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Welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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This is my favorite time of the week where we all get to lean into heaven together.

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I love to lean into heaven.

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I love to hear the revelation voice of God.

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I do.

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I love to hear what he's saying, but it has been brought to my attention just recently

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from one of you, someone that had a one-on-one scheduled with me a long time ago when I used

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to do one-on-ones, and it kept getting postponed because of their work schedule.

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And then finally, we got to connect, and they started to ask me about their life with God,

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their spiritual life, and how they really felt like they really wanted just even an

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ounce of my spiritual life with God.

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They wanted to hear the Lord the way that I hear the Lord, and I just want to say at

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the beginning of this Supernatural Saturday that God's voice is available to all of us.

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He's always speaking to us, and this has been a journey.

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My life has been a journey with God.

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I have been following Jesus for 28 years, and so I didn't get to the place that I am

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as far as communicating with God overnight.

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This has been decades, almost three decades long of trusting God when I can't trace him.

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So I don't want you to get it twisted.

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I don't want you to get the wrong idea because we show up in so much power on Saturdays.

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God is speaking, and supernatural things are happening.

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But I, just like you, have had seasons of time in my life where I had to trust God when

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I couldn't trace him.

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I had to go off the last thing that I heard the Lord say to me or the last thing that

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I felt God had directed me to do, even though there was no new information.

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Now, did I feel God's presence?

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Yes, when I wanted to, and what do I mean by that?

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It's easy to not feel God's presence, and it's like, oh, well, you went out of his presence.

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No, I don't believe that.

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The Bible says that we live inside of God.

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We live inside of him.

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There's no way to get out of him.

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You are inside of him.

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We are all inside of him.

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He is omniscient.

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He is omnipresent.

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He is omnipotent, okay, which means he takes up all space and all time, right?

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And so there's no way to get out of him.

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You're always in him.

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The psalmist said that even if you took the wings of the morning and flew to the uppermost

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heavens or if you descended to the parts of the deepest, darkest pits of Sheol, that you

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would still be in his presence.

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Doesn't it say that?

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So when I say we can always feel his presence if we want to, I mean, when we're not focused

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on our pain and our problems, when we are not giving all of our time and attention to

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the negative, then we will feel the love that is surrounding us.

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We will feel it if we tune into it.

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We have antennas, we can tune into it.

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We have receptors, we can tune into it.

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Now because of this student coming in and just genuinely, authentically wanting to know

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God more and wanting to hear him more, we are going to revisit between now and the end

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of the year, the receptors and how do we hear from God?

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What does it practically look like to live a prophetic life, to live a life where you

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understand the movements of heaven, where you understand what God is saying to you?

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So we're going to revisit that teaching with an amazing teacher, a renowned teacher, has

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a prophetic ministry, international, well-known person.

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And then we are going to do prophesy your year.

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For those of you that have never done that, you're in for a treat.

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I love prophesy your year.

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I participate.

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I write the stuff down that God's saying to me.

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We're going to basically lean into heaven for all the months of 2025 and see what it

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is that God is saying to us about the upcoming year.

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And it's super fun.

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But we're going to do that receptor stuff before we do prophesy your year so that when

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we do prophesy your year, you are ready to hear from the Lord through your brothers and

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sisters, through this community, and also through your own receptors.

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Okay.

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And so that's going to be a fun time.

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And that's going to be on January 5th.

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So go ahead and mark your calendars.

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We'll be sending out emails about that so you can get registered.

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But it's time for us to lean into heaven, y'all.

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It's time for us to lean into heaven and not just on Supernatural Saturdays.

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I love Supernatural Saturdays.

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It's a powerful time together.

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But we want to lean into heaven every day, not leaning away, not leaning into our carnal

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reasoning into our flesh.

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We want to be team spirit every day because God is always speaking.

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He's always directing.

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He always wants to lead us and guide us.

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He loves us.

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And that's really important for us to understand.

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All right.

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So let's look to the Lord.

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Father God, we're so thankful.

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that we've come here today together,

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that we're having a divine appointment with you today,

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that you have information for us today,

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downloads, revelation, wisdom,

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that we can't get anywhere else

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except in this moment right now, Lord.

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And so we're thankful for that.

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And we ask that it would impact us.

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And ask that our spirit would be open to receive

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what it is that you have for us this morning,

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corporately, as a community,

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and also individually for our own lives.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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All right, this one might not be as exciting

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as the others, Supernatural Saturday,

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but I think it's probably the most important one

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we've done this year.

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And that's saying a lot,

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because we've done some important ones, haven't we?

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We've done some important ones.

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And so if I was gonna give today's

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Supernatural Saturday a title,

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it would be Living for the Future Generations.

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Living for the future, not just for ourselves.

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And the very first thing that God wants us to understand

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is that this is not about you.

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Go ahead and write that down

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if you're writing stuff down today.

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This isn't about you.

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Or I should say, it's not only about you.

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It's partially about you, but it's not only about you.

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It's not only about you.

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It's not only about you.

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It's not only about you.

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It's not only about you.

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It's not only about you.

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It's not only about you.

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I'm not muted, whoever said that.

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I'm live, so something's wrong with your thing.

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Check it out.

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It's not only about you.

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And it's so easy, and I've talked about this

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on past Supernatural Saturdays, on past teaching.

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When we're getting depressed, when we're feeling depressed,

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it is because we've made it all about ourselves.

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That's what happens every time for me.

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If I start getting down the moly grubs, right?

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Nobody likes me, everybody hates me.

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I think I'll eat some worms.

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You guys remember that little saying?

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I might be really old.

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It's because I'm focusing too much on myself.

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And I've told you story after story

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about how God got my focus off me.

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He got it onto someone else.

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And then my spirits were lifted.

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I was sad because I didn't have any friends,

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and then I became a friend, and my spirits were lifted.

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Right?

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I was sad because I didn't have the thing that I needed,

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but then I gave to someone else what they needed

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because I had that, and my spirits were lifted.

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What does that mean?

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It means that we're all connected, y'all.

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We're all connected.

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We are one body.

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And when you do to others,

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that's why the Bible says,

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do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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Part of the curse is isolation.

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Write that down.

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Part of the curse is isolation.

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Remember the very first thing that happened

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when Adam and Eve sinned is they were separated from God.

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You guys, we don't even understand.

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We don't even understand.

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Maybe we have a little taste of it.

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The Bible says we have a little taste, okay,

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of the type of communion, the type of connection

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that the first family felt with the divine.

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It was seamless.

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Do you understand that?

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It was seamless.

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And even though I told you at the beginning of this call

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that the Bible says that we're in God,

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we don't always feel in God.

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Because there's the curse of separation.

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That's why you don't feel connected to God

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the way that they did.

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It says that they walked with him and they talked with him.

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I mean, they were in this beautiful paradise

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communing with God in a way that we have never experienced.

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Raise your hand if you've ever felt super connected to God

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in a moment where you're just in his presence

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and you never wanna leave.

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You feel so full of joy and peace and love.

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And you're like, whoop.

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Y'all, that's what heaven feels like all the time.

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That beautiful connection where there's no separation.

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Because you know what separates us from God?

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Shame, sin, guilt, this flesh.

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We're separated from God, but we're not.

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Romans tells us that nothing would separate us

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from the love of God.

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The problem is is that we don't always feel that way.

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We know that it's true.

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The Bible says it's true.

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Jesus died to make it true.

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what you guys are raising your hand and saying,

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yes, I have experienced that.

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But none of you would raise your hand and say,

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I experienced that every moment of every day.

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We don't.

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And the reason why is because of that nasty thing

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called the curse.

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So every day we have to get up and we have to reconnect.

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Even though we're connected,

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we have to believe that we're connected.

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We live in the day and time where we have to labor

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to enter into his rest.

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There's coming a time when that won't be true.

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Right now it's just a taste of it.

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We get a taste of it.

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And I believe that you can go there as much as you want to.

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You can, you can go there as much as you want to.

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His presence, we're in, we're already in his presence.

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that means that you have to come out of agreement

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with a lot of other stuff.

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I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough.

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God doesn't love me, I messed up.

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My performance wasn't enough for him.

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I feel guilty, I feel shameful

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because of the stuff that I've been doing.

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And then of course there's just the inherited

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curse of shame.

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And I wanna talk about our lineages today

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because what's on my heart is living

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for the future generations.

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You guys, just recently a success story of mine,

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a previous student that just got married,

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he went down the rabbit hole to find her family,

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her lineage.

