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Hey, everyone.

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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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I hope you are ready to have a supernatural day.

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I know that I am.

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Today is one week from my youngest child's wedding.

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Today y'all, one week from today, I will be handing my daughter over to her husband.

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God's really been talking to me a lot about covenant, what that looks like, what it looks

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like to partner.

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Of course, I'm married, so I should already know that, right?

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But I think that we don't fully understand covenant until we're faced with our children

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getting married and what that's going to mean for our family and what that's going to mean

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for them.

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Because they're young and we want what's best for them and we know that they have a lot

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of life to live and they have a lot of things to learn.

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What does it look like for them to come into that spiritual covering?

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What does it look like for them to grow together?

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What does it look like for them to learn what God wants them to do in that relationship

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with each other?

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So many different things and so it's just been really fun to watch this relationship

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grow.

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First, I want to tell you guys that as we've been praying for our children's spouses pretty

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much all of their lives, and I'm sure that those of you that have children have been

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doing that as well, and if you haven't, you can start now.

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You can, you can start right now, praying that in this myriad of choices out here or

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illusions of choices out here with dating apps and all the different crazy stuff that's

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going on in 2024, that they would be divinely drawn to someone that they could partner with.

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Someone that they could grow with, they could learn with, that they could become better

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with.

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Those are the important things.

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Someone that they could serve God with and serve others with.

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And so we've been praying that, but my daughter's relationship, the course of it has not run

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smoothly.

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It hasn't.

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And why is that?

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Because people are broken, because the world is broken, because there's a lot of things

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out here that are really distracting, including religious voices.

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There's all kinds of stuff trying to pull people in a different direction than the one

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that God is trying to help them go.

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So this relationship, it did start when she was pretty young.

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She was only 20 years old when she met him, and they have, it's not been a bad or toxic

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relationship.

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She just hasn't always been sure that he was the person she should marry because of

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some really religious ideas that she was focused on.

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My daughter is a musicianary.

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If you're not familiar with what that is, she's a music missionary.

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She's a very talented singer, songwriter, musician, praise and worship leader.

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And because of that gift, a lot of really well-meaning people from the time that she

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was really young started talking about what she was going to need in a partner.

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She went to a few different ministry schools, and at those ministry schools, people would

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always obviously praise the gift, right?

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That's what we do in Christianity, unfortunately, is we praise gifts, and they would praise

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her gift, and then they would talk about what she would need to partner with in a husband,

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someone who also does music, or someone who is some kind of traditional minister, like

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an evangelist or someone who's doing traditional ministry.

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But that's not true, and that's not what God had for her.

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So when she met Trevor, who is going to be her husband in a week, he's amazing.

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He's got a lot of gifts, but he works in the marketplace.

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He's a designer.

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He loves Jesus.

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He actually comes from a family where his grandfather was a missionary.

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Solid people, solid family, parents still married, seven children, good morals, loves

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God, loves the Word of God, following after Christ, but that wasn't good enough because

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he wasn't on a stage with a microphone evangelizing, and that had been planted in her head by very

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well-meaning people, because that's what they thought that someone like her and her gift

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should partner with.

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The reason why I start out with this this morning is because if there's any preconceived

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ideas that you have about who you should partner with, we need to let those go.

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So even though she had never felt more happy or more secure, more safe in a relationship,

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not once but twice, she cut and run from this relationship and ran off to ministry school

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thinking that God was going to take her desire for this boy away if she just gave her life

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fully to Him, to God, so that God could give her whoever He wanted as her mate.

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But this boy waited for her.

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He was sure about her from the beginning, and God eventually drew her heart back to

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understanding that she doesn't have to go and sacrifice herself on the altar of ministry

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and just marry some Tom, Dick, and Harry that God has picked out for her.

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These were the ideas that she was laboring under, that she couldn't have what she wanted,

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because what she wanted couldn't possibly be the same thing that God wanted.

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Do you guys feel me?

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Do you hear me?

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Do you understand?

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And we do this in a lot of areas of our lives, not just our love lives.

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I'm using that as an example because my daughter's getting married in a week and she's super

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happy and they're a really good team, these two.

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They're a really great team together and they're only going to get better together and I'm

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really excited for them.

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I'm really excited for all that they'll do together.

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And they'll do more together than if she would have married someone whose lane was traditional

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ministry, who only was focused on traditional ministry and crusades and you know, I'm not

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down in any of that.

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That's great.

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That's great.

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But my daughter has business gifts.

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Yeah, she's got music gifts, but she's got business gifts too that need to be developed.

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She has people gifts that need to be developed and you can't always develop those kinds of

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gifts in traditional ministry.

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And so I'm excited that she will have an opportunity through her marriage to grow.

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And that's what good marriages do.

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They grow you.

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They grow you.

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Sorry guys, my voice keeps going out this morning, so I'm just trying to clear my throat.

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All right.

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So we need to shift our focus.

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God wants to shift our focus.

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And so I have a few thoughts written down today.

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Hopefully that little nugget helped someone this morning.

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I have a few thoughts written down today from Holy Spirit and we're going to go after them

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and just see where we go.

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So Father God, we thank you.

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We thank you that you brought us all here together again and we thank you that you're

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leading us and you're guiding us, Lord.

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We pray for that, that Christian music family that was killed in that plane crash today

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or yesterday, Lord.

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Father, we pray for these families and all these communities that will be affected by

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this, Lord.

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All of the doubt and all of the confusion and chaos, Lord, that will cause of why didn't

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you protect them and why is this happened?

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And Lord, we just ask God that you would just bring peace that passes all understanding

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in this situation.

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Lord, we thank you, God, that you are going to comfort and that you are going to surround

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those that are grieving in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right, friends, it's time to push.

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The thing that popped up to me most this morning was the acronym PUSH back when I was a youth

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pastor.

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Can you see me as a youth pastor?

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I know you can.

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You can see me as a youth pastor, but I will tell you this, my youth, they weren't playing.

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They did not want to live for Jesus, all right?

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They were bored little church kids that had been raised in the church for generations.

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Their mamas were saved, their grandmamas saved, their great grandmas were saved, and they

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just were bored.

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They were bored.

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They were the kind of kids that wanted to run out and sow some wild oats because they

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were tired of religion and church.

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And so to motivate them was very difficult because remember, I'm coming in from, I have

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the zeal of a new convert because I didn't have that upbringing like they did.

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And I was in love with Jesus.

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They weren't in love with Jesus, y'all.

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They weren't.

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Jesus was just a story that they had been told all their lives.

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They had never had a personal experience and encounter with him like I had.

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And some of you, that's the problem.

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You've just been doing dead religion for so long.

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You got to fall in love with Jesus.

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In fact, you just got to meet Jesus.

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I know you know who he is, but you have to meet him.

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I remember when I met him, and I keep meeting him.

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And that's why I'm so crazy because I love Jesus.

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And I want you to love Jesus too, and he loves you.

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And religion will be the biggest blocker of that.

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So if you feel bored in your faith, if you feel like you can't really trust God to give

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you anything that you want, so you kind of got to go get it yourself.

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If you feel like your prayers don't get answered, if you feel like nothing supernatural has

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ever happened to you, it's time to step out of just understanding religion and step into

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knowing Christ.

