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Right, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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If you're new, and a lot of you might be,

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this is where every week we come together as a community

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and we lean into what is the current prophetic reality?

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What is God speaking to us?

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Not for later, but for right now.

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What is the word for today?

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What is the word for this month, this week,

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individually and corporately,

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meaning that what we released on Supernatural Saturdays

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is gonna be different for everybody

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as far as what it means to you

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and how you're gonna implement it.

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But for a lot of us,

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we're going to come together on Sundays

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and we're gonna activate that word.

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So if you're available on Sunday evenings,

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we have an activation,

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we activate whatever's released on Saturday.

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Why do we do that?

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Because we can't just be hearers of the word,

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we have to be doers of the word.

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And we need to know in order to do

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what God is speaking to us,

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we have to know what does that look like for me?

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Because once again, it's gonna look different for everybody.

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Some stuff's gonna be the same.

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If God says, hey, stop complaining,

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that's gonna look the same for all of us, right?

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But if it's about walking out as promises,

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if it's about getting a hold of pruning in our lives,

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just different things are gonna mean

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different things to different people.

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But once a month, on the last Sunday of the month,

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we do not have activation of Supernatural Saturday,

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we have a corporate prophetic night

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where you can come and God will speak to you

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through many of our prayer leaders.

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We have just a really amazing time together in the spirit.

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And so that happens to be tomorrow.

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Can you believe this you guys, June is over with.

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June is over, we're in July, can you believe that?

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It's crazy, right?

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I don't know, I've been praying about this a lot lately,

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but I feel like time is definitely going faster.

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And it's not because I'm older.

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People are like, oh, when you get older,

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time is gonna go faster.

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No, there's always 24 hours in the day, right?

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60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute for sure.

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But the reason why it feels like that is I believe

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there's a scripture that talks about how God bends time.

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How even though it's still the same 24 hours to us,

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how somehow the Lord is bending time.

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He said, I'm gonna shut it off.

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I'm gonna cut it short in righteousness

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is what he says in the scripture.

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So I've kind of been praying into, hey, what does that mean?

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What does that mean?

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I'll let you guys know what I hear.

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I have not heard anything yet besides I do have some

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precedence of where God bends time, he changes time.

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And we will talk about that

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on a different Supernatural Saturday.

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So when I woke up this morning, God spoke to me

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and I said, God, what do you want to say to me?

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What do you want to say to your sons and daughters

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today on Supernatural Saturday?

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And this is simply what he said.

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He said, tell them that if they do not quit, they will win.

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So I wanna release that over you right now.

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Once again, it's gonna mean something different to everyone.

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If you don't quit, you win.

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It reminded me of an old Misty Edwards song.

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If you don't know who that is, you can Google it.

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I know that IHOP, that church has been under

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a lot of scrutiny, a lot of turmoil going on there.

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Has anyone noticed that all of the pedestals

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that we have put human people on are toppling?

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Anyone noticed that?

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All these big ministries, you know, where we've,

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we have taken the people that lead, the pastors

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or the main people in pulpits and on stages and platforms,

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we have put them on these pedestals

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as these super Christians.

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Nah, y'all, you can't do that.

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And you know why I don't do that?

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Because my pastor went to prison when I was 32 years old.

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The man that discipled me from the time I was 22 to 32

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for 10 years, the man that I love,

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the man that I thought of as a spiritual father,

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the man that was there for me in thick and thin,

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he did so many good things.

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Here's the other thing.

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When people do something wrong,

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let's not forget all the things they did right.

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All of us are capable of doing things wrong,

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especially when people idolize us.

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You have no idea what happens to people

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when you make them an idol.

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And the Lord showed me that in that situation

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when he screwed up, he made a lot of mistakes

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and he did them for a long period of time

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because he did not have the right accountability

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in his life.

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There wasn't a checks and balance in that place

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because that specific denomination

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believed that the pastor was always right.

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So there wasn't anyone to oppose him.

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There wasn't anyone to check him before he wrecked him.

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We set people up for failure when we do these things,

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when we misunderstand these scriptures.

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A lot of people are like, well, the pastor is the angel of the house.

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Get out of here.

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The pastor is a person, right, who has clay feet.

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And we cannot give them that kind of rope to hang themselves with, because they will.

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And not just pastors, but other people.

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When we idolize them, when we think that they can do no wrong, and then we're shocked and

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horrified when we find out, oh, wait, yeah, they can.

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So the Lord showed me back then, when everyone else was outside of his house with pitchforks

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and torches—no kidding, friends.

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The news media was a huge scandal, and where I come from in Columbus, Ohio, and the people

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that used to follow him, that he used to lead, some of them family generationally for decades.

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His family led their families.

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They wanted him strung up.

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I was kind of new to the block.

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I had only been there for 10 years.

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I had not been there for generation after generation of my family.

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My husband that I was married to at the time, he was born into that church.

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His parents had gone there since they were young teenagers, and he was born into that

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church.

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And so all of those people, they had a lot more at stake with what happened there than

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maybe I did.

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But at the same time, the way that it was handled, it was like, it's all him.

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But the Lord showed me, it's not all him.

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It's everyone, because you create an environment.

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You create a dichotomy.

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You create the situation when you idolize people.

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And so that's a little segue.

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I didn't plan on saying any of that, but the Lord showed me years ago that if the enemy

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cannot cause you to fall, if he cannot defeat you through your vices, then he will cause

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someone to fall whose fall will cause you to fall.

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Let's get a hold of that for a second.

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Once again, I didn't plan on going here this morning, but I think that people lose their

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faith in God because of the sins of man.

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And we've got to get a hold of that because that is not how it should be.

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If the enemy can't defeat you, he will defeat someone whose defeat will defeat you.

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I put this on my Facebook page last week when all of these scandals started coming out and

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all these big named Christian celebrities in their ivory towers started crumbling.

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And I've seen this happen again and again, friends.

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Do not allow the mistakes and failings of others to harden your heart and shake your

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faith in God.

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Put your trust in God, not in people.

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Put your trust in God.

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I remember after the days of the indictment, 23 felonies, all financially related, after

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the sentencing, after the church fell apart, after I was a young woman now in the midst

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of a divorce, because of all this turmoil, in the midst of not having a church family,

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this is a small church, it wasn't a church community, it was a family.

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Having lost all of that in the blink of an eye, literally overnight, everything that

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I knew in my life was ripped away.

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And I had nothing because I didn't have any relationship with my own biological family.

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And so I was like, whoa, what am I going to do?

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And I started going to the church of my next door neighbor, and you guys know that I ended

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up marrying that guy.

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But I started going to his megachurch.

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I went to a small church where the scandal happened.

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Now I'm going to a megachurch where it feels kind of sketch, I'm going to be honest.

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Everything seems really hyped up.

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And after going through and seeing what I already saw, it was very difficult to listen

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to any of those sermons without thinking, yeah, whatever.

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And one day I just said to the Lord, I said, Lord, I don't trust this guy.

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Like, you know, the pastor of that church, like, I don't trust this guy.

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And he's like, that's okay.

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He's like, you don't have to trust him.

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Trust me.

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That's okay.

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You don't have to trust him.

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Just trust me.

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And I was like, okay.

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He's like, yeah, trust me that I'm leading and guiding you.

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Trust me that you're right where you need to be.

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Trust me that I will give you what you need when you need it.

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In the form of people, right?

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Because God is the source, but he's the head of the human resource department.

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See, we make the mistake to put our trust in people.

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You have to put your trust in God, and then he gives you the grace to trust the people

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that you should trust.

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We trust in God because that's where our trust is safe.

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God is not going to fail you.

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Now a lot of times you feel like God failed you because he didn't give you what you wanted.

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He didn't meet your expectations.

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Well, I just want to tell us all something.

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It's really important.

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God doesn't work for you.

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God doesn't work for you.

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He's not your employee.

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He's not a genie in a bottle.

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He doesn't work for us.

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And if we understand, and it's taken me a long time to understand this, and many disappointments

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that didn't have to happen, friends, huge disappointments that tried to shake my faith,

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tried to get me off course, because I put all of my hope and all my trust in an outcome

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instead of in God, and I thought that that's the way it needed to happen.

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Sometimes I even thought that's the way God told me it was going to happen.

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And then when it didn't happen that way, I was shook.

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And then I always had to come back to the truth that God sees things different than

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we do.

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He sees the whole picture.

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He sees the big picture.

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He understands things beyond what we understand.