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And she's been working hard at it

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and she's actually been able to trace back 70 generations.

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Wow, is that not incredible?

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So this is just a side note, but I guess the Mormon church,

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so the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

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they take lineage super seriously.

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And so they have workshops at public libraries

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where they will help you,

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regardless of whether or not you're a Latter-day Saint

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or not, to trace back your lineage.

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So you might wanna look that up

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if this is something that interests you

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and you want to find out more about the people

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that came before you.

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So she's been going to this workshop at a local library

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and she's been finding out all of this information.

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They have microfiche, they have all kinds of records

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and different things that they have access to

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where she has been able to get back 70 generations.

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And that's exciting to me.

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Now, I tried that years ago.

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I went on one of those ancestry sites or whatever,

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and I was able to get back like two generations

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and then I just kind of gave up.

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But that was a long time ago.

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And so when she said this, I decided,

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well, let me take another look.

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So I went on a different site than I had gone on before.

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And you guys, I was able to get back in my husband's family

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about 20 generations in the doormans.

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Not doorman, the doormans, all right?

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And there wasn't a doorman in the bunch.

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I'm just kidding.

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That name actually means gatekeeper and I really love it.

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I love it.

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I love that David and I get to be gatekeepers

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to beautiful, amazing kingdom things.

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So I'm able to get back in his generations,

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20 generations back, but that doesn't mean much to me

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because I don't know these folks, right?

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These are not my blood.

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I married into this lineage.

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So then I tried my family and on my dad's side,

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so my maiden name is Mertes

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and I was able to get back in that family

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about 11 generations.

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And then I tried some of their wives too.

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I tried to go back in their wives' generations.

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I was able to get back two or three generations

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in some of the wives of the Mertes men.

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And then I went on my mom's side

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and I tried to get back in the Berry Hills

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and the Rogers and those clans.

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And I was able to make it back about five, six generations.

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But what happened, friends,

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as I was looking at those names on the screen

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is it meant nothing to me.

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It meant nothing to me.

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I don't know who these people are,

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save my grandparents and great-grandparents,

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which I did not know, died way before I was born.

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I had never even heard any of these names before.

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And y'all, you'll see some names in your family line.

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That's a name.

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That's a name right there, Ebenezer.

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That's a name.

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What's going on over here, right?

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And so you might see some names

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and some of you might see some names

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that you wanna grab for your future children.

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That's cool.

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But I saw some names,

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and I even went in my former husband,

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my daughter's dad's family,

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and I was able to get back like 10, 11 generations.

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And I recognized some of those names too

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because I had been in a relationship with him for 20 years

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and I had met his great-grandmother actually.

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She was still alive.

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But what saddened me is that all of these names

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of the people that are my ancestors on the screen,

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not only do I not know them, I know nothing about them.

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of them, nothing about them.

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And then I started to realize that I didn't, I don't really

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know, except for a few scraps here and there, I don't know about the good

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things that run in my family lineage.

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I know about the bad things because they're still present.

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Like for instance, in my mom's lineage, as I was going back into her

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Native American lineage and going back into the Berry Hills and around

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with the Irish clan and the people that came before her, there were six

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men in that lineage that I saw with my own eyes that died before 40 years old.

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Now family urban legend tells me that they all died of alcoholism.

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They were Native Americans.

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A lot of Native Americans are missing an enzyme that allows

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them to process alcohol.

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That's why they called alcohol, white man's poison back in the olden days,

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because that was something that was introduced to Native American tribes

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with the settlers and the pioneers and the pilgrims that came.

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And all of these men died before, all of them died in their early to mid thirties.

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All of them died in their early to mid thirties, according to what I was

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seeing on the computer, because it had birth dates and death dates.

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And so I was like, huh, so that urban legend in my family is true.

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And so while I don't know what good that they did during their lives or what

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they were like, were they creative?

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Did they sing?

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Did they play?

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My daughter is so musically gifted.

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You know, where did that come from?

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Who did that come from?

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You know, who did my speaking gifts come from?

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You know, what, what, who, when, how, I don't know.

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And I made a decision right then.

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And I want you to make the same decision with me today.

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And the decision is, is that there are members of my lineage and legacy.

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You know, I don't know when Jesus is coming back y'all.

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So I'm going to go ahead and live as if he's coming back tomorrow.

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And as if he's not coming back during my lifetime.

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Okay.

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So with that in mind, I've made a decision because there are members of my

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family that I will only get to meet in heaven.

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I want you to think about that for a second.

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There are many members of your lineage, whether they've gone before or they've,

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they're coming after that.

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You will only get to meet in heaven, but your family, your, your life can

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influence them.

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Your life can influence these people, even though you're never going to meet

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them on earth, you can be the biggest influence in their life.

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And I decided that what I do with my life is going to echo in eternity.

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Yes.

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Because all God ever wanted was a family, right?

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So I'm going to focus not on just myself, but living for a future generation.

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Because I want the people that come after me to know my name.

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Come on, y'all.

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I want the people that come after me to know my name.

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I want them to be able to look at a screen because I'm sure that genealogy

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will be so far advanced by then.

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I want them to be able to point to a screen and point to me on the family

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tree and say, that's where it all changed.

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That's where it all changed.

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That's where all the two time and double deal in mean mistreatment,

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love and hearts ran out.

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That's where the divorce stopped in our family.

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That's where the addiction stopped in our family.

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That's where the vicious mothers that victimized their daughters and

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their sons and their sons and their daughters and their sons and their

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That's where the vicious mothers that victimized their daughters with

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their pain stopped in our family.

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Come on.

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That's when the abandonment, the fatherlessness stopped in our family.

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Right there.

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Nona Jackie and Papa David.

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That's right there.

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That's where it happened.

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That's where, that's where family got prioritized right here in that generation.

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That's where they, they began to take a machete and cut through the jungle of

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our ancestry to make a path for us.

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That's where they began to lay up generational wealth for

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the people coming behind.

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That's when they began to secure properties and lands and

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That's when they began to secure properties and lands and vineyards for

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us to dwell in both spiritually and naturally.

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Come on y'all.

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That's where it changed.

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We're not living for ourselves.

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We're not living for ourselves.

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We're kinsmen redeemers.

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Say that over yourself.

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Right now, I am a kinsman redeemer.

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I am.

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My future ancestors are gonna know my name.

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They're gonna see on the family tree

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that when I was alive, I used my life

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to pivot our generational line towards Jesus.

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There's no more divorce now.

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There's no more unfaithfulness.

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There's no more fatherlessness.

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There's heart work.

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There's healing.

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There's victory.

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There's deliverance.

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There's no more addiction.

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I have six great, six uncles and grandfathers

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in a graveyard from alcoholism

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before they even turned 40 years old.

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Guess what?

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That's broken now.

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You know why?

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Because a man named James Rogers,

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affectionately known as Jimmy Rogers,

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he gave his life to Jesus when he was 45 years old

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at a tent revival in the middle of Missouri

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outside of St. Louis.

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He laid his cigarettes and his,

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he came in there drunk, y'all.

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He came in there to drag my nanny out.

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He didn't want her at that church meeting.

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And he came in there and the power of God hit him.

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And he fell down at that altar

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and he gave his life to Jesus and he never drank again,

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not one drop, not one drop.

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That was his family that had all those men dead

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in the graveyard before 40 years old.

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That was his lineage.

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That was his family.

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And guess what?

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He lived to be 86 years old.

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Now, there were some things that my nanny

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and my grandpa did not work out during their lifetime.

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They got divorced after 50 years of marriage.

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That's not a good one, right?

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A lot of times people find religion

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and they don't find Jesus,

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which is why I didn't meet Jesus till I was in my 20s.

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You're like, with that kind of hair and his jacket,

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you should have been raised in the church.

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You're right, I should have been.

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But that's okay.

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They didn't do it all right, but they did something right.

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They did something right, didn't they?

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They cut off something, something ended with them.

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And now we get to live addiction-free.

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No one in my family is an addict.

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Nobody is an alcoholic.

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I don't even drink alcohol.

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Neither does my brother.

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No, nothing.

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My cousins, all of my cousins are Christians.

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None of them, none of them drink.

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None of them feed on their husbands and wives.

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All of them are married.

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Come on, y'all.

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All of our parents were divorced more than once.

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Of my grandma and grandpa's six kids,

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all of them were divorced more than one time.

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And all of their kids, none of them are divorced,

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except me.

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All of them are married.

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Isn't that exciting?