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Step into the supernatural.

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That's what Supernatural Saturday is all about.

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We have to live in the supernatural.

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I remember, you know, I've had quite a few supernatural things happen to me.

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But one of the supernatural things that happened to me when I was away from God, when I wasn't

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living for God, when I didn't know God, is I had gotten home from a long night of

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partying.

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I know, shocking, right?

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I got home from a long night of partying.

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I was really young, you guys.

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I was in my early 20s because, you know, I fully surrendered my heart to Jesus at 22

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years old.

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So I got, I had gotten home and, you know.

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don't know if any of you have ever partied but a lot of times you don't sleep well after drinking too much alcohol and I

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Woke up in the middle of the night really thirsty

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dehydrated from the alcohol that I had consumed and I went and I got a glass of water and I sat on the couch and

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Heard the voice of God. I

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Wish I could say that I heeded the voice of God in this moment

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But I didn't but I heard the voice of God and he said to me this is what he said

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Or I should say the voice of Jesus Jesus said I'm coming

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soon

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And I was like, whoa, what's this and I want to take you with me to build my kingdom

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Because you love this world and that's it. That's all that happened

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And I was like, what does this mean?

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And remember I'm gonna have this grand conversion encounter and I'm gonna learn all kinds of things about

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Jesus and his kingdom and I'm gonna learn all kinds of things about God and I'm gonna learn all kinds of things

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But I haven't learned that yet

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And so one of the takeaways from that moment now that I've learned those things is that we don't live here y'all

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We don't live here

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We are pilgrims here. The Bible describes us as pilgrims

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We are pilgrims here. And for those of you that you know, you haven't really liked this life that much

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It hasn't really given you a lot to like about it

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you had a hard childhood and then you've been having a hard adulthood and you're like

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First of all, it doesn't have to stay that way it can shift and it will shift God wants it to shift for you

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He wants you to be blessed to be a blessing in all areas of your life

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Prospering even as your soul prospers took me a long time to realize that I had a really hard start in life

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And I was gonna have a really hard finish

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Until God shifted my mind

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It doesn't it's not just enough to get saved quote-unquote. You have to have a mind shift

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The Bible says be transformed by the renewing of your mind. What is that? That's heart work

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That's not your mind in your head. That's your mind in your heart. That's your identity

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That's that epicenter master control of all things that run you also called the soul

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We have to be renewed there

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But we don't live here

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Okay, we're pilgrims here. We're passing through here. God doesn't want us to set up camp here

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He doesn't want you to spend your one and only earth journey

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Just trying to perfect your earth journey

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You are a supernatural being please hear me having a earthly experience. You're having a natural experience

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You're supernatural already

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These Saturdays are just to plug you into divine design. You are supernatural

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you are a spirit that lives in a body that possesses a soul and

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That soul part is where you keep tripping up

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Your spirit is redeemed

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Your spirit is is is supernatural. It's already connected and seated with Christ in heavenly places

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It's your soul that needs convincing every day

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And your body is just gonna do what it's told

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Whatever your soul

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Decides if your soul aligns with your spirit

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Your body will fall in line with the spirit if your soul aligns with your flesh your body is just gonna run them up

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And guys remember a couple supernatural Saturdays ago, I think it's been a month or more ago now team flesh team spirit

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We got a joint team spirit every day this is not our soul has to align with team spirit every day

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This is not a one-and-done thing

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There are so many things around you that are gonna be pulling for your allegiance and your attention

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And a lot of them are debauch as my daughter would say full of debauchery. Okay

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Full of the idea and you guys it doesn't have to be like

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Full of the idea and you guys it doesn't have to be like

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Noticeably heinous or corrupt or demonic to not be healthy for you not expedient for you

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okay, anything that gets you in a

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Mindset that's negative anything that gets you into a mindset that you are that this life is all there is for you

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And that the greatest hope that you have is not in the future

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Anything that keeps you from believing that the best is always yet to come those are all things that wear us down

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Those are all things that wear us down super that like wear down our supernatural self and get us in the natural

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So the acronym push I had this up for my youth I made them a prayer walk

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We had this big youth room and we didn't use it for much

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And so I made a prayer walk in it when you walk in the door

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It just said push and then underneath it. It said pray until something happens. That's an acronym for

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pray until something happens. And then just like the Stations of the Cross, for those of you that

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grew up Catholic, this room, all around the room, it had little prayer stations.

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And I put the prayer focus above each little prayer station. So you'd walk in the room,

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you'd see the acronym, Pray Until Something Happens, you'd go to the first prayer station,

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and then there's a banner there that tells you what to pray for here.

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And then you would move to the second one. And so it was teaching the kids how to be intercessors.

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It was teaching them how to pray. It was teaching them, each prayer station would have a different

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type of prayer. Declarations over here, and then over here, praying the word. Do you understand

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what I'm saying? And I was trying to teach them what I was learning myself, because I was pretty

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much a new convert when I was put into this leadership position over these young people.

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Wow, those years are so nostalgic to me. You guys, I had so many supernatural happenings

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in those years. And you want to know why? Because I was focused on the Spirit.

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And it's easy to not get focused on your Spirit life, and on the real assignment of why you're

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on this earth, because life just wears us down. It wears us down, and it gets us thinking about

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the very thing the Bible tells us not to think. What are we going to eat? What are we going to

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think? What are we going to eat? What are we going to drink? Where are we going to live?

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What are we going to wear? If we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness,

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someone tell me what righteousness is real quick. In the Spirit, what's righteousness?

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Give you a hint, peace, and then what?

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Love and joy. Yes. So, seek first that. Seek first His kingdom and that. And all these other

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things will work themselves out. I know why we don't live supernatural lives, because we're too

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busy living natural lives. But if we live supernatural lives, if we get up every day and say,

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this ain't my home. I ain't going to worry about it. I don't live here. I'm just passing through

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here. And so, I'm on assignment with you today. God, what do you want to do? What do you want to

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do today? I refuse to just spend my one and only earth journey just trying to figure out how to pay

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my bills and die. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it.

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I'm not going to do it. Right? And so, I'm trying to teach these kids this

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about prayer. What is that doing? It's just priming the pump. Because when we pray,

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it actually connects us back to our supernatural selves.

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That's why praying in the Spirit is so great. And if you don't have your prayer language in

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the Spirit, also known as speaking in tongues, if you don't have that, ask God to give you that.

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You want to know why? Because it's like priming the pump. You're not going to do it.

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Supernaturally. When you have your prayer language, because it actually skips your natural

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mind, you don't understand what you're saying. And so, it's a very supernatural experience

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instead of a natural experience. A lot of us pray in the understanding in our flesh.

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We pray for things that we want. We pray. We complain to God. We call that prayer.

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You know, praying is supernatural.

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It's you, a supernatural being, conversing and communicating with a supernatural God.

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And why am I saying all this today? Why is Holy Spirit focusing us on this?

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Because it's time for us to see results, friends.

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Everything that ever happens in this natural realm that you're living in,

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this world that's not your home, everything that happens here first happens in the Spirit.

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It doesn't happen here first. It happens there first.

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And it happens as a result of prayer, either yours or somebody else. You guys know there's

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someone praying for you right now? There is someone praying for you right now.

