
above and not beneath, okay?

1086
01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:38.520
And so that will be our past session this month.

1087
01:00:38.520 --> 01:00:39.480
And so I'm really excited.

1088
01:00:39.480 --> 01:00:40.400
I hope you're excited.

1089
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:41.240
I love y'all.

1090
01:00:41.240 --> 01:00:43.120
I hope you have an amazing Saturday today.

1091
01:00:43.120 --> 01:00:46.400
Go do something fun and pray more into this.

1092
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.120
God wants to show you where your harvest is waiting on you

1093
01:00:49.120 --> 01:00:51.600
and has been for a long time.

1094
01:00:51.600 --> 01:00:52.600
Love y'all, bye.