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Isn't that great?

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But guess what?

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That stops with me too.

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Both my daughters are married and they picked great men

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and you guys, you don't have to just be

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in an abusive marriage to end up divorced, right?

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Because bad things happen and people get disconnected

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and they pull away from each other.

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But guess what?

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They have community and family around them

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to support them in those hard times

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so that they grow together and not apart.

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Amen?

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Exodus 26 tells us,

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and I will love them and I will bless them

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to a thousand generations who love me

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and keep my commandments.

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Deuteronomy 7, nine says something very similar.

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It says, and know that your Lord, your God,

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the faithful God, will keep his gracious covenants

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for those who love him and obey his commandments

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to a thousand generations.

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That's an interesting scripture

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and I underlined a few parts of it.

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Know that your Lord and your God

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two different things.

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Your master, your Lord, right?

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And your God, your creator, your father.

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and then it goes on to describe him as the faithful God.

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He's not a God who is faithful, he is the faithful God.

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Come on, write that down.

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He is not a God who is faithful, he is the faithful God.

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You're like, Jackie, what's the difference?

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It is an identity, it's not an act.

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Come on, it's an identity, it's not an act.

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If he's the God who is faithful,

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that means that he's faithful.

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But how often is he faithful?

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I don't know, it's an act.

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But if he's the faithful God, that's an identity,

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which means he doesn't just have faithfulness,

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he is faithfulness.

514
00:25:40.140 --> 00:25:42.660
He doesn't just have goodness, he is good.

515
00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:45.320
He doesn't just have love, he is love.

516
00:25:48.700 --> 00:25:52.260
Friends, if we could get pinned down in our own hearts

517
00:25:52.260 --> 00:25:55.060
the character of God, it would change everything.

518
00:25:55.060 --> 00:25:58.940
I've been on a journey to know the character of God

519
00:25:58.940 --> 00:26:00.180
for 28 years.

520
00:26:02.340 --> 00:26:04.860
And it changes everything when you realize,

521
00:26:04.860 --> 00:26:07.620
because remember, we know good people

522
00:26:07.620 --> 00:26:08.940
that are not always good.

523
00:26:10.620 --> 00:26:11.460
They're good people.

524
00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:14.540
Have you ever known someone and you really,

525
00:26:14.540 --> 00:26:18.180
they're a good person, like my pastor that went to prison.

526
00:26:18.180 --> 00:26:20.420
You guys, he did a lot of good things.

527
00:26:20.420 --> 00:26:22.460
He was a good man, he did a lot of good things.

528
00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:24.780
He helped a lot of people, including me.

529
00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:26.700
He saved my life in so many ways.

530
00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:29.500
God sent him to help me, to disciple me,

531
00:26:30.660 --> 00:26:32.300
and to not abandon me.

532
00:26:32.300 --> 00:26:34.220
He was like a father figure to me.

533
00:26:38.060 --> 00:26:41.380
But he did good things, but he wasn't good.

534
00:26:41.380 --> 00:26:43.100
Because the Bible says there's no good thing in us

535
00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:45.820
except for God, right?

536
00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:48.060
And so when we know good people, have you ever,

537
00:26:48.060 --> 00:26:49.460
so my question was this,

538
00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:51.220
have you ever seen someone do something

539
00:26:51.220 --> 00:26:52.420
and you knew them and they were really good

540
00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:53.980
and you're like, wow, man,

541
00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:55.460
I can't believe they did that?

542
00:26:56.620 --> 00:26:58.060
Come on, raise your hand if you've ever thought

543
00:26:58.060 --> 00:26:59.540
that to yourself.

544
00:26:59.540 --> 00:27:00.900
And you see it on the news all the time,

545
00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:03.300
the neighbors of the person who burned down the school

546
00:27:03.300 --> 00:27:05.300
or ended up being a serial killer.

547
00:27:05.300 --> 00:27:08.140
Man, they were such a good neighbor.

548
00:27:08.140 --> 00:27:09.340
They were such a good person.

549
00:27:09.340 --> 00:27:10.860
I can't believe they did that.

550
00:27:12.740 --> 00:27:13.660
Can't believe it.

551
00:27:16.420 --> 00:27:17.260
Right?

552
00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:20.900
And because of this, the reason why I'm asking this

553
00:27:20.940 --> 00:27:24.460
is because of that dichotomy in people,

554
00:27:24.460 --> 00:27:26.380
we apply that to God.

555
00:27:26.380 --> 00:27:28.140
We personify God.

556
00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:31.540
Well, yeah, God's good sometimes to some people,

557
00:27:31.540 --> 00:27:33.500
but not always.

558
00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:34.500
Do you guys feel me?

559
00:27:36.740 --> 00:27:39.460
And that would be true if God just had goodness,

560
00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:41.900
but he doesn't just have goodness, he is good.

561
00:27:45.860 --> 00:27:47.380
The Bible goes as far as to say,

562
00:27:47.380 --> 00:27:50.580
hey, God is not a man that he should lie.

563
00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:55.500
How many of you understand that the most honest person

564
00:27:55.500 --> 00:27:57.820
that you've ever met in your entire life,

565
00:27:59.100 --> 00:28:02.700
they've created a culture of honesty and transparency

566
00:28:02.700 --> 00:28:06.740
and authenticity in their life has definitely lied before.

567
00:28:09.220 --> 00:28:13.620
There isn't one person on this earth who has not told a lie

568
00:28:13.620 --> 00:28:16.020
of either omission or commission in their lives.

569
00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:19.140
That's because humans, given the right circumstances,

570
00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:21.020
we can fit.

571
00:28:22.340 --> 00:28:26.220
Given the right heat and pressure, we will crack.

572
00:28:28.900 --> 00:28:32.620
Even the best of us, even the most moralistic of us,

573
00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:35.740
but not God.

574
00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:36.700
He is constant.

575
00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:38.780
The Bible says that he is the same yesterday,

576
00:28:38.780 --> 00:28:40.420
today, and forever.

577
00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:41.380
He is constant.

578
00:28:41.380 --> 00:28:43.380
The Bible says that he is the same yesterday,

579
00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:45.020
today, and forever.

580
00:28:46.820 --> 00:28:48.220
I didn't plan on saying any of that today,

581
00:28:48.220 --> 00:28:49.380
but someone needs to hear that

582
00:28:49.380 --> 00:28:51.580
because someone is really hurting

583
00:28:51.580 --> 00:28:55.060
and they're really wondering if God is good

584
00:28:55.060 --> 00:28:57.380
because they haven't seen his goodness lately.

585
00:28:58.340 --> 00:28:59.620
And so what I'm gonna say to you, friend,

586
00:28:59.620 --> 00:29:02.260
is open your eyes because God is good

587
00:29:02.260 --> 00:29:04.220
and his goodness is all around you.

588
00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:08.020
Now, the way that you want to see his goodness

589
00:29:08.020 --> 00:29:10.540
may not be happening right now in your life.

590
00:29:10.540 --> 00:29:12.380
You may have an ultimatum of goodness

591
00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:14.220
that you wanna see that you have not seen.

592
00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:17.660
You might have a specific breakthrough that you need

593
00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:19.740
that you want to see happen a certain way

594
00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:21.340
and it has not happened

595
00:29:21.340 --> 00:29:25.580
and that has caused you to wonder if God is good.

596
00:29:27.340 --> 00:29:30.420
But there's other examples and other evidence

597
00:29:30.420 --> 00:29:33.980
of his goodness all around you every day.

598
00:29:34.900 --> 00:29:37.540
And I wanna challenge you to look for those things

599
00:29:37.540 --> 00:29:39.220
in the season that you're in

600
00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:41.340
because the story's not over yet.

601
00:29:42.580 --> 00:29:43.820
I just wanna take a second to minister

602
00:29:43.820 --> 00:29:45.020
to whoever that's for.

603
00:29:45.020 --> 00:29:46.500
The story's not over yet.

604
00:29:49.620 --> 00:29:54.620
Your little hyphen in your family lineage,

605
00:29:55.740 --> 00:30:00.740
your little spot on the tree is not over yet.

606
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.920
It's not done yet.

607
00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:05.200
God has plans and purposes for you.

608
00:30:06.320 --> 00:30:07.000
He does.

609
00:30:07.120 --> 00:30:12.000
And whatever's coming against you right now is not going to keep you down forever.

610
00:30:12.360 --> 00:30:13.040
It isn't.