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Right now, someone's praying for you. I'm going to say it over and over again. I can say it as

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many different ways as I can say it until you get it. Someone's praying for you right now,

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and they might not be someone you know. In fact, they probably are someone that you don't know.

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I can't tell you how many times God has had me pray for people that I do not know.

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Scrolling through Facebook, pray about some situation that doesn't involve me and I don't

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even know who the people are. Praying in the Spirit. When I'm praying in the Spirit, I'm

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praying for things that God is putting upon me as an intercessor that I don't know what they are.

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Praying for countries, praying for people, praying for situations. God is using my voice

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in intercession to get things done in the supernatural.

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so that they can see the results in the natural.

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Raise your hand if you've ever prayed for someone

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that you don't know.

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You heard about a situation, you don't know those people,

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and you prayed about it.

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Raise your hand if you've ever just been called

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in a supernatural intercession

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and you were praying for something

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and you were grieving and you were interceding

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and you don't even know what it was about.

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You have no idea.

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Okay, put your hands down.

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Look at all those hands.

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All right, now raise your hand

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if the spirit of prayer has come upon you so strong

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that you had to go and leave what you were doing

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and go pray somewhere,

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but you had no idea what you were even praying for.

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And then it lifted and then you were done,

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but you don't even know what happened.

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Look at all those hands.

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Friends, someone's praying for you.

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Friends, someone's praying for you.

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I know a lot of times the enemy can try to convince us

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that we're alone in this life,

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that no one cares about our situation,

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but that's not true.

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God has intercessors.

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God has prayer warriors.

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And every time we give ourselves over to prayer to pray,

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remind yourself that just like you're doing that,

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someone else is doing that too.

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But I want you to be really honest now,

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because I'm gonna be honest.

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Everyone put your hands down.

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Everyone has their little hands up still.

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Get those hands down,

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because I want us to have a little James 5, 16 moment here,

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confession and healing.

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For all of you that put your hands up

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and some of you that didn't,

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and because you're like, I'm a prayer warrior, I pray.

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God draws me into prayer.

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Raise your hand and be honest

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if you would admit that you've been praying a lot less

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than you used to.

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My hands up.

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Ever since, for some reason, ever since COVID,

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ever since the death of my mom,

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ever since all the stress and everything

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is just so crazy on fire.

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In the world, overwhelming.

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Just feel like wanna shut down and medicate.

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Just shut down and numb out, scroll on my phone,

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watch a movie, you know, whatever, go have some fun.

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Just forget about the heaviness of everything around me.

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Anyone else?

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All right, friends, God's calling us back to prayer.

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It's time to push again, to pray until something happens.

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I know that life and, you know, the opposing forces,

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the enemy, try to get us to believe

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that that's just fruitless,

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that nothing's gonna happen if we do that,

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and it's not true.

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Because we should always be suspicious

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of any kind of thinking

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that tries to keep us away from doing something.

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If there's always something pushing against you,

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getting something done and doing something,

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doing that thing must be really important, huh?

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Don't you think?

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We gotta get suspicious about that.

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There are some of you

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that God has told you to do a specific thing,

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and it may not seem like that big of a thing.

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Maybe it's go get your passports,

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or, you know, put your driver's license

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back in your maiden name,

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or I'm just throwing things out from the spirit.

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Who knows what it is?

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Have that garage sale, do this,

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and you have not done it.

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It's a simple thing, whatever the thing is,

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and you just have not done that,

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and you've also put an emphasis on it in your own mind

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that that's not really that important,

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and I'll get to it sometime.

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I'll get to it sometime.

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But you guys don't understand that it's a domino.

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God is a strategic God.

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Right?

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It's a move on the chessboard.

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Please hear the spirit right now.

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If you do that thing,

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it causes a tipping point of some sort.

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Yeah, you don't understand it

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because you weren't let in on the strategy

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because, frankly, it's none of your business.

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You don't need to know.

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And the reason why we don't need to know

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is because we start meddling.

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If God gives us too much information at one time,

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we start adding our own things to it.

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Well, God, that sounds good,

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but this would be even better.

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Don't tell me you don't because you do, and we all do,

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and a lot of times we unconsciously do it.

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We unconsciously do it.

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We have to pray, it's time for us to pray, it's time for us to do those little things,

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tie up those little strings.

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I have a student right now that's getting married, she just announced her engagement

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and the reason why she's getting married is because God told her to go to LA for New Year's.

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She doesn't live in LA, she lives in Northern California.

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She likes LA, has friends there, God said go spend New Year's in LA and she did and

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she met her husband at that party.

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It'd be easy to blow something like that off, especially if you don't have the time or you

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don't have the finances or you don't think that it's that big of a deal if you don't

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do it.

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Here's the thing friends and I want you to hear what I'm saying because it's really important

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because otherwise you're going to get into legalism and into religion.

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Had she not done that, she would have still met him at a different time.

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But how often are we keeping ourselves from breakthrough simply because we're not doing

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what we're being instructed to do and we're not being instructed to do anything because

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we're not praying?

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I can tell you confidently everything that I'm doing right now in my life, including

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this movement, has to do with my years in the prayer closet.

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It has to do with those years of intercession, it has to do with the dreams and visions that

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God showed me in those years, it has to do with the things that God asked me to do.

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I'm usually a pretty obedient daughter, usually.

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There's times when I'm like, I don't really feel like doing that and then I don't do it,

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but mostly I try to do it pretty quickly.

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And I feel like God knows how quickly his children are going to be obedient to his instruction

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and his timeline kind of lines up with that.

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Maybe, you know, he's with you the type of dad who tells you that it's time to go two

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hours before it's time to go because he knows that's how long it's going to take you to

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get ready to go.

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I want to tell you guys something that's so important this morning, and I feel like this,

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if you got a hold of this, this would change your life.

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God is for you.

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God is for you.

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He loves you.

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He's on your side.

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He's not against you.

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He's not against you.

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He's not trying to make this hard so that you fail.

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It doesn't matter what you've done.

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You're not an earnest model.

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If you ever got a hold of the fact, it's not fiction, it's not an idea, it's not a maybe,

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but a fact that Jesus already did everything, the heavy lifting, so that you can live an

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abundant life.

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He did that stuff already.

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He suffered.

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He took on your punishment for all of your mistakes, past, present, and future.

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He did that.

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Friends, I know that seems too good to be true, and I know it's really difficult in

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this world that we live in that's still under the curse with all the performance and all

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the earn it and merit it and you don't deserve it and go get punished in the corner mentality.

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I get it.

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I know it's hard to keep our minds focused on that.

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That's why the Bible says, labor to enter into my rest.

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It's hard work to enter into the rest of the finished work of the cross.

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I get it.

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And that's why every other religion pales in comparison to the true gospel of Jesus

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Christ, because it is the only ideology where the deity or the God has done it all for you.

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Every other religion, if you've studied and compared religions, you will see that all

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the other religions want a pound of flesh.

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They want you to suffer.

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In fact, several of them make suffering the only way to salvation.

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The more you suffer, the holier you become.

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And that's why so many people reject this, because it seems too good to be true.

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It's like a fairy tale.

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And I admit that I used to be one of those people that were like,

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well, I'll just, I don't understand.