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And another thing that we have to understand is that what we want in this life, the outcomes

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that we hope for so often, they're actually not to our best interest.

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Not long-term, not eternally.

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And we live for this life.

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I remember one such time that I was disappointed, and you guys were going completely off the

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word this morning, but we'll get back to it.

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One time when I was an early believer, I had just met Jesus.

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I didn't have any history with him yet.

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Write that down.

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Do you have history with God?

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I'm 28 years in now, y'all.

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I have history, but I didn't have history then, okay?

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I didn't have his story.

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I only had my story.

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I didn't have his story of my life.

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I only had my story of my life.

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I didn't have history.

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And so there were a couple things that happened that caused me to be disappointed.

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And when you defer your hope in Christ, your heart gets sick, and sick hearts go looking

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for medication.

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And so I found myself doing some things that I used to do before I met Jesus.

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Anybody else?

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It was early in, y'all.

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This is like the first four years of following Christ.

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I was like, oh yeah, well, I'm going to go over here for a minute.

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And specifically, that was to alcohol.

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Now a lot of people say to me now, they're like, Jackie, you know, are you, you know,

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do you think drinking is wrong and do you, do you have a glass of wine or whatever?

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And I don't.

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And the reason why I don't is not because I was an alcoholic.

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I feel like alcohol is a convenient medicator for many people because it's legal after you're

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21 years old and it's highly accessible and it's definitely cultural most places.

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So no, I didn't have a problem with alcohol and I do not think that drinking is wrong.

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I do think that very few people know how to keep it in moderation when they drink.

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I think a lot of people medicate with alcohol and don't want to admit that's what they're

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But for me, it's just something that I don't really feel is expedient or necessary for

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my life because even though I was an alcoholic, a lot of people in my family were, a lot of

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people.

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My mom was, my grandma was, my grandpa was, my grandma and grandpa on the other side of

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my family.

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They were, my uncles were lots of alcoholics.

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So I went and took a little side trail to the club, right?

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I'm like, I don't know, 24 years old.

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I get home that night and it's late and I just kind of lay on the couch and go to sleep

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and I wake up and God said to me, he said, you don't see the big picture.

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And I'm like, what do you mean?

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He's like, you're so disappointed.

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He said, because you love this world.

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And I was like, what?

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I don't understand.

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What do you mean by that?

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He's like, you love this world.

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He said, you frame everything in life through, are you going to get what makes you feel good

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in this world?

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He said, but this world is not your home.

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You're just passing through here.

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And it took me a long time to understand that, friends,

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and I don't know that I even fully understand that.

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There are some things that cross over between here and there.

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There are some really righteous wants and desires that we have,

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like marriage and family. Good news, friends.

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The desire that you have for marriage and family is very eternal.

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It's very righteous.

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But maybe ask yourself the question,

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have I made it an idol?

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Right?

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What reason do I want it for?

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Do I want it for temporary, more worldly kind of reasons?

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Or is it an eternal pursuit?

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Do I want it for lineage and legacy?

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Let's pray into that because we can make anything an idol.

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We can.

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And when those idols fall, it hurts.

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It definitely does.

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So back to Missy Edwards that started this whole bunny trail and IHOP.

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There is a song that she spontaneously sung during a prophetic time,

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and it became an actual song that was recorded.

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And I think it's called, I Knew What I Was Getting Into.

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It's a very long song, like most prophetic songs are.

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You can go check it out.

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But in that song, it says, if you don't give up, don't give in.

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If you don't quit, you'll win.

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You will win.

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If you don't quit.

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And so when God said that to me this morning, tell them if they don't quit,

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if they don't give up, they're going to win.

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So it reminded me of that song, but it also reminded me of Galatians 6-9.

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Does it remind you of Galatians 6-9?

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I know it does.

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Got some Bible people here.

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And all that scripture says is do not grow weary in well-doing.

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Because in due season, you will reap if you don't faint.

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But in modern words, all it says is that do not allow yourself to be sidetracked.

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Right?

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Do not allow yourself to be loosened, untied, drift aimlessly.

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Don't allow this life to wear you down, to make you old before your time in the mission.

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Because if you don't give up, you're going to reap.

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You're going to win.

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You're going to have the things that God said you're going to have.

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Guys, the word weariness in Hebrew, that's what it means.

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It means to be loosened and untied.

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It means to drift away.

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It literally means to be worn down and be made old before your time.

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Weariness goes all the way to the bones, friends.

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I want you to raise your hand if you would be honest and say,

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I have felt really weary in some things lately.

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Starting to distract yourself, trying to go do something else, numb out.

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Look at all those hands, you guys.

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So many weary souls.

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And I have my hand up too.

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Just weary.

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Just weary.

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And there's a lot of reasons for that.

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It's not even just personal battles that we go through.

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We live in a culture that is moving so quickly that it just makes you sick and tired really fast.

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Sick and tired and then you become sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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It's just really difficult.

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All right, look at all those hands.

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So many.

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So we're going to talk about that really quickly because we want to win.

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And God has created us to win.

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I want you to put your hand on your chest and I want you to say that over yourself.

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God has created me to be a winner.

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And if I asked you what you were weary of, a lot of you would say all kinds of different things.

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I'm weary of the relationship problems in my family.

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I'm weary of this job that I don't want to get out of bed and go to every day.

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I'm weary of the dating apps.

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I think everyone's going to be saying I'm weary of the dating apps.

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I'm weary, Lord.

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Jesus, deliver me.

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Fill in the blank.

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Go ahead, fill in the blank, put it in the chat.

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You were created to win.

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What is tiring you out?

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Right away I saw someone say, I'm weary of the waiting.

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And that's true.

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If any of you have ever been in like a real waiting room,

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so like in the passport office,

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in the social security office, in the DMV,

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where there's really no rhyme and reason

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and you have no idea when your number is gonna be called.

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The system does not seem to make any sense whatsoever.

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You have a number in your hand,

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but the numbers on the screen

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are not in chronological order.

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You do not know what's going on here.

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All you know is that you just have to wait.

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Those mentalities of those waiting rooms,

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they are very wearisome.

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They are soul crushing.

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And I just wanna encourage you,

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if you're in that type of waiting room in life,

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then you are in the wrong place.

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You took a detour somewhere

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and you went out of the kingdom

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and you went into the church

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because there are no waiting rooms like that

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in the kingdom of God.

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There's always something to be expectantly preparing for.

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There's always hope and anticipation and joy

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in the preparation.

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And so if it's a waiting room that we're in,

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then we need to ask God how we got there.

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And we're gonna talk about weariness today

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because we're all there in one shape and one form

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and we're gonna figure it out, okay?

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People are weary of their same old routines,

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get up, lay down, eat, sleep.

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Weary of men who don't want marriage, just weary of men.

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Okay, there you go.

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That don't want marriage, weary of those men.

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Family relationships, caring for mom,

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being pressured by your brother,

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weary of chasing female friendships in my age group.

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So weary of not having the friends,

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weary of sitting back in church by yourself

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and just watching, weary in breakthrough,

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weary in finances.

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Weary, is it ever gonna happen to me?

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Lack of close community friendships, weary of the apps,

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weary of finances, weary of dating,

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weary of your mom, caring burdens for other people,

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tired of being tired, delayed breakthrough,

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weary of the same apartment, the same job,

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weary of living alone.

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You guys, these are so honest and so vulnerable

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and you're so good.

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They're so good.

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Some of us can say, I'm just, I'm weary of myself.

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I'm weary of tripping over the same obstacles

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over and over again.

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Weary, tired.

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And once again, friends, when we're tired and weary,

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we look for medication, right?

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Then we just want to sit and veg out

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whatever your mode of medicating is,

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that's what we wanna do.

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And that doesn't make anything better, right?

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So what do we do when we're weary?

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Because God is saying something to us.

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He's saying, do not grow weary.

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That means it's progressive, isn't it?

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It's something that's progressive, growing weary.

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You start out with a little bit of weary

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and then if you give into it,

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then you're a whole lot weary.

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Right, if we allow it to continue,

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then we get a whole lot weary.

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And then pretty soon our tired turns into bone tired.

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We're just a little bit tired right now,

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but pretty soon we're gonna be tired

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beyond the point of return in our minds.

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And that's when we become loosened

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and untied from the mast of Christ.

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All the siren songs that lure us

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into places that we don't wanna be.

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You guys, in mythology,

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a lot of you had to take that in school.

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So please do not write me letters

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about me being a new ager or heretic

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or witchcraft or anything.