611
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:19.160
It's not, it doesn't matter what it is, physical, mental, emotional,

612
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:26.240
financial, relational, it's all circumstantial and God will deliver you.

613
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:34.280
It may not be the way you expected, but it will be in a way that causes you and

614
00:30:34.280 --> 00:30:38.920
sets you up for the future that he has for you.

615
00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:39.880
How do I know that?

616
00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:40.240
All right.

617
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:41.400
I'm going to segue right now.

618
00:30:41.560 --> 00:30:43.160
I didn't plan to go here, but here we go.

619
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.920
I'm gonna go get my Bible.

620
00:30:49.280 --> 00:30:50.000
Imagine that.

621
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:51.920
All right.

622
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.760
Everyone go to Romans 8 28 with me.

623
00:30:53.760 --> 00:30:54.360
We all know it.

624
00:30:54.360 --> 00:30:55.400
Well, we could quote it.

625
00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:01.640
Probably often do quote it because we're waiting for that payoff, that payday where

626
00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:03.160
everything works out to the good.

627
00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:09.120
I guess sit down the phone.

628
00:31:10.840 --> 00:31:14.120
Guys might be like, why isn't Jackie come on camera during these things?

629
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:17.720
Because I have to move, have to move.

630
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:23.640
It's part of my process and downloading the supernatural stuff that I do is I got

631
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:26.160
to keep moving and it would be very distracting.

632
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:27.680
I feel like, all right, ready?

633
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.000
And we know Romans 8 28 familiar scripture.

634
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:33.760
This is about our victory in Christ.

635
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:38.680
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love

636
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.280
God and to those who are called according to his purpose.

637
00:31:41.560 --> 00:31:46.120
Man, doesn't that sound a lot like Exodus 26 and Deuteronomy 7, 9.

638
00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:47.400
Yeah.

639
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.520
Where God shows his love and he blesses to a thousand generations.

640
00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:54.240
This is kind of saying that same thing.

641
00:31:54.800 --> 00:31:58.200
God's going to work all things to the good of those that what that love him and

642
00:31:58.200 --> 00:31:59.560
the called according to his purpose.

643
00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:04.000
That really has the same idea of following his commandments, which of course you

644
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.080
guys from the old Testament to the new Testament commandments have changed.

645
00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:10.560
The commandment now is to love God with all your heart, mind, and soul and

646
00:32:10.560 --> 00:32:14.440
strength, and to love your neighbor as you love yourself, right?

647
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:16.240
Those are the commandments.

648
00:32:16.280 --> 00:32:16.640
Okay.

649
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:21.640
But we stopped there at that scripture because it's so good and it makes us feel

650
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:24.080
better about all the bad things that have happened in our lives.

651
00:32:24.080 --> 00:32:26.240
And we're like, Hey, God's going to work it all out to good.

652
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:27.920
I don't know how he's going to do it though.

653
00:32:28.520 --> 00:32:31.640
But we're remiss if we don't go to the next verse.

654
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:35.640
29, for why would God do this?

655
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:37.440
Why is he going to work it all out to our good?

656
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.920
Why, why, why, why, why is that important to him?

657
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:42.440
Because of what happens in the next verse.

658
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:48.400
For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become

659
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:51.040
conformed to the image of his son.

660
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:56.560
So that he would be the firstborn among many brethren and then go down to 30.

661
00:32:57.040 --> 00:33:02.280
And these who he predestined, he also called and these who he called, he also

662
00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:08.640
justified and these who he justified, he also glorified, and then it goes down to

663
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.480
say, if, if God is for us, who can be against us, right?

664
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:19.360
If God did not spare his own son, but delivered him over for us all, then why

665
00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:21.800
would he not also give us freely all things?

666
00:33:21.800 --> 00:33:23.480
Who can bring a charge against us?

667
00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:24.200
God's elect.

668
00:33:24.520 --> 00:33:26.920
God is the one who justifies who can condemn us.

669
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.560
Christ is the one that died and was raised at the right hand of God

670
00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:32.880
who intercedes for us, powerful.

671
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:35.240
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?

672
00:33:35.560 --> 00:33:38.560
Will tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or

673
00:33:38.560 --> 00:33:40.440
nakedness or peril or sword?

674
00:33:41.360 --> 00:33:42.560
Just as it is written.

675
00:33:43.040 --> 00:33:46.760
You know, we are for your sake being put to death all day long.

676
00:33:46.760 --> 00:33:49.760
We are sheep being slaughtered guys.

677
00:33:49.760 --> 00:33:53.160
This is obviously written to a persecuted church, but in all these

678
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:56.960
things, we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us, because I'm

679
00:33:56.960 --> 00:34:00.280
convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor

680
00:34:00.280 --> 00:34:04.360
things present, nor things to come, nor powers or height or depth, or any

681
00:34:04.360 --> 00:34:07.200
other creative thing will be able to separate us from the love of God,

682
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.040
which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

683
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:15.800
The story is not over yet.

684
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.880
Friends, whoever you are, probably more than one person.

685
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:21.400
God saw you.

686
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:26.480
He predestined you for good things to be conformed to the image of his son.

687
00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:30.040
And in that to be sanctified and also justified.

688
00:34:30.560 --> 00:34:31.760
You're like, but we're not predestined.

689
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:32.480
We have free will.

690
00:34:32.520 --> 00:34:36.120
Yeah, we have free will, but do you not know what God, do you not know that

691
00:34:36.120 --> 00:34:38.159
God knows what you did with your free will?

692
00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:43.000
You do have choice.

693
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.400
But the Bible says many are called, but few are chosen.

694
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:50.639
And I did a study on that years ago, cause that really tweaked my justice gift.

695
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:52.679
Well, what do you mean that you call a bunch of people,

696
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:53.920
but you only choose a few?

697
00:34:54.120 --> 00:34:57.920
I had an orphan mentality and I felt for sure I was not going to be picked.

698
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:00.040
If that's really.

699
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.660
what those scriptures meant.

700
00:35:01.660 --> 00:35:03.200
You're only gonna pick the good people, God.

701
00:35:03.200 --> 00:35:04.240
You're only gonna pick the people

702
00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:05.600
that came from the right families

703
00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:08.600
or did the right things and made the right choices.

704
00:35:08.600 --> 00:35:11.680
But that scripture really means all are called,

705
00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:13.200
but few answer the call.

706
00:35:16.240 --> 00:35:17.840
It's about answering the call.

707
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:19.440
And I wanna brag on my mom right now.

708
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:21.700
She's in heaven and in my mind prematurely,

709
00:35:21.700 --> 00:35:23.980
she was only 64 years old when she passed away

710
00:35:23.980 --> 00:35:25.160
and went to heaven.

711
00:35:25.160 --> 00:35:28.080
She got upgraded to her new reality.

712
00:35:28.080 --> 00:35:29.800
I didn't get a lot of time with her on earth

713
00:35:30.640 --> 00:35:33.120
because we were estranged for most of my life.

714
00:35:33.120 --> 00:35:34.820
Those last few years that I got with her,

715
00:35:34.820 --> 00:35:36.880
they were precious and they were powerful.

716
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:39.580
And I saw my mom returned to God.

717
00:35:40.680 --> 00:35:43.880
Remember I told you that her dad gave his life at an altar.

718
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:46.280
Come on you guys.

719
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:48.380
When he was 45 years old,

720
00:35:48.380 --> 00:35:50.560
the problem was is that when he did that,

721
00:35:50.560 --> 00:35:51.920
my mom was in her late teens

722
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.020
and too much damage had already been done.

723
00:35:54.020 --> 00:35:59.020
My grandpa lived for Jesus for the rest of his life,

724
00:36:00.580 --> 00:36:03.100
the best he knew how in the denomination

725
00:36:03.100 --> 00:36:05.460
that he was discipled by, which was very legalistic,

726
00:36:05.460 --> 00:36:08.580
very holiness, penny cost, very condemning.

727
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:14.380
My grandma, the same thing.

728
00:36:16.620 --> 00:36:19.520
And so the vicious abuse that was happening in their family

729
00:36:19.520 --> 00:36:22.860
before their conversion turned into religious abuse

730
00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:24.280
after their conversion.

731
00:36:25.300 --> 00:36:29.280
And so my mom ran fast and far away from that.

732
00:36:30.380 --> 00:36:31.700
And I didn't know any of this y'all

733
00:36:31.700 --> 00:36:33.860
because I didn't know my family's history.

734
00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:35.920
My mom never talked about herself.