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Well, yeah, you're not going to ever understand with your cursed flesh,

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especially if you were raised in any kind of hardness, you're always going

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to think you're not doing enough and you haven't done enough, so you don't

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deserve anything, and then you start believing the lies as subtle as they

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are, that God is not for you, that life is not for you, that you don't deserve X,

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00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:33.560
Y, Z.

467
00:30:33.560 --> 00:30:36.560
So let's just go ahead and get it on the table this morning.

468
00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:39.400
I think it's important for us to move forward with this thought.

469
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:41.360
You don't deserve it.

470
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:45.320
All the good things that are going to happen to you in this

471
00:30:45.320 --> 00:30:46.960
life, you don't deserve them.

472
00:30:48.120 --> 00:30:51.040
You don't, when you think I don't deserve it, you're right.

473
00:30:51.040 --> 00:30:53.640
You don't, because it's not about you deserving it.

474
00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:58.440
I will never forget the day that God spoke to me and said, Jackie, do you

475
00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:00.400
want to live the abundant life of John 10, 10?

476
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:01.480
I said, absolutely.

477
00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:04.040
And he said, okay, then you're going to have to get used to

478
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:06.200
receiving things that you never earned.

479
00:31:07.120 --> 00:31:09.000
He said, you're not good at receiving, Jackie.

480
00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:10.440
You're good at earning.

481
00:31:13.280 --> 00:31:14.400
You're good at performing.

482
00:31:16.080 --> 00:31:17.760
You're good at dancing for your supper.

483
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:21.240
You guys, that's a metaphor.

484
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.600
I'm not actually out there dancing for my supper, but you get it.

485
00:31:26.560 --> 00:31:30.800
He said, you're going to have to be okay with the idea that you are going to

486
00:31:30.800 --> 00:31:33.960
receive things that you do not deserve.

487
00:31:38.600 --> 00:31:41.320
Friends, how good are you at receiving things that you don't deserve?

488
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:44.880
How good are you receiving in general?

489
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:47.920
Do you go out to lunch with an old friend you haven't seen in a while and try to

490
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:50.080
tackle them for the bill when they want to treat you?

491
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:58.600
If someone offers to give you something or do something for you, do you always

492
00:31:58.600 --> 00:32:00.200
think that there's some kind of strings attached?

493
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:03.080
Does it make you immediately suspicious of, okay, what do they want?

494
00:32:03.520 --> 00:32:05.760
I mean, how good are you at receiving?

495
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.520
I definitely am not good at receiving to this day.

496
00:32:12.520 --> 00:32:13.760
I'm still just the giver.

497
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:18.880
I get uncomfortable when people give me things.

498
00:32:19.080 --> 00:32:22.960
So any of you that have given me a gift when you've seen me in person, I thank you

499
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:23.640
so much.

500
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:25.800
I cherish that gift that you've given me.

501
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:29.840
If I seemed awkward in the moment, it's because I'm just not good at receiving.

502
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:31.920
Has nothing to do with you.

503
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:34.320
I'm getting better.

504
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:38.280
But when you come from an orphan mindset, if you have to just go out and get it

505
00:32:38.280 --> 00:32:41.400
yourself, if you're going to get it, you're going to have to go get it yourself

506
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.960
because that's all that I've ever known all of my life up until Jesus.

507
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:49.160
And even though I've been walking with Jesus for what, 26, seven years now, 28,

508
00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:54.720
whatever the math is, mathing 19.

509
00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:58.120
It was the 1900 y'all.

510
00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:58.680
Let's see.

511
00:32:59.280 --> 00:33:01.760
It was when I met Jesus.

512
00:33:02.080 --> 00:33:08.200
It was 1997.

513
00:33:10.280 --> 00:33:11.160
1997.

514
00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:12.840
Someone tell me how many years that is.

515
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.960
1997.

516
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.280
We have to be good at receiving.

517
00:33:19.320 --> 00:33:22.920
You guys pay attention to your thoughts and feelings when something that you're

518
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:24.920
trying to do for yourself doesn't work out.

519
00:33:26.320 --> 00:33:30.000
You know, whether you're on the dating apps and you're working it hard or, you

520
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.880
know, you go and you apply for some jobs and you're excited about getting one of

521
00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:34.160
them.

522
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.120
You got your resume, you're doing all your things.

523
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:41.280
But whatever it is, pay attention to what your thoughts and feelings say when

524
00:33:41.280 --> 00:33:42.400
something doesn't work out.

525
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:46.200
Because it's going to show you where the lies are that you believe those

526
00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.200
disappointments are going to show you where the lies are going to show you

527
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:50.800
where the hard work needs to be done.

528
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:56.320
It's going to show you what you believe about what God, what is God's part and

529
00:33:56.320 --> 00:33:57.080
what is your part?

530
00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:05.320
We really are walking through this life as pilgrims on assignments.

531
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:09.400
Then we also believe that God is making a way for us and he's making all the

532
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:10.600
crooked places straight.

533
00:34:11.600 --> 00:34:13.000
And then we also have to believe.

534
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.920
Remember, this is kind of a sequence of beliefs.

535
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:17.719
So if you believe that, then the next thing you're going to believe is that if

536
00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:20.320
something doesn't work out, then it's for your good.

537
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:26.880
Every no leads to a greater yes.

538
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:32.920
And while yes, I am not under estimating or undermining that in that moment,

539
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:37.199
there's some pain involved because we had our hope attached to that instead of

540
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:37.760
Christ.

541
00:34:38.520 --> 00:34:39.840
I've been there many times.

542
00:34:41.600 --> 00:34:45.120
We should be learning from that to continue to attach our hope to Christ.

543
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.800
Our hope doesn't ever have to be deferred if it's attached to Christ.

544
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:51.760
What does that mean?

545
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:55.120
It means that either up or getting up.

546
00:34:58.280 --> 00:34:59.640
There's something bigger and better.

547
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.200
that's happening here.

548
00:35:06.200 --> 00:35:11.840
When I was young and just started living for Jesus, I worked at this daycare that God sent

549
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:14.640
me to work at, and I hated it there.

550
00:35:14.640 --> 00:35:18.760
And I was learning a lot of things, I was learning a lot of things.

551
00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:24.800
And there was this woman from Africa that worked there, and she's a beautiful regal

552
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:25.800
woman.

553
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.280
And I can see why people say that African women are queens, and she held herself just

554
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:32.600
like a queen, and her posture was so perfect.

555
00:35:32.600 --> 00:35:35.880
And she was an older woman, and she had just come to America, and she was working at the

556
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:41.800
daycare, and she had a son and a father that lived at home that she was supporting.

557
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:48.680
So an elderly father and a young son, like a son that was maybe 15 or 16 years old.

558
00:35:48.680 --> 00:35:52.920
And so I invited her to come to the church, this daycare was in a church, and I invited

559
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:53.920
her to come.

560
00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:57.480
And I said, come and visit our church, and she said, oh, thank you.

561
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:03.720
So she came and visited, and then afterwards, and this is back, I was poor as a church mouse,

562
00:36:03.720 --> 00:36:11.520
I didn't have two nickels to rub together, I was hard-pressed to go out to any kind of

563
00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:16.000
food after church, which is, as you know, a tradition for most Pentecostal people, they

564
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:20.400
will go out to eat after every service.

