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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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Once again, if you are new, welcome.

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This is the session that we have every week, Saturday morning, where we lean into the current

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prophetic reality of heaven.

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We want to be living heaven on earth, right?

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We don't want to just be living our boring, earthly lives with no supernatural support.

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We don't want that.

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In fact, I will tell you, yesterday I was walking around with my daughter, and I was

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noticing that this world has lost its luster for me in this season.

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Now, I am a very optimistic person.

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I have a very positive personality just by nature.

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I'm so thankful for that because I had a really hard childhood, and I don't think if I would

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have had that nature, that intrinsic nature, I'm either up or getting up kind of personality,

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I probably wouldn't have made it through some of the things that I have lived through.

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God was good to bless me with that temperament, and so I'm usually pretty positive.

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I don't gravitate towards the negative, even in times of trial and problems.

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I'm that person that's like, but tomorrow's another day.

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I just noticed as I was walking around that I'm not finding the usual joy that I would

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in different things.

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I was just really leaning into that, and I feel like the Lord really wants us to remember

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that this is not our home.

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You guys know when you go, and not that we shouldn't love this life, I mean, it's such

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a gift to us, and we have such purpose, and I really want you to feel like your purpose

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is being restored this morning because you are here with purpose.

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Put your hand on your chest right now, and just get quiet, just put your hand right there.

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Just leave it there for just one second.

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You feel that?

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That's your heart beating.

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That is the sound, that is the feeling of purpose.

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You have purpose.

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If you are alive this morning, which you are, because you're here, then you have purpose.

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God has plans for you.

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Jeremiah 29, 11 tells us that they're good plans.

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They're plans full of hope for a good future.

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That's what they are, and they're more than one.

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They're plural.

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They're plans.

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So that means that if you zig instead of zag, if you go left instead of right, you can't

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mess it up because God has a plan for you that will continuously change with you because

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he's good.

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That's why, because he's good.

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And so, not that we shouldn't love this gift called life.

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We shouldn't.

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We should love it for sure.

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It's not always fun.

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I understand that, but we should love it, but that really wasn't what the message was.

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The message was a reminder of, hey, don't lay up your treasure here.

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Don't let this be the only place.

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Don't let this be what you're living for.

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We should all be living for eternity.

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I worked for a prominent Jewish man.

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Some of you have heard this story.

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I didn't plan on telling it, but Holy Spirit's prompting me in this moment.

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I worked for him for probably about nine months.

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It was one of my favorite jobs.

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I took it because we needed the money, and a friend referred me, and he just added so

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much value to me.

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I felt immediately like he was a grandfather to me.

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He was in his mid-70s, not old, probably 74, 75 years old, and he owned this viatical insurance

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company in downtown Columbus, Ohio, and he was very, very rich.

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He owned the biggest house in the best neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, where all the mansions

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were.

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He had the biggest mansion, friends.

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He had money on money.

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His money had money.

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I was his assistant.

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When I tell you that I had never been anyone's assistant before, and I didn't know how to

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do anything assistants do, I'm not kidding, but I have a can-do attitude, and he hired

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me anyway.

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As I'm trying to figure out all the things that secretary, receptionist people do, they

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already know it, but I'm trying to figure it out, kind of like how to use the computer.

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He's having patience with me, and the good news is that he was pretty old-fashioned because

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he was Jewish and in his 70s, and he did things the old-world way a lot, meaning come in here

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and write down what I'm going to say.

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Come in here and sit down, and let me talk to you, and you write it down, and then you

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go type it up.

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in an email.

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And so one day we were talking, and of course I was definitely a strong Christian at that

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time.

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In fact, I'm going to get into a little bit of this today because it's going to help a

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lot of you with your dreams and your callings.

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But I was just biding my time with these little jobs to make money because I was going to

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be a preacher, okay?

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And my ministry just hadn't taken off yet, but I was going to be a preacher.

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I was going to be a preacher at a church.

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That's what I was going to do with my life, all right?

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That was my big, hairy, audacious goal.

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That was my dream of dreams because I felt like that was what I was supposed to do with

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the gift that God had given me, being a preacher.

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That's the best use.

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I had been taught that and discipled.

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Actually, I've been discipled by a denomination that doesn't allow women to be preachers,

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so that's a problem.

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But then at the same time, kind of out of both sides of their mouth, they're like, but

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you would be a real good preacher, Jackie.

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Girls aren't allowed to do this, but you'd be good at it if they were, okay?

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And so that's kind of where I had been in the years leading up to this story.

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Now this story takes place after my pastor went to prison, after I was no longer in that

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denomination, after I was divorced and remarried.

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But still, that was still the dream of my heart, okay?

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I would come and I would talk to him and I would learn from him and he taught me so much

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about business.

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I didn't really plan to learn about business.

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That wasn't on my agenda, to learn about business, because I was going to be a preacher.

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But I would sit with him and I would listen and I would hear all the things that he was

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talking about, about his family and his children.

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He had six children.

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None of them followed him into the family business, even though it was very lucrative

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and very successful.

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None of them followed him there.

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And I'm sad to tell you this, that when he passed away suddenly, suddenly, we worked

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late one night trying to go through some paperwork where there were some discrepancies and he

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wanted me to help him with it.

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We left about seven o'clock that night.

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I remember pulling up next to him at the stoplight in downtown Columbus because there were no

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cars because everyone else had already gone home during the regular rush hour.

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We pulled up next to each other at the light.

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I remember looking over at him and his little Volvo over there, looking over and he was

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a tiny little Jewish man and he could barely see over the steering wheel.

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And I looked over and I saw him there and he never looked over at me because he just

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wasn't aware that I was next to him at the light.

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And I just smiled because I loved him.

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I had grown a love for him over those nine or 10 months as a grandfather, as someone

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who poured into me, as someone who thought I was super intelligent and I was deserving

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of their attention and their teaching.

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And then the next morning I got to work at my regular time and I started doing my daily

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morning duties and it was a high holy holiday in the Jewish faith.

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And so I knew he wasn't coming into the office that day, but I knew also that I was going

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to hear from him like I always did on those days, probably around noon, but noon came

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and went and I didn't hear.

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The phone never rang.

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And now I started to get a little worried because, you know, he's a little bit of a

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micromanager.

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He wanted to make sure things were being done right.

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And it was very unusual for him to not check in.

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And then two o'clock went and three o'clock came and four o'clock came and right about

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the five o'clock hour, I got a phone call, but it wasn't from him.

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It was from his wife.

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And she simply said, Jackie, this is Mrs. Elman.

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I said, Oh, hello, Mrs. Elman.

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She said, Mr. Elman has died.

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She said, please lock up the business and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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That's it.

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That's all she said.

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Y'all hung up the phone and the neighbors said, I screamed to the people in the next

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building.

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I don't know what happened.

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I kind of like disassociated for a moment, but it was a shocking, horrible day.

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He just died.

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He got up in the morning.

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He did his normal stuff.

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She found him dead on the bathroom floor.

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He had a massive heart attack and died.

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But what happened after that is the point of the story.

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And that is people came in, his cousins from another state, they came in and they began

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to go through all.

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There was a lot of important paperwork because of the type of business this was, stuff that

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needed to be shredded.

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And I spent the next nine months of my life destroying the evidence of this man's career.

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Shredding paper, taking important papers that couldn't be shredded because they hadn't expired

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yet into these places where they lock up important documents, like these storage places where

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you can lock up important documents.

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It's called fireproof.

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And all this different stuff was happening.

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At the end of a man's life, all of this stuff was chaff for the

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fire because none of it had any eternal value.

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He didn't have any children or grandchildren ready to take over

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the business to serve others.

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Do you see what I'm saying?

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He had those things, but he did not have the relationship with

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those people that would have caused them to want to follow in

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their father's footsteps.

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And I saw that when I sat, when I sat Shiva with his family, I

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was invited the Gentile to come and sit and mourn with his

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family.

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And you know what?

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They didn't really care that he was gone.

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I had a closer relationship with him than they did.

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It was sad.

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It was sad because he was a good man.

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He really was.

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He was a kind man.

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He was very kind to me.

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And I don't know what went wrong in that family because I didn't

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live in it.

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Maybe he was just always gone working.

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That's probably my best guess, building something for his

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family instead of being with his family.

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And so friends, if we're going to dedicate our one and only

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lives to anything, let it be eternal.

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Okay.

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I promise you that this is going to get exciting and encouraging

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in just five seconds, but I didn't plan on telling that

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story, but I feel like God wants.

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You to hear that story because we only have one life, just

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have one, one earth experience.

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And so we have to make sure that we are investing that time wisely.

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In fact, the other day, God spoke to me and he said, Jackie, he

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said, do not spend any of your life trying to, you know, chase.

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Don't chase money.

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Don't, don't try to pay the bills.

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I know for a lot of you, that's really hard.

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It has been hard for me in my life too, but the thing that's

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not renewable is not money.

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The unrenewable resource is time.

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Okay.

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And this hard lesson for all of us to learn.

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And the Bible talks about it in so many different ways about

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seeking the kingdom and everything else being given to you about

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looking to the Lord as your provider about trusting him.

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My favorite scriptures and Psalms.

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It says God provides for his lovers, even while they're sleeping.

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So being a lover of God, being a lover of people, being on assignment,

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I have learned, and I will tell you, I am living in the reality of when

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I follow after what God has put me on earth, then resources follow after me.