735
00:36:37.660 --> 00:36:39.980
The first decade of my life was tumultuous

736
00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:44.940
with my mom choosing to marry destructive and abusive men

737
00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:47.120
three times before I was 10 years old.

738
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:51.660
She was always in crisis.

739
00:36:51.660 --> 00:36:53.300
She was always at the bottom of a bottle

740
00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:55.420
or somewhere that she shouldn't be.

741
00:36:55.420 --> 00:36:56.580
And so I didn't know my mom.

742
00:36:56.580 --> 00:36:57.580
I didn't know her pain.

743
00:36:57.580 --> 00:36:58.780
I didn't know where it came from.

744
00:36:58.780 --> 00:37:00.480
I didn't know any of those things.

745
00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:04.140
But I will tell you in the midst of all of that,

746
00:37:04.140 --> 00:37:05.800
my mom knew where her help came from

747
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:07.220
because when things got too bad,

748
00:37:07.220 --> 00:37:08.980
we would always end up at a church.

749
00:37:12.620 --> 00:37:15.300
And even though all of those little seeds

750
00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:18.620
would not grow a harvest in me until my 20s,

751
00:37:18.620 --> 00:37:20.560
when I really met Jesus,

752
00:37:22.660 --> 00:37:27.660
they were all bricks in my wall, right?

753
00:37:28.060 --> 00:37:29.300
And I say that to say this

754
00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:32.180
because this scripture jogged my memory

755
00:37:32.180 --> 00:37:34.020
that when I was a little girl,

756
00:37:34.020 --> 00:37:37.020
my mom would sing a song and it was kind of a game.

757
00:37:40.820 --> 00:37:43.220
Me and my brother who's 18 months older than me,

758
00:37:43.220 --> 00:37:45.300
and you guys know him as the man

759
00:37:45.300 --> 00:37:48.280
who struggles with his mental health for the last 30 years,

760
00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:49.680
been homeless for 30 years,

761
00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:51.500
got ran over by a car last year

762
00:37:52.340 --> 00:37:53.340
and lives on my property.

763
00:37:53.340 --> 00:37:55.060
That's my brother, Jacob Daniel.

764
00:37:58.380 --> 00:38:00.700
And when we were little, we would crawl in bed with my mom

765
00:38:00.700 --> 00:38:03.740
when whoever she was married to would be out drinking

766
00:38:03.740 --> 00:38:06.700
and cavorting with other women.

767
00:38:06.700 --> 00:38:09.460
We would hide in her bed under the sheets.

768
00:38:09.460 --> 00:38:10.900
And when she would come to bed at night,

769
00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:11.740
we would be in there

770
00:38:11.740 --> 00:38:14.500
and then she wouldn't have the heart to tell us to leave.

771
00:38:15.540 --> 00:38:17.680
And we would draw pictures on each other's backs

772
00:38:17.680 --> 00:38:20.780
and try to see who could guess what was being drawn.

773
00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:23.100
And my mom would sing songs

774
00:38:23.100 --> 00:38:24.940
and she had the voice of an angel.

775
00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:31.740
And one of the songs that she sang

776
00:38:31.740 --> 00:38:33.940
was the scripture, you guys, in Romans.

777
00:38:35.700 --> 00:38:37.780
For I'm convinced that neither death, nor life,

778
00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:40.020
nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present,

779
00:38:40.020 --> 00:38:42.500
nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth,

780
00:38:42.500 --> 00:38:43.780
nor any other created thing

781
00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:45.720
would be able to separate us from the love of God,

782
00:38:45.720 --> 00:38:47.420
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

783
00:38:48.780 --> 00:38:49.740
And we'd sing it really fast.

784
00:38:49.740 --> 00:38:51.100
I'm persuaded that we'd be good to have separated

785
00:38:51.100 --> 00:38:52.020
from the wonderful love of God.

786
00:38:52.020 --> 00:38:53.100
Up above, it's saying, if you love God,

787
00:38:53.100 --> 00:38:53.980
then you're a long way around.

788
00:38:53.980 --> 00:38:55.660
We try to sing it as fast as we can.

789
00:38:55.660 --> 00:38:56.900
That was the game, right?

790
00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:58.440
We didn't know it was the scripture, you guys.

791
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:00.140
We didn't know anything about God.

792
00:39:02.700 --> 00:39:04.580
My mom had separated herself from that

793
00:39:04.580 --> 00:39:08.580
because of the hypocrisy and the abuse and the legalism.

794
00:39:08.580 --> 00:39:10.260
She had separated herself from that.

795
00:39:10.260 --> 00:39:13.380
But this scripture had gotten into her heart

796
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:18.980
and she rehearsed it over us in the form of this song.

797
00:39:18.980 --> 00:39:20.020
Why am I telling you this today?

798
00:39:20.020 --> 00:39:22.060
Because some of you have screwed up as parents

799
00:39:22.060 --> 00:39:24.420
and God wants to bring redemption to you today.

800
00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:28.260
Someday your daughter or your son

801
00:39:28.260 --> 00:39:31.560
is going to be testifying about how you made a mark on them,

802
00:39:31.560 --> 00:39:33.960
the same as I'm saying right now.

803
00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:36.740
Years later, my brother,

804
00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:39.740
who was completely mentally sane at the time,

805
00:39:39.740 --> 00:39:41.380
moved out to Steamboat, Colorado

806
00:39:41.380 --> 00:39:42.940
to be a snowboard instructor.

807
00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:44.200
You know, the Mountain Dew commercials

808
00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:45.340
of the guys do the dew

809
00:39:45.340 --> 00:39:47.220
and they're doing all the crazy stunts and tricks.

810
00:39:47.220 --> 00:39:48.420
That was my brother.

811
00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:50.820
My brother was a BMX biker, he was a skateboarder,

812
00:39:50.820 --> 00:39:53.600
and he was a snowboarder, and he was really talented.

813
00:39:55.660 --> 00:39:57.220
Extreme sports dude.

814
00:39:57.220 --> 00:39:58.300
That was my brother.

815
00:39:58.300 --> 00:40:00.700
Him and his girlfriend Hope moved out to Colorado.

816
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.120
Colorado, and he became an instructor at one of the resorts out there, snowboard instructor.

817
00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:12.840
And two years into them living there when he was about 20, 21 years old, my mom got

818
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:13.840
a call.

819
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:17.040
I was already, you guys know that I was sent away to live at 14.

820
00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:22.880
I went to a girl's home and the rest of my teen years are a blur of a lot of things.

821
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:26.280
And I had been estranged from my brother.

822
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:31.440
We didn't live in the same household anymore from the time that I was at that young teenage.

823
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:37.240
And my mom called me, and I barely had a relationship with her at the time, and she said, your brother's

824
00:40:37.240 --> 00:40:42.860
been in a terrible accident, and I'm going to Colorado.

825
00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:50.080
So what had happened is he had snowboarded off the edge of a mountain, y'all.

826
00:40:50.080 --> 00:40:52.520
Not a mountain that you snowboard off of, okay?

827
00:40:53.080 --> 00:41:00.440
He had run off of, he had fallen off of, whatever had happened, off a mountain, and he was falling

828
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:03.040
to his death.

829
00:41:03.040 --> 00:41:09.720
And as he was falling to his death, he told us this later, but he had so many injuries,

830
00:41:09.720 --> 00:41:13.880
including a brain injury, including whatever has made him like he is today.

831
00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:20.580
But I will tell you that he told me this when I saw him after this accident.

832
00:41:20.580 --> 00:41:25.220
He said, Jackie, when I was falling, he said, I remember that song that mom used to sing

833
00:41:25.220 --> 00:41:29.100
over us.

834
00:41:29.100 --> 00:41:38.100
And I began to sing it as fast as I could, and the next thing I knew, I stopped falling.

835
00:41:38.100 --> 00:41:46.380
He's like, it's like a hand grabbed me and pulled me up against the side of the mountain.

836
00:41:46.380 --> 00:41:51.860
And he was stuck there on the side of the mountain, in some trees and some roots and

837
00:41:51.860 --> 00:42:03.260
the things that grabbed him and pulled him from falling to his death.

838
00:42:03.260 --> 00:42:12.580
What you do matters to your children and your children's children's children's children.

839
00:42:12.580 --> 00:42:14.520
You mean something.

840
00:42:14.520 --> 00:42:21.240
You might not leave them riches and fame, but that's not important because that stuff

841
00:42:21.240 --> 00:42:24.140
is stubble for the fire.