565
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:24.320
And so I said, hey, we're going to go get something to eat at this place, and this place

566
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:29.200
was called the Hometown Buffet, or the Golden Corral.

567
00:36:29.200 --> 00:36:34.440
It was just a big buffet place, you know, a place with buffets of food.

568
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:36.160
And she said, oh, yes.

569
00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:39.880
And she had her father and her son with her, and she said, oh, yes, we would love to come.

570
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:46.840
Now, you guys, I'm from Africa, so I don't know that when someone invites you to come

571
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:54.440
and dine, you're expected to pay for them, in this culture that this woman's from.

572
00:36:54.440 --> 00:37:00.360
So we all show up at this buffet place, me and my husband at the time, and like I said,

573
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:04.120
we're going to just, just be able to pay for our own.

574
00:37:04.120 --> 00:37:08.140
And her and her father and her son are all behind us in line.

575
00:37:08.140 --> 00:37:13.160
And I whispered to my husband, and I said, hey, I said, they didn't get me trays.

576
00:37:13.160 --> 00:37:15.520
Like you're supposed to get a tray, and you're supposed to put your plate on the tray, and

577
00:37:15.520 --> 00:37:19.720
you're supposed to do all this stuff, you know, and so that you can pay at the cashier

578
00:37:19.720 --> 00:37:21.320
for what it is that you've ordered.

579
00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:22.320
But they haven't gotten anything.

580
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.200
They're just behind us in line.

581
00:37:25.200 --> 00:37:27.680
And I said, hey, they're not doing, you know, they're not getting the things.

582
00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:29.280
And he's like, I don't care.

583
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:33.200
And I'm like, I said, I think that they think we're going to pay for them.

584
00:37:33.200 --> 00:37:35.840
I started, I started reading the sign, y'all.

585
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:39.240
I started seeing that I think these people are going to pay.

586
00:37:39.240 --> 00:37:41.680
I think these people think we're going to pay for them, which we can't.

587
00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:42.680
It's not that we won't.

588
00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:43.680
It's not that we don't want to.

589
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.400
It's just that we cannot.

590
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.320
So I just kind of face forward, and I go through the line.

591
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.600
And pretty soon, you know, we're all through the line.

592
00:37:52.600 --> 00:37:53.880
And I, and I, and I watched them.

593
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:54.880
They didn't pay.

594
00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:57.280
They just kind of followed us, like just followed us right through.

595
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.760
And then at this, at this restaurant, you go and you sit at a table.

596
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:04.200
And you know, you have your receipt for your buffets on the table.

597
00:38:04.200 --> 00:38:06.700
And then the waitress comes and brings you plates and stuff.

598
00:38:06.700 --> 00:38:10.480
And then you go to the buffet and you eat, right?

599
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:12.440
And trust me, they make sure they check those receipts.

600
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:16.280
They make sure that everyone that's sitting there is paid and all the things.

601
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:21.520
And so I'm just getting really nervous now, y'all, because I'm like, oh, my God, what's

602
00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:22.520
going to happen?

603
00:38:22.520 --> 00:38:24.220
I don't even know what to do.

604
00:38:24.220 --> 00:38:27.760
And so we're sitting at the table and the waitress comes and she brings us, she brings

605
00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:30.080
us all plates for the buffet.

606
00:38:30.080 --> 00:38:32.520
And she doesn't say anything about the receipt or anything.

607
00:38:32.520 --> 00:38:33.520
She looked at it.

608
00:38:33.520 --> 00:38:35.240
And then now these people are up and they're eating.

609
00:38:35.240 --> 00:38:40.880
And I know that nobody has paid for them to eat and they're eating.

610
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.120
And I'm like, oh, and you guys, I'm all up in, got to earn it.

611
00:38:45.120 --> 00:38:46.120
Got to deserve it.

612
00:38:46.120 --> 00:38:47.280
Oh, my God, what's happening here?

613
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:48.280
This is criminal.

614
00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:49.280
Let's do it.

615
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:51.680
And I don't know what to do because there's nothing I can do about it because I can't

616
00:38:51.680 --> 00:38:57.040
even make it right because I can't go up and say, oh, hey, you know, these people are eating

617
00:38:57.040 --> 00:39:01.040
for free, you know, and whatever.

618
00:39:01.040 --> 00:39:05.240
So it's over with now.

619
00:39:05.240 --> 00:39:09.400
And the next time I saw her at work, I told her about what happened.

620
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:13.480
I said, hey, I said, because, oh, well, here's the other thing.

621
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:17.800
At the end of the meal, they profusely thanked us.

622
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:24.000
And then she prayed this really, really powerful prayer about God blessing us for blessing

623
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:25.440
them and all this stuff.

624
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:28.000
And y'all, I was just like, oh, my God.

625
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:33.880
And so the next time I saw them, the next time I saw her at work, I said, hey, I just,

626
00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:35.200
you know, I just really got to tell you.

627
00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:37.760
And I told her, I said, I saw you guys in line.

628
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.920
I didn't know that you guys thought we were going to pay for you.

629
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.920
We really just we don't have the money for that.

630
00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:46.960
And so and then, you know, they brought the plates and all the things.

631
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:50.280
And she looked at me and she was looking at me and she's looking at me and listening to

632
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:55.120
me. And at the end, she raised her hand and she goes, praise the Lord.

633
00:39:55.120 --> 00:39:57.640
God made us invisible.

634
00:39:57.640 --> 00:39:58.600
And I was like, what?

635
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:09.040
That was her takeaway. Her takeaway was God made us invisible. Yes, this is what it looks like to

636
00:40:09.040 --> 00:40:15.200
live a supernatural life. I learned something from that lady that day. I was like, okay,

637
00:40:15.200 --> 00:40:19.920
that wasn't my takeaway. But her takeaway was God made us invisible. Maybe he did.

638
00:40:21.120 --> 00:40:27.680
I don't know. I don't know what happened. But all I know is this is that there's two ways to

639
00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:34.000
live life. There's your way and there's God's way. And God's way doesn't always make sense.

640
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.520
And it doesn't always make sense to the rules that you have in your mind of what's right and

641
00:40:37.520 --> 00:40:41.680
what's wrong. I would have gotten caught up in, oh, that's stealing and this and that.

642
00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:45.680
But God was trying to teach a bigger lesson there that was more important than whatever

643
00:40:45.680 --> 00:40:51.600
the rules or laws of this world are. Do you feel what I'm saying? He's trying to teach a bigger

644
00:40:51.600 --> 00:40:56.400
lesson there. And so it's important that we don't put God into a box of our context.

645
00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:02.240
Don't put God into a box of your context. What does that mean? It means that whatever you believe,

646
00:41:02.240 --> 00:41:06.320
your schema, the way that you've been taught, the way that you believe, God doesn't have to

647
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:12.240
fit in that. God has his ways and they're above our ways. His thoughts are above our thoughts.

648
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.680
And that's why it's important to not judge other people's situations too. Stay out of judgment

649
00:41:17.680 --> 00:41:22.240
of something. You look at the situation from afar off, you look at it, you start judging what you

650
00:41:22.240 --> 00:41:26.480
think happened there. You start judging what you think is wrong and right about that situation.