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We read these books like the Odyssey

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and different things in high school

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because it was part of humanities.

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If you didn't take humanities in high school,

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then okay, you went to a different type of school

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than I did, all right?

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But in these stories,

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the sailors would sail through stormy waters

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where the sirens live, the mermaids.

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the ones that would lure men to their death.

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And for us, y'all, that can be a typology

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of anything that's really just not good for us,

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anything that lures us from the drudgery of everyday life

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and promises us a hope and future that it cannot deliver.

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Back then, the sirens were beautiful

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and promising all of this pleasure, right?

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It's kind of like the story of Pinocchio and the Lost Boy,

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like the Pleasure Island thing, remember that too?

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I don't know if you guys remember that,

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but it's kind of a weird little blip in that story

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where Pinocchio kind of gets lured away of,

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hey, let's go ride the roller coasters

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and we can live here and have fun forever kind of thing.

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But the sailors used to tie themselves to the mast.

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Pinocchio means something to someone.

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That's not a reference that I would normally bring up.

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And so Holy Spirit is speaking to someone

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that is a significant story in your life.

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It means something to you.

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There's trauma, family trauma maybe,

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that God wants to unearth right there

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because maybe that was a special story

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or a special movie with you and someone that you loved.

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Maybe one of your children

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and you're the adult in the story,

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or maybe when you were a child with an adult

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and God wants to heal some pain

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that's associated with that relationship,

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not with Pinocchio, but with that relationship.

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Also, I'm just really feeling the word liar.

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So that's a big part of that story.

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Pinocchio lies and his nose grows,

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and so something that has to do with lies,

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something that has to do with pain around deception.

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So whoever that's for,

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just go ahead and grab a hold of that.

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If you're on replay listening and that's for you,

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go ahead and grab a hold of that.

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Maybe God wants to clean out that wound.

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He wants to heal it.

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Yes.

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So in the mythology story,

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the captain of the ship had the sailors tie him to the mast,

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tie him to the mast of the ship.

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He had to put beeswax in his ears and in their ears.

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Why?

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So they could not hear the song of the siren.

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They couldn't hear the siren song.

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And friends, when we grow weary in this life,

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in areas where we feel like we should have reaped a harvest

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and we haven't, and we're beginning to get disillusioned

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and full of doubt and unbelief,

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we have to tie ourselves to Jesus.

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There are so many things that are vying for your attention,

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vying for your allegiance.

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Don't think that you couldn't deconstruct your faith

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and then not reconstruct it

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because it's happening all over the place,

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especially with people that have put their hope in people

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and not in Christ.

502
00:27:54.340 --> 00:27:58.660
We have to tie ourselves to the mast of Jesus.

503
00:27:59.660 --> 00:28:02.100
We have to, because there's too many things

504
00:28:02.100 --> 00:28:03.920
that are promising you things

505
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.040
that they absolutely can't deliver.

506
00:28:06.040 --> 00:28:08.420
God is not a man that he should lie.

507
00:28:08.420 --> 00:28:11.380
What he has promised, he will also do.

508
00:28:12.380 --> 00:28:16.640
In fact, as soon as he said it, it was true.

509
00:28:19.340 --> 00:28:21.220
As soon as he said it, it was true.

510
00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:27.180
But all these other things that promise us peace

511
00:28:27.180 --> 00:28:30.360
and promise us fun and joy and all the things,

512
00:28:31.800 --> 00:28:33.660
it doesn't lead anywhere good.

513
00:28:34.660 --> 00:28:37.660
Going adrift, becoming untied from Christ,

514
00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:42.300
being worn down in your morals and your values

515
00:28:42.300 --> 00:28:46.300
and the things that you wanted by weariness

516
00:28:46.300 --> 00:28:48.060
only leads to bad places.

517
00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:51.620
I can say that from experience.

518
00:28:51.620 --> 00:28:53.340
So how do we keep this from happening?

519
00:28:53.340 --> 00:28:54.740
Okay, let's talk about it.

520
00:28:54.740 --> 00:28:56.580
First of all, seek truth in scripture

521
00:28:57.820 --> 00:29:00.500
because we don't walk by feelings.

522
00:29:01.340 --> 00:29:04.380
Because we don't walk by feelings.

523
00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:06.100
We can't walk by feelings.

524
00:29:06.100 --> 00:29:08.860
Your feelings are gonna very rarely ever line up

525
00:29:08.860 --> 00:29:11.180
to what God has asked you and called you

526
00:29:11.180 --> 00:29:16.060
and even told you, instructed you to do.

527
00:29:18.540 --> 00:29:19.860
Your feelings are not gonna say,

528
00:29:19.860 --> 00:29:21.520
yeah, that sounds right.

529
00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:24.740
No, most of the time they're not going to.

530
00:29:24.740 --> 00:29:28.460
If you're a fact person, the facts are not going to line up.

531
00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:31.820
Some of you are so stuck in analysis paralysis in your life.

532
00:29:31.820 --> 00:29:34.580
The reason why you're weary is you have wearied yourself

533
00:29:34.580 --> 00:29:37.340
with all of your analysis paralysis.

534
00:29:37.340 --> 00:29:39.480
You're waiting for it to make sense.

535
00:29:40.420 --> 00:29:42.060
Let me just go ahead and cut to the end.

536
00:29:42.060 --> 00:29:44.700
It doesn't, it doesn't make sense.

537
00:29:46.420 --> 00:29:49.780
Your human reasoning is the enemy of the supernatural.

538
00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:54.100
Your human reasoning is the enemy

539
00:29:54.100 --> 00:29:56.660
of what God wants to supernaturally do in your life.

540
00:29:56.660 --> 00:29:59.900
You're trying to cross the T's and dot the I's.

541
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.240
and to make it compute one plus one equals two?

542
00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:03.080
It doesn't.

543
00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:06.800
That's a word for someone.

544
00:30:06.800 --> 00:30:07.680
Grab a hold of it.

545
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:08.520
It doesn't.

546
00:30:08.520 --> 00:30:10.120
It doesn't make sense.

547
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:12.320
Do it anyway.

548
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:15.480
This is the test.

549
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:16.840
This is the stretching.

550
00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:18.320
Are you gonna trust your instincts?

551
00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:20.760
Are you gonna trust your reasoning?

552
00:30:20.760 --> 00:30:22.080
Or are you gonna trust God?

553
00:30:22.080 --> 00:30:23.640
What does Proverbs 3 tell us?

554
00:30:24.760 --> 00:30:26.520
Trust in the Lord with all your heart

555
00:30:26.520 --> 00:30:29.840
and lean not to your own understanding,

556
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:31.880
but in all your ways.

557
00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:33.600
All means all, friends.

558
00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:36.320
In all your ways, acknowledge Him.

559
00:30:36.320 --> 00:30:39.240
Acknowledge what about Him that He is God and you are not?

560
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:41.960
That He knows best and you do not?

561
00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.400
Acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.

562
00:30:50.360 --> 00:30:51.840
He will direct your path.

563
00:30:53.120 --> 00:30:54.200
I saw some of you put up

564
00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.040
that you're weary of the same old thing.

565
00:30:57.040 --> 00:30:58.960
Do something different.

566
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:00.040
What's stopping you?

567
00:31:02.560 --> 00:31:06.160
Faith is spelled R-I-S-K.

568
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.000
I want us to acknowledge on this call this morning,

569
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:12.560
myself included, that some of us have grown weary

570
00:31:12.560 --> 00:31:15.720
because we have tried to live too safe.

571
00:31:20.520 --> 00:31:22.280
This life is not about safety.

572
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:26.200
This life is about adventure, just so you know.

573
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:29.280
The whole idea of, hey, grow up

574
00:31:29.280 --> 00:31:31.120
and get a stable, secure job.

575
00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:32.560
A lot of people took the first job

576
00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:34.320
they got out of high school or college

577
00:31:34.320 --> 00:31:36.200
and they're still there because it's like,

578
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.760
hey, make sure that you stay at the same job.

579
00:31:38.760 --> 00:31:41.080
That's gonna make you look responsible

580
00:31:41.080 --> 00:31:43.640
because we don't live in that world anymore.

581
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:45.000
We don't live in that world.

582
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:46.840
And the people that did live in that world,

583
00:31:46.840 --> 00:31:48.440
they're all aging out.

584
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:50.320
That world doesn't exist anymore.