842
00:42:24.140 --> 00:42:29.720
The only thing that matters is what you do for eternity.

843
00:42:29.720 --> 00:42:34.520
Now my brother is still alive, and he's alive for a reason, and he lives on my property

844
00:42:34.520 --> 00:42:35.520
here.

845
00:42:35.520 --> 00:42:39.960
This is the first time that anyone's been able to keep him in one place for almost 30

846
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:46.280
years because he's a wandering nomad.

847
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:49.400
Because of the things that have happened to him in his life.

848
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:54.400
But that car accident, as tragic as it was, that that person running him over while he

849
00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.720
was riding his bike, guess what?

850
00:42:56.720 --> 00:43:03.280
It turned into him basically being a captive audience for family.

851
00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:07.760
And us loving on him and us ministering to him and us helping him.

852
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:11.960
And I just happen to have the space on my property where he can have his own space,

853
00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:14.440
and he gets to, you know, walk again.

854
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:15.440
He's walking again.

855
00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:16.440
He's walking.

856
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:22.280
Now, he needs a creative miracle if he's ever going to run or climb or do any of the extreme

857
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:24.920
things that this man likes to do.

858
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.760
But he is walking again.

859
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.520
God wants you to know that the story is not over yet.

860
00:43:30.520 --> 00:43:34.200
And the story doesn't even end with you.

861
00:43:34.200 --> 00:43:39.000
The story doesn't end with you.

862
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:41.320
I'm going to give you some homework if you want to do it.

863
00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:44.760
You don't have to come to Sunday night and activate if you can't come to Sunday night.

864
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:46.240
But if you can, you're going to come there.

865
00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:48.400
And that's what we're going to do on Sunday nights and tomorrow night.

866
00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:50.400
We're going to activate this.

867
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:58.520
But I want to read over you some of these scriptures.

868
00:43:58.520 --> 00:44:00.920
Number 624 and 26.

869
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:02.640
The Lord bless you and keep you.

870
00:44:02.640 --> 00:44:06.560
The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.

871
00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:11.240
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

872
00:44:11.240 --> 00:44:13.080
Psalms 90, 17.

873
00:44:13.080 --> 00:44:18.560
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands upon

874
00:44:18.560 --> 00:44:20.160
us.

875
00:44:20.160 --> 00:44:22.640
Psalm 112, 1 through 3.

876
00:44:22.640 --> 00:44:23.640
Praise the Lord.

877
00:44:23.640 --> 00:44:28.480
Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.

878
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:32.440
Their children will be mighty in the land.

879
00:44:33.240 --> 00:44:34.240
Psalm 119, 90.

880
00:44:34.240 --> 00:44:37.640
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations.

881
00:44:37.640 --> 00:44:43.440
Thou hast established the earth and it will abide.

882
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:48.920
And with that being said, one of those scriptures was turned into a song by Kerry Jobe and her

883
00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:52.800
husband and some other people that I don't know.

884
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:55.640
And it's called the blessing.

885
00:44:55.640 --> 00:44:57.080
And I want to read you the lyrics.

886
00:44:57.080 --> 00:44:58.780
The Lord bless you and keep you.

887
00:44:58.780 --> 00:45:00.120
Make his face shine upon you.

888
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.800
you and be gracious to you.

889
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:05.900
The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.

890
00:45:05.900 --> 00:45:08.820
The Lord bless you and keep you

891
00:45:08.820 --> 00:45:12.100
and may his face shine upon you.

892
00:45:12.100 --> 00:45:14.800
May he be gracious to you and give you peace.

893
00:45:16.060 --> 00:45:17.060
And then it goes on to say,

894
00:45:17.060 --> 00:45:21.820
may his favor be upon you to a thousand generations

895
00:45:21.820 --> 00:45:24.140
and your family and your children

896
00:45:24.140 --> 00:45:27.300
and their children and their children

897
00:45:27.300 --> 00:45:32.300
and your coming and your going in the city,

898
00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:33.500
in the fields, right?

899
00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:36.060
That's another scripture completely

900
00:45:36.060 --> 00:45:38.460
that we'll be blessed going in and we'd be blessed

901
00:45:38.460 --> 00:45:42.100
coming out, that God would go with us

902
00:45:42.100 --> 00:45:45.820
and he would go before us and beside us and around us.

903
00:45:45.820 --> 00:45:47.660
That's the lyrics of this song.

904
00:45:50.860 --> 00:45:52.580
God wants to bless us.

905
00:45:52.580 --> 00:45:53.660
We're his friends.

906
00:45:53.660 --> 00:45:55.260
I'm a friend of God.

907
00:45:55.260 --> 00:45:56.620
Are you a friend of God?

908
00:45:57.740 --> 00:46:01.120
Yeah, he's my father, but I'm also his friend.

909
00:46:03.660 --> 00:46:04.660
I'm his friend.

910
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:09.980
So for homework, what I want you to do

911
00:46:09.980 --> 00:46:12.980
is I want you to write a celebration of life for yourself.

912
00:46:14.660 --> 00:46:17.660
Some might call it obituary, but that's kind of morbid.

913
00:46:17.660 --> 00:46:19.620
So I'm not gonna call it an obituary.

914
00:46:19.620 --> 00:46:23.300
I'm gonna call it a celebration of life for yourself.

915
00:46:24.500 --> 00:46:26.340
At your celebration of life,

916
00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:28.580
I want you to write what they're gonna read.

917
00:46:30.940 --> 00:46:33.260
I want you to prophesy over yourself,

918
00:46:33.260 --> 00:46:35.060
over what you're gonna accomplish

919
00:46:35.060 --> 00:46:37.340
in your little moment on earth.

920
00:46:38.820 --> 00:46:41.620
Not just for yourself, but for your future generations.

921
00:46:44.620 --> 00:46:46.120
What are you gonna accomplish?

922
00:46:47.260 --> 00:46:49.300
What are you gonna accomplish for eternity?

923
00:46:49.300 --> 00:46:51.940
What do you want them to say at the end of your life?

924
00:46:52.900 --> 00:46:56.580
In that room, prayerfully, there will be your children

925
00:46:56.580 --> 00:46:58.780
and your bonus children,

926
00:46:58.780 --> 00:47:01.580
because blended families, God loves them,

927
00:47:01.580 --> 00:47:05.380
your bonus kids and your children's children

928
00:47:05.380 --> 00:47:08.820
and your children's children's children

929
00:47:08.820 --> 00:47:10.980
and maybe your children's children's children's children,

930
00:47:10.980 --> 00:47:13.940
depending on how old you live and how young they have them.

931
00:47:15.620 --> 00:47:17.100
What are they gonna say about you?

932
00:47:17.100 --> 00:47:19.140
What are they gonna get up and go to the mic

933
00:47:19.980 --> 00:47:22.780
and say about your life?

934
00:47:24.940 --> 00:47:25.780
Come on, y'all.

935
00:47:29.020 --> 00:47:31.260
Now I wanna take a few minutes, that's your homework.

936
00:47:31.260 --> 00:47:32.420
I want you to do it regardless

937
00:47:32.420 --> 00:47:34.780
of whether you come to Sunday or not.

938
00:47:34.780 --> 00:47:36.540
But I want us to take this powerful moment.

939
00:47:36.540 --> 00:47:40.300
I feel the heart of God in this moment.

940
00:47:40.300 --> 00:47:44.180
I feel heaven, feel heaven's attention on us.

941
00:47:44.180 --> 00:47:45.500
You know what else I feel?

942
00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:47.820
I feel those great cloud of witnesses

943
00:47:47.820 --> 00:47:50.740
that have gone before us, rooting us on.

944
00:47:52.220 --> 00:47:54.260
They're cheering us on, you guys.

945
00:47:54.260 --> 00:47:55.620
Those people that you loved,

946
00:47:55.620 --> 00:47:58.500
and some of them maybe didn't love so much,

947
00:47:58.500 --> 00:48:01.020
they're cheering us on right now.

948
00:48:01.020 --> 00:48:03.220
They got our back, literally.

949
00:48:04.220 --> 00:48:08.060
They're just one dimension over from us, cheering us on.

950
00:48:11.100 --> 00:48:15.580
Some of us have people alive still that are ahead of us

951
00:48:15.580 --> 00:48:17.660
in the generations, your in-laws are still alive,

952
00:48:18.500 --> 00:48:19.340
your parents are still alive,

953
00:48:19.340 --> 00:48:21.500
you have aunts and uncles that are from

954
00:48:21.500 --> 00:48:23.340
the greatest generation,

955
00:48:23.340 --> 00:48:24.980
they're from those war generations,

956
00:48:24.980 --> 00:48:26.420
they're still alive on the earth.