651
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:31.120
You don't know. You don't know that situation and you don't know what God's doing in that

652
00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:39.200
situation and that is none of your business. It isn't. There could be something happening there

653
00:41:39.200 --> 00:41:43.200
where the lesson that's being learned is so much more important than whatever you think is right

654
00:41:43.200 --> 00:41:50.720
or wrong. That's a whole word right there. So let's stay out of judgment. You want to pray

655
00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:55.200
something over a situation from afar off, you just pray, hey God, whatever you're doing there,

656
00:41:55.200 --> 00:41:59.600
let it be done. If the enemy's doing something there, dismantle that, Lord.

657
00:42:01.120 --> 00:42:05.600
Bring deliverance, God. Bring healing, God. That's all you say. That's all you do.

658
00:42:06.720 --> 00:42:14.080
You don't start with your human understanding trying to put your two cents in. Amen.

659
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.120
So guys, it's time to pray until something happens. Don't give up after two tries,

660
00:42:19.120 --> 00:42:23.200
after this prayer call, like, oh, I'm gonna go back to prayer. God's calling us back to prayer.

661
00:42:23.200 --> 00:42:26.960
I'm gonna go back to prayer. God's for us. He wants to see things happen in our lives. We're

662
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:36.240
gonna do this. And then after two tries, you just, you just give up. Right? No, we're not gonna do

663
00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:49.040
that. We're not going to. It's time. It's time for us to see some shifts. Thank you, Lord. It's

664
00:42:49.040 --> 00:42:55.120
time for us to live supernaturally. It's time for us to come more and more out of religion

665
00:42:56.160 --> 00:43:01.840
that wants a pound of your flesh for every victory. Religion, if you have any victory

666
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:05.600
with a religious mindset, you're gonna have, you're gonna have to earn it.

667
00:43:06.560 --> 00:43:12.000
You're going to have to give a lot of yourself to get it. If you even get it.

668
00:43:12.080 --> 00:43:16.640
Trust me. I know I lived that way for many, many years, and I had terrible anxiety,

669
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:22.320
terrible mental health, terrible physical health, because I was trying to get it right. I was trying

670
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:26.000
to get it perfect. And every time I did it, which was all the time, because there's no

671
00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:30.160
way to get it right or perfect. That's why Jesus came in the first place.

672
00:43:33.120 --> 00:43:36.080
I would just beat myself up. And I didn't know it because it was unconscious. You guys,

673
00:43:36.080 --> 00:43:41.920
you live a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,

674
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:47.760
vast, unconscious life. And you don't know it because it's unconscious.

675
00:43:49.120 --> 00:43:54.320
There are so many things that you are telling yourself every single day about yourself and

676
00:43:54.320 --> 00:44:05.600
about God and about men, women, marriage, money, your health, all different types of things.

677
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:09.760
And if you pray, God will begin to show you what some of those things are.

678
00:44:12.080 --> 00:44:18.320
Remember my favorite prayer? Teach me, show me, heal me, grow me. It's a very simple prayer. It's

679
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:26.400
a very powerful prayer. Teach me the things that I need to know. Show me the things that I'm doing

680
00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:35.040
that I don't know. Heal me in the areas that are fueling that. Grow me, heal me, grow me.

681
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:40.880
I had this thought the other day because I've seen a lot of discouragement in some of you

682
00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:46.640
that want something to happen that hasn't happened yet. And you guys, we all live there.

683
00:44:46.640 --> 00:44:51.600
Once you get that thing that you want so desperately, there'll just be something

684
00:44:51.600 --> 00:44:59.440
else that hasn't happened yet that you're pining after. That's why we have to live a content life.

685
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.480
And so the next thing I'm going to say is going to help you do that.

686
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:10.760
Because regardless of like, yeah, I know most of you are still wanting a partner.

687
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:14.520
Some of you already have a partner that are on here, you're already in a relationship,

688
00:45:14.520 --> 00:45:17.680
you know, it's already happening for you and then some of you aren't.

689
00:45:17.680 --> 00:45:20.520
But there's always going to be something after the partner, there's going to be something

690
00:45:20.520 --> 00:45:25.040
else right that's in that space of something that you don't have manifested yet that you're

691
00:45:25.040 --> 00:45:26.040
praying for.

692
00:45:26.040 --> 00:45:28.680
Okay, so this is what I want to say.

693
00:45:28.680 --> 00:45:36.060
So I saw this very clearly the other day, I saw a farmer with fields, not one field,

694
00:45:36.060 --> 00:45:40.040
but different fields and different crops in those fields.

695
00:45:40.040 --> 00:45:44.560
Maybe one field has wheat and one field has strawberries and one field has watermelons

696
00:45:44.560 --> 00:45:46.200
and you get the point.

697
00:45:46.200 --> 00:45:48.280
One field has corn.

698
00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:52.320
All of those have different gestation periods and they all have different harvests and different

699
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.360
seasons of harvest, right?

700
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:59.000
So as a farmer, if I went out and I sowed all of those fields at different times and

701
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:03.720
different seasons, but then I went and sat in one field, what if I went and sat in my

702
00:46:03.720 --> 00:46:10.120
watermelon patch and just cried because my watermelons weren't ripe yet?

703
00:46:10.120 --> 00:46:14.320
Would that make any sense?

704
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:19.080
If I just went over my watermelon patch and I just sat there and just cried and belly

705
00:46:19.080 --> 00:46:23.240
ached because my watermelons hadn't sprouted yet or they haven't, maybe they did, but they

706
00:46:23.240 --> 00:46:26.760
haven't, they're not ripe yet.

707
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:31.640
When my strawberries are over there rotting on the vine, my strawberries are over there

708
00:46:31.640 --> 00:46:37.960
rotting on the vine while I'm crying over here in my watermelon patch.

709
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:40.280
And you guys, that's what it looks like, what you're doing right now.

710
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:41.520
I want to tell you this.

711
00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:42.520
God showed me this.

712
00:46:42.520 --> 00:46:45.160
He showed me this in my own life years ago.

713
00:46:45.160 --> 00:46:47.600
There's always something ripe in your life.

714
00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:49.560
Please write it down.

715
00:46:49.560 --> 00:46:52.280
There's always something ripe in your life.

716
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:53.320
Always.

717
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:58.880
It may not be the thing that you want to be ripe, but there's something that's ripe.

718
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:03.960
And through prayer, you're going to discern what that is.

719
00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:06.280
And that is the thing that you should be focused on in this season.

720
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:08.280
And this is how we stay out of discontentment.

721
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:13.560
You get discontent because you are sitting in a timeline, in a watermelon patch that's

722
00:47:13.560 --> 00:47:18.360
not ripe yet when there's a timeline that is ripe and ready for you that you're not

723
00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:25.240
focusing on.

724
00:47:25.240 --> 00:47:29.160
God is, he's the God of times and seasons, not you.

725
00:47:29.160 --> 00:47:32.760
And he's the Lord of the harvest, not you.

726
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:37.720
But there isn't any reason to ever have an empty basket because there's always a harvest

727
00:47:37.720 --> 00:47:40.400
that's ripe.

728
00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:50.440
We sit around and we cry about our emptiness when there is something to fill it.

729
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:53.240
So begin to pray, God, what's ripe in my life right now?