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I remember not too long ago, two years ago, God impressed upon my

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husband and I to go to an event.

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We went to the event.

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We ended up making a very, very large donation type of thing.

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The larger than we've ever made in our entire lives.

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And I mean, like we had to like exhaust the savings.

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Like it was like a big deal.

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And the reason why it was an even bigger deal was because God

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And the reason why it was an even bigger deal to buy into that and to pay that was

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because that very month, like two days from then, my daughter and my son-in-law

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and my grandbabies, which were under a year old at the time, just five or six

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months old, they were going to be coming to Texas for an entire month.

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And we were going to be taking a sabbatical that God had

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directed us to take to be with them.

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What does that mean?

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That means you're going to pay out a bunch of money, but you aren't going to make any.

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Right?

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You're not going to make any, but you're going to pay out more

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money than you've ever paid out.

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It's like, oh, okay, Lord.

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You're going to stretch us here.

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You know, God likes to stretch you.

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If you're not willing to be stretched, then you cannot have a

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larger capacity to contain more.

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And it's not fun, y'all.

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Being stretched is not fun.

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In fact, back in the medieval days, they used that as torture, like the stretching.

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They stretched people, but not in a good way.

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Not the chiropractor friends.

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It was different.

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We don't want to be stretched.

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We don't like it.

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It's uncomfortable, but it's necessary if you want more.

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Remember Isaiah 54, what does it say?

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It says stretch, doesn't it?

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Those of you that are barren, that don't have what you want, first

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of all, sing, but then stretch.

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Stretch, make room for more.

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Go read that.

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Go read Isaiah 54.

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If we have time today, maybe we'll read it.

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So anyway, we got back from that event.

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My grandbabies and my daughter and son-in-law, they showed up at the house

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for the month and there was a little bit of a temptation for me to, oh, hey, you

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know, maybe I'll do some coaching, you know, and God's just like, just rest.

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Okay fine. So we had an amazing month with them, with our family, and can I tell

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you the day I put my daughter on the plane to go home, those babies, the day

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that I put her on the plane, I got an email inviting me on a famous podcast

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and that same person who is the famous person of that famous podcast hired me

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to be their dating coach because they had read my book when they were sick

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with COVID and it changed their life. This is a New York Times bestseller that

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said my little book changed their life and invited me on their podcast and

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because they're so well known and well trusted by their audience when they had

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me on our community exploded y'all and can I tell you that I got back three

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times in the next month what I had invested and stretched for in the month

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before.

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But you guys it's important for you to see the trajectory of this. I had to do

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it before it happened. I had to do it. Now you can say hey Jackie do you think

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that that that opportunity would have still happened had you not? Maybe but

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I'll never know. I will never know because I did what I

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did right? Alright so let's go back to Jackie wanting to be a preacher. So

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Jackie has a big mouth we already know that and it needs to be used for good

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and not for evil. I promise you it used to be used for a lot of evil. I promise

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you okay. In fact my grandmother, God in heaven partying with Jesus right now, you

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know she was a pretty sharp-tongued Pentecostal woman which has caused my

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mother to run away from religion, church, God, because she was being raised by mean

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people that professed Jesus. Anybody else anybody else know this story? So when

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she was 18 she was outie. She was out of Dodge. He ran away with the first boy

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that said she was pretty, my dad. Married him. He was Bad News Bears. Had two kids

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in two years and see every once in a while my mom was in a crisis she'd be

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like hey we're going to church and we'd be like what? We're going to church and

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we always went to the same kind of church. We went to the kind of church that

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she ran away from. These crazy Pentecostal churches with the women with

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the long dresses and long hair and everyone speaking in tongues and it's

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super confusing and as soon as you come in because you don't have long hair and

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you have on pants they try to drag you to the altar and get you saved. You know

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those places and you guys it was really off-putting for me when I was a kid and

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I was going through a lot of abuse. My poor mother she chose all the wrong men.

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Three times married before I was 10 years old. Abusive men, addicts, all kinds of

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situations and so I wasn't really seeing how this God was working for anyone. It

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certainly wasn't working for my mom every time she decided to go back to

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these churches where people judged her and made up rumors about her because she

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was hot my mother and she was definitely not Pentecostal. So I can imagine now

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that I'm older and I know what I know I can imagine they're like here comes

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Jezebel. Jezebel's in the church you know and so this was this was my experience

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with all of these things and yet in my 20s I met Jesus. I met Jesus in my car. I

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had a radical conversion. Can't get into that story but I will tell you that it

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stuck because 28 years later I have not turned back. But anyway that Pentecostal

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grandmother she used to say the best thing that could happen to you Jackie

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Marie is that you could lose your voice. That you could be a mute. That's the best

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thing that God could do for you. Like oh look old lady you better not curse me. I

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even knew back then. I love my grandma. You know she just believed what she

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believed and he's in heaven now and she realizes that there are more people

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there than Pentecostals. I'm sure she's pretty shocked by that but um that's the

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way it goes. So preacher is in my 20s when I met Jesus what I thought would be

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the the best thing that I could do with my life and where did that come from? It

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came from just listening to people around me talk about you know how that

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was the thing that that you know that the A team right the first string that

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gets put in the game that's what they're called to do.

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The first ring, if you've ever played sports,

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they're the people that are the best,

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the best of the best.

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as far as like been discipled in from the time I was 22,

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they always put a huge emphasis on full-time ministry.

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That's the A-team, that's the first ring.

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All the rest of you poor schmucks that have to go to work,

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yeah, you can serve the Lord too,

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but you just weren't chosen with these fivefold giftings.

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You guys, that's not true.

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That's not what the Bible says.

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It's not what the Bible says.

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In fact, the people that have those ministries,

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so to speak, those offices of those fivefold,

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pastor, apostle, teacher, all that stuff,

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those people are supposed to be equipping you

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to play in the game.

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They're supposed to be equipping you

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with an evangelism gift to go play in the game.

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They're supposed to be equipping you with the prophetic

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to go play in the game.

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They're supposed to be helping you love and care for people

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with a pastoral heart to go play in the game.

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The whole purpose of them having that

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is to edify and exhort the body of Christ.

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That's what it's for.

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And that's how you can tell

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if someone has like that office of that

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rather than just the assignment of that.

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Because they will spend their time not up on stages

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trying to show off their gift.

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They will spend their time equipping and edifying

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and encouraging God's people in those gifts

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so that they can go out and win over a lost and dying world.

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That is what that's all about.

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But I didn't know that then.

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I didn't have good teaching.

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I didn't.

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So I was just like, okay, well, I can talk.

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I know I can.

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And I have a lot of revelation.

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God tells me a lot of things.

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And intercession.

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And when I say those things to other people,

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they really like them.

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So I'm gonna be a preacher.

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I'm gonna be a preacher.

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That's what I'm gonna do.

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I'm gonna be a preacher.

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But you guys, girls,

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they're not really welcome to be preachers.

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And even still now, it's just really,

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I mean, you can probably count on both your hands

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how many like prominent female preachers you know about.

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You know, it's getting better.

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But we're talking about over the last 30 years, okay?

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And so it's harder than you think.

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Harder than you think.

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And especially if you think

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that you have to be a preacher in a church,

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then it's really hard, okay?

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Unless that church thinks that, you know,

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that you're called to be that,

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they hire you or whatever.

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And I've worked on staff for lots of churches.

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On staff, I have.

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Because that is what I thought I was supposed to do.

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But can I tell you, there came a day in time

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when I got my first women's conference.

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I've been in ministry for 28 years, y'all.

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28 years I've been in ministry.

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I have done everything from being a social worker,

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from driving an outreach van,

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from being an outreach director of a church.

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I had a prison ministry.

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I had a ministry to prostituted women,

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also called anti-trafficking,

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but it wasn't called that back then.

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I had a gathering at my house for years and years

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called WOW Women, where all kinds of people

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got set free and delivered and healed

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and all different types of things.

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I worked in television.

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I had a women's only,

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the first IPTV network for women, Jane TV,

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I founded that.

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Some of you maybe have even heard of that name before

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because it got big in the Midwest

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before it crashed and burned.

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It was a powerful place for women to come

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and get information about everything

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from their health to their marriage.

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And I built that when I worked in television.

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It was really amazing.

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I was a blogger under the pen, Real Life Unplugged.

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I was a speaker in secular places.

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It's so funny, I couldn't get invited

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to speak in a church.

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I couldn't get invited to speak in a church,

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but I could get invited to speak in colleges.

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I could get invited to speak all these other places, right?

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Obviously not preaching,

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but speaking about women's issues

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and speaking about feminism

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and what the real definition of that is.

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And I was Jehovah sneaky in most of my life

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leading up to this big, hairy, audacious goal

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of being a preacher someday, okay?

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I felt like God called me to be a missionary

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in my first marriage to Germany.

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And so I went and I learned German

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working at a German bakery.

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I went and worked at the bakery

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because it's a German bakery

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and everyone spoke German

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because I wanted to learn German by immersion.

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You guys, I am crazy.

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I wanna make sure y'all know that, okay?

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I wanna make sure,

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but I feel like it takes being crazy

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in order to live this wildly life.

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This is a wildly life.

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If you're not living a wildly life,

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I don't know that you're doing it right.

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I'm hoping to stoke the fires

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of some wildness in you today.

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Hey, I started online teaching

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all the way back to, I don't know, 2014.

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I was a media consultant.

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Some of the biggest preachers,

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if I would name them right now,

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the biggest ministries.