957
00:48:26.420 --> 00:48:30.300
I believe we can reach forward with our lives

958
00:48:30.300 --> 00:48:31.820
and impact and influence them.

959
00:48:31.820 --> 00:48:34.700
And we can also reach backward to our children

960
00:48:34.700 --> 00:48:36.740
and their friends and our grandchildren.

961
00:48:36.740 --> 00:48:39.460
I just became a Nona two years ago.

962
00:48:39.460 --> 00:48:41.260
My grandbabies are two years old.

963
00:48:42.140 --> 00:48:46.180
We can reach both directions for the kingdom.

964
00:48:46.180 --> 00:48:47.660
We can influence.

965
00:48:47.660 --> 00:48:49.660
My grandma, before she passed away,

966
00:48:49.660 --> 00:48:52.500
read my book, The Heart Work, and it impacted her greatly.

967
00:48:52.500 --> 00:48:54.020
She had served God for 50 years.

968
00:48:54.020 --> 00:48:54.860
You know what she said to me?

969
00:48:54.860 --> 00:48:58.100
She said, Jackie, she said, this book breaks my heart.

970
00:48:58.100 --> 00:48:59.500
She's like, it's so good,

971
00:48:59.500 --> 00:49:01.420
and I've gotten so much healing from reading it.

972
00:49:01.420 --> 00:49:05.460
But why wasn't this available when I was raising my children?

973
00:49:07.340 --> 00:49:11.140
Why wasn't this information available for my generation?

974
00:49:11.140 --> 00:49:12.940
I made so many mistakes.

975
00:49:13.940 --> 00:49:16.540
I allowed the abuse of my childhood

976
00:49:16.540 --> 00:49:18.140
to come into my mothering.

977
00:49:20.300 --> 00:49:23.500
I was unkind, I was verbally abusive.

978
00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:24.740
And it's true, she was.

979
00:49:25.740 --> 00:49:27.660
And my mom became the same way.

980
00:49:29.100 --> 00:49:31.380
But guess who's not verbally abusive to their daughter?

981
00:49:31.380 --> 00:49:33.100
Guess who that broke off of?

982
00:49:33.100 --> 00:49:33.940
Me.

983
00:49:39.340 --> 00:49:41.140
And so you guys, we have an opportunity.

984
00:49:42.020 --> 00:49:43.700
There are people that are ahead of us

985
00:49:43.700 --> 00:49:45.580
that are still teachable.

986
00:49:45.580 --> 00:49:46.860
They still have an open heart.

987
00:49:46.860 --> 00:49:51.420
They still want to go through those forgiveness exercises

988
00:49:51.420 --> 00:49:53.420
and confession exercises.

989
00:49:53.420 --> 00:49:56.220
My father-in-law is 84 years old.

990
00:49:56.220 --> 00:49:59.260
And before he lost his eyesight to macular degeneration,

991
00:49:59.260 --> 00:50:00.100
he read my book.

992
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.500
like four times, the heart work,

993
00:50:01.500 --> 00:50:03.220
even though I didn't write it for men.

994
00:50:03.220 --> 00:50:04.280
He loves to read.

995
00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:08.000
This is my husband's father, and it rocked his world.

996
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:11.480
And he said, Jackie, he said, you know,

997
00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:13.480
this is Lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force.

998
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:16.640
He said, I realized God's been talking to me my whole life.

999
00:50:17.560 --> 00:50:19.640
It's like I always knew that I had insight and wisdom,

1000
00:50:19.640 --> 00:50:21.000
and I didn't know where it was coming from,

1001
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:23.920
and now I realize it's been God talking to me all along.

1002
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:26.220
God's been talking to me my whole life.

1003
00:50:27.220 --> 00:50:28.720
Yes, we can impact.

1004
00:50:30.460 --> 00:50:32.180
And so now what I wanna do is I wanna pray

1005
00:50:32.180 --> 00:50:33.900
for the next nine minutes.

1006
00:50:33.900 --> 00:50:37.820
You can put your prayer for your family in the chat,

1007
00:50:37.820 --> 00:50:39.580
your children, your children's children,

1008
00:50:39.580 --> 00:50:42.460
whatever you wanna do, but you can also unmute yourself,

1009
00:50:42.460 --> 00:50:44.860
and let's make it short, brief, and powerful,

1010
00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:47.740
each prayer so that as many people can go as possible.

1011
00:50:47.740 --> 00:50:50.300
If you wanna pray for someone who's alive right now,

1012
00:50:51.420 --> 00:50:52.460
if you wanna pray for someone

1013
00:50:52.460 --> 00:50:53.740
who will be alive in the future,

1014
00:50:53.740 --> 00:50:54.980
whatever you wanna do,

1015
00:50:54.980 --> 00:50:56.300
whatever God's laying on your heart,

1016
00:50:56.300 --> 00:50:57.820
let's go ahead and do that now.

1017
00:51:07.140 --> 00:51:08.260
Father, we pray for Anya.

1018
00:51:08.260 --> 00:51:09.380
Today's her birthday, Lord,

1019
00:51:09.380 --> 00:51:13.300
and you brought her into the earth for such a time as this.

1020
00:51:14.460 --> 00:51:16.740
Her life is significant for your kingdom.

1021
00:51:16.740 --> 00:51:19.260
Her life is significant for her lineage,

1022
00:51:19.260 --> 00:51:22.420
and her life is significant for legacy.

1023
00:51:22.420 --> 00:51:24.180
And so, Lord, we just declare now

1024
00:51:24.580 --> 00:51:27.980
that the best of her life will be the rest of her life.

1025
00:51:27.980 --> 00:51:29.580
We pray that you would lead and guide her

1026
00:51:29.580 --> 00:51:31.380
so she can make a mark,

1027
00:51:31.380 --> 00:51:33.020
she can make a mark on her family tree

1028
00:51:33.020 --> 00:51:35.900
that lasts for as many generations

1029
00:51:35.900 --> 00:51:37.940
as her people will be on the earth.

1030
00:51:37.940 --> 00:51:39.220
In Jesus' name, amen.

1031
00:51:41.620 --> 00:51:42.740
Okay, who wants to go?

1032
00:51:46.180 --> 00:51:47.020
I'll go.

1033
00:51:48.180 --> 00:51:49.020
Go ahead.

1034
00:51:49.780 --> 00:51:52.420
Father God, I just lift up my family to you right now,

1035
00:51:53.420 --> 00:51:55.540
and I thank you, as Jackie has spoken today,

1036
00:51:55.540 --> 00:51:58.980
that we are breaking all the things off of our past,

1037
00:51:58.980 --> 00:52:00.420
and the future generations

1038
00:52:00.420 --> 00:52:03.500
that you have blessed us with today will be in their life.

1039
00:52:03.500 --> 00:52:05.700
I thank you that anything they have gone through,

1040
00:52:05.700 --> 00:52:08.380
suffering, any financial lack,

1041
00:52:08.380 --> 00:52:10.700
anything that has come against the assignment

1042
00:52:10.700 --> 00:52:11.540
that you have for them,

1043
00:52:11.540 --> 00:52:13.300
you are just gonna bless them greatly

1044
00:52:13.300 --> 00:52:15.900
from this day forward, in Jesus' name.

1045
00:52:17.500 --> 00:52:19.100
Amen, who's next?

1046
00:52:19.980 --> 00:52:20.820
I'll go.

1047
00:52:22.620 --> 00:52:25.340
Thank you, Jesus, for my family and my future family

1048
00:52:25.340 --> 00:52:29.780
that the curse has ended with being single moms, with me.

1049
00:52:29.780 --> 00:52:30.620
Yeah.

1050
00:52:30.620 --> 00:52:32.340
No more single mothers in my family,

1051
00:52:32.340 --> 00:52:33.820
and I thank you for my future children

1052
00:52:33.820 --> 00:52:37.420
that they'll have a dad, and I will be there for them,

1053
00:52:37.420 --> 00:52:38.780
and I thank you for my future children

1054
00:52:38.780 --> 00:52:41.060
that will not only break the curse of that,

1055
00:52:41.060 --> 00:52:43.820
but also break the curse of having no fathers in the home

1056
00:52:43.820 --> 00:52:45.940
and having absent fathers as well,

1057
00:52:45.940 --> 00:52:47.940
and the alcoholism be gone.