585
00:31:52.080 --> 00:31:54.440
Even people that tried to do that found out

586
00:31:54.760 --> 00:31:58.480
during the pandemic that they were not essential workers.

587
00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.520
A lot of people in middle management jobs

588
00:32:00.520 --> 00:32:02.320
that were supposed to be the most secure job

589
00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:05.280
you could have in this earth lost their jobs.

590
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:09.320
Safety is overrated.

591
00:32:12.840 --> 00:32:14.480
The only safe place to be

592
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.680
and the only safe place to invest is on the rock.

593
00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:23.680
Building your life on the firm foundation of Christ

594
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:25.360
and our hope in Christ.

595
00:32:27.360 --> 00:32:31.120
But some of us, we've got to get a little more adventurous.

596
00:32:33.560 --> 00:32:36.040
We have to understand that we are winners.

597
00:32:37.120 --> 00:32:40.560
And so instead of you creating the safe life for yourself,

598
00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:44.200
you have to believe that you can swing out on the trapeze

599
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.640
because he is the safety net.

600
00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:50.600
Your plan is not the safety net.

601
00:32:50.600 --> 00:32:52.080
He is the safety net.

602
00:32:54.080 --> 00:32:55.400
He's the safety net.

603
00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:56.880
Some of you, I can feel it in the spirit.

604
00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:00.040
You have been pondering change for a really long time,

605
00:33:00.040 --> 00:33:03.120
but you, every time you just, you can't pull the trigger.

606
00:33:04.040 --> 00:33:05.760
You can't pull the trigger.

607
00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:08.600
When I was a little girl, I used to live on Lake Erie

608
00:33:08.600 --> 00:33:10.080
and the beach was in my backyard

609
00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:13.120
and it went for miles and miles each direction.

610
00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:15.440
And with my trusty golden retriever,

611
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:16.360
which I think is interesting

612
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:19.080
because I married a golden retriever personality.

613
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.240
My greatest companion when I was a child

614
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.880
was a golden retriever.

615
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:25.320
He's my best friend.

616
00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:28.080
He's really the only person that I was ever with,

617
00:33:28.080 --> 00:33:29.120
even though he's not a person.

618
00:33:29.120 --> 00:33:31.600
But for those of you that have dogs, was he a person?

619
00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:33.400
I think he was a person.

620
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:34.240
All right.

621
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:37.960
His name was Nugget, Golden Nugget.

622
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:39.440
We called him Nugget for short

623
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:41.200
and we would explore the beach.

624
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:45.160
And I would walk for miles down this beach, you guys.

625
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:49.240
And yes, this was the eighties and kids did that back then.

626
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:54.240
And there was this old boat launch swing

627
00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:57.760
where they would put the boats on the swing

628
00:33:57.760 --> 00:33:59.840
and then they would swing the boat out into the water

629
00:33:59.840 --> 00:34:01.840
and launch it and put it in the water.

630
00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:04.240
And it just looks so fun to swing on y'all.

631
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:09.040
And every time I would come to that swing,

632
00:34:09.040 --> 00:34:10.840
to that boat launch, and I know that,

633
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:12.120
that sounds a little dangerous

634
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:16.360
and definitely wasn't meant for children to swing on,

635
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:20.239
but I was pretty athletic child and I just wanted to do it.

636
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:23.159
But I could never bring myself to do it.

637
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:25.639
I wanted to do it and I would look at it.

638
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:28.560
Every time I came down the beach and I got to that place

639
00:34:28.560 --> 00:34:31.920
and it was pretty far from my house, I would never do it.

640
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:33.760
I was like, I'd almost do it.

641
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:34.639
I'd get up there.

642
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:35.920
I'd grab a hold of the rope.

643
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.320
I was gonna do it, but then I just didn't do it.

644
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:40.679
And then one day, my older brother,

645
00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:42.719
he's 18 months older than me.

646
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:43.760
He came on a walk.

647
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:45.239
He came on the beach with me.

648
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.280
And I don't even remember, maybe I took him there

649
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.199
because I wanted to show him that boat launch.

650
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:54.360
But we went there together and he just got up and did it.

651
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:55.199
He just did it.

652
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:58.760
He just jumped right on, swung around, had a good old time.

653
00:34:58.760 --> 00:34:59.960
And I was like, dang it.

654
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.760
And some of us, that is our life.

655
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:03.840
We're seeing other people making moves.

656
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.200
We're seeing other people doing stuff.

657
00:35:06.200 --> 00:35:08.080
And we're like, whoa.

658
00:35:08.080 --> 00:35:09.320
And we feel envious.

659
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:10.080
We feel jealous.

660
00:35:10.080 --> 00:35:13.160
Sometimes we feel covetous of what they're doing.

661
00:35:13.160 --> 00:35:15.200
Sometimes we're just sincerely happy for them,

662
00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:17.280
but we're very sad for ourselves.

663
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:19.120
But we don't have to be.

664
00:35:19.120 --> 00:35:21.360
I could have done that the whole time,

665
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.320
but I talked myself out of it.

666
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:26.320
You know?

667
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:28.080
And then he does it and makes it look easy.

668
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:34.960
So the very first thing that we need to do to not grow weary,

669
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:38.920
not to grow weary, not to become untied and unloosed

670
00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:41.040
from the promises of God in our lives,

671
00:35:41.040 --> 00:35:45.040
from the assignments and the missions that God has given us,

672
00:35:45.040 --> 00:35:47.360
is to seek the truth in scripture.

673
00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:49.720
What did God say?

674
00:35:49.720 --> 00:35:52.080
What did he say?

675
00:35:52.080 --> 00:35:54.400
It doesn't matter what your feelings say.

676
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:56.560
Circumstances, no.

677
00:35:56.560 --> 00:35:57.840
They don't get to voice here.

678
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:02.600
The only voice at this table is the truth in scripture.

679
00:36:02.600 --> 00:36:04.320
And then the second thing we have to do,

680
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:08.040
and we did it here today, and you need to do more,

681
00:36:08.040 --> 00:36:10.040
but you need to make sure that this doesn't become

682
00:36:10.040 --> 00:36:12.440
a negative practice in your life.

683
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:14.640
We need to confess our doubt and our unbelief.

684
00:36:17.640 --> 00:36:22.200
Some of us have gotten weary to the point

685
00:36:22.200 --> 00:36:25.880
where we just, we actually, if we're just being honest,

686
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:29.000
we don't really believe that much anymore.

687
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:33.040
We have a lot of doubt about whether or not

688
00:36:33.040 --> 00:36:37.200
that was even God, or this is even for us,

689
00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:40.000
or that anything's ever gonna change.

690
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.120
Let's see those hands.

691
00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:44.360
A lot of you still have your hands up.

692
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.040
Put your, let's put your hands down first.

693
00:36:46.040 --> 00:36:47.600
Everyone put your hands down.

694
00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:50.360
But put the hands down first

695
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:53.000
because we can't get a real clear picture

696
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.840
of where people are if hands are up from the old question.

697
00:36:59.120 --> 00:37:00.760
Everyone put your hands down.

698
00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:03.520
Just gonna wait for a sec till all the hands are down.

699
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:14.800
Okay, now put your hands up if you feel like

700
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.920
you have been entertaining some unbelief and some doubts.

701
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:20.520
You've been entertaining them.

702
00:37:20.520 --> 00:37:22.920
You've been inviting them over for dinner.

703
00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:25.120
And feeding them.

704
00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:26.520
Someone's got me on echo.

705
00:37:33.040 --> 00:37:34.680
Sorry, I accidentally lowered one of your hands

706
00:37:34.680 --> 00:37:36.800
because I was just trying to mute you instead.

707
00:37:38.040 --> 00:37:39.960
Look at all those hands, you guys.

708
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:46.200
Lots of hands.

709
00:37:46.200 --> 00:37:47.360
So we have to confess that.

710
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:49.280
You're confessing that right now.

711
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:50.120
I have doubt.

712
00:37:50.120 --> 00:37:51.000
I have unbelief.

713
00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:55.360
Years ago, the Lord told me that doubt is uncertainty

714
00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:58.960
that causes us not to take action.

715
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.880
When we have doubt, we won't take action if we have doubt.

716
00:38:03.520 --> 00:38:06.360
It goes back to that famous quote by Nelson Mandela

717
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:07.520
that you guys all hear me quote

718
00:38:07.520 --> 00:38:09.400
because it's one of my favorite quotes.

719
00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:14.400
You will not prepare for what you secretly believe.