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I consulted them in their media departments.

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I had a media consultancy off the back of my executive producer TV career.

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I produced huge events.

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The event that's happening in D.C. right now, I was involved in the last event in 2018.

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I'm super good friends with Lou Angle's main promoter.

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I was supposed to be at that event, but I had to go visit my grandbabies.

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I'm like, look guys, I can't do all this.

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I'm not going to do all this.

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Hopefully some of y'all made it out there.

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I'm glad you did, and I want you to.

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But all I'm trying to say is I've been around.

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I've done a lot of things.

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I started teaching heart workshops in person, online.

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I started taking the advice that I gave my clients about what they should do with their

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media departments at their churches and their ministries.

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I started taking that advice myself and saying, hey, I got something to say.

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Let me take my knowledge and put it to work for this message.

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So I started getting that message out there, and you guys, the rest is history.

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Here we are.

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Look at this.

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In 2020, God asked me to shift all of my efforts towards his single sons and daughters.

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I want you to know who's leading you.

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This is who's leading you.

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Someone who has put her hand to the plow 28 years ago and through a lot of crazy, never

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turned back.

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I have never turned back, never, and I'm not going to, not going to.

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Because God said, I want my single sons and daughters married.

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I want them partnered.

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They need partners for what's coming.

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You guys, it's not about what's happening today, it's about what's coming.

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And I'm not a doomsday preacher, but it's about what's coming.

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So let me circle back around to that very first women's conference.

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It was a big one at a mega church, you guys.

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Go big or go home.

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My very first preaching assignment was to be the Friday night opener of a women's conference

485
00:27:00.280 --> 00:27:03.920
at a mega church.

486
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:08.760
The other speakers, I was fangirling over them, y'all.

487
00:27:08.760 --> 00:27:10.760
I was like, oh my God, they're going to be there.

488
00:27:10.760 --> 00:27:11.760
Oh, I'm going to see them.

489
00:27:11.760 --> 00:27:12.760
I'm going to see them.

490
00:27:12.760 --> 00:27:16.840
I'm going to, you know, New York Times bestselling authors and famous, you know, because remember,

491
00:27:16.840 --> 00:27:17.840
there's not a lot of women preachers.

492
00:27:17.840 --> 00:27:20.680
So you guys could probably guess some of the people I'm talking about.

493
00:27:21.040 --> 00:27:23.440
I'm like, oh my gosh, they're going to be there.

494
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:26.440
You know, I'm going to be there on Friday night, but they're going to be there on Saturday

495
00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:30.320
and Sunday and I'm going to get to see them in the green room and blah, blah, blah, blah.

496
00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:35.440
And so I get up on Friday and I speak my heart and I do what the Lord tells me to do.

497
00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:40.120
And Saturday and you guys, everyone, all these people, these are seasoned women that have

498
00:27:40.120 --> 00:27:43.160
been doing this and are anointed to do it.

499
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:46.520
And they have book tables, they have books upon books, y'all.

500
00:27:46.520 --> 00:27:50.760
They have all kinds of tapes and all different types of things that you can buy because this

501
00:27:50.760 --> 00:27:55.920
was what, 15, 16 years ago.

502
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.320
And I didn't have anything.

503
00:27:57.320 --> 00:27:58.320
Okay.

504
00:27:58.320 --> 00:28:03.960
I had a flyer that kind of had my email address on it and that's about it.

505
00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:09.040
So Saturday after the main session, we're going into the last session.

506
00:28:09.040 --> 00:28:10.040
This is important.

507
00:28:10.040 --> 00:28:11.040
This is going to speak to someone.

508
00:28:11.040 --> 00:28:12.040
This is not just for women.

509
00:28:12.040 --> 00:28:13.800
Guys, this is for you too.

510
00:28:13.800 --> 00:28:15.680
Please take the nuggets that are being released here.

511
00:28:15.840 --> 00:28:17.720
It's very important that you do.

512
00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:20.920
God's trying to shift your thinking right now.

513
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:25.400
So there was a main session on Saturday and then there was going to be a breakout type

514
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:32.000
of time at this conference where you got to pick from a menu of breakouts, right?

515
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:37.760
And I was going to do a breakout about fear, okay, because at the time I was, I had broke

516
00:28:37.760 --> 00:28:46.040
free from, you know, 10 plus years of anxiety disorder of the fighter, the, the panic disorder,

517
00:28:46.040 --> 00:28:50.200
anxiety disorder, anxiety induced OCD, you know, all the things.

518
00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:53.720
And so fear was a regular part of my life.

519
00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:55.080
Panic was a regular part of my life.

520
00:28:55.080 --> 00:28:58.480
And so that was what my workshop was going to be about.

521
00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:03.080
So spoke on Friday, Saturday, main session, famous preacher lady.

522
00:29:03.080 --> 00:29:08.640
And then another, not as famous, but like well-known preacher person.

523
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:10.720
And then these breakout sessions.

524
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:16.480
And so after the sessions in the morning, we're over with, they started assigning us

525
00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:22.600
our rooms for the breakout sessions based on how many people had signed up for your

526
00:29:22.600 --> 00:29:23.600
breakout session.

527
00:29:23.600 --> 00:29:27.120
You know, you're going to get this little room over here in hallway B.

528
00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:31.040
If you only had like 15 people, you know, you guys understand, right?

529
00:29:31.040 --> 00:29:36.960
So the organizer came to me and they said, Hey, you know, we 15 minutes until breakouts,

530
00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:38.520
you're going to be in the main auditorium.

531
00:29:38.520 --> 00:29:39.520
And I was like, what?

532
00:29:39.520 --> 00:29:42.400
And she's like, the main auditorium, you're going to be in the main auditorium, you know,

533
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:45.880
the place that you spoke on Friday night, the main sanctuary, the main auditorium.

534
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:46.880
And I was like, why?

535
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:52.160
And she's like, almost everyone in this whole conference signed up for your breakout.

536
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.560
What?

537
00:29:56.560 --> 00:30:00.080
I'm telling you guys, the names of this conference that were speaking alongside of me.

538
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.640
and even the topics of their breakouts, fabulous.

539
00:30:04.600 --> 00:30:07.160
But apparently I'd made enough of an impact

540
00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.120
with my craziness on Friday night

541
00:30:09.120 --> 00:30:10.400
that people wanted to come and see

542
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:14.420
what this girl was gonna do in this breakout session.

543
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:17.560
Yeah, you guys, I came out of like,

544
00:30:17.560 --> 00:30:20.600
oh man, this is my dream coming true.

545
00:30:20.600 --> 00:30:22.640
Please pay attention, it's my dream.

546
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:24.920
All these years, I've wanted to be a preacher.

547
00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:26.700
All these years, I've been held back

548
00:30:26.700 --> 00:30:28.320
by this denomination that discipled me,

549
00:30:28.320 --> 00:30:30.560
that told me that women shouldn't speak in the church.

550
00:30:30.560 --> 00:30:32.960
All these years, by this pastor going to prison

551
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.800
and by this dysfunctional and unhealthy marriage,

552
00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:38.540
all these years, and finally, here I am,

553
00:30:38.540 --> 00:30:39.760
I'm getting my shot.

554
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:44.540
And then, to beat the band, right,

555
00:30:44.540 --> 00:30:49.040
this famous preacher, the most famous preacher

556
00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:52.080
at this conference, comes up to me in the green room

557
00:30:52.080 --> 00:30:54.480
after breakouts and says, hey.

558
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:56.520
She said, I got in early and I was here Friday night

559
00:30:56.520 --> 00:30:57.760
and I was back here in the green room.

560
00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:00.560
She said, and I saw your message.

561
00:31:00.560 --> 00:31:02.840
And I was like, now I'm starting to feel really nervous.

562
00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:05.880
I'm like, oh yeah, hi, it's so good to meet you.

563
00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:08.320
And she's like, listen, I wanna tell you something.

564
00:31:08.320 --> 00:31:12.280
I then went out in the hallway to find your book table,

565
00:31:12.280 --> 00:31:14.120
she said, and I couldn't find it.

566
00:31:14.120 --> 00:31:15.760
And then I asked the organizer and they told me

567
00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:17.160
you didn't have any books.

568
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:19.360
And I asked about your tapes and your teaching series

569
00:31:19.360 --> 00:31:20.920
and they said you didn't have any.

570
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:24.200
And I just wanna let you know that you're wasting

571
00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:25.600
the gift that God has given you.

572
00:31:25.600 --> 00:31:27.760
Like she like called me out.

573
00:31:27.760 --> 00:31:29.000
And I said, look, I've been trying.

574
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.080
And she said, no, she's like, I wanna mentor you.

575
00:31:32.080 --> 00:31:34.280
It's like, come and work with me.

576
00:31:34.280 --> 00:31:37.920
She's like, I have been on the biggest platforms

577
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:39.880
and the biggest churches and the biggest conferences

578
00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:41.480
with the biggest name speakers.

579
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:44.280
And she said, and you are already playing at our level.

580
00:31:45.760 --> 00:31:47.120
She said, you belong here.

581
00:31:48.080 --> 00:31:51.160
You guys, if you don't think that I went home

582
00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:53.680
from that conference like a bird with a French fry,

583
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:55.680
I was so excited.

584
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.160
I was about to be mentored by the best of the best.

585
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:01.520
I was about to get ushered in, roll out the red carpet

586
00:32:01.520 --> 00:32:04.200
to the biggest conferences and the biggest stages.