1058
00:52:47.940 --> 00:52:49.380
Thank you, Jesus.

1059
00:52:49.380 --> 00:52:52.260
And also, no more mental illness in my family,

1060
00:52:53.100 --> 00:52:55.740
it stops with me now and in the future.

1061
00:52:55.740 --> 00:52:57.260
Thank you, Lord, when I pass away,

1062
00:52:57.260 --> 00:53:00.460
that they look at me as they stopped with her,

1063
00:53:00.460 --> 00:53:05.340
the blood was there, it all began and ended with her.

1064
00:53:05.340 --> 00:53:08.540
She loved the Lord, and she made that clear to us all

1065
00:53:08.540 --> 00:53:10.780
to continue to seek the Lord.

1066
00:53:10.780 --> 00:53:12.380
So thank you, Jesus, for that.

1067
00:53:12.380 --> 00:53:13.340
Amen.

1068
00:53:13.340 --> 00:53:16.700
Amen, let it be so, Victoria, let it be so.

1069
00:53:16.700 --> 00:53:18.340
Who else?

1070
00:53:18.340 --> 00:53:19.820
I'll go.

1071
00:53:19.820 --> 00:53:23.540
Lord, I just pray particularly for the men in my family.

1072
00:53:23.540 --> 00:53:27.460
I pray for my son and my father, who is 91.

1073
00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:29.740
Lord, that is not too late.

1074
00:53:29.740 --> 00:53:32.020
It is not too late, God.

1075
00:53:32.020 --> 00:53:35.020
I just pray that they would be in your kingdom,

1076
00:53:35.020 --> 00:53:38.660
in your throne room, Lord, and time is nothing to you.

1077
00:53:39.620 --> 00:53:43.740
And I just pray that not a one would leave this earth

1078
00:53:43.740 --> 00:53:44.940
without confessing you.

1079
00:53:47.660 --> 00:53:49.380
Thank you, Lord, I'll go.

1080
00:53:49.940 --> 00:53:50.980
Lord, I just pray for my sister, Lisa.

1081
00:53:50.980 --> 00:53:53.540
I believe that, I just pray you'd heal her mind,

1082
00:53:53.540 --> 00:53:54.500
her body, her soul.

1083
00:53:54.500 --> 00:53:57.460
I believe that she believes she is a woman and not a man.

1084
00:53:57.460 --> 00:53:58.660
Lord, I pray she would turn to you.

1085
00:53:58.660 --> 00:54:01.460
I just pray that you'd just deliver her and heal her

1086
00:54:01.460 --> 00:54:04.580
and save her this very day in Jesus' name.

1087
00:54:05.860 --> 00:54:08.740
I pray for all the men in my family to stand up

1088
00:54:08.740 --> 00:54:11.380
and be leaders, running into Jesus' arms,

1089
00:54:11.380 --> 00:54:13.660
and to have mentors, my son to have a mentor,

1090
00:54:13.660 --> 00:54:16.140
a godly mentor to stand by him.

1091
00:54:16.180 --> 00:54:20.620
And I just say no more drug addiction in our family,

1092
00:54:20.620 --> 00:54:23.900
no more mental illness, no more.

1093
00:54:23.900 --> 00:54:26.020
In Jesus' name, we're all healed.

1094
00:54:27.580 --> 00:54:30.460
I'll go, Denise.

1095
00:54:30.460 --> 00:54:34.780
I pray that the mental illness, the drug addiction,

1096
00:54:34.780 --> 00:54:39.780
the poor choices ends here and that my children

1097
00:54:40.180 --> 00:54:44.500
will be able to stand on a firm foundation

1098
00:54:44.500 --> 00:54:48.420
with our Lord and Savior and to not make the choices

1099
00:54:48.420 --> 00:54:50.220
that were made in the past.

1100
00:54:50.220 --> 00:54:52.540
In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.

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00:54:53.740 --> 00:54:55.060
I'll go.

1102
00:54:55.060 --> 00:54:59.300
I pray for longevity.

1103
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.480
for faith. I pray this for no addictions in my family, no abuse, no heart disease, religious abuse,

1104
00:55:08.160 --> 00:55:17.280
isolation, no more addiction nor codependency in people-pleasing, in drug addiction.

1105
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:24.000
I break all of this off for a thousand generations and more. And I agree, Lord, with all the prayers

1106
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:31.760
and what Jackie had said about you coming into my heart and into my life to make a difference.

1107
00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:38.320
And all the future generations will know it was me, but it was because of you in me, Lord. I

1108
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:46.800
give all the glory to you. Thank you, Lord. I pray, Lord, that the fact that there are adult

1109
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:54.160
people in my life or that have gone before that never married, I break that curse. Now,

1110
00:55:54.160 --> 00:56:00.880
it will end with me. I have an uncle on my mother's side and an aunt on my father's side.

1111
00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:08.080
Every morning, my family, my extended family, will have happy marriages

1112
00:56:08.080 --> 00:56:12.080
and families that believe in God move forward with his will.

1113
00:56:12.720 --> 00:56:21.600
Father God, I just pray for, I also pray for just the men in my family, both past and future,

1114
00:56:21.600 --> 00:56:27.440
just that you will break off any addiction, mental illness. I resonate with so much that's been said.

1115
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:33.440
Just, and we are, just thank you that we are kinsmen redeemers and that we, we are going to

1116
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:40.640
change the trajectory of our family line. And I just pray for the future men in my, in my family

1117
00:56:41.520 --> 00:56:47.760
that they will be good fathers, that they will be strong in you and that no mental illness or

1118
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:55.520
addiction will, will take hold of their life. And I just pray for our future generations that we will

1119
00:56:56.640 --> 00:57:01.040
be marked as changing, changing the trajectory of our families.

1120
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:12.800
Abba, I pray for the curse of my family of no talk rule, how they keep secrets and we hide

1121
00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:18.240
from one another. We hide in our own darkness and we're not walking into the light and sharing with

1122
00:57:18.240 --> 00:57:26.720
one another what we're going through. Lord, keeping secrets keeps you sick. And there's so much

1123
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:33.840
in my family with my children that I'm not known. They are not known to me.

1124
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:42.560
And I break this curse, Lord, of isolation of communication, not knowing one another and not

1125
00:57:42.560 --> 00:57:51.280
seeking one another with curiosity about what is happening in their lives. I break this Lord

1126
00:57:51.280 --> 00:58:02.960
in Jesus name. Lord, I thank you for making us overcomers that we can set a new course for our

1127
00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:11.280
family lines. And I stand in the gap for my family. And I declare that that addiction will break with

1128
00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:21.600
me. Broken marriages, lack of marriage, miscarriages, cancer, and addictions. I just

1129
00:58:21.600 --> 00:58:26.320
thank you, Lord, for setting us free that where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And

1130
00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:32.880
I pray also for my nieces and nephews and my whole extended family in Norway. And I just declare that

1131
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:39.120
it's not too late for them that they will know the Lord and yet be saved. Amen. Okay, we're right at

1132
00:58:39.120 --> 00:58:42.960
time. You guys, you can always come tomorrow night. Don't forget, write the celebration of

1133
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:47.040
life. Another thing that I felt like I wanted to break off family lines was epilepsy, which that

1134
00:58:47.040 --> 00:58:51.040
has to be a word from the Lord. I would never think of that. So if that's in your family line,

1135
00:58:51.680 --> 00:58:55.040
just go ahead and declare that that will be broken off and it will not continue.

1136
00:58:56.080 --> 00:59:00.240
So write a celebration of life for yourself. You know, I mean, you might consider it obituary,

1137
00:59:00.240 --> 00:59:05.520
but it's a celebration of your life, of what you were able to accomplish. You guys prophesy in that

1138
00:59:06.080 --> 00:59:10.800
declare what you want to see, call those things that are not as though they are. As you write that

1139
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:15.600
out, do this exercise, regardless of whether or not you share it tomorrow night at Sunday night

1140
00:59:15.600 --> 00:59:20.880
activation. You can also share it in your bridal parties with each other guys in your guys group.

1141
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:25.840
This is a powerful activation. And I believe that we have what we say. And so this is a really

1142
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:31.520
amazing time for you to declare what you're going to accomplish with God, of course, on this earth

1143
00:59:31.520 --> 00:59:37.360
for your family, for your lineage and for your legacy. Be blessed. I love you so much. Go in God.

1144
00:59:38.080 --> 00:59:38.880
See ya.