720
00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:17.560
Doubt, right, right there, is not gonna happen.

721
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:20.240
You won't prepare for what you secretly believe

722
00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:21.080
is not gonna happen.

723
00:38:21.080 --> 00:38:23.920
And a lot of us don't wear our doubts on our sleeve.

724
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.840
On the outside, we look like, we trust God, you know,

725
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:28.600
we're going to church, we do the things.

726
00:38:28.600 --> 00:38:29.440
How are you?

727
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.000
I'm doing good, sister so-and-so.

728
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.040
How are you doing?

729
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:34.560
I'm gonna go over here and work in the children's ministry.

730
00:38:34.560 --> 00:38:36.360
I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that.

731
00:38:39.520 --> 00:38:40.360
I'm blessed.

732
00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:43.120
I'm highly favored.

733
00:38:43.120 --> 00:38:46.080
But inside, you're like, I'm not gonna do that.

734
00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:47.360
But inside, you're like,

735
00:38:49.680 --> 00:38:51.800
I don't think anything's gonna happen here.

736
00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:53.400
And how is that evident?

737
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:55.680
It's evident by our inaction.

738
00:38:55.680 --> 00:39:00.000
When we have doubt, it's uncertainty that causes inaction.

739
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.480
And for those of you that really need to be very certain

740
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:05.960
before you take action, you know, you that analyze,

741
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:09.080
like I just talked about, you have to make sure

742
00:39:09.080 --> 00:39:11.600
that it makes sense before you take action,

743
00:39:11.600 --> 00:39:13.960
then this is gonna be a double whammy for you.

744
00:39:16.200 --> 00:39:17.360
I'm a fast start.

745
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.160
If you're familiar with the Strength Finder

746
00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:24.080
and the different, you know,

747
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:29.760
resources in our personalities that help us to succeed,

748
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:33.120
one of mine is I'm a fast start.

749
00:39:33.120 --> 00:39:34.440
What does that mean?

750
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:35.720
It can be bad.

751
00:39:35.720 --> 00:39:38.600
I will tell you, it definitely isn't always good.

752
00:39:38.600 --> 00:39:41.720
But I look, I leap before I look.

753
00:39:43.520 --> 00:39:44.640
I leap before I look.

754
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:47.680
Mostly.

755
00:39:47.680 --> 00:39:50.080
I throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.

756
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.440
I don't sit around for a million years

757
00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:59.280
trying to figure out all of the nuances of something

758
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:00.120
before I just.

759
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.520
try it. Now, that's not in every area of my life, but that's in areas of inspiration,

760
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:12.560
especially in business and different things. But some of you,

761
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:18.080
you're going to dip your toe in for years. You're not going to get in the water.

762
00:40:20.720 --> 00:40:28.240
You're not. And that's why you're weary because you're sitting and you're watching everyone else

763
00:40:28.240 --> 00:40:34.400
swimming. And yeah, it's true. Some of them are drowning, but don't let that keep you from

764
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:41.520
getting in the water because there is a life preserver for them, whether they want to use it

765
00:40:41.520 --> 00:40:50.320
or not. So we cannot allow doubt and unbelief to get in. And how do we do that? We have to confess

766
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:55.120
it. When you feel it, you guys confess it. Find someone that's not going to become weary of your

767
00:40:55.120 --> 00:41:00.800
confessions to hold each other accountable. Hey, I'm really struggling today. Can you pray for me?

768
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:05.520
I'm having a bad day. It's hard to hang on to hope today.

769
00:41:09.040 --> 00:41:13.440
Have a prayer partner like that. Come to prayer. You guys, we have daily prayer.

770
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:19.120
We have daily prayer. You're like, well, but Jackie, that happens when I'm at work. Okay, great.

771
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:23.920
Go to a bathroom break for 10 minutes and break in on the call and say, hey, I'm in the bathroom,

772
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:29.440
but I need prayer. Please pray for me. Or come to Wednesday night or Sunday night.

773
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:35.920
There's got to be a time that works for you. All right. Next, share your concerns

774
00:41:38.080 --> 00:41:42.240
with others. So confess your doubt and unbelief, but also share your concerns with others

775
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:47.280
because we weren't created to live this life alone. We have to have people that we can

776
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:54.640
share our hearts with. The next one, remember God. This is my favorite one that I wrote down here.

777
00:41:55.680 --> 00:42:04.880
How do we combat this weariness? Remember God. I have a good friend. Her name is Annie F. Downs,

778
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:12.000
and she is a famous New York Times bestselling author, and she has a book called Remember God.

779
00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:20.320
And that book is about her struggle in this life. It's just about her life and about

780
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.160
how things weren't working out the way that she wanted them to. And it's a really great

781
00:42:24.160 --> 00:42:30.080
read and go read it because it's really talking about what we're talking about here in her singleness, too.

782
00:42:33.680 --> 00:42:39.040
But we have to remember God. We have to remember the landmarks. We have to remember the times

783
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:46.240
that God has come through for us in the past. We have to remember

784
00:42:46.240 --> 00:42:49.840
the fulfilled promises of our lives, and we all have them.

785
00:42:53.200 --> 00:42:58.480
What has God done for you? Remember that. He's the same God. The same God that helped you there

786
00:42:59.600 --> 00:43:04.560
is the same God that's going to help you now. The same God that delivered on his

787
00:43:04.560 --> 00:43:08.720
promises back then is the same God that's going to deliver on his promises now.

788
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:16.240
Spend time with him. Remember, joy is our strength, and we find joy in his presence. That was

789
00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:21.600
a couple Supernatural Saturdays ago. Put all these Supernatural Saturday thoughts together,

790
00:43:21.600 --> 00:43:26.320
friends. We have to do this, and I'm talking to myself as well. You know, there were certain times

791
00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:30.000
when there were different things that come against me, and I would begin to immediately murmur and

792
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:36.320
complain. I'd immediately begin to be upset at God and angry with God, and I've seen now that

793
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:41.040
that's because I didn't really know him very well. I didn't trust that he really was going to

794
00:43:41.040 --> 00:43:44.480
come through, and I immediately, just like the children of Israel when they left Egypt and they

795
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:50.080
didn't know where they were going, they didn't know God very well. And yeah, he had done some

796
00:43:50.080 --> 00:43:55.840
miraculous things bringing them out of Egypt, but they didn't have enough history with him

797
00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:58.960
to sustain the wilderness.

798
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.960
So if you are a new believer and you don't have enough history

799
00:44:07.520 --> 00:44:13.360
with God to not get negative when things don't go your way and to not start murmuring, complaining,

800
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:23.440
and you know, doubting, start getting into unbelief, then borrow some victories from others.

801
00:44:24.240 --> 00:44:27.680
I had to do that at the beginning of my discipleship. I didn't have enough history with

802
00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:33.680
God to really trust, but I was around people that I thought were really good people. I knew that

803
00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:38.240
they weren't lying to me. They weren't making up these stories and blatantly lying to my face about

804
00:44:38.240 --> 00:44:42.480
how God had delivered them and healed them and this and that. And so I began to borrow their

805
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:48.000
stories. You guys, I can remember walking around my apartment and saying, hey God, you did it for

806
00:44:48.720 --> 00:44:55.760
Joyce. You did it for her, Lord. You helped her, you restored her, you healed her, and you're

807
00:44:55.760 --> 00:44:59.920
going to do it for me. You did it for this person. And then when I ran out of people that I

808
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.000
I knew I went to the Bible. You did it for you did it for David. You did it for most you did it for

809
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.360
We have to remember what God has done

810
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:12.800
Because I'm telling you I'm showing you snapshots from my own life

811
00:45:13.640 --> 00:45:15.640
This is my discipleship. I

812
00:45:16.160 --> 00:45:20.080
Had to do this. I had to press in no one was teaching me how to do this

813
00:45:20.080 --> 00:45:22.480
Holy Spirit was leading me into it. I

814
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:25.160
I

815
00:45:25.160 --> 00:45:27.680
Had to remember if I couldn't remember my own my own

816
00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:31.800
Landmarks, then I had to remember somebody else's if I didn't have any of my own yet

817
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:35.400
Then I had to call upon the God of Jacob

818
00:45:37.680 --> 00:45:39.680
And Isaac and Abraham

819
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:47.720
And what he did for them he will do for me

820
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.800
And now I have history I have my own landmarks I

821
00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:59.160
Have my own landmarks

822
00:45:59.160 --> 00:46:04.760
That I can when something comes and it tries to distract me and it tries to derail me. I could say, oh, you know