587
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:07.480
You guys know me, you know that I could have done it.

588
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:09.960
You know me now, okay.

589
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:11.720
I could have been little junior Joyce Meyer

590
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:15.080
if I wanted to be, but I'll tell you what happened.

591
00:32:15.080 --> 00:32:18.560
I got home and God said, you're not going.

592
00:32:18.560 --> 00:32:19.400
I was like, what?

593
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:20.800
He's like, you're not going.

594
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:22.520
I'm not going where?

595
00:32:22.520 --> 00:32:24.360
He's like, you're not going into the church.

596
00:32:24.360 --> 00:32:27.120
He's like, you're not gonna be a preacher.

597
00:32:27.120 --> 00:32:29.600
This is not what I want you to do with your life.

598
00:32:31.280 --> 00:32:33.240
I'm like, I don't understand.

599
00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:34.800
This is a, this is favor.

600
00:32:34.800 --> 00:32:36.240
He's like, it's not my favor.

601
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:39.320
What?

602
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:42.480
How can it not be your favor?

603
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.160
Because it's not what I'm doing, Jackie.

604
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.080
I'm ushering in a kingdom age

605
00:32:46.080 --> 00:32:48.720
and I want you to go this direction.

606
00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:50.360
I'm not doing church anymore.

607
00:32:51.320 --> 00:32:53.080
I'm doing kingdom.

608
00:32:53.080 --> 00:32:55.720
And you guys, I had no idea what that meant.

609
00:32:57.080 --> 00:32:59.280
None, zero.

610
00:32:59.280 --> 00:33:01.760
You guys, this is 16 years ago.

611
00:33:01.760 --> 00:33:05.280
Nobody except some crunchy, you know,

612
00:33:05.280 --> 00:33:07.480
silver haired intercessor ladies.

613
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:08.880
No one knew what that meant.

614
00:33:12.360 --> 00:33:15.640
And so David and I went on a wild ride from that day.

615
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:17.280
I was so mad at God.

616
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:20.320
I think that I went on like a hunger strike

617
00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:21.400
for like three months.

618
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:23.080
I was just bad.

619
00:33:23.080 --> 00:33:24.480
It was bad.

620
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:27.440
That famous Christian preacher lady kept calling me.

621
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:28.480
What's going on?

622
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.640
Why aren't you, you know,

623
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:31.160
why aren't you taking this opportunity?

624
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:32.000
It was just not good.

625
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:34.520
It was a bad time for me in my life.

626
00:33:34.520 --> 00:33:36.280
I was super confused.

627
00:33:36.280 --> 00:33:38.320
I didn't know if it was God or the devil.

628
00:33:39.800 --> 00:33:40.880
I'm just telling you like it is

629
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:42.600
because you guys got to understand

630
00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:46.520
that the most important thing in your life

631
00:33:46.560 --> 00:33:50.320
is that you would follow after God's trajectory

632
00:33:50.320 --> 00:33:51.640
even when it doesn't make sense.

633
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:53.480
And when you're confused about what that is,

634
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:56.080
you surround yourself with people in community

635
00:33:56.080 --> 00:33:57.360
that are not confused.

636
00:33:58.280 --> 00:33:59.800
Everyone that I put that to like,

637
00:33:59.800 --> 00:34:01.160
hey, I think God told me this.

638
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:02.480
They're like, yeah, it doesn't make sense.

639
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.680
But I feel a witness in my spirit for that.

640
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:06.720
Oh, that's not what I want to hear.

641
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.480
I want to hear, no, Jackie, go forward.

642
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:15.159
Go forward.

643
00:34:17.520 --> 00:34:21.080
I was in the shower at the beginning when he told me no,

644
00:34:21.080 --> 00:34:23.920
he told me not to take that opportunity

645
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:28.320
and also not to take any preaching opportunities

646
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:30.560
that came off of that conference.

647
00:34:30.560 --> 00:34:31.880
So like with the conference, you know,

648
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:33.120
people, when they see you speak,

649
00:34:33.120 --> 00:34:34.040
now they know you can speak

650
00:34:34.040 --> 00:34:35.280
and that's how you start getting invited

651
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:37.600
to other women's conferences, right?

652
00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:40.120
And so he's like, I don't, you're not doing any of this.

653
00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:41.600
I'm happy to tell you now, you guys,

654
00:34:41.600 --> 00:34:44.400
that I've been obedient to the Lord for the last 15 years.

655
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:45.840
I actually do get to speak at church.

656
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.040
I do get to speak at churches now.

657
00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:50.800
God does send me back in as kind of like a wild card

658
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:54.400
into different churches and different places to speak.

659
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:55.719
And then after I speak,

660
00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:58.880
I'm usually not invited back because of what I say,

661
00:34:58.880 --> 00:34:59.960
but that's okay.

662
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.000
I'm all right with that.

663
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:05.200
All right, so let me tell you, let me tell you,

664
00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:07.240
that I was in the shower like right after God said,

665
00:35:07.240 --> 00:35:11.440
hey, don't take any more preaching gigs, okay?

666
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:13.200
You're not taking this opportunity with this woman

667
00:35:13.200 --> 00:35:14.840
and you're not taking any more preaching gigs.

668
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:16.760
And I was in the shower and I was,

669
00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:19.840
I do some of my best revelating in the shower.

670
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:22.520
I was in the shower and I heard the Lord say to me,

671
00:35:24.200 --> 00:35:26.980
well, I said, I was complaining to the Lord.

672
00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:29.840
I was so upset, y'all, okay?

673
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:32.440
I had been being groomed for this, in my opinion.

674
00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:34.360
I had been doing ministry in the church

675
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:35.280
for a bazillion years.

676
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:36.600
And you guys, this was all before TV.

677
00:35:36.600 --> 00:35:38.520
In fact, this is what leads to TV.

678
00:35:38.520 --> 00:35:40.240
This is what leads to all those things on the list

679
00:35:40.240 --> 00:35:42.200
that I just told you about.

680
00:35:42.200 --> 00:35:43.680
I would have never done any of that

681
00:35:43.680 --> 00:35:45.480
and probably not be here with you

682
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:48.080
had it not been obedient to what the Lord was saying to me.

683
00:35:48.080 --> 00:35:50.200
Because if I would have been whisked away by this woman,

684
00:35:50.200 --> 00:35:51.800
I would have just been preaching in churches,

685
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:53.600
I would have had some Christian books out

686
00:35:53.600 --> 00:35:57.720
and you know, whatever would have happened, okay?

687
00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:01.400
So I'm in the shower and I'm just, oh, I'm so upset

688
00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:02.960
because I've been working towards this forever.

689
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:04.360
And this is what I know.

690
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:05.640
I know church.

691
00:36:05.640 --> 00:36:07.080
I was the outreach preacher of a church.

692
00:36:07.080 --> 00:36:08.760
I've been on staff of all these churches.

693
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:09.720
Church is what I know.

694
00:36:09.720 --> 00:36:11.360
What do you mean we're not doing church?

695
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:12.360
You know, this is what I know.

696
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:14.560
This is what I've been training for.

697
00:36:14.560 --> 00:36:16.920
Like I'm Rocky and I don't get to fight now.

698
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:17.960
What are we doing?

699
00:36:19.080 --> 00:36:21.000
And God just speaks to me and he says,

700
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:26.400
this is what my servant Paul felt like too.

701
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:28.160
And I was like, Paul who?

702
00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:29.600
You guys, this is how confused I was.

703
00:36:29.600 --> 00:36:32.560
I was like, what Paul?

704
00:36:32.560 --> 00:36:34.680
And he's like, Paul.

705
00:36:34.680 --> 00:36:37.240
And I was like, Paul, okay, you got my attention.

706
00:36:37.240 --> 00:36:38.920
What do you mean this is what he felt like?

707
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:41.980
He said he knew how to be a Jew.

708
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.920
He knew how to be a Pharisee.

709
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:49.680
He was the Pharisee of the Pharisees.

710
00:36:49.680 --> 00:36:52.400
He said, I want you to go back and I want you to read

711
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:55.760
and I want you to see how many times

712
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.560
he wanted to go to his own kind and evangelize them.

713
00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:01.480
That's what he wanted to do.

714
00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:03.720
You guys, Paul wanted to preach to the choir

715
00:37:04.720 --> 00:37:06.520
because it's what he knew.

716
00:37:06.520 --> 00:37:08.840
It's a place where he knew the most

717
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:10.160
and he'd be the most respected.

718
00:37:10.160 --> 00:37:12.600
He had a reputation in that place.

719
00:37:12.600 --> 00:37:16.560
But God chose to send him to a people that did not know him

720
00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:18.680
and a people that he did not understand.

721
00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:21.880
Do you see this?

722
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.920
He sent him as an apostle to the Gentiles.

723
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:29.680
The chiefest of Pharisees got converted from Saul to Paul

724
00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:32.240
and got sent to the Gentiles.

725
00:37:32.240 --> 00:37:34.240
So God was about to send me where?

726
00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:36.280
He was about to send me back to my roots, friends,

727
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.400
because I did not get raised in the church.

728
00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:42.840
He was about to send me back to do something

729
00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:44.120
that I was not trained to do

730
00:37:44.120 --> 00:37:48.280
and that was talk to people outside of the church

731
00:37:49.240 --> 00:37:52.680
in very interesting ways, like through television,

732
00:37:52.680 --> 00:37:55.560
through very, what we call Jehovah sneaky ways,

733
00:37:55.560 --> 00:38:00.560
very covert ways, very covert ways.