730
00:47:53.240 --> 00:47:54.840
Where should my focus be?

731
00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:58.560
What should I put all this time and energy and passion that I have that I want to put

732
00:47:58.560 --> 00:48:03.960
into a relationship that isn't here?

733
00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:08.200
But instead of sitting there and being sad about that, where should I put this time and

734
00:48:08.200 --> 00:48:10.120
energy?

735
00:48:10.120 --> 00:48:17.480
Where should I put this passion?

736
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:19.760
Where?

737
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:20.840
What's ready for me?

738
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:21.840
What's ripe for me?

739
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:26.080
And a lot of times, friends, you'll see that when you do that thing, the other thing happens

740
00:48:26.080 --> 00:48:28.560
by proxy because remember, it's like a chess game.

741
00:48:28.560 --> 00:48:31.360
It's like a domino thing.

742
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:36.400
One thing leads to another thing.

743
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:38.480
It does.

744
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:41.760
There are some of you that have really important things and I'm just going to address this

745
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:43.360
and if it's not for you, it's not for you.

746
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.680
But if it is for you, grab a hold of it.

747
00:48:46.680 --> 00:48:52.160
There are people in our community that burn with the desire to mother.

748
00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:56.520
And my question for you is, why aren't you mothering then?

749
00:48:56.520 --> 00:49:01.920
Well, because I don't have a husband and I haven't been impregnated to have a baby.

750
00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:06.520
There's so many, so, so, so many other ways to mother and there are so many children that

751
00:49:06.520 --> 00:49:09.200
need mothers.

752
00:49:09.200 --> 00:49:10.200
And fathers.

753
00:49:10.200 --> 00:49:15.200
Guys, if that's you, I mostly hear that from women, but if that's you, yes.

754
00:49:15.200 --> 00:49:18.280
You can be a temporary foster parent.

755
00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:22.320
It's not that hard to get licensed to do that.

756
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.320
You can do a lot of things.

757
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:30.760
You can be respite for other foster parents where you're sowing into a child's life because

758
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:32.320
here's the thing, friends.

759
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:33.320
It comes down to ego.

760
00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:34.480
Oh, I don't want to do that.

761
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:35.720
But you said you wanted to mother.

762
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:36.920
Yeah.

763
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:37.920
I want to mother my own children.

764
00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:38.920
Okay.

765
00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:44.040
Then you don't want a mother.

766
00:49:44.040 --> 00:49:45.040
You want your own kids.

767
00:49:45.040 --> 00:49:48.200
There's a difference.

768
00:49:48.200 --> 00:49:49.280
And I get it.

769
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:50.840
I have a womb baby.

770
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:53.960
I have a daughter in heaven, Abigail, and I have a daughter on earth.

771
00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:59.680
And then I have two bonus children that I did not give birth to that I love just as

772
00:49:59.680 --> 00:50:00.040
much.

773
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.120
Do you get the picture here?

774
00:50:05.120 --> 00:50:09.080
You have no idea how much you can love a child that did not come from your womb until you

775
00:50:09.080 --> 00:50:14.400
love a child that did not come from your womb.

776
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:18.880
And I have two little squishy grandbabies now from my daughter that did not come from

777
00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:28.800
my womb that I literally, I'm not even kidding, that I would fight a bear for.

778
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.960
The love is so great.

779
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:39.160
I'm a Nona and when one of them says Nona, I can't even tell you what happens to my heart.

780
00:50:39.160 --> 00:50:41.920
When I hear Nona come out of one of their little mouths, I'm like, that's it.

781
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:44.440
I just, what can I do?

782
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:46.160
What can I give you?

783
00:50:46.160 --> 00:50:52.880
How can I, how can I be of service to you, little child?

784
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:59.280
You guys, the love that you carry, it's, it's, it's limitless, it's limitless.

785
00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:01.040
And so you've been holding yourself back.

786
00:51:01.040 --> 00:51:04.960
You've been sitting around in a watermelon patch crying when there's a cabbage patch

787
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:09.240
over here full of babies waiting for you.

788
00:51:09.240 --> 00:51:12.880
Remember those cabbage patch dolls?

789
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:17.400
Come on, come on.

790
00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:21.360
Do you know how many kids are running around?

791
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:22.360
They don't have a mentor.

792
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.040
You guys, I know you, you know how tragic my childhood was.

793
00:51:25.040 --> 00:51:28.400
You know that there wasn't, there's probably only one adult that I can think of that ever

794
00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:32.360
tried to reach out to me in my pain.

795
00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:41.680
All those teachers, all those coaches, all those camp counselors, nobody, never.

796
00:51:41.680 --> 00:51:44.720
You could be that person.

797
00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:47.000
You could join that big brothers, big sisters thing.

798
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.120
There's all kinds of organizations where you can make the difference in the life of a child

799
00:51:50.120 --> 00:51:51.880
if that is your desire.

800
00:51:51.880 --> 00:52:02.200
If you're burning with the desire to mother, father, okay, all right.

801
00:52:02.200 --> 00:52:07.440
So friends, we're not going to sit in our watermelon patch and cry anymore, right?

802
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:08.960
I told you it was a hodgepodge today.

803
00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:10.280
We're going to pray until something happens.

804
00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:14.000
We're going to go back to prayer and then we're going to do what we hear in prayer.

805
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.560
We're not going to just be praying.

806
00:52:15.560 --> 00:52:18.480
We're going to be doing, we're going to get instructions.

807
00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:20.120
We're going to get inclinations.

808
00:52:20.120 --> 00:52:24.400
I'm going to have a guest mentor on to talk to you guys in August about how to understand

809
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:27.920
your dreams and how to cultivate more dreams in your dream life.

810
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:32.560
You're like, wait, Jackie, can we, can we have more dreams?

811
00:52:32.560 --> 00:52:34.400
Can we get God to give us more dreams?

812
00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:35.400
Yeah.

813
00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:37.000
Well, how do we do that?

814
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:41.800
By paying attention to the ones that you already get.

815
00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:46.280
Why would God give us more of what we're not even using now?

816
00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:53.080
You can also have people on that help us to do some practical things, like get our finances

817
00:52:53.080 --> 00:52:54.080
in order.

818
00:52:54.080 --> 00:52:58.840
A lot of us, you know, we're planning on being married, you know, it's our last year single.

819
00:52:58.840 --> 00:52:59.840
Great.

820
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:01.840
But our finances are a wreck.

821
00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:06.880
I love my youngest daughter, but I tell you what, her future husband has his work cut

822
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.640
out for her because she a spender.

823
00:53:09.640 --> 00:53:13.120
She a spendy spender and she's only 23.

824
00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:14.120
I get it.

825
00:53:14.120 --> 00:53:15.760
She, she will grow and she will mature.

826
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:16.760
You know what?

827
00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:21.040
Nothing matures you faster than not having any money for groceries when you don't live

828
00:53:21.040 --> 00:53:25.840
at mom's house anymore.

829
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:30.780
So finances are important guys, and the best of the best is coming.

830
00:53:30.780 --> 00:53:35.560
My business mentor is going to show up and, and mentor all of you.

831
00:53:35.560 --> 00:53:37.840
And so lots of exciting things happening in the fall.