823
00:46:05.600 --> 00:46:07.600
I've seen this before and

824
00:46:08.520 --> 00:46:10.520
Everything's gonna be alright

825
00:46:14.040 --> 00:46:17.800
Practice gratitude you guys that's the next thing on my list here practice gratitude

826
00:46:18.600 --> 00:46:23.200
Practice being grateful for something nobody on this call is

827
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:30.800
Without something to be thankful for you know what I you know, I know cuz you're breathing you woke up today

828
00:46:32.600 --> 00:46:34.600
You're alive

829
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:42.800
That heart beating in your chest is a sign of God's promises to you God's gift to you

830
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:44.680
So

831
00:46:44.680 --> 00:46:46.640
Let's practice gratitude

832
00:46:46.640 --> 00:46:51.880
Yeah, we have to confess our doubt and unbelief. We have to with trusted people

833
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:55.800
Share our complaints, but we also have to practice gratitude

834
00:46:56.280 --> 00:46:58.480
You can't just murmur and complain friends

835
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:04.400
if you do the first two things that I said for the two and three confessed out and unbelief and then share your

836
00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:11.800
Complaints and concerns with others, but you don't do practice and gratitude. You're gonna get real unbalanced. You're gonna become a super negative Nellie

837
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:14.280
or Ned

838
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:17.360
You have to practice gratitude

839
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:21.800
He is good

840
00:47:22.680 --> 00:47:28.920
And I want to challenge you in the areas where you think that he hasn't been good to you, is that true or

841
00:47:30.080 --> 00:47:32.080
Is that your view?

842
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:34.880
Because you

843
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.880
Wanted him to do something that he didn't do you guys?

844
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:41.400
I know that this is really hard to take right now

845
00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:47.280
but I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna say it in love but a lot of us are weary and we're in places of

846
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:55.000
despondency and despair almost in our lives because we have not acted on the words of the Lord and

847
00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.160
Taken the opportunities because they were risky that God had put before us

848
00:47:59.960 --> 00:48:01.960
We talked ourselves out of it

849
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:06.160
We told ourselves that it wasn't the right time. It wasn't the right thing

850
00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:14.960
We told ourselves I'm not really sure that's God and yet we're still in the same cycle of pain

851
00:48:19.040 --> 00:48:21.040
Still in the same cycle of pain

852
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:25.040
God does not want you to live in pain. I want to tell you something

853
00:48:25.040 --> 00:48:27.040
It's really important that all of you hear this

854
00:48:27.240 --> 00:48:30.800
You will always have to take imperfect action in this life

855
00:48:31.520 --> 00:48:37.520
There's no such thing as perfect action. And remember doubt is uncertainty that causes inaction

856
00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:40.320
You have to take action

857
00:48:41.080 --> 00:48:46.220
You have to belief requires action. The proof of belief is action

858
00:48:46.740 --> 00:48:48.740
the proof of desire is

859
00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:54.760
Preparation and it will always be imperfect meaning that you kind of know what God wants you to do

860
00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:57.840
But then the rest of it you're just winging it. That's all right

861
00:48:58.720 --> 00:49:00.720
That's how you have to do it

862
00:49:01.720 --> 00:49:03.080
And

863
00:49:03.080 --> 00:49:08.160
Then God will prune it and he will show you. Hey, this is yeah this this works and this doesn't

864
00:49:08.680 --> 00:49:11.000
Does that make sense to everyone? Do you understand?

865
00:49:13.520 --> 00:49:15.840
So the next thing goes with what I just said

866
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:23.920
After practicing gratitude, we have to walk in the spirit another supernatural Saturdays a couple weeks ago team spirit versus team flesh

867
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:30.440
We have to walk in the spirit friends. We have to get up and we have to align ourselves with the spirit within us

868
00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:37.480
And the spirits gonna lead you places that you might not want to go in your flesh in places that you might be

869
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:39.520
Intimidated to go

870
00:49:39.520 --> 00:49:42.600
It's gonna stretch you. It's it's supposed to

871
00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:46.080
But if we don't want to become weary

872
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:52.400
If we don't want to give up then we have to stop aligning with our flesh and we have to start aligning with our spirit

873
00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:55.920
We have to

874
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.720
I have a private client right now, I'm so proud of her, you know, I gave her a prophetic

875
00:50:06.720 --> 00:50:12.040
word a while back that I thought that she should go, she should go to check out this

876
00:50:12.040 --> 00:50:17.760
specific church in this city that's near her city.

877
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:21.760
And she's like, no, I don't, you know, that means I would have to drive like 40 minutes

878
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:24.480
to church every Sunday and I just don't want to do that.

879
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:27.840
Yeah, it's going to stretch you.

880
00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:34.720
You guys, if you think that God's plan for you is convenient, you better think again.

881
00:50:34.720 --> 00:50:41.480
Every once in a while, it might be convenient, but for the most part, it's going to stretch

882
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:42.480
you.

883
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:45.320
It's going to be a sacrifice of some sort.

884
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:51.280
It is, you're going to have to give up some things to follow Jesus where he wants to take

885
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:52.280
you.

886
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.120
Someone needs to say that over themselves right now.

887
00:50:55.120 --> 00:51:00.000
I'm going to actually have to give up some things to follow Jesus.

888
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:04.720
I just heard of a divorce in our community, it saddens my heart.

889
00:51:04.720 --> 00:51:09.520
It was actually a wedding that I officiated and I knew that it was going to be a hard

890
00:51:09.520 --> 00:51:10.520
match.

891
00:51:10.520 --> 00:51:15.880
I knew that there were strong personalities in this, in this union.

892
00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:20.920
I had said to them more than once, hey, are you sure you guys want to get married right

893
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:21.920
now?

894
00:51:22.240 --> 00:51:27.840
Maybe you should take some time because you have a lot of disagreements.

895
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:28.840
They didn't.

896
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:29.840
They wanted to go forward.

897
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:35.280
They're like, no, we're fine, we're going to make it work.

898
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:40.080
Both really great people and no reason why either one of them should not get married

899
00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:45.480
and really shouldn't marry each other if they were willing to grow better and not bitter

900
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.160
in these differences of strong personalities and opinions.

901
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:55.920
But the problem was, is that they had the mentality that they could keep their life

902
00:51:55.920 --> 00:51:58.520
the way it is and then also be married.

903
00:51:58.520 --> 00:52:03.120
Some of you have been single for a really long time and you don't understand that your

904
00:52:03.120 --> 00:52:11.000
life is going to change completely.

905
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:12.200
You don't hate your single life.

906
00:52:12.200 --> 00:52:13.200
You like your community.

907
00:52:13.200 --> 00:52:14.200
You love the love.

908
00:52:14.200 --> 00:52:17.960
You love the life that you've built, you know, with community and friends and the area that

909
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:22.720
you live in and it's so familiar to you and, you know, you've done this because, you know,

910
00:52:22.720 --> 00:52:26.080
you're a single person and so you've had to create the support system around you like

911
00:52:26.080 --> 00:52:31.240
your job, all the things, but you still, you also want to be married and you don't understand

912
00:52:31.240 --> 00:52:38.280
that signing up for, you know, being no longer a me, but a we could mean that a lot of the

913
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:45.120
things that you have come to have security in are going to shift and change.

914
00:52:45.120 --> 00:52:47.840
It's going to be necessary.

915
00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:52.520
And the problem is, is you keep trying to find a love story that fits your life instead

916
00:52:52.520 --> 00:52:59.160
of understanding that you're the puzzle piece of a love story that fits God's plan.

917
00:52:59.160 --> 00:53:03.440
You want someone to come in and just be part of your life that you've built and that isn't

918
00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:06.880
how it works.

919
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.680
It does not work that way.

920
00:53:09.680 --> 00:53:12.680
I have not seen it work that way even one time.

921
00:53:12.680 --> 00:53:14.720
Even people that are like, Oh yeah, you know, it's great.

922
00:53:14.720 --> 00:53:18.800
I'll relocate to you and we'll be together and you know, we'll go to your church.

923
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:26.400
They don't ever stay, they don't ever stay in that framework.

924
00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:31.400
They might start that way, but it very quickly shifts and changes.

925
00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:32.920
Why?

926
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:35.280
Because God wants to take you somewhere.

927
00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:41.560
He didn't bring that person there to just stay where you have been.

928
00:53:41.560 --> 00:53:47.840
He wants to take you both now somewhere new in life.