734
00:38:02.240 --> 00:38:05.200
That's what he wanted me to do with my life.

735
00:38:07.560 --> 00:38:12.040
And that's when I started getting opportunities

736
00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:14.840
like becoming the general manager of a television network.

737
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:16.640
That's when I went to broadcasting school.

738
00:38:16.640 --> 00:38:19.120
That's when I founded Jane TV.

739
00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:21.400
That's when I started getting invited to come in

740
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:25.400
and speak in colleges and universities like Oberlin,

741
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:30.400
like Otterbein, like incredible,

742
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.840
like Ohio State University, right?

743
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:36.880
Crazy stuff.

744
00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:42.880
Because I just said yes to God.

745
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:44.160
It wasn't what I wanted.

746
00:38:44.160 --> 00:38:45.880
I think that's really important for you to know.

747
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:49.560
It's not what I wanted because I had a misconception

748
00:38:49.560 --> 00:38:50.960
about what would be best.

749
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:53.480
So please write that down.

750
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:55.720
It's not what I wanted because I had a misconception

751
00:38:55.720 --> 00:38:58.320
about what would be the best trajectory for my life.

752
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.880
I had a misconception about what was good.

753
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:05.280
Raise your hand if this is speaking to you

754
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:06.640
in some way, shape or form.

755
00:39:08.720 --> 00:39:10.640
Something in it, you're hearing God through it

756
00:39:10.640 --> 00:39:11.680
about some situation.

757
00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:13.400
It doesn't have to be about your career.

758
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:15.000
It could be about your love life.

759
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:16.360
It could be about anything.

760
00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:22.480
Because remember this 5785 year that we're in, what is it?

761
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:26.600
It is the year that the faithful see a reward.

762
00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:32.120
And remember God defines faithfulness differently than us.

763
00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:34.680
Go read Hebrews 11 if you don't believe it, okay?

764
00:39:34.680 --> 00:39:38.840
You messing up, dropping the ball, I'm gonna go there.

765
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:40.400
You sleeping with someone

766
00:39:41.520 --> 00:39:42.880
because you just couldn't take it anymore.

767
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.000
You end up in a relationship

768
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.880
where you're having sex and doing stuff

769
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:47.680
and now you're out of that relationship

770
00:39:47.680 --> 00:39:49.400
or maybe trying to get out of that relationship

771
00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:51.480
because you know it's not the best relationship for you

772
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.680
and you know that God has a spirit mate for you

773
00:39:53.680 --> 00:39:54.960
that is not this person.

774
00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:58.160
God does not see you as not faithful.

775
00:39:58.160 --> 00:39:59.600
Come on, hear me.

776
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.880
does not see you as not faithful.

777
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:04.840
You know how I know?

778
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:07.920
Because you recognize that this is not his best for you

779
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:10.480
and you want his best.

780
00:40:13.560 --> 00:40:16.040
So I wanna tell you something that we did not highlight

781
00:40:16.040 --> 00:40:19.960
in our last Supernatural Saturday about the year 5785

782
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.600
and that is the 85 together.

783
00:40:22.600 --> 00:40:23.640
Yes, it's the pei hei,

784
00:40:23.640 --> 00:40:25.720
but it's also grace for new beginnings.

785
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:29.720
You guys, it's grace for a stiff.

786
00:40:29.720 --> 00:40:30.960
It's grace for a new beginning

787
00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:32.480
and new beginnings are not for the faint of heart.

788
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.440
I just told you the trajectory that I went to

789
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:37.080
to get where I am and it was a lot of new beginnings.

790
00:40:37.080 --> 00:40:39.760
It was a lot of shifts, it was a lot of pivots.

791
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:40.720
It's not for the faint of heart

792
00:40:40.720 --> 00:40:43.120
because it requires obedience, it requires endings,

793
00:40:43.120 --> 00:40:45.440
it requires some things to have funerals.

794
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:49.720
Meaning you bury that stuff and you do not dig it back up.

795
00:40:50.720 --> 00:40:53.680
It's done, it's over.

796
00:40:53.680 --> 00:40:55.760
You're not going back there.

797
00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:58.080
You're not gonna be part of that anymore.

798
00:40:58.080 --> 00:41:00.360
That community, that friendship.

799
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.280
Some of you right here today have friends

800
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.480
that literally are keeping you from the promises of God

801
00:41:08.600 --> 00:41:10.200
and you're so afraid to let go of them.

802
00:41:10.200 --> 00:41:11.720
Some of you have family.

803
00:41:11.720 --> 00:41:13.160
I'm not telling you to ditch your family.

804
00:41:13.160 --> 00:41:14.520
I'm not telling you to burn the bridge.

805
00:41:14.520 --> 00:41:18.680
What I'm saying is is that you are medicating

806
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:22.960
the emptiness and the hunger that you would have

807
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:26.640
with these dead end relationships and situations.

808
00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:30.120
Instead of doing whatever it is

809
00:41:30.120 --> 00:41:31.040
that God would call you to do,

810
00:41:31.040 --> 00:41:32.840
you continue to spend every weekend

811
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:36.200
sitting around with people that are not going anywhere

812
00:41:36.200 --> 00:41:38.480
and they're not doing anything

813
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:39.680
and you're afraid not to go

814
00:41:39.680 --> 00:41:41.560
because without them, you have no one.

815
00:41:41.560 --> 00:41:44.960
Well, maybe for a short season, you need to have no one.

816
00:41:48.200 --> 00:41:50.280
You need to have nothing to do on Saturday.

817
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:52.480
You need to open that space.

818
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:57.240
Once again, not saying burning bridges

819
00:41:57.240 --> 00:41:59.600
unless it is abusive and toxic

820
00:41:59.600 --> 00:42:02.000
and then you may have to love people from a distance

821
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.240
because they're not safe.

822
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:06.280
So grace for new beginnings.

823
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:07.680
You guys, we are living in a time of grace

824
00:42:07.680 --> 00:42:08.520
for new beginnings.

825
00:42:08.520 --> 00:42:10.320
Really quickly, Galatians 6-9.

826
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:11.920
I wanna break apart this scripture for you

827
00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:13.640
and this is what I had written down for today,

828
00:42:13.640 --> 00:42:15.400
not any of that other stuff.

829
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.720
All of that other stuff was just Holy Spirit

830
00:42:17.720 --> 00:42:18.840
taking us on a ride.

831
00:42:22.120 --> 00:42:26.280
Do not grow weary is the first part of Galatians 6-9.

832
00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:27.560
What does grow weary mean there?

833
00:42:27.560 --> 00:42:30.520
It means do not let doubt set in

834
00:42:30.520 --> 00:42:32.420
that what you're doing doesn't matter.

835
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:34.240
Write that down.

836
00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:38.880
Do not start to doubt that this is leading somewhere good.

837
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:40.640
Do not let doubt creep in

838
00:42:40.640 --> 00:42:43.760
that what you're doing even matters.

839
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:48.280
We often fall into sin because we think that this thing

840
00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:49.440
that we're trying to do right,

841
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:50.800
we're like, oh, what does it matter?

842
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:52.160
Raise your hand if you've ever said it,

843
00:42:52.160 --> 00:42:54.160
it doesn't matter anyway.

844
00:42:54.160 --> 00:42:55.840
It doesn't matter.

845
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:56.680
Who cares?

846
00:42:57.640 --> 00:42:58.720
Who cares?

847
00:43:02.040 --> 00:43:03.680
So easy to fall into that, you guys,

848
00:43:03.680 --> 00:43:05.840
and that's why this scripture is telling us

849
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:09.120
do not grow weary.

850
00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:11.480
In what?

851
00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:13.080
In doing what you know is right

852
00:43:13.080 --> 00:43:16.240
is the very next sentence, my paraphrase.

853
00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:20.000
In doing the right thing, doing the righteous thing.

854
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.960
You guys, it's not convenient, it isn't.

855
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:26.680
It's not gonna be easy.

856
00:43:26.680 --> 00:43:28.640
Remember, you don't need easy, you need worth it,

857
00:43:28.640 --> 00:43:33.160
and a lot of you give up in between hard and worth it.

858
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:37.400
Remember, there's a grace here.

859
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:38.240
What does grace mean?

860
00:43:38.240 --> 00:43:40.320
Grace means the empowerment of heaven

861
00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:43.360
to do what you cannot do in your flesh.

862
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:46.160
It's an endowment of power from on high.

863
00:43:49.560 --> 00:43:50.840
That's what grace means.

864
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:56.000
Yes, it means getting what you don't deserve,

865
00:43:58.520 --> 00:44:00.560
receiving things that you haven't earned or merited,

866
00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:01.800
but there's another meaning of it,

867
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:05.080
which is receiving the power, the grace,

868
00:44:05.080 --> 00:44:08.160
to do what you cannot do in yourself.

869
00:44:08.160 --> 00:44:09.000
Okay?

870
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:10.360
All right, so let's keep going.

871
00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:11.480
Do not grow weary.

872
00:44:12.680 --> 00:44:13.840
Do not let doubt set in.

873
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:14.760
Don't give it a foothold.

874
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:15.760
Don't give it a stronghold.

875
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:18.120
In doing what you know is right.

876
00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:19.560
And for all of us, that's gonna be different.