832
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:42.040
I'm calling it back to school because I feel like God's going to really give us a lot of

833
00:53:42.040 --> 00:53:46.160
information in the next couple of months, August, September, October, things that can

834
00:53:46.160 --> 00:53:51.520
really upgrade us and accelerate us in our lives, not just our love lives.

835
00:53:51.520 --> 00:53:52.640
And so I'm excited.

836
00:53:52.640 --> 00:53:55.840
All of our past sessions in phase three, and if you're not there yet, you're going to be

837
00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:56.840
there by then.

838
00:53:56.840 --> 00:53:57.840
Don't worry.

839
00:53:57.840 --> 00:53:58.840
You're going to be there.

840
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:00.500
And some things are going to be all community.

841
00:54:00.500 --> 00:54:04.640
Some of these sessions, but there, these past sessions are really going to be designed to

842
00:54:04.640 --> 00:54:10.440
help upgrade you spiritually, financially, relationally with other voices besides the

843
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:12.560
voices that you've heard in this community.

844
00:54:12.560 --> 00:54:17.300
So guest mentors coming in that that is their lane, that is their speciality.

845
00:54:17.300 --> 00:54:19.200
And so that's what God has directed us to do.

846
00:54:19.200 --> 00:54:21.360
And so that's what we're going to be doing.

847
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:24.280
And you get all of that for your little subscription that you pay.

848
00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:32.680
And so I believe that God is really going to bless, bless us and accelerate us this

849
00:54:32.680 --> 00:54:33.680
fall.

850
00:54:33.680 --> 00:54:34.680
All right.

851
00:54:34.680 --> 00:54:35.680
So father, thank you.

852
00:54:35.680 --> 00:54:37.120
Thank you that we've come together.

853
00:54:37.120 --> 00:54:43.080
Help us draw us into the times of supernatural understanding that we call prayer.

854
00:54:43.080 --> 00:54:50.040
Draw us into the times of supernatural partnership and agreement that we call prayer or draw

855
00:54:50.040 --> 00:54:52.000
us into these places.

856
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:56.100
The very things that we want, you want for us more than we want them for ourselves.

857
00:54:56.100 --> 00:54:59.040
So Lord, help us to receive those things.

858
00:54:59.040 --> 00:55:00.040
Help us to believe.

859
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.580
Lord, that you're on our side, that you're for us,

860
00:55:02.580 --> 00:55:04.840
that you're with us, that life is for us,

861
00:55:06.180 --> 00:55:09.180
that we can have a beautiful, abundant life on this earth,

862
00:55:09.180 --> 00:55:10.980
that we are pilgrims here,

863
00:55:10.980 --> 00:55:13.380
and as ambassadors from heaven here,

864
00:55:13.380 --> 00:55:16.660
that you, it's your job to supply to us the resources

865
00:55:16.660 --> 00:55:18.520
that we need to finish the assignment.

866
00:55:18.520 --> 00:55:20.660
It's not our job, it's your job.

867
00:55:20.660 --> 00:55:23.160
Our job is just to stay on assignment.

868
00:55:23.160 --> 00:55:25.200
Our job is just to seek your kingdom,

869
00:55:25.200 --> 00:55:27.700
and everything that we need will be added to us, Lord.

870
00:55:27.700 --> 00:55:30.940
Help us to truly live in that supernatural flow,

871
00:55:30.940 --> 00:55:32.100
that supernatural flow.

872
00:55:32.100 --> 00:55:33.900
I just release it over each and every one of us,

873
00:55:33.900 --> 00:55:35.800
including myself, supernatural flow.

874
00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:37.240
We're not worried about resources,

875
00:55:37.240 --> 00:55:39.780
we're not worried about friends or community,

876
00:55:39.780 --> 00:55:41.740
or we're not worried about money, Lord,

877
00:55:41.740 --> 00:55:43.580
because we know that if we will stay

878
00:55:43.580 --> 00:55:46.980
in the supernatural flow, if we will stay focused on you,

879
00:55:46.980 --> 00:55:49.180
if we will be communicating with you

880
00:55:49.180 --> 00:55:52.120
in these prayer times, Lord, you will direct our steps.

881
00:55:52.120 --> 00:55:54.500
You will direct our steps, you will take us to the place

882
00:55:54.500 --> 00:55:56.620
where the things are that we need.

883
00:55:56.620 --> 00:55:57.780
You will take us to the place

884
00:55:57.780 --> 00:55:59.220
where the coin is in the fish's mouth.

885
00:55:59.220 --> 00:56:00.720
You will take us to the place

886
00:56:00.720 --> 00:56:03.860
that you have already provided for us.

887
00:56:03.860 --> 00:56:06.220
You've already called ahead to those other people

888
00:56:06.220 --> 00:56:08.460
and let them know, hey, these people are coming,

889
00:56:08.460 --> 00:56:10.360
give them this.

890
00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:14.600
We take Jesus's life as an example

891
00:56:14.600 --> 00:56:16.500
of how we can stay in the flow.

892
00:56:16.500 --> 00:56:20.740
Everything, at every point that was needed was there,

893
00:56:20.740 --> 00:56:23.640
it was provided, and so Lord, we thank you, God,

894
00:56:23.640 --> 00:56:25.680
that those that are ready for a partner,

895
00:56:26.200 --> 00:56:28.300
those that assignment requires a partner

896
00:56:28.300 --> 00:56:30.540
at this juncture, Lord, that you allow

897
00:56:30.540 --> 00:56:32.980
those divine intersections to come together,

898
00:56:32.980 --> 00:56:37.820
that you allow those divine appointments to be made, Lord,

899
00:56:37.820 --> 00:56:39.480
so that they can meet each other.

900
00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:40.980
And those that are still working

901
00:56:40.980 --> 00:56:44.120
in a different patch in your harvest, Lord,

902
00:56:44.120 --> 00:56:46.220
they're still working on a different patch, Lord,

903
00:56:46.220 --> 00:56:48.100
that they would do it with passion, God,

904
00:56:48.100 --> 00:56:50.160
they would do it with vigor, Lord,

905
00:56:50.160 --> 00:56:51.800
because we're not waiting, we're preparing,

906
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:53.800
and when we're preparing, we should be serving, Lord,

907
00:56:53.820 --> 00:56:57.660
and so help us to serve, Lord, help us to focus, God,

908
00:56:57.660 --> 00:57:00.160
on becoming the versions of ourselves

909
00:57:00.160 --> 00:57:01.800
that can sustain partnership.

910
00:57:02.660 --> 00:57:05.300
And Lord, let no one have an empty basket,

911
00:57:05.300 --> 00:57:07.640
let everyone have a passionate harvest

912
00:57:07.640 --> 00:57:10.180
that they're excited about getting up every day

913
00:57:10.180 --> 00:57:15.180
to run to in the meantime, in Jesus's name, amen.

914
00:57:16.680 --> 00:57:18.740
All right, friends, love y'all, be praying for us,

915
00:57:18.740 --> 00:57:20.920
this is wedding week, we'll be on the run,

916
00:57:20.940 --> 00:57:25.440
we're gonna focus, and we'll be obviously going live,

917
00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:28.380
posting videos, getting excited, so I'll see you soon.

918
00:57:28.380 --> 00:57:29.220
Bye, everyone.