929
00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:53.080
Maybe it's geographically, probably definitely community, different jobs, different things,

930
00:53:53.080 --> 00:53:57.040
different opportunities, all types of different things.

931
00:53:57.040 --> 00:54:03.000
What you were doing was a one person assignment and now God's like, Oh God, two people on

932
00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:04.000
this assignment.

933
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:09.880
So now I can expand this assignment, right?

934
00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:14.320
One person to find a thousand to 10,000.

935
00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:15.320
Very important.

936
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:19.280
We have to walk in the spirit, friends.

937
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:21.960
And then last but not least, we have to trust in the Lord.

938
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:26.880
A lot of people define that word, that scripture, Isaiah, it says, wait on the Lord.

939
00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:29.360
It will renew your strength, right?

940
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.880
You will run and grow, run and not grow weary.

941
00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:33.960
There's that word weary again.

942
00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:35.400
You'll walk and not faint.

943
00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:39.520
But that word is actually translated to the word trust.

944
00:54:40.160 --> 00:54:41.160
Put your trust in the Lord.

945
00:54:41.160 --> 00:54:42.160
Put your hope in Christ.

946
00:54:42.160 --> 00:54:44.520
Put your trust in God.

947
00:54:44.520 --> 00:54:50.840
Not in your circumstances, not in a timeline, not in a specific outcome, not in anything

948
00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:53.000
but the Lord.

949
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:57.840
A lot of you have your trust in outcomes.

950
00:54:57.840 --> 00:54:59.680
You have your trust in a specific thing.

951
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.180
Not, and maybe another person, but not in Christ.

952
00:55:06.180 --> 00:55:08.600
And what does that mean to put our trust in God?

953
00:55:08.600 --> 00:55:12.800
It just means, God, I know that you're for me and I know that life is for me.

954
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:15.300
I know that you've created me to be a winner.

955
00:55:15.300 --> 00:55:17.000
I know that you've created me to prosper.

956
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:18.000
How do I know this?

957
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:19.800
Go back to step one.

958
00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:21.360
Seek truth in scripture.

959
00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:22.360
That's how I know it.

960
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:23.880
Do I know it by my circumstances?

961
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.880
Not all the time, but I know it by scripture.

962
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:30.880
I know it by scripture.

963
00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:33.120
I know that I'm highly favored by scripture.

964
00:55:33.120 --> 00:55:37.320
I know that I'm valuable and qualified and forgiven and loved and confident and courageous

965
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:39.840
and extraordinary opportunities are waiting for me.

966
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:40.840
How?

967
00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:42.400
In scripture.

968
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:48.000
I know that if I give in to the law of attraction in scripture, because God says I'm the head

969
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:54.160
and not the tail, I'm above and not beneath it, I'm given God ideas that produce good

970
00:55:54.160 --> 00:55:58.480
things in my life, right?

971
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:00.400
I can have a prosperous mindset.

972
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:03.400
I can be blessed to be a blessing.

973
00:56:03.400 --> 00:56:09.640
I can be generous with what I have because I know that there's more coming.

974
00:56:09.640 --> 00:56:14.400
I'll have grace to embrace whatever season I'm in, knowing that this is not the end of

975
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:15.400
the story.

976
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:22.640
I don't know about you guys, but my confession in the word of God is that I can do what God

977
00:56:22.640 --> 00:56:23.720
has asked me to do.

978
00:56:23.720 --> 00:56:26.800
He's asked me to do something, and that is take care of my body.

979
00:56:26.800 --> 00:56:30.200
God has asked me to move my body.

980
00:56:30.200 --> 00:56:31.200
I have to do my part.

981
00:56:31.200 --> 00:56:32.560
God's not going to move my body for me.

982
00:56:32.560 --> 00:56:34.000
I'm not a puppet on a string.

983
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:45.280
I'm going to move my body, but he has promised me if I move my body, he has promised me if

984
00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:55.000
I move my body that I can regain my health, that I can become fit and healthy, full of

985
00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:56.000
energy.

986
00:56:56.200 --> 00:56:57.960
Now, will it just be moving my body?

987
00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:03.280
No, but you know, God understands that a lot of times we can't have more than one instruction

988
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:07.560
at a time, so he gives us simple instructions.

989
00:57:07.560 --> 00:57:09.240
You guys, God gives us simple instructions.

990
00:57:09.240 --> 00:57:13.480
If you feel like you have some real complicated, hard, impossible instruction from God, it's

991
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:16.560
probably instruction from religion and not God.

992
00:57:16.560 --> 00:57:22.280
It's probably from a performance-based mindset that you have and not God.

993
00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.200
God just told me to move.

994
00:57:25.200 --> 00:57:27.880
I'm moving my body, and then guess what?

995
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:37.440
He's leading me as I move to other things that are helping me physically.

996
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:39.640
It is simple, Leah, because it's supposed to be simple.

997
00:57:39.640 --> 00:57:42.440
Do you guys know that the gospel is simple?

998
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:46.200
It's simple.

999
00:57:46.200 --> 00:57:51.840
Jesus came and died for you and as you so that you no longer have to live under the

1000
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:59.240
curse, but you could be reunited to your royal identity as a son and daughter of God

1001
00:57:59.240 --> 00:58:01.840
and all the benefits that come with that.

1002
00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:08.960
Now, orphanhood is hard to walk out of, and that's why Jesus himself said, you'll be transformed

1003
00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:15.720
bit by bit by the renewing of your mind, and that actually is translated into heart as

1004
00:58:15.720 --> 00:58:18.400
well, so it has to do with heart work.

1005
00:58:18.600 --> 00:58:23.720
As we continue to do the heart work, continue to renew the mind that is inside of us, not

1006
00:58:23.720 --> 00:58:33.400
your brain, but the mind inside of you, that master control, that core thing.

1007
00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:37.040
Not erasing the bad things, y'all, but replacing them with truth.

1008
00:58:37.040 --> 00:58:38.480
You can't erase them.

1009
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:43.040
It's like that movie Inside Out, that little cartoon, not the second one.

1010
00:58:43.040 --> 00:58:44.040
I haven't seen that.

1011
00:58:44.040 --> 00:58:47.200
I know there's all this controversy over it, but the first one.

1012
00:58:47.200 --> 00:58:50.160
Those were core memories of the little character in the movie, Riley.

1013
00:58:50.160 --> 00:58:57.440
Those were her core memories, and they were being touched by sadness, and then Joy was

1014
00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:01.040
getting upset because Joy was like, no, no, everything needs to be good and happy.

1015
00:59:01.040 --> 00:59:05.520
No, that's not true, but everything's redeemable.

1016
00:59:05.520 --> 00:59:08.600
In fact, I'm going to end with this.

1017
00:59:08.600 --> 00:59:13.800
The other day, I remembered something really tragic from my childhood, which, you guys,

1018
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:14.800
is very normal for me.

1019
00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:24.720
I had many more tragic moments in my upbringing than good ones or happy ones.

1020
00:59:24.720 --> 00:59:29.520
If you know the way that a memory is created, a memory is created by strong emotions.

1021
00:59:29.520 --> 00:59:32.120
That's why you remember some things from childhood and not others.

1022
00:59:32.120 --> 00:59:35.160
It doesn't have to be a negative strong emotion.

1023
00:59:35.160 --> 00:59:37.080
It can be a positive strong emotion.

1024
00:59:37.080 --> 00:59:41.040
The problem is that I didn't have a lot of positive strong emotions in childhood, so

1025
00:59:41.040 --> 00:59:46.160
I remembered something negative, and it caused a little bit of a reaction in my body, a little

1026
00:59:46.160 --> 00:59:57.000
bit of anxiety, a little bit of mourning, sadness, and then Holy Spirit challenged me.

1027
00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:00.000
He said, can you think of anything good from childhood?

1028
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.000
He said, try, he said, try to remember something happy.

1029
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:10.640
It's so easy to gravitate towards all the things

1030
01:00:10.640 --> 01:00:12.960
that have not gone right and to remember those things

1031
01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:16.340
and to rehearse those things in our minds and in our hearts.

1032
01:00:16.340 --> 01:00:17.920
But I want to challenge all of you

1033
01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:19.460
the way Holy Spirit challenged me,

1034
01:00:19.460 --> 01:00:20.680
because it wasn't very long,

1035
01:00:20.680 --> 01:00:23.640
it was maybe two minutes into that conversation

1036
01:00:23.640 --> 01:00:26.960
where I'm being challenged to remember something positive

1037
01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:29.040
that I remembered something positive.