877
00:44:19.560 --> 00:44:21.160
I'm not just talking about following the Bible,

878
00:44:21.160 --> 00:44:22.000
following the 10 commandments.

879
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:22.960
I'm not talking about that.

880
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.240
I'm talking about what God told you to do.

881
00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:28.400
And if you haven't heard any clarity on that,

882
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:29.920
keep pressing for clarity.

883
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:33.840
And until you get clarity, very important,

884
00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:36.400
you're like, well, I just don't know what to do.

885
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:37.600
Then you have two choices.

886
00:44:37.600 --> 00:44:39.240
You either do nothing,

887
00:44:39.240 --> 00:44:44.240
but you expectantly look for God in the situation.

888
00:44:44.600 --> 00:44:46.480
You're not taking action quite yet,

889
00:44:46.520 --> 00:44:48.640
you're not taking action quite yet,

890
00:44:48.640 --> 00:44:51.080
but you're expecting to take action.

891
00:44:51.080 --> 00:44:53.960
And you're expecting God to show you what action to take.

892
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:55.400
You're not just leaving it lay.

893
00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:57.240
You're not being passive about it.

894
00:44:57.240 --> 00:44:59.360
You're being proactive about it.

895
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.200
You're praying.

896
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.560
on your Jesus Cares board, you're looking for revelation

897
00:45:03.560 --> 00:45:04.840
and you will receive it.

898
00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:06.240
The Bible says they that hunger and thirst

899
00:45:06.240 --> 00:45:07.720
after righteousness will be filled.

900
00:45:07.720 --> 00:45:09.680
You will receive it, okay?

901
00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:14.080
And then your second thing is to take imperfect action.

902
00:45:14.080 --> 00:45:18.520
If you don't feel, if you don't know exactly what to do,

903
00:45:18.520 --> 00:45:21.080
but you have an idea in your heart

904
00:45:21.080 --> 00:45:22.480
that you wanna go ahead and try

905
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:24.880
and it's not out of desperation,

906
00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:26.160
it's not an idea in your heart

907
00:45:26.160 --> 00:45:27.520
where you're trying to throw a Hail Mary

908
00:45:27.520 --> 00:45:29.240
and it's hoping it works out okay,

909
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.760
but you're like, hey, I have a creative idea.

910
00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:33.880
Go ahead and go for it.

911
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:35.120
Take imperfect action.

912
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:38.240
God can't drive a parked car.

913
00:45:38.240 --> 00:45:41.920
Go ahead and put that car in gear and let him steer you.

914
00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:43.000
Hey, let's see what happens.

915
00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:43.840
I do a lot of that.

916
00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.880
I do a lot of imperfect action y'all, just so you know.

917
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:49.920
So do not grow weary in doing what you know is right

918
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:52.960
or what you think is right for in what?

919
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:57.960
Due season, due time, at the proper time

920
00:45:57.960 --> 00:45:59.240
in all different translations,

921
00:45:59.240 --> 00:46:00.520
this is different right there.

922
00:46:00.520 --> 00:46:02.360
But you guys know that that is the same phrasing

923
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:04.480
and same wording that we see at the birth of Christ

924
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:05.920
and the birth of the church.

925
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.520
So in the book of Luke, when Christ is born

926
00:46:08.520 --> 00:46:10.760
and in the book of Acts where the church is born,

927
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:15.760
we see that same language in the Greek.

928
00:46:16.520 --> 00:46:19.480
We see that the days were accomplished,

929
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:23.360
that the days were fully come, that it was time y'all.

930
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:28.360
Don't let the enemy or your own feelings tell you

931
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:34.680
that God does not have a plan, because it's not true.

932
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:37.840
And what does it say?

933
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:40.360
It says for in due season and due time, you will what?

934
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:45.360
You will reap, that word reap,

935
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:48.180
obviously it's an agricultural term.

936
00:46:48.180 --> 00:46:53.180
God talks about, it's a law of his universe

937
00:46:55.460 --> 00:46:57.380
that he has put into effect.

938
00:46:57.380 --> 00:46:59.540
And you guys, he said, I will not be mocked.

939
00:46:59.540 --> 00:47:01.060
He said, this cannot be circumvented.

940
00:47:01.060 --> 00:47:02.860
Whatever you reap, you will sow.

941
00:47:02.860 --> 00:47:04.860
You guys, a lot of people use that to scare people.

942
00:47:04.860 --> 00:47:06.300
Oh, you're gonna reap what you sow.

943
00:47:06.300 --> 00:47:07.900
But you guys, it's a positive thing

944
00:47:07.900 --> 00:47:09.940
for those of you that have good seed in the ground

945
00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:11.900
and you have good seed in the ground.

946
00:47:12.980 --> 00:47:15.540
It's a promise that there will be a harvest.

947
00:47:19.180 --> 00:47:22.060
It's a promise, you will reap.

948
00:47:23.300 --> 00:47:24.500
And so right now you should be asking yourself,

949
00:47:24.500 --> 00:47:25.860
okay, what is it in the ground?

950
00:47:25.860 --> 00:47:26.700
What is in the ground?

951
00:47:26.700 --> 00:47:27.520
What is in the ground?

952
00:47:27.520 --> 00:47:29.860
Go over to Psalm 126, five and six.

953
00:47:29.860 --> 00:47:33.460
They that what, go forth bearing precious seed,

954
00:47:33.460 --> 00:47:36.180
what weeping, intercession, prayer.

955
00:47:36.180 --> 00:47:37.620
You guys, God has all your tears.

956
00:47:37.620 --> 00:47:38.980
The Bible says he has them in a bottle.

957
00:47:38.980 --> 00:47:41.080
I don't know how he does this, he does it.

958
00:47:45.580 --> 00:47:47.780
All that seed, it's not been lost.

959
00:47:48.380 --> 00:47:50.020
All those tears that you cried over that person,

960
00:47:50.020 --> 00:47:53.140
over that situation, over that family member,

961
00:47:53.140 --> 00:47:56.020
over yourself, over your body, over the healing, whatever,

962
00:47:56.020 --> 00:47:57.820
that's all seed in the ground, friends.

963
00:47:57.820 --> 00:47:58.780
And guess what?

964
00:47:58.780 --> 00:48:00.420
God will not be mocked.

965
00:48:00.420 --> 00:48:02.780
What you have sown, you will reap.

966
00:48:05.900 --> 00:48:06.740
What does that mean?

967
00:48:06.740 --> 00:48:07.900
That means there's breakthrough scheduled.

968
00:48:07.900 --> 00:48:09.260
Remember, this is the year of the breakthrough

969
00:48:09.260 --> 00:48:10.140
for the faithful.

970
00:48:11.180 --> 00:48:13.140
There's breakthrough, there's healing,

971
00:48:13.140 --> 00:48:15.860
there's deliverance, there's favor.

972
00:48:18.780 --> 00:48:22.860
There are situations that have nagged your steps

973
00:48:22.860 --> 00:48:25.500
like a hound dog for years that will just disappear,

974
00:48:26.620 --> 00:48:28.020
just disappear.

975
00:48:28.020 --> 00:48:29.900
I've had that happen so many times,

976
00:48:29.900 --> 00:48:32.500
this huge problem in my life, this person,

977
00:48:32.500 --> 00:48:35.940
this harassing spirit coming through this situation,

978
00:48:35.940 --> 00:48:40.940
dog in me, brain in me, me praying over it,

979
00:48:41.100 --> 00:48:42.740
weeping over it, interceding over it,

980
00:48:42.740 --> 00:48:47.740
and then one day, whoo, gone, just gone.

981
00:48:48.620 --> 00:48:53.620
Like toilet paper during COVID, mysteriously disappeared,

982
00:48:53.980 --> 00:48:55.540
don't even know what happened.

983
00:48:59.860 --> 00:49:02.180
So start asking yourself, what's in my ground?

984
00:49:03.580 --> 00:49:05.060
You plant it even when it hurts,

985
00:49:05.060 --> 00:49:07.420
even though you don't know it, all those tears.

986
00:49:08.460 --> 00:49:09.860
Bible says weeping endures for a night,

987
00:49:09.860 --> 00:49:13.180
but there is a morning that comes full of joy.

988
00:49:13.180 --> 00:49:15.300
So let's keep on with Ephesians 6, 9 real quick.

989
00:49:15.300 --> 00:49:16.540
You will reap if you what?

990
00:49:16.540 --> 00:49:19.500
If you do not give up.

991
00:49:19.500 --> 00:49:22.460
The word faint there means give up, it means quit.

992
00:49:22.460 --> 00:49:24.180
And you guys, I don't mean quit for a day

993
00:49:24.180 --> 00:49:27.340
or quit for an hour, I don't mean say, I'm quitting.

994
00:49:27.340 --> 00:49:28.820
I mean, really quit.

995
00:49:30.180 --> 00:49:33.740
I don't mean quit for three months, I mean, really quit.

996
00:49:33.740 --> 00:49:38.140
I'm talking turn your back and walk away and never return.

997
00:49:39.660 --> 00:49:41.180
That's what that's talking about.

998
00:49:41.180 --> 00:49:42.980
So for those of you that have been beating yourself up

999
00:49:42.980 --> 00:49:45.380
about, well, you know, I did it my own way for a while,

1000
00:49:45.740 --> 00:49:46.700
nothing was happening.

1001
00:49:46.700 --> 00:49:48.260
So I took matters into my own hands

1002
00:49:48.260 --> 00:49:50.100
and I got myself in this situation.

1003
00:49:50.100 --> 00:49:51.300
Where are you now, friend?

1004
00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:52.380
Are you back?

1005
00:49:52.380 --> 00:49:53.620
Because I see you back.

1006
00:49:54.740 --> 00:49:56.300
And that means you didn't quit.

1007
00:49:59.140 --> 00:50:00.500
That means you didn't quit.

1008
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.840
And guess what, God doesn't fire people.

1009
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:09.040
So if you walk off the job and you're gone for three months and you show back up, they're

1010
00:50:09.040 --> 00:50:11.160
like, you're like, but I didn't quit.

1011
00:50:11.160 --> 00:50:15.040
They're like, but you're fired.

1012
00:50:15.040 --> 00:50:17.880
But God doesn't fire people.

1013
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:19.440
So there's the good news.

1014
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:21.600
Ursula, you don't believe me.

1015
00:50:21.600 --> 00:50:27.200
I see you smiling, girl, you got a seed in the ground.

1016
00:50:27.200 --> 00:50:28.200
That's right.

1017
00:50:28.200 --> 00:50:36.520
I see you, but I can see you just like Holy Spirit.

1018
00:50:36.520 --> 00:50:42.640
You guys always know Holy Spirit is around when I start getting crazy.

1019
00:50:42.640 --> 00:50:46.800
You guys, if you do not believe in a God that has joy and a sense of humor, then you got

1020
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:48.480
the wrong God.

1021
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:52.160
All right, so I want to see a list right now.

1022
00:50:52.160 --> 00:50:53.160
It's time to activate.

1023
00:50:54.160 --> 00:50:57.520
227 of you, let's see in the comments.

1024
00:50:57.520 --> 00:50:59.360
What do you have in the ground?

1025
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:00.760
What's in your ground?

1026
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:01.880
I have another word.

1027
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:02.920
I have another word.

1028
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:03.920
Have you tried?

1029
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:06.400
A lot of you are like, oh, but Jackie, I've tried.

1030
00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:07.400
There's no grace for a new beginning.

1031
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:08.400
I've tried.

1032
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.520
Okay, but we're in the season of grace for new beginnings.

1033
00:51:10.520 --> 00:51:11.520
So try again.

1034
00:51:11.520 --> 00:51:15.640
God said, ask them, have you tried?

1035
00:51:15.640 --> 00:51:21.160
And if the answer is yes, try again.

1036
00:51:21.160 --> 00:51:22.160
Let's see.

1037
00:51:22.160 --> 00:51:28.640
All this specific stuff, you guys, don't get all ideology-ish on me, okay?

1038
00:51:28.640 --> 00:51:33.960
I want to see specifically what kind of harvest you're expecting because of the seed you have

1039
00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:34.960
in the ground.

1040
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:36.840
What kind of harvest are you expecting?

1041
00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:38.520
Instead of me asking you, what do you have in the ground?

1042
00:51:38.520 --> 00:51:42.800
Let me ask you, what harvest are you expecting in due time, in due season?

1043
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:44.480
Let's see it.

1044
00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:50.280
I will tell you right now that if I'm pregnant and gestating, I'm not expecting to give birth,

1045
00:51:50.280 --> 00:52:00.320
you know, to a, what, to a cat or a dog, to a monkey.

1046
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:05.120
I'm expecting to give birth to a human baby, and a lot of times, God will give you more

1047
00:52:05.120 --> 00:52:11.400
information in this high-technology age, oh, it's a boy, oh, it has hair.

1048
00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:13.840
You guys, these 3D scans now, you can actually see the baby.

1049
00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:14.840
You can see everything.

1050
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:15.840
It's just crazy.

1051
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:23.200
Come on, what are we expecting in our harvest?

1052
00:52:23.200 --> 00:52:28.160
What are we expecting in this year?

1053
00:52:28.160 --> 00:52:31.760
And you guys, this cannot be just hype for you.

1054
00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:32.760
I know it's exciting.

1055
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:37.760
I know Holy Spirit is quickening your hearts, but you have to walk away from this with your

1056
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:42.960
notes and you have to put them in front of your face and you have to remember that God

1057
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:46.680
is saying that this is the season and times that we're in.

1058
00:52:46.680 --> 00:52:50.200
The people that are the most successful in this life are the people that know their times

1059
00:52:50.200 --> 00:52:51.200
and seasons.

1060
00:52:51.200 --> 00:52:58.280
They know what it's time for, and they continuously pray in what God has said it's time for.

1061
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.440
They don't just let God off the hook.

1062
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:02.160
God doesn't want you to let Him off the hook.

1063
00:53:02.160 --> 00:53:06.140
Look, you guys, I raised three kids, and if I promise them something, and sometimes I

1064
00:53:06.140 --> 00:53:11.040
just promise them something without ever even thinking about what I'm saying, unlike God,

1065
00:53:11.040 --> 00:53:12.040
and then what do they do?

1066
00:53:12.120 --> 00:53:18.400
These kids will harass me until I do what I said I would do, because they know that

1067
00:53:18.400 --> 00:53:19.400
I'm a good mom.

1068
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:21.880
They know that I'm not going to lie to them.

1069
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:24.560
If I said I'm going to take them for ice cream, I'm going to take them for ice cream.

1070
00:53:24.560 --> 00:53:27.640
If I told them that I was going to take them to the store so they could get some new shoes

1071
00:53:27.640 --> 00:53:29.640
for them, then they're going to say, Mom, when are we going?

1072
00:53:29.640 --> 00:53:30.640
When are we going?

1073
00:53:30.640 --> 00:53:31.640
When are we going?

1074
00:53:31.640 --> 00:53:32.640
When are we going?

1075
00:53:32.640 --> 00:53:33.640
When are we going?

1076
00:53:33.640 --> 00:53:34.640
When are we going?

1077
00:53:34.640 --> 00:53:36.200
God told me years ago, He said, My kids don't believe me.

1078
00:53:36.200 --> 00:53:38.360
I said, Why do you say that, God?

1079
00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:40.520
And He said, Because I promised them things.

1080
00:53:40.520 --> 00:53:42.560
He said, And they're excited when I tell them.

1081
00:53:42.560 --> 00:53:45.560
He said, But then they don't mention it to me ever again.

1082
00:53:45.560 --> 00:53:58.120
You guys, the story in the Bible, the parables, they're four examples of spiritual things.

1083
00:53:58.120 --> 00:54:06.760
Even the unjust judge gave the woman justice because she kept nagging him about it.

1084
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:09.560
Even the neighbor that didn't want to get up in the middle of the night and give their

1085
00:54:09.560 --> 00:54:13.440
neighbor what they needed and were asking for, got up and did it because they kept

1086
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:16.440
knocking on the door.

1087
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:22.040
And God goes on to say, If these people do this stuff, what do you think I'm going to

1088
00:54:22.040 --> 00:54:23.040
do?

1089
00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:28.480
These unjust people, these people that don't care, even as a parent, if your kid asks you

1090
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:32.080
for bread, you're not going to give them a snake or a rock.

1091
00:54:32.080 --> 00:54:36.520
How much more am I, the father of lights, the giver of good gifts, going to give good

1092
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:38.280
gifts to my children when they ask?

1093
00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:39.280
Specifically, Holy Spirit.

1094
00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:41.280
And why does he say Holy Spirit there?

1095
00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:45.120
Because that's the empowerment to get everything done, friends.

1096
00:54:45.120 --> 00:54:49.640
That is the grace from heaven that I'm talking about.

1097
00:54:49.640 --> 00:54:54.280
We have to walk supernaturally.

1098
00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:59.880
I will admit and confess to you that I might be renewed and revived, but I used to live

1099
00:54:59.880 --> 00:54:59.880


1100
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.280
much more supernatural life than I live right now.

1101
00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.360
Those years, that timeline that I went down,

1102
00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:06.200
what was that for?

1103
00:55:06.200 --> 00:55:08.000
Why was God having me do all that stuff

1104
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.500
if that's not what I was gonna do with my life?

1105
00:55:10.500 --> 00:55:11.820
The outreach day and all the things,

1106
00:55:11.820 --> 00:55:15.860
because you guys, I experienced the power of God.

1107
00:55:15.860 --> 00:55:17.760
I had such supernatural experiences

1108
00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:20.740
during all these ministries that are listed here.

1109
00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:28.480
Powerful times that no one can ever take away from me.

1110
00:55:28.520 --> 00:55:31.600
But I'll admit to you that we're living in an age,

1111
00:55:31.600 --> 00:55:33.280
before we even get out of bed in the morning,

1112
00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:35.780
we're already asleep, supernaturally.

1113
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:38.600
We're all bogged down by the cares of life,

1114
00:55:38.600 --> 00:55:40.960
the exact things that God told us not to do.

1115
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:42.720
Why did he tell us not to do it?

1116
00:55:42.720 --> 00:55:44.880
Why did he tell us not to seek those things first?

1117
00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:46.240
Is it because those things are bad?

1118
00:55:46.240 --> 00:55:47.520
This is what preachers will tell you.

1119
00:55:47.520 --> 00:55:49.120
Well, God told you not to seek those things.

1120
00:55:49.120 --> 00:55:50.140
It's bad to seek those things.

1121
00:55:50.140 --> 00:55:51.280
No, no, no, no, no.

1122
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:53.240
He told you not to seek those things

1123
00:55:53.240 --> 00:55:56.420
because he knows that if you run off hasting those things,

1124
00:55:56.420 --> 00:55:58.140
that you're not gonna live a supernatural life.