1038
01:00:29.080 --> 01:00:30.520
And I began to rehearse those things.

1039
01:00:30.520 --> 01:00:33.300
Well, I remember when my mom's second husband, Pat,

1040
01:00:33.300 --> 01:00:36.280
when he did this and this happened.

1041
01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:38.240
There's a lot of negative memories with that man,

1042
01:00:38.240 --> 01:00:41.140
but I thought of something positive.

1043
01:00:41.140 --> 01:00:43.400
I thought of this other thing that happened

1044
01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:46.720
that was super fun and really made an imprint on me.

1045
01:00:46.720 --> 01:00:48.960
And then I thought of this other thing and this other thing.

1046
01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:52.040
And pretty soon I remember a whole bunch of stuff

1047
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:57.440
that were really like happy, defining moments of my life.

1048
01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:03.360
And I really want to encourage you.

1049
01:01:03.360 --> 01:01:04.800
And I'm asking Holy Spirit,

1050
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:06.540
Holy Spirit, help them remember.

1051
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:10.920
Help them remember some good things,

1052
01:01:14.360 --> 01:01:17.120
not just from their families and from their own histories,

1053
01:01:17.120 --> 01:01:19.560
but from their history with you,

1054
01:01:19.600 --> 01:01:23.120
things that have happened to prove to them

1055
01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:25.480
that they are seen, known, and loved by heaven,

1056
01:01:27.240 --> 01:01:31.800
and that the best has not even begun yet.

1057
01:01:34.100 --> 01:01:36.340
So I release that over you, friends.

1058
01:01:36.340 --> 01:01:41.240
Hope in the Lord, hope in Christ, trust in God.

1059
01:01:43.340 --> 01:01:45.680
Do not allow weariness to grow.

1060
01:01:45.680 --> 01:01:47.400
Stop it right now.

1061
01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:49.140
Don't allow it to grow.

1062
01:01:49.680 --> 01:01:52.740
Don't become loosened and untied from your assignment.

1063
01:01:52.740 --> 01:01:54.500
One of your assignments is to be a revivalist

1064
01:01:54.500 --> 01:01:55.700
of marriage and family.

1065
01:01:55.700 --> 01:01:57.700
Do not become untied from that

1066
01:01:57.700 --> 01:02:00.140
just because it seems impossible.

1067
01:02:00.140 --> 01:02:02.800
Everything that God did in the word of God was impossible.

1068
01:02:02.800 --> 01:02:03.860
I want you to remember that.

1069
01:02:03.860 --> 01:02:07.420
Every single thing that happened in the book

1070
01:02:07.420 --> 01:02:11.260
that you used as the manifesto of your life is impossible.

1071
01:02:14.220 --> 01:02:15.060
Everything.

1072
01:02:16.060 --> 01:02:20.180
You are following a leader into the impossible.

1073
01:02:20.180 --> 01:02:21.740
That is what you signed up for.

1074
01:02:25.420 --> 01:02:28.620
And 90% of your love story or any other story

1075
01:02:28.620 --> 01:02:31.300
that you've been waiting on in your life

1076
01:02:31.300 --> 01:02:32.740
is going to be supernatural.

1077
01:02:37.200 --> 01:02:38.420
And you can ask God for it.

1078
01:02:38.420 --> 01:02:40.060
You guys, I've been doing what God told me to do.

1079
01:02:40.060 --> 01:02:41.140
I've been moving.

1080
01:02:41.140 --> 01:02:42.620
I've been doing more than moving.

1081
01:02:42.620 --> 01:02:44.100
He led me to a Pilates studio.

1082
01:02:44.100 --> 01:02:45.140
If you've ever done Pilates,

1083
01:02:45.140 --> 01:02:47.780
whoa, baby, it's not easy.

1084
01:02:47.780 --> 01:02:49.540
I've been doing that.

1085
01:02:49.540 --> 01:02:51.540
And you know what I said to God when I woke up this morning?

1086
01:02:51.540 --> 01:02:53.620
I said, hey, you know, God, I've been doing my part,

1087
01:02:53.620 --> 01:02:56.340
so I would be totally okay to wake up

1088
01:02:56.340 --> 01:02:58.240
to some supernatural weight loss.

1089
01:02:59.620 --> 01:03:01.660
Just supernatural weight loss.

1090
01:03:01.660 --> 01:03:03.780
And some of you are laughing, but why not?

1091
01:03:04.860 --> 01:03:05.980
I did my part.

1092
01:03:07.740 --> 01:03:11.700
I'm not sitting around on the couch eating donut holes,

1093
01:03:11.700 --> 01:03:15.480
watching Bridgerton, asking God to help me lose weight.

1094
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:16.780
Some of y'all are, though.

1095
01:03:22.340 --> 01:03:25.020
By the way, let's not poison ourselves

1096
01:03:25.020 --> 01:03:27.260
with the world's view of romance,

1097
01:03:27.260 --> 01:03:29.820
because your romance ain't gonna look like that.

1098
01:03:29.820 --> 01:03:31.580
Just wanna let you know.

1099
01:03:31.580 --> 01:03:33.220
Little sidebar there for you.

1100
01:03:33.220 --> 01:03:34.960
But I'm doing what he asked me to do,

1101
01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:36.340
so can I not respect,

1102
01:03:36.340 --> 01:03:39.340
can I not expect supernatural results?

1103
01:03:39.340 --> 01:03:40.660
Am I gonna quit doing it

1104
01:03:40.660 --> 01:03:42.300
if I don't have supernatural weight loss?

1105
01:03:42.300 --> 01:03:44.220
I'm not gonna quit doing it.

1106
01:03:44.220 --> 01:03:45.780
Because first of all, I like it now,

1107
01:03:45.780 --> 01:03:47.540
and I like the way that I feel when I do it,

1108
01:03:47.540 --> 01:03:49.100
and God knew that I was going to,

1109
01:03:49.100 --> 01:03:52.320
and that's why he told me to do it.

1110
01:03:53.500 --> 01:03:55.300
God knows you better than you know yourself,

1111
01:03:55.300 --> 01:03:57.140
and if you follow his instruction,

1112
01:03:57.140 --> 01:03:59.720
it's gonna lead someplace really good for you.

1113
01:03:59.720 --> 01:04:02.620
It may not feel good at the beginning,

1114
01:04:02.620 --> 01:04:04.500
but it will get good fast.

1115
01:04:06.220 --> 01:04:07.060
It will.

1116
01:04:08.780 --> 01:04:10.540
There will be breakthrough.

1117
01:04:11.300 --> 01:04:12.580
And so I can expect God to do his part,

1118
01:04:12.580 --> 01:04:13.740
because I'm doing mine.

1119
01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:16.520
So Father God, I thank you for your sons and daughters,

1120
01:04:16.520 --> 01:04:17.700
I thank you for this time together.

1121
01:04:17.700 --> 01:04:20.860
I pray, Lord, that these words would hit the mark.

1122
01:04:20.860 --> 01:04:22.980
They would hit the mark, Lord,

1123
01:04:22.980 --> 01:04:25.140
that they would span all of our hearts

1124
01:04:25.140 --> 01:04:27.380
to receive more of what you have for us,

1125
01:04:27.380 --> 01:04:28.800
that we would not be weary,

1126
01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:31.400
that we would not be led astray

1127
01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:36.400
by the siren call of culture in this world,

1128
01:04:36.860 --> 01:04:39.980
and the enemy's snares and traps

1129
01:04:40.460 --> 01:04:42.540
to try to lead us off course,

1130
01:04:42.540 --> 01:04:45.540
derail us and keep us from the things

1131
01:04:45.540 --> 01:04:48.380
that you have promised us that you would give us

1132
01:04:48.380 --> 01:04:50.700
if we would continue the course.

1133
01:04:50.700 --> 01:04:52.580
You said, if we don't give up, we will win.

1134
01:04:52.580 --> 01:04:54.620
Now we're asking you to give us the grace,

1135
01:04:54.620 --> 01:04:57.380
to give us the understanding individually

1136
01:04:57.380 --> 01:05:00.020
of what we can do to make sure that

1137
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.280
We don't give up in your power, in your grace,

1138
01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:06.440
in Jesus name, amen.

1139
01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:07.320
All right, love y'all.

1140
01:05:07.320 --> 01:05:09.720
See you tomorrow night for prophetic night, bye.