1125
00:55:58.980 --> 00:56:01.380
But if you get up and you seek the kingdom first,

1126
00:56:08.700 --> 00:56:11.300
everything else is gonna come to you supernaturally.

1127
00:56:12.660 --> 00:56:13.980
You're not gonna take that job

1128
00:56:13.980 --> 00:56:16.740
that you just literally want to kill yourself every morning

1129
00:56:16.740 --> 00:56:18.580
when you get up, when you have to go there.

1130
00:56:18.580 --> 00:56:19.700
You're not gonna take that job

1131
00:56:19.700 --> 00:56:21.340
because you're not chasing money.

1132
00:56:23.100 --> 00:56:25.220
But if you get up and you seek the kingdom first,

1133
00:56:25.220 --> 00:56:27.620
you might end up in some job that you weren't qualified for

1134
00:56:28.140 --> 00:56:29.140
and you never thought you would do.

1135
00:56:29.140 --> 00:56:30.900
And maybe it pays less than the other one

1136
00:56:30.900 --> 00:56:32.140
that you were gonna take,

1137
00:56:32.140 --> 00:56:36.780
that you're gonna eventually wanna just about.

1138
00:56:36.780 --> 00:56:39.440
But this job has potential that you can't see,

1139
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:41.280
but you're being supernaturally led.

1140
00:56:42.520 --> 00:56:45.340
You guys know that before I became a social worker,

1141
00:56:45.340 --> 00:56:46.860
went to school to be a social worker,

1142
00:56:46.860 --> 00:56:48.860
I went and worked at a homeless shelter.

1143
00:56:48.860 --> 00:56:49.860
Never in a million years

1144
00:56:49.860 --> 00:56:51.440
would have thought I would work in a homeless shelter.

1145
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.260
I don't know anything about any of this stuff,

1146
00:56:53.260 --> 00:56:56.140
but I will tell you that I had Christian radio on.

1147
00:56:56.140 --> 00:56:58.020
That's how old this story is.

1148
00:56:58.020 --> 00:57:00.580
And I was driving and I was praying to God,

1149
00:57:00.580 --> 00:57:01.920
hey, you promised me these things,

1150
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:02.760
you've shown me these things,

1151
00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:04.260
how do you want me to get there?

1152
00:57:04.260 --> 00:57:07.740
And this ad kept coming on the radio for this shelter,

1153
00:57:09.060 --> 00:57:10.620
this faith mission.

1154
00:57:10.620 --> 00:57:12.900
So I went down there, you guys,

1155
00:57:12.900 --> 00:57:14.220
because I'm a take action,

1156
00:57:14.220 --> 00:57:15.980
throw it against the wall kind of girl.

1157
00:57:15.980 --> 00:57:18.820
And I went down there and I applied for a job

1158
00:57:18.820 --> 00:57:20.700
with no experience whatsoever.

1159
00:57:20.700 --> 00:57:21.660
And I was honest about it.

1160
00:57:21.660 --> 00:57:23.700
I didn't try to lie and say, oh, I have experience.

1161
00:57:23.700 --> 00:57:25.740
And I got an interview that day.

1162
00:57:27.380 --> 00:57:29.620
The person, the administrator

1163
00:57:29.620 --> 00:57:31.420
happened to be there at the shelter that day.

1164
00:57:31.420 --> 00:57:32.540
She interviewed me.

1165
00:57:32.540 --> 00:57:34.080
And I told the Lord, I said, if this is you,

1166
00:57:34.080 --> 00:57:35.460
I said, I know it's crazy,

1167
00:57:35.460 --> 00:57:36.820
but I wanna be hired on the spot.

1168
00:57:36.820 --> 00:57:38.140
And I was.

1169
00:57:38.140 --> 00:57:43.140
I was hired on the spot to be a shelter aid,

1170
00:57:43.140 --> 00:57:45.080
an intake person for homeless people

1171
00:57:45.080 --> 00:57:46.740
when they came into the shelter.

1172
00:57:46.740 --> 00:57:49.060
And then that job evolved over time.

1173
00:57:49.060 --> 00:57:51.540
And then that job led to me going to college

1174
00:57:51.540 --> 00:57:53.540
to be a social worker.

1175
00:57:54.380 --> 00:57:55.260
And a psychologist.

1176
00:57:55.260 --> 00:57:57.700
Which, and that's a whole nother story, okay?

1177
00:57:57.700 --> 00:58:00.060
All right, so my bottom line is,

1178
00:58:00.060 --> 00:58:02.020
is that we seek the kingdom first.

1179
00:58:02.020 --> 00:58:04.140
Because if you seek the kingdom first,

1180
00:58:04.140 --> 00:58:06.300
all the things that you do second, third, fourth, and fifth

1181
00:58:06.300 --> 00:58:07.460
are gonna be different.

1182
00:58:09.020 --> 00:58:12.940
It isn't because that other stuff is bad to have.

1183
00:58:12.940 --> 00:58:14.620
Money's not bad to have, y'all.

1184
00:58:14.620 --> 00:58:16.980
A house is not bad to have.

1185
00:58:16.980 --> 00:58:18.700
Poverty is not next to godliness.

1186
00:58:18.700 --> 00:58:19.540
That is not true.

1187
00:58:19.540 --> 00:58:20.700
That's not biblical.

1188
00:58:21.540 --> 00:58:23.580
Poverty of spirit, meaning what?

1189
00:58:23.580 --> 00:58:26.900
Meaning that you know that God is your source and not you.

1190
00:58:32.500 --> 00:58:33.980
God wants you to enjoy this life.

1191
00:58:33.980 --> 00:58:36.480
He wants you to have some place to go to every day

1192
00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:39.320
that you wanna jump out of bed and race to.

1193
00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:43.740
Whether it's a job, whether it's a relationship,

1194
00:58:43.740 --> 00:58:47.420
whether it's a community, a vocation,

1195
00:58:48.420 --> 00:58:50.940
an assignment of some sort.

1196
00:58:50.940 --> 00:58:52.460
Maybe you got a job that's provision

1197
00:58:52.460 --> 00:58:53.300
on the way to the vision,

1198
00:58:53.300 --> 00:58:56.340
but it makes it okay because you make good money there

1199
00:58:56.340 --> 00:58:58.940
and you get to go do this other hobby that you love.

1200
00:58:59.940 --> 00:59:01.400
Whatever, it doesn't matter.

1201
00:59:02.380 --> 00:59:03.700
Different strokes for different folks,

1202
00:59:03.700 --> 00:59:05.260
different seasons for different reasons.

1203
00:59:05.260 --> 00:59:06.360
It's okay.

1204
00:59:09.140 --> 00:59:11.360
So Father, we thank you for today.

1205
00:59:11.360 --> 00:59:13.060
Wow, you're so good.

1206
00:59:13.060 --> 00:59:14.860
You're so good, Lord.

1207
00:59:14.860 --> 00:59:15.900
Help us to make this fifth.

1208
00:59:15.900 --> 00:59:17.740
You've promised us that we are in a season

1209
00:59:17.740 --> 00:59:20.700
and a time right now that's a due season.

1210
00:59:20.700 --> 00:59:22.420
It's a reaping season, Lord.

1211
00:59:22.420 --> 00:59:23.420
Show us where to reap.

1212
00:59:23.420 --> 00:59:24.420
Show us what's ripe.

1213
00:59:24.420 --> 00:59:28.700
Lead us to the places where we have harvest, Lord.

1214
00:59:28.700 --> 00:59:30.420
Lead us individually and corporately

1215
00:59:30.420 --> 00:59:32.020
to the places that we have harvest.

1216
00:59:32.020 --> 00:59:35.260
You have promised that in this timeframe, 5785,

1217
00:59:35.260 --> 00:59:37.420
that there's a grace for new beginnings,

1218
00:59:37.420 --> 00:59:38.820
that there's an empowerment for us

1219
00:59:38.820 --> 00:59:42.060
to make pivots and fifths, to make changes, Lord.

1220
00:59:42.060 --> 00:59:44.400
Let us feel that power coming over us.

1221
00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:45.600
Let us feel that revelation

1222
00:59:45.600 --> 00:59:47.800
of where those changes need to be made, God.

1223
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:50.540
Let us have a boldness that we've never had before

1224
00:59:50.540 --> 00:59:53.320
to step out and do things that we've never done before,

1225
00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:55.680
to go to places we've never gone before,

1226
00:59:55.680 --> 00:59:58.880
and to meet people that we've never met before.

1227
00:59:58.880 --> 00:59:59.960
Lord, it's time.

1228
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:06.080
for us. We are your body in the earth and God we are asking for you to activate us in a way that

1229
01:00:06.080 --> 01:00:12.400
we've never been activated before in Jesus name let it be done and amen. All right you guys go

1230
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:18.000
keep remember you're like but Jackie how how how how maybe we'll do that tomorrow night but when

1231
01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:22.640
you get up in the morning it's just as simple as saying hey God I seek you first today I want the

1232
01:00:22.640 --> 01:00:27.920
kingdom more than anything else and so I'm asking you to direct my steps make them kingdom steps

1233
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:32.320
light the way show me the way give me divine appointments I'm looking to you

1234
01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:38.400
amen it's as simple as that you guys not hard it's not hard to be supernatural

1235
01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:40.720
all right I love y'all I'll see you soon bye everyone